The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1857, Page 6

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CHRISTY aND WOv1'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broad- wey—Ersrorias Pesroumance:— Sew Year Uslis, BUCKAEYS SERENADRES, 68 Prerormanons— Lo Focg's Comomar, &s, — MECHANTON GALL, 472 m0 MELoviEs, So Haw DUNT AKORATE-KY Rav anys MiNGTRELS Rew Vork. Saturday, May %, 1857. IPLE SHEET. jew York Weokiy Herald. HEWES FROM EUKOPE, CHINA, MKXIOO, CUBA, WEST INDIRA, ETC.—TRIAL OF MKS. CUNNINGHAN—THE MYBTERIOUK TRAGEDY AT NEWBUMG—aFF ALis AT WASHINGTON, vu. BTC. ‘The Weeaty Mex..o will be published at ten o’c! moraing. Among its eootente wil! be found news ope, Ubina, Mexico, Cubs, West Indies, Ac.; Tr Cunaingbam forthe Murder of Dr. Burdell; Tho Mysterious Tragedy at Newburg; Atfairs of Nicaragon; Rditorials op cart ous intoresting subjecta; News from Washington; Laiest Tele grapbic News; Mnaucial, Commercial, Religious, T! Political Rporting aod Maritime Intelligence, New Y fe Market; Marringes and Deaths; uigether with o vari Jeon ané tiscwilanvous ivems, Blagie copies, in wrapper, ready for mailing. can he bad at the eonnter, Price elt eonta. ook this The News, ‘The celebrated Bond street murder case, now ender ju dicta investigation im the Court of Over and Terminer, (+ approaching ite close. The defence cloved ite evidence be- fore 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after having examined quite a cloud of witnesses, inciuding Helen, Augusta and George Cunningham and Young Sncdgrass. Ono over banging mystery around this myrierious case has becn dissipated by the evidence of & chemist wbo resides at 2% Bond :ireet, who bad been for some time making ox- periment, in which be bad used seraps of woollen cloth Gnd leatber, and all of which be had, on this particular night, collected together and placed in 4 stove in his labo- ratory. This fully accounts for the “strange, peculiar dor” tbat polluted the air of Bond street on the night of the Slt of January. The family physician of Mrs, Cunningham testified to the thet that for two or three yeare past she bas beeu cuffering so much from rheums- taetm (rai (he'fointe of her arms snd hands, particularly hoe right, were considerably weakened. A visit {2 to be pail by tbe Court aud jury to the premises. The prose ton anc the defence have each four bours assigned to {em for the summing up to-day; then we shail bave the Judges charge, and thea the verdict—all im tune probabig: (or Sunday’ Bemay. If the verdict be one of aequitte\a Hol preeequt will probably be entered aa regards kr At vastous times recently telegraphic despatche ‘ave appeared in the papers, representing that erious ¢ wrac- tuons to canal nevigation in thie State exist, i. conse- quence of breaks, &c, These reports have been promul wated by the agente of (he railroad lines competing with the canal. The trick ie Kporod in an article pub: Airbed in another partof today’s paper. The main lines of canal are in good order. A very important case of landiord and terant wae be fore Judge Green and & jury of the Firat Vietrict Coert youterday, involving a frequently disputed point av to im provements made by the tenant. The suit was to dlepos- seme party for overhokling, « lease having bees given fon oew tenant for premises in Soath street, ata romt of $5,800 year, The improvements made coet $2,600, tor whieb expenditure the landiord agreed to reuew the lease for apother year, but in the meantime leased to another party. The jury gave e verdg® & favor of the tenant in posecamon, leaving the now IM@BB te his remedy against he Inadiord, The report will be read with \nterest by landlord nd (enant—ciasee amongst whom there are 40 many dapute The investigation into the care of the alleged clave schooner Merchant was commenced before United States Commissioner Morton yesterday. Captain Faunce aod Marnba: Ryndere were examined, Yut their & stimony ¢ closed no material facts that have net already beer Dofore the public in the columns of the Henan, Kasewhere we publish an exceedingly luterseting letter from our special correspondent in Kanes, Tt contains tr detail the proporitions of the free State leaders for 8 com promise pon the question of electing delegates to a Con stitntional Courention, and ‘eretary Blanton's forcible re- ply rejecting their overtures The citizens of Brooklyn belt « meeting lat er protect aguinet the ure of locomou ves on the Leas Ralircad while parsing trough Atiaaue str: ing wee numerowly aleaded. Terolvtions, © the views of the protestants, were adeptec, and apirited spocches were delivered, ali going to p the business of that thoroughfare had bees re Property cousequently greatly depreciated n valor b ‘use Of steam upon the railroad. ‘The members of the &. George's Cricket met yertor day m Hoboken, About twenty cight members were preseat, and the first game of (he season woaplayed. The Detling, bowling and fielding war goot—in fact Une play or eutered into the wpirit of the game with right got will ‘The Parish will case war taken op agen io the Surro (eaie’s Court yesterday. Henry Deiaielt, a bi her uf Mrs. Parish, was called by the proponente, and examined in re ard to the will and codicils. Hi vstcuny was lot te support their validity Nothing pew hae transpired in reisuon