The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1860, Page 6

6 JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, cosh in advance. Money wont by mail will be at th° aie sender.” Postage stampa ot Be) ‘as subscription "ilk DAILY HERALD too cents . $7 per annum. The WEEKLY HERALD, coory Saturday i stx cents pcr Spe annum, the Karey in 7 Yat rial cents per copy, #4 per annum to any part of Gre tain, ant, both to include ye; the Ehitfornia the Cantina ie cach inonth at ota cena Per copy, or BL WO per annum. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF IMUSIC ‘Fourteenth street.—Bexerir or RE AMBRICAN DRamaTiC FUND association, Afternoon aud Evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Equestaiusx Parrosu- Ancrs—Buonze House. ? BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lirs ano Deatn oF ‘Das Tuxrin—Wax Honss. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Love rox Lovs— Love asp MURDUR. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Rosix Ho07— Perm 3 im Tas aTH AVERUE. : Brosdway.—Tax 22%, MOVER Fama A arate AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and ‘DOR _— DE Basan—JEAMIB DEARS—LIVING BRYANT’S MINSTRELS. Mechaplos’ Hall, 472 Broad way—i was, 80X08, Danone, £0.—Tus Hraaxcen. NIBLO’S SALOON, Brosdway.—Guo. Cnnisrr'’s Mux- grass tm Soxcs, Dasces, Buniesques, 40.—Warro, BLEECKER BUILDINGS—Burworrn’s Muvsrems 1 Bonas, Vancas, do—Peres Pirax Pevren Popae. COOPER INSTITUTF.—Exawrrion or Pmare's Ourctnay Parr ar ras Count or Peata—Afternooa and Evening. HOPY CHAPEL, 720 Broad: _—Gen, Tox Tuvus’s Ex- RRTAINMENT—Aflernoon angtvening, GOLDBEOK’S MUSIC HALL, No. 765 Broadway.— Furth 6o1KE OF TEE CHAMBER Concert UNION, NATIONAL OONCKRT SALOON, National Theatre.— Dancas, Buanexcues, &0. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tucsday, April 17, 1860. MAILS FOR EUROPE. Whe New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Niagara, Captain Anderson, ‘Will eave Bosten on Wednesday for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close in this city this af- ternoon, at half-past one o’clock, to go by railroad, and at four o'clock, to go by steamboat. ‘The Ecrorman Encrion or rue Hemarp will be published ft ten o’slock in the morning. Single copies, in wrap- pers, six cents. Subecriptions and advertisements for any.edition of the Naw Yors Henazp will be received at the following places tn Burope:— ‘will combine the nows received by mail and telegraph at tne occ during the previous week and up to the hour of publication. TRIPLE SHEET HERALD. ‘The pressure of news and advertisements upon our columns compels us, as we foresaw yesterday, to issue a triple sheet of the Hera.p again to-day; and such are the indications of a continued and in- creased demand upon our space that it is highly probable we shall have to publish triple shects every day this week. The successive publication of our journal in this enlarged form, while it af- fords additional convenience to the public, in- volves the consumption of 8 vast amount of paper. We must therefore again call atten- tion to the fact that we are desirous of obtaining, if possible, one or more first class paper mills, capable of turning out from one hundred teone hundred and fifty thousand sheets of paper per diem, in order that we might ensure at all times an adequate supply of this indispensa- ble material, uniform in color, substance and tex- ture, and of tar superior manufacture. If there be py persons, therefure, who have mills for sale, they are requested to communicate with tbe pro- prietor of this paper, transmitting all the necessary information relative to the size and capacity of their machinery, the number of sheets it can pro- @uce per day, their terms of sale, and any other facts whieh it may be necessary to explain. Tne News. n Congreas, yesterday, the Senate resumed the consideration of Mr. Brown's resolutions relative to slavery in the Territories, Mr. Latham, of Cali- fornia, being the principal speaker. Mr. Brown urged a yote on the resolutions, but the Senate would not agree to it. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill providing for the more effectual suppression of the African slave trade. The returns of the officers despatched by the Harper’s Ferry Investigating Committee to arrest John Brown, Jr., and Frank B. Sanborn, were presented. The Judiciary Com- Mittee were instructed to inquire and report what further proceedings are necessary to vindicate the authority of the Senate and effect the arrest of the witnesses. The bill amending the patent laws was taken up, and some amendments adopted, but the Senate adjourned without taking the question on the bill. In the House, a resolu- that Congress adjourn from Friday next to the first of May, in order to enable members to attend the Charleston Convention, was discussed, and finally laid on the table. The proposition will, however, be resumed to-day, and will undoubtedly pass. A report and bill providing for the suppression of the Coolie traflic in American