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4 NEW YORK HERALD. SZAMES GEKVDUS BES NJAu@T, EMIUR AND PROPRUBTOR OF Nassa0 AND FULTON BYé. Money #onk_ by madt wilh bs at the sump: as recetved as eubsortption 09 cents pee copy. BT per anniem. ‘coer Saturday, a tha conde peun Edition e: Wolneelay, to any part of Great Britain tnelude postage; he vin conte |, or FL OO per annum. Ptah AMILY HERALD om Wodmesday, at four conis por cory, or Saba: ‘OLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important aes; solicited from any quarter of the world; Vf used, will be pard for. RA NOR FoRRGN COR sNSPONDENTS Aum Pannovias Kequassep ro Seat ait Lerreas amp Pack. Jeu samt cs NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not return rejeied comnmuntentions woe, FRETING. cxended with neuinen, sheapness and de- Srrice BW. CORN Volume XXV. sister eeere NOs 193 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY Of MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Itauian Ora” ma—Bansee oF Bevis. SIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Bquesrman Panroru- ancrs—Buowze Hoask—afterncon and Evening. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Asuovavs—K iss ‘Dank—Maww or ‘Muxersn—Srate Sacasts. — WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tows snp Covx var—Kus on Cums. BOWERY, La Ti Nase—Mori =EW = Bowery. fouR ve Nese. HER MRA. BROUGHAM'S THEATRE, 444 Broadway.—Ara- Lanta. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Lm aad Gvening—Jeanis Desne—WuLow Corss—Livive Og- miosrries, £0. BRYANT?’ Bosineqves, (NST R Moehanies’ Hall. 473 Broad: _- donee, ‘Danota, 20.—BoRLasQus Comvan non. NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Geo, Ommgrr’s Min- ornsis ts Bones, Danoxa, do Moun. COOPER INSTITUER.—Kxmairion or Prace’s Onicixat Pusnine OF tum Count or Daata—Afierncon and Bven g, RATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Bones, Daxexs, Buniasquas, 2c. OF THIRTEENTH STREEF AND FOURTH CORN] —OaLireasis MER AGERIB. avaNu New York, Wednesday, May 2, 1860. The News. Our reports from Charleston are very meagre, The regular Convention met yesterday at the usaal hour. The question pending was a motion to re- consider the vote whereby the minority or Douglas platform was adopted. Twenty-eight of the Georgia delegation withdrew from the Conven- tion, while eight remained. The Arkansas delega- tion also withdrew. The delegations from Vir- ginia and North Carolina, and a portion of the Maryland delegation, asked leave to retire for con. sultation, and the request was granted. A resolu- tion was adopted that the Convention, at two o'clock, proceed to ballot for candi- dates for President and Vice President, and the Convention adjourned till that hour. It was Dor till evening, however, that the balloting com- menced. The Southern seceders’ convention organized by the choice of Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, for per. manent Chairman. Reports of the proceedings of both conventions, together with our special despatches from Charles tom, are published in another part of to-day’s paper. The indications are now pretty strong that there will be four candidates in the field for the Presi- dential succession, representing the Northern or squatter sovereignty democracy, the Seuthern or slavery protection democracy, the National Union party, and the black republican organization, in which event the election may be carried to the House of Representatives, under the constitution, by neither of the candidates being able to obtain a majority of all the votes which will be cast by the Electoral College. The whole number of electors, including Kansas, will be three hundred and six, and, to secure an election, one of the candidates must receive one hundred and fifty-four votes, , without which the three highest must go to the House, where the vote will be taken by States— each State having but one vote. The political complexion of the House, including Kansas, which, if admitted at the present session, will have her representative there in time to vote in December, ‘Will be as follows: Republican Democrauc The three States which are divided are Maryland, Kentucky and North Carolina, the delegations from which are composed of an equal namber of demo- crate and national Unionists. They would thus be anable to cast their votes in the election of a Pre- sident. This depreciation, however, would not add to the chances of the election of a republican, be- cause the constitution does not say that a President may be chosen on receiving ® majoity of the States Voting, but to secure an election the candidate must obtain a majority of all the States represent- ed, aad ® majority, with the addition of Kansas, would require eighteen. It appears very plain that, under the existing state of political divisions in the House, that body will not be able to agree upon a candidate before the 4th of March, 1961, when the preent Congress ceases to exist. If the