The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1860.-TRIPLE SHERT. NEW YORK HERALD. JABBS GORDON BENEETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPFISE H.W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON OTS. fn atwancs, Boney wf be at the MILE conte, 7 annem LY HERALD, ‘serd Sontag, 0 hs see FCmtinens hath fe ta ee ‘on Wednenday, ai fow cots per ULUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important "Erully pocd for.” sp* Suu Fontan Conesaronvents aus anonymous correspondence. We de not ‘WO NOTICE taken Petarn rejected JOB PRINTING, executed with neatnens, cheapness and de woted (a the Warntt Bonaie, Fics and ta the Golgwhta ond burepean Baisione. " AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. NIBLO'6 oynree. Broadway.—Equastaisn Perronm- Peal ‘THEATRE, Bowery —Wira—Boort at Tue Ww. OK'S TEEATR! Bo 's Daven: aes y J BATES. Brntway. .Digk's Dat arnyes KERENE'S THEATRE, 634 Broadway.—Co.reen .—Harey Biace—Browzs Dow HBW BOWERY, Bowery. Rey—Feaervl TRAGEDY IN THE MiGuUTH AVENUE. BARNUWS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway.—Day end Bvening—Hor Pickaas -Dot—Living Cuniositizs, &c. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Meobanies’ Ball. 473 Broadway.— Buniasqves, Bones, Dances, &c.—MANacens IN TROUBLE, NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Geo. Canisty’s Mix- (OTRELS LX SONGS, DANCES, &O.—BLACK STATUTE. COOPER INBTITUTE.—Exais:rion or Prate’s Ontguvat Pantene Or Tus Court or Daatu—Day and Bening. NATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Bonct, Dances, Buriesqves, £0. CORNER OF THIRTEENTH STREET AND FOUBTH AVERUE.—Catironnis Manacenia. TRIPLE SHEET. whe New York Herald—Edition for Europe. ‘Tho Cunard mail stoamship Africa, Capt. Shannoa, wil! leave this port to-morrow fer Liverpool. ‘The mails for Europe will close in this city at a quarter Defore nine o'clock to morrow morning. ‘The Evaoraas Cornon o” rus Hamatp will be published ‘at eight o’elosk in the morning. Single copies, ia wrap- pers, etx cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Nww Youn fixxitp will be received at the following places \a Barope — tae eae se Lansing, Baldwin & bo. Pam... a * i Lavanroos . Lansing, Starr & Co. . — R. Stuart, 10 Ex: ‘street, Gampons. ..De Chapesuronge & Co ‘The contents of the Evrorman Epmos or mm Hara ‘will eombine the news received by mail and telegraph as ‘4me office during the previous week sad up to the hour of publication Tre News. By tLe arrival of the City of Washington at this port yesterday from Liverpool, we have details of European intelligence to the 26th ult, and by the arrival of the Brazil at St. Johns, N. F., we have news to the 29th. There was little of importance going on in political circles. With regard to the great fight, Heenan had formally demanded the champion’s belt, but there was not the alightest probability of his receiving it. At Liverpool the cotton market was buoyant, at improved prices, while breadstuffs and provisions were quiet. At London consols on the 28th were quoted at 94] a 95. The California pony express, which left San Francisco on the 28th ult, arrived at Bt. Joseph, Mo., yesterday. The news is unimportant. Trade had revived somewhat. In Congress yesterday, the Senate resumed the consideration of Mr. Davis’ resolutions, respecting the protection of slavery in the Territories. Sena- tors Davis, Brown and Clingman made speeches on the subject. The House passed the bill raising the Sardinian mission to one of first class, and devoted the balance of the session to a debate on the tariff. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. The Committee on Contested seats were discharged from the further consideration of the Second and Eighth district election cases. A resolution au- thorizing the Mayor to offer a reward of $2,500 for the detection of the incendiaries who eet fire to the tenement house in Forty-fifth street last month, whereby eleven lives were lost, was adopted. The Board agreed to print five thousand copies of the report of the Atlantic cable celebration, and one thousand copies of the laws affecting the city which were passed at the last session of the Legislature. A communication, sign- ed by a number of citizens, suggesting the Priece of Wales be invited to visit New York, was read, aad a resolution requesting the Mayor to invite the Prince to visit New York and partake of the hos pitalities of the city, was adopted. The Prince of Wales will sail from England about the middie of July, with an escort of five or six steamships. He will land first at St. Johns, Newfoundland, which government has made arrangements to give hima guitable reception, and sail from thence to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the English North American fleet under Admiral