The New York Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1856, Page 3

Our Clacinnatt Correspondence. Cincinnati, Ang. 11, 1856. Politica in South Western Oho— The Rush of the Revolution— How the Buchanan Party is made p—The Congressional Campaign—The Fill- more Union Savers—Wire Stretched across the Ohio River, to Hold Ohio and Kentucky together—— Creat Cry and Liitle Wool of the Know Nothings —Nomination of Sam Campbell for Re-election ~The German Republican Movement When I last wrote t» you tue ‘Buck fever” was prevailing in this quarter. The town was full of Buchaneers, inflammatory with the excitements of .of the Convention, which in its pomp and pride claimed to be the grand regulator of the concerns of the country for the next four years. The mnpres- sion was prevalent here thut ibere was not the re- motest doubt of Buchanan's ele-tion. Now all this ischanged. The delegutes, inside and ontside, to the Cincinnati Conveution are ¢ ve, aad the people have been thinking. When &uchanan was nomi- nated it was thought absolutely certain that he would carry Ohio. Now the most sanguine of his friends are not such fools as to bet that he will come within twenty-five thouvand vores of that consam mation. The fact that Buchanaa “is no longer sim- ply James Buchanan,” but that he is a representa- tive of the same corrupt and infamons influences which converted Pierce from a decent sort of, man to a reproach and curse to the country, and that he is eminently adapted to be the tool «f Forney & Co., and improve ininiquity even on Pierce, has been powerful in productng this change. ‘The Buchanan party here is made uo of al! the effete particles of all the old parties, und is the most incongruous composition of political elemeats ever presented for analysis. It is rewarkanle that the democratic veterans 0: many wars are not in this fight. Those who, through the storm that raged about the time of the passage of the Nebraska bill, were firm beside the administration, and who were strong fcr Pierce or Douglas ‘n conveation, are, with few exceptions, indifferent spectators 0’ the conflict; while those who were anti-Nebraska democrats, and free soilers with democratic teudencies—tho-e who make up the soft division of the Ohio democracy— were the “original” and are excessively zealous Buchanan men. The ielative position of the soft and hard demo- crats is completely reversed from that which was held up to the time of the Convention. Those who, two months ago, were styled the ‘“ sore heads” are now those whose scalps are cousidered soundest. The ward in this city (the Third) notorious for its free soil infection is uow the very citadel for the Buchaneeys—the only locality in the city, or the country ‘found about, where it is impossible to get up arespectable Fremont meeting withou! impo ing the “masses” to make up the “ vast assem- blage.” All the democratic papers in this State of apy force were advocates of the nomination of Douglas, and they make the fight for the old Buck very feebly and foolishly. Col. Medary, of the Ohio Statesman, threatened to mike an exposé of the original Buchanan men of the State, saying that he felt it to be his duty to do 50. Sut he faited to come ap to the scrat and the “ foul gsme” which he said was “ afoot” is probably on horseback by this time. ‘The first and second Ohio Congressional districts, which are in the county of Hamilton, the southwest f the State, are now represented by Hon. T. C. Day in the First and Hon. J. Scott Hurrison the Second. Day was for a long time a leading democrat, and editor of the Enquirer, the demo- cratic o gan: but he is a strong republican, and the democrats who assisted to elect him, during the first flash of the anti-Nebraska ex+itement, have since been "Day is not orator, but is keen as a razor and rough in his at- tacks as a rat-tailed file; but bis health tailet so | that it will be impossible for him to coaseat to be a candidate for re-election. In fact, he has declined without qualification. His ‘regular’ democratic opponent at the last election was Geo. Pendleton, a young gentleman of fine talents, who is to be placed a ‘fe track sgain in a few days, and who will, almost certainly, be elected. Harrison, of the Sec district, is a nice little man, of very slight force, whore principal distinction is that he is u soa of President Harrison, a fact that is invariably men- tioned when he is referred to, as if it attached vast merit to bim. He has succeeded in becoming |) famous as the man named by Biooks in his resigna- tion speech as a‘‘noble specimen,” and is essentially damned in this community. The «le mocratic paper takes occasion to defend him by alusing others, but i makes little headway, and only illustrates the sional ry a ae omens, i, democra M and the old line whigs. Harrisov nomimt. orted by the Know Nothings, bat will i defeaied. The democracy will put the! . cbampion, Groesbeck, on the track again in that district. He is an able gentleman, of aristocratic fam’ who is ambitious to be a national legislat As the fanter a will be thus divided, the republican eandidate, who wiil prot ably be Mr. R. B. prominent member of the Cincinnati bar, a fair chance for reelection. The only way in which he can be defested is for the o!! line whigs and democrats to fuse on either Groesheck or Harrison, jand this, under the circumstances, they can hardly .do. Not a few of the old line whigs are for Ba- chanan, but there are ten young democrats for fre ‘mont for every one of them. x Since the return of Fillmore ‘rom Europe his ‘friends bere have manifested the most excessive activity. ‘Though few, they have made moro demon: -strations than a other , and have been nojsy sto a wonderful degree, Being thoronghly organized disciplined, they make a tremendous shaw of themselves, mnch to the amusement of those who winderstand it, They will bold three or four meet parts of the city, and then march in we of meeting to another, ng a bi nprvar of droms and a flaunting play of banners, and managing to hol tings with the same crowd. Their is to operate in moveable co’ d men anda rabbie of boys, cle tried by the heepskin thunder, will in this way aistarh the quiet i sr Ti be reported in newspa| perhaps hali a dozen and enthusiastic meetings. he old rowdyism of the » which s either constitutional or clironic them, and ps both, as they were from tbe first 9 diveased brganization, still sticks out. Nearly every demo- bratic and republican meeting is disturbed by a com- inittee a eee, Nothing bullies, = ag freqrent- abused it ive persons. lew event a crowd ot these rowdies was Tortait vasty ‘ked down, beaten and dragge into the warch But it is not probable that they will ever anything. These fellows have an especial eye n the safety of the Union, and are making despe- te efforts to ensure ite janence. The letest for the salvation of our glorions confederacy hus set forth :—There is to be a grand Union Fit demonstration held on the opposing shores of ‘aio, on the landings of Ciacinnati and of Cov- on and of Newport. The band of uvion is to be wire stretched across the river, in the centre of hich is to be @ banner cribed “Uni we be — fix . ireak ?] The ceremony of intermarriage betweon ° North and the South is then to take Aw r is to leave Covington, bearing fifteen | ing the fifteen Southern States, and a to feave