The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1860, Page 6

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R, Stuart, 10 Exchange street, East. ‘Havaz,,.. .Tansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 ruo Corneille. ‘Huanpure. ..De Chapeauronge & Co. ‘The contents of the Evrorman Evrnow or tHe Herstp ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at fhe office during the previous week and up to the hour of ‘pablicatioa. The News. ‘The European mails to the 25th ult, brought by the Niagara, reached this city from Boston last evening. Our telegraphic summary, published in “yesterday's Hxraxp, contained all the important points of the news. In Congress yesterday the Senate adopted a re- polation instructing the Committee on Foreign Re- ations to inquire by what authority the United States naval forces captured the Mexican war steamers near Vera Cruz recently. The memorial @f the New York Chamber of Commerce for an ‘@mendment of the act relating to the liabilities of shipowners was presented. Notice was given of ® bill providing for the more effectual sup- ‘pression of the slave trade. Senator Davis’ resolutions relative to slavery in the Ter- ritories were taken up, and Mr. Chestnut, of South Carolina, made a long speech on the subject. In the House a resolution was adopted calling upon ‘the President for information respecting the Afri- ean slave trade. The report in reply will doubt- Jess prove exceedingly interesting, as, according to the terms of the resolution, it will embrace infor- mation as to where the vessels captured on the African coast by our cruisers were built, where Aitted out and by whom, together with the place of residence of the owners, officers and crews of said vessels. The report of the Co- vode Investigating Committee, recommend ing the arrest of Collector Schell, of New , York, for contempt, was taken up. A minority report was presented, justifying Mr. Schell in with” holding from the committee the names of the sub” scribers to the New York Hotel Electionesring fund. After some debate the reports were recom. mitted. Reports of the Judiciary Committee on the President's protesting message were presented. We have heretofore given the points of the majority report, but in order that our readers may be en” abled to form an intelligent opinion of this question, we print the report complete to-day» in connection with an abstract of the report of the minority of the committee. The Legislature yesterday transacted a large smount of business. In the Senate, among the bills reported was one to amend the General Ruil- road Law. The bill amending the act relative to Life and Health Insurance Companies was passed; also ‘the bills obliging Excise Commissioners to report fo Supervisors, relative to the Rome Railroad bonds, to the New York Society for the Keformation of Juvenile Delinquents, to the State prisons, and to perfect the constitutional amendment abolishing the property qualification. The Fourteenth street, avenue D, Seventh, Ninth and Tenth avenue rail- road bills were passed. In the Assembly, the bit! to repeal the act to abolish railroad tolls was passed. The Supply bill was further con- widered and ordered to a third reading. ‘The Metropolitan Police bill, the act to incorpo- rate the Zoological and Botanical Society in con- nection with the Central Park, and the bill to as- certain and pay the damages for property destroyed at Quarantine, were passed. The New York Tax Levy was ordered to a third reading. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, bu transacted no business of general importance. At the meeting of the Beard of Aldermen yesterday, the contract with Messrs. Lynch, Gurren. and Rourke, for cleaning the streets, ‘was received from the Comptroller and re- ferred. A resolution to extend the hos- pitalities of the city to the officers of the Bra- wilian ship* of war in this port was adopted. The Mayor sent in the nomination of Thomas Addis Emmet, for President of the Croton Water Board, Deut it was rejected by a vote of 9 to6. The Al- d@ermén concurred with the Councilmen in adopt- ing & resolution for a joint committee to investigate the affairs of the Board of Almshouse Governors. