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The momentous question of peace or war still trembled in the balance, and itis impossible to pre- dict the result with any degree of certainty. it was amerted that Austria had made a proposal for an arrangement, which was accepted by tae Emperor of Rusia, and would be signed by the Sultan, pro- ‘vided the cabinets of England and France approved of it. Tbe Paris Constitutionne had published an article, in which it said ‘that neither government would appr ve of the proposition,” which caused a great sensut on. In the meantime the Emperor of Russia kept his Position, and had ordered an immense levy of re- @ruits, to take place in November next, by an It perial uka-e. The final wtimatum of the Great Powers was expected to be made known upon the 10th instant, avd some of the London journals say that the other propositions were suspended unti! then. More ful! explanations had been made in Parliament by the English Ministry as the day of prorogution approached. France continued tranquil, but the various Conti- mental capitals were filled with all sorts of rumors wegerding the Kastern difficulty. The London 7 mes has a curious and ill-tempered article upon the inauguration ceremonies of our Cry-tal Palace. We have further interesting details from China, trom which it appears that success still attended the efforts of the reforming revolutionists. . The last shipping and commercial news is give im this paper. ‘ By the arrival of the brig Fashion, Capt. Fader, we bave received files of Antigna journals to the 19h of July. The fever, before noticed, sul pre- vailed with fatal severity in the city of St. John. The Register newspaper, published there, says :— “On one or two eccasions since the appearance of the peculiar type of” fever at present prevailing, there was a cessation of its severity for afew days; ‘but it always returned with increased malignity when hopes of a permanent improvement were be- ginning to be formed, which s00n put to flight the pleasing anticipations of a return of a healthy state of the atmosphere.” On some of the estates in the | windward part of the island the Portuguese laborers soffered much. The weather was hot aud uncom- | fortable, and although some refreshiag showers had | fallen, the elasticity of air was not enough to pro- @uce any marked improvement upon the growth of the crops. It is with feelings of the greatest gratification that we to-day find ourselves able to point to the di- minished ill effects of the intense heat, as compared with the mortality recorded in our colamas daring the three previous days. True, there were no less than thirty-four additional deaths reported at the ners’ offices yesterday morning; but, let it be mind, they were the result of tue warm = > “ov, Saturday and Sanday Yester- weather of Fria., " sy the atmosphere, “Wing to its purification by the heavy thunder storm the night pre- bracing. Not cor. | Mr. Crampton. vious, was moderately cool ana a sing’e case of coup de sole ocetrred, sud yemarkab!y few pa'lents laboring under any kind or disease, were admitted to the hospital. Let ua nope that this state of things may continne. New York has not been the only city whose inhabitants have been suddenly called upon to mourn the loss of friends within the last few days. Inieed, there ix searcely a city or town in this section of the country in which, when we come to compare the number of people, the mortality has not been even greater than here. In other places, the fatality was not princi polly confined to the laboring classes, but ar merebants and mechanics were alike prostrate. Among others who are reported to have expired in Puiladelphia, was Abraham Woodside, the painter. @BSever.] dwellings, barns and other buildings were set on fre ord destroyed hy the lightning in the viciuity of Poston, on Sunday evening last. wife of Rey. Mr. Rossell was strnck and kille George'own, and mony other persons wore seriously but not fatally injured by the electricity, in different parts of Moccachnsetts, The total arount, thus far, subscribed in this city for the reliel of the sufferers by yellow fever at New Orleans, is $23,431, as Will be seen by the statemont ‘of the commitee in another column. In connection with the list of contributions, we publish the latest details relative to the ravages of the pestilential scourge, from the New Orleans journals. The despatch from our special Washington corres. ent to-day, is replete with interesting and impor taut intelligence. asluod tus 606 anideioas 4 France and Co-stantinopie, wore under discus Ts is wade sion in the Cab of the absence of Secretary dilemma an inroad upon the treasury is Davis, nothing was def threatened. Which does Mr. Marey prefer? nitely agreed upon. Other geiitiemen than Mr ‘yix | “4 ain, Major Mordecai, the Gardner Com- are now talked cf for the vacant post % France, although Mr. D.’s prospects overs'e.