The New York Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ~—_ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EOLO® AND PROPRIETOR NIBLO'S SALOON, Brosdway.—Geo. Omamsrr’s me BexGs, Daxcas, Buucesquas, Ad.—Jacx ap os KEY OOBNER OF THIRTERNTH STREBT AND FOUBTH AVENUE.—Cauroamis Mexacenia. Row York, Friday, June I, 1960. The News. Both houses of Congress were occupied yester- day with the public printing question. In the Senate majority and minority reports from the committee appointed to investigate into the payments made by the government printer to various newspapers and for electioneering purposes, &c., were pre- sented. A synopsis of these documents is given in our telegraphic report of the Congressional proceedings. The majority report entirely exone- rates the President from any knowledge of the division of the printing spoils among the beggarly editors of partisan newspapers, and recommends an inquiry as to the expediency of providing bylaw for the printing being done by contractor other- wise. In the House the debate on the subject of reform in the public printing was resumed, and after a lengthy discussion the bill providiog for the establishment of a government printing office—as persistently urgéd for years past in the columns of the Hexatp—was passed by a vote of 120 to 56. In Committee of the Whole the Post Office Appro- priation billjwas taken up, and several amendments, reducing certain expenditures, were proposed The Senate yesterday, in executive session, spent four hours in earnest debate on the Mexican treaty, and finally rejected it by a large majority. Jadge Daniel, of the United States Supreme Court, died yesterday, at Richmond, Va. We ha ter accounts from Sicily—later than the advices published in the London papers up to the departure of the Arabia. The despatches are dated at Palermo on the 16th, and Rome on the 18th of May. The first mentioned despatch re- ports an engagement at a town eight miles from Palermo, between the troops under Garibaldi and the royalists, in which the latter were repulsed. ‘The despatch from Rome states that a battle had taken place & short distance from Palermo, between the hostile forces, in which Garibaldi’s troops were completely beaten, leaving ® large number killed and wounded. By the arrival of the St. Louis at this port yester- day we have advices from Havana to the 27th ult. The news is unimportant. It is reported that Mr. Fowler, the defaulting Postmaster of this city, was in Havana. The sugar market was rather more active, inferior qualities being more ia demand. Molasses continued doll, while freights remained inactive. The United States steamer Mohawk was at Remedios and Sagua la Grande, and the Wyan- dot off Trinidad when last heard from—all well. We are informed that the steamship Bremen did not sail on the 16th ult. from Southampton, as heretofore advertised, and will not leave that port before the 13th instant. Yesterday was the last day for recelving taxes in payment of the tax levy for this year. The aggre- gate payments since the Ist of last September, when the taxes became due, amount to $3,957,685 69, leaving etill due $928,315 56 on the tax levy for 1860, All taxes now remaining unpaid will forth- with be sent into the Bureau of Arrears for collec- tion, and if not paid in three years the assessed property will be sold at auction. The bulk of people pursuing avocations re- quiring licenses, such as pawnbrokers, intelligence office keepers, jank dealers and drivers of stages and jank Carts, took out their licenses yesterday at the City Hall, it being the last day allowed them for the purpose. The payments for licenses thus far taken out foot up $5,899. During the present month hack, omnibus and cart owners take out their licenses. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction adopted a report of their Committee on the Whole reporting in favor of sundry reforms in the institu tions. They were also informed by the President that a Chinaman, diseased with leprosy, has been sent to Blackwell's Island to a place of seclasion. The number in the institations now ia 7,306, being a decrease of 63 for the past week. A letter from Mr. Albert Horn will be found in another column, by which it will be seen that the statement that the steamer City of Norfolk was seized on Wednesday under suspicion of being in tended for the slave trade was a mistake, and is not warranted by the facta. We have made full inqui- ries regarding her, and are satisfied that the voyage she is now preparing for is @ legal one. The Board of Police Commissioners met yester: day, but transacted no business of importance: r. Kennedy, the newly appointed General Super- tendent of the force, wil enter upon the duties of ia office on Monday next. The celebrated horees Trovatore, Nicholas I., ronna and Red Eagle, arrived in this city yester- yy morning from Norfolk tn the steamship York own. The decision of Judge Mullen, relative to the uestion of the