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Agents will please send in their orders as early as pos bie, ‘ The Ne The Dovglas wing of the democracy at Charles- ton yesterday adopted a resolution to adjourn the Nominating Convention to Baltimore, where it will reassemble on the 18th of June. The object of this movement, as expressed in the resolution adopted by the Convention, is to afford the peopie of the seceding States an opportunity to fill up their delegations. The Southern Seceders’ Con- vention adjourned to meet at Richmond, Va., on the 11th of June, without formally expressing any preference for the Presidency. The seceders will publish an address to the country, setting forth their views, In the House Of Neproscunres yoowruay mw Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means gave notice that he would call up the Tariff bill on Wednesday, and it was agreed that the debate in Committee of the Whole should be confined to that subject until it is disposed of. The House then resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, and Mr. Stanton, republican, of Ohio, delivered a long speech on the slavery question, partly in reply to the argument of Mr. Curry, of Alabama, At a special meeting of the Board %¢ Supervisors yesterday, the resignation of Mr. Isaac Bell, who ‘has been appointed a member of the Board of Charities and Correction, was presented and ac- cepted, and Mr. Smith Ely was unanimously ap- pointed to fill the vacancy. The report of the committee on the proposed new county jail was discussed, and finally the committee asked leave to withdraw their report, which was granted. In the Board of Aldermen last evening, a resolu. tion authorizing the Mayor to offer a reward of $2,500 for the apprehension and conviction, or such information as will lead to the arrest and convic- tion, of the person or persons who set fire to the building in Forty-fifth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, last month, was offered and laid aside for future consideration. The acting Mayor sent in a communication, stating that he had re- ceived official information that the Great Eastern steamship will make her first voyage to this port. The proprietors of the ship desire to be informed ae to the facilities for her reception. The subject was referred to a select committee, The Comp troller sent in financial statement, with a draft of an ordinance to provide for liquidating the float ing debt by the creation of a fund stock amount ing to $3,000,000. The report authorizing an advertisement for proposals for the Battery en- largement was adopted. The Board of Public Charities and Correction held a meeting yesterday, and adopted a report recognizing the necessity of reform in the expen- ditures of their department. Several offices are to be abolished, and the salaries of the officials re- tained are to be materially reduced. There were, last week, 7,382 persons in the institutions under the charge of the Board—a decrease of 150 as compared with the week previous. ‘The regular annual meeting of the Chamber of Coptmerce was held yesterday. The old board of officers were re-elected. Several subjects of in- terest were brought up and discussed. ‘The annual meeting of the Geographical Society, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, took Place last evening, at the rooms of the society, in Clinton Hall, Astor place. The annual reports of the officers were presented, and Rev. Dr. Hawks, the present incumbent, was re-elected President of the society. An interesting paper on the subject ot “Consumption” was read by Dr. H. Millard. ‘The third anniversary of the American Baptint Mariners’ Association was beld at the Calvary Bap- tist church, in Twenty-third street, last evening. ‘The church was filled with a highly respectable au- dience, who appeared deeply interested in the pro coedings. After the reading of the Secretary's report of the year's operations of the association, speeches were made by Rey. Dr. Hiscox, Reva. A. A. Barlingham, ire R. Steward, J. R. Stackbridge, chaplain in the navy, and others Rev. Jacoh Harden, convicted at Belvidere, N J., on Wednesday, of causing the death of his wife by polon. was yesterday sentenced to be executed on the 28th of June next. In the United Btates Cirenit Court yesterday, the Grand Jury presented a bill of indictment against Hicks, alias Johnson, for the marder of Geo. Barr, master of the oyster sloop R A. Johnson, By the bark Brazileiro, which arrived yesterday | pire with that of the north, and both to terminate at the capital. Flour was in good supply—say 26,000 bbis., and sold at 169000 to 22000, at nine montba credit; co@fish. 13)/000 to 141000 per drum, with a fair consumption (being Lent), and the stock only 7,000 drums. Other articles unchanged. Exchange on London 25jd. a 26d. The Jecture room of the Church of the Puritans was again filled last night with the members of Dr. Cheever’s Congregation, Mr, Hall, Mr. Phe!ps, Dr. Bart and Rev. J. Blackmer addressed the meet- ing, but no vote was cast or decision come to. The meeting