The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1860.—TRIPLH SHERT. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDI[OR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 873. —————— 1S, cash in acdeance. Money sent Ly matt roill be at the riko the BAM omaze campo wot vecetwod as sulecrighion on Pile DAILY HERALD tico cents per copy, $1 per annum. hE D, every Saturday at six cer uropean. Balition ever 7 annum to ay part of Great Bi part of the Continent both to include postage; the tition on the Sth and With of each month ut az cents 1, or 61 Wt Ber anim ih FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per Wen ining important OF used will be ny. or $2 per annum MO LUNTARY CORRESPONDE. neves; sotic Uiberally paid Jor PanncuiaR ¥ any quarter of Ler Forkien (4 Ruquersap to Brat aut. Lerees aN PaoK- We do not ‘ed every day; advertisements ine >. FAMILY Hawa.n, and én the Seeculed scith neatness, cheapness and de- mous correspondences -Ne. 108 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF "MUSIC Fourteenth street—I[eauan Ors- RA—LA BONNAMBULA, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bresdway.—Eqonstauan Perrone: Avcee—Baonee housx. BOWERY THEATER, Howery.—Was Hou'n—Werr or tas Wisi TON-Wisi—Pappy we Pires, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Travian Orsma—Lucnezta HOsGta. WALLACK’S THEATRE Rroadway.—O.p Beaps and Young Hxax7s—Marasace Biiss or Box anv Cox, —™ KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Brondway.—Coumex wm NEW BOWERY THEATR™, Bowery.—Kown Hoon Benscia Bor-Faavrur Txacsdy wt tus Biourd Avasos. WRS BROUGHAM’S THEATBR, 444 Brosdway,—Tus Lear or rae Pioraus. M, Broadway —Dsy and BARNUM’S AMERICAN Corse LIVING CURIOS- Ereuing—Jeamie Oeans— Wit TIERS, &C. Mechentea’ Ha'l, 472 Broad- Daxoxs, 40 —Tus SteaNcre. BRYANT'S MINST ‘way —Bumixsqus, Soi NIBLO’S BALOON, Brosdway.—Geo. Cansty’s Min- @wnzis uF Sonos, Dances, usiesquas, £0.—\ erF0 BLEECKER BUILDINGS—Konwortu’s MinsteEis 0 Bones, Dancus, &c —l’etee Pirge rerree Povor. COOPER INSTITUE.—. Burepionity OF Wind UW mes Rewwick’s LRCFURE ON THE R STEAM HOPE CHAPEL. 720 Brondway.—Gen. Tou Tavas’s Ex- TERTAINENT—After noon and Evectog. HATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Gomes, Dances, Boeiesaves éo. TRIPLE SHEET. How York, Wednesday, April 15, 1860, OUR COLUMNS THIS MORNING. We never before, in any one issue, pudlished so many advertisements as appear in the Heraup of this morning. Our columns, it will be seen, are filled with short business notices—the real city news of the day—and not by long advertisements that the public sometimes see. When it is taken into consideration that the entire Hearn of this morning—a triple sheet of seventy-two columns—is wholly filled with fresh intelligence, not only of the ews of yesterday, but of the requirements of this busy community of merchants, mechanics, cham- bermaids, auctioneers, shipping houses, house own- ers, theatres, hotel keepers, &c., &c, &c., &e., the public will have some idea of one day's work in a live newspaper establishment. The News. The Legislature adjourned sine die at eleven o'clock last night, after doing as much mischief as it was possible for any body of law makers to ac- complish in a given number of days. They yester Gey passed the Almshouse bill, the Tax Levy, and the bill euppressing Sunday recreations. The As sembly, however, did one good thing—they sustain-. ed the Governor's veto of the abominable Albany and Susquehanna Railroad scheme. All the city Railroad bills were passed over the Governor's veto. Full reports of the proceedings are given in another colomn. The proceedings of Congress yesterday were quite interesting. Both houses refused to adjourn over so as to allow members an opportunity to at- tend the Presidential nominating Conventions. It is probable, however, that very little, if any, busi- ness of importance will be transacted from Friday next until after the adjournment of the Chicago Convention. In the Senate @ message was re ceived from the President, communicating in- formation relative to the imprisonment of naturalized American citizens by foreign governments. Notice was given of a bill providing for the transportation of the mails to the Pacific by railroad. The Committee on Pablic Lands re- ported the Homestead bill, with modifications, The points of the modified bill are given in our report of the proceedings. The President sent ina mes- sage vetoing the bill for the relief of Arthar Ed- wards and others, contractors, for carrying the mails on the Northern lakes from 1849 to 1858. The sum involved amounts to $30,- 000. The Senate held an executive ses- sion, but we are not advised as to what subject was under consideration. In the House, Mr. Conk- ling, of New York, made a speeech on the slavery question in its relation to the judicial tribunals. ‘The Deficiency bill was taken up, and several mem- bers expressed themselves strongly against continu- ing the official reports of debates in the Glove, owing to their inaccuracy. $5,000 were appro- priated to defray the expenses of a delegate to the International Statistical Convention, to be held in London in July next. We publish in another part of to-day’s paper our first instalment of news from San Francisco and Balt