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, when & large number of reports relative to unimportant POutine matters were presented and laid over for potion at the next meeting. A special committee ‘was appointed to extend the hospitalities of the to the officers of the Brazilian corvette Donna Isabella. The Board concurred with the Alder- fen in confirming the elect'® of John" Roe as tt Engineer of the Fire Department. On motion of Mr. Van Tine, thé Finance Com- mittee were discharged from the further considere- tion of the appropriation of $888,008 to the Central Park improvement fund, and were directed to re- port upon the subject at the next meeting of the Board. A report of the Committee on Streets ia faver of changing the name of Jacob to Leather street (the Swamp) was adopted. In reply to a re- solution of ingu‘ry the Comptroller submitted a de- tailed statement, showing the amount paid to city papers for advertising from Jannary 1, 1859, to the Ist of March, 1860, the total amount being $94,474 64, to which was added the sum of $16,216 65 for advertising for the county govern- ment, The Board donated $500 to each of the fol- lowing institutions:—The home for Deaf Mutes, the Opthalmic Hospital andthe Union Aid Society. The Female Guardian Society got $2,000, and the Nur sery and Child's Hospital $1,000. The Street Com. missioner was directed to advertise for proposals * balding &@ new house for Engine Company ‘0. 9. A letter from onr correspondent at Caracas, dated on the 13th ult., which we publish in today’s paper, gives an interesting account of the condi- tion of affairs in Venezuela. Although the repub- lic was comparatively tranquil, yet in the eastern provinces the partisans of Monagas still mustered in formidable numbers, and were carrying on a merciless war against the more peaceable inhabi- tants. Business was rapidly improving at Cara- cas, and the merchants of the city had evinced their confidence in the government by loaning it $300,000. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 451 deaths in the city during the past week, an increase of 5 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 73 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c., 104 of the brain and nerves, 3 of the generative organs, 19 of the heart and blood vessels, 134 of the lungs, throat, &c., 2 of old age, 70 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 3 stillborn and premature births, 63 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 50 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 1 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 31 from violent causes. The nativity table gives 521 natives of the United States, 71 of Ireland, 27 of Germany, 7 of Scotland, 10 of England, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The cotton market was steady yesterday, with sales of about 2,000 bales, closing oa the basis of about 11346. for middling uplands. Flour was more active, though com. mon grades of State and Western were rather easier. Among the transactions were purchases made for oxport. Southern flour was firm and in good request, while the sales were fair. Wheat was firm, with rome demand for export. The sales included 1,500 bushels Southern white at $1 60, and 22,000 Mi waukee Club on terms given in another columo. Corn took a decidedly upward turn, and sold pretty freely at an advance for sound lols. Pork was unchanged; now moss sold at $17 68%{, and new prime at $14 12% « $1425, Sugars were in fair demand and unchanged from Saturday’s prices. The transactions footed up about 500 = 600 hbhds, Cuba muscovados and Por. to Ricos, and 160 bhds. molado, ‘The prices, with stock, will be found elsewhere. Coffee was firmly held, while transactions were confined to small lots of St. Domingo, Maracaibo, Porto Rico and Laguayra, at rates given in another place. Freights were engaged toa fair extent. Among the shipments were 2,000 bbls. flour to London at 28.; 10,000 bushels wheat to Liverpool, in bulk, at 53¢4., and 5,060 bushels corn, in shippers’ bags, at Sd. A fair amount of provisions was also engaged to the same ports. The Charleston Convention—Importance of Its Bearings and Its Results. The Charleston Convention is the first of the Presidential Conventions to meet, and its ac- tion will have a very important influence upon the other party conventions which are called at Chicago and Baltimore. Although it is composed almost entirely of partisan spoils hunters, in whom, personally, the country has little confidence, yet, as it is the only one of the Presidential conventions that will have full delegations from every State in the Union, and thus possesses a truly na- tional character, the conservative feeling of the whole country looks to it with the hope that in the present emergency it will lay aside all ultra partisanship, and be animated by a broad na- tional spirit in its proceedings. A reaction has begun in the Central and Northern com- mercial States against the revolutionary and destructive mania which has taken hold of the black republican party, and the conserva- tive element is beginning to move, and to prepare iteelf for enlistment in the fight of self-preeervation against Seward and his fana- tical followers. The elections in Connecticut and Rhode Island demonstrate beyond ques- tion the change that has already taken place in the popular sentiment in practical New England; and if the Charleston Convention