The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1854, Page 4

JAMES GORDON BENNET®Y, i PROPRIETOR «ND EDITOR. QevicE ¥. W. CORNER @F NASSAU AWD FULTON STS, TERMS, cash im udeance, THe DiILY HERALD 1 cents per covy-1 per THE WEEKLY HERALD every ‘al 034 conte pa a op pe iment "bish to taclude postace JOB P OVER FISEMENTS renewed every dav. VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCK, containing ; Rant ews sokictied from any qunrter of the world 4/ Sued ‘will be liberally poid for —Bar Oon Formon Comnasre, WANTS ARE PARTICULARLY BRQUESTED TO Larrens svp Paoxaext sx vs. Pelume XX. =, AMUSEMENTS TOMORROW EVENING, BROADWAY. Caiua To Onricy Remon. RINTING executed with neatnet,cleapness, ane | BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery Tur Wier Nature ann PuL soPHy NIBLO’? NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham ctreet—z weLL0—A Bap in vue Wonpenrun Laur ony aove DivertiseMentT—Mae tuLm. Aftersoon—ADELe -Laxp Mr AMERICAN WUSRO Punvection— ayy Pave S.iNGs,— Bren! rue Macrre CASTLE GARDEN.—This (Sunday) evening—Dov- WORTH’s Gnany Suspay Cencenr. WOOD'S MINOVRBL BALL, 44 Brosdwagy—-Ermorias Bowranssy ono SURemseuR OPERA SOCKLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. 1% Brvedway.—Buom- aev'e Kywroviey Jpema TROUPE HECHSONICS’ HALL, Me. 472 Broadway—Necro Min RELY. STUYV RSANTINSTITUTS, No. 659TH roadway. -Sann- youn sOrsna Taourx VY MIPPODROME, Madioon quai MANORS. “Siew Vork, Sunday, August 27, 1554. The News. THD CHOLERA LEAVING US—MOETALITY OF THE PAST WERK. The cholera is rapidly going,end we hope that by the ninth of next month the City Inepector will be exabled to officially announse that it has gone. Daring the past week there were only 130 deaths of this dixease—ninety-one less *than the week pre vVieus—and vearly the whole of these occurred in the pubtic instiutions. Notice has been issued that hereafter no daily reports of cholera cases will be pubiished by the authorities, it being deemed alto. gether unnecessary. After thie statement, we pre- @ame those persous who have fled the metropolis for fear.of the King of Terrors, wili retarn aud take their part in the business of the season, whivh is just new in full activity. The total namber of deaths forthe week was 832, and of ‘these 511 were uader ten years of age, the bulk of wham were victims of the following complaints :—Cholera infantum, 126; convulsions, 67; marasmus, 59. There were also 23 cases of stillborn and 13 premature births. Consumption carried off 44;-dierrhoea, 55; dysen- tery, 44; dropay in the head, 28; congestion of the Drain, 17; typhus fever, 13; inflammation of the brain, 10; ioflammation of the lungs, 13; atrophia, 14, and cholera morbus, 14. Two died from frac- tures, and 14 were drowned. We do not find a sin- gle case of suicide, or that any one was murdered in the city during the week, which isa most re- markeble and gratifying circumstance. The na- tivity table gives 540 natives of the United States, 153 of Ireland, f England, 88 of Germany, and the balance of various otier countries. STEAMBOAT ACCIDENTS. The Hendrik Hudson left Albany for this city about seven o'clock on Friday evening, and when only a short distance in the river her connecting Tod broke, and she was compelled to come to a sud- den stop. Great alarm prevailed among the pas sengers, fora shorttime. The steamer Troy, from Troy, just then opportunely came up and took the Berdrik Hudron in tow, by which assistance poty Steamers arrived at this city in safety at fouro’clock yes‘erday afternoon. As the steamboat Alida was on her trip to Kings- ton last cveving, she sprung aleok and made water wo fast that it was found necessary to run her ashore, which they did just below Verplanck’s Point. The passer gers were al] safely landed. TBE RECENT TERRIBLE FIBES—THE CATSELLL MOU? « TAIN HOUSE DESTROYED. We do not remember the time when so many dieastrous fires have occurred as we haye recorded during the past week orten days. We elsewhere give the particulars of the destructive conflagration at Troy on Friday, which is the last and most exten- Give tbat has come to our notice. By this fire pro perty to the amount of over a million of dollars has been in a few hours swept away, including between feo and three hundred houses, thus leaving home- dessa large number of unfortunate people. The Sires in the woods, too, have been unusually exten- sive. In addition to those at the West, we learn by telegraph tuat dowa in Maine, in Hancock and Piscataquis counties, and all about that region, the fires are burning with great fary, doing immense Gamage to the timber and crops, and requiring the efforts of the entire population to do battle with the flames, too often fruitlesaly. A fire was raging yes- terday on the Catskiil Mountains, and teams were sent up to remove the furniture, &c., from