Milne, has been ordered to rendezvous to receive him, and after a short stay there, the entire fleet will proceed to Quebec. He will then visit Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Niagara, and it is believed that he will be induced to proceed to New York, and the fleet be ordered to join him there, and sail from | New York direct back to England. | A meeting was held at the City Assembly Rooms | last evening, which was addressed by Rev. Daniel | Worth, who is under bonds for $3,000 for circulating old Supreme Court of this State, Judge Beardsley was elected to thi: high office, and was the last Chief Justice of th. ribunal. Anniversary meetin::s of the American Seamen's Friend Society, the Inebriate Reform (Society, the Union Theological Seminary, the New York Mag- dalen Benevolent Society, and the New York | Young Men’s Chris ‘an Association, were held yesterday. We have n type reports of the pro. ceedinys of these meetings, but owing to the press of other and more important matter, we are com: peiled to defer their peblipation. The Aldermanic Oommissee on Markets failed to meet yesterday, in accordance with a notice to the that they would hold a meeting. United States Circuit Court decided yester- day that it has jurisdiction of the case of Albert W. Hicks of oyster aloop notoriety, and dismissed the plea against the jurisdiction of the court of the district. The monthly meeting of the Board of Health took place yesterday. A communication from the City Inspector recommended a proper system of sewerage throughout the city, and the restricting of the indiscriminate vending of medicines by quacks, a8 8 means of curtailing the bills of mor- tality. Ata meeting held at the Metropolitan Hotel last evening, composed of national democrats and citizens, ex-Mayor Mickle in the chair, and E. Branhall Child, Secretary, General Sam Houston, of Texas, was recommended as the people’s candidate for the Presidency. The schooner Star, which arrived at New Or- leans on last Thursday from Vera Cruz, brings fif- teen days later intelligence from Mexico. The Ma- rin affair still rankled in the clerical party, and they were talking of nothing but revenge. Forced loans, especially from Americans, were the order of the day. Miramon’s army is represented to be in a wretched condition. Preparations were mak- ing to bring down another conducta of specie. Beveral desertions to the constitutionalists had occurred, and Woll had suffered a defeat. Neither party was doing much, owing, probably, to a deficiency in the treasury, and some hopes were entertained of a peaceful settlement before long. We have received by the schooner Thomas Wat- son, arrived at this port, files and letters from Ca- racas-with dates to the 13th ult. Congress had or- ganized, and the President and Vice President in- augurated. A new daily paper has been started by Mr. Rojas, lately returned there from New York. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 405 deaths in the city during the past week, a decrease of 86 a3 compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 38 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 1 death of disease of the bones, joints, &c., 64 of the brain and nerves, 9 of the generative organs, 14 of the heart and blood vessels, 154 of the lungs, throat, &c., 4 of old ager 61 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 3 stillborn and premature births, 54 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 37 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 2 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 24 from violent causes. ‘The nativity table gives 253 natives of the United States, 85 of Ireland, 37 of Germany, 4 of Scotland, 5 of England, and the balance of various foreign countries. The Dissolution of the Democracy and the jamization of a National Party— How it Cam be Done. The proceedings at, and the break up of, the Democratic Convention at Charleston, exhibit in glaring colors the inconsistency and the danger of permitting the control of public af- fairs to remain any longer in the hands of the political vagabonds who have usurped the ma- nagement of them. A eet of self-appointed professional politi- cians, who secure # confirmation from profes- sional bullies and shoulder hitters, through the machinery of primary elections, which no de- cent man ever attends, assume to be the right- ful organization of their respective parties, and claim to contre! all party policy and party ac- tion. Under the cover of this organization they make and unmake public representa- tive men, through whose abilities and influ- ence they claim and secure the enjoyment of the spoils, and whose public responsi- bility is made to shield the political vagabonds in their misdeeds. By gradual encroachments they have succeeded