The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE M. W. CORNER OF Na6SAC AND FULTON 6TS TERME, cash tm advance Monsy sent by mad wil: be al the ee Sea Mee ca laced te edeototion “Tile DAILY BRRALD neo conts por copy, $1 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD, srery atria noun pa capt, 07 SS por ennamn; the Bwropsen Seinen Wednesday, at cents per copy, #4 per annaam to any par of ot ‘at tide Ramin Wana D ‘on Wednesday, at four conte por “Re Lonkan RY TORRESPONDENOR. news, solicited (rom any $y me i 4 Uberally paid Ber Ovn Foxsion ‘COR RESPUNDBETS: Werally paid Jor @auret to REAL sit LATTaMS 4xD PACK SENT vB ING ananutad seith meatness, cheapness and de | ere AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Itauian Ore Bi—Linva Di CHAMOUNIX, NIBLO'S GARDEN Broadway.—Hauiert. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opvosite Bond street. — Fanio—My Youna Wire ayo (ib Umoeira. BOWERY THKATRE, Howery.—Vanintr—Naw Your As Ir Is—Bon Neerirs—Ockaw Cun. gegaces THEATRE, Broadway.—Puarine Wire 123. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 64 Broadway.— (AILEEZ AROON. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Nowman Lascie— | Last Days or Pouren. | BAKNUM’S AMEKIOAN MUSKUM, Broadway.—Day and | Bveving—Josarn ayn His Baxrukex—laivisa Cuniosi- wins, 40. BRYANTS’ MINSTAKLA, Mechanica’ Jiall, 472 Brosdway.— Buuiasques, Sonos, Davces, &c.—Scenes AT PUALON’s. NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Hoousy & Camrrent's Minsteais ix Erniorian Soxcs, Buruasque Danone, to.— | Vinoiria Mower CANTERBURY MUSIC WATL, 663 Broadway.—Sones Dancus, Buaiesques 40. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. chases were made by spinners, while some parcels were taken for export. Flour was lees buoyant and active, and the prices for common and medium grades favored purcharers, while extra grades were unchanged. Wheat was lees buoy ant for common grades, while good qualities ©’ other kinds were firm. The sales here and to arrive, on speculation and for export, were large. Corn was firm, w th fair sales at 70c. for good Western mixed, in store, and 69\jc. @ 702 do., afloat. Pork was steady, with sles of new mess at $19 1234 @ $19 25, and of new prime $14 60 @ $14 62};. Sugars were steady, with sales of 700 a 800 hhds, and about 700 boxes, at rates given in anotber column. Coffee was firm. The feature of the day was the public sale of 2,280 bags Santos at 12%0. al63(o.—avorage 14-38c. Freights | Opemed at about the current rates of the pre- vious day, but exhibited more firmuess at the close. Among the engagements were 80,000 a 90,000 bushels wheat, tn bulk, at 124, a 12'(d., and in bags at 12)¢4., and 9,000 bbls. flour at 8s. 3d., with 200 bales of cotton at 7-82d; to London 1,000 boxes cheese, at 60s., with some wheat on private terms. ‘The New York Uni Electoral Ticket— The Metropolis and the State. A union or copartnersbip electoral ticket has ‘at length been perfected and ratided, on the } part of the Douglas democracy, the Breckin- ridge democracy, and the Bell-Everett old ‘line whigs and Americans, admirably adapted to fuse all these conservative elements throughout this great State into a solid column of irresisti- | ble strength on the momentous day of the Presi- dential election. This coulition ticket has also been ratified by the administration at Washing- ton—a ratification which will speedily oblite- rate the factious opposition of the few outstand- ing Breckinridge politicians of the impractica- ble school of John A. Greep, James T. Brady and Gideon J. Tucker. The electors at large upon this union ticket, Greene C. Broneou and Heman J. Redfield, pre- sent an encouraging example of democratic re- union and harmony. It will be remembered that in 1853, Judge Bronson, hard shell, was ap- | pointed Collector of this port by poor Pierce; New York, Friday, October 5, 1860. SHEET The News. We have two days later news from Europe, brought by the City of more, which left Li poo! on the 26th and Queenstown on the 27th ult., and which was intercepted off St. Johns yesterday afternoon, Italian affairs had undergone but little change. The bombardment of Ancona by the Sardinians | was going on both by sea and land, and Victor Emanuel's troops continued their advance into the interior. Garibaldi's forces were preparing to attack the Neapolitans near Valturno. Financial and commercial affairs remained about as previously reported. By the arrival of the brig T. B, Watson at this port yesterday, we have news from Porto Cabello, Venezuela, to the 19th ult. Gen. Paez had been Appointed Venezuelan Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington. The Spanish Minister had demanded and received his passports, and sailed for St. Thomas. Itis affirmed that Spain, under the pre- text of seeking satisfaction for injuries to certain of her subjects, secks the reconquest of Venezuela, and that