The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1855, Page 4

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Thomas & “o , No. 19 Catharine street. &Co., 8 Place de Ia Bourse, ‘The contents of the European edtion of the Hkaup will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at the office curing the previous week, and to the hour of pobdlication. ’ Whe News. The opponerts of the new Prohibitory Liquor lav held a mass meeting ia the Park last evening. Tae affair was altogether distinct from the Liquor Deal- ‘ere’ Society. As many aa ten thousand persons were present. Strong resolutions were adopted, and pithy speeches were mad3 by General Hiram Walbridge, General J. W. Nye, Lorenzo B. She- pard, Esq., Theodore E. Tomlinson, E+q., and Cap- ‘tain Rynders. The speakers generally counselled ‘the people to pay all obedience to the law. Ara port is given elsewhere. Judge Ingraham delivered a very important opin- jon yerterdsy in the Common Pleas, coxcurred in by the Court, on the appeal from the decision of Justice Meechs in the well known liquor case of Mr. Walker. The opinion is somewhat lergthy, bat in the present state of Maine Liquor law and anti, Maine L'qnor law excitement, the importance of the subject will furnish an excuse for the portion of our space that is devoted to the question. The Courtis of opinion that the probibitory sections of the acts of 1824 and 1827 are not repealed by the sections of 1855 previous to the 4sh of July, 1855, and that the ordinance of the Common Conn il for the more effectual enforcement of the excise laws doesnot impore any penalty that can be recovered in this form of action, but must be collected under a crimi- nal pro:eeding before a magistrate. The Court con- cludes by :tating that the judgment against the de- fendant cannot be rustained. Tbe Board of Aldermen held tbe first meatiag of the July session last evenizg; and after the trans action cf some routine busincas adjourned to Thurs- day next, in consequence of tae immease crowd that assembled in the Park for the purpo% of giviog expression to their feeliogs on tha Prohibi- tory Liquor Jaw, which, if lawjers are good autho- rity, is unconstitutional, and cancot bs enforced. By a communication from the Mayor it will be seen that that infi:xible fauctionary does vot ackaow. Bedge the right of the Common Council to inte-fere with the municipal authority of the chisf executive end the Commissioners of Polics in their ap oint- ments or regulation of that force. The only thing done in the Board of Cornci’man last night was the consideration of the preambia and resolutions cffered at the last meeting by Coan- cilman Mason, censuring the Mayor for refusiag to recognize the Bard as a higher power than himself. Two messages were preseated from the Mayor, which appear in our report elsewhere. In the Board of Sapervisora yesterday a report from the Superintendent of State schools at Albasy ‘was read, statiog that $800,000 was required for Btate institutions, the apportionment for New York elty being $271,639. A rasoiution diresting the Comptroller to pay the salaries of the newly ap pointed clerks of the Police and District Courts monthiy was sdopted. The motion to lacroase the walarics of ths Jadges of the Superior Court, Com- mon Pleas, Recorder and City Jadge was made a special order for Monday next. Judge Morris, in the Sapreme Court yesterday, vendercd a decision in the matter of Lyman Oole, @barged with forgery on the Caemivcal Bank, admit- ‘ing him to bail wader eli the indictments pending agsinst him, the District Astorney to have proper notice. A shccking affray took placoin Baxter street, o2 Bunday evening, between o party of Italians who ‘were cooling themselves on the top of their houses nd three persons, who, it is said, intruded them- selves upon them, and insulted them by the use of obscene langusge in the presence of their wives and @aughters. The Italians freely used their kaives, shockingly cutting,aud it is thougut fataliy injuring, two of the individuals. Two of the Italians have been arrested. A dreadful affair took place last night in Domi- nick street, by the accidental upsetti: g of a burning fluid lamp, fatally burning @ child vice years of age, ‘end tenibly burning the hands and arms of her parents, who endeavored t> put out the fire. An mccount of the calamity will be found in anotner volomn. Another cage cf suicide by s female will be foand im our paper this morning, A mania seems to exist among females at tue present time for committiag self murder, and the most trivial causes are seized upom as excuses for perpetrating the abominable crime. The widow of De Witt Clivton died at the re- sidence of her daughter, in Poaghkeepsie, yesterday. Bhe was in the 73d year of her age. Later advices from Havana #ra to Jane 27, bat the letters contain vary little adfitions! news. More soldiers had arrived from Spain, sod an ont- break at Porto Rico was spoken of 1 having oc curred. ‘The U. 8. stexmsaip Palton ‘had sailed tor Key West, after accruise along shtire. Ono of oar Correspondects fers at some length to the claims which the Coban Junta have on the Amencan p20 ple for aid in any liberatiog scheme, and anoser details the reenlt of a spiritaal communication on the subject of political platforms, obtained trom the spirit of Martin Van Baren by @ modus