pursues a moderate course, and nominates a man whose antecedents will command the confidence of the conservative element, it may reasonably be expected that he will carry all of the Central and a number of the Northern commercial States, But the men who go to Charleston must remem- ber that that body will occupy the position of the conservative convention of the Union, more from accident than from any act of the party which has called them together. Imbecility, leading to defeat, broke up the old whig party, and the rapid growth of the Know Nothing or- ganization which succeeded it showed how dis- gusted the people were with both the whig and democratic combinations. The little-mind- edness of the Know Nothing leaders soon re- duced that organization to a nonentity, and the black republican party acquired strength from the folly and dissensions of the democracy more than from any soundness in its owa principles. The fraternal embrace which its leaders have now given to the petty band of fanatical aboli- tioniats has given the black republican party its death wound, and at this moment the whole country is looking anxiously around for the party and the statesmen whose broad national views shall sink the partisan and the politician, and whose big heart shall cherish the Union, the country, and the whole country, in its im- pulses and affections. The democratic parti- sans who are about to meet at Charleston in convention do not occupy that position; but they are the first to meet, and it rests with them to take it, The country, however, is not blind to the fact that they come together merely through the power of the old party drill, rather than from any unity of sentiment or of impulse. Their party is as bare of national statesmen among its leadersas is any of the others.) There is not, among the thirty or forty aspirants for the nomination at Charleston, a single man who, asa Senator or rep ve in Con- gress, dares to take, on any great national question, the position of a statesman, and speak and act in opposition to any temporary aberration of the public mind in his own State, trusting to the power of reason and truth, and the ever willing patriotic impulses of the people tosustain him at home. Party leaders have descended to the level of pottti- cians, and each one endeavors to preserve his position by catering to the whims of local feel- Ne Lanner NTT ee a NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1860.—TRIPLE S Yng fn bis own State, and to obtain the Preet- dency through bargaining combinations and cheating transactions with his fellows. The consequence is that the democratic party which is to meet in representation at Charleston is as plebald as Joseph’s coat, while the fanatic madness of the black republican leaders has attained some degree of respectability from the fact that it dwells upon something more broad than the whims of any particular State. Democratic faction has killed everything in the democratic party except the mechanical move- ments of party drill. This is going to bring to- gether in National Convention, perhaps for the last time forevermore, the advocates of squat- ter sovereignty and of strict constéuction, the ultra pro-slavery men of the South, and those with free soil proclivities from the North, the tariff partisans and the freetraders, the southward extensionists, and those who think the area of freedom is extending iteelf as rapidly as iscompatible with safety, the Buchanan con- servatives, the Douglas temporisers, the Hun- ter exclusives, the Guthrie time-servers, and a host of self-worshippers, who look upon the government as something to be administered for their own personal and peculiar benefit The whole country waits to see if the men thus brought together by party drill will recognize the greatness of the emergency that is before them, and, putting aside their petty local fan- cies, adopt a platform broad as the Union, and place upon it a man who will command the confidence of the conservative feeling now everywhere aroused by the sense of danger. By such a course, and by none other, can the Charleston nominee be elected by the people. If this course is adopted at Charleston, the Baltimore Convention will lose all importance, and that of Chicago dwindle to a gathering of windy fanatics. If it should fail to do this, and, proclaiming ultra doctrines, place an extremist on their platform, the conservative sen- timent, already alarmed, will turn its hopes to the Baltimore Convention, and this body will learn wisdom from the folly of that which met atCharleston. There is one thing, it is evident, that the country will not sanction. No extremist, no puwe advocate of the eelf- styled rights of the South or of the North, can be elected. The next President must come from the States bordering on the central line, where men