The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1855, Page 4

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The municipal election ia San Francisco took place on the 28th ult., and re- sulted in the disastrous defeat of the Know No- things, against which party sil factions made common cause. The democratic candidates for Mayor, Treasurer, Comptro! Harbor Master and Surveyor, were chocen by majorities. To the Common Council the Know Nothings and dsmocra tic parties each elected four members to each ‘board. The result created much enthusiasm among the democracy, who celebrated the event by popu- lar demonstrations of parade and noise. The State Central Committees of the Gwin and Broderick factions of the democratic party have united to ignore their quarrels, and agreed to call a conven- tion to meet at Sasramento, on the 27th June, to nominate executive officers for the State elec. tion in September. The creditors ‘and time wertificate holders of the late banking house of Page, Bacon & Co., held several meetings relative ‘to the refusal of Mr. Daniel D. Page to mak» the parties whole who came forward to sustain the house at the time of its firstsuspension. <Afier some delay, at a meeting on the 29th of May, Mr. C. K, Garrison came fcrward and pledged his property to the amount of $400,000 ia support of the housa by way of securing the creditors and staying all far- ther legal proceedings. This proposition is said to have given general satisfaction. he correspon- dence in this matter is published in our compilation of the news elaewnere. The affairs of Adams & Co. ‘were undergoing investigation ia the courts, and it had been decided that bankers were entitled to the denefit of the insolvent law. We have rews from the Sandwich Islands to the 5th of May. A new tariff a:t, an abstract of which we give, had passed the House of Representatives. Inetead of an uniform duty of five per cent on all merchandice, except liquors, this act admits e class of goods free, aud three other clasees at Sve, ten and fifteen per cent,ad valorem. The daty on liquor is reduced from five to three dollars per gallon. The Minister of War recommends the organisation of a permenent military force, but treata vith contemot the idea of # filibuster demonstration upon tre islands, The present standing army ot his Majesty Kamehameha III. numbers 120 sirong. A portion of the allied ficet nad sailed from Honolulu for the northward, supposed wita the desizu of taking another lcok at Petropaulowski. Later news from Acapuleo, Nicaragua and Ore gon, received by the Star of the West, may be found in anotuer part of to day’s paper. General Sam Houston delivered a speech at Hous ton, Texas, on the 8th inst., in which he took occa, sion to rail at the Nebraska bill, and also to fire a few random shots at President Pierce. The Gene ral said it was his intention to retire into priva'e Nife—that is, we presame, if he fails to get the Know Noth‘ng nomination for the Presidency. The value of imports at the port of Boston dur. ing the week endiog June 22 amounted to $559,077- The Sixth Annual Grand Musival Jabiles of the German singing clubs of this aud neighboring cities, commenced on Saturday night, by an im- mense demonstration in the park, anda torchligat procession through the principal stresta of ths city. The affair, of which an account is given elsewhsre, is described as being most magnificent. To-daya genera! concert will be given in the Metropolitan theatre, and to-morrow the clabs are to go on a pic nic to Elm Park. On Wedaesday they return home, The Rey. Mr. Starr bas had at levgth an opportu- Uity of getting a hearing on the subject of his ex- puision from the State of Missouri. He delivered a Jecture on the subject at the Tabsraacle last night. The expulsion, by his own accouct, amounts to thia: the Mirsourians had thrown Mr. Park’s prezs into the river, and by @ curious train of reasoning ho ar- tived at the conclusion that perhaps they might take the same freedom with his reverend body. He theretore anticipated that dies ere and fled, “no men pursuing.’ He acknowledges that no personal insult or injury was ever offered to him thera, He gives besides an amusing account of the state of re- Higion and society in those regions. The first Catholic church erected in Hoboken, was dedizated yesterdsy by R:. Rev. Dr. Bayley, Bishop of Newark, who delivered an appropriate sermon on the occasion, a report of which we have in type. The church is a plain brick structure, and cost about $12,000, and the pastor is the Rev. Mr. Cauvin, formerly of the French Caurch im Canal street. ‘The seventh ahniversary of Children’s Missionary Society of the Sand street Methodist churtb, Brook- lyn, was celebrated yesterday. A large audience witnessed the exercises, which were very interesting, In another column will be found @ report of the Coroner's inquest upon the body of Mary McQuade, alias Mitchell, who came to her death, as it is al- Jeged, from violence inflicted by her reputed hus- band, Jacob Mitcvell, The jury rendering a verdict sgainst the accused, a warrant has been ismed for his cspture. Onr police news this morning presents a complete catalogne of crime, embracing, as it does, almost every felony on the ststnts books, showing a de- piorable state of morals in our midst. The high- wayman, burglar, thief, forger, swindler, and the recciver of stolen property, are all xepresented. Besides this, there has been aa arrest for attempt at rape, in which case the Captain of a brig is charged with this disgracetul conduct towards one of bis parrengers. Tho sales of cotten on Saturday reached about 1,500 & 2,000 baics, the market closieg without fur- ther change in prices, Floar was dall and 124¢, per bbl. lower for common grades, while good to fancy and extra lots wore nochanged. Canndian white wheat scld at $2 50 ond Indian corn from 101¢ to 104c, Pork was again firmer, with froo sales” obiefly of new prime st $10, ard new meas at $19, 62} a $19 75. Other provisions were in fair to good, demand at steady prices. Beyond engagements of eotton to Liverpool at about 3-164. 