The New York Herald Newspaper, July 10, 1855, Page 4

4... ’ NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY; JULY 10, 1855. aaa | NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. QVVICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STa. BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway—Ir's rae Custom for Fe GOUNTRY—U'PLANNIGAN AND THR Falkine~ Bumxen Gist, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Lany or Lyons ~Kave Keannev. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway—Davenrer or Saint ane. EW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. The CoDins mail steamship Baltic, Oapt. Comatock, will leave this port to-morrow, at twelve o’clock, for ‘Laverpoe!. The European mails will close in this city at half past ‘ten o’clock to-morrow morning. ‘Tax Hump (printed in English and French) will be published at ten o’clock in the morning. Single copies, ‘tm wrappers, sixpence. Subscriptions amd advertisements for any edition of he Naw York Henry will be received at the following spllaces in Europe :— Laverroe:,.John Hunter, No, 12 Exel street, East. Lomvon. S q ‘The News. The celebration of the fourth of July was finished jm this city last evening by a grand display of fireworks in the Park, Madison square and other public places. The rain of last Wednesday even- ing thus gave the metropolitans and their neigh- bars two celebrations. More people witnessed the -@ispley last night then would have been present onthe Fourth, New York, indeed, emptied iteelf into the public parks. Our reportera never saw such crowds of women and children. No mass meet- fing, to take into consideration the affairs of the na. tion, ever came near the extent of the multitudes of people assembled last evening to see the pyrotech— nic exbibition of the city fathers. AH passed off Wrilliantly and satisfactorily. In the Board of Aldermen last evening but little ‘pasinees of importance was transacted. A comma- nication from the Comptroller, in answer to a reao- ‘Nation of the Board asking by what authority he paid money for raising the ship Joseph Walker, and 1m message from the Mayor on the seme subject, were received and referred to a special committee. In the Board of Councilmen las’ night nothing of ‘an interesting or exciting nature came up for con- ssideration. A letter from Mayor Wood in relation to the re- organization of the surgical department of the po Hoe, is published in cur paper to-day. The Mayor propores to divide the police department into seven wurgical districts,each with a resident pbysician’ whose duty it ehall be to visit the station hoases within his district, and examine into their condition ae to cleanliness, ventilation, &c., and to visit at ‘his residence, and treat professionally, any member ef the department within his district who shall be Reported sick and unable to perform daty. The resident surgeons will report all cases coming under ‘beir notice to a Burgeon General, who is to be ste. ‘tioned at the office of the Chief of Police, who will have eupervision of the whole department, and make written reporta at least once a month to the Moesor. The arrangement is to go into effect on the first of August. ‘There appears to have been some questions of an exciting character under ciscusaion in the Cabinet at Washington yesterday, but our special despatch farnishes us with no particulars. ‘The President and Mrs. Pierce returned to Wash- i ngton on Baturday evening, from their excursion to the sea shore at Cape May. Several Germans— many of them citizens of the Urited States— address throug’ our columns to-day & petition to President Pierce, which is well worthy of the serious attention of the government. Ata moment when great distress existed in New York, these men were enticed away by British recruiting agents to Nova Scotia, under pretence of obtaining work. When they arrived there, they state that ‘an offer was made to them to enlist in the foreign Jegion destined to serve in the Crimea, and apon giving 4 refusal they were imprisoned, under mili tery control, at Melville Island, where they are now, deprived of their liberty. They ask the iatervention of the executive, which it is hoped will be given, as many of the men have families here. Our correspondent in Brozil, travelling along the course of the river Amazon, having left the Ville de Charis, arrived at Rossutubs (Isie of Cariana), from which place he writes on 10ch of April, fur- aisbing one of his highly interesting and graphic de- scriptions of the local scenery and manners and cus- toms of the people. His accounts of the varied ac- om plishments of an Indian belle, and of the loqua- city of her mother (the Lenhirsia), is very vivid and natural. He correcta a former statement relative to the time of high water at Para, and also an asser- tion of Lieutenant Herndon’s respecting the appro- Pristion of a portion of the export and import duties of Brazil to the support of the church. No part of the Stete income ia so applied. Our Nicaragua correepondent, writing from Vir- gia Bay on Lith June, states that half of the city of Graneda was in ruins, and the government party were still skirmishing near Leon. General Gus. @iila, of Honduras, had lately tendered his aid to the government, hoping that if the insur- rection were put down he would have the support efxome of the