The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE X. W. CORVER OF NASSAU AND FULYON 8F8. AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth sireet—Irauan Orees—Manraa. NIBLO'® GARDEN, Breaaway.—Equasrauax Pasronn- anose—Buonze Hossa. BOW®RY THEATRE, Bowery.—Cuacps Dovai—Loce ‘rus Lasonxa—Kiss 1x Tam Dank, WINTEE GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond strect.— Ieauian Orena—I. TRovarone, WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Souo0. rom Soam- pai—BaTmac. Wew BOWSKY THEATER, Bowery.—Eosiux Hoov— Bro Groms—How's Your Uncus? MBS. BROUGHANM’S THRATRH, 444 Broedway.—Last oF THE Pictaus—MOmNinG Cart—Oartain’'s Not A Muss. BARNUW’S AMBRICAN MUSHUM. Broadway.—Day aad Bvening—Monay—Jxanis Deans—Livine Cumiosimns, £0. BRYANTS’ Hall, 473 Brosd- wer. Neuen haven Danco (£0,—BURLESQUR CON- ‘VENTION. RIBIO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Gee. Cngmrr’s BraELs in Soxcs, Dances, Bustesauas, 40.—Warro. QOOPER INSTITUTR.—Bxmerron oF Peara’s Ono ar AAxTING OF tux Count Or Duara—afernsen and Bvening. NATIONAL OONOZRT SALOON, ational Theatre — Boxes, Dances, Bueiasqum, 40. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, April 25, 1860. MAILS FUR EUROPE. fhe New York Horald—Hdition for BHurope. The Cunard mail steamship Persia, Captain Judkins, will cave this port to-day for Liverpool. The European mails will close in thia city at half- past eight o’clock this morning. ‘The Eoxorzan Gornon ov ras Herarp will be published ‘BA cight e’clook in the morning. Bingte copies, in wrap- pers, sx conte. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Nsw Yors Bena will be recetved at the following places im Furope:— Sampson Low, Son & Oo., 47 Ladgate Hil. Lansing, Starr & Co,, 74 King Willism street. Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 8 piace de la Bourse, Lyvanroce. Lansing, Starr & Co., No. 9 | streak. R. Stuart, 10 Exchange street, Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 rae Cornelile, .»De Caapeauronge & Co. The contents of the Evrorman Eprom or rus Hunap ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at Sno office during the previous week and up te the hour of publication. Pars.. The News. At the Democratic National Convention at Charleston yesterday, the Committee on organiza- tion reported the name of Gen. Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, for Chairman, and one Vice Presi- dent, and one Secretary foreach State. General Cushing, on taking the chair, delivered an effective address to the Convention. Considerable discus- sion took place on & motion to the effect that the majority of a delegation cannot compel the minor, ity to vote with them as a unit, unless instructed by the Couvention that appointed them. The mo- tion was finally adopted by majority of niuety- seven. This action, it is said, strengthens the Douglas men by some thirty votes A resolution providing for the appointment of a committee on the party platform, and that no Dalloting for candidates for President and Vice Pres- dent be taken until the committee report wasadopt. ed. The Committee on Credentials stated that they would make a report thismorning. After inviting the ministers of the Gospel to open the Convention with prayers, and referring the Alabama plat form to the Committee on Resolutions, the Con- vention adjourned till this morning. The proceed- ings were rather boisterous. The rival New York delegations were arguing their case before the Committee on Credentials last night, and a report will probably be made on the subject early to-day. The Mozart Hall party appear to have outmancnu- vred or out-argued the Regency at all points. Gen. Houston has been nominated by the Texans, in mass meeting on the battle ground of San Jancinto, for President, and there are reports from Charles- ton that unless the Wood delegates are admitted, nd a Southern platform is agreed to, there will be a bolt, and # union with the Baltimore Conven- tion on Gen. Houston. The Senate was notin session yesterday. The Flouse transacted no business, the session being occupied with debates on the slavery and tariff questions, By the arrival of the City of Baltimore at this portearly yesterday morning we have received details of European news to the 12th inst. We publish in eur news columns letters from our cor- respondents at Copenhagen, St. Petersburg and London. The letter from the latter place states that the Papal bull of major excommunication to the Italian rebels was considered a very silly affair,and without the least force or effect. Naples is about forming a body guard for the Pope, by the con- sent of Sardinia, with the proviso that no hostility is to be shown to the Romegna, the £milis or Tuscany. Considerable complaint is urged by paper consumers at the operation of the Anglo-French commercial treaty, in regard to the item of rags. The objection is that while Frenok paper is admitted into England duty free, ‘a duty of 50 to 100 per cent is charged upon Eng- lish rags