The New York Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. SPPICE N. W. CORNER OF NABRAU AND FULTON 818, ¥ per annum. WE HERALD every Saturday, at 04 cenis wer copy, oF $8.per annum; the Buropean edition $4 per a= eem. fo ani it of Great Britain, or $5 to any part of the CUE TRTTERS ty Mae tar Bubacriptions or with Aleer- rij ma or eos Ssements to be post paid, or the povtage wil be desected Jom re a ‘ ‘ VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE containing impor: tent news, id from any quarter of the world—if uae wold be biber, Jor. BaAOVR FoRnIOM CORRESPON- Be PAaRrigviaRiy ReqvesTED TO SEAL ALL 8 AND PACKAGES SENT U. “AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENIN BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway -Pappy tur Piper —Recorisorions of O'FLANNIGAN AND THE FARIES— Br anv Ovr or PLack—Par’s Frouic, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Consican BRornens— Bayan ix Paris, WIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Quxex or A Day. PERHAM’S OPERA HOUSE, 063 Broadway—Arircua- wane. WOOD'S MINSTRELS —Mechanies’ Hall—472 Broadway. New Work, Friday, July 13, 1855, The News. The Prohibitory Liquor law appears to be the ‘Mest exciting topic of the day, particularly in the interior of the State. Hereabouta we have nume- Yeoa arrests for drunkenness, but few complaints ‘sgainst dealers. The public mind seems to have settled upon the conclusion that the whole affair is @m unadulterated bumbug; and the Carson Leaguers bave sach @ wholesome dread of Judge Lynch, that ‘they prefer to postpone their martyrdom indefinitely. Ta the rural districts and in some portions of Long Taland, the liquor traffic has been generally aban- @oned, or the law is enforced, but in all the large ities it isa dead letter. Wherever the liquor interest ja mrong enough to resist the enforcement of the hw, authorities seem unwilling to meddle e dealers. The question as to the intoxicating properties of lagcr bier is attracting wauch attention. The recent seizure of lager at Poughkeepsie is the more singular, as Judge Strong, ef that district, had decided beer not to be an in- toxicating drink. ‘The Louisiana Know N things met in convention at New Orleans on the 2d inst., and adjourned after @ two daya’ session. An address, mainly devoted to '@ defence of eecresy in organization, and a platform, embracivg principles of State and national policy, were adopted. The Philadelphia platform was fally endorsed, with the exception of the Catholic teat, which is regarded as ‘entirely unworthy of our eonntry”—indeed, the Louisianians utterly re- pudiate any attempt to make religious belief a test for office. A complete ticket for State officers, headed with the name of Charles Derbigny for Governor, was nominated. The Know Somethings or abolitionists of Massa- ebusetts met in State Convention at Worcester on ‘the 10th inst. A series of ultra ab>lition resolutions, concluding with the declaration that the mesting was ‘‘in favor of freedom, temperance and Protest- anticm, as the three great bulwarks of true Aueri- eam republicanism,” were proposed and adopted, with the exception of the one quoted, which was rejected. ‘The commencement exercises of the State Normal Behool tcok place on Wednesday afternoon, and are wepresented as being exceeding creditable to the faculty and the graduating class. Twenty-six ladies and eleven gentlemen composed the graduates of the twenty-second term of the institution. Both branches of the Common Council were in session last evening. The Board of Aldermen adopt- ed a report recommending the erection of a monu~ ment to the memory of the late Major General Worth. It is to be located on the land bounded by Fifth avenue, Broadway and Twenty-fourth and ‘Twenty-fifth streets, and will be fifty feet high. The Board concurred with the Councilmen in directing the award of the contract for blasting and removing Diamend reefto 22 feet below mean low water, to Husted & Kroehl, submarine engiaecrs, of this city, for the sum of $35,600. This is au improvement long desired by the shipping interest ef New York, as of late years moat of the clipper ships and steamers have been built of such increased dimensions as to render, at times, the passage in and out, where the current isso strong as at this place, extremely difficult. The Board of Council- men did nothing of importance. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Emigra- tion yegterday, s recommendation that hereafter the ‘ase of liquors, wines, and all intoxicating drinks, be @iscontinned, except when prescribed by the physi- cians, inall the public institutions, was adopted, but not without strovg opposition. It is said that this will effect a saving of fifteen thousand a year. The hard shell Democratic General Committee met Jast evening, and appointed a committee of five to prepare a call for the primary elections in the dif- ferent wards. J. N.T. Tucker, the editor, who killed his son Vingent, st Brooklyn, in August last, escaped from ‘the Btate lunatic asylum at Utica, (where he had been ponsigned by order of Judge Moore,) on Wednesday last. Tucker, it will be remembered, was tried in the Kings county Court of Oyer and Terminer; but ae there was some doubt as to his sanity, the jury failed to agree upon a verdict. A consultation of physicians was then held, and it was decided that he was a fit subject for the asylum. Charles Rowecroft, Esq., British Consul, was ar- rested at Cincinnati on the 10th inst., on a charge of enlisting recruits for the British army. A‘ the mame time sixteen psrsons, mostly Germans and Hungarians, were arrested just as they were about leaving the town, who are charged with being such recruits. An Albany paper says :—‘ We are authorized to state that Judge Ruggles, of the Court ot Appeals iw consequence of ill health, intends to vacate his office