forces of Guatemala and Nicaragaa im extinguiabing the democrats in Honduras. Mr. Priest's compromise with the authorities of Nicsra- gva of the insult offered to the U. 8. Consulate hed mortified his friends. The weather at the Ist. mus was fine. An account of another embezzlement by a rail- road fficial sj pears among our telegraphic news this morning. The President of the Esstern Rail- roed, at the annual meeting in Boston yesterday, tated that the ate Treasarer had confessed to the @irectors that he had embezzled the funds of the road to the amount of $207,000. Among his otner | @perations was an over iseue of six hundred and twenty-five shares of the stock of the road. In his confession, he stated that he had deceived the direc- tors for ten years—nearly the entise period that he hed been connected with the company. He trans- ferred to the company all bis assets, which he values at $65,000, which will cover but a small portion of the loss, The defaulter is believed to be still in Bow ton, but has not been arrested. ‘The first seizure of liquor under the Prohibitory law was made at Poughkeepsie yesterday. Ten kegs of lager bier and two bottles of imported Datch wine were seized by an agent of the Carson League and deposited in the Court House. The owner gave bonds to appear and answer the charge this morn- A delegation of Kaw Indians, from Kansas, ar rived in Washington yesterday. Their object is to have one of their number appointed chief by the President, and to receive presents of horses, clothes, ae. Jndge Bullock, of Louisville, Ky., has arrested several o' the suthorities of that city for contempt ‘ef court in refusing to grant licenses. Cotton was firmer yesterday, with sales of about 1,000 bales. The market closed at about jo. @ jc. per fb. advance. Common and mediam grades of flour were better, with a fair amount 0’ sale, About 500 a 600 bushels new Southern wheat soid at$2.40, Indian corn was firmer for good sound skipping lots, and prices for such ranged fron Re. to 3c. Rye and oate were dull. Pork was eiea%y, With a fair amonnt of rales, To Liver. pool, eoton wis shipped at 8 16d. @ 7-324. for ermpressed, aud corn at 3hd.a t}d. in balk and hoga. The Slavery Agitation and ‘the Seward Or- gans—Their False Pretences and the Real Issue. a We trevefer to the columns of the Hsnaup this mornipg, a teading article from each of our two Seward organs of yesterday, on the drift and purposes of this new Northern anti-slavery ogitation. The burden of the elder ot these organs is, that “slavery restriction is not sec- tional,” while the other argues that it is purely @ sectional question, and that this new aboli- tion and free soil crusade is fully justified from the late aggressions ot the South-vpon North- ern rights. As both these articles, however, are directed to the same common object of a great Northern anti-slavery coalition in 1856, for the benefit of Seward and his staff of agi- tators, pipelayers, and organ grinders, we may as well consider them briefly together. As the taste, touch, or sight of cold water affects ‘a sufferer from bydrophobia with in- stantaneous convulsions, so does the mere mention-ef Southern slavery appear to affect our nigger worshippers of the Zribune. They fly into -e paroxysm of rage, and bite and snap indiecriminately at everything in their way, as they dash headlong after the “slave oligarchy.” They tell us that Southern slavery is “a hateful despotism;” that the peo- ple of Virginia have degenerated into a com- munity of mere “slave breeders and slave sellers;” that the North has been long enough dragooned by “ domineering slave driving bul- lies,’ “bantams of the Southern cock-pit,” &c.; and yet we are coolly informed that this renewed agitation upon siavery is not a see- tional thing; that Washington and Jefferson and Madison-were opposed to the institution; and that the idea that this Seward coalition is a se- ditious seotional conspiracy, is only intended as @ raw-head-and-bloody-bones to frighten credu- lous old fogies and old women. We think, however, that the junior organ is right in making an honest confession of the fact that this Seward movement is a sectional affair— that it is intended as a joint stock crusade egainst the South, and that no quarter is to be asked or given in the contest. We reject, therefore, the absurd denial of the elder, and accept the honest confession of the younger of these two Dromios, as the real po- sition of Seward and his trained band of fol- lowers. Consistently enough, in this ferocious onslaught of the Tribune upon the “slave- holding oligarchy,” the obligations and com- pacts of the federal constitution are entirely overlooked. No landmarks are recognized be- yond those of the “higher law,” and this “despotism” of slavery is as flippaatly discussed, as if the Soath had just been conquered by Northern armies, and were by right of subjugation whoily at the mercy of their Northern brethren. The Times, on the other hand, admits, in winding up its pitiful apology for this Seward holy anti-slavery league, that there is such a thing still existing as the constitution ; but pleads that Seward and his gang are only aiming at the restoration of the constitutional rights of the North, against the unprincipled aggressions of the South. What are the constitutional rights of the North? Where have they