the withdrawal of her Minister is but the prelude to an attempt to recover her ancient American possessions. The overland pony express, which left San Francisco on the 22d ult., bas arrived at St. Joseph, Mo. The Uncle Sar sailed on the 2ist ult. for Panama, with 204 passengers and $1,130,000 in treasure, of which $1,040,000 was shipped for New York. Business at San Francisco had revived con- siderably, and the improvement was attributed to legitimate causes. The general news from Cali- fornia is unimportant. As will be seen opon referring to the money article in to-day’s paper, there was great excite- ment among the bulls and bears of Wall street yesterday, and a further heavy decline in the prices of all speculative securities at the Stock Exchange. It is predicted, however, that the existing prostration in financial affairs will not be of long continuance. The Prince of Wales had a long day of it in Washington yesterday. First, in company with a large party, he visited the Capitol, and took a hasty view of the objects of interest there. At noon the President held a levee, and the Executive Mansion was thronged with visiters, the President conducting the ceremony of introducing the Prince. The royal party then visited the Patent Office, and examined the various works onexhibition. Subse- quently, incompany with Miss Lane, the Prince spent a couple of hours at Miss Smith's institute for young ladies, where he indulged in @ game of ten- pins. In the evening the President entertained the diplomatic corps and a large party at dinner, and Mies Lane held a reception. The day closed with a brilliant display of freworks in honor of the Prince. The usual monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday. The principal subject under consideration was a draft of a memo- rial to Congress in regard to providing additional facilities for the transportation of the mails be- tween China and our Pacific ports, A full report of the proceedings of the Chamber is given in another ¢ Mr. W. 8. Lindsay, M. P., who arrived in this city yesterday, was invited to meet | the members of the Chamber of Commerce at such time as may suit his convenience. | A meeting of the stockholders and creditors of | the Artisans’ Bank was held yesterday in the bank | Parlor, when the affairs of the bank were discussed, | and resolution was agreed upon to appointa re- ceiver. Mr. Angustine Smith, of the Nassau Bank, was designated, and that gentleman asked for time to consider, in consequence of which the meeting Was adjourned to nin ck this morning, when it is expected Mr. Smith will accept. The pro- ceeding Supreme Court with reference to the appoi of a receiver were continued | yesterday; but ly stage @ postponement of the case was a », pending the action of the meeting of « olders alluded to above. | The Oct of the American Geo- | graphical a: Al Society took place last evening, butt #0 small that the reading of « teresting pay ia and the re. | nowned Dr r son, Was post poned ti nat ) In the Uni strict Court, in the suit of the United States against Mesers. ( ce Law and Conover, the # at master, a comr the testimony of Mr. Fowler. y Judge Betts, on the application of Mr. W. H. Robinson, solicitor for the defendants, and Judge Roosevelt, United states District Attorney, appointed James F. Dwight, Esq., to execate the commission, and who leeves to-day in the Quaker City for Havana, | Where {+ is onderstood Mr. Fowler is at present. The Boa ldermen did not meet last night | for want o m. In the B { Counciimen last evening, Mr. | Pinckney presevted a resolution directing the special committee on the reception of the Japan ese Em passy to p a detailed statement of the sent expenses j laid on the tab ness was tran In the Ge rnard seutenced tiory for fou after some debate was itine busi © ame y Recorder | Ay to th 1g pleade 3, hy a) nm aceault npon Lavy A 2 of cotton yesterday ombraced between 2.500 | o00 Salus, The market closed steady ou the basis | that toon after this the soft shells complained | that they were excluded from their share of the Al spoils of the Custom House; that Secretary Guth- rie instructed Bronson to give the softs a sop in | the pan, at the peril of his head; that Bronson | refused to bow down to Guthrie, and was con- | sequently decapitated; that the hard shells, tak- ivg up his cause, hoisted the flag of Bronson and rebellion, and that in our ensuing November | election they carried off one half the demo- | cratic vote of the State, against the soft shell free soil spoils policy of poor Pierce's adminis- tration. The elements of that eplit have distracted and divided the democracy of the State, more or less, from that day to this; and we think, therefore, that a better basis for a democratic reunion than the association of Bronson and Redfield on the same electoral ticket could hardly be devised. The representatives of the old line whigs and