5 7-824, Scight were inactive. The Philadephia Kaow Wothing Platform Endorsed by tne Leading Statesmen of the Coantry—Opinioas of Gen. Cass aad Others. The platform on the slavery question adopt- ed by the majority of the late Know Nothing Council at Philadetphia, including the New York delegation, meets the approval of some of the most distingushed conservative states. men of both the old political parties of the country. In fact, the simple plan of acqui- escence in aud obedience to the constitutional and Congressional compromises upon slavery, as they exist, and the policy of non-interven- tion upon the subject in the States and Territo- ries, is the only platform which, under aay circumstances, can be made to hold water on both sides of Mason and Dixon’s line. Oar readers will remember that in 1850 it was through the joint efforts of the old states- men of that day, of both parties, passing off the stage of action, that the couatry secared those healing measures of reconciliation known as the great adjustment of the slavery question of that year. The leading spirits in this adjust- ment were Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Lewis Cass, and, notwithstanding his opposition to the admission of the whole of California as a free State, John C.Calhoun, The warning voice of Mr. Calhoun against the shoals and quicksands of abolition, secession and dissolution, were quite as effective in securing the series of moasures adopted ss a treaty of peace, as were the elo- quent appeals of Mr. Clay and his compeers for the spirit of union, concession, and harmony. Clay, Webster and Calhoun have been gathered to their fathers. Of those four master spirits of the Senate in the great adjustment of 1850, General Cass alone remains; and he, too, in the order of nature and politics, is passing away. We are quite sure that the day of ambitious desire, and labor, and study, and log rolling for the Presidency, on the part of General Cass, has passed off with this late anti-Nebraska, anti-administration Know Nothing popular reaction, which has swept over the country from Cape Cod to Kansas. We feel certain that the old General has settled down into the quiet character of the patriotic philosopher, with no further anxieties or desires for the de- mocratic nomination, but deeply concerned, nevertheless, at the gathering clouds around the political horizon. The opinions of such a man, in such a poai- tion, and at such a crisis as this, concerning the drift and tendencies of the political movements of the day, sre of the highest importance. In this high estimation of General Cass we are gratified to say to our readers that in his late private correspondence he fully eniorses the non-intervention platform of the late Nationai Council of the new American party at Philadel- phia. He could, as he very justly intimates, hardly do less, because this Philadelphia plat- form and his celebrated Nicholson letter of 1848, upon State and popular sovereignty, are substantially the same thing. Ia a word, though not expressly authorized so to do, we take the liberty to say that Gen. Cass, in his private poli- tical correspondence since the adjournment of the Philadelphia Council, fully endorses its con- servative, constitutioual and non-intervention platform upon slavery, as the embodiment of his own opinions, principles and policy upon that subject, to the letter. Nor does this experienced constitutional statesman stand alone concerning this Philadel- phia American platform. We understand that Daniel S. Dickinson, Wm. C. Rives of Virginia, Edward Everett, Millard Fillmore, and other leading conservatives of both the old parties, have expressed themselves upon the subject in similar terms. Nor is it very astonishing that they should do so, Both the old parties have been broken to pieces upon the rocks and reefs of the slavery agitation and the public plunder. Out of the ruins of these two old parties new parties are rising up. There is the Northern Seward disunion coalition party ; and in the South there is an earnest movement on foot for an ultra Southern or conditional secession par- ty. Between there two extremes we have this mysterious and spontaneous popular upheaving, North and South, of this Know Nothing or American party, presentiog, with all its crudi- ties and nonsense upon other subjects, a solid footing of sound nationality, union, and safety, upon the great and vital question of the day. It is not wonderfal, therefore, that such lead- ing conservatives of both the old defanct politi- cal partiee, as Cavs, Dickinson, Rives, Everett, Filimore and others, in casting about them among the wrecks and ruins of the late politi- cal reyulsion, should seize upon