vessels, was presented and referred to the Committe on Commerce. The Senate resolution, appropriating $50,000 for the entertain- ment of the Japanese embassy, was adopted. A bill providing mail facilities for Western Kansas also passed. A bill organizing the Census Board ‘was passed, and $48,000 were appropriated towards paying the expenses of the various investigating committees. The news from the State capital this morning is important. The Governor has vetoed all the city railroad schemes, exeept the Ninth avenue grant to George Law. The Assembly afterwards passed the Dills over the Governor’s veto. The Railroad Toll Dill, and the bill repealing the act abolishing tolls on the Central Railroad, have been killed. A number of bills were passed and others advanced in the preliminary stages, but we are compelled to refer to our reports and despatches for details. The Legislature will probably not adjourn till the last of the present wee k. Acéording to the City Inspector's report, there ‘were 461 deaths in the city during the past week, an increase of 10 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 60 more than occurred Sousing the corresponding week last year. The re- table gives 2 deaths of diseases of the bene, joints, &c., 84 of the brain and nerves, 17 of #ho generative organs, 15 of the heart and blood ‘eagels, 169 of the lungs, throat, &c., 6 of old age, 69 of diseases of the skin and cruptive fevers, 4 still- NEW" YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1860—TRIPEN "Steer. born and prematare births, 49 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 43 of general fevers, 1 of diseases of the urinary organs, 8 unknown, and 21 from violent causes. ‘The na- tivity table gives 310 natives of the United States, 95 of Igeland, 28 of Germany, 3 of Scotland, 1@ of England, and the balance of various foreign coun-. tries. A special meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday. A communication was re- ceived from the Mayor calling the attention of the Board to the The Trustees of the Law Library applied for an appropriation of $10,000, to pay back rents. The Committee on County Offices are to prepare esti- mates and specifications for the building of a new county jail. The Board is adjourned until the first ‘Tuesday in May. condition of Harlem bridge. The coal pediers of this city held another meet- ing last night at 103 Norfolk street, to take further measures for the continuance of their right to sell atretail. Nothing new had transpired since their last meeting, and no busines of importance was transacted. The special Aldermanic Committee on Con. tested Seats held a meeting yesterday; and at the request of Alderman Russell’s counsel they ad- journed for s week, without entering into the in- vestigation of the claims of the contestants for the Eighth Aldermanic district, which is the only one now disputed. Aldermen Cornell and Genet were the members of the committee present. At o meeting of the Board of Sapervisors yester. day,a report relative to the dilapidated condition of Harlem Bridge, and a statement that the amount required to put it in repair would be from $700 to $1,000, was received from the Mayor, and referred. A communication from the Librarian of the Law Institute, asking an appropriation of $10,000 to pay back rents, was referred to the Finance Committee. The plan and estimates for the new county jail were discussed, and finally the re- port on the subject was re-committed, with direc- tions to have the estimates and specifications pre- pared for the Board at their next meeting. The Board of Councilmen yesterday appointed a delegation to attend the National Sanitary Conven_ tion to be held in Boston, and appropriated $2,500 to defray their oxpenses. The Finance Committee reported in favor of giving the Central Park Com” missioners $250,000, instead of $833,000, asasked for by the Commissioners, and the report was accepted No other business of general interest was trans acted. The debate on the slavery question was resumed yesterday, in the Methodist Conference, now hold- ing its annual cession in St. Paul's chutch. Speeches were made by the leaders of the “ progressive” and “ conservative” wings of the body, resulting in the ‘triumph of the lovérs of the Union. The vote on Mr. Ferris’ substitute was 89 in favor of its rejection, and 91 against it, while the “Erie” reso- lution was rejected by an overwhelming majority— the vote being 42 in the affirmative and 125 in the negative. The Erie resolution is in favor of exclu- ding all slaveholders from the church; while the “substitute” prohibits the holding of slaves for mer- cenary purposes. The special order for to-day is the election of nine delegates to the General Conference. