The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1860, Page 6

JANES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPFTOE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON OTS. Sia Money oo by math wi beat he 8S per anwvusn, oe coe eerie iam Panay xm ere arin et a ert Uo wi om the 5th amd of cock sronth ob ol annus rey ey yrs y anD oe Passe AMUSEMENTS THIS SVENENG. HIBLO® GARDEN, ‘roéwev.—Sererreun Asons—OrnDaagiLs. ‘Afteruoon and Evening. '¥ THBATER. Bowery —Frowsns or tus Fours? jatuas v8. Purosorny— Weer or eas Wise Ton-wiss. WALLACK’S TREATRE, Broadway.—Oventinn Rovrs. NEW BOWERY, age —Macasra—Two Porrs. Pmroan- ‘Wars Beaxce oF ae Mom sonal Cenotnian, bar IBLO'S IN. Broadway.—Geo, Ounurr’s STRELS Lx BOGS, Cas, ao Jate avo Hu Monsey. QOOPER INSTITUTE —Exurmrton or Prave's Oniai- Nat Paine oF Tas Court or Leats—Ony and Evenmg. CORNER OF THIRTEENTE STREET AND FOURTH AVENUES Sativousts Mes oat. TRIPLE SHEET. Mew York, Weanesday, May 2%, 1860. York Herald—Edition fer Karope. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Asia, Captain Lot, wili Soave this port to-day for Liverpool ‘Tae mails for Burope will civse iw this city at eight e'clask this morning. ‘Tae Rowormas Somon of rue Hxx.cp will be published ‘et halfqpost seven o'clock im the morning. Single copies, Ia wrappers, Bx cents. ‘The contents of the Bvrormas Pornow on ‘re HIrratp ‘wil combin» the nows received by mail and telpgraph at bne office durtng the previous week aad up to the hour of pubycabon ‘The News. In Congress yesterday the Senate receded from its amendments to the Post Office Deficiency Ap- propriation, but insisted on its amendments to the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, anda committee of conference was appointed. The re. solutions of Mr Davis respecting the protection of slave property in the Territories were taken up, and the political debate was continued by Messrs. Hale, Pugh and Benjamin. The latter was partigularly severe upon Mr. Douglas, as will be seen by our report of his speech which is published in to day's paper. The House passed the bill prohibiting the sale of public lands, except to actual settlers, until ten years after the same shall have been surveyed. The Committee on Elections reported in favor of ousting Mr. Barrett, democrat, the sitting member from the First district of Missouri, and awarding the seat to Francis P. Blair, republican. The bill providing for a line of telegraph to the Pacific was taken up, and, after some explanations as to its pro- visions, was passed over. The amendments to the bill proposed by the House Post Office Committee are—the government is to pay $40,000 per year for messages; the public to be charged three dollars for ten words; if the corporatora do not accept these terms wi thirty days, then sealed propo- tals are to invited and the contract is to be given to the lowest responsible bidders; the line to be built within two years, and St. Joseph is to be the point of departure. The House non-concurred in the Senate's amend- ment to the Military Academy bill providing for calling into the field a regiment of mounted troops for the defence of Texas. The bill making appro- priations for the general expenses of the govern. ment was then taken up in Committee of the Whole. Mr. Pryor moved to strike out $150,000 for report- fing and printing the debates and proceedings of Congress, but the motion was defeated. Subse quently, however, an amendment was agreed upon, im effect thatthe official reporters shail confine thelr reports to only what is said in order, and excluding undelivered speeches. A large and overwhelming Douglas demonstra- tion tock place at the Cooper Institute last egen- ing, when the standard of Stephen A. Douglas as the champion of the democracy in the approach- ing Presidential struggle was solemaly nailed to the mast amid immense enthusiasm and excite- ment, and in the presence of a great crowds The Institute was thronged in every p and large crowds assembled outside of the building, attract ed by a band of music, the barning of tar barvels aad the discharge of numerous rockets. A full report of the proceedings appears this morning, The Young Men's Republican Union held a meet- ing at the Stuyvesant Institute last evening, to ra. tify the nomination of | .incoln and Hamlin. A re- Port of the speeches is given elsewhere in our colamns. A large number of the delegates to the Chicago Presidential Convention returned home late on Monday eveving—among them, several office- holders, including Mr. Comptroller Haws, whose presence has been anxfonsly looked fomby the var ties mixed up in the Chamberlaincy Controversy. Mr. H. appeared at his office yesterday, but took no decisive step relative to the opposing claims of Messrs. Platt and Stout. The question involves a nice point, and the Comptroller has no idea of com mitting himself one way or the other until he has thorougiily vatisfed his doubts The difficulty, therefore, has not approached any nearer solujion than on the night of