The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1854, Page 4

sore a aD fire’ degree. They are, gacused of robbing asters in | the the ea v we are a great people, and have avan- | short, have we had, within such a brief period | NEW YORK HERALD. | Charies strect, an, then firing the premises to eon- bay bien bys az eae an to sejehos.© Menten fal years, bat'|'od dase, wash: 0 vaslety of interesting and f 8 | eal the offence, A repart of the proceedings will ty, and the validity of the E stich protectorate, | gigantic in gr°wth, we illustrate @ popular intelligence from all parts of Europe | swer a few qi ane aan selt, bondholders, Never within our recollection, in . par aapeccong hen is it to be mitice baa been ine _~Will it east? The com esti #istence long enough to an- Ouc Destiny. JAMBDS GORDON SENSETD, “ . portant — ons, at any rate, picgpsnenet i | re and ot Aigermea bel! a mec meeting | hon wus he true time &, gcttie'ge wvceion tn | water's simile of infant pagnacioumess, for we | Gnd our own continent, and even the London | ay gry one Dennen». w. GOANEN OF KAKGAU ANB F grzgy wre. | last evening to concor with the Oouncilmen in dispute; the iste 45 fairly made; but the | entered the family of nations squaring our fist, | and Paris papers have never ee oe Daseunk: i Fira, ome 4ND ———————__~ == | frvor of building certain sewers, flagging, S¢., 04 | aoinistration of “afr Fillmore evaded grap- | amd heve continued to box our way manfally | raliel to it. We allude to these expres —Not very pleasant subjects are those 4 in the caption of this article, but it is aoularly necessary that something should? A said abont them, when we consider the Present plethoric bills of mortality, and alsa remember that any person who entertains tha i consent é ‘jew to take any credit for our own exertions, with it, ’ , | until we now manage to carry everything preé | ay y " The qu ‘in, a frowr ‘aoa egg ty well cur own way. As is usual in the case | than to show that the advantageous geographi ‘ oi oh ts issued o:dere | of the youngest born, we are the sauciest, most | cal position of our city, as the most central “ Se sated . independent and in:ubordinate of the children | medium of communication between the tw of Mother Earth, and we refuse to be bound | hemispheres, must ultimately give it the c Waiume EX!.. © sesso 908 | then adjourned to the first Mondsy in August. USEMEWTs THIS SS The Jewess, a new steamer intended for the trade ae ‘78 THIS Y vane. between New York, Havana, and Key West, msde raed hey anee, f = esterday, and exceeded the expecta- | 4 A oe ee aes laca rssh : | t© ite naval commanders to recognize and sup- r 4 Sa el rg al pincdicalepg swan: Portthe de facto government, This was afar | 1 by antiquated notions and traditional cla | mand of the trede of the world. idea that August will be cool because July has render to Gireat Britain, and a betrayal of its We pubitsh elsewhere letter from our corrgs- one duties to Nicaragua, by the United States, and | 875m, pondent im Caracas, giving an interesting desrip- corer Vantaa, | in which our brethren have been been hot, argues on the most flimsy and ridicn- Queer Dormos mw Concress—Pr eROVERY TREATS’. Gowery—La TOUR ux Nese i edi i ascri i ht up. We have got bone and sinew, and enix _ | lous premises. G@MALO'S—-Gnas ae psa bap esoniep irs potato 83 tre — so prong pies we are acuonianed, at all times and } rLaNations—There were, in th i sented Our readers are aware that the new con-- iyi anaes itish i i ‘wild have shoe sae } how i im- | in both houses of Congress, tractors should have commenced their labors a + the British intend seizing upon the pro- | : o s+ | upon all occasions, to Bhow it. Warm and im- gx Monday ‘ast, | tractors fret BE Se Canteen =. ie ceases in payment of a debt due them | ae parapet am hg a wane in our friendships, we are just as prompt | some curious and notable" v8 vat on Monday, the 17th inet., and that they ne “ee , | engers of Ameri- 4 " o ' AMERICAY | yuspyu—sterncot, Oonswan Baoru- | by Loe government of Venexuela, | pales ae aniee rtfonately great, San Juan | amd ready to revenge an injury; and as we pos} Some time ago, Col. P en ada 1a let- | themselves by “good and sufficient sureties,” Brera) #, Wuo Syeaxe Piner “Ponty xp Farry ~ WIDREKOOM. 3 MINSTREL & aay AND Bunt LATE FROM HAVANA. = x ‘The stoamsiip Mabel arrived at Charleston yor | was filled up with Yankeee, and they soon at- ‘torday, with news from Havana to the 22d just. | tained o numerical Preponderance, Without ccnostvba’ tals Gaal There was nothing of mterest in political matters. | waiving their rights as American citizens, they (they were accepted as such,) to do the follow- ing described acts :— To cause all lanes and sess the power as well as the will to give effect | ter to an Indiana to whichever mood we happen to be in, we find | Senator Pettit “a able position of a fickle | After digestin e@ttor, in which he culled ogreat iar and a dirty dog.” € Diis sweet morsel of democratic ul. 4A Broadway~-Prmories e 0 pena. avenues, and all gutters, wow : omens winrves. piers, heade of Alin ‘publle Tanda and places sys AYEY’S OFXRA HOU! £,, 539 Broadwey- J for ba f the publi wit t £ Epinovias Orewa Tee are, The vomito was raging frightfully ab Havana, and | clected their own men to the council. The Ni- | beauty, whote smiles, and whose frowns are | Battery fr, seve rai weoks, Mr. Pettit rose in his | and the limite of the public markets within the contrac WRANOONT'E HIPPODS OM the ¢holera had appeared, but in 6 mild form, at | cgragaan portion of the'population sympathized | eternal sources of anxiety and watchfulness ¢ | place ia Pse Sanate, and entertained that learn- po Bagua la Grande. The Spanish war veseels are creising about the island in search of slavers. of ER A Fameas Victery—Destraction of an Ameri- can Down by Americans—San Juan de Ni- coragus. A general thrill ran through the city yester- dey morning. The good people of the mstrop- olis opened their respective papers and read: with suspended respiration~— * Bombardment and Total Destruction ot ”—Sebastopol ? Cron- stadt? no!—" of San Juan de Nica a, OF Greytown, by the U.S. Sloop of War Cyane!”” The proximate cause oi this bombardment NEW YORE AERA £)—BDITION FOR EUROPE ‘Moe Cunard mail ate arephip Asis, Ceptain Scott, will Mave Jersey City th w day at half-past two o’ciock P. M., for Liverpool. ‘The Ruropean ma‘ gy will close im this city at balf-past ‘ven_o’elock in the r porning. ‘The Warxiy He gan, (printed in French and Engtish,) ‘WIR be published gt half-past nime o’clogk in the mor Bing. Single 60 pion in wrappers, sixpence. Budseriptions and advertisements for any edition of ‘tee New Youre ; Bemucn will be recetved at the following Places in Eure pe — 2avzrroot..J ghn Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street. +) biwards. Teupon... , Sandfard & Co., No, 17 eornpill. and destruction of San Juan, it is said, waa a ak Wm. Thomas & Le. No. stoi ceca refusal on the part of the town to comply with certain demands made on behalf of the Nicara- gua Transit Company, amounting to $20,000, FROM WASHINGTON. “and a neglect or refusal to apologise @ur fatelligence from the capital is particularly | for an insult given some time since to ‘wmtere! fing. The treaty with Russia, securing the | Bon. Solon Borland, oxr late Minister meutri sity of this country in the pending European war, and acknowledging the principle that the meut ge} fing protects vessel and cargo, wae ratified yes’ prday by the Senate. T p the fenate yesterday the question of the right wf Mr. Williams, Senator from New Hampshire, to 2 p seat, was referred to the law committee. The ¥ precedent set down in the case of the Vermont * Benator will, if followed, oust Mr. Williams, A mommittee of conference on the amendments to the indian Appropriation bill was asked for. The bill for a final settlement of the claims of Revolution- ‘mary officers passed. The consideration of the Civil yan’ Diplomatic Appropriation bill was resumed. After some slight amendment, the appropriation for ~ the water worke of the District was pessed. Mr. Bad- wer moved to add to the bill sections authorizing the President to employ in his official household a secretary, at a salary of two thousand dollars; a ‘lerk, at a salary of sixteen hundred dollars; a steward, at a salary of one thousand dollars; a Meessenger, at a salary of nine hundred dellars; ‘and ap assistant messenger, ata salary of seven Nanéted and fifty dollars. The duties of ‘these offi- eiale are defined in the bill. There was but a tri- ‘fing opposition to the proposition, and the amend- ment was adopted by a vote of thirty one to six- teen. What would the Fathers of the Republic have aaid of such a retinue? Shades of Franklin, and Ogle—of spoon notoriety—where are you? When Jobn Quincy Adams bought a billiard table for the White House there was no end to the cla- mor at the extravagance. We expect Mr. Marcy will prescribe 2n appropriate democratic costums for the Lord Chamberlain, the Keeper of the Pub- ic Spoons, and the Purveyor of the President's * Bed Linen, In the House the amended Homestead bill tas received fromthe Senate. Notice was given that i ‘will be taken up to-day, and ite friends will no doubt earnestly press for immediate action. The bill au- thorizing the Post Office Department to appoint let- ter carriers in California, Oregon and Washington Territories was taken up, and the amendment fixing the charge on single packages at twenty-five cents instead of fifty concurred in. If the letter carriers do their duty this measure will be greatly advanta- geous to the miners and others in those sparsely aet- tled regions. Heretofore nearly all letters have been delivered by the express agents, at an expense vary- ing from fifty cents to five dollars. This bill estab- lishes a number of perambulating post offices,charg- ing at the rate of twenty-five cents per letter. Leave was asked to introduce a resolution calling for information concerning our affairs with Spain, nd whether it is necessary to grant adii- ‘tional powers to enable the President to protect the mationa) honor, Xc., but it was objected to. In committee the Nayal Appropriation ‘bill was taken up. The subject of reform in the naval service of the country is one the most talked of and the least acted on. During the present session of Congress there have been presented two bills designed to ef. fect a thorough reconstruction of the personne! of the navy, but neither of them has as yet received