know the value of the North and the South to each other, and where the con- servative feeling is always strongest and most active. With such a man, and with broad na- tional principles on his banner, the whole South, all the Central States, and many of the commercial ones in the North, can be carried for the preservation of the constitution and the Union. If such a one is not nominated at Charleston, we shall have seen the last of the democratic party, and the whole country must rally round the Baltimore Convention, and se- cure from it the nomination of a conservative man to lead the reaction that has already com- menced in the North against the revolutionary and destructive tendencies of the abolitionized black republican leaders. Lovesoy’s SPEECH AND THE SrEaKER.—Decid- edly the leading light of the republican party in the House is Lovejoy, of Illinois, whose speech, delivered in committee on Thursday last, will, when it comes to be laid before the country in full, create as much excitement as the Helper book or Seward’s brutal and bloody Rochester manifesto. Mr. Lovejoy is the re- presentative man of the black republican party nthe House, as John Brown was at Harper’s Ferry. Lovejoy is a0 recognized by the Hven- ng Post (the laudatory notice of him by that ournal will be found elsewhere) and by the philosophers of the Tribune, who recommend that two millions of copies of the speech should be circulated at once. There is the greatest curiosity to read the speech, and, as usual, the Washington Globe hes kept it back. The New York papers printed as much of it as could be sent over one wire, the other eight being down, and promptly laid it before the country the next morning; but the Globe has no word of the debate of Thursday in Friday’s or Satur- day’s impression. This is no new thing, and, considering that each Congress pays as much as a hundred thousand dollars profit on re- porting and printing the debates alone, we should think that the Globe might manage to get out its report within two days after a de- bate has taken place. Otherwise, it would be better for the House to trust to the New York papers. So far as the new leader of the republican party is concerned, there seems to be no half way business, He endorses the Helper book fully and explicitly. He is one of the sixty members who voted for Blake’s Garrisonian resolution. He openly proclaims himself to be an insurrectionist, a nigger-stealer and a traitor in intention. All this is declared openly on the floor of the House, and it is accepted as the true doctrine of the party by the abolition members and their presses. The black repub- licans are beginning to show their hands in good earnest, and it is high time that the con- servative men of the country were aroused to the dangers that menace it from the mad fanati- cism of such men as Lovejoy and his compa- triots, The real objects of the party are fore- shadowed very clearly in such speeches as that of Lovejoy. ‘Tue Law Governtna THe Recrvrinc Ser- vice.—We publish in another column a very interesting communication with reference to the recruiting service of the United States army and the law as regards the enlistment of minors. This is a very important question, and the jurisdiction of the courts in reference to it should be distinctly understood. This branch of the public service has been, from time to time, eubjected to much difficulty with regard to what manner of persons can be legally enlisted in the army, and in no cases, perhaps, more than those relative to minors enlisting without the consent of their parents and guardians, Our State courts have been re- peatedly appealed to to discharge recruits under age, and in two cases, at least, decisions were rendered in this city, by Judges Hilton and Sutherland, to the effect that a State court had no jurisdiction in the matter, but that the authority to discharge s minor rested solely with the Secretary of War, under the act of Congress. This opinion is fortified by those of Attorney Generals Crittenden and Cushing, and is clearly the right view of the question. The recruiting service is established under a law of Congress; it is entirely a matter of federal ju- risdiction, and if our State courts were per- mitted to discharge on habeas corpus, or by any other process, persons enlisted in the ser. vice, endless confusion would be the result. The law of Congress, passed in 1813, enacted - a ‘ no person under the age of twenty-one years should be enlisted without the consent in writing of his parent or guardian; but a sabsequeat law, passed in 1814, authorized the enlistment of any person within the ages of eighteen and fifty, repealing the clause of the previous act regarding the consent of parents and guardians in the case of minors. A subse- quent law, enacted in 1850, it is true, makes it the duty