The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-11

olaily selfish as the people OF Philad iphia, this
reclamation in favor of tho Collins line fur
nishes strong condemnation of the hostility
manifested towards it by our Legislators
When the carrying trade of the country has
passed into the hands Of Foreigners, Congress
will perhaps discover that it has made fatal
mistake in not protecting undertakings which
were conceived and worked out in strictly Ma
| tional spirit
| The Late News from kansas-Disintegration
OF tho Opposition.
Our advices from Washington inform US that
the announcement of the result of the labors of
| the last "ksnsas Constitutional Convention" has
created quite 8 disturbance and excitement ia
the ranks of the striped and spotted opposition
The idea that foreigners and negroes are to be
permitted to vote in Kansas, although delightful
to Giddings ard the ultra free solers ia rather
bitter pill to some Of the more moderate re-
publicans, whilst the South American mem
bers who have leagued with the aboliionists
are in still more unpleasant position AS for
those democrats who have been led astray by
Douglas, il is believed they will get back on
dry land at the earliest moment. Under these
circumstances it is highly probable coufer-
| encc committee will be agreed upon, and Kan
| sas admitted under the Lecompton constitution
as the speediest way of disposing of the whole
| affair. Giddings required the incest manipula-
| ton in order to induce him to vote for the
| Crittenden amendment and his vote on that
occasion practically gave the lie to
! the professions of his whole life. He
now appears on the record as in favor Of the
admission of a slave State if the people desire
IT, Since that vote he has been FESTIVE; and
we are not surprised to learn that the last news
from Kansas has rendered him intractable He
will 60 for the niger now-woOl, ivory and all
The South Americans are equally divided in
their dislike Of the niggers and the foreigners
Hence they will bolt any further association
with the opposition; and as for those misguided
democrats who were induced to become dirt
eaters. they will no doubt be glad to change
their diet, now that an excuse is presented. 1t
is time the whole disgusting subject was got
rid of, or we shall soon have the area of free
dom enlarged IN Kansas so as to include
amongst its voters not only foreigners and mig
gers but mules and jackssses.
The position held by tho President Is daily
becoming stronger. He recommended Congress
at its meeting to get rid of the question at once
by admitting Kansas, and thus localizing all
those subjects which for years had been
thrust forward and unduly msgnifed Once
admitted and the excitement would be con-
fined to within her own borders This is the
position taken by the administration, and it will
be carried out Notwithstanding all the efforts
Of the negro worshippers and disappointed Office
seekers to prevent it II is very probable, as
the Convention practically asserts, that niggers
arc ~ intelligent as the rest Of the population
of Kansas, and that foreigners just landed are
as competent to exercise tho right of voters;
but this only proves the degraded character of the
population there, and the propriety Of dlsmissing
the question from the arena of federal politics
Douglas, Walker and poor Forney will be
the sufferers. Left high and dry, their fate is
melancholy. AS for poor Forney, we might
feel for him il his base derertion Of his friend
poor Pierce, ard his even baser desertion of Mr.
Buchanan had not rendered him more an object of
contempt than subject for pity. Send for the
the undertaken and remove the bodies.
WEEKLY NEwsPAPEHs.-Wc observe that the
New York Tribune has been compelled to reduce
the price Of advertising in the weekly, semi
weekly and daily editions there are those who
seem TO know that the reduction has not been
confined 10 the price Of advertising in these
journals. but has extended 10 their circulation
also. 1t is commonly reported, in this wicked
world, that the New York Hcolly Tribune has
lost within the past twelve months one half its
circulation. Nor Is the phenomenon any way
remarkable. Every five or Fix OF seven years
the philosophical or social manas of people
change, and all who have depended upon them
for existence fall to the ground. and starve.
Thus FoVlQlm has had its day; free love has
had its a.: suti-slavery has had its day; even
spiritualism has at last been superseded by the
reyiyals and the pious enthusiasm pcrvading
the churches: and thus, all weekly and month
" periodicals which depended on these various
| isms for subsistence are slowly dying out
Hence the steady decline Of our unfortunate CO.
temporary, the TiJene.
The revulion Of last fall affected our periodi-
cal literature immensely. Among all the wide
| ly circulated wceklics OF the day. the only two
which held their ground and seem 10 be still
progressing are Boomers Ledger and Hdrpr's
Wtellv. Two or three years ago, Hrrp-s Ma
ga-ias had an immense circulation: but that was
affected by the general curtainent Of luxu-
ries and retrenchment of expenses among
consumers OF literature. That other magazine,
the htIontic Monthly, which has lately been
started at Boston, apparently for the purpose of
consuming the cid matter and rejected articles
| Of the late Pttnam's MJntiy is the most tho
rough failure that we have ever seen in the
magazine way; such mixture of the rabid and
the puerile Il unexsmpled. They can do ~
tonishing things at Boston, and this Atlantic
Noa'bly il astonishing enough