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finally ended.’ Our doubt, which is indeed only slight, bangs on the use of these words, “Al tae vessels’? Construed stri:tly, that urrendered otuly as re- WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. "Tae Contest 1x New Yorx.—Gerrit Smith’s EVENING STAR. oe means that the. i for Governor of | gard Unit tes, and retained -ax against SHINGTON OITY: Seceptance of the nomination : id. ly Lond Derby. ent RS August 16, 1858. | New York, recently tendefed) torhim by an L ee Be israel cn unet eee —- Abolition State Convention, evidently “flies 2 fakem: " one- 4 defensible = m oO i u Ue ING PRESS. | the Republican press of the State amazingly. { this t Taacwidst @ tones te x oon jee ok Suen Douglas | While professing to rejoice that it bids fair) (0 Peza” ith rear! to ail natiog s and net i i ‘will not submit an oom we on the “ bireling”’ question; and also regrets | to a. ae ae of thé New York ihonmigalyye age & es Se ia vriea gales blew party, the Courter and Enquirer moans and groans over it at a great rate, thus showing, though much against its will, that it is awfully “griped”’ in- deed. Its pretence that Smith will take from whoever may bethe Republican party nomi- nee a mere handfull—five or six thousand—ot votes, is so bald that all comprehend its utter untruth. Ere the organization of the Repub- lican party, abolitionism—straight-out—eould on any occasion of particular interest to it poll at least 20,000 strong. Since then it has be- jcome mach stronger, through the influence of ‘the policy of tie Republican party, which has been to ‘‘out-abolition’’ abolitionism itself, in order té gaiti its favor. It has sueceeded in keeping*thie abidtition vote acting with it and ‘apparently for it, only by going, up to this time, for nearly all abolitionism demands. Its demands just now, however, involve, if acceded to, the entire abati4onment of any pretence of that its suggestions that the people of Kansas de allowed the benefit of their reeent vote to stay out of the Union until the Territory has population sufficient to entitle a State to one representative—should ce caused a moment’s r ¢ to the New York Times. “The Union, farther, quotes a letter of Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Monroe, on the split of Ran- dolph and Mercer from the Democratic party in 1806, aad cites the result of this effort to dis- unite the party as a warning to those now making a similar attempt. . The Intelligencer considers “the result of the election in Kansas,’’ and advocates the en- actment of a general law prohibiting thé ad- mission of any and ail Territories into the Union until their ascertained population is suf- ficient to entitle them to representation in the lower House of Congress. 2 10> Some two hundred citizens of Brooklyn held a meeting on Saturday evening for the pur- Pose of taking measures to establish an Opera House. 107 It is a great peach year down in South Carolina and Georgia, and the finest specimens of that fruit are vended in Augusta at fifty cents to a dollar a bushel > The Philadelphia Press of Saturday is au- thorized to state that a commercial firm in New York on Friday received a message through the Atlantic Cable. It says, ‘our taformant saw the message wn cypher.”” taple treaty of e suppres!-ion of the slave rade, did, by that instroment, virtually concede a right of vigit and searcu, but that is a very ditferent thing from_ass erting such a right over vessels of a uation which has not conceded it. And by ending our arroga at claim as against America, if that ix what has been done, we cer- tainly abandon the principle, md can never again assume the insulting, high-landed ition of making the British navy the police of the ocean. Considering the right as revlly abandoned, and looking back at the history of the question, one cannot but feel astonishment at the obstinate per- sistence of the various Governments of this coun- try in so offensive and unten.tble a claim. Over and over again it had been condemned and repu- diated by the most eminent jurists. More than forty years ago, a jndge—one of the most pro- found and the most tuminous, perhaps, who ever adorned an English judgment-seat,Lord Stow- ell—in a decision given by hizn in the Conrt of Admiralty, deciared the law of nations on this question.” “* No nation,” said that great lawyer, “can exercise the right of visitation and search upon coinmerce and uuappropriated parts of the ovean, except upon the belliyerent claim. The Tight of visitation and search does not exist in time of peace. If it belongs to one nation it be- longs to all, and wouid | to gigantic mischief and universal war.’’ Thisx is emphatic and clear. Nor do we under- stand how, when the question was fairlv raised by the operations of our squadron in the gulf,and when the Government o! begets Leng ‘was deter- mined tbat it should not be evaded, the Derby Ministry could do otherwise, with the opinion reeéntly given w its Attorney General, Sir Fitz- rgy Kelly, in the Cagliari case, affirming the j&enticet doctrine laid’ dewn by’ Lord Stowell than ‘to frankly and finally end the claim and surrender MR, mot jally as regards Awoerica, but universality on principle. Ifthey have done so, as we are all butcont'dent that they have, the act me which claims te ba solemn de- ‘Republican candidate will lose a¢ many con- ‘servative votes a3 may possibly be retained (of abolition votes) by ‘going the wholw hdg.’’ In pandering up to this time to the most ultra spirit of abolitionism, the New York Ke- publican party leaders have made thorotith' paced abolitionists of thousands of their fol- lowers whom they entertained no design of a a transfering to those they aimed to use; just as Sipeient moihaconpatoies ob pis acPara Gal U0 A new po sacrantelacn 7 splerargs eae the course of Senator Douglas cannot fail to | more opportunity could sian has been commenced, Ls porgabecer and fitting be found of placing this aet upon official intér- national record, re we may meke boid to add, ; of supplementing the declaration of April, 1856, by a clause absolutely exempting all private Property, whether of neutral or of enemy, from capture during war ?