a moment's serious attention. [Efforts will be made to engrait on the appropriation bill two or three unim- portant alterations, and there the matter of reform will end. Mr. Bocock yesterday addressed the sommittee on the necessity of having more efficient seamen in the service, and advocated an increase of pay asan inducement to mon to enlist. Com- Plaiot is made of the small number of native born mailorain the service. Now, it is well known that ships of war are regarded by sailors as the last re- @ort—as a sort of harbor of refauge—and as nothing else; and it is preposterous to suppose that any native born American, possessed of a common schov! educa- ‘tion and a vigorous constitution, will voluntarily resign Ahimeelf to the penitentiary discipline of the naval service for the term of three years for any pecuniary consideration whatever. On shore we progress 60 rapidly thay aState constitution of twenty years ex- istence is regarded as a venerable relic of past age, while afloat we permit the enforcement of regula- tions that existed in the times when Jack Tar wore ® pigteil. The regulations have outlived the pig- tails bynearly halfa century, If our legislators de- aire efficient seamen in the naval service, they should revise the regulations as well as increase the monthly @tipend. After some discussion on the bill, an amendment appropriating over three hundred thou- sand dollars to enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay higher wages if necessary was adopted. Garrett Smith moved to abolish the liquor ration of seamen. This was amended so as to prohibit the use of liguor by officers, save as medicine, and then adopted. Three hundred and seventy thousand do!- Jars were appropriated for the expenses of the Japan expeéition. COMMERCLAL Ar rains. The continue] light receipts of breadstuffs tended to kkoep up prices. State and Western brands of fiour again improved yesterday 12) cents per barrel. For e day or two past only about 2,800 barrels of Sour per day have reached market by theNorth river—a supply inadequate to meet the demand. ‘The market is bare of Canadian. The chief parcels of wheat selling are coutined to Upper Lake and Western red, at fall prices, according to quality, Prime white continued searce, A lot of 2,700 bush- els new Southern red sold at $1 52 per beshel. Cotton was nominally the same as to prices, ebough dull. Sales could not have beer forced without some slight concewion in favor of pur. whasere, The late crop is estimated at about 2,900,000 bales. The receipta at the seaboard are in Central America.” It seems that Captain Hollins, in the Cyane, appeared in the harbor of San Juan, on the 12th instant, ané made the above requisitions, coupled with the annoance- ment, that unless they were complied with next day, by noon, he shovld destroy the place. They were not complied with, and the place was acconlingly destroyed. Assuming this statement to be true, and that the demand made upon the town was just, yet, even then, the public, we think, will agree with usin the opinion, that the refusal of San Juan to comply with their demands, afforded no adequate justification for the pupishmert in- flicted upon the place. The civilized world will require to know if those demands were really just, before it can listen to any apology for the barbarity of the act, or relieve éts per- petrators from the odium which reste npon them. Americans will have a double right to require ample explanations, for the town of San Juan was, in all essential respects, an American town. The immediate causes and influences which Jed to the destruction of the place must come out in the discussion to which this event wil give rise. We, therefore, do not enter upon them now, nor upon the probable consequence of this most extraordinary proceeding of Capt. Hollins, or rather, of those who instructed him to do as he has done--for it is difficult to believe that he would have resorted to such extreme measures, except under orders. We confine ourselves, for the present, to indicating the position and relations of San Juan previous to its destruction. San Juan, before the acquisition of California, had no importance beyond what it derived from being the Atlantic port of the insignificant State of Nicaragua, and from the circumstance that it was the only possible Atlantic terminus of the projected ship canal through Nicaragua. The latter circumstance was not regarded as of high importance, until the necessity of communi- cation with California gave it a practical value. Up to 1848, therefore, San Juan, remained in the undisputed possession—first of Spain, and afterwards of Nicaragua. The people of Nicaragua, as a Province and as a State, had occupied it in quiet for nearly three hundred years, when, in the month of January ,1848, it was seized by an English force, under the pretext that it belonged to a ficti- tious personage called the King of Mosquito, over whom Great Britain affected to exercise a protectorate, The Nicaraguans were not only driven ont, but their subsequent efforts to re- ocenpy it repelled by Britisharms. The mo- tive of the seizure was the obvious one of grasp- ing the key 6f the then supposed only feaxible route of inter-oceanic communication. ‘The English at once proceeded