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

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NEWS FROM BUROPE, Me tidtoge ef exher of the steamers doe from Burepe bad reached us up to the time our paper was put to prens, THE HARLEM RAILROAD. @emmencing on the first page may be found an @derate secount of the proceedings at the mectinz @f the stoekbolders of the Harlem Railroad, held at Wammevy Hall yesterday afternoon. Tne report @& te committee appointed to examine into the af re of the company, which we publis), places ‘te dofalcation of Mr. Robert Schayler at $127,700, ‘which sum may be reduced by offsetts some twenty @oneend dollar. in addition to this, extension eertificater, to th: amoun: uf $92,000 weut into the hen 8 of Mr. Schuyler, but, the commi'tee state, Woder: ireumetances that will give the company a wad defene against ticir payment. The af- fies of the .owpany appear to have been managed very hooeely, and all sorts of retrenchment is now recommended. Ji is proposed to elect anew board of directors, on a new | lan, looking to the choice of Rew men ‘0 fill the offices; and effurts are to be made to prevent the abuse of the system of voting by Proxy. The question as to the frandulently issued weock createda very avimated discussion between ®e financiers of Wa)] street and the holdera of stocks from the ‘‘rura] dist iv’s,”’ the former being & favor of buying it up, and the latter being geae- rally opposed to futhering the false issues. Mes-rs, Behuyler and Kyle were bots rather roughly hand Jed by the speakers. Wall street finally gained toe Victory, and sacceeded in adopt ng the resolutions @f the committee of investigation, authorizing the Beard of Direvtors to bay up tae stock and charge the same to ex ense account. A RAILROAD CONVENTION-—RIGE IN THE TARIFF OF KATH. ‘Phe leading rai'road companies havirg extensive paceevger and feight traffic, and heavy Western eenuections, ioclucing the Baltimore and Ohio Riil- pead, Pennsylvania Central, Hudson River, New Yo k Céuiral, ana New York and Erie lines, have had it in contemplation for some time past to meet and arravge on a common scale of increased tariff @barges, both for passengers and freight carriage. A convention, at which most of the above com panies were representes, met last evening in the St. Nicholns Hotel. The meeting was to have orginize) at 6 o'clock P. M , at which bour one of oor reporters attendeo; but athelf past ssven the directors had mot trensantod aay buckuwoss Our repurter wag in Sermed by one of the delegates that owing to the abeence of the representative of one of the com- panies first advising the siep to be taken, it was probable thas no definite result would be come to last night. He was nls) aasnred ‘bat the final de- @ision of the conventioa on this highly importact movement would be speedily communicated to the public through the press. It is said that the direc tora of the re¥eral companies have felt for some time past that the charges are below those required for a fair remaneration. NEWS FROM VENESZURLA AND GRANADA. By the arrival of the bark Cazanova, Captain Webber, from Maraca!bo July 29, we have a letter from our correspondent, containing intelligence cor - @rmatory of our last advices coacerning the pro- of the revolution and the defeat and execo: tien of Colonei Garces by the government troops, uncer General Falcon. We have slso received the Maracaibo Ei Mura and Prices Current, with co- Pies of some of the government bulletins directed against the revolationists. From New Granada it appears that Melo was gwning ground. The goverumen:’ of Herrera had @ited an ex*racrdinary meeting of Congress io Yoboague. Private letters from Cacuta state tht there ie much apathy existing among the people, and that when cited to take np arma in defence of fhe constitntional government, they reply “that ‘those who live by the governmsnt, auch as the office weekera, may defend it.” APPAIRS IN THE CITY. ‘The Board of Aldermen Jast evening concurred im the report of the Councilmen in favor of an addi- @opal appropriation of $100,000 for cleaning streetr, the sum of $84,000 having been already ex- hansted. With such s vast appropriation for this partiular purpose, and so miserably expended, the eitizens have aight to complain of the filthy oon- dition in which the streets of New York are kept. ©n motion of Alderman‘ Brown, a discussion arose en the resolution passed the previous eveniag re specting his removai from the Committee on the Fire Department, in the course of which Alderman Howavra broadiy insinuated that the Chief Engineer (Carson) was exercising his influence in the lobby. The Aldermen of the Sixth also charged the Presi- dext of the Board with meanly breaking hie word respecting his (Howard's) appointment on the Fire Department Committee, whare- Bren the President called the Alderman of the Baxth word to order, acd said that his asseicion was false! He demanded the name of Alderman Howoro’s informant, which was given, and