—-London Star. land thousands of his followers in the ranks of the Republican party, whose principles he is sustaining so valiantly, while professing to war on that organization. Gerrit Smith's ac- ceptance will be the signal for their withdrawal from the dominion of Mr. Weed, to follow his fortunes. Thus, if we do not greatly mistake the state of New York politics, the Smith vote will reach nearly fifty thousand—too large a force for Republican partyism to lose with reasonable hope remaining of carrying the State in the fall. The withdrawal of that wing of the Republi- can party from their organization must also serve greatly to strengthen the purposes of the leaders of the Crittenden wing, whose profes- sions with reference to slavery questions are even more moderate than those of Mr. Weed and the main body (Sewardites) under his com- mand. Ina contest as between the interests of Mr. Seward and those of Mr. Crittenden. or any other “fossil Whig,” as they term them, the Gerritt Smith wing of what was so recently the Republican party of the Ewpire State would surely have sided with the latter. With- out their aid it is questionable whether Mr. Weed can much longer continue to be the dic- tator of his party there. On the whole, its affairs are in a strange state of uncertainty, not to be satisfactorily cleared up until after the votes for Governor shall have been abso- lutely counted out of the ballot box. * «Julias Caesar,’” The transiation contains ‘‘Timon of Athens. and “Antony and Cleopat: is stated to be a faithful one. IP The Order of Druids held a national fes- at St. Lous, last week, which continued for two days. Delegates were present from seven States There was an imposing procession, a sumptuous dinner in a beautiful grove, and a number of speeches and odes. Peter Stremeil of Maryland, was installed as Noble Grand Arch for the next two years. a UF An establishment in Cincinnati, purport- ing to be acandle and oil factory, has elicited investigations, from the peculiar offensive odors which it exbales, and it bas been discovered that the carrion collected by the offal contractor is toere boiled down. the oil and lard extracted. aod the remains used to fatten hogs for the market it is described as being even worse than the swill milk business, and the concern is to be in- dicted. Oi The Massachusetts State liquor agent in_ forms the Boston Post that the champagne be sent to the liquer agent in Augusta, and which the Nashua Gazette says was proved by analysis to be nothing but Newark cider, was obtained directly from the Boston custom house, as im- ported by @ frm in that city. Whether cham_ pagne is a fit article for medicinal, mecbanical | scientific or sacramental purposes, deponent saith net. Fiag ix tus Inbin State Prison —On Friday evening a fire broke out in the work- shops of the Lilinois State prison, at Alton, two of which, with the dining room of the prison, chapel, bospital, and three other buildings, were consumed. A large amount of finished work was alse destroyed. Three firemen were injured, but not dangerously Several attempts to eseape ‘were made by the prisoners; none, however, succeeded. The loss ts estimated at 230,140, and is fullycovered by insurance in casterr of- fices. Decision 1s THE CASE oF THE New Or- LEANS, Vera Cruz, ACAPULCO AND SAN Fpan- cisco Main Contract.—Governor Medill, First Comptroller of the Treasury, has rendered a decision in the celebrated case of Caruriek and The chief points in the case are as During the latter part of President Fillmore’s Administration a mail was carried weekly between New Orleans and Vera Cruz by the Mexican Ocean and Inland Mail Trans- portation Company. A project was started of making a road across Mexico, and continuing the line from Vera Cruz, via Acapulco, to San Francisco. The aid of the Post Office Depart- ment was invoked ; but there being no appro- priation, and as the expense of the Pacific mails was already severe, it was not granted. On the 3d of March, 1853, however, the last day of the Administration, Postmaster General Hubbard entered into a contract with Carmick and Ramsey for the transportation of a semi- monthly mail between Vera Cruz and San Francisco, upon the above named route, for four years, at four hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars per year. Not knowing whether it would meet the approbation of his successor, or of Congress, and wishing to em- barrass neither tho one nor the other, it was stipulated that the contract was not to com- mence until it should be approved by Congress, and the necessary appropriation made, and that until such approval it was to have no validity. Carmick and Ramsey turned the contract ever to the Mexican Ucean and In- land Mail Transportation Company, who were anxious to extend their line as contemplated, and who immediately prepared and stocked the road between Vera Cruz and Acapulco without waiting for the action of Congress. When Congress next convened, Mr. Camp- bell, who had succeeded to the position of Post- master General, disapproved of the contract, on the grounds of the probable impracticability ef the route and the large amount it would draw from the treasury, to the prejudice of other sections of the country more in need of such facilities. Congress neither approved the contract nor made any appropriation to carry ont its provisions, and the project of running » line between Vera Cruz and Acapulco was abandoned. Carmick and Ramsey then me- morialized Congress for damages, on the ground that they were injured by the alleged inter- ference of the Postmaster General, whose course in connection with the matter they considered an abrogation of the contract. On the 16th of August, 1856, Congress refer- red the subject to the First Comptroller of