Americans on the ticket are the men of their own choosing, so that on their side the bappiest accord exists. It will not be their fault if the vote of the State is not given against Lincoln by from thirty to fifty thousand majority. Last year the democratic and Ame- rican coalition upon the Secretary of State was successful against the republicans, notwith- standing there was a force of sixty thousand voters opposed to the republican party who did not come to the polls. This year every man of this reserved force wilkecome forward, and, with proper activity tosecure it, this whole force may be added to the union vote of 1859, together with thousands of Fremont democrats devoted to popular sovereignty. The republicans have their well grounded fears of the popular vote of this city and its sur- roundings. They have been using every exer- tion and every device; they have been lavish of their money, and their meetings and orators, to make an impression upon this stronghold of Northern conservatism. Their famous torch- light Wide Awake procession the other eve- ning, made up one-half of reinforcements from our rural districts and from other States, was | @ desperate effort to make capital in behalf of Lincoln in this community; but the experiment was afailure. We had been promised a parade of thirty, forty, and even fifty thousand Wide Awakes; the people expected at least thirty thousand; but when the reality cut down the number to ten thousand, there was a universal disappointment, and a very general conclusion that the eepublicams are exaggerating their strength in more important matters. We dare say, too, that the visiting Wide Awakes from other places have returned home with anything but encouraging remembrances of their New York parade; for, except at the republican eta- tions along the route, the countless multitude of spectators were as silent and solemn as at Bill Poole’s funeral. From thir, among other recent manifestations of public sentiment here, we have no hesitation in saying that on the important day of Novem. ber the Empire City, in behalf of this union electoral ticket against the black republicans, will do ber duty. It would not surprise us if this union ticket should cross the Spuyten Duy- | vil creek, at the head of this island, full sixty thousand in advance of the ticket of Lincoln. Of something of this sort the republicans are evidently apprehensive, and hence their indus- trious efforts to make a lodgment in this con- servative citadel of the North. But with the metropolis all right, let our conservative politi- cal managers look to the interior, and the Em- pire State in November may save the day, even should Pennsylvania fall short of her duty ia October. Yietp or Tue Catironyta Mives.—By the arrival of the pony express we learn that ship- ments of specie to the amount of $1,150,000—of which $1,010,000 were for New York—had been made by the Uncle Sam, which sailed from San Francisco for Panama on the 2ist. This is gra- tifying news in presence of the fact that the produce of the mines this year had fallen be- hind that of the last by about $6,000,000. If the amount of the present shipments be maintained, | aa there is every reason to believe it will, we sballsoon again reach the aggregate of the mort prosperous years. It isa fact worthy of note, that whilst the yield of the Oalifornia mines exbidite this recuperative tendency, that of Australia continues steadily on the decline. | From recent statistics the falling off there would indicate that the one was becoming exhausted, aod that unless fresh discoveries were made the supplies of gold from that quarter would soon become insignificant. Thus, whilet we are blersed with abundant narvests, the yield of the precious metals keeps pace with the other gifts with which Providence <o lavishly endows us.” If the politicians would ouly leave the country to work out peacefully ite own destinies there would be no limits to tbe wealth thet would in the mext quarter of » Ceatury be concentrated bere. | of about 107%¢. for middling uplands. The ebief pur- Telegraphic and Newspaper Enterprise of the Day. It may have been observed that for some weeks past a news boat of the press has board- ed nearly half the steamers arriving from Europe off Cape Race, thus getting the intelli- gence some days in advance of their arrival at port. During the year the news yacht has been enabled to intercept some thirty or forty eteam- ers, but in future we shall be able to do much better than that. The press has now en- tered into new and extensive arrangements with the Newfoundland Telegraph Com- pany, by which we eball be enabled to get more news than ever over that line. This will benefit our merchants, the papers, and the community generally. By this ar- rangement we shall be in a position to obtain intelligence off Cape Race from every | steamer outward and inward bound that passes that point. At