Lake City, per the first Pony Express from the former place to St. Joseph and by the regu- far mail from the latter place. In San Francisco the people were in ecstacies at the arrival of the Japanese Embassy in the United Btates frigate Powhatan, from Japan; indeed, the excitement about the newly discovered Washoe mine bud temporarily subsided, while ex- tending courtesies to and lionizing their dis- tinguished guests. On the 2d of April ® grand banquet was given to the Embassy at one of the principal hotels of San Francisco, which was participated in by Governor Downey, the manicipal officers of San Francisco, the officers of the Powhatan, ard quite a number of officers of the army and navy. The utmost harmony prevailed, and the Japanese appeared highly pleased at their reception. Theofficers of the Candinmarruh—the avant courier of the Embassy, prior to the arrival of the Powhatan—were entertained at a banquet, in which the Japanese Aduiiral proposed a signifi Cant toast. The Powhatan put in to Honolulu short of coal and leaky, and on her arrival at San Fran‘ Cisco was overhauled at Mare Island Navy Yard: Bhe was expected to sail for Panama, with her dia tinguished guests aboard, about the 5th inst. We are in receipt of advices from Kingston, Ja- maica, to the 26th ult. The weather had been pe caliarly mild and genial, only iuterrapted by ocea- sional rains and @ slight shock of earthquake, A rebellion was anticipated in the parishes of Hano- ver and St. James, as the government had decided on erecting new to!l lars. The people had held | concervatlve sentiment of the country. The meetings, and loud!y ; rotested against the move- | next step—and it is fully as important ae the ment. Gas, as an ‘!inminating agent, had beon very successfully introduced into the city of | Kingston by Mr. Morton, @ native of the island, who has recently returned there from the Unsived States. The improvement | had met wich considerable patronage, and it 8 thought wili be very generally adopted. | The Spanish and Portuguese Synugogue, in Prin- cess strect, had been dedicated with great pomp ; aud splendor. It is a magnificent stone buildings which has recently been thoroughly remodelled and repaired by Mr. D. M. DeCardova, the leading and most finished ornamental painter in the island. The question of immigration was still occupying Public attention, and the papers loudly ory out for more laborers. The weekly returns of the statistics of the public institutions made yesterday to the Board of Ten Governors showed the number of persons now under their charge to be 7,67S—an increase of 28 for the past week. The number of admissions was 1,635; and those who died, were discharged or transferred, numbered 1,607. The proceedings of the Methodist Conference yerteiday were not specially interesting. Most of the day was occupied in transactiag routine busi- ness. Seven of the nine delegates to the General Conference were elected, four of whom are “con- ervative,” and three “progressive.” The Confe- venee will probably hold its final session this morn ing The case of Albert W. Hicks, alias Johnson, the alleged murderer of the crew of the oyster sloop E, A. Jobnson, was brought up in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Hall, yesterday, the charge being robbery on the high seas—a capital oftence. Counsel for the prisoner put in a plea de- vying the jurisdiction of the Court, contending that he should be tried at Providence, R. L, if tried atall, After some conversation between counsel on both sides and the Court, the case was adjourn- ed till this morning at ten o’clock. The prisoner exhibited the utmost nonchalance during the pro- ceedings. Tredwill & Son's extensive cracker bakery, in Front street, was destroyed by fire last night. Loss estimated at $60,000. Our correspondent at Cienfuegos, writing on the 4th inst., states that the crops never looked better. Fruit, honey, sugar and molasses were very abund” ant, and the weather was fair. ‘The sales of cotton yeaterday embraced about 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of quotations given in. auother culamn. The receipts at the ports since the Ist of Sept lest bave reached about 4,127,060 bales, agalast 3,370,000 in 1859, 2,584,000 In 1858, and 2,707,000 in 1857. Tho exports have reached 2,957,000 bales, against 2,161,000 im 1859, 1,715,0C0 in 1858, and 1,700,000 in 1857. The stock om hand included 798,000 bales, against 707,000 in 1659, 690,000 in 1858, and 441,000 in 1857, The feature in this statement is seen in the large receipts, the heavy exports, and in ths com- paratively small stock left on hand. Common grades of flour were less active and easier, while the higher and better qualities wero firm and unchanged. Sales were fair; good white was firmly held, while common and inferior lots were heavy and inactive. Corn was steady, with a fair amount of sales at prices given cleewhere. Pork was uachanged; tho sales embraced new moes at $17 623¢ a $17 75, and unin- spected do. at $18; thin mess at $17 26, and new prime at $i4 3734. The cnief sales of sugars wore made by auction. The market for ordinary refining grad:s was heavy and 3c. lower, while good to prime qualities wore held with firmness, and prices unchanged. The sales embraced about 