The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1855, Page 4

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Loxpoy.....Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cor Pam, vingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place dea Bourse. ‘The contents af the Foropesn edition of the Hznatp ‘will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at fhe office during the previous weck, and to the hour of pabMcation. The News. The steamship Star of the West, with advices from San Francisco to the Ist inst., is now due at this port. The Secretary of State of Now Granada has writ- ten to the Miuister Plenipotentiary at Washington a diplomatic note, which we publish this morning. It twforms him of the condition of public tranquillity which the republic now enjoys, uninterrupted even Dy the menaced hostilities of Venezuela, or by ap- prehensions of the movements of Flores, and re- quires him to have periodical reports sent by the Consuls as to the demand and consumption here of all the prodacts of New Granada. The delegates to the State Republican Convention held a secret caucus at the Astor House on Satur” day evening, for the purpose of tilling vacancies, and it possible making out a course of action for the New York delegation to follow at Syracuse. The republicans are not the most harmonious and sweet- tempered people in the world, as will be readily seen by our report of the proceedings of the meeting alluded to. C, C. Leigh endeavored to foist a Maine Yew plank into the platform; but the delegates, pro- ‘Dbebly remembering the fate of their party in Maine, rebelicd at this, became bellicose, and adjourned, amid strong rymptoms of a row, without committing themselves. This, doubtless, foreshadows what we may expect at Syracuse on Wednesday next. Capt. Wright, who was recently stabbed during an affiay at the St. Nicholas Hotel, is convolesciug. In consideration of this fact, Mr. Dean, the oppo- nent of Capt. Wright, and Mr. Montgomery, who is charged with being an accessory, were on Saturday admitted to bail, the first named in $5,000, and the Tatier in $2,500, We poblish elsewhere the law of Congress re- wpecting quarantines, together with some informa- tion relative to the Crescent City affair that is in- teresting. The recent action of the Board of Health with reference to qnarantine regulations, and the condact of the captain of the steamship Cres- cent City, in putting to sea in defiance of the orders of the Health Officer, haye created considerable dis- oussion. Our system of quarantine laws is undoubt- edly defective in many respects. There is a want of unity in the several departments with which the care of the pabliqhealth is placed. We have laws by Congress, statutes by the Legislature, ordinance by the city, and regnlations hy the Health Officer, Bome of these are necessary and proper, but others are unnecessary, vexatious, and arbitrary. The laws and regulations, and the powers of certain officials acting under them, need revision and amendment; and it isto be hoped that the next Legislature will, at an early day, devote attention to the subject. The value of foreign goods imported into the port of Boston for the week ending 21st inst. amounted to $654,526, On Satarday the demand for cotton was moderate, at unsteady rates, holders submitting to a slight seduction in prices. Flour was active, the sales reaching 17,000 barrels, without material change in prices. The transactions in wheat amounted to 0,000 bushels, and previous rates were fully main- tained. The sales of corn comprised about 40,900 bushels, principally Western mixed, at a decline of ne cent per bushel. Pork was in fair request, and wales of mesa were effected at 37 a $22.50 per barrel—a slight advance on the rates of the day previous. Sngar was dull of sale, at 6fc. a The. for Cuba. Freights were active, but we have no altera- tion in rates to notice. Mr. Perry ann Ot Yer Serreen.—-The organ of the admin the Perry correspondence the comments of the Nutiona BAyS:— ate ioos wt , the Intelligencer fter the with ‘tw Madrid, after Mr, Sould’s vays that ‘the Secretary drawal of the Minister, “suococde Spanish government the’ conc commodation which his superior olicer structed to press upon the attention of thy We are very sure that the truth of the fo: state- men! would be acknowle ged by no one more gladly than by Mr, Marey; but we rn truth com| tains mo evi fence whe add that the State b ‘ever of any sm on the part of Mr Porry. Ot thi hi Mr. Soulé was in structed to has been sett not in any jus ; All the other eases remain « the State Department has Snforme ‘ion Now, is not this « precious confession in behalf of Mr. and his Premi. After all the threats and hoastings and promises of the adminigtivation, and after ail th which they bave made in both hem ring the last two years, concerning ‘the long list” of Span- ich outrages: against our flag, our comme: and our people, nothing bas heen settled the case of the Black Warrior. The o! Mr. Dodge, at Mudrid, is, therefore, no sineour after all. But is he awaiting the pleaguro of sthe Spanish government! or why is it that the State Department has no information of his having’ gone to work? Afer the experience of Soulé and Perry, perhaps Mr. Dodge thinks it beat to koe W his own « els, for fear that he too may he cYefeated in bis labors by the in- terference of