Chamberlainship, was the principal eme of conversation among the politicians yes tdoy. The result was pretty generally antici ated; still, considerable excitement and feeling ere {manifested hy numbers of office holders who lonsider themselves at the mercy of Mayor Wood. pptrotier Hawa, though he has obeyed the pe- mptory mandamus issued by the Supreme Court, ntinues to deposit all moneys coming into his lands with Mr. Stout, the old Chamberlain. Yes- rday morning Mr. Haws proposed a consultation tween Messrs. Platt and Stout, with a view to fog the dispute in such a manner before the mite as to insure an early eetement. A consul- tion did take place between the parties, bat n0 latual arrangement could be agreed to. The mat- ir, therefore, will have to drag through a series law suits, while the creditors of the city will be bmitted to the most annoying inconveniences. be Board of Aldermen ida meetiog yest afternoon. Alderman Starr offered a pre bie and resolation to the effect that, whereas Houbt has been expressed as to whether the lard was dnly convened at the time it advised Orrice §. W CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STB rn * a went by mort? ill be at the the seuter Postag ne mot vecedned us subscription ‘ WP 7 u ‘ tet (0 dnelute postage; 2 f \e With of each month ut oz cents W) per annem. # 1 HERALD on Welnesday at four conte per VoruntaKY ESPONDENCE, containing important % quarter of the world; / weed, will be paid For. OUR FOREIGN CORKESFONORNTS 488 RLY BSQUESTED TO BEAL ALL Larrsas anv Pace 7 0s % TICE taken of anonymous correqpondence We do not jected communion tions (HC VURTISEMENTS renctecd ceery day; advertiooments (x ccvtad in the Wenxey Henatp, Fawiur smmarn, and tthe California and B in Editions JOB PRINTING, executed with meutness choupress and de- epatch Volame XXV....... sesee ees 153 AMUSEMENTS THIS RVENING WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opp site Bond street.— a Jorve, WALLACK’S THEATER, Broadway.—Oresiany Rovra, LAUBA KEENER THEATRE, 6% Brosdway.—larisuis Peuce—Lesp Ms Five Surnunes. SEW BOWERY, Bowery.—Jocivs Caean—Seoxze Dower. BARSUM'’S AMERICAN MUSBUM, Brosdway- Ware Baanog ov tue Peammin—Paviixe—Living Ogaiosinas, &e, BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, ¢73 Broad- wap.—Bonuasaums, Somes, Dances, £0.—Sonwas at PustLons and consented to the removal of A. V. Hoat, City Chamberlain, and the appoiatment of N.C. Ptatt to the vacant office, therefore, ia order t remove ail further doubt respectiog the validity of aaid ro: moval and appoiotment, the Board do now ratify and renew its advice and covsent to the remevat of the said A. V. Stout from the office of City Chamberlain, ae recommended by the Mayor, ant to the appointment of N.C. Platt ta the aaid office. Alderman Owens moved to lay the resolution on the table. Lost—ayes5,nays ll, The resolution confirming the appointment of Mr. Platt was then adopted by a vote of 11 to 5—Measrs. Smith, Brady, the President, Boole and Owens voting in the regative. The Board then adjourned to Monday next The Excise Commissioners granted vine liceases, at thirty dollars each, yesterday, which make a total of eighty licenses granted since the com mencement of opbrations this year. They have held fifteen of the Ofty meetings which the law re- quires to be held auoually. Their next meeting takes place to day. A tornado passed over Cuttaraugus, New York, and neighboring towns, on Wednesday afternoon, entirely destroying eeveral dwelling houses, and in- juring several persons, some of them seriously. ‘The damage is estimated at $26,000. The esles of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,500 bales. The market closed dull on the basie of avout like. alc for middlicg uplands. The flour market was firmer, cepecially for State aad Western brands, which closed at an advance of five conts por barrel. Wheat was in fair demand, with sales of Western azd Southern at rates given in another piace. Corn was tole. rably active, while the marketclosed with less buoyancy. Pork was firmer and more active, with cales of new mess at $17 76, and new prime at about $13 50 @ S13 75 s ateady, with moderate eales, which embraced about 400 a 450 bhds. Cuba muscovados ard 100 do. mo- lado, om terms given in another column. There was a movement in cassia yesterday. The sales embraced about 40,0¢6 mats, ali to be had in market under 20 cents per Ib., which is now the established price. Colles was in fair demand. The auction sale of Rio yesterday ave- raged about 18}{c. Some 650 bags common were with- drawn and afterwards sold at p. t. The sales also embraced 1,0¢0 bags Maracaibo and 750 do Laguayra, at rates given elaewhere. Freights" were firm, but engage ments were moderate. The Work of Congreass—Peter Funks tn the House. The Thirty-sixth Congress will occupy a memorable place in the list of the world’s in- capable governors. The branch in which nearly all important measures must be ori- ginated came together in