present no less than five hun dred and eighty-six times ia the year steamers pase between this country and Europe; but as the Canadian line of veseels go through the Straits of Belle Isle in the summer, aod thus avoid Cape Race, the number with which the news yacht can now come into communication is not so large; but steamers pass the Cape over five hundred times a year, half of which come from Europe, and most of those bring news. When the captains of all the steamers, whether going out or coming home, report themselves to the news boat at Cape Race—which is a kind of half way lookout between this port and Europe—the press intend to furnish despatch bags for the con- venience of our merchants and the friends of the passengers on board the steamers, in con- nection with the regular news bags, by which means information will be conveyed by tele graph to the press, and thence to every part of the country, far in advance of the arrivals of the steamers. The advantage of this system will be observed at once. It will bring our people within six days of Europe, and will place in their hands intelligence of outgoing steamers after one-third of their voyage is per- formed. Moreover, it will inure greatly to the benefit of all the other telegraph lines throughout the country, for the news thus ob- tained will of course be despatched far and near along the wires. : The telegraph system is progressing so won- derfally everywhere that this may in fact be called the great telegraphic era; but it is making more rapid strides in this coun- try than anywhere else. We have more miles of telegraphic lines at present in America than in the whole rest of the world. We perceive by late news from Europe that considerable activity exists in the tele- graph business there, particularly in submarine lines—four new cables having been just suc- cessfully laid in the Mediterranean, between Valencia and the islands of Ivica, Majorca and Minorca, and thence to Barcelona. Deep sea cables, itis true, have not worked well so far, and it would appear from an article which we publish from the London Chronicle to-day, that submarine telegraphs have proved a universal failure; but this is not strictly correct; for some of the cables laid in moderate depths of water in the Mediterranean and across the Straits of Dover have been successful, and so have some of the submarine lines in this country. Telegraphic enterprise, however, is not to be repressed by a few momentary failures. In the United States it has received an extraordinary stimulus by the contract just made between the Secretary of the Treasury and Sibley & Co., to run line to the Pacific, which, when completed, will biad the whole continent in a telegraphic chain. Whea the Pa- cific telegraph is in operation, and the line to the Straits of Belle Isle constructed, we shall have a continuous communication from Belle Isle and St. Johns at the north, to New Orleans at the south, and San Fran- cisco at the west It only remaios, thea, for the Atlantic telegraph to be put in working order to connect the whole glebe. And with regard to the success of submarine telegraphs, it may be said that there were really only three points to be decided, two of which have been determined favorably. First, the prac- ticability of laying a cable successfully over along distance; that has been done on the bed of the Atlantic. The second was the capa- city to send a current through, and that has also been done. The third point, which is yet undetermined, is whether the insulation can be made so perfect as to preserve a continuity of the current under the immense pressure of water. But we can hardly doubt that this difficulty will yet be overcome by the ifventive genius of the age. Some mode of insulation will be discovered whereby the consummation of submarine telegraphs can be effected. For the past three years, since the failure of the At- lantic cable, we have received at this office not less than five hundred communications suggest- ing new modes of insulation, and there are per- haps fully five thousand minds at work upon the subject. We look forward, then, to the accomplishment of a perfect insulation at no distant day, and the consequent success of a telegraph line across the Atlantic. When this shall be attained an unbroken communication will be established in a few years hence between every continent and every inhabited island in the known world, and the neves columns of each day's Henatp will then contain nothing but telegraphie accounts of the events which transpire in every quarter of the globe the day before. and its editorials will com- prise comments upon these evente. To this point the telegraphic ard newspaper | enterprise of the day is rapidly tending. Tux Ronat Press ax Its Covpecrons.