oW bungling promier, Can the Ca! inet organ in) orm we | the mattetetands Letwe-n Mr. Dodge s t Armed Pe The Coming Presidential ice’ the more plainly is it seen that the next Presi- dential election will test the constitution more severely than any former political contest. It once seemed possible that, when the time ap- proached, the Know Nothing question might divide the anti-slavery party to such an exteat as to weaken it materially, or even to paralyse it for all practical purposes. Thisappeared to be a most likely contingency at the time the Philadelphia Grand Council broke up. But now recent indications aswell in New England as in New York and the West show that the agitation of the artful men who have made anti-slavery their hobby has not been devoid of fruit. Throughout New England, we must expect to see nativism postponed to abolition ; in Pennsylvania and New York, the recent scenes in Kansas, aggravated by the woeful imbecility of the administration, have fanned the sinking anti-slavery embers into a glow; while, in Ohio and a large section of the West, the tendency is obviously treason-ward. To blind ourselves to the breakers towards which the ship of State is drifting would be sheer madness, It is not to be disguised that the abolitionists have advanced with gigantic strides during the last five years. Principles have not altered. true to-day. Nor is there any reason to believe that men’s wits are sharper now than they used to be, or that the human intellect has received such a developement in the past five years as to enable it to detect wrong institutions which seemed blameless in the last decade. in nature the constant action of the most in- significant causes is capable of producing the most astounding results, so the persevering + Le GMb y, HO de os he vad Judge ot pre “NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1855. The Oriais of 1856. The nearer we draw to the canvass of 1856, What was true in 1849 is But, as agitation oj anti-slavery has worn @ passage to the minds of the thoughtless. Appeals have been successfully made tothe pride of the North. ho South has been painted as a ruth- less tyrant, usurping powers which rightfully belong to the North, and subordinating the general government to the interests of one do. mestie institution. Of course all this is more rant and declamation. If it were true, the blame should fall, not upon the South, which in the case supposed would only have obeyed the law of self-preservation, but upon the North, which having the power, would have used it to scif-destraction or self-abasement, But those who think and those who read are a fractional portion of every community, Shont what you willin the ears of the masses, they will believe it in the eid so you shout long enougb and loud enongh. So it comes about that the abolitionists now muster an army strong enough to threaten the citadel of the Union, and after a career briefer than the al- lotted span of mon’s life, the United States Constitution is now about to be brought to the bar, and mayhap to be condemned. Great crises have not been udknown in American history. The election of Jefferson was a crisis of vital consequence not only to the institutions of this country—then wavering between monarchism and democracy—but to the cause of human equality and popular sove- reignty throughout the world. On that occa- sion the right prevailed by an overwhelming majority, and in three months, the waters were calm. The clection of Jackson was likewise a crisis—though of less significance—as being the second triumph of pure popular sovereignty over the nascent bureaucracy of the Uuited States. But into what insignificance do these crises sink, when compared with that which 1856 portends—with a struggle in which not only the future of this or that institution is in iszue, but the whole fabric reared by Washing- ton, and strengthened and backed up by the strenuous efforts of the best men in the coun- try for nearly seventy years, is staked on the result!—with a contest the effect of which may be to dissolve the Union, whose formation has been the wonder of statesmen for more than half a century, but which, like those wondrous I antiquity alwhich the gods assisted, e subverted, ", never be rebuilt! This is no m can question. It con- rans, of course, but not them alone. m of uuiversal application and im- Baropeans are direetly interested Principles are involved in it, portance. in its solution. in whose fate every human being has a person- aleoncern, On the surface it may seem to be a mere quarrel about this or that system of la- bor: in substance, ‘tis the cause of human rights and liberty which is at stake. Agitate, agi- tate, says the British oligarchy and the Enro- pean monarchs to the American abolitionists, Books teeming with abolitionist theories, money abolitionist cause, nd across the Atlantic ; more than once, when the m has almost died out here, their encouragement and their subsidies have re- vived it. There was a time when simple mind- ed persons could believe that they acted thus from pure and high impulses, Long ago, this delusion was dispelled by inquiring into the British systems of lalior ; and it was made ap- parent tothe most incredulous that, though individual Englishmen may have been misled in the crusade by a preponderance of heart over head, the movement at large originated with the