The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-04-30


leans with movesnts Of stocks, &c. refer 70 another
column Flour ooaHp~cd hrwa, especially The higher
grades though sone lees souve. while prices were
UNCHANGED Prone wheat 0rm, with sales
o aoutlero white al 81 r. and Kentucky do reported
al al So Corn less acve, but 6rm, with sales OF
Southern ye..ow Tsxc 76c. and OF Western mixed
TIC PorS VAS hrmer and more active with free sales In
two days ps arrive and on speculation at So Is
s27 20 for new mess ooing Al the Latter figure Sugars
were quite 6rm With sales OF about 200 hhds Coffee
wss also Grm with saos OF 800 bags al Ilc Nc
Freights we're irregular and engagements light To Eng
land rates for breadstans nominal Cotton was
tskeo for Iverpco! al "a cd per bale and I'd per h.
Popular ard Municipal Rights against Legts-
lative UsurpatiOns.
! One of the most important bulwarss of popu-
lar liberty that has ever been assailed, in any
form, under any pretext or through any uncon-
sttutional stretch Of delegated power, ia this or
any other free country, is that municipal sove-
reignty of the people of our cities 80 recklessiy
and bliDdly usurped by the Seward spoils and
pl.aBder mengers Of our late infamous and revo.
lutieusly Legislature. The insuferatle stamp
| scts and tea taxes which brought about the Re-
volution of 76, were rather mild offences against
the rights Of free people, compared with the
| atrocious code Of 1espotisn attempted to be fast
| ened upon this metropolis by the land sharks Of
our State Legislature, invested with the law
| making power for compensation term of one
hundred dsya
And what party is responsible for these in
famous acts of usurpstion, Who are they that
assume an extent of jurisdiction over the munic:-
- Of Ia xvN;c H. d.
ment of England would not dare to assume over
the city Of London, and which, if attempted by
the confederate authority over any of the free
cities of Germany, would be the signal for civil
war. What party Of political re ormers stands
responsible for these outrages upon our munich
pal rights Tell 1t not in Kansas-let not the
border rufians rejoice to hear it-tbat it is the
philanthropic, niger loving, Kansas bleeding,
slavery hating, 'free and equal" party of W. H.
Seward and his spoils and plumber mongcrs at
| Albany. Between the rant and cant of these
scheming demagogues and their practices what a
contrast Is berd Since the days of the good old
Puritans, who flying from the religious persecu-
tons of England to the wilds of America, set
| up the cody business of hanging Quakers and
drowning witches, we have had nothing more re-
| freezing in the way Of Puritanical consistency.
These bowling, grooming, weeping and shrieking
demagogues, who would arm even the women
and children of the North for resistance
to the death against the bogus laws of Kansas
have practically, within q fortnight. passed q
whole code of bogus reforms and outraged
usurpations for the benefit of this anti-Seward,
anti -black republican community OF New York
| city. 1890.
But desperate necessities call for desperate re
needles This rsyenoas horde of Seward spoils-
men, driven ignominiousy away from the Wash
ington lobby, had no other resource for the need
full supplies than the Legislature at Albany. Ac-
oordingly, In their fight from Washington they
halted at the Astor House, coucocted their pro
jects Of spolation, drew up those infamous bills
for the plunder Of our city treasury and the tax
alton and punishment OF this hereticsl communal
ty, and then proceeded to Albany to finish the
work Of despoiling and DISTINGUISHING US Such are
the bitter and poisonous fruits which have sprung
| up and npened within q few months from the
rotten debris of the old whig and democratic
parties under the cultivation Of the Seward spoils
IL plumber and niger equality party Of New
York
Who are the contrasting party, and what are
theyi The broken.up, defeated demorslised
spolls democracy. What have they been doing
while these .trocious proceedings Of plundering
and taxing and Furnishing Us have boen going
on at Albaoy, Worse than nothing The spoils
democracy have been as bus'ly engaged in wrsug-
ling, and fighting and drinking and caucusiog
The last three months they have devoted to this
exclusive business Purdy and Fowler, Sanders
and Sick!es, Hart, and all the Sachems, Saga
mores, Iroquois, Pottawatomies Blackfeet. Sics
ard Foxes, Crows, Soakes, and Digger Indians
OF Tammany Hall and the coal hole, cut up into
little squads aud chain gangs Of camp followers
and scsveDgers, have had enough TO do 10 look
after the spells Of the Custom House, as the pith
and the substance Of the dirty flag ends
of the New York democracy. They are
bcyood hope-beyond redemption Nothing
in the way Of relief 10 the city or the city 70.
vemmeus, or the taxed and pluodered people of
the city, or the State, or the country Gao be ex-
pected from the decayed and decomposed frag-
ments Of the once great and powerful democratic
party Of New York
Where. then, are we TO look for redress against
these combinations of Seward landmarks 90 the
one hand, and hungry democratic savagss on the
other. We can only look for relief, de,verance
and safety to the formation Of an independent
peoples party In the city and tbroughou, the
State party rallying together upon prao-
teal measures Of reform In the business OF lesis-
ladon-not for the rpoiIs Of the city or the Gus
tom House, bat for the good government Of the
city, the State and the Union This Ia our only
remedy. Who leads the wsys
AFFAIRS ID MKxIoo--Tbe recent advloes Ne
ceived from Mexico, by way Of New Orleans,
copfry, IN cverv particular our pro0no afio,a