—The | strictures that we have felt called upon” to make from time to time on the tone and temper of the country press have made us some bitter enemies amongst provincial editors. In ex- posing their shortcomings and deficiencies, we have been accused of a want of esprit du corps, just as if we were bound to adopt all the scamps that intrude themselves into an honorable profession. Those who feel so eensi- pudiate the rural press when claiming to represent the mind and intetligence of the country. It gives a graphic sketch of its con stitution, the mode in which it is monaged, and the description of men who are at its head There are, of course, honorable exceptions to the characteristics attributed to it by the writer; but they are, unfortunately, too few to relieve the picture of ita genera!ly dark and forbidding aspects. So long as the country papers are thus conducted, it ie obvious that there can he no sympathies, professional or otherwise, be- tween their editors and those who have the in- dependence aud respectability of the American prese at heart. The Disastro! The different parties now in the field running for the succession to the Presidency present a curions anomaly. The black republicans, whose object is a revolution, from which a dis- unicn of the States must inevitably follow, are nevertheless thoroughly united among them- selves. They are agreed upon the main issue, thus giving the best possible refutation to their own doctrine, and showing the vast difference between theory and practice. While they are working division in the country at large, they have a thorough appreciation of the value of union as regards themselves. The course of the conservatives is the very opposite. They profess to fight under the banner of the Union, and the constitution is the political gospel by which they swear. Yet they are divided among themselves, and one saye, “I am for Douglas,” another, “I am for Breck inridge,” and a third, “I am for Bell.” But who is Douglas, who is Breckinridge, and who is Bell, that they should b@come instruments of discord and not of harmony? Instead of upiting together on » common ticket, and after defeating Lincoln, settling their own ditferences amicably, the conservative leaders are pulling against each other with more bitterness than they exhibit towards the common enemy, who is united in solid column against them. Nor is it as regards candidates alone that they are di- vided—they are divided and bewildered abou! the issue—tbey either do not comprehend its nature, or they don’t want to understand it, aut “none are so blind as those who wiil not see.” They are like men groping in the dark, or with scales on their eyes, whose vision is so indis- tinct that men beside them appear only “as trees walking.” How different is the course of the republi- cans. They have boldly presented their issue to the country, and they have but one voice upon it. Lincoln and Seward, and Wilson and Wade, and Adams and Sumner, and Giddings and Greeley, all harp upon the same string, and all go for one ticket. These chiefs all declare war against negro slavery in the States as well asin the Territories, and they proclaim their determina- tion to carry on the war till they have achieved the “ultimate extinction” of the institution, They will do it by moral force if they can, but by physical force if they must. They will endeavor to abolish it by the operation of the courts of law, with judges of their own choosing to interpret the constitution, and if that is not sufficient, then the millions of Northern republicans, with arms in their hands, will march on the South. ‘This is the plain and simple issue of the re- publicans, and it is met by the champions of conservatism with a political jargon and a gib- berish which none but office holders or office seekers understand, and which is utterly unin- telligible to the people. The speeches of the conservative orators can only be compared to the confusion of tongues at Babel. They are raising senseless personal issues with each other, and side issues which are of no manner of importance, while they ignore the great question which is forced upon the country. It is a sectional issue, set forth by 4 sec- tional party—an issue to destroy the domes- tic institutions of the South by the fede- ral power, and a party “situate, lying and being” wholly in one section of the country—a party which, in ite nominating Convention at Chicago, contemptaously over- looked fifteen States, from none of which it had any representatives, and disregarded their inte- resta and opinions as if they were conquered colonies or provinces, instead of co equal States. This time the nomination of the Presi- dent fairly belonged to the South, since for the last two terms and a half Northern men have oc- cupied the chair of the White House. Contrary to former usage, the republican party have not only selected their candidate for President, bat their candidate for Vice President also from their own section—the North— which isadepart- ure from all precedent. The