The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. —ee JANES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPTION N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. awe TERMS, cash in advance. Money sont hah of the conder = Postage dampe not “Tae DAILY HERALD Wo conte 91 por annum. Fin WHRELT HERALD cvory Saturdey. as etx conse ph iy FR Teany pari) Grant rosin the Continent both i the a won the Uh nd Boh of wach mamih af for lope, oF $190 Per annum. 'pAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, ah four conle per mad will be at the ae sudecription TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thurssay, Gay 31, 1660. thé Arabie’s, via Boston, and the Glasgow's and Baxonia’s at this point. The news has been mainly anticipated by telegraph from Farther Point aod Halifax. The details, however, will pe found in- teresting. The Sicilian insurrection and the move- ntion, and are that Garfbaldi was received with open arms by the fect Garibaldi furore. In Prussia the alarm at the to allay public agitation in Germany. A speck of war cloud hangs over the “sick man” of Turkey, and the inaifference or half way Programme of Europe. We give elsewhere the letters of Heenan and Bayers, and an account of the final settlement of championship. The steamship City of Baltimore, hence May 5, arrived at Queenstown at five o'clock on the evening of the 16th—the same day on which the Vanderbilt arrived at Southampton. The latter steamer also sailed hence on the 5th. the sessions of both houses were mainly occupied with debates. In the Senate the Overland Mail bill, the bill providing for the admission of Kansas into the Union, and the Oregon War Debt bill, were printed. The House passed a bill providing that all invalid pensions commence from the date of disability, the object being to place all such pensioners on an equality, and put & stop to applications for back pay. The bill calls for an expenditare of $1,500,000 for for an arrest of judgment in the case of Hicks, alias ohnson, convicted of piracy on board the oyster sloop E. A. Johnson, and ordered that the prisoner All the meetings of the Board of Health up to the present time this year, with the exception of One, have been secret meetings We understand, however, that the subject which chiefly engaged (hd time of the Board at all these meetings was, NN NEW YORK. HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET, Mike the scroll of the prophet, Nothing so[ Progress of Independent Journalism— whether or not the city is bound to defray the ex” Pense of the floating quarantine hospital. At the meeting of the Emigration Commission- ere John A. Kennedy sent in his resignation as Sg- Perintendent of Castle Garden, and informed the Board of his determination to accept the office of Superintendent of Police, tendered him by the Police Commissioners. The communication was referred to the President of the Board, with power to make an appropriate reply. The number et emigrants landed during the past week was 3,086, and the balance of the commutation fand is now $29,480. The business of the Excise Commissioners seoms to increase as the season advances, At their meet. ing yesterday they received @ batch of about twenty applications for licenses, fifteen of which were granted on the payment of thirty dollars each, They will not grant a license in any instance unless the papers are entirely free from every formality. Their next meeting takes place at ni to-day. The May term of the Court of General Sessions closed yesterday, Judge Russell having disposed of 130 cases during the term. ° indictments under the new Sundsy law were brought up yesterday’ Edward Hanam and Otto Hoym, proprietors of the German Stadt theatre, and Jean Klein, Joseph Fostmer, Wm. Lewers, Wilhelm Busche, Johanna Wolfe, Henriette Meaubart, Mra. Shangler and Wm. Albert, actors at that theatre, and James 0'Con- nor and Henry Sick, lessees of Volks Garden, were brought into court on a writ of habeas corpus. The accused are charged with an infringement of the law in regard to Sunday amusements. Their counsel contended that the defendants were de- tained in custody without any cause and without the commitment of any megistrate. Friday was set down for argument of the case. There was a good demand for beef cattle yester_ day at last week's prices. The cattle were of a better quality, and some of the extras brought 10} cents per pound. Cows were in demand at pre- ous prices. Veals were plenty, dull heavy. Sheep and lambs were steady. Swine and unchanged. The sales were—3,332 beeves, 184 cows, 1,297 veals, 7,291 sheep and lambs, and 8,962 swine. The sales of cotton yesterday footed up about 1,600 Dales, closing with less steadiness and on the basis 0° abou 113;c. for middling uplands. Owing to the late break ia the Erie canal, combined with a good export and domestic demand, prices for medium and common grades were higher, while extra brands were steady at previous prices. Southern