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NEW YORK HERALD. JAMCI oordoh bkmivbtt, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. ferriOB N. w. OORHKR OP NASA AC AMD FULTON BT9. Tctaux XX If*. TO amusements this evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth itreet ? LupiA di StAMMKHMOOB. ?ROADWAY THEATRE, Bntdmj-T? Wire? Th? Bu??t>o Bci.NO. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery? Roa Rov? 102-Wool Bbai.br BURTON'S THEATRE, CUnkti itraei ? Accra vatino 8am? Black Swan? Wandbrino Uinhtbll. WALLACE'S THEATRE, Broadway ? John Bull ? Thb fUCHIII Tav?ht. AMERICAN MUSEUM? Afternoon? Hot Cobn? Ioha voi>'h Comb. Evening? Uo.nbsty, tub Bbst Foucv ? Tub Boddlb Budded Room. WOOD'S MINSTRELS. Mechanics' nail? 472 Broadway. BUCE LEY'S OPERA JJOUSE, 539 Broadway? Buca Ui i Ethiopian Opcra Tbovfb. PBRHAM'S BURLESOUE OPERA HOUSE, M3 Broad Way- Ethiopian 1'BRk<T1im ancls. ?MPIRE HALL, 596 Broadway? Panorama or Europe. New York, Monday, March I'd, 1833. To Adwcrtlacr*. 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The Hran.T) (printed in English and French) will be fohUsbed at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies to wrappers, sixpence. Subscription* and advertisements for any edition of A* Nbw Yoke Herald will be received at the following fiaaes in Europe:? Eivkr POOL. . John Hnnter, No. 2 Paradise street. Jmvoi Edwards, Sand ford & Co.. No. 17 CornhlB. " Wm. Thomas A: Co., No. IB Catharine stwet. fin -Livingston, Wells k Co., 8 Place de la Bourso The contents of the European edition of the Hh*ai.d wiB embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at Bm e?ee during the previous week, and to the hour of fabUcatioa. Hewi for the Pacific. Bit***** ?"**? Mare this port tlllS afternoon, at 8 o'clock, for Punta The Nrw York Houlo ? California edition? contain toC All the latest news by mail and telegraph from all BMta of the world, will be published at eleven o'clock Bh morning. Agents will please send in their orders m early as possible. The Ki wi. Ho signs of the Pacific up to two o'clock this Wnlig. A graphic acchunt of the obsequies of Bill Poole li given in to-^jjVi paper. Our Rio Jaaelro correspondent alludes to the mis ling aloip oT-war Decatur. The Bteamer Maseachu. Deontur left Rio in company, bound for ?fce Pacific, and when a few days from port encoun ?wed* terrific gale, which ao disabled the former "?*- "h? pot back for repairs. It waa understood %fctn the vessels lert that if they were separated, fee one which ahonld reash the Btraite of Magellan feat should watt for the other. There Is a probj tfllty, therefore, that the Decator may have survived fee aiorm, reached the Btraita in safety, and awaited Ike arrival of the steamer to tow her through t-j the Paeiflc. We publish in another column th? reply of Lieu tenant Governor Raymond to the letter of Mayor Wuod, remonstrating against the passage of the bill teereasing the number and enlarging the powers o Ibe Board cf Commissioners of Police, mm in thj hards of a .ommittee of the legislature. Mr. Riy. mead has not studied attentively the provisions o! fee bill in question, but he baa carefully weighed lie objections of the Mayor to its enactment, and fee result appears to be, simply, that juit in pro, pertion to the opposition of Wood, the democrat arises the support of Raymond, the whig. The ?ayor is not inclined to make a paitf machine of Mte police force, but the Lieutenant Governor has nerkms misgivings that some of Mr. Wood's sue ?essors in office may do so. In faot, the so-cailsd ?eply is a mt large of specious trivialities, charac teristic of their author. Let the Mayor, n:wthat fee numbers cf the Legislature are in town, address hiaa>elf personally to them on the subject of gra tuitous legist uion for the city in general, and the police bill in particular. Last night a cumber of the membsra of tie L> ?Wature arrived in the city from Albany, and were wile ttt d at the Aster House as the guests of the Ten Govt mors. Another detachment will arrive to fey , when the i fficial welcome will take place. The gubernatorial functionaries hava completed the pro gramme of entertainment*, and it does not differ materially from tint of previous years, except, per teps, the addition of a trip to Btaten Island, to view toe Quarantine hospital, which is a new feature in Ike amusements. The North river is reported open as far a* Cjx ?Mkie. All that is wanted Is an old fashioned equl ?oolial gale to bnsk up the ice and open navigation This event always infuses fresh vigor throughout eity, the State, and consequently the entire ??untry. A brisk business season is anticipated ?nd extensive preparations have been made to meet it. We would direct attention to the letters of our Washington coi respondents. They are very inter Vtfltirg. Old Nassau Hall, at Princeton, N. J., was entirely b{ flre "n ??turday night, together with fee books, clothing, and furniture of the students. The gallery of pictures, however, a chol e atd rr^rj:ct,on- wm rescned- Th? ,om ?? ?Btinated at fifty thousand dollars, on which there H ^rt ?f 8lxt<en tboua4nd- Nassau Hall, ?e called in honor of the Prince of Orange, formed fee principal building of the New Jeisey or ^?Co l'g'' fjund?'l 1738, an institution fent bas maintained the highest rank among our ? "d between "hi<* Yale and JEss^ru hi" "iMed a ?enerou^ J"!1 lM??' 11 }" .eTfr bte? popular with th Benth, and numbered amotg its graduates Thomas Jefferson, John C. Calhoun, and a host or others xsxzsp*-* * ?