The New York Herald Newspaper, March 17, 1861, Page 4

NEW vers HERALD. James onDON BENNETT, OFFICE X. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXVI... Bo. 15 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Kinc Lean, WINTER GARDBN, Broadway, opposite Bond street — Wire's Brcnet WALLACK'S THBATRS, Broadway.—Kyiours or tux Rounp TAMe LAURA KEBNE’S THEATRE, No. 694 Broadway.— Bevan SisTaas NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tur Owurr— Buia Bouomme. THEATRE. Chatham square —Crors or GoL>— sume USAN—PHANTOM LOVKK—InISH ASSURANCE. TRE FRANCAIS, 585 Broadway —Uw Monsten qut ont EA Feunns—Uxe auivunre anrae DUE FEU. "8 AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway —Day re ig ea Copiosrtixs. NTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall—472 Broad- aT mRsGUES, ‘Songs, Dances, &C —D1xixs LAND, MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No, 539 Broadway.— Boncs, Dancxs, Buntesques, &c. COORER_INSTITUTE.—Exuisrriow sy Onxcow Impiax ose Tuxin Customs, Cxrxmonixs, Dances, &c. CLINTON HALL, Astor Place,—Lxcrurs sy W. G. Dix ON THE ANDES ROPOLITAN HALL, Chicago —Unsworra's Mun- oun uy Brurorian Sonas, Dances, &c. New York, Sunday, March 17, 1861. The News. Since the administration has decided to evacu- ate Fort Sumter, Fort Pickens has become the centre of public attention. Reports, received from Washington, were in circulation yesterday, that a col’ision had occurred between the federal and State forces at Pensacola. These reports ‘were premature. Up to the latest accounts no actual hostile demonstration had been made on either side.- It is a fact, however, that the commanders of the federal vessels off Pensacola have been notified not to land any troops at Fort Pickens, or communi- ate with the shore. Should they disre- gard this notification, a collision will inevitably ensue, and as the Fort is invested by numerous batteries of heavy artillery, the result of the con- flict may be easily predicted. Nearly all the fami- lies have left Pensacola in anticipation of a battle. ‘The answer of the administration to the commu- nication of the Commissioners from the Southern republic will be transmitted to the mto-morrow. It is understood that the administration will de- clive holding any official intercourse with the Com- missioners. Nothing of importance occurred in the United Btates Senate yesterday. Mr. Douglas’ resolution calling for information in relation to the forts in the South, &c., was taken up, and Mr. Wilson moved as a test question to Jay it on the table. At the suggestion of Mr. Powell, however, the motion ‘was withdrawn, and the further consideration of the resolution was postponed till Monday. In ‘answer to an inquiry, Mr. Fessenden said a mem- ber of the Cabinet had stated that the Senate would finally adjourn in a very few days. Mr. Mason moved that his resolution with reference to the quartering of troops at the capital, but the Senate decided to go into executive session on the appointments. Our advices from Brazos Santiago, Texas, of ‘the 7th inst., state that 600 Texan troops still hold that post, and that 300 State cavalry were sta- tioned at Camp Buena Vista, twenty-five miles from there. The United States troops at Browns- ville on the 7th inst. numbered probably 500 men, nd there were between 300 and 400 more marching upon that place. The most ef- fective portion of this force consists in the cavalry and the light artillery, both of which services are of the flower of the Ameri- can army. Capt. Stoneman’s command and the Flying Artillery corps, which were there, are both imposing and dangerous, if they have a mind to turn their arms upon their countrymen. The ar- tillery was then making preparations to move from that point as soon as the light battery, with four other companies of artillery, should arrive from Fort Duncan. It is unknown to what point they move, as they leave on the steamship Daniel ‘Webster, under sealed orders, to be broken and discovered at sea. It thought among the officers that their destination is Pensacola. Many deser- tions from the United States forces were reported. The steamship Arabia, from Liverpool 2d and Queenstown 3d inst., arrived at this port last evening. She brings the gratifying intelligence of the safety of the Australasian, which had put ‘back to Queenstown, having broken two flanges of her screw. In the British Parliament affairs in Syria and the condition of the navy were the chief subjects occupying attention since our last advices. Im France the troubles between the Emperor and the clergy appear to increase. In the Se- nate Prince Napoleon had made an important speech on the Papal question. The Monifeur of February 27 represents the imperial govern" ment as highly indignant at the duties imposed on French goods by the Morrill tariff. We givea eummary of the article in our news columns. Austria has declared that she will never recognise Victor Emanuel as King of Italy; that if the French troops are withdrawn from Rome, she will replace them by an Austrian army; and that if revolution- ary movements take place in Hungary and Vene- tia she will instantly cross the Mincio. All is quiet at Warsaw. The funerals of the vic- tims of the emeute had taken place quietly, and the leading inhabitants had sent an address to the Emperor. Preparations