in driving from public life many of the most honest and capa- ble of the true represemtative men of the country, and those who still are able to maio- tain their positions are forced to carryon a constant defensive warfare against these plun- dering organizations. It is this iniquitous system that has lowered the standard of our legislative bodies and destroyed the possibility of retaining honest men in office. Men of bonor, men of integrity, men who possess a due self respect, will not submit to be the tools of these cliques of political vagabonds, and accept at their hands nominations as public candidates, on condition of doing their dirty work, and securing for them the public spoils through preconcerted plans of appointments to official places in order to control the public contracts and expenditures. As @ natural consequence, this system has worn itself out, and come to a condition in which it can no longer exist. The insatiate greed of the spoilemen having driven honest men from fellowebip with them, they have proceeded to put those of their own stripe in nomination and official position. These, acting upon the identical principles that animate the cliques, refuse to divide the spoils, aud no- thing is now heard in the political conclaves but mutual accusations of deception and trea- son, and threats of sending each other to the penitentiary. An instructive evidence of this state of things is now witnessed in the mutual | the Charleston landlords were inexorable, and would not trust them for their hotel bills, and so they adopted the expedient of adjourning to Baltimore, and coming home to raise the wind by new promises and new corrupt bargains. This adjournment they had no right to make. In submitting to their going to Charleston for a distinct and specific purpose, the party had o right to demand of them a fulfilment of that purpose, which was a nomination for the Presl- dential campaign, to be accepted or rejected by the people, and nota bargain and sale of the nomination to suit their own plundering pur- poses. Besides this, after having driven from co-operation in the Convention so many dele- gates representing democratic majorities, those who remained represented a set of minorities at home, to which condition their own vile practices had reduced their party, and pos sessed no real control over the high officer that they pretended to holdin their hands. The adjournment to Baltimore was, therefore, one which they had no real right or power to make, and in making it they referred the question of the Presidential Convention and nomination back to the constituencies of the party, who have now the unquestionable power of naming new delegations to any Presidential Convention they may accept. Under these circumstances, and in view of the critical complications which now exist in the political affairs of the country, it is time that the direction of party matters were taken out of the hands of these corrupt political vaga- bonds, Their only power & derived from hired shoulder hitters and bullies in primary elections, and the tacit consent of the honest and peaceable citizens. They are not the representative men of the country or the party, and the convention system through which they operate gives the vagabonds who, having been rejected at home, represent only inoperative party minori- ties, a position to which they have no title. The true national party representatives are the Senators and members elect in Congress. They represent the live and working majorities of their several parties, and their public position involves their direct and personal responsibi- lity to their constituencies. This, too, is always active, and they cannot bully and plunder the government, under the irresponsible phantom of the party organization. In the present juncture of affairs, the demo- cratic Senators and members of Congress should at once meet and take into consideration the state of the country and of the parties that now distract the conservative masses. Let them prepare and issue an address to the peo- ple, broad in its conception and conservative in its tone, and call a national convention, to be held in New York in September next, for the purpose of presenting a national and con- servative ticket in nomination for the coming Presidential election. This is the only way that the crisis can be met, and the wishes of the now discordant party ranks, and of the great mass of conservative voters, gratified, and their efforts united, for the one great purpose of preserving the constitution and the Union. Anxoruer Inise Exopvs.