Cincinnati, with sixteen . nting the sixteen Northern Stato meet in the middle of the stream,and to be larhed ther aud proceed under the flag Union acircle of the Stateuary young le jies is t §. Majestic idea! In the meantime thei be thunder from four cannon, on the landing ch of the towns, Cincinnati; Covington, and ewport, and one on a flat boat in the middle of the “But what is the use of all this pomp and circum: nce? It is now clear as sunshine Chat Kentack: il go for Buchanan. All the idiotic clamor am ad violence of Know Nothingism cannot prevent + and in Ohio the Fillmore force is utterly con yo ready can- fied, in which there will kept up by the persona i * oO bd Se nr NS has only at 4 oth managed to craw! out and say ths ot Fremont first that nie-constiti But at the Congressional Convention he was forgiven for his of his past i Oya i struggle other candidates were was nominated by acclamation. NEW YORK HERALD, makes such boastful diapliy of his Know Nothing- jem, will work injury to the ponsbtlonn gute among the Germans. A more sensitive people than the Germans do not exist, and they of course abomina‘e Know Nothingism ; and there are thousands of them who are excellent republicans. The appear- ance of fusion in the nouwination of Campbell ia therefore to them offensive. Campbet) will be e'ect- ed, but it will be Ly the «kin of bis teeth, a3 we say out West, and because his opponent, Vallandiognam, is bated by the Libera! d mocrats as heartily as Campbell execrated by those who are genuine republicans. The strong and steady German Fre- mont movement in the West 1s one of the most eriking features of the campaign; and though the nomination of Campbell as a republican Kuow No- thing nay impede, it cannot arrest its course. Gur Albany Correspondence. Avpany, Ang. 11, 1856. Report of the Canal Appraisers on the Rochester Claims-—Disallowance of the Greater Portion--A Large Baving to the Treasury, &e., &t» Moet of the readers of the ‘inrALD will recoliect that the strongest possible efforts have been made by on organized set of Rochesier conspirators, dar- ing several sessions of the Legistatnre, to pluader the State treasury of am enormous amountof money, This combination consisted of some one huodred and fifty individuals, many of whom are the most wealthy and infinential persons residing io that city. The Rank of Auburn and the Roches‘er City Bank were also engaged in this plundering scheme. The pretence set forth for that formidable invasion of the treasury was, that the State of New York had taken a portion of the waters of the Genesee river, and conveyed them to the Erie canal and the Gene- sce Valley canal, by which means the hydraulic pro- perty of private citizens was injured to an incaleu- lable amount. During the sessions of the Legislature of 1854 and 1855 the conspirators besieged the members of both branches of the Legislature to enact a law under which they could obtain their pretended claims for these alleged damages. Several of the leading millers and others of Rochester were in the lobbies, usiag every argument within their power to couvince the mi mbers of the Legislature of the justness of their claims. The former seasion passed without granting the request. The lobby was again filled at the sub- sequent session with the same lusty beggars; in- deed, they then had bezome actually ravenous, and demanded millions as a matter of right. The Al- bany correspondent of the Heraxp, discovering the apxiety, hoth in the lobby and in the Legislature, in relation to this Rochester mill race, and finding also that immense sums of money were demanied to sa- tisfy the modest petitioners, took occasion, quite frequently, in the columns of that paper, to cantion members, and to admonish them iu seference to their proceedings in the Rochester water claim. And, strange to say, that although the people of the whole State weie aware of this attempt to impover- ich the treasury from year to year, not aremon sirance was heard—not a newspaper paragraph ap- peared against the wholesale swindle, except the articles which appeared in the New York Hreaup. In these articles it was contended, inthe first place, that if any damagcs were ever sustained, they were liquidated in 1826, when it was considered, on all hands, that no farther demauds wou!d be made; in the second place, that all the hydraulic works at Rochester have been constructed su sequent to the completion of the Erie canal, with a full Knowledge of the Genessee feeder for that cansl, consequentiy there could be no jast or equitable claim against the State by individuals erecting those works. It was allowed that the Gennesee Valley canal baving been con- structed since the erection of a great po tion of the mills and other manufacturing establishments, there was a plausible reason for remunerating persona who owned property at that period, 1540. The lobby made slow progress even in the latter session. The honorable Senator from Rochester, since retained as counsel tor the petitioners, after laboring nearly through the eutire session for a bill giving the canal appraisers power, solely to adjust and pay the claimants, nally became discouraged, and ‘attri- buted the Hxranp articles asthe principal canse why the bill was :etarded. At the heel of the ses sion, when it became evident that the bill which the lobby wanted must fail, it was conceded on all hands to frame a new bill, inserting the name and amount ef claims of each individual, and authorize,ths Board of Canal Appraisers to hear and determine the claims, and to makea just and equitable estimate ond appraisment of tho-e damages. Ifany had been sustained, to the sameto the Canal doard; that beard to review the proceedings, and then pre- sent the same to the next Legislature. This report bas just appeared in priot. The ap- raisers met in the city of Rochester on the 17th of ant 1855. The claimants had for counsel Hesy Rn. Saaden, Selah Matthews, E. Darwin Smith, W, 8. Bishop (the aforesaid named ex-Senator),and Alfred Ely. On the part of the State appeared Joshua A. 8] r, John H. Martindale, and Canal Comm's- sioner Frederick Follett, A number of witnes+es were examined, and the case was finally submitted to the appraisers on the 26th of November last. The ‘clakns amounted to about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Comey decide that the’ original appropriation of ( river for ca- nal pu was permanent, and that the State has been simply using its own waters, and no liability can attach ther river, and favor- for. “It was — ably situated for feeding the canal, both east and west, and whose whole current, if necessary, could be tured into it. The Oak Orchard creek, the Tonawanda creek, and other streams and lakes west of the Genesee river were taken and perma- nently appropriated hy the same process, and the State has had an absolute fee to the soil, and an equally absolute easement in the water for canal purposes. In all the origin surveys and diffe ent routes proposed for the Erie canal it was al- ways in contemplation to make the waters of the Genesee river subservient to its supply. Three- fourths of the whole line of the Erie canal is now held by the same tenure as the Rochester feeder. Will it be seriously pretended that the State has no title—that the fee never passed’ In our own judgment it was clearly the intention of the