party, their candi- dates and their issue, therefore, are wholly sec- tional; and by their deliberate act, as far as they are concerned, they have virtually severed the Union into two halves. They have severed it just as much as the Methodist Church is se- vered. Had all the Christian denomiuatioas North come te the same conclusion as the Me- thodist Church North, there would not be now even the shadow of a federal Uaion; and did all other political parties in the North hold the same sentiments as the republicans, the Union would be formally dismembered before the lapse of one month. What would the people of the North say of a party at the Sontb, numerically the strongest in its fifteen States, which held a Convention at Natchez to nominate a national President to preside over the whole Uuion, and yet excluded | all representatives of States north of Mason and Dixon’s line, aud selected their candidates for President and Vice President from the S yuth. and nominated them upon a purely sectional issue, to | | the effect that they were opposed to :ree labor in | tive a8 te our remarks have themselves to blame | for their severity. If they choose to degrade themselves and their sheets by the looseness of their personal habits and their political profi gacy, it is no fault of ours. We cannot | acknowledge such men as con/réres, or admit that their papers belong to the classification of | which the metropolitan journals constitute the | leading types. | In a auvther culumn will communication which appears in | ashe did, they will have. perhaps. a reckoning be found exposed | one day to meet for which tuey wre now but | the Territories and at the North, and would never rest contented till they had planted the slave institution in every Northern State, and abolished by law, or by force of arms !f neces. sary, the labor of free white meu, as degrading to the Caucasian race? If they elected the'r men on this issue, how long would the Union last? But, mutatis mutandis, this is just what the republican party are doing as regards the | South and its mode of labo. + Yet in view of the position of this formida- | ble sectional party, organized on a principle of | disunion, the conservative leaders, instead of uniting and combining to put it down, are wrangling with each other, and not one of | them is statesman enough to rise to the height of the great argument which affects the very existence of the nation. Their reckless, selfish conduct recals Nero fiddling while Rome was burning; and if they only persist in thir folly at length the grounds on which we re-! little prepared. The Prince and the President. For the first time in the history of this go- verpment the chief magistrate of the repnd- tic has received at the executive mansion a royal guest, an heir to # throue. The Prince of Wales, after a triumphal tour throngh her Majesty's North American provinces, und a no lees agreeable, though somewhat more rapid, run over the Weetern Staves, finds bim-elf com- jortably domiciled at the federal metropoila as the guest of the nation This visit of the beir apparent recalls some interesting souvenirs. When the last heir to the English throne visied North America the fesue between tbe provinces aud the mother country had scarcely been decided. Our gallant forefathers had helped the Britieh to conquer Cannda, Nova Scotia and New Brunewick, and had then taken up arms against the unjust exactions of a bigoted king and '| republicans from the city of New York. This! au obstinate ministry, We won our cause, and then proceeded to build up this pation which compeis at once the wonder aud admiration of .all Coristendom. While yet struggling against those infantile disorders which the political system of every new go- vernment must go through, we were again compelled to go to war with oar parent and natural ally. Lt was during this last war that the Dilitish seized Detroit, and the venerable elatesman who is at the bead of the State De pulment was compelled to ehare in the vumiliation experienced by the officers aud men who sorrendere@ under the orders of General Hull to the British forces Again. forty six years ago, the Britich invated Wash - ington, burned the executive mansion and tae Capitol buildings, and compelled President Madison to fly to Georgetown. Happily, the present British invasion is of a pleasanter character than that of 1814 Our ancient enemy sends her firstborn son as a hostage of amity, of peace and of fidelity. John Bull, Jr., drops in upon Brother Jonathan in a pleasant, agree able, chatty sort of way, quite in accordsuce with the Queen’s letter to her “good friend” the Pretident. I send you, says her Majesty, “my oldest boy; oue of these days, Providerce permitting, be will be King of England. He comes to have a look at your country, to pick up a little information about you, and to let you know that we desire to live on the best terms