a very ‘warm (98 deg: ees), Or & very amicable explanation, “catistactory to all parties,’ may be expected at ® ec meeting this eveniog. In the eveat of anything Serious, it is supposed that Counciimen Wild and Meeley, who recenty distinguished themse!ves ‘without’ coming to mor'al combat, will be solicited to ac: as the ‘i lends on the occasion. A report of the proceedings of the Councilmen Rast evening is given eleewhere, but we do not find anything in them worthy of s spccial_reference. COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS, The market for common grades of State flour was wather duli and less acive yesterday, while fancy @ad extra brands were uschanged. New Southern wheet brought $1 95. Com was again tolerably active at full prices. Cotton, within the past two Or three days, has been sold to the extent of be. tween 1,400 and 2,000 bales. The market yester @ay closed fiim, and in favor of sellers. Pork was gain fiimer, ard sales of mest were made a $12 624 a $12 754—some 700 bbia having becn sold at the latter advanced figure. MISOELLANROUR. At the trot at the Saratoga course yesterday the attendance was large. Lorg Tom beat Centreville and Pashioo—time, 5:25 and 5:36. . We have received a file of the Bermuda Roya Gas ctie to the Ist instant, but the papers contain be neve of interest. The d fficalty at Cincinnati relative to the bills of the Indians banks bas becn arranged, the bank @e ogreelug Wre.cive for the preset bulls of the fre: banka cf te (e on tne ‘0: of five dollars and hensive, breanre Jobo Van Boren is absent in | it wae alowed, »nd finds him-elf cripp'ed Uwe, THR CHINCHA ISLANDS. | Onr readers w } ree Let cba ou ‘he 16th of Aa- gust, 1853, » se'ious o Mioulty ora ret be wer tie @ifferept Americas sh pmasters ‘oating at She Chine} as and the + fic asof the Peruy'ao gvern- ment, in conseqnenve of an arrest avd attack mide by the latter om Caytan MoCerren, of the amp De- flance,aod Kurof Mise ew. Mr. J Randolph Cla , United States Ministe: at Lima, was very evergetic in seeking for due reparation from the Peraviaas, ip communicating with the g veroment at Wash- ington, avd io stating tne case of the masters to the Britis) Admiral im the Pasitls, for all which be was thavked in resolutions passed by the masters ata meeting held oo the 17th, It appears, however, thet two of these geutl-men subsequently oo.- demped Mr. Clay’s condact oo their return to the States, We publish today Mr. Cla,’a defence, vish the entire corvespondence between that genemia avd Admiral Moresby, of the English fleet. The pa, ers are interesting. The Saretega Convention and other Conven= u Prospects of the New Andk-Sisvory England, and bec we Jo n Coo rine nas as much as be con do ‘o “bold the P esident in his arms,” including the spoils But if tue rort shells sball contrive to get through thei goa vention with a show of “happy a0sord” and mock en'busiasm, thy mst ine*italy fizzle outin the elec ion, We reiterate the opiuios that th 6 Saratoza oc nven'iag, ir it dues uot ab- eorb, will be very apt to give the coup de grace tothe administration free soil soft shell party in New York. The whig party, 28 at present abolitionized in this State. F.llmgre and Webster men, aad all co-operating agaivet the Nebraska bill, is Bot in eo mech danger from this Saratoga movement. The whigs at Syracuse will, in ail probability, concur sv far in the proceedings at Saratogs as to secure @ large support for their Gubervatorial aud Stare ticket, from the auti- slavery allinvee. And we suspect thut the wh: gs Will also play their cards with an esp> cial eye to the good withes of tne temperance Coalsion. For the edification of the pulic. we repab- lirb this morning the calls for tae Anti-Nebraska Anti-Slavery Coalition Sarat ga State Cooven- tion, which meets this morving, and of the Syracuse Whig State Convention, the Syracase Free Soil Soft She] Democratic State Coaven- tion, the Auburn State Temperaace Coavea- tion, »ud alo other calls und novificaio.s of various other whig, democratic, temperance and anti-slavery conventions in Massachusetts, Obio, Miovivan and Virginia) Taken all together, they afford a pretty fair idea of the existing contusion and tribulations among the old par- + ties and the old political hucksters of the eoun- [ try ; and they are very stro.gly suggestive, in connection witb the late electious, of the most amusing, the liveliest, toe most exciting and the funniest scrub race for the Presidency in 1856, that will have ever occurred in the his- tory «f these United States. Considering the mysterious but powerful organization of the Know Nothings in the back ground, cattiog right and lett, without mercy and without no- tice, it is perfectly absurd to make any coajec- tures beyond the immediate probabilities of the elections at hand, Even these are involved in uncertainties which perplex the wisest old sachems of Tammany Hall. The Saratega Couvention meets to-day. Our readers are fally apprised of its materials and