were making for immediately be- sieging the citadel of Messina, the very last strong- hold of King Francis. The Piedmontese already occupied the heights around the city. The Arabia brings $1,400,000 in specie. The steamship North Star, from Aspinwall, March 7, with the passengers, mails and treasure that left San Francisco in the Panama mail eteamer of the 21st ult., arrived at this port last evening. She brings $815,524 in treasure. The news from San Francisco is unimportant. From some unexplicable cause our South Pacific and Central American files by this arrival have not come to hand. Among the news from San Francisco to the 24 inst., received by the overland express, and pub- lished yesterday morniag, it was stated that the eteamer Uncle Sam, with the New York mails of the lst ult., was overdue at San Francisco some pix days, causing much anxiety. The following extract from a letter of a passenger on board the Uncle Bam, dated Acapulco, February 18, ex- plains the reason of her non-arrival:—“We have had a very rough time on this side— dhuve lost one of our wheels and shall not arrive st San Francisco until the 4th or 6th of March, We expected to arrive there on the 24th of this month. ‘We lost one of our men overboard, and you must wot have any anxiety concerning us.” considerable business was transacted by both Dranches of our State Legislature yesterday, some «/ 1 of general interest, but much being merely Jcal io its bearing. In the Senate the bill limit. ivy the terms of officers in the State militia to fen cars was, after considerable discussion, to a third reading. The bill autho. riviog ‘the vale of the Quarantine lands waa also ordered to a third reading. ALvog the mattcrs of particular interest to our citizens, the bill for the alteration of the plan of the city, and @lso that providing for upon favorably. In the Assembly many bills had favorable reports, none of which, however, were of great interest. Among the bills introduced was one for still another railroad in this city. Another, but ineffectual, effort was made to institute o grin committee. oe ee Steamship Company have changed the names of their three new steamships to the Anglia, Columbia and Hibernia. The Hibernia, which is the sister of the Connaught, leaves Europe for New York on the 26th inst., on her first voyage. The steamship Yorktown, which sailed for Nor- folk, Va., yesterday afternoon, took with her among her cargo a large number of muskets, shells and other munitions of war. The cotton market yesterday was steady, and closed ‘without quotable change in prices. The transactions em- braced about 1,200 bales, closing on the basis of 11%c. a 2. Accounts from the Southern ports ¢ontinue to report a decline in the receipts. The flour market was firmer, with s good demand from the trade, while prices closed at an advance of Gc. a 0c. per barrel. Wheat was in good request, in part for export, and closed at about 1c. per bushel higher. Corn was steady and in fair demand, with pretty free sales both to the domestic trade and for export. Pork was unsettled and lower. Sales of meas were made at $16 623, and of prime at $12 60 a $13, Sugars were in good request, and at steady prices. The sales embraced about 1,300 bhds. Cuba, 163 boxes and 689 bhds. melade. Coffee was quiet, with limited sales at unchanged prices. Freights were more active, with more offering, especially for English ports, while rates were without change of importance. There ‘was a good demand for charter to outside ports, and seve- ral vessels were taken up. The Permanent Constitution of the Con- federate States. In yesterday’s Hzrap we published in ex- tenso a copy of the new constitution of the Con- federate States. We had previously published a telegraphic summary; but the document it- self, in detail, is sufficiently important to challenge public attention at the North. This able State paper proves that the men who drew itup are far from being the fools Northern politicians have been in the habit of regarding them. There is an amount of statesmanship in it which puts to the blush the bunglers who constituted the majority of the last Congress, whose principal measure was the Morrill tariff, the greatest mass of absurdities ever pro- duced by any legislative or deliberative body. The new constitution is a vast improve- ment on the old, preserving as it does all its valuable provisions, and introducing such im- provements as the working of the system and experience pointed out. This we say without disparagement to the sages and patriots who put together the old constitution, and would now, if on the land of the living, change and modify it on the same basis of justice and compromise. Their work was a miracle of human wisdom for the time in which it was achieved; but vast changes have since taken place in our political and moral, our social and commercial condition, which require new safeguards and guarantees for the liberty, fraternity and equality of white men, new checks upon corruption and arbitrary power, pew barriers to revolutionary fanaticism, anda full and clear exposition of what dishonest or ignorant Northern politicians have attempt- ed to obscure. It is the eagle renewing its youth, and casting off its old feathers for a brighter and better suit of the same kind. The President's term is tobe