flour was also firmer and im good re- quest. Wheat was ip demand for export, while sales wore fair, at prices given elsewhere. Oorn was higher and in good request for the Eastward and for export. Pork was Ieee buoyant, while sales of new mess were made at $17 76 a $17 81%, and new prime at $13 60a $13 75. Sogars were steady, with sales of about 800 hhds., at rates gtven in another place. Coffee was quiet at 183 c. a 18}<c. for Rio, Freights were firm, especially for shipments to Li- verpool, but owing to the canal interruption, by which re- celpts of produce were somewhat checked, and a disposi- tion to await the private advices by the Arabia, the busi- Beas done was moderate. There was a fair amount offer- tpg for the Continent at steady rates. ——_——. The Imtestine Feud of the Republican Organs—Pne Ruin of the Party im the Stace of New York. Asis known to our readers, the leading re- publican journals of this State, immediately after the nomination at Chicago, engaged in a bitter feud with each other about the defeat of William H. Seward. The war, which was opened by Raymond, not only continues to rage, but has assumed a malignant character, as may be seen by the extracts which we pub- lish in another page. The result will be the demoralization of the party in the State of New York, the discomfiture of Lincoln therein, and his consequent overthrow by a majority of the electoral vote of the whole country. On New York State everything depends for the republi- can party. Let New York be lost, and all is lost. If the republicans, when united on Fre- mont, failed to elect him, even with the vote of New York, how much more disastrous will their failure be now that they are divided, and certain to lose the Empire State. The object of some of the belligerent jour- nals is to produce this very result—to break down the party—because in failing to obtain the nomination for Seward they have lost their chance of the control of the federal spoils, and with it the prestige which hitherto enabled them to control the plunder of the State. Un- der the guise of assailing Greeley for political treachery and assassination, and the pretext of wailing over the dead body of the republican Cwear, they are stabbing his successor to the heart, and laboring to destroy every chance of his election in this State. : In the article which we reprint from the Courier, it will be seen that that journal de nounces Greeley as having descended to the “lowest depths of baseneés”’ and infamy to de- feat Seward, as “a viper under the garb of friendship striking the fatal blow,” as “the long tried and weil known friend of Seward shed- ding crocodile tears over his unavailability;” and finally, as really intending to favor Douglas, as he favored him in his contest with Lincoln in 1858. To bring such accusations as these against the most influential organ of republi- caniem in this city, and in the country at large, is but to sow the seeds of distrust within the party, which must ultimately work its dissola- tion. Webb, who so often blurts out more truth than he intends, threateris Greeley with the destructéon of his paper—(‘‘the loss of four- fifths of his circulation’)—and the political de- struction of bimself, beyond the power of re. demption or hope of resurrection to life. Now as this cannot be accomplished without the de- struction of Lincoln, it argues the foregone conclusion that the republican candidate is already a dead cock in the pit, being doomed to defeat by the Seward leaders, whose influ- ence is paramount with the republican party in this State. The Albany Fvening Journal, the organ of Seward in the interior, as the Courier is in this city, denounces not only Greeley, but Dana, Pike, and John A. ©. Gray, Ac., as having “assumed the guise of friendship” te aseassinate Seward, and shows that the pretence of Greeley as to the unavailability of Seward, on the ground of his extreme views, was not sincere S* a more “radical” candidate has been nomi- nated, and the persistent efforts of Greeley for months, in “toning down the republican stand- ard,” In order to seoure the nomination of “a conservative,” who alone could be elected, as Greeley alleged, will now operate seriously against Lincoln, who is anything but conserva tive. The argument of Weed is that,on the ground upon which Gréeley objected to Sew- ard, Lincoln is equally if not more objectiona- ble to the conservative element, while he is destitute of the talents, the fame and the popn- larity of Seward, ond cannot point to the great tervices and histcric record of the slaughtered republican chief. All Greeley’s arguments against Seward will now, therefore, tell against Lincoln with tenfold effect, and the object of Weed is to clinch them. The Jowrnal’s long leader of Monday last, is filled with “lamentation, mourning and woe,” plaintive, or morbidly melancholy, been written since .Gethe’s “Sorrows of Werter,” in which the stately gloom of ‘a broken hearted poet, dark