The New York Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1860, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. QEFIOR N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 878. ae Fre oper all erties r py haat 1, OF $3 per annum, the Suropeun Edition Wednesday, Ee ar iron tn the Sth and 20h of each’ month af ob ooals . OF BLM) Per FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per or $2 per “nmin MoruN TARY CORRESPONDENCE, contain solicited from any quarter of the world; if us d for. Bay- UCR FORBIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE Baguasiep To SmaL aii Leereas 4nd PAck- sGn6 ENT {VO NOBICE taken of anonymous correepondence. We do not “ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day: advertisements in- vo : ported in the Weexir oo Fauuy Tinzato, and in the and Pv Pi iitiona. OB PRINTING, executed with neatness, cheapness and de- important wd, will be AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Equestkun PRavons- anos—Fisip or Tux OLotn or GOLD. 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National Theatre.— ONDERDONK HALL, 405 Grand street.—nayti MINSTRELS UN Bones, Dances, BUKLESQES, &0.— BAL MAsaue. LIBRARY BALL, Orange —Woon’s Mixstreis in Ermo- Bones, Danors, &e.— exw Yaak ais. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, April 12, 1860. The News. In Congress, yesterday, the Senate, by the cast. ing vote of the Vice-President, rejected the bill amendatory of the Patent laws. The Judiciary Committee asked to be discharged from the far- ther consideration of the memorial asking for the location of United States Courts at Binghamton, N.Y. Abill for the protection of witnesses in criminal cases in the District of Columbia was in- troduced. A motion was made to take up the bill relative to the transportation of the mails overland to the Pacific, but after some conversation the sub- ject was passed over. A resolution was adopted directing inquiry as to whether any corporal pun- ishment has been substituted for flogging in the navy, and also as to what steps have been taken with regard to the alleged homicide on board the United States steamer Brook lyn in New York harbor some time since. Mr. Ma” s0n Offered a resolution, which will be called up to- day, for an adjournment of Congress irom we 19th to the 30th of April, in order to aftard mem. bers an opportunity to attend the Charleston Con- Vexueas Ine HOMestead Dill was then taken up, and a lengthy debate ensued. In the House the de- bate on the bill to admit Kansas into the Union un- der the Wyandot constitution was resumed and concluded, and the bill passed by a vote of 134 to 73. The discussion was irterrupted by Mr. Pryor who entered into some explanation of his language on the occasion of Mr. Lovejoy’s recent violentabo- lition denunciation; but his remarks merely illus- trated the idea that the more an offensive subject is agitated the more disagreeable it becomes. Itis reported from Washington that Mr. Pryor: of Virginia, has challenged Mr. Potter, of Wis consin,to mortal combat, and that the latter has aceepted the invitation and selected bowie knives for weapons. The one hundred days allowed for the session of the Legislature expired last night, but it is proba- ble that the session will be continued for another weck at least, as a large number of bills, both pub- lic and private, remain to be acted on. In the Senate yesterday the bill providing for the location of the new City Hall in Madison square was passed, as also the bill extending the term of office of the City Chamberlin. The New York Tax levy passed the Assembly. In it is included $193,000 for the Commissioners of Record. A large number of other bills were passed. See our reports and de- spatches in another part of to-day’s paper. We publish in another column a list of 201 acts passed by the present Legislature, and which have received the Governor's, approval and become laws. Many ether important bills, including the famous gridiron railroad bills, have passed both Houses, and are now awaiting executive approval, The grand jobbing schemes of the session will soon be consummated, and then, and not till then, will the immaculate Legislature adjoura. Our European files to the 28th ult, brought by the Anglo Saxon, at Portland, reached this city last evening. We have, however, received three daya later news from Europe by the Galway steamer Prince Albert. By the arrival of the overland mail, we have ad- vices from San Francisco to the 23d ult. Business continued dull. The bark Daniel Webster, from New York, had arrived out. The general news is unimportant. The first meeting of the Board of Health for the present season took place yesterday. The Board agreed to concur in a resolution of the Health Com- missioners to appoint De. Lewis A. Sayre as agent of the Board, in the place of Dr. Rockwell, whése term of office has expired, and to fix his salary at the sum paid to his predecessor. The Board agreed to meet monthly, and then adjourned. The Joint Committee of the Common Council appointed to extend the freedom of the city to the officers of the Brazilian corvette Donna Isabella