imported into France. The Heenan and Sayers pogilistic affair appears for the time being to engross general attention, and it was expected & dopatation of the British members of Parliament would be present at the “ mill.” Our advices from Jamaica areto the 7th inst. Business was dull, supplies of all kinds, even flour, being far in excess of the demand. In regard to produce, coffee was limited and the price of sugar had declined. Pimento and dyewoods acarce. We have received our files of Bermuda papers to the llth inst. There is no local news of any in- terest. By the arrival at this port of the brig African from Port-au-Prince, we are in receipt of news to the 9th inst. At midnight of that date and early on the following morning, severe shocks of earthquake ‘were felt. From the interior the accounts of the cotton crop were very favorable. The John Brown subscription continued, consisting chiefly of sacks of coffee. The amounts received are eati- ‘mated st $30,000. Business was good. We have received our files of Sydney (New fouth Wales) papers to February 13. The Cham- ber of Commerce had adopted a prepared Dy a select committee on the subject of the Pana- ma and Sues Canal route. The committee report in favor of the former, as being vastly more bene- ficial to Sydney. On the 26th of January the peventy-second anniversary of the colony was celebrated. About 180 passengers, who arrived in the Austra- Yesian yesterday, left Portland last night, via the y's steamers, which ron to Portland in winter and Quebeo in summer. By the arrival of the steamship Costzacoalcos at Charleston, from Havana, we have received {) Papers from that place ‘of the 18th inst. The ‘Cosatzacoalcos brought the Louisiana delegates from ‘New Orleans to Charleston, touching at Havana en en ales The news from Cuba ia devoid of any spe- ww > Pe NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1860.—TRIPLE SHERT. cial interest. The new steamship Matanzas, the Pioneer of a new ine to Matanzas, arrived out on the 15:h inst, amd was to have pailed om her retara trip on the 22d inst., with full complement of pusengers. Meayures were on foot to ir crease the facilities of the mail and postal faoltes betwcen Cuba and the United States. Our H.vava correspondent writes that a most brutal aseaul’ bad beem perpetrated in that city on two sailors, t elonging to an American ves- sel in port, by Spanish soldiers, who were taking them to the lock-up for }einz intoxicated. This was done at the connivance of the captain of the vessel, who looked om the scene of bratality, and sow his men beaten with the butts of muskets, pricked with bayonets, and dragged to the look-up in an insensible condition, suffering from tho wounds they had received. This occurred in broad daylight, in front of the office of the American Consul-General. The shock of an earthquake was felt at Havana on the 17th inst. The prize fight for one thousand dollars and the championship of the light weights, between Ed. Wilson and Harry Gribben, came off at Riker’s Island, between five and six o'clock yesterday morning, in presence of about two hundred speota- tors. Wilson drew the first blood, and Gribben got in the firat knock down, The fight lasted fifty-five minutes, during which sixty-one rounds were fought, when it was decided to consider the battle &@ draw. <A full accountof the affiir is given in another column, Additional particulars respecting the pugilistic contest between Sayers and Heenan may be found in another part of to-day’s paper. The Police Commissioners met yesterday. Mr. Pilsbury has resigned his place in the Board, and it is expected that the Governor will fill the vacanoy to-day. A plan for dividing the Police district among the surgeons of the force was presented by Commissioner Bowen. Some conversation took place relative to the reinstatemat of the mem- bers of the old force, but no action was taken on the subject. The Sergeant of the Sanitary squad reported twenty-five houses as being in a filthy condition. The clerk of the Board was directed to notify the owners of the houses to abate the nuisance. The new Board of Almshouse Commissioners held their first regular meeting for the transaction of business yesterday, and sigualized their début by several important changes among their aubor- dinates. In the firet place, the salaries of the War- dens of the Penitentiary, Almshouse, Workhouse and Randall’s Island were respectively reduced from $1,750 per annum to $1,500—to take effect on the Ist of May next. Next the Board abolished the offices of storekeeper of Randall’s and Black- well’s Islands, and the clerkship of the Luna- tic Asylam and Bellevue Hospital. Mr. John Fitch was appointed Superintendent of the workhouse im place of Stephen N. Drew, removed; and Joseph Keene was appointed Warden of the Penitentiary ia placevof Robert J. Wamsley, removed —both changes to take effect on the Ist of May. Moses E. Crasto, Warden of Randall's Island, was also re- moved, but no appointment