Electoral College cannot elect a President, it will of course be unable to choose a Vice President, and the duty of selecting that officer will devolve upon the Senate. Differing a little in the number of ‘the Presidential candidates which go before the House, the constitution allows but two candidates for the Vice Presidency to go to the Senate, and those must be the two who have received the hkighest number of votes from the electors; and also differing in the manner of electing, it is pro- vided that each Senator shall vote for himself, and & majority of all the votes cast shall decide the election. When the fourth day of March arrives, and no Chief Magistrate having been chosen either by the electors or the House of Representatives, “then the Vice President shall act as President, as in the cage of the death or other constitutional dis- ability of the President.” ‘The steamship New York, from Bremen 16th and Southampton lvth ult., arrived at this port yester- day. The advices by this arrival are to the same Gate as those brought by the North Briton A tele- graphic despatch from Madrid, dated 18th alt., says the report of the execution of General Or. toga, the leader of the late revolt in Spain, is an- true, We publish some additional particulars rela- tive to the pugilistic contest between Heenan and ayers in another column. Nothing of importance happened in the House of Representatives yesterday. Most of the session was occupied by Mr. Hickman, who declaimed against the President in the coarse terms usually employed by the anti-Lecomptonites when they discuss the actions of the Execative. ‘The regular monthly meeting of the New York Historical Society was held last evening, at their Tooms, corner Second avenue and Eleventh street. Besides the transaction of the usual routine basi- ness a very interesting paper, entitled “Sir Ham. 1 hrey Gilbert, Blythe and Bold,” was read by Ba- gene Lawrence, Faq. To Sir Hompbrey (Gilbert Mr. dawrence accorded the credit of being the first to propose a methodical settlement of America, and of arousing the English government to tho im- portance of its commercial marine as being the «/hief pillar of England's national glory. He con. cetved the idea of a Northwost Passage, and spent such time and money in demonstrating the accu. eecy of hyp theory, For those and similar rea. re tl u sova the speaker thought Bir Humphrey Gilbert entitled to tae remembrance of ali historicul socie- ies. Dr. Bacon atated as a2 important fact, corro- borated by the experience of the Most eminent surgeons of the country, that the Americaa people were capable of enduring more paia without murmuring than the people of any ether part of the globe. He attributed this haidihood to a peculiarity of the soil and cli- mate, and stated that, in this particular, the present inhabitants of this Continent resemble the Tadians, whose fortitude and endurance are proverbial. At the conclusion of the Doctor's remarks, the meet ing adjourned Ata meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes- terday, $5,000 were appropriated for the payment of the rent of the Law Institute. A cominunica- tion was received from the Counsel to the Copora- tion, in reply to an inquiry whether the taxes heretofore assessed upon incorporated bodies within the county can lawfully be applied to the credit of the county io reduction of the amount to be paid by the county for the State tax of 1809. He said:—“I see no reason for doubt that the taxes assessed upon these bodies should be credited to the Chamberlain, which qill in effect be a credit to the county.” By the arrival of the schooner Albert Field we have files of Bermuda papers to the 18th ult., but they contain no news of interest. The Common Council of New York have appro- priated $30,000, and engaged the first floor of the Metropolitan Hotel, for the Japanese Embassy, which they will occupy on their arrival in this city. They intend to give them a more brilliant reception and entertainment than any distinguished guests have hitherto received. Two slaves, fugitives trom Maryland, aged re. spectively twenty-three and twenty-five years of age, have been refreshing themselves for the past week or ten days in New York. A requisi- tion was sent on to our federal authorities, and the negroes, after a sharp lookout on the part of the Marshal's deputies, were apprehended, and were yesterday brought before Commis- sioner Betts, their ownership proved and their rendition granted. In a very brief space of time they were on their way to Maryland, and it may be some consolation to the abolitionist agents to know, as these proceedings were conducted without their presence or knowledge, that the slaves expressed their willingness to go back to their “home,” and refused the services of any lawyer. ‘The cotton market continued without spirit yesterday, while the sales were confined to about 400 a 500 bales: closing on the basis of about 113jc. The receipts of cot ton at the