met yesterday afternoon, and elected Councilman Hall to preside. On motion of Alderman Darragh, a committee of one was appointed to wait immediately on the officers of that vessel, and invite them in the name of the Common Council to visit the insti- tations to-day, in company with the directors of the Rainsford Island institution of Boston, and the Board of Ten Governors. The Chairman appointed Alderman Darragh the committee to perform the agreeable duty, and then adjourned. At the weekly meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration yesterday, Commissioner Lowe offered @ resolution to the effect that the Marine Hospital at Quarantine has, in the opinion of the Board, been abolished by the action of the Commissioners of Quarantine in removing the patients from that in- stitution, and that the bill of the physician in chief, Dr. Jerome, “for services never rendered,” and which amounts to $1,250, should not be paid. The resolution was carried, The sum claimed by Dr. Jerome is the amount of his salary for the last three months. The number of emigrants landed here during the week was 999, making the number ar- rived since January 1, 8,722. The apparent balance ofthe commutation money is $1 9 at present, The recent heavy and long contiaued rains have cansed the usual spring freshets. Already we have by telegraph accounts of the overflow of rivers ia Pennsylvania and © io, causing considerable damage to property and much personal guffering. A large fire occurred yesterday afternoon about three o'clock, in the Bay, almost entirely deatroy- ing the ship Jacob A. Westervelt, Captain Melvin Williams, outward bound for Liverpool. A full ac- count of the disaster is given in another column. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, | writing on the 17th ult., says:—The weather is very dry and the crop slow, only 4,000 hogsheads of sugar having been shipped, Tonnage plenty: freights to England 1s. 64. a 1s. 7}d. per cwt. The imports of breadstuffs and provisions have fallen off considerably during the past three weeks. No cornmeal in first hands, and the stock of flour has not been so small for months. Mess pork $20. Corn, crackers, peas, brown bread, cheese and lard are all in demand. Codfish in supply at $4. Mackerel and alewives are wanted. The burned district is being prepared for the erection of stone and brick houses and stores, with roofs of slate or tin; no more wooden dwellings. Aid for the poor who have suffered by the conflagration is being contributed very liberally, and a large sum is ex- pected from England forsimilar purposes. Beef cattle were in good supply at the cattle yards yesterday, but were slow of sale, and one-quarter cent per pound lower all around. Milch cows were plenty, dull and unchang- ed. Veals were in large supply and fine request at supported rates. Sheep and lambs continued in good demand at previous prices. Swine were also in good demand, at from 54e. to 6je., including all kinds. The receipts for the week were :—3,430 beef cattle, 155 cows, 1,077 veals, 4,528 sheep and lamba, and 4,022 swine. ‘The cotton market was steady yesterday, with sales of about 1,000 bales, closing within the range of 1134¢. for middling. The receipts at the ports since the 1st of Sep- tember last have reached about 4,071,000 bales, against 3,320,000 for the same period in 1859, 2,618,000in 1868, and 2,678,000 in 1857. The exports for the same period have reached 2,838,000 bales, against 2,040,000 in 1859, 1,689,000 in 1858, and 1,704,000 in 1857. The stock on hand amounts to 900,000 bales, against 772,000 in 1859, 7€0,000 in 1858, and 490,000 in 1857. The im- pression prevails that large portion of the crop remaining im the interior is of a dirty and inferior quality, and will add to the amount of stook to be carried over at the close of the cotton year, on Ist Sep. tember next. Brokers find it difficult in any of our lead. ing markets to fill orders for good and clean cottons at current quotations ; while the supply of ordinary and in- ferior qualities being large, they cannot be freely obtained at rates which meet the views of either producers or holders. Hence the greater probabjiity of carrying over stocks of such qualities, and especially should any unfavorable circumstances arise in respect to the prospects of the new crop now planted or in the course of being planted at the South. Crop cetimates of the last year’s growth have ceased to influence prices. Considering that 4,071,000 bales have already reached market, the stock of 900,000 Jeft on hand is not large. The exports are larger than ever before known within the same period of time, and nearly equal to the total exports of last year. Tho 2,888,000 exported, at $50 per bale, amounts to the sum of $141,900,000. Of these shipments, Great Britain has taken 1,980,000 bales, of the value of $99,000,000. The American ships engaged in carrying this immense supply of cotton to Liverpool are beginning to return to this port. One arrived yesterday with four hundred emigrants on board. Flour was again active and firm yesterday for State, Western and Southern, with some sales for