The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1860, Page 6

& NEW YORK HERALD | nessom, when that gallant ton of Black Rashaw | he harmonized by taking up another caad\dute. * | trotted the last half mile in his double team race in | This implies that Dougias, like another Jones, | hor is to be thrown overboard to appesse the The Europa, from Liverpool Sth, and Queees | storm. But it is more easily sald than doce town 6th inst. arrived at Halifax on Tuesday All the delegatioas who eu; Douglas s bight, Lee news te four days later than that re COdarieston are not likel geil Het ceived by the Kangaroo, but the sdvices areuaim’ | 0 ae ef ee ee as portaet. | Lord John Rossel had stated In the British Par | lead of the Albany Regency. The Northwest JAMES GORDON BENNETT, KDITOR AND PROPRIETOR ! OFFICN N. W. COKNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STH. PERMA, cash @ attocnce. Money soma ry nuh wilt oo a the rity Cremer Pasiage dampe sot rarrinad se gunarreutiom NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 17, "FEE MEL BP hah? wg me vaca, 8 Cine | Vawent that the Huglish proposidon for the settle will stand by him to the Last, and so wil! por sare, 1 Sipe wma: the eoyorn Biwi ory Baier mentof the San Juan dificulty bad been rejected | dons of the delegations from New Evglsad. oP ptaet 6 CRD od clad S| bY our government, and that future action on the | Everywhere his partisans are more vehement Poe rs ory: oe eae | subject depends upon General Case’ reply to the lat | than ever, and caloulate upon certain succes ony 9 8! per amnion Motentak? CORRESPONDENCE, news, cm any quarter of the Wroraly pad 7 oe Fouman Uosessronvents sae Faw wL¥ Kequesemr vo Meat att Larrea Amp Poon. ow TCR taken of anonyme corvenpondance. Wedo nat vine ct 7 tn vt SEMEN TS rencned svory doy. adwertionmente wo EE Stents Henson, Paula Mianais and tm the ‘ead Burepenm Ptéstome. JOB PRINTING waded with acatness cheapness and dé opach aM UnsMenTs THIS BVRAING NiBLO'S @aROEN, Broadway.—Sauesteias PREFORM Ancms—Huse Besun, os Ror—Lommry Max oF rus UcEas— WALLAUK’s TH&a TRS Broedway —OveRianD ROvTs, (624 Gronaway .— UNV ISLE LAURA ENON THE Puinca—ae srrsit of Ho NEW BOW HRY, towne Mace Oat Or CovENtaT— Beoxts Donser~Two Pours, BAseUw> sMEK(CAN MORCOM Brosdwar.—Dey and Ferming -Ikxtanp a3 It Was—voT—Liviag Oves0ai- THEA, As. APH MIWETOALA Moohaniog Hal «72 Bromdway.— Qos Sones OANORS Ao THB STeaNGER, way rae UnKore’s MIX Vnainne Momwy s ty Ramos | English despatch. This confirms the statement re" | ny standing firm, and by manufacturing polit! | lative to the affair. With the exception of reports of continued ia- | surrectiouary outbreaks in Sicily, nothing of im | portance had occurred in Continental politics, | ‘The Spanish government had granted a general amnesty to parties implicated in the revolt of Gen. Ortega, on condition that the recipients take the | oath of allegiance. Count Montemolin and his brother are to be reinstated as members of the royal family. Yhe London money market was well supplied, and consols on the Sth closed at 954 a 95] for money and account. At Paris the Freach funds were ac- tive, at advanced rates. At Liverpool cotton was firm, breadstuffs de- clining aud provisions dall. The steamshig Karnak, from Havana and Nas- sau, arrived at this port yesterday. Among her passengers were ex-President Pierce and Mrs, Pierce, who have returned from a winter residence in the Buhamns. Havana dates are only one day later than those previously received. Some inte- resting avd important news will be found in our Ravana correspondeace. The only news from Nassau is of a sad character, being the details of thipwrecks, aisasters and loss of life, off the Baha- mes,during last month. The Raroak brought eight QusM&A UF SHUATRRNTA GREET AND FOUSTH AVE®U6 —Cauromnis Men .oeRUn. YLYMOUTH CBUKCH, Srooklyn,—Morms ur Raver. of the crew of the ship Cicero, of Boston, which was lost off Great Guago Key, Bahamas. Her captain, two passengers and about one half her crew perished. Full particulars of the disaster are given elsewhere. By the schooner Will-o’the-Wisp, Captain Hunt, PLB SHEET. fee York, Thards VHS | { = { Tne few | The Repoblican National Convention organized | at Chicage ye ~cting George Ashiwan, esidest, aad & taries, Com- of Massac Jong listot V ~ideots and § mittees on Credentials aod Platform were ap- pointed, avd the Coovention adjourned till ten o'clock this moruing. The choice of Mr. Ashrun, who is in favor of the nomination of Mr. Baaks for the Presidency, is regarded as indicating the defeat of Seward. The Convention yesterday transacted business