of the Seoretary of War to order the discharge of any soldier enlisted under tweaty- one years of age, upon evidence that the con- sent of his parent or guardian was not ob- tained; but this law cannot be construed to transfer the authority thus vested in the Seore- tary of War to any State court which may choose to pronounce upon the question; for it is manifest that if such conflict of authority were permitted, insuperable obstacles would be thrown in the way of the recruiting ser- vice. The decisions of Judges Hilton and Suther- land, then, we think, have setiled the law rela- tive to minors upon grounds which equity and common sense will alike sustain. Congress is entrusted with the enactment of laws govern- ing the public service, and the less inter- ference there is with its action on the part of our State courts the better. The Union of Commerce, Industry and Production Against the Black Repubit- can Fallacies. We publish in another column today a letter from the Washington correspondence of the 7rilune, in which the writer, smarting un- der the results of the Connecticut and Rhode Teland elections, makes public acknowlédg- ment of the fact that the black republican party is at war with every great interest in the coun- try, and that merchants, bankers, manufactu- ters, mechanics, shipowners, and all their do- pendent interests, are uniting in the common cause of self-preservation from the destructive fanaticism that threatens to overwhelm them. This union of the great conservative inte- rests against the destructives the Tribune wri- ter calls “ the natural division of parties,” and we confess that he is quite right. Nothing is more natural'than that men should fling away all minor divisions when the great question of their very existence is brought to the issue, and upon their acceptance or rejection of certain impracticable theories depend the peace of the State and the prosperity of the families who compoee it. Never before in this country have we witnessed the present “natural divi- sion” of political parties. Hitherto the mer- chants, manufacturers, shipowners, mechanics and farmers have been divided on questions of policy for the better protection and increase of our material interests of production, com- merce and manufacture. They have been di- vided on the questions of a high or a low tariff, of a national bank or a specie currency, of the construction of harbors, roads, railways and canals, and the clearing out of rivers by the general government or by individual inte- rest, and the general issne whether it be- longed to government to intervene directly for the promotion of agriculture, commerce and the mechanic arts, or simply to confine the ex- ercise of its powers to the protection of the rights of every class and interest in the com- munity. It was reserved for the year 1860, and for the union of the abolition fanatics under Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, and the political demagogues under Seward, to present the issue of the destruction or the preservation of every interest in the Union, and of the constitu- tion which binds it in harmony and power. Be- fore this terrific issue all others disappear. There is no question of a protective or a reve- nue tariff to stimulate trade; of a national bank, or a sub-treasury to prevent fluctuations in the currency; of the clearing out of natural and the construction of artificial channels for com- merce by government or by individuals, or of the division or employment of a surplus re- venue of the government. The issue presented by the republican party is, simply, whether the trade, currency, industry and revenue of the country shall be destroyed or not. A mania, like thoge which have often been seen in the history of mankind, urging whole communities to destory the very elements that gave them life, has seized upon & portion of the people of the Northern States, and fana- tics and demagogues are urging them on to the work of destruction, just as the Robespierres, the Marats, the Dantons and the Jacobins urged on the French people, in their moment of delirium, to destroy society in pur- suit of their abstract and moral ideas. Itisa “natural division of parties” that the mer- chants, the bankers, the manufacturers, the mechanics, and all other great conservative interests, should unite against the destructive fanatics in the issue of self-preservation which is forced upon them. The Tribune's Washington philosopher tells us that “all these influences are gross, material, sensual, devilish,” and that “not one spark of generous sentiment, not a glimmer of lofty con- viction, not a suggestion that fayors the hope of bettering the condition of humanity, ever penetrated the dense and leaden sphere” of the influences of commerce, manufactures and pro- duetion. It is on this mighty fallacy