for six years, and he is not re-eligible. All will admit that this is a great improvement. In regard to this office the new constitution is more liberal to citizens of foreign birth than the old, at the same time that it guards sufficiently against canger. The seventh section of article two is as ollows:— federate States; oF a citizen thereof at tbe time af tho acoption of this constitution, or a citizen thereof born in the United States prior to the 20th of December, 1860, shall be eligible to the office of President: heifer. shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen Zara ® reaident within the limits of the Confederate }, as they may exist at the time of his election. There is the same liberality in reference to the Senate and House of Representatives. It is only neceseary that members of that Congress should be citizens and of a certain age. There is no provision as to length of residence or number of years after becoming a citizen. These provisions are calculated to attract worthy men of foreign birth. On the other hand, there is a sound and judicious restriction that “no person of foreign birth, not a citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed to vote for any officer, civil or political, State or federal.” The intention of this section is to prevent such legislation as in the Western States permits foreigners of brief residence to vote for State officers—a very objectionable system, which has contributed in no small de- gree to bring the country to its present de- plorable condition. Subordinate officers of the several depart- ments (except the diplomatic) are to be dis- charged only “for dishonesty, incapacity, in- efficiency, misconduct or neglect of duty,” and the President is obliged to specify to the Senate in writing “the reasons” of dismissal. This admirable provision will conduce,in an eminent degree, to the safety and permanence of the confederacy. Of equal if not greater im- portance is the provision which renders a two- thirds vote of both houses necessary for all ap- propriations, unless they shall be asked and esti- mated for by some one of the heads of depart- ments and submitted to Congress by the Presi- dent. This is an effectual check to the corrup- tion and swindling jobs which have disgraced our Congress for the last ten or twelve years, and have assisted materially in precipitating the disruption of the Union. And here are two other kindred provisions greatly needed:— All bills appropriating money shall specify in federal currency the exact amount of each ay riation and the Purposes for which it is made; aad shall t bo extra compensation to any public contractor, officer, agent or servant, after such contract shall have been made or such service rendered. Every law or resolution having the force of law shall bay dng but one subject, and that shall be expressed in By these wise rules lobby agents will be at a discount, the treasury cannot be robbed by fraudulent contractors, nor appropriations be tacked on to other bills in the shape of “riders.” Had the foregoing provisions exist- edin the old constitution, we verily believe that the abolitionists would not have gained the, power they now possess, and the Union woul have remained without dismemberment for a long time to come. But ‘there is another im- portant provision calculated to p great amount of evil. It is as follows:— _/ No person holding States shall be a momber of either house during hig tinuanoe in office, But Congrese may, by law, grant the princtpal officer in each of the executive depar' ‘seat upon the floor of either house, with the appertain’ oo any measures ing to his depart- 5 Ly a By this section Cabinet ministers ma; ad- mitted to a seat in either house, ey ” any office under the Confederate NEW. YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1661. - can expound and defend any measures relating to their several departments, though not enti- tled to vote, and where they may be iaterro- gated in such a way as to elicit any rasculity or double dealing, and so as to break up any corrupt echeme in the departments, In Eug- land the ministers must be full members of either the House of Commons or Houe of Lords. After their appointment to the Cabi- net, members of the House of Commons must resign, and be re elected by the people, which is a very wholesome regulation. The President cannot pardon “in oase of impeachment, which is an essential improvement on the old constitution. Any State may impeach a federal officer when his residence and duties lie wholly within the limite of any State. The rights of the States are jealously guarded, and hence the preamble runs, “we, the people of the Confederate States, each State sitting in its sovereign and independent character.” No chance of consolidation in the Confederate States. The principle of free trade is announced: “No duties shall be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry.” The new constitu- tion goes into operation by the ratification of five States, to be binding only upon the five States which adopt it; new States to be ad- mitted by a two-thirds vote, and Congress is bound upon the application of any three States to call a general Convention of all. the States to vote on amendments to the constitution, which must be ratified by two-thirds of the States, either