its purposes. It isa State convention of the new anti-slavery coalition for the repeal of the act repealing the Missouri compromise, aad for euch other proceedings directed against the fur- ther extension of Southern slavery as may be deemed expedient. We presume that this convention, baviog made no arrangements to that effect, will make no numination for Governor, aud noue for the State cffices; but that they will direct their batteries especially against the nine members of Congrers from this State who voted for the Nebraska bill, there can be no doubt, It is the first ceeential step in the uphill work of re- storing the Missouri compromise line. The next vbject is to secure the election of thirty- three members, if pos-ible, from this common- wealth to the next Congress, true and trusty in the cauee of the repeal of the repealing section of the Nebraska bill. Trese ave among the defined objects of this Saratoga convention. A large margin is left open for such side blows as the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, no more slave States, Onba, Mexico, the Alrican slave trade, &c. Very likely the convention will teke strong ground against the ac- quisition of Cuba as a silav> State, notwithstanding Gerrit Smith fs decidedly in taver of this measure of ‘manifest destiny.” We are not aware that Gerrit is a delegat; but we suppose that upon an anti-slavery occa- sion 60 very novel and extiaordinary, he can hardly fail tobe present. it so, we should like very much to see bow his peculiar views in faver of the annexation of Cuba would be reovived in one of his peculiar speeches before tois very peculiar and most extraoruinary and heterogeneous convention. Free soil whigs of the Seward stripe will form the nucleus of this Saratoga gathering. Free soil Van Buren democrats will form a strong infusion; regular free eoilers of the free soil party proper and orthodox allitionista, and all sorts of outside reformers and philosophers, infidels and divines, but all dead against the farther agitation of slavery, will fill up the chinks, The late Castle Garden Union Safety Committee will also be ably represented at this mixed commission of all the anti-slavery forces. Benjamin F, Butler will be the cham- pion on the occasion of the free soil adminis- tration mercenaries; Horace Creeley, appoint ed a delegate from White Piains, will probably be chairman of the Seward faetion, and Frod Douglass, (if he has not gone out to Kaneas), will, perhaps, be’present to attend to the in- terests of the free colored Americans, and to such amendments of the land laws as their in- terests may require. Spiritual manifestations, Rochester knock- ings, Fourierite phalanxes and vegetarian doc- trines, will, we thivk, be passed over and ig- nored, though some of the dise'ples of all these abominations will, doubtless, be among the delegates. We are not so sure concerning women’s rights. We can discover none of the strong minded she-dragons among the dele- gates appointed irom the vorions cities and counties; but we should nv. Se surprised if Abby Kelly Foster were to \ olunteer her ser- vices as the head of a women’s righta delega- tion from Boston. The occasion is very tmpt- ing, and it will be a miraculous bit of self- devial if Abby does resist the call. The two immediate points of interest in con- nection with this convention are, how will it wf. tect the Free Soil So:t Shell Administrativa Con- vention at Syracuse? And bow will it op-rate upon the Whig State Convention, at the same Place, in September, and the whig party in the election? Benjamin F. Butler, W. C, Bryant, and other prominent politicians of the Buffalo platform, will {n a] probability, from their association with this Saratoga coalition at Syracuse, do much to increase the demoraligatioa in the soft ahell camp. They may create such a defection as may break up the adminis‘ration conventi- cle, root and branch, upon the Nebraska bill, notwithstanding the dexterity and cool {mpu- dence of the Albany t/as in whipping the devil round the stump. This is what we are afraid of We fear that the soft chell desertions to Saratoga wil haye such an influence over their Syracuse conven- tion, as to break it up and scatter the fragments among the other outside p litical rabbish of the day. We repeat that we are afraid of this, and that all the wisdom ond experivnce of Tam- many will be vainly exerted at Syracase for dvmocratic harmony, We arc the more appre- | people and the Know Nothings. In fact, upon the three-legged platform of free soilism, teeto- talism and Kuow Nothingism, (Seward keep- ing in the background for the preseut) the whigs have little or nothing to fear from Saratoga. In a national point of view, the consequences of this new anti-slavery coalition will depend ver. much upon the results cf this. ite frat State convention. If it proves to be a failure there is an end ot it—if successful, the end is yet tocome. This day will, most likely, settle the question of the polit:cal