The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1854, Page 4

N EW YORK HERALD. Jamnes GORDON BBSYseaTT, PROPRIBTUR AND EDELOR, dev O® x, W. CORNER OF NAB8AU AND FULTON B78. | ABDURC, ER. leents i WLERLY HERALD sper dakepday ot Ba oat per aamum; the #4 per on. Gren ‘Bribakn. and 89 to amy part othe UNTARY CORRESP ENCE Be Shere lly poid for ga bum Pow HS cash in He DAILY Bh. gion Conaawor LANLY REQUE®BED FO GMA ALL oxe sere UR taken of anouymous Communications, We do eed retry Hf ons rejeet | ! ALL TERS Mail, Sudscrintions er with Adver- sweets ro be pont tn the postage wil be deducted from | f MEE PRINTING executed with neatnens chsapnen, and | chal “TREE R TISEMENTS renewed coer day. ¥ AXUSEGE [78 THIS EVENING. 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This peolen, ation is more for the purpose of allowing time for the enzrosstng gad signing of bills already (parecd than for ‘urtber legislation. All the appro- grtation blis, with the ex-eption of that for the wean mail steamsiip service, are passed, and the @hcbing point uyon this was the amendment aa- enising the notice to disooatinne the Collins fun, the Senate refusing their asseat. It is impos Gftle to give at this time even an approximate idea @ the amount of money iuvolved in these appro- Palations; but we shall not be surprised if, after fee dust that has been raised at the Capito @aring the last fortyeigat sours shall dis sppear, it is discovered that the aggregate comer quite up to seventy tive millions of dollars. In an editorial article, in another column, we bave briefly gammed up the labors of the seaslon, and, com. mem ing on the first page, we give tae proce.dingy ef Oongress up to tho hour of adjournment yeater dey, together with a list of the acta pasaed and apr proved by the Prosideat. Tbe President has vetoed he River and Harbor bill, as was generally sntici pated. It is likely that the House to-day will dispose ef the Homestead bill, and if they sbould concur im the amendment of the Senate it will probably seocive the endorsement of the President. The Senate yesterday confirmed a number of ap- Bointments, but we have not received the detalls. B ie known, however, that the free soilers, one and @B, have been laid on the ebelf, especially those hailing from this State. THR TAMMANY POLITIOIANS. ‘The sachems of Old Tammany had a trying time em Tharsd«y night. Our readers will remember the endden burst of indignation with which the nomi- ation of Joho M Keon to the office of District At- torney was received, and how the Democrati> Gene- wa) Committee adopted a resolution, wherein tie qmpalities, acts,and sutecedents of the lucky ap- peintee were compressed into about « dozen lines of the clesrest and most unoomplimentary laa (mage that bas been put on record for a long time. Well,on Thursday the committee rescinded their wesolution, and defined their position on this all- important subject. A full report of the interestir proceedings on that occasion is given elaewhe § end as it telle its own story we cannot do better than refer our readers thereto. THE NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION. We have received returns from several counties, ‘and they indicate the election of Alfred Dockery, te whig candidate for Governor. This is tho be gianing of tho revolution, the end of which will be more clearly seen some time in November. DEATH OF A FORRIGN MINISTER. Senor Barrundia, Minister to our government from Honduras, died of apoplexy in this city last evening. In another column may be found a brief ekctch of thie gentleman's carcer. NEWS FROM RCROPR. The ctevnhip Atlautic is now ia her tenth day ‘out from Liverpool, and may, therefore, arrive some ‘@me today. By her wesholl receive four days’ late, wews from Eavope. As tho intelligence from the weat of war, and of the revolution in Spain, is in @easing in interest, the arrival of thia verse! is Sooked for with no fittle anxiety. COMMERCIAL AF? Plour was inactive yesterday, while eomman @rades of State were easier. Several small lots of pew Sour have appeared in market, and have beea wokd at full prices. About 300 bbls, new Sonthers weld at $9; and Messrs. Clarke & Coleman old « @mall lot of flour from new Genesee wh at—the frst received by the canal this -eason—at $1125. Mesars Becker & Brother have also sold a small parcel of ‘sew flour, ground from new Gene-ne wheat, for 11 50. A small lot of free Ganad. flour sod yes terday at $9 50, . Within ‘be past three days about 2,30) bales of setton bave been sold, at an advance of {o. on waiddling grades, n wards; while other de:oription: ‘were duil. Abont half the sales were made for ox pet, and the remainder for home ue. sugars have Deen quite active and firm, and seterd y and the day belore the aggregate sales anted to about 3600 bhgs., 700 or 800 boxes, auc adoa. 8,090 bags O Manila. MISCPELL ANROUS, A fall report of the proceedings at the meotlag of the street contiactora held Ja+t evening, is pad Bebed in another co uren. The Massachuretts Whig State Convention, to be held on the Sth inst., will co doubt be # spirited af iair, At the meetings 'O appolot dclegates, held on Thareday evening, great eathusiasi prevailed. Ati