the Treasury to adjust the damages due to Carmick and Ramsey on account of this alleged injury. The contractors presented their claim, setting forth that they expected to clear $31,000 per month on the contemplated route from the traneportation of passengers and freight alone, over and above the expenses of maintaining it, and to carry it on without any reference to the contract price fur the mail, and laid their dam- ges at something over $1,800,000. The case bas been argued by able counsel, and the Comptroller, after careful examination of the subject, decides that the contract was merely conditional. and as thecontingency upon which it was to go into effect never occurred, it was not subject to abrogation ; that he finds nothing in the contract of the late Postinaster General inconsistent with a proper discharge of official duties, or which #0 violates the provisions of said contract as to render the Government liable to damages; that the contract stands as it always stood, subject to the approval of Con- gress, and therefore there are no damages due to the contractors for its abrogation. It is un- derstood that this decision was concurred in by Attorney General Black. Maritime Law.—In this steaming weather it is far too hot for one to study out for one’s readers all the facts and arguments involved in the interminable right of search question, as now being discussed on both sides of the Atlantic ; more especially as regarding the real questions formerly at issue as being substan- tially settled by England’s virtual withdrawal of the pretensions with reference to the right of search, which her present generation of statesmen inherited from their fathers and grandfathers, if not great grand sires. Yet we desire to afford the Star's readers an intel- ligible insight into the existing state of the con- troversy, and to that end quote the following intelligible article from alate number of the London Star. Its views seem to us to be sub- stantially endorsed by the London Times. As no other two journals of the realm so fairly represent English popular sentiment, and as English popular sentiment is surely reflected in the action of that Government on all im- portant questions of State, it will not be long hence, we take it, before the Ministry or Par- liament effectually avow adherence to such views of the controversy as are embraced in this article, which is as follows : Magitime Law —Importart changes, involv- ing the progress of those priaciples which lie at the root of all freedom, are taking place, quietly, without opposition, and without much fuss h is only a little more than two years since the rep- resentatives of all the great Powers of Christen- dom, except Spain and Mexico, solemnly con- cocted the means of fixing the rules of interna- national right, as respects maritime law in time of war On those means they ayreed ; and the declaration of the Fags Sarasa at Paris, on the lth of April, 1956, has taken its place in the record’of the most notable international acts. It in quite true that the United States, the second in rank of the maritime nations of the world, bas refused to accede to that declaration, and upon grounds which seem to us irrefragable. The principle that the neutral flag covers an enemy’s goons, and that the goods of neutral’s are not seizeable on board an enemy’s ships, and the other has le that blockades, to be obliga- tory, must be effective, are not only entirely ae- ceptable, but are pure unalloyed concessions to that spirit of justice between independent nations whose recent growth promises, happily to render the scourge of war less frequent as well as less severe. The abolition of privateering in time of ‘war must also be bailed as a large step inthis ‘abs gress towards Christian humanity ; but itis obvi- ous that the United States Government could not, without committing a suicidal act, give its assent to that abolition. unless it were accompanied by the essential declaration that the private property of the subjects of an enemy, on the ocean, wax exempt from seizure. If the private subjects of @ belligerent State are to be interdicted from hos- tilities against the enemy, it follows, in reason and in logic, that their properties should be held sacred ith that necessary addition, the United States Minister, the late Mr. Marcy, declared bis readiness to accede to the declaration of Paris on the subject, but that it would be impossible for his Government, whose policy it is to allow its peaceful mercantile marine to increase and ex- pand. and keep its war-like navy at the lowest ible limit, to accept the declaration without it, thereby cutting off the only available arm it ‘sses for maritime war, whiletke great naval ‘owers of Europe, retaini their immense war fleets, were only surrendering what they could never bave much need of. It yet remains to make this concession to reason and right, and to estab- Prater Mestincs at Watesinc Places — Daily union prayer meetings have beew estab- Fished at many of the places of public resort, at Bedford Springs, Saratoga Springs, Cap* May, Atlantic City, end several other places. The one at Saratoga is spoken of as one of great power and influence, which many who attead upon them wiil never forget. So also of the one at Bedford Springs, sustained chiefly by Philadel- phians now sojourning there. We hear, also, of daily prayer meetings im our smaller piaces of resort. A Breach of Pxomisx Case.