The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDGR AND PROPRIETOR. @rrics S. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 813. TERME, cash in odvance Money sent by mail will be at the of the vender P stamps not received as subscription DAILY TE $F per annem, ‘at aig. conte LD to cents WEEKLY & LD every Raterdey #8 pe 3 Pilato a seeeeeM@e 148 ENING. SOWESY THRATRE, Bowery.—Kaxuworra—Onver Twoe—a Dav in Panis. wi GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street,— La Juive. WALLACK’S THEATER, Broadway.—Overtaxp Rovrs. LAURA KEENE’? THRATRE. 62 Broadway.—Invismrs Painos—Lanp Mz Five s. uzw BOWERY, Doassr. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MU! Brening—Cesmunts Taxes. —PLOUGEMAK IURKED LoKD—Livina Cuniosieins, de. aNTts MINSTRI |. 12 Le anos, £0.—SonNas at Pus ‘wa).—Boatzsquas, Soncs, NIBLO'® BALOOM, Broadway.—Gro. Crnisrr’s Mun. us Benes, Dances, Bosuasaues, 0. Jan aD as oe QOOPER INSTITUTE.—Mx Masony’s Laorver ox Waar a Deve los Saw ox uxg.as0~Wiru rue Goumt or Dasta, NAYVIONAG CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Boss, Dasons, BumLmscoes, £0 CORNER OF TRI AVsDUK —Cairrom: €NTH STREET AND FOURTH ear Sew York, Munday, May 25, 1860, ‘The Cunard mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leitch, will Joaye Boston on Wednesday, for Liverpool. The Suropean matis will close in this city this af- ternoon at half past one o'clock, to go by railroad, and et baif past four e’clock, to go by steamboat. The Ecroraay Somon oF THB HeKALD wil! be publishod at ton o'¢lock in the morning. Bingie copies, im wrappors, mx conte. ‘The contents of the Eveorzax Enron ov rap Hera will cumbine the nows received by mail and telegraph at ‘Ane office during the previona week and up to the hour of publiontion —— The News. By our special despatch from Washington this morning it will be seen that important news from Mexico had been received by the Minister of that country. From information he had received from a special bearer of despatches at New Orleans, who was on his way to Washington, it seemed evi- dent that Miramon and the Church party had been utterly routed, and that the liberals were in full possession of the City of Mexico. The Mexi- can Minister was of opinion that the liberal govern- ment bad fully and firmly established itself, and that it would at once be recognized by the French and English Ministers. Our news from Califoreia, brought by the North ern Light, which arrived at this port late on Saturday night, with San Francisco papers of the 5th inst, does not present avy interesting features, having been anticipated in its important poiats by the overland mail and pony express. The agri- cultural prospects throughout California were very promising. The sum of $4,666 had been subscribed to the Broderick Monument Fund. The revolutionary movements in consequence of the obnoxious election law and the course of the Granadian Congress in relation therete; and the measures adopted to enforce the United States claims against Peru, are the most important items from New Granada. Another important item men- tioned by our correspondent from San Jaan del Norte (Greytown), is that the Cauty contract has not been ratified, as had been formerly stated in the newspapers. There is mach complaint at the Isthmus on ac- ‘count of imperfect postal arrangements. In con- sequence of there being no United States agents there, the mail is taken in charge by the local au- thorities, who generally make a mess of it. A cor- respondent says that sometimes the letter bags for Aspinwall are sent to San Francisco. The Oregon Republican State Convention met on the 10th ult., when David Logan was nomiaated as the candidate for Congress. From Vancouver Island we learn that great indignation is expressed throughout the colony at the administration of Gov. Douglass. The subject was elaborately commented apon by the press, and indignation meetings were quite prevalent. ‘The ( nor was openly charged with malfeasance and the prostitation of bis office to selfish and per- pona! purposes, From and after the first of June,the steamers for 4 wall will leave New York on the lst, 1ith, and 2st of each month. The time of salling of the San Francisco steamers will be changed to the same days. We have advices from the west coast of Mexico to April 10. The scboower Ewing, late United States surveying vesse!, but which had been pur chased by the Mexican government for a war vessel, bad arrived at Minatitlan, with the ma- chinery on board fora mint to be established in Sonora. The American schooner Julia, with the appurtenances for the prosecution of a survey of the bottom of the Pacifie ocean, was also at that port. On her voyage from California she had visited the wrecks of the steamers Yankee Blade, Union, Winfield Scott and Independence, but there was not sufficient iodacement to attempt the trial of saving what remained of them. Politically the news ia unimportant. The steamship Star of the West, which left Havana on the 