fariom wih other parties or ‘action was repudi ste j Bon. Henry A. Wise wa nominsted or Governor f = & democratic meeting revently heli wt Bu The Winding Up of Congress—The Pag Dads and the Mural of the Long Sceson. We were disap.otnted yesterday in oar ex- pectations that the two houses of Congress would close the hop for this session, a8 origin- ally agreed opon; for, while we were awaiting the good news of the final ad ournment we were apprised by telegraph that that consam- mation bad been postponed to Moaday mornlag at ecigh: o'clock. This affords a fair margin for a good dea! of business, for any quantity of log-rolling, aad for a large echedule of lobby operations in stock-jobbing bills, amendments and Galphia ms. This wil) very likely be a memorable Sa- turday nigbt in Washington, for its orgies at the Capitol may perbapsoverlap the small hours of Me 3 | Suiday morning, and may possib'y involve the whole of the Sabbath day. quentty occurred heretofore, avd such closing scenes have been invariably a, propriated by the spoilemen, amidst the magginess, drow- siners, and “noise and confusion” of the two hoaser, for a combined descent upon the pablic plaider. There is s prospect, however, that the Sabbath wiil be spared. There will be sins enough to answer without its dese- cration. When the industrions Washingtoa letter-writers sha!l have gleaned up the soraps and fag ends of the last three days, and espe- cially the last of the three, of this long and wasteful session, we suspeet that they will tind the ear-marks of corruption upop many 2 bill; resolution amd amendment which is not o. forgery, but which is a fraud upon the public Treasury. From the list of the acts passed thus far— which we publish to-day—it will be seen that * though the two houses have been for eight lon months working away like beavers, for Bun come aud the spoils, they have not altogether neglected the more pressing demunds of the public business. Among the most important of the bills passed and approved are :— The regular Appropristion bills. The Kansas and Nebraska bill. The bill providing for six first class war steaners. The Ten Million bill of the Gadsden treaty. The Homestead bill for Kansas ant Nebraska. The bill extending the wurehousiog syaten., The bill to give effect to the Canadian revipracity treaty. The bill repealing the Minnegota Railroad Land bill. The increased appropriations to the army and Bavy, and especially to the fortitications on the Atlantic seaboard, have about them a decided smeli of gunpowder. The uncertainties of the European war, and the revolution in Spain, bave evidently impressed the two Louses with the importance of being ready for a brash with the enemy, whoever he may prove to be, aad wherever be may turn up. Besides, the more ra- pidly the epoils have. been lifted from tie Trea- eury the better for Guthrie. He was suif-riag from a plethora threatening apoplexy. He is now relieved. In addition to the catalogue of acts passed by the two houses, the Senate, in their diplo matic capacity, in conjunction with the execu- tive department, have passed a number of laws, im the form of treaties with several foreign na- fdona and various Indian tribes, the most con- spicuoure of which are— The Gadsden treaty. The British Colonial Reciprocity treaty. ‘The Commerciat treaty with Japan. The Neutrality treaty with Russia. Bundry treaties extinguishing the Indian titles in Kansas, Nebraska and other Territories. Excepting the Gadsden treaty—all the glory of which belongs to the present Cabinet, the Kitchen Cabinet, and Gen. Sunta Anna and his financial friends in Mexico—and excepting the Indian treaties lately ratitied, the administra- tion is not entitled to the monopoly of the credit in this branch of our public laws. The Japanese treaty was the work of Mr. Fillmore’s administration. The Russian treaty was the voluntary offering of Russia; uad, practically amounts to jittle or nothing, while the ground- work of the British Colonial Reciprocity treaty was the reeult of the closing public babors of Mr. Webster towarde the settlement of the fishery question, The administration claims the honors of the repeal of the Mistouri compromise, which was sprung upon it by Mr. Dixon, a whig, ef Keo- tucky ; but that line of demarcation against the South has been substantially re:iored in the free farm bill for the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, which will inevitably fill up those Territories with free soil squetters from the North, and which was doubtless intended as a peace-eflering to the Buffalo Vac Buren faction und the Northera abolitionis:s. We have had some beautiful <emplifications of the domestic pobicy of the ndministratioa, as kaid down in the President’s Meseage, and as il- lustrated in the committees of investigation apon Colt’s patent and the Minnesots railroad lund grant bill. Patent monopolies and railroad land grants were recommended by Mr. Pierce as emi- nently constitutional and wise; and conse- quently the Kitchen Cabinet and the lobby have had the full benefit of the influence of the ad- ministration in great patent extensions, and in sweeping and cortupt railroad stock-jobbing