with celerity, and it is not from Hamilton, Bermada, 8th inst., we have received files of Bermuda papers to that date. They con talp BO news. the Commissioners of Emigration held their periodical meeting yesterday afternoon, The Pre-ideut asked if it was the intention of the Board to pay the counties of the State the amounts due to them for the care and attention, supplies, &c, given by them to emigrants. On the recom- mendation of the Committee on County Claims, it was agreed to pay the counties the amount due to them to January 1, 1860, which was $23,746 26. Commissioner Purdy called attention to the re- marks of Commissioner Kerrigan, made at the aweting of March 2, as reported in the Hena.p. improbable that the nomination will be announced tomorow In Congress yesterday the Senate adopted a re- solution calling upoa the Postmaster General for information when the Post Office Department first had knowledge of the defalcation of Postmaster Fowler, of New York, and whether the Sixth Au- ditor bad faithfully carried out the provisions of the act of March, 1851. The Committee oa Terri- tories reported the House bill for the admis sion of Kansas into the Union without recom- mendation. The chairman of the committe, however, statec that he should propose amend. ments designed to protect the rights of the people of the several States in Kansas and to carry out treaties with Indian tribes. faturday next was assigned for the con- sideration of District of Columbia basiness, and Monday week for the Oregon and Washington War Debt bill. The bill for the relief of Mr. Dart, Sa- perintendent of Indian Affairs ia Oregon, was briefly discussed. The Overland Mai! bill was made the spectal order for to-day. Mr. Doug'as then re sumed bis speech on the squatter sovereigaty ques tion afd the political disputes of the democracy When he bad finished, Mr. Davis commenced + speech in reply, but before be bad concluded hi remarks the Senate went into Executive session, and then adjourned. Full reports of the speecnes of Mevars. Donglas and Davis are given in ou columns this morning. The House yesterday adopted a resolation calling upon the Yostmaster Generai ty report all the facts and circumstances connected with the defalcation of Postmaster Fowler, of New York, what legal proceedings have been instituted, and to what amount the government has been secured. The bill providing for the safety of passengers on 4 steam verels was debated. In Committee of the Whole the Post Office Deficiency bill was discawed and reported to the House, but no farther acuon was toh Ther tobe no abatement of the Japs nese eaciiermeot at Washington. The Ambase dors and surte visited the State Department yester day and were officially introdaced to General Cres who welcomed them in a brief speech, to which the spokesman of the Embassy responded in ap. propriate terms. and the reply of the Japanese official are givea in oar correspondent's account of the interview. The proceedings of the Quadrennial Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Charch at Buffalo were made more than ordinarily interesting yes terday by the preeentation of reports apon the all- important slavery question. We give a synopsis of these reports in our telegraphic summary of the proceedings in another colamn. We publish in another column additional facts in relation to the Post Office defalcation, by which it will be seen the deficit commenced several yeara ago, and under Pierce's administration. The inves tigation into Mr. Fowler's accounts at the Post | On the other hand, it is safe to conclude that Office still continues. The result of yesterday's la- | the Southern delegations who have bolted, and the constituencies which they represent, will prove equally unyielding, and there is, there- fore, no chance of any compromise. Here and there, in districts of the Southern States, Mr. Douglas has zealous friends, and even some stray journals in his interest, but not enough of support to give him the Electoral vote of a single State. The general feeling against him in the South is so strong that it is hopeless to bors divulged the fact that the defalcation is larger ‘than first stated. A deficiency in the stamp de- partment accounts, amounting to $1,400, has also deen brought to light. Mr. Fowler is still at large Rumor says he has gone to Brazil. The eternal Bible question came ap in the Board of Edocation last evening, in a decidedly novel form. Te arose out of & resolution to inquire into the Feasons of the recent summary dismiseal of nine teachers in that Board without any assigned rea- Mr. Kerrigan stated that he