—An order of ar- Test was issued some days since, by one of the Judges of the New York Court of Common Pleas against one Morris Rosenkraus, onthe complaint of one Miss Tickner, an ancient lady, who ad- mits that she is Gfty years of age, and charges that the gay Lothario enchained her virgin af- fections, broke her maiden heart, and otherwise so infatuated ber that a mutual promise of mar- riage was the result; but that afterwards the young man of thirty-four years had broken his Promise, to her great and serious damage as aforesaid. The case came up on the application of Julius Morris, who says that he has been ar- rested for Rosenkraus, but that he is not the man ; that he never broke a maiden’s heart and never would ; and applies for his discharge. In opposition the maiden produces affidavits stating positively that Morris is Rosenkraus and nothing but Rosenkraus, and although he may have been Jesting when he made love te ber, yet at her age it was too serious a matter to joke about. His Honor denied the motion without costs, and the ay deceiver will remain incarcerated in Eld- ridge street jail, there to chew the sweet and bitter cud of retiection upon the danger of med- dling with edged tools, and the delights of mak- ing love to elderly maiden ladies A New B —We are indebted to the pub- Ushers (D Appleton & Co., 346 and 343 Broad- way, N. Y.) for sending us, through their Wash- ington agent, our enterprising friend Shillington, the third volume of the New American Eneyclo- pedia,—from Bea to Bow—the great American book of the times—a book empbaticaily for everybody; as it ts one without which no Ameri- can who aspires to keep up bis general informa- tion with the times, can afford to be without, for instant reference. We have before taken occa- sion to say that its plan is more comprebensive, so far as the dissemination of practical informa- tiou concerming the men and things of this era is concerned, than that of any other work extant in our language in either hemisphere ; and the vol- ume before us fully justifies that impression d:awn from its predecessor. Its fault—and it is 2 fault—is that it aspires to be too compreheusive in its accounts of the men at this time on the stage of active life; dignifying names (with Places in its pages) of more than one individual; Tom Corwin on THE QuEsTION or THE Day. As many of the Srar’s readers are doubtless curious to know precisely how this distin- guished and able gentleman stands upon the Kansas question, we quote the following brief synopsis of the “ Kansas” points made by him in his recent public speech on polities, the first Who, a public men, have done really nothing to deve tee erie ee emma code of (nati; | made by him on such a subject for many years @ntitie (bem to be classed either among the great | high seas the roperty of peaceful citizens carry. | past or the good in any wall of life or business. Nev- ing on a beneficent commerce “1. If there is any plank in the Republican ati rm which was not in the old Whig party ben I am not a Republican. 2. The Lecompton question is decided. It was decided on Monday, the day of the Kansas election. He considered it a settlement of the ertheless we do not Propose to quarrel with this, to us, teally invaluable work, because it thus contains more than there exists 2 necessity tbat it should contain—the question of whose blogra- phy is worthy of insertion in i ut as great a step in advance has been taken within the last month or so with respect to mari- time law, or maritime pretensions, in the time of ce. If we rightly understand the impor- aunouncement made by Mr. Dallas, the Uni- ts pages being “ag po yen _—— at the Pot igen m0 ge question ee yea *Hecen i er Mt lod it time one of taste aud judgment, in which we have no | 0& Monday, declnncd 222 on whieh the | to come to the consideration of other questions of desire to exalt our own ideas of the fitness of | Sts, of America declared their indepe grave import. ‘The South is tired and haraxecd ht, long maintained by Great Britain, and tavari; resisted byever y other Power, been »! ered “ frankly an finally.” We speak of the so-called right of visit things, above these of the able editors of the ‘work—however much our own taste may be offended at finding in this volume a few brief with the issue, for it has beaten the whole gov- ernment. If it be one of the Se rar of the Repabli- can party that the people a State have not a < ch, the exercise of which by our crujsers right to settle this question themselves, then I Mcgraphten<f mss whous wo) regulon bchas | arr or marie. bes becker blican. God hel Patterns, morally, and inteljectually, so far as | {ag the two uations, Intheceacts of the Bens | ue Hot 8 Republican Stee Pe ro, I can’t help it. [A voice—Good!"] 1 hold that a Territory which has the Fight to reject slavery, a right So aceet it, if it wills. £ can’t stand up and say to t le, bave no right to make your own ser ne og You their real public utility is concerned. We also find in it so vast an amount of substan- Hal and cprefully prepared information on innu- merable subjects upon which just such informa. the negotiations which bave lollowed, and which are now satisfactorily ended. Ube suppression of the slave trade was by no mea) the point in question. That is a special object Which the United States Governmeut profess to | have a right to come into the Union upon ae tion is just now necded by all, and absolutely | have a neck at beart as he ghontoad ‘he seal so aye ne oe ime rest ae States, and it is unattainable i - | uestion at issue. said when com- | clearly im; for them, jo rit 1 ing ia ering: «ayo amen | eat pee ngage |S ran ee cane es ks of reference, as we bail the sj “ Eagland, which in ¢) eave she | or to stay out altoget T; and if, unbap| Kan- Practically asaumed, of boarding by force vessels | sas shall wish to come into the Unter witty the ance of this third volume of The Appicton’s | sailing under the flag of an independent State, blight of slavery in her constitution, clearly she New American Encyclopedia, as embracing a Was or was not aright by maritime law. It will | has the right tocomein. # © see * + Practical and positive assurance that the complete be at once perceived that this isa far more im- “Ha has the right to stay in thus, which has slavery, to send her Ri grees where do hee) get in? ¢presentatives to Con- the right to probibit a tate from cori: If you can’ttura out,you can’t keep out. But f don't believe it ever was a principle or creed of our fathers to rejecta State a ry