aristocratic dread of American democracy, and tended, not to the liberation of the negro, but to the humiliation of this republic, To the contest of next year the British oligarchy look with an anxiety which cannot be pictured. Hanging themselves in the balance, warned by daily perils that American example is over- riding British precedent, usage, and routine throughout the United Kingdom, they hope bat in the abolitionists. If, next year, the oppo- nents of slavery win the day, and the Union is it would be, democracy in England ope will receive their deathblow. No man of substance would adhere to a creed, which, under such peculiarly favorable cireum- stances as ours, wonld appear to lead to nothing but confusion, disasters, and bloodshed. Most wonderful to relate-—and pregnant with matter for shame over human imbecility—the staunchest allies of the oligarchies and tyrants of Europe, in their crusade against American institutions, appear to be the radicals and red republicans. Led away by words and theories, these ultra fanatical friends of democracy in Forope are often seon playing into the hands of the greatest living enemies of the demo eracie faith; partly from ignorance of the mo- Tits of the institetions they assail; bat more, itis to be feared, from the general want of practicalness and solidity of their minds, And what of ourselves—of the people of this Union? Timo ond again, the’ farmers, the merchants, the landowners, the thinkers have heen called upon to decide questions involving toa greater or less extont the prospestty of sent their decisions have been consistent with right, and conducive to advantage. How will they decide the qaestion of next year—the most important, without comparison, of any that has ever been submitied to them since the Constitution was ratified? The enemies of the Union are abroad; they are active, they are cunning; they appeal to the passions; they flatter the sentiment of pride; they tickle the sense of honor; they rouse the feeling of in- dignation, Against all this, the friends of the Constitution can only rely on the dictates of cold reason and material interest. <A struggle obviously unequal. Teveorare To1s,—A new tariff of tolls has just been adopted on the telegraphic lines be- tween this city and Washington. In a playful spirit of humor, the alteration has been an- nounced by the manageraas a “reduction of rates;” it appears on the contrary to be an increase and a pretty stiffone. So far as the press is concerned—and it is, as every one knows, the best customer of the telegraph— the advance in prices varies from one hundred to six hundred per cent, It is shown in the following table:— Old Rates, New Rates, Increase. 80 00° “$1,200 00 © $1,020 00 00 @00 00 ‘508. 00 00 240 00 193 00 00 120 00 90 00 00 60 00 42 00 00 12 00 7 00 50 6 00 3 50 60 820 270 fun was upon them, the telegraphic men perpetrated another joke. They gaye out that fora certain additional fee they would insure the accuracy of mes- sages, In other words, they say to the public: We will do business for you for so much ; but if you want us to do it properly, you must pay us double. This appears, as Dickens says, to be “a pilin’ of it up a leetle too mountaine- was only last year that Congress enacted that the Post Office would deliver letters for three cents; but if people wanted them to be deliver- ed, honor bright, they must pay eight. We must distinguish, as the old casuists would have said, between doing a thing, and doing it cer- tainly, undoubtedly, as it ought to be done, in short: people are free to choose for themselves, Those who try the cheap plan, and pay three cents for their letters or a single rate for their telegraphic mersages, are forewarned what they may expect. Asto the increase of rates, it is not likely the press will complain, Editors are not such novices in political economy as to expect that the telegraph companies will work for one cent less than the most they can get. The old ideas about extortion and so forth, were ex- ploded long ago. Prices, like water, may be safely left to find their level in every free community, The Washington lines now be- lieve they will make more money than hereto- fore by doubling their rates, We doubt it. In the first place every increase of prices of commodities not of prime necessity has al- ways been found to diminish the number sold, in proportion to the square of the increase: just as every reduction of prices has led to an inerease in the business done, in the propor- tion of the square of the reduction, This is the experience of all modern countries, and hence, with very rare exceptions, the tendency of prices of this class of articles is invariably dowawards. It does not seem likely that the Washington tele- graphic lines will form an exception to the rule. Again, prices are controlled by compe- tition, It is competition which compels the publisher of a daily newspaper to sell it ata cent and a half, when the white paper costs a cent anda tenth ormore. Competition, in fact, governs the price of everything, and may be expressed in the formula that whenever a man charges such prices for his wares as to reap an exorbitant profit, others will instantly compete with him in the business, and being content with lees profit will undersell him. This is what will happen with the Southern telegraph companies, which, as we understand, calevlate upon