the most avail- able medium which is offered in the present revolutionary state of things, as the nucleus for 9 sound and healthy national organization, It is in this view that we find Avdrew Jackson Donelson, of Tennessee, who is no more a Know Nothing than Cass or Dickinson, boldly co-operating with this new party as the most available basis for the restoration of that Union sentiment and Union policy in the government which this faithless free soil and secession ad- ministration has so recklessly destroyed. We published yesterday a brief report of the remarks of the Philadelphia secediag Senator Wilson at a late Know Nothing meeting in Boston. He says that Governor Gardiner told them at Philadelphia that not a city or town in Massachusetts would support the majority platform, and that Mr. Brooke, of the New York Express, bad said that the whole North would spurn it. But Mr. Brooks is by no means a reliable prophet. Seward, Weed and Greeley have evidently frightened him; yet there is no necessity for alarm. Seward cannot catry the North with his anti-slavery coalition, against the conservative masses of the people. He tried it in 62 in a roundabout way, but sig- nally failed; he tried it more openly in '54 upon the Kansas and Nebraska uproar, and was more signally defeated. The people spontaneously fell back upon the Know No- things to a most surprising extent. They re- volted against him; and so he will fail to circumvent this rolid Union sentiment of the North in 1856. The Philadelphia American platform on the slavery issue will continue to goin strength from the “sober second thought” of the people. But we must give it time. This Kansas furore, being nothing more nor less than a border squabble between conflicting land speculaters—pro-slavery and anti-slavery—will eventually run itself out, and when the time comes there will be no serious difficulty to the admission of Kansas as a slaveholding State, if the people ofthe Tertitory shall desire it so to be. We must be patient, and take things as they come. The people may be relied upon, As matters now stond, the Know Nothing or American party, in their Philadelphia platform, bave taken the broad natiooal Union ground ceeopicd by the demccratic party fn 1852, and deserted by the Pierce a¢ministration, The NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY,’ JUNB’25, 1855. Know Notbings, in fact, have thus risen up and superseded the disbanded democracy ia this position of nationality. From their enrot- led membership, and from the floating materials of the country awaiting the reconsiraction of things, they have a good prospect before them for a great and solid national triumph in 1856, upon a national conservative candidate. Let them look to the State elections in the interval, and by next epring the solid Union masses of the country, North and South, will be ripe and ready for the overthrow, in a common Ameri can Union movement, of the seditious anti- slavery Seward coalition in the North, aud the misguided secessionists of th® South, Generel Cassis right. The platform of non- intervention upon the slavery question is the true platform for a national party. Tue Promprrory Liquor Law mm THs Merropouis._-The Mayor of this city will soon direct the police force under his control to en- force the Prohibitory Liquor law, so far as his.| legal advisers have informed him that it is binding—that is, he will not interfere with im- ported liquors, because the Corporation Counsel rays he has no right so to do; but he will or- der the police to seize and devtroy all domestic liquors which they believe are kept for sale, The police will, therefore, search for, seize and destrey this species of property, when it is in the hands of any citizen whom they have reason to believe is engaged or about to be engaged in selling it. The peculiarly delicate position of the Mayor and his force may be comprehended at a glance. They will have no positive proof of sale or of an intent to sell in very many cases: They must, then, assume that their belief is sufficient proof of guilty intent. They will be judges, jury and counsel on both sides—they will convict the defendant before he has com- mitted any crime—in fact, before he is a defen- dant at all; and, following out the dictation of the law, they will proceed to summary execu- tion. They will thus involve the Corporation in hundreds of civil suits for damages, for the city is pecuniarily responsible for every drop of liquor destroyed by its servants, and they will violate the time-honored bulwark of the peo- ple’s liberty—the Bill of Rights—which very clearly says that no citizen shall be injured in life cr property without due process of law. The sharp practice under the Maine liquor law conducted by such spirited advocates as Neal Dow, is not the due process of law to which the people of New York have been accustomed, It seems to be pretty generally acknowledg- ed on a)] hands that the execution ot the Prohi- bitory Liquor law in this city will be a very troublecome matter, and do much more harm than good. We do not see how the police in- quisitors will go to work to tell foreign li- quors from those of home manufacture, because, according to law, the Custom House marks and certificates are not to be taken as evidence. The marks may be forged, and the same certifi- cate is often used twenty times over. If the police, then, do not seize all the American