soatier than the suppressi, tade by means of a blockad) mee tT vl . principle, whi juadron js only an arrangement ; and the words of Mr. Datlas are not jetta ae 5 as work is to be all the publishers have claimed for it—a collection of information upon thousands of subjects of most interest to every one who pre- tends to read the English language, drawn from to what our Government bas reali admissio: iT consti! the most reliable sources, and embracing all the hope ‘we may venture to congratulate the county Seer oS adaver 5 tS ee cag most complete and satisfactory synopses om every | on the entire surrender, in principle, of the claim | “4. He (Mr. Torwiny beld that, to t the potat material to be known in these times by any seeker after knowledge that such books can pos- sibly impart of visit and search of merchant ships in time of rt tension of slavery, the blieans: further ex! — seas of territory is connection, held it to be duty a 453 Gn act prohibiting the extension peace. Mr. Dallas’ words were, that the right of ** visit and search of American vessels,”’ under the circumstances named, had been “frankly and of slavery into free territory. But he said that, when territory is acquired, we are obliged to re- ceive it as it If it ts sl ee acquiretl, we havé no right to t i ple of their property, unless they concede the pare If you don’t wish more slave territory, 1 no acquire more, and thank God, your treastry is bankrupt, so that you cannot aequire more slave territory in that time, un- Inp1an Hostitities.—We stated on Satur- day, thatall the mails received at the Indian Bureau, from the Paoific, had not then’ been opened and examined. This morning, we are informed, that they contain nothing front Sa- perintendent Nesmit rélative to the recent hos- tilities, and principally relate to strictly official matters. Hence, we are still left in doubt as to the nature and extent of the disaffection which recently manifested itself in the onslaught on Col. Steptoe’s command. We understand that advices from army officers, express the opinion that a few months will suffice to quell the dis- turbances, while other parties regard the oppo- sition as formidable. The cause of the out- break is still said to be the aversion of the Indians to allow the construction of a military road from Fort Walla-Walla, across the Spo- kane country, to Fort Benter. Tax New Sreaugr, Tae Suxpay Law, &c. Correspondence of the Star. Portsmorrn, Va., Aug. 12, 1858. The stem of one of the new steamers authorized by Congress at its last session has been raised at the Navy Yard, and she is rapidly advancing towards completion, bidding fair to be the first one launched. Too much credit cannot be given to the constructor, Mr. S. T. Hartt, for the rapid manner in which this work ts being pushed forward, as well as to his able assis! it, the master builder, Mr. Jos. Pierce, whose energy and skill is equal to any emergency. The Old Dominion Guards, Capt. Kearns, cele- brated their anniversary on Wednesday, when they paraded with full ranks, numbering ninety- three uniforms. A new volunteer company to be called the City Guard, is being organized here. The have about sixty signers, calculate to be un{formed. and on parade on the 19th of October. The new. Sunday law passed by our Common Council is bailed with great pleasure by all order loving citizens, and persons can now walk the streets without having their ears saluted with oatbs, &c., by many now loud in their abuse of the makers of thatlaw. Many that were inauced, because of the temptations before them, to violate the laws of God and man are now thankful for the means used to arrest thems in the road to ruin. Success to the efforts of our City Fathers to en. sure order to our city on the Sabbath, Trio. Genxerat Cass —We are gratified in being able to announce that the Secretary of State has entirely recovered from his indisposition of Friday night, and was this morning at his post in the Department. Retvaxsp.—President Buchanan returned home from Bedford Springs on Saturday even- ing. His health is considerably improved, and he resumes the arduous duties of his position with freshened energies. Onrvrrep.—Boatswain Thomas C. Berry has been ordered to the U. 8. receiving ship Penn- sylvania, at Norfolk, Va., in place of Boatswain Edward Crocker, deceased. Tar Wearner.—The following report of the weather for this morning is made from the Morse Telegraph line to the Smithsonian Institution. The time of observation is about 7 o'clock: Avevst 16, 1858. New York, N.Y clear, warm Philadelphia, P: -clear, warm. Baltimore, Ma -clear, pleasant. Washington. D.C lear, wind S Richmond, Va -clear, th S&, wind S Petersburg, Va lear, pleasant Norfolk, Va -clear,ther.76,wind SE Wilmington, N. clear, ther. 79. Columbia, 3. € lear, very warm Charleston, 8. lear, th 79, wind F lear, bot. lear, 80°, wind S lear, warm schear, pleasant ot c Gainesville, New Orleans, Li -clear. pleasant. -clear, warm. .clear, warm. -clear, warm. Barometer at the Smithsonian, at 7 a. m., (cor- rected for temperature.) 30 032; at noon. 30 025 Thermometer, at 7 a. m.,71*; at noon 82°. Max- imum yesterday, $5; minimum last night, 66. Latest PRom Mexico —Intelligence has been received from Matamoras to the 19th Jaly. Durango had fallen into the hands of the forces under the Governor of Chihuabua, who had de- clared for the constitution of 1857. Guanajuato, Guadalajara, and Zacatecas had also been conquered by the liberals. Governor Garza had left Matamoras to super- intend in person the movements of the Tamauli- pas forces. . General Vidaurri was to take the field at the head of the main body of the Army of the North. Immediately on the taking of San Luis Potom Colonel Zuazua banished the bishop of the dio- cese and thirty priests, for encouraging the reac- tionary forces against his entrance. Tne AtLantic Caste. —The New York Her- ald thus accounts for the delay of the Queen’s message ; ‘* All the arrangements for working the line are coutided