The New York Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1854, Page 4

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The Nev Your Henarp has now the largest circu’stion et nay daily journal in Duroye or America Tee Tally Bunarp circulates nearly sixty Mousand sheet por dey. The Weebly editions-—publiched on Saturday and Sun- doy —rendd a cirealation of nsorly serenty thousand sheeta per week. The ageregsto iseue of the Heracy establishment is wvgqut four humired thousand siesta per week, or over sobiy milkions of beets per annem. The News. PON-ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. The stexmebip Pacific, xow in her eleventh day out from Liverpool, had not been seen from the Sandy Hook telegraph station at twelve o'clock last night. The sky was overcast at that time, and a northwest wind blowing. ON THE INSIDE PAGES We present a great varicty of interesting matter, in- clading letters from our correspondents at Paris, Hayana,Carthagena, Brownsyille,(Texas,) Key ‘Vest, Jacksonville, Washington, Athens, Pa., and Frede- sicksburg, Va.; list of New Patents Issued; Religious Intelligence; the Boot and Shoe Trade of Virginia; a New Sectional Movement; Temperance and Maine Law Items; proceedings of Vermont Whig Btate Convention ; Sentenceof the La Salle Rioters; The- atrical Notices; Reviews of New Books; extra: from English Journals; Commercial and Monetary Intelligence; Advertisements, &c., ke. i THE WOMEN’S CONVSNTION. Elsewhere we publi ount of the procec l- ings of the Women’s State Tempera Convention. held Jat week at Utica, The“ delicate creature,” there assembled appear to be as familiar with tobre- co as German troopers, and as well posted up in the catalogue of fancy drinks as a Broadway black! It is evident that these feminine philosophers hi experimented extensively, and we would ‘that their etforts at reform would be more su if they should imitate the old-fushisned ‘W: nians, aod relate to their audiences the inci, the “ ecraps they have got in and the sc have got out” while having their little “ jolly good times.” Our young men come in fora ks : of the attention of that portion of the con ready yoked in matrimony—indeed the bh vigor of that valuable class of the como ‘& parame while the spinsters are big with the fa the heads of families. We confess loss to comprehend this re x the ordor of things. Why the marriec bloomers cher'sh sach a tender regard for vigorous young men, and the spin- sters are so solicitous for the well-being of the ‘ old tops,” we cannot explain, sxve upon the trite phil». ‘sophy that there is no accounting for taste. It is lamentable—nay, it is diegusting—to witness the ri bald language in which the.coarse and vulgar brought before these Amazonian gatherings is cussed. “We place these proveedings on record s portion of: the history of the times, and the fat historian may make use of the incidents to point a moral for the benetit of thoxe-ihat follow after. ARCHBISHOP HUGHES’ LETTER. We publish to-day the letter of Archbishop Hughes in reply to the speech delivered by Casa some weeks since, in the: United States Senate, on religious liberty. It may be well here to call at- tention to that portion of it in which th» Bishop, speaking of the liberty of speech, admits the right ofevery man to oxpress whatever sentiments Ite may please, without the interference of the law or authorities, “This,” says he, “is a country of free specch and free writing, and it is better to bear with the abuse of either than that any legislation be employed to prevent it.” . THE TURE. ‘The racing on the Herring Run Course, at Bal more, closed yesterday; and most of the horses are on their way to this city, to be in readiness for the approaching races ou Long island. They were wel! attended and the running good, The challenge of Mr. Tenbrook to run one of his horses against the time made by Lecomte at Now Opleans—four miles in 7:26—for $10,000, has been aceepted by Col. Green ani Capt. Belcher, and a check for the forfeit money, $2,500, sent on to this city. The affsir will most probably come off oa Long Island. MISCELLANBOUS. One of the severest bail storms ever experienced passed over Augusta, Ga., onthe 7th inst. It was, however, of short duration, and did little or no on the increase at Jacksonville, Fla., at last accounts, notwithstanding every eflort bad Leen made to stop its progress, At Key West the yellow fever had somewhat abated. We hope our authorities will keep a sharp eye on vessels arriving from those ports. The air at Washington lately has been chilly, and the weather altogether unseasonable, which accounts fot the non-attendance of members of Congress at the capitol. A State Temperance convention was held last week at Harrisburg, Pa. Letters were received from the candidates for Gover That from Gov- ernor Bigler proved very unsa ry. The tem- perance men in that State will vote on the question of a pronibitory law October, but will not nomi- nage o candidate for Governor. Two