23d inst., arrived here last evening. Thore is no news. Our correspondent’s letter con- tains some statements relative to the slave trade which will be found interesting. Our Key West correspondent, under date of the ‘2ist inst., furpishes additional particulars relative to ‘he slaver bark William, late of Baltimore, and which was captured off the coast of Cuba,on the Oth inst. It is stated that the crew of the bark killed five of the slaves, atthe time that vessel was hailed by the United States steamer Wayandot, in order to keep them quiet. ‘The steamship Matanzas, from Matanzas 22d fnst., arrived at this port last evening. A slight reduction in clayed sugars had taken place at that port, though bat little business was Coing; for mas eovado the demand continned good; molasses had Geclined slightly. Exchange on New York quoted Bt par to § percent premium. The rainy season had commenced, and several estates had stopped By advices from Poerto Cabello to the 12th inst., we learn that the republic of Venezuela remained quiet, and that trade at that port was improving. Mr. Bronson, the Corporation Counsel, has written an elaborate opinion, which we publish in another colomn, on the dispated question relative ‘to right of removal and appointment of the City Chamberlain by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, fe applicable to the recent case of the removal of Mr. Stout, and the appointment of Matthew C. Piatt. Mr. Bronson declares the legality of the jaction of the Mayor and Aldermen in the appoint:, mat of Mr. Piatt, and in this his views are con- red in by Charles O'Conor. Mr. Stout at first opored a submission of the subject to the prome Court,om a case to be made, vat alter the acceptance by Mr. Platt of this offer, be (Mr. 8.) receded from his proposal. ‘The heavy fail of raio ca Saturday afternoom iaterteret to some ex.ent with prrstions m come liees of prodace The sales of cotton om! raced adout 608 bales. Tae mar ket was steady, ar i cloeed withou! change in quotations. Flour was firmer for some grades, while the demand for export coutinued fair. fouthern flear wae im moterate request, but ictide brands were rather firmer. Extras were unchanged. W.cat was firmer for Weetcrn sprirg nd club, which were 1a pood request for export, while ‘Westorn winter grown was quiet and ty: «gular. Corn wasin large receipt, acd the market heavy and to sales were large, and closed at quotations given place. Pork was firmer, capeciaily mess, which sod at three cargoes of Rio, i: of 1830. @ 13K. Freights to Eagiish ports were firm. Among the eogegemenis were avout 80,000 bushels of fora and wheat, in bulk and bags, to Tiverpoo!, at 84, Polttics— tthe Country The Senatorial Rese What They Are, aad W Demands, The Senate of the United States has passed, after two days’ discussion, a series of resolu- tiops, proposed by Senator Davis, of Missisaippi, which, it is supposed, will form the ground- work of the political platform of the demo- cratic party during the coming campaign. An examination of the vote on these resolutions shows that they were accepted by the great mass of the democratic and Southern opposi_ tion Senators. Mr. Douglas was not present to vote, on accouat of illness, and Mr. Pugh stood alone in defence of the principle of squatter sovereignty. The ostensible object of these resolutions was to declare the sense of the majority of the Sevators against the two innovating and dan- gerous political theories which have sprung up from the decay and dissolution of the old parties—one of which asserts the power of Con- grees to abolith slavery in the Territories, as procluimed by the black republicans, and the other denies this right to Congress, avd claims it for the Terri‘orial Legislatures, as asserted by Mr. Douglas and Mr. Pugh The practical wim of the passage of the resola- tions, at the present moment, is to defeat the efforts of Mr. Douglas’ partisans to secure his nomination by the Convention which is to meet at Bultimore on the 16th proximo. In mort of their escentif®l characteristics the reso- Intions are a reiteration of the principles that lie at the very foundation of our system of go- vernment, and which are clearly comprehended and warmly cherished by the great mojority of the American people. We cannot but believe, however, that in forcing them to a paceage at this particular crisisin our political affairs, a feeling of personal bitterness has had an undue in- fluence, and that this sentiment has led the ma- jority of the Southern Senators into the com- mission of a grave political mistake. Principles are, of themselves, permanent, while circumetances are necessarily transitory and evanescent in their influence. A declara- tion of princtples can, therefore, never be a political error, and it is not one, at this moment, on the part of the democratic Senators at Wash- ington. But when these gentlemen go be- yond this limit, and hang a political resolution on an “if,” and not only on one “is,” but on two, as is