The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-25


sale.
The cotton market was active yesterday with GALES OF
about $500 bales about 1000 Of which were in rAnsu
Lots ron the spot were sold on tho basis Of 1lxc.,
The market, however, closed with . betaeF feeHng,
end straight parcels Of middling upands held At
1lhc The decrease In the receipts at the seAports
reduced 70 about 2sS 900 bales The total decrease
in exports TO Europe amount 70 14 900 bales compared
with the period year. The majority Of the crop
estmstors x upon about 900 bales the probable
amount. Flour was rather more active, with = good
Eastern demand, and purchases made for
port while prices were unchanged. The small sales Of
wheat making referred 70 in another column Southern
white corn advanced about lie. per bushel, with
sales al CSC, while prime yellow do sold At
CSC . oac Pork quite steady, with sales
Of At S16 10, and prime at 3l3 CO. Lard firm at
loc Al loc for prime In bbs, and ~ 1lsc. in kogs
Sugars were firm and In good demand The sales en-
brsced about 500 hogsheads, chiefly Cuba usoovados
and Porto Rcos at rates given in another column
Coffee firm, with sales Of about 200 800 bags
Rio and email lot Maracaibo, 81 rates given elsewhere
There was rather freight Offering for Liverpool
Cotton taken at Sled -four Is Cd grain In bulk
a bhd.. and in ships bags Sd. asked. To other
ports engagements wei moderate and unchanged.
The Great Lecompton Triumph In the Sem
ate-Good Prospect I'm tho House.
The passage, in the Senate, of the bill for
the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton
constitution, by majority of eight, is great
and significant triumph Of the administration
1t is remarkable coincidence, too that this
majority is precisely the number of. Northern
votes cast for the bill. The opposition are dis
appointed and somewhat disheartened at the
result while, on the other side it renders the
passage Of Lecompton through the House the
very next thing to dead certainty. We are
now sanguine of the final success of the mea-
sure
The most curious feature in the vote of the
Senate is the presence among the black re-
publicans and Douglas renegades of the
names of Bell, of Tennessee, and Critten-
den, of Kentucky, upon q question involv-
ing principle of vital interest to the South.
We have heard good deal of Northern
servilee and doughfaces; but Southern dough-
faces are new article in the political
market We see, however, that such politi-
cal mushrooms have sprung up in the Senate,
and we are forewarned of new and promising
crop in the House upon this Lecompton ques-
ton. Messrs Crittenden and Bell, however,
following in the wake of Walker, Douglas and
Wise, have justified their detection in lengthy
jeremiads upon the Lecompton programme as
a schedule of horrible outrages upon popular
sovereignty"
But, while these two distinguished Senators
are thus solicitous of the popular sovereignty
of the border rufians and agitating vagabonds
of Kansas thav saev,, s,ran oraly a,orcb 20 baro
forgotten their obligations to the popular sove-
rcignty" of Kentucky and Tennessee, according
to which they were in duty bound to support
the Lecompton constitution. Now, it strikes us
that if the Legislature at Albany were to give
one set Of instructions to Mr.. Seward, and the
inmates of the Sing Sing State prison we're to
give him another and different set Of orders
upon any great measure, that his preference of
the Sing Sing instructions could hardly be more
out Of place than this remarkable preference Of
Mesrs. Bell and Crittenden of the popular
sovereignty OF the ragamuflins of Kansas over
the sovereignty" Of the respectable law aud
order people of Tennessee and Kentucky.
Leaving Mr.. Bell and Mr.. Crittenden to settle
their accounts at home upon this question of
popular sovereignty as best they can, we fol-
low the Lecompton bill from its remarkable
triumph in the Senate to its final ordeal in the
House. In that body we trust the friends of the
measure will push the question promptly to q
quick and decisive vote. No further discussion
is needed. The whole subject. and all its facts,
and all its bearings, and ell its consequences
ore thoroughly understood. We have had
speeches, and humbug, and claptrap, and agita-
ton, and ridiculous fuss and fury enough to
satisfy all parties except the most rabid anti
Lecompton monomaniacs The American peo-
pie have become thoroughly Disguised with this
senseless and prof,less Kansas squabble, and
they want a settlement, 20 that Congress and
the country may proceed to more important
business.
Let the friends of the measure, therefore, ap-
ply the brakes Of the previous question, and
then If there be Lecompton majority, good;
and If there be an anti-Lecompton majority, 70
be t. II the administration Is TO be trampled
down by a conspiracy of sectional demagogues,
Know Nothings and factious trail
tors, why delay the work. But If the conspira-
tors are to be defeated, the sooner the better.
Let the enemy, at all events, be made 10 show
their hands without further ceremony. OF all
things, one side or the other, the masses of the
American people want this Kansas iummery
settled and put out OF the way.
However the question may be settled we shall
have the consoling fact before US that this Kan
business will have killed of more
secdy politicians and artful demagogues sau
any other sectionalquestion of the last half cen.
fury. We are satisfied, in this connection. what
ever may be the reconstruction Of parties and
party issues hereafter; that such miscalculating
philosophers as Douglas, Walker, Wise, Critten.
den and Bell will be laid upon the shelf among
The old party fossils Of generations dead and
gone. Finally, from the vote OF The Senate