The New York Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1860, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDOS BENNETT, | EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. <enenn DETION N. W. CORNER OF NaSSAU AND FULTON TS. secsses NO. 159 Volume XXV ..... eee eres eeee AMUSEMBATS THIS BVENING. AODADSUY OF MUBIO, Fourtgenth arest—IrsuuNx Ore. | ma—Locastis Borgia. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway,—Loasrrs—Nokus—Poor Puwover. WINTEE GARDE, Broadway, opposite Bond sireet.— Hupossson. WALLACK’S THBATAS Broadway.—Ovextann Rovre. LAURA KEBNB’S THEATRE, G4 Broadway.—Js0*T ‘Lino—Ove J.rapasm Bucaser. in Wsrren county, N. J., of poisoning his wife, was brovght up before the Chancellor at Trentoa yes- terdéey, on an application for a writ of error to car- ry it up tothe Court of Errors and Appeals for the purpose of obtain'ng a vew trial. No decision was rendered. Jarsel Washburn, Jr., received the republican bomination for (iovernor of Maine at the State Con- vention beld yesterday at Bangor. The Michigan Republican Convention convened yesterday at Detroit, aod nominated Austin Blair as their candidate for Governor. ‘The fact that it was the intention of a number of capitalists in this city to ran a regular line of mail steamers from New York to Kingston, Jamaica, was announced in the Heratp some weeks ago. Yesterday the company was formally organized, under the name of the New York and West India Steamship Company, and it was determined to despatch the first. steamer to Kingston before the NEW SOWEBY. Bowery —Esumnitps Poca uN tas— Yous Lovuas—Dervu's Osx. edt auc onsmotts Faurteeisoune= Lavine oun. Cerrins, be. ss Mall, 673 Broad- BBY, MINSTRELS, Meshesier, Ro. 04 BROADWAY.—Cattronma Geum Minna Ex- | MipTTION. TRIPLE SHEET. * New York, Friday, June 8, 1860. The News. Nothing of special moment took place in Con" | | gress yesterday. The Senate, after the passage of a resolution to adjourn on the 18th inst., went into a debate on the Army bill, but, without taking a vote on the question, adjourned. Ineffectual attempts were made to take up the Tariff and Kansas bills. ‘The House continued its session of Wednesday until twelve o'clock yesterday, when it adjourned until to-day at noon. The adjustment of the currency question between this government and that of Japan has been satia. factorily terminated by the adoption of the Japa- nese standard of value. Extensive arrangements for the reception of the Commissioners are making at Philadelphia, where they are expected to arrive to-morrow. A great part of their luggage has been sent on to this city by steamer. The House Committee om Agriculture met yes- terday and received a report on the cattle disease prevalent in the New England and Middle States from the Secretary of the United States Agricul- tural Society. The report was adopted, and will be presented to the House, together with such re. solutions as it is hoped will lead to the speedy ex- tirpation of the disease. The Secretary of the In- terior was also requested by the committee to col- lect such statistical information in relation to the disease as he could obtain; and, if the disease be met checked at the commencement of the next session of Congress, to communicate the result of his inquiries to that body. The subject is deemed one of grave importance, in view of the fact that, according to the census returns of 1850, the cattle in the United States numbered 15,375,907, with a Probable increase since then of four or five mil- lions. ‘The republicans of New York held a ratification meeting at the Cooper Institute last evening, when considerable enthusiasm was manifested for the nominees of the Chicago Convention. Speeches were delivered by Mr. Evarts; Judge Tracy, of California; Lieut. Gov. Rusch, of Iowa, and other gentlemen. Cannons were fired, bands paraded the streets, and’ every device used to attract a crowd. The proceedings terminated at a late i annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club came off yesterday, and was one of the most ani- mated contests that has taken place for along time. The winning yachts were the Haze, Favo rita, Rebecca, Mannersing and Glengarry. An ac count of the rece, together with other matters per taining to yachting, will be found elsewhere. ‘The Board of Aldermen did not meet last even ing, the special call having been altered for Mon- aie Police Commissioners at their meeting yes- terday transacted bnt trifling business. Inspector Folk, of Brooklyn, communicated to the Board a detailed account of the duty performed by him at the late encounter with the prize fighters, which It was resolved by the Board ‘ist of « blue coat, drill pants and vest,and Panama hat. H. B. Sing, patrolman of the Tenth precinct, was Gned thirty deys’ pay for intoxication, after which they adjourned. The Commissioners of Excise held their twenty- first session yesterday, and received applications for ten licenses, all of which were granted on the payment of thirty dollars by each applicant. This wakes a total of 140 licenses granted since the Board commenced action