that the black republican fanatics and demagogues ground their attack against the material inte- rests of society. And never was a fallacy more transparent. The developement of human knowledge is inseparable from the progress of industry and of national wealth, and igno- rance and moral darkness are ever attendant upon their decay. Our schools, our colleges, our churches, and the acceptance by men of the sacred principle of our religion, that we should return good for evil, and love our neigh- bor as ourselves, depend upon the material welfare of the community and of the individual man. In vain will philosophic abstractionists call upon the wandering savage to establish schools and attend churches; in vain will they preach to millions of starving mechanics the duty of love and obedience; in vain will they call upon poverty-stricken communities to dis- card all considerations of material welfare, and cling only to moral abstractions which sacri fice the material good. Hunger must be satis- fied, nakedness must be clothed, and the physi- cal needs of man must be supplied before he will or can comprehend the niceties of distinc- tion between right and wrong; and, in a word, the body must be cared for before the mind of any man can be brought to dwell upon the in- teresta of the soul. The blind fanaticism of the black republican party is, in reslity, opposed to “the hope of bettering the condition of humanity,” when it ranges itgelf in opposition to the interests of fr commerce, industry and production. It is the hope of preserving present material advan- teges, from which our great moral progress springs, that leads all interests to forget past political divisions, and to unite in one common effort to defeat a blind fanaticism that would involve merchants, bankers, manufacturers, mechanics, farmers, sailors, government and society in one common revolution, ruin and destruction. The Latest Modern Improvement—The Homers of Maxtyrdem Below Actual Cost. We are accustomed to speak somewhat boast- fully of the progress of the nineteenth century over and above all other periods in the world’s history, in the material sciences and the fine arta. We have steam, electricity, fast printing presses, Great Easterns, Atlantic telegraphs, and many more evidences of the truth of our assertions. But, with all the attention that we pay to such developements of progress in the exact sciences, we frequently overlook some of the minor improvements of the day. Thus the way to fame in any profession or vocation was once an exceedingly hard road to travel— as full of rutsand holes as some of our New York streets, and winding up to a hill as inao- cessible as the loftiest summit of the Sierra Nevada. Now it is as smooth and easy as a walk in the Central Park. For examples, look at the latest editions of martyrs which have been issued from the abolition press. The quartette includes Mr. Frank B. Sanborn, of Maseachusetts, two young ladies, and Mr. Thaddeus Hyatt—the first named saint a country schoolmaster, the last a dealer in deadlights for sidewalks, and peddler of photograpbe. These philosophers, together with Wendell Phillips, W. H. Seward, Hon. Massa Greeley, W. L. Garrison, Fred Douglass, Dr. Howe, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry C. Wright, Senator Doolittle, Rev. Dr. Cheever, Representatives Blake of Ohio, and Lovejoy of Iilinois, and many others, are devoted in their faith for the Almighty Nigger, and are, of course, ready to go to the gallows for his sake. Other- wise they would not be martyrs, even in ex- pectancy. Sanborn, Hyatt and the two young ludies have already been in mortal peril. Hyatt is condemned to durance vile by a cruel Senate, quite under the thumb of Cwsar, who sits in the gilded salons of the White House, giving dinners to the diplomatic corps, while Saint Thaddeus depends for his subsistence upon the myrmidoms of despotism, who will not allow him more than one bottle of cham- pagne per diem. The case of Sanborn was still more appall- ing. He was arrested in his robe de chambre, (did Nero ever order anything more brutal than that?), handcuffed, and generally knocked about. When the minions of the Senate attempted to force the holy man into a carriage, one of the female saints, inspired by a happy thought, stood in the doorway and ex- tended her crinoline go as to effectually stop the entrance, while the other feminine saint whipped up the horses. When the first saint was informed by the brutal officer that she would do well to get out of the coach, as the horses might run away and she might be killed, ehe replied that “she didn’t care if she was.” There may be something equal to that in Fox or Butler, but we fail to see it. Regard, too, the awful way in which Wen- dell Phillips suffers, compelled, as he is, to go continually about the