venders of ardent spirits at New Orleans were setttouced on the 3d inst. to three hundred dollars fine, or in defanit six months imprisonment, ing intoxicating liqnor to slaves. Will the us the slave’ object to preventing the negroes fror getting drank 7 {ONTALITY OF THE CITY. report of the City Inspector the the fe k endin » we tutions. Apoplexy em 4, consumption 61 brerch 4 mation of the lungs 22, mara mus 13, cholera ¢ ent types 25, con gestive diseases 22, inflammation ee en dd, dyeeulery 7, Cart we m ! saallpox 5. Tuere were 36 cases of stillborn and 4 of prematare birth, Among the deaths from othe’ causes ‘han disease we find seven cases of drowning, two fatal casualties, three of fractures, four of old age, One of | poison, two suicides, two unknown, 248 were natives of the United States, 99 of Ire and, 35 of Germany, and8 of England. The week’s report ‘s in the highest degree satisfactory, and if the hea!ih officer of the port and the Street Commissioner do their duty henceforth the exhibits hereafter may prove equally gratifying. THE BOSTON RIOTERS. The authorities of Boston are moving in the right direction in their investigation re ative to the late riot in that city. On Friday the Rev. T. W. Higgin- son was arrested at Worcester and conv. yed to Bos- ton, charged with being engaged in the riot at the court house when Batchelder was killed. He was held to bail in three thousand dollars. The reve- rend rioter who, when asked to subse: ibe fands for the purchase of the slaye Burns, replied that he “had nothing but brains and bullets to bestow,” is yet at large, ag are also the most prominent of his confréres im treason and violence, We hope they will not be overlooked. CONGRESSIONAL, The Honse of Representatives yesterday was again without a quorum. Reports from staxding committees were received; among them bills to punish frauds on the land offices, and providing ac- commodetions for the United States courts. The New York and Philadelphia, is rovemmended. Ia Committee the Pacifie Railroad bi!) was under dis- cussion, but, with the exception «f a member from Georgia, who in his speech urge! the necessity of the immediate annexation of Cube, no one seemed to have a word ‘te siy on the subject. THE MINKETS. The flour market was euite dull yesteréey, and all ordinary eed common te straight State brands sold at prices in favor of ‘buyers. The Pestern de- mand wasslack, with very little doing for export, as prices ruled mostly above the limits of orders. Indian corn receipts being light, tho market for coun i was firm, with sales at full prices, In the absence of transactiens wheat was #rm for prime white, while red and ‘common Western were nomi- nal. Further sales ‘in cotton wert made, without chanve in prices. Our Next Govermor—adovelutenary Coufasion of New York Parties and Politics. “Who is to bo our next Governor? What is he to be? whig or a democrat?—a hard or a soft shell]—a constitution#i Nebraska man, or a disorganizing Seward -or Van Buren free sciler?—a Maine law chompion, or the lager bier candidate?—the faverite of the Irish Catho- lies, or the standard-boerer of the Kuow N-: things?” We can’t answer. We don’t know. Nobody ean answer. Nobody knows. ies are all thrown into confusion—“we are ia the midst of a revolution;” new political elements and organizations are springing into life—old things are dying out—old ideas, old principles, old measures, old platforms, and old fogies, are all in progress of being superseded by new ideas, principles, measures, platforms, parties and politicians, consistent with the develope- ments of public opinion, the excitements of the day, the circumstances by which we are snr- rounded, and with the restless, progressive, reforming, agitating, fanatical, and revolation- ary notions of the age. Hence the difiiculty—the impossibility, we may say—ot predicting or conjecturing with the smallest degree of satisfaction, who iaite be | declarations of Mr. Butl our next Governor. Look, for a moment, how parties are divided and subdivided ia this great commonwealth. To begin with the whigs: The failure ef the Webster and Fillmore men to come up heartily to the support of Gen. Scott in 1852 (to use a mild expression), separated the silver gray and Seward factions beyond any satisfactory prospect of their political reunion for all time to come. The Bonapartists and the Bourbons may, in the course of time, be fused into a common dynasty, as the white and red roses were blended in the government of Eng- land under Henry the Seventh. The adherents of W. H. Seward and the Buffalo party of Mar- tin Van Buren, may strike hands for the repeal of the ‘Nebraska bill; for Ben'amin F. Butler has publicly declared that he would sooner vote for Seward for President than for Douglas. | These things may occur; but so wide is the chasm, £0 deep the antipathies between the na- tional, union, conservative whigs and the Seward men, that, outside of New York, at all events, they can never coalesce, and