Mr. Stout's removal. The politicians must make a virtue of necessity, and for the present practice patience. We have, by telegraph, an account of the re vages of @ fearful tornado that possed over Cincin. mati and other parts of Ohio on Monday afternoon. The storm was the movt destructive that has ever visited that region. Houses were unroofed, steam boats and railroad trains capsized, and entire fo Tests prostrated. The loss of property in Cincin nati alone is estimated at half a million dollars. Tn the Board of Supervisors yesterday an appli cation for $20,000 was received from the Commis sioners appointed to lay ont the upper part of the city. The matter was referred to the appropriate Committee, as was also an application for $40,000 in county bonds for carrying on the Harlem river improvement. A resolution was adopted directing 8 diecamfignance of ail suite for violations of the excise where the parties take ont aad pay for licenses in the current Several animportant subjects were them acted om, and the Board ad journed. Hon, Erastus Corning, of Albany, and James S Wadeworth, Beq., of Geneseo, have become the se- ourities for John A. Dix, the newly appointed Post- master for the city of New York, in the sam of $160,000—double the amount of the bond of the late Postmaster. The steamer Wave, (reighted with arms for Presi dent Jearen, of Mexico, satled from Berwick’s Bay TR ee Te | i Toe ee NEW YORK HERALD. |= o NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1860—TRIPLE SHEET. om Sanday, the 20th inst. with great secresy. cerry the election by ope of the largest ma General Wheat was a “"fhe Police Commissioners hela 8 meeting yes- terday afternoon. The only business transacted was the appointment of Wm. McKay as patrolman, ‘The usual report of the Sanitary Police was re- ceived, after which the Board adjourned. The will of Thomas W. Thorne, the father of Charles R. Thorne, the actor, was offered for pro- bate yesterday, in the Sunrogate’s Court. The testator was possessed of considerable real and personal property, which he divides among his aix children. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday after. noon and granted three licenses for $30 each. Mr. Holmes moved that the amounts to be charged for licenses in future be $50 for first class hotels, $40 to & second class hotel, and $30 for liquor stores in general. The motion was adopted after some short consideration, and the Commissioners then adjourn- ed until this morning. ‘The cotton market was steady yeeterdey, with sales of about 2,000 bales, closing on the basis of quotations gives in ancther column. The receipts of Western and State flour by the canals continued large, while the market was beavy, and for some descriptions of common and medium grades prices again fell off about five cents per barrel. The chief demand was confined to the export trade. Wheat exbibited more buoyancy and activity, and was in good export request. The reosipts of corn were large, and prices were beavy and easior, while, with @ good ex- port demand for the sound and better qualities, the sles were large, at prices given clsewhere. Pork was heavy end dull, with sales of new mess at $17 623; 0 $17 75, mew prime at $13 75, and old at $12 373¢. Sugars were active, with a speculative demand. The market closed at about 1{o. per lb. advance. The transactions embraced about 4,500 hhds., 1,765 boxes, and 60 hhds. melado, at prieee given in another column. Coffee was quiet. The stock of Rio embraced 12,943 bags and 16,444 mats and 1,200 government bags Java, making a total, wiih other descriptions, of 40,498 packages. Freights were higher, especially for grain, to Liverpool and for Cork aod a market. For particulars we refer to another place. /The Position of the Country and the Pre- sidemtiat Nominations. The Presidential contest is beginning to as- sume some apparent order before the people. Two conventions have brought forward their candidates and platforms, and the political leaders, who have yet to define their positions, are busily writing letters, issuing addresses: and calling meetings in different parts of the country, to further the interests of particular candidates whom they still desire to have no- minated. Of this character was the meeting held last night at the Cooper Institute. There are probably four millions out of the five millions of voters in the country who are desirous and determined to give theft support to a conservative ticket at the next November election, and it is the fact of the existence of so large a popular majority against the radical and revolutionary theories of the black repub- lican party that encourages the hungry poli- ticians to present abstract and minor dis- tinctions, as entjtling them particularly to the conservative vote. With the exception of this division among the conservative politicians, the coming contest bears a great similarity to that of 1852. The chief character- istics of the political agitation are identical in their nature; but this year they are much more