ports since the Ist of September last have reached 4,211,000 bales, against 8,465,600 in 1869, 2,711,00 in 1868 and 2,759,000 in 1657. The exports for the same period have reached 3,186,000 bales, against 2,368,000 in 1859, 1,800,000 in 1858, and 1,880,000 in 1857. ‘The stock on hand amounted to 648,000 bales, against 609,000 in 1859, 630,000 in 1858 and 860,000 in 1867. The market for State and Western brands of flour was inao- ve, while common to good medium grades were firm. Southern flour was firm and in fair domand at full prices. Wheat was heavy, and sales limited. Corn was steady, and prices firm, with fair sales, on terms given in another place. Pork was heavy and lower, the stock haying Proved larger was anticipated: sales were moderate, and included new mess at $17 62}, 0 $1775, and new prime at $14 1234 a $14 25. Sugars wore firm, with sales of 600 a 600 hhds. Cuba and Porto Ricos, at rates given im another column. Coffee was firmly held, while sales were light. Freight engagements were moderate, and rates unchanged. of the commercial metropolis of the Union entirely out of the considerations that influ enced their action. Commerce ig the Sinz aana commerce is the lifeof New York—and com merce depends upon the harmonious relations between the various sections of the coufede- racy. In assisting to sever the brotherly ties betweev New York and the South, the Albany Regency has siruck @ blow at the prosperity of this city that will be sorely felt for long years tocome. The revolution has begun, and no man knowetb the end thereof. Pourtics IN THE I Dock-—Tue Rev. Ma. Harpen’s Positton ON THE QUESTION OF THE Day.—A day or two ago we gave afew com- ments upon the remarkable exhibition of man- ners and morals among the rural clergy, made by the trial of the Rev. Jacob S, Harden, who is accused of poisoning his wife, whom he se- duced, and subsequently married under the operation of severe outside pressure. In the course of our former article we made inciden- tal reference to the degradation of the sacred office by the abolition parsons and preachers of the sensation school generally. In the case of Harden we find a mere boy, without any re- quisites for the high calling he assumed, wear- ing the priestly robes on the strength of a good voice and a liberal amount of what is called the gift of the gab. Before he has become quite warm in his place, he is discovered running about among the young women of his village, a sort of Longmetre Lovelace, a white cravated Don Giovanni, a Chevalier de Faublas of the Metho- dist Episcopal persuasion. It was alleged that he was unable to get rid of a troublesome wife in any other way, and so he poisoned her. Whatever may be the verdict of the jury, there is very little moral doubt about the matter. In calling attention to this case of Harden, as one of the results of the pestilential social and political theories advocated by the new lights of the day, we mortally offended, as usual, the philosophers of the Zribune, who straightway printed a letter to prove that the reverend delinquent was a democrat of the straightest sect, as sound as General Cushing or Mayor Wood. Now, if that were all true, our theory would not be materially damaged; but it so happens that Harden is, according to his own account, a “conservative republican” (whatever that may be); that he “has taken the Tribune for eight years;” that he reads the HeraLp now-a-days because he thinks it the best newspaper; he does not like Bennett, probably for the same reason that he entertains a feeling of enmity against the Re- vised Statutes; and his “position with regard to slavery” is thus stated:— Slavery (according to Harden) was and al Delleved inoaving alone, and ising. the Soath care of it for itself; be bad rather have Dayton Seward for President, for he could not trust Seward. All of which makes Brother cording to our thinking, a fit political fellow for Brother Greeley. If slavery is wrong, and there is nothing right about it, then logically it ought to be abolished; that is the true republican theory. The point is that the South and the national democracy of the North hold that slavery is right on the merits; Brother Harden holds to the opposite views; and so he must go with the Tribune goats. Again, Brother Harden offers in himself an awful example of the consequences of habi- tually reading such publications as the 7ri- tune. He commenced too late with the Heratp. He was already too far gone for re- clamation. He had imbibed Greeley’s free love and divorce ideas, and, as the State of New Jersey alleges, he tried a murderous me- thod of putting away his wife. It is not novel, The Rising Revolution in the United States. We are in the midst of a revolution. The split at Charleston of the democratic party— which, having outlived the great issues it was formed to defend, was always sceking to ad- vance ambitious politicians and corrupt lead- ers—sweeps away all the abstractions and brings the real