—The emigration from Ireland this season promises to be the largest that has taken place since 1847. The numbers that are arriving by the Galway and other lines show that the movement is assuming almost the character of a panic. Considering the favorable accounts that we have been re- ceiving for some time past of the prospects of the Irish laborer at home, it is difficult to ex- plain the fresh start which emigration has taken in this direction. That there has been a good deal of destitution in Connaught and some por- tions of the South we know by the reports that bave lately reached us; but these localities are periodically visited by distress, and a depressed condition of things there would not account for the general character of the movement. It appears that the newly arrived settlers come from the North as well as from the South and Weet of Ireland, and for the most part bring some means with them. They are of a superior class to the general run of Irish emigrants, and their coming here thusearly in the season would indicate either‘a fallure of the expectations en- tertained of the successful working of the En- cumbered Estates act, or the apprehension of another great famine like that of 1847-48, Al- though it is a painful spectacle to see a people thus compelled to desert, by thousands, their homes and native soil, we must regard as Pro- vidential the causes that turn their steps hither- ward. But for the periodical visitations that render the Irish and German populations dis- satisfied with their lot, we should ourselves have to do much of the hard labor by which the material progress of the country is ad- vanced. Tue Destmation or THe Great Eastery.— The proprietors of the Great Eastern have written to the Mayor for information as to the facilities to accommodate that monster ship in our harbor. It has been demonstrated very clearly, we think, that she cam enter safely by way of the Sound, and can make her anchorage at 106th street. We presume that she will make ber firet trip with light draft, and thus will ex- perience no difficulty in coming into this ‘har- bor. We would suggest to the Mayor the pro priety of sending the proprietors a map of the Sound, and let them judge for themselves the | feasibility of her entering by that channel. We four copies of Helper's “Impending Crisis,” and | Sccusations and revelations of the members | published an excellent map in the Herat. some for preaching revolutionary doctrines. The meet ing was also addressed by Hinton R. Helper, and in the course of the proceedings, a spicy colloquy took place between a North Carolinian and Mr. fegsional political wirepullers are desperate | Worth, | The Board of Councilmen yesterday concurred | with the Aldermen in inviting the Prince of Wales | to visit New York. The resolution of the Alder- | men with reference to the reception of the steam ship Great Eastern was appropriately referred. ‘The Croton Water Board sent in a report of the names fand salaries of their employes, but could not state the names of the persons who had recom Mended said employes for situations. Whereupon the document was sent back, in order that it may be corrected so as to include the desired informa 1 on respecting the persons who recommended the + oployes. A call was made on the City Inspector ‘oe the names and salaries of persons in his em yoy, and by whom they were recommended. lnte"ligence of the decease of two venerable mer ‘ta of the legal profession—ex-Chief Justice Be. ley and Mr. George Griffia—was recetved in th. arts yesterday, and on motions the various | tion and the lobbymen, of all parties, of the recent Legislature of this State. The highest point of public plunder was there reached, and the pro- with the loss of the spoils. This was the class of men that, self-appoint- ed, went to Charleston to attend the national convention of the democratic party, and to se- lect candidates for the Presidency and Vice | Presidency. Had they had the common sense to paes a few short resolutions, recognising the necessity of meeting and overcoming the fanatical mania that threatens the con- stitation and the » country with revola- and destruction, and put in no- mination & conservative man like Breckin- ridge, or Guthrie, or Lane, the conservative sentiment everywhere would have ralliei to the support of elther of these names and the great erisis of danger that is 80 close upon us would have been passed in “© were adjourned out of respect to, their rm oc ye Jndge Beardsley died at twelve o'clock iM. y-ster day, at hie residence in Utiea, and a tele. GTAvL« jempatch to that effect was immediately pent t. ex-Chief Justice Bronson, the old associate -ahd frond of the deceased. Judge Beardsley was formerly Attorney General of this State, had bee eeveral times representative in Congress, and on | vention, and safety. But the common good was not their aim. They were intent upon the spoils, and had their preconcerted combinations and bar- gains, which they persisted in attempting to carry out, The result was that they first drove half a dozen States, that would notfconsent to be bought and sold like sheep, out of the Con- then they fought among them- | months ago, showing the soundings from the entrance of the Sound to the foot of 106th | street, and for our own part we have no doubt but that the Great Eastern can be navigated | through with perfect safety. Tur Arnicay Stave Trane i tae Norta.