December under the pressure of very ominous circumstances, As neither party had a clear majority of the House, and as the control of ite organization was more than usually important, on account of the im. pending Presidential canvass, for which the spoils were needed, there was a prolonged struggle for the Speakership, in which a great deal of bad blood was shown on both sides, and a very extensive invoice of our national dirty linen was flaunted in the face of the civilized world—a course of conduct which gave to the cause of liberal institutions in Europe a very severe and perhaps lasting check. Following the election of Speaker came more disgraceful scenes, and among them the orgie by which the election of the Clerk was most appropriately, though disgracefully, cele- brated. The House was continually in a state of turbulence and disorder—the presiding offi- cer being notoriously iacompetent; and, what with Pickwickian duels and Buncombe speeches, there was no time for business before the period assigned for holding the Presidential conventions arrived. Then the attention of members was fixed upon Charles- ton, or Baltimore, or Chicago, and they let the public business go to the dogs, while they watched the operations of the particular clique of spollsmen with which they were affiliated. In this manner six months of the session have already been frittered away. It we turo to the record we shall see that no measure of the slightest practical consequence has been moulded into proper shape and enacted as a law. The republicans, who have control of the House, commenced business with the Al mighty Nigger as their stock in trade. After a brief time they ascertained that too much nig ger was bad for the national digestion, and that the floating voters in the Middle and West- ern Statés were quite nauseated with black draught. By way of a tonic they brought ia, first, the Homestead bill; second, the Pacific Railway echeme; third, a new tariff, intended to conciliate the iron founders of Pennsylvania and the manufacturing loterests of the North generally; and fourth, as a bomb for the demo- cracy, the tremendous investigatiog committee of Covode, Forney, Haskin & Co. What has been done with all these measures’ The Pacific Railway bills have been recom mitted, and the measure is dead, for this Con- grees, at least. The new tariff schedule is so utterly absurd that the Senate committee re fuses to report {t, and the Homestead bill is as dead as Senator Seward. That brilliant states- man, the illuetrious Grow, can mingle his tears with thoee of Senator Johnson over the grave of abs bantling, whose fate recails the ancient ot af the child who was supposed to dubitate as to why it was born at all, if its existence was to be so brief and inglorious. As for the Covode Committee, we have given to our readers every important point in the evidence adduced before it, on both sides. The testimony has been procured by our corres- pondents, and promptly spread before our readers. The design of the persons who eagi- neered the committee was and is to make some capital for the opposition by blackening the character of the venerable statesman at the head of the government. The evidence fails to eupport the indefinite charges in the resolution of Mr. Corode, under which the committee waa constituted. It shows that both parties are hopelesely demoralized and utterly corrupt; but the people needed no committee of Congress to tell them that. They had ascertained it from the independent press ong before. What is needed is a remedy; aad bat, we fear, is not within the power of Con- tess. And this is the eum and substence of the work of Congress. It was all that the party leaders intended it should do. It is an elec- tloneering, cancusing, iatriguing, President manufacturing body ‘The partisan leaders on both eldes legisiste only for selfish ends. They initiate measures to catch s few silly voters who are fascinated by 6 popular cry, such a the vote yourself a farm dodge, or the magnificent Pocific Railway swin- dle, or Morrill’s beautifel incomprebensipi. lity~the new protective tariff. Nobody ex pects these bills to pass. They are the political gold watches held out to dazzle the eyes of verdant customers, while the * ever Funk bas a worthless article, all ready to ve upon tis uneuapecting v’ , then. te a coll ection of political mock suction * snd deaters in eecond hand political theo t worn-out shetrections, They ought t NEW YORK HERALD, recognise the truth of the axiom, “the world ia governed too much,’ pasa the appropriatioc bitle, and go home, to bore their long-suffering | covstituents from the stump. We have bad quite esovgt of their rigmarole for ome seesion _agroectannemmertieienanteenees Tus Pacric TeLeorapa—Tue Tatearars [x- renest in tae Untreo Srares.