160 bhds. by private sale, and 600.8 700 by auction, at prices given in another column. We refer to another Place for the reduced quotations of the Messrs. Stuart for their refined goods. Coffee was quict; the stock was ight and embraced about 5,025 bage Rio and 26,664 mats Java. Total packages of all kinds, 39,789. Freights were ateady, with fair engagements to English ports. The Charleston Convention—Its Dangers and its Chances. The cars and hotels on the route, to Charles- ton are filled with delegates, alternates and lobby members, hurrying to the Presidential Convention to be held in that city on Monday next; and the universal inquiry among them is, who Go you think will be nominated, and who will your delegation go for? This marked peculiarity of the present ruling sentiment among the delegates indicates the danger which attends the candidate, and the party whose representatives are now hastening to the Converftion. There seems to be among them no sense of the appalling peril which is startling the country, and rousing the conser- vative feeling everywhere to action. All their thought is devoted to the personal claims of ambitious candidates, and all their desires amount merely to a wish to be in the winning clique. In this the elements of the Charleston Convention exhibit a strong contrast to the feeling of the people, which, in this moment of public danger, has turned from all contemplation of particular leaders, and thirsts only for a party combination on the great conservative principles that sustain the constitution and the Union. Called together by the power of party drill alone, the demo- cratic politicians are intent only upon securing @ vantage position in the spoils hunt comprised in a Presidential campaign. Under these circumstances, the Charleston Convention incurs the peril of shocking the prevoiling sentiment among the people, and of consigning the democratic party to the fate which has overwhelmed its old antagonist, the whig organization. The country will not en- dorse any ultra sentiments, whether they be advanced by a democratic or black republican convention. The people will not accept any candidate of extreme views, either Northern or Southern, nor any purely partisan leader whose antecedents are merely those of a suc- cessful ward politician, or a jolly, bottle-push- ing demagogue, nor any expert in the art of splitting political hairs, Ultra men and keen partisans must all give place in the present emergency to those whose broad views and sound principles will command the confidence of the sober sense, which, in the present contest, is determined to bring its voice and its votes to bear. The violent pro-slavery men of the South are as repugnant to it as the fanatical abolitionists of | the North. It is clearly perceived that the | question of slavery iu the Territories is an ephemeral question, which the advancing wave of population will, of itself, hide in a few years; while the great question of the existence of the constitution and the Unfon atands for all time. It is evident that other and more powerful principles than mere acts of Congress govern the flow of population into the Territories, and that where acts of Congress conflict with these principles, which govern the popular eenti- ment, they become a dead letter and cease to operate. If, therefore, the Charleston Convention, or that of Chicago, or of Baltimore, think they can set up their judgment against the principles tbat govern our national growth, or the tide of popular feeling, they will, by so doing, merely write themselves down asses, and eend their poli- tical organization to keep company in obli- vion with its old compeer, the whig party. The first care of the Convention must, there- fore, be to set itself in accord with ike | first—must be the nomination of » candidate whose name will be of itself a guarantee to the prevailing sentiment—a man gsagacious in council apd firm in administration; a man who bas not made partisanship the pursuit of a life- time; a man who has no long list of friends to reward and enemies to punish; a man who is pot the tool of any clique, but who has judg- ment to know the right, independence to pursue it, and energy enough to rely upon the people to support bim therein, With such a sentiment ruling the party action, and such & man as its candidate, the conservative elements of the country will at once avail themselves of the demooratic organi- zation and drill to cheok and break up the com- bination of fanatics and broken down politicians which, in its ruthless pursuit of power, would revolutionize and destroy the whole existing order of things among us. Without them the Charleston nominee cannot be elected, and the democratic politicians will soon fiod them- selves abandoned by the people, and their party orgenization reduced to a mere skeleton, whose discordant members will not have the cohesive power of publio plunder to keep it even io ehape. The whole country waits its action, in the hope that common sense and the feeling of ® common danger, will induce the Charleston Convention to adopt a high-toned conservatism, and nominate a candidate whose name shall be @ synonyme for moderation, harmony and union. If it does not do this, if it persists in becoming a fire-eating Convention, thea let the country look to the Baltimore Convention, and the conservative men be prepared to go there from every quarter, and show that in union there is strength. Tue Watuinas or tHe Provincia, Press.