had sent a communi- cation to the Heraxp, stating his views in reference to the report in question, and denied sdying that the Board is becoming as corrupt as the Ten Go- vernors. The subject then dropped. The Com- inissioners appointed to ascertain and collect the Gawages sustained by the burning of the Quarantine Hospitals sent in a communication informing the Board that they will meet on the 6th of June next. The number of emigrants arrived during the past imtaniog empor's | cently given in our Washington correspondence Te | 64) capital for bim till the 18th of June. Such, fer instance, is the opinion of the Missouri Re publican. But the South, and those journals which re- flect the sentiments of the South, lay far more trees upon the platform than the map, aod only reject the man because he refuses to svand upon it. The Southern people have no per- eonal antipathy to Mr. Douglas; but they {demand the protection of Congress for their slave property in the Territories. Mr. Douglas | not only opposes their demand and denies the power of Congress to interfere, butsets up acoun- ter claim of Territorial sovereignty to annihilate the rights claimed by every Southera State in the common territory of the Union, aad to override the constitution and the laws of Con- grees, which recognise the labor of slaves to be as much the property of their masters as is the labor of horses or mules. The majority of the Squatter Sovereignty Convention, including the New York delegation, have endorsed the doc- trive which has rendered Mr. Douglas obaoxivus to the South; and how then caa any other csndi- date, standing upon the same principle, be come acceptable to the Southern States? Wil! this Convention, when it meets again at Balti more, stultify itself, as the Kichmond Enquirer snggeste, by voting black white, and white black? Will it cry peccavi, repudiating the platform it has erected, and adopt the oppo site platform put together by a majority of the committee, formed by one member of each delegation from the thirty three States, and set up by the seceding Convention as the ultima tum of the South? Less than this the seceders will not ac- cept. It was the rejection of this plat- torm by a majority of the Convention that constituted the ground upon which the minority seceded. Hitherto platforms adopted by such committees had been endorsed as a matter of course by Conventions, and no minority platform was ever preseated for acceptance. For the first time in the his tory of the party was a platform adopted against the wishes of a majority of the States, and one which was the deliberate choice of their repre- sentatives in committee voted down in open Convention by the numerical force of the larger States, thus destroying the check and balance of the equality of the smaller States, a principle recognized in the composition of the United week was 8,592, making the number since Janu- | States Sonate, and in the mode of electing the ary 1, 27,647. The apparent balance of the com- | President by the House of Representatives. matation fund is $40,501 66. But not merely the practical denial of the ‘The two Bacchic Commissioners of Excise, Messrs. | equality of the smaller States with the greater Haskett and Holmes, held their regular daily session | stands in the way of reconciliation, but the na- for the granting of licenses yesterday, but only one application was received, which was granted on the usual financial conditions. They will hold avother meeting this morning. The market for beef cattle yesterday was steady, ture of the propositions rejected by the Con- vention, after being presented for adoption by the representatives of every democratic State in the Union—propositions of protection for the and prices did not vary materially from the quota- | property of the South, arising out of tions of last Weonesday. The general selliag prices | the current events of the time, the Kansas «ere Sc, a S}c. and the range from 6c. to 10c. Wilch cows were steady at previous rates. Veal caives were plenty, dall and somewhat lower, ranging from 3c. to 5c. @ 6c. per pound. Sheep and ‘ambs were in moderate supply and fair request at full prices, Swine were plenty, dull and lower, selling at Se. to 5fc., and pigs 6jc.a 7c, The re- ceipts at all the yards were—3 ,202 beeves, 91 cows, 1,337 veals, 5,128 sheep and lambs, and 5,875 swine. Cotton was in fair demand yesterday, and under the whiuence of the foreign news closed firm; the sales embraced bei ween 00 and 2,000 bales, within the range of quotations given in- another columa. The re- ceipte of floar were considerable, which, combined with