this year, at the twenty- one meetings which have been already held. There are yet twenty-nine meetings to take place this year, pursuant to the provisions of the Excise law, the next of which occurs this morning. ‘The Commissioners of Charities and Correction met yesterday. The Committee of the Whole pre- sented a voluminous report on a variety of subjects referred to them at the last meeting. The report stated that several interviews have been held with the Commissioners of Emigration in reference to the long standing claim which they have upon them of $117,274, and that from the action of the Emi- gration Commissioners on Wednesday last, as re. Ported in the Hxnaxp, little doubt is eutertained that the claim will soon be amicably apd satisfac resting nature. The number in the institutions at present is 7,297, a decrease of nine since the last ‘The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons held their third session in the Apolle Rooms yer terday. The entire day was spent in nominating officers for the coming year. John W. Simons was nominated for Grand Master, Finlay M. King, De- puty Grand Master, and Clinton W. Page for Senior Grand Warden. Advices from Vera Crnz to the 30th ult. report that Jecker & Co., bankers, of the city of Mexico, bad failed for « large amount, said to be upwards of four millions of dollars. Relations with the Miramon government had been suspended by the diplomatic corps. Miramon is reported to be near Queretaro, where he is surrounded by Uraga with a large body of soldiers. Mr. McLane was ill, and intended to return home in case of the non-ratié 9 tion of the treaty. Advices from New Mexico to the Sista”: state that the Navajoe Indians had made 42 ‘attack on Fort Defiance, and came very near sur prising the garrison. The news from the gold r,ines was en coursging, and had created quity a stir at Inde- pendence. ° Our correspondent ai Porto Uabello, writing on ‘the 234 ult., states that the presént government of ‘Vonenuela bas suatained ‘iself with great firmness, and, with the sssiste-ice of General Paez, who is expected shor¥y trom New York to participate in the conncily, of the republic, p likely to be per hanes. The country is very quiet and healthy, ead the weather favorable for the crops. Hides and peltry are coming to market in abundance from the interior; but coffee, thongh abundant, comes in sparingly. Peace and indastry have suc- ceeded rebellion and bloodshed. ‘The case of the Rev. Jaccd 8. Harden, convicted close of the present month. Freights and passen- gers are already offering for her, and the fullest success is anticipated. It is remarkable that there is no regular steam communication between this city and the Island of Jamaica. ‘The cotton market was inactive yesterday. The foreign ews was not of a nature to effect the better and higher closed at about 5c. advance, and in some cases a fraction more was reported. Freights closed with a firmer feeling yesterday on the part of shipowners, which tended to check shipments. They at the close, except in small lots to fill up, refused flour under 2s., and ssked 73¢d. for grain in bags, though to fill up it was taken earlier in the the Politicians, and Their Results. The signs of the times indicate that there is no centripetal force left in the disordered ele- ments of the old democratic party, and that the country can expect nothing from it in the pre- sent emergency in our public affairs. Two fragmentary conventions are soon to meet—one at Richmond and one at Baltimore— and hopes are still entertained in some quar- ters that the voice of reason and of patriotism will prevail over the factious counsels of con- tending cliques end leaders. How little proba- bility exists that such a result will ensue may be seen in the several efforts that have been made, either through old local party organizations, or by the getting up of new ones, to secure the bias of the conventions in favor of one or other of the contestants for supremacy in the party. Noattempt has been made to add other delegations to those of the seceding States at Charleston, but these have taken counsel with their constituents, and will come to the place of meeting hopefal that events will eo turn that they may re-enter the Convention at Baltimore, support its platform and nominee, or else be joined by a further number of seceders, sufficient to make the sup- port of the South unanimous upon a sectional and geographical candidate. The managers of the majority in the Charleston Convention, on the other hand, have been making strenuous efforts to secure the support of the minority still remaining in the Convention, and to fill up the vacancies caused by the retiring dele- gations with others favorable to their views. The practical result of these hopes and efforts has been to widen the breach and em- bitter the animosities between the leaders, and to demonstrate to the people how little reliance is to be placed in any of them. The voting masses desire sincerely to meet the present destructive mania of the black republican fanatics on the plain and open issue whether the