li- quors, they violate their oath; if they seize imported liquor by mistake, the city must pay the bill, and the tax-payers must dive deeper into their pockets thanever. Then there will be any number of rows, fights and riots. The man thet drivks Monongahela at sixty cents a gallon will not be so particular about the em- ployment of physical force to defend what he considers his rights as the fashionable tippler who indulges in Otard at ten times the cost. In Brooklyn, the Mayor will pursue an en. tirely different course from that laid down by his brother official in this city. The Mayor of Brooklyn will order his force to seize and de- stroy every drop of liquor, foreign or domestic, which may be found in the hands of dealers witbin the limits of his municipality, aad also all that may be held as private stock, but which the police have reason to believe is to be sold: The Mayor of Brooklyn is in for a fight, as” sisted by the Rev. Mr. King, who will gird on that sword, and act as his Honor’s special aid- de-camp. Brooklyn has a large foreign popu- lation. That portion of it formerly called Williamsburg was the scene of several bloody religious nd political rows last summer, There is a bad feeling existing already about this liquor law. The parsons, whose duty it is to preach the “gospel of peact on earth, good will to men,” have stood up in public meetings, as well as in their own pulpit, counselling blood and pressing the authorities to the use of the bayonet and the bullet. If the police of Brooklyn attempt to carry out the Mayor’s orders on the Fourth, a collision seems inevitable, and blood must be shed. And as the authors of sch a state of things should be preseng to witness the effect of their beautiful doctrines, we advise the Rev. Mesars. Ty” g, Culver, and other fighting temperance parsons, to gird on the armor of the church militant and go over to Brooklyn on that day. Public order in this city would be conserved and the cause of true religion not a bit injured if they never returned to us again, Tne ADMINISTRATION—A OruMB oF ComFort. —One of our Wall street contemporaries, the Journal of Commerce, regales its readers with the following amusing puff of the foreign poli- cy of Pierce, Marcy, Forney & Co.:— ‘The conduct of the government in repressing all enter- ‘ises aimed at the possessions of the weak powers ad- jacert to the United States, is highly creditable to the ‘acministration. policy’ has won from Ministers of otber powers their warm ap) |. The Minis‘er from Spain bas taken b sayin 4 ‘we fearn, to express to the se- ane State his satisfaction with the efforts made to stop the attempts of fillibusters to revolutionize the island of Cuba. A t_service has been rendered to the je of the Uni States by this policy, which, we repeat, is highly creditable and honorable to the present government, There are, however, several little outstand- ing balances against the administration, which have been overlooked in this charming eulogi- um of our Wall street philosopher. Was the bombardment of Greytown an act “repressing an enterprise aimed at the possessions of a weak power adjacent to the United States?” Was the late virtual expulsion of our ambassa- dor from Dominica by the French and English, and the acquiescence of the administration in this proceeding, calculated to protect the inde pendence of that weak republic? And was the treacherous discovery and exposure of the late Cuben conspiracy, through a secret govern- ment agent sent to Havana, in the disguise of a friend, “a great service rendered to the people of the United States,” ora great outrage? Even in reference to this Kinney expedition, its chief was first led astray by the President’s organ at Washington, and its high commendations of the propored colonization of Nicaragua, As we understand it, from the facts before us, the fo- reign policy of this administration has been a series of deliberate treacheries and bad faith, from begibning to end. Our Wall street con- temporary is getting rusty. What is it driving | at now? Alleged Violation of the Rights of Neutrals by Great Sritain—Lord Clarendon’s Coatra aiction. We have received from a private source, up- on which reliance may be placed, a statemeat of the facts of the case attempted to be made in a recent manifesto of the Russian govera- ment ogainst Great Britain, of a departure from the declaration made by the later at the breat- ing out of the war, in reference to the rights of neutrals, It will be recollected that the pria- ciple which has always been insi-ted upon by this country, that the flag shall protect the car- g0, was adopted to its fail extent by all the bal- ligerents, with this limitation: that it shoald notapply to articles “ contraband ot war.” The case put forth by the Russian govern- mett is this:— It alleges that when Captaia Wat- son, of H. B. M. ship Imperieuse, appeared in the Baltic, in command of the advance guard of the combined squadrons, a short time since, he sent @ communication to the Russian au- ihorities, intimating “that foreign, that is io say, neutral ships, which might be at that time in Baltic port, might quit the port, but only in ballast, or with cargoes which could not be considered Russian property.” It isadded that when the inquiry was put to Captain Watson, whether neatral vessels allowed by him to depart from Baltic port after the establishment of the blockade, in