later Liverpool intelligence, caused the market to be de. premsed, and it closed at @ decline of about Sve cents ver barrel for most description; there were some pur- chases made atthe concession for export. Wheat was io good export request at the recent decline, and with fair wales; the market closed without further change of moment. Corn wes lower and more ac- tive at the decline, with sales of Western mixed at 700, a Tae , yellow Western at 740. @ TSc., round yeliow At 760 , and Jersey and Southern yollow at 760 a77¢. Pork «as wer, cepecially for mess, while sales wore more ac uve ; Bow mess sold at $18, an4 new prime at $13 75. Codiee was firm, while sales were limites; Liverpool The speeches of General Cass | treighte were sctive and firm. Among the engagements were about 70,000 @ 80,000 bushels grain, chicfly corn in buik, and ship's bags, at 7d. a 7 «d., and 1,500 bbis. Cour st 2s, with cotton at 316406324. To Antwerp, 6.000 bushels wheat were engaged at Od. Speech of Mr. Douglne—The Charleston Conventions and Their Results. From the speech of Mr. Douglas before the United States Senate, it turns out, just as we anticipated, that the apostle of equatter sove- reignty endorses the action of his friends at the Charleston Convention, and will not recede son. It is understood that these teachers were Pro- try to change it testants, and that they have been replaced by Roman Catholics. The queetion agitated the Board for along time, bat pending the debate on It an adjournment took place. An abstract of a report on the unsafe condition of ward school No ‘20 in the First ward, and the action of the Hoard From the press of all sections of the country, from the communications of our reporters and correspondents, and from the most reliable sources of information, we arrive at the con- clusion that the two late Conventions at Charles- upon it, together with several interesting reports | ton have resulted In the complete demoraliza- from the Finanee Committee, will be found with | tion and disorganization of the democratic par- eur report. ty; thats breach has been made which cannot ‘The fitet special newspaper express on the East | be healed, and will only widen with time. ern route arrived at New Haven at half-past cicht | events of each prctore day vedo sid a o'clock yesterday morniag, two hours ahe>d of the mail. Pert of the distance was ran by horses. It in thought that locomotive will soon 40 the whol» work. Then New York morning papers will be delivered in Boston at two o'clock every afternoon. The great test of speed between the Bashaws and embittering the intestine feud, till the di- vision is consummated in the same spectacle which was exhibited in 184*—two democratic parties, or rather the two fragments into which the organization has been broken, one North tnd the Morgans—reprosented respectively by the | aad the other South, going into the field, not trotting stallions George N. Patchen and Bthan | against ® common foe, hut against each other, pet eee cher tlle ag to the utter ruin of what remains of the demo- wap yesterday afternoon over the Union cracy, and the triumph of the Union nomina- Coarse, LL The race was mile heats, best three tion or of the candidate of the black Ja five, in harness, and was won handily in three straight heats by Patchew. The time made was ‘very good, the heats being trotted consecutively in ‘2:25—2:24—2:29, The race was witnessed by a troubles, the Dred Scott decision she nallifica- ion of the Fugitive Slave law of the North, the John Brown raid, and the organization of the republican party, which goes before the coun- try upon the issue of destruction to the pecu- iar institution of the Southera States. How- ever these States may differ about a candidate, they do not differ about their right to equal protection in the Territories; and upon this point there will be no yielding, no concession on their part. As far as we have heard from them, the recognized organs of public opinion in the South are nearly unanimous in their demand for protection. Among them we may refer to the Virginia and South Caro- lima papers, including journals which bave never advocated this principle before, indicat- ing very clearly the march of public opinion at the South—signs of the times which the majority of the Charleston Convention ig- nored when they attempted to setup as a platform for the present time the ambiguous, worn out resolutions adopted under different circumstances at Cincinnati in 1856. it is advised by the leading organ of the Virginia democracy to postpone the meeting of the Richmond Convention till after the action of