when the cases already argued before him shail have been decided, and that his resignation will take place in time to allow the vacancy to be filled at the coming election.” It is stated that the Commissioners of the Canal Fund will make s further loan of a million and a barter dollars for the enlargement soon after the 30th of September next. Here is another chance for a struggle between the banks and the stock epecuistors. A meeting of the ‘solid men of Boston was held yesterday, to forward the establishment of the pro: jected line of steamships between that port and Liverpool. A committee of thirty-six wasappointed to take up subscriptions, and the plan will, without doubt, be carried through successfully. It is de- signed to put four first class steamers on the line with all despatch. Mr. James M. French died at Albany on Wed nesday evening. Mr. F. had long been identified with ‘the democratic party of this State, was, we'believe, one of the projectors of the soft shell organ at Al- any, and made many pecuniary sacrifices to sus- tein the principles which he eepoused. He was appointed to the pension agency by the Pierce a1- ministration, and held the office at his decease. The cotton market was leas active yesterday than on the day before. The sales were confined to about 500 bales, without change in prices, which con- tinued quite steady. Flour wasin good demand, without further change of moment in quotations. Michigan white wheat sold on private terms, and a small lot at $250. Corn was quite active, with sales of about 95,000 a 100,000 bushels, at 90c. a 91c,, with lota for export at the latter figure. Pork wasfirm, with more doing. Sugars contiaued ac. tive, with sales of about 1,600 a 1,700 hdda., chiefly Cube muscovados, at steady prices. About 20,000 bushels of corn, in bulk, were shipped for Liverpool at 34.8 3)1.; and 1,100 41,200 bales of cotton, at 7-324. 8 }).for ancompressed, for part, and the re. A Soathers Secessionist on the Know No things—4 Soutneru Unionist on «Live Oak George.” We Jay before our readers this morning a leading elaborate article from the Charleston Mercury, pleading earnestly in behalf of the organization of “the union of the South” in a purely Southern party for the Presidency; and another article, of an entirely different staple, from the New Orleans De/ta, running a paral- lel upon the relative claims of Millard Fill- more and George Law to the nomination of the new American party for the great campaign of 1856. First, in regard to the historical argument of our Charleston cotemporary. As usual with the editorials of that journal, it exhibits an intimate knowledge of the practical work- ing of American politics upon the vital issue of slavery; bat, with its characteristic proclivi- ties to secession, disunion, and the experiment of an independent Southern confederacy at all hazards, its facts and its deductions are all distorted in that direction. We are aware, as every body is aware, of the fact that the late whig and democratic parties have been broken to pieces, and that their destruction was the re- sult of their attempting to navigate among the hidden rocks, shoals and quicksands of the anti-slavery agitation. We admit that, demoralized and disorganized, broken up and disbanded as these two old parties are, es- pecially in the North, that neither of them af- fordsa safe anchorage for the South; and we also admit that were there no other party in the field, the only alternative to the South would be the organization of a great Southern party, for the defence of their institutions and the maintain- ance of their rights, . But there is another and g “ew party upon the course—its existence is admitted by our Charleston radical—even its pretensions, to some extent, as a national organization are con- ceded; but it is examined with prejudiced eyes, and cast off'as the old and lately deceased whig party redivivus in a new disguise, returning to its idols. We are told that “it has galvanized the hopes of defunct politicians, and brought together the hungry horde.” But, still worse, says our Charleston complainant, these Know Nothings “caught the sympathy of many true Southern men, whose support, while it gave reepectability to their cause, weakened the South in her tenderest point.” Furthermore, we are told that this extraordinary party, “in- stead of the constitution and our rights, de- clares the Union to be the paramount po- litical good.” This is unfortunate, but there is a little sophistry in this plea; for, as we understand it, the platform of the American party adopted at Philadelphia, not only declares in favor of the Union, but in favor of the rights of the States and of the South under the constitution, as the only basis upon which the Union can be preserved and per- petuated. The most grievous specifications of the Mer- cury against the Know Nothings, however, are, that they “bind the consciences of Southera men by the third degree,” and that they “in- troduce new, inferior and destructive questions into our midst, and seek to give them promi- nence over the paramount question.” Now what is this third degree with which these ter- tible Know Nothings are binding “the con- sciences of Southern men?” A pledge to sus- tain the Union against all conspirators, not a bad thing in the abstract, though certainly contiicting with the peculiar projects of Northern and Southern disunionists. On the other hand, the Know Notbings have been identified with “new, inferior and destructive questions,” such as a war of extermination against Catholics and aliens; but these heresies they are rapidly sloughing off, and by the year 1856 we have no doubt they will be ignored or entirely overshadowed by the “paramount ques+ tion’ of the constitution and the Union. It is remarkable, though a perfectly logical phenomenon, that there is the same decided