exclusively to Professor hitehoure. the electrician of the company, and his assistants, and they have not yet been avle to get the Queen's message through the cable, and, judging from the experiments made at Keybam, they will not succeed in reaching any satisfactory results with the present instruments in use. e were told that the message and the vont? of the President were to have been immediately transmitted, and then the line was to have remained some weekx in the hands of the electricians for experimental studies. The failure to send the message is sig- nificant. *< It is probable that the apeenge - instruments of the English electrician have failed to give ae ee Tesulls, and we may have nothin thiou, the Atlantic cable until they are laid aside by the company. The instrument invented by Mr. Hughes is the only one sufficiently deli- cate to record a age aoa the cable faith- fully, and though it been rejected thus far by the company it will probably have to be adopted. A fortnight or more may yet by before this can be accomplished, as Mr. Etoghes is in England, but not at Vaientia Bay, and one of his instruments will have to be sent from here to Newfoundland and attached there.’’ Dovs.e MuRpsR—A Weman and her Lover Kilied bya Rival —A most diabolical murder was committed at the house of Charles Beever, in Hamptonboroygh, near Goshen, Orange co., N.Y.,on Friday night. Mr. Beever and his family were absent from home, leaving their house jn charge of their three servants, named William Sannders, Peter Shorech and Margaret Shealy, [t seems that Peter and Margaret were to be married this week, and they had Leen pass. ing the evening together, in the room of the lat- ter. At about eight o’clock, just as he was leav- ing Margaret’s room, Peter was met at the door by William, who deliberately, and without a word passing between either, shot him directly through the right nipple, Peter turning back, opened the door through which he had just passed, and fell dead across the threshold. The murderer then rushing inte the room over the dead body of his first victim, shot Margaret through the left breast, the ball passing out be- hiad, just below the shoulder-blade. She then turned, and jumped out of the open window to the ground, some twenty feet or more, managed to crawl through the garden and orchard, nearly @ quarter of amile, to the house of Mr. Case, who Immediately gave the alarm. The murderer bas not yet been arrested, or even seen singe, but the whole country is aroused and searching for him. The woman is still alive, but cannot survive longer. ‘ ooo is tired of waiting for the PA Powe ny the following “Why isa cow like a baby?” “< Becaure one drinks “water Lae Onaie Fremeh the heroiae of or PERSONA -...George Sanders is about to start a Douglas newspaper. «++ Lossing? cate amertak = .... Alexand: mas, of Hui the A meri is about to re- aa T ¥ in Meth: c hi nt Rev. Mr. Peac te Labrad: - Z <... A hundred and twenty young men have offered themselves to the British Methodist Con- ference for the ministry F:x-President Tyler, having purchased a oaly two miles from the hotel at Old Pornt, Spends most of his time there in social communi- cation with the guests. jh of Nova ag. @ missionary Joh: wit the thing can be done calling on ontsiders. ---. Madame Celeste accompanies ber daugh ter, who is in a delicate he She rejoins the Adelphi com: tober. ina Mra. Bass, of Missics +a-Governet Foote, who Is devoted in his atten- Ons. New York to-day, under Mexsrs. W J. Phillips and J ‘ax, She .prefers this course jom. +++. Miss Jane Lloyd, lish heiresses, is to be married to Col. Lindse the ‘-hero of the Alma,”’ who was lucky enoug’ one nine Russian dails fired into which be carried, without receivi: ty-five to thirty million dollars. +--+.» Miss E. A. Miss Winter, of Geor, Brown, Miss Greer, of Ohio; and at Old Point; and form a liness charming to behold. rry, of St. Louis; POLITICAL. © The Republicans of the third district of Maine ‘iscotta, bave nated Ezra B. French, of Damar! Congress: The Columbia, Mississi leader devoted to the next takes ground stro: Brown, as the cand Presidential to the State Senate of North Carolina by the De mocracy of Caswell county, was a prominent ate from that State during nearly the entire administrations of member of the United States Sen: Presidents Jackson and Van Buren. Trinity Bay. All who have visited Trinity Bay, Newfound- Tand, with one consent allow it to most beautiful sheets of water they ever set eyes upon. Its color is very peculiar—an inexpres- sible mingling of the pure blue ocean with the deep evergreen woodlands, and the serene biue sky. Its extreme length is about eighty miles, its breadth about thirty miles, opening boldly into the Atlantic on tne northern xide of. the island. At-its southwestern shore it branches ‘nto the Bay of Bull's Arm, which isa quiet, safe and beautiful harbor about two miles in breadth, and nine or ten in length, running ina direction northwest. The depth of water is snffictent for the largest vessels. ‘The tide rises 7 or 8 feet, and the bay terminates ina beautiful sand beach. ‘The shore * clothed with dark green fir trees, which mixed with Uirch and mountain ash presents a pleasing contrast. The land rises gradually from the water 3/1 around, so ax to afford one of the most convenient and agreeable town sites in the Island. You ascend only about a quarter of a mile from the water and there are no er trees but wild srass, like an open prairie lere are found at (his season myriads of the upland cranberries, Upon which unnumbered ptarmigan or the north. ern poridge feed. The raspberry, ba tleberry aie also co! pple berry, and the whor- ion. Numerous little lakes Mav be seen in the open, elevated ground, from Which flow rivutets affording abu: ince of fine nie After ascending for about 2 mile and a half, you re then provably 300 or 400 feet above the tide, and nothing can exceed the beauty of the scene, when, at oue view, you behold the placid waters