ballast or with cargoes, would be at liverty to pursue their voyage without risk of being de- tained by any of her Mojesiy’s cruisers which they might fall in with at sea, he replied that he could not undertake that such would be the case, inaemuch as the admiral commanding the British fleet might hereafter make other ar- rapgemepts, From these imputed declarations of Captain Watson the inference was sought to be established that the British government was about to abandon the principle of her declara- tion of last year, that she would not interfere with enemy’s property laden on boards neutral ship, unless it was contraband of war. ‘These statements were contained in a circular addressed by Count Nesselrode to the Russian Minister at Brussels, with directions that copies of it should be forwarded to the American Minis- ters at London and Paris. Mr.Mason, acting with- out deliberation, adopted the Nesselrode view of the matter, and hastily replied to the circular. Mr. Buchanan, who takes things more coolly, contented himself with laying the despatch before the English government, and asking for anexjlapation. Lord Clarendon promptly in- stituted an inquiry into the facts; and, it for- tunately eo happening that an opportunity of immediately communicating with Captain Wateon presented itself, by the unexpected return of the Imperieuse to Portsmouth, it was at once ascertained that the Russian govern- ment had been practising a misrepresentation in the matter, with what purpose it is difficult to conceive, as its statements could not remain long uncontradicted. Lord Ciarendon there- upon immediately addressed a copy of the following circular to all her Majesty’s consu- lar agents abioad :-— Forriey Orrice, June 6, 1855. Sin—The Imperial Mintstry of Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg bas recently put incirculanuna statement, purporting to be a representation of a communication made by Captain Watson, of her Majesty’s ship Im- perieuse, to the Russtan authorities at Baltic port, in one clause of which Captain Watson is alleged to have notified “that foreign, that is to say, neutral vessels, which might at that time be in Baltfe port, might quit seventy but only in ballast, or witn cargoes which might not be Russian property,” and trom this repre- sentation of the notification made by Captain Watson, the Imperial Mimstry of Foreign Affairs draws, and pub- Vshes as & warping to neutrals, the inference that the British government hae abandoned the principle pro- Gistmed tons poor by ber, Majenty, in lubc deaiaration of the 281h of March last, that ‘‘her Majesty will waive the Tight of seizing enemy ’s property laden on board a neu- tral vestel, uniess it be contraband of war.’? In another pastage of the statement of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Captain Watson is repre. sented to have aeclared, in answer to the inquiry whetber nebtral vensels allowed by him to depart trom Baitic portafter the establishment of the biockade in bal ast, or with cargoes, would be at liberty to pursue their voyage without risk of being detained by any of her Mojesty’s cruizers which they might fail in with at #e6, that he could not undertake that such would be the case, inasmuch as the admiral commanding the Britieh fleet might hereafter make other arrangements. Her Majesty’s government are not surprised that such & publication on the part of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg has been the cause of some anxiet neutral powers, who could not ressona. bly suppose that the iroperial government of Russie ‘would resort to the expedient of misrepresenting a noti- fication made to Russian authorities on a point so deep- b — sting to the commerce of States in amity with ussia Foxtunately for the cause of truth and for the relief of neutral powers from the embarrassment which the statement put forth by the Imperial Ministry for Foreign Affairs wss calowlated to occasion, her Msjesty’s ship Imperieuee is atthe present moment in Portamouth har- bor, bay.ng been obliges to return to England to re; damages sustained by her ina collision with another of her Mojerty’s ships in the Baltic, Her Majesty’s gov- ernment have there/ore bad the opportuuisy of com- wounicating directly with Captain Watson, and of asser- ‘taining from lnm exactly what passed on the occasion ip question; and neutral nations will leara that the im- perial government of Ruetia has published to the world, ‘an true, a statement which, as weil as the inference that the imperial government hss drawn from it, is whoily upfounced. . In regard to the Srst point, namely, the alleged probi- bition to neutrals to export Rossian produce on depart. ing from a port placed under blockace by har Majesty’: cruisere, Captain Watson has laid before her ty’s government a letier dated the lst instant, fi Lieutensnt De Kantzow, of her Majesty’s ship ‘Impe rievse, the officer employed by Captain Watson to com: municate with the Russian authorities at Baltic Port, which states 85 follows:— Nentrel ships Jyirg in the harbor Jaden with Russian pro- duce (rye and giv) wore permitted to, and dil actually, pro- ceed on their respective voyages. The Govornor asked if could promise that they would never be molosted or inter. fered with. In answer, I stated that the proclamation of ber Majesty was sicar and concise, and that he must abide tf it; and in the arent of thelr being