State officers to make this feeder aud the nece: the Con’ be tees Dvndiad on that jseues em that other. M bell volume of water from the Genosee to flow through it »s permanent as the life of the Erie canal.” We quote further from the appraisers’ report :— “ There is not one of the claunapts who claims com- pensation on the ground thet he had any right to or Faterest in the water power when the appropriation fost, if not all of the three pro- prietors long ego parted with their entire interest, on, it ie presumed, valuable ter New parties have taken their places. Theee new parties have ta- ken, subject to the rights of the State, end with no- tice thot those righ’s existed and might be enforced. If the State had never paid a farthing for this water, in the way of money, it has paid an ample and remunerative consideration in the way of bene- fits. The Erie caual has been the very life of Rochester. To it, more than all other influences combined is attributable its present proud position os ap inla Rochester is said to be the greatest fi the world, Would it have canal transporting wheat to its milis and i's flocr to market?” The appraisers conclude the case, so far as the waters of the Gene- see flow into the Erie canal, by rejecting all the aime on that account, in these emphatic terms:— “ These claims, therefore, so far as they relate to the Erie canal, must be rejected. The State has been simply using its own property, and whatever the damoge tothe parties may be, there is no just or equitable demand on the State for redress, ie lorees subsequent to 1542 have been but the legiti- mate consequence of the rightful and permunent ap- piopriation of 1522. The appraisers then review the caims on the Genesee Valley canal, and come to the conclusion to award certain damages to persons who held title in ), when the conal was opened, and who still hold me. To all those who have disposed of their interest they award nothing. To sixteen persons they award sum of #25,519 08, one-half or more teing for fifteen sears’ interest, $6,150 being the highest, and $253 12 the lowest to any individual. These awards will undoubtedly be contirmed by the next Legislature, and the Canal Auditor be directed “se the same out of the canal fund. erhapa a more systematic attempt waa never made to swindle the State out of on immense amount of money than this effort of the Rochester mill own- ere and others. The men employed in the scheme are among the richest, stron ‘and most influential in Western New York. Bac! np with banking, commercial, manufacturing, legal and lobby infla- ence, without measure or stint—wielding a com- bined c hen gpa to be irresistible—artfal, se- date, liberal, and munificent in their lobby appli- ancer—it is truly a wonder that, ander all the cir- cnmstances, they did not succeed in compelling the State to pay their exorbitant demands. The Canal Appraisers aré entitled to something more than mere empty thanks from the — of this State for resisting the mighty pressare made upon them, and for saving nearly a million and a half of the canal fund. United States Commissioner's Conrt. Ref sre George W. Morton, En. Andrew Wilhelms was examined on a charge of stab Wing the mate of the ship J. H. Fitiett, and committed for nly ‘was made in 1822. Our Toronto Correspondence. | Toxowto, Aug. 9, 1866. | Upper Canada Politicians—Their Sympathies and | Hostilities— Personalities of the Party Pressa— Jobbing in High Places— Ministerial Defeat in Huron County—New Line of Steamers to Con- nect the Northwest Coasts of the Great Lakes with Toronto and the Ocean--Outrages Perpe- trated by Toronto Firemen at the Falle—Decline of the Produce Markets, §c., &c. “Parva leves capiunt animos.” “Little things in- flunce or control weak midds,” is an old aud trite, | though universally applicable truism, and one which has been found peculiarly suitable to the present | politicians of Upper Cauada. Up and down, here and there they go. Like the pudding bag, with the , quick+ilver in its rotundity, as told in one of Carle- | ton’s inimitable Irish tales, they go “ bobbing rouud aud round,” without apparevtly avy detinite pu: pose mm view, except picking @ holg in their neighbor's coat, ond making political capital from their brazen. faced assertions of their neighbor's faucied short- comivgs. One minute tooth and nail in Eaglind’s wool, the next in their own with equal viraleuce and animosity. One instant venting their fou monthed ravings agwiust Yankee uotious und dooaleisms, the next extending the hand of tellow- ebip and promising al! sorts of good behavior, depre- cating the vicious looking glitter of the bowie knives, or the more deadly form of the revolver, heaping, at the same time, ou our fortunately sturdy shoulders the choice epithets of murdering rascals, il! mannered blackguards, blusterers, thieves, row- dies, roysterers and fil:busters, to the end of the Bil- Jings gate culendar. Such are the Upper Canada politicians at present, without aim or purpose, hanging, like Mahomet’s coffin, between Heaven and earth. Their great points of difference have been allowed a little repose for these few weeks past, and .rom striving to amend the national affairs they have now directed their attention more particularly to blackguarding, in the most approved style, each other. The Ishma- elites, running a muck through the ancient Judea, could uot have exhibited their divine authority for kicking up rows ina more effectual manner. The Globe goes smash into the Colonist, the Colo- nistinto the Globe. The Leuder assumes a highly mera! and elevated position, supe: ior to all sublunary emotions, and administers its castigations in a most scientific and genlemanly manner. It puts one ia mind for all the world of a doctor in black clothes, white shirt, white gloves, and glazed boots, superin- jevoing the “forty-five” at the ‘ triangles.” The Cutholic Citizen sorgets Shakspere’s estimate of the value of a good name, waen it speaks of a certsin individual, vot insinuating but affirming, that that commodity has always been a scarce coin in his pocket. In the train of these journals: follow all the sellers and snazlers of the province. To an unin- terested spectator this petty warfare is rather a mus ing, although with our mirth ia mixed a littie of pity for such folly. Their conduct is unworthy of mev assuming to be gentlemen. “Liar” is the most polished word, and elegant epi- thet in the Catholic organ’s voea*ulary Robbery and perjury are the feast objectioaable traits in its opponeut’s characters, according to the Globe. If all the charges, however, alleged by each party were trve, we are certainly governed bya setof the greutert scoundrels that ever tusted the sweeis of office—and those who reck to replace them are not a whit better. It is a queer world we live in, whea a government lends itself to a transaction like the jollowing, which is stated to be one of the minor peceadi os of our immaculate ministry. Anextra charge had beea imposed on saw logs exported from the provinces, for encouragement ot saw mills. Formerly a great miny logs were tuken across the lakes in rafta, and cat in American wills, and this charge was intended 10 put a stop to the practice, and induce sawing on our side of the lines. However, on the 17th July, an order in Coun- cil was published, abolishing this impost. Where- fore? Allthe