The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1854, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, JAMES GORDON BENNPTY, PROPRIETOR 4ND EDITOR. Bence &. W. CouvEs OP NASSAU AND FULTON 88 a sopy—$) per canum. Saturday at 6% cents m ; Me European Edition MA per an ? Britain, and $B to any part of the | le ertoge. renewed every day. | anonymous convmunications, We do nod veture those rewc(e VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing impor- “om any quarter ef the world if sso, for, mgr Oun Fonmiow Con wesrox FARTICULSREY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL D PACKAGES #ENT Vs. TIERS by snail for Subserigtions or with Adver to be post paid, or the postage wild be deducted from we ited Pomey ren JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapnens, and Mewpatc. ei AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. CASTLE GARDEN—Mania vw» Rowan. BOWBRY THEATRE--Six Deckers oF CRimn—East Riven BOsTNEY. NIBLO'S—Gevevie r—Naowr. AMERICAN MUSEU: fternoce--Basnoomiiwe—Tn S zetke BRipecRoow ag—Consicas Baoturas, CERISTY’S AMERICAN OPERA TOUS®, 472 Brosd- way. —Bimsorian Merovixs wy Cuniory's MiverneLa, WOOD'S WIN STEEL HALL, $44 Proadway.—Krmorran Mewerarioy anv BURLECQUE Orne. EPS OPERA HOUSE. 539 Broneway.-Svcw Rrmoray Orrra TROUPE. we | had frandulently issued eight thousand shares of the | porancons with the advent of the cholera at this mort, was yeeterday set at largo, the lawyers being | freeman must necessarily |’ ¢ more Violent amd of opinion that bi: conduct had not reddered bim | jese-easily resisted than t) wese Of the slave who amenabie to the criminal iaws of this State. from his birth has been tenght to yield every pa rks pinging tah sucess feeling of his own tO,» wasters will. If all ly reference to a telegraphic despate! 08 | shee differences are + takes late aapbait, the ton it will be seen that Edward Orane, President of |). . eH the Vermont Central Railroad Company, resigned | i*Parity between ' pe criminal returns of the two rections of the rion will appear no strange hie office yesterday. Well, what of it? Why, pre- , - vious to the resignation it waa discovered that he Phenomenon, but , ay bvious inevitable result of plain practic 4) oanses, The discus? gm of glavery inthe North is an- er any Cit gemstances superfiuous and idle: No Ou Wel jy to introduce it’bere : and we are | bound by rp fealty to the constitution not te interfere yi3¢h it where it now exists. But such | GiFCUSEI gs are worse thar idle when they are Provok wi ‘hy the false assertions and absurd talee g.:be abolitioniste. So long as the figures tbo ; hat panperiem, crime and insanity are or three bondred a day, all the financiers, and specu” | MO prifrequent in the North than in the South, jators, and tricky mentof all trades, became suddenly | ar ,@ {hat religion is ess generally practised pions, joined the church, and were accounted re" |} ewthan there, clamor and abuse “of Southern Fpectable, having washed away their sins. Contem- inititutionsare as impertinent in the mouth of Northerner as attack» on honesty would be from the 2ips of a-convicted thief. stock of the concern, said stock having been pledged | to parties and by them sold in the market as bona /ide stock. This is certainly a magnificent operation. The financiera are getting accustomed to these things, and, indeed, they might suffer some in health if the excitement were allowed to subside. The disease has become epidemic, consequently any dealer in stocks is tiable at any moment to be taken down. When | we had the cholera raging in our midet some years ago, and people were dying off @: the rate of two | season, we have the most wnexampled rascality all round. It isa seriovs thing to reflect upon, but who can say that the one was not sent npon ust » | purge the couatry of the other? “God movesin mysterious way his wonders to perform.”” COMMERCIAL APPAIRS. Inferior to common and good brends of S' gre flour advanced 12) to 25 cents per barrel yester Aysorven Sorrmprn Commprcian Coxven- TioN—OiD Vinemia Wake ‘vp.—We publish in this paper, for the edification of our readers, expecially of the North, the interesting repor! and resolutions of a Commercial Convention re- VRANCONI'S BIFPODROME—Manis0n Seuanr. Kew York, Sunday, July 16, ‘Te the Public. ‘Sho New Youu Henaty bas now tho largest cireulatioa ef any daily journal in Forope or America. ‘The Daily Hrnuy circtiates nearly sixty Qousend areeta per day. ‘The Weebly editions. ablished on Saturday and San- @ey—reacd a circulation of nearly screnty thousand abeeta per week. ‘The aggregate isree of the Hrsuip establishment is mbent four hundred thouwand sheets per week, or over twenty millions of dheets per annum. The News, MORTALITY OF THB CITY. We earn by the officia! report of the City lu:pee- tor that the whole numberof deaths im the city for ‘the week ending July 15 was 517—am increase of 86 on the week previous, The cholera is increasing slowly. Since the jast yeport there have been 47 victims, ‘being an ave- vage of 21 per day, and an increase of 49 on the pre- wious week. The weather during Thursday and Friday wes rainy and cold, and the sudden ohange from the excessive heat which proviously prevailed @oubtiees bad the effect of accelerating the disease. As Wil} be seen