issue before the people. The half-breed abolitionism that was engen- dered at Buffalo in 1848 has culminated at Charleston, and, by driving the Southern States into a separate party organization, has cut its own throat and that of all its kindred fallacies, A desperate determination on thepartof the same free soil policy that defeated the election of General Cass, and the triumph of its party twelve years ago, to rule the party, has resulted in its ruin, and the burial will be conceded by the people. A set of delegates from the Nortl- bat has not yet been legalized. Now that all due regard has been accorded to Brother Harden, and his opinion upon the exciting questions of the day spread before the country, we congratulate the Tribune phi- ern States that could not, and can- losophers upon their protege, and beg to be not now, count on one electoral vote | permitted to offer = tribute of admiration to for their candidate, determined to | this new movement for defining the political force his nomination on those States upon whose votes he must principally rely for elec- tion, and they have succeeded in driving out of the Convention nearly, if not quite all, the re- presentatives of democratic majorities. Under these circumstances the Southern delegations will probably meet and present an address to their constituents and the country, with per- haps a recommendation of candidates for Pre- sident and Vice President to be voted for in November. It must not be forgotten that this split at Charleston is s rupture on men, and not on measures. The talk and discussion about the platform is all nonsense, and the real struggle was, whether the South should be forced to ac- cept Douglas or leave the Convention. The result is in many respects a good one. It brings the true issue plainly before the people, it breaks up a worn-out and corrupt political or- ganization, and, by presenting several candi- dates for the Presidency to the popular vote, it practically leaves the great mass of the tricky buying and selling politicians without s vocation. When but two candidates are pre- sented the two sets of office seekers go to work in right good earnest to humbug and cheat the people, and when the election is over one of the sets has nothing to do but to clamor for the spoils. But with four or five candidates in the field, with almost a moral certainty that no one of them can be elected by the people, but that three, and which three also in doubt, will have to go into the House to make new combinations and new bargains, the working politician has not much to hope for. This fact will make the coming. campaign one of little effort by the politicians, and a much cheaper one to the office holders and other party con- tributors. If the Southern delegations in Charleston now take reason to their councils, and with a moderate but firm conservative addrees put forward such a man as Breckinridge or Lane, or Guthrie, as a candidate, with a good name for the Vice Presidency, they will meet the exigencies of the occasion, and stand upon the Teal issue that is before the country. This isene is presented by the black republican party, whose exponents are Spooner, and Sew- ard and Helper, with John Brown as a martyr im the cause, and the political priests as ite ministers. They must be met fairly and squarely, The fine drawn abstractions of free soilism only pander to the fanaticiem. The conservative feeling of the country cannot and will nothang upon an impalpable distinction. The Northern delegates at Charleston have opinions of murderers, burglars, thieves and sus- pected persons of all sorts. Let them all have a chance to put themselves right on the record. Their opinions may be of as much consequence as those of some politicians who are continu- ally explaining their views, which nobody cares anything about, in long letters that nobo- dy ever reads. Let ushave from the Tribune some acceunt of the political bias of the gen- tlemen whose countenances adorn the Rogues’ Gallery. What does the majority at Sing Sing think of the present attitude of the South? How stands the Tombs on the Chica- go nomination? What do the republi- cans of Blackwell's Island think of Ma- dame Bates? Are the pickpockets and hotel thieves “afraid to trust Mr. Seward,” and would they have more confidence in Mr. Douglas? Does Macdonald—who shot Virginia Stewart, if we remember rightly, and may be tried for it one of these days, though that iss matter of dubitation—think his State was right in bolt. ing at Charleston? There are several other persons, all innocent and very badly used, we doubt not, lying in the Tombs under capital indictments. Can we not have their opinion upon the irrepressible conflict theory of Mr. Seward, and the doctrines of the Helper Book? What do Hicks and Jackalow think about the reopening of the slave trade? When our city officers only escape the pains and penalties of felony by a very narrow shave, and while the leaders of the governing classes are too often annoyed by vulgar warrants, it is certainly proper that the professional scoundrels of all grades should be permitted to express their sentiments upon the exciting questions of the day. The Trivune movement is al! right. Let it go on. Procress or Ixverexpent Jovaxatom.