marked than they have been in any preceding contest, from the fact that the ideas and aims of the black republicans have become more clearly developed in their revolutionary character. In 1852 the Presidential election was, as it were, a grand ratification of the compromise of 1850, under which the old giants had buried the dangerous and impractical issue of political abolitionism. On that hope Pierce was trium- phantly elected over the most popular and suc- cessful of our living military heroes. General Scott had been nominated by the radical sec- tion of the broken down whig politicians, who trusted to his great services and unsullied name to carry them into power. It was this fact which turned the people from him. The greater mass of the conservative vote dis- trusted the influences that would have sur- rounded him had he been elected, and they gave their suffrages to a comparatively unknown name. Since then these radical in- fluences have developed and become organized in the black republican party, and in many re- epects the mask hitherto worn has been thrown off, The Chicago Convention has thrown aside the real leader and organizer of the party, be- cause, as some of the wirepullers assert, he would have been too considerate towards the South, or because others of the more radical party leaders felt that over him they could not wield the influence they could over a man of smaller mental calibre. They therefore, by the artfal contrivance of a big wigwam, which would admit large number of spectators, managed to get into the convention a strong expression of local feeling in favor of a man comparatively unknown out of Chicago and the State of Iiinois, by which the enthusiasm of toe delegations in favor of their true party leeder was overborme and crushed out. The man whom they have put in nomination has all the dangerous theories of Seward, without the curb of his experience in statesmanship. Months before Seward’s Rochester speech, Lincoln proclaimed the same brutal and bloody idea of an “irrepressible conflict” be- tween the North &nd South; and more than a year before John Brown’s raid into Virginia, the present black republican candidate for Pre- sident announced his intent to go down to the banks of the Obio riveryand throw abolition missiles into Kentucky to disturb slavery there. All this is plain and evident to the conserva- tive elements of the country, and they unani mously reject the man who has Seward’s re- volutionary ideas without hit judgment, and John Brown's mania without his pluck. The nomination of Bell and Everett by the Union Convention at Baltimore was a eponta- neous exbibition of the conservative feeling of the political elements which are in opposition to black republicanism, without coalition with the iemocratic organization. It was in a mea- sure Cirected by the old whig politicians, who have long been out in the cold of ‘the political climates, and who saw the possibility of slipping into warm seats through -the dissensions of the ambitious leaders of the democracy. Thus far the nomfoation bas not amounted to much, beeause it is’ not yet known whether the managers of the democratic ‘organisation are going to quarrel among themselves, and pregent rival candidates on abstract and humbugging ismes about pro-slavery legisla tion or squatter sovereignty fallacies for the Territories. In this state of affairs the public attention is turned to the conventions which are to meet at Richmond and Baltimore. If these sink their sectional and personal preferences, and come together on a platform which truly represents the issue before the people, nominating men who are not creatures of any clique, they can jorities that bas ever been seen. In the present emergency, the whole country desires to ex press ite determined opposition to the revolu- tionary and destractive aims of the black repub- Ieans, and to separate the question of slavery fromi all political connection, consigning it to the field of moral and social discussion, where it properly belongs. The great masses of the people are opposed to the rule of radical and innovating leaders, whose desire is to carry on a political agitation that will destroy the con- stitution and break up the Union. The next few weeks will determine whether the political managers of the democratic party can give up their sectional views on one side, and their per- sonal preferences on the other, in behalf of the common good. On the result of these two con- ventions new hangs the final determination of the character of the coming political cam- paiga. Who is the Author of the Irrepreasibie Conflict t It is discovered now, when it is too late, that William H. Seward is not the originator of the irrepressible conflict, for which he has been rendered eo obnoxious to the con- servative classes, and has been thrown over- board at Chicago as not available for the Pre- sideacy, but Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, the nominee of the Republican Convention, who, in his contest with Douglas for the