by the accounts of the progress of the cholera whickwe publish in another part of today’s paper, the disorder has increased in about the same ratio with us as in other localities. It will be remarked that the pestilence this season has ex- tended to nearly al! parts of this continent, and it hesaleo proved very virulent in the British West India islands. Happily, a8 yet our people have not become panic-stricken; and it isto this equanimity ef mind, and the superior ekill with which the dis- ease is now treated by the medical facwity, that the wamber of fatal-cases is at se low a figare. An of cial card has been advertised by the Health Com missioners, which is annexed:— Mayor's Omvicm, Saturday, July 15, 1854. ‘There seems to be an apprehension thst the Commis- sdoners of Health are suppressing information in lation to the stete of the heal the city. We th’re- fore submit the foliowing report from Tir. J. H. Vanés weer, physicionof 1 2 ite opening, June 24, 1854, to 1) o'clock th Whoie number . Diacha: Remaining By which it wil 4 @eaths in she hosp! Sour per day. i “Alfother casge of mnortality will be seen in the Weekly port of the Oty Inspector. 2 ie YONJACOB 4, WESTERVELT, Mayor. bat fer the laxt*wenty-on } have not been to the ext There were-during the week 17 deaths of cholera morbus, 41 of diarrhea, 7 of inflammation of the bowels, 29 of dysentery, and 13 of debility. Of the @ineases peousiar to children there were of cholera infantum 117, of convulsions 72, crenp 8, measles 9. Of stillbom 29, and of premature birth, 10 cases are reported. There were 8 deaths of bronchitis, 54 of con- sumption, 11 of inflammation of the lungs, 25 of moracmus, 18 of congestion of the brain, 8 of in- fiammation of the brain, 31 of dropsy in the head, Of deaths from external causes n stroke, 1; casnalties, 6 ; berned, 2; drowned, 3; fractures, 2; poisoned, 1; suicide, 3. In the various charitable and penal institutions of the city there were 11/ deaths—59 at Ward's Irland, 41 at the Franklin street hospital, and 15 Of the total number died 518 were natives of the United States, lee of and 3 of smallpox. there were: st the hospital, Bellevue. Ireland, 15 of En gland, and 88 of Germany. FROM WASHINGTON. Gurspecial despatch informs us that the 8 in secret session yesterday agreed to remove the injunction of eecresy from the Canadian recipro »ity treaty, and also to print a large numberof copies of the.document for distribution. This action was subsequently rescinded. As our readers are well aware, covery important feature contained in tha! treaty hae been Jong since laid before the public in the columns of this paper, and the whole anbject has been commented on throughout this country and the British provinces. We have, therefore, Jost nothing by the action of the Senate in this particular, As there can be no doubt as to the a! timate fate of the treaty, very little importance is attached to it. The New York postmasters will no doubt all be vonfirmed, with the exception of the incumbent at Albany, Mr. Reynolds, who will be superseded by Mr. Vosburgh. The former is an “adamantine,” and the latter a ‘‘soft.” The Colt investigation is going on briskly. faid that certain telegraph operators have been called on to testify regarding fects wituin their knowledge. If a Congressional committee have power to do this thing, it will undoubtedly tend to prevent hereafter the transmission of communica- tions by this method, as secresy in moat instances is as important as despatch. \ Inthe Senate yesterday the joint resolation trom te House, presenting the thanks of Congress ant a gold meda! to Capt. Ingraham, for his conduct in the Koezta affair, was amended by striking out the “ thank,” and in that shape adopted. The Home- stead bill was further discussed. It appears that an understanding has been arrived at by Senators to alter the entire plan of the bill. It is propoaed to grant, uncer certain conditions, pre-emption ri, of land to settlers, the price thereof to be fixed ona graduated.ccale. The Appropriation bills sent trom ‘the House were appropriately referred. Nothing .of general interest transpired in the Houee yesterdey. ie We publish jc another column a brief history of Japan doring the last two or three centaries, with accounts of the many unsuccessful efforts that have heen made by Furopean governments to open its trade to the world—a triumpb that has been re- served for American enterprise to accomplish. The aketch is interesting, and is well worth a peiu-a'. LATER FROM HAVANA. ‘The steamship Cahawba arrived at this port yes terday evening from Havana. Her advices are on- important, nothing special having transpirov'. TEE BURNS nIOT. The Grand Jory of Boston have found bills of for riot and assanlt against eight of the persons in the abolition émeute in Boston on the 26th May, bot we miss in the list of names thore of the prominent promoters of that outrage. MISCELLANEOIS. Mr Paul, the indiv am fur per sexo with the hs" *% ”* ant It is Pn de Hoepita! in Frapidin street, since Prime white wheat was searce and in good de> grr} at full prices. Rye was active, and wan’ a at the close of business at $120 per bushel. * jmeian corn remained unchanged. Cotton was acti eo en tirm, with sales of about fifteen hundred br png cently held -at Buckingham Court House, in that geographical division of Virginia familiar- ly known among her citizens as the “ Ancient Deminion.”