to the le fage perpetrated at Segvin’s Poict, Staten Temnd, by tho rebellious cystermon of that civtrict. Ths Quarantine Commisetoners bave pot yet taken any ective otepe in the matter, a2 no communication has beea had from Governor King tn sauwer wo the despatch informing him of the oo currence. Lt is expected, however, (hat prompt moseures ‘Will be taken W prevent a repidtion of such lawlesr com. duct, while at the same time every effort wit! be made to ferret cnt tne perpetrators of the late acta of incemdiarisin Mr. Mcleod Murphy, civil engineer of the Brovkiyn avy Yard, bas beon dicmined (rom his port by the Navy Departmses, in couseyuence of hig dilicully with Mr. ‘ok es, Jndge Whitiog bas decline! the appointment of Cene-al Huperintendent of the Metropolitan Polis The feet has Dot yet been officially mate pubic. Wo, howerer, pub Lush eleewhere the correapondsece whic haa paserc be. twore the Comminnioners and Judge Whiting on thi jock The bev Board are busily and anniounly, and hopelessly, seeking for a fultelie person upoe estow the lice. A fot occurred at Bollidaysburg, Pa,on Monday last Tiappears that the [istrict Atoruey of Blair county and ewo pewnpaper reporters bad become offecsive to a por ce of the citizens of that town im consequence of the r conduct with regard to the trial of McKim, he mordore- cfs mas named Norevom. The slair oped withow per wom, damage to any one. ‘The salee of cotton yesterday embrar.d about 1.20068 1400 bales, Chiefly im rans. Midcung cplands were @ 18%. a lée., thorgh the market continued to be somewhat onsetied and (rreguiar, The Souf mar. ket ww excited, and & spectiiative feeling prevaiied. Walee were frecly made, closing ot 43, advance Of from Ihe & 206. per barrel for common to good and high grades of ectra brands. Wheat wna also Grmer, ‘With males of prites Misourt red at #1 76, and Canadias ‘White a0. of private worms, but supposed to havo been Detereen $1 Hard $4 per bushel. Corn was in epscube Bre reqet and ion of Weetern mixed and Gdouthere yellow w: 0 at Rée., ant 8c, for Boutuern white, Rye % N Pork was old wt $8 a He « of 1.906 0 1000 bhde. at p uid oat a wher ma thern re tirm, ‘ith sai coh man Cokive wae frm, with ta on priate Corie and came iets bo Vie Fre NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1857.—TRIPLE SHEET. { te Party—The rrospest, The offic al © rresponde ce whier we publish | todsy between activ-g Governor Stanton, of Kan- sax, and the free Stne leaders, will give tre | reader a pretty di tines idea cf the sterply de- ' Gned avd bekigerent looking issues upoa which the pro-siavery and the no-lavery parties of the | Territory are divided. The free S ate committee ask that the Territo- rivl el-ction law and the procecdings under it be | vet aside; that there shall be @ new census; tuat | ancqual number to both parties of the supee- virors of tbe eeneus ltet and of the judges of the of the judges of ceoh precine: shall ba requires to give a certificate of electios to th State Cor vevtion, If these propositions are acced d to the free State party are willing to partwipate in the June election; otherwiee they will stand ‘and falt back upoa their reserved rights pom Tongrese and the Topeka free State coasti- tution Tee answer of the acting Governor is, sub stantially, that he cannot go bebiod the Terr- torjel ~Legislatore, but must take its laws as he finds them, and oarry them oat We are, therefore, at po loss to pre. dict the upedet of this dissgreemout Governor Stanton and the | which iu the old Parliamentary days coustituted he rouge fact on, numbers many thousand des- prrate meu, well adapted to perform, and really likely tw undertake the fearful funeti aceassio, Murder, in the eyes of a Fr ri-tef that class, ts no crime at al; hundreds ard thourands of them would kul Louis Napo leon with po wore companction than he evinecd when he snot the officer at Bologne The langeege of the red republ cans, as ottered wherever epecch is free, shows that they would regard the drstructon of the Emp-- ror asa praiseworthy act. There may bs a lack of Charlotte Cordays in Franoe; but most certain | election shall be appointed; end that ® majority ly a Brutus lurks in every crowd, and sleeps in every street. Nor can opportunities of assassi- uatng the Emperor be wanting if they are ear- neetly conght. During bis past career, he has never hid himacif from the public eye. He has constantly driven about, almost alone, through the strets of Paria. He is constantly at the the- atre, and in crowds Even sopposing that he will follow the example of Louis Philippe, and change his babits—live more privately, take more precautions, surround himse'f with more guards ard epiea—there will still be ample opportunities for a deeporate and enterprising conspirator. A mah cannot wear a coat of mail always, nor can he, day after day, lead the life of a recluse for The Jane’ election will bo earred unantmourly | tng fear of aseasaina Evon Madame Castiglione by the pro-slavery party—the State Convention | hy. her rigtite; axid her arms would not be the thus elected will have unlimited power in favor mott unlikely place for the Emperor to receive of slavery, end will doubtlees exercise it in the | ine fata) blow. But every spot is open to risk— adopiion, unanimously, of @ pro-slavery State