export. Wheat was active, and about two cents per bushel higher. Corn was some less buoy- ‘ant, but in fair demand at rates given elsewhere. Pork was inactive, with sales of now meas at $17 6234 a $17 75, and new prime at $14 06% a $14 1234. Sugars were un- changed, with moderate sales. The transactions em- braced about 600 bhds. Cuba muscovados and 179 bbls. Porto Rico, at prices given elsewhere. Coffee was quict nna a <-> =tee4y ) ith madarata aneaga- ments. Wheat to Liverpool was taken in bulk at 6d., and corn.at 534d., in bulk, and at 6d. in ship’s bags. ‘The public tea sale held yesterday went off with spirit, and previous prices were sustained. fe otgh The Subsidence of Ca: Expected of the Charleston Convention. The candidates before the Charleston Con- vention are rapidly diminishing in numbers, through the operation of natural principles as simple as that involved in the proposition that two negatives make an affirmative. Wherever a State has presented two favorite candidates, these have performed the remarka- ble feat of jumping down each other’s throat, and thus nullifying both as available candi- dates, This was the operation witnessed with Cobb and Stephens of Georgia, Breckinridge and Guthrie of Kentucky, and Seymour and Dickinson of New York ; and now it has been performed by Hunter and Wise of Virginia. An article from the Richmond Enquirer, which we publish in another column to-day, shows conclusively that Mr. Hunter is not the choice of Virginia, and in doing so it shows just as conclusively that Mr. Wise does not occupy that coveted position, The same arguments that are used against Hunter apply with equal force against Wise, and, so far as the local ac- ceptance of the respective candidates bears upon the Convention at Charleston and the opinion of the country at large, the result is to nullify the claims of both. “The great fact that this mutual destruction of State favorites reveals is, that none of them possess a broad and national reputation as states- men, but have attained local influence only through the arts of minor politics. Asa natu- ral consequence, no one of them fills the desires and hopes of his own State, and much less of the whole country, at an emergency like that rising before us, when the public expectation requires that a statesman and not a politician shall be put in nomination. Already the reac- tion in the popular feeling has commenced. Al- ready the tide of conservative impulee is rising in the country, and the recent elections in Con- necticut and Rhode Island demonstrate with mathematical precision the desires and the in- | tentions of the people. In the political canvass which these two States have just gone through, | the black republicans broughtout a vote which exhibited a popular loss of 513 on the 54,182 east for Fremont, while the conservative interest brought to the democratic candi- dates a gain of 13,214 on the 41,675 cast for | Buchanan in 1856, Similar and even greater | results will be witnessed everywhere in the | Central and Northern States. They contain nearly a million of conservative voters, who rarely can be brought to the polls, but who, in the coming campaign, will come out to put down the revolutionary and destructive theo- ries of the abolition fanatics and black repub- lican demagogues. It is this rising feeling of conservatism that the Charleston Convention must conciliate if it desires that its nominee shall be elected by the people. That body holds a vantage ground in the,opening campaign which, if it knows how to secure it, will give them the victory in No- yember. The power of party drill will bring together there delegates from every State, and from this fact alone that Convention will pos- sess & national character which is not conferred upon it by any unity of principle advocated by its cliques and sections. If, therefore, it dis- cards clique influences and the claims of candi- dates based npon bair-splitting differences with ambiguous tendeacies, and takes a broad, na- tional view of the needs of the country, it will secure an impregnable position before the people; ite triumph gure, it must ratify its expreseion of national sentiments by nominating a man wor- thy to represent these. It is only by avoiding &@ nomination procured by clique influences, and conferred upon some small politician, who is counted on to reward some particular school of partisans, that it can obtain the confidence of the vast conservative vote which will be brought out in the coming campaign. The delegates to Charleston should remember, how- ever, that the conservative feeling of the coun- try is not to be secured by windy professions, gaudy banners and noisy parades. Its rising comes from the sense of danger, and its sup- port can be obtained only through the argu- ments of truth and reason, logically presented and maintained. Should the Charleston Convention fail in the high duty expected of it, by South and North alike, the country will look to the Baltimore Convention for the point of safety around which to coalesce. The proclamation of ultra views, and the nomination of an extreme partisan at Charleston, will