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New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

The news that Brevet Brig-Ge JOhnston has
been superseded in the command OF the army oil
Utah By Brevet Msj. Gen. Persifor /. Smith
we are persuaded, be received with regret by the
troop. who are thus transferred from his control to
that Of ~ officer with whom they are entirely un
acquainted. We have no complaint against Gen.
Smith personally neither We edisposed to dispute
his qualifications for this important position al
though they remain to be proved. Gen. Johnston,
graduated from West Point more than thirty
years ago, and has pursued his profession in nri-
Gus capacities, first as subaltern i'll our own army
then "a an officer in the service of Texas, in which
Republic he rose ultimately to be Secretary of War
During our war with Mexico he commanded reei-
ment of Texan Volunteers; at it's close he reen-
tered the Army Of the United States as Pay master,
81 4 was promoted 10 be- Colonel of the I'd Cavalry
in 1850. He was appointed to bis prescut command
last Summer, and ais breyet of Brigadier.Genersl
has just been confirmed By the Senate.
1t is rendering him only what is his due to say
that thus far in that command he has acted with
the utmost discretion, keeping bis own counsels,
refraning from any idle show of dress or equipase,
sharing all the harlships of his Winter encampment,
imposing no restriction Of food, shelter, or any
other comfort upon the rank and file from which
he exempted himself or any other Officer, avoiding
any collision with the civil power, and securing the
respect of every body with whom he has come in
contact. His staff also deserve similar acknewl-
edgement Of their fitness for thsir perplexiug
duties. We shall b. glad if We are able to pay
similar compliment to Gen. Smith when he either
resigns bis command or is, in turn, superseded b,
some officer fortunate enough to stand in rank one
grade higher than himself.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

A Committee Of the Southern Commercial Con-
venton held last year at Knoxville, Tennessee, have
i..ued, in anticipation Of the reassembrg OF that
body-or of Lew one of the sa ne sort-at Mont
scmery, Alabama, on the 10th Of May next an ad-
dress to the people of the Southern and SOUTH West
ern States. This document affords abundant evidence
how totally incompetent our Southern brethren are
70 deal with any commercial or Industrial question
In practical or business.lise way, and how ineS-
iaOiy 'h'y slide off into politics, whatever may be
the subject which they undertake to discsss. The
COMMITTEE freely confess that these annual Com.
mereial ConveItions have thus far rather verified
the predictions Of their opponents than realized the
hopes of their promoters; but tbs result they are
inclined TO ascIibe not 50 much 70 the admitted fact
that the members could not agree among them.
selves upon what ought to be done as to the lack Of
legislative power in the Convelton, that bod, being
unfortunately, in the matter o. the enactment, Of
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

A Journal e barking Thompscn's Bank Note "t'
porter, ssv,. "ths Virginia banks bave not e'um''
ard i. is upce.!ain hen they will. 10 Ieere q
to those institutions and their management i"'
Richmond E1ariiner speaks as follows:
Whenever tire banks make great profit. ycu
nav be sure that tlo-e dealing with them have sou
how other met with great oss; nGaS 0!,e
thou gAt that banks ought to brisse win ngu.u.us
rods, for if any objects ought particularly 10 a
The bolts and vepgesnoe of the Almighty seeuH "
us il should be barks. And did you ever eee me ne,
who more gloomy countenance' tnsn ,Sa.
csls 30, There can be no good in ssystem tnat We
men such loug faces and melancholy expresS'o an'
sour tempers.'
Virginia Journals ought to krow better than 10
pitch into Virginia banks. The banks OF any coni'
Munty are usually the best part OF IT, p>cuuiariy
speaking. If the banks are rotten, the community
where they exist is rotten. IL the banks cannot
pay. it is because their debtors cannot pay tnem'
Virginia banks may not be utterly bankrupt out' IL
they are not it shows extraordinary skill IN 'aeir
mansQement. The State is poor and decrepit In
the extreme. 1t is pauper State. His oSuh'
rupt State taken in the mass. 1t Is fair 10 pre-
sumo tte msjority OF the debtors to the BANKS are
bankrupt likewise. We do not see how 1t can oe
otherwise. Now, we beg The Ersmser to treat
the banks leuiently. 1t is not they who are OF
fault. If The newspapers will denounce somebody
or something because the banks DO NOT re-
sumo payment. let them denounce the debtors
to tie banks, let them deDounce the system OF IN
dusty that spreads bankruptcy over the State, ana
perpetuates it. Let them set themselves to wors
10 remove the prodigious cancer that i, perPetuay
pnavipg at its vital, Why will Virginia not
see her true interest. and boldly pursue 1t : Let
her note the present condition of her banks aud
soberly ask herself the cause Of their continued
prostration. The Northern banks have resumed.
MARYLAND and Delaware have followed SUIT "ha'
gives these Northern banks their recuperatIVe
powerl The solvency and general thrit OF Tue
people who are their debtors. Why do the NIr'
eina banks fail to possess and exhibltti FROM tue
insolvency and general unthriftness of the people
who Me their debtors. Yet Virginia banks are moi
halt 90 uumeso sous rs Northern banks, nor Is their
business half 80 extensive. II cannot be answered
that Northern banks break faster than those oi
Virginia. That is not so. There are 900 banks IN
the States Of New.York, New.Jersey aud New
England. The last pressure broke but a dozen Oh
them; 667 of the 900 pay specie for their bills ~
day. Not one of the banks Of Virginia does III
and the banks are not to be blamed, Yet Frglnls
has the natural resources to become one OF the
richest States Of the Atlantic sesbOard. Wher
will vireinians perceive and follow their true in
terest
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