— The African slave trade would appear to be in & flourishing condition, if we can judge from the number of slavers, or suspected slavers’ which are continually clearing from this and ad- jacent ports. The escape of the Storm King, the other day, from the surveillance of the federal authorities, is not a novel affair, although it is the firet time, we belieye,in which the delin quent officials were brought to account. There ‘sno doubt that vessels are fitted out by the core every year for the African slave trade, and owing to the corruption which exists among the subordinate federal officers they manage to make good their departure unmolested, or at best subjected only to a temporary detention. Curious enough, too, nearly all vessels engaged in this illegal traffic are built and fitted out in the North—the fanatical, anti-slavery North— that raves so fiercely about the sufferings of the negro race. We rarely hear of « slaver clearing from a Southern port; and we believe the only case known of conviction for running as tbeir money held out, Bat | slaves was bad in » Southern city. superna ee lw Che Rae tab ak back Ben ton he A NA RO An Agreeable Job for The recent debates in the British Parliament upon the question of the proper limitation of suffrage have called forth some rather free criticisms upon the character of the American Congress, as showing the peculiar workings of our institutions. It cannot be denied that there is some truth in the assertions of Earl Grey and others, and the present Congress affords the beat evidence of their verity. When the session opened there was s great deal of noise and confusion, turbulence and truculence, among some of the fighting members whoswag- gered and bullied in a swash-buckler way, but, like Jack Falstaff, always found a conve- nient hole to creep out of when matters be- came serious. About a month or six weeks ago there was again a great deal of war talk, and some simple people in the rural districts actually expected a fight, but received only some rather entertaining correspondence. Since that time Congress has been as stagnant asa Little Neck, clamjthough not so dumb as a Shrewebury oyster. Let the Globe attest. The fact is, then, that Congress has, so far, done nothing whatever. It has not even ap- proached any practical subject, and it is quite tinfte that the members waked up to a sense of their responsibilities, stopped talking about the almighty nigger and weat to work. We do not expect any legislation upon the tariff, or any other practical matter now before the assembled wisdom of the country, but there is one subject upon which several of the members are, or claim to be, particularly well qualified to legislate. That is the out- rageous insult offered by Great Britain to the governing classes of the United States in with- holding the champion’s belt from the Hon. John C. Heenan, M. P. R., special representative of the muscle power of the United States near the Court of St. James and in that of St.Giles. It is time that we ascertained, officially, what the British government and the English people generally mean by refusing to give up the belt, when it has been fairly won by the Hon. John C. It is not only the Benician hero that is insulted, by this low-lived conduct on the part of the British lion; it is the affront offered to the muscle power of the republic—a power be- yond that of brains, steam, electricity, galvan- iem, money—in fact, any known motive power. The muecle kings make and unmake public men ; they pull down old political edifices and build up new ones ; they snap their fingers at the law; they defy warrants; they hob-nob with Judges, sleep with Aldermen, and dine at the tables of Senators; and now they point to the proud bird of freedom, the Eagle of the Republic, with one eye half closed, and the other downcast and despondent at the meanness of the old British Lion, who seems to be very shaky on his pins, and very queer about his morals in these latter days. In this view of the case it is the duty of Congress to appoint one more investigating committee, with full power to send for sporting persons and papers. Nobody cares anything about the Covode inquiry as to the Cabinet, Walker, Kansas or Forney, but the new com- mittee would bring up a fresh subject of the gravest importance in the opinion of every true American of the stamp of the late lamented po- litician and