the Mountain House. Late inthe day it was reported that this hotel had been entirely destroyed. STATE OF THE MARKETS. Common brands of State flour continued scarce and firm yesterday, with sales at $9 75a $10. New prime white Genesee wheat sold at $2 20 per bushel. Hndian corn again sold as high 4s 8740. per bushel, bot was easier at the close, with small sales at 8c. for sound western m'xed. Whiskey advanced to Bic. per gallon. Mess pork advanced to #15 per Darrel, at which sales were made in small lots. Lard sold at 11jc.allic. It was believed that freighs had reached their lowest figure, and that a change for the better, if any, was likely to take place. The cotton market was rather heavy yesterday, without, material change of prices. A city merchant, who returned yesterday from Cleveland, Obio, states that the accounts given re garding the dreught, and its effects on Indian corn, have been greatly exaggerated. A RAILROAD ACCIDENT. As the night express train bound East,on the Erie Railroad, was nearing Paterson yesterday morning, some. part of a car brake became disar- ranged. A brakeman, named Edward Howard, Jeaned out from the car to discover the difficulty, when his head came in contact with a pile of wood, and be was knocked off the train,which was moving ‘mt the rate of about thirty-five miles an hour. The train was stopped as quickly as possible, and the wounded man brought to Jersey City, whence he ras taken tothe New York Hospital. Strangely @nongh, he appeared to bave escaped with only a few severe contusions on the head, and without ‘any broken bones. THE PRUSSIAN FONGEEY CASE. Richard Sachs, who was arrested in this city several days ago, and taken to Philadelphia, had @ bearing on Friday before the Unite States Com missioner in that city, and has been committed to Await a requisition from the Prossian government agreeably to the treaty of 1853 between the ,orern ments of the United States and Prassia, by whieh all fagitives from justice are to be kopt in ena ody two months to await the demands of the authx ties of the country from which they es ape. ’ DREADFUL ACCIDENT. On Thursday morning about thirty persons left the nail factory in one of Mr. Granger's large wagons, for the purpose of spending the day in berrying. While crossing the bridge over the Poes- tenkill and Berlin plank road, one side of it gave way, precipitating the whole party—wason, horses and people—from a height of ten feet into the creek below. The following persoos are injured :—James Peabody, thigh broken in two places ; Mrs. Dasie! Cranner, badly hart about the head and face. A. many as twenty of the party are injared. Sovera’ jedies were in great danger of being drowned. ‘Me Crops, but .0 Faatne. Prom all po nt: of t ¢ compass. ar andmear, ‘the unwe come dings sccumu'ate aon our hands, from the country newspapers, that a creat drought, uppreceden'e! in its ‘duration an! ex'ent, prevail throughout the ind, blast- ing |e fair'expectations of the fapmer and the plante ané‘dertroy ing alll the leterestimates of the ye y’» ;roduction. | is wel that the crops of the eariy summ r wore something ab ve an average in the general smount; for those of the autuma, entering so argely iate't e subsistence of man and beast, threaten to prove a general failure. From Maine southward wong the Atlantic coast to Geor ia—from Leke Michigan dowa the valley of the Missirsippi to the Belize— from‘Long Is‘and to th new Territory ef Kan- sas, which flanks the uniahubitable table lands that stretch away, timberless and dry and dusty to the Rocky Mountuins—nay, from the rivers whiehdew northward te the Arctic circle down through the United States, through Mexico, and the States of Central America, the overshadow- ing complaint is the duration and the desola- tion of the prevailing drought. In New Eng- lard we are informed that “ the corn and potato crops are almost entirely destroyed; that the spripgs are failing; that even respectable rivers are drying up.” In Indiana and Llinois we are told that “the corn crop is very much cut short,” that “fruit is withered on the trees,” and that “garden vegetables are turning to dust.” From Kentucky we learn that the drought has been unprecedented, and that there isthe poorest prospect for corn;” but this is followed by the cheering news that the “rains “ commenced partially last week.” From Vir- ginia we hear of “corn crops quite destroyed.” In parts of Tennessee, one of the most produc- tive and best watered States in the whole Union, “there is great suffering for want of good water to.drink.” In Maryland ‘the drought is ex- tremely distressing.” In Alabama the corn is destroyed to.a great extent, and the “cotton is also suffering very severely, withering and drooping in the heat of the day, from which it hardly recovers during the night, which threatens a large portion of the crop with destruction.” In Georgia the crops are said to be “literally burot up.” Fires are devastating the-woods of the British proviuces and of New England, of Northern New York and Northern Ohio, from the excessive drought and heat Millions of valuable timber and fencing arethus in process.of destruction. In the neighborhood of Cleveland the whole firmament is shrouded in the smoke from the burning woods, where even the dry earth is consumed to the depth of afoot. In some places the farmers are feeding out their hay which they had hoped to reserve for December, and ia others “they are cntting down.their corn for fodder for cattle.”’ This is a gloomy picture, and assuming it to be true, presenis us with anything but a cheer- ing prospect for the coming winter. Take, for example, the single article of Indian corn. Ac- cording to the census returns the aggregate crop of the United States of this great staple, for 1850, was, in round numbers, six hundred millions ©! bushels. Probably from the in- creased planting of corn since that time, espe- cially in the South, for their own consumption, the total corn crop this year would be at least seven hundred millions of bushels, with an or- dinary season. Assuming that the drought has reduced it one-third, our corn crop will be cut down to four hundred and sixty-seven millions of bushels, involving a loss of that amount to the production of the Union. At fifty centsa bushel this would be a dead loss of one hundred and sixteen millions of dollars, or more than twice over the whole amount of our yearly im- ports of gold from California. Add to this the drying up the grass and the shrivelling of the late potatoes and other vegetables, and we begin to have some i-lea of the disa:trous ef- fects of this prevailing drought upon the year’s supplies of our bread and meat. Now for the brighter s.de of the picture: In the first place, our farmers and planters are proverbial!y hard to please. When their crops are superabundant, they complain of the prices; and when the prices are high, they complain of short crops. They are never exactly satisfied ; but cn the other hand, asa general role the “sturdy yeoman,” instead of being the happiest, is, of all independent men, the most miserable of mortals. In the most abounding seasons we bave never failed to hear of drought, and rust, and weavil and frost; or of crops being drowned out by the rain, or washed away by floods, or eaten up, root and branch, by the army-worm and other vermin. Yet we have always had enough, some to spare for exportation, and a good deal to hold over. So now, notwithstand- ing the general drought, and the wide spread desolation among the corn, potato and pasture fields, we have an abiding hope that our corn, potatoes and other substantials will “turn out a great deal better than was expected;” and that before a month is over, all fear of a famiae will be at an end. Universal as the drought has been, there are many localities in all the infected districts which will yield a good return. The general shortness of the crop will lead to more care in gathering what is produced. That which has been reserved from last year will be brought into market. Less will be con- sumed in the manufacture of bald-faced whis- key, swill fed beef, swill fed pork, and swill milk, than of late years; and, to use a Western expression, “ more will be wasted in bread.” The “latter rains,’ so long delayed, have at length set in. We have reason to hope that the plendid showers of Friday night have been but the introduction of bountiful supplies all over the country. The period of the season and the state of the atmosphere are highly favorable to thisconclusion. Sometimes these “latter rains” come too late for a full crop; but often, when the farmer has despaired, they have saved him. Much yet may be saved by the rains. A single week may change the whole aspect of affaira. Let us wait a week. Speculators and hucksters are interested in short crops. The higher they can exaggerate the apprehended misfortune, the greater their profits. They are not to be trusted. We caution the public against them. The country has been suffering in every direction from drought. We admit it. Bat an extraordinary quantity of lands have been appropriated this year to breadstaMyand provisions of all kinds, #0 that even less than an average yield per acre will give’ Us an average supply. Nor do we yet despait of the rains. Maya gracious Provi dence pacntifully scatter them far and wide. - Resurg OF THe Drovowt—The failures of brokers and nverchants here and there, and the fluttering and vollapsing among the wild eat banks of the West. The financial drought is just setting in. Louk out for short crops in Wall street—very short, amd very shortly. Massuch usetts. It appears that the real genuineold abolition- | iste of the Garrieon