by State Convention or the Legis- lature. The former amendments to the consti- tution are judiciously placed in the body of the instrumént under their proper heads, But the most important provisions of all, as regards the chances of a reconstruction of the Union, are those relating to slave- ry. The Southern confederacy do not fall into the error of the Convention who drew up the old constitution. They call a slave a slave, and leave no room for a shadow of doubt as tothe meaning of those sections relating to servitude. The African slave trade is prohibited, and European and North American prejudice is thus conciliated. As to the importation of slaves from the border slave States, that is left for the discretion of Con- gress, who can either impose a duty or totally prohibit. This section is well calculated to bring the border slave States into the con- federacy. The section for the rendition of fugitive slaves is the same as in the old consti- tution, showing that the South is fully satisfied with it if it were only carried out. The right of transit of masters with their slaves through all the States is distinctly guaranteed,'as well as protection both by Congressional and Terri- torial legislation to the rights of slaveowners in the Territories. Had these provisions been thus explicitly inserted in the old constitution, a dissolution of the Union by Northern fanati- cism and modern corruption or Southern fire- eaters would have been impossible. Mr. Seward, in one of his speeches, said the North did not know what the cotton States wanted, and thatit was time enough to take action toward reconciliation when the de- mands of the South were officially ascertained; and Mr. Lincoln has declared in favor of a convention to adopt amendments to the consti- tution. Now, by the unanimous adoption of the new constitution by the Soutnern Congress, the President, the Secretary of State and the republican party know what the South wants; and as there is nothing unreasonable in their demands, and as nothing less will satisfy the Southern States, the best eourse for the border States and all the other States North and South to pursue is to adopt this instrument of reconstruc- tion. As seven States are now out of the Union, which will not be represented in the conven- tion proposed by Mr. Lincoln, the only practi- cable mode of restoring harmony is the adap- tion of the new Southern constitution by three- fourths of the States in the mode required by our present constitution. We shall then have a perfect Union, never to be broken. Terre Times AMon@ THE JovrNaListic Dt PLomATs.—We notice with deep regret that our republican cotemporaries are in a bad way about the foreign missions. Befere the inaugu- ration of Old Abe the slate had been all ar- ranged, and a large number of New York edit- ors—Signor Jenkins Raymond, the celebrated geographer of the Mincio, leading off—packed their trunks for Europe. Matters were not quite so smooth at Washington, how- ever, and the old dodge of declining “any appointment ia the gift of the administration” was tried on with eminent success by the poet Bryant. Signor Jenkins Raymond goes to Washington, gets the cold shoulder, and returns to declare that he never had the slightest desire for a foreign mission— wouldn’t hear of such a thing for a mpment. All the others, except an attaché of the Tribune, who gets the post of Secretary of Legation at Paris—a delightfal berth, salary fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and expenses all the way from five to twenty thousand—have followed io Raymond’s wake, Can it be possible that Mr. Seward intends to treat the New York jour- nalists in this shabby manner? Are the mighty geniuses of the Tribune, Times, Post, World and Courier to be fobbed off with a miserable secretaryship? Is it because they are not brothers, or second cousins, or law partners’ with somebody or other, that their claims are to be thus ignored? It really appears so. It is very hard, very hard. May we be permit- ted to offer our mort sincere condolences? Tre Sour ty THE MaNcrACTURING BuSsLVEss.— We perceive that the States of the Southern confederacy are bestirring themselves in the manufacturing line, with a view to provide for their own wants in those articles for which they were heretofore dependent upon New England. Cotton mills, shoe factories, yarn and twine manufactories are being put extensively into operation in Georgia and other States. An association of Southern merchants is busily en- gaged in locating sitet for all kinds of facto- ries, with the assistance of competent engi- neers, where the indispensable water power can be made available. In the neighborhood Georgia, there are already estab- jand woollen mills, a tan yard and j, grist mills and saw mills, of the operations of which a description in another column. In New Or- ere fs Avery large factory at work in ianufycture of brogans, an article of im- Consumption on the plantations, and hitherto supplied by the factoriee of Lynn and other Now England towns. It ix evident that the Southern confederacy is straining every | point to make itself independent of the North cotamercially as well as politically The Rise of Nations—The New Italian | THE ADVANTAGEOUS Pogrriox oy Tax Nostu- Kingcom and the Southern Comfede- racy. Historians in ages to