philanthropist, William Poole. The Muscle Committee should have plenary powers, and should be instructed to inquire and report as to all the facts of the mill between Heenan and Sayers. Also appended to the report, and testimony accompanying—which latter would, as usual, give minute particulars as to the pri- vate affairs ot all the witnesses—there should be a resolution authorizing the appropriation of say fifty thousand dollars for the outfit and salary of a commission to be sent to England after the belt. This commission should be headed by Potter, with his five pound bowie knife in his hand, and tailed by Pryor, with any weapon that he can manage without injury to himself or any one else. This commission should be sent ouf in one of the new steam gunboats, towing Stevens’ great battery, which might be anchored off the Tower. The commission should proceed at once to Downing street and demand the belt. Should Palmerston fail to de liver it at once, Mr. Dallas would put the seal of State in his pocket, deliver up his latch-key, and go on board the gunboat, when the batte- ry would immediately begin to blaze away upon London. We are quite confident that this is the only way in which the matter can be settled, the British Lion properly punished, and the tone of the American Eagle's scream brought up to its accustomed vigor; and we call upon some of the fighting members of Congress to agitate the matter forthwith. It is time that the dignity of the body was vindicated from the assaults of British Senators, who have taken advantage of the delightful way in which we wash our offi- cial dirty linen before the world to hold up the model republic to the scorn and contempt of the effete aristocracies of Europe. Let usshow them that the American Congress stands ready to vindicate the muscle power of the country, and that, if it comes to the worst, our Eagle can scream 80 loudly as to drown altogether the roars of the Lion of Albion. Traxstation or THE Hoty Sze.—Some few months since it was stated that in the event of the Pope being destituted of the Legations he would transfer the seat of the Pontifical government to the Balearic Islands, which were to be made over to him by Spain. Nothing fur- ther has been heard of this project, but from some rumors that have recently reached us, it would appear that his Holiness is making pre- parations for a start of some kind. It is assert- ed by a correspondent of a Washington paper that he has turned his aspirations towards this country, and thatbe has been latterly securing immense quantities of land inthe neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, with the view of trans- ferring the Holy See there. The Pontiff might go nearer and fare worse, seeing the toleration that we extend towards Popes and Apostles of all creeds, including their Holinesses Brigham Young, Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Cheever. It is said that Archbishop Hughes will be made a Cardinal in October next, with a view to his succeeding Pio Nono at his decease. Should the Pontificate be transferred to this country this to We have only one stipulation to make, and that is, that he shall steer clear of the nigger. Our Protestant popes’ have given us trouble enopgh in that connection, without our import- ing apy fresh elements of political discord un- der the guise of religion. Whe Albany Baccaneors and the One Cent Ferry Bill. The statement made by the agent sent by the Cemmon Council of Brooklyn tosecure the pas- sage of the One Cent Ferriage bill seems to be making quite a stir amongst the virtuous legis- lators and the lobby. His official report to the Common Council is full of interest, showing ‘some of the numerous intrigues and corruptions around the legislative halls st Albany. As he was there with friends at his command, and one of the buyers, he no doubt speaks as one having suthority; due allowance, however, must be made to the fact that he tailed to purchase the re- quisite number, and therefore returns, like a dis- appointed drover, slightly touched with the blues. From all accounts, however, he stopped in the middle of his story, and only furnished @ small portion of the interesting facts and details of the mysterious movements of the Albany buccaneers in regard to this bill. ‘ At an early stage of the session a bill was in- troduced in the Senate reducing the rates of fer- riage upon the five lines operated by the Union Ferry Company to one cent for foot By the united efforts of the two Brooklyn Sens- tors, the bill passed the Senate with but little opposition; its fate, however, in the House was far different. The ferry monopoly , seeing that their large profits were in danger of being out off, despatched one of their officers with all the necessary documents to proceed as he found the case