operan- di of a novel character, We are informed by a correspondent at Neavitas, Cubs, Juve 22, that yellow fever wnd black vomit prevailed amongst the troops at Pustto Piigcips to afearfal extent. Some Spavish officers of rack had died, and eighty-six soldiers were carried off (rom Ist of May to 20th June. Some mild cases have appeared on board the ships at Neuvitas, Tne erops were poor, Two Spanish war veavels were in rt. Mate advices from Central America state that the puthoriticn of Nicarsgua bave ordered that Coloney apy civil or military officer or officers, if they are feund within the territory of tae Repadlis. Mach ala m prevailed. We give elsewhere some interesting ex'racts in relation to the present o mdition of affaire ia Mexiso, Tce country seemsto be in a complete state of 1e- v.Jution, and the prospects of Santa Aana appear dark aud gloomy. ‘ Cotton #as quiet ysatorday, as dealers were wait: ing for later tore.ga news, end for the Fourth to pass over. The sales were confiaed to some 300 a 400 baler, at unchanged prices. Conmon g aies of flour were dull, without change of momen: in prices since Sa urday. There was s fine esmple of new red wheat, trom a cargo received at Chicago, growa at the extreme southern part of Ilivol», Ita quality was considered very superior. Corn was lower, with free sales at 88c.a 91c., and contracts wee eetiled at the latter Ogure, while 10,000 pusaels were delivered, previously sold by coutract ut 1050. Pork was quite steady, with moderate ules. Coffee was dull, while sugars were in fair demaud for the seaeon at steady prices. For interestimg tables of mocthly statement of stocks wo reter to another column, ‘The Liquor Meeting in the Park. Every day shows more aud more clearly that the strength of the temperance delu- sion is broken. As very often Happens in similar cases, it has been its own destroyer; victory has killed it. The party succeeded in passing the Prohibitory law in this State; but like Pyrrbus’ battles, one more such tri- umph would leave it completely undone. As it is, it shows on all sides symptoms of unequivocal exhaustion and weakness. In the West, where only a short while ago, every one was in favor of temperance, a revulsion of sentiment has already taken place; Lilinois gives fifteen thousand majority to the oppo- nents of the law. It has been practically nulli- fied in Michigan. In the East, thouga the un- happy fusion of city and country still gives the probibitionists the command of the Legisla- tures, public sentiment is eo decidedly against the measure thatit cannot possibly be enforced. Legal objections spring up at Boston to defeat it; as fast as one is overcome a crop of others take its place. Even in Maine it is now estab- lished that cases must go to a jury, which is equivalent to a nullification of the law, for no jury will convict. Here in New York, the masses of the people have expressed their dis- sent from the system on various occasions, and notably at the meeting of lastnight. Fatal ob- jectiong have been taken to the stutute, and the constituted authorities conceive themselves ex- overated from any responsibility in regard to its execution. It is an error to suppose that this is due to the haste or carelessness with which the bill was drawn, On the contrary, we have every reason to believe that the bill was as perfect a one as the legal advisers of the temperance party could draw. But, as Lord Eldon used to say, “it is impossible to draft an act through which a sharp lawyer cannot drive a coach and six, if it be worth his while;” and we may rest perfectly assured that whatever act the temperance party may pass, fatal ob- jections will be taken to it, and the proper authoritics will not carry it out. Say what you wil) about the impolicy of this in theory, we cannot expect it to be otherwise in practice. You cannot drive thousands of thinking persons to act contrary to their per- sunsions by a mere written statute. They may not—the most respectable portion of them, we mean--make a parade of its violation; but violated it certainly will be. The only practical effect of the act will be to compel fraud, and concealment, and trickery and dishonesty. Nine-tenths of the reflecting portion of hamanity never think of the laws; they act accordiag to their own views of right and wrong, and the principles they have been taught at school; and as in such matters in a free country there is very little room for error or difference of opinion, their conclusions are usually the same as those of the legislator. The only effect, we repeat, which an unpalatable law like the Prohibitory statute can have on these men is to make them resolve to indulge the Legislature In its fanatical dream by paying it the compli- ment of affecting mysterp and concealment. What wonder, then, if the authorities sensibly decline the offensive part of disturbers of the public peace, or the ridiculous part of dupes by frankly refusing to carry out the law? The ultra fanatics say:—We know that the law cannot be carried out, We know that men of money will always bave their wine. We know that importers will always have good liquor on hand. But we hop: and expect to choke off a great deal of drink- ing among the poor and the reprobate, end this is our excuse, and, if we succeed, this will be ovr reward, Thig ist fair eample of the reasoning of