stands adjourned until a week next Mon- day, at hslf past seven o'clock in the evening. The rales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,500 bales. Good to One qualities were quite steady, while low grades continued heavy and inactive. We continue to quote middling uplands at wbout 1130.8 1110. State and Western brands of four exhibited more buoyancy avd firmness, while ales were fur. Southorn flour was un. changed, while the dethand was steady. Transactions in wheat were ligh!, at quotations given in another column, Corn was in fair demand, but with moderate sales, while Prices cloned at easier rates. Jersey and Southern yeliow sold at 81ic. a 62c, and Southern white at Ste. Pork was in better request, with firmer feeling at the close. Now mese sold at $17 62 a $17 154 upimspected do. at $18 00, and new primo fat $14 200 $1425. Sogars were quite active, and closed at ap advance on the week's eales of full ‘sc. por Ib. The tranractions footed up about 4,000 bhds., 60 boxes and 17,000 bags Pernambucos and Manilas, at prices given in another place. At the public sale of Rio coffee 4,680 begs wore offered, and 4,066 common to prime were sold at 18c, # 14%4c., averaging 18 36c. Freight operations were light. Among the shipments to Liverpool were 10,000 bushels wheat, in ship's bags, at p. t., and 25,000 bushels corn, in bulk, at 5d. The cargo of the Aurora's Manila bemp, comprising 7,800 bales, was sold yesterday on private terms, The Crisis im Politice—The True Course for the President. There is a remarkable similarity between the breaking up of the democratic party at Charles- tom and that of the old Jeffersonian republican party in 1824, which must strike every student of political history; and there is an equally re- markable contrast in the respective conditions of the opposition at the two periods in ques- tion. After a violent contest on the question of slavery extension in the Territories, the Missou- ri Compromise bill was passed in February, 1821, and the intrigues of the Presidential as. pirants began. Three of these—Calhoun, Crawford and Adams—were members of Mr. Monroe’s cabinet; Mr. Clay was Speaker of the House of Repreeentatives, and Gen. Jackson was a private citizen. All of them were with- inthe pale of the old démocratic republican party, and had been for years supporters of its policy. The contest was purely a personal one, and there was no organized party opposi- tion to the administration. Mr. Calhoun saw the course affairs were taking, and dectined to be @ candidate for the. Presidency, and so se- cured his election as Vice President by the po- pular vote. The caucus system was old and nearly worn out, but it was used to nominate Mr. Crawferd. The other candidates were brought forward by State legislative caucuses and State conventions irrespectively, and s free fight occurred, which carried the election into the House. This campaign was begun by the politicians in 1822, when Mr. Monroe had yet three years to serve, and each cabinet can- didate used his power in tlie administration to advance his own claims. A similar state of things has existed since the first year of Mr. Buchanan’s administra- tion, The politicians have been exclusively of cundtaahed Reha nenaye yer of the Cabinet has been corrupt and rous, and throughout the Eastern, Northern and Northwestern States, all the officehold- ers bave been secretly engaged in hostile ef- forts against the President, and privately villi- fying him on every occasion. This spirit of treachery has culminated at Charleston, ang «ne intriguers, after having driven the ré- presentatives of the party majorities out of the Convention, have got frightened, and failed to make a nomination. The adjournment to Baltimore is the last kick of a corrupt and rotten organization, that has no object but the public plunder, which bas been abandoned by the people in the North, and which has wilfully severed its po- litical connection with the democratic majori- ties in the South. It is a practical breaking up of the historical democratic party, like that which occurred to its predecessor in 1824. But there is a remarkable difference between the state of affairs then and now. Then there was no great organized party in opposition, and the political elements ranged themselves on the questions of currency, internal improve- mente and tariff for future conflicts. The only contest was as to the best policy for developing the material interests of the country. Now there is a great organized party in opposition, purely sectional in its character, and founded upon the dogma of the abolition of slavery, re- gardless of consequences to the great material interests of the country. Its theories are emi- nently revolutionary and destructive, and it is led by impractical fanatics on one wing, and a eet of corrupt and intriguing politicians on the other, who belong to the same class with those that have persisted in the rule or ruin policy at Charleston. The calm and careful statesmen of the opposi- tion, such as Rives, Everett, Crittenden, and their compeers, have