hostility to the Know Nothings from the Seward anti-slavery Holy Alliance, and those Southern ultras whose hopes of the millenium are center- ed in secession and a separate Southern confede- racy. We think that against such opposition the Know Nothings, rallying upoa their Union platform, may safely challenge the suffrages of the masses of the independent conservative people of ali parties, North and South. From the lugubrious bill of complaints of our Charleston cotemporary, we turn with a sense of relief to the refreshing article of the New Orleans Delta, devoted to the respective Presidential claims upon the American party of Millard Fillmore and George Law. We concer in the preferences of the Delta for a new man. They are but the elaboration of the same opinions heretofore expressed through the columns of the Heraup. They are the views which would naturally suggest themselves to any dispassionate and inquiring mind feeling any interest whatever in the policy of a tho- rough-going revolution in the government at Washington. The nomination of Mr. Fillmore would be, in a political sense, the nomination of an “old fogy’’—his election would be, not the inauguration of a new party and a new policy out and out, but the restoration of that silver gray whig regime which was superseded with the election of Mr. Pierce, in the general hope of something better. “Live Oak George,” on the contrary, is a new man, from a new and popular class of political men, emphatically a business man, a go abead man, and a man of the people. We venture to say, too, that the old party organs and “venal poli- ticians” of the country are beginning to dis cover that this popular movement in behalf of “Live Oak George” is becoming a much more serious joke than they anticipated three or four months ago. We turn over the secession organization in- dicated by the article from the Charleston Mer- cury, and the national American ticket nomi- nated by the New Orleans Deiia, to the von- sideration of our readers. The prospect seems now to be strengthening of four candidates in the field in °56, to wit: the candidate of the spoils democracy, the candidate of the Seward anti-slavery coalition, the candidate of the Southern secessionists, and the candidate of the national American party. With the country thus cut up, who can doubt the suc- cess of the party taking the broadest and strongest ground for the Union? Let us watch the winds and the tides. Srate Poxtrics.—Tim Ave AN Party.— We are informed that the rdant elements in the American party in t tate hare beea, or soon will be, harmonized upon the Philadel. phia platform. The Ame » Fosion Conven tion haa been in session city daring this wee Thie C NEW YORK HERALD, American Orders. The Convention unanimous- dy resolved to support the platform as adopted at Philade)phia, and the Know Nothing State ticket, and adjourned to meet on the third Tuesday of September. This is a good be- ginning, and shows that New York is still sound op national questions, and that the American party will be national and con- servative or nothing. There is no half way abont it. In politics, as well as in religion the maxim, “he that is not with me is against me,” is a trath which cannot be gainsayed. ‘The News from California. Our friends in California are full of spirit. They have no sooner topped over in general bankruptcy than they are up again and talk of their prosperity as though the world had never seen the like. Our letters published elsewhere are samples of raw elasticity of mind, consi- dering that itis only a few weeks since the largest bankers in the State suspended payment, and the ery was that the evil day hadcome. Oa this side of the continent it takes years to heal the wounds caused by a commercial revulsion. The distress produced by the crash of 1837 lasted far into 1842 and 1843; and no one save the most thoughtless believes that the crisis which began last year is over yet. The gradual diminution in,the railway receipte—-the impaired business of the hotels—and generally the curtail- ed profits of retail dealers—would give them the lie if they ventured to hope that the good time has come already. But in California, a month or six weeks seem quite ample to cure any amount of suffering. They find a new placer— they grub up one or two lumps of gold worth hundreds of dollars—some wild New Yorker sends thema cargo or two to be knocked off for anything it will command—and they are sa- tiefied they are all right again and the storm is over. A happy people at all events! Just now they are rejoicing—the best part of them—at the decision of the Land Commission- ers in the case of Bolton vs, the United States. The question involved in this case was the title to a tract of land in the city of San Francisco, containing some three square leagues, and valued, so it is said, at the incredible sum of forty millions of dollars. It appears—such are the wonderful changes even in such solid unre- mantic objects as lots of land—that nine years ago, the Roman Catholic mission of Dolores was hard pressed by duns, and run some risk of having the breviary of the priest and the other paraphernalia of the mass sold by the sheriff. Under these circumstancespand moved by @ pious regard for the church, Senor Pio Pico, then Governor of the Territory, gave a tract of land, so many leagues long and so many wide—they had no use for shorter measures than leagues then—to José Prudentia Santillan, on condition that he was to pay the debts of the mission. It appears that Santillan paid the debts and became owner of the land. After- ward—when the country passed into the hands of the Americans—Santillan sold his claim, for of course we had made no use of the land, and his title was as yet a naked one—to James R, Bolton, the plaintiff in the present case. Bolton is said to have re-sold to others, whoee names are given, and