value of this Sara- toga omnium gatherum. Cur Diplomatic and Consular Services. The question of the insufficiency of the re- muneration aliowed to our diplomatic and con- snlar representatives abroad, is one that has lung occupied public attention here, whilst a stropg conviction on the subject invariably forces itself upon the minds of those who have an opportunity of witnessing its resalts on the scenes of their labors, Although as much opposed to extravagance in this a3 in any other depart- ment of the public service, we yet hold that there is none in which we should more carefully avoid the opposite extremes of parsimony and meanness. If the object of our diplomatic mis- sions were merely to make our ministers pro- pagandiets of republican principles, there would be consistency in restricting them to the nar row incomes and simple appearances which are supposed to typify republican severity. But when their purpose is avowedly to further our political interests in courts where appearances are everything, and where wealth is regarded as the emblem of power, it woufd be absurd to attempt to effect that object by ranniag couater to the established habits aad prejudices of other countries, and by setting ourselves up as reformers of errors which do not at all affect us. Such a position, vesides, could not but prove embarrassing aud distasteful to men ofany delicacy or sensitiveness of feeling. Tostead of being able to devote themselves to the real ob- jecte of their missions, our envoys would be in- volved in a perpetual warfare of petty principles and etiquette, which, by singling them out as ob- jects of hostility and annoyance, wouldin many instances destroy all feeling of personal coafi- dence and impair their usefaluess, Without again going over the old ground, which has been eo frequevtly and sharply*debsted. we be- lieve abat we are correct ia assuming that the general feeling of the country is now in favor OF FAUINY tv feo Diplomatic and eancular cor vants such liberal allowances as will enabl them to discharge with becoming diguity th» important duties assigned to them. The bill introduced in the United States S.- nate in the beginaing of June, and which was referred to and reported back without amend ment by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, wi a move in the right direction; and it is to be regretted that the session was too far advanced to give immediate effect to it. In order that our readers may understand the nature of the reforms contemplated by this measure, it will be necessary to describe the diplomatic and coneular eervices as they ar: at present consti- tuted. The United States has twenty-eight foreign legations. Ten of these, at the opentag of the present Congress, were represented by ministers plenipotentiary, two by ministers resident. fourteen by charges d’affxir.s, and two by commissioners. By the etiquette of diplo- matic rank, all ministers below the grade of en- voy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary are restricted in their influence with the gov- ernment; to which they are accredited. The letter of credence of a charge d’nffaires is ad- dreesed merely to the minieter of the foreign department, and the presentation of the bearer of it to the sovereign or chief of the state is a matter of courtesy. In the case of a full minister the presentation is a matter of right. A charge d’affaires requests, a minister may demand an audience. The consequences ot this unmeaning distinction are obvioue. When the minister holds the lesser rank he is not only debarred from that free access to the sovereign which would be conducive to the objects of his mission, but he is subjected to many social humiliations, from the fact that the ministers plenipotentiary from smaller States invariably take precedence of him. The proposed bill abolishes this invidions classification. by elevat- ing all United States ministers to the grade of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- tentiary. It farther provides a secretary for each legation, who will be able to replace the minister at his post in case of temporary iilness or any other unavoidable accident. The present system of remuneration of these officers is about one of the most vicioas and ill conceived that could possibly have been devised. The comylaint against Uncle Sam ought not t) be inr allty that he does rot pay enough to b's serv. nts in this branch of the pablic service, tut that the large amount that he does pay should be so grossly misapplied. The ministers plenipotent ary receive at the time of the acceptance of their appointmenta, outfits of $9000 each, and annual ealaries of $9,000. Onecf the miniaters resident receives a salary of $6,000 and the other an outfit of $4,500 and $4,500 salary. The chargés receive outfits of $4,500 each and salaries of $4,500. One of the Commi-- sioners receives $9,000 outfit and $9,000 sala: ry, and the other $5,000 salary. Keach of our representatives in the diplomatic branch of