*> Tfce argument In the eoee of the contempt of the Marine Court, published In the Daily Tim,., on the 16th of February, was concluded, belore Jodie cCarthy, on Saturday, by Mr. I! as teed, ounsei for e 'epcrter. The decision of the Court is re ?lived. We bave received late advices from the Braiils. Oar ecrrespcndcnt, writing from Rio Janeiro on >l'h of February, gives an interesting summary lnU,li?tnce- letter ?rL/ another column. Clund fU. k ?f ,the '*rltei Bnpreroe Court & ss.' X; r -r md melon d ii tb. Nonh rWer ' 08 AchlUea' rr'";i,h" 1121* t*il'en)a>'-y ,u Mid ? '?>? nwrj u ?Wfekrtd very douotful. Official KatW Nothing Manlfcrto? 1 Their !??? Principles Defined. We pulj^Bh to-day the ooq tents of a pamphlet emanating from tho Know Nothings of this city, Council No. 12, Fifteenth ward, explana : tory of their political principles and purposes as members of the new and great national American party. In the argument of this manifesto, and in the resolutions appended, it will be seen that this American platform of Council No. 12, is sub stantially the platform recently laid down by George Law, in hia letter to the new party or the Pennsylvania Legislature. Here the Know Nothings declare substantially, that a new epoch is upon us, aud that they have entered the field to provide for its necessities in the in troduction of a new order of things in the poli tics and the government of the country. To this end they propose to abulish and ?u pen-ede the electioneering corruptions of the old political parties ? their rum and rowdyism, and their system of trafficking with the foreiga elements of our population, and ail the little out side tactions of the day. They purpose to intro duce a purely American policy, in order to root out thope balances of political power in our elec tions known as Roman Catholics, Irishmen, Ger mans, and bo- forth. They propose to make the federal constitution their guide upon national affairs, and to adhere faithfully to the Uaioo, State rights, and the liberty of individual opi nion. They make no war upon any religion; but they are pledged to put down the interfe rence of the Catholic or any other ohurch, or of the clergy of this or any other church, in State or political affairs. They say that all churches must be reduced to the same level, of non-intervention in politics. They also insist upon the Bible as a proper book for the use of our common rchools. This Council No. 12 also advocates a liberal system of improvements of our rivers aud har bors by the federal government ? they advo cate the independence of CongreaB over all sec tional agitations? the total abolition of the ' spoils system of the old parties, especially as illustrated by the present administration; they urge, in view of the mighty swarms of Euro p<an emigrants now pouring in upon ub, some material modifications of the naturalization laws; and, upon the whole, at home and abroad they are in favor of "America being governed by Americans." It ???? ? us, though this is a decidedly re volutionary programme, that there is nothing very sanguinary about it. ThiSjtiew American party, in fact, so lately risen from the chaoe and effervescence of the old parties, is begin ning to assume a symmetrical and consistent shape, as a great progressive national Ameri can party. Before the expiration of another year, we have no doubt that its political prin ciples for the campaign of 1856, in every hole and corner of the Union, will be as clearly un derstood as the popular strength of th3 party. In the meantime, this new American organ ization, this spontaneous popular reaction, is multiplying its forces upon every side. Dur ing the last year, from Ma ne to New Orleans, and from Virginia to San Francisco, the Kiow Nothings developed a power at the polls per fectly astounding to the old parties and f ic tions. At the last fall elections in Massa chusetts, they polled upwards of eighty thou sand votes; in New York, upon the spur of the moment, one hundred and twenty-two thou sand votes; in Pennsylvania upwards of, one hundred and twenty thousand votes; while their tremendous balance of power thrown against the administration in Ohio, Ind ana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, has literully left the Cabinet aud their spoilsmen without a North ? or, in the choice language of Caleb Cushing, completely " crushed out " We suppose that at this day the new Ameri can party could command a majority of the popular vote over all other parties and faction* combined, old and new. We believe it, from the returns of nearly a thousand Councils in the State. We presume that they have been m iking a corresponding progress in the States around us. No such advances as th>>se could be made among the intelligent American masses, except upon a