and Pui'lips :tamo are not satisfied to be thrust out of the way by the Seward whigs, and to fali into a subordinate | rat Nov sooner did they bear of th» usurpa- | tion of their old platform by the Sarat»gs con- ; vention than they cet lustily to work to build @ new one, on a basis where ‘th: y hoped their supremacy might be unquestioned. In a recent speech at Abingdon, Mr. Wen !e)l Phillips thus explains the position te be hence‘orth ovcupied by the party he leads. Its priwe doctrine is to be ‘Nullifieation of every constitutional clause and every slav- law’’; the Goveruor it elects4s to swear to support the United States constitution “with tye provico that he does not mean to support the Fugitive Slave clause or any otber slave clauze.” Ifthe Supreme Court con- strees this as illega!, the Supreme Court is to be voted down, and a new one chosen that will decide whatever Wendell Phillips and his friends choose. The orator aided that in his belief the people “ached fora fanatic” in the matter of slavery. It would be very odd if after the displays of Phillips and his friends for the list twenty yeare, the heads of the people did not “ache” atthe very name of anti-slavery fanaticism. And if after all they haveheard from Theodore Parker, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips himself—after the outepoken menaces of disunion, and the brutal threats levelled at the Southern men which have issued from every anti-slavery convention for the last quarter of @century—the people of Worcester or of any other place in this Union, “ache,” in the Phil- lips sense, for more violent fanatics and yet wilder extravagance, they will be compelled to eeek the one and the other within the walls ofa madhouse. Mr. Phillips does not think s0; he fancies that he can outdo the maddest maniac in our asylums in insanity. We are bound to admit that his platform affords a fair warrant for his self-reliance, It is mad enough, in all con- science, to do credit to a wearer of a straight waistcoat. It starte with aseuming that the people of Massachusetts are ready to set a premium.on perjury, and to take the shortest cut to disunion. It expresses no opinion about the loss.of the Western trade and the Southern staples; butit boldly assumes that while Boston will continue to enrich herself out of these sources.of prosperity, Massachusetts will of her own free will and mere motion annul the ¢con- stitution of the United States, and alter the bond of union between her and its sister States to suit her own fancy, Among private individuals such conduct is @ fraud or a crime, according to the manner in which it is com- mitted. If done openly, it is a fraud, and per se dissolves all connection between its author and his associates; if done secretly it amounts to a sort of forgery. Mr. Phillips ad- viees Massachusetts to violate the social com- pact openly—to take the bull by the horns, and refuse to perform her share of the bargain, while she insists on her partners fulfilling theirs to the letter. He actually believes or pre- tends to believe that a majority of his fellow citizens could be found to commit such suicidal folly. But this is not all. As the Supreme Court would obviously annul any acts of a Go- vernor who bad failed to comply with so essen- tial a condition of his entrance upon his func- tions as his oath to support the United States, the Judges are to be replaced by others who will waive this part of their duty. Of course Mr. Phillips’ Judges would be sworn, like all others, to administer justice faithfully accord- ing to the laws; but he opines that men could be found who would not stick at such a trifle as the observance of this oath, and that the people of Massachusetts would make them take a pledge to perjure themselves before they gave them their votes. A pretty character this wor- thy citizen of New England would give us of his country. The success of his new party re- quires at the very outset that the New England- ers should be fools and perjurers; but Mr. Phillips does not think this any obstacle or ob- jection. He is quite’convinced that they ‘‘ache” for an opportunity of ruining their State and their souls. They would, in his opinion, throw into the shade all that has ever been done hith- ertoin the way of devotion to principle; for though nations have been known to beggar themselves for principle’s sake, it is not record- ed that any race of people ever perjured them- selves in a body to gain a point. Yet Mr. Phillips has made up his mind that the march of intellect in Massachusetts will enable the people to eet this glorious example to the world, The scheme itself does not possess the merit of originality. Its germ may be found in the Hartford Convention, and in the notion of nullification as preached in South Carolina. It must be admitted, however, that these va- rious