these fanatics, They have ao blundering confused way of rushing at an end, in the hope of get- ting a trifle, by asking for a great deal. They wou)d take a trip hammer to brush a fly from o mon’s pose, and would be as angry with the man when he refused to be relieved in this woy as they are with us at the present time, What fs the real meaning of the argument given sbove? That certain among the poor and reprobate do themselves a mischief by the use of strong drink ; and therefore all poor and all rich should be forbidden to drink, and cer- tain among them allowed to break the law. But what reason have we to suppose that those whore frailties are winked at, and those who do not do themseives a mischief by drinking would be one and the same? Is it not highly proba ble that the very persons who would be the most certain to evade the law would be the very men for whose benefit it is passed ? The fact is, the whole law is a disgusting sham and blunder. From whichever side it is viewed, it appears equally repulsive, ridiea- lous and impracticable. Fovrtn or Jery Oxarto The Union ‘is to be saved thix year in a thousand or more cities, towns and villages, from Bangor to San Fran- cisco. The Fourth of Jaly orators promise to be numerous and entertaining. We see that the Hon. Edward Everett has promised to de- liver an oration to-morrow ia his native town Dorchester, Mass., where the day is to be cele brated officially for the first time in many years The Bon. Lewis G. Levio, one of the founders of the Native American party, will address the citizens of Altona, Penn, on the Fourth; and throughout ihe couatry the nuthber of patriotic epics to be delivered is-excecdingly large. On this day, the leading politicians, poets, philoso- phere, orators and journalists find a veat to let off their saperfiaons patriotism, One would think, to read their orations aa printed on the fifth, that this glorious Union was like a city set upon a hill, which cannot be hid, or a houge which is founded on a rock, so that all the ele- ments thal] not prevail against it, How anfor- tunate it ix that people are patriotic only one dey in the year! NEW YORE: HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1855. Kinney ard Mr. Fabens should be put to death by | Baneroft on Siavery—What Caused the Fail of Rome? One of the most Jabored and most highly finirhed of the ersays recently publisbed by Mr. Baperoft, is devoted io the task of proving that ‘he fal of the Roman Empire was chiefly caused by the institation of slavery. A vast smcunt of chesp erudition is brought to bear op the point; the corpus juris civiis has been carefully compulsed ; coincidences are con- founded with cause and effect; brilliant lan- guage is ibrown like a gandy cloak over loose reasoping and opscbolarlike logic ; and when the writer hes involved both himself aad his readers ina maze of confusion, he attempts to burst headiong into daylight again by the broad assertion that all the calamities he pints were obviously the fruit of slavery. Just so the temperauce men trace every human infic- wity to the uve of alcohol; just so the manu- faciurers declare with their hands on their hesrte that all our troubles, from tbe Schuyler fraud to the high price of flour, are caused by “British free ‘trade;” just so our ancestors used to say that the “ bloody-minded magss-priests” were the authors of all the mis- ebief in the world; just so every fanatic, ia every age, has trained himeelf, after more or less Jabor, to regard bis own mania as the one thing of importance in the world, and to con- pect it more and more with passing events un- til it appears in his eyes to be the real centre round which the world gyrates. Such is the inevitable tendency of study and philosophic attempts at generalization in plastic fickle minds, It would be quite possible, we undertake to say, for an ingenious and well read man to set up half a dozen separate theories for each lead- ing event in history, and to clothe each with sufficient plausibility to ensure for it some general attention. From the days of Plato to Monsieur Comte men have never ceased to generalize and find out the causes of striking events: each philosophic theory has had its day and its partisans; but how many of them survive? Not more than Sodom contained of righteous men. Take the fall of Rome. One writer shows plainly that the corruption of morals was the cause. Another traces it di- Tectly to the overthrow of republican princi- ples. Governor Gardiner, of Massachusetts, thinks it was due to the indiscreet naturaliza- tion of foreigners. Many writers use it as their grand argument against standing armies. We are taught at school to believe that it was oc- casioned by the the exorbitant expansion of the empire, which fell to pieces from its own bulk. And now Mr. Bancroft tells us the true cause was slavery. . It would be far easier to prove that Chris- tianity was the destroyer. If any reliance may be placed in chronology, the history of the Roman empire consists of two epochs—-its rice and yrowth, covering rather more than eight centuries, and its decline and fall, covering say three. During the first period the Romans were the incarnation of a theory according to which courage, manliness, and fortitude were the highest of the moral virtues, and physical strength one of the high- est prizes