North shall be marshalled in a fierce war of aggression upon a social and vital institu- tion in the fifteen slave States or not But they see very clearly that these selfish quarrels among their political leaders and managers will prevent the true issue from being submitted te the po- pular vote, and that the tendency of all these plottings is to convert these conventions and platforms into mere tricks to bring before them the name of some one or other of the quarrel- some candidates for the Presidency. Asana tural consequence, the rank and file of the ojd democratic party have been thrown into disor- dere ison, and none of the ambitious leaders can count upon a general and united eupport. They all recognise this fact, and it only makes them more bitter towards each other. Each of the leaders accuses the other of being the cause of the present party disin- tegration, and they are much farther today from a common ground of union than they were when the motion to adjourn was made at Charleston. There are the indications that every man may eee around him, and from them no logical mind can ?e’nce anything but further conten- tion betweea whe two conventions that are soon to meet. No one of the leaders or cliques admits the possibility of being in any the and all unite sonal adberer.is of the several leaders, and not of really representative men. From such ele- ments as <hese we can hope for nothing but recarrenc’s of the contestants to the platform trick, Im the hope to beguile the voters to their support. Ever since this fallacy of » party Pl’,sform has been introduced in our election scheme, it has been nothing but a political trick. Itwas unknown In the early days of the country. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, were elected without platforms, and they were never thought of in the old times of Congressional caucus. Men then were Placed in nomination for the Presidency on theit own meritorious antecedents, and no ef- fort was made to present » party nomination on pliant and deceptive resolutions, that would bear any interpretation a huckstering pollti- clan might put upon them, and which bound @ candidate or the politics! managers to nothing at all. From the proximate Kichmond and Balti- more conventions nothing may therefore be expected other than the presentation of two, if not three, platforms and candidates. The old democratic party organization is sundered, and they will meet to make this more apparent, and to set the seal to the act of separation. fessions, and these will be combined aad mo- | delied with the sole view of securing a party | triumph in the local elections of this or that | Stete or eection of States. The great national | interests, which underlie and support all the | others, will be ignored and forgotten in the general greed for place and spoil, National sentiment to-day lives only in the hearts of the people. The demagogues and spoils hunters | have driven national statesmen from every po. | sition of influence in the management of our corrupt party organizations, and their folly is | about to carry us all into the maelstrom of | political fanaticism which feeds the abyss of | revolution and civil war. Such is the tendency of the present strife among the political mans- , ers of the democratic party organization, and the presentation of two candidates from its | Fatks can but produce one of the alternatives. | Either Lincoln will be elected by the popular | Vote, through the division of the great conser- ; vative mejority against him in the central and commercial States, or the election of President | will go into the present House of Representa- tives. What the result there will be no man can foresee, and, constituted as the House of | Representatives is to-day, every one will con- | template with doubt and fear. Im all recorded ; history there is but one parallel to the present | political situation of this country. Then De- | mosthenes thundered, while Philip of Macedon | Plotted, bribed and fought to destroy the liber- Ovr Goin Propuct.—We give to-day an ex- discoveries of gold and silver in California, Utah, Oregon and Kansas. These accounts have been compiled from a variety of sources, and will be found to be rather under than over stated so far as the yield, present and prospec- tive, of the mines is concerned. Probably the new discoveries will increase” our yearly pro- duct to above sixty, and perhaps seventy, mil- lions of dollars. We sent to Earope last Satur- day a million agd s half in specie, and we could make a shipment like that twice a month if it was required. In consequence of the fondness of our people for foreign goods, use- ful and ornamental, and the national extrava- gance (the natural effect of sudden prosperity in nations as well as individuals), and the con- sequent excessive importation, we have been obliged lately to send all our gold abroad. It is estimated that there are two hundred and eighty millions of dollars in specie in this country. Last year we sent abroad nearly seventy-five millions—considerably more than the product. We supply all this to Europe, as