— The provincial newepapers are in great distress about the new system of distributing the me- tropolitan morning journals by railroad ex- press, as may be seen by the wailings of the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Troy Times, whiob we print in anothercolumn. Our subur- ban cotemporaries are beginning to cry out too soon, for they may rely upon it that this ar- rangement for the rapid distribution of the me- tropolitan journals is only in its infancy. There are some eight or ten railroads radiating from New York to the furthermost points of the re- publio—to St. Louis, to Chicago, New Orleans and elsewhere—and we have no doubt that the same express project will be carried out on every one of them before long. When that is done, the metropolitan papers will be distri- buted over an arca as large as all Europe on the day of publication ; and however mournfal may be the wailings of the provincial journals, the inhabitants of hundreds of cities, towns and villages will be very glad to receive the news of the world—asa first class metropolitan news- paper only knows how to give it—several days earlier than they can obtain a skeleton of it in the local journals. This is essentially the age of progress, of rapid locomotion, of instantane ous communication of facts and ideas; the days of old fogyism are gone, and the metropolitan press, which has done s0 much to promote the increase of railroads, the extension of telegraph lines and the perfection of ocean steam naviga- tion, isnot going to play the laggard’s part in the onward movement. Tae Iniquiry or Auaany LeGisLaTion—THE Governor’s VeTors WirPED Ovt.—No one, we presume, supposed that the fact of Governor Morgan having vetoed the city railroad bills would kill those iniquitous measures, and the action of the House on Monday, and of the Senate yesterday, by passing them over his veto, was nothing more than could be expected from such a Legislature as New York is af- flicted with. The city is thus delivered over to the tender mercies of a parcel of speculators, who, according to the provisions of these bills, can riddle some fifty or sixty of our streets with railroads when and how they please, without any conditions being imposed upon them as to time, mode of construction or rate of fare. These bills give the right to run railroads in almost every leading street and avenue in the metropolis. They comprise the avenue D, Seventh ‘avenue, Fourteenth street, South and West streets, and Tenth avenue and Forty-second street roads, which, with George Law’s Ninth avenue road, which the Governor signed, and the Houston street road—also passed both houses, and now before the Governor—make in all seven new gridirons for this unfortunate city. ‘That we want more railroads is quite certain; but, even admitting that the roads thus pro- vided for will ever be constructed—which is doubtful—we protest against these infamons and profligate measures asa shamefal robbery of the franchises of the metropolis, and we give Governor Morgan credit for his attempt to annul them, futile as it bas been. He, at least, has done his duty, so far, in the premises; but the most corrupt and shameless Legislature that ever sat in Albany has overridden the ex- ecutive authority, just as it has outraged every sense of decency and propriety throughout its entire career. In like manner, the Senate has slighted the veto of the West Washington Market bill, by passing it again yesterday, and the same fate was awarded to the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad bill, but the latter was finally killed in the Assembly. All these measures involve some twenty millions of dollars. It is evident that the Legislature were not to be restrained from enacting any measure, however iniqui- tous, which the lobby is rich enough to pay for. a Missive Persons—Wuat Becomes or THEM ?— | One of the moat striking examples of the facility with which people can be made away with in this city, without exciting any particu- lar attention, is farnished by the late discovery of a female body in the North river, off Jersey City, andisa convincing proof of the inse- curity of human life in this miserably governed metropolis. In the efforts to identify the vic- tim in this case nearly forty persons have come forward’ with stories of missing females who have mysteriously disappeared within periods varying from a week to three months, Iad it not been for the discovery of this body under circumstances indicating the commission of a fearful crime, the probability is that we would never have heard of one of the numerous sus- Picious disappearances, although the solution of many of them would doubtless reveal a tale of violence and bloodshed. ‘The slarming frequency of cases of this kind epeaks volumes for the ineficiency of the police; and yet ao soarcr are oue Berard of Police siovers and one body of police pie sufficiently tong in office to Kauw sume th fiheie duties than they are legitlated out of power, and a set of fresh, inexperienced men installed in their places. At