opposition organs say that the mea sure was uncalled for and injudicious, The secret has leaked out. Mr. David Robbin, an M. P. P., (which lewers indicate equally Member of the Pro- vincial Penitentiary and Member of the Provincial Parliament) obtained a timber limit from the go verpment, near the Bay of Quinte. He cut aud drew his logs, and when all were ready for export, bya bc order in Council, the daty on saw logs ‘was withdrawn. Strange coincidence, cocsidering that the aforesaid gentleman is a strenuous adherent ot the ministry. It is not meet that a faithful ser- vant snould go unrewarded; and so the public, a: usual here, are sold. 1 am glad to sce, for the sake of old John Ball himrelf, that the people through the country are universally becoming conscious of their position. There eecis to be a peculiar something in the Ame rican political atmosphere (in the term American I include, as L hope one day more authoritatively to do, both Canada and the States) which hinders al- most every honest, eee man from soaring in its baneful ether. It ia but se}dom that they attain any eroinence among the crowd of schemers who fill rearly all our high places; however, there is, I hope, a glorious change in store for both of us; and may the same wind that bears Fremont triumphant on its wings to the Capitol wait new men ani new laws into our own small world over here, where we need them fully as much, though the interests at stake are not +o important. The ministry received a telling defeat in Huron last weck. Mr. Cayley, the Inspector General, mem- ber for Huron county, spent about tea days canvass- ing his own county, and then convened @ meetiag, at which to address his constituents, in Goderich and its vicinity. After his lengthy defence, during which he was listened to with respectful si/ence, resolutions cundemning his conduct in the strongest terms were carried by overwhelming ys sega and the defeated Minister retired crest fallen and abashed. The gentleman who has got no seat, Mr. Philip Van- conn et, has appeared now in the awful disguise of a ister of Agriculture. Think of that, a puny, delicate law serivener and pendriver taking upon his delicate shoulders the weighty bovine interests of ail the Canadas! However, leaving off the ministry and their doings (for my spending so much time for them I solicit the pardon of your readers), I will now turn your attention to something much more worthy of ‘con- sideration, as it concerns the interests not only of Canada but also of that far Northwest, whose boundless wealth has yet to be opened up by the exploring hand of man. I allude to the projected line of steamers connecting the northwes! coast of the great lakes with Collingwood, Toron‘o and the ccean. What the merchants of the Northwest chiefly require is the transmission of their goods with cheapness, quickness and safety to the preduce marts This will be effected more satisfac- torily by this route than by any other, as it is shorter by 55 hours in time than the Welland canal route from Chicago to Montreal, and has an advantage of ‘1 cents per ton over the route fron Chicago to Boston via B Its advent: over the Lake Erie route tiil further exemplified by the differ- ence in inst made in favor of the Toronto route, one-quarter per cent having been made of dif- ference in its favor during the past year. Of course, this route can never claim the patronage of the travelling community in point of time when placed in comparison with the continuous railway lines to the same point; but in comfort and convenience the patronage aly extended shows how it is esti- mated. A — meeting was held Inst Mon- day in the Exchange for the purpose of establishin, a t line of steamers on these lakes, and have little doubt but that this undertaking will re- ceive energetic snpport. Bishop Charbonnel, the archbishop of Canadian Catholics, is now on a visit to Rome, as is believed, for the purpose of importing a few more priests and nuns. As if we had not already got plenty of them! On Monday last, a body of our firemen departed upon a visit to the Falls, and, it is said, raised a ter- thie rumpos there, having beaten Mr. Cammings, of the National Hotel, half mardered Mr. Booth, the zoological artist, and finished by p Taging bis howe» and destroying what they could lay their hands upon. Returning to the suspension bridge, they at- tacked the bridge keeper, and forcing their way on to the bridge, broke the windows of tho ollice at the weet end of the town. A company of firemen from Buffalo were near hy, and had they not obeyed their leader, I believe the consequences might have heen fearful, 1 Galt hi ane A_ general dullness has pervaded the prodace markets during the past week. The wheat Toarket has been almost decerted, and good wheat has sold at 7s. a Te. 6d a? bushel. Froit of all kinds is very 8c: , and in great demand for ving. Wool is not coming forward so rapidly. le. 3d. « la. pa washed, and 10d. for aawssbed, are the quo- tations. Merve or a Wire ny wen Hespann ts Cetcago. —Night before last, 2 woman, named Margaret Ma- guire, residing on Illinois street, near the lake shore, was killed by having her neck broken by ber husband, Patrick Magnire, who threw her, while she was iu a state of intoxication, with violence pon the floor, The woman was aged 58 years, and her hus- band says he is 64 years old. They have had twelve children, seven of whom, five daughters and two sons, are now living. Two of the daughters are married, and live in Milwaukie, one is marriod California, another in New York, and one married and one single lives in this city, One of the sons is in California, the other in New York.<Chicago Times, Aug: % SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1856. Prince Jerome's Marriages. 10 THE EDITOR OF TH% HESALD. J perceive in your paper anextract irom the corres pondence of the Belgian payer Le Nord, atating that the special commission appointed by the Em- peror Napoleon to examine into a delicate family matter, has now decided upon the important quea- tion of the validity of Prince Jerome's first marriage with Miss Pa‘terson, in Sparen that the result of | the investigation is the validit; the marriage and | Y eos lieutenant in the the consequence that a French army, the gr of Prince Jerome and Miss Patterson, must be recognized as a legitima'e member of the Napoleon dynasty, and that Prince Napoleon, the cou of Jerome by his second marriage, would be excluded. Now, I think the correspondent of Le Nord must be mistaken. The murriage contracted between Prince Jerome and Miss Patterson was, and is, void according to the French laws, aad cannot have (con- trury to article 201 of the French civil code) any civil effect, At the time the marriage took place the French lows Lines 3 thereto enacted, tirst—Chat # son au- der twenty-five yeurs oid aud a daughter under tweu- ty-one could not marry without tue consent of thei pene: second—that suvh marrage should hav een preceded Ly publication, aud some other lega jorwalines. It is true that the article 201 of said code says that “any marnage which bas been declared void does, however, produce civil effects, 69 far ay the husband, wile und childveo are concerned, when such ma.