The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1860, Page 6

» 6 NEW YORK HERALD.| SARES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. SOVIWE H.W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FOLTOM ST3. Sra cach tm advance, Bony wont eel fll he at he ein, unde, Posdage mamps nt as mabecrgeize THE DAILY HERALD too cons por copy. ST ver anne. THB WEEKLY HERALD, at Saterlay, at te one . oF BS per annum; the Buropean Kitsion every ; ‘conte pap copy, $4 per annum la any part of Great Briain, both tw include y the Fa Ss Yaa Bigs hae » 10 per annem, WILY HERALD on Wednesday, af four conte por the i wt paid For. UR FORMIGN CORRESPONDENTS ABE Paxecuian.y Requsssmp TO Bxal aii Larreas 4mD Pack- NEW: YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1860.—TRIPLE SHERT. what sum wi! be required to complete i A number of private bilis were passed. In committee half a dozen speeches were made on the tariff ques- tion, and half a dozen other members were accord- ed the privilege of printing their remarks. Judge Metcalf, of Richmond county, has ap- pointed Mr. Samuel I’. Barger, of this city, to act as commissioner under the,“act for aacertaining and collecting the. damages caused by the burning of the Quarantine buildings.” The commissioners named in the act are, Measra, BE. W. Leavenworth, of Syracuse;,Ward Hunt, of Utica, and Peter B. Sweeney, of New York.gjThe Board will orgavize in @ few days and;commence their labors. A full report of thejthird day's proceedings of the Methodist Episcopal Conference at Buffalo, in- FO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondance, Weda not lected communications. return VERTISEMENTS renewed every day; adoertisements in- wont in the Wernty Herat, Pamir and inthe Cuiiformia and Buropean Editions, JOB PRINTING, exocuted with neatness, cheapness and de- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Kavesraisx PR mn's- Or rum CLorn or OokD, Afvernooa tod iveciag. BOWERY THEATBE, Bowery.—Geoncz Basswau— Fanio—B. B, WIKTER GARDUN, Broadway, opposite Bond street— ‘Matinee at One—La Juive. WALLAOCK’S THEATER, Broadway.—Scuoo. roa Scax- DAL—SaTeane. KEW BOWSRY, Bowery.—Haaty Bisss—Poseo—Two Buwuwarean. ‘TRE FRANCAIS, 665 Broadway.—Le Gravee pr wr Posnien—rsa Puswtcaas Awovus. MES. BROUGHAM’S THEATRE, 444 Broadway.—Ara- banta. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.— Gimp Jeans Deame—Onrean or Geneva. pEREANTO MINSTRELS, Mochaniee) Hal 473 Brosdway.— (08, Dances, £0.—BUBLESQUB COMVEN MON. TBLO’S BAL@OM, Broadway.—Gn0. Mo. etnchr Hones, Dances, £0. Duicx Brave. COOPER INSTITUE.—Exarsirion or Peite’s Onioinat Vaintung ov rus Count or Deata—Afternoon and Evening WATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, Rational Theatre. Bouce, Dances, BURLESQUE, £0. CORNER OF THIRTEENTH STREET AND FOURTH AVANUE—Catironsis Manone. THEE 20M, \—Matinge at two o’clook—Gro. Odnutr's Minstana im eruioruas Boxe, Dances, £e. TRIPLE SHEET. Sew York, Saturday, May 5, 1860. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Hesald—California Edition, ‘The mail steamship Northern Light, Capt. Tinklepaugh, will leave this port at noon to-day, for Aspinwall. ‘Tho mails for California and other parts of the Pacific ‘will clove at half-psst ton o'clock this morning. ‘The New York Waexty Hunatp—California edition— Containing the latest latelligence from all parts of the world, with @ large quantity of local and miseellancous matter, will be published at balf-past nine o’clock in the morning. Single copies, In wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents will please send in their orders as carly as pos atbie, The News. The European mails to the 21st ult., brought by the steamship Canada, reached this city from Boston last evening. The principal portion of the news was published in the Henatp of Thursday morning, and the letters of our correspondents, given to-day, supply the details. The vote for annexation in the district of Nice was 24,441 affirmative, against 160 negative. About 5,000 refused to vote ‘These latter call themselves the liberal par ty, and have published declaration, in which they say, between the kingdom which rejects and the empire which takes possession of their country, the liberal party in Savoy is incor ruptible; neither will it abdicate, but will preserve fmtact the principle of liberty of action and wil abstain from voting. In Germany the question of the constitution of Hesse is exciting considerable attention. It is said that the Austrian government is think- ing seriously of opening fresh negotiations with Rome, in order to obtain the reversion of certain clauses of the Concordat, which cannot be carried into practice without prejudice to the rights of the temporal power of those of the members ‘of other religious sects. The reply of Austria to the Swiss note of March 19 bas been remitted to the Federal Council, and is reassuring to Switzerland. The four presidents of the committees for the annexation of Northern Savoy to Switzerland have protested against the voting which is to take place in Savoy. The revolution in Sicily would appear to be pro- greesing. News received from Swiss residents ut Naples announces that the revolt had spread over the whole isiand. The embarkation of troops con- tinued at Naples. The undecided fight for