and moody, pouring iteelf out in bitter wailings over bumaa life, is pictured with graphic effect. The political prose poet of Auburn is shadowed forth uttering the same cry of deep anguish and deepair—the same story of wrongs and woes without a remedy. The text of this fane- ral oration is a portion of a recent speech of Greeley’s—“The past is dead; let the dead bury it, and let its mourners, if they will, go about the streets.” Weed indignantly asks, “Ig it in good temper or taste to rebuke thus an army of republicans for manifesting émotions of regard and regret for a ‘dead’ chieftain, who had led them through so many conflicts to so many triumphs? Was it thus in 1848, after the Philadelphia Convention, when Mr. Greeley ‘mourned’ a ‘dead’ statesman, that he was scoffed at by the friends of Gen. Taylor?” The palpable effect and intention of this is to exas perate the already inflamed disaffection of Seward’s republican army. Like Mark Antoay over the bleeding corpse of Julius Cesar, slain in the Senate Chamber by Brutus, Thurlow Weed then goes on to recite the long catalogue of brilliant deeds and patriotic services of his hero, enumerates the wounds which covered him at Chicago, and paints the ingratitude and treachery by which he fell in colors of the deepest dye, calculated admirably to work up the republican party to revolt, but artfully concludes with faint praise of Lincoln as “honest and honorable,” just as does Webb, who says he was not a party to the fraud, and calls him “the now honored representative of the republican cause”—a master stroke of sly irony. When Antony dwelt upon the stabs in Cwsar’s body— ‘Which, like dumb mouths, did - their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of his tongue— when he portrayed his genius, his virtues and noble achievements, and the “ingratitude” of the friend whom he so dearly loved—“unkind- est cut of all”—when he read the will of the deceased Emperor, loading the people with fa- vors, and, when he had thus wrought his audi- ence up to the highest pitch of frenzy, he ex- claims— seem renee name that have done this deed are honorable; dade them do%. They are wiee and honorable, Ana will, no doubt, with reasous answer you. 1 come not, friends, to steal your hearts away. The sequel showed how successful he was in stealing their hearts, and how Brutus and the other conspirators became baffled fugitives, apd were declared to be enemies of Rome. Such is the fate foreshadowed for Greeley, Lin- coln and the rest. Weed is leagued with the Albany Regency for the overthrow of the republican candidate e723? Richmond, expect to obtain the nomination at Baltimore, where they will cheat Douglas, as the nomination at Chicago, then the Albany Regency would have played into and shared the federal plunder. As is out of the way, Weed & Co. are playing into in them the entente cordiale, in coming out, by con- cert,on the same day with the Journal, in a glowing eulogy on Seward, which, as our readers will see, is as friendly as anything that could be written by a republican journalist—as warm as the oration of Weed himeelf. mour, under the wing of Guthrie, is by making representations to the Convention that the Re- gency can elect Seymour, and no other mas, in this State, with the aid of Seward votes, which is plausible enough, considering that the repub- lican Regency and the free soil democratic Re gency are in unison on the slavery question, and have always played into each other's hands in the State elections, and the distribu- the best that can now be done to repair the dis- aster is to secure the nomination of the next best man, and divide the spoils under his pliant and supple sway. What success may attend the moralize and utterly rout the republican party in this State; but who is te reap the benefit re" mains to be seen. Who will be the nominee of the democratic party is still very far from cer- tain; but the disruption and destruction of the republican army in this State is a fixed fact, which will be fully demonstrated in November. Sreamsmip Live rrow New Orieans To Lrver- roor.—We pergive that another effort is about being made to insure direct trade between she South and European ports, in the establishment of a line comprising eix screw steamers to run from Liverpool to New Orleans, touching at some port in Ireland, and also at Havana if found desirable. The company is entitled the “British and American Southern Steamship Company,” half the stock to be taken in Eng land and balf in this country. The capital amounts to £200,000, or $1,000,000, in twenty thousand ehares. It is expected that the steam. ers will make the passage within twenty-five days. If this line is properly managed it is quite likely to prove successful. The facilities for conveying Western produce to New Orleans by the Mississippi river are very great, and the cost of transit from the Southwestern States to New Orleans is of course considerably lese than to any of the Atlantic