inside they are not likely to unite upon Seward or any man of his choosing. W. H. Seward, then, will not be our next Governor, though one of his most zealeus or- gansin this city has formally proposed his no- mination as a stepping stone to the Pr dency. He will hardly be nominated, for n to the old grudges of the he has been too thick with Archbishop Hr to be acceptable to the Kuow Nothing in His antecedents, in this respect, ure not availayla; nor can his friends pla Van Buren free soilers nich reliaace upoa the ‘or, notwithstanding the , they are slippery customers—they are like the Ivishman’s flea: you may put your iinger on them, and they are notthere. Seward, then, will have to he left out. We incline to the belt will be a decided an Maine Jaw man, and with soning of th to render him of the prematurely me The whigs must nominate somebody else. that their candidate raska mag, a decided sufficient sea- doctrines of the Know Nothings ceptable to the more reasonable c natives. Greeley has beeo toned as the Maine law can- didate; but the \V ter and Fillmore whigs would prefer old Mr. Van Buren; and the Know Nothings would probably prefer even a Catholic to a e idel and socialist, who whips the devil around the stump as the wind may happen to blow. Greeley, thea, is also out of the question. The mass of the whigs of the State Seward—a majority of them, no doubt, the Maine law—a large portion syinpathize with the Know Nothings, and they cannot well afford to sacrifice either the one faction or the other. The whole of the New York whig the other hand, are hostile to the Nebras i Their manifest poliey, then, in the nomination of either candidate for Governor, is the choice of euch aman as will be satisfactory to the temperance people, the Know Nothings, and the free oilers; and when they come to compare notes in their Sta con- vention, it is probable they may hit upon the man qualified to unite the three side of this plausible scheme of po. 1 trianga Should they fail to do this, on the agitation of ov th ou Hon, the Knew Not f power upon soi . " per ty, oped 70 Sactha hy the free soil spoils poliey of tie adminis erection of buildings for jodicial purposesin Boston, | tion, hes given yet no sign’ o¢ « reunion, neither upon principl $ "eth, spoils. Quite the reverve. The “yy braska bill has divided each wing ar the late “happy family” into two divisions, ro t at there are now four factions of the “glerious democracy.” There sre the hard shells, beaded by John Wheeler, Mauric:, Peckham, and others, opposed to the adminis- tration, the Nebraska bill, aud Judge Douglas; and there are the hards, headed by Mike Walsb, opposed to the administration, uit warm sup- porters of Douglas and Nebraska. There are the free soil soft shelly, under the lead of Walker, Captain Rynders, and John Cochrane, in favor of the spoils, the administration, Douglas, and the obliteration of the black line of 36 $0, There are the soft shell free soilers, upder the lead of Gilbert Dean, Benja- min F, Butler, John Van Buren, and such worthy administration organs as the New York Evening Post and the Albany Atlas, pexfectly enthusiastic in their support of the administra- tion, the Cabinet, the inaugural, and the spoils ; polley which has demoralized and destroyed the party, but so utterly hostile to the Ne- bravka bill that they would prefer Seward for the Presidency to Douglas. Such are the leading discrepancies among “the fierce democracie.” But they are not all. The little morning penny trumpet of the soft shells, printed in this city, has ceme out a more violent firebrand against Michael Doheny sm the Irish Catholics than Parsons or the Angel Gabriel himself, for the True National Deno- crat, so called, says that ‘“‘we speak from the experience ‘of years when we say that, at home or abroad, in Europe and America, the Irish are always ‘deceitful, always ungrateful, al- waysarrogant, always insolent, and the Irish Catholics always anti-republican.” And this is the language of an organ of the administra- tion, while the organ at Washington is playing ugon the other key. Of the meaning of this harsh discord we know nothing. Perhaps this violent assault is a fecler, thrown out to the anti-Catholic party, while the Wash- ington organ assumes to keep all smooth with the Irish. Can it be possible that the adminis- tration is thus preparing to seM out its right, title and interest in the Irish-Catholic votes to the Know Nothings, thus early in the day? Or is this merely.a move of the New York soft shells against the hard shells, who happen to have the bulk of the patrigtic Hibernians on their side? The matter calls for some-explana- tions from the Washington Union, for if its Cabinet satellites can thus wantoaly abuse the Trish Catholics with impunity, we shall be left to no other inference than that it isdone by and with the advice and consent of the authorities at Washington. The question is our next Governor? We have been endeavoring to define the present position