CosNECncUF.-The Senate (complete) sts uds
lj Republican, Democratic. The Republicans
lose the DanbuEy, Saybrook and Windsor Districts
b. small majozities, bdlshciog their gains in the
Stamford, Bridgeport and Waterbury Districts.
The House is al,o largely publicsn-inuch
mole 30 thsn last year.
We think Gov. Buckiash hams majority will some
what exceed 200. The other Republican S5ste
candidates run quite ss vel, except that American
candidates were run ssainst two of them, which
may have taken of votes enough to defeat the il
election By the people. The Legislature viii soon
ruake that all right.
r. II. Winslow (Dem.) has twenty three msjori-
ty over Morris Ketchum for Representative Of
Westport. Last year, Mr. WinslOw's party mad
over 100 majority.
To the FSiio, Of Tie ~ T. Tribune.
SIR: The chief exp,srston Of tho result in th.i
swp IT, that the Administration party dT'ses ~ re 'r'
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08
sx,r. lndaecmen,. to Aa,erti..,..

In the present sagna!on of business, Advertis ng is
moro ,hsa ever necessary to those who would call
public att. s,iOn and patronage to articles which they
vsh 70 dispose Of and we have determined for short
peod 10 osr to the publishers Of books, daal0rs in
dry goods, manufacture of agricultural implements,
AMI nsrcAa.is in general the opportunity Of sdverss-
ing in Tn. DAILY, SEMI WEEKLr and WEEKLY
TRIsVsK, circulating ali together moro than VVVO
sopses al the rate Of One Dollar line for one saseT-
ron IN al OF these papers. This advantage, he"ever,
h not offered to the publisbers Of periodicals, or to
dealers in pstent medicnes
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

The Senate has at length disgorged the Kansas
bill, and Mr.. Aeck Stephens gives notice that he
will submit il to the House at O'Clock to-day.
We trust it will be deci.ively dealt with before
sunset. There has been discussion enough on tho
subject; the whole matter is well unde!stood; and
if there are any who voted for the Cvittenden-
Montgomery amendment who have since been per.
suaced to back out, so that the original Lecomp-
ton abominaton can now be passed, so be 1t Aud
if this be not row the case, what chance is there
that il ever will be Let Mr.. Stephens make his
motion to reeede; let Mr.. Montgomery propose to
adhere; ard let the House decide between them.
If the House shall alhere, as We confidently trust
il may let the Senate have another chance to taAe
the amended bill, and, that failing to be improved,
LET the whole project die the death. Il has wasted
precious time enough already.
We should prefer this result; though the adop-
ton Of the Crittenden- Montgomery substitute BY
the Senate has its advantages. 1t will give the
People Of Kansss another opportunity to indicate
aud record their appreciation Of the Leconpton
opstitution-which opportunity they would doubt
less improve. If anything ike fair vote cln be
had, its result will be some 8 900 for the Lscomp-
ton imposture, and at least 10000 against 1t.
rieD, We mus. hope, Congress will be willing to
admit Kansas under the Leavenworth Constitution
mot yet perected), without further struggle. Be
this ,s il may, however, We rejoice that the OSs
ssory will soon be over. LecOmpton has but the
poorest shadow Of chance that Congress will ratfy
il. Il stands no chance at all of being adopted
hardly any Of being tolerated-by the People. Miu'
ifes.ly it is Of the things that wax Old aad are
ready to perish. Msy We be able to chronicle it
depaIture tonight.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08
laws. dependent upoa !te viii Of Congress a'd the
State L. sgislstu,es.