* eens The statistics grouped together by Mr. Bon- ‘The South Judged by Figure », durant, (the presiding spirit of the Buexing- Anti-slavery declamation kas attsst provoked | ham meeting,) of the fiaancial and commercial statistical inquiry into the relative cc jpattion of | vecources of the several States, are presented in the Northern and Southern States; ¢ athe as | an instructive and suggestive form. They will tonisbed hearers of Theodore Parke ¢ and Wil- well repay a eareful perusal. They afford an- lam Lloyd ‘Garrison heve learnt +for the ilrst | other illustration of the inestimable value of the time that religion is more spare an d crime more | census returns, and other practical statistics of freqnent in the free States than “ im the-slave. | the several States, in obtaining a clear and Comparative tables compiled fr¢ jm sconsus re- | satisfactory understandiug of the comparative turns have shown thatthe South’ zraStates with | reconrces and capacitiesef the different sections a quarter of a million4ess popul ation than the | of the Union. Mr. Bondurant thus shows us Northern, contain 1,885 more cherchee, acd | that the resources and capacities of Virginia about’ helf as many eriminale. Of course it ls | for independent commereial operations are large easy to suggest reasons for so striking a dis | and inviting, and should no longer beneglected crepancy: the solutions off wed by extreme | hy her citizens. And in this opinion he is fanatics in both sections of the country are | right; but the modus operandi is quite another numerous and frequently ¢ amusing. A seces- | thing. sionist organ traces the fact to the divect The resolutions of the.Buckingham meeting agency of the slave system, which it recem- | recommend the Memphis and Charleston mens the Northto adopt tas the only cure for | convention policy of direct imports— its-social evils, A Northern abolitionist de- | that the Virginia retail dealers, upon the nies the accuray of the ‘sensus.report—a very | same terms, hereafter give the. preference in safe sort of solntion of the difficulty. Others | their purchases of goods, to their own mer- explain the scarcity of Grime in the South by | chants, who may import :them directly from carging the Seathern police with ineficiecy, | Purope and other parts of the earth, The ob- and their courts with undue leniency to crimi- ject is to draw to Norfolk and Richmond those nals. On’ both sides—but especially in one | imports for Virginia consumption which are section of the eountry—the statistical discovery | pow supplied by the importing houses of, Balti- has led to muel loud declamation, and angry more, Philadelphia and New York. This is a appeals to feeling. It seems to have ex- | jegijimate object; but like the Memphis and asperated the fanatics of the Boston school | Charleston conventions, the onterprising -meet- ‘beyond measure to find that religion thrives | ing at Buckingham Court House begins at the wetter under the shadow of the institu- | Wrong end of the engine. Tke boiler must first tion which ‘they are pleased to style the ‘sum | p> supplied with water, and the furnace with of all evils’ than in the pious, moral, and combustibles and fire, befove the machinery can proselytizing community of which they are be made to work. The proper policy for the themselves conspicuous members .and bright Virginians, and for the South generally, is to shining lights. Nor can they -be at all} puild their railroads and their.ocean steamers, reconciled te the fact that such peccadilloes as clippers and merchantmen, develope thelr in- thefts, assaults, and murders are twice as fre- } jeyna) resources, and to invite population by quent in the society they vaunt as a model, as opening up new channels of industry and pro- in the pitied and much-abused slave-holding | ¢table investments. Then, if they can compete States. They are heartily welcome to whatever | with New York successfully in supplying their consolation they may derive from ascribing | own citizens with imported goods, so be it. these differences to errors in the census report, Competition is the life of business, and we the prevalence of unpunished crime in the | speuld like to see Virginia and all the South South, and such silly pleas: facts are none the | entering heartily and practically into active Jess facts, and if accidental agencies have competition with Northern commercial and heightened the contrast, we may leave a wide manufacturing enterprise, for the result would margin for the operation of such causes, and | pe @ yreat benefit to all parts of the Union. still find that, so far from slavery being swbver- | Of Jate years, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, sive of religion and provocative of crime, our South Carolina, Virginia, and even steady, ald own experience of this and other systeres of | facpjoned North Carolina—so long known as Od labor show exactly the reverse. _ _ | Rip Van Winkle—and most of the other South- Other statistics confirm the discovery—if it | ern States, have been making rapid strides must be called by that name in deference t0 | jp 91} the progressive business movements of anti-slavery