to organize the post, under the name of Greytown, an] ostensibly under the authority of the Mos- quito King, But the sole power was vest- ed in a personage styled “Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul General in Mosquito,” who took up his residence there, and with the assis- tance of a few negro policemen from Jamaica, exercised uncontrolled sway. He was in every sense of the word a dictator, acting without reference to the alleged Musquito King; and the place became in fact. British establish- ment. The Uniied States interfered on behalf of Nicaragua, and against British pretensions, and the opening of a transit through the country soon caused so large an emigration of Ameri- cans to San Juan, as to embarrass the opera- tions of the English agents. The govermu at of the town became a very different affair frou what it had been when there were no people there except the ignorant and powerless Nica- raguans, The new-comers could not be govers- ed except upon some form of authority, and the British agents dared not exercise the coercion against them which they had applied to subdue the natives, Meantime the Cdayton and Bulwer treaty Was negotiated, which, it was alleged, would drive England to relinquish all her pretensions, and restore San Juan to its legitimate owner. But the English government did not so regard the treaty. It maintained the unimpaired vi- tality of its protectorate, but nevertheless prac- tically relinquished its hold to the extent of surrendering the government of the town toa council or “city government,” to be elected by the people of the place. Accordingly, on the 15th of April, 1851, a convention was held and &@ constitution formed, which was sanctioned by ‘the Musquito King and the British agents. This council promulgated a body of regulations for the government of the town and port, to which a rigid compliaace was required—an English mau-of war generally remaining in the with them, am the election of 1852 resulted in the choice of an American Mayor and council. those who expect to gain something frora her | ed and dirgiiied beady for a long time in the un- favor. me@nre% abuse of Benton. To be called “ a Not liking the English features in their consii-| At one time we have our haughty English | great )zar, and a dirty dog,” by a brother de- aig ae called a new council and } cousins talking big, and endeavoring to bully ' mocr.at of thirty years experience in the Senate, framed a new ome, in which there was but slight | U* into some concession favorable to their coza- | is certainly calculated to nettle a member of allusion to the King of Mosquito, and nothing | mercial interests, and in the next trying to | taat honorable body ; but we doubt whether beyond a meminal reference to his alleged wheedle us inte @ ‘manifestation sf our the speech of Mr. Pettit is calculated to mend rights, ‘There wes no recognition whatever of | sympathies in bebalf of a dowbifal quar { the matter in the least. It was a waste of the English authority. In fact the English influ-] rel. Then ‘comes the grest amtocre.t | public time, which should have been devoted ence was wholly lost, and the place became to fot the Rassias, the sworm enemy vf | to the public’business. The Senate is not the all intents and purposes American. republicans and republican institu:’oas, an | place for liquidating a newspaper quarrel with The British government eaw the course of | humble suitor for our favors, and anxious to | a member of the House. «The use of such events, and comprehended the fetility of en- { secure our friendship for valuable considera- | terms by amember of one house, against a deavering to change it. Its interest dectined | tion. Between the two we feel that a longer | member of the other, as “a great liar and a dir- as Amnerican influence augmented, and it coased | firtation weuld be more consistent with the | ty dog,” is deplorable and disgusting ; but « to attempt to direct affairs in San Juan. dignity of our position, and perhaps on second | retaliation in such compliments as “ an imbe- ‘The Americans, ¢ympathizing im the views of | thoughts we may net be disposed to hold out | cile and a dotard,” are scarcely in better taate. their government, recognived the Nivaragua | any hopes to either. We are not satisfied that | Besides, . Pettit has shown that Benton’s dirt, every and removed at least once Weonesday night, and once ‘mor and Saturday night, when; from the state of the weather on Commissioner of and substitute some otber pense with the ormanse of such work. But derstood that the said officer is not allowed not grant any one dispensation for » period ‘a week from the granting thereof. Second. Also, that the said part -——of the secon? part shall and will, during the sforesaid, employ a sufficient number of carts cartmen to remove, and shall remove all ashes, garbage, of manure, dirt, rub- ish and sweepings of every kind, nature or description, from all strocts, lanes, avenues,and allgatters, wharves, piers, heads of ‘slips, public. lands and places within the dlateet aforesaid, forthwith, Immediately after being col s Third. Also, that the said part —— of the second part shall and will, hoe ar period af at —'sown expense, cause all dirt, lth and rubbish, of alt