—Congress is 197 engeged on the subject of a telegraph line from | the Mississippi to the Pacific const, and there are parties willing to undertake it for $50,000 a year, while Congreas, we believe, is not dis posed to grant more than $40,000; while again there are other parties anxious that the con- tract should be defeated altogether, in the ex- pectation of ultimately making a larger eum out of the project. There can be no doubt that the Western lines now ia operation and in course of construction, which, in any event, wit have to make the con” nections on the Mississippi border, are the most interested in this matter, and it would be well for Congresa to take into consideration whether they are not the most fit parties to ob- tain the contract. The telegraph system of this country is the largest in the world, and is more extensively used by the press and the masses thao in apy other country. The telegraph interest is an immense one, not alone as far as its great importance to the public as a disseminator of news is concerned, but as regards its moneyed representation, the large capital engaged in it, and the profits realized thereon. The tele- graph lines in the United States and Canada re- present a capital of between seven and eight millions, while the main lines in the United States alone represent seme four or five millions. It is true that our lines. cost more than was necessary, because they were built in the face of great difficulty and competition. Probably, under different cir- cumstances, they might be constructed for about three millions. The lines in Canada and the United States combined, which, as we have said, represent some seven or eight millions of capital, earn an average of ten per cent on that capital, while the lines in operation on the At- lantic seaboard in the United States, known a3 the American Telegraph Company, eara an average of twenty-five per cent on their capital. On the capital of this company, the lines of which extend from Halifax to New Orleans, the press between Washington and Boston alone pays seven per cent for the news it receives; so that all the profits on the com- mercial and other business of the lines over this great stretch of territory are so much clear gain beyond a fair interest upon the capital employed, which the newspapers pay. In contracting for a telegraph line to the Pacific—an enterprise of vast importance to the whole country—Congreea should consider what company will be most likely te conduct it in a fair and equitable spirit, with an eye to the general good. And here let us say that the idea of leaving the contract open for bids for the term of sixty days, when Congreas knows very well that there are only three or four instruments in use in the country, and that only one or two parties can put in bids, is absurd, and will only result in postponiog the consummation of the contract until pext year, while by closing the contract at once the line may be in operation by next winter. Tus Comrrnouier’s Axnvat Rerortr—Ex- PENSES OF THR Crry GovERNMeNT —The Comp- troller, in furniebing his report for the year 1859 to the Board of Aldermen, as required by jaw, hes varied from the usual practice of em- bodying the receipts and expenditures of the city and county of New York, and has confined himself to a report of the financial affairs of the city only, having preeented a report of the county finances to the Board of Supervisors on a previous occasion. Hence the coat of the muticipal government appears, according to the report presented to the Aldermen on Mon- day, to rate at a figure considerably lower than the tables of former years represented, or than the expenses of our government really are—the eum expended, as there shown, being short of seven millions—whereas it in fact amounts to over ter millions, inasmuch aa the county em- braces only Manhattan Island, and aothing mote, which comprises the city within its limits. In this way the Comptroller's late re- port may be deceptive to many people, by im- pressing them with the idea that the drain upon their pockets is smaller than it really is. Ore thing, however, is made manifest by the report referred to, aud that is, that the fiaancial affairs of the city, and the system by which they are presumed to be kept in order, are in 4 most undesirable state of confusion, and require the utmoet exercise of energy and dis cipline to eet them right. With all the cleat. ness of Mr. Haws, we hardly think that one person in a hundred can distinctly understand the condition of our city finances from his last report; and, indeed, he admits that everything | in his department—which is the most important one in the whole municipal government—is ins mixed up and confused state. He has, un- doubtedly, inherited a most complicated and uncomfortable legacy from his predecessors, and it wiil demand all his known energy and business talent to bring order ovt of chaos. Mr. Haws has repeatedly urged the adoption of eeveral reforms ia the Finance Department, and in his late report he shows that the errors growing out of the mode of assessing property and the collection of taxes, cost the city over $120,000 a year, and that the loss arising from discounts allowed for prompt payment of taxes amounts to some $25,000 year. The remedy for these evils which the Comptroller proposes is the change of the law fixing the time for making the assessments for taxes, and com- mencing their collection earlier in the year and so gra@uating the penalty for non-payment aa to prevent the rush in the Receiver’s office, which cauees#o much confusion that errors be- come almost inevitable. A law to this effect has been prepared for the Supervisors; but it seems that it has not been acted upon io time for the Legislature to pass upon ik. Another reform suggested by Mr. Haws was to change the commencement of the Goal year from the lat of June to an earlier period, in order that the Legislature might be eaabied to pass the tax levy in adeance of the time when the ap- propriations sre needed, and thus relieve the Comptroller from serious embarrassment. The Finance Department of the city has bees ‘or years in abopeleesiy complicated state, aad although Mr Haws bas done a good deal to stere it to seme orderly shape, it is evi- dent that a great deal more remains to be ac complished be it ls placed in that condition ebich cata of thie rast city require If the Onsncial effeire of any large mercantile the int FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1860. concern were to remain in the same state it would soon goto smash. And what must the re sult be if the sffaira of the metropolis are con: ducted in & fashion which would inevitably break up any busizesa house’? Ruin and bank- ruptey must meceasarily follow such a conadi- tion of things. Taar Scarier Lerrer Agatn— Wii. ras Re- veree Give Ur rus Beit?—Now that the Hee- nan and Sayers affair has been settled to the satisfaction of both parties, and, we presume, in a manner equally agreeable to the Liou of Albion and the Eagle of Columbia, public at- tention is respectfully but earneatly directed to the great fight for the republican champioa- ship between Philosopher Greeley aad the dis- tinguished pet of the light weights, little Ray- mond. The latter isa good deal like Sayers, and has the referee, Mr. Seward, on his side. Greeley, like Heenan, stands the acknowledged victor in the conflict; he has driven Raymond to the ropes, and the referee has left the riag. There is a general rough and tumble fight going on among therepublican press and politicians all over the country, and the only real sufferer is “honest old Abe Lincoln,” who is quite over- looked in the row which has been kicked up over the grave of bree lamented Sage of Au- burn. As we predicted some days ago, the comba- tants in this journalistic mill have quite ignored the merits of the case, and have commenced calling each other bad names, and they all show a great deal woree temper than is displayed in the dignified, not to say ornate, correspondence between Heenan and Sayers, The quarrelling between Greeley and Raymond is now nothing more than bush fight- ing; the real point at issue is that celebrated letter wherein Greeley gave notice to Seward that the firm of which they were copartners had been dissolved, and that henceforth he, Greeley, was a free lance. That scarlet letter repretents the belt, and Mr. Seward ought to give it up. It is understood that when the remains of the distinguished deceased Senator paseed through the city, the other day, en route for Washington, Greeley cent to Seward for the letter, and Seward refused to give it up. Gree- ley is much exercised in his mind as to the contents of the letter. He is literally dying with guriosity to know what it is all about. Ordinary men would have some faint recollec- tion of an important document like this scarlet letter, but Greeley is an extraordinary person, as Seward has found out to his cost. Gree- ley’s mind is a perfect blank so far as the letter is concerned. He has written so many epistles to so many people that he cannot remember the purport of any one of them. With the 7ribune philosopher, the cacoethes seribendi is chronic, and the faculty cannot cure it. Compared to him, the chap who got up the “Complete Letter Writer” was an infant, in the way of correspondence. Ac- cording to Talleyrand’s maxim—“give me two lines of a man’s handwriting and I'll hang him”, Greeley would have given the Sheriff a job long ago. But we have changed all that; cheap postage and the franking privilege have made letters as plenty and as cheap as dirt. So Greeley is expiring with curiosity about the letter; Seward ought to give itup. Every- body wants to eee it. Bonzer, of the Ledger, would give more for it than for one of Mr. Eve- rett’s eseays. There will be ao peace in the republican family until Master Horace gets back bis letter; so Mr. Seward had better send it on at once. Tareateney Derorvunation or IReLann.