the other Convention at Baltimoze, in the hope that something may be done to preveat the final catastrophe of the disruption of the democratic party. But it is hoping against hope, for the democratic party is past praying for. The present epoch in its history is but a repetition of the events of 1818 under more disastrous circumstances. The breach theo produced by the free soil leaders in this State was partially healed by the compromise measures of 1850, In 1852, in the spirit of thet compromise, the democratic party united upon poor Pierce and carried his election by an overwhelming majority. Bat in 1854 faith was broken by the introduction of the Kansas Nebraska act, which has been ever since the wedge by which the party has been aplit by repeated strokes, till now at length it is driven home by the action of the Albany Regency, controlling the New York delegation at Charles ton—the same men who split the party twelve years ago by the Buffalo platform. Its late vote against the majority platform has sealed the doom of the democratic party. With characteristic treachery the Regency betrayed the confiding men of the South. To the Hanter men they promised to vote for their candidate if they woald admit the soft delegs tion and reject that headed by Fernando Wood. To the Guthrie men they made the same promise, and also to the friends of Dickinson North and South, while to the partisans of Douglas they swore unwavering fealty. Thus they got into the Convention, with the help of Southern votes, and the moment they did, they only to gain over his end for their own man, whom they held serve. It was the knowledge of the fact the New York delegation abandoo Douglas in twe 1866.—TRIPLB SHEET round, aod succeeded in breaking up the deme- oratio party. The republicans, it sppears, are advancing rapidly to the same point, and the forcing of Seward upom the Chiesge Convention seems likely to have the same effect as the forcing of Douglas upon the Charleston Con- vention. Should this anticipation be realized, and both parties be split up into fragmenta, then there will be a chaace for the solution of the difficulty and danger whioh beset the na tion, and the conservative elements caa rally around some good man, and defeat the factions who are dragging the country down to perdi- tion. Pelitical Legtsintion im Congress. The receat passage of the Homestead bill in the Senate, and the Tariff bill in the House of Repreeentatives, proyes how completely both of those bodies have relapsed into mere gather- ings of professional politiciang and dems- 66. Both of the measures in question are mere political claptraps, shaped to catch the breeze of popular favor, and force political leaders into perplexing and contradictory positions- Neither of them has anythiog in it con- tistent with sound principles of political ecovo my and of government, and the great majority of the politicians occupying representative seata are afraid to come forward with an op position based on truth and reason, because, forsooth, such a course might be used against their personal claims, or that of the party or- ganization they work with, in some section of the country, during the coming political cam- paign. The Homestead bill is a radical movement gotup by the black republican demagogues. [te ruling idea—that the State is bound to pusb the fortunes of those whom chance, carelessness, extravagance or incapacity has prevented from acquiring wealth—is a part of that serics ot French red republican ideas which black republicanism has taken up to catch votes with but which are destructive of goverament, socie= ty and the prosperity of the individual. It be longs to the same school with free negroism, woman’s rights and socialism, and isa part o! the mania which is being pushed eo strongly for political purposes among tbe poor laboring classes in the North. In practical operation the Homestead bill plan will be a cheat and failure. It has been once tried in Florida; and of those who accepted it, the few who had in- dustry enough to remain for the whole term required to acquire a title soon presented peti- tions to the State to be allowed to purchase the fee of their farms, and rid themselves of the incubus of the Homestead limitations. The lazy and the leg no legislation could advance, and they abandoned their squatter seats after a short trial. As for the Tariff bill, it is an ill-digested echeme, tacked on to the appropriations, for base purposes. The idea of protection is obso- lete everywhere, except among the mining interests of Pennsylvania. As that State is looked upon as one of the positions of the