who are said to have bought it on speculation. With this, however, the public has nothing to do. The only point of mterest is the decision rendered in June last by the Commissioners, confirming Bolton’s title. By this judgment the owners of the claim, whoever they are, became millionaires; for, though the squatters on the tract have held meetings and reviled the Commissioners round- ly, there seems very little reason to question the solidity of the judgment. What is of more im- portance still, the decision establishes a prece- dent for the authentication of old Mexican titles to land. Not the least—possibly the greatest—of the difficulties under which Califor- nia has labored, has been the uncertainty that has atiached to land titles in the State. The holder of the title has in ever s0 many cases found himeelf at issue with a squatter, who had nine points of the law and very often ten on his side. Now, it would appear, the Bolton case lias given the death-blow to squatter tyranny, At all events, the San Francisco people seem so to regard it, and hail the judg- ment as the first omen of a new era of solidity and confidence in matters pertaining to real estate. It is not the only substantial symptom of a better state of things in the Queen State of the Pacitic. Far away at the mines, vaga- ponds have been astonished by the publica- tion of laws against gambling, laws against the profanation of the Sabbath, laws against illicit trade. Such a thing was never heard of before. A country where men made a fortune by stumbling on a tat lump of gold between breakfast and dinner, to sit down quietly and adopt the laws of the Puritans! Here was a shock for the conservatives. But so it is, The people of California have not oply passed every law which is demanded to ensure as moral and orderly a state of society as one may find in New England, but they have set to work vigorously to carry them out- Their laws are not to be mere paper laws, it appears. Men who have been accustomed to turn out and hunt down a thief like a wild beast with rifle and revolver, are not likely so soon to relapse into the civilized custom of let- ting their laws become a dead letter. Gamblers, vagabonds and pickpockets will soon find that ia is not the place for them. More we notice that agriculture is bidding high against mining for the first rank among the interests of the State. Men are raising cattle in droves, and opening farms by the thousands of acres at a time; itis being dis- covered that fortunes are to be as easily made in this way a3 by mining, These are symp toms which, though they may not intercept the results of foregone canses, will certainly operate to secure for California a substratum of prosperity and well being that no commer. cia) crisis can take away. Awverican Ori in THe Russian Service! ~A Satvp ror Frencn ALArMs.—The Paris papers make some curions mistakes in reference to the government and habits of this country. One of their latest blunders in this way is a statement in the Constitutionnel that three officers in the United States Army, namely, Majors Delafield and Mordecai, and Captain McClelland, had recently passed through War- saw, on their way to St. Petersburg, to take service in the Russian army. Our Paris cotem- porary gravely adds that they will be obliged to take the oaths of Russian subj To allay any alarm that the Constitutionnel may feel on this t, we can assare it that the pany American re- is Ow country, end FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1855, take the preliminary step of resigning their commissions in our army. ‘The real facts with regard to those gentlemen are that they were specially eent out to witness the siege operations in the Crimea for the benefit of the different departments of the service to which they belong, and that our government, directed them first to obtain the permission of the French Emperor to visit the camp of the Allies. That permis- sion was refused, for reasons which it is not Recessary now to canvass. The American offi- cers then proceeded to St. Petersburg to obtain the sanction of the Czar to their visiting Sebas- topol, but that was also denied them, from, pro- bably, similar motives. It being impossible to fulfil the objects of their mission without giving offence to either of the two governments, these gentlemen, as we stated yesterday, are now about to return home. From this it will be seen that our Russian sympathies procure us no more favor from the Czar than from his op- ponent, the French Emperor. Procress or THE Liqvor War.—As one of the Frencly papers said the other day, the “law of Maine has died before it was born.” We have had the law nominally in force since the 4th inst.—eight days—an@ daring that time it is ® fact patent to the meanest conception that there has been more liqaor sold and drank on the premises of the tens of thousands of dealers in this State than ever before during the same time. Nor isthis state of things confined to the city, a8 some of the papers falsely assert. In the whole State there have been three or four seizures of liquors, including one at Saratoga, where the officer’s fingers were burned by the fiery stuff. They were quick to return it, and are now waiting trial on suits for false impri- sonment, trespass and so forth. In the city courts there is a difficulty about jurisdiction—a technical point, hardly worth mentioning under other circumstances, but im- portant just now, as it enables one of the Judges of the Marine Court to decline determining the cases brought before him. The case of Smith, thus sent up to the Sessions by him, will pro- bably go up to the Court of Appeals, where one decision will settle the disputed points of the law about which we have had so many opinions for and against. Meanwhile, some of the down town restaurants have been notified by the Cor- poration