United States Senatorship in Illinois, proclaimed the revolu- tionary doctrine six months in advance of Seward, in language as strong as that employed by the Senator from New York. This was ad- mitted by the Tribune on Monday last, which quoted the speech of Lincoln, and said it was allright. Lincoln is, therefore, the real author of the irrepressible conflict, thongh Greeley and Blair slaughtered Seward as the author, in order to make way for old fogy Bates. Lincoln says “the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free;”’ it “must become all one thing or all the other;” “efther the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind eball rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward,” &c. Here is the identical irre- preesible conflict on the question of slavery, for whose “ultimate extinction” the republican party is organized, with Lincoln for its stan dard bearer. Seward merely took up wha; TAncoln originated, and everybody knows that in Mr. Seward’s mouth the doctrine had a very different meaning from what it had with Lin- coln. In his speech in the United States Se- nate, after hisreturn from Europe, Mr. Seward greatly modified his Rochester speech. Mr. Seward is naturally and constitutionally a con- servative man. He is remarkable for his cool caution and his freedom from pas- sion. He is a highly educated, polished gentleman, a sagacious statesman, of great experience in public affaire, the facil? princeps of the republican party. He is ami- able, moreover, in his manners, and benevo- lent in his private character. It is very generally believed, therefore, by those who. know him best, and even by his political oppo- nents, that, however he may have played with fanatical passions for political purposes, yet, if he were elevated to the Presidency, he would disappoint the hopes of the abolitionists, and be as conservative as any President who ever filled the chair of the chief magistracy. ‘This is more than any one can say or think of the rough-spun disputatious village poli- tician, who is known as the “Honest Abe Lin- coln”--honest, because he has the reputation of being as truculent as he promises, and, like John Brown, means what he says. Seward was a refined republican, whom his party could not force beyond his own judgment. Lincoln is exactly of the same type as the traitor who was hung at Charlestown — an abolitionist of the reddest dye, liable to be led to extreme lengths by other men. Without education or refine- ment, he will be the plaything of his party, whirled along in the vortex of passion if he should gain the control of the government. The comparison between Seward and this illite- rate Western boor is odious—it is as Hyperion toasatyr. Lincoln has in an aggravated and virulent degree all that rendered Seward un- popular with the conservative classes, while he has none of those redeeming qualities and gifts of genius which distinguish the son of New York. Seward has been now twice defeated by his own party, and served after the same fashion as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun. Like them, he will become a great historical character in his own day. Hence. forth he belongs to the history of his country. Tlis public career is virtually closed. He can no longer take any interest in the success of a party which has proved iteelf so unworthy of him. If he should remain in the United States Senate—which we very much dou! —bis future path will not be that of the partisah chief. He will be a Mentor iw the councils of the nation— a Nestor, to whose wisdom younger Senators will look up. The envy and rivalry which have made him a martyr will be buried in his poli. tical grave, and his merits will be appreciated even in bis lifetime, when it ix found that he no longer stands in the way of the vaulting ambi tion of other men. (n bis tomb will be in- scribed, “Here lie the remains of William H. Seward. one of the greatest statesmen of the age— done to death at Chic ago, on the 17th of May, 1860, by the hands of TMorace Greeley, of New York or Oregon, and Francis P. Blair (old Blair. of the Globe, now of Silver Springs), and other conspirators. He fell, covered with innumerable wounds, most of them in his back. In his dying ogony he turned a reproachfal look on Greeley, and, in the words of stabbed Crear to Bratue, exclaimed, BY fy quogue, Brute!” ScrserPtion For Horace Greetry,The question is no longer who siruck Billy Patter son’ but who killed William TH. Seward! A number of persons, who have discovered the individaa!, in the person of Lorace Greoley, have set on foota subsctiption to reward him for the deed, just,as the friends of John G. Heenan are raising a subscription for, the American champion, who whipped the Britisher. Tom Sayers. The subscription is to buy Greeley & new suit of clothes to replace his present seedy raiment—a,white coat, a pair of boots, (both fellows,) and a pair of pantaloons which will be long enough to cover them. The sub- scription list was brought to us by the