been invaded, how, when? In the repeal of tie Missouri compro- mis:? No: for that measure was an uacoueti- tutional compact—a temporary compromise for the spoils—a hollow truce between various aspiring men and parties for the Presidency- That Miseouri line was the fruitful source of all our subsequent sectional disturbances upon this question of slavery. Its repeal only places both sections where they stood before: upon the lawful and binding compromises of the consti- tution. And what are they? The recognition of slavery as a local institution—an agreement among all the States to return the fugitive slave to his master—a compromise with the South, admitting three-fifths of their slaves to be counted in the enumeration of their people for their representation in Congress, and some other stipulations providing checks and balances for the protection of the weaker section against the stronger, and the smaller States against the larger, in the working of the general govern- ment. The most important feature of the constitu- tion is that in which all powers not expressly granted to Congress are reserved to the States and to the people. This reservation (excepting the express grant of power to Congress to legis- late for the District of Columbia “in all cases whatsoever’) involves the entire control of the institution of slavery. It is reserved to the States and to the people. The repeal of the Missouri compromise, whatever the paltry ob- jects of Mr. Pierce and his Cabinet may have been, restores the question to this constitu- tional ground. Virginia, if she pleases, without consulting Congress, may abolish slavery within her borders. Her sovereignty over the subject is clear and undisputed. New York, in like manner, may re-establish slavery here, under this general power reserved to the States. But the same powers are “reserved to the States and the people.” Hence, until a Territory shall become a State, Congress have decreed that the local question of slavery remains with the people of such Territory, subject to their final decision upon their application for admis- sion asa sovereign State into the Union. Thus it is clear that the Kansas-Nebraska bill restores those Territories to the popular sovereignty of the fundamental law. Another wise arrangement of the consti- tution is to be found in the organization ot the federal Senate, forming it of two mem- bers from each State, large and small. This was the security of the small States; this was the balance of power given to the South. Its im- portance was never tested until the Missouri agitation created a Northern and a Southern, a free and slavebolding section of the Union Then it was, however, that the South, looking to the future, discovered the saving and vital importance to them of this equalization of the States in the Senate. From that day to this all territorial questions bave turned upon this Senatorial issue. The admission of California gave the North a preponderance of one State in the Senate. Hence the stern and threatening opposition of the Sonth to the admission of California, It not only took away from the South that check which they had to that day retained in the Senate against Northern fana- ticikm and demagogues, but it gave to the North a State eouth of the Missouri line. The South would have accepted that line to the Pa- cific— they asked for it; but it was refused, and on the ground that the people of California had settled the question upon the higher doctrine of popular sovereignty. Regarding, then, the admission of California as equivalert to the repeal of the Missonri line on the Pacific side, the South believe that its repeal from Missouri to the Rocky Mounta'ua was only following up the prin. ciple upon which California was ad- mitted—the principle of popular sovereignty. “It is a poor rule which will not work both ways.” It is the old fable of my ox and your bull, and will not hold water. And yet W. H. Seward, his Northern aids, his allies, and his organs, are moving heavy n and earth to resist the “hateful despotiem” of the “ slaveholding oligarchy,” and to roll back the aggressions of the South upon the constitutional rights of the North! Beh! The whole of this Seward programme re- solves itself into an unscrupulous conspiracy for the public plunder. It is « programme of sedition and disunion—a sectienal alliance for the spoils, upon the false pretences of Northern rights and Southern aggressions. Nothing more. But they are in for the spoils at ali hazerds, union or disunion. And so with the ultra secessionists of the South. Between these violent extremes there has sprang up “fresh rom the people” the new American party. Sold out in New England to the Seward alli- ance, it is yet true to the principles of the cen- stitution in New York, and some ef the central States, and in the South. We expect that the forthcoming elections in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, will prove that the party of this Philadelphia American plat- form hold the vantage ground for the Union and the constitution, and Northern and Seuth- ern rights, in 1856. Let us wait and see. Whe Leading New York Dally Newspaper Press. The newspaper press of the United States which has become a system of social, political and religious common law, is the most remark- able institution of the age. Like the British