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester- day, a report in favor of an additional appropria- tion of $3,500 for the improvement of Harlem river, was adopted. The resolution from the Council- men, appropriating $250,000 to the Central Park Commission was referred. The election of Fire Wardens was confirmed by the Board. Several other subjects were acted on, none of them, how- ever, of importance. x A writ of alternative mandamus was issued by Judge Bonny to Sheriff Kelly, to take Alderman Richard Barry into custody, in accordance with the sentence of the Court of Sessions, or show cause on Tuesday morning why he refuses to obey the writ. The Board of Police Commissioners met yester- day noon, all the members being present. Bat little business of importance transpired. Hugh Gillispec, of the old force, was re-instated and several minor cases disposed of. It being required that a certified copy of the new law should be read at the first meeting of the Board, and the Secree tary of State having failed to provide the same, the Board adjourned to Wednesday, at 12 o'clock: when it is presumed they will proceed with the regular business. After the Board had adjourned» Mr. Bergen was introduced to the several Captains of the force and attachés of the headquarters, Deputy Superintendent Carpenter will, in all pro bability, be elected General Superintendent. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday were tight, and confined to about 400 = 600 bales, closing dui] on the basis of 11};c. a 113¢¢. for middling uplands. Flour was firm, though some less active; the demand was fair, both from the domestic and export trade—the latter mostly for the British provinces. Southern flour was firm, and in good demand. Wheat was in good milling and export de- mand for the better qualities, while common grades ‘of spring were dull; the sales included choice Kentucky white at $172, white Western at $1 60 (in store), Western red and Milwaukee club at $1 42, and Chicago spring on private terms. Corn was lees buoyant, with sales of some 38,000 bushels, at prices given in another column. Pork was firmer, espe- cially for prime, with sales of new mess, at $17 6234 a $17 76-, and new prime at $14 25014373. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 700 hhds., at prices given in another place, where a statement of stocks will be found. Also Coffee was quiet, while holders wero firm. Freights were steady, with a {air amount and oflering. Among the engagements to Liverpool were 11,000 bushels corn, in bulk, at 644d., and 8,000 bushels wheat do., at 63{d., and 600 bales cotton, at 3-16d. a 7-32d. The Black Republican Idea and Party— Its Untversally Destructive Ten- dencies. We give elsewhere to-day another letter from the Zribune’s Washington correspondence on the true black republican idea. In these let- ters the writer shows himself to be superior to Seward, Spooner, Helper and all the other black republican advocates, both in his ability to trace an idea through its logical analysis to its ultimate results, and in his fearless honesty, which impels him to acknowledge the destruc- tion which must attend its triumph. The Zribune writer persists in his idea that parties in this country are ‘Sanging themselves under “natural divisions; and assures us that “the mercenary trading spirit” is bringing about an affiliation between “the slaveholding and planting aristocracy of the South, and the moneyed aristocracy of the North;” that in the coming conflict “vast masses of mankind will show themselves earthy, sensual, devilish, when touched on the side of the pocket berve;” but that “the rights of the man is the electric cry which has shaken empires, and toppled down thrones;” and under its banner a black republican move- ment is on foot which will, if it can, “sweep like a tornado through the political atmos- phere.” Now, in the essence of these things, though not in the epithets which he applies, we agree to the dotting of an “i” and the Crossing of a “¢” with the Tribune correspondent’s descrip- tion of black republicanism and its workings, It is bringing about an affiliation between the conservative interests of the North and South for self-preservation; vast masses of the people will move against it as soon as they fee) that its inevitable results must be the reduction of the wages of their labor, as has already been ex- perienced by the shoemakers of Massachusetts, ‘and the destruction of their hardly sayed capi_ tal, and of the value of their little houses and | well tojwhat they are about, for pend upon it that their old will keep their pockets tight buttoned if they see any evidences of the devilish influences which are distracting and dividing the blood and forced the beautiful Madame Roland to exclaim on the scaffold, “Oh, Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!” and aused the entire French people to rejoice when the despotism of Napoleon saved them from a continuance of the horrors of red and black republicanism, We ac- knowledge that with this cry the black republican party hopes to “sweep like ® tornado through the political atmos- phere” of this country, but we have never known apy “tornado” to produce a great good. It is destructive alike of friend and foe, just a8 the black republican idea will be, if that party