the championship still continued the all-absorbing topic of the day. The friends of both combatants were earnest in their claims of superiority, and although both men say they are snxious to renew the gladiatorial cotest, we have good reason to believe that another meet ing will not take place. In the House of Commons a spicy debate took place in regard to the morality or brutality of prize fighting, which grew out of the Heenan-Sayers tournament. The reply from a ministerial member savored of par- tiality for the “honorable institution” as more pre- ferable to settle differences than by the use of the stiletto or other murderous weapons. The preal- @ent of the railway company that furnished the excursion trains made his report to the referee, and the amount ($10,000) was divided between the railway company and the two combatants, the for- Mert receiving one half, and the latter $2,500 each, the money having been paid over. Appended to our compilation of the news respect ing the so-called international contest may be found fall report of the fight between Young Bhaw, an Englishman, and an Ameri named Lynch, for the championship of the feather weights. As previously stated, Lynch was defeated in this affair. _A despatch from Boston, published in the papers afternoon, stated that the aanouncement that the Oanada did hot leave Halifax till midnight | con Wednesday was supposed to have been made | to secure Morrissey from rough treatment on his | arrival. She left Halifax at nine in the evening, | and arrived at Boston at six, when no one expected | her, A large police force were ordered to be at | the wharf to preserve order. It was also stated | that Morrissey got quietly ashore and left in the | morning train for Albany, to the great disappeint | ment of the “roughs.” Thie was & deception to | torn the attention away from Morrissey hore. Be | arrived in this city by the New Haven train yester- day afternoon. | Both houses of Congress wore in session yester’ | day. In the Benate a memorial was presented from the Board of Trade of Oswego, complaining of the manner in whieh the reciprocity treaty be- Rween the United States and Great Britain, as wards our commerce with Canada, is carried ‘The paper was referred to the Committee on geign Relations. Several pitvate bills were passed, end after @ brief executive session In the Honse ® call was the President for information respecting the Stevens floating steam battery for harbor defence, fn course of construction at Hoboken, how much re ont. Fo- money has already been appropriated for it, and cluding an interesting,financial statement, may be found in another column. At the meeting yester- day the delegation jfrom, the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada presented their credentials, were received as members of, the Conference, and deli- vered an address, as didfalso the Rev. Robinson Scott, delegate from the ,Irish Methodist Episcopal Church. The rules were suspended for Bishop Janes to read the Bishops’ address to the Confer ence, of which we give an abstract. Petitions, me morials and appeals from the various conferences were presented. As in the previous, ons, the majority of these petitions were on thé-sabject of slavery, and almost without exception in favor of a change of the church discipline on the subject. An unusually strong food of emigration has re. cently set in towards the United States from Europe. The ‘steamer {City of Manchester and five sailing veaselalarrived at this port yesterday from European ports, bringing nearly two thousand passengers. Our despatches from Charleston state that the leaders of the Albany'Regency delegation to the Convention™were atill in that city, laying their plans forthe Baltimore meeting. The Great Political Revolution—Perplexi. ties of Leaders, Cliques and Conven- tons, The breaking up"of the democratic party at Charleston“leaves its old political leaders in the same position as that occupied by the Kaow Nothing politicians, and to which those of the black republicanfparty arc tending—one of great doubt and"perplexity as to what platform to present to the people. A new and a great issue has come up, for which the politicians were not prepared, and which has thrown;{all of them into the greatest confusion. A set® of fanatical propagandists, seizing upon a, moral abstraction, have for thirty years been clamoring for the abolition of slavery in the Southern States, regardless of the results that may flow therefrom.g From time to time the Northern politicians of the old whig and{democratic schools have pandered to this fanaticiam to{serve their own selfish pur- poses, and thus‘enabled its sophistries and ex- aggerations,tocobtain a certain hold upon the public mind. Stimulated by the apparent success of the fanatics at the North, the South- ern politicianshave got up an equally extreme pro-slavery fanaticism in the South, which they have from time to,time played to suit their sel- fish designs. Both of these extremes claim for Congress the preposterous right of legislating slavery into,orjout pf the common Territories of the confederacy. Asa eet-off to their fol- lies, a thirdJclase,of politicians have set up the fallacy of squatter] sovereignty, assuming that, as Congress has not the right to legislate for the Territories, {the