sound Union aud constitutional platform, such, for instance, as that of George Law, and the present manifesto. From this day to the last of next November, in State elections, the battle will be between this new American party and the combined odds and ends of the old parties and factions. The re organization of parties is rapidly narroviag down to this arrangement In New Hampshire the case is somewhat different. Th<>re they have four tickets in the Held ? the Know Nothing, the administration, the whig and th? free soil tickets. But even there the tight is between the Know Nothings aud the administration as the last vestige of the old order of things. The result, we apprehend, will prove it, very much to the prejudice of Mr. Pierce. The New Hampshire election comes off to morrow. Murk the result. It in the l>egiuning of the new scries of 1855. which is todevclope, far uiid wide, the irresistibltf progress of the Know Nothings. Virginia will follow towards the end of May. If the Gibraltar of the spoils democracy in the North should be taken to morrow. which is very likely, we may 1 >oli out (or the oapitulatiou of their S?ba*topol in Vir ginia as the next sacrifice, together with all their Southern capital and arms aud munitions of w ar. Such are the signs of the time*. Fvneral of Bill Pools ? Diseased Public Sbntimem-. ? To see the fuss and noise that is making about the death of the late 1'oolc. one might suppose that he had been a patriot, a useful citizen, a man to be proud ot. Instead whereof, as every one knows, be was one of a set of ruffians who have cursed thtB eity for many years ; and met hit* death at the hands of unother ruffian in a drunken frolic. Yet crowds assemble to see him buried. Meetings ar>' held to express bympathy for him : and the news papers are full of news ot what he sa:d a id what he did, and what the other members cf the ruffian band do or say. There is here grave cause for i-bame and sorrow. Public sentiment ninst l?e deeply diseased when the death of a m?n like Poole can create such a ! sensation, and the attendant circutnstan<x>? awaken such an interest ns to compel the press to minister largely to it. We < imhf ev?ry one of us to Icel deep burning shame for what is ^oing on around us. The cause, howovt r, is not here or there. It must be sought In the oM political parties? in the conciliates of the whig*, and the nightly conclaves of the democrat* ? when; mm of the class of those who murdered Hill Foole were taught tlirir power, and e?g. d on to commit by wholesale acts such as that wh cb cost him hia life. The Tart*; the Currency, and TnuJA The history of t^ia country record* no great er folly than thfet which has been exemplified in the tariff contests. For nearly forty years, American politicians have been divided into two parties, Protectionists and Free Traders, each during each other with the utmost viru lence, and each claiming that nothing short of the thorough adoption of its peculiar doctrines could ?ave the country. All this while, the 'wet has been that the country ? wbich was to be saved ? cared little or nothing about the ta riff; was most slenderly interested in Us provi sions; and would have got on equally well un der either school of political economists. When this has been said ? as it has occasionally? poli ticians have scouted the idea, and called atten ticn to tbe vital importance of the tariff contest n Great Britain; inferring of course that it was equally momentous here, and forgetting or choosing to overlook tbe notable fact that la England free trade meant cheap bread, where as here its warmest adherents could only claim that it was a judicious commercial system with out particular hold on public sympathy. Iu u><: one country, every man lelt himself directly coi cerned in its attainment; in the other, It wan ouly by a process of abstract reawuing that its advantage couid be explaiued, ?nd by an indirect and barely perceptible change in values that its working coald be felt Yet politicians, on the one side as well as the other, have striven might and main to make it appear that the people's welfare depended upnn a cor rect choice betweeu the two systems; aud have actnally succeeded in persuading several thou sand intelligent creatures that such was the care. This is a faUacy worth exploding, and a very hasty glance at past h/*tory will do it. From the acknowledgement of t?*? independence ol the United States to the brea^N0# ou* 01 *^e war in 1812, Europe supplied this country with manufactures. No one audibly object 40 111 arrangement which seemed to consist of a exchange of raw produce on the one side for manufactured goods on the other. Before the war broke out, the commercial quar rels in which the United States were in volved had given an impetus to home manufac tures; we find the customs duties falling from $16,000,000 in 1808, to seven and eight jplllione in fallowing years and finally to $5,000,000 and $7,000,000 in 1814 and 1815, and of course the consumption being if any thing increased during the same period, the dif ference was supplied by the factories in the States. Iu 1816, after peace had been declared, a rush of foreign manufactures took place, no lecu than $36,000,000 being paid for duties that year. In terror and ruin, the manufacturers hastened to Washington to implore relief, or, as they called it, protection against these fo reign importations. It was askiug the country to put its hand in its pocket and pay bo much to Peter and Paul, because Peter and Paul were likely to do a bad business But tbe Fourteenth Congress found affairs in a shocking condition all over the country in consequence of the war. Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Lowi'des and many others agreed to do what they oonld to relieve the manufacturers and traders, and for their accommodation, a tqlera blj high tariff was passed, and a national bauk established. The former did not a+'t*in its ob ject, of course, no protective tariff ever did ; and the bank affording facilities to merchants, th?* importations continued to be large, and in 1818 and 1819, a financial . revulsion was the consequence. Again the manufacturers and merchants ( rati to Congress for help, and Monroe, who, in 1820, was about entering on his second Presidential term, espoused their views warmly. He was elected ; but when Congress came to legislate on the prevail ing commercial distress, it was found that the free traders ? as they begun to be called ? from New England and elsewhere were In ft ma jority. Mr. Clay aud other politicians who had their fortunes to make took up the question of protection to home manufactures with great zeal, and an active agitation was kept up throughout the country. And though under the act of 1816 the importations had fallen off from $36,000,000 in tha year to $13,000,000 in 1821 and $17,000,000 in 1822, io consequence of the prevailing financial embarrassments, thns proving if anything could be proved, that it was not because the tariff was too lo v that business did not thrive, Mr. Clay suc ceeded early In 1824 in carrying his protective tariff, in opposition to Webster and the New England men. The depression of 1818-9 being over, busi ness began to revive, and the revenue from im ports again increased in 182G to over $23,000. 000. Tbe manufacturers of cour?e claimed that tbey bad uot protection enoagh, and in January, 1827, they soon brought forward a bill to raise tbe rates of duty still higher. Itwa* defeated in the Senate by the casting vote of John C. Calhouu, and a temporary stringency in the money market reduced the imports that year. I'y this time, interests had undergone some change. Manufactures h id been established in i New KngUnd wboce citizens therefore became j high tariff men ; while the Southern States went, as they said, for free trade, that is, a low tapff. In 1828, the mercantile com munity having recovered from the embar rassment of the jear previous, the imports kept up. tbe customs duties in tnat year being a? hipb as in 1826. Aga>n tbe manufacturers, who bad thoroughly enlisted the support of the Northern aid Eastern States, demanded more protection, and got it. But, strange to say though the art of 1828 was so oppressive as nearly te rou-e a rebellion in tbe South, in ?our years after its passage, the revenue from duties was higher than ever. Jackson's election wa? claimed as a triumph by the free traders, who instantly began to nttack the tar fT in detail. Toe duties on t*'a, coff*e, salt, and molasses were reduced at the Brst session of Congress under his admlnintra tioo But it was not till 1832 th.it John Qui ncy Aosms reported bis bill ndnciog the taritl throughout. This tapir, which became a law in July of that yar, still affirmed the principle of protection while it reduced the duties levied on all articles not competing with American in dustry. It dissatisfied every one, however, and Mr. Clay propostd a compromise bi'l which i rotided f< r a ^rivlual diminution of the duties during a period of ton years to a unl totm standard of twenty p<r cent on a hum 1 valuation. It passed Congress by a sm ?ll ra ? jorl y, ai d l ?carr,e a law ia Murch 1H33. It ? a to take t flict on aLd af'cr 21st December, IK. 3. J ifr?e it d d fO, Presid- nt Jacket i remrrod tU d< j vsiia iKin the United Sutea Bat*. , Then began the contest between the United States Bank aid the State Banks for public favor ; etch endeavoring to make as many friends as possible by discounting as largely as and more largely than its means would allow. From the beginning of 1834 to the end of 1836, when the contest was determined in favor of the State banks, the bank loans and discounts rose from $324,000,000 to $457,000,000 ; and as a matter of course the imports of foreign goods rote at the same time from $126,000,000 to nearly $190,000,000. This movement received a still greater impetus when the deposits were looged in the State banks, thus giving them a semblance of financial strength, and tempting them to enlarge their line of discounts. In the year 1837, they reached the enormous amount of $525,000,000 ; but also in that year, all the New York city banks suspended pay ment, and moet of the financial institutions of the country followed the example. The criais was hastened by the specie circular requiring debtors to the general goverament to pay in coin instead of paper. But the expansion of the lour last years had rendered a crash inevi table. The revulBion operated directly on the im ports. In 1836 they had nearly reached $190,000,000. The year 1837 began on a still more extensive scale ; but the revulsion put a stop to the purchases on this side, and for the whole year the imports wore only about $141, ? 