te the vacant post was made. The whole number of persons in the insti- tutions under the charge of the Commissioners on the 2st instant was 7,532—a decrease of 126 as compared with the report of the week previous. The cotton market lacked spirit yesterday. The me- dium and higher grades were unchanged, while the lower qualities continued to be heavy and irregular in prices. The sales embraced about 500 bales, on the basis of 113; cent for middling uplands. Flour assumed unusual acti- vity, with some sales on speculation and for oxport of common and medium grades, with some classes of extra State, and Western closed at an advance of 60. a 10c. per bbl Southern flour was also im good demand ; the transactions embraced some lots for export to the West Indies, Wheat was firm, with fair sales at full prices, Corn was also steady, at prices given in another place. ‘The exports of flour from the United States, and in- cluding this city, and from other ports, from the lst of September up to latest dates, have reached 06,048 Dbis., against 85,768 In 1859, 784,378 do ‘m 1858, and 785,342 in 1857. The exports of wheat for he same period have reached 501,334 bushels, against 16,800 do. in 1859; 3,468,070 in 1868, and 6,982,002 in 857. Of corn, the exports for the same time have reached 134,011, against 319,452 in 1859, 2,510,223 in 1858, and 4,135,120 in 1867. Pork was less buoyant yester- day, while ales were fair. Now mess sold at $17 90a $18, losing mainly at the inside figure, and new prime sold at $14 408$1450. Sugars were again active, with sales of $2,600 hbds. (nearly all Cubs museovado) st the quotations given in another column. Coffee was quiet, and some- what in abeyance, waiting a forthcoming moderate sized auction sale of Rio. Freights were steady. Among the engagements the most noticeable was the shipment of 40,000 bushels of grain, including corn and wheat, in ship’s bags, at 64. Progress at Charleston—The Key Position of the Opening Campaign. It is evident that there is plenty of explosive material in the Charleston Convention, and the course of events there shows that it is not yet free from the danger of an explosion. The carrying of the proposition to lay the platiorm before naming the candidates by s0 large a majority, indicates that the ultra fire- eaters of the South have not the control of the Convention; and it may reasonably be antioi- pated therefrom that no strong expressions which may be distasteful to the Northern demo- cracy will be adopted. A majority vote deter- mines the platform, and as the Northern dele- gates are stronger innumbers than the South- ern, they will be able to prevent the insertion of doctrines that will kill them athome. The platform is no doubt prepared and ready to be reported to-day, and we may have the first balloting for the Presidential nomination to- ht nidferein Wee the danger of the Charleston nominations. The democratic as well as the black republican party is a minority party. It cannot elect its candidates without the help of the great conservative vote which refuses to join either of the extremes. This feeling car- ries at least a million and a half of votes, and it has left the democrats sadly in the lurch during the Inst three years. To such an extent has it operated that it may be truly said that’ the Convention at Charleston represents a great series ef minorities in the several States and districts, just as the Chicago Convention will represent another set of minorities. If the question were to be decided by these two alone, there is no doubt that the black republi- can minority would carry the day, for it is more numerous than the democratic. But a great issue has come up. It is nota question of bank, of tariff, of internal improve- ments, or any of the old issues between parties; but it isa higher issue, involving all these, be- cause it involves the existence of all of them. They have been all rolled into the one ides of an assault upon the institution of slavery. If the black republican party succeeds in the coming contest, it will receive an impulse in the developement of its fanatical ideas that cannot be resisted. On the floor of Congress ita leaders assume tone of moderation, and pretend to limit their interference with slavery to the Territories. But this is merely intended to blind and lull the conservative interests. Follow them into the pylistricts, listen to their speeches there, and ‘will be found, in every instance, uttering the wildest denun- ciations of slavery everywhere. Spooner is their lawgiver, Helper is their textbook, the bloody and bratal doctrine of “‘an irrepremible conflict” is their creed, and John Browa is their eaint an’: artyr. All production, all Ia- dustry, all ér i+, »'1 Jegielation, all social ex- istence, mus ¢ ve way b fore s fanatic props gandism of su + xagger.¢éd ides of the rights of man, whic) 6 of itself destructive of all human rights, This {s the »re+¢ mania that is to b» met and to be subdued in he coming Preg .