the case with the fifth resolution of Senator Davis’ series, with the futile hope of binding a party to fature action on contingencies that may never arise, they ask what men of reason are justly leth to con- cede. The fifth resolution, therefore, is useless in its present connection, and becomes an ele- ment of weakness, Instead of strength, as @ part of a party programme. The evils which it contemplates do not exist, and so long as the country holds to the four preceding resolutions, they can never arise. Should they, uafortu- nately, ever come up, the men who live and act at the time they do occur will be free to act in accordance with the circumstances of the esse,and the principles of right, no matter what party pledges are exacted by the politi- cians and party mansgers of to day. There is in this resolution anotber clement which is in opposition to the growing desire of the people, North and South, to eject the ques- tion of slavery from the field of political and Congressional discussion. In this respect it be- longs to the same category with the iaterpo- Jations made by the ehorteighted Sonthera politicians who formed « part of the cabinet of poor Pierce, in the Territorial acts for Kan sas and Nebraska, and which, being there adopted and defended by Sevator Douglas, re- opened the whole political discussion on slavery. The true safety of the South lies in the exclusion of this question from the politi- cal arena; and the real interests involved, the great proprietors of the South, who are a clear- sighted and conservative class, know this and earnestly desire it. No resolutions, therefore, which aesume to commit any party to Congres. sional legislation for or against slavery in the Territories are wise or politic, and the men who recommend their adoption will always find them resulting in evil, as did the fomentors of the Kansas Nebraska folly. In every case it is a mistake in politics, as in everything else, to bring forward the future to work present mischief. As for the institution of slavery iteelf, mere political motives can neither stimulate its growth nor hasten its decay. The law of its existence lies beyond the pale of political action. It is based on the social necessities and moral obligations of the community in which ft exists, and no other commanity is competent to discuss or legislate for thore necessities and obligations. Their discussion, os political questions, only irritates the passions and confuses the judg- ment, without elucidating the subject. Le- gislation has no real power over it; for all laws are subordinate in practice to social necessi- tle d wherever they are enacted in opposi- tion to there, they become a dead letter. historical developement of every nation pre- sente evidences of this truth. The statute books of every government contain numerous laws rendered obsolete by the progress of eociety. It is vain, therefore, for Senators or ambitious politicians to attempt to pledge parties, gov- ernments or nations to future action. What the cowntry now requires of the politicians who are to meet at Balumore and Richmond to ret forth a declaration of prineiples on which the present political contest is to be conducted is that they proclaim a simple and direct oppo- sition to the dangerous innovations which Sonth- ern and Northern sectionalists alike would introduce into our political system, and, leaving future evils to future remedies, nominate a con- tervative ticket which shall command the sup- port of the masses of the people, North and South, in the present dangerous ozisig to our jastitulions aad ous Vaid, NEW YORK ‘The Press and the Politicians—The Mi Mong t Independent Journalist. The debste im the British House of Com- mons apropos to the irrepressible conflict between Mr. Walter, of the London Times rewepsper, and Mr. Horsman, taken to- gether with the awful massacre of Julius Cwsar Seward by Junius Brutus Greeley, with the funeral oration of Marc Antony Raymond, affords a fine commentary upon the progress of the independent press in the only countries where it can be thoroughly and en- tirely free. The position of the London Times is exactly the same as that of the New York Hexatp. It assumes the privilege of a public censor; attached to mo party, wedded to no creed, irfluenced by no clique, the Zines eriti- cises pub)ic men from an stand- point, and is the medium whereby the force of public opinion is brought to bear upon the public servants. The Premier gracefully ac: knowledged the power of the press, and de- fended the managing editor of the Zines, Mr. Delane, from some slurs which had been thrown out in the course of Mr. Horeman’s remarks. Lord Palmerston alluded to Mr. Delane as his equal socially, while Mr. Horsman was obliged to confess that Mr. Walter, as the heaviest pro- prietor in the 7imes newspaper, was the most powerful member sitting upon the floor of the House cf Commons. If we contrast these ac- knowledgments of British statesmen, who are far superior in education, mental