captured, the care woul be judged by the Admiralty Cou: On the second polnt, namely—that Ca; Watson de- clined to give an assurance that vessels allowed by him to depart from Baltic ports would not be molested on their voyage—the rame officer (Lieutenant De Kantzow) slates— ‘That the Governor asked \ission for four fishing boats, without deoks, to be hed to Proceed to Ri tee thst after I had ivg boate, but that you that description would in-Chief was ex molested, as ti and might issue different orders, government abstain from commenti, pursued by the imperial government - Ruetis in this matter, but I have to instruct you to give all possible publi.ity to this despatcb in the conn- ur in which you resice. am, sir, your most obedient, humble servant, wane Barciay, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul, now ork, The matter now rests in this position: Count Nesselrode charges the Evglish government with having made certain declarations through one of its officers which would go to establish an intention of departing from the understand- ing arrived at with the other maritime Powers, to respect the rights of neutrals. The British government promptly contradicts both the fact of such declarations having been made and the conclusion drawn from them. In this state of things no action is called for on our part. We have only to await calmly the result of the controversy and the developement of any fur- ther facts to which it may give rise. The posl- tion of the United States in reference to this question isa clear and decided one. We are determined to enforce and to carry out to their fu)lest extent the principles laid down by our government and concurred in by all the other Powers in regard to the rights of neutrals. The object of the charge brought against the Eag- lich government by Russia may have been to excite the jealous feelings of this couutry on a point to which it is known to attach the most vital importance, and thereby to stimula e upon the cour: Lory Javoruble “disposition that may exist here towards herself. Whatever sympathy, however, may be felt amongst us for either side, of one thing both may rest assured, and that is, that the United States will not suffer either the allied governments or Russia to violate, in re- gerd to them, the principle of non-interference with neutral rights, From the promptness with which the British government hastened to contradict the state- ments put forth in Count Nesselrode’s circular, and thereby allay any anxiety to which the; might give rise in this country, an inference may be drawn which is gratifying to our feel- ings of national pride. The disposition which it manifests to inculcate the good will and friendly feelings of our people, by a faithful adherence to its recently declared policy on this question, is evidence of the predominating position which this country now occupies in re- gard to European affairs. To enable us to main- tain that position unimpaired, oar government ought to understand that one of its first duties is to guard jealously against any encroachment upon the rights of neutrals, let it come from whatever quarter it may. Tae Scovyter Fravps—An Inrorrant Dz- ciston.—We publish this morning the decision of the Judges, delivered on Saturday, in gene- ral term, in the case of the Mechanics’ Bank egainst the New Haven Railroad Company. It ‘was an action originally brought to recover the market value of a certain amount of the stosk of this railroad issued by Robert Schuyler, and received by the Mechanics’ Bank of this city, in good faith, as a hypothecation from Alexander Kyle. The case was heard in special term by . Judge Bosworth, and a decision rendered in favor of the plaintiffs for 94 per cent, being the market value of the stock at the time of its passing into their hands. From this decision, an appeal was taken to the general term; and the Court gave judgment on Saturday affirm- ing it. fais decision of the general term applies, we presume, to all the fraudulent stock so In accordance therewith, the stockhol: the New Haven Railroad Company find them- selves saddled with the enormous debt of some $2,000,000. The capital representing only $3,000,000, the property is thus diminished near- ly one-half in value. This will bea terrible blow tothe thousands of individuals in New York and the Eastern States, who bad invested much, or all, of their means in thatconcera. Many of the shareholders are widows and orphans, who thus see half their means of existence swept away by this flood of fraud. It is not, we regret to say, on the directors of the company that this blow falls, but upon the innocent shareholders. If these latter, however, had watched over their interests with more assiduity, and not elected to the office of directors mere conscienceless speculators, gamblers in stock—the drones who prey upon the industrious classes of society— such an evil could never have befallen them. Let this example act as a lesson for'all time to come. We pity the shareholders, but the judg- ment is a righteous one. Tae Fina or CastLe Garpen.