constitut‘on, We think ao, inasmuch aa the free State party bavc committed themselves in all their proccedings, even to armed resistance and open war, ince the Missouri invas on of 1855, against any recognition in any form, of what they de- nounced as the illegal, fraudulent, perjured and outrazeous legislative usurpers of the Territory. Wh.t next! The pro-slavery party hacing adopted in convention a slave State constitu tion, » \! send it up to Congress for ratification withors further ceremony. The local law makes no prc fsion for the submission of tae constitu tion to ‘ people, and we have no doabt that such . \-p will be considered @ hazardoas super- fluit.. j at with the presentation of this slave Ste. constitution to Congress, there will appear th «monstrance, and the testimony and the ar- gument o° the free Stale party against it, andan appeal in behalf of the Topeka constitution as the true embodiment of the will of the people of Fansas. Between these two bundles of hay Congress will have to make an election, in the choice of one or the rejection of both. Shontd they choose the pro-slavery constitution and admit Kansas into the Union upon that basis, there will be a genera] eruption in the North infinitely more d-sastrous to the shattered democracy than the fierce reaction of 1854 against the repeal of the Microuri compromise, Should the Topeka coasti- tation be adopted there will be @ flare-up in the South of a more dangerously sectional character than the secession movement in 1851 ig South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi upon the admission In 1850 of the whole of California as a free State. Should the application of both the free State and the slave State party of Kansas be rejected, the Southern ultrsa will most likely ac- cept it ag the betrayal of their section, and as a revolutionary capitulation to the Northern abo- litionista, ‘These are the conssquencee foreshadowed by his correspondence between Governor Stanton std the free State leaders, ,We shall be agree- | ably disappointed if nothing worse shall be evolved out of this ugly imbroglio before the | meeting of Congress. Acd now comes the quee- ion—where lies the responsibility fur this gloomy | tate of thingst First, with poor Pierce; and | secondly with the nigger worshipping leaders on | the one side, and the nigger driving leaders on | the oth-r side of the last Congresa. Upon half a | sbeet of fool-cap thie last Coagrees might have provided amp'y and satufactorily for the pacifica- tion of Kansos. They farled to do it, and Mr. | Bachanan is therefore compelicd to do the best be can with thie Kaasas enlanglement, as he finds it pawed over into bie hands irom his faithicss | end incompetent vreieceswr and the art‘ul | Gvdgere of the lest Congress, } Bat, in the second place, {hese troubles in Kanras are the result of tho dirty inteigues, the electroneering tricks and plots of outside Presi- dentist eectionas agitators, North and Soath. If left to themselves, tue lcal intereste of all par- ties in Kanens would specdily bring about « erys- talizatiou. Bot, unfortunately the Seward or- gone and the Seward managers of a Northern suitution find it their policy to keep Kansas “bleeding;” and the scheming ond reckless ultra politicians of the Sovth are governed by precisely the same ruling ides. Tas the stand aloof policy of the free State party withia Kansas and the enap judgment policy adopted by the pro- slavery party, eait alike the purposes of Mr. Seward aa a Northern candidste for the succession acd of Mr. Walker or Mr. Jeffersov Davis as a Southan aspiraat. The maligo influcnces of our outwde sectional scbemers for the Presidency and for the spoilt of the euccession, have thus kept alive these border troubler; and these caases will operate to fan the rekiadling flame into ® coneuming fire, unless the President at the meeting of Congri should step in between these recklees agitators and the couatry and bring up the leading nigger worshippers of the House aad the leading nigger drivers of the Senate fairly and squarely to face tie music. Thst Mr. Buchanan will do so we are aban dantly aseured ‘rom the plain aod sugges tioue of his ioaagural In the meantime, between the acting Governor, Staaton, and the dormaat Governor, Robinson, we see that the case is mde up in Kanses—that there is mo comproniise—that there will be no pacifieation end no settlement of the owtsoversy. Perhaps Governor Walker has been waiting to ree whether it will be most ex- | pedient for him to go to Kansas thie sum- mer or to Texna Wo should my, let him look after bis railroad affairsin Texas, as the ae in Kansas ix made up and the game blocked til the meeting of Congress. Napoleon the Third—sits Role in Hurope. Neither thy Pari« nor the London papers men- tion, except to dircredit, the story of the Empe- tbe Tuilerica, St. Cloud, the streets, the coancil chamber, the bedroom—there is room for a mur derer everywhere. The mind loses itself in the attempt to epecu- late on the consequences of the death of the Em peror of the French. Perhaps no man’s life— except bis uncle's—ever seemed to be the main- epring end joint of so msny interests He is the toul of France. Without him, there could be no go- vernment, ond sll would be anarchy. TheCouncil of Regency which be has appointed to take