precedents have been used with skill. The cunning which is one of the usual symp- toms of madness seems to have inspired the whole. From the organization of a party to override the law of the land to the election of Judges pledged to perjure themselves, the en- tire plot is consistent and uniform. It is anarchy reduced to a system; vice regulated by stated rules. The whole scheme is not made public as yet ; when it is, we have no doubt that provision will be made for the Governor dispensing with any other formality which Mr. Phillips may disapprove ; and for the Judges perjuring themselves on other cases besides that of the constitutional oath, The habens corpus, for instance, might be suspended when- ever the anti-slavery junta thought it advis- able. The Judges might be required to alter the law of property in such a way as to permit Mr. Phillips to take his neighbor's house with- out paying for it: if they break their oaths in one point why not on all? Marriage—a favo- rite subject with the sect—might be altered 0 as to become a sliding knot ; and s premium might be given to successful thieves. The binding force of an oath, and the sanctity of Jaw once authoritatively abolished, it is im- possible to say where the revolution will end. Even Mr. Phillips himself could not tell us what principle, what institution, what moral law would survive the triumph of his party. Tu Last Exrepteyt—It is thought that the soft shells will be “shivered into flinders” at Syracuse on the Nebraska bill, and that the Buffalo men, par excellence, will go over to the meeting of the Saratoga coalition at Au- burn, and help them toa regular free eoil State ticket, should the whig convention fail to satisfy them. This is falling back upon first prinei- ples, and is the last expedient ot the adminis- tration party. Good time now to bring out the Scarlet Letter. What says Mr. Cochrane? Pensonal Lunmzry or Goveanment AGENTS —Tuz Case or Commaxpgs Howiwe-—Our readers are a'rea@y aware that Commander Holling, of the sloop-of-war Cyane, has been arrested at the suitofo.e Mr.Calvin Durant and eld to bai! in the cum of ten thousand dollars, ‘to ap; ear and defend an action wherein Darant claims dan.ages to the amount of twenty thou- sand doll.8, for the destruction of warehouses owned by him, and burned during the Grey- town war. The case is one of considerable importance, ipasmuch as it involves the settlement of a legal point, in the decis'on of which every citizen stould teke an interest, This is not the first time that a person bear- ing the United States commission has been held accountable for acts committed by the autho- rity of the government, or when actiag for ite interest. In the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, John Charles Fremont, then a Major in the United States army, was engaged in an exploring expedition in California. The Mexi- can war broke out, and Major Fremont raised troops for the purpose of participating in that war. He became personally responsible for the necessary expenses of these soldiers—their ra- tions, clothing, forage, quarters, and so forth. He did good service, aad so valuable was his assistance that Commodore Stockton wrote to Washington that oa his departure he should appoint Major Fremont Governor of the Terri- tory, and he received the brevet of Lieutenant- Colonel. He was afterwards promoted to be a full Colonel, which rank he held until he re- signed his commission. Consequently there can be no doubt that all of Major Fremoni’s acts were approved by the United States gov- ernment. Finally, the war was over and the bills began to come in. Major Fremont had received his grade—his grateful country had given him a brevet; but hisclaim wasunpaid. Disappointed in their endeavors to obtain satisfaction from the master, the creditors came upon the servant. He was sued for the debts he had contracted on account of the United States, arrested, and put to considerable trouble. After his retura to the Atlantic States, the matter was brought be- fore Congress and overslaughed. Colonel Fre- mont went to Europe, and in London he was arrested, and for achort time imprisoned by the agents of these California creditors. Finally, a. bill to pay him passed the Senate, in the session of eighteen hundred and fifty-two, but was lost in the House. After a great deal of trouble the bill pasced both houses, and about thirty thou- sand dollars were appropriated to re-imbarse Colonel Fremont for the money spent in the public service. Congress at its last session passed an act to pay the Colonel for beef fur- nished to the California Indians; bat we believe that he is even yet under a heavy load of debt contracted in this same Califoraia service. Now, nobody doubts that according to law and justice the United States ought to pay these claim: government is responsible to the people