--: tial oam- paign. Amd it canmot be suc essfally re- sisted under a leader wio is equally fanatic in th» othe extreme, It can- not be overthrown. oy the equally fanatic idea that negro slavery is the meoessary foun- dation of democracy, and the guarantee of our liberties, amd the one great good of society and civilization. In proclaiming these fallaviva, the Southern ultra: are as fanatio and as danger- ous to the Union as are the abolitionists. Against both of these extremes the conserva tive element is determined to array itse!!, aid will array itself, with a million and a haif votes, in the commercial, manufacturing aod mining States of the centre. They wii! sot + rallied to the support of any paper platform, or led to stund on the shifting samds of parti can professions. The man and his antecedents will attract or repel them, andin this lies the seciot of thesuccess or failure of the Charles- tou nominations. The representatives of a mi- nority there are to present their men, and on uheee will depend whether the democratio mi- nority will become a majority. These will soon be presented, and it matters little what demo- crat or republicen thinks of them. But they will be at once scanned, and measured, and weighed by the eonservative interests which to- day hold the balance between the two great party minorities. Demoralizing Effect of Abelitionism upon the Clergy—Case ef Rev. J. 5. Hardem. ‘There is now on trial for his life, at Belvi- dere, New Jersey, a young Methodist clergy- man, charged with poisoning his wife, under circumstances exhibiting the greatest coolness, ealoulation and heartlessness which perhaps have ever characterized @ crime of this nature. Entering the ministry at a very early age, snd surrounded by the seductions to which his position, his outward piety,and a somewhat brilliant talent for preaching, so frequently expose persons of his class among the weaker and gentler portion of a young clergyman’s congregation, it appears that the Rev. Jacob Harden had formed more than one acquaint- ance of a tender nature with the female mem- bers of his flock, eventuating in two or three cases in promices of marriage, and subsequeat threats of legal retribution for violations of the same. One of these pledges, however, he re- deemed, it is said with some reluctance, and under threats of law proceedings, and he mar- tied in October, 1858, a Miss Hannah L. Dorland, “the miller’s lovely daughter,” of the village of German Valley, New Jersey. They lived but little together, and then, it is alleged, very un- happily. Five months subsequent to the mar- riage his wife died, after a brief illness, under circumstances so suspicious that a post mortem examination was insisted on by the family of the deceased, and a quantity of arsenic was found in the stomach. The conduct of the hus- band during the illness of his wife was mysteri- ous; he alone administering medicine, and otherwise devoting himself to the services of @ eick chamber in a manner which excited sus- Picion. It is stated that he refused to call in a physician up to the latest moment, and meni- ested throughout an indifference which argued ittle if any desire that the sufferer’s life should be preserved. But we will not enter into an elaborate statement of the case—a duty which the proper authorities are charged to perform before the court and jury ; suffice it to say that while the inquest was pending the ac- cused absconded to Virginia under an assumed name, and was there arrested, while pursuing the avocation of a daguerrian artist. : The frequency of grave crimes among the clergy has of late become remarkable. Almost every day we hear of the trial of a clergyman of some persuasion for adultery, for offences against decency, and for murder; and we can- not account for this deplorable tact better than to attribute it to the insane fanaticism which has seized upon that class all through the Northern and Western States. Abolitionism, with its kindred exciting delusions, spiritual- ism, communism, and free-love—for all of which the mind of the ant!-slavery agitatorseems to have an irresistible affinity—has demoralized the clergy ; and not only demoralized, but de Christianized them, until by degrees they come to be ekeptics in everything’but the sorrows and sufferings of the black race, deists, and practical infidels like Wendell Phillips. Be lieving in the Almighty Nigger, they cease to believe in Almighty God. Instead of preach- ing the Gospel of peace and love, they become propagandists of hatred and hostility between different sections and classes of their fellow men. From this kind of morality the descent to the commission of crimes against the law is very easy; the step from the pulpit of the min- ister to the cell of the felon is short. From denouncing the law of the land, and preaching resistance to it, they at length become its vio- tims. Wherever the insane spirit of abolitipn- ism maintains sway we may always expect to find a leaning towards skepticism and infidpli- ty, which, sooner or later, takes a-bold ehape, and results in an utter disregard of law and morals among the clergy as well aethe laity. ‘Who can say, for instance, how many of the three thousand New England clergymen who protested against the Kansas policy a few fears ago are really Christians, and how many of them are rank infidels at heart? Pnrorosep Dower To Govmnworn Bawas.