best our police system is bad enough, but this mode of tinkering it, adopted at Albany for party pur- poses, renders it impossible that the police force can ever become of the least service in protecting life and property. What has been the fate of these thirty or forty missing females, of whose disappearance we are now informed for the firet time, or of the many others of whom we shall probably never hear @ word? The Comgresstomal Iav gating Com- mittee—Hividence of Mr. Wendell, Mr. Cornelius Wendell has succeeded in placing himself in anything but an enviable position in relation to the public. He has been guilty of tergiversation so gross and palpable that it is utterly impossible to find any excuse sor his conduct. In the latter part of the year 1858 some absurd rumors were put in circu- lation by the republican opposition press, to tbe effect that President Buchanan had caused certain public moneys to be improperly appro- priated for election purposes, The flippancy ot the accusation and the vituperative charac- ter of the organ that gave it publicity, com- biaed to render it unworthy of anything but contempt. But Mr. Cornelius Wendell, whose pame had been mixed up with the origin of the rowor, was of a very different opiaion. He, uo doubt, was fully aware that the Preaident had been maliciously villified, and accordingly hastened to remove the impression from the public mind that he was in any way concerned ia the disgraceful transaction. To do this most effectually, and in the most public man ner possible, he caused the following card to be published in the Washington Union of the 11th of December, 1858:— A CARD. My attention has been caiiod to a paragragh in a letter fo the New York Zymes, of the Stn inst, i vague and general terms, that the President haa caused cortain money, justly due to some individual, to be used for elecuonsering purposes, With this accusation my own a been so Soe abana conversation that I Sed constrained, ‘emphatically, to deny alt ‘knoutedge or belt uf any fact which can warrant i, and to declare that Present Buchanan never did 2¢, advire or request me, directly or indirectly, to use ether my own money or that of any other person for any purpose ake that mentioned in nt rayraph yore to, pi Syphon affecting any puitic election. C, WENDELL. Now, here is a contradiction as flat and em- pha cas words can make it, that Mr. Wendell had any part or parcel in the circulation of so foula calumny. Buta change for the worse appears to have suddenly come over Mr. Wendell’s dreams. An allegation, which he found it absolutely necessary to deny in 1858, he now directly asserts ‘before a Con- gressional Committee. During the investigation arising out of the contest for the printing spoils, Mr. Wendell publicly declared, accord- ing to the embodiment of his evidence, in the report of the committee, that moneys belonging to other people had been applied to illegal purposes, by and with the implied con- sent of the President. Upon this evidence of Mr. Wendell—so diametrically opposed to the plain statement which, by his own confeasion, he felt constrained to make in the year 1858— the Congressional Committee drew up a report, in which the accusation touching corrupt prac- tices in elections is reiterated against Mr. Bu- chanan. In order to do full justice to this gen- tleman, and at the same time to lay the matter fairly before the public, we give in anotber column a few extracts from his evidence given before the committee before alluded to. And it must be borne in mind, while comparing the plain matter-of-fact card of Mr. Wendell with these selections from his published testimony, that the former was the result of a spontaneous action, made in the most general and conclusive terms, while the latter results from an official inquiry, in which Mr. Wendell was personally interested. These extracts from Mr. Wendell’s evidence are sufficient to show the animus of the whole. He dared not, it is true, in so many words de- clare that the President was particeps criminis in this most nefarious application of the public funds, but that this is the inference clearly im- plied and intended must be patent to every mind. Heshuffles out of a grave responsibility by evasive answers, and rests his charges against the President on the weak basis of vain suppositions. Thus, in reference to the asser- tions concerning the appropriation of large sums of money in support of a newspaper, and to the question of the Committee whether there was any understanding on the sub- ject with the President, Mr.