charge of the kingdom dorivg the period between his death aud his coo's majority would rot hold to- gether longer then a few weeks. Quarreis aod intwigues would infallivly divide them; the army would take part; ania new revolatioa would be inevitable. In the disorganized covdition of the republicea party, toey would require time to es- tablish @ stable government which would com- mand the respect of the masses; meanwhile even euch « thing asa legitimist restoration would not be impossible. Whatever course things took one thing would be certain: France would be deli- vered over bodily to anarchy and distress, Bat the fatal consequences of tne Emperor's death would not be confined to the couutry over which he is set. He ig scarcely lees powerful in Spain than in France, and his death woald be the teverest poreibie blow to the government of Queen Isabella. ‘Tho settlement of the Spanish Mexican diepate eeems to rest with him. He oo- cupies Rome, end were he dead, the Pope would aot remain thirty days in the Holy City. But for fear of bim, the bully, Austria, would have ere Would bmve pnshed the Neuchatel quarrel to an extreme, and fought with we Swim. To is negotiating a treaty of perpetual peace be- tween Turkey and Persia; be is guiding the allied movement against China; he is putting into Russia’s band the means of building her railroada, He is maintaining the Anglo-French alliance by the sole power of his will and his constancy. If the ball which struck him the other night had not met a coat of mail it would have filled Europe from end to end with an explosion which would have reverberated from side to side of the world. ‘The growth and condition of the leading daily newspapers in the world illustrate finely that eco- nomical law which the Saviour expressed in such simple words as—To him that hath more shall be given; bat from him that hath not shall be takea away even that which he hath. Some years ago there was a contest among the daily newspapers of Loodoa for pre-emineoce- The old Morning Chronicle and Morning Herald with others now forgotten, had not yet acknow- ledywd the pre-emiceoce of the Times; while the newly founded Daily News, wih a corps of editors uvrivalied for literary talent, menaced a clove rivalry. But, a4 time wore on, the unfail ing common sense, conservatism, and jaticioas deference to popular will displayed by the Times increased the distance between it and its old rivals, and rendered the Daily News almost # bopeless speculation. It took years to coavine= the publ'c of the fact»; but people learnt the truth at laxt; and then a change took place in the advertising business. Up to that time, each man | had been governed by hie own fancy in the se- | lection of a paper to advertise in. When it be- camo generally known thit the Time: exceeded | all its rivals combined in circulation, adver- tiners generally gave it the preference. Then, a new law came into action The busi- new commualty, to whom advertisements are ad dressed, began to look exclusively to the Time for the informat‘on contained in odvertisements ‘They read irregularly, or did not read at all the edvertising columna of the other papera A man who advertised In the Chronicle, Post, Herald, end Nave ran some risk that his advertisement would never be seen at all by the people for whem It was intended; while, on the other hand, the ad- vertiser in the Times wae certain of goneral at tention, because the Influx of advestisementa to that joarnal had really made its advertaing colamos among the raoet Interesting it contained. A few years experience demonstrated these facts to the satisfaction of the pubtio; and then began the exclusive reign of the Time: as an advertising sheet, It is now, in fact, the only mediam for @neral business advertisements ia Ragland; and no business man who hat anything to advertise fails to gend his advertisoment to the Times, Tt would have been #0 in France, but for the constant operation of coercive laws, repressing the natural tendency of joarpalim, and subject ing newrpapers to inflaenees foreign to their nature. The leading journal of yesterday Is forced into a secondary positioa today, and may strengthens its position, Eery day there are more people woo make arale of reading the Hexa.y edecrtisemevts, and forget to read the advertirements ia ¢ther journals, Ia course of time, it will neersearily beeome the great adver- tiring organ not only of this city but of the Unit- «d States; end no prudvnt maa @ill undertake to cerry on avy exteosive busiaess withoat prepar- ing himself for the work of the dey by a careful examioation of the advertisements in the New Yous Herat, ‘There are facts, bearing upon the tide of oiviti- gation And we do not think we are dving in- justice to this or thet aickly cotemporary in mon- tioning them, just as they are. This celebrated case is drawing to a close. The evidence for tre defence was all in before 6 o'clock yesterdey afternoon, aud the summing up, Jedge’s charge, aod jury’s verdict will all be got through te-day. The prosecution and de tence have each four hours a¢eigned for the sum- ror Napoleon's narrow escape from awasination: | be extinguished tomorrow. The natural course We are ‘nformed, by » private correxpondent in | of events has been checked by extrancous causes. whom we place reliance, that