000,000. Matters went on in the same way for several years. The banks contracted their dis counts, the imports grew less and lesB. Presi dent Tyler vetoed the Bank bill, and the Bank, rupt law was passed ; but no change took place. It might have been supposed that the per fect parallelism which had been maintained for years between the bank issues and the imports ? while the latter had fluctuated quite indepen dently of the tariff, often rising when the lat ter was high, and falling when it was lower ? it might hive been supposed that this would have c ^vinced the people that alterations in the ta^ff ' not the remedies for periods of com mercial cT^reM. But Mr. Clay and others, who had politick t0 Bervc' kePl the . " ip * -<4?atly before the public word Protection con. * . " ^ , ey e, and men who were ca?fr,f cau*ht at the straw o! comfort. The" wanutacturers of . 4 opp their fol course were as eager as ever U. ? low-country men tax th( mselves for thJ*1* ?)flne Accordingly in 1842, Mr. Clay's compi^?lBe tariff having eerved its ten years, and the avfr' rage duty on foreign imports being twenty per cent, Mr. Tyler signed a new tariff avowedly in order to afford protection to American man ufactures. The first year of the new tariff witnessed a great falling off in the imports, which fell to $64,753,799. But the very next year ushered in an improvement, and by its close the imports were larger than in the last year of Clay's compromise tariff. If anything could hftte convinced the Tariff men of the utter folly of their principles, it was this. The country understood the mat ter plainly enough by this time, and one of the first acts of the new democratic President, James K. Polk, waa to advise Congress to enact a new tariff, reducing the rates of duty. The Pennsy lvanians and the Lowell and other manu acturing men set np a dismal howling at being placed on the 'Fame footing as farmers, lawyers, tailors and carpenters; but the President was firm, Congress was clear, Robert J. Walker was prompt, and the new tariff was passed ifl 1816 It has lasted till now, and not the least of the ludicrous blunders to which it has given rise has been the notion studiously circulated by tbe protectionists that it was a lree trade tariff the fact being, as every one who chooses to ex amine it will perceive, that it is calculated in ordinary times to give the government a surplus of from five to ten millions per annum, chiefly made up by taxing foreign goods in order to keep up the prioe of native manufacture*. Twen ty-five per cent, or five per cent higher than Clay's compromise tariff of 1833, would per haps be a fair average of the duties it imposes. Yet notwithstanding this onerous tax, the banks extending tbeir loans, the importations increased from $146,000,000 in 1847, to $304,000,000 in 1854; or at the rate oi one hundred per cent in seven years. This unexampled increase is at once explained by a reference to the bank ta bles which show that during the same period, the bonk loans and discounts swelled from $310,000 000 to $607,000,000; but to those who look to the tariff as the mainspring of commer cial fluctuations, it must be totally inexplicable. If tbe Senate had not rejected tbe late tariff bill passed by tbe House, or if both bodies hod paid attention to thiB important business at an earlier period of the session, the present tariff would have undergone a reduction which would have prevented tLe accumulation of a further surplus in the treasury. It is difficult to say what influence the Know Nothing doctrines m?y exercise on the tariff question ; in some parts it is said that they have allowed the manufacturers to imbue them with the narrow commercial theories of thirty years ago ; but, on the whole, it seems probable that the next Congress will pass a tariff bill in form analo gous to that of the House bill of last session. No one, save the fossil remains of Mr. Clay's defunct party, and those who like the manu factures have a personal intercut in the impo sition of high duties, denies that tbe tariff ru^bt to be reduced so as to produce no more revenue than is required for the wanti of the government. It is a question which is no longer susceptible of debate among enlightened m< n ; bas been discus-ed, decided, adjudged, and laid upon the shelf together with the slave trade, tbe national bank, and nullification. Credit is the true measure of trade. Any child can understand that a boy can oaly buy as n ni<y toys or books as he has money to pay lor; but it seems tbat many fill grown adult*, ray legislators, cannot be brought to under stand that this is the case on a large as well as a >m dl scale, and that the purchases of tho merchant must necessarily be in proportion