with you. We are placed in a very diffi cult position. All the great Continental Powers are more or less despotic in their forms of gov- ernment. It is our pride. and always will be the boast of Englishmen, that our coil is free, that Albion is « sanctuary for the oppressed of all uations, and so we have to etand up for liberal principles, and at the same time to keep on good terms with the otber Powers. We recognise in the United States another great Power, likewise free, and happily far removed from the influence of deepo'ic governments. We like to know that we have your moral aid; physically we can take care of ourselves. Then we trade a great deat together, and that is another bond to knit us together in friendship.” That is what the Prince of Wales’ visit means, and eo it is taken, apparently, by the President, who receives his royal guest with just sufficient ceremony to show that the import- ance of his visit is fully recognized. The young gentleman is not bored with formalities or annoyed with set speeches. Mr. Buchanan meets Lord Renfrew at the door of the White House, takes bim to the drawing room, where the Jadier await him, end after the customary ante pranéial chat there comes a dinner en famille, and an eveoing spent in pleasant conversation. The Prince and his suite meet at Washington ladies and gentlemen who bave been familiar with the atmosphere of courts, and who are au fait to all those petits soins which go to make up what is cailed good breeding. There is no greater nuisance in the world than your vulgar good natured man, and we apprehend that the Prince and his party bave encountered more than one of the breed, both in the Canadas and the West. But that is all over. The perfectly managed recep tion by the President seta everything straight, and puts the Priace and his party quite at their ease. They have been received by one of the eld schoo! gentlemen, in the simplest and plea- santest way, and we trust that the example of the President will be imitated in all our cities which the Prince visits hereafter. Let all the committeemen, Mayors and what not, avoid making a fuss. See to the police arrangements beforehand, avoid long crations~this to the solid men of Boston especially— and above all, remembering that utter simplicity is the test of good manners, avoid making a fuss. ‘The Sunday Legislation of Last Winter— ‘The Black Republicans Responsible. We publish elsewhere in to-day’s Heraty a copy of the Sunday law passed by the last black republican Legislature, together with a history of its passage taken from the official journal, ond a list of the yeas and nays, with the political affiliations of those voting for and against the bill, to which we call the special attention of our readers. The 7rilwne is trying to shirk the responsibility of the enactment of that law, and would have their German asso clates, whose votes they desire for Lincola, be- lieve that the bill in question is not a republi- can measure; but a perusal of the statement, printed elsewhere, must convince any person that it is not only a black republican offepring, but was put throngh the Legislature upon the ground of its being s part and parcel of their party creed. That it was a bantling of that party is like- wise conclusively shown from the fact that, during all the time that it was at the mercy of the lawmakers, it was watched over, night and day, by leading republicans. The teveral committees to whom it was referred were com- posed of at least two republicans to one demo- erat, and the select commitiee specially ap- pointed to it the Inst finishing stroke consisted of four republicans and one crat—the latter being a person whose cedents were a guarantee that he would certain to favor the bill. Great care was in the selection of this to allow a democratic — ms this city, who represented interests to be affected, a place on the committee, where they could speak for their constituents; but a — person from the rural districts, who knew no-— thing of the wants of the inhabitants of this city, was taken as the democratic member, and at the same time two republican members from the metropolis were placed on the committee, ia the face of Wie fact Gael Gieve were ia the Assembly thirteen democratig members to four | ie conclusive proof that it was under republi- can engineering at every step. On its fifal feven democrats favored the bill, whilst nine teen opposed it. A ‘The secret history of this bill is also proof of {te joint republican and blue stocking parent- age. It was sired by the sanctimonious Sabba- tarian Committee, brought forth by the b! republicans, and dressed and nursed by t! choice epirits of the party in the Legislatu until it was able to stand alone. The Sabbat Committee, with whom this bill originated, be- | fore going to Albany, called upon the mana- gers of our police and endeavored to persuade them to apply for and secure the