% swed all others till within a short time ago. Recent develovements, ! itis thought, have mater’ally tended to induce the administration to look about fur some other repre- sentative. It isreperted that information has been received from Judge Starkey, the Americau Cousul at Ha | vava, which corroborated to the fullest exteut the | | statements published in this journal concerning the secret arrangements between Eugland and Spain for the abolitivn of slavery in Cuba. This aatter has not yet been acted upon by the Cabinet. ‘The goversment, we are informed, will promptly take into consideration the case of the illegal im- | privonment by the Dutch of Captain Gibson, an account of whose remarkable adventures we pub- lished some days since. Mr. Belmont, oar Charge to the Hague, it is reported, has been requested to delay his departore, in order that bis iustructions may be made more precise with regard to this affair of Mr. Gibson’s, By telegraph we have a confirmation of the report of a terrific battle between the Indians in the far west. The fight took place some fifty miles aboye Fort Kearney, between Sioux and Cheyennes on the one side, and the Pawnees, Jawas, Sacks, and Pot- tawattanies on the other. The fight las:ed an entire day, and the first-named parties were defeaved. Mr. Johnson, the democratic caudidate, bas been elected Goveruor of Tennessee, by about two thoa- sand majority. The Congressional delegation is equally divided, Mr. Stanton secured his re-election by #ix majority over his whig opponent, Mr. Yerger. Two of the auti-renters who were engaged in the vecent outrage upon the Deputy Marshal, in Aibany county, have been arrested, and will shortly be tried before the United States Court at Auburn. One hundred and twelve persons were confirmed by Bishop Delancy, at Buffalo, last Sunday. The ann«al Episcopal Convention of the Western Diocess of this State, will assemble in Buffalo to- morrow. 3 Two females, at Manchester, N. H., who are sup. pored to have contemplated suicide for some tiue, last Sunday consummated their rash design, by joining hands and jumping into the canal. A young man came near losing his life, in his endeavors to rescue them. Read the account elsewhere published of the re- ception given to Columbia Fire Company No. 1, of Washington, yesterday moruing. The brief bat beautiful speech delivered by Mr. McNechany, the spokesman of the visiters, at the breakfast table, is worthy of special perusal. As usual, our columns contain a great variety of interesting reading to which we have no room t» refer particularly ; the several headings, however, will give the reader a pretty correct idea of the nature of the different articles. Our Foreign Reiations—Secretary Marcy’s Buoget. It is gratifying to know that Mr. Marcy is not exposed to the dangers which, according to Dr. Watts, necessarily await ‘idle bands.” His are fall to overflowing ; and the nature of the problems submitted for his solution is such that they cannot brook delay, nor is it less for- tunate for the country that the discharge of tasks so onerous and so momentous as the pend- ing questions of our foreign policy, devolves upon a man who, in the short space of five months has amply demonstrated his capacity for business and large experience of the funda- mental principle of political science. We need hardly specify the occasion. on which this cheering testimony was given, nor do more than express our earnest hope that thére breathes not a man who, after the final settle- ment of that vital matter—-the consular and diplomatic uniforme—in three masterly des patebes, can still impadently question the abi- lity and the se‘ence of our Secretary of State Political rancour and party feeling go a long way, no doubt ; but the heart of that individual must be irreparably depraved, who.-after read- ing Marey on lace and Marcy on buttons. can still allow himself to contemplate our ex ternal relations with any other feeling than calm confidence. Had it not been for’ the assurance conveyed by this his maiden effort, we might have given way tocertain apprehensions at the thickening | of the political horizon, and the accumulation of intricate problems on the table of the Secretary of State—a man of less mark might well be appalled at the prospect. It would indeed -be enough for the fame of any one Secretary if his administration set a final term to the encroachments of Great Britain in Central America, and practi- cally demonstrated the truth of the Monroe doctrine. A greater man than Mr. Marey might retire from office satisfied that he had done his duty if he had relieved our fishermen from the anxieties they now suffer, and placed our fishing trade on a permanent and satisfactory basis. What progress Mr. Marcy has made in these matters we are as yet left to conjecture, from his visit to watering places in company with That he has applied the re- sources of his ingenious mind to the examina- tion of the claims of the soi-disant Lord Sterling. we have also every reason to presume; and it will not be risking a hazardous statement if we suggest that he is doubtless by this time deep in the volume of State trials which contains the recital of the wrongs and the struggles of this new Pretender. It would be no mean triumph for our Secretary to reverse the d sjon of the Seottish Court of Session, and become the means of reinstating an ont-cast in the noblest property ever possessed by a single in- dividual. Even ifa careful serntiny of the an- nt records and patents on which the Selkirk title rests shonld lead Mr. Marey to disown the hoary headed wanderer, the enqniry would furnish material for a despateh in which all his erndition and graces of style could be adyan- fageously displayed, These are, however, but a fraction the labors allotted to him, Mexico al will cost many a sleepless night. Which exit from the Jabyrinth will he attempt? Will he advocate the recognition of the ‘Mexican claim for damages in consequence of the Indian depredations on the Rio Grande, which, under the treaty of Gaadaloupe Hidel- go, we were bound to prevent? Willhe take open ground in favor of the railroad over the plains, and attempt to bully Santa Anna into a sale of the requisite land, compensating the Mexicans for their past suffes 3 by a gratu- itous grant of an integral share in the road and its contingent benef If Santa Anna do- clines to