° Wendell re~ turns anything but @ satisfactory answer; for, while he could not openly accuse the Presi- dent of complicity, he plainly states that be- cause he understood that the spoils were to be improperly expended, that therefore the Pre sident should understand it also. This is cer- tainly a novel mode of coming to conclusions, which we feel confident’ will not recommend itself to an enlightened public. That portion of his evidence which refers to the expenditure of moneys in elections is de- serving of particular attention. While he has used the same caution on this part of the sub- ject which pervades his entire testimony, he leaves abundant room for unfair suspicions to fall on Mr. Buchanan. That this is the correct tendency of his deposition is proved by the interpretation placed upon it by the Commit- tee. In their report to Congress they state that the “investigation developed the fact that these abuses existed chiefly in the use made of the excessive profits derived from the Executive print- ing, which printing has been by custom, and not by law, controlled by the President of the United States. Direct evidence on the subject was given by Cornelius Wendell, his testimony being corroborated by others.” And again, after quoting an extract from the President’s Du- quesne letter, they add :— Tt ay that but a few weeks before this letter was written large sums out of the profits of the public printing were oa of contvolta Sp hpherine tel implied Rete ri for a ‘control ressional elections in Pennsyl- eta ont New Tork, In theBorks ‘county districts of Penn. rylvania a part of this money was used, bat notwith+taad- ing the ola Jackson democracy of that cistrict, with an In- corruptibility for which they deserve al! praise defeated the President's favorite and present Miniator to Austria, John Giancy Jones, and clected to the present Congress in his stead Major Jobn Schwartz ; the only district in that State saved from the wreck by the use of the profits of the Ex- ecutive printing, and other Executive patron doin; that ot I Florence ; and sis here toothy oF remark that the only administration wes returned from the Stote of New York at that 7 New York, towards whose ‘outof the printing profits. Mr. Wendell has, therefore, stultified himself to the fullest extent, and now stands morally convicted of a perversion of facts. It is for bim to reconcile, if he can, the glaring dis- crepancy between his two statements. But one thing is plainly apparent, and that is, that onc of bis statements must be false. Which of them is the true one it is of course, eusy.ta see When Mr, Wenceii felt “ comsteaiaed pub'icly and emphatically to deny” t election are four from the election Mr. Wendell contri- ¢ eaumaiou: ac- cusation made against the President by his well known enemies, he did #o in an indignant spirit, and by bis own free and unconstrained volition. There were no motives what- ever, under the circumstances, for him to uiter an untruth. He felt and knew the accusation to be false, and blushed to hear it even hinted that he was implicated in its cir- culation. This is the perfectly natural course that any gentleman would pursue under like circumstances. The statement in Mr. Wendell’s card is, therefore, entitled to pe held as the only true one. As regards the opposite state- ment which be has made to the Congressional Committee, it is equally as clear that it has been instigated by feelings of personal malice and revenge. While Mr. Wendell bad the free run of the printing spoils and could squander large sums of public money, he had no word of complaint against President Buchanan; but ap soon es the President discovered the enor- mity of the evil and resolutely checked it for the good of the public, Mr. Wendell assails him wi:h an exploded calumny, which he had himeelf most flatly contradicted. The facts are as plain as thesun at noonday, and speak much louder than any strictures that might be made on them. Mr. Wendell, therefore, stands con- victed of gross tergivereation; and until he can reconcile bis two irreconcilable statements, be cannot expect that his reputation can be materially improved. ‘Tue Sprrva Season at THE CenTRAL Park.— Although we have had as yet but very little fine weather (spring hereabouts produces more catarrhs than violets), yet the season has set in briskly at the Central Park. On last Sunday, as meny as ten thousand people strolled through the Ramble, breathed the fresh air, and enjoyed the charming views from Observa- tory Hill. In the early morning, from six to eight, the visiters to the Park have an oppor tunity to see how far the Park has stimulated the noble art of equestrianism. The number of riders, of both sexes, is steadily on the in crease, and will be still further augmented by the effects of the organization of the New York Saddle Horse Club, which bas been incorporated by the Legisla- tore. In this city, where everybody is striving for money with so much earnest- ness as to forget everything else, and where debauchery and hurtful dissipation too often occupies the hours which should be devoted to healthful recreation; where professional men, mercbants and other well-to-do citizens over. task their powers habitually, there is especial need of something like the Saddle Horse Club, an organization of gentlemen who combine for the purpose of encouraging the training of good horses for the saddle only. There is hard- jy any out-door amusement which gives so much pleasurable excitement as horseback riding, and as a medicament it is worth all the pills and potions in the pharmacopeia. If all our lawyers, and doctors, and ministers, and editore, and bankers, and merchants were to take an hour’s turn in the Central Park every fine morning, the number of fashionable fanerals would be indefinitely postponed, the druggists’ profits would be materially lessened, and the butchers’ bills very much augmented. The opening of the Park affords a splendid oppor- tunity for amateur equestrians, and that it will be improved there can be but little doubt. In every good way, the Park is to be to the peo- ple of this island a blessing and a boon, of the value of which the present generation can have but @ very limited idea. Extension oF THE Morse Tevecrarn Pa- tent.