—The feeble editors of the newspapers in Washing- tén, but more especially the two feeble For- neys of the Constitution, entertain a great hor- ror of the independent press of this city. They are sympathized with in this feeling by the editors of most of the village papers throughout the country. These writers forget that it is from New York alone that a correct view can be obtained of the geographical and intellectual expanse of the Union. A person might as well attempt to take a just coup dail country, and the Albany Regency, under the rule of the Buffalo idea, has left vast iaterests Seiden of maaufact@es and agciculture—, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1860. orgaaization, necessitated by the break up of the democracy at Charleston, they would be employing their time profitably. Unless they cast abide their political shackles and imitate the course of the independent journals of the metropolis, we can promise them that but few of them will survive the great conflict on which the country is entering. Tux Comme Pouca, Revowwrion wy Par- Ties—Wuaris Tax ApMINIsTRATION Gora TO Do?—The explosion of the modera democratic party at the Charleston Convention, and the cer- tainty of the nomination of two candidates for the Presidency by that body, must have cre- ated no little excitement and anxiety in the administration at Washington. Ever since the imauguration of Mr. Buchanan’s administration there has been a gigantic secret system of treachery going on among the officeholders all over the North and West, and a good portion of the South as well, against the administration and in favor of the opposition party—the ene- mies of the administration—in Congress. The explosion at Charleston only brought this long- matured and gigantic treachery to a head; the democratic party as it once stood is disorgan- ized, and we shall have now real issues and real living representatives of these ixtues before the country. But what is the administration going to do in this event? Its couree, we think, is plain. It owes it to itself, to its integrity, its destiny, and to the country, to clear out every officeholder, from end to end of the Union, and to recall every representative abroad; to de- nude the whole diplomatic and consular ser- vice, as well as that of home officials, of their present incumbents, and inaugurate an entirely new order of things, by appointing men of conservative principles and conserva- tive instincts. Every one of the present offi- clals, petty, treacherous politicians as they are, should be swept off the board, and a different class of men put in their places. Mr. Buchanan, who is a wise and upright statesman, after twenty years of public service conquered one Forney; but there are now dozens and scores of Forneys to be conquered, all over the coun- try—pretended adherents, but secret and treacherous enemies to his administration. In filling the public offices anew, Mr. Bu- chanan should eschew all miserable politicians, partisans and spoil hunters, and select upright men, of strong conservative instincts, at whose hands the vital issues of the day would receive that consideration which the critical condition of the times demands. The issue before the country today is something deeper and broader than the life of any party, or the maintenance of any organization. It is a struggle between conservatism and fanaticiam— a life or death question for the country. The North believes that slavery is an evil anda wrong. If itis it should be eradicated. But itis not. The system of slavery is the nataral condition of the African race in the midst of a white population; it is, moreover, essential to the prosperity and the very existence of the South, and it is a beneficent institution for the black race itself. Therefore it should be maintained; and if it is not maintained— if the conservative sentiment of the coun- try is to be overrun by fanaticism or by treachery—then there is no longer a Union, and there is nothing for the future of the na- tion but chaos, the destruction of all its inte- rests, and the dismemberment of the republic. Let party conventions quarrel never so bit- terly, and treachery and intrigue weave webs around such public questions never so dex- terously, there is no shutting out the light from this vital and final issue. Tas Recast, or Generar Paez.