—We have heretofore informed our readers of the decision made by Judge Hoffman, of the Superior Court, in the matter of the projected emigrant depot at Castle Garden. We give to-day the learned Judge’s decision in full. . It reviews the past history of Castle Garden, and as such is in- teresting. It considers the allegations made by the opponents of the measure in respect to its being a nuisance ; and on the opinions of the physicians and adepts, set up in reply by the Commiesioners of Emigration, declares that hose allegations and apprehensions are un- founded. In that view it is important, as tend- ing to remove the public fears as to the conse- quences which might arise from the aggrega- tion of emigrants at that point. And finally, the Judge declares it as his conviction, that “to arrest the plan of the Commissioners, fall asitis of so many undeniable benefits, would be a rash and unwarrantable exercise of power.” And so Castle Garden passes to its unworthy Jinale. Well, it is the fate of all earthly things to see their g'ory departed ; and that historic place cannot escape the inevitable doom. ‘ Icha- bod! Ichabod!” is now its appropriate motto: The vast hall, where the wealthy, the gay and the beautiful so lately assembled to listen en" raptured to the notes of Jenny Lind, of Sontag, and of Grisi, now goes to be cut up into misera- ble offices, and kitchens, and eatiog rooms, and dormitories, for the accommodation of the Irish peasant and the Dutch saver. It is ® utilitarian age; and perhaps, after all, the conversion of Castle Garden into a caravanserai, for the shelter and protection of the poor outcasts of Europe, may not be the worst change that could have been effected in it. Asotner European MEETING oF AMERICAN Dirtomats.—One of our Paris correspondents has informed us that, at a late review of the French army at Paris by the Emperor, there were present the following American ambas sadors:— Hon. A. C. Dodge, Minister to Spain. Hon. J. L, O’Sullivan, Minister to Portugal. Hon. Lewis Cass, Jr., Minister to Rome. Hon. Auguste Belmont, Minister to thé Hague. Hen. Jobn Y. Mason, Minister to France. What is the meaning of all this? Perhaps another conference on the Cabaquestion. Who knows? When does the Honorable A. Dudley Mann set out for Paris? Or, who goes in his place? We must not lose sight of our Spanish relations under the auspices of Mr. Dodge. He has not gone out there for nothing. Let all hands prepare for another Ostend manifesto. Tur Secretary or War on tHe Cuna Ques- TIoN,—In @ late speech to his friends and fellow- citizens in Mississippi, Gen. Jefferson Davis, the Secretary of War, charges. the failure of this administration to acquire the island of Caba upon Congrers. If Congress had only acted upen the Black Warrior case in a bold and warlike style—if Congress had only shown a proper confidence in the President, in granting him the discretionary ten millions which he asked of them—we might have had a different state of things. But why this lack of con#- dence? It was a democratic Congress—over- whelmingly democratic in both houses, Gen. Davis knows why it could not trust Mr. Pierce ; but it was a delicate topic, and we must excase bim, Congress had no faith in an administra- tion which was a mixed commission of Van Bu- ren free soilers and Southern secessionists, and which, in our foreign and domestic affairs, had chown itself to be utterly imbecile, incompetent and unreliable. Had Mr. Pierce shaped his ap- pointments and his policy upon the Union prin- ciples and Union men of the country, there would have been no lack of confidence in Con- grees or among the people, But proving faith. lean from the start, he was deserted by Con- gress, and has been repudiated by the country: It was arash act on the part of the Seoretary of War to underiake a defence of this Pierce administration, even amoog secessionists and filibustere. Let the Chevalier Soulé and the Cuban Junta explain. Five Hounprep Doutars 4 Weex.—A New York correspondent of the Chicago Daily Times eays:— It is said that, on an aver: it has cost George L: $500.0 weehter pode antes te ea onion okie eae not to his liking, Hi til wed on his sire oes be yreg op & «Batter Joha;’’ but on vshe assured at the on “pure smerican princi; ‘would good, he submitted at once. 7 “Five hundred doilars @ week” for puffs alone, to say nothing of contingent expenses t At this rate “Live Oak George” will have sunk 9 small fortuve by next spring, when the Know Nothings in National Council are to nominate their candidate for the Presidency. The bill for puffs alone, by that time, at $500 a week, will have run up to at least twenty- seven thoueand dollars; and at the same ratia of good pay, seventy-three thousand dollars ig @ reasonable estimate for other contingencies. The twe items will thas amouat to a hundred thousand, the exact sum total of the pay of” President of the United States for one term of four years, which, we think, is a pretty bold investment upon a venture. What chance igs there among the empty-pocketed old fogies an2 “venal politicians” against such liberality for- “puffs” as this? Clesr the track. THE LATEST NEWS, BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, Marder Through Jealousy. Boston, June 24, 1855. Last night, actuated by jealousy, Lydia James stabbed Francis Matras, a sailor, in North street, so that he died to-day in the hospital. Both parties—colored. We have an easterly wind all day, and this evening: rain is falling. The Southern Mail. Battimore, June 24, 1855. New Orleans papers of Monday are received. They contain no news. It has rained here excessively hard to.day. Markets. Provipence, Juve 23, 1855. Cotton has been quiet. Sale: to a moderate extent at. steady prices, Wool—Prices rather firmer, with light stock and quiet market. Sales, 68,700 pounds. Print- ing clothe—The market continues active at an advance of one quarter cent op last week's prices, and closed with fantasy to still further improvement. 