ports. Asa pas- senger line, it is probable, however, that the Dew project may not be quite as successful, the length of voyage being s decided drawback in that reepect, althongh, as @ stopping place for travellers to the South, as well as to Cen- tral and South America, New Orleans may be preferted to any of out Northern ports. * hax The Herald ef To-day and the Herald of Twenty five Yoars Age. On the fifth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, the publication of the New Youx HERALD was commenced by the present pro- prietor. It was printed upom « single sheet, and contained in its four pages about the same amount of matter that is included im one page of the Henath of to-day. It was a modest child. The platform laid down by the editor was that upon which the paper has ever since been conducted—entire independence of opin- ion, freedom and fearlessness in the treatment of the current topics of the day, and the pro- duction of the very best newspaper that expe- rience and enterprise could make. “It is equally intended,” said the leading article the first number, “for the great masses of community—the merchant, mechanic, working people—the private family as well as the pub- lic hotel—the journeyman aad his employer— the clerk and his principal.” This catholic doctrine has certainly been carried out to the letter, for, if there is s universally read news- paper in the metropolis, it is the Henatp. As for the matter of circulation, we seld:— “There are in this city at least one hundred and fifty thousand persons who glance over one or more newspapers every day. Only forty-two thousand daily sheets are issued to supply them. We have plenty of room, therefore, without jostling neighbors, rivals or friends, to pick up at least twenty or thirty thousand for the Hx- RaLp, and leave something for others who come after us.” During the next month we alluded to the “rapid increase of the Heratn’s circula- tion,” thus:—“Between the 10th and 19th inst. the daily circulation of the Heraup has in- creased 1,920 copies, or at the rate of 200 per dey. Query—How long will it take to reach a daily circulation of 20,000 at that rate?” We remember that in those days we regarded a daily sale of three thousand impressions as something enormous. That was the Heratp of a quarter of a cen- tury ago. Then New York was bounded on the north by Bleecker street—then the old political Wall street press ruled in the journal- istic field. The idea of publishing a newspa- per, and giving all the news, without fear or fa- vor, nearly petrified the old fogies. When they recovered in part from their as- tonishment, they took up their pens and pitched into Bennett in the real old orthodox style. Some of them—Webb, especially—have not yet recovered from their ancient hallucinations. The Henap, however, throve under persecution—another proof that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. We believed that we should build up a great journal when we commenced; but the reality exceeds our expectations. The modest limit of twenty thousand copies was reached long ago. We print now every day an ave- rage of seventy thousand copies—by far the largest circulation of any daily paper in the world. In two consecutive days our circulation has run up to one hundred thousand each day, which round number will be regularly reached before a great while, our circulation keeping pace exactly with the growth and progress of the city. While we have been going on in this way we have introduced many improve- ments into journalism, all of which have been copied by our rivals, who, in some cases, have been mean enough to try and pass off our ideas as theirown. All the real newspapers in this country are printed on our plan, which is quite simple. We give all the news that can be obtained by time, tact, talent, and a liberal expenditure of money. The New Yorx Henitp has been very often compared to the London Times, and the fact is that we occupy here the same position that is held by the leading journal of England in Europe. The London 7imes has no influence here, very few copies ever reaching the United States. The New Yorx Heratp goes over a wider field, is read by the masses here more extensively than the Times by the same classes in England, and the former is altogether a more wonderful example of progress than the latter. The London 7imes has required sixty years wherein to build itself up, and that in a country ten centuries old. We have had a na- tional existence in anew country of only eighty years, and the Henao is only twenty-five years old. The detail of the business in the London Times and New Yorx Heratp offices is almost identical. Both journals are conducted on sound, practical business principles, and, without copying the one from the other, they have naturally fallen into the same ways. The London Zimes people make a paper for the English mind, and we suit the American taste. In many respects our people are like the English, but