be bullied, and refuses point blank any concession of prairie land, what course will he adopt? Will he vote for war—a war of eon- quest-—cr for peace, and a gratuity of millions to the Dictator { Ef Santa Anna overcomes his pre- judice ayninst us, and agrees to take the rail way as payment in full of his claims, what wil! the Secretary say to the holders of the Tehuan- tepee grent, the abandonment of which wiil be part of the bargain? The gentlemen who own that right will not resign it withont a considera- De ons will be weeded to satisfy their hurgry mouths, On either hern ui a Couple of missioner, has arrived at New Orleans. If he has found the Gardner mine, is Mr. Marcy pre- pared to compromise the matter? If, on tue contrary, that much vaunted treasure has es- caped his conscientious search, and he has sat- isfied himself that it does not exist on this planet, what will Mr. Marcy do with Dr. Gard- ner? Will he regret that thumb-screws and racksare out of fashion? Moreover whilst our pecuniary interests are pying his attention, a leisure hour must be reserved for the vindication of American honor. | The rights of American citizens have been violated, almost simultaneously, by three difler- ent powers, in three different quarters of the | globe. Under former administrations, similar occurrences were too frequent toexcite special re- mark. and the temper of the government was too well known for either the sufferers or the public to waste much time in complaints. The ad- ministration of which Mr. Marcy forms so promi- nent a bulwark, was ushered into office under pledges of a very different policy; we shall now see what degree of sincerity those pledges con- tained. In the East, Austria commits an out- rage upon an individual who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States. and who, in virtue of that declaration, is, according to Mr. Marcy’s own doctrine, en titled to the proteetion of our government. Shall that ineult be unavenged? Far away in Sumatra, a miserable Dutch Governor seizes a free American citizen thrusts him, on trumpery pretences, into loathsome dungeons, arraigns him before court after court. on charges whose absurdity is positively ludicfous, detains him a close prisoner for many months, and finally, when even the local Dutch authorities decided in his favor, absolutely dares to threaten his life. Shall this pass unnoticed? We are told that the greatest orator of the ancient republic, accusing Verres before the highest tribunal in the country. so disposed his charges, that the lightest were preferred first, and others of adeeper dye followed, in a graduated scale, until, to cap the whole. he overwhelmed the culprit with the denunciation that ‘he had dared to scourge a Roman citizen;” whereupon says the record, a thrill went through the as- sembly, and the victim’s fate was sealed. Did no thrill shoot through Mr. Marcy’s breast when he heard of a Dutch governor threatening the life of an American citizen? Nor can Judge Sharkey’s case be dismissed lightly. That an American Consul should be accused, or even suspected, of alding and abetting the slave trade, by granting regular papers to a slave-trading vessel, is a matter which concerns the na- tional honor far too closely to be overlooked. Don Buenaventura Vivo must*be recalled from Madrid, if necessary; the Mexican government must be notified to answer for their agent; hea- ven and earth must be ransacked to get at the truth of the matter. Should it cost thousands, the stain of participating in the slave trade must not rest on any American consulate. This last matter will be 80 involved in the breader questions relating to Cuba, thut its ul- timate decision may be indefinitely delayed Should events presage that consummation so devoutly desired by the creoles and required for the island, we fhay well spare Don B. Vivo the ignominy of a public confession of forgery; but. whether Mr. Soulé be successful or not Mr. Marey’s cares will be the same. A happy thing it is for the country that the historical despatches on consular uniforms appeared in time to satisfy us all as to his capacity for his onerous post. Arcusissor Huewes Preasurine ww 4 Gov- ERNMENT STEAMER.—The Detroit Tribune says that— Archbishop Hughes arrived in town yesterday, on board the United States iron steamer Michigan, trom the Lake Superior country. We understand that the Michigan, which had been on a cruixe to the up- pe lakes was reterning to Detroit, and touched at Mackinac. Here she found the Lord Bishop of New York, where he was in discharge of his official du- ties. Ascertaining that be was intending to visit \.ittle Traverse and other places professionally, the gallant commander tendered bim the use of the go- vernmen: vessel, took him on board, and about map, waitir gat all ports he desired to visit until be bad pecans the necessary religious ccremonies, and rought him on his way to this city We preanme the steamer is new waiting at this port until bis Lordship shall have completed the object of his mission bere, in order to take bim to Buffilo, or *hatever other point he may desiye to visit on the lakes. If it be true, as we are informed, that a United States officer has thus placed a United States vessel at the service of a prelate, making a tour op business strictly connected with the interest of the Reman Catholic Church, or any other church, or any ohject of a sectarian character, it is certainly something new under the sun,in this country at ieust. We presume that this affair has been exag- gerated, or else the administration are fairly open to the suspicion of electioneering for the Catholic véte. But, in any eveat, we appre- bend that a government steamer might be worse employed than in aiding the spread of the gospel. Perhaps they are in necd of mis- sionary enterprise along the lakes, and it would he a sorry thing if the government of this great Christian nation could not afford one little war steamer for missionary purposes. Let Arch- bishop Hughes proceed. His cause i is good. Pass him along, Captain. All right. A Presa From a Sourn AMERICAN Prieoy.