schemes for the plunder of the public domain. Hence the committees of ingviry into these hinge upon charges of fraud a:.d corruption ; bence the repeal cf the Minnesota land grant, which bad been incontineutly pass-d and ap- proved with a brazen forgery upon its face. This bi with commendatl jrompticude was repealed ; but the tender-) ‘ed action of the House with the parties guilt, of the epuri- ous amendment, says more for its genero-ity than its independence. The resolution to ¢ <pel Col. Forney, the offending clerk, was, in itself consistent and proper ; but being iaconsistent with the whitewashing of the guilty members, the House bad not the hardihood to make For- ney the eeapegont of all the conspirators, And so to give a uniform color to the affair, Foraey, too, was Whiteweshed by an immense majority. Thus much for the practical working in Coa uress of these railroad land grants, to say no- thing of the contlicting reports upon the alleged corruptions in reference tu Coit’s patent extea- sion. It is dificult to reconcile the alivecacy of euch measures aod the free farm bill for Kansas aud Nebraske with the veto of the bill grant. ing @ portion of the public lauds to the sev Staves for the support of ther \ lama, But it must be borae in mind that the present incumbent of the White House is a strict constructioniet upon thov redaed princi ples of the Kitchen Cabinet platform whieh will best subgerve fits party purposes ip the dispea sation of the spoils, Lunatics have no tands for the lobby—patent mouopotists have: fine tica have no vote, but the free voi! ofering of a free farm to abolition squatiers io Kan as and Nebraska may take of (he wiry «. ige of the Nebraska bill among tne landless Batalo and other aathilavery people of the North who This hes fre- | ye pt hd have votes, 00d who my b ve votes enough to fresh stocks bave been clenthy accomalating, { a Who WAL 3g oun wext Govenvon!—Mach command the balaace Of power here and there, extensive o terations and atiitloes in basine-s | curior!’; ty sein with respoot'to the choice of @ occasions’ y. Sueb.‘te the strict construction premises b ve deed offes ed, and evet}thiag,ta , Gcverner for thie State, Ove nomination has poliey of the 94:aln atratinn, v8 laid down ia sbort, done to give to our commercial qgera- slr-acy bern mude—viz. Judge Bronson, by the appu } Wereage, and a8 developed in the | tions, in the eyesof the couatry purchasers, an , the hard, Three conventions are yet to moet, proceedinys of thisremarkable sessiin of tuis sir of novelty and pr grese. For the vext four a8 foliowe: The Saratoga Convention of demo- extraordinary Cong: ers. , Months, the energies of all classes of the bua- { cratic ard whig free sollers, opposed to the re- Among be meusures which have failed, the nese community will be taxed to the uttermost. | peal of the Missouri compromise; the Temper adm'nistration however, have been overruled | Neitberthe me.c’ ant nor his clerk. can hope t» ; ance Convention, which meets at Auburn on the by something like a retarning spirit of oom. ; enjoy, during that bury period, any other in- | 7th Septemb r; and the Soft Shell Convention, mon rense in the two house:. They could ewal- | terval of repose than that which the demands | wh ch is summoned to meet ut Syracuse on the fow the ten millions of the Gadsien tresty | of moture imperative'y call for. Many will | Gth September. It is probable that the Sar:~ | witbout bli: k ng, ba: the ten mill. oas asked for even depy them @ ves the vecessary reat which adisoretiousry war with Spain daring the re- | the r ove. taxed # r ng h requires, im order to cess, was asking. @ little too much upoa the | anticipate the slow results of a more plodding beels of the bombardment and barning of Grey- | town, The wiedom of Mr. M sou, chairman oa | Foreign ‘Relationa of the Sesate, upoa this -ub.cct, coincides, we are happy to say, exao'ty with the recommendations of this induetry. At the dinner tables of our hotels, too, again re-a; pear the well known fuces that perio- dically herald the reviving activity of the deserted city, and announce a season of journal, We had declared, that consideriag | returning prosperity. Sharp, shrewd, iutel- the Greytown affair, the oppress ve heat of the weather, and the frightful prevalence of the Higent faces they are, and their active courtesy and genial bepevuleace, contrasting strongly cholera and the yellow fever in the West Indies | with the cold, taciturn nesnner of the other ia- that the war with Spain could be juiiciously, mates, insensibly attract the stranger and ia- and should be, postponed until the firat Moaday | duee him to speculate as to ths character and in December next. With this epiaion, the re- | pureuite of their owners. It he wii) only satfer port of Mr. Mason substantially “agrees; the | bimeelf to be drawn within the oirvle of their Sepate have concurred. and the ten millions’| kiudly sympathies’ he will not remain long im are denied. The Greytown bombardment may | doubt upon these points, It is their business to thus haye saved us from all the Aliustering invasion of Cua by order of the President, in the absence of Gongress. If thts refusal, therefore. of