—The Commissioner of Patents has renew- ed the patent of Morse’s improvement on his original invention for seven years, thus en- suring Professor Morse’s right for that pe- riod of time. This is the second or third extension the inventor has obtained, and it i® granted now upon the plea that he has not been sufficiently remunerated for the time and labor expended in perfecting the system. Many peo- ple are dispoeed to find fault with this exten- aion of the patent—partly, perhaps, through a fear that the telegraph monopoly may become teo powerful, and partly because they conceive that Morse has enjoyed it long enough,and as he has recently obtained a bonus of some eighty thousand dollars from European govern- ments, they think that he has been amply re- munerated. But they do not know the difii- culties with which he had to combat in estab- lishing a system which has proved so valuable to the world. There are three systems of telegraphing now in use by the consolidated American Telegraph Company on the Atlantic slope—these of Morse, House, and Hughes; and if a line is built to California these same instruments will be used on the Pacific slope. Itis true that we have a tele- graph monopoly in this country; but it is ex- ceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for any monopoly to sustain itself by adopting a high tariff, and the public would speedily discoun- tenance any mode of conducting a telegraph which was not fair and proper. In Europe the telegraph is used almost exclusively by the commercial and richer classes of the commu- nity; but it is quite different in America. Here the telegraph is a popular institution ; it is em- ployed by every class—the laborer and me- chanic, the sewing girl and the servant, as well as the merchant, the millionaire, and the poli- tician. The poorest man in New York does not hesitate to communicate any important piece of domestic intelligence to his friends in other cities by lightning. The larger the number of messages sent over the lines, the better it pays the companies ; every wire they are compelled to stretch from pole to pole brings an additional profit, and if they were to attempt to increase the price beyond an equitable stan- dard, business would soon fall off to an extent that would serve as a warning to the companies that the public weuld not submit to an oppres- sive monopoly. Besides, there is no doubt that many new inventions will spring up with- in the next seven years : the busy brain of the world is always at work. I¢ is only within the last three or four years that Hughes invented his magoificent plan, the most perfect on the globe; and who can doubt that in the ever-ac tive field of American invention many systems will spring into life before the seven years’ lease of Mr. Morse expires? There are at present seven different telegraph systems in use in Europe—those of Morse, Baio, Varley, Henley, Wheatstone, Steinheil, and Whitehouse. Prior to the year 1838 there were no less than twenty-one systems invented in Europe, and there bave been more than a dozen systems patented on botn continents since then ; and the epirit of inveation is now jiore wciive than ever, Thos, we conceive there peed be very little ————— | fear that any telegraph monopoly will veatu 80 to conduct its business as to become au op pression upon the public. There oam be no monopoly of the lightoing—that wonderful element which has been given to us as a moans of rapid communication. Action oF Our Beavnru, Lxarstators.— The Tribune closes a rather dolefal article con- cerning the Legislature with a fervent wish that we may never look upon its like agaia. We gree with our cotemporary in the very correct estimate which he places upon the action of hia own party. For the present Legislature the annals of official corruption deo not furnish a parallel. When the two houses came together, we judged from the character + of many of the members returned that the Le- gislature of 1860 would be the worst that the State has ever known. We warned the people at that time, that if they were foolish enough to expect that these men, bought, and bound band and foot, by an unscrupulous lobby, would do anything more than attend to private interests, they might as well discard the idea at once, as altogether fallacious. With the single ex- ception of the Central Park bill—which even this the Legislature had not the consummate impudence to resist—all the projects of laws for the public benefit have been killed, and wholeeale system of plunder upon the city of New York has been initiated and carried through, to the exclusion of everything else. All the city railway bills have been passed over the Governor’s veto. To enumerate all the plunder-schemes which have been rushed through this Legislature, would be quite out of the question at this time. The rule of the Le- gislature seems’ to have been to touch nothing without there was money io it; and we must say that the members have stuck to their