- riage has been bona fide contracted.” But in the present ¢ se Miss Patterson's fumily cannot take ad- Vahtage of that article, for her marriage took place iu spite of the urgen’ and reiterated opposition of M. Pichon, the French Charge d’ affairs at Wasbington. The trends of the Patterson family were intorn ed of the invalidity with which the mai- riage would be regaried by the Freach civil lawa. It, powithstanding, they chose to have the mar- riage ceremony pertormed, the consequences must remain upon them Ju no case the Prince Napoleon, the son of Je- rome by tue second marriage, can be considered a3 illegitimate, and deprived of any eventual rigut be may have to his imperial consin's succession. The second marriage of his father took place with all forms required by law, atter the first marriage had been apnolied. Aid further, supposing that the firat marriage with Miss Patterson be d-clared good ana lawful, could not the children of the second marriage have availea themselves of the article 201 related above? if ony marriage was contracted bona fide, is it not the second ones A. P.M. The Philadelphia Opera House. [From the Philadesphia Ledger, Aug, 11.] The immense building intended for the American Academy of Music, or Opera House, at the coraer of Broad and Locust streets, is now so rapidly ap- prosching comp'etion that there can be no doubt bat it will be ready for inauguration on or before the coming first of January. fhe stage portion be- gins to present to the uninitiated an insight into all the mysteries of stage construction, with its ghost traps, falls and tackling; aud many of the wonderful changes of scenery, as presented from the auditoriam of a theatre, become very simpls when the machinery to produce them is examined. A space of about fifty feet, under the front of the stage. has been excavated to the depth of twenty- six fect. This is divided iuto two stories, the floors of each being ingeniously constructed in sections, so as to allow of their being entirely removed and replaced in a very short space of time. A great part of the area thus covered 1s likewise formed in such 2 manner as to be raised above the ground level of the stage flvor, so as to form bridges, &c , for the actors, when mount )in scenery is regnired. The whole area of the stage is ninety feet wide by feventy-‘wo feet deep, exelusive of the proscenium, which’ is eighteen feet wide, waking a total depth of 90 feet, wh'ch will certainly make a magaificent area for the most splendid dramatic reoreseutations. ‘the main doors on each side of the stage are made es! cnough for the admission of horses, chariots, and even elephants, which be required, as these huge animals have lately taken part in a piece repiesented in Paris, where orieutul scenery was in- troduced. The dressing rooms on either'side are very numerous, well lighted avd commodious. The grecn room and the retiring room for the dancers are quite large. The plat‘orms for the seats in the auditorium are finisbed, and it 18 quite evident from a personal in- spection that the promises of the architecta that all tre audience, no matter in what part of the house, would have an unobstructed view of the stage, are about to be fully realized. The dome over this part of the house is of novel constraction, being formed of tight ribs of bibten y iron, with the spies be- tween them filled with iron net or wire work, upon which tbe plastering is laid. This fire proof con- struction was deemed necessary on account of the great heat that will be generated by the three hun- died gas lights attached to the main chandelier, sas- pended immediately Leneath it. ‘the main vestibule along the Broad street front i+ thirty fect by ninety, with stairways at each end fourteen fect in width. The promenade saloon, im- mediately over the vestibule, is forty feet by ninety, with a ceiling thirty-five feet in height. This room will be truly magnifivent, and will far exceed in ar- chitectural beauty acd proportion any other room in our city. The numerous Ionic colamns inteaded to decorate the walls, are ready to Le placed in their positions as soon asthe scaffeldings are removed, which will be shortly, as the ceiling is now nearly completed. This room is to be lighted by ten chan- grotned calling, x ‘sddttion to the teostctsen ihe groine az, in lo the brackets on the walls. This saloon is well adapted for banquets, balls or Seeraing concusta; one can jadge of the large Fcale on w this establishment is conatruct- ed, when it is stated that there will be over 30,000 fect of steam pipes through the building for heating and ventilating purposes alone. The contract for this work has been given to Messrs. Walworth, of Boston, who have been highly successful in the na- tela og buildings the: ventilated. ventilation will be forced by means of a steam engine, and a fan twelve feet in diameter, by means of which pure tempered aircan be forced in or out as required. The gas lights along the walls also aid the ventilation by marine, openings alongside into flues connecting with the main ventilating shaft above the chan- delier of the auditorium, which will carry off all the heat withont at all diminighing the Tet. The gas pipes which have been introduced mea- sure al ‘ourteen thousand fect, and are caleu- lated to supply over two thonsand jets or burners, and provision bas also been made to place fone ad- ditional chandeliers upon the stage, when grand balls are given. On these occasions the parquet‘e Will be floored over and broaght on a level with the stage. The saloons, drawing aud retiring rooms, contiguous to the lobbies in the several stories, are nearly finished, and are to be furnished with all the modern conveniences, The stair ways for the audience are very numerous, wide, and of easy ascent, and dis- tributed in the most convenient manner possible. Mr. John D. Jones, the contractor for building, has displayed mach energy and fidelity in carrying out the designs, and expects to complete his part of the cont in about one month. Already the artists are engaged in painting some of the scenery. Alto- gether, the building seems to give the highest satis- faction to all concerned, and promises to reatise the desires of the divectora, in having one of the most perfect and extensive opera houses in the world,and when snecessfully completed the architects may well be proud of their achievement. The building committee are arxions to complete their task a: soon and as complete as possible, but mach will depend npon their snecess in raising the balance of $3,000 still unsold of the eight per cent preferred stock. ne V Liverpool f Manchester E ner An investigation, which took place before our magistrates to-day, disclosed an amount of swindlin, and roguery on the part of shipping masters an captains, fn connection with emigrant vessels, which goes far to account for the loss of several pen ne sy with a freight of human beings. The plaintiff in this case was — Schomt the senior emigration officer at this port, who summon- ed Captain Bryar, of the American ship Isaac Web), for an infringement of the 28th section o the Emi- gration Act, which provides that, prior to sailing, all emigrant vessels shall b> inspected by the em gration oflicer of the port, who is tose: that tae crew shipped on board is sufficient, both in nomber and capacity. for the safe and proper working of the vessel. In the cave under notice, the Isaac Webb was cleared by Liewtevant Prior, the second emigration officer, on the 5th of Juaiy, when he adjndged that forty-nine men would be required for the crew. He inspected that number of seamen, and having signed all tac pecessary documents, the Isaac Webb sailed on the 7th for New York, with 200 poeeageee on board. ale, she was driven On the Sth, during a_ hear, rel < renmstances came to ashore at Amb Some the ears of the emigration officers which led them to make farther inquiry about the vessel, and the result of these inquiries and of the evidence before the magistrates to-day is, that of the forty-nine men mustered before Lieutenant Prior twelve had beon quently put on shore; and it was stated by se. imesses that it is a common practice on tie eral port of emigrant vessels for “dummy"’ seatien to be paraded before the emigration officers, the mou re- ceiving @ fee of 26. 