well as over four millions bales of cotten, and great quantities of breadstuffs, tobacco, dc. The latter article we supply to Spain, although we all smoke what we fondly hope to be Ha- vanasegars, We are the great supply nation of the world, and what we prodace now is as nothing to the future, provided the country is not ruined by the scheming, selfish, ambitious and trading politicians, who seem to be hard at work to accomplish that consummation. ‘The new auriferous discoveries in Utah are very important in many ways. They will raise up in the Mormon Territory a hardy Gentile population, and make an effective counterpoise to the despotic power of Young. They will supply a large amount of silver, which has let- terly become scarce, on account of the heavy demands for it in the China and Japanese trade. They afford new fields for productive labor, to immigrants from abroad, and the working men in the large cities. A young, single man will not work here for ten or twelve shillings a day, when by going to California he is morally certain of earning five dollars, per- haps much more, in a day, if he will but work for it. It is hard work, of course—hard as building railways or digging canals; but there is much of romance and excitement in the life of the gold hunter to relieve its dan- gers and lighten up its toil. With all the faults and the follies, and some- times crimes (generally done in hot blood, however), of the new settlements on the Pa- cific, there is something generous, noble, bold and manly about the people, which cannot fail to attract the admiration of the civilized world. As to the future of these States—of the vast population which will spring from the hardy pioneers, the sun-browned heroes of the pen, the pick, the Indian fight, the death struggle with panther or grizzly, the story by the camp fire, the sharing of the last morsel with ao friend over night and shooting him comfortabiy tn the morning — it i* almost beyond the ken of the realist. If our poets, painters, dramatl: s or rommacists are bard up for subjects they need not go to Furope for them. They lie all along the great western valley, from where the bones of the heroes of the first Santa Fe expedition are mouidering into dust, up to the head waters of the Colum- bia river. Tux Great Snow Saor or tue Covstry.— Every country has its special attraction in the sbape of some great city, and every city has it« speciality also for the sightseers. No one talke of going t@ France—it is always to Paris—and no one visits England without going to Lon don, or Italy without seeing Rome. Ia Paris, London, or Rome, the stranger hastens to the Louvre, to St. Paul's, or to the Vatican, for not to behold these historic objects is not to be- hold the capitals themselves. Thus with us New York is the centre of attraction on this continent; but we always manage to have some epecial show here independent of our theatres and operas, our splendid streets, marble pa- laces, fine rivers, and so forth. One time it is & Crystal Palace, then s Central Park, nows stirring regatta like that of yesterday, and now a run on the turf such as we witnessed the day before. New York is, in fact, the great show shop of the country; there is always a spectacle of some kind to draw visiters from abroad, and astonish them when they come. This summer. it appears, is to be prolific in shows. There are the Prince of Wales and the Prince Napoleon; the Great Eastern and the Japanese; from dif. ferent countries and different hemispheres we import our great shows, which our country cousins can delight themselves with gratis, for the trouble of coming to the metropolis. And when they do come we will take good care ot them. Our hotels are large enough for all, and if their larders are not well stocked there ir Washington market and the Ball's Head to fal) back upon for meat, Orange county for pur milk, the North and East rivers for shad anc other piscatorial delicacies, and .the whole o Long Island for vegetables. There is no fos of famine prices, though strangers were to flock in upon us at the rate of half a million. tended and particular account of the recent |. It fe pleasant to turn asidefor a moment from the contemplation, however philosophical, of the intrigues of the politicians, the vulgar eqoabbles for the epoils of office, the selfish confiict for the almighty dollar, the record of crimes and misdemeanors, and accidents or in- cidents by field or flood, and look for a moment club, who are afraid to go outside because Dutch out of the Channel—with the founding, by “pretty Nelly Gwynne,” of Chelsea Hospital for battered old tars—with the incep- tion by the Protector and the Stuarts of that gallant navy which has borne the fisg of Albion triumphant in many a sangui- nary action, and carried the never-ending tattoo of British drums around the globe. Two hundred years ago our ancestors sailed in curi- ous nautical contrivances, of which Irving gives some capital descriptions. The ship builders of that day had a glimmering idea, however, that something fleeter and neater than a Dutch lugger might