training and practical experience, to say nothing of personal purity and all the externals and internals of gen- tlemen, to our public men, with the vulgar at- tacks made upon prominent journalists by mem- bers of Congress at Washington, we shall find that the independent press of the United States has still a great work before it. We believe, however, that the journalists of the day, and the generation which is to follow them, will be equal to the work before them, The iaipor- tance of that work can hardly be overrated. As the republic has grown in wealth and ma- terial resources, the government has become corrupt. The public funds have been plun- dered right and left. Legislatures are bought and sold like so much beef or mutton, and the Capitol of the nation is turned into a broker's shop. , ‘ This etate of things has not passed unnoticed abroad. It bas been used as an argument egainst republican governments, and has well nigh discouraged the friends of free insti- tuti@hs in Europe, as well as the United States. In the British Parliament, prominent speakers on the tory beaches have declaimed against the extension of the right of suffrage, on the ground that all our troubles spring from the freedom of the ballot box. On the Continent, the arguments of the republicans have been met by citations from American journals, show- ing that when the popular voice is the supreme law of the land, there is really no law worth mentioning. At home, the respectable classes of the community acknowledge the existence of the evil, deplore it, but neither snggeat a remedy nor take any active part in an effort to eecure one, The general impression is that no remedy can be had. This is an error The remedy has been growing up side by side with the evil which it is bound to eradicate, if it fulfils its chosen mission. In the independent press will be found the panacea for the discases of the body politic. For five and twenty years we bave been at war with the corrupt politicians of all parties and at all points. We have not hesitated to rebuke and expose the corrupt, lying, wicked, vulgar, trading politicians, of ail cliques and at all times. Now we proclaim them what we know them to be, whether at Albany, or Wachington, or Charleston, or Chi- cago—all spoilemen, all seeking their own ag- grandizement, and utterly indifferent as to the fate of the country, so they secure their own persopal eggrandizement. It is egainst this system of political corrup- tion that we have declared eternal war, and, with other independent journalists, will main- tain it to the end. That the masses of the peo- ple sppreciate a free prees may be readily un- cerstocd from the rapid decay of the old party organs and the prosperity of the independent press. No purely partisan journal in this coun- try bas a particle of influence over the pablic mind, while the leading metropolitan journals wield a power which makes the most power- ful party leaders shake like the Assyrian wt the handwriting on the wall. This power inereates daily, while the prestige of the po- litical leader diminishes in an exact ratio, The people begin to find that when a true picture of their hero is presented to them, he is only very poor clay, after all, State Execrionernise Davices—Tae Wio- wam Donar.—The republicans are endeavoring to strengthen a weak nomination by some of the stale electioneering tricks borrowed from former campaigns. Every one recollects how, in the time of Harrison, the log cabin and hard cider dodge was worked throughout the coun- try. Large amounts of money were invested in pine logs and apple juice, in order to get up a factitious excitement.. There was not a city, town or village in the Union without its scores of improvised huts, in which, from early morning until midnight, were to be heard the sounds of tipsey revelry, interspersed with the favorite refrain of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” Having cast aside a candidate who, but for treachery, might have been run on his own personal merits, the republicans have resorted to the device of investing their present choice with imoginary antecedents, which they think bave a chance of appealing to the popular heart. With this view they are building wigwame in our large cities, in order to get up an excitement timilar to thet which wes manufactured on the “Log Cabin and bard cider campaign.” The idea, however, does not seem to have elicited much enthusiasm. People can, see no sort of connection between a wigwam and “Old Abe Lincoln's” career. The only chanceheever had of seeing “a live fighting Indian” was in the Black Hewk war, and then, as be admits him- telf, be never came within a mile of one. This dodge, therefore, won't tell, unless it is dressed up after another fashion. To make the wig wams popular they must be rendered amusing. Let sgme of the harlequins and turncoats of the party paint and dress themselves as In- cians, and then they may render the new re- publican rendezvous | gran ges Paint