a profit of 25 per cent per annum on the capital invested. We hear already of three different telegraph patents, all of which are said to be superior to the Morse, Bain and House patents. That improvements would be made in these laiter was to be expected; nothing was wanting to call them into life and practical activity but such an occurrence as the recent increase of rates on the Southern lines. No one can donbt, in fact, but that these patents will be immediately taken up by men of capital, and new lines constructed to com- pete with the old ones, The gentlemen of the telegraph no doubt understand their own business better than strangers. But we will take leave to inform them that it isa very ticklish matter in the present day to provoke competition. Many an excellent enterprise has been ruined by the grasping avarice of its managers, who forgot that unborn rivals were as formidable as com- petitors already in the field. Now and then we see instances of monopolies—like the Brook- lyn Ferry Company—which presume upon their fancied etrength and the notorious corruption of our legislative bodies to defy public opinion; but even for them day of reckoning will come, and they will find that every cent they have unwisely grasped to-day will cost them a cent and a half in the end, Georer Saxvers ano tay Rep Rerownrcans —A Bioovy Rerormen.—aAt the celebration of the anniversary of the French Revolution of 1792, by the red republicans of this city, on Saturday last, George Sanders figured some- what conspicuously. Ta our reporter’s report of the meeting, published in yesterday's Henaiy, our late London Consul is represented as saying “that he was a friend of Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc—he was of the Ledra Rollin school. He was for death to tyrants, He was for the guillotine, and he would work thy steam, by G-—1’" If, after this declaration, our red French exiles do not follow the hard shell anti-nigger programme of our ex-Consn] for the Presidency, they are indeed incorrigi- ble visionaries. Fesion Misstonarres Amona Us,—~General Wilson and a Mr. Goodrich, of Massachusetts, were the chosen lions at the negro-worshipping fusionist meeting in Albany on Saturday oven- ing. This mission of Wilson and Goodrich to the relief of Seward and his cause in New York, looks as if between the liquor law and the hards and softs, and the Know Nothings, there may be danger shead to the Holy Al- Hance in this Commonwealth. Gen. Wilson and his colleague we presume are Massachu- setts delegates en route to our black republican convention at Syracuse on Wednesday next. Sct Master Seward ivok to his iawiels, ous.” But such is the way of the world. It 4 Avorn —The Grand Jury of this city and county closed its inquest on Saturday afveraoon by handing in to the Recorder a batch of indict- ments against individuals, of whom no less than eight are officers, high in power and trust, of our municipal government. Their names have not yet publicly transpired, nor the special acte with which they are charged in the in- dictmente, Butit is understood that three of the persons so indicted are invested with the dignity of Aldermen of our city; that an equal bumber are members of the Board of Coun- cilmen, and that the remaining two sre en- trusted with the dispensation of justice as ma- gistrates in our police courts, The general offence charged against them is, of course, malfeasance in office; but in what particular we are left to grope in the dark. The indict- ments, however, are in the hands of the Dis- trict Attorney, and the parties implicated will soon have official notification thereof. Meantime, there is quaking in the hearts and blencing in the faces of a majority of the members and executive officers of our city go- yernment, for they know not but that their own time has come, and that they may have at any moment » summons to appear and an- swer for their official misconduct. Alderman Herrick, Chairman of the Finance Committee, seems to have a presentiment that he is one of those to whom the Grand Jury has been de- voting some attention; and though his inqui- ries failed to elictt anything definite on the subject, he anticipates the evil by declaring his ability to confront the charge, and by im- puting the action of that body to political mo- tives and to the instigation of Mayor WWod. All doubts and uncertainties will be, how- ever, dispelled in aday or two, and the indi- viduals affected by the action of the Grand Jury will soon, we hope, have an opportunity of showing, if they can, stainless skirts. But, whatever may be the issue of these pro- ceedings—whether by some legal hocus pocus the indictments will be quashed, and those who have disgraced themselves and their high offices be still allowed to hold an unblushing front among men, or whether the charges may turn out to be frivolous and ungrounded—the reputation of our city,—that of which we should be most tenderly jealous,—has been irreparably injured. In what other community, civilized or semi-barbarous, can such a scene-—as one of ordinary occurrence—be witnessed? Where else can grave charges, various in their charac- ter, exposing the accused not only to oppro- brium but to imprisonment, be preferred and sustained—even though on ex parte testimony— at a single session, against six members of a legislative body and two executive officers? The very