an attempt was But in this country, the law Is scen in fall ope rewily made to kill the Emperor, and that the | ration, The New York Brnato hasbeen so loog ball struck coat of mail which he wenm, and | at the bead of the Netw York press that people at glanced off. A hundred persone were forthwith | large of every party and cless are beginning to arrested, snd confined in prison. ‘The Emperor | recognise Ite position. Ite circulation is kaowa himeelf, thongh » profemed fatalit and a very | to be larger than that of all the other dally basi- brave man, thought It pradent to attain from | news papers put together; ond benos, advortisers public assemblages fora time, and wae bout to | are beginning more and more to give ita mono leave Poris for his country residence at St. Cloud | poly of their busines. Poople have begna to re- Should this story be true -and the silence of | gard it ns the advertising sheet of the city, and the pewrpapere is no arrament aainst ite anthen- | perhape no portion of ita contents ia more gene- ticity—the position of the Emperor, of Prance, | rally read tban the long colamne of business no- tnd of Burope it indeed precarious. The party | tices and advertisements, Rvrery day naturally micg up. The verdict will probably sppear in the Herarp of Sunday. There is but little doubt entertained 98 to the failure of the prose- cutioa to make out @ case. ‘he defence examined quite a number of wit- pesees yesterday. The two daughters of Mis Cunningham testified to the tact of toeit heving slept with their mother the night of the marder, of their baving been engaged tn conversation fur some time after they retired, of their haviag heard no noise, noticed vo disagreeable smell, and having had no knowl-dge of their mother \-aving them daring the night The truth of their story was virtually conceded by the fact of their not having been subjected to a cross-exami- vation. Young Snodgrass and little G-orge Cunningham aleo spoke to their having not‘oed nothing particular about the house that night, slhough tbeir bedroom door in the attis was oven. Svodgrass denied that he had heard threats uttered against Dr. Burdell by any of the family, Doctor Roberts, a dentist in Bond street, was intimate with the family, and testified to the ap- parently amicable relations that existed between Mrs, Cunniogham and Dr. Burdell. He had seen them together several times in private boasea, often in the street, and once in a place of amuse- ment. He was one of the first sent for on the dis- covery of the murder, and he found the detend- ant eo agitated and helpless that he and othera had to lift her into bed. He had often noticed the street door of 31 Bond strect anlatched, after them w lock had been pat on. He was asked as to his knowledge of the fact that other persons, pot inmates of the house, had night keys of it; and tbe prosecution admitted that such was the case in respect to two persons. Dr. Cattin’s testimony is of great moral weight in reference to the question whether Mrs. Cun- ningham hereelf could have perpetrated the ast. All the medical gentlemen examined agree eome of the wouods great exertion of phy- force. This gentleman hae been Mrs, Cunningbam’s family physician for along time, ‘and proves that for the last two or three years ebe bas been affected with rheamatiam to such a degree as to weaken very much the joints of her arma and hands, more ber right. It will be recollected that the witnem on whom the rested most in regard to the origin of the disagreeable odor in Boad street on the night off the murder, was Dr. Parmly. Tals gevtleman’s nephew, Errick Parmly, was ex- amined for the defence, and proved that his uncle told him be had noticed the emell between nine and ten o'clock that night. Toe odor itself was accounted for pretty satis- factorily by Doctor Daniel B Smith, residing at 36 Botd street. He bad been for a length of time engaged in making chemical experiments, and bad been accustomed to'use woollen rags, pieces of leather, and other odds and ends, in bis laboratory. On this partioular night he had gathered up all that were about and pat them in a stove where there was a fire of anthracite coal. His eon substantiated his testimony. So that “ strange peculiar odor” disappears from among the mysteries of this mysterious case. Then there was quite a crowd of witnesses examined—some in respect to the friendly and sometimes loving terms which appeared to exist between the murdered man and her who is on trial for hie murder, and some In respect to mat- ters of trivial importance in themselves, but tending to dimipate many of the shadows of sas- picion that darkened the case. Anothor Mr. Smith—the fifth of that name examined yester- day—gave some evidence as to the facility wich which the house 31 Bond street could have bsea entered trom the rear. There was little or ao crom-¢xamination of the witnesses for the defense, The defence rested their case on the close of this last named witness's examination, end the Court adjourned for the day, having made ar- rangementa to visit the premises betore the hour of meeting today—9 o'clock. Tne wiser plan would have been for counsel on both sides to have dispensed with » summing up—which will only help to coafuse the minds of the jury—and to bave let the case go to the jury on the