The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-12-28

W ol tiit bbbnS 1Ht Dttfu VIII Uiett every eNeH
ing this week.
Gen. James Gadsden, late Minister to Mexico,
died a! Charleston on Sunday last A biographical
sketch o. the deceased is given in another column.
The friends Of the late Robert Owen, the socialist
reformer met last evening in Stuyvesant Institute,
expressed their high esteem for the departed, and
iistcred to a historical discourse from Mrs. Ernes-
tine l.. Rose, report of which will be found
in this mornings HkRALD
Tie Board Of Representatives Of the Fire Depart
mcnt held an adjourned meeting at Firemens Hall
last night After Ions discussion it was decided
to admit TO seats in the Board the representatives
Of Lngne Companies Nos and Is and Hose Com
ar3 NJ. AZ. A committee of three was appointed
TO remodel the fremen's badges.
The Coroner's investigation into the crcum-
s'a' ces attending the death of Freeman Cutting. at
house of had repute in the Fourth ward, on Sun
day, was concluded yesterday The jury rendered
verdict that deceased died from wounds inflicted
acl Flynn. The accused was accordingly
locked up to answer.
The aies Of cotton yesterday embraced about 900 bales
a ~ dull, without Guotabe change in prices Dealers
disposed 10 await the receipt Of later news due by
Asa, before doing much. Flour in moderate
eueu, while the GALES Light and prices without
s,r.etec a lot Of Illinois red at 81 10, and
% sg' spring al private terms Corn was
heavy for new, but firm for DID, while sales were
to fair extent including Jersey and Southern yellow at
"a 5t., W ie Southern at T3c 54kc, and old West
~ xce a; nc 7sc. Pork easier, with sales OF
at SIS end of old at s7 So old prime sl3 81
DO. at SIS 30 SIS 62H. Sugars were firm, with
sales Of about $50 hhds at rates gwen another
Coffee WIS firm, but quiet Freight engagements were
limitee, whie rates were unchanged.
The Demoralized Political Parties or the
Sountfy-symptoms OF a Popular RcvoIu-
tion.
Party caucuses and consultations among the
managing politicians at Washington appear to
be the order of the day. The latest has just
come OFF at Silver Spring, the country residence
of Francis p. Blair, few miles off in Maryland.
II was a council of war, of the Congressional
chief of the republican party, and its business.
as given out, was to compare notes and count
noses on the probabilities of passing Pacific
railroad bill and tariff bill during the present
session. The conclusion Of the deliberations
upon each of these subjects, it further appears
was an adverse report. from which it is manifest
that these republican managers have resolved to
keep open the tariff question and the Pacific rail
road job for Presidential electoneering purposes
And as with the republican party, 50 with the
various leaders and cliques Of the democratic
party and the pipelayers Of the American faction,
all other things have become secondary and sub
servient to the general game for the spoils and
plumber Of the next Presidency.
Thus we are convinced that nh hopes Of any
definite action upon any of the great leading
measures recommended In the Presidents mes
sage, foreign or domestic, may be abandoned so
far us the expiring Congress is concerned. Pre-
sidentia gamblers, iobbers and spoilsmen make
up the bulk Of the materials Of the two houses
And the deplorable spectacle which they pre-
sent Of Generalization, DISCRIMINATION and
brazen faced corruption is without a
parallel in the history of the country
And the worst Of il is that this malignant dis
case. like loathsome and contagious epidemic.
has diiiused its poison into every branch and
every locality Of every political party, faction
and clique throughout the Union. The demo
cratic, The republican. the Know Nothing organi.
cations. have thus become thoroughly tainted,
corrupted and repulsive. They have fallen IN
der the control Of spells gamblers lobby jobbers.
and plotters ard schemers for the plumber OF the
public treasury, the public lands, aud the pockets
Of the people. The administration OF Mr. Bu-
chanan Is the only party nucleus remaining of a
patriotic and homes, character; but though il
stands today stronger in The confidence Of the
country than ever before, il il without party in
Congress The original divisions of parties In
both houses have disappeared, and those intes-
tine dscords which were 80 broadly developed
az the las; session have cut up the democracy.
the republicans and the Know Nothings, into the
camp followers Of this leader. taat leader and
the other, for the spoils and plumber Of the sue
cession.
Hence these Washington caucuses aud consul.
taiions. They are oil directed to the next
Presidential election; and everything that
may he done or left undonc In Congress will
be passed or postponed, not from considera
lions Of the public good, but from caucus and
lobby electioneering calculations Our national
legislature has thus 30 rapidly deteriorated
since the Mexican war. that now we find il
controlled by wrangiing jobbers and plunderers
scarcely lees unscrupulous aud debased than
those Of the revolutionary governments Of Mexi-
co, Central and South America. Such low ebb
Of morality, honesty, and all the elements of pa
triotism, admonishes us Of the re-acting tides Of
some great political convulson, "reign OF
terror or military despot, or the broken frag-
ments Of the republic fighting against each other,
and each olectng It's own President a, The point
Of the bayonet; or a general uprising Of the peo-
pie against al existing parties, party manager
and Chief, to save the country, themselves and
tier property from mob law aud general spoia
ton.
This last alternative Is the only hope Of a
peaceful and conservative reconstruction Of our
political affairs upon healthy basis. The old