come will ponder over the remarkable circumstance of the Old and the New World having almost. simultaneously presented the spectacle of a new nation spring- ing iwto existence. They will compare the relative positions of those two nations that threw off the yoke by which they felt them eelves oppressed. They will, on the one hand, tuke into consideration the tyranny and ob- noxiousness of the Bourbon dynasty of Naples, which impelled the populace to welcome their deliverer Garibaldi with open arms, and on the other they will inquire into the state of feelifig between the two great sections of the same community which proved sufficient to make the one section separate from the other. The conclusion will be that both the Italians of the new kingdom and the Américans of the Southern confederacy were justified and actu- ated by similar motives in declaring their inde- pendence. It will be a happy thing if the historian can then say, that while the Italians had, in the achievement of their liberty, to resort to the sword and wade through bleed, the Americans accom- plished the work by a peaceful process He will see that Northern opinion differed so far from Southern’ opinion, and Northern in- stitutions from Southern institutions, and that the abolition fanaticism at the North was so outrageous, that the only road left open to the South was to secede and form a separate re- public. Fora time he will be able to trace the disastrous results of the secession in all directions, and he will find much to deplore in the dismemberment of the, greatest of all re- publics—the United States. By and by, however, affairs will assume & more promising aspect, and the loss of prestige ‘sustained by the shock of dis- union will gradually be regained. The South will have gone on with the developement of her natural resources—the cultivation of cot- ton, corn, tobacco and rice, the working her coal and iron mines, and much beside that the country abounds with—while at the same time she will have been preparing for an. ex- tension of her territory by the annexation of Central America, Mexico, and even Cuba. The North will have been making rapid strides in population and commerce, and looking for- ward to an extension of territory also, by the admission of Canada, or even the whole of the British North American Colonies, into her con- federacy. When these objects have been respectively attained by the two con- federacies, both will experience an aug- mentation of power, prestige and pros- perity. A similar movement may . be afterwards repeated by both, till in the end the whole continent of America will be divided between the two great confederacies. Then not only the historian, but the world, will ex- claim, great indeed must havé been that people from whose differences, and that republic from whose disruption, two such mighty nations could arise. Magna est libertas, et proevalebit. The same motives which induced the fathers of the republic to wrest the old thirteen colo- nies from the grasp of George the Third we now find actuating the people of the Southern confederacy in proclaiming their right of self-government. They found, as their forefathers and the Italians under the Bourbon dynasty found, that they were living under a government which was uncongenial to them. Therefore, when they found themselves encroached upon by the tyranny of Northern abolitionism, and their runaway slaves withheld from them in defiance of the Fugitive Slave law, and worse consequences threatening them, they resolved to leave the family roof, and set up housekeeping for themselves... A rupture of this kind in domestic life is alWays atteid- ed with unfortunate consequences; but with a nation such as ours it is a great calamity, and its causes always to be deplored. Neverthe- less, if those causes are reasonable, as in the case of the South, who can say that itis not better to part, and more especially when the parting may take place peacefully? And would it mot be the beight, not only of folly, but of crime, to endeavor to coerce the seceding States into remaining in the Union? We deplore the disruption of this glorious Union most sincerely. But there are reasons for it, and as long as those reasons remain, through the absence of proper amend- ments to the constitution, the Southern States which have seceded will be better under their Own separate government. To Northern fana- ticism and negro worship we owe the ruin which has overtaken us. God grant that the train of disasters we may yet be called upon to suffer may not be capped by the horrors of civil war—the worst fate that can befall a na- tion, and the greatest scourge that wickedness and folly could inflict. Tar Instrretion ror THe BLIND—ComPLatst or tHé InMatEs.