the oublic service is allowed what is called an in- fit, equal to three monthe of his annual compen- sation. Now, the effect of this abeura system of out- Sits and infits, Is to divert from the objects of the mission just half the amount allowed by Congress to promote them. In the case of most ministers, they are a temptation to pte rent extravagance and & source of futare em- barrassment Many s man spends his outfit for purposee entirely diffcrent from that for which skeroad. Besides this speculat ve, the sys.em entails a poritive dem nstranle los- on the country. A mipieter can demand ‘his recal: whenever be pleases; and whether be husserved a week, a month or e year, the Treasury caannt rquire bim to return his outfit I: stances arc cited in which. in the space of four years, ministers 10 comparatively uvimportant courts have received $18,000, and fa the eaee of one court, $22.500, in outiw OF the $3,656.204 wh ch the diplomatic service of the country cost for the twelve years ending the 30:b of June, 1853, the sum of $596,500 was drawn for outfite, The propoeed bil] entirely does away with this principle of separate specific allowances, and under the general head of salaries wradu- ates the scale of compensation to our foreign minist: rs, co a8 to correspoud with the duties to be performed and the expense of living ut the reepective capitals, The-alteration of the ry+ tem is effected in 9 manaer highly creditable to the economical ingenuity of its framers. Although, for instance, the number of our legs tiens hag been considerably augmented, aol several of them raised since 1841, it ia caloa- lated that, if remodelled in the manser and with the salaries indicated. our diplomatic ee- tablisbment will cost annually only $15,816 more than the average cost for the last twelve years, of outfits, salarics and contiageas ex- pebees, In our consular service, where reform was mort needed, the bil) introduces even more sweeping changes. Some of our consuls, as, for instance, those of London and Liverpovl, are better remunerated than any other offvers of the govervment, whilst the majority reveive nothing like a fair or just compensation for their services. This inequality the bill proposes to remedy by discontinuing the system of com- pensation by fees, and the substitutiou of salaries. Ia important coma@ercial ports, aod in large manufactaring districts, consuls are not to be permitted to transact bustuess. In countries where consuls are not received: commercial agente are to be appointed. These changes will necessitate a considerable addition to this branch of the public service. The cost of our present consular establishment in 1852, was $177,496 19 per annum; the coat of the new organization, if carried into effect, will be $252,760. We have now given our readers a correct idea of the main features of the bill. They will 06 doubt concur with us in thinking that the pria- ciples on which they are based are sound ones, although some of the details may be susceptible of improvement. Our chief fault with them is that they do not go far enough, and we will take an early opportunity of indicating where their imperfections lie. Are You Insurep !—The necessity of in- surance, whether for life or against fire, is ex- emplified every day by the deaths of heads of families, or the destruction of property by the devouring element. It is a duty every man owes his family, that he not ‘only protect its members from poverty, but provide beyond contingency an adequate support for those he leaves behind, By the report of the Comptrol- ler of the State of New York it appears that more than half a million dollars have been paia within the preceding year to the survivors of those whose lives were insured, and that io most of the cases the recip‘enta were destitute widows and orphans. This proves the immense emount of lifo inanrance business transacted with an extended appreciation of its benefit, and that money paid into insurance companies is not lost, but is so much gathered into the garners of safety and disbursed, when by death it shall be called for to supply the needy and the homeless. It is gratitying to observe eo large an increase in this description of {n- vestment, and a manifestly growing desire to secure throngh this medium a comfortable liv- ing to eurviving relations, Every man of family should be ineured, and the poorest amongst us can afford to do s0;~bat unfortunately too many wait until the fell de- stroyer lays his cold hand upon the mortal fame, and then they feel the curse of having procrastinated the intention to insure till it had become too late. The bitterest agony toa dying man is the thought that the objects of his affections, his wife and children, are un- provided for; this sad reflection can be preveat- ed by life insurance, “He that provideth not for his own is worse than an intidel.” We have heard of many striking instances of the utility of life insurance. A merchant in Brooklyn insured his life for $5,000, payable