— The government of Switzerland having ordered home the Swiss mercenaries who used to fight for the Pope, and who eom- mitted such a bloody massacre on his sub- jects at Perugia last year, his Holiness was compelled to resort to ireland to find soldiers to put down rebellion, to keep in chains those who are ready to throw them off, and to enslave those who are already free—strange employ- ment for Irishmen, who have for ages felt the iron of the British yoke enter their own souls, The thousand Irish troops lately reported in the Pope’s dominions are no doubt the result of this enlistment. The British government, how- ever, thinks it has gone on long enough, and Mr. Cardweil stated in its behalf in Parliament, on the 14th of May, that the provisions of the Enlistment act would be strictly carried out, and a stop put to the further supply of troops from Ireland to the sovereign Pontiff. it is not that the British government sympa- thize with the Italian cause that they take this measure; but they are afraid that Ireland will become depopulated, and that there will be no fighting men left to man their army and navy or till the soil. The highlands of Scotiand have been depopulated by the anti-slavery nobility, who value sbeep and deer more than men, and the English government has ceased to enlist | those haréy mountaineers who bore its standard to the front of every fight. The population of Ireland, from various causes recently adverted to in this journal, has dwindled down to such an extent as to alarm the British government, and has been the subject of frequent remark in the public journals, The London Post—Lord Paimerston’s organ—on the 15th ult. came out in o leader against the enlistment for the Pope and dwelt in a tone of deprecation on “the ex- traordinary exodus which, like a national epi- demic, bad once more seized the large masa of the Irieh people.” The government journal then goes on to say:-- ‘The small farmers, the tllert of the soti—in short every map who has saved money, or ¥ho bas received rewit tances from relatives and friends ia the United States, is anxious to flad @ pew bome across the atlantic. Legis ress (li poh nd of material pros necking Bul sow prospect of fotare upon the Reman Catholic youth of the sister kingdom. They are told that Oe en ae ee es ioeng aad om and dan ger, and thas their gallant aud arme cannot be so weil pe fT m in the the tem) dominion of (he rope We all know that formerly storehouse (97 he foreign recruiting sergenn’ sod Spain, peti! @ com ively recent period, had cach so Iran Bri and vet now Agrest nambor of irt#h efficers are to be found in the Acstrian army When the Irish Brigade in the service of France defeated the British at Fontenoy, King George bitterly exclaimed laws which deprive me of sach subjects!” British government doesnot waatto | more fighting men, and it will accord! force the Balistment act. As the Pope, how- ever, is not at wart with Ragland, mon+y,in the shape of “Peter Pence,” may be seat to him; owt if {& ie emplosed to enlist recruits in Ire wad, the agents who collect it will be pun- ished. As the law vow stands, the gorern ment cangot interfere with emigration to Rome. and the priests will so arrange the matter that a coach with six horses oan be easily driven through the Enlistmont act. Some further te will therefore be necessary to pre- vent this drain on the already exhausted popu- lation of Ireland. The Cattle Plague im New Engiand—Its Character. Alarming The cattle disease in New Engiand, which has existed there for upwards of a year, still conti- nues, and that to such an alarming extent as to call for an extra meeting of the Massachusetts ing. The animal, for its supply of milk, butter, cheese, beef and veal, can hardly be overestimated. A disease, therefore, which sweeps it away in euch numbers, snd at the same time endangers the health of the community by unsound milk, meat, &, is truly formidable, and “comes home to every man’s business and bosom.” It is a very proper subject for a Governor’s mes- tage, and it becomes a matter of deep interest to the whole community, eo as that whenever the distemper makes its appearance in a par- ticular locality, prompt measures may be taken to arrest ite progress. At present it is confined to New England, and chiefly Massachusetts; but none can tell how soon fits ravages may extend to other States, and all, therefore, ought tobe prepared for its first appearance. A small effort in the beginning may erxtirpate this plague. The greatest efforts may fail when it has spread over a wide extent. The disease, in its appearance and effects, re- sembles pleura-pneumonia, which is inflamma- tion of the lining membrane of the lungs, ex- tending to the substance of the lungs them- selves. The peculiarity of it is that it is either infectious or epidemic, and moves in the atmos- phere, like cholera, yellow fever, or the plague. It appears to be a kindred disease with mur- rain, the old and well known plague of kine which Moses describes as one ef the ten plagues of Egypt—judgments on Pharaoh; and if we were su tious, we might regard the cow plegue in