prejudice, Let us compare twe | the age. We are glad of it; for the material prominent States, one North, the other South— | savances of every State contribute to the pow- Massachusetts and Tennessee. The latter er, the glory and the grandeur of the United the most populous by about 50,000 souls; the | States, and to the increased diffusion of the figures being, at the last census, Massachusetts meens of a high happiness and the refining ele- 993,990 inhabitants, Tennessee 1,032, Yet | ments of civilization throughout the Union. the former State contains 5,549 paupers, and | pat we must admonish the Virginians and the latter only 531. In Massachusetts there is Southerners generally that corventions, and one pauper for every 200 of her population; in reports, and resolutions, are not the thing— Tennessee, one to every 2,000. The same con- | they are well enough in their way; but it is trast is presented by the returns of the insane, work, work, practical work, which cleaves a f a setts ¢ fi 7. Ten- gin’ s of whom Ma wenchnise tts contains 1,647, aud Ten pascage through the mountains for the locomo- nesse but 178. Whatever connection there may tive, and makes the highways of the occan be between slavery and religion or slavery and smooth and practicable, and regular as clock- crime, the disparity existing between the nam- woik—it is work, genius, capital, enterprise ber of paupers and lunatics at the North and the which make cheap, goods pie yrofilanta sie same Classes at the South is clearly traceable to kets, which line the seaboard with cities and Lhaxk of that institution, A system of Le- | the interior with busy towns &nd villages. reditary labor necessarily precludes pauperis: Resolutions by Virginians to buy goods of ere a i measure reduces the c Virginia direct importers, when they can be which lead to insanity. In these points slay had of them as cheaply as from New York, will gorse paerabrer=i mee amount to nothing unless the Virginia im- Kia Sista hie pi Os picky ~ | porters are providid with the facilities for im- . y *** | porting as cheaply as New Yorkers. Until sume boldly that crime must be what the cen- such facilities are provided, all Southern com- sus shows it to be—move frequent in communi- mercial conventions must end in smoke. Still ties where the laborers are free than in those we are gratified that Old Virginia is waking where they are the property of a master. ” up, and we hope she will “never tire.” discipline essential to the management of slat®™ Viciaaspcesaaedeh Aacealatibetied! is a formidable obstacle in the way of the com- mission of crime. The slave who desires to rob or murder must first foil the vigilance of his overseer before he can enable himself to perpe- trate the crime: the freeman is unwatched and unchecked until the crime has been committed. Opportunities for crime are rare where it is the duty and the interest of those in authority to Keep a perpetual watch over their servants: they occnr at every instant where the servant, his work finished, bas no control to acknow: ledge. In like manner, this vast authority in the slave owner imposes on him a graver re- sponsibility for his own acts than devolves on one whose powers are more limited: a vicious | the whigs may join the hards in the election. master knows that he sets the example of vice | This is an absurd fear, after the emphatic en- to his slaves, and that their crime will cost him | dorsement of the Nebraska bill by the hard con- more than he can afford. The freeman, sur- | vention. It is suspicious of acollusion between rounded by freemen, has a comparatively insig- | Judge Bronson and the Know Nothings. But nificant interest in the virtue of his depen- { how can that be, when the soft shell organ of dents. Again, panperism being necessarily | this city iseven more ferocious against the Irish more frequent where all are self-dependent, | Catholics than the Angel Gabriel? Doubtless and rarer where the sick and the infirm are | the Know Nothings will figure largely in the gratuitously supported by a master, one of | election; but we suspect that the whigs will the most fruitfal sources of crime must | look after them, dropping Seward in the mean- be greater in free than in slave communities. | time, for a more available candidate for Gover- We shall not exaggerate if we say that one [ nor. The free soil soft shells must be satisficd half of the thefts committed in the North are | with their chances, such as they are; and it fs dae to poverty and want: thisstimulustocrime | well that the .4¢/as has made up its mind to a is entirely wanting among slaves, Well or | defeat in the outset. It will save it froma sick they are lodged, fed, and clothed : ifevery | disappointment in the final result, free laborer at the North were sure of as much, The policy recommended by the Albany our jail calendars would be much lighter. | organ of the administration faction brings Another potent spur to crime is passion, which Jus back to the fundamental doctrines of the abjtoal restraint ard perpetual serv’ st | Eoftwlo platform. wy ore) ard Ww ruck y Tue Harp Sets C ‘TION AND Tue Sore Swett Centra Oncax.