be constructed, and their new models were first used for yachts, and then sdopted, in a modified form, for larger craft. That system has been followed to this day, both in men-of-war and eommercial ves- eels. Abroad the royal and imperial yachts are wonderfully like gunboats (new style); bere we shall find the lines of the Julia (Mr. Waterbury’s fairy-like craft) in the splendid faigate Niagara, or the superb steamship Adri- atic. In all of Mr. Steers’ models this similarity is strikingly apparent. A yacht of one hun- dred tons, built by him, looks like the younger sister of the splendid vessel of five thousand tons. The same wavy, artistic lines; the same full, round, delicious curves; the same swan- like manner of sitting upon the water, with the ease and grace of a practiced horseman in the saddle, are visible in both, and very fine things to see they are, too. Thus the clipper, with her sharp bow, concave lines, trim rigging, flush deck and low rounded stern, taking the place of the lumbering Noah's ark- looking things which used to take a whole year for a China voyage, came legitimately from the yacht; the sea steamers, paddle and screw, are similarly modelled, and the smaller class of government vessels are all constructed on yacht lines. This shows the utility of yachting in one, and a most important point. Again, the journals have lately alluded in yery strong terms to the degradation of our mercantile marine. Jack goes down instead of up in the social scale. There are a variety of cauees for thie, and we do not propose to discuss them at present in detail. The maia thing, after all, is to find the remedy, which can only be had in some action by which the supply of native seamen may be kept up. The Ateorder, drankenness and mutinous condact of men on board our merchant vessels are trace- able directly to the foreign element which pre- ponderates In the crews. So far as the foreign trade is concerned, the name of American sailor bas become almost a misnomer. If we should be drawn into a naval war, we might ‘ook in vain for such stout fellows as stood by Paul Jones on the bloodetained decks of the Bonne Homme Rich- ard, or followed Decatur into the jaws of death at Tripoli, or faced the veterans of Trafalgar under Perry, Stewart, Lawrence and Hull, The very best sailors we have now, al- most the only salts who havea pride in their profeesion, are employed in yachts, pilot boats and cossting vessels. Take the men in our yacht squadron and the pilot apprentices, and we have the pucleus of a navy such as Nelson never commanded, because they are a great deal more intelligent, as well as quite as plucky. It is of course desirable to multiply such « force, and the yacht club helps in that work by | employing « large number of men in light ser- vice, where the pay is good and the grog sub- lime. Incidental to this branch of the subject is the fact that the services of all the yachts of | the New York Club are at the disposal of the government in case of war. There is still another, and perhaps most im- portant view to be taken of the matter. Oar people up to the present time have been in euch haste to get rich that they have neglected precautions for the conserva- have just begun to find it out, The eques- trian mania just now taging is @ good sign, and the increase in the yachts another. There are now ten yachts where there was one fifteen tional ‘and there would be many more if | way trains on Sunday, years ago, Spit is utterly absurd. The race ought to be something worth doing, say around Long [eland, or down to the Cape May lightship, or around Block Island. Then the general public be- comes interested, the inborn love of our people for nautical sports is stimulated, and we should see the yachts increase, as the riders have aug- mented their numbers since the Central Park has been ia good condition for the equestrian. The open cea races would harden our yachte- men and accustom them to real nautical work, the way for the time when the bur gee of the New York Yacht Club shall fly oc- casiopally in every foreign port to which American ships usually resort So far as speed goes; our yachts can whip all others. The trouble is that our yachtemen seem to be afraid to cross the ocean and try it. There bas only been one “America.” We have thus given a bird’seye view of high life on the ocean, and of the arguments in its favor, as well as a little good advice to the yacht owners, who, we trust, will try to show themselves worthy of the popularity which their fine vessels have gained. New Yorkers hold their yacht squadron as among the best of metropolitan institutions, aud they would be glad to have some of their exploits wherewith to astonish the provincial ear. The old story about beauty, symmetry, cc., co., is growing quite stale. Tux Trisvne ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF mE Sexpay Liquor Law.