triumphs in the approaching political struggle. A just and strict analysis of the black repub- lican party will show that its leaders and apos- tles are just as repulsive as are their ideas, and the aims and objects that animate them. For many years a set of broken-down clergymen have been advocating the fanatic idea of abo- litionism, and. inculoating the necessity of ad- ministering the government according to cer- tain moral abstractions and exaggerations. The defeat and breaking up of the old whig party let loose a crowd of desperate politicians, con- sisting of broken down lawyers, disappointed office seekers, bankrupt merchants, crack- brained socialists, hungry shoulder-hitters, and the rag-tag and bob-tail of the whig primary elections. When the bank and tariff questions were decided, these political desperadoes, in stress of an issue, took up the hugely moral idea of the rights of the nigger, and coalesced with the fanatical broken down clergymen upon it. Ever since then they have been endeavoring to get up a “tornado in the political atmosphere,” in hopes that it would bring them into the high places and fat valleys of the land. There are a good many shrewd fellows among them who see already that, with Seward and his brutal and bloody Rochester platform, they are in the same dilemma with the man who drew the elephant in the rafile. The natural result of such a condition of things is the rousing of every conservative interest and sentiment, in the North as well as in the South, against the destructive “tornado” of black republicanism. Its leaders see this, and, therefore, do they endeavor to raise the cry of “aristocracy,” and proclaim that they war only with three hundred thousand slave- holders of the South. But the vital interests of the eight or nine millions of white inhabitants in the Southern States are more closely bound up in the existing social organization there than are those of the three hundred thousand rich planters and slaveholders. If the slaves were taken from the latter they would have some capital or property left. But the many millions whose labors and whose income depend upon the existing order of production and exchange would have nothing left, and terror and deso- lation would sweep over them as it did over those of St. Domingo, when the self-styled “friends of the blacks” immolated their fellow whites upon the altar of their fanatical and de- Pelitical Corruption im a Now Phase—The Ohevalier Formey and that $70,000. We publish to-day a very spicy letter from the Chevalier Wikoff, apropos to his relations with the Chevalier Forney. It appears, from the note of the very distinguished diplomat first mentioned, that he and the Chevalier For- ney have been for many years brothers in arms, but that latterly, for some unknown cause, Forney has displayed the basest ingrati- tude towards Wikoff, and evinces a very strong disposition to eat him up. Forney’s latest sug- gestion relative to Wikoff is that he has been paid by the administration a large salary for doing nothing, and that the Covode Inves- tigating Committee ought to overhaul the Chevalier, and ascertain all about the facts in the case. Wikoff replies that the Committee will not get anything out of him, although he knows a great deal about matters and things in general and Forney in particular. Bat the Chevalier Wikoff has an eye to business; he is going to print a book, and has no intention of giving Mr. John Covode or his committee any of the rich bits which he has salted down for The Wikoff correspondence, although not over and above definite, opens some new views as to the wonderful discoveries which have been made by the Covode Committee. This inquisi- tion was started by Foraeyin order to injure, if possible, the character of the President. It has been going on during a fortnight or more, and the only piece of information obtained so far is, that during the Presidential canvass of 1856 the sum of seventy thousand dollars was entrusted to Forney, to be used in bringing the people of Pennsylvania to a realizing sense of the great principles of the democratic party. Of this sum, thirty thousand were subscribed by the merchants and bankers of New York, twenty thousand came from Boston, and twenty thousand from Philadelphia. According to the evidence of Mr. George Plitt, it appears that dll this money was paid over to the Chevalier For- ney, who has never yet accounted for a single cent of it. The money has gone somewhere, but there art no vouchers to show for it. question is, then, what has the Chevalier Forney done with that seventy thousand dollars? We do not suppose that any one will believe fora moment that the Chevalier Forney used it all, or any considerable portion of it, to corrupt the free and independent electors of Pennsyl- vania, or to subsidize the immaculate press of that State. We believe that the Chevalier For- ney has still a little conscience left. His Forrest escapade must have given it a pretty severe shaking up, but even politicians have a little