required. The bill was referred to the Assembly Committee of Commerce and Navigation, and the Brooklyn people, under the old fashioned idea that bills are decided in legislative balls upon their merit, sent a squad of Aldermen and lawyers to Albany to present their case in the most favorable light to the committee, expecting to be met there by the ferry company. The monopoly’s agents pur- sued a far different course. They were men posted in the legerdemain of modern legisia- tion, and did not look upon our Legislature as our forefathers did, but commenced selecting their men as a drover picks out his fat cattle, whilet the other side were spending their time in talking to the committee. The only per- sons that appeared before the committee against the one cent ferriage were two black republican lawyers from thiscity, who claimed torepresent the Sinking Fund, but upon one or twe occasions called the Union Ferry Company their clients. To all appearances the one cent ferriage men had everything their own way; but underneath the calm surface was circulating the only available argument for the last remarkable Legislature. Allat once the scales fell from the eyes of the lawyers and Aldermen, and they saw that there was a mys- terious power about that arguments could not meet, which developed itself in the majority report of the committee against one cent fer- ries. This report was one of those bundles of inconsistencies that sometimes turn up in le- gislative halls when members desire to accom- plish certain objects, but have no good argu- ment to sustain their course. In making this report the rural members decided the question, @nd took the lead, as they did in every job against the rights of the masses around New York. By the application of the previous question, moved by the rural gentlemen, the report of the majority was adopted and the bill killed; a reconsideration, however, was afterwards had, and the majority report rejected, and that of the minority, in favor of one cent ferriage, adopted. This placed the bill in the hands of the Com- mittee of the Whole, but with exceedingly small hopes of its passage, as it required a two-thirds vote to move it. The most interesting part of this job was the rumors of the modus operandi of the Union Ferry Company’s agents. It was stated that they had agreed to pay a certain number of members fifty dollars each for their votes, one-half in advance and the balance when the bill was killed. The adoption of the minority report caused a sud- den rise in the market, and one hundred dol- lars per head was then the quoted buying price for a member on the ferry question. As soon as it was rumored that an agent had been sent by Brooklyn with power to meet the ferry monopoly with their own arguments, there was great tribulation in the camp, and the story was industriously circulated that this agent was not reliable, he never kept his promiees, c.; but this was unnecessary, for the monopoly had the inside track and outbid their opponents upon all occasions. The action of a large number of the members on this bill was fully equal to their piratical operations on the city railroads and other jobs. {t was reported, upon good authority, that seve- ral members, after selling themeelves on one side, called upon the agent of the opposite, and stated to him the sum that they were to receive for thefr vote, and if he would give any more they would vote as he wished them to, thus promising their vote to the highest bidder, car- rying their debauchery to an extent never be- fore heard of in legislative halis. The agent on behal! of Brooklyn states that ne made two bids for the Legislature, one of $15,000 and one of $17,500; the latter was ac- cepted, and the money paid over, but afterwards returned, as a better offer had been received from the other side. He puts down the figures paid by the ferry monopoly at $30,000, This barefaced corruption and venality does not eeem to arouse our sleepy officials to s sense of their duty—a duty which they owe to an overtaxed and legislative disgraced State to bring the re- official report of the Brooklyn agent furnishes a foothold to commence operations. Will the Attorney General take notice of that statement, and make an example of some of the venal band thet assembled in the legislative halls last winter? ‘This ferry question is but one of the many waveg of corruption that swept over Albany during the sittings of that memorable body of men; !tis no worse than aecore of other schemes which they fattened upon at the expense of the people and to the disgrace of the State. Let us hope that the depth of degradation was reach- ed by them. With all the facts of bribery and corruption there appears to be but a small prospect of any legal prosecution. Let the peo- ole attend to their duty, and elect true and well tried men to represent them at Albany, that our legislative halls may not again bes broker’s shop, where the price of the votes of members is daily quoted like stock om exchange. Fasmrenapie =AmvsemenTs—CLOSE OF THE Orera Season.