summing up of the Judge. But we sappose they consulted the public taste and their own love of oratorical displey more than they did the public interests or the interests of the accused. If the vordiot be one of acquittal—as it is Ukely to be—the counsel for the people will probably enter a nolle prosequi as regards Eckel. Look out for the verdict on Sanday morniug. ‘The Quarantine Question. ‘There is no doabt but the coaflagration which destroyed tho buildings on Mr. Wolf's farm at Seguine’s Point, Staten Inland, was the work of incendiaries, The people in the neighborhood, feeling themselves aggrieved at the attempt to plant a y¢llow fever station among thom, had de- clared their intention of using all the mesns God hed given them for their own protection. Aad the persons in the hoase that wae burnt awa pumber of men outside before the fies, and beard them break into the house, The cass of in- cerdiariam seeme to be pretty plain!y made oat; ard if the partics can be identified, and a jary found to convict them, they will uo doubt be punirbed for the commission of one of tho moet pbeinous crimes known to our law. The principle on which their act was based is one which if generally acknowledged, would infallibly be sub- verave of ali law, order, and government, and it may therefore be aaeumed as a matter of cer- tainty that no effort will be lacking to give it a proctical and emphatic repudiation. Nor can there bY any reasonable doubt bat tho whole foree of the State may be used to carry into effect a law whose constitationality is not coa- tented, avd which commands the obedience and reepect of every good citizen. At the ame timo, it mast not be de nied that for the trouble which hae hap- pened, the Stato government and the Com missioners appointed ander tho Quarantine not are In a great meacare reepoosibls. There can ne Do deo ut defence of theit decivina to remore the borpituls trom the vivinity of Towpkiasetite the viciosty of Seguiac’s Porat ou tne same eleud. Ove place was quite as gwd as the other, True, the residents and lsod»eucra to ‘be pelgbborhood of the preeeat Qusrantiae are erobebly sicker in mowey acd policical ioflueuce ‘ban the aystermen of Princes Bay: bat we a9 oredend there is no doorrine ia our lew whol Jostfies the infliction of suffering upoa a porwr man in orcee that a sick man muy ceospe it, The commonication between the ctty aud tao present horpitals was not necessarily more fre- quent than tvat which must spring up between tbe city aud borpitale at Seguine’s Poiat Aod Goality, chocid yellow fever break out ia the sioiutty of the hoepitals, the charecter of the coustiy surroonding Seguise’s Pumt might give it a much better chsace of beoomng epi- demic, than tbe bigh hills and fresh aie of the present location can ever do. That tbe Qaarautine is ill sitzate on its present | site nobody denies But it is equatly cortaia that the only site to which it oauht to be re- moved is Sandy Hook. Showing it here, plating | it thrre, landing it élsewhere, for a tine, | | of for @ season, are mere fooilah expedicats, perbeps mainly resort-d to for the purpo-e of ou~ ryiag out speculative operatious ia real est sta, Bandy Hook isthe only place in tha bay that is saitable for # Quarantine sta‘ioa; and if the Commissioners and Governor King bad had asingie eye to the public weal, they would bace decided to leave the hospitals where they ere until Sandy Hook could have been obtwined. A fever ship safely anchored in the lower bay would have answered every parpoxe, by way of protec- tion, to the city this summer. And mean-bile, a serious and earnest negotiation with New Jersey should bave been set on foot. Had it been the intention and wish of our State government and tte agents to defeat tne scheme for the purchase ot Sandy Hoot, they would have acted precisely as they have done. They would have sent perooas to Jersey to talk, instead of acting. They woald have carefully avoided selecting men in whom the people and Legislature of Jersey have confidence. Taey would have permitted or instructed their organs here to insult and revile the Jerseymen, to sneer at their State, to call them all the hard names in the dictionary, and to exhaust every effort to rouse their spleen. This 1s what would have been done if the idea had been to prevent Jersey sell- ing Sendy Hook. It is what has been done, when the idea was to induce her to sell. The consequence we see before as. It is too obvious that New Jersey's real interest is identical with New York to warrant any 6as- picion that oar neighbors, if properly approach- Bee at Michmond, Va. Rucineos, Vi. May 8, 1887. ‘The drug store of Messrs, Renuett, Hicrean! & Fisher was burnt this morning. The bas ou their wack la entl- mated et $28,000, They are Invured for $20,000 ia the Richmond offices, The building was damaged to tee amiunt of $6,000, but {+ covered by indurance. portian of the goods was aaved, Phure ta 15K. Receipis today) ++: bales, oy (ag fuir Llc, Molasier—Market bare. Ohiv fine $6750 82 Yellow corm Toe, « Bbe.; white corm Sic. © 860, Frogag 1 Gales of cotton to-day Onwuco, May 8/1867, The flour and grain market way miuch ‘excited tutayy and (hore wes & cur iderable arivauce iu prices. Salone flour 1,000 bhia. at $650 a $725; for sunerfins and exwa Canadian. Wheat—ealex 4,000 bushels at $1,76 for pias white Canadiana, Oorn tends upwards—salew 7200 bushels fo arrive at 60c. Canal freights— Wheat Io. and core lea, to New York, Lake Imports t day :—%.000 bushels rye. Canal exports—3200 bustels wheat; 980 bushels corn, CHARLTON, Muy 8, 185%. Cotton market depressed. Skies to-isy’ 1,200 ‘bales a 1836. for good middilug. Freigh—Tso vessels wore engaged (0 load cutton to |ive pool to- tay ab Kid. ‘Tam Inorg Iv 414 Ooanuarrios of OvToM mt t= Unrmp Stary axp Gaxat Bertain.