Attorney that they are indebted to the city, under the old excise law, which pro- vides that liquor selling on the Sabbath shall be punished by easmall tax, to be recovered by a civil suit. It seems to us that the law was a special invention of the recognized patron of pettifoggera to put money in their pockets; for, what with rules and “or- ders, actioas and cross actions, opinions and decisions, new proceedings, novel pleadings, disputes about practice, and quarrels as to ju- risdiction, we are all in a fog, which can only be cleared up by @ little common sense and sound law from the Bench of the Court of Ap- peals. Meanwhile, all sorts of liquor—good and bad, native and foreign—are sold without re- striction, in all sorts of places, from the splen- did grog shop of the Union Club, in the Fifth avenue, down to the lowest lager bier cellar in the Bowery. There is more drunkenness than ever. So progresses the prohibitory tempe- rance movement. TrovsLE AMONG THE ALDERMEN.-—One does not hear much about the Board of Alder- men, now-a-days, that very respectable body having been almost extinguished by the brilliancy of the Mayor. But they turned up again on Wednesday night, when the Alderman of the Second ward pitched inte the Executive branch of the city govern- ment generally, and avowed, by resolution, that the Board would keep a sharp lookout for the Mayor, especially when he takes the respon- sibility, “even though his Honor should secure the aid of the entire press, by appointing re- porters to policemen’s pay, for the purpose of misrepresenting us to the public.’’ We presume that the Alderman of the Second ward is like the Athenian politician who was tired of hearing Aristides called “the Just,” and therefore desires to shell him out in the same style that the honest old Greek was ostra- cized. But the Board of Aldermen will not help him. If he would save Rome, and oblige the whig party, he must do it, like Quintius Curtius, all alone. The Aldermen laid over the resolutions till August. September would have been better; then it will be cooler. The point of the Alderman’s charge against the Mayor is that he has appointed several newspaper reporters on the police, and that they are to misrepresent the Aldermen (!) in return for their pay. Is thistrue? If it is, we do not know it, and must consider the state- ment highly improbable. Is it likely the City Judge, who differs from the Mayor in politica, would allow such appointments to pass without protest? Isit even likely that the Recorder, who has no particular interest in the popularity of the Mayor, would consent to the addition of a literary staff to the already powerful police force, every day improving under the stern discipline of the head of the Board of Commissioners? It is our impression that the Alderman of the Second ward has made a slight mistake, and taken City Hall gossip for gospel truth, which it is not, as he ought to know. We hear that a person employed on the Express was lately appointed Clerk to the Police Commissioners, in place of a Tammany Hall politician, who was appointed by the pre- sent Mayor, and immediately afterwards trans- ferred to the Custom House. We do not believe that any reporter was ever offered an appointment of the kind, and if the Alderman of the Second has proof to the contrary, why does he not come out with names, dates and other essential particulars. Give us the facts, wpe Tne Barris Forricn Lecion—Born Sines or THE QueEsTion.—We have received several letters in regard to the so-called British Fo- reign Legion, and the enlistment of men in the United States by agents of the English govern- ment, which we publish in another column, in order that our readers may hear both sides of the question. Over a thousand men have feft New York and other cities with the knowledge of our government, and are at present in Nova Scotia, where they have been enrolled in the le. gion stationed near Halifax. From telegraphic despatches, which we published a few days ago, it appears that a serious mutiny broke out among these men, and that, according to their statements, they were indaced to leave the United States by false pretences, the agents paving promised them employment an railroads and other public works in Canada. It remains to be seen whether our government will take on in the matter. Judging from the ny act & displayed, it ie very probable that nothing will be done towards the release of our citizens—at least in time to prevent their being sent to the Crimea. Had the same vigilance been exer- cised in their case as in that of the Cuban fili- busters, the British recrniting agents would not have been able to raise a hundred men. Thanks, however, t0 our government, they have recruited a thousand—enongh to revolu- tionize Cuba, and put an end to Spanish rule in that island. THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, From Washington. ATTACK ON THE PRESIDENT BY ONS OF THE DECAPI. TATBD--ORGANIZATION OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS, bi Wasmxcrox, July 12, 1856. Mr. Wilson, who was recently decapitated by the Pre- aident, is out with a letter in the Organ, and handles Gen, Pierce without gloves. The Union also gets a #e- vere rap over the knuckles, Catholics also catch it right and left. Hon. J Cadwallader, of Pennsylvania, arrived this morning. The Kaw delegation of Indians which arrived here on Monday asked their ‘Great Father’? that one of them be made chief, and invested with sundry flashy trappings and a big pile of money; but instead, all of them to-day received pantalcons, shirts, and shoes, they being naked, excepting blankets, having worn out their leggings and moccasins by their journey hither, Mr, Mix, acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has de- tailed an employe of that bureau to accompany them as far as Pittaburg, thence they are to