—Anniversary week, which usually is the dirtiest and dreariest, meteorologi- cally speaking, in the whole year, has com- menced with laughing skies and » summery sun, Sunday was a delightful day, and thoe- sands of toil-worn citizens drank in the delights of the vernal eeason at the Central Park or in the suburbs. Yesterday was gotten up on the same delicious mogel as that of Sunday. The fashionable world has come out arrayed ia spring attire, and the ladies are of course lovely beyond all description. The Central Park, songsters of the grove are piping their earliest lays, and doing it con amore, the crinolined e E é ; 8 i to the public their last notes before migrate to gentler skies beyond the Atlantic. Last Saturday’s steamer away Albertini (whose Lucrezia remain as a most agreeable souvenir for connoisseurs of Manhattan); Banti, prima donna on record who denied impeachment of indisposition, we believe; Gazzaniga, who has an operatic raid in the benighted of the South, and returned double eagles, sails in the steamehip from Boston; and it Frezzolini will shortly sing song under American skies. Frezzolini’s de- parture will be much regretted by the more cultivated and refined habitués of the Opera. No artist who has ever visited us understood better the requirements of her art than Erminia Frezzolini. In the pure Italian school, both serious and comic, in the “Trovatore” or “Dom Pasquale,” in “Rigoletto” or “Don Juan,” she was always superb. In some respects, Frezzo- lini has no rivals on the European or American stage. Under the skilful treatment of aa emi- nent medical practitioner here, she has re- covered her voice, and goes back to Europe ready for new triumphs. Madame Gassier, one of the best artists of the day, also goes to Eu- rope on Wednesday. Signor Gassier is ea- gaged for the present season in London. These departures reduce our stock of prime donne materially, leaving us in fact only Ade- lina Patti, Inez Fabbri and Adelaide Phillips. Fabbri sings only during this week, at the Winter Garden, and we presume that the Academy will soon be closed for the season. In the mean- time, the evangelical opera rules at both houses—‘Moses in Egypt” having been done last night at Irving place, and “Nebuchadnez- var” pending at the Winter Garden. It may be that the managers have been suddenly con- verted by the ordinary operations of the means of grace; but we are inclined to think that to the pious legislation at Albany last winter must be accorded the credit of bringing Mesers. Strakosch and Maretzek to see the error of their ways. It is very well known that the effect of this legislation has been to bring about the strict observance of the Sabbath; to prevent drinking, gambling, theatre-going, dancing, and all profane occupations or amusements on the Sab- bath day. The Germans now drink only water, and stay at home, studying their cate- chisms; the Irish have given up fighting aad whiskey, and have joined Pilsbury’s church, and the rural editors, who used to come to New York for a spree on Sunday, are quite disgusted to find thet the great city is as sober asa Quaker meeting. This blessed Albany infla- ence, combined with the gentle ministrations of the rural brethren who have come to town for the anniversaries, has ramified through all classes, affecting equally the bulls and bears of Wall street, the rowdies and thieves of the Points, the elegantes of the Fifth avenue—pugi- lists and prime donne, tax gatherers and tenors, all have forsaken their mundane passions, and, thanks to Governor, Morgan, look upward instead of onward. So we have Patti and Fabbri in operas to which the most serious evangelical family could not object, while Brignoli, Ferri, Susiai, and the rest, think of wearing white cravats ia the morning, and, with their managers, joining Doctor Cheever’s charch. Of course the Opera, sanctified in this man- s Rirk ge big E 5 at rect relat tible pass the great democratic party has come to when it cannot make a nomination because ampaign, will make « fiying tour dering the next ten days in Weatern New York, commencing with ® cvnce;: at albany on Friday, and continuing at Troy, Utica, Sy racoee, Rochester and Bélijjo. Madame Gessaniga wilt) ‘ail for Earope immediately after this tour. In ner com- ort abe will be aantated by Tamar, Albites and other ar wu eS Lavra Kemvn's Tomaren.—Miss Agnes oberteon, to whem the theatrical world hereabouts is indebted for some of ite most agrecabie sensations, takes her ferewos benefit at this theatre to night. The piay is the ‘Coll ow