that could fall to man’s lot. The best man among the old Romans was the bravest. and the strongest. Hence it was that whenever this Roman nation came into contact with races where strength and courage were less prized and less cultivated, the latter went to the wall. One by one the Latin tribes were subdue. Ingenious Carthage could not resist the sturdy and undaunted bands of Rome. Polished Greece succumbed; and even such races as the Gauls, who were equal in point of strength to the Ro- mans, could not stand against men who had been trained for centuries to despise death or to court it in battle. The Gauls were brave, no doubt; but it was the natural bravery of human nature, untutored. The Roman’e brave- ry, on the contrary, was the chief part of his education as well. His theogony all pointed to that one subject. His gods were venerable because they were brave. While two first-class deities presided especially over war, a goddess was held quite sufficient for wisdom, and even she carried a spear. All the Roman heroes had been fighting men. Every freeman was go still. Even women had been deified for acts of cour- age, though Reman literature contains no praise of the feminine virtues. In short, to fight thé foe manfully, never to forget a wrong, never to yield with life, to train the body to endu- rance, and the soul to imperturbable cool- ness, this was the point to which education, re- ligion, customs and laws directed the Roman youth. And it is undeniable that as long as this was the case, eo long were the Romans suc- cess‘ul in all their military and political enter- prises, and so long did the empire grow. With Christianity came a new principle. As Gibbon tells us, “ the firet Christians knew not how to reconcile the defence of person and pro- perty with the patient doctrine which enjoined an unlimited forgiveness of past injuries and commended them to invite the repetition of fresh ineults,......Their humane ignorance could not be convinced that it was lawful ou any occa. tion to shed the blood of a fellow creature. While they inculcated the maxim of passive obedience, they refused to take any part in the military defence of the empire.’ Nor could they consistently act otherwise. We in later days have shaped Christianity to suit our pur. pose; but nothing flows more clearly from the Gorpel than that it is wrong to fight, wrong to revenge, wrong to shed blood. This is how the carly Christians viewed it. Hence when in the course of the never end- ing Roman wars, a defeat allowed the “ barba- rians” to penetrate the peninsula, and an attack upon Rome itself became imminent, the grav- est danger which arose for the empire was the startling division amoug the people. The pagans were all for fighting to the last. Bat the Chrittians, like the Quakers in a later age, declared that their principles forbade anything of the kind. Celsus arked the Gbiietian chiefs insultingly what would be- come of the empire, if atl the citizens adopt- ed the pusiilanimous opinions of the new sect’ To which Origen and others on the Christian behaif contented themselves with an- eworlng that it matiered very little, as the end ot the world was at hand; and that whether or no, people were all going to be Christians, sad there wou'd be no more wars, This comfortable philorophy was so consist ently carried out by the Christians that when the evil day did come, they were not among the defenders of Rome. Had all the inhabit- ants of the empire stood firm, there is no rea son to suppose that the Goths would have tared better than the Carthaginians. Bat a division which deprived the defenders of one half their strength, discouraged those who did fight, snpped the old prirctples of couzage and dauntleseness, and utterly demoralize? the State If half the Russians today, mainly drawn from tbe working classes, artisans, me- chanics, and lettered persons, were to deviare that their copsciences forbade their takiog part in the present war, and were allowed to remain in the kingdom to discourage others by their attitude of cold resignation, it is quite cortatn that it would be in the power of the allies, if they chose, to destroy the Russian Empire. The Goths obtained that power with regard to Rome, end they destroyed it, knowing no better. Caris- tianity it was which gave them power. As for slavery, it was a source of streagth. It was one of the earliest institutions of repub- lican Rome, as Tarquin’s threat to Lucretia shows; and Jasted till the sack of the city, when the slaves outnumbered the freemen. Ia early times it enabled the citizens to give themselves up wholly to arms, ali the menial offices and peaceful occupations being filled by slaves; and thus materially strengthened the military power ot the State. Latterly, after Christianity di- vided the people, and a general infidelity per- vaded the educated classes, the slaves were undoubtedly a source of weakness, as they were not bred to arms, and the avocations of the Christians interfered with them; but there is no Teason to suppose that servants hired on any other plan would have escaped the same objec- tion, and, besides, the ruin of Rome was at this time quite certain and proximate. Tue WeATHER AND THE Crops.