to the extent to which the bank will do paper for him, and for his customers who buy from him. Illo< kht ads, accidentally and unwisely indulged with the use of types, have said th%t it was not so; but that the purchase* of the imrcbant mould be greater or lesa In propor tion to the duty levied on them by the State; nddit.g in their unspeakable stupidity, that as a twenty years war would be likely to build up manufactures and thus prove an ultimate bene fit, there wai no reason why the same end should not be attained by a protective tariff without tie war. Bat, most obtuse of duuder brat's! a turiff, to exclude foreign rmnufac tires a a war would must be absolutely prohibitory; aitd where is tiw revtnae to ? me from ? The Central Park l?Du|<r. The community last week were astonished to find in the proceedings of the Board of j Aldermen a report of the Committee on Lands and Places, recommending a concurrence with the Board of Councilmen to reduce the area of the Central Park. Everybody knew that the Board of Councilmen had never expressed any opinion or taken any action on the subject, and it was not understood how the committee of the Board of Aldermen could advise a con currence in a measure which the Board of Councilmen had never sanctioned. The mystery is explained npon an examination of the papers It appears that the Board of Councilmen of the year 1854 bad, on the 13th of March of that year, pasted such a resolution, since which time it had been allowed to sleep, public opinion being too decidedly favorable to the Park to allow speculators to interfere with its dimensions. The Committee of the Board of Aldermen have dug up this report of the old Board of Councilmen, upon which the present Board ol Councilmen has never acted, and now propose a concurreuce. This appears to be rather queer legislation, and something like an unfair dealing towards the present Board of Councilmen, The committee of the Board of Aldermen do not in their report condescend to assign any reason for reducing the Park, but adopt all the reasons set forth by the Board of Councilmen of last year. This report contains so many glowing inistatements of fact that it requires great charity to believe that they were made unintentionally, and with good motives. It Btates that the area of the Park, excluding the State Arsenal and the Reservoir, will be 750 acres. This 1b not true. It will contain only C24 acres. It asserts that the number of build ing lots within the present area of the Park is 13,521. This is also incorrect. The number slightly exceeds 7,000. It affirms that the cost of the lots will average from $1,000 to $1,500 each, and that the total cost will be not less than fifteen millions of dollars. This is equally untrue. The average award of the lots can not exceed $750 each, and the total C06t of the Park cannot exceed $5,250,000. Deduct from the amount the assessment of $2,000,000 upon the adjacent property benefitted, and the ad dition to the debt of the city will be $3,250,000. This sum is payable by a five per cent stock> redeemable in forty- live years, the interest upon which will be $16^.600, which will be about fifty cents annually, J*hich each indivi dual in the city will pay for U8e an^ ?n" jtyment of the park? one of ti/? 1111681 111 tte world. Now, the proposition of the commi 19 to cut down this noble square from 624 *J)C acres, and to commence its lower tcrmin Seventy second Btreet, so high up that present generation can never expect to reachf it. Ab it now stands, with its terminus at Fif ty- nimh street, we of the present day may ex pect the pleasure of UBing it within three years after the report of the commissioners is con firmed. "Why have the commissioners not made their report to the Supreme Court? They promised it last year. Any five intelligent men acquaint ed with real estate would have made their va r luation in six months. The commissioners have been Bitting at $4 a day each for nearly two years. ThiB delay appears to bo a trifling with the public money and the public interests. If the Board of Aldermen should so far forget ts duty to the city as to adont the now recommenced, we must look to the Mayor for a veto. lie has the ambition to make this the best governed city in the world; it will conduce to his fame if he also endeavors to make it the most beautiful and healthy. The welfare ot three millions of people, by whom, within fifty years, this island will be covered, is at stake. Wnat will be the condition of this immense mass of human beings, three-fourths of whom must be the sons and daughters of toil, if the niggardly economy of the present day deprives them of a place of recreation covering this small area of 624 acres. Increase of toe Army? An Emecte amongst the Spoilsmen. ? A good deal of indignation is expressed by members ot Congress now in this city, in consequence of the report that the ap pointments of captains and lieutenants in the new regiments have been made, and that all the selections are of persons already in the army, and not one from civil life. It is known, that in order to get the four ad ditional regimentB bill through Congress, pro mises