do not appreciate servile imi- tation; so that any attempt to reproduce the London Times here would result in a failure. Naturally a little proud of the success which has attended our efforts, we are not intoxicated by it We know as well as any one else, per- haps better, that there are still opportunities for improvements in the science of journalism— for an exact science it has come tobe. We think our readers “from the start” (and there are many of them who will read these refiec- tions) will not need any assurance on our part that we intend to imitate the wise virgins in the parable, and keep our lamps trimmed and burning. Our work has only just commenced. For us the day is just breaking, and the sun of truth is breaking through and burning up the mists of prejudice and bigotry and error which the politicians and parsons have helped to gather around the American mind, and which it is the duty and the mission of the in- dependent press to dispel. Scwmer Trave. to Evrorr.—The number of American tourists visiting Europe this season is unprecedentedly great. Since the 34 of May there have left this port and Boston about three thousand five hundred first class passen- gers, in the different steamers bound for Great Britain and the Continent. For the next six weeks the berths on the Cunard, the Vander- bilt and the Havre lines ‘are nearly all en- gaged. The Adriatic, which leaves on Satar- day, has already 375 names of first class pas- sengers inscribed on her list, and efforts are being made, by the construction of new state- rooms, to give accommodation to more. Taking the number as it stands, it is the largest of this claes of passengers that has ever been taken out by any single vessel. The European continent seems to be now the great summer attraction to our people of means. Since «few of our wealthy self-made families have been Incky enough to mix their rich blood with the thin fluid that runs in the veing of the old hereditary nobility of France in the and Italy,s many match-making mam- mas ane a aes the’ habit of taking over their daughters to the great matri- monial mart, in wich dukes, counts and mar- quises are as thick as blackberries. cago generally speaking, are nothing loth to be an- nexed to the bright eyes and fabulous wealth of our American belles. The pressing claims of their bootmakers and their washerwomen three cloves gules or the cotton bag argent of our American aristooracy. . As s general thing there are no tourists 60 welcome to foreign hotel keepers and tradespeople as the Americans. They are ex- travagant at home, and are doubly extravagant abroad, and latterly they have completely eclipsed in Continental estimation the English milors and the Russian princes. The incense of the toadyism with which wealth is worshipped on the Continent has naturally turned the heads of our would-be feshionables, and hence it is that we find each season the number of wealthy visiters to Europe so rapidly on the increase. ‘Tax Quesrion or THE Pactrio Rat.war—Tae Srecv.ators’ Gams BLOCKED FOR THE PRESENT.— ‘The report of the select committee of the House having been recommitted, the whole matter of the Pacific Railway, so far as the government is concerned, must go over to the next Con- grees, when the friends of the different routes will recommence the warfare which has been going on in the lobbies of the Capitol during | the last five or six years. So much has been eaid and written upon the subject of a railway to the Pacific, that the masses of the people are, like the Irishman, bothered entirely on the sub- ject. Between the politicians who “blow” in the most vigorous way in favor of the measure, as a means of making a little capital in the border and Pacific States, and the speculators who hope to get from the government the money wherewith to build the road, the quan- tity of dust thrown in the eyes of the people {s quite sufficient to blind everybody. Of course we are all in favor of a as notoriously corrupt as those of both the great parties in this country? We believe not, At least we trust that the day when Congress will countenance such a scheme is far off. The real object of the persons whe are most active in urging the government to assist, either with money or lands, or both, ia the construction of the railway, is to extend the tE contemptible position held to-day by New York and New, Jersey. We believe it to be the duty of Congress to make liberal appropria- tions in aid of surveys for new roads to the e fall out honest men get their dues, or at least their pockets are safer; and the proverb will apply equally as well to governments as to pri- vate individuals. Sate or THR Brooxiyy Ferry Leases—Tar Exp Not Yet.