be sent to St. Lou- is, where the Superintendent of Indian Affairs will for ward them to Kansas. They left here this afternoon, quite wratby because of the failure of their mission. The Court of Claims organized st noon to-day, Gentle- men desiring to be admitted members of the bar were re- quiredto file their credentials for future examination, or give their names to the Clerk, and hereafter farnish proof of their qualifications to practise, whereupon about fifty Jawyers complied with the request, including ten ex- members of Congress, and attorneys from all parts of the country. New Hampshire Legislature. Coneorn (N. H.), Jaly 12, 1855, The House adopted an address for the removal of several judicial and executive officers; also resolutions the same as those adopted by the Maine Legislature re- lative to the process of the naturalization of foreigners and the regulation of the right of sulfrage. A bill was also passed authorizing the banks in the State to take atock in the Bank of Mutual Redemption, at Boston, ‘The Murder Trial in Philadelphia. Puitapevpaa, July 12, 1855. ‘The trial of Schlegel for the murder of his wife, which bas been occupying the attention of the Court of Oyer and Terminer during the last three days, will be com- pleted to-night. The evidence is through, and the argu- ment is proceeding. The evidence for the defence sup- plied an important link in the evidence wanting by the prosecution, A witness was brought forward who tes- tified to seeing ‘Schlegel and his wife in the street on Saturday evening, thereby contradicting Schlegel’s pre- vious statements as to going home on Saturday evening, when he found his wife gone anda letter left for him. ‘This letter is now accertatned to have been written by himself, It is generally believed that he will be con- victed, though the evidence is entirely circumstantial. From Buffalo. THE RECENT DUEL—THE LIQUOR LAW. Bourraxo, July 12, 1855. Leavenworth, the wounded duellist, is recovering fairly. The leg in which he was shot will be shortene) about one inch, The first liquor case in this city came before the court today. A witness was subpensed, who refused to tes- tify, on the ground that he might criminate himself. The point wae not decided. The Projected Line of Steamers Between Boston and Liverpool. Boston, July 12, 1855. A meeting of merchants was held at the Exchange to- day, to forward the establishment of @ line of ocean steamships betweem Boston and Liverpool direct. About one hundred and fifty were present. The Hon. Geo. B. Upton presided. The meeting was addressed by the President, Geo. R. Sampson, Enoch Train, Mayor Smith, and others. Resolutions setting forth the importance of the pro- ject were adopted, and a committee of thirty-six chosen to solicit subscriptions to the stock. It is contemplated to build four new first class steamers for the line. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Wareuxa, July 12, 1855, The breach in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad caused by the late heavy rains bas been repaired, and trains Jeave hereagain this evening, as usual. The river at this point measures eighteen feet, and is rising. Killed by Lightning. Unica, July 12, 1856, At seven o’clock this evening, near the starch fac- tory, a young German, (name not ascertained), on board the canal boat Wyoming, was, during » heavy storm, struck by lightning, and instantly killed, Fire at Lewiston, Me. Lewiston, Me., July 12, 1856. The machine works of C,H. Reynolds & Co,, in this town, were damaged by fire this morning to the amount of about $4,000, Mostly insure d. The Steamship Crescent City. Batarmorg, July 12, 1855. The steamship Crescent City has been acquitted of the charge of violating the quarantine laws of New Orleans on her last arrival at that port. Obituary. Apany, July 12, 1855. James M, French, Pension Agent, died this morning. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PHILADELPHIA, July 18, 1556. Money plenty. Stocks steady. Resdi 3 Morris Canal, ha pa Inland 1) ViRe ; Beansylvanis ilroad, 443; Pennaylvania State Fives, 88, BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET. BatiMonE, July 12, 1855. Six hundred head of beef cattle were olfered at the market to-day, 120 of which were driven eastward, and the balance sold at prices ranging rom $7 50 to $9 50 on the hoof. Hogs-Supply light, and prices well sus- tained. Sales at $7 50 a $5 per 100 Ibs, Cuanieston, Jul Our cotton market has a declini ten to-day, 2,500 bales, at Sc. a Ile, We quote good middling at 93<c. a 10c, ALBANY, July 12—6:30 P. M. Flour dull and unchanged, Corn—Sales 10,000 bush- eis Western mixed, inlots, at 89¢, a 90c. it, NO sales. Oats, G0e. for Chicago weight. Whiskey, 4c. im lots. Receipts by canal to-day—1,135 bbls, flour, 7,457 bushels whest, 5,470 bushels oats, ‘The dessa for. fons soattents et i for ton boctcn emand for flour continues for States; sales of 700 bbls. at $8 50 a $9 26 for common to e Upper Lake, and $9 3734 a $9 75 for choice to ex- pure Mishigan, Wheat ies of 500 bushels prime white Michigan at $2373. Corn dull, Holders refuse to concede to buyers’ views. Sales of 3,300 bushels at 79, Oate—No sale. Canal freights 9c. to Albany and 10, 1855, lency. Salen middling to lle. to New York. Lake importa yesterday were 1,224 bbis. four, 300 bushels wheat. Canal ex for the same time:—Flour, 1,315 bbis.; wheat, 5,872 bushels; heat corn, 37,179 bushels; oats, 9,174 bushels. New Orleans, Redmond Ryan, « clever Irish comedian, died suddenly, leaving his wife and children without « penny in the world. They are mow in this city, and some of Mr, Ryan’s friends are endeavoring to get up a benefit for them at one of our theatres, We hope that thie charitable intention will be carried out, and that the benefit will be so mamaged as to be really beneficial. Lately affairs of this kind have left