political battle field, this bill is got up merely to affect the present contest Itis a distarbance of commerce, which will suffer from the change, only to be subjected to another disturbance when the evils of the pre- sent tariff come to be really removed. Yet these two bills have passed by votes which prove that party lines are erased in Congress. The Senate adopted its Homestead bili by a Fore Leavers ov va Revorwerosany Rervn- Lica PaRrY A? THe Covvessiosat —Ta ame her part of this @sy’s Haneun will be formd + cor Tespondesce between Gwernor Rubiason aut bie friends, in reply to the cosrges made av dnet him by Redpath, Paifitps and others, ia reta- tion to the testimony which he gave before the Senate lavestigating Comaittee, toucniag the Kaneas troubles, Jona Browa, and the revola tionary party. Is will be seen that Mr. Robingon denies some of the statements of Redpath and bis as- sociates, which, when pat ia juxtepusition with bis evidence, had placed him in a very awkward predicament. But he casuct dewy his own letters, produced by his feilow conspirators. He says he wasin favor of rebellion against the thorities, resistance to the death, up te 4 certain point, but thet after thet he was in favor of halting, while Joha Brown wanted to see it out, and fight to the last. Now, this appears to us to be a distine- tion without s difference, and, if it amounts to anything, it is rather in favor of Brown and Redpath. For what is it? Acoord- ing to his own account, Robinson encourages bloody insurrection—resistance to the death — and when he thinks it has goue far enough be desires to stop it. Few will give him, or men like him, credit for sincerity in his alleged anxiety for pesce, after hostilities had begun, which he bad done his utmost to foment into activity, for this would be like an imcendi ary making believe to put out a fire which he tad kindled when he found it had gone be- | yood buman control. What uaprejudiced men will be apt to say of Robinson, admitting his statement to be trav, te, that when he bad fairly lighted up a revolu- ionary fire he was aaxious to escape the con- sequences of his acts and his responsibility to the offended laws of the land. But assuming bat he wae siacere in tryimg to arrest the con fiegration after it had gained so much headway, now does he stand in soy better port tion than his bolder companions in arms. who, once they were committed to the revotu- ticn, desired no haltiog, but to advanse to the accomplisbment of their terrible desiga? The point at which Governor Robinson haited was too late. He ought to bare paused before he evtered upon a career of blood. If be falteret in bis miseion be cannot claim much credit from chose who prefer submission and obedience to the laws rather thao the righting of real or fancied wrongs by sanguinary violence. The same observation applies to all thore leaders, oratora and demagogues of the republican party whose speeches and writings precipitated John Brown and the other revolutionists into overt treason. Brows, Redpath, Phillips, Ro binson and the rest belonged to that party which is held by the coun‘ry as answerable for their deeds; and William H. Seward, who is its head and front, is especially responsibie for every act in the bloody drama, whose pro- gramme he announced in his memorable mani- festo at Rochester. Cuanscrer or THE Japanese Ewnassy.—The reception of the Japanese Embassy on their arrival at Washington bas evidently impressed them very favorably towards this country; they appear to be perfectly charmed with everything, pianos and ladies included, and quite gratified at the attentions paid them They had an official interview with the Secre- vote of 44 to 8, and the House passed the Tariff | tary of State yesterday; and to-day they will Dill by one of 105 against 64. No more con- be received by the President, when they will vincing proof of the low political character of | no doubt be astonished at the simple and un- our present legislation can be required, and the fact itself shows how completely old party or- ganizations have been broken up, and political demagoguism taken possession of the manage- ment of our puble afar, Porrricat Aorration iy Ovpa.