for the acts of its agents, and they are responsible to their own employers. This, we believe, is good law. More than that—it is justice. The case of Commander Hollins does not re- semble that of Colonel Fremont in all points; but in the vital point—the responsibility of goyernment agente—it is precisely the same. The administration fears to support its own policy in the Greytown affair, and the Ameri- can citizens whose property was destroyed imi- tate the action of the Californians in the case of Colonel Fremont, and sue Commander Hol- lins, If this practice is to be continued, it will lead to the worst results, Our army and navy officers must either resign, or manage to secure the wealth ofan Astor or a Girard to pay the expenses incident upen obeying orders; or in cases where orders could not reach them in time, acting according to their judgment, and for the best interests of the country whose flag they defend. Even if they exceed the limits of their orders, they are responsible to no power except the authorities at Washington, and in that direction only do they look for punish- ment or reward, There is not much reason to believe that Commander Hollins disobeyed or exceeded the orders of the President, and we cannot but con- demn and despise the cowardice of the govern- ment which fears to assume the responsibility of its own acts. DIsaPPEARANCE OF THE CHoLERA.—No small comfort was afforded yesterday to our nervous fellow-citizens by the publication of the fol- lowing official notice :— Maron's Orrice, Naw Yorx, Aug. 25, 1854. ‘The great decrease of deaths by cholera inthe hospitals —not a 1g more than three or four per day (and thore scone eniae oll in a population of from six to seven hundred thousand, thas Resolved, That it is far— fore to make any > vera a th a . C. Ely, E. J. Brown, ae N. Jedediah Milter, H. E. Bartlet, W.R. , ‘Wm. Rockwell, Commissioners of Health. This, it is to be presumed, will allay the ap- prehensions of those who fled to the country at the first news of the cholera. It comes in good time: just as the watering season is drawing to aclose, and the fall business is about to commence. Though the mortality from cholera always was out of proportion to the alarm it created, the relief at its disappearance will not be the less generally felt. People must be careful, however, not to provoke a relapse by indulging to excess in those fruits which werg proscribed a short while since, or by treating pre- monitory symptoms with neglect. Asiatic cholera bids fair to fall into the class of ordi- nary diseases. Cases will constantly occur here and elsewhere, at all seasons, when filth, imprudence and the other predisposing causes exist. Tur St. Lawrence OPenep.—It is given out that, pending the consideration of the recipro- city treaty in the British provinces, the St. Lawrence will be open to free navigation. Down to this time the navigation of that mighty river by American vessels has been limited to a point below Ogdensburg, called Cornwall, we believe, where the British boundary crosses the river, and throws the whole of it into her Ma- jesty’s dominions. Now an American steam- boat may leave New York, and, via the banks of Newfoundland, may enter the Gulf and ascend the St. Lawrence to Montreal without hindrance. A nice experimental pleasure ex- cursion. Plenty of codfish and mackerel, Who goes? Gevenat. Dix Gorne Over.—John Van Buren has already secured himself from the perplexi- ties of our New York fall election by his trip to Europe. He has escaped in the nick of time. General Dix, it is now said, will set sail + the first of September—six days before meeting of the soft slzell State convention— to rejoin his family in France, Good idea. New Revowcrionaspy JovmnaL at Havana— Mong Worx ror THE Ganorre.—We publish in our columns to-day, as something interesting, the trapelation of the first number, or rather pros- pectus, of a revolutionary sheet, to, be. printed and circulated as opportunity offers,.in the Island of Cuba. The publication in question bears the title of E/ Eco Popular—the Popular Echo—and the watchwords of its creed are: “Down with the tyrants! Death to the enemies of the people! Long live the republic!” The copy that has reached us, and from which we have made the translation, bears date the 5th of August; and it is announced that the future numbers of it shall be issued as often as circumstances permit. But it is highly pro- blematical, we should think, whether even the second number of it will ever see the light. The Cuban authorities have an extremely awk- ward way of putting an end to the existence of such dangerous publications, as well as to that of their writers and publishers. It is not so Jong ago since a like attempt to incite the Cu- bans to insurrection, through the agency of a sheet known as the Voice of the People, ee. eretly