6d. each for such services. In this ease Cn two of thetwelve men who were put on shore are Known, aad thongh summonses have heen served pon then, they have been kept ont of tle way. The magistrates observed that thongh the evidence was not quite so clear as they could have wished, the spirit of the act had been grossly vio- lated. As it was the first case of the kind how. ever, only half the full penalty (£25 inatead of £50) would be The Cuban Press on American Affairs, CESSION OF MEXICAN TERVITORY 70 Tax UNITED STATES. {From Ki Diario de la Marina, of Havana, July 30.) Amongst the more or less credible rumors which have been lately circulated in the press relative to Mexico, the New Youx Henaxp, in one of its last numbers, speaks of a proposition addressed by the | Cabinet at Warhington to the government of Mexico, referring toa new acquisition of territory from that country. The project alluded to concerns the defin ing of the limita fixed by the treaty made on the acquisition of the Messilla Valley, in such a manner thai the frontier line between the two na- tionsshould run from the Rio Bravo to the Gulf of California along the parralle! of 31 degrees of lati- tude. For this pristloge six mil.ions of dollars was of- ered,a pretty high price, appareatly, considering the small revenue which, under present circumstances, Mexico is enabled to draw from those districts. But, notwithstanding this seeming insignificance, the ces- si_n involves a very important point, so far as it im- | plicated dominion over the upper part of the Gulf of California, including the mouth of the Rio Colo- rado a) d i’s tributary, the Gila. For this and other | reusons, itis said that the eremaces of Mexico resolutely rejected the offer, ‘e do not know what degree of credit is to be attached to the alleged fact, but admitting the correctness of the proposition, the | refusal appears to us as probable as i: would be honorable to the government of Senor Comonfort. Another more positive occurrence connected with | the same matter, and which to strengthen our | opinion, is the recent dismissal or resignation of | General Gadsden, representative of the goverament of Washington near thit of Mexico. The strange conduct (implicitly condemned at Fresent by bis government) of this diplomatic | agent, during his residence in Mexixo, is of puolic | notoriety. He did not only, in an ostentatious man- ner, separate from his other European colleagues, but openly attempted to interiere in the domestic concerns of the cou. try, and to exercise an influence favorable to certain ideas. Neither is it less clear, 30 far as watters of such o nature can be fully ascer- tained, that the retzeat of Mr. Gadsden was origi- wally brought oa by the complaints and reclama- tions of the actual Mexicau gvyernment, which, a3 is quite reasopable, was not very favorable to such intrigues. This act of moral protest agiinst the tendencies of foreign domination deserves like wise our praise, on account both of its immediate conse- quences and its signification for the future. To all these antecedents may be added not only the honorable aud convenient arrangement of the dif- ferences pending betweea Spain and Mexico, but also the expressive language used by Sr. President Comonfort within the interval of a ‘few days. We well know what custom prescribes in such cases, and what is the real value of official phrases; still, the form of expression always changes much of the sense, either to ly annul it, or to lend i: addition- alstiength. This last inteation is purposely carried out, and shines th rong i speech of Sr. Comontort. ‘This conduct is yg ly honorobie to his sentiments os a man, and to bis foresight as a politician. Th Mexican government, by regulating the coaditions of an arrangement which puts an end to disagreea- ble differences, but limited to questions of dignity, caused by interests of a material character, jadi- ciously showed that it never allowed itself to be daz- zled by the deciamations of the foreigner, nor never lent itself to serve as an instrument to projects which are well known. Such symptoms, viewed one with the other, and justly appreciated by a sound judgment, lead us to inferences highly satisfactory, aud such as throw light on the im‘ernational relations which may exist between these two countries. We may, for exam- le, entertain merely individual opinions, more or oe stable, relative io the interior policy which might suit Mexico; but, as Spanish writers, we never ex- pressed, nor can express, a single judgment or ides contrary to the fundamental interests of that country, or leading to its ruin. Even when we in an abstract way condemn this or that doctrine iu opposition with our own general principles, we do so, maialy ac- tuated by our fear lest their application might contribute to eneryate the vigor of Mexican nation ality. This, our personal pos: hwe cite ovly by way of an humble exon r ; exactly completely the inter. | ests. By sympathy and for our wa incerest, we wish to Fee Mexico happy, but what we desire above all is the existence of Mexico; for thus the high in- terests of race will be muaranteed, while the germs of stvength and pro, which exist in that society cannot but develope {).mselves sooner or liter. The political interests which prevail in Mexico do not differ nor could not differ substantially from this very model. Doctrines more or Jess democratic may exist a3 well under their rule as under that of the list dicta- torship, but the end which every good Mexican pro- poses to himself has no other object. The idea of navionality circles all other considerations, apart from the manner of sustaining it. Therefore, Mex- ican siatesmen, whatever nay be their political cbasacter, will not let themselves be deceived so as to believe in imaginary dangers; nor will they cease to oppore whatever attewpt will be made for foment- ing real danger. The democratic school, in the largest expression of the word, governs to-day the destiny of Mexico, and notwithstanding its couduct it shows that the ides of national suicide rouses in the breast of her sons the deepest iceliag of repug- nance to such a cause, 12¥ CONDITION OF CALIFORNIA—FUTURE OP THE LATIN RACE ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. (From the Dia:to de la Marina, Aug. 5.) From the beginning of the unaccountable occur- rences of which California bas been the theatre to the date of our last advices, we have derived a lesson both clear and useful for the instruction of our race on the neighboring continent. Nev.r will Chris- tianity be able to boast of obtaining mterial results more brilliant cr more apt to dazzle the mind by silencing criticism. Riches, progress in the ostena!