factis damning. The excuses of po- litical motives and personal antipathies avail but little in expunging sucha stain, It is a lasting blot upon the fair fame of our city, and exposes us to the scorn and contumely of all honorable and honestly governed communi- ties. Recorder Smith thinks that criminal prosecutions are not the best measures to cor- rect the evils of which we complain, but mild- ly suggests the ballot box. Wedo not coin- cide with him. In popular elections, political tricksters are always sure to come up tramps. We do not, therefore, look for any better set of officials at one epoch than at any other; but if the officers of the law will only do their duty resolutely and faithfully, and if the Judges will not allow the law to be strained and tortured so as to screen culprits from their deserts, then the certainty of punishment may operate in preventing from disgracing their offices men who cannot be actuated by any purer or better motive. Jt is not very long since the Grand Jury indicted two other Aldermen of this city ; but nangbt came of it~why, we cannot tell. We trust that in this case the same shifts and subterfuges will not be resorted to, but rather that the persons indicted will re- ceive a full and fair opportunity of clearing their character from imputation; and if they fail to establi¢h their innocence, that they will be punished with the utmost rigor of law. Let even handed justice be meted out, If it will not retrieve the wrong, it may deter others from repeating it. Somenmxe Anour tue Ixperenpes’ Posr Orricn.—We have called attention time after time to the wretched postal arrangements of this great city, and have cited European ex- amples to show how far we are behind the age. Our readers are aware that there is but one Post Office according to law—the magniticent and commodious edifice in that splendid ave- nue, Nassau street—and that if up town people ore afraid of the perilous journey to the gene- ral office, and a great deal of courage is re- quired to undertake the voyage, they must wait a day or two for their letters, There is ne government city delivery worthy of the name, and here we have a city almost equal in population to the State of Massachusetts, with only one Post Office, and that not half large enough todo the business which presses upon it, This negligence on the part of the general government has made a small fortune fur some enterprising men who have established inde- pendent offices. We have collected some sta- tistics in relation to them, as follows :—Boyd established his Post OMice and city delivery eightcen years since. He has 2,600 boxes for the receipt of letters, located in different parts of the city; he employs 65 men, and delivers letters four times aday. The greatest number of letters distributed from his oflice in any one day was 190,000. This was probably a “Valentine day.” Swartz, who keeps the Chatham Square Post Office, receives $1,600 a8 income from boxes, and employs 15 carriers. Lockwood, at the Broadway Post Office, does not car- ry letiers, but employs six men and re- ceives $800 per annum box rent. The Union Square Post Office has about $1,300 box rent, and employs two men in receiving and deliv- ering letters, There are several other estab- lishments of less account in other parts of the city. Now we desire to direct the attention of the head of the Department to the above facts and figures, so that he may have some data to ac. count for the deficit in the receipts ef the De- partment. The people will patronise those conveyances that are the most prompt and sure, and government cannot crush the inde- pendent post, except in one way, and that is by making the mail facilities superior to those offered by private carriers. Government loses thousands of dollars per snnum in this city merely because the prosent mail arrangements are not equal to the increase of the city and the growing wants of its population, We desire to impress this upon the Post- master General, upon every Congressman piewt, and parsivuiarly upoa the future Com Sraiw Uvon our Crry Bacurce spy! Glifted Jon Post Offices and Post Roads, name- ly:—That New York city must have half’ o dozen sub-post offices, and a system of city delivery, ‘with five or six deliveries per diem, and also we wish them to uaderstand that this would not only be:just to the people, but it would increase the revenues of the department. Disunioxn—Tue War Canton Sounnep AGAIN In SourH Caronina,—A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, in discussing the dangers to be apprehended by the South from our present abolition agitation, says in regard to the Northern anti-slavery fusionists, that:— They count upon our weakness! Men of the South! do you acknowledge yourselves weak? Are you so igno- rant of what con:titutes military strength as to fear the North? Are you aware that ‘and men are the sinews of war? That you have a commerce ‘upon a natural product of your soil, annually and necessary to the whole world, and upon wh! of the Prosperity of your worst enemies {a to protect this, you havea million at least of warlike men, trai from xy to the use of the horse, and familiar with the most powerful hand-weapon ever ia- vented by man?