—The Albany -2t/as, the central organ of the Buffalo free soil soft shell administration faction of the late demo- cratic party, is not satisfied with the doings of the hard shells at Syracuse; and that our read- ers may have the full benefit of the.4¢2as trum- peter, we give his complaint at large in our columns. It is brief, pointed, significant and useful as an index to the probable action of the soft shells at Syracuse in September. The .4t/as is clearly guilty, we apprehend, of several bold absurdities in its summing up of the hard shell programme. It is tearful that } ming recom chdaticrs,’ that by f with a farther | recommendation that the-egm® faation abac- } don their Syracuse convesilon thd merge their fortunes, and those ofthe administration, into | ‘the grand anti-slavery alliance at Saratoga on | ‘the 16th of Auguet. The land-marks iaid down by ‘the ities in cbenection with the reception of Judge Dougles by John Cochrane, and the ‘resolutions of Tammany Hall on John McKeon, give promise of a lively time among the soft shells at Syracuse in September. One would almost conclude that, between the hards, the whigs, the anti-slavery alliance, the administra- tion, the ‘temperance party, and the Know Nothings, the poor soft shelle were already salted down. Corroration Scmnxtieic Exeunsioxs.—Alder- men will be Aldermen, and Councilmen will be | Councilmen, under whatever régime they may | be elected, and by whatever party they may ve supported. They are all like that joliy member of the London corporation who said he would not be a turtle, because then he could not partake of that savory dish. The reform- ers who now occupy the City Hall, (keeping it warm for another batch of reformers,) have apparently opened their eyes to the fact that their time is short; and they have resolved to go akead and make the best of it while it lasts. We, therefore, are not surprised to tind the members of the New York Common Council making a carnival of these beautiful summer months—excursionizing all over the country ; examining steam fire engines, marble «;:arries fashionable hotels, mineral springs, anu various other interesting objects in the world of science. The plan ie very simple: A member of either board who desires to make a little excursion, ascertains that there is something wonderful at Cincinnati, Niagara, Northern Vermont, or some other pleasant place. He moves for the appointment of a special commit- tee to investigate the matter, The motion is carried ; and a few days afterwards @ party of “jolly good fellows” get out of town and journey towards the scene of their wmis- sion. They return and make a report.. Then there is a spécial appropriation for their expenses, and the matter is dropped. What glorious times they have on the way !— low like princes they are treated, en route'—Their excursion isa triumphal march to loaded dinner tables—they are continually sa- luted by salvos from batteries of champagne bottles. ‘“ How lightly falls the foot of time that only treads on flowers!” The very last of these scientific excursions is one by a committee of Aldermen and Council- men, to examine a marble quarry! And the particulars are as follows :-—— The special committee of the Board of Alder. men, having in charge the building of the new City Hall, and the committee of Councilmen upon the same, left this city last even- ing for the purpose of visiting the quarries of the American Verde Antique Marble Company, at Roxbury, Vermont. The President of the Board of Aldermen, Nathan C. Ely, and the President of the Board of Councilmen, E. J, Brown, and several gentlemen interested in the city improvements, accompany the committees. The quarries of this compaty produce a green and white line marble. It appears that speci- mens of the marble have been on exhibition at the City Hall during the last week, and any one would suppose, that this would be sufficient for all practical purposes; but not so the Council- men. They must see the quarries, and they will probably be as well informed on the sub- ject when they return as they are now. But in Vermont they may be able to get some val- uable information on the subject of wool—the new breeds of sheep—the raising and training of horses—the Maine Liquor law, and other kindred subjects, all of which will be interest- ing to their constituents. As the invitations for thie excursion are given by ex-Alderman Alden, agent for the Quarry Company, the city will not suffer pecuniarily by the operation. So also with Messrs. Benjamin F. Pinckney, Geo. W. Varian, Geo. H. Raymond, Gen. F. E. Mather, and Richard J. Smith, Committee from tke New York City Council to examine the “Bull of the Woods,” &c., who arrived at the Burnet House. Cincinnati, on Wednesday even- ing last. They have mere country to go over; and although their estensible business is to ex- amine a steam fire engine, (a duty which mighf be better performed, and at less expense, by the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department,) they cen do various other things which will re- dound to their credit and the honor of the city, They can test Langworth’s Ohio champagne— @oey will have a grand dinner, undoubtedly, at the Burnet House, and they will be able to te} us how that establishment compares with the Metropolitan and St. Nicholas. They will pick upon the way much interesting geographic: § and ethnological information, and return per- fectly well posted up on all matters pertaining to railways, steamboats, country hotels, rusur- ban brandy, and other topics of interest to travellers. Thus it will be seen, that although these corporation scientific excursions are fre- quently made the butt at which wags discharge their shafts of wit, ridicule or sarcasm, yet they may be made productive of much good. We all of us need information, and the Common Council are not wiser than their constituents. Solet them travel and improve themselves, and Mr. Flagg will pay the bills. Tur Saratoga Convextiox—More Lient.