—The letters of our Havana and Matanzas correspondents, which we publish to-day im another columa, show that political agitation has assumed a new phase in Cuba, which is likely to excite attention both here and in Spain. Tne point now aimed at by some of the leading minds in Ou- ba is representation in the Spanish Cortes and local municipal government. A portion of the latter has been conceded to the colony by Spain, and a remarkable discussion on the for- mer occurred between a member of the Mu- nicipal Council of Matanzas and the Captain General, during his recent visit to that city. It is stated that Gen. Serrano replied that he “had come to Cuba to maintain the institutions of the island—not to change them.” The insti- tutions of Cubs are a remnant of the days of barbarism in colonial government, and the island bas become too rich and populous to be maintained in its present state of absolute pa- pilage. Ten years hare worked a great change in the Cuban government, and that of 1860 bas some remarkable poiate of difference with that of 1860. The filibuster agitation produced this change, and should the new movement for representation be conducted pradently, it will briog about many ameliorations. ‘Tar Taurn or Histony.—When the news of the result of the recent prize fight between Heenan and Sayers arrived here, upwards of 200.000 coptes of the Hrnatp were sold ia a couple of days. Happening to mention the fact as a proof of the extraordinary interest manifested in the event, an obecure journal, publisbed in another city, takes us up and states chat there was nothing so very wonderful in this sale, seeing that in the year 1821 the Lon- don Times published a letter from Queen Caro- Hine to her husband, written for her by William | Cobbett, and sold over 200,000 copies contain- | on unfortunately for the accuracy of | the peony-a-liner, that with the imperfect prees arrangements existing fn the year 1521 it would have taken twenty days to priat the 200,000 copies stated to have been worked off in a single day by the London Times. At more about the neutralised districts of Savoy. Porles au mudsse, the French consigne. The Emperor bes best | | | ) ostentatious manners of the dignified and venerable citizen who presides over the desti- nies of this great nation, with whose impor- tance they bave long been familiar by report, and have recently bed an opportunity of be- coming more directly acquainted. The ab- sence of all the pomp and circumstance of courts, so common to Oriental nations, will strike them most forcibly, and we can readily imagine the effect which the simplicity of the White House and the unpretending fatherly bearing of its occupant will produce upon their minds, accustomed as they are to invest the ruling powers with ideas of extraordisary magnificence. It would appear that the two Ambassadors are the friends and counsellors of the Emperor of Japan, who relies upon their judgment; and if it be true, as stated, that they represent two different classes of opinion in their own coun- try—one favorable to opening trade with foreign nations, and the other wedded to the traditionsry syetem of exclusion—it becomes a matter of the utmost importance that they sbould be aftorded every opportunity of form- ing ® correct opinion of our country, its go- vernment, its institutions, and its commerce They should be shown that we desire to take no advantage of the friendly feeling which their government and people have evinced towards us, bat that our conduct in regard to with all other countries. If by an interchange of commerce and the fitness of our manufac- tures for their consumption, both as regards fabric and price, mutual advantage can be derived, they will be able to judge for them- selves bow far the establishment of close com- mercial intercourse will benefit their own peo- | ple. We have no doubt, however, that the imprersion which their reception at Washing- ton must make, and the result of their visit to New York and the other leading Atlantic cities, will be sufficient to convince the most skeptical among them that, in ratifying the treaty of commerce and good will with the United States of America, the empire of Japan has taken a step which will redound immense. There will be no finer business street In the world than Fifth svenee, even except ing thove new creations of Napoleon, on constituted == au- | Tye Ack ov Connurtios —Vartoos ages df the wortd beer been charecterized by some fewure peculiar to them There bas been @ galeoo oge, 4 sitver age, an age of iron, aad | oo ABP! Drang, There have beon dark ages, [awe dese hae deen an age of chiyatry, The | urement we ih, per exiellence, the age of cor | regen [te redyew alike ia the Old World aod bin the New, It prevace under every fora of govervavent-—voder the despotiame of Rassias abd Aurtria, us weil us under the free goveras ment of Engtand, the emocratic ins‘ivutions of the United States, nod te South American | republics, It competied the Ozarto bring te \* speedy close the Crimean war. It had a