constitution, it has reached its present magni- tude and power from the operations ef public sentiment, which it has consolidated, and of which it is at once the vigilant sentinel, ad- viser, critique and representative. Itisa great deliberative system, embracing within its range all the relations of life, the events of which are carefuily-recorded and published to the world. The metropolitan press occupies the highest place in this system; its position, its power and its influence being undeniably greater than any other. It has reached its elevated and controlling destiny through the agency ofa well known prio- ciple of human action- the tendency of men to turn their thoughts and to render allegiance, so to speak, to that point where the greatest posi- tive influence is exerted upon the business rela- tions of life. Particularly has this been the case in modern socie'y, where the commereial, manufacturing and banking interests are seen to exercise an almost absolute power over the di- plomatic councils of nations. The mere move- ment of the political machine has little perma- nent influence upon the public mind. Its pow- er, though undeniably great as a detached po litical lever, is too diffusive and uncertain, too transient and changing to effect pervading results, This accounts for the limited influence of the political press, and its utter failure to represent for any length of time any fixed sentiment of the people. It is fugitive in its character, acting only in the midst of excite- ment, and although within a narrow circle, winning the reputation of consistency, it is at the expense of independence, without which it is impossible to assign it any other than an ad- venturous rank, The metropolitan press, by itself, has a posi- tive representative character. It is an institu- tion exercising its legitimate influence upon the public sentiment of the whole country, and practically recognized as endowed with some- thing like appellate controversial powers, in its reviews of and decisions upon both local and general eubjects. The distinction between the metropolitan and the country, or provincial prees, is defined by the general character of the former and the local or sectional attitude of the latter. The office of the country press is honor- able, for it exercises its limited powers in free- dom. Its actual position is more that of a re- porter to the metropolitan press, for its com- ments, though often seasonable and judicious, seldom exert any positive influence upon the public judgment until the New York papers have spoken. There are five distinctive hues of public opinion in this country, assuming more or lesa the character of fixed ideas. These may be classified into the practical, tae abstract, the commercial and manufacturing, the mercantile and the political. Every day’s experience and observation renders it more and more apparent that these various elements of our system are destined in time to form permanent divisions of labor and of thought. We speak of what is likely to be, and not of whatehould be. It is undoubtedly possible, in a season of more ad- vanced ideas, to harmonize every opposing interest, so as to secure the common fortunes of all. The existence of classes is always an evil in eociety, but it is one which has ever existed, .and the removal of which can be counted on only from the influence of a more enlarged view of the true objects of life and of the rights of individuals. ‘The Heraxp is eminently the representative of the practical mind of America. Its whole career has been one of entire independence of every species of influence and control out- side of* the just relations of life. Its political character is delineated by its adherence to the constitution of the United States. It has looked to the obligations of that compact, and their en- forcement in all the States, as the first and great duty ofthe people. It is the organ of opinions and principles, and not of men. It has never maintained relations with parties, cliques, or cabals, Its identification with existing politi- cal organizations has been that of an indepen- dent advocacy on the one hand, and of criticism on the other. While the political press has risen and fallen like the vapors of the atmos. phere, and with little less regularity, the Henaxp bas pursued the even tenor of its way Beneath the tyranny of party there is an all- pervading, restless spirit of freedom, which finds its chief gratification in bold philosophic reviews of men and things as they are. The Henaxp is the representative of this spirit, Its steady adherence to constitutional forms—its fearless defence of what is just and practical, contradistinguisbed from what. is specious, so- phistical and abstract—its ready condemna- tion of mere theorists, embracing all that clasy of mind which would enforce reforms through legislative ¢nactments, are proofs of this. It maintains the integrity of relative rights. I+ derides the folly of thore who would present conventional examples as a means of moral refcrm and regeneration. It would leave man- kind where the Almpghty placed them—in absolute freedom—subject only to penalties for injuries to the rights of others. In this short review of the porition and the representative character of the Lnnanp, the segret of ity! success, its growing power as an organ of independent