Territorial Legislature, which is al.creaturelof Congress, possesses the right which its creator does not possess, and consequently could not possibly confer upon it. Under the cloud of sophistry with which these party,fallecies have been clothed, the fa- natical propagandists have gone on involving the short-sighted; politicians in their net, and revealing more_and more clearly their revolu- tionary andjdestructive aims, until the common sense of the {people has been aroused by the dangers} tewards which they are being led, and a conservative reaction has begun in the public mind, which is leaving all the politicians andparty leaders in perplexity and at loggerheads{as to the best platform and the most expedient’cry to present to the masses. The peoplealready feel instinctively that the claim of,an inherent power in Congress to le- gislate forjthe Territories is the same claim hundredfyears ago, and against which our fore- fathers rebelled in 1776. All that the British tories ever“claimed was the power that is now claimed for; Congress by abolition and pro- slavery fanatics alike, “the rightful power of Parliament,to legislate for the colonies as inhe- rent to the parent government.” This theory is cousin-german to that of the divine right of kings, and equally obnoxious to the Ameri- can people. If Congress can, from inherent power, do one thing, it can do all things. If it can abolish slavery in the Territories, it can establish a Territorial church there, a military government, and even a monarchy. It was to resist this claim of inherent power in king or Congress that the American principle was pro- claimed, that political sovereignty is inherent in the people, and that one people or political community cannot rightfully possess the seve- reignty of another. Acting on this idea, carried to an impractica- ble extreme, the squatter sovereignty doctors present a fallacy which the common sense of the people repels with an equally instinctive attraction to natural rights. [t has been in- atilled into every American hosom, by precept and by practice, over and over again, that political sovereignty resides in the people, and can exist in the State only when the sovereign rights, powers and attributes have been delegated to the State, under a constitution devised, limited, approved and adopted by the will of the peo- ple. Until this has been done the sovereignty that was eet up by the British Parliament | | | | lies dormant and in abeyanee, and the commu. — nity is but an inchoate State, in which the impe- tions necessities of society are satisfied with municipal regulation for the common good. Every immigrant comes into the sew commn- | nity with the rights and obligations of the State from which he came. His citizenship he brings with him; if he dies leaving property in his former residence, that is administered | under the laws of the State; his power | withia his family flows from State le- gislation, and not from Congress; his wife does not vete; bis son does not inherit, and his domestic servant or slave is not free, except as the laws of his State determine. The State constitution, and that only, deter. mines the political status of the male and female members of every family. The abolition or the establishment of slavery is an exercise of the sovereign power, and this cannot be rightfully before the State constitution is form. ed. If it could be so exercised, a sovereign power would reside in the Temritory separate Upon theee fallacies the political quacks and the political fanatics, North and South, have endeavored to construct platforms and build up party organizations te further their own selfish and corrupt ends; and inso doing nothing is more natural than that they should get to loggerheads, a3 they have done, and that as one danger after another came up to the popu- lar view, they should be abandoned by the people, and the political ranks everywhere should exhibit an inextricable confusion and mingliog of parties. This is the spectacle that ie presented everywhere in the Union at the present time. The Know Nothing leaders were abandoned long since by the people, because of the intolerance which their political theories displayed. The ultra pro-alavery leaders have lost the great mass of their followers, because the people sbhor their fallacies. The squatter sovereignty doctrines are losing their rank and file, because it is beginning to be seen that they practically destroy the rights of the people while pretending to maintain them. The masses are rapidly falling away from the black republican leaders, as is seen in the recent elections in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Wis- consin, because they begin te percetve the revo- lutionary and destructive designs that animate them. Thus the political leaders are being everywhere abandoned, gnd conventions and cliques are confounded by the instinctive ad- heremve of the people to the true theory of self- government, and the conviction that self-go- verned States, having different social organiza- tions, can exist and prosper in political con- federation. What the people now, everywhere, long for is a political organization that shall discard fanatics and fallacies together, and, returning to the plain and. regnable theories of the founders of