— The Albany Journal throws a flood of light upon the subject of the State convention of the holy anti-slavery alliance, which is to meet at Saratoga on the 16th of August coming. It says that one object is a united protest against the Nebraska bill, and for the restora- tion of the Missouri compromise ; another ob- ject is to secure the re-election of every member of Congress who, in good faith and straight through, opposed the Nebraska bill. Further- more, Thurlow Weed says :— it above all, = convention has an important prac on temperance, pri: it, cans! enla: it, ison mat " of the questions of State policy which enter into +, Prison Inspector, and fcsiones, 'Saniterth t i might Ato those Vinjecte Weald berusen. thorised. It would receive and deserve as much respect. and no more, than is due to the ection of any other re. spectable mass meeting. Here is the whole thing. The convention is to be purely anti-slavery, and its deliberations are to be limited to the Nebraska question, and to the business of filling up Kansas and Ne- bracka as fast as possible with good stiff aboli- and tionists and free soiJera. They will not touch | We are surprisod. afer | the Maine Liqnor law, for that m’g t Tead to vielent difcrenge of opinion; Wey wilt bave L nothing to do with the Know Nothings, forazy{ NEWS B tampering with them might lose the convention the services of W. H. Seward, and that would he a fatal misfortune. Confined to the anti- slavery business, W. C. Bryant and Horace Greeley may sit on the same bench, with Sew- ard on the right hand, Benjamin F. Butler on the left, and Fred. Deuglass in the middie. It will be a great convention. , Amnival or THE CanAwna.—The U. 8. mail steamer Cahawba, R. W. Shufeldt commander, ar- rived yesterday from Mobile, via Havana. She left the former porton the #th, and the latter on the 11th inst. There is nothing of impor:ance from Havana. Frem Mobile, the Cahawba brings 900 bales of cotton and $100,000 in specie, for the Merchants’ Bank of this city. On the outward passage George Wycoff, fireman, died ou board the Cahawha, in an apoplectic tit. Whe Belwont Affair. DISCHARGE OF MR. WILLIAM N. PAUL FROM CUSTODY. Mr. William N. Paul, who was lately charged with hav- iug stolen $14,170 from the safe in the banking house of Messrs. Belmont &Co., at the corner of Hanover and Beaver streets, and who, in conjunction with Messrs. Chrietmas and Mattisson, beld a power of attorney fron Mr. Belmont, who is absent in Europe, as Charge a ay- Jaires at the Hague, wos yesterday discharged from cus- tody; Mr. Oakey Hall, the acting District. Attorney, hav. ing, in the absence of Mr. Blunt, (who ia sick at Lebanon Springs,) examined into the matter and givem it as his opinion that, owing to the wording of the power of attor- ney—which was one of the strongest character—Mr. Pau), in taking the money from the safe, had not com- mitted an offence which made him amenable to the cri- minal laws of thie State, In this opinion, Mr. Abijub Mann, the counsel for the firm of Messrs. Belmont & Co., coincided, and Mr. Paul was accordingly, last evening, at half past seven o'clock, discharged from custody by the Chief of Police. Travan Overs, CattLe GARDEN,—The ‘‘Sonnambula’’ was repeated last night to rather a thin house—the greater attraction of the cast in ‘Maria di Rohan,” which is’ again announced for performance to-morrow evening, having probably an influence on the attendance. Not” withstamding this discouragement, the opera was ad- mirabdly sustained throughout, and the advantage of previous preparation was visible in the greater effective- ness displayed in the choruses, in which some slight de- ficiencies were observable on the first night on which it was produced. Beraldi and Graziani are firmly estab- Y¥ TELEGRAPH- THE CANADIAN RECIPROUTY TREATY... Interesting to New York Postmasters. TRE COLT INVESTIGATION. Testimonial to Capt. Ingraham. Modifications of the Homestead Bill. ANOTHER ASTOUNDING FRAUD. Over-Issue of Vermont Central Railroad Steck. BOSTON RIOTERS INDICTED, &e., &., &e. From Washington. THR CANADIAN RECIPROCITY TREATY—PROSPECT OP 1T8 REJECTION—THE NEW YORK POSTMASTERS— THE HOMESTEAD BILL, ETC. Wasninetos, July 15, 1864, Upon going into executive session this morning, a ma» tion was-made by Mr. Mason, chairman of the Committeg, on Foreign Reiations, to remove the injunetion of secresy from the reciprocity and fishery treaty, and that severa} thousand be printed fer public information. At the same time he gave notice of his intention to prees the treaty toe vote next week if possible, s0 a8 to decide thequete tion in one way br another. After considerable debates. Mr. Mason’s motion was carried by a large majority. Subsequently, however, Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, moved # reconsideration of the vote, and upon his motion the order to remove the injunction of secresy waa rescinded. They might have saved themselves the trouble as it had already been chased out. It is highly probable the whole treaty will be rejected alone upon the ground that itis violent atretch of the executive power seeking to regulate the tariff by treaty inatead of by the legislative action of ebe government. It is argued that if the President hag the right to regulate the duties upon @ class of articles, he would also bave the right to makes tariff by treaty altogether. Such monstrous doctrine is wholly inadmis- "ivike declaration made in the English Parliament, that the treaty was really made with the colonies, does not strengthen it here. All the New York postmasters nominated to the Senate are the same as already announced as having been ap- Ushing themselves in the favor of the New York au- diences, and although Donna Valerie Gomez has not those qualities of voice or of action which can displace the memory of the late lamented Sontag, she yet makes a very interesting and effective Amina. We regret to perceive, by his absence from the orchestra, that Ma- retzek is stil) suffering from illness. Police Intelligence. Charge of Larceny and Recetviny Stolen Gooda.—Four boys—named Michael Solmon, of 1084 street, near Second avenue; Richard ch, of Yorkville; tieorge Clark, of 100th’ street and Third avenue, and’ Patricic Hann, of 103d street and Seventh avenue—were yester- day arrested by officera M’Cluskey and Pabor, of the ‘Twelfth ward, on @ cl if ere! a number of iron nut washers, cold chisels, and other toola, the - of Messrs. Bennie & Harris, contractors for building Prizes over the Harlem Railroad, of the value of up- wards of $100, The robbery has extended over a period of two months. When the boys were apprehended they stated they had sold the goods to John Duffy and Eliza beth Duffy, of Harlem, to whom it appears the boys sold them for a-mere trifie, at various times. Some of the goose were found down the sink, and others were sunk eneath the water in the cellar. ‘The charge against them is that they received the property, well knowing it to be stolen. Wi the officers went to the house they denied all keeles. of the property. On seare! the premises, they found, besides the property they ught of tha pve railroad spikes and iron shoes belonging to the Harlem Railroad Company. The boys and Mr. and Mrs. Duffy were taken before Justice Clark, by whom the ‘were committed for trial fer potit larceny, and John and Etizabeth Duffy for trial for Receiving stolen goods, knowing the same to be stolen. The was fixed in each case at $500. A Model Husband.—A man named Christopher Keyes, of 175 East Twentieth street, yesterday went to Jeifer- son Market Police-court, and ‘applied to the justice that his wife, who was lately contined, might be sent to the sland for twelve months, he charging her with in‘oxi- cation. He appeared much excited; his breath «melt badly of rum, and he seemed to be possessed with a \ ry hard feeling towards the woman, who was present inthe court. The Judie, om Keyes exhibiting an Alm:- house ticket, decided the woman should go and board at he Almshouse. On leaving the court, Keyes hastened after the woman, and endeavored to tbrow ber down the stairs. He was arrested by a citizen, by whom he waa brought into the court and charged with having anal the woman. Great excitement hg as iu the court. Keyes was committed, and an officer sent to see what atate the children were in, one of whom is only three weeks old. Personal Int H. P. Wheeler, New Haven; R. G. Covill, Maine; A. J. Rodriguez, Bermuda; H. Lapsley, Philadniphia; Jobn Jackgon sid VD, Wilton, Now Jerary; A. W, Hite, Bsq., 31. A. ‘New Bedford; Win. A. ton; J.T. Lawrence, Hartt SI haame, tine nati J ford:and L. J. Adams, Cinein. i, arrived yesterday ‘at the Prescott Boe” *E ie, U. S. Marine corps; Captain bee Gilespi a: J. Glover, San Francisco; B. Lathrop, del Germany ; W. Owens, Louisville; Dr. Baltimore; Hatebe iGeorgia; J.B. Legare, South Car. olina; W. Hogan. Clev. ion, John G. Cocks, La. ; Hon. Edward Small, ; J. K. Williams, U. 8.'N.; 1. EEOS rabatmey Ot Ganreete er, Bt. were ter, the Metropolitan Hotel. fi aaored Ex President ¥itlmore, Buffalo; Hon. D. Foster, Man. chester, N_.; Major J. McMullin, Sau Francisco; Lieu: tenant J, H. Edson, U. 8. A,; D. A’ McDermott, U.S. N., were among the arrivals ‘yenterday at tho Irving House. General C, M. Reid, Erie; 0. 