printed in Havana, and privately circulated throughout the island, was de. tected and frustrated. through the vigilance of Canedo’s police officers, or the treachery of one of those in the secret. And the conse- quences of that detection should act as a warn- ing to deter others from similar undertakings; for while the means employed did not and could not effect the. object contemplated, some of thoee known to have been concerned in the enterprise were forced to flee from the island, while one of them, less fortunate, expiated his offence against the Spanish government by death by the vile garotte. It is not pleasant in thisage of civilization to contemplate the chance of an editor being thus summarily dealt with ; and therefore it is that we do not welcome very warmly the ap- pearance of the Eco. The fate of its predeces- sor {s still too fresh in our memory to allow us to extend our congratulations to it. General Concha will doubtless be as keen in bringing to puniehment those concerned in its publication as General Canedo was in the case of La Voz. And once in the hands of the Cuban authorities, the editor of the Eco might appropriately de- vote the few hours of life allowed him to writ- ing his epitaph, for in all probability he would never have another chance of enlightening the Cuban people on the subject of Spanish oppres- sion or any other topic. Havana is not the Place for independent editors. Swinpiive mw THE Srate Prisoy.—It is al- leged that there has been a sort of mismanage- ment of the people’s money among the officials of the State Prison at Sing Sing, which bears a very close resemblance to embezzlement. Thieves and swindlers in the State Prison! This beats Wall strect. What is the world coming to? “Goop True Comina.”—The organ of the hard shells of this city says, “if will be an aus- picious day for the democratic party when Bronson—the persecuted,decapitated Bronson— is seated in the Gubernatorial chair of New York.” Obituary. DEATH OF DR. LEONARD WOODS. The Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D., one of the ablest divines of the nineteenth century, and one of the most respectable and influential leaders of public opinion in everything connected with religion and ecciesiasticism in New England for fall fifty yeara, died at Andover, Massachusetts, on Thursday eve- ning, at the venerable age of 80 years. He had been ill for some weeks, and was not expected to recover, though some hopes were entertained by himeelf and his more immediate friends that he would be able to complete a work on the his:ory of the Andover Theological Seminary, upon which he had been engaged some years, and which he has left very nearly ready for the press. Dr. Woods was born oa the 19th of June, 1774, and was eighteen years of age when he entered Harvard College, where he graduated in 1796, with avery high reputation for learning and abilities, a personal character eminently pure, and such quali- ties of ambition, energy and undauntedness as in- spired the highest hopes of his fature eminence and usefulness, He entered immediately upon the stady of theology, and in 1810 had obtained to such a dis- tinction that both the colleges of Dartmouth and Princeton conferred on him the degree of Doctor in Divinity. The great school of orthodox Congregationalism in New England, the Andover Theological Semina- Ty, was founded in 1808, under the inatraction and government of Dr. Woodsand Dr. Pearson, with whom in the course of the first year was associated Dr. Griffin, and subeequently the late Dr. Moses Staart and several other divines and scholars who have been world famous. It was open, from the beginning, to students of all Protestant denominations, though its distinctive character was Congregational Calvanism; and asit bad, from the munificence of its found. ere—the Hon. John Phillips and the Hon. William Phillips—and from the contributions of edacationa, missionary and other societies, extensive means of aiding indigent students, it had always litge classes; and no other school in this country has perhaps produced more eminent men, or exercised a more powerful influence upon the intellectual, moral and Teligious condition of mankind. Dr. Woods was a Professor in the Andover Semi, nary thirty-eight years, having resigned his office on account of the infirmities of age, in the summer of 1849. He soon after, atthe request of many of his former pupils, undertook the preparation ofa complete edition of bis works, including a considerable portion of the lectures on Theology, which had been read to his classes, and not previ ously printed. These works were published in five large octavo volumes in Boston, in 1851. Among those which are most celebrated are his ‘‘ Letters to Dr. Tayler,” of New Haven; an “ Examination of the Doctrine of Christian Perfection,” with an ap