of our divided and sub-divided de- mocracy. Jt is all confusion, worse confounded than the whigs—a great deal worse. The favor- ite of the hard shells for Governor is Judge Bronson. But under the new-excitements of the hour he has fallen into the untroubled retire- ment of honest John Tyler. We hear nothing ofhim. Perhaps he may turn up at the hard shell State convention of the 12th July, perhaps not. The great lion of the free-soil administra- tion soft shells is Governor Seymour, and his veto of the late prohibitory liquor law has made him the lion also of the ram selling ana lager bier party. If he runs, he must ran upon that i But it is donbtfal whether he will venture thus to risk aa open fight with the tetotallers, the Wo. State Temperance Alliance included. We » pect that the soft shells will have to look ap another candidate, and he isjust as likely to be John Van Buren as anybody elee. John is elas tic, yet John is firm—John will do tobe defeat ed upon aswellas Seymour. Johan is firm as a rock upon principles; yet pliant to the usages ofthe party—infiexible against the Nebraska bill, but ready to sink or swim for any division of the party, or all united, just as the eonven- tions at Syracuse, Rome, or Utica may elect, for or against Nebraska. He can agree to al- most anything except Gen. Cass. ‘The prevailing fog. smoke, “noise and con- fusion,” among the disorganized democracy are, however, such as to defy all estimates and all conjectures. It is evident that three great par- ties willtake the ficld in our next November elections—the temperance party, the free sou anti-Nebraska bill party, and the Know Nothings. The late elections in New Orleans, Washington, Philadelphia, and other cities and towns, show these Know Nothings to be a wide- spread and formidable party; and they. also show that this party will be very likely to coa- lesce with the New York whigs in November, if they are agrecd. The demoeratic factioas promise neither unien nor harmony, nor avy | fixed programme of principles or line of aetion The chances, t ments of fre: will sweep the Commenwealth, leaving the administration. to moralize over the scattered fragments of the broken democracy, and the causes of their dis- astrous dissolution, while factious fanaticism and intolerance ride into power hand in han. But the ques: nm cunnot be answered for months ‘Who is tobe our next Gover- Amerlean Enterprise-Our Express Linca, Amongst the different auxiliaries, such as rail- roads, steamships and telegraphs, which withia the last quarter of a century have so power/al- ly contributed to develope the commercial and industrial resources of this country, we do not think that sufficient #mportance has beea attach- ed to the part played in the work of progress by the express lines of America, Extending thetr ramifications not only over th» whole of this continent, but over a great part of Europe, ly incurred by delay in the delivery o* perisha- | of the picture frames and window cor- ble geods by the railw.ys, and the many other | nices—in vain we remind" our youngest casualties to wich the careless transportation | daughter, who, as the father’s pet, is gen- other, or from line to line, necessarily sub- | of the attack, that when we consented to give jects it, In this country these losses and faconve- niences were provided against almost as soon as felt, Although Harnden was the first to give effect to any extensive and properly or- ganized system of cxpress lines, it had been at- tempted oa a partial scale previous to his time, From Harnden’s energetic and enterprising ef- forts, however, the system, as it at present ex- ists, may he said to date its commencement, Since 1840, about which period, if we recollect rightly, he began to run, a multitude of com- panies have started up, and have for & brief pe- riod obtained a share of the public patronage. Asin all enterprises, however, in which large capital constitutes the main element of success, they have, one by one, dropped off, and aban- doned the field to their wealthier rivals. The whole of the home and foreign express business is now in the hands of some half dozen compa- nies, some of which, although the most pros- perous, are of comparatively recent date. * As there are many of our readers who are probably unaoyuainted with the peculiar fea- tures of the system, which have secured for it the monopoly of such a large amount of the carrying trade of this country, it may be as well to state that they ensure prompt delivery, by forwarding all their freights by passenger trains,and security, by despatching with them @ special messenger, whose duty it is never to lose sight of them wntil they are place@ in the care of the company’s agents at their different destinations, by whom they are immediately delivered to the parties to whom they are ad- dressed. For the better securiiy of specie, jewelery, and plate, every company has an iron safe on the different trains, and unless when there is a local agent of