to his wife and children. He died of cholera, aad his wife soon followed him to the grave, leav- ing three orphan children with nothing but the $5,000 to feed. clothe and educate them. This eum. judiciously expended, will sustain them ia comparative comfort, instead of having to de- pend upon the cold hand of charity—ext-nded, perhaps, from an almshouse. Another person insured for $3,500, and paid one’s quarter's premium, something about $8. He died o! cholera, and his wife was thus secured this ad- dition to an otherwise scanty support. We need but mention one more, which came within our own knowledge. A gentleman once cou- nected with the New York Heratp insured his life for $5,000, and bad paid the premium for litle over one year, when, on his way tu Cali- fornia, he was stricken down, in the ‘ull vigor of bis manbood, by the unsparing hand of death, leaving a widow and three children. The inturanee company with whom the policy was etiected promptly paid the $5,000 to the execa- tore, waving the sixty days notice to which they were entitled, acd without waiting for the usus] forms or medical certiticate of death. As to the necessity of tire insurance we need but point to the fact that many millions of pro- perty are yearly consumed by fire in New York alone. Every day brings some new illustration of the utility of insuring against loss by firc, Insure, we ssy—insure, Wao Wasts a Crvetat Patace 1—The di- rectors of the unfortunate Crystal Palace have, we understand, decided on selling it for some- thing like $350,000, including the fron fence which surroonds it. Capitalists will at once perceive the eligibility of the investmeat. It might be made winter garden, or a grog shop —s grand bazaar in the Eastern styie, or a thamblea—or some enterprising showman might buy it up fora museum destined to rival Bar- num’s, and to be the wonder and delight of our country frienda, Somebody proposes to carry it down to the Battery. Somebody cl-e wants to trot it off to Philadelphia or Boston. A third suggestion is that it be handed over to Adame’ express and forwarded anywhere oat of the neighborhood it has ruined. Every- body’s object reems to be to get rid of the coa- cern. It bas been so , and every one is so thorongh'y sick of it, that if it were esrted into the Huson and wothing more ald was Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Mecal de of it, New York, would exp-rieace a sensible | scendant, through the family of the dukes of Rut relief. The text time we get ups world’s fair, | 04, of the Menpers family who were lorda of the we eball reer matters better. Bee of Exall » Northamberland under the- ane wards. Hisuncle Thomas Manners Sat'on Tus Mancuesrer of Aupnica—Prooness op | tinguished himself at the bur, became Solicitor Ge- ‘ae Manvracrontxo Ixterest—A Lowell | B¢7#! of England and one of the barons of the ex- J | chequer. Thus in politica, law and (Mars.) newspaper gives a list of the persons , s-Sutton femily tae already eared bright | and corporetions in that city, taxed over fifty i distinction. The aakiene dcllars. This formidable array of Agures gives | inane 00 Powened tates = ap interesting insight into the progress of the , age. His first appearance in publio ie was os mapufacturing interests of America. Notwith- | oncey secretary ior tbe Home D ah standing the fact tbat sariffs buve been changed | gir Robe t Peel's administration. Hig —-and, according to some politicians, the coun- | is not, it seems, of so rigid a cast as te prevent try has beeo raived two or three times withia | teking office under the Abe deen the past thirty yeurs—we find that Lowell bus pe fird od oe vem — ok “ increased and red to an almost fabulous oppo tupity for extent. The on on incorporated in 1826, page gel rie we ie oe agente and then hed @ population of about three hua- pe! lop. Jobn Henry T. Manners Bat.| is married large family. dred soule, and ibe valuation of the property one mpd bens —T therein did not exceed one hundred thou-| Recatra ar New Loxpon —A race for boats eand dollars, In 1830 the population had in- Ke poiees tga secur < perarveciciegh a der boats nty an Fin length, ereased to six thousdnd. In 1836 this number tave place fram: © 0 Paceke apd : was doubled, and Lowell was chartered as a 17th, To the winping boat a Lee #100 —_ city. In 1840 tne population had reached one ‘taihe enced leak: phigh fee, twenty thousand, and the property vatuaslon dellars. We hear that the Pequot is e very wes over twelve millions; and in 1850 the | hore, with» plearant company of guests, and population was set down at thirty-four thou- | goabtnct that the regatta will be well managed, eand, At present it is probably nearly forty AGERE Rp Paen n New Yout—We thousand. The valuation table this year is aa ae the elt ct recently ee pian follows :— Dorth east coast, pea Hoelifax, hae been ordered yea New York. The motive of t uit visit te unkeown Dut the fliibusters sbould k-ep a look eu: for ‘The equadron is a small one. Navitprom tbe