—A large number of the leading republicans of the several States have invited Governor Banks, of Massachusetts, to accept the honor of a public dinner, and it Is generally supposed that he will doo. It is the intention of the republi- cans to make this a grand and celebrated ban- quet. It is well known that Governor Bankes has been and is the most eminent and conser- vative member of that party since its organize- tion, some four or five years ago. As Speaker of the House of Representatives, he proved himself to be one of the very best that ever occupied that distinguished position, and his speeches were always marked by reason and statesmanlike ability. It is supposed that on this occasion he will make one of his great ora- torical efforts, in which he will give expression to his views on the present confused and unset- tled state of the country. According to popu- ler belief this movement has @ great many ramifications throughout the country, and we shall await the ovation to Governor Banka with some interest, ee ‘The first gathering of the saints for the year of grace 1860 has already been chronicled in ou gious world as the new Police Commissioners, or Mr. Aminidab Sleek, of the Journal of Com- merce. continue the very copious reports, which we originated in 1839, and have since given every year, of the doings of the various societies. We work by despatching our reporters to the bureaus of the leading organizations, such as the Tract, Bible, Home and Foreign Missionary eocieties, and so on, with directions to obtain information as to their collections for the year. Opeming of the Anupiversary Eipech—An Bivangelical Revuision Ahead, The anniversary epoch has duly commenoed. columns, and for the next two weeks the metro- polite prees will be imbued with ap evange- lical tone which would afford satisfaction even to euch bright and shining lights in the reli- It is our intention, as a matter of course, to have already commenced our portion of the The balance sheets of all these societies are gevernily wade up to the let of April, and far- vished to the press before the 20th. When the accounts bave not been entirely adjusted, it has been the custom to give the receipts as far @ they can be ascertained, and to make an approximate estimate of the remainder. After due inquiry, however, our reporters have been unable to obtain soy information from the per- sons who have charge of the financial affairs of the societies. The Tract Society people, in order to clinch the matter, said they had even refased to give them to Mr. Sleek, of the Jour- nal of Commerce, The information was not only withheld from the Hxratp reporters, but remarks of an unevangelical, not to say uncivil, character were made to them. Judging from all these facts, and from cer- tain rumors in well intormed circles, it is quite evident that the brethren who have undertaken the conversion of the heathen at home and abroad, the liberation of the African held in bonds by the cruel taskmasters inthe truth, the reformation of those who go down to the seaia ships, and do business on the great waters, and various other philanthropic enterprises too numerous for mention, have not found, of late, that ready pecunious recognition of their ef- forts which is desirable, and, in fact, necessary, for the carrying on of their business in a profi- table way. For it is strictly a matter of busi- ness, this yearly raid onthe sinners of the me- tropolis,for the benefit of the saints im the provinces, The Bible Society, the Missionary Societies, the American Anti-Slavery Society, the Tract Society, are all in business as much as Mr. Stuart, or Mr. Tiffany, or anybody in Broadway or Wall street. The only difference is that when one buys at a Broadway shop, he gets something for his money, but when he contributes ostensibly to extend the light ofthe Gospel in foreign parts, he may be giving his funds in reality to support a parcel of loafers at home, The religious societies have had a very good time of it in Wall street for the last quarter of acentury. They have collected in that time over twenty-five millions of dollars, and have nothing in the way of practical results to show for it. So far as foreign missions are con- cerned, we have yet to learn that any benefit, compared to the great expenditure of money and serious damage to the bodily health o missionaries, has been accomplished. The ef- forts of the abolitionists, pureand simple, have tended to tighten rather than to loosen the bonds of the slave. There are several societies which belong especially to the city of New York, and they, so long as their