—a belt of sickly country, an in- vader from the sea must occupy before he could atrike at our vitals, and in which armies would perish, like the hed of Sennachert, before the destroying angel of the miasmay anda Ernie ot railroads, which will enable the hordes of the.amounfains to sweep down upon the plains of the sea, of the Mississipp! and of the Ohio, with o cavalry whose neck is clothed with thunder, and the glory of whose nostrils is terrible?” Let our Northern disunionists see from this that they of South Carolina are still ahead; and if they are not satisfied with the foregoing military information, let them read what fol- lows, and look well to the end before they begin their philanthropic work of coercion in behalf of the slaves of the South! Read:~- Have you go little military skill as to overlook the fact that the sturdy sons of Northern Virginia already hold the pass between the North and West, and that Maryland az the coast counties of Virginia and North Carolina, by their railroads and the Chesapeake, in these days of steam, flank an army advancing from the Kast on Pitts- burg?’ That Missouri's rifles and hunting knives have al- ready turned the hostile wing resting on the Mississippi; whilst Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mixsis~ sippi, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas ‘can throw their armies, by railroad and river, full upon the centre? When the God of battles gave you your aission, and the “submissive knee-bender” was allotted to you for protec- tion and cultivation, the same wisdom that made him a slave, and doomed him to remain such by intellectually uniitting him for a state incompatible with his desiga, he gave you a geographical position which, in a strata- getic point of view, makes you unconquerable if you had the heart to hold’ it, and irresistible if you choose to assault from it? Will you abandon it, and by your divi- sions among yourselves, forego the advantages it olfers you, when fram ft your standing side by side in firm and Gignttien array, may say to the rising storm, “Peace, be still 7 The meaning of this is, “that the writer wants a purely s&ctional party organized in the South, in opposition to Seward’s sectional disunion movement in the North; and our mili- tary Carolinian, in expectation of secession, disunion and war as the inevitable result of this organization of parties, has mapped out the whole programme of the clash of arms be- tween the two sections. Some of our readers may smile at the gravily with which this Southern warrior unfolds his plan of opera- tions; but when intelligent men, however in- veterate their sectional views and fears may be upon the slavery question, deliberately sit down and upon this issue of slavery plan the order of battle for a continental civil war, surely there is matter in it for the sefious re- flection of every hover of the Union and the constitution, North and South. And such are the peace and harmony secured to us by our Pierce administration. All other issues have become secondary to the great ultimatum of the ultra agitators, North and South, of dis- union and civil war. Is it not time for the sensible masses of the people to be moving? much That Tie Marne Liquor System amone tHe Port- TANS —We are informed by telegraph that there has not been a single conviction under the new liquor Jaw in Boston. This compulsory tem- perance, even among the Paritans, is proved a failure. “Oren Treacurery’—The revolt of the Gardner Know Nothings in Massachusetts against his repudiation by the Worcester mongrel convention. Keep up the fire. Soo. Smiprmc Orr rie Sreom.—Nearly a million by the Arago and the Ariel on Satur- day. What a swallow-all is this European war! Marine Affairs. Tae Ockan Race Berwees Tar Favre Steamsnips ARLEL AND ARAGO.—We learn that the Ariel—which passed the Battery two minutes after the Arago—came up with and passed the latter just below the Narrows, and when the Arago discharged her pilots at the Bar. the Ariel was some three miles ahead, The three-masted schooner Maury was launched on afternoon last, according to announcement, by Mesars, Roosevelt & Joyce, and there who were present were woll repaid for their visit by witnessing avery protty launch. The Maury is to be fitted owt with all the latest improvements, and her rig will be differeat from that of apy veasel afloat, We ought to have mentioned that her construction and eqnipments have been made under the immediate superintendence of Capt. Fletcher, who is to command her. City Intelligence. BSravv ory ap mie Mencasroe Leary Reaprsg Rooms.— Two fine pieces of statuary have recently been placed in the rending rocm of the Mercantile Library. They are from the chisel of J, Mosier, Esq., an American arlist, and are named respectively ‘Trath,” and “Silence.” ‘The former represents » female figute, with a sword in one hand, while the other holds up the drapery which falls in graceful folds about SS At her bes lays 1 mask apparently Just struck from her thee by a sword ‘The conception of this statue, thongh faultily worked out, fs very good, and stamps {ho sculptor as being one of cur moat promising artists, The whole figure and at- titude is defant, and typifies Truth not as “crushed to carth,” but as ‘advancing with steady ee to overthrow and exterminate error. The be is finely poised, and were it not for the face, which is too femininely soft, would be pronounced almost faultless, ‘‘Silencn’? is also represented ly fo- niale figure—-an anachroniem, $f all traditions of woman's talkativences