the company at hand to take his post as sentinel, the messen- ger never quits the compartment of the car- riage in which itis placed, even for the purpose of refreshment. This precaution was suggested by the extensive robbery of specie effected on the New York Central Railroad some seven or, the last ball it was only on the express stipula- tion that we were to remain at home during the summer—in vain even we su; the possibly disastrous commercial consequences of excessive expenditure, and of our being com- Pelled to restrict those extravagant tastes within legitimate limits—it is all to no pur- pose. Bach successive defeat of the enemy is followed by a bolder and more skilful advance. We are harassed by light skirmishing, en- filaded by cunaingly planted batteries, and worried to death by feigned demonstrations un- til,at last, our flanks are turned, our breast- works carried, and an unconditional surren- der is resolved upon without even the honors of war. And then comes the most difficult point of all to be decided. Hard as it may have ap- peared to make the governor capitulate, it is hatder stil to reconcile the conflicting views of the victors as to which of the watering places they will carry their triumphant arms, Our eldest daughter, with certain tender re- miniscenses of moonlight excursions upon Lake George, and promising flirtations at the balls of the United States Hotel, pronounces emphatically in favor of Saratoga. Our second, who is of a romantic turn, and profezses an ardent worship of the sublime and grand in nature, declares the only alternative to be either the Catskill or White Mountains. The third, who has reasons of her own for not re- moving beyond a convenient distance from the city, seeing that the engagements of a certain rising young lawyer would prevent him visit- ofthe article conveyed from one office to an- | erally put forward as the forlorn S| i places of resort, timidly ventures a recommen- port Pavilion, New Jersey; and the fourth, the pearl of her foolish old father’s affections, and part, insists upon a trip to Newport or Niagara. eight years ago, and by which Wells, Living- ston & Co. were extensive sufferers. The money was contained in a box, of which the thieves had an exect counterfeit made, and when the messenger got out of the carriage to obtain some refreshment, the trunk containing the money was abstracted, and the empty one sub- stituted. Owing to the strict system of police each successive proposition of her children, and, tion, and, in order to yain the time necessary to make our calculations, reserve our fiat until the season is a little more advanced. In the meantime we should like to take coun- ing us if we go to any of the more fashionable dation in favor of the quietude and excellent society to be found at Cape Island or the Key- the origin of this weak concession upon his As for the mother, poor simple soul, she sits smiling and nodding an approving assent to at last fairly bewildered, looks doubtfully in our eyes to see which way our judgment inclines. We shake our head disapprovingly at each sugges- now adopted by the different companies,"it is | Sel of our readers. Their varied experience almost impossible that they can be subjected to | and acquaintance with the numerous points of loss by any other cause than fire, or some other | attraction that present themselves to the choice accident to a train. of the summer tourist, will prove useful to us ‘The express lines not only convey every | inarriving at a conclusion upon a point which description of merchandise and produce that | is just now troubling the peace of so mauy the railroads will carry, but also goods that | families. Our own inclinations would lead the latter will not accept, or, more properly | us to visit some of the Virginia speaking, will not guarantee. Agriculturists, | springs; but when we hinted at such even, fiud it their interest to send the more pe- | @ project we were assailed by a storm of rishable products of their farms through this | femonstrances, the various interests involved medium, and we have heard of one company in the choice of a nearer locality, and the fact which conveys to New York about fifteen tons | of all the world coming North instead of and presenting tho safest and promptest me- dium through which the transportation of specte and valuable goods can be carried on, it is sur- prising that so little should be known by the general public respecting the precise nature and extent of their operations, and that abroad such complete ignorance should prevail on the subject. In Great Britain and oa the Earopean continent the business monopolized here by the express Iines is divided between the post of- fiees and the railways; but the manner ia which it is transacted does not present the conditions of speed, pur ud security affortled by the former. h and V.cneh rilways have, f tauee, managed so to shelter their reepon, under the cover of eqiivoeal ations, that it ry guarantee epecies of indered in tran- f the two countries sum that would Ta aeldi- adi t .