of the still small veice. They are so tender in their susceptibilities that they very rarely ap- ply funds raised as bribes forvoters to any such wicked purposes. The money is generally giv- en away to missionary societies, or kept care- fully out of the canvass, and snugly in the breeches pockets of the distinguished gentle- men whe are expected to disburse it. Presuming that the Chevalier Forney is not an exception to the rule of his class, we may proceed to draw inferences from existing facts as to his disposition of the funds entrusted to him. It is very well known that after the cam- paign of 1856, the Chevalier Forney’s am- bition was to obtain a seat in the Cabinet. He opened @ correspondence with the Cheva- lier Wikoff, with a view of inducing the latter to use his influence with the New York Herap, so that that journal might urge Forney’s claims to the place of Postmaster General. The correspondence was quite lengthy, and is, of course, rather spicy. The upshot was that Forney’s designs were accom- plished, so far as the Heratp was concerned, ‘but Mr. Buchanan, even then, left poor Forney out in the cold. Mr. Buchanan was proof even to the influences of Bennett and the Henan. The venerable statesman at the head of the government was sound as a rock on this ques- tlon, and would not have Forney at any price. The Heratp was magnanimous; Mr. Buchanan just. He knew Forney well. His further ope- rations, including his bolt from the democratic party, are fresh in the public mind. Now, to put the matter logically, Forney has had three special objects in view—one as to the Haraup and the place in the Cabinet; next, the estab- lishment of his Press, and, finally, the destruc- tion of the democratic party in the Central States. It is not impossible that he might have used some of the seventy thousand dollars to further his projects. How much did he give the Chevalier Wikoff for his influence with the Heraty? Did he, like the administration, pay Wikoff a “heavy salary for doing nothing?” The Heraup recommended him out of pure good nature; but as there is no such thing as disinterestedness among such men as Forney, he might have paid, or promised to pay, some immense sum for Bennett’s good word. Let us know all about it. Next we find Forney establishing a daily newspaper in Philadelphia, on an extravagaat scale, and organizing bolts from the adminis- tration platform in New York and Philadel- phia. The Press has sunk a good deal of money, and there have been lavish expendi- tures by the Forney clique on other accounts, Altogether the Chevalier must have had a rather good time of it, with a round sum of money at his disposal, and no one to call him to account for the manner in which it was dis- It is with the preservation of the vital inte- rests of these eight or nine millions of South- ern whites that the conservative feeling of the central and Northern States sympathises. It is seen full clearly that they cannot be stricken down by the hand of a destructive fanaticism without carrying down with them the interests also of millions in the North who live by the plough, loom and anvil. Fanatics and dema- gogues may call this a “mercenary trading spirit,’ and deride it; but it isa spirit that per- vades alike the humblest home and the most costly residence. Upon it depend the wages of labor, the profits of manufactures and mer- chants, the reward of the farmer, the return of capital, the education of our children, the sup- port of our churches, the happiness of the pre- sent and the prosperity of future generations. There is neither aristocracy nor democracy in such an all-pervading spirit, but only the in- stinct of self preservation common to all classes of the community. When fanatics and old broken-down politicians unite, as they have, to form the present black republican party, and insist, as they do, that the material and living interests of millions af men must consent to self-destruction in order that an exaggerated and impracticable idea shall be exalted, a blow is struck at the existence of society and govern- ment, which the world has once seen in the first French revolution, apd which it neither desires to see, and much less to feel, again, This destructive blow is what the leaders of the black republican party wish to see struck at the Union, the constitution, and the society of this confederacy. Tae Devm, ww THE Caur¢HEs.