— We comply with the request of an American citizen, now serving a term of imprisonment in the State prison of New Granada. to publish a communication -which he has forwarded us therefrom, in plea of his illegal detention. The writer claims a sort of aequaintanceship with the editor of the Henatp, contracted ten or twelve yeags ago in a hotel in New York. and seems to hase on that his request that we should publish his story. Whether this be so or not, TT 1808080 00... rss eee cowever, hig pareinount claim upon our co Yainns is, that he elaims to be an Aniértean citizen; and if he be unjustly imprisoned, as he alleges, in a foreign State, he is entitled to the ‘ympathy and interference of the Amerk authorities. To bring the circumstances of his case before them, we therefore publish his story in his own words, Tue Koszts Arrar ano our Poretox Re- sipents.—The resolute conduct of Captain Ingraham, of the St. Louis, in reference to the Hungarian refugee, Koszta. has elicited the warmest approbation from the French Italian, German, Swies, and other foreign reside New York. It i contemplation hy them to preseut to the gallant American officer a testimo- nial, commenorative of the Smyraa occurrence, and of their admiration of the principle for which he so determinedly and sucee ssfully con- tended. Preliminaty meetings have taken place to decide upon the best course to pursue in the matter; and we understand -that a re- union of various foreign societies and demo- cratic commitices is to be held in the Shaks- peare Hotel, to-morrow or next evening, to dis- Css ibe deur, wud (0 determine on the most eligible form of the tribute to be presented, “For Tue REUE" Moc ‘Tuanxs.”—Toe WEATHER IMPF’ opp We have seen a fairy pantomime ‘ty which there was what was called on th, bills a ‘magical transformation.” The delighted audience were gazing with admira- tion upon the efforts of the scenic artist’s skill in the display of the glories of midsummer—the fields glistening with grain, the cattle drinking ! at the pellucid stream or luxuriously reclining in the shade of some veteran forest tree—the | flower garden, brilliant with a thousand hues | ~—the orchards. filled with fruit trees bending beneath their golden weight—and over all the midsummer sun shedding \his benignant rays. Then came a change. “and such a change!” The fruit trees, gardens, villas, faded away! The stream which dashed along so laughingly. and merrily leaped the little obstructions which barred its way, was fettered with ice—the forest trees, stripped of their leaves and their branches, bowed down with hanging icicles, thining like burnished silver—it was mid- winter. > But this was a fiction. This is the reality. During the past four days New York has been broiled. Her citizens suffered and groaned under the infliction, men and horses dropped dead in the streets; the stalworth laborer drooped and expired under the scorching rays of the “Giver of light and heat.” Business was par- alysed—the intellectual faculties were stupified. The on)y topic of conversation was the state of the thermometer—New York seemed like unto an immense cooking range, and all her citizens were menaced with the probability of being “roasted. fried, broiled, and served up in every style.” Bar-keepers at the fashionable hotels actually lost the elegance of their manners— the air distingu¢ which makes their presence s0 overpowering—and growled at the immense amount of ice consumed in the manufacture of various cooling “vanities.” Starch. the master invention of a Brummel. succumbed to perspiration. and gentlemen with a limited amount of shirts were reduced to the extreme of despair. The bathing houses were crowded, and we are happy to say that “young New York” was clean for once. The hotela were vacated by crowds—the lists of arrivals drooped to the smallest dimensions, and the registering clerks occupied their precious time in listless languor and the smallest of small talk. There was no ster, should they have failed otherwise to se- cure @ copy of this address, may now sppropri- ate it from our columns. They are quite wel- come. Tue Youre Democracy—New York—TaE Ditaye Conventiox—No Go.—Our readers ' will have perceived from the letter of our Al- bany correspondent, published yesterday, that the convention held at the State Capitol the other day, of the Executive State Committee of the Young Democracy of this State, was no go. It was a sorry attempt at harmony. and ended in a sorry failure, The barnburners were hum- bie and conciliatory; they could afford to be wth the lion’s share of the plunder. The bunkers were intractable, as might have been expected from men of disappointed and empty stomachs. A hungry democrat is a bad coun- sellor for harmony, except when the whigs are in—then he is powerful. Now he stands in the way. So they didat Albany. They rosolved that hereatter the democracy should give their suffrages to the hunkers, at the risk of a row. And upon this resolution, strange to say, Capt. Rynders held the balance of power and yet de- clined to vote. They could neither agree to approve the administration nor to condemn it, though resolutions for both objects were pro- posed. It wasadrawn game, or a