affairs are sat- isfactorily conducted, will never want for money. They do not, however, adopt the canting snuffie or the sanctimonious white cravat to get funds. Nor do they allow the almighty nigger to interfere with their pursuit of the almighty dollar. The almighty nigger is the skeleton in the closets of all the religious societies, It is he who has caused the diminu- tion of the receipts for the last three or four years. It is he who has made the collections of the past year less, as it is alleged, by from thirty to fifty per cent than they were in 1858-9. Look at the facts: The donations to the princi- pal societies amount to an average of a million dollars per annum. The Tract Society, Bible Society, and American Board of Foreign Mis- sions take the larger part of thismoney. They are all more or less abolitionized—the Tract Society to a greater degree than the others. They get their money chiefly, indeed altogether, from the commercial classes. The name of a New York merchant, all over the world, is sy- nonymous with liberality. Our people, when they disburse, give with afree hand. Then again, a good deal of the money which sustains theee societies has come from the South, On the ene hand, the conservative Northern mer- chants are compelled to withhold their contri- butions from societies which work directly against the interests of the white man, on ac- count of a sentimental penchant which they have or pretend to have for the black man ; and, on the other, it would be idle to expect that Southern Christians could put the societies in a false position, where they would be compelled to carry on the Lord’s work with the money produced by the institution which they denounce as the “sum of all villa- nies,” ‘The fact is that so far as the great bulk of contributions is concerned, they come from this city and the rich men of the North, who invest a certain amount of money in religion and philanthropy, just as they put funds into fancy stocks, thinking that it may pay here or hereafter; but if these persons become thoroughly satisfied that the almighty nigger has so far worked himself into the societies that he cannot be gotten out, and that the so- cieties are injuring the business of the North, then they will stop the supplies. The fact is that the merchants have begun to find this out, and that is the real cause of the evangelic panic. When the almighty dollar comes to the tug of war with thealmighty nigger, the latter al- ways has the worst of it. The sooner the Sleeks find this out the better it will be for their pockets. We do not apprehend that they will discover it im time. They are like the Scribes and Pharisees, who wore long faces and prayed at the corners. of the streets, but rented the sanctuary to brokers and note- shavers. They are eo puffed up with vanity, blinded by prejudice, overloaded with bigotry, and stupefied with oant, that they fail to see what every one else bas discerned long ago. Their business is breaking up. A crisis in their affairs is approaching. Ruin stares them fm the face. They @re on the verge of bank- raptcy. Now York will give no more new boots, and fine breadcloth, and snowy linen, the waral districts—Mawworms who rely on the proceeds of their spring raid upon the me- tropolis to keep them going for another year— while they continue to allude to us as simners whe are utterly lost—pilgrims on the direct road to perdition, going to the devil, in point of fact, at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The question reours as to what the sufferers will do when the eupplics atop altogether. It is awful to think of, but it is barely possible that some of them may have to go to work and earn their own living. Think of Aminidab Sleek at work on a railway, or the Rev. Mr. Cream Cheese digging « canal, or Mawworm washing out pen dirt im Carson valley! But, according to the present qggearance of things, and unless they can managa qo get into Congress, to that complexion ema @r all of them may come at last. Let us gupfs and cee. —> How America Uses Electricity—The Time Ball and Telegrephic Fire Alarm. Nobody doubts that we are a great people. The fact stands out as plainly as the Fourth of July or the battle of Bunker Hill, and is illus- trated in a thousand different ways. We have the handsomest country, the biggest lakes, the longest rivers, the highest mountains, the most extensive railroads, the beet and worst of news- papers, to say nothing of fast mon, fast and beautiful women, magnificeat babios, and ten thousand other illustrious objects of glorifica- tion, over which patriotic Yankee will wave his hat and shout hallelujahs until he is hoarse. We furnish the gold, grain and oetton of the world. Our earth produces the largest crops, our air flies the highest balloons, our wators fioat the fastest steamers and clipper ships, and, to finish with the elements, nobody will deny that we get up some of the most extravagant conflagrations and illuminations with whick an individual