—In ancient we are told that Satan ing lion, seeking whom he might devour. Since then he has assumed many and cunningly contrived disguises. Some- times he takes the mask of'a moral philosopher, sometimes that of a religious reformer, and oc- casionally the surplice itself. In each and all he manages to do a large amount of evil, dis- tracting men’s minds by false theories, and leading them into the path of error. Latterly he has got into the Protestant churches; and after dividing the general bodies of the differ- ent sects, is now setting the local congregations by the ears. We have seen the pranks that he has played amongst the Cheeverites, breaking them up into stormy parties, and leading them nearly to acts of personal violence. Amongst Henry Ward Beecher’s congregation the same demoniacal influences are at work. In the re- cent angry discussions between the pastor and the trustees of his church, the cloven foot was as plainly visible as if the scene were laid in Pandemonium. ,If things go on at this rate, Archbishop Hughes will have to be called in to exorcise the evil spirit from our religious and benevolent societies, as it is his special province to do. Catholics and Irish- men don’t fear the devil, for the simple reason that they are sound on the nigger question and are true to the Federal constitution, The Satanic contagion is spreading so ya- pidly that there is reason to fear it will extend tothe religious antiversaries. It has already gotinto the Tract Society, and will probably invade all the other missionary associations. Should our fears turn out well founded, these societies will be feft without funds to carry on their operations this year. Our rich mer chants, who are such liberal contributors to them, will never consent to give their money to bodies amongst whom the devil bas contrived to sow the seeds of disunion and treason. Let the managers of these societies, therefore, look and scriptural time went about like a r It seems very probable, from all the facts, that the money raised in 1856 from opulent democrate—such men as Watts Sherman, Royal Phelps, S. F. Butterworth, and others—was used in 1858 and 1859 with a view to break down the very administration which they sub- scribed to put into office. If this is true, it is one of the most curious chapters of political history evér opened, and the Covode Com- mittee ought to have something handsome done to them for discovering it. If it is not true, if Forney has not used the money sub- scribed by Wall street democrats to help .the opposition, let him come out with his vouchers, and say where the money really went to. In the absence of any such evidence our inference is irresistible, and s0 we commend it to the special attention of the New York Hotel clique and the other parties concerned. Tas New Law or Carrrat, Puxtsament—The bill amendatory of the existing law of Capital Punishment, which has beea for several weeks before the State Legislature, has finally passed both branches of that body, and received the Soran ta limits capital punishment to treason and mur- der in the first degree, and essentially modifies the definition of the crimes at preseat punish- able by death. It providesfarther that in cases of murder, it shall be the province of the jury to determine, according to the evi- dence of the case, whether the criminal shall be imprisoned fer life, or pay the penalty of his crime upon the gallows. The latter is ua- questionably @ most salutary measure, for while it invests juries with a discriminating power which they have not hitherto possessed, it enables them to render a verdict which is moderately sure to result in the punishment of the offender, fulfil the ends of justice, and carry out the apirit of the law. Under @he head of murder in the first de- gree, the new statute classifies all mur- ders which shall.be “perpetrated by means of .poison, or by lying in walt, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and pre- meditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or the attempt to perpe- trate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, or in any attempt te escape from imprisonment; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree; and the jury be- fore whom any person indicted for murder in either degree shall be tried, shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, find in their verdict whether it be under the first or second de- gree.”” One of the most strikizg points of difference ‘between the old and the new law is, that un- der the former the execution can not take place within four weeks, and not more than eight weeks from the time of the sentence; while in the latter it is provided that the execution shall not take place within twelve months from the date of sentence. This provision is one which may commend itself as affording an opportunity for the developement of facts which may have deen withheld; and in some cases it may in this view be eminently proper, but we fear that in a majority of instances its effect will be to allow a delay to the criminal which will render his escape almost a certainfy. Altogether, the bill is a thor times more preferable than the measure for which it was substituted, which so nearly approximated to a total abolition of capital punishment, that it would, in time, have thrown upon the community a class of blood- stained and bloodthirsty individuals who, in the ordinary course of events, ought to meet their deserts in the noose of a hempen halter. Our Bullies im Congress. In another column will be found some addi- tional correspondence connected with the Pryor and Potter difficulty, the aim of which seems to be to enable