country, delivering the same speeches over and over again, for a hun- dred dollars per night and expenses paid; or Mr. Seward, with his seat in the Senate, and his dinners of “seventeen courses, with six different kinds of wine;” or Lovejoy, who will be one day eaten up by the truculent Pryor, chiefest of nigger drivers; or Beecher, condemned to preach for five thousand dollars per annum, with as much more for lectures; or Brother Garrison, who has been a sufferer for the faith these thirty years,and has made ra- ther a good thing of it; or Fred Douglass, who, an exile from his native country, is condemned to be everlastingly petted by the antique dow- agers of Exeter Hall; or Henry C. Wright, who is compelled to retail books which are alleged to be of rather questionable character, while preaching the faith that is in him. This division of the worshippers of the Al- mighty Nigger would come, according to the definition of the fathers of the Catholic church, under the head of confessors—good men who gave their whole lives up to the propagation of the faith, but did mot achieve the full glories of martyrdom. Of course they stood ready to go cheerfully to the test of fire, sword and faggot; to suffer as did Saint Andrew, Saint Peter, and Saint Stephen; to be slain as were the early Christians, some with the sword, some burned with fire some scourged with whips, or stabbed with forks; some crucified or hanged; some flayed alive; many of them suffered and survived the most horrible tortures, and accounted it great glory so todo. We fear that the same faith does not inspire the confessors of faith in the Almighty Nigger. We much fear that Seward, Sanborn, Hyatt, Phillips & Co, would shirk the horrors of martyrdom, proper, and be quite contented to remain in the ranks of the con- fesors. As for the martyra proper, the new religion makes a very poor show. In the old times enthusiastic Christians rather courted and em- braced death for the sake of their religion. In the early days of the church, preachers of the new dispensation went boldly into the strong- holds of the heathen, and exhorted against Jué piterand all Olympus in their own temples. Their mission was to the sinners, not to those who had already been brought to a sense of their errors. So they almost courted death, and coveted the torture. And so on down to the seventeenth century, Catholics and Protestants both, all over Europe, went cheerfully to death for the faith We have yet to hear of Mr. Seward on a pil- grimage through the Carolinas, Georgia, Ala- bama and Mississippi. Mr. Phillips has not yet, we believe, delivered his “Lesson of the Hour” at Richmond, Charleston or Mobile Mr. Garrison does not habitually canvass for the Liberator in Vicksburg or Natchez, nor has H. C. Wright been seen selling his book upon marriage in the streets of Memphis; probably when Mr. Hyatt gets out of jail, and if the city is healthy, he may be found on the Levee at New Orleans, selling the John Brown phcto- graphs and the Helper book, but we doubt it. The fact is, the modern martyrs and confes- sors are quite different from the old school, and among the worshippers of the Almighty Nigger the number of confessors, as compared with the roll of martyrs, is too lange. In the old time the confessor was abstinent, contineat, eelf denying, whipping the devil out of the earthly body with many stripes. Now the con- fessor is dreesed in broadcloth and fine linea, he dines sumptuously and drinks the best wines; he is 9 fa orite with the fair sex; has his houge, in town and his country box; owns railro and bank stock, goes to the Opera, leads the German, and plays a strong game of whist. As for the martyr proper, the age shows.s very mean record. Old John Brown is the only real original article of the kind that has yet appeared, and it probably is hereditary with his family, as in 1574 Master John Brown, of London, suffered death at Ashford for the , sake of his religious opinions. The associates of John Brown—€ooke, Stevens and others— were only lesser lights, weak men, who fel- lowed their leader with sealed eyes. And now, to show the hypocrisy and ingratitude of the confessors, they attempt to ignore the only ° man who ever carried out their doctrines in spirit and letter. Were the old martyra ever | guilty of any euch meanness? And is not ca- nonization tht cheapest thing going now-a-dayst And are they not a pretty lot of saints slte- gether? The truth is, that the modern martyr is just the flimsiest humbug and most arrant cheat that there is going. He does not have\ even the animal quality of pluck to atone for his hollow hypocrisy. The John Brown Revelution—New and Astounding Revelations. Elsewhere in our columns to-day will be found a correspondence of the most startling and interesting character, implicating the lead- ers of