the teu millionsis due to the distra t excited by that diszusting picce of busivess at Greytown, that affair becomes a matter of public congratulation, aad is doubt less worth to the country every penoy of the two or three millions of indemuities which it is destined to cost the treasury. The other great measures and schemes which have failed at this late session, are :— ‘A batch of many millions in amount of land-job bing vailroad 8: hemes. The French spoliation bill of ave millions. The Pacific Railrovd acheme—postponed. The Senate bill of eight millions for the relief of Texas, * Seuate amendments of several millions to the gen- eral appropriation bills, iackuding half 9 million to the Wssi ington water works. of a| be communicative as well as poli:e: and be will speedily lvarn that they are the salesmen. or touters, of the great commercial houses of the cty—perbape even the principals themselves, who.thue philosophicalty combine business with the pleasures and courtesies of lite, They be- jong, in short, to that clase who not only live to cat, but eat to live. And soon, #00, the drones of the community, | who consume bat do not produce, and who t ga Convention will nominate a ticket inde- |. pendent of old‘ party distmctions, and run @ candidate eclely on the strength of his oppoal- tion to the Nebraska bill. If he can command & wejerity of the temperance leaders, he will probably receive the nomination from them as well; if not, they will be likely to set up an independent man of their own. *: The conduct of the softs gives rire to much epeeniation, Had the bards nominated avy one but Bronson, it is bot improbable that the softs would have joined in the nemivstion : and.as the only official inti- mation we have bud of the Judge’s views is his letter dclining, to ran, o hope is still enter- tuined by many leaders of the democracy. that he will percmptorily reiterate his declination, end a new mgh be taken up in his place, on whem rofta ard haros might agree. Could this | be arranged, the united demvcracy would doubt- less mzke a +trong show. Onthe other haud, there is yet o fifth paity in the fleld, with which, to our thinking, the decision of the contest rests, That party is the Know Nothings. Now as these new men have been formally read cut of both Stuyvesant Institute and Tammany Hall. it is difficult to noderstand how they cao be brought to vote for any democratic candi- date that could be nomioated by either or both reek in the attractions of the watering places | parties. As matters look at present, they are @ variation of the fatiguing pleasures of a dis i- ted town life, but find only a vapid and andr- a imitation of them, will returo to grace by their languid presence the dinner circles of tue St. Nicholas and the Metrop litan and the bal- conies of our faxhionable theatres. For these favored ones of the earth the caterers of pablic amusements have been more than usually active during the recess. Two Italian and ove English Mr. Olds’ administration bills for the increase of | opera company, all of first rate merit, have the rates of postage. The bill for a line of steamers between San Fran. claco and China, dc. &c, ” ‘The river and harbor bill was passed and gent been organized for their amasement during their abseuce. Maretzek’s fine troupe, wich bas earned such laurels during its first perform- ances at Castle Garden, will, in a few weeks, be up for the Executive endorsement. A velo} permanently installed in the new Opera House wae expected, and a veto came. We com- mend it to the especial attention of the Western democracy. homestead Dill, as modified by the Senate, bas been submitted to tre crucible of the House, and the issue is s'il] doubtful. It is due to the House of Representatives to in Fourteenth street, one of the most capa- cious aud elegant establishments of the The hybrid general | kind that has ever been constructed. The attractions of Castle Garden will, however, be in no way diminished by their departure. Here Grisi sno Mario—the two greatest of modern vo- culiste—will, early in September, make their ray that upon the whole they have thrown | frst bow before an American audience. Grisi, commendable check on the extravagant liberali- ties of the Senate. The aggregate of the ap- propriations and liabilities incurred by this ses- altbough che bas so Jong ministered to the culti- vated xaueiea! taste of the London and Paris publice, is still, it is to be hoped, in the sion, including private bills, will probably prime of her wonderful powers. In certain reach the handsome figure of seventy millions parts, such as Norma and Lucrezia Borgia, ot dollars or morc; but had the House in al) the has been without a rival, and io all things deferred to the wisdom of the Senate, | che ig admirable. The reputation of ‘Mario, the sum total woud bave been swelled up to | although it does not date eo far back; is'ecarce. the round proportions of a hundred millions for the current fiscal year. We incline to think that the Nurthern “hue and cry” against the Nebraeka bill has had the good effect of fright ening the people’s immediate representatives considerably, and that tq this fact, phd the ap ly inferior to that of his wife. He stands confessedly at the head of modern tenors At the Broadway theatre we shall have a company for the performance of Eaglish oyera, at the head of which stands the rames of Louisa Pyne and W. H. Harrison, proaching Congressional elections, ‘may be at.