—The san- guinary struggle which has convulsed the re- public of Venezuela for so many months has scarcely been brought to a partial termination ere a new difficulty arises for that unfortunate country. So long as the excitement of the civil war lasted the friends of constitutional liberty banded firmly together, and by unity of action succeeded in driving the rebels into the sea, But now that the country is in a fair way of being pacified, the want of a controlling spirit at the helm of affairs is greatly felt. The peo- ple are convinced that without a master mind at the head of the government the peace of the country will not be worth a very long lease. Such a man it is hard to find in Vene- zuela at the present time, and we are not sur- prised to find that the desire is universally expressed that General Paez should return to the country. Experience and wisdom such as he possesses are much needed at this juncture, and it would be well indeed for Venezuela if he could be induced to return. But we fear that the gallant General will not comply with the popular desire. We have authority for saying that, at least for the present, he has no idea of accepting the invitation of the Venezuelan government and people. The Venezuelans must blame themselves for their present difficulty. When they had s good man among them, why did they not know how to ap- preciate him, instead of suffering themselves to be victimized by Monagas and his faction? And even after the last return of General Paez, he was forced to abandon his country in conse- quence of the strife of parties and the impossi- bility of reconciliation. We publish elsewhere one of the numerous letters addressed to him from most influential sources, urging bim to come home, which may be taken as an exam- ple of the united desire of the people that the noble hero and patriot should resume the use- ful and honorable position he so long occnpied among them. The press of the country is also warmly in favor of his immediate return. Cuaxors ty Reat Estare wy tre Orrr.—A good deal of apprehension is now being felt among dealers in real estate that property on this island is deteriorating in value. The news- papers are just beginning to see it; and every one is just.waking up to the conviction that all property below the Park and Chambers street is worth from twenty to thirty per cent less than it was a few years ago. Even real estate above Union square and around Madison square is not increasing in the ratio which was calcu- lated upon. Tt was thought, too, that property and rents on Broadway and the contiguous streots—the centre of trade— from Chambers street to Four- teenth street, would go up to an extraordinarily high rate, but we very much doubt now that they will. From what we hear of the plans and projects going on in the district between Mur- held forth. Three yoars ago land there was worth $2,000 an acre; but if it is cut up, as it probably will be, into small lots, which will be- come the prey to squatters, it may aot bring $600 or $700 an acre, instead of $2,000, This reduction in the value of real estate is the result of the gross misgovernment with which this city has been saddled—the imposi- tions that have been practised upon it, the wicked plunder of its franchises by the last in- famous Legislature, and the fearful burden of taxation it has to bear. The increase of taxes alone would considerably affect the price of real estate. Moreover, the political gloom which has fallen upon the country, the incerti- tude of public affairs, the break up at Charles- ton, and the prospect of an exciting election, the issue whereof may be dissstrous to the in- terests of the entire country—all these things contribute to affect property so materially that we ehould not wonder if it decreased in value all over the city to one-third less than it re- presents at the present time. Tur Lonpon Times on tHe Great Ficat.— The leading journal of England devotes some of ite thunder to the recent encounter be- tween Heenan and Sayers, and states that ‘“na- tions without great qualities could not have brought together two men willing to pass through such an ordeal as the terrible fight of Tuesday.” The Times is quite right in its esti mate of the national pluck of Great Britain and the United States, as displayed in the encounter of the champions, as we suppose they must be called, the public on both sides of the water having accorded that position to them. It is too much to assume, however, as some people may infer from the aphorism of the Jimes, that England and the United States monopolize the physical courage of the world because they are the only nations which can produce two men who, without any bad blood between them, will stand up and pound away upon each other’s bodies fortwo hours and more. The fact is that the fight was only a battle on the retailscale. The Continental Powers have their great prize fights, which are wholesale affairs. When the Emperor of the French wishes to contend with his brother of Austria for the championship, he goes into training for months beforehand. His soldiers fight with the rifle, the sword, bayonet, or the big gun, and cer- tainly show as much pluck as the heroes of the prize ring, who contend with the nataral weapons. Their ring is somewhat larger— nothing