and ev- ery kind, to be removed from each of the public mar- kets (and such other public markets as may hereafter be erected), and the limits thereof within the — dis- title to sovereignty over ‘the port, aed were disposed to favor its restoration, :provided Nicaragua would consent to give them such municipal righte as ‘their conditien required: They sent a commission to the Niceragua capi- ‘in-the candidates to justify them in aspiring to the bonor of our-alliance, their weakness as a protection to the bold- tol to effect such an arrangement ;but the Nica- | ness of their pretensions, and who seck to ragans blindly ‘insisted on an unconditional resumption of authority, and, irritated at what they conceived the bad faith of the Unlicd States, met the advance in a spirit rather ef hostility than friendship. To counteract this movement, ibe English nimity, we have, in general, patient forbear- ance; but when we find matters pushed beyoud our powers of endurance, we have a quict but effectual way of putting an ‘extinguisher upon them, which removes all occasion for agents and partizans started the project of | farther difficulty. Our hug, once received, will an orgenization of the port, with a liberal amount of adjacent territory, as & free port, after the manner of some of the Germanic cities. The British government, growing weary of the Mosquito imposture, not be easily forgotten. Such are the pleasant and self-satisfying re- flections inspired by the evidences of our power and influence that daily reach us from every quarter of the globe. Nations that have there is sufficient of moral worth and principle | object has For those smaller fry who calculate upon | purpose. Thus much for the personal interlude trifle with us under the shelter of our magna- | % Committee to inquire into certain unauthorised trict aforesaid, every Sunday, before the hour of ning m achieved in the violence of the eit Ta the worst coe seer idller dar exsepting retort ; whereas, a judicious silence, or mode- ration, would have defeated the assailant of his Binsin aaa cies ite aod ciseuaie, ene tuch a shall be assigned to aid dstriet bythe Comeane in the Senate, on Monday last. over of Streets and Lampe, to act as cartmen 2, al ta ii q al remove Ta ile roche) opue ple Geeataet. Of okdeting | et end ete ae ere farbage, rabble Ivered © him or’may. be placed to’ Vensela on the aise and spurious interlineations, changing the in- walks, wit ee phe piggies pctgrbay tent of a bill granting lands to Minnesota for aay dwelling house, store or public bold ng, Within ‘the railroad purposes, Mr. Stevens, of Michigan, | men ehallbe compelled to go eatinay tercees Garten rose toa personal explanation. And what is | *aid district between the hours of 7 A. M. and 6 P. M. of and every day, Sundays excepted. The city is divided into districts, and each contract is written as above. The persons named as securities are liable to suit for the it,? A confession that, upon a consultation with Mr. Forney and one of his clerks, and un- der the authority of certain Senators, not to be mentioned, he (Mr. Stevens) had made the ob- Jjectionable interpolations in the bill aforesaid. He did not know that there was any harm in it. Certain Senators had said the thing had at once favored the project, and early in 1353 | hitherto jealously excluded foreigners from | been often done in the Senate. And so Mr. submitted to the American government a plan of “final adjustment of all questions touching” San Juan. A synopsis of this proposition was sent to-Congress by Mr. Everett, the Secretary of State, on the 16th of February, 1853, from which we make the following extract :—~ 2a. The British government the erection of San Juan into » free and in t city, whose politi. cal eieeeepo ——e that of — free cities of G UrRe settling the controvers, an to the ty of that place. That though a formal guarantee of the free city is not proposed to be entered into by the two powers, Great Britain desires on opie of the United States in effecting these objecta. Mr. Everett did not openly favor the adop- tion of this plan, inasmuch as the United States | useful and glorious that ever fell to the lot of Forney, had always asserted the Nicaragua title to sove- reignty; but he evinced clearly enough that he would like to see it carried out. This is evi- dent from the whole tene and spirit of his com- munication to the President, in which he says ~—and we call special attention to this para. graph—that The port of San Juan, though claimed by Creat Britain as within the limits of her protectorate, has, for about the name of the titular ayear, been really,governed in King of Monquita: by @ commiliee of five dmerivan cil! sens, chosen by the people. . Again, The British government regards the Comunittee of Gov- ernment of San Juan, as the only real power which exer- cises power in that part of Central America, and desires to Cab the apparent state of things conform ‘to the reality. And subsequently, March 21, having mean- time gone from the office of Secretary of State into the Senate, Mr. Everett made a speech on Central American affairs, in which he said:— In San Juan we see an independent municipal govern- ment, created under the name of the Mosquito King, it is trae, but in fact by