Philaieiphee Lager, Aarast 1b) ‘The n»vigetion of the Chesnpeake and Ohio C.nal hag| ogeip been effectually stopped, two loaded boets haviag| titled on the bottors of the canal in the vheinity of toe ‘ y partof Con. ‘There does not reem apy probability navigation will be resumed until olen cous showers the exbau-ted fountains of the land. Wetake the above from th» Ledger, regretting the seme time to Jearn that the Baltimore and 0! Baitroad Company, taking advantage of the diffi- culties on the canal, are making efforta to raise con- folntly the rates of toll, in conformity with long cherished desire. The effect of high tolls is most unfortunately fe by the Hudson River road, the Alida and other steamers comp'etely monopolizing the travel aud trapsportatiun. Instead of ae increase of residents’ real and personal entate.$8,248, 786 corporations’ 1 pon-resident 11402200 yu 211341086 see $718,500 Whole number of rateable poltx, 7,664; last yer, 7,632 While number of persune taxed, including noa rest- dents and corporations, 8,860 ‘The rate of taxation is 72 cente per $100. The Merrimack company pays fourteen thou- saud dollars taxes; the Massachusetts ten thou- eand; the Lowell mine thousand; the Law- Tence eight thourand, and the “Mills,” as they ere called, pay altogether about seventy thou- sand dollars. The highest tax paid by a resident is twelve hundred and thirty-eight dollars, by William Livingston, and the annexed list shows the wealth ot the place:— $1,199 58 984 18 re-] Taaac Jovatban fy)er. 615 13 ness, the Hadson company have been compelled to re. pees i La Hi reduce the number of their trains, as we perceive! tworth.... 683 8u ‘a1: their 5 }-sbua Bennett. A D af , The Cholera. Hala Bob becry:, 3782) go THE EDITOR OF THE NBW YORE HERALD. A 208 14 In today’s Henan there appeared 8 oommanica- Rathanel Wriget, $10 1 tion, sigred ‘J. H. Vanderveer, M.D.,” elaiming the Jiten Ws a 3 “merit” of introdacivg in the t-eatment of obo! H. Elisa Daven. 206 48 -asimple apparatus for the production of artifi-ial heat. The instrament in question has been in use the New York Hospital since the year 1349, only in the treatment of the straggling cases of Jere that bave found admission, bat aleo n the col- lapse attending injuries; it was used in the treat- ment of the cholera of 1849, and preytonsly to ita) introduction into the New York Hospital exten- sively used io the Qua-ar tive Hospital. Al! who bave used it will bear testimony with the) do-tor to its effica %, The story of Dr. Vand rs “merit” fer ite ap- plivation fs a short cne. “At the time of the ee tablichment of the Franklia st:eet Hospital, Dr. V., togetber with other medical men, visited the Ci Hospital; every faciity for furnishing theic veal tal speedily was tendered toem; the moge of ap li- cation of dry beat exo ainec; ove instrament, simi- lar to the ope from which the drawiag waa made, wae farnished at the time and six afterwards. The thousand and one anxi ue letter writers and| erquirers, as well a4 those tikely to follow, can }.ere| sorslly inspect the action of this instrament in the} varic us bos: itals in and about New York. New York, Aug. 15, 1854. J.B.C. Remanxs.— D . Vanderveer, tofhis communication to us, did not cleim the merit of the exolastve ase of the beating apparatus; in fact, he stated tat it| was in use in several hospitals. His ebject was ta! make it public. *Ibose marked thus (*) are the names of non-realients, Lowell has thus in tweoty years becom: the second city in the State in population, and the third in valuation. As an instance of Ameri- cao progrees and American enterprise, the ex- ample of this city is a most cheering one, and wortby of «ll imitation. The progress of Lo well has excited considerable attention, and sometimes a little jealousy on the part of Euro- pean manufacturers, Fictu at tae Batrery.—A suit is pending, we see, between Max Maretzek aod the Corpor- ation, in consequence of the steach created by the filth used to eularge the Battery. The Cor- poration pleads, among other things, that the matter used for filling up the Buitery is nos filthy. They would have done beiter to stick to the usual pleas of dishonest men, viz.: that they didn’t make any contract to fill up the Buttery—tbat if they had mace a contract they had fulfilled it, and that they were not a corpo- ration at all. Every one who hae been to the opera can testify to the effluvia which arise: from the foul matter used to fill up the space to be added to the Battery, At times, it needs nerves of unusual strength t> withstand the ebock of 80 abiminable ao odor; and we are quite of opinion that it has militated seriously egainst the interesis of the opera. Whether the Corporation or the contractor is the guilty Pereon we know not ; but that some one is guilty, and that that person or body should be severely punished, must be obvious to every one. The cholera yesterday was as follows, at the hespi- tole: 7 Several more cases of cholera were rumored yesterday, Aman