is likely te come in disagrecable contact this side of eternal perdition. Steam has become our serving man, the lightning our errand boy, and, to employ a local term ina general sense, our broad continent is “grid- ironed” with railroads which carry to and fro the riches of the world, More than this: We teach the rest of man- kind. Our country is the schoolhouse of the world. It is here that the present Emperor Napoleon learned some of those lessons by which he has so well profited, which have taught him to employ the electric telegraph upon the field of Solferino to convey his orders from point to point, to patronize manufaec- tures, encourage the ingenuity of his subjects, develope the resources of his empire, and to pureve that course in his relations to his peo- ple best calculated to enhance their power—in a word, which have demonstrated the fact that Louis Napoleon is nothing more nor less than s live Frenchman in Yankee breeches. We are emphatically a live people. We invent, improve and progress—sowing mind and reaping wealth. We have talent, energy, enterprise and opportunity, and whatsoever our bands have found to do, we have generally done it with all our might “Advance” is the order of the day. The old succumbs to the new, and in a short time an obituary notice is all that marks its former power. It is only a few years—a space easily spanned by the memory of thousands of our readers— since Morse established, between Washington and Baltimore, the first telegraphic communi- cation which inagurated the system. To-day Whe electric wires almost girdle the earth. They have become the tongue of the nation, speaking alike for all, from the humble indivi- dual who transmits a message of affection which thrills a distant heart, to the proud mil- Honaire. who issues a mandate which unsettles the foundations of a community. Yet it is not in this department alone that we are to enjoy the usefulness of the magnetic telegraph. The “time o’ day,” is to be caught from the sun, flashed a hundred miles from the point of ob- eervation at Albany, and through a Time Ball, erected by the efforts of a number of pub- lio spirited gentlemen, transmitted to the chro- nometers of our navigators here, thus enabling them to make their reckonings and record their longitude at sea with greater perfection and accuracy than ever before, and at the same time affording to the city itself a boon it has never yet enjoyed, in the shape of a standard by which every watch and clock in its pre- cinots may be correctly adjusted. It is little remarkable that the rural village of Albany will not be content with the power it already possesses over our Metropolitan Po- lice and other institutions of # public char- acter, and that it must needs, through the big red globe which will drop every day at high noon from the heavens above tke Custom House, dictate to the minute hands ofa hundred thousand metropolitan watches the rate at which they shall move, Itis some consolation: however, that though the Albanians farnish us with the time, they cannet get rid of New York newspapers for breakfast, or escape the moral, domestic and political improvement which such mental pabalum will be sure to produce in that benighted region. ‘The new system of Fire Alarm Telegraph which it is proposed to introduce in this city, and of which a trial will be made this noon, is another of the great electric enterprises of the day, and illustrates the fact that whatever de- velopes the prosperity or inures to the benefit of the public, will in this country, before all others, receive the encouragement to which it is entitled, Whatever may be the merits of the new Fire Alarm Telegraph, it has been tested several years in Boston, St Louis and else- where, and comes here endorsed by the success which it has received. Besides all this, an arrangement is about per- fected by which the whole Union will be daily enlightened, through the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, as to the condition of the weather prevailing in every section of the country penetrated by telegraphic wire. The result cannot but be most beneficial. The me- riner will know whether to sail at a given time; the housewife will no longer hesitate to hang out her basket of clothes from fear of rain ; the promenader need not doubt between the choice of a parasol or & parapluie; and, in a word, the telegraphic station, with its cenver- gent lines of lightning, will be » stupendous electrical barometer, conveying intelligence as Gefinite and reliable as if the Clerk of the Weather from the proclaimed the order of the day. Vive Veleetricit2 / Tux ResiGxation or Passuay:—Our old friend, pious Pilsbury, has once more resigned his position on the police force. He iejust as much dissatisfied with the new as he was with the old organization, and he hes, there- fore, retired in disgust. It appears that his oud tree dinpers, to impeounions saints trom | rogscas for separating himself from bis effec. tionate friends are much the same as thoat which moved him whea he reeigned on the former occasion. Tle wanted to rale th roast; but his follow Commissioners were o opinion that he was nat 80 good # cook as thoy, and they therefore took the direction of the kitchen, and only allowed him the honor a cleaning the plates. Of course he could ne stand that. He must be master or nothing and therefore he has resigned. As he he nothing in particular to attend to at proseat we propose, if he has no objections, that I ehould be the manager of the easuing religioa anniversaries, to keep order in those interesting A Common Sense Homity i Conarass.