the beneficiaries in debt. Tue Treatres,—We refer our readers to the adver- tising columns fer the particulars of the amusements at the respective theatres. The managers seem to have catered well for the pleasure of thelr patrons. rflowing house greeted Miss Henaler at Spring- field om Wedne vy evening, and more eathostenn wee displayed thas at any concert ever given there, with the exception of Jenny Lind’s, U, 8, Commissoner’s Court, Before Richard E Stilwell, Eeq. ; Wheelock, who was arreste on 4 Oar Washington Wasninatoy, Joly 11, 1856, ‘The Cabinet and the Cuban Question—Land Speculations: in Kansas, The Cabinet of the th inst met In fall, and hed befora them the tmportant questions of our Dominieag and Cuban relations, particulars of which were lately re- ported in the Hxxarp, The letters of your correspon- dent were read, and Mr. Marcy wae appealed to asto their correctness. Anticipating this demand, he plead’ Ss necessary for the suppreasion of certain papers bear- ing upon the above cages, from the Cabinet, that inves« tigation would prove them groundless. This diplomacy fell heavily upon the keen sensibilities of both Mr. Davis and Dobbin, and I am now assured that theadjourn- ment of this Cabinet mecting will be productive of most ‘ave resulta, Dobbim wil: leave under pretext of {IS alth, but will not sgain resume his duties as Secre- tary of the Navy. Between the President and Davis there has not existed the usual confidence, Davi haa proved his treachery in the case of Soule, and his indirect oppomtion to the acquirement of Cubs, when it could have been obtained ny purchise three months. bahia? Mr. Leo lashings ladrid. is now discovered that most in t deny bearing’ upon our foreign interests, have been muy” hg ag under the advice of the Premdent soa hee an [epinet- the majority of it—have beem sled a) formed upon vario: j have been called to act bon.” oe bent Ae Afursher investigation into the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the government money, in- vested under cognizance of officials, in the Kansas land speculation, lead to the following particulars. T have ascertained that a United States Senator is one of the- principal advisers in the affair, amd toat Reeder, with the entire party, pow likely to meet with proper treat- ment in their speculations, at the hands ‘the Kansas Legislature. have been under the direction of this well known individual, The head of a certain Bu- reau in this city is eel investigations into this mat- ter; and contrary to my late advices, the most impor- tant of these peculating facts may be made public be- fore the meeting of Congress. Laying of the Corner Stone of a new Metho= dist Episcopal Church, The corner stone of the new Methodist Episcopas Church, now in process of erection fon Thirty-fourth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues, was laid yesterday, in the presence of about three hundred per- sons, the majority of whom were members of the church. A temporary platform was constructed for the officiat- ing ministers, consisting of Bishop Janes, Rev. H. Mate tison, (pastor of the church,) Rev. Dr. Osborne, Rev. Dr. Haven, Rev, Mr. Wakely, Rey. Mr. Ferris and Rev. Mr. Collins. Rev. Mr. Lounsnerry commenced the services by sing- ings hymn appropriate to the occasion, in which the whole audience joined, after which Rev. Mr. WAKELY, of the Jane street Methodist Episcopal Church, read the 84th Palm. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. FERRIS, and Rey. Mr. Coutins read @ portion of the second chap- ter of the first Genera} Epictle of St. Peter. A brief his- tory of the organization and progress of the churcke was then given by Rev. Mr. 1T180N, From this we learn that the present edifice ia being erected by a co- lony, consistin2 of 119° members, from the Thirtieth street Methodist Episcopal Church. The church wher first organized, on March 2, 1864, numbered fifty-nina members, thirty three of whom were females, andthe remainder males. The edifice itself is to be built in the style of Gothic known as the Jancet—will have an ex- tent of 65 by 08 feet, and will be constructed of brown and blue stone. It will have péw room for 1,210 per. sons on the ground floor and gi , and the lecture room will accommodate about 500, A brief and appropriate address was made by Professor Haven, of the Michigan University, on the civilization and tefining influences of Chi ity. He com; the condition of the ancient and modern worlds, and drew therefrom the conclusion that the empires of an- tiquity, Rome, Greece, Babylon, &c., fell because they had not that life giving ‘power which is to be found only in the traths of Gospel. Without Christianity the world, he raid, would present the same us Picture whica Byron bad given in his Dream,” ity was true Rome was civilized, and 60 waa Greece, dut it was o civilization without vitality, and it was not to be wondered at that it should die out. There was very little grace or life in the world til? the jour came into it. Not tUl then did mem have any idea of true philanthropy. It might be said that the Christians of the present day exhibited their philanthropy only in poll off missionaries to distant lands, while such places as the Five Points ea- caped their notice; but he would tell those who ssid so that even that locality had been visited, and there was no benevolent enterprise commenced anywhere that was not begun by Christian men and women. It was only by practical Christianity that the world could be regenerated and all nations brought to a, knowle¢ge of the true God. Rev. Dr. Osnonyr, pastor of the Mulberry street M. E. church, next addreseed the congregation, and at the conclusion of his remarks the oo: tion united in. singing hymn 962. A collection was then taken up, after which the corner stone was laid by Bishop Janes, in accordance with the prescribed