thevt€public, proclaim 4 political creed consonant in all things with the inherent idea of the American mind, and conservative of the rights of self government, and of the vast interests of this great and growiog com- munity. They will not accept the idea of the Britieh Yories, that any inherent right of go- vernment exists in Parliament or Congress, nor that such a body can delegate what it does not itself possess, nor that one State, or a dozen, have the right to brand any political, municipal or domestic regulation of amother and a sovereign State as a sin and an evil which must be abolished, Which is the Con vention, and which is the political party that will take this, the only American ground’ Show it to us, and we will show you the party that the American people will entrust with the executive powers of their government. Tae Corroy Cror ann THE CuaRrEsTon SECES- ston Movement.—The break up of the democra- cy at Charleston has given but little concern to the South or to the friends of Southern interests, They regard it, on the contrary, as the best thing that could have happened, for a compro- mise from the defection of a few of the slave States would have left matters in as unsettled a condition as before. Now the issue is set fair and square ‘before the country, and there can be no resuscitation of the democratic party ex- cent upon a platform guaranteeing the fullest security for Southern interests. If there are any concessions to be made at Baltimore or elsewhere, they will have to come from the North. - ‘The South is strengthened tn this position by ite unprecedentedly flourishing condition. There never was a period when it was so well able to stand alone. This year’s cotton crop amounts in round numbers to 4,500,000 bales, of which 4,200,000 have come to mar ket. This is a larger crop by 750,000 bales than was ever before produced in a single year. In money value the yield represents about $250,000,000, and as the other crops have turned out proportionately abundant, the South has more reason than ever to feel con- tented and satisfied with its condition. Whilst the West is still suffering from the depression caused by the panic of 1857, the South has all the time paid its way,and now the super- abundance of its crops renders it more than ever prosperous and rich. With ite immense yield of raw produce, its young but promising manufactures, and its enormous command of capital, it can easily become independent of the North, if it chooses to give greater de- yelopement to ite industrial resources and foreign trade. The Southern delegations, therefore, in their action at Charleston, had no misgivings to perplex them as to the results of the course which they felt it necessary to take. They had but one link to bind them to the North, and that was equality of rights and protection. This denied them, they found themselves without s motive for the connection. They argued that a part- nership, in which all the @pital was furnished on one side, and all the arrogance and dictation on the other, was not worth continuing, and they therefore felt justified in taking steps to puta term to such an unfair and unequal con- dition of things. The sounder elements of the democracy will back them up in this course as the only one calculated to restore union and dis- cipline to its organization. That the South do not intend to recede from it is plain, from ita fix- ing a date for the meeting of its delegates at Rich- mond a week prior to that of the democratic Convention at Baltimore. This has been done purposely to prove to the Northern section that if the split in the democratic ranks is to lead to the dismemberment of the Union, upon thtm will rest all its responsibility and guilt. Tax Commxo Sensations iy THE MeTRoroLis.— We perceive by the statement of the acting Mayor to the Board of Aldermen at their last meeting, that the proprietors of the Great Hast- ern bave officially notified the city executive that the monster ship will make her first visit to New York. Thus we shall have three great local excitements in the city during the sum mer—the arrival of the Japanese Ambassadors, the visit of the Prince of Wales, and the appear- anee of the giant of maritime architecture in our harbor. With these unusual attractions we may expect an inpouring of the curious and lovers of great sights from all quarters of the country. Even the watering places will be drained to swell the flood of sightseers in the metropolis. We should not wonder if the tran- sitory of the city were increased by nearly half a million of people during the com- ing season. This immense influx will of course stimulate all kinds of trade immensely. The hotels will be crammed, Brosdway will present a denser stream of crinoline and unbecoming bonnets than ever, the theatres and opera honses and apart from that delegated by the people | will reap a golden harvest, and as for the mil- through a formally adopted constitution, gad | liners, they may almost expect to become mil- branch of retail business must be materially benefitted by these three great excitements, the like of which never occurred in the metropolis before at the same time, It only required the coming of the Great Eastern to make this essen- tially a sensation season. ——$_ The Piratical Legislatare and the City