com- mitiee, but we declined to subscribe for the mean purpose of glorying over the defeat of Mr. Seward, who is afar better man in every way than Abe Lincola. We are willing, how. over, to head a subscription with five cents towards a cew white vummer hat for Greeley, who is reported to have had on a shocking bad resty old tile the last time he was cen in Chicago. Tho Opera—Hovelties That Might be In- cluded im the Now We are giad to find that the that we threw out a few days since as to the prolon- gation of the Opera season until after the visit of the Japanese to our city is about being acted upon. Although the Ulimana and Strakosch troupe have been compelled by their engagements to leave for Boston and Philadelphis, Madame Cortesi, with the new tenor, Musiani, and an excellent company, will keep the Academy open for some weeks longer, thus affording, by the eubstitution, the novelty which is the life of operatic enterprise. Madame Cortesi is an artist of fine powers, and, during the brief period that she sang here in the fall, gained rapidly in the favor of our New York au- diences. Of Mutiani report speaks highly, his voice being, it is said, exceedingly pure in quality, and bis method admirable. In Signor Susini these artists will have powerful support. Tle is he of the best, if not the very best, basso on the Italian stage, and in dramatic force is not to be surpassed. Thus it will be seen the new company is exceedingly strong, and will be able to undertake the supplemental season without the aid of any additional novel- ties. Maretzek, whose qualities as a manager are best developed when he has to encounter oppo eition, has wisely determined to postpone, fo: the present, his departure for Philadetpaict It was supposed that he had played ont all his regources; but, like the wizard with his inex- haustible bottle, he comes out with a string of fresh announcements, which show that he is far from being at the end of them. Three new prime donne, a couple of new tenors, a new baritone, and a new baeso, at the fag-end of the season, are cards that few managers caa afford to produce. It was to be expected that after the severe competition to which he has been exposed for so many weeke, his strength would be well nigh used up. He issues from the con- test, on the contrary, fresher and more vigorous than ever, and establishes, beyond all cavil, his pretensions to the title of “the indomi- table.” Notwithstanding, however, his long ex perience of our New York audi ences, Maretzek, like other tacticians, sometimes falls into errors. He committed, in our opinion,a grave mistake in playing Italian Opera on the Academy nights. The prestige of a fashionable house, the local habi- tation, besides, of the Italian lyrical drama, is a difficult thing to break down, and the Winter Garden, notwithstanding its admittedly power- ful attractions, could not hope to draw off any considerable portion of its habitués. He had, therefore, to rely principally on floating audiences—these composed mostly of country people, who, asa general thing, prefer a comedy or a melodrama to the Opera. It would have been different had he played Italian Opera on the off nights of the Academy, for he would then have drawn a large proportion of the regular frequenters of the latter house. On the other nights he could have given German Opera, which, by-the-by, paid the best of any of the repreeentations that he has given during the season. Ashe will have the same compe- tition to encounter as soon as the Cortesi troupe commence at the Academy, we would again recommend to him this alteration in his arrangements. The excitement that will be created by the visit of the Japanese to New York will bring a rich harvest into the treasury of both houses. In order that they may profit fully by it, it would be advisable for them not to clash by playing on the same nights. By their taking the alternate evenings they will each manage to bring in the crowds of strangers who will be attracted to the city by the presence of the Japanese. As the latter will certainly take more pleasure in theatrical representations than in any other novelties that can be exhibited to them, the directors of both hguses will find it to their account to come to a harmonious understanding upon the sub ject. If the Academy is strong in respect to its fashionable prestige. the Winter Garden holds out attractions that will suit the peculiar tastes of our visiters. No one understands better how to get up spectacular opera than Maretzek: and this will, no doubt, be most in demand during the stay of the Japanese. We do not eee why a departure from operatic unilies, if we may use the expres- sion, might not be protitably resorted to, on an exceptionable occasion of this kind. Our Asiatic visiters will be most gratified by the representation of incidents with which they are familiar under other forms, and which appeal directly to their tastes. Thus, pageants, equestrian processions, combats on a grand scale, and scenic illusions, might all be introduced