been set aside by them, just as Mr. Buchanan and his sound and esagacious coadjutors have been set aside by the spoilsmen of the democracy. These corrupt and treacherous proceedings have brought the country to a crisis in its poli- tical affairs euch as it has never before passed through. The popular feeling is sensitively alive to the danger, and the conservative senti- ment is everywhere rising to meet it, At such ® critical moment there is but one course open for Mr. Buchanan. Ie must prevent the powers of the government from being farther prostituted to the work of disorganization and destruction. He should at once sweep the traitors from every publio office, from a seat in the Cabinet down to the humblest stool in every post office and custom house. Such a course would electrify the Northern and North- western States, and prevent the spoils, which #0 large a portion of the officeholders are now using as means of disorganization, from con- tributing still further to the progress of « fans- tical and destructive mania, It would tend more than any other Proceeding to bring about ® return to reason, and a proepect for harmo- ious action at the adjourned Convention at Baltimore. Let, at least, the federal offices throughout the North and West be purified from the treachery and intrigue that recent events have shown to exist in them. Avormn Draws Fromt.—The fight at Charleston bas ended precisely like that at Farnborough—in a drawn battle. LA OC NEW YORK HERALD, Tevormation iy Tux Mormon Cuvuea —We publish to-day an interesting letter from Joseph Smith, the soo of the great Mormoa prephet wao Giecovered the golden plates of the Book of Mor- mon, pow held in veneration among the Latter Day Saints in Utah Territory. It will be seen from the epistie that this scion of the ancient houge of Smith purposes to deal a vigorous blow at the tenets of the Mormon church, as interpreted and maintained by Brigham Young and his followers. The causes which have led him to begin this crusade against the Gentiles of the Valley he does not explain in his letter, although it is quite apparent that the object ot the reformation he proposes .is to do away with the practice of polygamy which has so long existed in Utah, to the injury of the Mormon church and the corruption of public morals. The oxiginal Joe Smith, who laid the foun- dations of Mormonism, did not countenance po- lygamy as an integral part of the doctrines of the church; but in the course of time it crept in “unawares,” just as other heresies into the early church of Christ. Young Joe, therefore, like an obedient and excellent son, comes forth to vindicate the memory of his prophetic sire, and to bring back the lost sheep of Mormondom into the proper fold This new movement is a most important one to that portion of our people who have become converts to Mormonism, and who might be pre- paring to emigrate to the Salt Lake territory, and more especially to the large batch of emi- grants who so recently arrived here from Eu- rope to swell the ranks of Mormon worshippers. It is very possible that our old friend Brigham will have strong objections to this interference with the privileges of his office of Prophet of the Gentiles. It is even possible that he may try his hand atan excommunication in 4 small way. But it appears very clear that Brigham will get the worst of the battle. Joseph Smith, Jr., starts his reformatory platform on good and solid grounds. He is opposed “‘to my and disobedience to the laws,” and as he wishes to purify the Mormon church and make it respected where it is now despised, the great body of the church in Utah should flock to his banner. The original Mormon church did not know anything of polygamy, and in trying to expunge this monstrous doctrine from the pre- sent church, Joseph Smith is only seeking to restore it to its ancient purity. A Snort Smarr Arvep at Hicu Quarry.— Among the many exhibitions of bad taste and bad temper by which Congress has signalized itself during the present session, none have been marked by such an utter absence of de- cengy and self respect as the attack made by Mr. Hickman on the President, !n the House of Repreeentatives, on Tuesday last. When we see a citizen of Pennsylvania, who has boxed every point of the political compass, and changed parties whenever it suited his convenience, arfdgating to himself the right to impeach the consistency of an old and tried public servant who has re- flected lustre upon his State, we cannot help expressing our surprise at his impudence and audacity. If Mr. Hickman were s man true to principles of any sort, he could not have been led into such a misrepresentation of the actions and motives of the Executive. Had he beens gentleman he could never have been betrayed into this low and vulgar abuse of a statesman Ne thn oo - such high trust and honor. Waar Are tHE Poise Domse!