American citizens, ote. The fact that San Juan had thus became on American town, under the government of Americans, with only a nominal dependence upon the so-called Mosquito King, which it was ready at any convenient moment to discar § muet not be forgotten in considering the recent cecurrences at that place. Americans houses and stores, and nearly monopol the trade of the place. They institu’ sound regulations, an effective police, main- tained order, and discharged —_faith- fully and well all the duties of government: Life and property were no where in the United States better protected nor more secure than in San Juan. These facts, we repeat, must be borne in mind, for it will be pretended by those who are implicated in recent transactions in that quarter, that the place was made up of “pirates,” ‘“negros,”” and Englishmen, where. as the fact is, that nine-tenths of the property and interests which existed in San Jnan be- Juan was, therefore, the bombardment and de- struction of a de facto American town. Nor is this all. A majority of the houses and property in the place, not belonging to Americans, be- longed to the people of Nicaragua, to whom we profess friendship, and not to Englishmen, Mosquitos, or Jamaica negros. Had the gallant Hollins come into the North river, and bombarded and burnt Hoboken, he could not have damaged his own countrymen more effectually. Those who in- structed Mfm—the administration—could not have struck a more deadly b!ow at American in- fluence or American enterprise in that quarter of the world. Excepting the natural feeling of irritation, caused by the disregard of the in- terests of a few of their own countrymen, we imagine the sardonic joy of the Englishmen on }*. board the British war schooner Bermuda, in witnessing the extermination of the Americans by their own countrymen. We shall recur to this event, as we have inti- mated, with reference to the origin of the “de- mands” made by Capt. Hollins, and to the pro- bable consequences of the procedure on our relations with Great Britain and Central America. NicHonson ty Daxoen.—The editor of a Know Nothing organ at Boston calls the editor of the | and that it ie likely that we shall continue for their shores, yield to us at the first application of our cabalistic sesame, whilst those that show a more refractory spirit are brought to season by the more direct argument of force. Traditional jealousy and conventional difficul- ties alike prove ineffectual barriers to our pro- gress, We not only exemplify the inherent power of popular institutions, but we break down the restraints imposed upon individual freedom under the cover of international law, and in Proportion as we develope our own theories of government, we advance the general liberties of mankind. Such a mission as this is the most any people, and its faithful and vigorous fulfil- ment has naturally given us a predominating influence amongst the nations of the earth. If we only continue true to ourselves, and perse- vere in the vindication of those great princi- ples that have conducted us thus far in the path of our apparent destiny, we shall have the sa- tisfaction of crushing out the despotism that at preeent enslaves the masses of mankind, and of rendering our country the great centre of refinement and civilization, as itis now that of popular liberty. Nothing can prevent the consummation of this glorious prospect but internal division and treachery. We behold around us the evidences of a rapidly growing power and ascendancy, to which no parallel can be found in the bistory of the world. Every decade of our progress works the most marvellous changes in our po- pulation, commercial and industrial resources, and material wealth. From being almost the youngest community among existing nations, we have suddenly sprung to a height of p | litical importance and power which has exgited the envy and admiration of the present, agl Bill continue to form a subject of wonder @eculation to future ages. In another 4 years the city in which we live will out- number in population, and surpass in wealth, those great centres of European civilization which have taken so many centuries to bring to their present maturity. And it is not im- possible that the time may also arrive, when a speculation in one of James’ fictions will be realized, in which the writer contemplates the probability of a Yankee archeologist inspect- ing the remains of London and Paris with the same eager curiosity and interest with which a Belzoni and Champollion have ransacked the ruins of Syria and Egypt. ee ‘The apparent exaggeration of this picture at the time it was drawn, is fast giving place he- fore the realities of our progress. New York is becoming the centre of the news, as it must inevitably become the centre of the commerce of the world. To no other city— not even excepting London itself—does intelli- gence from all quarters of the globe arrive with the same rapidity, certainty, and simulta- neity. The papers that we have published for the last two days were extraordinary proofs of the correctness of this assertion. From North, South, East and West, we had a perfect glut of intelligence, all of it arriving at the same moment, and making the same pressing demands upon our space. The