awaken & more lively sense of danger and @ more violent reaction in the South than that which has been elicited in the North by the destructive tendencies of the black republicans. We warn the Southern op- position and conservative leaders to watch and listen for the first echoes from Charleston Let them prepare to seize the vantage ground which the proclamation of ultra theo- ties by the Democratic Convention will leave unoccupied. The conservative appeal of the Riveses of Virginia, the Crittendens of Ken- tucky, the Bells of Tennessee, to the Southern States, backed by the Everetts of Massachu- setts, the Fillmores of New York, and the con- servative host of the Central States, would cause the disintegrated and discordant demo- cratic party to dissolve in the South, as well as in the North, like the baseless fabric of a dream. The sense of danger from the ultraists of both extremes would be greater, and there- fore more lively, in the South, and its effect would be all the more rapid. We are in the midst of greater dangers and more sudden changes than the intense selfishness of mere politicians can comprehend, and it behooves every conservative man to watch the course of events during the next three weeks. Tur Japanese at San FRrancisco.—We print- ed yesterday a very interesting acccunt of the reception of the avant courrier of the Japa- nese mission, who arrived at San Francisco on the 17th of last month, and was received ina very handsome manner by the authorities of the Golden State. We give to-day, in full, the official correspondence relating to the embassy, and our readers will find that it will amply Tepay perusal. We direct especial attention to all the details concerning the Japanese embassy, because it is quite a new thing in diplomacy, and because it affords one of the very few instances where there is something practical at the bottom of all the fuss and parade and nonsense which the effete usages of the old-fashioned govern- ments have engrafted upon official inter- sotinnal intercourse. Tlanally when wo cond a Minister abroad he is a person who is packed off because he might be politically troublesome at home. He knows nothing of the languages nor of the usages of courts, and does nothing of any significance except take his salary. Our Minister at Japan has accom- plished something more than this. He has suc- cessfully comibatted the Dutch influence; he has negotiated a fair commercial treaty, and has succeeded in inducing the Emperor to send to Washington some of the very highest personages intherealm. It is now the duty of our officials to put themselves on their best behavior, and re- ceive the embassy as the accredited representa- tives of a great nation, from which we and our descendants will receive material benefits, It is the fashion with us to call the people of the East barbarians; but in their personal habits they are far more civilized than the ma- jority of Americans or English, and, high or low, the Oriental is always well bred, gentle and courteous in his demeanor. The lowest Lascar water carrier is more of a gentleman than many of our Aldermen or even members of Congress. Such are the “ barbarians’ whom we are to entertain. May all the gods in their calendar shield them from the New York Aldermen, who shocked the Turkish Admiral by tendering him the flesh of the unclean animal in the form of the Apician sandwich, who spat in the pre- sence of an effendi, and cursed Allah with many oaths within the hearing of a chosen servant of the Commander of the Faithful. May the Japanese be shielded, also, from the ruffians and buliies, the Lovejoys and Pryors in the House, and if they are to be shown up to the New York Common Council, we suggest that some of the cleanest and most re- spectable looking members (some who can manage to get on without a spittoon for a quar- ter of an hour) should be selected to receive them, having been first duly put through a course of mannersby some competent person. In all seriousness, a great deal depends upon the proper reception of the Japanese Embassy. | The members of it are intelligent persons, who will travel with their eyes open, and their re- port will have much effect upon our fatare intercourse with Japan, either for good or evil. So let all parties take due notice of these facts and govern themselves accordingly. Movements iN Rea Estare.—We give in another column some further information as to the new buildings now being erected in this city, and those contracted for during the sea- | son. We perceive that there is a degree of dulness in real estate operations this year which was not altogether unexpected. Here is the résumé of our investigations :— The value of property now being improved is... $3,714,300 Supposed value of property not heard from.... 750,000 Vaiue of new buildings same time last year This decline is heavy, but may be easily ac- counted for. Real estate operators are draw- ing out of down town business, and investing their funds in property about the Central Park. Much of this property will lie in its present condition for a few years. This is the chief reason. The heavy taxes and general mismanagement of the affairs of the city hurt real estate, as a matter of course, and with anything like a decent municipal government our proeperity would be enhanced materially. That, however, is not to be hoped for until the property holders are plundered beyond all en- durance, (NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1860.