ef both Trinity and Placentia bays the latter sprinkled with clusters of veidant islands. y an now descend westward as gradually came up from the Telegiaph landing. to the shore of Placentia Bay, where there is an ex- cellent harbor and admirable fisheries, xkirting the shore, and the accompanying road of the land telegraph line leading from St Johns west- ward through the island, to Cape Ray. At this season of the year game is very abundant— reindeer in great auwiters, bears, wolves; others Very numerous, the large northern bai Wild geene. dacks, &¢ About four miles squthward of the entrance of the Bay of Ball’s Arm on the sbore of Placentia Bay, ix situated the extraordinary La Manche lead mine, the property of the Telegraph Co , already yielding a rich supply of remarkably rr galena. The _ where the cable is landed * memorable in the history of the Island as the naval battle g-ound between the French and Eng- lish in their early strougle for the exclusive ecen- pancy of the vaiuable fisheries along the ceast es SaaS Later From Havana.—The steamship Ca- hawba, from Havana via Key West, on the 10th instant, has arrived at Charleston At Havana sugars were active and had ad- vanced. Muscovado a! ixa5c. Sterling exchange quoted , foxes, at 15 per cent. premium; exchange on New York 24 a3 percent. premium. Freights dull. ——— ee 0 The Boston Pilot of the says: ‘‘We stated some time since that the fine con- vent and cburch of the Umilta, on the side of the Quirinal bill, had been secured for the new Col- legio Amrricano at Rome. We are ha PY learn that immediate measures are to be taken time past, and the Tosacco.—A French paper, the Genie Indus- trial, says it cannot account for the enormous in- crease in the consumption of tobacco in France. It says that while in 1830 the value of tobacco consumed was $13,000,000, in 1540 it had Increased to $19,000,000, in 1851 to $24,000,000, and in 1857 to nearly $35,000,000. Considering the extraordi- nary increase in luxury and expenditures which have gathered and ad anced in France of late ears, itis thought probable that perhaps between my 8 and fifty million dollars’ worth would now be the annual estimate. The increase of con- sumption in Great Britain, with proper allowance for smuggling, appears to have been sctually much greater than in France, while the same ix true of the United States and of Germany. PUBLIC SCHOOLS.—Anadj rd - ing of the Board will be held oe runsDas, at 4°, o’clock. . RICKETTS, Sec. = ‘YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOC]- ‘TLON.—The reguiar montu: in it be held at the Roma Fifi (Monday) EVENING. 'c.00k. 1 E. BRISON TUCKER, Ree. Seo. NOTIC: D — a : £fer. WILL CLUB.—The Club are earnestly requested meetat Harmony Hali THIS KVKE WING, Au- et 16, as business of the greatest importance wiil laid before the meeting. vk J. H. Dunant, Ree. Secretary. oe NEW BUILDING ASSOCIATION.—All Persons desirous of joining a new association Bre requested to meet at the house on the gorner of G and 10th streets, on oe EVE. NING next, the 16th instant,at 8 o'clock. au ls 3t* TAL HEADQUARTERS, (CF vOEENTER RS. ‘Wasu: Moen Aucust i2. ee agreement =e offices bait eooral wosting ofa mies | Srmors. oo MONDAY EVENING next. the sarn ppetans.propernyory. and tary «+f War; from the ‘meting will be iy order of Jol. Hickey: au 13 $t (int.acUnion.) —H. N. OBRR, Ai COLLECTOR’S OF FICE, CITY Sees 19, Teel AX-PAYERS.— Pehie Olfice sod that the law silows anetee days ofthe abntement, tax-payers u or for their biile 5 aces iv 19 andtd Ttis is en to erect a manament to Capt. ‘Smith Jamestown, Va. If all the Johns contribute, without state of health, to Vichy. y on their re- union in the new theatre in the beginning of Oc- The greatest belle, at Old Point Comfort, ippi. a widow, young, beautifal, and wealthy, and the te lady-love™” of A free negro girl, named Caroline, leaves the protection of Rast, for the pur- of selecting her own master and residing in father than to remain in New York in a condition of so-called Lloyd, only child of Jones Lord Overstone, the wealthiest of Eng- a the colors one into his own body. The fortune of Miss L joyd is stated by the London Illustrated News to be from twen- Blake, of Florida; Miss Carm!- chael, of Annapolis; Miss Fowler, of as age i tas ‘iss Ba: Miss Parham, of Tennessee; Miss Wood, of the District of Columbia, are galaxy of female love- mocrat, in a ly in favor of Hon. A. V. date of the Democratic. party. Hon. Bedford Brown, who has just been elected one of the Molasses was active at 3\aic., and 14th instant, to for the evacuation of the convent by the French troops, who havé been occupying it for some Premises will then be put in perfect order for the organization of the new col- ton years, e a i them “ < ayn he a ora Very simail cost; superior Ha = t ST Joanne ACADEMY, ALEXANDRIA, Va. The Twentieth Session | Commezce on Mon \*. For Tuition only the same “ me. Sat ag ep mare ps + alalentil Jiroulars oan be «-btained at thi: Greasing RICH . NE, Jr., Pron’. au 6-3 _ — —_ Rieseabes, va QHIRT MANUFACTORY, x No. 44 Nogru spe Pa. AVENUE. the citizens of Washington, Georr-towa and Alex andria that he has taken the above 5 to The styie ot ent bes never been sui sed. Allgentiomon wishins's good ‘are by him are warranted to ft, or no sale. IL Twelve good Siirimakere wanted. au 6 eoSw i been ISTO GIVE NOTIC we ber bath obtained from t bat the subrors han’ C fon on the deceased. All persons having cia) said deceased are here! same, with the vouchers thereaf, said estate. 