The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-22

any interests that we may have in Central
America, further than the securing through it a
free intercourse with our Pacific possessions,
sink into comparative insignifcance. That object
is in a measure secured by the new treaty which
places under the guarantee of the United States
and Great Britain one of the most important of
the Isthmus routes There still remain two
other lines of communication, which the force of
political events will either throw absolutely into
our hands or which will be kept open to us by
arrangements analogous to those which have
just been concluded with Honduras The Dallas
treaty is, therefore, entitled to be considered in
the light of fair bargain, in which the lions
share falls to no one, and which, consequently,
leaves open no future chance of dispute
SECOND hAyD sIANDrR.-An obscure dirtv lit.
tie journal, with hardly any circulation, called
the Ne,rs, and supported by few miserable of.
fee beggars, has the following paragraph
The Times has had bout with the HERALD aud We
think obtained the best OF it, decidedly. If it did not
prove Bennett Wall street specula,or II showed him to
be what ia called regular Wall street sneak O.,
cevipg grs,uously portion OF the stock of any worth
lees new concern putting II into little life and ANNA
on quietly seng cut pockttng the proceeds and then
on The community, while he going through he same
process with some o'her bogus Of equal worth
essness and with the same object in view We say the
Times had the best Of It, for proved all this upon Ben
nett
There is not one word of truth in the whole of
The above statement Mr.. Bennett, the editor
and proprietor Of this Journal, has been connect
ed with the press of New York for nearly thirty
five years and during that long period he has
never received gratuitously any portion of the
stock Of any company, good bad or Indifferent.
He has never pulled life into any stock, nor had
any interest in any jobs or speculations whatever
The statement repeated by the Neus was nsinuated
by Wesley & Co., the stock gamblers in Wall
street, who own the Times; but they never dared
to make the charge definite enough to call for
denial. The rickety concern that has now taken
it up is hardly worth notice. 1t maintains
sickly existence through the efforts of a few
miserable creatures who think they are recon-
mending themselves to the incoming administra-
ton Of Mr.. Buchanan, and who hope to get few
paltry offices in this city. They will soon find
that they have been cropping in the dark, and their
thick skulls will be humping against an insur-
mountable obstruction before they are many
days older. There is no man in this country
more free from any stock gambling than the pro-
prietor Of the HERALD. He has never attended
to any other business for the past hrty-ive years
except the legitimate one of conducting, writing
for and managing his journal. If he has been
successful in this business it has been because he
has devoted his exclusive energy to it, and be-
cause he has steadily refused to have any con-
nection with any stock companies, speculations,
or lobby operations Of any kind whatever.
KANSAS AFFARs-A DESPERATE EFFORT OF
THE PRO-SLAvERY PARTY.-According to the
latest advices from Kansas, while yet they have
the benefit of the administration of poor Pierce,
the bogus authorities Of the Territory are making
their arrangements FOR springing their trap of a
pro-slavery State Constitution. Their plan is to
call packed convention, get up pro-slavery
constitution, and ask, upon the faith of it, i'm
mediate admission into As Union. But, I'M
fortunately, when this constitution and pc
ttion shall be presented to Congress the
Topeka free State Constitution will rise
up from the Speakers table to confront its
enemies; and thus it will devolve upon Congress
at last to decide directly between the issue Of
slavery or no slavery in the Territory. Thus,
too, the dodge Of squatter sovereignty will be
thrown back upon Congress from the burden of
which not even the Supreme Court can relieve
them, with dozen decisions upon dozen hum
bugging bred Scott cases.
What then? The responsibility will be with
Congress-most probably with the first session Of
the next Congress-and with the democratic
party. Mr.. buchanan cannot be affected by an
issue with which he has had nothing to do. How
soever the question may be settled by Congress,
IL will not affect him; but the solution will be
life or death to the democratic party. Nothing
less than life or death. Let Kansas be admitted
as a slave State or let the question of her adms-
sion remain an open question till 1850, and
through that campaign, and the result will be the
unanimous vote by the North, and an inroad into
the South, in behalf of the republican party and
" free Kansas" That's the Kansas issue with the
democratic party-for it is the party that is con-
cerned in its solution, and not Mr.. Buchanan.
His four years are secured. lie wants no more /;
but between these and the next four lies Kansas;
and the issue to the democracy is pro-slavery or
no slavery-life or death. Where is the chief
engineer
NV YORK QUARANTINE AND New JERSEY
no nep Eoverpor of Now Jersey Dir Newell