6(x64 were held firmly at the close, at 53¢c. the week, 82,300 pieces. Late from Cuba. A CASE OF QUESTIONABLE LEGALITY. ‘We have received the following letter from Capt. Cole, master of the ship Sartelle, sent by the brig Crimea, Capt. Hichborn, arrived from Sagua la Grande on Saturday:-—~ TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. The bark Delawarian, on her arrival at eae Is Grande, had ove of her crew taken by the authorities of peptone magcrred thing hire master. I was This cause was tried before Justice Ayres and a jury, at the Town Hall, on the 21st inst. The plaintiffs claimed to recover for four pensities of $25 each, under the loth nection of title 9, chap. 20, of the Revised Statutes, re- lating to excise, &c., and offered proof to show that de- fendant kept a hotel, had a public bar supplied with Mquors, and that brandy had been called for and drank by witnesses—and then rested. The defence was, that the plaintiffs should prove an actual sale; andif the jury believed that the evidence sustained a sale, that then the plaintiffs could not re- cover, inasmuch as the Ities prescribed by the ex- cice Jaws had been repe by the act of April 9, 1855. The whole care was sharply contested and ably by the respective counsel, and elicited a great deal of interest—the large hall being nearly filled with specta- tors. Wm. M. Allen ap; for the plaintiffs, and Wm. H. Pemberton for the defendant. After counsel summed up, the jury retired, and returned in a shor: time with @ verdict for the defendent The verdict gave ral a incnncd asthe jury were composed of some of the most honorable and intelligent: citizens of the town—and the prosecution was viewed as a ution. The defendant is well kno ani keeps Oup of the best hotels in the county of Westchester, Dramatic and Musical Matters. The principal feature of to-night will be the perform ance of Mozart’s “‘Don Giovanni’ at the Academy of Mu- sic, the cast embracing the names of Mme. de LaGrange, Mme. Rora DeVries, Mme, Ferrari, Signori Mirate, Morelli, Rovere and Gasparoni. This is the last week of the La Grange troupe and of opera at the Academy for the present. On Tuesday, ‘¢ Bolissrio’’ will be given, to introduce the new fenore robusio, Signor Rossetti. Opera goers should make much of this week, which ig positively the inst. Tue Encusn OPera continues to draw satisfactory houses to Niblo’s. ‘ The Daughter of Saint Mark’? hae Proved successful in every respect. Miss Louisa Pyne’s performance of Catarina is capital, both in acting and singing. Tae Graman Opera, at Wallack’s, will probably daw better with purely German compositions, On Tuesday, Lortzing’s comic opera, The Ozar and the Carpenter,”?, ‘will be given. The Broapway TaearRe will open this evening, with Mr. and Mrs, Barney Williams in three of their best, pieces, Mr. and Mrs. Williams will make their first ap- pearance since their return frym California, and will, no doubt, be warmly received by their many friends and admirers in this city. Mr. Whiting, Mr. T. £. Morris, Mr. and Mrs, Seymour and Mrs. Hough are inthe com- pany. . At Borton’s Trmatre to-night the bill includes “Borm to Good Lack,’’ “New York Aa {t Is,” and ‘he Secret.’? Mr. G, Holland, Mr. J. Wifsns, Mr. Chanfran, Mr. Eddy, and other popular artists, éppear in these pieces. During the past week at this house Mr. Bland, Mrs. Frost, Mre. Hough and Miss Albertice have had beneits, Anew Yankee faree, ‘Mehitable Ana,” written by G. E. Dari- vage, waa produced for Mre, Hough, and was quite suc- cersful. At the Bowgny Teatrr to night, the spectacle drama. called “The Enchanted Temple” wi'l be produced, with new scenery, ete. It will be well worth seeing, Woon’s MinerRkis annonnce a geod bill for to-night. Ditto, Perham’s. The Buckleys have gone to Albany fora week; they give s concert there this evening; our loss is a gain to the Albazians. Bostox.—The Campbell Minstrels are at tho Howard Atheneum, and White's Serenaders are singing at the National. The Mussum is the only theatre open for: chamatie performances. Mr, Barry, in 9 spesch to the audience on the closing night of the Boston theatre, aid that its gross receipts for the season amounted to $170,C00, Atout two hundred and twonty performances were given, Mr, Flew! ede a speech to his audience, in which he said he intended to manage th tional theatre for the next seven years, Miss E, Hoasler will shortly give a concert at the Music Hall, Boston. PHILADELPHLA.—The Walnut fs open for the summer- season, Mr. John Drew had a bencfit at the Arch om Wednesday. Unics,—The theatre hers will be opened to-vight, with, Mr. Jas, Bennett and Mrs. Hadsoa Kirby as the stars. ‘Troy.—A xew theatre, after the fashion of Wallack’s, is to be built here Immediately. Mr, Coaldock hes been pleytog hore. Carcado.—Miat Julis Hagee is playing bere, Miss M. Mitebell in expected to arrive shortly, Mr. J. Ef, slo~ Vicker has gone to Milwankie, Wis, ALWANY.=The Misses Denia commence an engage. ment at the Green street thoatrs to night. New Onrrans.—The Courier de! Loultans aso.a0+08 that the director of the Fieoch theatre bow engaged Mt, Ronrsewy Delagraye for Lis first tenor next sewn, aa } } P 4 VI ee ee eT