5 JULIU: au 16-law3w* NEW ARRANGEMENT, With Greatly improved Schedule. FROM WASHINGTON DIRECT TOA THE SOUTH AN. Via Potomac Steamers and Kichmend «| Potomac Railread Line. Two fast daily lines from Washi: of Gth street. at 6!,8.m and7'.p.m. the morn By the ev, boat they insure a good ent a su rest of —_ houre ‘comforta are the ith and Southw thern Fredericksburg, Richmond. Weldon and Wilming: Charleston, S.C, Aw; tgom-ry and Mobile, Ala., and Towns. A'so, connect at Richmond with the Southeide, Virginia, Tennessee. and East see Rasiroads For tHe Sovrnwest Danvillle, nen ait Chattanoo, ht ze, ynchburg, jashvillt At'anta, Hotel, or on board the au 16 ly mata, foot of Gth st (Union) Tick Di geo F8e™ WASHINGTON IRECT TO ALL PAR wEs ’ SOUTHWEST AND NORTHWEST. PALL ARRANGEMENTS. THREE THROUGH TRAINS ARE NOW R INGTOR te ai ’ FKOM W. INGTON FOK Ti ‘& WEST, ‘e: Jat. MALL TRAIN starte at 535 and 7.45 a. ma (Sunday excepted.) allowing time for breakinat at the R: House, Wasliogton Jano- tion, before prooreding west. | % 2d. THE CINCINNATI” AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS CONNECTION leaves Washington at 3.30 p. m., reaching Crncwunst: at 8 p.m. next day, connecting direotly with Express Frain Lou- om. Cairo and the Sor | for St. ours, 28 hours. or to St. Louis only 44 hours. Sd. (ENGIN aT DAYTON, INDIANAPO- Lis. ST.LOUIS, CHICAGO. AND NORTHWESTERN EXPRESS leaves (except Saturday and Sunday.) at4 45 p. ©. counect ing at Washin; Baltimore at } 5 To view the Grand Mountain Scenery of the Road in daylight, take the 5.35 and 7.45.8. im. or 4.45 p.m trams from Washington. For Parkersburg and al! Stations on the North- Western Vireinia Road takethe3 ¥ p.m. Train. For Marietta and Cincinnati Kairoad take the saine apo ‘Tickets and Baxenge Cheoks to al! guxr- ters, py eteer possible fnoulity will be found upon bs WAY PASSENGERS for the Main Stem of ths tumore and Ohio Raiiroad will ieave W ashing- 1 Fea pon ate | Wash 3 and ‘or wots hetween Washington Junction "Po take the 5 35 or 7.45 8. m. trains. Stations betw: the 3.30 p.m. WASHINGTON & BALTIMORE TRAINS. only. 53% p.m. On Sunday at < 30a m. only. _ Phe 7.45 and 4.45 trai tions and for Antapolis connections. he? 45a m. m.are ing trains for the west, and DP. #1. trams for the east, For farther and 0g Railroad Tick: EXCURSIONS, PIC NICS, &. jook Binders wiil take place on TUESDAY, August 24th, at Arlington Spring. Part.culars in future advertisement. it* Excursion AND CONCERT. | w DAY, 18tn: the proceeds to be de. voted to benevolent purpores. steam: i . % . patil she. evening; Te urning in time to reach Wash jeketa FIFTY C Wefreshments furni mz ‘TS ; children baif priceeo sible person, at the usual city prices. " Gras. 7A On the part of the Teachers. i) « T. J. Magruder, y. KR. W, od T. iH. Havenner, HH. On the part of thy Srhotate, °9S™ Soni Minor Bawsel, ve N. J.G. Smith, W. P. Ver FA. Stuer, Goo. B. Wilson, Se eeeie—sanpemecerecenpere tre eencnemen: CUR PINEY POINT. OLD I FOUR AND PORTSM™ For the ncoommodat ‘wishing to enjoy the luxuries of fresh -raba, Oysters, aud Sen ee “Sy orded by those ¥ b fy Berge on, ven y SA ryRo4 * . ie ave Me (ent Bathsne her berth, ‘at the compan season, Wharf, foot of Gh street, arriving at Pinoy Point at 5pm. same day, Old Point at 4a. m., and Nook Sunday mororog. © will legve Mouday at 4 p.m. Old Pout at 5 +e ata. Tuesday ‘and arrive at meals smey Point, Old 5: ard for the round : tidren And servants halt a Toome extra. P ers wili be taken up and landed at ail the dings on the Potomac. for tickets and further information apply at the of the Great Southern and Southweste:u teoteas « Sins, No. ae Fa grespe. three oars cok owa's ¥otel.orto the Captain on board th , foot of 6th street. os CHARLF® ©. MITCHEL4«. a 2. Rap pEORGE MATTING! Y. HIS 15 PARTICULARLY ADDRESSED WHO WANT’ Fi 1a Bets KY GOODS, At the wel'-<pown and old catablished fain Store (NO, 54) 72h surest, wenr the Snanetinrast of erage denetis Day . Gg but ia order to make oom for wn exten shut stock of Fall Goods, | shal) coi ated myfoed offer my = ng supply of Goods. cout. ash ones juested to call and se- eee “he 1 pace h are pow going off — uC cure some of -he bar; at the Cheap Cash F.T. xX, __ Ne Saherese HARES es’s MAGAZING ter & r just A a at (Satel) TAYLOR & ay Pea sreaue. » of HATS, the jeter Hat ‘Cap Store, 426 Panave..bet tna On rin. OF ieetemt Puirion for session of jy ee reek, French, Stationery, and Feel extra, for day Four doors west of the Glabe Office, betteren ad and 4h wtreets. JOHN H. Faure bees leave te inform iinoture SHIR of the best ht are mnvited te cxll and leave their measures. Shirts nmnutactured rp * rt of riet of Columina, the personal estate of Ge ree Jacob ler, inte of Washington county, ms Against the warned to exhilnt the hefore the latn day of August next they ay onor ure J next; Stherwise by inw beexclned fam anki ke tof tire Given under my hand thie 14th Sy oC Ange. iS FAUTH, ooioiun Adminstrator, wid WOoTick ft. >... ee NOTiIce TO TRAVELER Bs cab Sano -xlish Passengers by ng boat can obtains ine break fast on board 8 pieasant sai! of 3‘. hours down the beau - passing in full view of Mount Vernon. 1m tame to ponest is conveved over this Toute, it being 44 miles shorter and 1 miles leas ———— Gy by any other route, making certem Direct to New Orleans and ail Southern Cities 8 OF THE &o. Time, from Washington to Cincinnat), daily, fon Junction or Baltuuore, leaving m ‘or all ‘een Piedmont and Wheeling take ate p.m. Tram. To convect with the Fred- eriok in take Train. Leave Washington f sr Bsitunoreat 535 and 7.45 &. m., aod 3.90 ard 445 p.m. On Sunday at 3 50p. m. leave Baltimore at 4.59 and 9.99 3. m.andS 3) and only will stop st way sta- the chief connect - the 5.30. 7.45 and 33) information inquire st the Baltimore ieket office, Washington. T. H. PARSONS, ee PIC NtC._ The First Grand Pic Nic of the Aqpo- The young men connected with the Wesley Cha- jy Sabbath ui Ex- Saraion and Geneert on WEDNES. pe The nomas CeLty er—obartered forthe oasion. leave the wharf, foot of 7th 8 o'clock he morning, and proceed to the use lien, where the company will remap ed on the boat by a LeRPPR- a SOUTHWEST, « '®° oft a we ata: Maree”. agton for th: South and Southwest. Boats leave their berthe. foot ov. w edi a ed 0: iy) We trw0) 5 we reer rand Junetiong> ti» Gi ontgomery, and New Os leans. . For through Wokets and farther ieforam the route, inquire at the Southern Ticket No. 32 Penn ees door cast et in