- ble developement of society, ex — popula- tion and civilization—all are found there. and toa degree such as to shut the door — farther hope. However, under this brilliant surface there is some- thing frightful. The lot of the oppressed race was spoliation, violence, and humiliation; neither was the ruling race less afliicted by the like violence pushed to a last extremity, so that in onier to secure oy to re-establiih guaranteds for the protection of life and property, it was necessary to have recourse to heroic remedies. Neither does time promise to bring along with it any cnre. Rather on the con- trary, the evil becomes chronic, and, ina city such as Francieco, which, from the number of its in- habitants, its commerce and other conditions may be already counted among those of the first class, in order to maintain the spirit of the laws the people began by trampling on them with acis which at least we must qualify as Mliegal, and which admit of no other excuse bat thet of an iaperious necessity. These are the logical ard unave'dable consequences of all the civilization which is accomplished by | Lands of adventurers, who, in their numbers are a | reckless'set of men. without any other motive bat | avarice, and without any other re bat their own appetives. ut even taking into consideration these clreum- stances, or a'lowing the turbulent portion of the population of California not to be the exact or right standard of the nation to which it bey 'o never- theless, it is permitted us to infer from it the exist- ence of a very serious phenomenon, which is prog- nant with dangers for the fatore. It is certain that the allarements offered by that wonderfal country | weie likely, wt tae first moment, to attract to its shores a motley crowd of adventurers, and that amongst this multitude the social dregs were neces- sarily to oceupy a place without any legitimate { proportion to its numerical importance However, a little later, the necessities of commerce and the ostensible forms of an organized society, at once drew to it another element, more worthy of praise and respect. Labor, respectability and intelligence count already, without any donbt, mighty represen- totives there: and it would be the greatest injustice to measure the whole population of California by the type of those hordes under whose tyranny it lay en- elaved. The very desperate eff rt the city of San Francisco has just nade to get rid of so heavy a burden gives evidence of this, without recurring to new argu- ments. There is, then, a constant and latent antago- nism between the two principles of evil and good ; bat the irregu’arity exists, or rather is being aggra vated, considering that in the ordinary course of things the mischievous principle hi marked ten- dency of overpowering its adversury. If there were in the situation of things any sign of spontaneous | improvement, it would ish some reasons for hope; bat we doubt very much that, if in sach a hypothe sis, the respectable portion of the inhabitants of San Francisco would have resorted to such desperate messures. For bey ee to them how er- roneous was their belief, and how, from day to day, the evil was increasing ; for this reason, and exclu- sively for this reason, we may pardon their conduct, although we do not perhaps approve of it. So far so well. The social problem being lai down in these terms, the importance of its soiu'ion is enbanced beyond all measure. And, as to the ap- preciation of this cliss of phenomena, the stady of enalogons facts is of the greatest utility; it is to our purpose to mention here another series of facts which may, perhaps, throw some light on the mat» ter. Alieady, we have remarked that, as regards the populations of the Latin race, inhabiting the southern part of the new continent, there cat be.wi'lr full exactness, traced out a gradual progress in their prosperity, and by establishing it to that degree | fom Ls4 riving at those ulations who, , delim, udopting the foderalorgauization, anton + =r. allied pacmsaires to the domination of Eye pean de: eas. In order ty attain extremity of prostration and discontent, <.) must pursue our coarse of tion we stumble over the wreck of the Argentine Confederation, where the licentiousness of legislators terminated by rangin| je ope mi theoretical, ted de- mocracy of portenos aj ie retrograde ma- terial despooracy of the gauchos. And in order that nothing’ may be wanting to plete our picture, we observe that amongst the excesses of evil the sii reaction in favor of conservative ideas wonderful efects. The obecure history of Guatemala, which would deserve to be better known, proves the advantage of a dictatorship which not Timaking iteelt to material facts, tries a reorganization u, the basis of the past, accommodating iteelt to exi- gencies of the present. In fine, wherever the Latin- American societies knew how to preserve the im- ulee to which they owed their existence, their ad- erence to the spirit of the old European civilization rewarded them with proportionate bevefits. Essentially the same, although under a different form, is the picture presented by Anglo-Saxon so- ciety in the great con'ederation of the North, from the States of New England, where the English ¢; shows itself better conserved to our eyes, to extreme West, which, like California and Kansas, is the lot expression of the purely national develope- men! ‘This picture, perhaps, less familiar to the fc - er in i's leading feature, than it ought in all just to be, is worthy of being more fully examined. com- even Shipment of Silver from England to the East. {From the London News, Jay 24] The constant efflux of silver to the East continues to form one of the most remarkable monetary phe- nomena of the time, and is siioacting increased. at- tention at present on account of a well founded belief that. coupled with aud acting as auxiliary to the builion purchares of the Bank of France, it operates as the chief check to the otherwise strong!y improv- ing tendency of the money market. Of the extent of the influence thus exercised a food idea will be afforded if we muke use of the tables compiled by Mr. James Low, showing the total shipments of the indiaa precious metals from England by the steamers during the first six moaths of sent year. The results are as follows January, £532,948; in February, £97.55: im Mareb, £582,118; in April, £843,718, in May, £1,182,444; and in June, £679,920; making a total of £5,100,633 in the six months, of which £201,72a was gold, and £4,898,908 silver. The proportion despaiched to the three Chisese ports was £937,288, the remaining £4,163,345 being sent entirely to In- dia, with the exception of a small sum to Alexan- dria. Inthe (harley Un) months of last year, the total shipments were £2,514,806. Thee figures exhibit an increase of 42,555,527, or more than 108 er cent over those for the corresponding half of £55. But the increased velocity with which the curient of the precious wetals has lately set towards Tndia will be best shown by a recapitulation of the: total exports from England by the tern ste duripg the lost five years, These rein’ amounted in 151 to £1.