jusetts as a Divine judgment on the politicians for setting on foot and keep- ing up the anti-slavery agitation. Authorities attribute murraip to a long continuance of ary weather, and there can be no doubt that that is unhealthy both for man and beast. In Massachusetts, and New England gene- rally, the weather this spring has been dry beyond all precedent, while here the season for the past two months has been the moat rainy ever known. Whether the drought in Massachusetts has had anything to do with ex- tending the disease we cannot determine. But it does not appear to have originated it, as it made its appearance over twelve months ago. On the 23d of May, 1859, it seeme to have been brought into the State with an importa- tion of cattle from Holland. It had previously ravaged the continent of Europe, particularly Germany. In Asia, too, it had been very de- structive. Its career seems to be as myste- rious and destructive as cholera. The attention of the Massachusetts Legisla- ture was called to the matter in its last session, when an act was passed appoiating a commis- sion to investigate the disease and take mea- sures for its extermination. They were em- powered to kill and bury all cattle which were diseased or belonged to diseased herds, and to appraige the value of the cattle killed which were apparently free from the disease, in order that the owners might be paid for them, out of an appropriation of $10,000 made by the Le- gielature. The appropriation made by the Le- gislature was soon exhausted, and the awards made by the commissioners for 842 head of cattle amounted to $20,432—double the sum. The balance was not only made up by private subscriptions of patriotic and public spirited citizens, but $10,000 more. So that a fund in all of $30,000 had been placed at the disposal of the commissioners. But the disease had spread over a larger area than was at first sup- posed, and, being unable to cope with it, they requested an extra session of the Legislature to be called, which was accordingly done, and the message of the Governor, which we pub- Usb, laid before both houses. It is recommend- ed that the powers of the commissioners be enlarged, and that authority be also given to towns to adopt measures to stop the spread of the disease. Among these measures perfect isolation of cattle suepected of the plague is deemed the most important. If its progress be not speedily arrested it may extend over the whole country. What vast interests are involved in this ques- tion may be estimated by the fact that the cat- tle in the United States number some twenty- two millions, of which over seven millions are milch cows. The annual product in batter, cheese, milk, labor of oxen and slaughtered cattle in 1850 was $180,000,000, to which add the value of the cattle themselves, and the property was worth $400,000,000, to which must be added in 1860 twenty per cent for in- crease. But it is not the money value alone that is at stake, but the comfort, the luxury, the health of many millions of population, and oat eee Drogesrs Amonest THE Biack Rervaricans.— No political party has ever made greater use of the sins and shortcomings of those op- posed to it than the republicans. Ilalf of the strength that it has gained bas been secured by the outcry which it has raised against the venality and corruption of the democracy And yet, notwithstanding thie holy horror of mercenary influences, there has never been a political combination in this countey which has distinguisbed itself more by its reck- leseness of public opinion in this reapect. Nearly all the republican Legislatares that have been elected within the last year or two have proved themselves influitely more profligate than any of their demo cratic predecessors. In New York, Maine and Wisconsin, where republicanism has been in the ascendant, venality has never been more rife than under the anspices of these pre- tended reformers. It was the shamelessly corrupt conduct of the New York Legislature, under the influence of the Albany Rogescy, that aided in the defeat of Seward at Obi- cago. Conscious of the domaging effect which the acta of his confederates, Thurlow Weed & Co., must produce against the Sage of Auburn in the approaching contest, a partion of the party applied themegives to find a set-of to the Aisoredit which their misdeeds had brought them. Like Diogenes, they went about with astere in their bands, seeking for an onest man, © task, it would reem, of some Rimeulty. At last ho alighted wpou Old Abe Lincoln; and this quality seems to be the oaly one Old Abe bas got. It must be owned that hey tarn to the boat account bis exceptional virtues, One would think from the fuss they make sbout him that be was the only hone, man in the country Se Isaac V. Fowler was eupposed to be in Havana. Ho bad arrived with only the means for Purebasing the no- Comsaries of life, and intended the commencement of seme Industrial of profesional parvut at that city or ele "So wi