pendix, addressed to Dr. Mahan; a ‘‘ Dissertation on Miracles,” “Cause’and Effect, in connection with Fatalism and Free Agency,” and “ Letters to Uni- ,’ which were answered by the late Rev. Henry Ware, D. D. Another volume of the “Works” was expected, besides the “History of the Andover Theological Seminary;” and it is probable that with his Memoirs will be published two cr three volumes of his let- ters and literary and religious miscellanies. Dr. Woods was « theologian of the school of Jona- than Edwards, and maintained inflexibly the principles and practices of the earlier New England orthodox divines. He wasa thorough conservative, and was always ready to accept and defend the doc- trines set forth in the “Assembly's Shorter Cate- 7’ against all the criticism and speculation of Tubingen, Cambridge, New Haven, or afty other sect of contemporary heresies. His learning was very thorough, though not various, and his style was eminently pure, transparentiand effective. The Rev. Leonard Woods, D.D. LL.D., President of Bowdoin College, and one of the most ingenious and brilliant writers and most accomplished gen- tlemen of New England, isa son of the deceased, and was present in Andover at the time of his death: One of his daughters is also known in literature as the author of “The Broken Bud,” and some other pleasing performances. , Collins, of Wi N. J., has discovered a om whit fe enn puns © an excellent q ity of paper from s certain kind of grass, which is sald to grow in abundance at that place, ‘Tas Sruamanr Umon, for Southampton and He sailed at noon yesterday with fifty-four $204,283 in specie. SxRi0Us ACcIDENT.—Yo-terds) the horse modore Vanderbil' had proceesed and each in his turn soapped a The officer, however, wa: not to be ti! in thia way, and ati kept on the pursu The e corner of Crosby street a po age on suspicion burglary, skeleton keys mone: posed have been stolen, being found in thei Te aseaalct All parties taxen before Justice Wood Aira Grane Lenco Heney Boetiooek wea a reated jcer Birmingham op Frida} arg with hinvin broken open a soda whtee o es 1 corner of Park row and Ann street—the property Charles W. Conway—with intent to ateal. Hitcncoek, ¢ being brought before Judge Clarke, was fally commit: Coroner’s Inquest. A Manx Enixp By Ligsrwng.—Yesterday Coron O'Donnell held an inquest upon the body of Jokm Marti Socik by heise teak Sits lentiing Oe es eas, struck with on the evening: Friday taste ancy the eevere thunder storm feeb ed our city. It appeared from the evidence adduce that on the night of the storm, « Mr. David Stevenso and the deceased were standing under s stable shed i Tenth avenue near Thirtieth atreet, to when the fluid struck the builuing, and all the. horses in the however, soon recovered from the shoct and called for asnistance some men made the’ 8) , and on looking for Martin, the decease found biro }ying on the ground dead. On examina oy eerie — struck decease passing own si comy scorching acinder. The jury in porrygent dereda verdict of accidental \. Personal Intelligence, ARRIVALS, At the Metropolitan Hotel—Gena. Thos, Lawson, U. & A.; Governor Wm Seabrooks snd family, South Carolina J. Evans Eddings, South Carolina; Col. Geo W Kinye: and family, San Francisco; Dr. . Page. and family, Leagoss and family, and family, two United States Atthe Howard Hotel—Capt. J. Wise, Cincinnati; Al bert Stein, do. ; T. D. Handy, Ala. ; J. M. Renwick, Bos'on Baily, Boston; T. B Kingsoury. Ni 3 J. Mayers, "Toronto; E, H. Lane, Charleston, 8. C.; Col. A Tease Collin Jon’, Gaawhaigna: Hy’ setinr Obie, fun., na a ue; + H C. seaver, Illinois, Anbertur, California. eich: At the Prescott Houre—Judge Jbeldon and lady, Buf falo; Theodore Butler, ¢o.; John A. Kerr, Detroit; $ Chaparan, New Haven; Morris Hacker, Philadelphia; J. H. Anderson and lacy, Misa; J. A. Remick, Boston Lieut. J. W. Jones, U.S. Army; W. H. Kinnear, Ohio Thos. N. Reed, do. Cc Vander! Che Co Robb, aries Wilcox, C Fraser, T L ‘Anson Jones, Mrs Alabuty, Mr Milan Ross, Mr Lane, W F Brown, Pyare sb rap; D Miler, c , and 59 , JE ea Cutler De i) Matthe Grace, Barker, Mr. Van Wagenen,” x vants, and 21 in the stecrage. a aass et For Norfolk, Petersburg aod Richmond, ship Jameatown—J Deight, 8 W Fal Kesschmaule, A Mand; R engbter, BH Boks, DU Burrows, W Johuston, DEPARTURES. For Southampton and Havre in Jose de Alebrun, wife and child, Mra , V Scragoet, Fonterman, Rev e ) Mr and Mrs Betout, Mareus, J Fe aes Ceet, Mrs Cnet, tee ito Mar, Sal: Nichols and child, Latour. =" Matta» MF and United States Commissioner's Before R. E. Stitwell, Esq. CHARGE OF COUNTERFRITING—COMMITTAL OF THS ACCUSED. AvG. 26.—The United States vs. William W Bouton and Wallace Laviors-the Camatinion of this case was to-da: , when Mr. Donohue, i iF 7 8 i : j h : 2 F| Hy gee E i: Fae z i ii é 3 2 & t 5 ! 2 ! : i i s = i f ? F I 4 ‘ <= i é