—By referonce w tae statiotion giv ou io ao artic'e op the commerce and tredo af China, foreign and domestic, published in tho Hunasp om Tucsday, we gave a table ehowing she rapid increase in the use of opium in this country within the past ix pears, ‘Tho (norsase in that time, it Ix supposed, bas bden equally of groat'in may parte of Great Britain. This tuoreate seems to have bad ome couneetiog with tbe tomperante movement in favor of total abstinence. Ia driving moa suddeniy by force of law or public opivion from one kind of ema. lant you drive them only to some otder'at a substiomm, which may prove more diza ¢ro a aad demoralizing ia ka effects than the using malt liquors io any form, and mere difficult to relinquish. The truth i: that the love of excitement or of stimulants of some kind seem (> bo lame to buman nature. The savage will part with his last bere of property for rum and tobacco. And what is aivitiesd life but one of successive stimulants in overy purses? Men become Intoxtcated with ambition, religious or oteur enthusiasm which quickens the pulse, excites the brata, and strengthens the nerves for action, leading to great em- durance of labor and unremiticd struggles to attsin aa cod of excellence and admiration. How often is it that we ave moa fail of success, and on heving the stimulus of easel don withdrawn, adopt aa a substitute the etimulus of B- quer, becoming tn the end cco'irmed and hopoless sete. ‘The true policy of governmen. ia not euddenly to cut eff from the people the use of liquors which drives thea te the use of oplum, but to contre’ sad direct the taste of tae, people in the usd of cheap and domestic grewa wines, with the use of cider and woalt beers. France, wth te we of cap winea, has no drunkards, The taste of the people far excitements or stimulants, vt<thor ‘a the form of anes menta, or of drinks, or of apytain.; oiz0, is not to be om dealy cut off, but contracted and directed by wise logtala- | tion. It almost always happens that the sudden action of d, will permanently refuse to make over to us | the sald bank which now aptually impairs the value. of Monmonth county. The negotiation only needs to be undertaken in good faith, and with ordivary discretion to succeed. But if the removal ot the Quarantine is to be made the fly wheel of speculations in reel estate, and ta be carried out with blundering and hectoriag, it may be some time before things are settled to the general catisfaction of the pubiic. THE LATEST NEWS. In from Washi: ‘THR OABINET'S VIEWS OF{THR REJECTION OF THE DAL- LA®CLARENDON TREATY—DISMISSAL OF THR KN- GINERE OF THE BROOKLY® NAVY YARD, Waaurvorons, May 8, 1867. ‘There was a Cabinet meeting today, and tt is reported that the recent rejection of the Dallas-Clarendon weaty was under consideration, The Cab net are sail tobe a ‘aplt on this important subject. They beliove that tho @tatemeat of tho British government l correct as to Roataa, bet do not esteem it a sulicicnt reason for the re Jection of the treaty. It is stated chat Lord Napier deeply regrets the altered dondition of things The Secretary of the Navy diamiased to-day McLeod Murphy from bis port at the Brookiyn Navy Yard, in con- wequence of hie late fracas with Mr. Hickies. THE OXWERAL NIWHPAPER DREPATCHL THE NEW GOVERNOR OF KANSAS—REPORTS PROM THR TRARITORY. Wasnworom, May 8, 1857. ‘The Cabinet to-day were almost exctusively occupied with Kansas affairs, the Hoo. Robert J. Walker being pre- sent for several bours. He wil) take the oath of office bere as Governor before leaving for Kansas, on Monday or Toceday. The official and private accounts daily receiv. od induce both bim and the administration to beliewo that there will be no serious, if any obstruction to che adjust ment of the pending di@ioulties In that Torritory. Canal Navigauon, Aus, May 8, 1867. ‘The rumor of a breach in the Seneca river and Port Byrom aqueducts is axcertaned to be unfounded. The wholo Middle division is ready for We passage of boas, and active business is doing. High water of the Oswego canal will prevent its navign- on for several days. ‘The breaks reported last wight in the Genesee Valley canal will jake tweaty four bours to repair. Aa this cad of the cans! is now io good order, and no breaks are at present reported, it will take only a day or ‘two to repair, The boats ciearing sow from Albany will be able to get through without detention. The Dalton Divorce Vase in Boston, Bowrom, May 8, 1857. ‘Tho Dalton divorce cass was given to the jury at 6 o'clock this evening, aftor a charge by Judie Merrick. It is doabt- ful if the jury agree on a verdict before to morrow. Jidge Merrick, whe in ill Qoalth, at the chee of his charge, ‘fainted and was carried from the court room by the Sheriff and others. He soon rovivel, bat wan evidontly greauy prostrated by the fatigue of