¢ los: frequent. safe deliy property, whilet th situin the post offi amounts yearly to ott del of fresh butter daily, Forwarding all their goods, as we have said before, by passenger trains, there is in such cases an obvious advan- tage in adopting this mode of transport. The express companies that have survived the extensive competition to which the profit- able nature of the business has yearly subjected them since their first origin, are those of Adams & Co, the American Express Compaay, Tlarnden, the United States Express Company (an offshoot of the American), Kinsley & Co., the National Express Company, Berford & Co., Wells, Fargo & Co., and Edwards, Sandford &Co. The two last are principally engaged in the Californian, Australian and European trade. Although it is impossible to arrive with any degree of exactness at the amount of business transacted by these firms, we think that we shall be rather underrating than overstating the amount of freights daily conveyed to and from this city by them, to be one hundred tons each way. ‘The profits cleared by them, after all ex- penses are paid, may he estimated at upwards of $1,000 per day. For the amount of capital employed—$1,500,000—there are few enter- prises that can be said to yield more profitable returns, The statistics of the operations of these com- panies present some curious facts. It has been calculated, for instance, that the messengers of six firms travel at the rate of about 31,000 miles day, in the following proportions:— Adams & Co.’s, 10,000; the American Express Co.'s, 10,000; the United States Express Co.’s, 8,000; Harnden’s, 1,000; Kinsley’s, 1,000, and the National's, 1,000. , The number of em- ployés in the service of these six companies is | as follows:—Adoms & Co., 500; American, 300; United States Express Co., 300; Hara- den, 100; Kinsley, 100; National, 100. Tuis would give @ proportion of twenty-one and a half miles per day to each man. To spenk of the facilities afforded by this or- ganization, and the punctuality aad certainty imparted to commercial operatioas by its means, would be to dilate upoa a subject of which aimost every one in the community has daily experience. As, however, as i case in things familiar, but few tai teu the tronbl> to investigate its ori Its, facts so cre- ld at least eof a passing notice. The Warenixe PLaces—Wn Suau, We Got—Now that summer has fairly set in, and that we have seon the last of the viting frosts and chilling winds that bonnd us to the com- forts of home, we will soon begin to think of forming part of that general migration which renders us in our habits more akin to the feathered tribe than any other civilized people. In a couple of weeks more every body will be again on the move, although scarcely recovered from the fatigues and annoyances of the long drended ides of May. Our wives and our dangi- ters, after trying our patience with their quer- alous remonstrances respecting the inconvent- ences of their new residences, and with their regrets at the tardily discovered aivanta tos of those which they have just « ing Jarge inroads on our h of the past year, and ran largely in advance of those o | order to ly these faiiclo! 4 | enable them to vie ia appee | more wealthy aeqn gin x to insinuate ti | which o/ tractions th endeavor to frown down these insi venees und en Wake Upour the cost of the new oe aud window draperies, and the regildiag t at- | cireular, cont going South, being conclusively urged against us. But as there does not seem much likelihood of the ladies coming to an agreement omongst themselves as to the most suitable place to go, we should be glad to have some reliable information as to which is the best field for the next flirting campaign. Tre Tricks or SwixpLens—Apvicw to ‘THY Unsvsrrcring.—The protection of society is said to be the chief end for which governments are established and laws enacted ; but after all, -the protection they afford against the many grievances with which society is afflicted, is only partial. While the murderer and the thief are punished in proportion to the enor- mity of their crimes, there is no redress for the man who is cheated out of his money by the devices of the Peter Funk or the cunning of the pocketbook dropper. Several attempts have been made to free our city from these harpies; but they were unsucessful, and the red sign of the mock auctioneer waves as freely in front of his store as the stars and stripes from the City Hall, while the occasional cases that we hear of dropping proves that the pocket- book game is still played upon unsuspecting travellers. If the ingenuity that is displayed in cheating and swindling were devoted to be- neficial purposes, New York would be the para- gon of cities, and her people the most fortunate in the Union. But the watch stuffer and the dropper form a very small minority of that por- tion of our population who live by their wite— the chevaliers