-} both singers who have soquired a high reputa- tributed the gencral movement among the House members for retreachiog the operations of the spoilsmen. Senators with six years t run, can afford to be a little more independen: of popular excitements, and a littl: more extra vagant with the public money. The praetical business accomplished durin: this exhausting session of cight months, might have been discharged in tiree. The bulk of it, indeed, has been the work of the last fortnight, with the thermometer at ninety degrees. Man of the members of both houses have fairly earned twice their compensation by dint of hard, earnest work; others have wasted the public time in windy speeches an? §) puerile affaira oi tion on the English lyrical stage. Thus we shall have three operas in full blast at the same time—a fact unprecedented in the history of the stage In our country, and, we believe, +ven without paralle] in that of any of the great European cities. Of other theatres, one would have supposed that we had sufficient for the wants of our population ; but such would appear not to be the fact. The new theatre on the eite of the Lafarge House, is now nearly 'Y | completed, and preparations are being made for its immediate opening. It will be one of the largest and most elegant theatres in the country, and, like all new houses, will, we have no doubt, be prosperous at the start. None of honor, ending n laughter anu smoke; others | there theatres, however, eurpa:s in comfort, have loafed away the session; and others have been so intent in managing their schemes for the public land spoils and oher plunder, that they have labored rather to \vagthea tne vession than to shortes !t. The iwo old parties of the country went to Waskington in Decem- tastefulness ot decoration and excellent ventila- tion, the deservedly popular establishment of Niblo, which, since its recent additious and renovation, may now be looked upon as the finest summer theatre in the world. Thus it will be seen that, both as regards ber di-organized and demoralized; and through } pysiness and amusement, the coming seasoa the incongruous coalition spoils policy of the administration, the disintegration aad confa- sion have advanced, till evecythins is adrift— | pave, fortunately, whigs, democrats and their sbatterc! platforms Cabinets, and Kjtchen Cabincts and all, All things considered, the country may be congra- promises to be not only one of the most stirring, but the gayest, that we have ever had. We neitoer wars oor “rumors of ware” to daeh the hopefulness of the prospect. Tar Loxpon Consutare—A Man Founp.— tulated if the bill of costs of this eight montos | Gen. Camptell, formerly onr Consul at Havana, session does not exceed the aggregate of seven- ty or eighty millions of dollara. having been appointed and conirmed Consul atLondon, George Sanders may as well ap- point an early day for his farewell dinner to ‘The Coming Scason—Ics Prowpe cts, Commer | Kossuth nd the Continental refugees in Lon- celal and Artistic. With the close ot the dog days the ruspended animation of city life will again be converted into its wonted activity. Even now there are evidences of its resuscitation, in the arrival of Southern and Western merchants at the botels, and in the promising programmes put forth by the lessees of our various theatres, The inac- tion induced by a temperature in which no one but an unfortunate journalist or a salamander is expected to manifest his accustomed vitality, will soon give place to the busy, #triving and desperate break-neck competition that distin- guisbes our money loving and money getting community ; and the brief interval of repose which the weather rather than their own incli- nations has imposed on the toiling votaries of Mammon, will be made up for by a selfrepen- tant amount of superhuman exertion. It is well for us that Providence, in his wise prov'sions for the Sealth and comfort of he human race, has isposed these natura} limit: upon oar pow- ers of endurance nd thirst ‘or aoquisition. Were it otherwise, our progress trom che cradle | 4; to the grave would be marked only by this all- absorbing passion for gain, unrelieved by those Wholesome and purifying influences which are derived from the occasional glimpses thas we Uius obtain of rural Jife and its sweet and tran- quil en‘oywents. We bave always regarded the first indics- tions of thia returaing seasoa of commercial don, for we presume that Gen Campbell has no important business to detain him beyond a week or two in the United States, Gen. Pierce has shown some consideration for Sanders in witbholding the appointment of his successor tothe very last day of the session; and it ia probable he would have appointed him over again, to keep bim on the other side of the water as long as posible, bat for fear of. the “old fogies”” Well, .Sansers has had o taste of the spoils, any how. which has