—-The present “heated term” has been pretty intensely heated and steady for the last eight or ten days, and the consequences in sun strokes, and in the otherwise increased mortality resulting from such weather, are, in many unhappy instances, irreparable; but, in a more general and com- prehensive view, this succession of hot sunny days will have proved a great blessing to the country. The late continuous and heavy rains, and the unusual coolness of the season until within a fortnight past, had thrown the crops back considerably. There was the danger im- pending of rust to the ripening wheat, and of sprouting to the grain harvested and in the shock, while the Indian corn, thouga abun- dantly supplied with moisture, was languishing, in many localities, trom the want of the usual summer sunshine. The “heated term” has therefore just come in the nick of timo for the farmers. It has doubtless already resulted in the ripening and saving of untold millions of bushels of the great staple of the Oaucasian races—this ia- valuable article of wheat; and with a few days more of fair hot weather, the immense crop of the United States will have been secured. So, too, with regard to Indian corn. The earth being saturated with our previous abounding rains, the corn has only wanted a “heated term” of a fortnight or so to make it crackle as it grows, and to give us the assurauce, with even something less than a moderate sup- ply of rain in August, of an overwhelming crop of this substantial North American article, from the St. Lawrence to thé Rio Grande. The growing cotton crop of the South will also feel, after these late general rains and cold weather, the good effects of this “spell” of bountiful sunshine; and the same may be said of all the growing crops of grain, grass, roots, fruits, vegetables and wecds, including tobacco. In a word, this ‘heated term” is just the thing that was wanted. Incidentally resulting in casualties of death and disease, it has been productive of much general good touching the ripened, ripening and growing crops. It has increased the good prospect of most abundant eupplies of all the substantials of life, and of a corresponding lift to all classes from the recent heavy pressure of the list year’s drawbacks, here and elsewhere, of financial panics and de- pressions, war, pestilerce and famine. So let us be thankful for this “ heated term,” and pa- tiently wait for a change. Stavery iv Cuna—Caprra versus Apout- TIoxIsM.—A curious change has suddenly been brought about in the policy of the Cuban gov- ernment in reference to the negro population of the island. The nigger militia—that re- doubtable phalanx whose very aspect was in itself enough to terrify an enemy—is to be dis- banded, and the heroes composing it are to be retusned to the peaceful labors of agriculture. It is not the resignation of Senor Luzuriaga nor the suaviter in modo of Commodore McCauley which has occasioned this alteration in the sen- timents of the Captain-General. A more powerful influence than either of these has led to the abandonment, at least for the present, of his emancipation projects. In one of the hast letters of our Havana cor- respondent it was stated that the stock of the Spanish bank was at a lamentable discount, and that in fact scarcely any one could be found to take it. This was rather a singular circum- stance, considering the favorable nature of the terms offtred. The Captain-General inquired into the cause of it, and was given plainly to understand by the Cuban capitalists that as long as the nigge® element was allowed to predominate in the counsels of the govern- ment they would do nothing towards extri- cating it from its pecuniary difficulties. They represented that it would be suicidal on their part to assist in putting arms into the hands of the black population, with the certainty which they bad before them that they would ultimately be used for the destruction, or at all events for the expulsion, of the whites. It was added that if the government would disband the black troops of all de:criptions, the proper- ty Lelders would be induced to look more fa- vorably on the stock. This argument was, it seems, all powerful. What would sot be con- ceded to the remonstrances of the planters, was at once yielded to the representations of the capitalists, Orders were immediately issued to dieband the nigger wilitia throughout the island, and the stock of the Spanish bank is no doubt by this time at a respectable premium. Scuvyter Teryep Ur Aoarw.—We give, in snother column, a letter from Me. Robert Schuy- ler, the distinguished financier, at present in exile on account of a series of unfortunate cir- cumstances. The letter of Mr. Schuyler is with- out date, avd no clue is given to his place of retirement in Europe. broken in epitit—he does not wish to be dis- turbed. He accounts for the loss of cash capi- tel to the New Haven Railroad Company, and tells them where about five thousand dollars went to. Now, the amoant against Mr. Schay- ler is about two millions, and as he says his recollections are perfectly clear,” perhaps he will be good enough to tell as what became of the funds raised by the fraudulent issue of steck. Let the debilitated and heart broken | Mr. Schuyler make an effort for once, Caeee nena en nnn enn nein Troan nnemcccenelaacamesbapessadeianiopeeansiianidiiemniesdiinonintneihata csi aiiliaa He is debilitated and | Gen. Qurrmas ayp THE Cusan Junta.