thought, as a vehicle of news, and an exemple of enterprise, may be found. The daily circulation of the Herat is the largest in tbe United States, or perhaps in the world. For the last week it was as follows :— ie and without being a party exponent in any just sense, is pre eminently a representative paper. It is a law to all that class of mind which has the power of concentrating its energies upon single point in the great economy of thought, to the neglect of all others. By this process of abstraction it is easy to see that a part is made better and more perfect than the whole. Be- tween the editor and the reader there is entire concord. The great object of life with both, is to elevate the race and secure its happiness by two or three mere local devices, whose utmost success would scarcely produce @ ripple in the currents of population and destiny. It is a vain attempt to localive the action of general Jaws—an infirmity of purpose which, in this country of freedom, threatens to become a source of chronic disputes and agitations, The prominence which is given to abstract ideas, and the labor and ingenuity whica are expended to enforce them upon public notice, are sufficient proofs of the truth of this assertion. In a more advanced state of progress, and with broader views of the just relations of life, these impractical theories will be brought into har- mopy with general laws, and exercise their pro- per influence in the economy of government. It will be the reduction of the abstract into the relative and the practical. Strictly speak- ing, in social and political communities there are no abstract rights. Diversities of opinion and the opposing possessions and interests of men are enough to prove this. We hold rela- tive positions, and can exercise only corces- ponding rights, Herein is the source of all the concessions, the compromises and the practical charities which are sure attendants of the most orderly and best conducted social and political systems. The Tribune school of thought is remarka- ble for its utter abjuration of these conserva- tive ideas, and its adopticn of a progeny of ex- pedients whose incorporation into our govern- ment would end in distuption and auarchy, if not in a war of races and the extermination of the weaker caste. Its frantic anti-slavery tirades, its flerce and relentless war upon the rights of private judg- ment and of property, its advocacy of legisla-- tive intervention in fixing standards of moral duties and action, its nullification of sta- tutes which interfere with its progeny of reform recipes ; its interpolation of the higher law, and the utier absence of magnanimity and charity in maintaining there shocking abstractions, indicate the Tri- bune as a faithful reflex of this whole brood of empirics and their true representative. It may be asked how, in identifying the Tribune with 80 large a class of men, we can account for the gradual decay of its business, and the paucity of its current receipts? This is an easy pro- blem to solve. Illiberality is consistent in all the relations of life. The man that has no charity for his neighbor, bas no money for him. It is the former that exercises a large influence over society, the latter over business, The daily circulation of the Tribune is about 24,000 copies—its advertising not much. The Courier and Enquirer is also a repre- sentative press. It is the peculiar organ of the monetary circles—a position of no ordinary Aistinction—for its range sweeps both continents of America, and the West Indies, Perhaps no class in society enjoys a wider reputation for sagacity than the banking interest. This may be attributed more to the influence of accumu- lated capital, and its active employment amongst men, than to the positive merits of those who dispense itsfavors. It is needless to say that it is not @ political order. It has but two rules for its government—eafety and inte- rest. It isa peace party, because war takes away most of its borrowers, and renders the remainder of questionable credit. It is a party of concessions, even at the expense of the na- tional honor and its interests, because capital has never undertaken the work of protecting the one cr the other. It holds intimate rela- tions with the great mercantfle community, which it habitually oppresses in hard times, and flatters and sustains in seasons of prosperity: It hasite great uses and abuses; and is signalised by singular celfisbness, which it is enabled to maintain unquestioned through the diffusive responsibilities of corporate forms. The’ Cou- rier and Enquirer is ita faithfal representa- tive. Those who have watched the pulse of that prees cannot have failed to see how readily it has found means to put our government in the wrong in every dispute it has had with foreign countries, and how able it isin the justification of laws which give money an un- due advantage over labor. The circulation of the Courier and Enquirer was formerly 6,000 per dey; it is now hardly 5,000. The Journal of Commerce is another of the metropolitan press which has a positive repre- sentative character. It isthe exponent of the mercantile class, on which it is placed in entire dependence. Its pages are little more than a commercial diary of the doings of its princi- pale, and of their opinions upon leading ques- tions of public policy which are likely