forms of the M. E. church. While engaged in the ceremony he repeated the following declaration, expressive of the objects of the church:—‘To promote intelligence, virtue and piety, for the good of humanity and the glory of God, we lay the corner stone of this Christian temple, in mame ye the Father, apd oi the Son, and of the Holy Ghost— men, Having peformed this ceremony, the Bishop offered = Prayer and pronounced a benedictiom, after which the audience dispersed. The following were placed under the corner stone :— Copy ef the Scriptures (edition of A. B. Society.) Church ba book. e Discipliae of the church, Last annual report of the Missionary, Sunday Schoo’ The number of the various church periodicals viz.:—The Methodist Quarterly Review, the National Magazine, Christian Advocate and Journal, Westerm Christian Advocate, Pittsburg Christian Advocate, North- western Christian Advocate, Nerthern Ubristian Advo- cate and Zion’s Herald, the Sunday School Advocate, Missi Advocate and Watchman, Wesleyan Adver-~ eeceplen of the dal the city Copies of the daily papers of the city, a copy of the prohibitory liquor law, and alithograph of the church. The names ot ps itor, local preachers, class leaders, trustees, stewards, officers of Sunday school, members of the chureh and probation. The names of all subscribers to the funds for the erec- tion of the church, with the amounts subscribed, the names of the architect and contractor, and the minis ters officiating at ‘ing of the corner atone. Opposition to the Constrnction of the Ninth Avenue Railroad. Before Hon. Judge E. P. Cowles. Jury 12.—4. R. Wetmore and others vs. Miner C. Sto- ry and others.—The evidence in this case having beem closed last term, the summing up was commenced thie morning pursuant to adjournment, Mr. John Vas Bu- ren, with whom ex-Judge Beardsley and Mr. Henry Hil- ton were associated as counsel for the plaintiffs, pro- ceeded to argue the points for the opponents of the pro- pored line. He submitted that the Corporation of the city of New York had no power, in any way, or by any act, legislative or executive, to authorize the construc- tion and use of this railroad. It had such powers as'wera expressly conferred upem it by its charter and by statute, amd such as were necessary to the exercise of ite express powers, and no other power whatever. The powers which it had it could only exescise in the manner ‘and for the purposes and objects epecified in its charter and by said statutes. That the right of eminent do- main is in the State, and the power to exercise the right for the purpose of entabli ‘® railroad in Greeawicl: and Washington streets bas not been delegated to the corporation of the city of New York, nor to one else, Having nothing but am easement, oF Teht of way, the corporation has no right to dig in the for the purpose of Jaying rails and constructing @ railroad in the street, nor can itgrant any auch right to others, -\s the law presumes the fee of the land in the site of the street to be in the landowners on each side, usque ad Silumb viae, those who allege the fee is elsewhere must Prove the fact. The Cree must produce its title ifit bas any. The land in the site of the atreet cannot be taken for the purpose of establishing » railroad, with out msking just compensation to the owners of the noi). The corporation has both legislative and executive powers, Whatever interest in, or power over the street rightful! belongs to the corporation, it holda the same ae a tru: to be exercised for the public good; and the grant these privileges for a trifling sum, with the right te de- mand five cents fore from travellers, when the trustesa malght bave obtained a large sum for the grant, with = charge upon travellers of only three cents, was a palpa- ble breach of trust, and @ gross fraud upon the plaintifia bo = other tax payers, inhabitants and travellers in y A number of other points were submitted, and the ar- gument is still on. The Fire Commissioners, A meeting of the Fire Commissioners was held last evening, at the Fireman’s Hall, in Mercer street, All the members of the board were present. Complaint by officer Masterson, of the Chief's office, against hook and ladder company No, 4, for ronning into and damaging several wagons while on the way toa fire, July 3, Complainant was sworn, and deposed © the careless running of the ey on the occasion. He also said that the foreman of ape hed used itto have abusive juage towards bim, but he Seve Sous fe 7 the f jm excitement. Mr. M foreman, contended that the accident waa the result of the crowd- ed street, and that it was unavoidable. Dr, P testified to damage to the amount of $30 to ius vonieae In his opinion it was the result of carelessness, Mr. Michadder, who had the tiller at the time, attributed it to necesnary and overcrowded streets; farther- more, the horse backed on to the truck. The matter of several expulsions was then taken Up and referred, ‘The complaint of hose company No, 44 against twe of the members of No. 39, chai them Sith blockading the whilst running to a fire in Fittieth street, was then heard. Mr, Milledard, ex-foreman of No. tentified to the facts as complained of. Mr. Took member of the same company, gave the same version of the affair, Mr. O'Neil, one of the defendants, held tha tongue on the occasion; he was not aware of the near. ness of 44 until they aitempted to pass defendant’s en. gine, when the latter were o! to turn aside, because of some rubbish in the way, and thus the obstruction was caused, Mr. White, another member of defendant's company, testified to the impossibility of avoiding thia obstruction. o The complaint of Mr. Ernilin against engine company No. 9 was noticed, and testimony was taken to show wilfcl damage to complainant’s wagon and horse on tha rd of Jaly. The company, in defence, set up their bell ? that ther r ‘ :