—Gen. Quitman has publisbed the following card, which we copy from one of our Mississippi ex- changes: A CARD. T have just read in toe Naional In'elli; of the ‘1h inst an editorial, under the uesd of ‘Pocket Pat- rictiem,” commenting, with tare bo arb upoa a ca uminous from the Ne# York Sua, Cae aa- thors of these slanders know that woutev-r may have Dien my connection with the Carao Justa, it woali not ‘a proper vine to make explanations. | feel it, due to others as weil as wynait to aay that bove art cles, #9 foras they purport to reflect or my immediate associates in the Cuban uveD m, movement, are a tissue of barefaced and gratuitous falsebooda, for which no honorable man wili make him self respopmdle, J. A QULLMAN, Moxmovrs, Jume 20, 1855. The ‘pocket patriotism’ charged upon Gea. Quitman is, that after receiving lurge advances of money from the Caban Junta for his expect- ed services in the field, he premstarely and in- gloriously abandoned them. We give the Gen- eral and his associates the benefit of oar columns in his emphatic denial of these aforesaid charges. Ii those gentiemen have learned that fllibaster- ing does not pay expenses, very well; but if they have been handsomely paid for their trouble and their services, 80 much the better. We suspect that these scaudaious reports againet Gen. Quitman originated from the cir- cumstance of his having been seen some time ago deeply immersed in conversation with Gen, Pierce on Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington. When the proper time arrives we shall unques- tionably have some very interesting aad curious explanations from all sides involved ia thisiate grand Cuban movement, or in its untimely and disastrous explosion. But the Cuban Junta says, and Gen. Quitman says, the time has not yet come. Let us, therefore, keep an anchor to the windward, and wait a little longer. Tue Oxp Story Over Aaatn.—The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, in view of the proba- ble speedy downfall of Santa Anna in Mex- ico, and of a chain of contingencies from this result, which may hurry up the an- nexation of the Mexican Republic to these United States, is dreadfully alarmed at the dan- gerous agitation which would inevitably fol- low such a prodigious additional acquisition of Southern territory. But we apprehend that our present anti slavery crusade on Kangas and Nebraska could not be made much worse or more threatening to the peace of the country, by throwing Mexico as a make-weight in the Southern ecale. The frait in Mexico is evi- dently ripening, and between the transfer of that country to some European protectorate aad its annexation to this Union, we rather think the American people, when the question is put, will decide upon annexation, sink or swim. Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Califor- nia are preity good precedents in this line of business, Perhaps Mr. Pierce may stave off the ulti- mate question a few years longer by the pur- chase of another Gadeden tract in exchange for another ten or fifteen millions in hard cash. But whether bought up by piece mcal or taken in the lamp, Mexico must be finally absorbed. There appears to be no other alternative for the salvation of that country, nor for the fulfilment of our “manifest destiny.” The whole issue, for the present, hinges upon the wooden leg of Santa Anna, and his footing is very insecure. Truly do we live in eventful times. Tue Last Day.—According to the Prohibi tory law this is the last day of personal liberty in this commonwealth. Our slavery begins with the day of our independence, Will there be any liquor consumed in New York to-mor row? Who knows? 4» Inrerian Crry.—The Census Marshals report tha the population of the city proper is about seven handred and fifty thoussnd. The popalation of the Fleventh ward is about sixty thousand, In New York and the suburbs, including Brooklyn, we have over a million of people—a population greater than the aggregate of seve- ral States, The following statistics will show that the increase in the city population during the past five at any previous yperiod during our State, The growth and increase of New York is, ina great measure, Owing to the liberality and enterprising spirit of her cit'zens, as well as tothe frank and gene- rous manner in which they receive strangers from other Siates and other nations. New England has lost a groat deal of trade during the past five years, by the bigotry, fanaticiam and intolerance of @ portion of its psople. Tat us hope that New York will not suffer hereafter, in fle seme manner, from similar causes, Marine Affairs. Latsvts.—-There will be Isunched to-day, %; past 10 A.M., from the yard of EF. & Whitlock, Green Point, « steamboat tor the Nantucket and Cape Cod Steam Boat Co. She is to run from Nentuciet to Hyannis, con- necting with the Hyannis Railroad to Boston, Her Gimensions are 198 feet long, 29 foct wide, 9 feet deep. Her engine has a 40 inch cylinder and 11 feet stroke; built at the Morgan iron Works, She is to be fitted up in the best style, and with every convenience, under the direction of Samuel Smeden and Bootman & Smith, The bark Black Sea, of 860 tons, was launched in fine style yesterday by Mr. Lupton, at Green Point. She is owned by Messrs. Fanch & Meineke. Tretimoxtst.