—The Union Ferry Company have won an ostensible victory over the Brooklyn people, and have secured the ferry leases for ten years more. They have been made to pay dearly for their triumph, however, by an unex- pected opposition started at the sale. Instead of the old rent of $56,000, they will now, owing to this circumstance, have to pay $103,000 annually. Instead, therefore, of the $1,000,000 clear profits for the ten years which the mono- poly had securely calculated upon, they will have to content themselves with the beggarly gain of half thet sum. The other half million goes into the city treasury, where it will help to defray the expense of the reception of the Japanese and the Prince of Wales—a much better allocation of the money than that of enriching = parcel of heartless speculators, who are building up large fortunes by the plunder of the poor. We nee that it wns stated at the sale that in consequence of the increased expense to which the company will be put by the ran- ning up of the annual rent of the ferries, they will be compelled to put up the paseen- ger fares again to two cents. In other words, they will have their million of profits, deepite the strong manifestations of public opinion up- . onthe subject. We tell these monied auto- orate that they had better consider weil before they teke this step. Although they have gained a victory, its results are less real thaw they appear. They defeated the one cent ferry bill by fraud, and they enter upon the new leases eubject to similar imputations. No charter or contract granted under such cir- cumstances can be constitutionally or legally binding. They should remember, furthermore, that in diesolving the injunction the sale of the leases, the court decided that it was in the power of the Legislature to alter or re- guiate, at ‘any time, thp rates of ferriage, If the Union company do not observe moderation in their sucqess, they will, every year, have to “fight a fresh battle. It is by no means certain ‘that their leases cannot be withdrawn, or a one cent tariff imposed on them. Let them, therefore, galculate what they may lose by spurring up the Brooklyn people to fresh mea- sures of retaliation, and see whether it will not be wiser, by timely concessions, to secure the already handsome gains which the cent and a half rate gives them. Tas Covope Comarras anp TEHUANTEFRO.— No better evidence of the unworthy spirit that animates the Covode Committee, and of the purely persons! and spiteful aim of its la- bors, could be desired than is preseated in the examination of Mr. Elwood Fisher, and his tes- timony in regard to the Sloo grant of the Te- huantepec route. The evidence of this witness, which has beea 80 much paraded as dampatory to the adminis tration of Mr. Buchanan, has been completely refuted by the very documents and official ia- structions which he cited. His citation before the committee, and the importance given to his testimony, prove the sobeme of that body to be to hunt up every dissppointed speculster and politician, and set forth, in en official form, under the sanction of a Congressional commit- tee, the outpourings of his spite against those who have refused to serve his purposes and for- ward his views. The facts in regard to Mr. Elwood Fisher and the Sloo Tehuantepec grant are these:—Mr, Fisher was the appointee of Sloo as one of the trustees of the old Law steamsbip mail contrect line to Havana and Aspinwall, out of which Sloo obtained a living, and the limited means for pushing other Contract speculations. With this capital he de. termined to make a bold push for the Tehusa- tepec grant. Proceeding to Mexico, he succeeded in making & bargain by which he obtained the grant, coa- pled with the condition of a cash payment of $600,000 into the Mexican treasury. To raise this money Sloo drew bills on his house in New Orleans, which imaginary firm consisted of himself alone, and gave them to a British mer- pany to carry out the work. to hold the grant, and got up a company also, and an effort was made to get That the whole thing is a delusion and a snare, got up for political purposes only, ia evident from this fact: By the terms of the ter an acre, long before five years have elapsed; yet, if he takes land under the Homestead bill, he acquires no title to it, he is bound as aslave to the land, for the full term of five years; he cannot apit his improvements if he wishes to do so, nor can he redeem his obligation under the bill by paying for the land. These evils have all been encountered under a similar measure in the State of Florida, and more than half of the Jands were abandoned by the occupants with- in two years, and those who did not, prayed the Legislature to be allowed to obtain their titles by paying the government price in cash. ‘The whole thing is @ political snare set for the vote of the German citizens, and if they look fairly at the bill they will find that it con- tains no advantege for them. The man who has industry enough to cultivate land in our new and unsettled country, for half the term eet by the swindling Homestead bill, will make it far more valuable than the price set by the government; and yet he will not be able to re. deem the fruit of his Isbors and secure them