fatal | effeot vpon the Austrian arms in Italy. Is ses | seat into the other world, by hisown baad, « distinguished minister of that empire. It ramifies throvgh every departmeat of that goverpment, snd it is sspplog ite foundations. The great railway swindles of Hudson and Strahan, the bank frauds of Sadlier, an Irish member ef- Partiament, who ended his existence by a dose of the essential oil of bitter almonds, and more recently the defalcations of the Union Baek, hove not faded from the recollection of car readers. On this side of the Atlantic are recalled the Schuyler frawds, pumerous bank defalcations, but, above and before all, the official corruptien | in Congress and im the offices of the geacral government, whether ia the shape of s Galptim or a Gardner ojaim, or ia printing and other | covtractsa. Nor is it confined to the geacrel . roverpment; ia almost every State Legislatare ‘ in Hoglaed, _. and government, from Maine to Texas, bas this 4 moral beprory revesied iwelf, and in nose im such hideous aud repulsive form as ia tee Le gisiatore of the State or New York. Worst of all, aod biackest io moral turpicude, are oar municrpal corporations, uuder the very eyes of the people—that of New York city holdiog the same bad preeminence smong them whiok the State botds im the thirty-three communtiies which torm the Upion ‘This is, therefore, eminently the age of cer- ruption, and it is common to ull parties. he whigs, who bad distinguished theaneives for their official rascality, bave beea oumteip- ped by the democrats; the Americsns, as far , | ae they have bad an opportunity, have proved 4 match for botb; but the black republicans wid fair to distance ali Competitors. Public virtee bar become so rare a commodity that sosrosig: apy Ian Dow-a-days gets credit for it; and tts res! possession proves the most serious bar to all offices of honor and emolument. The rapid progress ot debauchery in the morals of peli- tics, which is at the bottom of all our party contests for the public plunder, threatens the very existence of institutions which are the last experiment of philosophy for human liberty— the bigbest style of government ever givea te the world. ’ Tur Great Eastern Sreamsnrr.—Tbe steom- ship Teutonia took qyt on Tuesdey the Sandy Hook pilot whe is entrusted with the test of carrying the Great Eastera into our harbor. He is one of our most experiénced aad trast- worthy pilots, and is fully competeat to the duty. There hes been a strong division of opinion as to whether the mammoth ship should be brought down the Sound to 106th street, or scross the bar into the harbor. Th’ iateay anchorage will probably be decided upoe, as matters can be so arranged for the first trip that the steamer will be lightened suffisieatly to cross the bir with safety. The voyage boiag an experimental one, there will be no cargo taken; and as no more coal will be pat on board than the exact quantity required for the trip, by the time she arrives here she will be at high water draught The choice of this anchorage, however, is only temporary; for, if steamers of these dimensions are to run regularly, with cargo, sufficient depth of water, with tbe reqai- » ite wharf accommodation, can only be found at 106th street. The use of these large steamers once shows to’ be practicable, no time will be lost in putting several of them on this line. Thea will follow a rewarkable revolution ia the le- cation of our shipping business. It will be turned from the lower to the upper wards, and perhaps ultimately carried away from the extreme lower part of the city. The value it will impart to real estate im the latter direction will be , oad denen poet ai ha quad tie ot gecper ty around the Central Park. The latwer bas not been secured a bit too soon from the iava- sion of bricks and mortar. Many grumbied at the city being put to such an outlay fora place of recreation which was such a distaace from the inhabited portion of the city. With the impulse imparted by the removal of the foreign steam shipping to 106th street, and the new direction given to the commeree of the Hudson by the imprevement of the Harlead river, the complaints of these persons will be falsified much sooner than they or any one else expected. Tax Sraxtsu Cowrnact ror Axmnicay To- for the last ¢ trade, appear to be dependent upon this coun- try for their supply of that fragrant article, the use of which is now required in almost every country in the world, within and with out the bounds of civilization. But it is a ca- tious fact that Spain should look to America for her supply of tobacco, while Americans or f # = i i i f