—We have a very large and very expensive police force in this city, equal in numbers and in costliness to any gity of the same population in the world; Jet it seems to be good for nothing, except as | a refuge for place hunters. Be Gos, S908 | 4 corns of stalworth fellows always stationed oft Broadway to help the ladies across; but the police are never to be found in places where crime prevails and criminals ply their vocation. As a preventive to crimes of the gravest charac- ter, ora protection to human life, the police system isa mere sham. Let us instance the fact that about thirty dead bodies have been found in and around the city recently—the cause of death in every instance being the pro- foundest mystery. Scarcely a day passes now that evidences of violent deaths in some shape are not presented to the coroners, and the police seem just as ignorant as the public as to the means by which these unfortunate victims came by theirdoom. We will venture to say that no such state of things exists in any other civilized, Christianized city on the face of the lobe. was ars ave p sation comuindon compen of two individuals, in whose hands abundant authority is vested, and certainly there is no- thing to prevent our having as well organized and efficient a police system as can be devised. If Messrs. Bowen and Bergen feel any respon- sibility resting upon them, they will at once endeavor to reform the entire system, and give usa good police force, independent of party politics, or any other consideration except the public safety. Tur Coxprrion or Tae Srnerrs.—The streets at the present time are in about as bad a con- dition as ever; mud and slush have given place to blinding dust. A contract has been aceept- ed by the City Inspector and Comptroller to keep them clean for $4,500 a week; but the Common Council has, up to this time, not taken the trouble to confirm it, and #0 the work can- not goon. Perhaps the members of the Cor- poration are waiting to be approached in the proper manner before they take any action in the matter, as in the case of the. President of the Croton Board. We would suggest to the parties interested in this contract to huiry up their arrangements with the Corporation, and we would remind them at the same time that some of the Aldermen are worth more than two thoutand dollars. This reminder may facilitate matters on both sides. A Scoorstiox to Tax Democratic Magina.— Now that the old democratic machine has been broken up at Charleston, and all the cliques and factions completely knocked in the head, the democratic masees have 9 grand op- portunity to assert their independence by com- ing together in great public meetings, and choosing delegates to the new Convention at Baltimore on the 18th of June, and choosing new delegates, fresh from the body of the peo- ple, unpledged and uninfinenced by any lead- ership whatever. The old delegations will not answer for the new work which is to be done at Baltimore. The masses have no confidence in them, no faith im platforms, and would be in no way bound to accept their nomines, who- ever he may be. With new men, elected by the popular vote, and coming straight from the LODE EE a cE, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1860. people, the result would be quite a different matter. Let New York city move first in the matter, and move quickly. Leta meeting be called at once. Crerica Crmmats.—The conviction of the Rev. Jacob Harden, of which we published the exclusive announcement yesterday, will be re- garded generally with satisfaction. Few per- sons, we imagine, who have carefully watched the evidence, can entertain the slightest doubt of the prisoner’s guilt. The circumstances an- tecedent to the crime all tended to establish a long premeditation on his part. His conduct af- ter the death of his victim pointed in an equally clear matiner to the conclusion at which the jury have arrived. The defence of suicide set up by his counsel, but which no reasonable presumption was brought to support, was as damnatory of the prisoner as the deed for which he was put on trial. Assuming that hy- pothesis to be true, he was as much s murderer asin the other case. He was determined to get rid of his unfortunate wife at all hazards, and it was his misfortune, and not his fault, that the poor woman was not driven to spare him the risk of the act which he will have to expi- ate on the gallows. It is a fortunate thing that the panel that tried this case was not composed of such men asmake up our New York juries. If it had been it is certain that influences would have been brought to bear on it that would have prevented a conviction. Crime in New York goes unpunished unless when the deceased is poor and friendless. It was of the highest im- portance that in the present instance there should be no failure of justice, for the profes- sion of the prisoner imparted to his crime a donble enormity. But there was also this con- sideration to render an impartial verdict in his case desirable. Of late the press has been teeming with accounts of clerical depravity |- and licentiousness, the like of which has not been read of since the time of Parsoné, Trail!