probably paid his expenses; the ad- ministration has done as much for him as the law would allow, and the old fogies have b @ their revenge. Now, while the ex-Consul re- mains in England we would advise him, in be- half ot Young America and the hard shell de- mocracy, to keep a sharp eye upon John Van Buren, and his reception and his sayings and doings among the English abolitionista. If the Prince was present at the Manchester Conven- tion on the Ist of August, let Sandors, for the special information of Marcy ant Tammany jall, tell us all abou: it. Let the ex-Cousul employ Himeeif in the reclamation of Jobn Vau Buren. We think it will pay. Unni Frurm®Cart loads of poison are be- iog distributed through the streets in the shape of unripe fruits. We have no law, it seems, to probit murder in this shape, though for all Practical purposes half ripe apples are quite as aotivity with something of the curiosity with | deadly us arsenic or prussic acid. Out of six- which the naturalist watches the operations of | teen people who ate largely of wuripe frait the the ant aud beaver whilst eayaged im the pre- liminary preperations for the laborious work | have #@ied vlready. ought to engage the attention of the Maine !yw } men. If alcohol rhould be prohibite?—though | which the r peculiar habits impose mpon them. On every side we debold unmistakable evi- other diy at Baltimore, twelve, we believe, This trafic in po'sons thrown into the opposite camp. Mr. Seward and the whigs he leads have repudiated them in like manner; but the Saratoga Convention may possibly deal more gingerly with 80 for- midatle a body. Altogether the prospect is interesting and complicated. Whenever the democrats have been united they have carried the State; but this, it must be remembered, was with the aid of the foreign vote. How the loss of that vote will interfere with their success in case ot their union remains to beseen. Again, the free soil democrats have usually nominated a separate ticket, and have had the entire whig strength to contend against. The chances now are that the Saratoga Convention will command the bulk of the whig votes, and will certainly ab- sorh the free soil democracy. This coalition will be powerful. The reault is yet to come, and much depends on the choicetof men by both factions, Tus Comprrorten Controtep.—We this day publish an ‘opinion of Judge McCarthy, delivered in the Marine Conrt, in the case of James Taylor, keeper of the City Hall, against the Corporation of New York, for a miserably disputed balance due for supplice ordered for the celebration of the birthday of the immortal Washington. It appears that the sum of $2 500 Was appropriated tor the purpose of defraying the expenses of the celebration, aud giviug to the Veteran Corps of 1812 some slight refresh- ment after the fatigue of the day; and we doubt it there are hulf a dozen mea in New York whose hearts would not freely extend to that vencrable body all the hospitalities which the day and its memories justify. By the ninth section of the amended charter of 1853 it is evident that its framers expressly authorize an “ entertainment” on that anniver- sary. The committee of the Common Council also adopted this view, and in accordance with the charter directed Mr. Taylor to provide an entertainment, the expense of which is the sub- ject of thie litigation. But it appcars that the excessively economical spirit of Mr. Flagg must intervene to cast adamper on a celebration that would otherwise be, as it Imes ever been, an honor to our city. Mr. Taytor claimed some five hundred doilars, which the Comptroller, in his close cent per cent view, without any law to sauction him, and in defiance of the order of the Common Council, refused to pay, although he had recognized its legality by paying some- thing on account of it without dispute. The Judge, in bis very patriotic decision, says:—* I cannot forbear giving some, though slight, ex- preesion to the extreme repagnance I entertain in my own mind towards discussing cavile sug- gested to the paying of disbursements made in the course of 4 national rendering of fit and proper tribute to the memory of George Wash- ington. No American breast can suppress an emotion at the thought of that great and good man; and how incongruous with that emotion is the necessity which compela one to hold the scales of justice, that he may, asit were. heft patriotism in the one balance, and a copper coin in the other!” After a humorous though caustic allusion to the broken victuals, the Judge concIades his opinion by giving judgment for the plaintiff for the whole balance claimed, together with allowance and costs. The Court has done its duty, and decision may perhaps have a wholesome effect in coan- teracting the influence of Mr. Flavg’s kitchen cabinet in their suggestions to li:igute almost every claim that is presented agaiast the city. We doubt the wisdom of expending money in contesting claims justly due, recognized and authorized by autbority paramount to that of the City Comptroller. CoLzouTs Honors.