—The Boston friends of Mr. Joha Nichol- fon, chief engineer of the steamship Asia, Cuoard’s have preren ted bim with a rich silver pitcher and go! As @ Vertimonial of their estee Mr N. is sbout re- ring, and @illin fature reside in Liverpool, where be is to have charge of some works coonected witn the company.—Hosion Bee. Personal Intelitgence. Lieutenant Geo. H. Derby, Unitea States Topographical Engineers, has been appointed on (ue stail of General Wool, Hon. &. A, Douglas and Postmaster Cook, of Chteago, have pretented that erty with ten acres of land, valued at $1,000 per acre. Col, John H. Wheeler, U. $, Minister to Nicaragua, is expected to arrive in the Unitea States abcut the 10th proximo, bearing anew treaty with that power, which it in thought here be has by this time negutiated. ARRIVALS. At the St. Nicholas—Col. Por er, U. 8. Ax: Hom, Robert ©. Winthrop; How. 8 W. Frenen, tow ery, NO \ Dr kider, i 'W. ft. Booth, N. O- Hodiseo, Kusion Logation; Alon. E ed do $ 5. Harris, Nortolk, Va.; Samael Farwell, Utioa; 8. inok Warrior; 'y, do., W. H. Doug. . Almonte and fs- Wasbington; Karon de uon- ‘of N : o. kK B: Inve, Buffalo; B. ¢ ‘At the Breevort mily, minister from gueville, Can, tea; Jude aod Tedia and family, % Baton, Cinto ie he por v Apt soem, Teas Lan , Jey an ' Ind MEM Mareluer, Bins Ox Rritehet, © Beary Dameis, & iM, ‘Augulio Hercdia ‘end indy, Me Brown . Nicholas Barconos,’J Durand, iady ‘and servant, A Mary E Simpson, Mts s vant, Laatold Joinnet rs, Marcus Wathor an ‘sanel $ de Ponoda, Roanoke—Mr M Dana Wiss MA Roper Sam! Smith, TW Bradba EL Pendleton, lady and daaghter, Miss ew Sorton, CC Wiloox, Dr L W Green, Andrew Vow, George € Howsh, J H Simmons, Wm B Ro Miss BE Chapman, Som! MBunt, J P George, © Dan .? Fepha Peat L Vr David B Sretson, Sumi R io bert L Crawford, Sara B on. J MeDov al’, Benj B Austin, NM Cadwell, J Haight, iasy ond ehild, Wm corse A Maxwell. John D Newman, Lewis I Poin: Robert G Lord, Oliver B Maxwe' ‘Stan. W Williams, Nat if Bundy, Charl Ms eure rin and sn the stosra Ae 11 aod Min 5 2 Trom orks Islend, in the ship Aroam—MP Heath and ~ ; THE LATEST NEWS, | BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. es Wasuixatoy, Jaly 2, 18665 ‘The new Commmiioner of udiis Builiiegs made four removals smonget inierwr officers in his department to» day, appointing new men to the offices vacated, The Juaicial Eiectionin Sew Oxieans—The: Cuolera, &e, Baurimoxe, July 2, 1855. New Orleans papers of Tucsday last are received. Only about half the vote of that city was polled at the: slate election for Juiges, aud although the result has deen claimed as am anti Kuow Nothing vievory, most of the papers ray that politics bsd aothing tode with it. ‘The ceatbs in New Oriecos during the preceding week. amounted to 191, of waich 46 were from cholera. Btcamnout xpioston. Evavaviuts, lod, Jaly 2, 1855. The steamer Lexington, runwiog between Louisville and St. Louis, was blown to atoms near Stephensfort, Kentucky, on the up trip ‘Thy packet Baltimore has. just arrived from the scene of the disaster, with twenty officers and passengers of the Lexington, tacladiag the Captain Throop and the first clerk, Mr. Davidson, both wounded. ‘The captain tuinss that there were not more than thirty-five wounded, out of one buntred, who were on board. The ladies were all saved unharmed. The accident occurred at 3 0’c.oek on Sunday morning. Boat and cargo a total loss. From sGvston. THE NEW LINE OF ASKKICAN STEAMBRS BETWEEN BOSTON AND LIVERPUOL— FORFEIUEE OF BRIG: PORFOISE. Bostox, July 2, 1855. Donsld McKay’s mode! of the new stonmubip Cradle o Liberty, intended for the new lice betwoem this city and Liverpool, has been piaced in the Exchange News Room for exhibition, Tne steamer is to be 340 feet long, 45- broad, and 31 deep. ‘i A meeting of the merchants, and all others interested in the new line, will be held at the Exchange in a few days. Judge Curtls, of the United States Circuit Court, to- day rendered a decision in the case of the brig Porpoise, seized for being engagad in the slave trade. It was held that a vessel which hes acted as a tender upon slavers, and bas carried merchandise woich was used for the purchase of slaves, and had otherwise aided in the slave transportation, although she had not actaally carried a, single slave, was guilty of being engeged im the slave trade within the meanipg of the statute The brig was consequently declared forfeited. The Heated Term. Bostom, July 2, 1955. ‘The weather here continues oppressively hot. The: thermometer at noon to-day stood at 92 deg. im the shade, Five fatal eases of sua stroke in the city have been reported since Saturiay noon. Bartimors, July 2, 1855. The weather here has somewhat moterated. The. thermometer was not cver 87 to-day. Raliroad Exteni Pur.apauria, July 2, 1855. The first nineteen miles of the North Penasylvania railroad, from Philadelphia to Gwynned, was opened to-day. Navigation of the Ohio, Prrtspura, July 2, 1865. ‘The river now stands at six feet, and ia still falting. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOOX BOARD. LADE. Jaly Z, 1855. Money abundsnt—stocks dull peers 2 bp Morris Canal, 15; Long Island, 171;; Penosylvacia 4, 45 5-16; Pennsylvania State 6's, 87, ex dividend, Borrato, July 26:0 P. M. Flour continues very dull, with » strong tendency downward. Sales only 200 bbia,, at $3 40 for common Upper Lake snd $9 for choice do. Wheat has greatly Soexennet roy supply, and e me y pened with a good inquiry; bat closed dull. with a de- lining tendency; salee avout 20,000. pushels, at LA ‘8c.’ mostly at the ingice fgare. Onte favor the pur- chaser, and tie market is pretty, active; ales 20,00) bushels, in boat loads, at 53c. Whiskey im good’ ds- mand, and firmer; sales of 100 bbis. at 830. @ 3607 Receipts for the 48 bours ending noon to-day 3,090 bla; Wheat, 43,727, bushels; core, 1 oat io. Fecel thia year up to Ji sat 93s bushels; pe 2,180 47s ont 1 ei 88,000 bush Boston RecETra.—The boats for the regetts, with seve- yal of the members of the New York Club, left here yesterday afternoon by the favorite steamer Cunuecticut; the other members and their friends will go by tue Commonwealth to-day (Cuesday.) As this regetta pro- mires to be the best of the scason, and with » plea- sant passage to Bosten and back, we will say it is the excursion for the Fourth of July. ear, for ibe same time, were:—Wheat, ;00Fn, 2,640,844 do ; oats, 4,177,971 do. PHOFLB'S CLUTHKS. A gentleman appeared yesterday morning at the May- or’s office, and complained that on last Friday evening, whilst passing the corner of Sroadway and Usual street, & person whom he could not discover threw vitriol upon him, completely destroy:ng his clothes, and otherwise damaging his person, The police in the vicinity should be on the alert, and, if porribie, acrest the individual individuals guilty of this practice. - Police Ugence, TERRIBLE STABBING AVFRAY IN BAXTER STREET. In consequence of the extreme heat of rhe weather, severs! Italians residing at 26% Barter (late Orange) street, proceeded to the roof of the mouse om Sunday night for the purpose of procurivg a comfortable night's rest, They bad remained here in peace and quietness, until about two o'clock, A M., when the presence of some mea, strangers to the Italians, attracted their at- tention. ‘These men, wkoxe names were John Wilson, Daniel Flaanigan and ‘Ibomas Wilson, it is said, com- menoced toannoy the sleepers, by making nois> and using Profane and indecent language, not only to the male portion of the Italians, but to their wives and daughters, They were remonstrated with, but to no purpose, as se- Ita- hans and those men, the latter were se- verely and perhaps fatalip stabbed. The sti'etto was used with mo orcinary effect, for the two Wilsons were cut in & borrible manner about the abdomen and chest, while Flanoigan fares bat little better, as he received one or two deep gashes in the lower part of the body. The affray at thia time attract- ed the attention of the » whe, arriving at the acene of the difliculty, co ed the wounded men to the New York Hoepiul. Search waa then made for the men who'had statbed Wilson and the others, by officers Donshue and Sradley, of the Sixth ward police, whish resulted im the capture of John Bouton and Joseph Pen- dleton, two of the alleged participants in the dght. Yesterday afternoon the prisoners were taken to the horpital, where they were identified by the wounded men an the paces who had inflicted the blows. The poste | it the hosvital are of opinion that the two Wi are brothers, cannot survive the ; consequently, their ante mortem ex emipations will be taken as oon as ticanls. Boa- ton avd Pendleton were commit to the Tombs by Justice Bogart, to await the result of the wounded men’s injuries. ROBBED IN A HOUSE OF ILL Fave. Jane McShane was arrested by officer McManus, of the Sixth ward police, cbarged with having stolen a silver watch apd gold chain, vatard at $50, the property of Hepry Beker. residing at 4 Pcplar street, Brooklyn. The complainant alleges that be Wea vaguest by Jane te enter a bouseof ill fame, in Authouy atreet, and that while there she stole hit valuables and decamped, leav- ng bim m the armsof Morpheus. The property waa ecovered by the officer. The accused, on beicg taken before Justice Bogart, was committed for examination. JUVENILE OFFENDERS. Three boys, named Peter Smith, William Hart and James O'Brien, were taken into custody on charge of burglary. Ihere youtbs, it is alleged, burgtarionsly tered the dwelling house of Mr. Duberian, at No. 37 West Twenty eighth street, on Sumday night, about 101¢ o'clock, and were busily engaged in ransacking tranks, bureaus and other receptacles for clothing aad val bier, when ofli.ers Dosland and Wade, of the Twenty- Grst ward police, hearing the noise made by the fellows in breaking open some clovet doors, entered the house and wuccreded, after som» slight parley, in capturing bs sg Jouths. Justice srenman committed theur for trial. AN ALLEGED PICKPOCKET CAUGHT. Jobn Krance was taken into custody on Sundey night, charged with having picked the pockets of John Doty, while the latter was riding in one of the Eighth avenge cars, Krance, it 1s alleged, was discovered by the con- ductor picking the pocket of Doty, waen ne immediats- ly jumped off the car, put being pareued be was tinally captared, atter = bard chase, In the possession of Mr. Krance was found some money, which is supposed re have been stolen. ALLEGED THEFT OF A DIAMOND. A young woman, samed Harriet Brown, was arrested yesterday by officer Acams, of the Fourteenth injuries inflicte: o- ice, charged with having stolen « diamond b ie valued at $250, the property of William ©, of No, 296 Pearl It ie alleged that Harriet mitted the lare’?y on 2ith ult., aod simes that ”