-TRIPLE SHEET. Tas Overnanp Man, anv Iermuvs Rovres— In ‘he appropriation of the public money for mail services care should always be taken to make such an application of it as will be productive of the greatest general benefit to the country. Thus, for example, where several bids are sent in for the performance of a Post Office contract, preference should always be given to the one which embraces the largest amount of indirect as well as specific advan- tage to the public. We do not, of course, mean to gay that the conditions of a responsi- ble service should be departed from to secure this additional gain. Our idea is simply that, all other features of the different bids being equal, prefergnce should be given to that which diffuses over the widest surface the benefits of the public expenditure, The Pacific mails are at present conveyed at an expense to the country of $1,400,000 an- nuaily. They are transported bi-monthly by the way of the Isthmus of Panama, and over- land bi-weekly by what is called the Butter- field route. Of the $1,400,000 thus appro- priated, $600,000 is paid to the latter service. The speed of the two routes averages about the same. The Overland Company offer to carry the mails every day for an annual com- pensation of a million of dollars, and there is, we understand, another proposition before the Department to start a daily overland mailevery alternate day from St. Louis and New Orleans; the appropriation to be the same as isasked for by the existing Overland Company, namely, a million of dollars, Now the success of the overland mail depends in a great measure on its own power to attract extraneous support. To prove self:sustaining it will have to create new interests as well as serve efficiently existing ones. There is no doubt that it will do both. It is certain that a mail running daily through our uninhabited territories, the distance accomplished by horses being continually lessened by the extension of the railway lines on both sides, will do more to populate and develope the resources of those regions than any other inducement that can be devised. With such a prospect in view, every aid should be afforded to these routes in the power of Congress to bestew. The $400,000 now ap- propriated to the conveyance of the mails by the Isthmus would, if paid to the overland mail companies, be so much devoted to the develope- ment of the industrial and agricultural re- sources of the wild regions through which they run their expresses. Public policy, therefore, dictates that every encouragement possible be given to an enterprise which scatters such fertilizing influences in its path. Tus New Metropourtan Ponice Bru.—The Albany Legislature has effected another tink- ering operation with our police system. The New Metropolitan Police bill is nowa law, having duly received the signature of the Governor. The Commission is reduced by the new act from five to three members, excluding altogether the Mayors of New York and Brook- lyn from their seats as ex officio members of the Board. Of course the chief executive officers of these two oities, who are supposed to be re- sponsible, as Mayors usually are, for the peace and protection of their respective constituen- cies, have no right toa voice in #he govern- mull Uf the polite force, which is supposed to keep the peace and insure protection to citi- zens; at least such is the dictum of the Albany Solons, Governor Morgan, in selecting the new Commissioners, has exercised a nice discretion with regard to the importance and interests of the city of New York. He has appointed, for instance, Mr. Pilsbury, of Albany county; Mr. Bowen, of Westchester county, and Mr. Bergen, of Kings county, to comprise the Board, the insignificant city and county of New York having no representative therein at all. Pro- bably Governor Morgan selected Mr. Pilsbury partly because the Newspaper Express has ex- tended the Metropolitan district up to Albany, and partly because he, being a warden of the Albany penitentiary, is supposed to be well acquainted with the rural members of the Legislature, and can instruct the police how to take care of them when they come to the city and pay their usual visits to the dry goods institutions of Church street and Mercer street. Mr. Bowen, of Westchester, was the treasurer of the old Board, and is pro- bably retained on account of his valuable expe- rience, while Mr. Bergen, of Kings, will, of course, keep faithful watch and ward over the citizens of Brooklyn and the adjacent villages, As for the citizens of New York, they are ex- pected to take care of themselves, as they have hitherto done since we ceased to have a muni- cipal government any nearer the metropolis than the city of Albany. Every Legislature has its own particular set of friends to reward