the original aggressor to retrieve the degradation into which his pol- troonery has betrayed him. Notwithstanding the efforts made by his friends to cover his humiliation, there is no disguising the damning fact that after putting his quarrel with Mr. Potter to a mortal issue, he shrank from the alternative of a fight with weapons which placed his opponent on a fairer level with him than that afforded by a duel with firearms. With the latter he was confident of his superior skill and chances; of the weapons proposed by Mr. Potter he was less assured; and, therefore, like a gambler reduced to play with fair cards, declined them. The suggestion that size and weight would give the preponderance to Potter in a contest with knives, every frontiers- man knows to be untrue. A light, active man thus armed, has, if he has got nerve and pluck, s decided sdvantage over meré bulk. In pugilistic contests, for ex- ample, the most successful champions of the prize ring are men of medium proportions. It will not do for Mr. Pryor, after the world has pronounced its verdict upon the unmistake- able cowardice of his course, to take up the quarrel agaih at the point where his refusal to accept Mr. Potter’s conditions had left it. He probably did not expect that the press ef his own party would be so unanimous in its con- demnation of his conduct, and now that he is disgraced in the eyes of all brave men, there is no doubt he would be glad to replace himself again in the position, equivocal as it was, that he occupied previous to this difficulty. No such chance, however, can be afforded to the professional bully. If Mr. Potter or any of his friends were to meet him after the cowardly manner in which he has shirked out of an en- counter in which he is himself the challenger, they would be lowering themselves to the de- graded level of this unhappy man. Mr. Pryor belongs to a class of public nui- sances which it isimportant to the decent name and credit of the country should be wiped out as.soon as possible. This can only be done by using against them all the technical advantages which the miscalled code of honor offers to those whom they seek to intimidate. Let the professed duelist be taken by the challenged party, as is his right, out of the range of weapons to which he is accustomed, and let the distance be such as will render escape from & fatal result impossible, and we will guaran- tee that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred he will slink out of the quarrel like a whipped cur, as this man Pryor has done. The corres- pondence in this quarrel will prove a valuable guide for the future conduct of those who may be forced into a difficulty with these profes- sional Bobadils. As a useful pendant to it, we republish the letters exchanged in the Ashmore and Maxwell affair which, it wil! be recollected, offer some striking points of analogy to the present case. Notwithstanding the strong and unequivocal sentiments of condemnation which the vapor- ing of Mr. Pryor has elicited from the press of all parties, and some indignant evidences of which we copy into our columns to-day, we fear that his being compelled to eat the leek will not put an extinguisher upon the trouble excited by his contemptible hectoring. Pas- sions haye been aroused in the course of this quarrel which, though the chief actors have played out their parts, will, in all probability, seek opportunities for indulgence. There are many such men in Congress as Mr. Pryor, in whose minds the responsibility of their posi-, tions and the credit of the country are mat- ters of less consideration than the gratification of their violent and brutal instincts. It would not besurprising if, out of the miserable feud which has created such indignant comment throughout the country, some bloody drama were yet to be the result. We tremble lest the halls of the national Legislature should be made the theatre of such a scene, and 9g- gravate the disgrace which the misconduct of these professional fire-eaters has already brought upon us in the eyes of the world. Let all good and true mea in both houses there. try and keep a check over the unruly spirks iq, . their ranks, the shame and humiliation of such scenes would be spared us. We greatly fear, | however, that no such patriotic inspirations will. guide their course, and that we shall have to Jet the horror and disgrace of such spectact work out their own cure. Tux Opera 1x New Yorr—A New For THE Beau Monpg.