—We have been called upon by a deputation of the blind graduates of the New York Institute for the Blind, who request the publication of a statement of grievances under which, as it is alleged in the document, they are suffering at the hands of the managers of that institution. The paper being too lengthy for the space at our disposal, we will state that the main point upon which the com- plaint rests is the fact that the manufacturing department of the institution, for which the State Legislature granted the sum of $15,000 in the year 1848, and in which the poor blind graduates earned a comfortable livelihood, has been shut up by the managers, to the great dis- tress and poverty of the blind operatives therein. The ground stated by the managers, upon which this step was taken, was the non- productive results of this branch of the insti- tution, and it appears that a bill was passed in the Legislature of 1859, authorizing the dis- posal of all the real estate owned by the asylum situated in this county, and under this act the manufacturing department was sold and the operatives thrown out of employment. They applied to the Legislature last winter for some compensation for the loss of employ- ment, but without success; and it appears that another bill is now before the Legislature re- specting that application, to which the signers of the document referred to allege that there is an organized opposition on the part of the managers. In addition to the abandonment of the manufacturing department, the applicants complain of injustice and ill treatment re- ceived from the managers. If these state- mente bo true, we trust that the matter will be prapetly investigated, and that the interests of this afffleted and helpless class of the commn- nity will be properly protected, e weet.—The complications of the country, which the republican vote of the Northwestern States did so muck to bring about, are likely to inure very mueh to the benefit of that seo- tion, whatever other portions of the country are destined to suffer from them. The effect of the Northern and Southern tariffs must in- evitably be to throw open three markets to the Northwest for the purchase of such neces- saries or luxuries of foreign manufacture as the people there may require, and they will, of eourse, avail themselves of the cheapest market. First, the operation of the tariff adopted by the Southern confederacy will admit foreign merchandise at a very moderate duty into the entire Northwestern section, by the Mississippi river and the Western railroads; and, second- ly, it happens that the very articles most ne- cessary to the people of the West are preisely those upon which the new Northern tariff im- poses a heavy and almost prohibitory duty, such as manufactures of cotton and wool, and manu- factured iron and steel—the former being absolutely essential for clothing, and the latter indispensable to agricultural purposes, build- ing, the operation of sawmills, and other ob- jects by which the great West is erecting itself into'a great empire. The third market can be found in the importation of British manufac- tured goods—the cottons of Manchester, the woollen goods of Leeds, the hardware of Bir- mingham and Sheffield—into the British pro- vinces, from whore ports they can be transfer- ted directly to the Western States by the great Trunk Railroad of Canada. No one supposes that, with these facilities to buy cheap elsewhere, the Northwest will seek a market in the Northern Atlantic cities, where a high protective tariff will, after the 1st of April, almost exclude the articles most necessary to its existence, or that its sagacious and frugal population will purchase the cotton goods of New England and the iron manufac- tures of Pennsylvania out of pure pa- triotiem or loyalty to the government at Washington, if they can get the same articles of foreign manufacture cheaper either in the South or in the British provinces. And there is another point to be considered. The operation of the Morrill tariff will put a stop to importations in Northern cities, and transfer them to the Southern ports, so that certain goods of foreign product cannot be had here at all after the present stocks are exhausted. Thus the Northwest is certain to profit by the division of the country; and it may be before long that it will find itself so independent of the Eastern States and the Atlantic States of the North—having two other and better mar- kets to buy in, as well as an outlet for its agri- cultural ptoduéts to foreign ports through the St. Lawrence and the Canada railway—as to suggest the advantage of cutting off from the Northern confederacy altogether, and setting up a new government for itself. Such are a few of the prospective effects of the success ob- tained by the abolition republican party in the election of Abraham Lincoln. Arter THE Iris Vote.—There were terrible times at the City Assembly Rooms on Friday night. Those mighty men of battle, the mem- bers of the Sixty-ninth regiment, assembled to receive a flag made of “beautiful green silk,” and a sword of honor presented by certain citi- | zens who modestly withheld their names from the public view. This flag and the sword are presumed to typify the appreciation of the public of the course of the Sixty-ninth in the matter of the Prince of Wales. Mr. Stout, late City Chamberlain, was moved to express his approval of the regiment’s action, and Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher made a wonderful speech, pitehing into the British governo- ment without stint, completely crushing out the British “lion, bi out his old friends the Greeks and, and work- ing himself up to~ the highget possible pressure. Of course there was an immense amount of enthusiasm—so great at one period that, as one of the repotters states, “fears were entertained for the stability of the building.” It remained firm, however, and the