and enemies to punish, and thus it is that at every session new police bills, almshouse bills; sanitary commissions and amended charters are introduced to reform refractory politicians out of office, and instal new friends who have not yet had a share of the spoils. By this system of reward and pun- ishment New York has been seized upon by the rapacious vagabonds from the rural dis- tricts who annually congregate at Albany, until, by this perpetual scene-shifting, we never know who are pretending to govern us. Everything regarding our local government is annually turned upside down, until it has come to pass that New York is really in Alba- ny, and Albany rules in New York. In every other city in the world the Mayor is presumed to be the chief magistrate—the man to whom the citizens look for protection and redress— but in New York the Mayor is but a useless ap- pendage to the City Hall. In case of riot or other internal trouble we have no one official to apply to for assistance—not a single indi- vidual upon whom any responsibility rests. To this deplorable condition of affairs this great metropolis has been brought by the cor- rupt and rapacious Albany Legislature—the present black republican one being the most corrupt and rapacious of all. Peririon AGarsst THE Crry Rariroap Bitis.— A petition has been forwarded to Governor Morgan, we perceive, praying for his non-ap- proval of the five city railroad bills now before him for signature. The signers of this peti- tion to veto bills which never should have been passed are what is called very respecta- ble men, and being heavy taxpayers, they are naturally anxious to increase the resources of the city; butif this class of persons would only give a little attention to the primary elec- tions and other machinery whereby members of the Legislature are elected, there would be no necessity for petitioning against such in- famous measures as these railroad bills, for an honest an efficient Legislature wouldjaot enter- tain them fora moment, In this case the pro- verb holds good that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. A Hiosry Coorgp Inpiaxation Maerinc.— We have been favored with a copy of the call for the grand colored indignation meeting which is to be held this evening at the Zion (African) church. The colored people of New York are convoked to “pass judgment on the African Civilization Society, and to declare openly whether they approve of or condemn that society.” This society, it will be remembered, has been formed for the purpose of assisting the immigration of free colored persons from the United States to Zoruba, said to be the most fertile and delightful discovered portion of Africa. Here, according to the philosophi- cal philanthropists who are always doing their prettiest to ameliorate the condition of the col- ored man (even though he is so ungrateful as not to appreciate their efforts)—here the out- cast race may be dominant; they may culti- vate their own cotton and own slaves; they may establish a new nation on the face of the earth, and, in point of fact, hee their own row generally. But the colored man does not altogether ap- preciate this brilliant idea. He declines to go into the governmental business on his own ac- count, having the example of Hayti and Liberia before his eyes. The colored man says very perti- nently that the new society is only a rehash of the old colonization humbug, and that the ob- ject of the present affair is to “coax” them from their homes, ‘‘on the pretence of (their) becoming legislators in Africa, and of raising cotton for English capitalists.” The last is the most diabolical thing of all. “Raising cotton for English capitalists,” indeed. The colored man prefers to drive the horses, black the boots, curl the hair, shave the beard or wait at the table of the New York capitalist, rather than take British gold for African cotton. That is pure patriotism, if there is such an arti- cle going. The colored man at the North will not be caught even with the chaff of compet- ing with the South. Consequently the new movement is condemned by the heavy men in the best colored circles of the metropolis, in- cluding the Rev. Dr. Pennington, George T. Downing, Rev. Messrs. Samuel T. Gray, Charles B. Ray and Jeremiah V. Thomas, and others. An appeal, which accompanies the call, hints that money has already been con- tributed to send the colored man to Africa be- fore it has been ascertained whether or not he will go. It strikes us very forcibly that it would be just as well to get the sense of the parties most directly interested on the subject before paying out a dollar. Thousands have been wasted in just such schemes as this “African Civilization Society,” and if any ene has any money to give away, he would do much better to use it for the amelioration of the white slaves in the great cities of the North. Meantime, let us hear from the colored population. As the affiche says, “Come out, come out—crowd Old Zion.” Oxstructions IN THE Streets.