pledges. Democrats, as well as black repnbli- cans, are in all these schemes; but the odiam of them musi rest chiefly on the last named party, who are largely in the majority, aad might have checked the tide of corruption at any time. Notwithstanding, however, the pa- thetic appeals of the Zribune, they went on plundering and to plunder. The members of the New York Common Council of 1852 are remembered by a grateful people by the agreeable title of the “Forty Thieves.” What shall we call the Legislature of 1860? Tne “ Albany Buccaneers” is pretty near it. The New York Pp vention. Syraccss, April 17—10 P. M4. ‘The Republican State Convention, which meets to mor- Tow to elect delegates to the Chicago Convention, has drawn togetber a large attendance of pipe Inyers and. effete lobbyists. A large mojority of the delegates are alresty pre- gent, among whom are the more prominent mem- bers of the party. The convention will moct iu Corinthian or Voorbies Hall at eleven o'clock tomorrow, and will probably complete thoir work by evening. Mr. George Opdyke is spoken of as temporary chairman, and Judge Strong, of Monroe county, as President of the Convention. The State Committe, which nominates the ticket, have meet nothing will be doas. fares, ‘m. M. Evarts, David Dudley Field and Cate wletaaag of New York, are mentioned, ol Kose oo Imer for the western part @ Sinte. The entire delegation will be instructed to vote at a ‘unit for Seward. & move intended to stifle any Bates moa that creep into it. fein ro upon the party the eo of a sweeping Fesolation of condemnation, a ‘and the Governor will be endorsed. yi ‘The utmost harmony, enthusiasm and confidence prevail. The South Carolina Democratic State Convention. Cooma, 8 C., April 16, 1860. The democratic State Convenuon assembled on Monday. Mr. Orr was chosen President, and made a oon- servative He favored the Oincicnati piatform || and mocked the exercise of & spirit favorable to the best interests of the national democracy. The Florida ape ee State Convem- ye ‘TALLABASSER, April 9, 1860, The Democratic State Convention endorsed to day the ‘United States Senatorial caucus resolutions, 4 am State Conm- numerous -Of- War }. Some English vessels belongiog bad also arrived. The local news , em ani about 6,000 tro: {ote me expen News from New Mextco. Ixpgrenpence, April 17, ‘The Santa Fe mail from Pawnee Fork arrived ‘The conductor re) 1860. here to- rts the route crowded with per- mines; also = large number of in. He The mails News from the Rio Grande. ‘New Onieays, April 16, 1860. ‘The steamship Austin brings Brazos advices of the 12th instant. The news is unimportant. Suspension in Boston. the a PR a April 17, 1860. ‘suspevsion Allen, » bankers, is an- nounced. ‘Their liabilities are small, and will, probably, cover the demands. Large Fire at Woodstock, N. B. Sr. Jouy, N. B, April 17, 1860. The business part of Woodstock, N. B, was entirely deetroyed by fire iast night. Over one hundred butid- ings were burned The loss is estimated at over three hundred thousand dollars, and the insurance is about seventy-five thousand. The telegraph office being de- stroyed and the instruments injured, we are uoable to obtain, as yet, any further particulars. Navigation on the St. Lawrence. [ONTRRAL, April 17, 1860. It rained hard during last night. The weather to-dey is clear and very mild. Thermometer at eight o’clock A. M. was forty degrees above zero. ‘The first steamer for Quebec left last evening. The Central Overland Express. Sr. Joss, Mo., April 17, 1860. ‘The Central Overland California and Pike’s Peak Pas- senger and Express Company have put on a line of coaches, to leave here tri- weekly, commencing to-morrow morning. The express is to go through to Denver City ic Bix days. Arrival of the Revenue Cutter Crawford. Cuartestox, 8 C., April 17. | The U. 8. revenue cutter has arrived here from Brans_ wick, Ga. All on board of her are well. She reports that on the 4th of April, off the coast of Georgia she heard sharp firing for over one hour, OT Bauk Statemont. The Biston Weekly : 17, 1800. $35,531,70¢ their asses repr yee 61, 189/60 Specie.......++ 6,289,700 Due from other 00 Due to other banks. + 9,161,006 Deposite... 20}291,60¢ Grrealation.. + 7,287,004 } ports. t Hattrax, April 17, 1860." * April 14—Weatber cloudy, with rain. Thermomete, 40 degress above zero. Wind N E. April }6—Snow early in the morning. Wine fresh N W., fine from noon, but coldor at 4 40, } gee 16—Weather fair aud pleasant, Thermomete 50 degress. Wind 3.3. W. ‘ 17.—Weather coid, with rain. Wind N., changed t SE. Thermometer 45 degeecs at noon; et four o' cloudy ati)l and raining slightly. sige Si. Jonns, N. 8., April 17, . 10 A. M.—A mild and cloudy morning. Wind ligh' westerly. ‘ ma Is rea erater Suit. ar <i mean April Ti 100, av oguiont © sa Naw Bard, ‘and Bea pati, againet ial Newer | ge ball, Heage & Co., t of the United States Cre Cet ta anor Ot the defendants, whose claim for a tent ip deolared to be good. _——————— img of the Niagara. ene fees Basmey Apel 1, 18¢e ia per the royal mail steamship Niagar | chore su eave o'clock to morrow morning, Dat >. not leave ber dock until about aine A. Mt Markets. PHILADELYAIA STOCK BOA%cn, PHLADRLPELA, April 17, 18 Stocks firm. Penneylyqnig Site Zves, 9537; Reaal