'""s' Wv NA~NS' SkNS WIN "
State Legislatures.
Even the Commercial! independence OF the Scuta
the great tbject which the Convention purpo':
to have in VIEWS urged in this address, not -
| much from an economical or social as from p9h'-
icL standpoint; not erey or mainly as good 10
itseif but as mears to ard re,llzhg that Poocsl
Independence which We are told there Isl on
startly increasing probability that the South VIII
be compelled at no distant day TO ASSERT. busweco'
it is alleged they can have little hope oil re-
alzirg. u,less they sh,ll frat haze established
their commercial independence. Dropping COM
megce as q topic Of which neither they nor
| the Convention ktow much, and about WHICH
they wou,d be more likely to differ than 70
agree, the Committee procse ed eagerly to take
| up the question of secession. to the advocacy oi
which they devote BY far the greater part OF their
addIess. They denounce with energy as "absurd
| AID unfounded the claim to discuss the Slavery
question in Congress. They are not less iod gnant
at the removal Of Judge Loring, which they are
inclined to represent ss amounting at the option ot
the Southern States, to dissolution of the Union
Next in the LIST Of grievances comes the hesitation
| Of Congress IN giving an indonemeut to the Le-
| compton Constitution, and the speeches on this
| topic which certain members Of that body have
presumed TO deliver, intimating that in due time
"by the ipsatiate appetite and voracious demands
" Of free labor" 'the slave-Owners Of the South
d" are to be pursued from Maryland to Mexico,
and, if iced be, in order to strip them Of home
and shelter across the Gulf Of Mexico into ths Isl
and Of Cuba.
Tiese things, the Committee assert cannot 60
on without bringing the South to the alternative OF
ruin, disgrace, and bondage on the one hand, or n
depeI derce Of her persecutors and opPressors on
tie ether. She will be compelled to assert her un-
alisra able right and to refuse any longer to submit
TO the laws Of perverted Union, pretended to be
passed under constitution which has been not
only desecrated, but destroyed. The Committee
profess TO desire that this crisis may not arrive;
but as it rests wholly with the Free States, who
have the majority, and not upon the will Of the
South, whether it shall or not nothing now re-
mains for the Southern States except to prepare
themselves for the worst.
Under these circumstances the appointment Of
delegates is urged, not, however, as the Committee
declares, with direct view to the question Of dis
union, which it is not intended to discuss, but in
order to devise means of putting the South into
position ad Gantageously to meet this issu,, should
it be come necessary. We shall only observe, that
f our Southern frieuds adhere to the discreet pro-
grarnme Of this address, and postpone the dissou-
tion Of the Union till they have first established
their commercial independence, we can hardly
think that the crisis is, after all, 80 very imminent.
In that case We rather think that the Union will
last out our time.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

1t is well known that for years the Democratic
party Of this city has been under the control and
leadership of an association called the Tammany
Society, numbering in the whole, less than four
hundred members This small body of politicians
has done all the thinking for the party, and what
ever they have seen fit to decide upon as right,
proper. patriotic and democratic the great mass of
the party have accepted and ipdorsed without hest
tation or qualification. 1t may be set down as
sstted article Of the Democratic faith that the
welfare bud success Of the party mainly depends
upon the recos osnition Of the Tammany Society by
the great bo6y of Democrats as entitled 10 think,
act AID decide in their behalf.
This principle having been thus tried and tested
in the case Of the Democratic party, why should it
Lot answer an equally good purpose in the reeult
ton of the TammaDy Society itselfi If it DO for
the coed Of the Democratic party, as seems to be
on all hands sgIeed, that the labor and respons.
bility Of It's management should be assumed by
Tan mary, might Lot results equally beneficial
and satisfactory to the parties interested be expect
ed from suhectipg Tammsny, also, to similar
nanipulatiOns, and to discipline based on the
same model This idea, it seems, has occurred to
eclIc vi Ob AoihS "No fAs'A'''e
children, aud accordingly We have wheel within
wheel select association, called "Ths Foresters," !"
for the purpose Of managing Tammany on the same
principles and with the beneficial results to
the member, Of this interior association, which
come from tie management BY Tammany Of the
Democratic party.
1t is rather singular oIjeetion-sngular at least
when coming from members Of the Tammany So
-iety; very sicgular in the mouth of John Van b.
ren for arce-1at this new scheme is intended
10 cid in the advancement OF designing demagegues.
That, We have always understood, has been, and is,
the precise object of the Tammsny Society itself
| Yet, with this coincidence Of aim and object the
n.w association is denounced as spurious organ
izaton, subserent to an unprineipted personal
| control All that may be exactly SO; but if there
be any truth in the proverb that those who live in
glass hosses should net throw stones, the members
Of the Tsmmany Society ought, it seems to us, to
be the last persons in the world TO call attention IL
that view Of the case.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