in pieces from which the severe taste of the llbrettist has omitted them. Weare notsure but that the induce. ments held out by these innovations would prove as great for our country visiters the Japanese. A few thousand doll expended would, we believe, bring in large returns. The taste for barbaric splendo? is not confined to the Asiatics, and it Is probable that just now a grand show, with plenty of action in it, would be more produc- tive to the operatic treasuries than the sweetest notes that siren ever sung. Twe Massacrk oF rar Ixwoceyts ar Our caco—The inside history of the slaughter of Master Seward and other great lights ef the biack republican party at Chicago is exceed- ingly curidus. The wirepnlling was, it ap- pears, a battle royal between Hon. Massa Greeley and, Thnrlow Weed. The lobby ope- rations of the 7rilne philosopher were inter- mitted by his duties on the Platform Committee; but bis work was done. The argument urged against Seward was that his administration, should he be elected, womld be as corrapt as the last Legislature of this State. and that Thurlow Weed would rule the kitchen, allowing no one except his particular friends to have a smell at the roast. Hereupon the friends of the can- didates other than Seward took fright, and rushed, pell-mell, over to Lincoln. Without doubt, the gross corruption which reigned at Albany last winter had a great deal to do with the massacre of Seward. The wrath of his friends is dcecribed as being something terrific: their denunciations were especially directed against the philanthropic Greeley. ‘The sweating of our army in Flanders must have been mild compared to the anathe- mas uttered by the Sewar? forces at Chicago. Greeley took it like a philosopher, saying that he had become quite accustomed to being sworn at. He could afford to be amiable, ece- ing that he had, for once, laid out the hitherto impregnable Weed, who had no idea of the ia- tensity of the opposition to Seward until the terrible third ballot was reached. We hope that the Sage of Auburn and his lieutenant will refrain from doisg anything rash, and wait patiently for their revenge. Tux Jaraness in New Yore.—Peliable ac- counts from Washington inform us that the Ja- panese Ambassadors and their suite may be ex- pected here in about ten days. It is under- stood that our Oriental guests look forward to their visit to the commercial metropolis of the Union with high hopes. They have heard so much of the grandeur, the glory, the progress and the power of New York, the occidental seat of the trade of the world, that they naturally desire to have the evidence of their own eyes and ears as to the wonders of Manhattan. We have no doubt that in some respects their anticipa- tions will be more than realized. We can show them our great public works, such as the Central Park, the Croton Aqueduct, with its grand reservoirs and massive bridges; we can take them to our shipyards and great manufac- tories; we can lodge them at the best point In the finest avenue in the world; we can delight them with the concord of sweet sounds at the Opera, and tickle their fancy with all sorts of shows; we can give them a grand summer ball in an illuminated garden, decorated after their own grotesque fashion—all this, and more, to make their visit an agreeable one and help along our trade with the East, we will cheerful- ly do. We must have, however, it seems, a skeleton at our feast. The irrepressible Alder- man will have his finger in every pie which is set before the representatives of the Tycoon. Governments were instituted, according to Mr. Jefferson, to secure to mankind ceriaia inalienable rights, but that of this city seems to have been fashioned with a view to enable certain scurvy fellows to bore distinguished foreigners ai the public expense. No sooner does an official personage of marked consequence eet his foot within the United States than he is marked down by the Solons of the New York Corporation. Their scent is as keen as that of a bloodhound, their gtip as firm as that of a bulldog. We do not eee, therefore, how the Embassy can be pro- tected from the impending Aldermanic raid; but we hope that there may be a little more decency displayed in their treatment than is usual here. We do earnestly hope that the Aldermen may be bronght to a realizing sense of the virtue of soap and water; that they will, | forj once, wear clean linen and patronise the barber; that they will eschew profane swear- ing, bad liquor and tobacco, and that their outward habiliments may, in some degree, ap- proximate those worn by Christian geutlemen of the present time. The horror of a Japanese of high caste at the bare idea of associating witha New York Alderman in his natural state may be imagined, but not described. One more point—it is the moet important ofall: During the last ten years a vast amount of money has been abstracted from the public treasury, and converted to some mys- terious uses. Certainly it has not been appro- priated for the public benefit; for, although