are true; yet the sculptor is doubtless jus- tified in the conception as a postic license, and also as emblematic of what the gentler sex should be, rather than whet they are. The figure is represented with one finger placed On the closed lips, implying attention and warning, while the other hand holds a folded seroll. The hushed look—the impressive gesturo, the air of calm and uict that hangs around this figure, imparts to It great interost, and etamps it as a work ‘of no little artistic merit, ‘These statues have been prosonted to the Asso- cistion, by Mr. Henry A. Stone, of Boston. They are well placed with a back ground of dark maroon vétwot, which brings the white marble into fine relief, ‘The rooms of the Mereantile Library are well worth a visit to see these really exceliont pieces of statuary. Tooxovt ror Pier Lavens an Pure Reratnens.—A cor. respondent writes to ux to complaln of a samp who called at his house, and pretending to be an employé of the Croton water department, who was seot to repair his Croton water pipes, effected an entrance and stele several articles of value. We understand there sre several cases of this kind on record, and it would be well for the public to be on their guard, and lookout for these prowling vagabends. Some time ago we had oeeasion to caution our readers against fellows who pretended to be ‘as meter repairers, in order to commit thelr depreda- {icas, and no doubt this new 4 is an Imitation of that old one. There is a good deal of pipe laying going on about there times, and politicians are not the only onos that indulge in it, Tim Hepsow River Ramkoan Company ann nie Pro- yiety Howpers.—The Hudson River Railroad Company and the owners of property on Eleventh avenue, below Fifty-ninth street, had a meeting before the Committees on Railroads in the Board of Councilmen—Mr, Reed, the Chairman, presiding. Mr. Striker, om behalf of certain land owners, addressed the committe, and insisted that the Common Council did great injury to the land owners by allowing the company to use steam in the populated part of the avenue; that it depreciated the value of property and jeopardized life, and that the ordinance should “be promptly There pane, Nat fow present, the committee to the 26th » at 3 it M., when the matter is to be farther discussed. Pre iy Tamry-rmep Srreet —About eight o'clock last night, a fire broke out in the soap and candle factory of sitaated at No, 339 Wost Thirty-third st. Avescs D.—Shortly after cight o'clock Jast s Free evening, ® fire was discovered ino wood shed, rear of No, 102 avenue D. Part of one of the wood sheds was $10. Th a] $ret stare ty Fortress ROS THE LATEST NEWS, BY MAGNETIC ANO PRINTING TELEGEApHs, The President and the Retired Naval Officers, Wasurxcton, September 23, 1865, ‘The President has been called upon by & large number of officers who have been dropped by the action of the Naval Board, and notwi hstanding his approval of their action he bas already expressed himself decidedly against their decision in certain cases. It {x believed by knowing ‘ones that there will be many changes* before the meeting of Congress. The Yellow Fever in Virginia. Bartitons, Sept. 23, 1855, ‘The steamer from Norfolk brings us intelligence to noon: on Saturday, The weather had been exceedingly unfavorable, and nothing can be more appalling than the present aspect of affairs, Mr. Ferguson, the President of (he Howard Association, died on Saturday morning, and his death added greatly to- the despondency of the people. The physicians say that the disease has lost none of its malignancy. At Norfolk on Thursday there wero 40 interments, and’ on Friday 28 ; while 30 ordera for coffins had been left with undertakers up to ten o’clock on Saturday. Miss Wallace from New York was doing well. At Portsmouth on Thursday there were 22 deaths, on- Friday 25, and on Saturday about 30. Dre, Walters of Baltimore, and Rizer of Philsdelphin, were very il, Acting Mayor Holliday was taken to the hospital yester- day, It is estimated that there are now sbout 2,200 per- sons in Portsmouth, of whom 2,000 are either convales.. cents or still sick. Acclimated pbysi¢ians and nurses are much needed; ‘but the authorities hope no more will come from the North who have not had the fever; otherwise they will caly furnivh fresh victims, The following are the principal names of tho goad iv Norfelk:— Sept. 21—Mr. Bellman, organist of the Cetholie church, Mrs. Seaman, nurke, from Richmond; Miss Thorough- good, Miss ©, A. Crosbie, Wm, Wood, Martin Kelly, Fran- cis Winter, Rechel Parker, Wm. Taylor, Wm. Bagley, Thos. Downes, Harrison Butt, Samuel Smith, C. Wood- worth, Mr. Lee, Mrs, Lawrence, Dr. Rose’s child, Mr Custis, Misa ©. A. Cooles. Sept. 22, Wm. B, Ferguson, Wm. Reed of the Howard Association, Benjamin Quick, Dr. Alexander Gault, Post- moster; Mrs. E. H. Dilk, Mr. Harvey, Mre. Matthews, Thomas Gilbert, a daughter of Augustus Winslow, son of Mr. Hill, Caleb Bronsal, Esq., has had the black vomit, aad Dr- Capre of New York is very ill. The Rey, Louia Walker, of the Dptscopal church, is im proving and is now able to sit up. The Rey, Mr. Smith ‘was taken ill yesterday, The shipping in our harbor, engine hovses, &e., dis- played their flaga at half-mast to-day, in respect to the memory of Mr. Fergason, who was formerly a citizen of Baltimore. Wm. Fowler, of this city, was killed