to affect their interests. Its range, however, like that ofthe Courier, is tar broader than any other commercial organ in this country. It has a kind of politico-mercantile character, and is kept from every species of abstractions, like thore of the Tridune, by the balance sheet of interest, which weighs heavily on the side of good fellowship. Though undeniably a repre- sentative of the orderly commercial claas, its anchors are too light to hold it in the midst of political storms and tornadoes. Its circulation s abcut the same as shat of the Courier and Enquirer. The Times is a hybrid, or perhaps better said, a kind of political eunuch, with feeble voice, very harmless, because its sphere of ac- tion ond ita powers of doing mischief are limited. It bas a party caste, and in one sense may be calied @ political paper, It al- ways acts from policy, and fever from princi- ple. It utters its daily instalments of tvords, which cost ae much to the publishers as if they embodied ideas, but are not s0 va- Ivable to those whe teke the trouble of reading. This may sccount for its recent cartailment ndemasen)ation. What it loses, however, in th + way, Ie more than made up in pretension, aud il there ig @ glas9 im the Community anewer- ing to such a designation, there is little difficulty in making the Times and Express their faithful representatives, The Times may be regarded as an old farbioned political press, acting un- der false pretences—euccessful only as an im- position. The circulation of the Times has been reduced to 30,000 copies or less per day. The Express has a very uneven run, sometimes more or less, but generally not over that of the Journal of Commerce. The other daily journals of New York have no original character or power over the public mind. They are merely auxiliary to the others named, and their various circulations are as variable as their weather, and might well be included in the next meteorological bulletin of the renowned E. Meriam, Peaceable Nallification of the Prohibitory Law. The probibitory law will have been in force a week to-morrow. It is well to state the fact for there is nothing in this or the other large cities of the State to call it to the notice of the public. In this city no attempt has been made toenforce it against liquor dealers. It is under- stood that the authorities, or a mojority of them, concur in the opinion that the law does not affect foreign liquors ; and it appears to be defective in so many particulars, that it has be- come practically « nullity as regards domestic spirits as well. The Justices are not agreed on the extent of the nullity ; bat they are agreed sufficiently to render it certain that the statute will not be enforced. At Albany, the Mayor has nullified it, by directing the police to per- form the duties for which they were appointed, in preference to those enjoined upon them by the prohibitory statute. At Troy, liquoris sold a8 usua), without molestation, The same is true of Buffalo. At Saratoga, and in Brooklyn, attempts are being made to enforce the law against liquor dealers, and actions have been instituted ; while Rochester, Syracuse, Schenec- tady and several small towns, have deferred to the law by closing the bars and liquor stores. At the same time, arrests for drunkenness are being made in almost every place men- tioned, under the prohibitory statute. The pereon found drunk is required to state where he obtained the liqaor, which he never does, of course ; whereupon, in accordance with the statute, he is fined ten dollars ; or in default, is committed to prison for ten days. Such is the effect ofa week’s working of the new law. It is obvious that time will weaken instead of strengthening its provisions, and that it is far more likely to be nullified in Brooklyn than enforced in New York, for the whole public sympathies are with the liquor dealers, Every individual has brought their case home to himeelf, and after self-inquiry has turned out a, flerce opponent of the law, though possibly a friend of temperance. It appears so arbitrary to take away a man’s livelihood because a few of his fellow-citizens misbehave themselves, that the really good points in the anti-liquor argument are lost sight of, and even dranken- ness appears a less evil than such an inter- ference with individual liberty, Had prose- cutions been instituted against the principal liquor dealers in this city, it would in the firat place have been wholly impossible to finda jury out of the Carson league to convict them ; and, secondly, had the least pretext been of- fered, a riot would infallibly have accompanied avy arrests that might have been made, and the law would have been brutally, perhaps blocdily, brought to nothing. We have reason to congratulate ourselves that the good sense of the public, the discretion of the city author- ities and the firm attitude of the class assailed, have preserved us from a danger which was none the Jess formidable because it was fore- eeen. It isto he hoped that the temperance men will take a lesson from the past week’s experi- ence, There are no features in the law that is nullified which could be omitted in any futare prohibitory law. A law might be made, it is true—such as the Lieutenant Governor pines after—which would be prohibitory without pro- hibiting; but if any serious measure is to be