passage of @ similar bill, and allow tbe fines and penalties to go into their fund; but it appears that they rejected this offer, and refused to add to their already heavy burden that odious ia- cumbrance. Failing with the Police Commis-, sioners, the committee posted off to Albany, and secured the agsistance of the leading publican members of both branches of the gislature. Their first step was to introduce bili “to increase the funds in aid of the Societ for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents,” thus attempting to make their blue law pop’ by incfeasing the charity funds. This bill, which, in its well guarded provisions, was no-' thing more nor less than a echeme to make monopoly of the Sunday amusement business, ’ was pussed by both branches and vetoed by the Governor ; and then came the bill which is: bow upon our statute books, which has,as we have shown, whilst it originated with the Sab- bath Committee, been placed there as a repub- lican measure. As.this law direcily affects the German popu- lation, and depriges them of many of the pri- vileges which thy have heretofore enjoyed, it is not to be wondered at that the leaders of the Puritanical black republican party are denying its parentage. The facts are, however, against them, and this is but one link in the long chain of evidence that the party is by nature pro- scriptive, and carry with them the same spirit tbat prompted the Puritans of New England to persecute peaceable Quakers, The Quakers of the present day are the quiet and inoffensive Germans, whose votes they are very much ex- ercised about at the next election. Let that _ class of our inhabitants weigh the subject woll before they decide to throw themselves into the embrace of the party that seeks to force every- body to breathe, think, act and eat by legisla- tive enactments. Licemse to Murder im New York. In his address to the Grand Jury at the open- ing of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Judge Ingrabam offers some judicious and instructive comments on the act passed last winter by the Legislature of this State so altering the law re- lating to capital punishment as almost to ren- der an execution for murder “impracticable.” One of the republican journals of this city na- turally defends the offspring of its party, and assails Judge Ingraham for presuming to com- ment upon it, the province of a judge being forsooth to interpret and administer laws, and not to animadvert upon them. ‘The law in question, however, seems to bid defiance either to judicial interpretation or ad- ministration. To say that a judge is not to comment upon a law, and particularly such 6 Jaw as this, is a novel doctrine, and about as absurd as to say that it is the business of a phy- sician to administer medicine and not to comment upon Its effects. If a judge bas not the right to offer an opinion about the effect of a statute, we should like to know who has. It is peculiarly the province of the judges, who are supposed to know the laws, to point out the bearing of any new criminal statute, © in order that the people may fully understand © its operation and determine whether it ) ought to be retained or repealed. If there is any bungling in a new law which renders it- self contradictory, or makes it conflict with other laws, it is undoubtedly the duty of a | judge who is called upon to administer it to point out the error, that it may be rectified by the next Legislature. The attack on Judge Ingraham is, therefore, wholly uncalled for, especially as this statute is of such doubtful in. in some important points, that “1t has already involved the administration of cri- minal justice in a difficulty so great that in some districts of the State persons now under conviction for murder, and subjected to a sen- tence of death, which fermerly would have | been imposed upon them, are now left unsen- tenced, because the judges are in doubt as to what sentence ought to be pronounced upon them.” Surely it was high time for some judge to expose this bungling act, and he deserves well of the community for having done s0. The Judge — takes the opportunity, in this connection, to mention the significant and suggestive fact that — since the law came into operation crime has — fearfully increased, and since the Ist of May the murders in this city amount to thirty. It is no wonder they would increase under an act which might justly be entitled “An act to in- of a piece with all the State legislation of the republican party, Their temperance laws have increased their Sunday laws generate vice and impiety, and their tiak- ering with the law of capital punishment is now swelling the catalogue of crime. The act was probably passed deliberately and purposely in the interest of criminals—a class s or of pardon, or of robbing justice in some way cf its vietim. The eflicacy of puuishawat pends upon its prompttude and its certainty,