—The enterprising’ gers of the Academy of Music are making ar- rangemeats for several brilliant coups, the first of which is indicated in a cireular, copies of | | which: will be distributed to-day among the |, stockholders of the opera-house, the musical professors, critics, and dilettantigenerally. The |)" document announces that the managers will | have the honor to bring out, at amearly day, a new prima donna, born under the benign | and admirable government of the corpora- tion of New York, and although of domes- tie growth, believed to be as fine as any imported, and superior to the average of the foreign article. In order that the public gea; erally may be informed as to the merits of the new_ singer, there will be a rehearsal of the op- era—‘ I} Poliuto”—in which she will make her| début, seid rehearsal to take place‘on Thursday morning next The débutante referred to is , ° Miss Keliogg, a lady still in her teens. It is claimed that she has great natural. musical gifts and all the educational requirements for » distinguished success. Miss KeNogg has been prepared for the operatic stage under the tui- tion of Signor Muzio, one of the very best of European masters, and therefore there can hardly be any such thing as a breakdown, Miss Kellogg has studied several of the tragic operas, and will sing chiefly in such works as, the ‘“Trovatore.” If she succeeds in that + school, she will be the first American prima donna who has done so. Our singers usually lack power and volume of voice, In those points Miss Kellogg is expected to come out. atrongly. The ceremony attendant upon the débul of the new prima donna and the general interest taken in the Opera just now, when we have two first class companies in full swing, proves that the metropolis is progressing as rapidly in the developement of its musical taste as in its mate- rial prosperity. With a population two-thirds legs than that of London, and one-third lees than Paris, we can still support two operas,, and perhaps make the eternal fortunes of the, wv managers, unless they go into kite-flying and clock speculating, la Barnum. In any event, the managers will win fame, if not fortune, and the glory of having-been the pioneers in New York of the most réfined and elegant amuse- meant of the age ought to be a sufficient satis- faction to them. As far as the public are concerned, the Opera furore is one of the leading events of the day. Musical education is more widely diffused among our people than anywhere elsein the . world. Even now, we bring out singers beter “ than the average Europeans, and the time may come when New York will be a musical as well * asa financial centre, and supply London and Paris with singing birds. We are grow- ing space. Every year the city be- comes more and more powerful. The metropolis is above and before all. The metropolis. regulates the trade, governs the finance, provides the literature, prints the news- papers, paints the pictures, sets the fashions, furnishes the actors, singers, parsons and teach- ers, and dictates the politics for the republic. We have a great country at our back—over thirty-two, and soon to be fifty, millions of peo- ple pouring out their wealth at our feet. We have plenty of money—too much, perhaps. We make it amd spend it faster than any other nation on the face of the earth. Nowhere is talent of any sort so quickly recognised and Ifberally rewarded as in the city of New York. This circumstance gives to the art student the strongest of stimulants, and, asa natural conse- quence, the highest point of perfection is at- tained. As music seems now to be the art in which our people have made the greatest’ pro- grese, it is not improper to assume that New York may one day give the law on that sub- ject, as wellas a great many others. Mean- while jet the two operas flourish, and award the new singer a kindly reception. Twentx-Five Centr Patriots —Daring the past winter this city has been visited by a num- ber of “distinguished” republican orators; who were invited hither by the representations and inducements of a debating club in this city} + composed of young men, some of whom are yet in their minority, and known as the Yoang Men’s Central Republican Union, to deliver “lectures” on the general topics of the day. Among the speakers we have alluded to were, | Wendell Phillips, John Sherman, Cassius M. Clay, Abram Lincoln and others, all famous for their abolition and disunion proclivities. These “lectuges” were extensively sdvertised in the daily newspapers and by large posters placarded in various parte of the city, announc- ing the subject of the discourse. To hear these’ “lectures” each adult wag mulcted in the sum of twenty-five cents, Federal Sx'R@UCy. Large audiences were gathered ip the Cooper Insti, tute, and among the lectures the ladiea composed a good ‘of the audience ; but the trick was soon speakers, instead “ confining themselvesstrict- announced, indulged them- bee with general approbation. with the sob 04 but has caused a dissension in} their ranks ; the more intelligent portion ad- yocatitg open doors in future, to listers to lucybrations of political stump spealcers politicians. AcapEuY OF Mvsic.'‘Lucia di Lammermocr”” was, last night with the former distribution, which Adelina Patti, Signori Brignoli and Ferri. The ance was an exceedingly good ome, ara was recsiver ‘with enthusiasm by a very large audience. The were recalled after each act, andthe prima donaa nev‘ sung better. The ‘“‘Sonnambuls,”’ with Patti, Brigno| and Amodio, will be given on Wednesday, for the appearance but two of Miss Patt.