advices brought by the Pacific put us in possession of all the latest facts connected with the European war, together with the important confirmation of the statement that Russia is disposed to sell to our government the whole of her possessions in North America. They conveyed to ns also the startling intelligence of the grand pistol and coffee adjustment of old difficulties which is about to take place between Mr. Sickles, of our London Legation, and Prince John Van Buren. From Central America we learned the summary mode of redressing insults which Brother Jona- than adopts in the case of an aggressive neigh- bor who refuses to ery peccavi. From Califor- nia we had the gratifying intelligence that its mineral riches show no symptoms of exhaustion, Stevens amended the parchment, so as to give, by the change of a single word, certain railroad jobbers in Michigan the benefit of the Mione- sota bill. Truly, a very innocent affair ! though the principle makes a mockery and a tarce of all the established usages of legislation. A committee has been ordered upon this business, but, as Mr. Stevens has taken ithe trouble of an investigation off their hands, they have little else to do than to report what should be done with Mr. Stevens. In the meantime, itis to be hoped that the bill thus smuggled through, with the advice and consent of Col. will be repealed without delay, as pro- posed by Mr. Letcher, of Virginia. If these things go on for a few weeks longer, the honest men of Congress, as well as the whole mass of our readers, wili be convinced that we have not said half enough, in all that we have said, of the corruptions of these landjobbing railroad schemes. A great reayjt will have been achieved in behalf of a ip and the Treasury. should this Minnesota ir operate to kill off all other land-piundering bills of the same kidney. Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, and hie associates {n ferreting out this Minne- ota amendment, and Mr. Letcher, for his vigi- lance in this and in other cases, are entitled to whole amour of the contract, in ease it is not’ / duly and faithfully executed. Eight days have elapsed, and in very many streets the dirt, filth and garbage is lying in great heaps in the public highway, while the victims of municipal neglect inhale the noxious gases evolved by the decomposition of vegetable or animal matter, which should be collected and removed every day, “between the hours of 7 o’clock A. M. and 6 o’clock P.M.” We are assured that not; a public broom, cart or shovel, hag yet invaded the precincts of the Seventeenth ward, 60 long sacred to dirt that the contractors probably think it would be sacrilege to introduce a new order of things at this time. It is a great deal easier, more profitable and more convenient to put the money in one’s pocket, and nobody but poor people die of the cholera; they have no right to be poor. Is that the argument, Mes- sieurs the contractors? vy In the Eleventh ward, things arein an equally disgusting condition. One citizen claims that it is dirtier than the Seventeenth. How is it, Mr. Commissioner Glazier? Will you award the prize? We have received numerous letters of com- plaint against the new contractors, and from our own personal knowledge we state that many up-town streets have not yet been cleaned under-the new contracts. In some, the ashee’, and garbage, and so forth, have not been re- moved for the same space of time. In a former the public approbation. A few such men, in these days of a spoils administration and spoils- men of all sorts, are exceedingly useful. fair trial, but we fear that they intend to let the case go by default. Consequently, we call Tae Stare AoricouroraL Farns.—Whatever | them to the public bar, to plead and show is in store for Wall street, the agricultural in- | Cause why their securities should not be mulct- terests of the country are ina healthy condition. | ¢d. From present appearances it seems proba- Fifteen State fairs, including one at Quebec, | ble that we shall be obliged to go back to Lower Canada, and a cattle show at Springfield, | Dlliott’s house brooms, Genin’s brigade, and a Ohio, are advertised to be held in the months of | Provisional government, even sooner than we September and October. Illinois and Kentucky | expected. open the game on the 12th of September; Ver- | A delay of eight days at this season might mont and Ohio follow on the 13th and 16th; | be fatal to the health of the city, and increase and Pennsylvania and Michigan hold theirs on | 0UF bills of mortality from nine hundred up to the 26th and following days. No less than six | nine thousand. How long must the city of New State fairs are summoned for the first week in | York labor under the stigma of being the dir- October, viz., those of Missouri, New York, New | tiest city in Christendom? How long are we Hampshire, Maryland, Indiana, and Wisconsin, | to be cursed with negligent contractors and When they end, Connecticut takes up the ball | 14zy commissioners? How long must we wait for on the 10th, and a week afterwards North Ca- | Mr. Glazier to fulfil the promises made for him rolina follows the example. The season s | by his political friendst Three months have closes with. those of Georgia and Iowa e | elapsed since