is cheap, and feathers are to had for the placking. We bave no doubt that Mayor Tiemann would take a contract, ata low figure, to supply the party with all the red ochre that they may re- quire dusing the campaign, HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 26, 15:50. Keepers. The eultry weather during the last few days, and the tide of travel which {s setting directly towards the metropolis, aa weil as the occasional appearance among the goesip of the day of the old, but ever interesting question, “Where are you going this summer’” remiad us that it is quite time fer a few words of wise counsel to that enterprising class of persons who keep, in one way or another, what are called firet ciass hotels at fashionable water- ing places. The chief places of resort for the aristocracy of the model republic are Newport, Saratoga, Cape May, the Virginia Spripgs, aud those of Sharon and St. Catherine's. The summer tours most affected are to Niagara, down the river St. Lawrence to Quebec, and thence by rail to the White Mountains. With the single excep- tion of railway fares, travelling in this country is as costly asin Europe, There is, however, a marked difference between what you get here and what you obtain there for about the same amount of money. The United States has progressed very rapidly in many ways, and in the appliances of elegance, refinement and lurury, both in public and private dwellings, particularly. The per- eons who frequent the fashionable watering places in this country are accustomed to being lodged and fed exceedingly well. Whether they maintain their own establishments, or have quarters in some of the fine hotels with which the great cities abound, they are surrounded with every luxury which taste suggests or wealth bestows. Plenty of room, plenty of water, plenty of light, a good kitchen, experi- enced cooks, and a well filled cellar, are things which are taken as matters of course. But when the summer comes, and the song of the moequito is heard in the land, when madame and the demoiselles cannot think of etaying in town another minute, paterfamilias finds quite a different order of things. He ascertains, to his edrrow, that the watering place hotel has not advanced, except in price, in twenty years. He is still stowed away in a small, bleak, white- washed apartment, with no bell, no gas, and no furniture worth mentioning; he is put on a short allowance of water (even at a watering place), towels are exceedingly small and very scarce, his bed is hard, his apartment hot and without means of ventilation; the table is wretched, the servants impertinent, and the charges excessive. No wonder paterfamilias swears harder than the Seward men at Chicago; no wonder that, after enduring the pains of purgatory for two or three seasons, he rebels, and cuts off the supplies; and no wonder that the receipts of the hotel keepers grow small by degrees and beautifully less. All this must be reformed. The hotel keep- ers at the watering places must keep up with their brethren in the great cities. At Newport, the hotels had been gradually getting worse and woree, year after year, until their best customers were actually driven away. Last season thenew proprietors of the Ocean House gade some im- provements in the table, bedding, &c., and had a successful season. They promise to do still better during the coming summer; and there is still room for improvement. At Saratoga the hotels are all poor and dear. By feeing the servants heavily, and exercising diplomatic talents far greater than those of the general average of our Ministers in Europe, a manmay get a decent breakfast; but that is all. The apartments are generally emall and uncom-_ fortable. Sharon is not so crowded, and there people aré much better treated than at Saratoga. The same remark will apply to St. Oatherine’s. is notorious for the multiplicity of ite*small swindles, and the hotel keepers have aot been behindhand in the work of skinning tourists: They have been brushing up for the season, and promise to do better. The White Mountain hotels are the worst of all. They are kept by aeet of sanctimonious Yankees who occupy three quarters of their time in devising means to shave their customers, and the remander in prayer meetings. The scenery of this region is unsurpaseed for beauty and grandeur, and with moderately good hotels the eummer travel to it would be much greater. The Cape May hotels are about the same as those of Newport. ‘The taverns at the Virginia springs are said to be the worst of all. Bitter complaints are made of the culsine, which is not one of our Southern brethren’s strong points, The visit- ers are lodged in huts, fed on hog and hominy, eaturated with grease, treated like niggers, and charged like princes. From the abgve birdseye view of the fashionable hotel as it is, divested of all the bal derdash abont “princely proprietofs,” “gentle- manly clerks,” “fascinating boot blacks,” and to on, it may be readily seen that Boniface by the