heroes went away as pleased as a child with a new toy. Now this demonstration is altogether unim- portant per se, and we have only alluded to it as another example of the avidity with which @ certain class of politicians seize upon every little thing and turn it to their purpose. Out- side of a few military men nobody cares about the Sixty-ninth regiment or its Colonel. Just at the moment of the Prince’s reception people said that the regiment displayed very bad taste in refusing to parade; but the whole affair was soon forgotten. Now it is raked up by the Tammany politicians to help along their slate for the charter election, when Wm. D. Kennedy is to run for Mayor. In the event of Kennedy’s success, Stout is to be Chamber- lain, and the City Assembly demonstration is nothing more than an attempt to bamboozle our Irish fellow citizens and get their votes. Did that circumstance ever occur to Mr. Meagher? Tur New York Vessets Seren py THe STATE or Grorota.—On the 25th of this month the two New York vessels seized by order of Governor Brown in the harbor of Savannah, as «reprisal for the arms purchased for Geor- gia, which were taken possession of by our Metropolitan police, are to be sold by auction; and up to this time Superintendent Kennedy has not delivered up the portion of the arms still in his keeping. These veerels are the pro- perty of New York citizens, whose interests will of course be sacrificed if the Police Com- missioners continue in their obstinate course, and do not deliver up these arms to the agent of Georgia in this city. Should the vessels be sold, as ordered by Governor Brown, the own- ers, we suppose, will only have to look te the Police Commissioners for indemnity by an action in the courts of law. The Slave Trade. FSCAPE OF CAPT. LATHAM, CHARGED WITH SLAVE TRAFFIC, Captain Latham, alice Raiz, who hae been in prison since the Sth of January, hae cacaped. He was charged with the capital offence of taking slaves from tho const of Africa on board the slave ship Cora, of which be ‘was master and part owner, and which was captured by A government vessel with slaves on board. It appears that he was takon from prison by an officer to a clothing store on Broadway to make some purchases, as allege, on Friday evening, and while thas ongaged he succeeded in making his escape, thus defeating the onda of jastice and rendering nogatory all the expense incurred by the government and all the labor of the United States District Attorney's office. —e The North Briton Outward Roand. Portiaxn, Me., March 16, 1861 ‘The steamer North Triton eailed for Livorpead ot half met four o'clock this afterscon The Histery of the Legislation for a Breadway Railroad, The Barly Attempts Before the Common Counell and the Kxcitemont in New York, cs Pleadings in the Courts and the Decisions of the Judges. The Legislature Besieged by the Broadway Patriots. THE BRAUDS IN THE ASSRMBLY I$ 1956. a SCENES AND INCIDENTS IN THE PAST CONTROVERSY Bey he, ae ALuayr, March 16, 1861. ‘The great, throbbing and absorbing topic of legislation at the present time at Albany, taking precedence of every other and all subjects, is the struggle on the one side tor the passage of the bill for a railroad in Broadway, ‘and on the other side to defeat it. The contest for the possession of the Bridge of Lodi, where life was freely offered to accomplish victory, scarcely equalled in intensity and upyielding the strife now boing maintained for victory by the forces, At the State capital our national troubled are secondary; and if the news should arrive that thé famous army of fifty thousand men, of which Président Davis is at the head, had invaded the District of Columbia and caused the second Washington to again resort to the Scotch cap amd military cloak, and take the midnight train for other re- gions, the Broadway awarm would scarcely suspend their hostilities for an instant to learn the news or see if any- body was hurt. Sides are taken on this vital question with the sternness and determination of the Italian feuds, in which the blood itself became tainted with the virus of hostility, and was capable of transmitting its hostile prim- ciples. Even the hotels are seemingly divided on this great, and absorbing issue, Congress Hall being the headquarters of the railroad peoples occasionally sprinklea with a deputation of indignant property holders, while the Delavan may be considered the fortress of the anti-railroad element, and the ancient wars of the houses of York and Lancaster are being enacted ovor again in principle upon this great civic warfare, Broadway seems to be considered by many as hal- lowed ground, and, like the ancient temples, its wor- shippers view with the holy horror of a sacrilegious dese- cration every attempt to disturb or change in the least ite long and well settled characteristics and marked fea- tures as the busy and exciting centre of the myriad life of the commercial lis. At first it would seem remarkable that such @ spirit of resentment should exist at every effort to lay violent hands upon this famous show ground of city life; but it will not be deemed remarkable if we consider the various by the Proposed change. — Broadwa: as a vital clement iuto the existence of every New Yorker; all are there at Cg ge of the day, . and participate in the excitement and