- ber and Adams. The danger of such examples in a community whose religious faith has be- come unsettled by the theories of spiritualist and other new light philosophers is self-evi- dent. If those whose conduct should be a guide and a beacon exhibit ‘in their actions a leaning towards the devil, instead of towards God, what is to be expected from the multi- tude who follow their teachings? The chains that drag people down to the nether world are stronger than the silken cord that conducts to heaven, and the example of one viciously disposed priest is sufficient to counteract that of a host of apostolically mind- ed dispensers of Gospel truths. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance to public morals that when crime is brought home to clergymen there should be no shrinking on the part of juries and judges from awarding them the fall punishment of their delinquencies. Tax Cavse or THE Smasu Up at CaaRes- tox.—It is a curious fact that the men who caused the smash up of the democratic Con- vention at Charleston are the very same who emashed the democratic party in 1848. Rich- mond, Cagger, Cassidy & Co., with their Baffalo platform, and Van Buren for standard bearer, then defeated General Cass and elected Gene- ral Taylor. Through the weakness, the folly ‘and the treachery of the Virginia and other anIneER dlemesl apt tAts ARREENB ASR TSS in place of Wood and his associates, who ought to bave been put upon an equality; and having obtained a foothold there, they were enabled, by working with the Douglas men, to tmaah up the Convention and divide ‘he party —_——————. TrorBlots Taos win run Brack arom. | Nietfourth street on the CANg.—The black republicans, who have been in a state of high glee over the circumstance that their Convention would have, apparently, the opportunity to survey the whole field of candidates before selecting one for itself, are a good deal dispirited by the news from Charleston, to the effect that neither section of the old democratic party will make any nomine- tion at present. This circumstance changes the order of battle altogether, and makes sad work with the republican slate. Instead of seeing the enemy’s band, they have first to show their own, and to take the onus, always a disagree- able, but now a very dangerous alternative, of opening the fight themselves. So the leaders being, to use a vulgar but very sug- gestive expression, all in the suds, things look very squally for Chicago. We should not be at all surprised if that excitable, not to say tumultuous city, witnessed, week after next, as much bickering and quar- relling and bad blood among the republicans as was displayed by the democracy at Charles- ton. The country will be the gainer by all these quarrels among the politicians. Th smash up in the democratic party is the very best thing that could happen to it, and if the Chicago Con- vention and that of the Unionists at Baltimore should go to the dogs, everybody cxcept the spoilemen would be delighted. The time for these political conventicles has gone by. For ten years the independent press of the country, following the course of the leading journals of this metropolis, has pointed out the real ob- jects of the National Conventions, so called, and by these meane the rottenness of the party machinery has been exposed, so that, sooner or later, the republican party will tumble to pleces after the fashion of the democracy. And the sooner this happens the better. Both par- ties are utterly corrupt and demoralized. All the convention makers and party engineers are simply heads of cliques who are after the spoils of office, and nothing elee whatsoever. Let the nominations come fresh from the people, and make the politicians go to work and earn their living, instead of preying on the public funds. They are all political pirates, as bed as the forty thieves, and a little woree, because some- what more numerous. A Baxx Roove Servep Ovt at Last—We no. tice, with ne little satisfaction, that Daniel C, Kenyon, the defaulting cashier of the East Greenwich Exchange Bank, R. I., has been sen- tenced to eight years’ imprisonment in the State Prison. The bank with which this finan- cler bas been copnected is not in the best odor. It is one of many small concerns in the Eastern States all of which are looked upon with more or lees suspicion. Their officers are,in very many cases, unscrupulous speculators, without means or responsibility, and the concerns, after running along for a short time, suddenly break, leaving stockholders, depositors and billbold- ers af In the ditch. When any of the defaalt- ors are overhaaled by the law they generally manage to escape throngh some convenient legal aperture, and are again let loose to prey upon that very large class of persons wko are eaid te have more money than brains, Is the present instance, it is very gratifying to pev- ceive that s rogue, even though « bank cashier as well, has received his deserts, and we trust that his fate will be s warning to ether people who are travelling the same road. Otherwise the authorities should see that they all bring up at the same destination. Eight years in the State Prison for a bank cashier is @ very