named slexander Wood, residing near the cor2er of South Fifth and Monmouth streets, died on Moniey, and way interred yesterdsy. One or two more deaths are. tid to have occurred in that Beighberkood, and a good deal of alarm exits among the residents in that vicinity. ‘Two persons living in Newark avenue—one of them em- ployed in tte rolling mill—died on Monday night or Cues- day morning. A young woman reriding in Pavoois place, It la reported, has also died of cholera. Otner cases are mentioned, which have not terminated fatally. WILLIANSEURG. Abont five o'clock yesterday morning Mrs. Shaw, re- aiding at No. 207 South First ateeet, died of Asiatic cholera, after an illness of about five hours. There bas been no report of cholera sent in to the Board of Bealth by physicians since Satarday noon last. There are no patients in the cholera hospital. BROOKLYN. At the meeting of the Board of Health yesterday morning no cases and no deaths by ebolera were re- ported. en Teport of the condition of the cholera hos- ital was presented, from which the ry — ae patients per last 23 ada aon The New Governors of Canada and New Brunswick, It is now pretty generally kaown that Lord Elgin, the present Governor of the Canadas, returas to England this fall, snd is succeeded in his office by Sir Edmund Walker Head, the present Lieatenant Governor of New Brunswick. In the room of the latter, the honorable John Henry Thomas Manners Sutton assumes the Lieutenant Governorship of New Brunswick. As our intercourse with the colo- nies is becoming daily more intimate, ‘a few details respecting thei? new rulera many not be devoid of interest. Sir Edmund Walker Head,the new Governor of Canada, is a remote connexion of Sir Francis Bond Head, whose Governorship of Upper Canada in 1838 and high tory priociples have earned for him on unenviable notoriety on this continent. Tne connexion is so distant that no relationship has ever been considered as existing between the two. To soaks THE CHOLERA AT TRO’ satisfy the curious, however, we may say that a Por ihe Troy Whig of the 14th fost. base long article io ftugnese Jew doctor named Fernando Mendes was | Cf soses from tue On of Sent Then tee cae invited to the Court of Carles the Seoond of Bag: | Spjesred, i 0, and the ‘sumber of Geathe 11) Tee land, and by bis skill in curing @ prevalent disease ie ye a pee penn Thy kee - thereat, rose to such favor that he was enabied t» famivte, of snsisentt oa leseeaennaitn on which marry his son, Moses Mendez, to the daughter of fo Recon ‘eminent te stagoaat, the Rev. Sir Francis Head. ‘The children of thia | that time toe ducase Aer ban, agen eled, tong marriage being somewhat ashamed of their pater- nal ancestors, and seeking to shake off their Juda- iem, obtained yerm'ssion to drop thgir father’ nome and assume their mother’s, Known then ¢ ferth by that of Heid, the younger, Janes Roper, trensmitted that name to his soo Francis Bond, who in falnessof time, becam- @ usefol agentof the eld British tory party, and was rewarded for his services with a baronet y. This is the Bir Francis Bynd Head who was :o nearly tarred and feathered a few years back no fj thousand miles from this city. Bir Eamand Walker Head is the eighth baronet of the line, The title was conferred in 1676 upon Ms ancestor Richard Head, of Kent, who wa: @ member o/ Parliament for Rochester, and a devows acherent to the Stuart house. Three of the eight baronets of the line have been clergymen, includ- ing the father of the present Sir Edmund, who was rector of Raleigh in Essex and curate of Egerton, Kent. Sir Edmand was born in 1805 and received the usnal education of rich Englishmen, gradnating with honors. In 1848 we find him in public life as Sir William Colebrooke’s successor as Lieutenaat Governor of New Brunswick. His official career in that province has been eminently succesafal. His ministers have been generally enlightened and Nberal; and since his accession we have heard less than we used to do of discontent and party squabbles. His colonial experience will doubtless render him an efficient successor to Lord Elgin. Sir Edmand married, in 1838, the danghter of Rev. Philip Yorke, of the Harowiche family, and hes a son, John, now fourteen years of age, and two danghters. He is to be followed in New Granswick by s member of » family well kaown in Baglaad John Henry Thomes Manners Satton is the son of the eminent Charles Mannere Sutton, who was Speaker of the British House of Commons from 1817 to 2634, and was then raised to the peerage by the title of Viscount Canterbury. His grandfather TELEGRAPHIC. CHOLERA IN BT. JOHN AND PORTLAND. Boston, August 16, 1864. There were two hundred and seven caaths by cholera in Portland and St. John, during five sys ening Satar- €ay noon, the 12th inst, y eT e WI'lamebarg City tinted) Scypay ~cHoor, EXccasion bas ed to the Methodist Provestan' hundred daily. Q ‘The Potlad. Iph-a Dentst—A most bo Eine Of the proceein gs » e Sen res a eee ae ie we - on a every where, i“ ™