—It will coon become a difficult matter to induce any echolar of ordina- ry attaiomente and character to accept honors from our collegiate institutions. Like the rea ribbon in France under Louis Philigpe, hon- orary d+ grees will soon become so common that the wonder will be to find peuple who do not pin them to their name. People will bo asked, for instance, to meet he brilliant Mr. A., who, though occupying a prominect position in so- ciety, and possessing wealth and talents, has never once been dubbed a Master of Arte or Doctor of Laws; or to condole with poor B~—, who, after twenty years immunity, bas atlengch been discovered by the college of C——, and sentenced to wear the title or D. 0. L. Former- jy aman who had beea dubbed a doctor of anything but physic was sure to possess more than average aoility or attainments. It might lied on that he had written a good book, e good laws, or preached excelleat ser- mons, or displayed le ening aad merit in some similer way, Now, the dector® created by our Faculiies are sometimes merchants. in which cave the Alma Mater prevably rewarded thera | denece of that expectant bustle and breathless | ic only produces madness or death in ono in- | for selling good tea and cheap sonp: or edivore, | haste which will crowd into » fow short au- tame months excrtions ‘hat ia ang other cour munity woukl eullice to cover year Daring We brief interval of apparent lethargy that stoNce out of a handretl—the sale of unripe fruit, which kills twelve out of gixteca, shou! enyely be made» peval offence. We call ih attention of the sdvocates of sumpwary laws tucceeded the equally busy ecason of thespring, | to the point, reenr ved for their staunch fidelity to the | princip of their churcu; of op Wail pivect, in who e cave We CAonot heip sus. | preting the de. ree is a mild form of begging 1 weed Ly & poor college ; ornobydies at all,woe | the degree is given, like the indiscriminate fa- vors of fi'rte, beeaure the practice of giving pleases the conor and costs nothing. Our col- leges must begin to uxe more tact in conferring degrees, or no One will accept them. Toe Mayrus Navy Yarp AsANDONED.— That was « very sensible amendment to one of the appropriation bi'ls adopted in the Seaate, at the instance of Mr. Jones. of Tennessee, giv- ing to the city of M:mphis the property of the United States Navy Yard at ‘that place, and abandoning the concern asa piece of intolerable folly. This extrocrdinary experiment in naval: Fcience was due to the writings of Professor Meury upon the subject. The Tennessecans- took the bint and paxhed ft through Congress. ‘The strongest argument in its favor was from Mr. Foster, at that time a Senator from Teunes- see, who urged a Navy Yard at Memphis be- cause it would not only be above the reach of @ foreign enemy, being seven hundred milea from the sea—but because “ it was clear above the pint of the yaller fever.” The city of Mcmphis is welcome to the spoils accruing from the remains of the insufferable humbug. The Mint at Philadelphia is 4 piece of goods of the same pattern as the Memphis Navy Yard. Our California gold docs not flow up the Dela- ware. It is above the pint of the yasler fever. : Tax Brooatyy Feanres—One or THE Moxoro Lime—By an advertisement in another colaaa, i will be seem that the Uvion Ferry Company hav determined, from «nd after the 10th inat., to increas the price of traffic over the various ferries between this city and Brovklyu, Tie reason given for this unexpected determiuation on the part of the com pany is that the prisent rates result in a losat. them. If that be the case, the fault lies with th company In their eudeavors to monopolize th whole traffic between the two cities; but from th Manceuvres adopted, it w ald appear to be more the realization of a scheme matured and Jong :outem- pleted by this overgrown monopoly. For many Sears, this company leased the Fulton, S ath, and Hamilton ferries— the fare on each of which, for 8 foot passenger, was educed, within the last two or three years, to one cent. At this low rate they made money. The reduction, it was expected, would induce a great many New Yorkers to reqide on Long Island. The expecta‘ion was well founded ; and meny thourands of people, to avoid tue bigh rents of New York, removed to Brooklyn. At this time, the commatation for a foot passenger was fixed at $8 per year. Shortly after, the Usiion Comé pany bought out the Wall, Catherine, Roosevelt and Gonvernenr street ferries, and redaced the fare on them from two cents to one. This seemed all very well, and the company was lauded for their enter- prise and Uberality. The ink, however, was hardly Gry on the tranafer papers before an adve: was isened, stating that, owing to the great ex pense of these new additions, the commutation ticket would have to be abolished on all the ferries. This took place last May; and now another adverg tizement appears, stating that the old terms, of two centa for every foot passenger, will be enforced after the 10th inst., and without the privilege of commuting. When these rates ae to be further increased, is, of course, best known to the Union Company. It is a eafe game—at least for a time.. 4)] the ferries are in their hands, and people must go over one or the other. W:! it will materially enhance the prosperity of our neighboring city