seaside, at the springs, or on the mountain side, is sadly bebind the age. He isa humbug of the first water. He ruins people's digestion with bad dinners, he peisons them with cheap, adulterated liquors, he etretches them on rustean couches, he and his servants maim, bruise acd maitreat them generally, and he winds up by picking their pockets and charging them for first class accommodations when they have had noaccom modations whatever. This will not answer. Boniface must brush up his premises and do better in the future. We have an excessively sharp and exceedingly long pole’ all ready for Boniface, and intend to keep it in active and vigorous use during the summer. This is only & mild instalment of the stirring up which Boni- face will receive between this time and Septem- ber unless he mends bis ways. Tue Mernoorst Conrenesce on Stavery.— ‘The Methodist General Conference has been now in cession at Buffalo some three weeks, and during that time the slavery question has been on the tapis on three or four different oc- cosions. One would suppose that the lights and elders of the Methodist church could find plenty of subjects touching the doctrines and morals and salvation of their flocks to exercise themselves upon, without meddling with slave- ty, about which they have no concern what- éver. Nevertheless, that question seems to be made a vital one, not only on this occasion at Buffalo, but in all the minor conferences held from time to time; and it invariably gives tise to the most sickly twaddle that ever fell from the lips of a parson. Occasionally we find a speech with some spice, and even some common sense, in it, but, a# a general rule, anti- slavery harangues are synonymous with cant and drivel. It is about time that the parsons «aould let this questioa alone, | Daty of the Baitimore Couvention—The tm the Ficid. The present Condition of parties in this country, aia the bitter feeling which the lead. ing politicians Aave stirredup between the North and the Sour’. make the coming Presi- ential election the mvst important that has taken place since the formstion of the govern- ment. Already two candidates for the Presidency have been presented to the country. The no- minations of Mr. Beli and Mr. Lincoln have been coldly received, however, by the masses, and all eyes are turned towards Baltimore and Richmond. If the party which pretends to be the only national one in the country shall make a wise selection in choosing its standard bearer, then victory will assuredly crown its exertions. No second rate politician, no ame- teur statesman, no political howler, will answer at this juncture. The iseue has been plainly presented by the black republicans. They seek to build up in the North a party the main object of which is the extinction of slavery in the States where it exists under the guar- anty of the federal laws. Should the abolition party once succeed in obtaining en- tire control of the government, all its influence will be exerted towards crushing out the pecu- liar institution of the South. To do this is to crush out the South itself, and to crash out the South is to destroy the Union and ruin the re public, while it is yet in the full strength, glory and prosperity of youth. With the democratic party united, black re- publican success would be impossible. Bat the quarrels among the so-called leaders of the democracy, the intrigues, the selfishness and utter demoralization of such cliques as the Al- bany Regéncy, have practically destroyed the party, North and South. The consequence is that if the Baltimore nominee is not strong enough to reunite the scattered factione and secure the reserved vote of the Central States, the abolition candidate will have a fair chance of success, With the government once in his hands, the Union would be past praying for. Such, then, is the issue before the demo- cracy. The question now arises as to the can- didate. At Charleston Mr. Douglas received the larger number of votes; butit is believed that his nomination was never seriously contemplated by aconsiderable number of his ostensible sup- porters. The Albany Regency faction in this State intended to concentrate their influence for Mr. Guthrie, who had the next highest vote to Mr. Douglas in the Convention. It is under- stood now that the Regency adheres to Guthrie, and that the spoilsmen’s ticket is Guthrie and Horatio Seymour—two nominations eminently unfit to be made. Mr. Guthrie is one of the very last persons who should be selected to fill the executive chair of the nation. He has never been elected to any office by the people, and has no experience ia public life worth mentioning. He was put into poor Pierce’s Cabinet as a sort of make-weight, and his career as Secretary of the Treacury was far from brilliant. Mr. Guthrie may be all that his friends claim. He is undoubtedly a good business man, and has managed to make a large fortune; and as rich men are always prophets. in their country, Mr. Guthrie may be considered as a very wise