we pay out an immense deal of money every year for a city government, we have none worth mentioning. We do not charge the Aldermen with robbery; there are persons, however, who are not so charitable as ourselves, and who do not hesitate to say that stealing is too common about the City Hall. In such matters, it is always well to be on the safe side; and, as the Japanese have a considerable amount of va- luable property along with them, It will bea proper precautionary measure for the proprie- tors of the Metropolitan Hotel to see that no Al- derman or Councilman is left alone in the rooms where the baggage of the Embassy is deposited. The temptation might be so great as to over- come all the good resolutions which, we have no doubt, the Aldermen will make in view of the solemn duty in which they are about to engage. Decidedly we must protect the purses if not the persons of the Ambassadors from the profane fingers and itching palms of our beau- tiful rulers. Tue Pouce axp tHe Beroiars.—We have been a good deal exercised here for a long while in regard to the frequent bold rebberies, burglaries and crimes of various kinds com- mitted in this city, but the recent discovery of the complicity of the police in Boston, and the same body in Philadelphia some time ago, with acts of this character, may throw some light upon the subject, There is very little belief, ‘we suppose, in the mind of any one, that our police are more pure and incorruptible than those of the beforementioned cities, and we hardly think it would excite much surprise if at any time some of the members of our police force were to be charged with aiding and abetting criminals of various grades, from the pickpocket to the burglar. After all, it is not unnatural that the police should be dishonest, or should possess a strong affinity for thieves and rogues of all descrip- tions. The police are a political boriy, and as long as the system of primary elections, and the other machinery whereby small politicians are elevated to office, continues in force, as at present, it is not to be expected that the police will remain exempt from the universal cor- ruption which pervades the whole class of politicians, of every hue and shape, and which leads to defalcations and peculations alike in Congress, in the federal offices, in the State government and in the municipal Corporation. When we see government officials, high in position, and presumed to be correct ia con- duct, becoming defaulters to the amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is not to be wondered at that the police, who are generally selected from the lowest class of politf- cians, should be im league with pick pockets, thieves and burglars, shielding their delinquencies and sharing their plun- der. In this, as in the case of public de- faulters, it is the.system more than the indi- viduals which is to blame. In no other country in the world are the police appointed for party political purposes; and as long a: the members of that force are taken from the class of politi- cians, we may expect to find the guardians of the peace and property of the public leagued with the class from which they originally came—the rogues and vagabonds of the com- munity. In the private walks of life men have some interest in being honest; their proepeots depend npon their reputation, and their repute- tion fs maintained or lost according to the not, it has at least the merit of occupying itself i they will fall back into their places as tractable It would be happy for ean Fectitede, or otherwise, of their comduct; but ix Politics it is just, the reverse—the greatest rogue generally makes ‘he pense: + mmm end im most Conta neddiees pre Bese aa soy nem Tar Gneat Mormon ANNIVERSARY m Uran— ‘Tue Future or te Caurcu.—In this season of religious anniversaries, the thirtieth Comfereace of the Mormon Church, of which a full report will be found ¢lsewhere, deserves special at- tention. This remarkable sect has just conclu- ded the third decade of its existence; and, not- withstanding the hostility evoked by its doc- trimes and the persecution te which it has been subjected, it is now in a more flourishing 4 | > , , , condition than at any former period during its 4 career. Whilst all the other churches have been distracted and divided by the introduc- Hy tion of political questions, foreign to their con- ' stitution, Mormonism has preserved intact the | homogeneity of its system and discipline. Whether that system be founded in error or solely with the things that concern it. [tis practical in its objects and workings, and oare- fully avoids meddling with sentimental abstrac- tions, Although its doctrines may not be in harmony with the religious belief of the great majority of our people, {| — they do not necessarily bring it in com- {| § | flict with our institutions. The toleration gaa- 5 ranteed by the constitution covers a wide mar- i gin of religious eccentricities, aad it remains yet to be proved that even the practice of poly- gamy justifies