We announce with pleasure that the bill To
Prerent Illegal Votisg has been made the Special
Order for this afternoon in our State Senate, with
an understanding that the final vote be taken there
On at the evening session Of Saturday. We haze
strong reason TO hope therefore, that tho bill will
be through the Senate this week. In the Assembly,
it will probably net be moved forward 80 rapidly,
but The Senate bill going TO the House his week
can hardly fail to be decisve'y acted on tn the more
numerous body. And every vote taken on tho sub
iect thus far indicates that only "a full House is
needed to insure ITS passage.
We trust tie Committees which have charge of
this important measure wl take care to render it
az little cumbrous or expensive is consistent with
it, tficeUoy There isno need fmaking every voter
attnd personally to the registration of bis name.
Nine-tel tbs of the whole number may be regis
tered without this. Nor is there any need Of new
officers; the Assessors ard Town Clerk ought to
90 the whole work throughout the rural stricts,
| while in cities it might he confded to the Inspect
oIs of Elections in their respective districts, sub
iect to scrutiny by the whole people aud lcg, re-
| vision. There is no NEED Of printing the list of
legal voters in each Election District as iiest made
| up in order to its revision; a written schedule,
posted in one public place, with Prioted notices
stating where that list is to be found and examined
Will suffice. We thitk the act should stpulate
that the oto charges for registering IN any district
should not exceed ten ceLts for each yo.cr whose
name shall stand on the register of that district at
tie cloe of the scrutiny. Bat give us the best prac-
ticsble law, and experience may teach US how to
| improve il next session.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08
Ne,ua alork DAILY @ribm,te
THURSDAY, APRIL 8. 1853.
TIE RECORD.

Il
TIE Members Of Congress from the Free States
who have persistenty voted mol to allow the People
Of X ,nsss to say decisively by majority vo,e
whether they will accept and come iIto the Union
| under the Iecompton Constitution, or, rejecting
this, frame srothe, which shail DO satisfactory to
them, are the following:
SENATE.
RHoDY ISLAND. tPbilip Allen.
! iNTw.JIRsEY....W WIN. Wright John X. Thomson.
| PfNssYLyAsIA William BiPler.
IsDiAsA.. Jesse ID Bright, g. N. Fitch.
| IowA.. .'Gecrge W. Jones.
lCALIToRSIA. -... William NJ. q Ein.
| Ono. .tGeorge +. Pugh.
'Bosrs tDofyipg Instructions tShuiins sn1 pAtefns'
| Totai (Senats I-......--.....-...S
HOUSE.
COssLCTICUT.
| Samuel Arro,d, William D. Bishop.
NKw-YoRK.
Jobn Cocbrape. Ersstus Corning,
| Israel T. Hatch, John Kelly,
William B. Msclay, William +: Ru,seR,
John A. Sesrlpg Daniel Il. Sicklss,
George Taylor, Elijah Ward.
John Huyler, John R. wortendyk..
John AbI Wnii.m l.. Dew.t,
William II. Dimmiok, Thomas b. Fl"rsscs,
james l.. Gilis, j. CLANCY Jones,
| James Lardy, Paul Leidy.
Henry M. Phillips. Wilson Reilly.
Ason White.
OHIO.
Jsspb Burns, joseph Miller
Jsmes NJ. Gregg. James Hughes,
Wiiiau T. Niblack.
CALWoRsIA.. Charles L. SCOTT.
Total (HOuse). .--.-..31
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