good dose. —$ REACTION IN THE NoRTHwest—Tae Wiscon- sty Execrion,—We have now the official re- turns of the election of Judge of the Supreme: Court in Wisconsin, and the result shows a very curious and wholesome reaction in popu- lar opinion in the Northwest. The official ma- jority of Judge Dixon, the conservative candi- date, over Sloan, the republican, is 143—a very decisive victory, when we consider the oizcumstances surrounding the election. Dixon was the incumbent of the office of Supreme Judge, and had been a republican; but, reject- ing the ultra opinjons of that party, he recent- ly gave an opinion in a fugitive slave case, in which he refused to overslaugh the laws of the United States. The republicans cast him off, and nominated Sloan as the regular party can- didate against him. Judge Dixon appealed to the people, and received the democratic vote, together with large conservative support throughout the State, and was elected, as we have seen. But to appreciate fully the nature of the reaction by which he was re-elected, it is necessary to look at the figures of previous elections. In 1856 the vote for President was as follows:— ‘ In 1859 the vote for Governor Randall, rep... Hobart, dem... Republica majorit; In 1860 the vote for Supreme: State in the Union, and may be taken asa fair index of the revolution in favor of the law and the constitution, and against the ultra aboli- tion sentiment, going on all through the North- west, : But there is another point in these figures which is worthy of remark, and shows the reactionary movement in a stronger light. The whole vote cast in 1856 was 118,933, while in 1860 only 116,155 votes were polled, notwithstanding the increase of population which took place within nue and Central Park on the casi, anu avenue and Broadway on the west.. The averaged about $1,300 each, which, for 487 lote, would amount to the aggregate sum of $633,100. every twelve years. Thus the original purchase money, if it had been actively employed, would in that period of time, have reached a sum of over $800,000; so that, subtracting the amount of the sale—$633,100—from the amount which it might have yielded had it been invested in United States bonds or in State securities, it would have made a difference in favor of the compound money interest system of at least $200,000. Add the taxes to this and look at the result. Tar Issve oy tur Day—Retatiatory Mea- sures oF THE Sovra.—The war of sectionalism has just been commenced. Henceforth we may look forward to an organized system of repri- sals on the part of both North and South. The recent violation of the Fugitive Slave law in Troy, in this State, has created such a feeling of irritation at the other side of Mason and Dixon's line that all considerations of prudence have been lost sight of in the desire of The forcible liberation of Captain Farnham, of the yacht Wanderer, who was confined in the Sa- vannah jail on a charge of piracy, may be looked upon as the first of a series of measures which will be adopted by the South in defence of its interests. The course pursued by the Southern delegations at Charleston shows that no further efforts will be made to compromise witlr the North the questions apon which the two great sections of the country are divided. Southern men feel that the time has will be given to-morrow evening, and on Saturday for _ NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Debate on the Slavery Question in the Honse. SPEECH OF MR. STANTON, OF ONO, aX", Onoah, ot Maawachuatis, eucoesor'of Kr’ Danks, & speech Hotse to-day on the Dred Soot ease, took the ground that the the House to-day, that when it goes into Committee of the ‘Whole on the tariff, members shall speak to that and not run off on the nigger either side, and thus dis- pose of the public business with leas buncombe. Dr. Alvord, of Detroit, was before the Covode Commit- tee again to-day, and was @sked if he know Mr. the local mail agent of Detroit, and whether he was ac- the editors of the Detroit Free Press, and replied that he ‘was; that his salary as mail agent was $1,200. Dr. Alvord informed the Committee that as soon as the administra. tion learned that 0. Flynn, late Post magter, was of malfeasance in office, Mr. Buchanan et Hie sf | : : i | i ff a and Mr. Wendell declined to tell to whom they wore pay- able. ‘The committee are not throgh with bim. “ Govovernor Medary, of Kansas, amd Governor Robia- fon, of the prospective State of Kansas, and Goyornor Ramsey, of Minnesota, are in town. ‘The mission of Mr. Dimitry to Central America, it now appears, was only special in connection with the Nica- ragua treaty, and he will soon return hither to resume bis position as transtator in the State Department. ‘The magnificent tron steamer Philadelphia has been chartered ta convey the Japanese Embassy from Norfotk to Washington. They will be received here with military and olvic honors. Capt. Tatnall, late commandant of the East India squa- drop, arrived here to-night. Governor Corwin bas returned. 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