were freely made by the President, both j to Senators and members, that they should have a certain number of appointments for their friends. The measure was thus carried by open bribery and corruption. Now that these promises are supposed to have been violated, patriotic members are loud in their denuncia ! tion?, and threaten to have the law repealed j next Congress. We have very little ! sympathy to offer. They might have known that in any bargain they enter ' ed into with Mr. Pierce they would be cheated, if possible. Intuitively the dishono rable pa'.h has always been chosen by the ex isting administration; and in the present case, even the old nduge of " honor amongst thieves" does not hold good. If an increase of the army was proper, it was also proper that the most j efficient officers should be selected, instead of | need} banger^-on of political adventurers. But tbe truth is, Congress granted the increase, not because of any necessity, but simply with a ' view to tbe spoils. The President and his Cabinet recognized the propriety of dividiag tbe plunder, so as to obtain possession of it, and now having nothing further to ask at the hands of tbe defunct body which expired last Sunday morning, they repudiate their promises, and Jeff. Davis takes care of his pets. This may not evince a high standard of morality, but it un questionably exhibits a very characteristic phase of the Pierce administration. Astounding Revelation from the Spirit W orld. ? We publish to-day a curious com munication from San Fraucisco, which will fall like a bombshell into the camp of the spirit ualists. It appears thai some months since the ? writer, Mr. F. C. Ewer, of San Francisco, took I it into his head to prepare for the California Ptonter Magazine a Action of rather a bold >Dd original conception, undertaking to describe the sensation* of a djing man daring the moment of dissolution, and sketching the | ?ctne which opens to the soul as it enters u poo i's second existence. Some two or thr'Je months after it was publi.-htd. the writer was suiprised by receiving a letter from Judge Eduuiijds, stating that lie had copied the Aral part of it into the Novemi>er number o' the Faertd Circle, and adding the Mtoaiid'ng fact tb*t If (tb? Judge) had had several spirit Ml interviews with the defunct fictitious hero of the narrative, " John F. T^ng !" The best part of the joke is that the article contains as sertions in pbysioa which are impossible, and which, to minds lees credulous than those of Judge Edmonds and bis fellow dupes, would have at once suggested doubts as to the sin cerity of the writer. The value attached to the Judge's adhesion to the new sect will, after this exposure, be considerably lessened. If his present convictions have been arrived at on such loose evidence as the above, we can only say that however much we may admire the extent of his faith, we can have very little respect for his prolessional acumen. Opera News.? Little by little, light is breaking upon the subject of the late Italian Opera in Fourteenth street, and the intense curiosity of the public to know what became of the money is partially gratitied. In a depo sition made on Saturday in a case in the Supe rior Court, Mr. Ole Bull, the manager, swore that "Mr. Maurice Strakosch was furnished with $8,000 in dialts to proceed to Europe to en gage artists." It would appear that Strakosch found some otht-r employment for the money, for be did not do a* he agreed, sent no artiste to Ole Bull, and did not even write to him. The air of Paris is bo seductive, and so apt to affect the memory. From Paris it seems M. Maurice Strakosch travelled to Austria to visit his friends and relations ; but of the $8,000, not a word more iB heard. Here at all eventB is one of the leaks in the operatic business, and one of such magnitude as to have necessarily had some considerable share in causing the wreck. Eight thousand dollars at a swoop for a gentleman whose filial and fraternal affection impelB him to go to Austria ! It would appear from Mr. Bull's deposition that this Strakosch is reput ed to be a bad fellow, and Mr. Bull, whose own character for veracity is unimpeached, de clares that he would not believe him on his oath. But this has nothing to do with the mat ter. The point is that we have discovered where eight thousand dollars that were raised for the Opera went. Trip of the Susquehanna Round tub World. ? We publit-h in another part of to day's paper a very interesting communication from the pen of tbc Rev. Edward C. Bittinger, on the trip of the United States steam frigate Susquehanna round the world, under the com mand of Captain Franklin Buchanan. The Susquehanna left Norfolk on the 7th of Jane, 1851, and but recently arrived in Philadel phia, having visited in her cruise, among other places, Rio Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, Shang hac, Japan, the Sandwich Islands, Acapnlco, and Valparaiso. The communication to which we refer gives an accouut of the various visite of the squadron to Japan, with graphic descrip tions of the scenery of those islands and the miners and customs of their inhabitants. It alBO throws some light upon the revolution now dPin# on in China; and altogether, it will not fail to attract the attention of every reader. We have received several valuable presents, brought from Japan by the Rev. Edward C. Bittinger, Chaplain of the Susque hanna. Among th- m are a Japanese pamphlet, a coin, and ft handkerchief ? curiosities for which that gentleman will please receive oar thanks. ______________ THE f. * " ? . , , . . r 4 T B 8 T If B W BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS. Highly Important from Washington. THE OKTBND DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE ? RE.'