8. Torrin, Havana; Dr. 8. Wolf and family, Mobile; Julius D. Delacrols, Havana: W. H. Stabb, London; Major Garrett, U. 8. A.; Colonel Baltimore; J. E. Rohlhorn, John Ross and fenily, A. Higging. New Yorke D ison, Ne ly, A. ew York; D. Denni lew Orleans W.N. pritaasaeteon yesterday at the St. Nicholas. George B. Mathew and family, H. B. M. Consul, Phila- delphia; Dr. L. Stewart, Columbus, Gs.; M. White, Phi- ladelphia; Dr. F. W t, do.; W. H. Cumming, Mis siasippt; Hon. Smalley, Buri , Vt; Madam Or- tiz, Cuba, were among thejarrivals yesterday at the Union Place Hotel. DEP AR’ Southampton and Bremen in steamship Washin:tun. te Ede Aymour and famil, J Ooks, Lindon: z Yi Dey a J tie ly and three c! ™ ng land R Stewart, St . ford, NY; Alex faiguet. CF 1, Muller, Cia- ginasith: Patines and laay.'F Canaiy, eal, Francs: Dr 8-H Besdhvell, Phitadelphis; 7 Tremoulet, New Or'eans, or Charleston, ia Mazion—H Fanthacp, ‘and Hors, Mies tau Mulloy’ ten Rolgee, Sry Aten, Bogrk ‘A Ted and indy, © BWhittiecey, Chas ie cele Waren nimoad in oe ecy, WM [tna Merlye dT Powell sed B i Zapp, Mire Novostt. FB Dizon, Se. teats, Rowlett, Mre ‘or Savannah in -P C Wilkin, Rev E A tie eg ewe Peron Be Begin, oer fume mse Geneon, ARRIVALS. ae ses nt ran ae Sass: Myers, Miss M fs vend two enlaces, Wat skal Thea iy Se iter LP Broken: iedy chitd: W ¥ mt TW Phelps, JL Bliss F batve 8 W an SW ayca Wc: non, 7: bn Shas Spo a”: iedh bic tweety aice pointed by the President, with the exception of the Ale pany office. There the incumbent, Mr. Reynolds, « hard, has been removed, and Mr. Vosburgh, a soft, nominated in his place. No action was taken upon them to-day. If Mx. Hunter’s amendment to the Homestead bil? should prevail, the bill, it is believed, will be killed in the Senate. Mr. Hunter’s idea of selling al) government lands in market, twenty years for twenty-five cents an acre, would afford a splendid opportunity to speculators to buy up the public lands for a mere song. In Missia- sippi alone there are some five or six milliona of acres of land which bave been in market for twenty years. THE COLT INVESTIGATION—TELEGRAPH OPERATORS BEVEALING SECRETS. We understand the Colt Investigating Committee have summoned the operators in the House telegraph, with 4 view of forcing them to divulge the secrets of their of- fice. If this can -be done, it will probably shake confle dence in the telegraph as a medium of confidential come rounication for the future. w TEE POSTMASTERS—THE OOLT INVESTIGATION. Wasainetoy, July 15, 1864.” ‘The Postmasters were taken up in 2 batch to-day. ‘There is no change in the list, except at Albany, where Ino. M. Reynolds, hard, is superseded by Cornelius Vos- burgh, soft. Three weeks ago the President ssid he would remove Reynolds, and consult no one in the choice of his successor, and that he would appoint a persona} acquaintance unknown even to Marcy. The Colt Investigating Committee was busy to-day, and @ number of witmesees were examined. Col. Colt is iu the city, THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Senate. ‘Wasaincro, July 15, 185¢. EXPLANATIONS, Mr. Suprtt, (dem.) of La., said he voted yesterday under misapprehension, against his colleague's amend ment giving the benefits of the homestead to Americans of the age of sixteen years and upwards. He desired'to vote for it. The journal was corrected accordingly. Several executive communications were presented and referred. Mr. Purr said that he was in daily receipt. of applica- tions for authentis copies of the Kansas and Nebraska act, with the statement that the copies of it published in official pay were incorrect. He moved the that ten thousand copies of that publishe 4 the cer tifente of the See of thotebate, ph a the Mr. Cease, (free soil) of Ohio—Let it le over. HONORS TO CAPTAIN wig beable Rage f then taki i j E 22° oa a E Li i i i rf 3 i 8 E es a3 H Hd x i mark of ree medal, ker ths Ma sere Roe Mes en on) fo |=comm: MeBonongh and Per the Meuiterrancan. voted to Decatur, Hull, ‘This resolution further . communicated by the President This bad never been done on any amendments, striking ont the vote of the resolution direct the action of OF bahint aetat hi his geile ey ot im a lor in practi Martin Koszta, &o., &e. ¢ amendments and resolution were adopted. APPROPRIATION BILIS REFERRED. The Light House, River and Harbor, and Post Office Ayr- propriation were all referred. EXECUTIVE BESAION. Mr. Mason, (dem.) of Va., asked for ten minutes for as re session.—Agreed to. The doora were then: closes At balf-past one the doors were opened. g i F i ti if wer i 3 ek ae EE ii z ee ef f g Et 3 The bill the town Gas it pany ae reinened feo tke Hose wiih an titence, was then taken up, and the amendment conc in. urred Mr. Bapoxs offered a resolution rescinding the rule Seaitee ANOTHER EXECUTIVE SREBION. is ‘NTER moved for an executive session. . At kalf-past two o’clock the doors were sete kag Mr. Cnase moved to take up a private bill, and nq * Mr. SroaRr said hi hoped before the Senate adjourned . e fore C there would be some understand to when @ vote would be taken on the Liomestead i Hela 2 Ro iden, would be any ciffieulty in eo ee rat te Hon H ot the Senate, ae. io ™: na oped the berate would take it up on Monday at hulf past twelve, and voto on it. Mr, Pratt asked what were the features of the new rojeet.- . Stvant said itwas the Homestead and fe ‘tion plan of the Senator from ‘Come Mr. Barre thought that the tion to take up: the bill on Monday wasa fair one. however, the final vote on it would not be taken till 5 Mr. Masow said he ask for an executive session. Monday. Mr. Cas‘z then withdrew his motion, House of Representatives, ‘Wasmctoy, July 15, 1854. ‘THE NEW YORK TRMPERANCE ALLIANCE, On the motion of Mr. Genarr Surmm (abolitionist), of N. Y., the memorial of the New York Alliance, Praying Congress to clothe the Corporation of Washing» ton with fall power to abolish ihe sale of intoxicating drinks, wee referred to the Judiciary Committee. TIME TAPHOY OP COWRE SIR DORR, Wr Be Byte, (de) of 0 pretentet recalaitin OF the ‘