o¢ Brooklyn, however, is another matter. ‘ Obituary. DEATH OF GENERAL JUGE BAKKUNBSA, OF HONDURAS. ‘This afternoon we received the tollowing sad ia- telligence:— Died, after a ‘short illness im the city, Dox Joss Ban™ BUNDA, Minister Plenipotentiary from Honduras to the United States, aged 70 years. ‘The members of the different logations at Washington, and the foreign Corsuls in this elty, and citizens, ar -enpectfully invited to attend his fanera!, at St. Peter’s @urch, Barelay street, to. morrow morning, at 10 o'clock. ‘without further invitation In the death of this distinguished man the world bas susteined a great Joes, and his country a sincer patriot. From an early age he was devoted to th canse of liberty, and became so obnoxious to th Spanish suthorities of Central America that a large reward was offered for his apprehension. After being secreted for five years, he emerged from his concealment, and headed his countrymen in their attempts to shake off the Spanish yoke. After the independence of his country was secured, he wag elected President of th> Confederation of the States of Central America, and devoted his cnergies to the advancement of iis country, traaslating and adopt- ing many of our laws, ; romoting education, and sp- Propriating all his salary to eatablish schools. Al- ways the head of the liberal party, his inflaence and exertions were employed for the benefit of the masses. Plain and economical in bis habits, in his Tetirement he practise! his profession as a lawyer, in many cases without fee; and be now leaves his- family in very moderate circumstances. His wife and only son, lad of eight, were with him in bis last moments, Meeting of the Street Contractors. An adjourned meeting of the contra:tors with the Corporation of the city of New York for cleaning the streets, waa held at the Westchester Hous:, on the corner of the Bowery and Broome strect, last night. There were present a majority of the con- tractors, and Mr. Thorn was called to the chair. The minntes of the last meeting were read and approved; after which the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted:-— Whoress, The Mayor, Aliermea and Commonalty of the city of ‘New Yoru have, in pursuance of an ordinanes duly and regula: in Common Conneli convened, = — > ence wer there gies vertise for proposais for contracts for cleani streets, and after reeeiving such proposals in due fora of law, to enter into and mak+ contracts with tiffareot pers sons, resid nts of the ci'y of New York, for cleaning the strects oc said city; and shereas contrac, have veen. mace and entered into with uifferent persons by the said the Commissioner of Streets and Lamps, for cleaning the Mreets of wnid city, apportioned into districts by said ordipance; and whereas e.ch contractor has bean re- ee nanan Lape come ~ adhe ace n fend ‘witb two sufficient a1 Teaponsil it > Yoned for vbe faithiul freee me of eda my phimer ; woereas fe confident that wp to apd until the seoond day of aera ivet., they have pot only performed their contracts with the Corporation fully, as required by thom, ia ev espect, but, although raving been employod by ‘bee contract for ibe space of only about twe wees, have re- feved the streets of ‘ali ashes, garbage, radbish and #weepings of every kind and nature,” to an oxtont never Tak Ge conden be pe tiat cannot fail to meet + approbe: tion every un) mind; whereas the Corporation have Pie gv oye deration moneya expressed in our contracts in equal half- monthly payments, ex ten per cent on cach fo monthly payment, whi they are sathor Lied oy nal contracts to retain, as no aiditionsl security to indem nify them against the non of sait sont > and whereas the sub contractors have incurred expense in empioying mou, and purctasiug aod bl carts and boats for Purpese of carrying away from. the cry the filth, manure, &,, with the groatost possi- bie despatch, end therefore depend the prompt yment of “heir instalments to enat be constant cemends by their employes, oi conti im the yeriormence of the duties enjoined upon them, as well by their sgreetocnt xs by a senso of laty to the Steoerane Svinte rd hes atid them in their every emia i vers) satisfaction a9 vill plaoe city on a fo0 Ing of emulation with any ethere the ther city in the world im regard to tho of tte « oA - wheres: it was a source it : feoond of August instant, to have the px. first he!t-monthly ivstolment denied, b George G . tree! rier, Co centractors, whico pot «uly pel thers to relingaish their tracts, but invalve the city ia N expensive tigation for comeers wailed they have sustained by ranean of thir bresch of agreement on che part of the Garpora- 0 LiscOUTHEE Over a te vt hereafter vy the city for cleaning the streot® fet, an well ae dey: sald contr. ctors of the e saving to the ois year, fa tuis particular, ihe eum of over $250,000. And, whereas, it ts not the che contractors to catracise ort: impute base 1 the executive off ot of tue do mbent to faciliate, iasteed ‘ot 8 inch to’eces® to the iy we bave ampie proof that | ed agaipet (he o. vteactore ia uae patronage having beet Wierled Lrom the bends of vali villeps by ‘ae waqritanle e@ in its expen derive € them to meet