man in Kentucky; but that wili not answer for Washington. He would bea too! in'the hands of the spoilsmen—a passive in- strument for the Regency clique—and his ad- ministration would be as weak, vacillating and corrupt as that of poor Pierce. As for Scy- mour, he is a politician of the same class. Having elevated him to office, the Regency would own him body and eoul. Decidedly, then, Guthrie and Seymour are not the men for the occasion. We do not hesi- tate to eay that their nomination would be looked upon by the masses as a triumph of the selfish, trading, corrupt politicians, and that the ticket would be regarded by the conservative voters as one unworthy of public confidence. At present we do not purpose to indicete any particular candidate from among those men. tioned in democratic circles. We intend, how- ever, to take them seriatim, and examine their qualifications with all fairness and impartiality. Such is the duty of the independent journalist: and we mean to perform it, without fear or favor. Movnxtx@ ror Sewaxv—The black repub- licans all over the State are indulging in all kinds of mourning, and lamentation, and gaash- ing of teeth, over the defeat of W. H. Seward at Chicago. They manifest their feelings at the catastrophe by dismal groanings, torrents of tears and the veiling of their faces with crape. We published yesterday the wallings of Chevalier Webb over this awful cala- mity, which it appears they all charge upon Greeley, as @ consummation effected ont of reverge because Seward did not make him Governor six years ago. We suppose that Greeley had @ pertect right to oppose Mr. Seward upon these grounds; and it is perhaps no more than any other politician would have done. He made Seward Governor, and Sena- tor, and everything else, and he had a right to hope for a reciprocity of benefits. We perceive that the Chevalier Webb and the “ little villain” are both disposed to be threatening towards the philosopher Greeley because be resented the neglect and ingrati- tude of Mr. Seward, We thiok it may be found that Thurlow Weed is at the bottom of all this outery. If report be true, he gave vent to the first buret of tears on the defeat of Seward, before be left Chicago for Minnesota. How- ever that may be, it is evident that the repub- Nean leaders are all fighting amongst them- selves, while they are preparing to enterthe contest for the Presidency. There is a general war in the party as to who shall ehare the poils of the Kitchen Cabinet and contro} the lobby, in case of success, and they will doubtless con- tinue to wrangle until the democratic candi- date is nominated at Baltimore. Tne Yacutixe Seasoy.—The yachting season is now fairly commenced. The boats are drop- ping down from their winter quarters, and taking their accustomed moorings in our har- bor. There appears to be more attention pald to building and fitting out our yachts, jast now, than erer before; there is a dirposition to ia creage the tonnage and size, and otherwise im- prove them for fast eailers and seagoing voyages. Preparations are already made for the June regatta, and we have no dowbt that it will be s very fine race, considering that the course to be run is merely within the harbor, round the Lightship. No other country in the world poreesses the eame advantages for yachting as the United States, with ite fiae harbors and noble rivers ald along iis extemeive const; and the progzcas of thig splendid evjoymeet cannot fail to increase thay Dember of our able eeamer, of whom we stand very much in need. When the Crimean war broke out, and the British government wanted sailors for the navy, the Royal Yacht Squadroa freely drafted their crews on board the national ships, and they made about the best seamen in the naval service. When the war was ever they returned to their yachts again. We have far more facilities for yachting than Eogiand, where the harbors are comparatively small, and the coasting dangerous, and if ihe spirit of — our yachtmen keeps up to the present mark we shall have the finest yacht squadron in the world in a few years, and we will haye always at our disposal a band of the most availabip ecamen in any service. Tux Mrsrexiovs Porsoxmes ar Wermoura.— We published yesterday a highly interesting account of the mysterious deaths of the twe alsters Tirrell, at Weymouth, Massachusetts, far- nished by our epecial reporter. This extraor- dinary case is naturally exciting considerable ia- terest, for it is one of the most fearful instances of depravity on record, if the circumstances > be true, as alleged. Itappears that the accused, George Canning Hetsey, a young mechanic of Weymouth, became intimate in the family of a Mr. Tirrell, and formed an attachment for one ofthe daughters, Mary Tirrell. This young lady dicd very suddenly in January last; but . no suspicion of foul play arone at that time. On the 2d of this month, however, another daughter of Mr. Tirrell, Betsey Frances, died quite as suddenly, under circumstances which at once