Rallroads. The schemes of the plundering band that as- sembled in Albany last winter are so numerous that we have not space to enumerate them. Bit in view of the wholesale corruption that exist- ed from the commencement to the final adjourn- ment, it is important that some of their pirati- cal projects should be kept constantly before the people, and the reckless band arrayed be- fore the bar of public opinion. The city rail- roads, about which so much has been said, rank foremost in the jobbing operations of those pi- rates yclept legislators, In those jobs the real nature of the men stood boldly forth, and their natural propensities were fully exhibited. The gridiron lobby engineers presented themselves at the legislative halls and entered upon their plang before an organization had been perfected. Their hands were visible in the formation of the committees and other minor arrangements necessary for the success of their plans; im fact, they took as much pains in arranging the preliminaries as » band of cea pirates would to fit out their vessel with provisions and ammunition in preparation for a long struggle to capture richly laden mer: . chant vessels. They secured the Assembly committee to sult their taste, but failed in the Senate, owing to tbe fact that the Lieutenant Governor was not pliant enough to become their tool. Hardly had the legislative wheels com- menced moving before a bill was introduced in the Senate, by a Senator outside of the city, repealing the law of 1854 relative to the con- struction of city railroads, and placing the control of these valuable franchises in the Le- gislature, as far as the city of New York is con- cerned. This move was the clearing away of tubbish, the dredging of the channel, that their piratical craft might have clear sailing. The Senate committee refused to report this bill. Another was iatroduced in the Assembly that placed all control in the Legislature, with the consent of the property holders. The House committee reported it forthwith, and under the plea that it was for the purpose of preventing George Law from buying the Common Council and running his roads where he pleased, it was rushed through in great haste. It was taken to the Senate, and the original Senate bill substituted for it, and passed after a lengthy struggle. The bill as amended was re- turned to the Assembly; the members, by this time having ascertained that it was opening a rich plager for them, concurred in the amend- ments without stopping to take breath, and the Governor placed his sign manual upon it be- fore the signature 6f the Speaker was dry. The passage of this bill fairly opened the way and cleared their path of all obstruction; the only thing left to be done was to find mem- bers enough that were ready to take passage and assist im the plundering campaign. This. was the easiest part of the programme. The members were so anxious to enter upon what promised to be s successful and profitable ex- pedition, that they could hardly wait fer an in- vitation. 7 Numerous plans for stealing these franchises were presented and referred to the respective committees; but before they decided which was the most feasible, there was trouble in the camp of of the head pirates, growing out of the division of the anticipated spoils. The Assembly committee finally reperted five bills, and declared it their intention to attack the metropolis at that number of points and carry off their prizes. This was the plan of Thurlow Weed and his band, which left out in the cold George Law and a large army of lobby mena who had gathered around, with mouths watering at the smell of the steaks. Law im- mediately held a council of warat the Delavan, where were assembled all the disappointed lobbyites. A stratagem was then devised in the shape of a mammoth gridiron, which they man- aged to secure the endorsement of by the Senate committee. This mammoth concern was rushed through the Senate with speed unheard of in legislative matters, helped along, it is ssid, by a Robin Hood distribution of some tixty thousand dollars, besides nearly every Senator voting for it having a next friend as an incorporator. ‘The passage of this bill by the Senate caused a wonderful consternation in all directions; the House lobby hoisted the white flag, and a com- promise was soon effected, whilst the whole band, Senate, Assembly and lobby, united to- gether in one grand buccaneering army to take of the streets of this city. A new division of the »=ticlpated spoils was made, and the band started ont. The seven gridirons were first paseed in the Assembly, withont one yored few that could act as brokers for others, or otherwise influence the votes of members, receiving the lion’s sbare, they boasting that they made their bargains at headquarters. It is reported that hundreds of thousands, includ- ing stock and money, were paid to the piratical or The Governor, after deliberating eight days upon these bills, signed the Ninth avenue grant and vetoed all others. But the legislative pi- rates were not to be cheated out of their prize by that dodge. As they were not to receive their pay unless the bills became laws, to lose the snug gam that they had counted upon by the action of the Governor was more than they were willing to submit @. The Governor was as sailed on