—é new light = breaking im upon Congress. It members are at last beginning to take practi cal views of things, and to talk opmmon sense Hear Mr. Winslow of North Caroliaa:— s carry i, Rext class was the women, who would always have th jaat werd. Had the golden rales contained in the abov pithy sentence been adhered to during the ve: elon, what an amount of ridioule and disored might have beer averted from the nations legislature. There has been a great deal to much talking at pul pits, at mewspapers and s women for the business of the country to re ceive proper attention. When Comgreasme are more intent on producing an outside effer by their speeches than in addressing then selves to the subject in hand, legisladon ca not be productive of any very satisfactory r sults. There never has been a seasion in whic more valuable time has been frittered away | the display of buncombe sentiment, in fatter oriminations against the press, and in slande ous aseaults upon private character, than du ing the present. We trust that the instinots which hat recalled to Mr. Winslow’s mind t early precepts that were inoulcated i it will also find « response in t breasts of his colleagues. Their conduct for t! last two months must have suggested gra doubts to the world whether the majority hs received any teaching at all. They have act more live savages, obeying their brutal az sanguinary propensities, than like Christis gentlemen, to whom a great and solemn tre had been confided. The country has bee looking at their proceedings with the san feeling of thrilling anxiety and intere which the exoiting scenes of the Roman ar phitheatre might be supposed to have “pr duced in the minds of the spectators. On s side has there been a thought of the moral countability to which such pastimes lead. fact cannot be disguised that party drowning all sense of patriotism aad in vidual malice, rejecting all considerations the most violent and the most shameless of that has disgraced our legislative annals, Let us hope that the awakening of console indicated by the speeches of honorable sentatives on one or two recent not limited toa few individuals, It is time that, after spending the greater part o session in corrupt scheming and disg personalities, some little thought should be given to the business of legislation. If stead of irritating tirades like Lovejoy’ House were occasionally treated to good mon sense homily like that of the Re rive from North Carolina, we might hope little more eatiafactory progress in that Progress or THR Rervstic—Tas or THE GoveRNInG Ciassxs.—It is unive conceded that this republic, during th period of its existence under an inde; government, has made more progress industrial arts, the fine arts, and all th which tend’ to civilization and improve than any other country of which histo preserved a record. The progress which taken other nations centuries of time quire this country has arrived at in a single century. In the growth of population, banking interests, railroads papers and telegraphs—in everything advance civilization or make a peop! and powerfal—the United States stands ® parallel for the rapidity with which veral auxiliaries to greatness have b veloped. The governing classes, too, have with all others in the progress they | tained in everything that pertains sphere—in statesmanship and in elog frand as well. There is not on the fa, earth » country, whether monarchy 0: lic,. whose governing classes can | Legislatures and in Congress. The m the last Albany Legislaturefurnished a specimen of the progress of the fine art and selling votes, and buying and sel They simplified and reduced to sciex ciples this. art, which is the finest among politicians, especially of the stamp. And now the Attorney Gene State is going to immortalize a d dozen of them by indlcting them and corruption, and trying to con them to the penitentiary. This o progress with s vengeance. Broxex Down Canpinates FoR THF c¥—The Richmond’ Enquirer shed| tears over the fallen fortunes of Hi It professes to believe that he “co! of the essential qualifications for this than any other of the many distingut men of the land; that he has more him to the conservative elements try than any other public man, N and that “he is the only Southern can be elected by the people.” made the people laugh at him. he bas been comy/sitting foo! of” gabiing “the popular favo