—We are con- tinually receiving complaints about the ob- structions to which pedestrians and vehicles are subjected in the streets, such as boxes, bales, lumber and wagons, which generally occupy about one-fourth of the entire passage- way of the principal thoroughfares. If these obstructions were removed there would be comparatively little trounle in getting along, either on the sidewalks or on the pavement. Upon inquiry, we find that it is the duty of the Street Commissioner to keep the streets clear of these obstructions, and we further find that he has two men employed for that purpose. Now, the streets of this city may be measured by hundreds of miles, and these two men are expected to travel about a hundred miles a day, and to have all these obstructions removed at the same time—an evident impossibility. We have some fifteen hundred police in this city, a large portion of whom are always on duty in the streets, and these obstructions are constant- ly under their eyes, Why are not they ordered to remove them, and to see that the sidewalks are kept open for pedestrians? They could do so effectually, being always on the spot, and the obstructions could not be replaced as soon as their backs are turned. The police are liberal- ly paid for the very small amount of duty they perform, and the least they might do is to se- cure us a free passage through our public thoroughfares, as the police in all European cities are compelled todo. We hope the new Police Commissioners, just appointed at Al- bany, will attend to this, Tue Quarantine QuEsTion.—We publish in another column the bill for the removal of Quarantine, and the appointment of new Com- missioners to achieve that end. This bill is the fruit of the labors of three persons—Dr. Thom- son, the late Health Officer, whose administra- tion of the Quarantine hospitals imposed un- heard of exactions on the commerce of the port, and drove the exasperated people of Staten Island to burn them down in self-defence; Dr. Jerome, the late surgeon of the Marine hospi- tals, who has been trying all winter to get them re-established on Staten Island, in order that he may draw $6,000 a year as salary; and R. Chrystie, confidential agent and counsel of George Law. Having said this much, we need hardly add that the bill is the very last that should become a law. It revives the old scheme of buying Sandy Hook ; contemplates the building of an island (of course by Geo. Law) in the lower bay ; forbids the sale of the Quarantine property (on which the State is now losing at feast $25,000 a year in interest) until Dr. Thomson’s little bill for his burnt pill-boxes has been settled, and transfers to the new Commissioners, one of whom is the Mr. Chrystie aforesaid, a very snug sum to spend as they think fit. We are not surprised to hear that Governor Morgan is expected to veto this bill, and we do not think that the substitution of his name and the Health Officer’s for the names of Dr- Jerome and the Lieutenant Governor—which was effected yesterday in committee—should prevent his doing so. It is far better that there should be no legislation on the subject of Quarantine this year than that any more money should be squandered in fresh commis- sions and new jobs. The land on which the hospitals stood should be sold, if possible, in order to save the interest on its value; but it is better for the State to lose $25,000 in this way than to give $50,000 to be squandered by hungry commissioners. At the worst, the float- ing hospital will answer all necessary pur- posee, Last year there was no epidemip, or panic; the sick were well cared for, and, ac+ | working the same time. Three children, aged cording to Dr. Harris’ report, the was in every way successful, notwithstanding the difficulties thrown in the way by the off- cials at the old hospitals. Governor Morgaa may safely let matters remain as they are. Wurre Stavery mw Brrrisn Factorres—Srarr- une DeveLorements.—In another column will be found the report of an interesting debate in the British House of Commons on the bill intro- duced to limit the hours of labor in bleaching and dyeing works. This branch of industry, it appears, was excepted from the operation of the ten hours factories act, on the plea that it involved critical chemical processes which re- quired continuous attention. In the report of Mr. Tremenbere, one of the factory inspectors, extracts from which were quoted in the course of the discussion, some extraordinary facts are bronght to light. One witness, an adult, de- posed that he went to work at five o’clock one morning and left at six the next (twenty-five hours), all the other hands, children included, respectively fourteen, fifteen and sixteen, stated that they went to work on the Friday morning, and labored all Friday night till half-past five on the Saturday morning (23 hours) without any interval ef repose. They then laid down in their clothes and slept until shortly after seven, when they breakfast- ed, and went to work again until ten minutes past eleven. A boy seventeen years of age stated that he worked three days and three nights without any intermission, save the time fixed for meals, during which he contrived to snatch a little sleep. This is a horrible picture of the condition of the English