We are Glad to see the House of Representa-.
ives bestatipg in its proceedings over the swindles
nj extrayagarces, past, present and to come,
the Utah Expedition. The Administration have
bundly bundered iuto expenses and difficulties
On that matter Of which it is hard to see the
md. AL we know certainly is, that a nav
Florida war is initiated on gigantic scale. 1t
certainly becomes Congress to mind what ii is about
est il open gulf in which hundreds of millions
Will be sunk to DO purpose whatever. Let US know
whether all this immense preparation these magni.
cent contracts for Army supplies, are realy neces-
sary. We shOuld probe this Mormon sore, and
know q. the start just what the case is and just
what il is necessary to DO
If the Administration have blundered, let the
blur der be corrected at the outset. The Federal
Government have nothing TO do with the Mormons,
except in the matter Of legislation and in executing
Federal laws. If Brigham Young and his followers
receive Gov. Cummings, and propose to obey the
existing Territorial La vs. the army has been sent on
A fools errand, and its immense cost is IN ,ney
thrown away. 1t is very likely they will do 50,
especially a. President Buchanan has sett suitors
70 them, in the persons Of Mr. Thomas L. Kane,
Mr.. Ben McC Calough and Mr.. Powell. If IfBrigham
and the Saints yield to this natural and easy so
luton ef the question, she Utah Expedition, with sl
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

The Board of Education last Dght elected the
Hon. S. S. Randall City Superintendent for two
years from the 1st Of June next, with Mr.. Henry
Kddle as bis assistant The Board also initiated a
change iu TIE Normal Schools, which s intended to
result in their emancipation from the apprentice
system. AT present nearly all the new teachers are
taken at salaries of from $75 to 1925 per year,
ard are taught three four years in the Saturday
Normal Schools. The advance in grade required
will of course be attended by corresponding iu-
crease Of salary.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

Mr.. John A. Washington, the present owner Of
Mouut Vernon. proposes to sell 200 acre, Of Il,
which minus the grave Of Washington, would be
worth about SIC, 600, for 100000. He formerly
refused 70 sell to shy one but the Federal Govern
m.nt or Virginia; but, these not coming forward,
Re is now williog to accept bis 100000 from the
Ladies Of ynginis assisted as they are by those of
other States and the eloqaence Of Edward Everett
Mr. W. Las already made good tAias Of selling
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

Tie E9g.isb. now taat With The help Of u.
French they Lave got possession Of Csetoa. Ar.
beginning to frd out that, acer al it wn har,,,
worth taS:pg. The coresPO3dent Of The Lond..
Time, who, s:Dcs tss occupation, has been o..
p.orrg the city, writes that the commercial ia.
portsnce of Il has been very much oysre'tiuste<-
that i is large and popuicus but in other rcspects
/, to be Sc. down a. very ordinary Chinese city.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

ihe timber OF tsese hs'o Eed acres frT cares snuh
bcxe.. &c. Az NJ W ia 40, lsnkee. ws sup
nose there j, uo,b'pg u be said; but 4 he onT
vere A Yankee, DC wou,j BE- esteemed IN ia'ec'eI
mean one. Still. rsr may do what he l'te' win
hi. own. aud those who don't Ike what he d"e' no
AZ perect Liberty 10 grumbIe.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

ST. JAsss's RrvrNcs.--The Canton Mo Repo'i-
tory states that the Legislature Of Missouri at the
session Of 1857 passed sn act instructng the State
L.brs;isa 70 furnish each member OF the Legislature
with copy Of he Holy Bible 81. James Rtssion'"
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

CONNToTGrT.-Every Congressional District
has given Republican majority. We thought Sfg.
Arnolds silence might save him, but Bishops fusee
wss double -barreled and did the business for both.
nm 40 fallaWs.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

r.Vt oudni,ed To ihs is.i,,uss 'y-- A-,tr.
-s-r,y- ~r- sd under th- Y usVked 10 tse pSl.
Ycavl o. serve f-on ne from tas ,,Asto-,, A..
wt-rs Leeou paon ssse nOmins-d. thoT Csed b.s,
tie hsnJ. q toe rsoPe.
rf,,ff,,f Arfil 5 issR
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

The America, Low due at Halifax, with three
days later news from Europe, had not arrived when
We went to press this morning.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08

Rhode Island followed the example of Connect
cut at ber State election yesterday, doing as much
against LecOmptOn ss her dimensions allowed.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-08
up as follews:

Buckingham. mejolity ..-.-.......-.--..- .3,iiG
Tie remaining towns will probably al about
100 to Mr. BuckiDghanl's majority, which is Tho
srgest rolcd for any candidate for Governor for
mary years. The full vote will be near 10000.