sort of tem- porary compromise, on the ground that it was bert to ray nothing about the administration. This, too, from the young democracy of the Dil- laye Convention. What will the old fellow, do at Syracuse? We tremble to think of it; but we can only watch and pray. Tus Mare Liquor Law in Kentucxy—It appears that Thomas E. Bramlette the whig candidate in the Fourth Kentucky district, is beaten fifty-eight votes, by Chrisman. (demo- crat,) notwithstanding the district is capable of giving from 2,000 to 2,500 whig majority. But Bramlette was a son of temperance. and as such was prejudicially associated with the Maine Liqug law. and that is the way his fall rose. We expressed our opinion some time ago that the latitude, the climate, and the antecedents of “Old Kentucky,” were not suited to the Maine law. When Mr. Bramlette runs again for Congressin the Fourth district, he must treat and be treated, or elee be defeated. The time bas not yet arrived for the introduction of the «balm in Gilead” at the usual cooling-off places”—at the Battery it seemed as hot as any- “where elee; and ina voyage to Hoboken—the mathematical rale—that what you gain in power you lose in time—applied very well, in- deed, to say nothing of various nuisances indi- genous to that watering place—such as hand organs, New Jersey liquors, and small children. The latter specimens of the genus homo ingulg- ing in all those little eccentricities. so deligit- ful to their papas amas, and so disgusting to individuals who have nd*capital invested in that rather uncertain ‘ stock.” Such is a weak description of what New York suffered. But the change came. Yesterday morning the cun did no ¢ appear; the weather was cloudy, the tLermometor had receded, and the wind was not from the south west. All New York cried Laus Deo! and went to work. In France the Ze Deum would have been chaunted at Notre Dame; but in New York the people thanked God in their own way. and went about their business. The transformation was more than magical, because the Black Art is not always pleasant, and sometimes exhausts rather than recuperates our energies. We are now all men and women again; we were mise- rable wilted weeds. We cannot say how much we admire the first and detest the last. Let us have no more of it. We canstand being drench- ed. but we really cannot see the necessity of so much caloric to dry us again. Tue Inpeacuwent Casi 1s ALBANY—JouN C. Marner proven? To Trrat.—The long, bitter, and relentless persecution towhich our hunker Canal Commissioner, John C. Mather, has been suljected by his friends of the barnburner per- suasion, appears at length tobe in a fair way of drawing to its close. The trial of Mr. Mather, under the bill of impeachment presented against him by the Legislature for malfeasance in office, commences to-day in Albany. He must doubt- less felicitate himself on baving thus, at length, an opportunity of rebutting the slanderous ac- cusations of which he has been the object, and of wiping away from his character the stains with which the opposing faction so industriously sought to tarnish it. The history of this curious case has been now for months before the publie. Mr. Mather was Maine Liquor law into Kentucky. Wait for the wagon! A Prosrect ror Mr. WALKER.—We under stand that there is now a pretty fair prospect that the war steamer Alleghany can be made suitable in a short time for the trip to China. We hope so. Let it not hereafter be said that we lost the China trade for want of a steamer. Hurry up the coals. The Celestial revolution is coming to a focus. ‘Taik on ’Change. There was co important change in the produee markets, During bigh Change the Hymboldt was telegraphed in the offine. whisk Caused some to pansd until the rés2!* of her news could be known, There were two sides to all questions. Thia applied to the closing of marine ineurance offices at 5 P.M. It was raid that these offices, in former times closed @ar- lier, and that all prudent merchante, generally effect- «4 insurance before the bourof 5P.M The cases ia which the contrary prevailed were exceptions to a general rule. Une of the committee corpecied with the collection of mears for the-sick of New Orleans, stated that the ag- gregate vow amounted to the munificent sum of $23 441 Alarge block of lead ore, or Gslesa,"was »xuib ted suspended to a truck wagon. in front of the Excnauge, which war said to weigh 1,60 Ibs., and that it nad peso taken from a six feet vein, eighty fee! below the surface The resent letter of Mesers. Belcher & Brotoera, sugar refiners, of St. Louis, was referred to. Toey bad stared that their couse wes perfectly legal, which was a ques tion between them and the government, Thay nated that the same duty of 30 per cent was fevied on both svger apd molasres. This was trug; bat molarnes, 10 called, greatly varied ia the amount of rzecharine matter held in solution, Thus if sugarcane syrup was boiled to a pcint as near a state of granuletioa as possiole, with out loring its fluidity, it might coatain a very large pry portion of sugar, and sti!l be imported as mohases or ayrup. Molarses differed widely in specific gravity, ac cording to the saccharioe master held ia solution. Sao. posing the molasses imported by Movers, Belcher & Bros te weigh twelve pounds to the gallon, and assuming the weight of good common molasses, the statenent of Messrs, B.