d’industrie of the great metropy- lis, Fortune tellers do a thriving business; but we have no compassion for their victims; und the talent that exhibits itself in getting up mam- moth lotteries is rewarded with a fortune, while the thousands who are swindled can obtain no satisfaction unless ‘they take the law into their own hands, Charletans become rich on the sale of quack medicines, drugs are adulterated, and even the very necessaries of life are converted into poison to increase the profits of the seller; but althouch the sufferers may be counted by thousands, the law takes no cognizance of the frauds, and the offenders, in- stcad of being punished like the common thief, are allowed to go free, and are regarded by the community as “ smart men.” But while the law docs. not extend to such cases, or is found to be defective when bron chi to bear upon them, we consider it the duty of the public press to expose them whenever op portunity offers. Here in a case, for instance which we would warn the uniuitiated against: John Smith 6r Dill Jones annoumees to the public through the papers that he has a secret which he will impart on the payment of a dol- lar, and by « knowledge of which the person paying the said amount can make from twenty to sixty or seventy dollars a week. The prospect which such a proposition opens to the sanguine and confiding induces them tu pay the dollar; but it is only when too late that they are made aware of the imposition. The instructions they have received are either utterly worthless, or of so little value that it would be a loss of time to follow them. Thou- sands of dollars are paid in this way, and, per- haps by the poorest of our population, who can ess afford to loce,a dollar than others to lose | t who does not eara m —hardly suflicteat for her | support—sces the advertisement in the paper, nd. in her innocence of the frand, sends the | «1 amount to t Windler, for Bill Jones, instead of imparting the instrac- tons In propria persone, sends a printed ¢ the directions from which the hopeful seamstress is to Jearn the way to moke a fortune in a few years. What we would say to all who are Hable to be imposed upua by eveh devices, is that they chould alwaya | died ana ono passengers, their money unless there is a ver- tainty of their receiving a fair equivalent, some form, A man who is in possession of & voverer of a gold mine to sell out his right im shares for a thousandth part of its value. Seamstress, laborer, or whatever you may be, keep your dollar—ités safer with you tham with your philanthropic friend. Never forget that bird in the hand is worth two in the! bush. Tue Cusa Question—W 4k wits SPatn—Sru «4 Cuance.—We perceive that the Washington. Union denies that our troubles with Spain, in reference to the island of Cuba, have been ami- cably adjusted. It is still probable, therefore, that two extra-special-ambassadors will be sent: over to Spain to patch up a treaty of annex: tion with Queen Isabella, and quite likely that @ couple of extraordinary high-commissioners| may be sent over from Spain to patch up treaty at the same time with the Cabinet ai Washington. But, notwithstanding these pro posed instrumentalities of peace, the Cabinet o gan still covertly inainuates the prospect of war. Against all such hints or insinuations we de mur. There will be no war with Spain. ’ Cub may be Africanized, the administration ma; threaten and bluster through its organ ; but if} will be time enough to believe them when their} words are supported by deeds, and when thei threats are made good by some corresponding] action of the government. The most likely settlement of the Cuba question by this admi- nistration, is an acceptance of indemnity fo the detention and fining of the Black Warrio and a promise of better behavior for the future. We have no right to expect anything more. Sournern Waic Parry—Omrnovs.—aA writer in a Richmond paper, who addresses himself to the Petersburg (Va) Intelligencer, a strong} whig paper of the Southern school, says :— high, personal for 4 espectall; duaire your Srttiers spite { fave ead, ter with pleasure, your article a! our determi: nation to act no longer with the N w nd that it is impossible for the Southern whigs to go dl convention with them. I agree also with you, that if] ny the Southern whigs are to keep up a litical organ tion, it would We feet for thent, Py rat’? Southern can best concent convention, as by that means y treir strength, so asto jump upon either end of th beam they please at the next election; and I will that itis even possible they might come out of thei convention good and true “know Nothings.”’ So they may. In all the late local election where the Know Nothings have carried they day, they have had the whole whig vote to back] them. The election of the Know Nothing can4 dates for Mayor in Philadelphia and in Wash ington, the other day, was the result of a tho rough coalition between the Native-American. anti-Catholic-Know-Nothings and the whigs ; If the whig party of the South intend in the fame way to identify themselves with thes Know Nothings, the campaign of 1356 will bel] wholly without a parallel in its excitements,y animosities and tremendous results, ‘There willl] be the two opposing elements of abolitioniam,f] and Southern slavery in the most violent formspl and there will be Protestantism against Catho- l licity, and natives against the Trish, in a wat} of politicalextermination. It is manifest that this Know Nothing organization, united with the whigs, is competent and determined to brea down the remains of the present democratic \ party ; and in this view the reconstruction ofp] the fragments of both the old political partie:, upon new men aud new principles, is inevita-f] ble. The revolution has already commenced. Before a twelvemonth is over there will not he | & vestige of the old whig and democratic par- | ties, as such, remaining. Such are the signs off] the times, H Free Masoyry.—The M. W. Grand Lodgo of the State of New York bas closed its annual June communication, | after an interesting session of four days. We have pub- Bf} shed a list of the new grand officers. Warrants 6 | issued for about twenty new lodges, making the whole| number now working in this jurisdiction nearly three! hundred. At the annual communication of the Most Wor. thy Grand Lodge of the Ancient and Honorable. Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York, held at Freemasons’ Hall, in the city of New York, on the 7th of June, A. L. 5854, the following Grand Officers were elected:— K M, W, and Hon. Mordecai ers, of Schenestady..G. M. Rt. W, Nathaniel F. Wi yn of Brook! @. Rt. W, Jamen Jenkinson, of Albany Rt. W. Oliver C. Deoslow, of Yonker: Rt. W. Janes Herring, of New Yor! Rt. W. John Horspool, of New York.. Rt. W. and Rev. Evan M. Johnson, of Rt, W. Edward Cook, of New York W. John ©. Alstadt, of New York. W. Greenfield Pote, of New York. There seems to be a split in this publishes, a ticket yesterday claiming to be the regular elostion, and also received the above ticket ¢laiming to be the rame thing. We publish both. ‘The Grand Lodge of F. and A. Masons has just closed its annual session at Sacramento, California. Education of the orphan seems to have been the leading feature of their deliberations. Gon. Winn bas donated linds near £acrsmento for a Masonic college. Past Gr. Master John. A Tutt, Past Deputy Grand Master. T. A. Thomas, and Deputy Grand Master N. Greene Curtis, were appointed trustees to take charge of this property, and to receive. depations for educational purposes. he following of- ficerr were clected for the ensuing year:— Most Worshipful Graud Master, Wm. H. Howard, of fan Jose. Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master, N. Greene: Curtis, of Sacramento. Re W Grand Senior Warden, R. E. Cole, of Son Fran- cisco A. W. Grand Junior Warden, R. N. Wool, Martinez. + Grand Seeretaiy, 1. Stowell, San trancisco. R. W. Grand Treasurer, A. Martin, San Francisco, R. W Crapd Assistant Seerotary, 0, J, Preston, Sao. Francieco, 3. W. Grand Chaplain, J. H. Bristow, Sacramento, W. Grand Marshal, J.'8. Halsey, Maryavilie. . W. Grand Sword Bearer, J H. Seymour, Nevada, W. Grand Bible Bearer, George Yount, Napa. * srand Senior iescun, R. H. Hawkins, Aubarn. W. Grand Junior Teacon, 8. K. Nurse, Gevicia, W. (rand Steworda, R. A. Appling, 8. S:cinbart. 1. W. Grand Tyler, 8.'C. Field, San Francises, Mas.ury is flourishing in Australia to a very great ot. tent The various lodges are unusually wealihg, ia eon- sequence of there bein calls upon them by the poor ond @istresred. Th fits derived hy new colonists in pg the lodges a considerable, merchanis, sional gentlem stend their waseaic duties punctual, Gelpht in giving ndvies. Three mew lodges are poken of in Melbourne, and two in its environs; in act, { is im- juss! le for the present number to transact the business cf (he pisce. The Kilwiany was at work from thres in. the a'trrpeon until two the next morning, and another ¢) the lodges met four nights in succossiou. The United. ‘Inmcesmen held sixteen lodges in two months. vie Jen. and tike a ‘Tom Lare IrartaN McRoER IN BROOKLYN.—We haye ro~ celvcd information from a reliable source that James An- tonal, aequitted of the murder of John Ferdinandi, in the court of Oyer and Terminer, Brooklyn, was not re- arrested on a charge of murder committed in New York, but, on the contrary, is enjoying that liberty which twelve juryimen, after patiently hearing the evidence pro and con, ayarced hia, Marine Attain, LFPARTURB OF THE BALTIC. —The steamship Baltic, Capt. Comstock, & yesterday for Liverpool, with two hun- $690,000 fi rpecte, a red F ro ranted, noking the whole number given to this ward thi (we hundved and thirty-six—bat Hite more tia the number grant «This ought to ober nee iy Oy waeler of this ward duriay amr Gran vo 7 r, #8 they are # Youk Tigers, at five oe wk Maney Wisk Ue Renee Vinired this erty some Bo, mba Dhon ganis they wil be dariag tue yout