he necepted the responsible post 23d and 26th October. Amateurs must rife a | Which he is said to fill, and he has spent nearly choice between all of these; it will be as much | 4m hundred thousand dollars to clean Broadway as any one can do to see half of the number, | and a few down town streets, leaving the upper It is almost o pity that the same period should | Part of the island in a state of filthiness which be chosen by so many rival States for the exhi- | Would turn the stomach of an Esquimaux, or, bition of their treasures; one might like tocom- | indecd, of any human being excepting a New pare Illinois and Kentucky, Pennsylvania and | Yorker. Missouri, New York and New Hampshire, but, } Ané finally, we desire to call Mr. Glazier’s unfortunately, it is impossible to bein two places | Attention to the fact that the streets are not on the same day. cleaned according to contract—that many of It must not be forgotten that these fifteen | them are not cleaned at all—that the garbage assemblages are entirely independent of the | i not removed according to the terms of the country and city fairs, of which probably | Contract, and that it is his duty to proceed some thousands are to be held in the United | against the securities according to law. And States this fall. We only speak here of the le- | the city cannot afford to wait, just at this sea- viathan fairs, which are events in the lives of | #08. The streets must be cleaned, and if Mr. the farmers, and which in past times have proved | Glazier cannot doit, he should resign, and allow how high a pitch has been attained by agriculiure | his place to be filled by some competent person. in the United States. We have no feeling against Mr. Glazier, the To those fairs, in fact, we think we may safely | Contractors or the Securities, but we demand. ascribe the eminence our farmers occupy among | 0” the part of the people, that the streets should the agriculturists of the world. In no foreign | be cleaned twice » week, and the garbage re- State is agricultural competition as thoroughly | moved every day. This must be done, and practiced as with us.. State, county and town | when it is done the results will be most salata- fairs and shows succeed each other with rapidity; | 'Y—our civic honor will be re-established—the and the industry and ingenuity of tho farmer | business of the city will be improved, and the , are kept constantly on the stretch to keep pace | spread of the cholera checked. What ® luxury with his neighbors. This is the true secret of | it would be were all New York clean for one success, day. Think of it, Mr. Glazier, then wake up ms and make yourself immortal Tar New Crry Hati.—The Aldermen and duty. Bring out the brooms! Y, Otae.soer Councilmen having returned from their inspec- tive tour to Vermont, and having also seen that Summer Travet.—During the past four days, Verd Antique marble quarry, we presume that | the excessively hot weather has driven thou- everything is settled for the new City Hall. If} sands of our citizens out of town. The river such is the ease, let us have it at onec. We | and ocean steamers, and the railrgad trains, . have heard a great deal of talk about the City | have been crowded to excess, and the hote! Hall, and now we ought to have some work, registers at the fashionable watering places Washington Union Benedict Arnold, and says | many years to feel the beneficial effects of this that if he (the editor) had but one ball, and | providential feeder to out commercial wealth, unless excursions are to be got up to inspect every brick which may possibly be used in it. have assumed « plethoric appearance highly waid to be about 350,000 bales below these at the harbor to enforce obedience. same period last year. Thus when i 8 AFFAIRS IN THE city. hen the American steamer Prometheu the choice to shoot at cither a Jesuit or the gratifying to the “gentlemanly landlords’’ From the South Pacifle, Buenos Ayres, Bermnda We have plenty of money, and there will be Cnion editor, the last-named individual would | and Jamaica we had also news of considerable lent chence for fat pickings from the thereof. What an immense amount of flirting, polking, bathing, riding, drinking, and dressing ‘Lie Wire Marshal yesterday held a very remarks Dele in 4 et ation Towtion ¢ Pie Brits oF A man and Lis Wife, named hou soa Ble Bed Nile every, agowy, wRe arava id ey refused to comply with some port regolation, © Was tlred upon by the British war vessel {1 Mee wel Ok, au COMpeLed We com by ue ? V how, This eyoah id by gxplaaadone between get the benefit of it. If the threat should be consummated success{ully, we do not see what | that the Brith government Mmey Would WO Jur au urges, uo LLL Woces #rget eppepeage to ibe samc! interest. To-day we add to ft the important fact contracts for the new edifice, Do the Aldermer think the people ave all verd, or anti wpe wo harge ehice OF Whe Venice Lory, pod wiiel?) We lieve eed ail aloud ihe uae fo be held Ip trasi for the benefit of the English } pow let as know something about the hall it | Will be done between this time and the last of Anevet Howover, envions people miy flat, COMMOTE IN bie Jack ties money is nus quite 60 cary om it wae ast year at this time, and, ig’ are about to Rr