the republican party in the John Brown conspiracy, and showing that the events in Kapsas were but preliminary to the raid at Harper’s Ferry, bojh being parts of the same scheme of bloody revolution concocted and organized four years ago. It will be seen from the evidence of Governor Robinson be- fore the Mason Committee of the Senate, which we published come months ago, and which is reprinted in this correspondence, that Robin- son aseerted that John Brown and Redpath were the only leaders in Kansas who avowed revolutionary designs, and that the free State party had no connection with them, and would not obey them. Now, it appearsfrom the cor- respondence which we publish to-day, that Robinson himself, who thinks it convenient now to shirk the responsibility of the treasonable enterprise, was himself one of the most ultra of the revolutionary leaders, outstripping in atrocity even John Brown himself. Not oaly did he endorse him by certificates and an ad- dzess “ to the settlers of Kansas,” but he “‘cold- ly proposed to him to assassinate all the leading federal officeholders in Kansas.” It further appears‘that Robinson sought to bring all the Northern States into the civil war which was about being inaugurated in Kansas, and that he proceeded thence to the East for that pur- pose. The following is an extract from the letter of Redpath to Phillips:— You, peri of rence by the border ruffians, that: Robinson sta?iod East. So, according to this extract, it turns out that the republicans were to strike at Washington. Is not this in accordance with the recommen- dation of the New York Tribune at that time, to burn the Capitol? One of the prominent actors in these revolutionary events is Phillips, a cor- respondent of that journal, as Kagi, another correspondent, was proved to be by former evidence. And Greeley himself, according to the testimony of Forbes, dined with him in New York onthe day he was setting out to Kansas to teach the revolutionists military tac- tics, and sawshim to the railroad station, gave him twenty dollars to help him on his journey, and promised to be on hand when the fighting commenced. It is very evident why Hyatt, who partook of the entertainment that day with Greeley and Forbes, would not submit to an examination, and why Sanborn is recusant, and why others have fled, in order to avoid giving evidence. ; It was attempted by Robinson to make Red- path a scapegoat; but he boldly comes out and tells a tale that casts the testimony of the Mason Committee into the shade; and if Robin- son dares to persist in his statements, further testimony will be brought out which will startle the whole community. Redpath, like Forbes, when badly treated, turns what is call- ed in the Old Country “approver,” and here “State’s evidence.” He is naturally indignant at the hypocrisy and dissimulation of leaders who encouraged John Brown, but now ehrink from the consequences. Redpath, like Forbes, comes from England, an emissary from the British Anti-Slavery Society, and he is disgust- ed with the cowardice and poltroonery of those who, when the projected revolution failed, backed out, and threw the whole blame on those whom they incited to insurrection. Redpath aptly describes “the John Brown republicans as the aggressive abolitionists, the latest, and, as the [South will soon learn, the most dangerous developement of the philan- thropic spirit of the age.” This has at least the merit of manliness and candor, and con- trasts favorably with the sneaking course of those who are‘equally implicated in the conspi- racy, but direct suspicion away from them- selves by throwing the odium exclusively upor two or three marked men. They would profit by @ bloody revolution, but they are unwilling to accept the consequences of failure. Accord- ing to Redpath, however, there is to be another attempt, and the South will find out something it has not yet discovered. Forewarned is fore- armed, and the federal authorities, and the State authorities of the South, ought to be om the watch against further invasion. John Brown’s assault was only the head of the at- tacking column of the advance guard. The main body of this “dangerous developement” is to follow—dangerous because it is regarded. by so many fanatics st the North as the natural result of “the philanthropic spirit of the age.” Dorxes or Ovr Sans Curorres Leorsta- Tors—Tue Jacopins IN THE ASSEMBLY.— Nothing can be more shameless than the manner in which the republican majority in the Legislature are carrying out their purpose of raising funds for the Presidential campaign. Not only are the valuable of the city franchises and privileges disposed of to speculators, without the slightest control over them being reserved to the city authorities, but even measures of long demanded improve- ment are altered in their progress through