less than the whole of Northern Italy— and the punishment which each receives is much heavier than any which descended upon the countenances of Heenan or Sayers. The Zouaves are no more nor less than so many prize-fighters, each with the Legion of Honor as his belt in prospective. Like Heenan and Sayers, the royal and imperial champions go into their wholesale slaughtering business with the utmost affability, and when the battle is drawn, they laugh over it as if it were the best joke in the world. The belligerent spirit be- longs to no race or country. There is some slight difference in the manner of its develope- ment—that is all. The Frenchman will run his enemy through with a small sword, or pick him off with a pistol; to the American all weapons are alike; while the English adhere to the original weapon of warfare—the fist. The prize ring carries the arbitrament of arms back to barbaric times; and the sooner the institution becomes ex- tinct in both countries the better it will be for the civilization of the age. Both England and the United States can afford to let their “great. nese” be doubted rather than resort to prize fights as a means of showing it. Ferxaxno Woop on His Pixs Aoat.—Some men are endowed with wonderful vitality. Like Tom Sayers, you may knock them down ever 80 often without extinguishing their pluck. It is only a day or two since the Tammanyites fired off a feu de joie of a hundred guns to cele- brate the defeat of Fernando Wood in the Charleston Convention. At the present moment the Mayor is one of the most influential men in Charleston, and is likely to become the nucleus Acapemy or Mosic.—The “Barber of Seville,” with te fine distribution, including Adelina Patti, Brignoli, Ferri, ‘Susini and Amodio, will be given this evening. The an- nouncement of the new opera, ‘Mees, will be found io another column. Patn i Brooxirx.—The directors of the Brooklya Phii- harmonte Society have decided upon giving a grand extra concert on Thuraday week, for the purpose of introducing Mlle. Patti to the Brooklyn public. This will be the only time during the present season that this charming ‘vooalist will be able to sing im Brooklyn. She will be supported by Madame Strakoseh. Signor Brignol! and the fine orchestra of the society. It is costemplated to take Beecher's church, as the Athevwum does not offer suifi_ cleat aecommo:lation for the numbers likely to be drawn logetber om this occasion. uf 288s # i 3 ms 3 tui Firily bisgee H i fr i ‘itt f f i f i i ie il { i r i z: 5 E i! s i i Ff fi i 3 fi R if? . F hs i i 3 i £ as i a i i Fibz iF i , | ft j g i e HS A fe! i: i; ; th ft i f u : 5 * ble for Congress to properly adjust all the private claims ‘MISHONARIRS TO THE VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. Copgresaman Wilson and Frank P. Blair, Jr., have loft for Wheeling to mako speeches there before the Repub- lican Convention. MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COMBTITUTIONAL UNION COMMITTEE. Ata meeting of the National Constitutional Union Com- Committee at Baltimore simultaneously with the meeting of the Nominating Convention, on the 0th of May. Imam. Hon. John E. Bouligny, member of the House from the New Orleans district, Louisiana, was to-day united in the bonds of wedlock to Miss Parker, daughter of George Parker, merchant of this city. The ceremonies were per- formed at the residence of Mr. Parker, and were largely attended by the lite of the federal metropolis. — THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. FIRST BRSSION. Mouse of Representatives. of 1850 is offensive # 660 with una uprecee ons the North, as it comes irae tne orp tt retinal pnt SSB SEPP nc, -secgy Dut im the fortid atmosphere of rice swamps and cottos fielde—a sectiozalism now mild and persuasive, then ferce and persistent—it is the emblem on the shield of Alctbiader—as a child, harmless, but we give it the thunderbolt, and make’ it fierce and devtructive. He wished to ae this truth on the public mind, , thas it ie the doter- ‘mination of the South to extend ‘than to reduce the Limite of . Tale crrags tne Ginwweat parte of tho country in and io Connection he of the ngs Dechenas in contrast with the Jackson. The will endeavor to pomeee in o seoteee of the ha- concessions to present Executive bas not rendered himself more neteri- ous by hie than wav- seorviency = Hi KF siete Ty trem the doctrine of te ee ioe im 1886, because tt . These who oppored the resident’ deen | sranded pe Certain members of the oo ice Coo gress vowed the harvest 2k eon reaped at Cbarleston. ‘of Kaa- sas the people found the TT other man. He spike ae omy they now pa but ; *—s. Cube, and Central America, ay, = for an outlet to the surplus labor. The want and eee ee ac nant mbieeion , of the North. bo A fire this be | the had the Power to save both itemd them. He Freaiar g vies mie or Mr. Nitu#0", (dem ) of Va., expressed: hie thas il fi li i ; reply to aremarts of ~ i E i i: 203 Esa! S Zz 5 aa}