all sides, his course criticised by the leaders, until the shaky members were strength- ened, and the gridirome were passed over bis veto, with plenty of votes to spare. ‘The legislative scenes connected with the of these bills, at first and over the Go- vernor’s veto, are ® standing diagtace to the State. From their first inception to thelr Gaal consummation, the leaders in them wese ua- eqrupulous ta the extreme, A number of per- the American idea instlactively repels auch » | Monsires before the season is over. Every sons offered to pay the city s large bo- nus for these franchises, others to pay two mills for every passenger carried; but these offers the rural members, ia their thorough knowledge of the city, pronounced “Kiting operations,” and turned up their virtu- ous noses at them. The bills having the least protection to our citizens were selected from the large number presented, and rushed through without the least regard to the rights of the city or any one save their own pockets. Our State Legislature has been stepping deeper into iniquity at each session; every suc- ceeding session takes one step beyond its pre- deceasor. The last, however, has taken a long stride, If the next commences where this left off, and continues at the same speed, Manhattan island will be turned upside down; no spot, however sacred, will escape their withering touch. Our citizens will hardly be safe in their own dwellings, We trast that the last memo- rable Legislature has gone far enough to arouse the people throughout the State, whe will pre- vent the election of another thiéving set to make our laws. It is time that something was done to pre- vent the repetition of the scenes enacted at Albany last winter. Let those who have any State pride, and who do not wish to see our republican form of government pronounced a failure by the crowned heads of Europe, and our Legislatures a laughing stock abroad, eee to it that a different set of men are hereafter sent to Albany, or at least that none of the plunderers of last winter are returned. These railroad echemists have one more bill which they wish to get through, and only failed last session for want of time—that is, ihe consolidation of all the little gridirons into one, making » monopoly of that concern. Will the people allow this crowning iniquity to be consummated? The same Senators will wear the Senatorial robes next winter. Since a majority of that body is owned by the gridiron jobbers, it makes it doubly important that men of the right stamp are elected to the Assembly. “Shall the next House be composed of honest aud upright men, or will it be like the last—as purchaseable s commodity as so many head of cattle? These are questions to be answered by the people at the ballot box next No- vember. Orgnixe oF THe Vernat Season—Tae Cex- nat, Park.—The metropolis put on its gayest attire yesterday, when the spring season, or rather the eummer—for we have no spring worth mentioning—fairly set in. After what they call in New England a spell of bad wéa- ther—cold, wet, and suggestive of rheumatics in every breeze from that favorite quarter with invalids, the East—we hada most delightful day—clear, bright, beautiful and warm as the middle of June. Inthe country the birds sang their morning lays with melting sweet ness ; the trees put forth new buds; the flowers bloomed afreah; Nature assumed her gayest at- tire. In town the fashionable promenade pre- sented a most interesting spectacle. Broadway was in its best aspect. From morning till bight the trottoir, between Canal and Fourteenth streets, was crowded with all sorts and condi- tions of men and women, from all ranks of society, and all parts of the civilized world. The ladies, of course, attracted the larger part of observation from the opposite aswell as their own sex, although for totally different reasons. New York ladies dress more, we do not say better, than any other crinolinities in the world; and if they do not produce a stunning effect upon the spec- tator, it is not because their Clothes are inexpensive. If it is a question of erinoline, that of the New York lady is the most expan- sive; if long dresses are the rage, Broadway can show trains equal to those of Queen Eliza- beth; if ft is a question of little bonnets, the belles of Manhattan are content with a wafer on the backs of their heads; if the coal scuttle hat comes in we can show a fashionable lady who bas retired to a seclusion as profound as that of Charles the Fifth of Spain. In every department the metropolis must be above and beyond all rivalry. Chestaut and Baltimore and Beacon streets may, if they please? follow, but only at a respectful distance. Their hoops must be smaller, their bonnets not so cavern- ous, their flounces not s0 voluminous, as those of the metropolitan belle. They are satellites revolving around the goddesses of Manhattan, and must be contented to imitate rather than to lead the fashions. It is a fact, however, that in these latter days the glory of Broadway has, in a measure, de- parted. Where are the stylish fellows who can remember whea the promenade extended as far as Trinity, or even to Saint Paul’s—yea, verily, to Chambers street? Now-a-days very few ladies walk in lower Broadway. It is given up to trade and the sight-seers from the provinces. The