&B, that it would yield 50 per ceat of rugar, (and in ome cases it Was contended the yield was mucS higher,) the following brief tabie would explain the probable resulta of the appr« priation:— 106 gallops m: lasses, at 12 Iba. to the gallon. ..1,200 Ibs, Cost ip Bavara 16 cente per gallon $16 00 Duty, at 30 per cent ....... ee weet: ugar. oO cen! Molasses foes Warte, 10 per cent., Cont of €00 Ths sugar in Havana, at 8 cants per Duty, at 30 per ceat..... . an official of popularity, who might be supposed likely to become a successful candidate for the same post of canal commissioner at the next election. There is nothing novel in the idea of injuring the popularity ofan opposing candidate, by spreading reports detrimental to his charac- ter, or by trumping up charges against his pre- vious discharge of duties. It was resorted to in this case, and with the bitterest determina- tion. Bills of impeachment were presented ia the Legislature against him and four or five other officials in the same department. But the latter were either whigs or barnburners, and so with regard to them the bills fell te the ground. Not so, however, with John C. Mather, against whom a bill of impeachment was passed by the Legislature, and the issue thergof the Court in Albany is now to decide. For our part, we feel morally convinced that the whole of this affair arises from party vin- dictiveness, and that My. Mather has been, up to this time, the victim of an artfully contrived and relentlessly pursued system of political persecution. He has now the opportunity to prove his own official purity; and we doubt not he will pass through the ordeal unscathed, and with his popularity not diminished but height- ened. Weehall ste, . ih Danier Wesster’s First Oration.-A gradu- ate of Dartmouth College has kindly fornished us with a copy, in manuscript, of Danicl Web- ster’s oration before the United Fraternity of the college, fifty-two years ago. It having been stated, through some literary periodical that the only existing copy of this oration had been abstracted from the college, and that the oration itself was thereby most probably lost to the public forever, our contributor, in this instance has thought fit to submit the copy which he had saved, for publication in the New York Beran, as the quickest expedient for the general diffu- sion and preservation of this first regular orato- rical effort of the immortal expounder and de- fender of the constitation. Coinciding in the views of our contributor, we spread the afore- said oration before our readers in this paper. Itis interesting, not only as illustrating the mighty though undeveloped elements of Mr. Webster’s mind at nineteen yeara of age, but as a relic of history, independently of any connec- tion with Daitisouth College or tue orator ot the day, The literary executor. ot Mr, We | Yield... 00 Cort of molanees. Differ @D€ sesesesssecseeseecesseses coverseeee $3 69 Thus showing a net gain of $2 60 in favor of importing 100 gallons of concentrated molasses, in preference to im porting 600 Jos. of sugar freed frem molances, and leay- ing, also a clear surplus of 480 Ibs, of molasses to tha credit of the firm. If Mesers. B. & B, with others, gained no profit by thus introducing concentrated molasses, why did they prefer it for refiniog purpores? ; It war contended that whether tho practice was legal or illegal, it nevertheless operated most iojurionaly apo» American sugar yrovers, and nooa that clays of import- ere who pursued @ different courre, Molasses with all other racsbarine materials in @ fluid state, +hou'd be taxed accorcing to the amount of sugar or sacthariae watter beld in solution. There were insteucens wita which the amouat of sugar in snch fluids con!d be asoer- tained. : A merchant wished to call after tion to «hort weights in-flovr, It waa stated that in a shipment of 1 000 bbls o London, it fell ehort in weight equal to two barrels, Theatrteal Inteilige:ce. OPENING OF THE BROADWAY THEATRE LAST EVE- NING—DEBUP OF MR. SILSBEL. The regular season of the Broadway theatre was com meneced last evening. The interior of the theatre bas been rewly painted and decorated ; ft presents a finer Appearance then ever, The Cecorstions of the prose: ium acd box fronts ore in white and gold, The com pany isfull apd efficient. The new faces iast night were Misses A. and J Gougenbeim, Mira Nagle, me Fanny Cramer, and Mr. Fisk, Of the Iedies Arst named tt in ovly vecersary for us to aay that aise A. @ usenhein i the sare Indylike, well Gressed, p'acid actress as ever, apdthat ber sister haa not lost ony of that life daan, vivacity. and sparkle, which made ber vo great a favorite Sn the ecaron of 1850-51. Mra. Nagle is a pretty wo wap, and cleveractress. Mr, Fisk is from Burtoa’s where he oistinguished bimrelf by the artiatic manner ia shich he ‘made np’ and acted several bits of character. The bill last evening incloded ‘Toe Foret Rose @ comedy by the Jate Samurl Woodworth; A Wife fora Day ” afareo by Mr. Bay'e Bernard; and the brgatelle « Ladies Bewaro,’’ none the less weleome beonuse it wa an old friend, In the last named piece, the prico!pal characters werd finely played hy the Misses Gougenbotm Mrs. Vernon, Mr. Whiting, and Me, Davengort. “The Forest Rose” inteoluced Mr. J Stleves, who was very well receised by @ fuli onse, Ag a detineator of this line cf chorseter, Mr. Silsbee is very successful. We thought he overloaded the dialogn with rathar too many prcfone expletives, and that some of hfs jokes wore toy bread—but chacun a cou goat, the people lughod, ant why skould we comploin, Mirabean said + the voies of she people némonishes kings.”’ and M. La Combe was pretty well informed nyon euch subjests. Me. Sil-beo bas all the attes for a fine com'e retor, He “prseres @ tise humorone expression ef gountenenes, fs ® vuteran io stoge businens, amd as in tae onse of Lista, the yooply Jeugh at him before he opens his mouth. The ebmedy ie @ wretehed affair, but he, nesicted by the Misses Govgenheim, Davenport, Grosvenor and Fisk, eartied it through very much te the satisf.ction of the audience. Several local fits ware well received and an allusion te the New York Hxzatp brougtt dows a hearty reund of” applaure. We desire gently to ont to Mr. Davenport, that fops do not dance about continually, and to may that if bis personation «f “Beliamy’’ bad been « little: more dignified, or stiff, if ba prefers that expressioa, it would bave been much more eifctive, Mise d. Goagen> heim should give us © little of tho Ysukee dialect in act- ing the character of Sal Forest ‘After the curtain fell upon the performance of “The: Forest Reve,” Mr. Silsbee was culled for, and appesred, He wade a pleasant epesch, thenkirg the audience for the hearty Yankee welcome howe agsin be had reseived, and assured them that his de-ira should be enly to de- verve their approbation. We forgot to say, that at the conclusion of * Ladies Beware ’ being called for, were led bo" Davenport, axd greeted with » 1 +6 Alt the opening of the fr successful affair, and the * err ‘voliten rately be seid to be riding on the tu uast wave of padle favor. We hope that such mxy be tne fact forever. . Police intetilgences ANOTHER CONFLICT WITH #OUK THIKVES—THE CAr> TAIN OF THE VESSEL REPULSED THEM WITH BIS RIFLE—ONE SUPPOSED 10 BH KILLED AND OTHERS WOUNDED. Between the boura of three av | four o’olvck on Sunday moring, four deck thever rowrted (be orig Alfred Haam- mond, lying at foot of Delancey test East river, for the purpose of plundering the yer-11 bey proeweded 10 the cab’, ard there found Captain Tn- ver, the master of the vasrel, asleey ip bis berto Ose tne villains seized the capton by the threa®, and an eifort +e» made to throw bup throvgh the tabla windo« wo the river, Jn this Ginbdolical attempt they faked uud the captain looved their hoki and #prang én bir few reeaed bia loaded rifle. The twiev © esbiu, aod tates of them managed to gaia tb: © dunt then the cap> tein discharged his rifle at thea ood he thinks be caw ore drop in the bettow of ths buat. na if wounded. In- mediately after he related oa rite, wand fouod that the fourth man, not “aving had time to the boat, wea tili ov bow the vessol. Tao fellow saw the esptain makiog for him, wher he sprang to the side of the -mp and jus: as he passing over, Captain Thayer di.cha: the rifleat wi Diz ard instantly he heard tue was failimto the river and disappear. The captale joked aver the side, but. did not ree him, and be thireforn chinks that the bail from the rifle took effect. ‘Thi wu ix descritad by the captain as a tall, thin man, wore 4 nlick frock odat and @ browy plush cap, The cap til on the deck of the versel. and is nov in the pos ess 0! Gae captata of the Thirteenth ward police. The robnera are desoribed as having their faces di-ruised by msake, evidently with. a view of preventing identity. Duving Sunday moroit the river in the vicinity of tte brig was searebsd with, grapples for the pirpnee of find y the body, bat with- Gut success. The police of the Fhictaauth’ ward heard the diecharge of the rifle. and went oown to the brig; bat pot being provided with» os. thay were unaDie to pursue the rogues, sho appeared ¢o be rowing away iq the direction of Willismebury A WOMAN SUPPOSED TO BE KILLED BY HER HUS: BAND—HI8S AXREST BY THE POLIOB. Yesterday morping the Coroner was notided that a weman named Mary Katen, bac died suddenly at ‘her resdence, No 693 Greenwich siren: oa Sunday. vight and from rumora spread abous 1m ihe viciatty it was su pesed that her death had oeev 0 # inned by vinleace on the past of her husband. a: wx y. Cayt. Ackerman, of the Ninth ward, sent a policeos: to the bouse, who took the husband into custedy. on ihe alleged surpteion of causing the death of bis wife Phe varue of the has- ‘vand is Patrick Katen, who was dutwned by the polica to await the result of the Corner’s inquext, It seema that Mr. Frederics’ W. smith, of No. 615 Greenwich street, on Sunday nuit overbeard two men talking ina pmter house iv tne viriuity, that Katen’s wite was to be buried without » Coroner's certifieste. This aroured the susoicion S.aith, who foformed Copt. Ackerman. When tie police visited the duesased, tbey discovered violence Xbout tox boiy, a severe eontu- sion on the nose. and other parte of her body bruised. The deceased and her hu band «ere of very intemperate habits. frequently quarreling wed figdtiog, and stermidy. the anne od by ate ragepnbys- sod it is sup- pored that in one One be the bh pee re ig! the homicide haz been The corcner, up toa late hour yenterday aftern: bavirg arrived at the preminer to hold +o. faent caste on excitement was mantfented + the vicnity, aot @ erowd of persons had oollected about tae house, anxious- Jy awpitiog the arzival of the sevce: ARREST MADE BY THE RIVER POLICE—A MATE OF & VESSEL CHARGED WITH STEALING COFFEE. Mr Jobo Adee, one ct the “herii’s river pohee, ar- rested yerterday, Kzra J. Mavbe: maie of the bark Beu- nette, lying at a pier, North csr en acbacge of siesl- irg five begs aud one barrel flied «1° coffee, valued at pear $100, the prperty cf J B Thompson, the same bring @ portion Soe bse earko oe Adee rots forth im an afidavii tbat he eav the mate of the bik a-rint Friday last, ia ig the coffve on 601, whieh’ was p ériven to the jure shop of ard cepositea, On gomg to met twomen vaned Patri epresented that they rad ard paid $52 for it, and refured \o give 16 up unions taey sere paid buck that acount. » ett OxXpEMres B159. Mr. Adee then took the eapsain of ‘he bark before Jastica Bogart and related theci;eem-1 ves aren warraat vas issued to proo are toe © fee, on retarning to the Jur shop the cofiee bad bees rai Gupron aad Doyle. They ae vow both charged wish buying the said c.ffee with toe vuilty kuo sledge thit the same was stolen, The miats was ar.eited, ako cberged with the roeny. The toaets rate oom mitted all three to pri-en to wenit a further examicatioa, An Assault upon Policeman Keny, of the F.fth Ward, by a Gang of Kock Boys,.