The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-25

session OF Congress ID over many OF th0m Will
have become ft recipients for the hospitality of
a lunatc asylum, penitentiary, or some other
retreat of like character.
The SENATE AND MEssRs. HYATT AND HOWE
The attempt of Thaddeus Hyatt and DR.. Howe
to resist the authority of the Senate, by re-
fusing to appear and testify relative to
the Harper's Ferry outrage, is truly absurd.
Hyatt denies the power of the Senate to COM T,
pei his appearance, and, it appears, is about to
appeal to the authority of State court to
maintain him in his recusancy by habeas cor
pus. If the Senate has no power to make wit
nesses testify in case like this, it has no power
at all; and by invoking the aid of State tribu-
NAL Hyatt is taking issue with the constitution
of the country. Any State Judge who would
grant writ of habeas corpus in this case
would be grossly violating the constitution;
and if Congress cannot compel Mr.. Hyatt to 60
to Washington and tell what he knows about
the insurrection at Harper's Ferry, or, on his
refusing, cannot inhict punishment upon him,
then we have no government at all.
Hyatt and Howe are valuable witnesses
in this investigation. They were the con-
federates and friends Of John Brown;
and we all know-for Hugh Forbes has
told us-that before he went to Kan
sas to teach the anti-slavery party there
how to use Sharpe's rifles, and shoot and MUIR
der their fellow men, there was dinner par
ty-a private, comfortable dinner party-came
off at New York, at which he and Thaddeus
Hyatt and Horace Greeley were present. They
enjoyed themselves nightly, and discussed the
whole coming affairs of Kansas; and when
Forbes got up to start for the train on his jour-
ney to Kansas, he was short of money, and
Greeley put his hand in his pocket and gene
rously gave him twenty dollars, wished him
godspeed in his undertaking saying at the
same time:-"Now, Forbes, when you get to
Kansas I want you to write me everything that
goes on there, particularly about the fighting, for
if there is to be any fighting want to be there"
The Senate Committee should certainly subpoena
Greeley. He can tell all about that dinner
party, how he sent Forbes to Kansas to teach
John Brown to fight and about the plans of
Old Brown and his confederates. DR.. Howe
also can give great deal of information, for it
was to him Forbes wrote that long letter, which
we published in which he informed him that he
told all about John Browns project to Senator
Seward, some time before. The Senate should
insist upon having all these witnesses before
the Committee.
CHEvAILER WEBB AGAIN IN TROUBLE ABOUT
THE HERALD.-We are sorry to find that we are
such source of constant trouble to Chevalier
Webb We disturb his sleep-he dreams of us
every night We throw blight over his poll
teal prospects, and we fear that his hopes in
the world to come are overcast by the shadow
of the HERALD, which haunts him as a spectre
by night and by day. An editorial article we
published few days ago, upon the coming
elections in Connecticut and New Hampshire,
has completely upset his equanimity We said
those elections were of great importance, and
might turn out to be net only decisive of the
Presidential election, by influencing the votes
of those States in November, but by their effect
on the Middle States result in large popular
majority against the higher law.
In this our unhappy contemporary sees "trea-
son, stratagem and spoils." He says this plan
of defeating the republican programme was
communicated confidentially to the HERALD
by the leaders of the democracy, and that
we Immediately revealed the secret The
leaders of the democracy have nothing to
communicate to anybody, and therefore
could not have communicated anything to
us. We have had to furnish brains to both
parties in turn, and often found it up hill
work to teach them even common sense.
We are also gravely charged with betraying
the democratic party. We could not betray
party to which we did not belong. We never
belonged to any party, and instead of being the
"organ' Of the democratic party, we make that
party our organ, and other parties our organs
when we think fit No party can use the He
RAID, tor we despise all the party organiza-
lions, and only use them as instruments-ne.
cessary evils-out of which we try to bring
good for the country.
AS to the bets which he says are freely offer
ed that the HERALD will oppose the nominee Of
the Charleston Convention, we can only say
that every one may bet as much as he pleases
upon what we shall do, but till the nomination
is made, it will be very difficult to find out
what course we intend to take. If our cotem-
porary thinks he knows, let him bet on the
right side for it is not the first time for him to
gamble-let him bet $52,975, and he may win
just enough to pay what he borrowed from the
United States Bank.
THE WRECK OF TIE HUNGARIAN
Tha VIM which arrived NJ this port last evening, re-