." SONS WHY TUL MOST IMPORTANT DESPATCHES ABC HELD BACK? MISTAKEN DELICACY OP MR. SOULS IN REFERENCE To TUOSE PAPERS THE CZAR'S LET TER TO THE F&EBIDEriT- -HtNATOR DOl'OLAS ILL OF THE PREVAILING BPIPKMIC, ETC., ETC. Wahiunotom, March 10, 1865. The publication of the Osteid paper*, than far, pre sent* nothing new; the principal point* have already appeared in the Herald, and the only novelty they con vey at thU moment i* the formal official language is which they make their appearance. To withhold any part of thia more than interesting correspondence called for by Congress, and f etmlogly complied with by the President, must be marked not only a* a breach of duty on bis part, but a* designed t > mis lead the public mind. The correspondence marked "Bmphatically pri vate," which from time to time wa* transmitted to Mr. Soulr by the President, contain* the information de manded by the people'* representative*, and which it i* determined, if possible, by the manager* at the White House, tbey stall be cheated of. A* it la certain that General Pierce will not permit these papers to see the light, it la due to tbe public and to the repu tation of Mr. Soule, that the strong sense of delicacy which he i* laboring under, in refusing their publicity, ?bould be made to yield to the public interests and de mands. Enough i* known ot their content* to warrant the assertion that much of the embarrassment* and difficulties which Mr. t-'oul. hai been made to encounter in his negotiations as Minister of the United btates at the Spanish Court, have arisen from the impoesibility of complying with the President's private wishes, and at the same time in following out his instructions from the 8tate Department. It was some time before Mr. Soule became convinced that be was being made the instru ment of an unprincipled combination, at tbe head of which was placsd tbe Ameiican President. It* dis covery was followed by hi* letter of resignation, in which appears the evidence of liis unmistakable con tempt, in tbe utterance of this language? " Leaving me do alternative" (alluding to Marcy'* despatch of No vember 13, 1864,) "but that of continuing to linger here in languid impotence, or of surrendering a trust, whieh. with the impediments thrown in the 'way of it* execution, I would strive in rain te discharge in a man ner satisfactory to the government or creditable to my self; you will not be surprised at tbe course which a sense of dignity impel* me to adopt ? I resign my coin mission of Envoy Extraordinary, kc. , Ac." The " impediments'' spoken of are the two sets of instructions which Mr. Soule was required to act under? one private, coming from tbe Presi dent, the other official, written by the Secretary of State? each directing the pursuance of opposite policy; tlins leafing to Mr. fcoule no other alter native "but to linger In languid impotence," or to ? resign bis commis-inn a* Vnitel States Envoy. The particulars creating thoe 41 impedimenta" are what the country require and expect, and all the efforts now at work under the management of Cusbing, Forney and others to suppress them, in tbe imperfect publication* before tbe public, will not avail. In the private in strnctions of General I'ierce are to be found the i.<-eretr which have been instrumental in defeating Ameruan interest alroad, and in rasting a stigma upon AmHiicac consistency and reputation. If of any interest to the Courier and K "juirer of yiui C"J< correspondent wn-iid aak permission, through the IIuiaid, tore affirm his previous statement of an au tograph leiter hav:ng t>een rr?ived by tbe President of tbe t'nited States from the Cur of Kussia. as al?o of the Secretary of Mate bav ngin bis po-sessinn undeniable evl dence of the interference of both Eogland and Prance in tbe |olitical aliens of ttia country. Eor the future he w.Il refrain from n lleing any comments which hie letter* msy call forth from a jealous and laggard press. General Quitman liat r?'urn?d to thU city. Mr. Cochrsn*'t failure in not having prr-ent at the fusiot n eetinr a single man of 1he number of 1 distinguished terators1' wto w?re in caucus with him a fe ? d ? since while in Washington, and who eiprea-ed a desire ' to 'peak at Tammany Halt, Is unpleasantly felt hv seme prominent ofluenoiiers in this elty. Mr. Pou-las s in <il#l < sliion is much regret'ed, but it is bop d be has re covered ?r* th'e. the w .'Icil men of tho White Hons* eyrie t,[w n tbe r ) isrseter of lis d'sea<e wMe'i is pro* Bounced ' bun banian**, " at pre seat <^mt* prerai.nt