framed to prevent the ale ot liquor, it must be a8 offensive and as open to objections as the law now on the statute book. It might be more ob- jectionable, as the one vetoed by Gov. Sey- mour was; it could not be lessso. It would be impossible to embody the principle of prohibi- tion in a legislative act less calculated to pro- voke opposition thaa the present one. It is for the temperance party to take the hint. It seems more than likely that the working of the law will farnish abundant evidence of the truth of a proposition often made in these columns; namely, that strict license laws, and sharp penalties against public drunkenness, wil! anewer all the useful purpove that could be gained by a prohibitory statute. The evil we have now to dread is the absence of licenses, which in the course of a few weeks will give us ten drinking shops where we have one now. This will of itself draw attention to the point where a remedy can be successfully applied— to the license system. No solid objection would be made to agtatute which restricted the num- ber of licenses, and required higher qualitica- tions than heretofore from applicanta; nor would any one object if the seller of liquor were pun- ished when persons got drank on his premises. It would likewise be essy and proper to put an end to the sale of adulterated liquors, by em- ploying public officers, as is done in France, to go round at stated intervals, without notice, and-taste or test the liquors sold; the penalty for selling adulterated stuff being a perpetual revocation of the license, anda fine as well. Finally, it seems quite right and proper that every drunken perron found in the streets ehould be apprehended and fined. Drunkenness in public is unquestionably moral and civil offence, of which the law can and ought to take cognizance. Private drunkenness is not a pro- per subject for legislative penalties, any more than lying, or profane swearing, or gluttony, all of which it would he advisable to suppreas by law if it could be done; but public drunken- ness, both as an absolute interference with the Tights of others, as a bad example to the young, and in some’sort as constructive crime, certainly should and might be punished. These laws, if they were enforced, would an- swer the purpose. If we had them now, witif Fernando Wood as Mayor, there would be far less drankenners than there is. The hope is that the approaching four or five months will bring forth such fruit as will lead to their adoption, and the quiet repeal of the nullified jaw at the next session of the Legislature. Oxp Mvatca, Manaruvnrs.—Notwithstanding the bot weather, the wars of the Italian Opera heve broken out again vigorously. The dim- caly is now occasioned by the arrangements for next seston. It appears that Mr. Paine has mnopolized the La Grange company, and that he intends to be the gentleman manager of the Academy next season, while Mr. Ullman is to be the working macager. Messrs. Phalen and Coit are to occupy the advance posts as a sort of army of ob-ervation, to see that the rent is paid. There are one or two little difi- culties about this arrangement, and itis farther stated that Max Murctzek, the indomitable, has. secured ail the musicians, from first fiddlers down to big drums. Consequently they must. either hire Max as conductor or send to Europe for “four-and-twenty fiddlers all in a row.” We regret exceedingly that we cannot have Peace among the professors of harmony a Ja: Italienne ia Irving place. The high contend- ing parties have already held’ as many conven- tions, used up as much stationery, issued ag maby cisculars, quarrelled about as many deli- cate points, and arranged as many protocols asthe Allies and tne Russians, and the Aca- demy affairs are no nearer an amicable adjust- ment than is the Eustern war. What an awfab state of things! oo THE LATEST NEWS, BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington, EXOLEING DISCUSSION IN THE CABINET—SOMBTHING WRUNG, Wasuincton, July 9, 1855. The Cabinet bad a long and protracted session wo-day, Numerous and exciting questions were under discussion, Messrs, Marcy and Davie were the leading spirits. ntleman who called on Gen. Pierce says he wad considerably excited, and thinks there ia something ‘wrong. ARRIVAL OF A DELEGATION OF KAW INDIANS FROM KANSAS. Wasurnaroy, July 9, 1855, A delegation of Kaw Indians, from Kansas Territory, atrived here to-day, and hai an interview with Col, Mix, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The delegation consists of Wa-den-jah, Chief; Ego- shab-bee, Ake-da-ge-nay,Thre-a-ge-nay, and Ben Losser, oy, interpreter. Their object {s to have one of their number (Wa-den-jab) appointed Chief by their great father, and supplied with presenta of horses, coats, kc, The first person they desired totsee was Gen. Wash- ington. They are entirely naked about their bodies, but sport enermous headdresses of feathers and rib- bons. CABINET MEETING— FIREWORKS, ETO. Wasningtoy, July 9, 1855, A meeting of the Cabinet took place this afternoon, and continued ror over four hours, All the members were present, engaged, it is understood, on business which has accumulated during the President’s nearly fortnight’s absence. No definite action was taken on the new appointment of Commissioners of Land and Patent Offices. Secretary Dobbin leaves here to-morrow