$18,380; in 1552, to 2 977; im 1853, to £5,590, i; and in 1555, to £7,358,161. In the present year they are proceeding at the unprecedented rate of nearly ten millions and a quaiter sterling per a In considering the effects of this heavy drain of silver, it must be borne in mind that, no large stocks of silver existing iv this country, any special de- mand for the metal in the East can only be purchases of silver en the Continent and els This operation materially disturbs the ex shanges, and we believe we should vot be far wrong in as- suming that, for the whole of the silver which is dawn from the Continent for shipment to India and China, the Continent requires goli in payment. This view is corroborated in a remarkable manner by the recently published official returns of the com- merce of France, which, under the head ot the pre- cious metals, state the total imports of silver into France during the three years 1853-4 5 at £153,332,000 we take the exchange at 25f. to the pound—and exports at no less than £32.440,000, indicating & bolance in favor of exports over imports of silver of 10%,000. During the same period the ag wmpporte of gold into France were £47,216.000, and the total exports £10, 000, showing a balance om the side of impor s over exports of gold of255,944,000. ‘The gold sent into France, it will be noticed, exceeds reetly in value the s'lver drawn from it. Part of Sits excess is probably due to the French transit trade in the prec‘ous metal, whilst part is very likely hoarded in the provinces. It is evident from a general comparison of these figures that, under the influence of the Eastern demand for siiver, the stock of this metal circulating in France and in other continental countries is being gradually drawn away and-re- placed by gold. If additional proof be required, how- ever, it is afforded by the returns of the operations of the Fiench Mint, which indicate an enormous coinuge of gold, and a comparatively trifling coinage of the less precious metal, although a few years ago the direct reverse was the case. Seven years ago, viz., in 1°49, the total coinage of the Paris Mint waa £1,050,000 in gold, and £7,360,000 in silver. Im 1554 it was as mack as £20,450,000 in gold, only £80,060 in silver. The exact figures forthe yeur 1855 are not at present before us, but the gold coinage was nearly as large as that of 1854, while the value of the silver coined was little more than @ qvarter of a million. These facts account to some extent for the ant disappearance of the gold yielded in such abundance by California and Australia. We are able to point to an enor- mous aggregate of gold which has into circulation in France merely in lieu of the pre- viously existing silver coin, the latter having been absorbed by India. The same process lias caused a ge change in the relative stock of gold and silver in the possession of the Bank of France. At the end of 1449 the Bank neld 17,170,800 in silver, and only £162,400 in gold, whereas at the end of 1854 the proportions were nearly equal, the goid standing at £7,733,450, and the silver at £7,943,920. The change made still further progress in 1855, the | Bank's stock of gold being estimated at the close of the year at £4,500,000, whilst the silver had dimin- ished to about £3,500,000. The infmence exerciced upon the European money markets hy the dow of silver to the Nast being thas powerful, it would be pecniiarly interesting if any reliable estimate couk? Le formed as to the extent of the capacity of India to absorb silver. He must be a bold man, however, who will venture upon positive asserticus on this point. From time immemorial India has heen notoriously a complete sink of precious metals. Jn a movt interesting paper, re- cently read before the Statistical Society, from the pen of Colonel Sykes, some valuable details beari upon this subject are given. Taking, for purposes ilustrution, a period of eight —s from Is4-6 to 1841-2, Colonel Sykes shows that the aggregate im- ports of ali goods into India were vaiued at 261,211,044, and the aggregate exports at £108 ,052,203, and that, consequently, there was @ balance in favor of india, or devt dee to it, of £46,541.248. This, he remarks, was partly liqui- datad by a net import of bullion of 2£15,[84,720, we an unpaid trade ¢ebt of £91,656,528. Doubt , this apparently Leavy discrepancy wat made up in some of way~in part, perhaps, by (he pecsel eer aod other transactions between the Indian government and its dependencies; bat the Cg inference to be deduced from the figures %, that the balance of trade was constantly in fa~ Taking n ‘t a period of five years ) to 185 Colonel Syke's statistios exhibit results of a kindred character. The agi gate value of the imports into India in these tive years was £55,292,65° against £956,115,476 of ex~ yor of In ports, jarng an epparent balance of trade in mer- chandise in favor of India of £39,322,758. Thia shows a much larger annual balance in favor of India than during the eight years of the preceding | period. The total imports of bullion in these five Years were £18,00. redneed to £20,528,129. These and similar details conclusively prove what hes long been believed, viz.—that whilst ‘ie export trade of India has been gradually increasing for the last twenty years, the haiance of trade in favor of that country bas also anonally angmented. The na- tural consequence is, as Colonel Sykes points ont, that merchants and manufacturers ‘trading with In- dio have been compelled, in addition to thelr manu- foctures, to transmit thither large and {nore Ae by which the balance was | amounts of bailion, which have been absorbed local- ly, and have not again left (he country. Tae Arrirr to Exren Kansas vid NeORASK As ~ We make the following extract, says the Bostom Traveller, from a private letter received in this from one who is connected with the expedition about to attempt to enter Kansas by the way of Ne Wraska:— Civin Bern, lows, Aug. 1, 1956. I have only time to report myself as about to start for the Territory to-day, in a with the great emicrant train, which proposes its inte Konaoe through Nebraska. It numbers about 600. 1, will teke us ten days to go. I trust it may go im afely: but it is prepared for any emergency—it ia bownd to goin. A messenger was sent some ten or twelve days since to ask of Gen. Smith an escort, but none has arrived, and the m¢ is a if the government troops keep out the way 2 us. 1 would go in alone, but eourians can't s not deemed sife to cross the border un ed. We shall move on to-day or to-morrow, with the greatest cmtion. The camp is now about twenty miles from here, in Nebraska, near the little H they proved themselves truthful to their old tradi- tichs and the fundemental conditions of their pre- vioug existence. The monarchica! Brazil opens cho march, and the otilitarian Chile, ‘with © stron overnment and semi-aristocratic institutions whic! fore been comentad 7 a lay odraitiing ceadee of itare, is " ic + al Beret ee ar From here we de- coud the acale ium vevy feDid Progression ual at Nemeha, Tam here in fowa, nearly mouth ofthe Platte river, or rather Nebraska city, on the Towa side. aoe that the enemy are collecting along line on 0, but they must be amart to do it. °F wil ete cei in thin tea, etn, i wa are beaten back by violence, look ont for come motion. I trast, that they will ma 1s to allepyyt ny sash Nore: tide