on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to-day, by jumping from the cars while in motion. Markets. Burrato, Sept. 22—6:30 P.M. Flour ts very firm, and prices favor sellers, The sales to-day were 1.8¢0 bbls, at $7 18 a $7 37, for good Wis- consin and Michigan; $7 40 a $7 62 for fancy Indiana and Ohio, and $7 76 for extra do, ; and 300 bbis. baker’s Cana- dian and Ohio at $8 a $8 25, Wheat quiot and in limited supply. A cargo of white Cunadin, to arrive, sold at $1 82, Corn-—Small demand, Sales 10,000 bushels, at Tbe, At the close holders offered freely at this quotation. Ry flim, Sales 5,000 bushels, to arrive in ten Gaye at 880. Small sales of barley at 92c. Canal freights dull at 113, a 12c, for corn to Albany, and 134%¢. a 14c. to New York. Lake imports, during the twenty-four hours ending at noon to-cay :—Flour, 9,184 bbls.; wheat, 20,458 bushels; corn, £7,279 do, Canal exports for the same time Wheat, 39,425 bushels; corn, 108,614 do, Provivence, Sept, 22, 1855. Our cotton market is unsettled. The sales of the paat week were about 1.500 bales, at irregular prices. Wool iu fair demand, and rates quite tirm—eales 116,700 Iba. Printing cloths without change ; the week's businese foots up 47,409 pieces. BREADSTUFF MOVEMENTS AT OSWEGO. ‘Uswaso, Sept, 22, 1856. During the past week 230.00 bushels of wheat and 59,000 bushels of corm have been received at this port by Lake imports; while duri ‘he ‘same ‘6 now 300,000 bushels of corn afloat, from upper wheat and 184,000 bushels Lake ports, bound to Oswego. ~ Mexine Court. — Before Hon. Judge Birdsall, COMMITTAL FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT. On Saturday afternoon, during the calling of the ealen. dar, a person named John Sheahy, who was defendant inasuit, had been waiting some time for his case to ome on, and getting impationt, he arose and said to his counsel, in the hearing of the Judge—‘ I’m not going te atop any longer humbugging here—come along, tM go home.’ at the same time taking hold of his counsel by the collar of the coat and urging him to leave. The Judge reprimanded the defendant and before the rising of the Court made out a commitment directing the iny n- ment of John Sheahy for five days, in defanlt of $35 fine, for using those contemptuous words. The defendant’s counse! said that the conversation was intended for the private ear of counsel, and that he had witnesses to prove that he had not used the expression a# charged in the committal. ‘The Judge asked if he had any explanation to make witnesses or otherwise? but detendant declined to rea- pond, and at five o’clock was taken to the Toombs in the custody of ane of the officers of the Court. The Naval Retired List. YO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, Hawpsteap, Lono Istanp, Sept. 21, 1866. Your paper has widely circulated my name as being on the retired list of furloughed officers, causing grest anx- jety and solicitude on tM part of my friends, and most painful mertiscation to myself. Tam ofticially informed by the Hon. feeretary of the Navy, that lam not put upon the “roserved list.”? You will oblige mo by the correction--and I will be stil! further indebted to you for the authority unter which I have been represented before the publis as a dixgraced mon, FRAN! BLEECKER ELLISON, Coramander V. 8, Navy, New Post Orrtors.—The following new post offices have been established in this State: Farnham, Erie county. Francis Snow, postmoster, Locust Glen, Dutchess county. Isade Van Waguer, postmaster, Espencheld’s Fall Style, for 1855, was no Siiaseut ts Broadway caumet compate wit tas camsuieerrer, : va compete ‘man . who pute. hia capital into his hata and not into ornamental Rx. tures away rents, bie rich, ‘and high Broa . Com » highly finished hat with those told 2 per cont higher in Broad ‘id "Uwill be found a better and fer articles "The wove is 118 Nassau street, near Heekmnan. Where to Get Instructed.—If you Wish to lenen how to take thoso beautiful Ambrotypes, call upon R. A. LEWIS, No. 142 Chatham street, where the most charming specimens fre exhibited gratuitously. Williamson's Ci ‘ameco—Daguerreotypes=One Instantaneous riiting securing the happy exprossion of tho mo ment. Onllery 219 Fulton street, Brookiyn, Anson's Daguorreotypes, Size for Ay cents, lord, and In w lee ease lined wid velvet, and Som mate cummhareee tes Solr \N'e'580 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Brady's Gallery, 359 Broadway—Photo- tf ot f types in overs ntyle. Larg he, ambi tgp ee eat ine in the United Siales, over Thompson's a joon, Albert H. Nicolay will hold his sexi-weekly auction eale of stocks and bonds Dey. Gepeey) 1244 o’elork, at the Merchants’ Exchange. For ber pariiculars sew his adver isement in another colump.— Catalogues may be ob\atned at the office, No, 11 Broad st, An interesting letter from Dr, 8. 8, Fitch, of No, As Broadway bg York. ee fourd on oar (0b Tt exponen nnfounded : Hone of" meiiented thalation.” and wilt miuot intaeset te i Valid as well as the general reader, Specialties =Our New of Street or Bu ws, and wil he hd at wars a ny ey me : 'D. DEVELN & O0., 208, 200 and 2) Broadway. Pinno- ition wt Darin, Gur Parte > coneaenasenmemingiiacctnn fearecly Have the North Winds Made Thetr- debut than we already see Ryans’ clothing ware'ouse thronend. Eth onstamers eacer after enilable 0 _ Morak-BY ANS ‘Underselis all cues wouuntern,