—trorcearn Kene-t King, of the Fil ward, yerterday morvicy enone U1 o’elock, was parsing by the corner of Price and Bizabeth xteeess, having been to hia physic Oy accaunt of siekness, when 2 gengof Rick Buys mice eo attack on him, and in defending himself with an umoreils which be beld at the time be midea thrus’ a the sasailant, and the ood of the omb ella passed into bix eve, de-troving it. The young man fell iustant'y to the ground inseosible, and was carried off by his cvmead~. I his sings been rae nored that he died frm (he tojury ia snout aa hour. Mr, King ‘sas in vory fecbie health a: the time, and sere- yal citizens come forward and reudmed bie protection, The circumstances of the #ffair w-re forthwith related by Mr King to the exptain of the Fif bh ward p: itee, Arrest of Two Daring Burglars —Us Sandy, bet wean tro ond sbree o'clock P.M tw» Germans, ealiog ibemrelrey Soveph Catrevize, and Christian Shevenger, e+ fo come frem the d’y goods store of MeKu Ha-hel) & Co., No, 629 Bronaway Sonatyian Readies soser ‘beic arms. Their aopexrsnee attracted the aitention of officer Miller, of the Fitteevth ward, who took them doth in custody, and conveyed them to the station houea, On opening the bund'ea the; +e @ fourd 10 contain bandsome ‘ik mantillas faocy.caos and a pleesot black cloth, valued in alt at over $100 + burgiara, it seem, broke into the store from the rear, bs fureing open theas dors, The rogues were cooveyad befe Suatica Me. Grath, who committed them to prisca for trial, ay, in James slip, junk ‘bop, hiv. Atos od Dennis Doyle, weed the watd offs Wiiliamaberg Ciuy ntelligence, SrRIOUS STABBING AFFRAY—A way named Patrick nae ely nanoed iu the left side of the on Sunday evening 10 the vicinity of @ por ip Loreimer tree: nose Wi hur~ hy a clasp hare, Dds of % eclored mac. named Front Aniercoa’ hat Fraah’s wife wa: the «hore mentioned use, engaged in drinking arceat syirits, when er husband wen’ in and ovderma her to go hone, which she indignantly refuxed dowg. Hs tos eommenoxt using riolores towsrds her. wien «be esoapad into the yard through a reer window, «biter he followed, and agsin renewed bis violerce ‘Ths «oman wha keops the borter house. ron out and i:terfesd, aud eas alo mia- ured by Apdereon She then ren tots the houwe and procared the assistaves of B-r-v. to prevent him inflict ing further purishwent on bir sive. ward the cclored man whea he cecepi ore the «fence, pursued be Berry, who caught him in the street, when a seaille ensnsd, during whieh wourd was infle'ed. Aud-rsan was nadsequeatl rd rested by seme eitizens, whom he teld he had dor thine mice thee whip bia wife «bich she deserved con-eqnence of this plausible story he w: a has pot yet been re-tskom . er Axotmmr —Shortly before the abova, Frederiok Han- bel, reriding im Fifty fourth eveet, near Seventia avenue, New York. in returning trom a fuveral etopped ata porter house in Jonson vene Ewou street, where some aiffieulty ensued botwee Le mnsid Fieveh- er, also of New Yori when be revsived several aevecd joe ounts from a kyife in the hanas of Fleteior, Gint Yourn Downey ~The b dy of Misa Haghos, who war drowned while buthing a: be fovt of Saveaty-ninta street, Kost river, ou Friday evsuing, vas found foating at the Peck rlip ferry yeste dey moroiug fhe Coroner heN an inquest, ond a yodiersf death fom drowning was returred by the jury. The boty ¢o:respuuded exac'ly with tho de om given of Mivy Hughes, aod as sub- ified by her friends, who woat to New ea retallis burwt eae, bat pefore they returned with it she had nea (laces to # pire coffia and besred away) Kla'bush for berral, whither the friewds were obliged to go after ber, Why such beste afer she was reangnized ¥ Soppen Deatit ov ax AGED Womax —Bridget MeQuinlan, ap oped female, residing at No. 127 souta First etreat, died suddenly at ber residence on Sunday night,o f coa- gestion of the brain. Brooklyn City Inic)ligence, Cry Monranity —The total number of deaths in this city for the week ending Augue® 13, exclusive of the deaths of Saturday ané Sunday, amonot to L100, of which Yi were wales acd 58 females, of whowm 20 were adalts and 71 children. Cononun’s Ixqrest—Tar Peck St Prnry.—Coroner Ball yestercay concluded an io mvou ito the cir. eumstances attending the death of Joegh Hinds, of Cneberlacd street, who wax cro.bed between pha boat and the b idge a* tho Peck siy ferry Williamsburg. oa the evening of the 8th inet. The Jury flod that luis death was canved " a reson ner d the A person to 800 that the chains aro not let dow, ‘il he boats ace prey arly eeonre 1 further, that ihey iasrease the pamber «! ligh the britge Acnoctation for the Eixatctitun of the Indus tay of wil nations. Orvier. No. 58 Broanway, New Your, Anaurt 10 That Hoard of Dire: tors th capitel stook eoatem- Novica I hereby given’ that tes ool to lesme tho reridue of t! plates by the charter of the artoo's'\ mand shat the re- Zomaining ene sur ueand shares will gtidisteibuted in the droportion of one new havo for overy teee old sharos (dis, Soekhold ore appearing as such. fon ee. Peesdey the inst» on or before thy ith imer pen each of ‘he said addy thar pater beaks will te shone trom AE Be eugoss uctil lu a.m, of tre 2)¢) i 308. 5 VOLLINS, ‘troneuret. oqard ti wed therefrom by *