indicated strychnine as the immediate canse of her discase. Upon a post mortem examination, the presence of this deadly poison was clearly detected in the ste- mach, and the farther discovery was made that the unfortunate young lady was ence- inte at the time of her death. This led to » suspicion that the first victim might have died from poison also,and upon exhuming the bedy of Mary Tirrell, a quantity of corrosive sublf- mate was found in the viscera, and the astound- ing fact was brought to light that she, too, had - been enceinte, a foctus of three months being found in the uterus. ‘These are the facts thus far elicited by the examination of the accused, and it may be added that the purchase of strychnine has been traced to him. The investigation is still pro- gressing, and if the allegations above stated be borne out by the evidence yet to be produced, this case will present one of the most horrible instances of depravity and heartlesaness yet made public in this country, Daryxina Fountarxs.—Now that the summer is fairly at hand, it is to be hoped that the Common Council will give heed to the eugges- tions that we have so thrown out as to the erection of drinking fountains through- out the city. Nothing would aid the cause of temperance and public order more than their introduction. There are more sots and row- dies made by the difficulty of getting at cleaa and wholesome water in our thoroughfares than by any other influence. Many are com- pelied to enter public bouses to slake their thirst who would never think of going into them if there were drinking fountains to be met with. The good policy of these conveniences has been established by the experience of the European cities. In a climate where the sum- mer heat is so intense they are doubly neces- sary, and the benefit resulting from them will be doubly felt. So far from being an obstrac- tion in our streets, they might be rendered the means of ornamenting and beautifying them, The public fountains of Paris and Vieans afe among the most elegant and decorative features of those cities. The people make continual use of them to satisfy their thirst, and the consequence is that they have no occasion to enter taverns for that purpose. To this canee, as well as to the heavy fines inflicted for the adulteration of wines and }iquors, is no doubt to be attributed the fact that so little deank- enners is encountered in the Continental cities. Ta locating these fountains, attention should be paid to the choice of sites that will be readily recognized. One should be placed, for instance, in the neighborhood of every church, $s its spire will serve as a guide to the thirsty foot passenger. When the project comes to be executed, bowevtr, it will be easy to fix on lo- cations that will best suit the general conve- nience. At present we only wish to impress upon the Common Council the expedieacy of providing for a want so urgently felt. Tne Zoorocreat, Ganvens tx THe Cerrar. Panx —The gentlemen who have the direction of this project are taking steps to carry out at once the provisions of their charter. These gardens, if properly arranged and conducted, will be one of the greatest attractions of the Park, ani will draw an immense number of visiters daily. The Zoological Gardens in London make enor- mons receipts daring the summer season, few strangers who visit the metropolis omitting to visit them. Sunday is there the fashionab!> day, none but subscribers being then admitted, We regret to find that in the charter of the new association a provision has been introduced ebutting out the general public on the Sunday. Tf it is intended by this to create a privilege in favor of the wealthy few, as in Londan, we trust that our pablic will withbold thetr eab- tcriptions, Such. tless regulations are in. consistent with republican inetitutions, and the projectors of the new garden may depend vpon it that they will not be tole- rated in their care, What a reckless and pro- fligate Legislature like the last may have granted, another Legislature moy withdraw; and should it even fai] to do so, the commuaity iteelf will soon find means of compelling re. dress. If the provision be intended as a con. cervion to the Sabbatarian agitation, it will equally fail of its purpose. The publi¢ property, and no portion of it must be divert. ed to uses in which ail classes and shades of belief will not be allowed to participate. We recommend theee facts to the conetderation of the directors of the new aseoctation. The sooner they take note of them the better ft will be for the pecuniary prorpects and pémaneat intereets of thefr society. Suptrior Court=General Term. Before a fall Bench Mar £6.— im. Bede oe, Wm L. Rogers —Order alirm- €4, with conte. Biimund Ravage vo The Corm Beshangy, Fire and Intowa Narignion Compery Order efirmed with @ moiifes. Oe tat Reet amd Others ve. Geo. W. Oxtty —Jeeguens 4 com see Th Cagrave te Sem’ W. Taltmodge — Motion de) ei heajanan Fibiqwe ve. James H, Leming Re argues qedered. t