vitality which it exhibits. idea of thinking of the city of New York without a Broadway is an impossibility for any Knioker- bocker, native or naturalized. He cannot consider it for a moment, If the jnteresta and the necesst- i, nee and Ly ee eg are co ated in connection wii metropolit Ife could be exibodied o> thet fs saletause ht be as- sailed, there is sce & man, or, one add, a woman either, who w not turn out in its aefence. has alzoa ad ot neon repair, 8 our are where parades: civic forees are to be found in coraaiale exalbtiangye the Genaeroren parts of the world the grandeur of the ment of organization and power. On those occasions hundreds of thousands come tig ood ag oe8 peoeen A , piazzas, y a lamp posts and every available position for sightseeing, pert athe magnificent demonstration such ie knows only in New York. On these occasions all the vehicleé are turned out of Broadway, the street swept and in holiday attire, with flags flying, music ‘ing, and York licates: ‘as the greatest Western World. The very bi noise, of vebicles, concussions and strife in hours of activity are dear to her citizens, and would not be parted with on any terms. Like the din of battle to the soldier, they seem to stir the pulse and quicken energies all that are brought within their indluence. ‘of a raitroad in Broadway, travelling ‘on over her to the neitl eight or, the ieving way, churchyard quiet and Bapiey sneadd ty Sere ee vations Woaecetne ter, they make a great mistake in estimating the views of the citizens of New York. The great popular idea in regard to that street is bat it should preserve its character as the one great boroughfure of the cre ery, waes and un- «bapgeable. All are content that the hand of change shall ve laid every where else, but hundreds its wnce in Broadway. It is this spirit and feeling that ‘ caused guch turmoil and excitement whenever attempts have been suade-by the specuiators-to lay Gee Mande upon street. ‘The of the efforts that have been made to lay a alieoad "x Wreateny Sera coed the most ni and interesting chapters of the events in the and.a review of the matter th kind during the summer of tha in the secret supposed for would be so bold as to atte demonstraticns that on by HE Turee or (Placed in operation prior to streets; but horse cars were stilla by the old Knickerbocker as an hts and a sort of a nuisance to be toie- y could not avoid it. The plan for se- was being matured in secret coun- iy Weeks previous to the demonstration at the City. Hall—the knowing ones moving about with the ut- most . At length their arrapgementa were com- pleted, fires all set, the ammunition all agrand contest for the coveted prize The resulution was ixtrocuced in the Board of Aldermen by Oscar W. Sturtevant, the representative from the Third ward, ime ‘died suddenly a te ‘Astor not ioe incorporators less individuals u Jacob Sharpe; John Anderson, tobseconist; 0. Sullivan, and several other patriots whe bavasince figured in New York—aad referrea to a special committee, of woich Sturtevant was chairman, and, as the opponente say, a packed committee. The committee reported in favor of the grant on the 19th day of Novem- beg, 1852, and the resolution was on the same evepivg. The property holders om the next Spohed their eyce with amazement when intelligence in the papers. The resolution was sent to others led off in an mittee to whom it was the lett 3R5st, a Mayor K: id, being Ryd owey legislation, vet it, pine ng his weio on the g that the bill passed posed no compensation, whilst a liberal offer had made, . The Common Council were abont to pass it over eto, when Jadge Campboil, of the Superior pplied to, and he granted an injunction, com- 6 Aldermen not to vote upon the sub- ject. 1@ injunction was served on the 28th day of December, but om the next o Board of Aldermen met, and, amidet the excitement, denouncing in bitter terms the action of the courts as n tyrannical ion by the judiciary of the legisiative functions, the measure notwith- standirg the injnnetion. ‘the Aldermen voting for the reaolution were immediately arraigned, like State pris- oners of the oléen time, before the bench of J adges, com pored of Oakley, Duer and Sanford, who bave now gone to their final reat; Campbell, who hae gone into rural life n the Mtvego valley, and Emmet, now quietly practising his profession. e court rooms were crowded to almost suffocation with the partisans on both sides; the Park fairly swarm pg with excited crowds drawn thero by the intensity of thefetruggle between the courte and the municipal legis- lature. ‘Thove in the court rooms will never forget how fie Prinee Jobn Van Buren, Bronson and Beardsley led the onslaught against the martyred Aldermen, or vigor- naly Charles O'Conor, David ludley field and Edward Sanford (the latter pow dead) defended the heroes of the Gity Hall; how, wey of the law was vindicated, and the tlaming sword of justice fell upon the offending Folons of tho Common Council, and they were adjudged to be gull imprisoomnt and to pay Ri and seven er Aldermen, exce one who apolo- ve dollars und one handred costs. Sturtevant they affirmed the history. But the legak n abble over this afar, nt the wed over the eto, ct the Mayer at onee, and Aa ie arpe o2 ane side aud pened to the\Court of cals; bi jdgment of the i Ali these ening ese