legislative interference. Repng- nant, however, as is this practice to the Chuie- tian minded and patriotic of our citizens, they do not view it with a hundredth part of the /( detestation and apprehension with which they regard anti-slavery fanaticism. The one only carries out to anextreme one of the wisost principles of our institutions, whilst the other strikes at the very foundation of their integrity and stability. We have nothing, im fact, te/ dread from Mormon extravagances, but frou the excesses of abolitionist zeal and biack. republican corruption we have before us the’ certain prospect of the dissolution of the fed ral compact, and the defeat of the great expe-; riment on which the eyes of the world are so i! attentively fixed. Of Mormonism there is this much further to be said. From recent occurrences there are the stropgest reasons to hope that the practice which gives so much umbrage to the Christian world, and which has been engrafted on its original tenets by the sensual propensities of Brigham Young and his coadjutors, will soon be weeded out from its creed. The late manifesto of Joe Smith, son of the founder of the sect, and who, at the solicita- tion of a large proportion of its members, has | assumed the High Priestship of the Church, de- { nounces, in the strongest terms, the spurious doctrine which has brought so much discredit and odium upon the faith. Under the leader- ship of the new Prophet there is no doubt that & practice which is abhorrent to all the really sincere communicants of the Church, and tothe | women more especially, will be put an end to. Smith is about to take up his headquarters at Kirtland, Ohie. As soon as it is known that he has become the head of “the true faith,” thou- sands of those who are now disgusted with the ! tyranny and sensuality of Brigham Young and his elders will hasten to place themselves un- der his guidance. Thus the moat objectionable feature of Mormonism, and the one that most isolates its members from the rest of the com- munity, will be got rid of without trouble, aad the country if every other species of fanaticism contained within iteelf the same germs of re- formation and cure. To these we fear nothing but the straight waistcoat and the strong arm of restraint will restore reason and common sense. Cnexver’s New Morar Crvsave—We see ‘ that the irrepressible agitator of Union square has broken out in a new place, andthat he pro- poses a new crusade, for the purpose of rescuing Mr. Thaddeus Hyatt from the clutches of the Senatorial Philistines at Washington. Hyatt is a sixpenny martyr, who has chosen volan- tarily to be locked up in the Washingtor, jail, and to wait until the Senate passes a resciution ’ to liberate him. Everybody, except afew old ladies of the Garrison school, would have quite forgotten the fact of Hyatt’s existence, had not Cheever, who was probably hard up for a subject, revived him. The selection could not be more appropriate. Cheever is precisely the person to play the réle of .Peter the Hermit to Saint Thaddeus, and the latter is a proper subject for a new crusade. Being a white man, a peddler of and a patentee of improved lights, Hyatt is mach more valuable than‘ the colored brethren in bonds for whom Dr. Chee- ver is continually preaching. We applaud the movement for a Hyatt crusade, and hope that the republicans of New York will not allow such an opportanity for the practical exploita- tion of their principles to be passed by. By all means, however, let the crusaders go in force, and with a full representation of the governing classes. A battalion of gladiators, under the lead of the Hon. Tom Hyer, a prime friend of ( Seward and Thurlow Weed, might be organized, ) and perhaps, if sufficient. inducements were offered, that stalworth defender of the bird of \ freedom, the Hon. John C. Heenan, might be induced to become the Richard Cour de Lion \ of the movement. Let the Senate beware, Cheever and the governing classes evidently mean mischief. A Wastes Tors 1po.—The southern portion of Ohio was on Monday the scene of one of thore terrific summer tornados s0 peculiar to the West, and which, in sudilenness and vio- ‘ence, cannot, perhaps, be exceeted in-any por- tiongf the world. Cincinnati appears to have been the vietim of its greatest fury, aa will be seen from our telegraphic deapatzh to-day. Rising fn a gathering cloud In the northwest, of that singular and threatening der sity which always presages a Wester tornad’,, the storm swept over the city, wnroofing nearly every public building, carrying away steeples, and damaging more or legs every house in the city. On the roads whole forests of trees were torn up; steamers were capsized on the river, and even the locomotive and pateenger cars on one railroad, at the Kentucky side, were blown cleat off the track. The damage done to build- ings amounts to half a million of dollars. The tornado seems to have extended seven miles to the northwest of the city, and its effects extend as far cast a8 the town of Chillicothe, sweeping