this protracted trial and the mamenpbere of AD crowded court room. Movement Ea-Preeident Plerce. Pwesperma, May 8, 1857. Rx Presideat Pierce and lady are speoding afew days here at the residence of Pierce Butler, Esq, preparatory to returning home, Mre. Pieros’s health has greatiy im- proved. Rew Jorecy Counterfelters, Procanmenta, May 8, 1987. Daniel Tarr ead Frederick Tarr, alleged counterfeiters, wore to-day, on motion of their coumel, discharged. They wore held in Camden, N. J. ‘The America Outwanl Bound. Hasarax, May 6, 1967. ‘The steamehip Ameries, from Rostoa, arrived here at 19 o’olock last night, and sailet at two thle morning for Livor- pool Weather clear and calm. Kilection to Vongress in South Carolina, Avoceta, Ga , May 8, 1867, Mr. Bonbam bas been elected to Congress im the district {in Booth Carolina lately represented by Hon. Preston & Brooks, by 1,600 majority. Relief tor Returned Filtvasters, Nww Ontgana, May 7, 1867. A meeting will bo bok! te night for the rollef of the re’ turned Milibusters, nnd to vale? 9500 nivanced for thar prarage by Capt. Dunlap, of the Britiah (rigete Tartar, Conviction of a Marderer, Housparacne, Pa, May 8, 1867, David A McKim wae last wight convicted of murder in tho Bret degree, and war this morning eentenced to be ex: couted for the murder of Norcross. He strongly protested bofore the court his entire Innocence, aseorting that his conviction was efitoted unfairly by tho perjury of wit ceil ‘The Steambont John Hart Sunk, Nonwaus, Comm , May 8, 1857. ‘The otcambost John Fart, of Norwalk, Oaptain Green, ptryck a reck when entering the harbor tas evening, and punk at bor dock. bigotry, under the cloak of reform, drives peopte from. ‘one evil to another a great deal worse. It is a curious fet that the first eggs of the silkworm were brought to Rureps from China. It is said that the recent slik crop in Francs and other parta of Southern Europe measurably tulles last year, on account of the failure of silkworms hatch. Under theee circumstances we would suggedt whether the stock of silkworms might not be improved bg sending to China for fresh supplies of oggs t Vince writing the foregoing we have heard it etesed that the propriety of this courve has been recently agitmaed in France. Tumarmcat, Beverrm To-Nigir.—There is quite an over plus of benefits a the theatres (hisevening. -Atthe Broad way theatre, Mrs. B. L. Davenport, ap artist who has e- tained deeerved. popularity, appeals to her friends. 48 Wallack's Theatre, Mr. John Brougham takes his beantié at tho close of bis cagegement After this night Me. Brovgham proce:'s to enliven the people of Philadeépiia ‘aad other provinci:’ cithes, The public will aco to it tha be bas 6 substuotial token of their appreciation, At Laars Keene's theatre, Mr. George Jordan, one of the most ee complished of American actors, apd one who ccouples the highest position in the public afftetions, takes his bene, playing Rover in * Wiid Onis," end sustained by an om coliont east in the other characters. Nmo’s Gaapar—Last Niowt ov nut Iraisas Oreaa.—iay ual performance of the Opers company under the mm nagement of Paine cod Maretzck, was given ai the Garden, lart night to one of the most crowded audiences ever seam within its wal. The season which has just bere oenm- cloded consist d of only ten nights, and was much injased at the outeet by the illness of the prima donna, ouly ome having been engaged. Mme. do Gazzanige has, comm quently, been obliged to sing every uight. She bas cag in “La Traviata’ four times, “Tl Trovatoro’”’ t “Lacreria Borgia’ twice, “Norma” and “Linde Chamounix"’ once, The company wne the best the we have had in New York for coversl years. Mas. de Gaznaniga has more than veritied the prodicaene we made about her whee she fret cang at Philsdelptie Brignol! bas # eplendid voice, aad improves: dally in eimg- ing and in the usages of the stage. Amodio is likewine gifted by nature with a magnificent ongan, the note of which be may easily coin into gold; and Asvoni, the bag, has more voice and jew grimace thas bis predcovmemn in the same line. it is, however, a fact, thet notwithstanding the merit of the artists, the saaion has we boon a successful one so far aa peciniary muitors are oom cerned. We presume that the public could pot apprestate Mme, do Gaszaniqn until just about the timo pho wan te leave us, when there was a tremendous outbun it of case einem. Wo can only say that Now York will waits ieng while before it bears dramaue singer oqual 0 Madese Gazzanigs. The company gore hence to Philadeipbia, whore Mr. & A. Marshall, the lessee of the Philadelphia Acatomy of Music, bas the sole management. Mr. Maretzek is the musical director. Mr. Paine sails for Burove ia tho steamer of the 20th. The porformance last night included “ Laare- tia Borgia,’ with pooner from “ Columeila’’ and “ Mage. piello.”” The artista were oll excelent, rad the pabiic a ‘Tuaamenc rv rum War.—During the preseat week Me Thalberg, M’lle. Parodi and Mme Puiti Sirakosch teww our naval procrastination induces us to believe that If ie be ates before tho Sith thors will be a9 cause to comm plain of panctuahty, Meantime the prospect of a bres f i l hi i a APRIVALS. amnabip Jee Adwor Mrs Webewe ® wy neds canoes, ‘sine Siseeou Hi it mao Getic tal era arn Powers, MP ‘Bal ip the stecrnga oa