Central Park is sow the great rendezvous of the polite world. The grand promenade is now in the best order. A sufficieat amount of road has now been opened to make a continu- ous and lengthened drive, quite sufficient for a couple of hours’ enjoyment, either before or after dinner. The main drive leads directly to the Observatory, on Bunker Hill, which is the present rendezvous for pedestrians, equestrians and carriage people. Here one may survey, not only the whole area of the Park, but the great city, extending far away six miles, to where the Hudson and East rivers mingle their currents in the noble bay, or, on the other band, the princely residences and rural villas which dot the upper part of the island, from Elm Park to Harlem Bridge, with the wooded heights of Washington, backed py the frowning palisades, to give strength to a pic- ture which might otherwise be thought too soft and over sweet. With each revolving year the metropolis of again, so fares the gay equipages were con- cerned; but the London and Paris promenades our Park in the beauty and A which will be “a thing . tion of a public groma eee The brilliant of beauty and a joy fo. - out our impres- scene of yeaterday fully bear sion. . Swaine wy tHe AvsTRan EMPiRe,—Mov a since we drew public attention to the fact tm the most frauds had bees com- mitted on the Austrian government. General Eylabeu, one of the most prominent officers of the Austrian military service, entrusted with the superintendence of the Commissariat De- partment during the late Italian war, perpe- trated such gross frauds on the empire that om the discovery of his offence and the threat of contig yuusaneeti MY seal iaG-ta peiiie So save damaged reputation. Many Hnglish and German, and even a few of the Freagh journals, not long since declared that, if the ser- vants of the Austrian Emperor had kept thole faith, the victories of Italy—which covered the arms of France with glory—might have been very differently decided. As an evidence of the corruption of great governments, nothing could be more plain and distinct than this or- ganized system of peculation in the Austrian Empire. . The Eylaben case of malfeasance has soarce- Jy subsided ere another appears in the town of Trieste. The utmagst consternation has been caused among the merchants and public men of that place, in consequenee of the fact that s number of merchants and bank- ers there resident are implicated in the recent Austrian frauds. The names which have been made public, as those of parties con- cerned in this monster fraud, include some of the most prominent men in that part of Europe. © The Rothscbilds, Mondolfos and Landatiers, names well known in European financial circles, are more or less concerned in the difficulty, The period immediately preceding the fall of the dynasty of Louis Philippe was remarkable for the discovery of a number of frauds—very similar to these—which were perpetrated om the government ; and these were the precursors to the eventual overthrow of his tottering ge- yernment. The position of Austria at this dag is far worse than that of France at any time @uring the reign of Louis Philippe. Bank- rupt in her exchequer,and without the means of stimulating public confidence, with ruinous frauds being every day perpetrated upon her, it would seem that the star of Austria has be- gun to set. Not long since the governmient, failing to reise a loan in London, where its credit was lost, tried to obtain assistance from her own people on the Anglo-Franco-Americaa principle. But here she failed again. The people have no confidence in the government, and where this isse it is conclusive evidence that the whole fabric, reared so carefully and expensively, is on the eve of falling to pieces. It seems to us, therefore, that the Austrian empire is on its last legs. Where the people, as the source of all power, refuse to support the existing government of a country, it is clear that the term of service has expired. What with robberies, violence and oppression, Austria has sacrificed her people to a vile . When the rats begin to desert s ship it is a sign that she is about to The recent robberies of the Austrian government by her own sons, on the same parity of reason- ing, must betoken an early dissolution of the papers. Humboldt has been represented by his sycophantic admirers in Great Britain and the United States as being only a little lower than the angels, but his letters show that he had all the failings, petty jealousies ; E i E a : H Hell E ul HE to have been utterly uninformed. In all this correspondence we can find no good word for the United States generally, and but two Ame- ricans—Prescott and Fremont—are well spoken of. It is probable that Humboldt, who, though an egotist, was no fool, was thoroughly disgust- ed with the fulseme praise which some Ameri- can “travellers” lavished upon him eo liberal- ly. The extracts wherein Humboldt describes the princes with whom he associated on inti- mate terms will be entertaining and instructive. They show that subjects as well as sovereigns can be ungrateful. Axotuen Victm to Ovr Potice Reovia- Tioxs.—Verily these are busy times with the Coroners. Every day they are engaged in some © out for such transgressions. It is Urs Police Commissioners to ascertain é AER | | |