morning for the Red Sulphor Springs, Virginia, It is understood tkat Mr. Cushing will also leave shortly. ‘The mall around the Washington Monument and the Presi¢ent’s grounds were thronged this evening to wit~ ness the fireworks, postponed on the night of the 4th, in consequence of the rain. Heavy Defaication by a Railroad Treasurer, Boston, July 9, 1855. At the Annual meeting of the Eastern Railroad Com- pany to-day, the President made a report to the effect that Mr. Tuckerman, the late Treasurer, has confessed that he has embezzled the funda of the road to the amount of $207,000, His defalcations have been. going on for several years, He offers all his property, amount~ ing to bat smail part of the defalcation, as security. ‘The President asks for a committee of investigation, and a warm debate upon the sudject is now going on, Other- wire the annual report of the condition of the road is favorable. It is reporte1 that Tuckerman had invested largely insustaining Dr Morton’s claim to the ether dis- covery, some two years since, at Washington. A portion of the defalcation of Tuckerman, is the over lenue of 625 shares of the Eastern Railroad. He states, in his confession to the Directors, that he has deceived them for nearly tbe entire time that he has been connect ed with the company, a period of ten years; and this not- withstanding there bave been during that time severa committees of investigation, who reported, after exami- pation, that all was right and correct. He has trans. ferred to the company asseta which he values 185,000, After a heated debate at the meeting to-day, a commit- tee of investigation was appointed, and the meeting'sd- journed for three weeks, without choosing a Board of Directors. Tuckerman, who is a young man, is believed to be atill in this city, , The First Scizure of Liquor Under The Pro« hibitory Law, Povcuxaxpsix, N, Y,, July 9, 1855, ‘Ten kegs of lager bier and two bottles of imported Dutch wine were seized at P. Berberick’s salooa, this afternoon, by an agent of the Carson League, and dapo- sited in the Court House. Berberick gave bonds to ap- pear and answer the charge to morrow morning. Fatal Rathoaa Accident, Pattapasenta, July 9, 1855. As this morning’s express train, from Baltimore to Philadelphia, was rounding a curve near Staunton, Delaware, it ran over and killed a man named Matthew Cochran, of this city. He was lying across the track, either by design or ins state of intoxication. Deceased wes a carpenter by trade, about fifty years of age, and bas @ family residing in the western part of the city. No blame is attributed to those in charge of the train, who did all in their power to avert the calamity, Arrest of City authorities in Loutsviile, Lovisvinig, Ky., Joly 9, 1855, Boveral of our city authorities are in custody, by or- der cf Judge Bullock, for comtempt of court ia refusing to grant licenses. saicide, Parensoy, N, J., July 9, 1865. A Hollander, named Mynart Fimdemore, committed suicide in thie city last night, by hanging himself with hie cravat, He bad made arrangements to remove West to-day with bis family, and the cause of the rash act is unkngwa. i The Cincinnatl, Humiiten and Dayton Rail,. road. Gincrsnatt, Jaly 9, 1855, The trains on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad are now running regularly on time. Navigation of the Ohio. Prrmsuvna, July 9, 1856, ‘The river here measures four foet four inches by the metal mark, and is still falling. Marnets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Putaperrmta, July 10, 1855, . Money is abundant and easy at former rates. Stocke firm, with salen at the first board at the following quo- tal ‘Reading Railroad, 481; Morris Canal, 16; Long Island Railroad, 17; Pennsylvania Railroad, 44%; Penn. sylvania State Fives, 8735. Atnany, Joly 9—12.20 P. M. Flour dull and unchanged, Corn—Salea 7,000 pashela Weetern mixed at 90c., afloat, and lc. in lote. Oats— Chicago, 603,c., weight. Whiskey—Sales at 400. Osweeo, July 9—6.30 P.M. Flour—Seles to-day 200, ple, at $8.25 & $10 for Orwego ond Canadian, jat—Salen 6,000 bashele Canadisp, at $2 26, and 33,000 bushels Upper on private terms, Cora—sales 10,000 bushels, . ee uss Borvaso, July 9-12.90 P. M, yur— Demat |, 8Bd common es & snade bet- ter; rales 1,000 thin at $8 O20 phi for common to ood Upper Lake: $0.0 $9 60 for fancy do.; $9 50 for fancy and extra Illinois. Michigan and Ohio whent-saloe 3,00 bushels Upper Lake on private terms, Corn, ac- tive and firmer; rales 26,000 busbels at 80c., and 20,000 Dushela on private terme. Oata, lower, wales 6,000 at b43ce. Whiskey lower; sales 100 bble. at 360, 'Re- Pr for the do hours ending last night —Fiour 4,69 bbls. ; wheat, 4,789 baxbels; corn, 65,746 buatiela: ata, 20,076 asbele Canal exports for the same time: —Flour, 1,259 bbla.; wheat, 9,108 bus,; do. ; oat #, 12,827. ge Peet Coroners’ inquests, TRE SROOND AVENCE RaiLROAD ACCIDENT, Coroner Wil- heim held an inquest yesterday, upon the body of Clara J. Farley, the littie child, onion was ran over and killed on the Second avenue railroad, on Sunday evening. The evidence lo show that the deceased, woo was mere babe, wan playing, along with an elder sister, on the track, in Fitrt avenue, near Twelfth street, when he car, No. 22, came aloag. and belore the ariver could "wp the progress of the car, the wheels of Vue yehicig