operatives, and, we will venture to say, finds no parallel in any other country on the face of the globe. The excuse offered for it, as if palliation there could be for such cruelty, is without the least foundation in fact, for several of the proprietors of the establish- ments in which these practices are permitted have declared that they were unnecessary and could be abolished by legislative interference. All that was required to do away with them was to compel uniformity of regulations amongst the bleachers, so that unscrupulous em- ployers should have no advantage over the humanely disposed. These occurrences are the more surprising in a country in which the humanitarian senti- ment is made such a parade of. The humanity of English philanthropists has, however, always been more outward than introspective im its tendencies. They can see the mote in other people’s eyes, but not the beam in their own. It is the same with our Northern abolitionists. They overlook the practices occurring under their own observation in order to detect and exaggerate what is reprehensible amongst their neighbors. Let the world, however, contrast the condition of the negro, as presented in the letters of our special correspondents this win- ter,with that of the English operatives, and it will see that the balance of humanity is.on the side of the planter, and that the status of the negro under his ownership is a thousand times hap- pier and more comfortable than that of the white slaves of abolitionist manufacturers of Exeter Hall. It will be seen that Mr. Roe- buck made a powerful use of this fact in his speech in the debate to which we refer. The truth of the slavery question seems te be forc- ing itself gradually on the minds of English statesmen. If an unpatriotic selfishness and thirst of power were not at the bottom of the views taken of it by the black republicans, it would long since have ceased to exercise any disturbing influence on our domestic relations. TRAVEL To CHARLESTON BY Sea.—The Charles- ton Convention will initiate the Western sys- tem of hotel steamboats in this part of the country. A number of extra steamers will sail from various ports as follows:—From Boston, the S. R. Spaulding, for one hundred dollars the round trip and boarded. From Philadelphia, the Keystone State, for eighty dollars the round trip. From Richmond, the Yorktown, for fifty dollars. From New Orleans, the Coatzacoalooa, for sixty dollars. From Savannah, the Augusta, . for thirty dollars the round trip, with an extra charge of two dollars and a half a day for every day the session shall continue beyond one week. The passengers by these steamers will, in any event, be sure of a lodging, while those who go by railway will have to take the chances, which are slim. From this port five steamers, the Cahawba, Columbia, Marion, Nashville and James Adger, will be despatched at the usual rates—fifteen dollars for each single passage. Theee are all the ships that are advertised at present, and they will probably accommodate the sea travel. The through fare by railway is about the same as by steamer. The city of Charleston, a very staid, quict, easy-going municipality, is of course in a high state of excitement about the irruption of the Goths, as the Charlestonians consider the outside poli- ticians. In the matter of exclusiveness, the Carolinian is a great deal like a Chinaman, and the howls of the Charleston press as to the Con- vention are irresistibly comic. Let them make their minds easy. The only risk they could possibly run is that of famine, and Washington Market is within two days sail. The politicians are generally great scamps, but we believe that they will respect the spoons of Charleston, and pay due deference to all the laws and ordi- nances of the ancient city. If they do sot be- have themselves, eet Yeadon to work atmaking a speech for them. That will fix things. Tar New Arctic Exreprrroy or Dv. Hares.— ‘The spirit with which the Americot Geographi- cal Society of New York has ented into the plans of Dr. Hayes, the companion of the lamented Kane, to follow up tle discoveries of the last Grinnell expedition » the Polar Sea, is worthy of much commen@tion. It is plex sant to see societies of this character devoting their labors to somethig more than mer scientific abstractions, ‘n furthering the vievs and aiding the designs /of an enterprising al- venturer like Dr, Hayes, the Geographical So- ciety has accomplished some practical service, which will, we trust, by its final success, great- ly enhance the national character. We sre glad to know that the sum required for the new Arctic expedition has been already raised, and that Dr. Hayes is now in 8 position to start in the month of June for the shores of Grinnell Land, from thence to proceed towards the open Polar Sea discovered by Kane, where he con- fidently expects to solve the last great geogra- phical problem of the age, the precise location of the North Pole. The uncompleted adventure of one Ameri- can navigator falls naturally to another to ac- complish, and it would be a reproach to the Upited States if any other nation should reap