—The Tribune, ia re- ply to an article in the Hsratp on the uncon- stitutionality of the Sunday Liquor law, says we do not make the necessary distinction be- tween the United States constitution, which limits the powers of Congress to those subjects of legislation enumerated in the inetgument, and the powers of a State Legislature, which are unlimited, unless expressly controlled by the State constitution or the constitution of the United States. Our argument did not require this distinc- tion. The constitution of the United States provides that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and ceizures, shall not be violated, and that no man shall be deprived of his liberty or property without due process of law. The Sundey law and the domiciliary visits of the police are in violation of these provisions of “the supreme law of the land.” The constitution of the State of New York in more express terms covers the ground. It guaran- tees that “the free exercise and enjoyment of re- ligious profession and worship, without discri- mination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State to all mankind.” Now the Jews and the Seventh day Baptists are certainly a part of mankind, and by prohibiting them to do on Sunday what they and all may lawfully do on any other day, is making “a discrimina- tion” against them and giving a “preference” to citizens of other sects. They do not regard Sunday as of any more religious obligation than Monday, and to interfere with their enjoy- ments on Sanday—their right to purchase a glass of lager bier or wine—is oppressive. To force them and others, under pains and penal- ties, to the observance of Sunday is contrary to the letter and spirit of the State constitation. But the Tribune surrenders the religious ground as untenable, and says that “apart from the religious character ascribed to Sun- day, there exist abundant reasons for prohibit ing the Sunday eale of liquor,” among which are, that it is “a general day of leisure, and the liquor shope present temptations on that day stronger than on any other.” This, however, is only getting rid of the consti- tutional objection on religious grounds by a side wind; for it ia no matter what the motive of the law may be. if in its effects it infringes upon any right guaranteed to the meanest citi- zen by the constitution it is null and void; and if there be any force in the reason assigned for the law, it ought to be applied to Saturday aleo, for that is the day of leieure among Jews and Seventh day Baptists, and, indeed, it ough to be applied to every day of the week, for the very worst class of the community are idle every day of the seven, and have abundant leisure to drink. If there be any sounduess in the argument it must necessarily go the length of the total prohibition of the sale of liquor. But to discriminate in favor of one day and against another, because of the reli- gious character of the day, is as unconstita- tional as it is absurd. If it is wrong to permit the sale of liquor on Sunday, it is equal- ly wrong on Saturday or Monday—two days on which more liquor is consumed than on San” a notwithstanding the disclaimer of the Tribune, the religious ground is the true one, and that which is invariably put forward by the advocates of the law. Drinking a glase of ale or wine is called desecration of the Sab- bath in the Sabbath Committee tracts, and in the discourses on the subject from the pulpit. | The religious element is dragged into all re- publican questions, and taken advantage of for party purposes. Hence the pulpit is the right bower of the anti-slavery revolutionists, and it | is prostituted to incite the masses to anarchy and civil war. It isthe same as regards the Sunday observance. It was the religious ia- fluence which was brought to bear to carry the law, ond it is merely auxiliary to the abolition of slavery. Both measures spring from thesame source, and are puritanical interferences with human righte—the one with the seligions liber. ty of the people, and the other with the social rights of the States. If religious fanatiolsm be net the agent used to carry the Sanday law, thea why sre not facill- ties’afforded to the people to go to the country for the purposes of recreation and innoceat ra- enjoyment? Instead of stopping the rail. why are not the direc. the majority of the club were up to the spirit tors compelled, aa they are in London, to ran of the age. Yachting is sport to which no objections can be cheat each other like people on the turf, or | green frequent and cbeap trains on that day, to take raised. Yaechtsmen do not the people to breathe the pure air and tosee the fields, instead of festering in the fetid at- cut the ropes when they see the eagle of vic- mosphere and vice of s crowded city? If they tory petohing over @ rival's masthead. As the want to stop drinking and to abut up the grog- —_—_—_——- chops er Sunday, thet ie the true method, aud the outy one that will be effectual. The “Etermal Nigger” tm Ame."tca, oad the “Sick Man” at Comstantineple- What the “eternal nigger” is to th United States, the “sick man at Conetantinophy” is tv Europe; they both trouble from time to thwe the even current of affairs. Bat there isin the irre. preesible conflict and in the intense excitenvent provoked by these two troublesome enti \iee an cssentia! difference. The “nigger” stirs up-—- especially before every Presidential election- — the whole army of his black republican friends, and arrays against them all the fire-eaters of the South; but the battles between these ‘ legions of politicians, wirepullers and shoulder- hitters are not very bloody; they are fought out more or less comfortably in the wigwams of the in the temples of religion, in masa meetings and hot Congress debates. No riffed cannons, no sharpened bayonets, ne iron-plated | gunboats, are called into deadly sction; the only weapons, if we abstract the twenty-two lancegef old John Brown, are immense tram- pets, Mown by the biggest bragadoctos of this big country; and the only batteries discharged are ful broadsides of ery speeches and flerce newspaper articles, let fly by the leaders of the two contending parties. When the bom- bardment is hotest, a spectator not initiated into the character of our political warfare would be led to the conclusion that the whole glorious Union would burst into fragments like an overcharged air vessel, but for the fact that a host of reasonable, coolblooded mea usually interpose between the conflicting par- ties, just as a squad of constables dash in be- tween two gapge of Sighting rowdies. These peacemakers bear high the flag of Union, of common sense, and of common interest, aud « sudden change comes over the faces of our he- roes of the political prize ring. Taory grada- ally retire from the field; the big trumpets cease to blow; but the walls of Jericho, which they had apparently shaken to their founda: tions, stand as strong as before, because there was not in the brass of the divines sod eachems the power of God, as in the trumpets of Joshua and his Levites. Suddenly the “eternal nigger” collapses aud disappears from the stage; the troubled waters again eubside into calmness, but the black spirit lies still be- neath their surface, only to trouble them ageia. when it seems useful or necessary to make po- litical capital or coin money out of its banefut presence. In Europe, the “sick man at Constaatinople” creates quite another kind of excitement. Al- though for more than a century stretched on an invalid bed, he is still powerful, not to do anything useful or beneficial, but to trouble many things. When, for example, one of bis half rotten limbs seems in danger of falling off bis old weakened trunk, the whole of Europe is thrown into a state of the most fearful agitation. ‘The entire political atmosphere seems to be at once infected by the miasma emenating from his sick room. The fine barometers suspended in the Exchanges of London, Paris and Bertia sink some degrees, as before a coming storm; the great diplomatic physicians hasten from all sides to his couch; rough and stern Menschikof? in his brown and closely buttoned up paletot, from St. Petersburg; sharp-nosed Leiniogen, from Vienna; the trim French doctor, with his golden spectacles, the Marquis de Lavalette, from Paris, and old Pam’s family physician, from London—ere all busy sround him; they life and the shaky limb of the worn-out invalid. ‘Then follows a private consultation, and diplo- matic despatches fly over the telegraphic wires. to the different cabinets. Every one proposes & particular prescription of his own; there is Do agreement possible between the consulting physicians; and finally the quarrel between them becomes so serious that they quite forged the sugust presence of their patient. For the third act of the drama is of course graphs and official newspapers begin. to talk of a European Congress to settle the eternak question of the persecution of the Oricatal Christians and the possession of the key of the Holy Sepulchre. Bat, before the expe- diency of a Congress is settled, rumors fy about that Russis is arming; that a Russien corps d’observation is moving towards the Pruth, and that another corps is conceatrated near Erzeroum. At last all Europe is stiered up. Austria sends corps d’armée to its esat- ern frontiers, one or two English squadrons leave Portsmouth or Gibraltar for the Darda- nelles, Egypt or the coast of Syria; at Toulon and Marseilles all hands are set to work, and in a fortnight the whole of Europe is under arms, nobody knowing exactly why, but vaguely The first evidence that the “sick man” wae again in danger was presented ins diplomasic note delivered on the 18th of April by Prinee- excitement prevailing in the Woiwodina, Sk- vonia, Croatia aad Transylvania, and to the m- torious fact that there existed a secret understanding bet ween the leaders of the reve- Widdin, with the avowed purpose of keepin down this finminent revolution in he Dennbian Provinces. Shortly after the strange disclosures of Prince Kallimaki at Vienna, Prince Dolgo- rouki communicated a long diplomatic docu- ment to almost the same purport to his court at St. Petersburg. In that despatch all the, grievances of the slave population in Eurof pean Turkey were carefully recounted, accompanied with official documents, 80 a8 enable the Russian government to make matic use of them. And this the Ru f