as aba ta Engiish was winning and was warmly welcomed by the authorition ea unc Press. ‘There was no news of importance from Jamaica. ‘The menenge of Montealegre, President of Coste Rica, to the newly organized Congress, was received with much favor by the people, and was regarded as a vory sensible ‘apd practical document. It offered many suggestions for the developement of the resources of the country. ‘The murderers of Auguero, Political Secretary, are te sufler the extreme penalty of the law this week, om the epot where their crime was committed, im freat of the olty gates, between the Monsorcate and the Tacoa theatre. ‘The business in the markets in sugars aad freights wore ‘Very active this past week, the basis of No. 22 was at 6 te 83 reals per aroba. The stock on hand is Havana aad ‘Matansaa, wes 290,000 boxes, against 390,000 Bst year at the same date. Shipped last week 64,000 Freight advanced, both per European carriers and vee: eels, and will continue up. Exchange on London 125; to 12% premium; do, oa Now York 1to1}4 premium. Short sight on New Oc lems 23¢ 0 2%. ‘The health of Havana was good. No Amertoan vessels of war were in port. OUR HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE. Havana, May 27, 1860. Speculation as to Tammany Hall and the New York Po: Office andyPostmaster—lsaac V. Fowler Mol in Brack, tat oe Coa ans how ign, Feared Pebronip: of the Captain General for the Benefit of Oubans—Oom- mercial Reports— Health, dic., dc. ‘That speculation may cease, Tammany Hall be quicted, and the general apprehension of friends be composed as to the personal safety of the late Postmaster of the city of New York, Isaac V. Fowler, I report to them that heis too brave for endurance of his misfortunes to commit suicide, and too prudent to have gone to Canada for the revelied in bis apparent official prosperity, before ho could have secured a passage. He is safe im the city of Havana, bearing his mortification and troubles as well as one can who bas been too sanguine, too confident in those surrounding him, too generous, with au unreasonable hope, always, that the world would turn over, and pour the meabs into bis lap to make good the deficiencies in : HE i it i A ef f I h i ee allusion to his acversariea, directly sirikes a biow a: their elusive plots by calling the attention of our legisiatore to the imperative wants of the country, making practical the initiative of their administration, by pointing out the causes of public evils and tmtimating the remedies neces wary. He says tothe people “that for ten yeara very little attention bas been given to the moral interes of Uectual condition te us from want of proper appreciation of our ows power aro the copatitational laws under which we live—permis ung ambition ad pereoual iaement of one or two wnoivicuals to ‘veurb tbe whole Coa ny even the whole we can invite purchasers for our produce The reat laws are ta be revived, which a1 st present existing do not conform to our poli veal — Ta aac indus try and prevent progress and prosperity Ime nee ent roe Dinuecit also embarrassed with pational debt, which be hopes to provide for wahout the ieatituticn of new taxes to oppress the peopie, by a pure aomipistrabon, witn certain economical measures, which will not distard the peace and tranquility which ‘the nation is at presen! «ginning to appreciate aad to ody) Thea pubtiehed in ov or OM stal Gazette of Ban Jon, by oo Sae® © & Coxe © oe (bet the pretiminery eurveya for a rosd to lie made, and that they eF— P a < road, snd the shortest pose.vie A govt rOad will soon be fallowee oO rails, and the convenience of the bog Ae Ld ‘mcs ‘bresn csp prodcee. there improvements © mee bbe: subscribed the funds necessary, aad the only ¢el sources of the country comes we Tieton Upon tbe people, wil and peace delbg mene, people will come and itve Be ee case spon te aoe toe which w \ fo the abuncaasly a Atte Breviy —We see, by toe lart aumber of tra Bem @ Malia, thet Was geciomes * ho (or sed Woe (talan Com miltoee in New York ¢uricg the tee subseripticn ia this ety in aby Mian revolatiog, a the requr of Torin, Wo Warn that the 4 ‘been feat, and thas the C8 mm’ bs Contra! Gornmyttes omni nent Ras & route > now reorganiaing. Im the meapume, const but ero recatved “sy BP. Fabbr!, Haq, 06 Broadway, and J. Valenkn, Raq, 404% o ver ntreet. Wintan Gasvee = Verdes opera, 2 Mannediore,” was announced for last ovenmag, with no tose thea three lw, bat the performs ceo was postponed aad tse bors «loved im copseruence of tas severe ilineas Of Me, Marotr k, who Was to Contur't the opera. It will posuveiy be girea on Saturdsy. To eight there wai be &. performance of Le Juire,”’ wl), Paboe Stigelll. The presen bape woek of the oper , as the compscy ty ule 2 Meme detphia, _ opening next Monday Mre Joie will “ylay here next week, supporiec by & boring a0’, a good company ae A Haart Loan or Deet = Tb aberg (Te) few qeeer eaye inet the dely Virginie em raate 248,000 060, WIND ae prose