The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1857, Page 4

4 'W YORK HERALD. JaMES GORDON aTT, EDITOR axD BROAVWaY THRATER, Brosdway—Faysrvs, 8 Tan Dasea ow tus N GARDEN. - reLAys nai preadwey—KimeaPurce Grand pROWEAY THEATRE, Rowery—Ri Hyeenyl02—Swasr BURTON'S NEW THEATRE. Nrosdway, opposite Bond Tae Arcetars—Lrris Topp. aKum. x subsequently recovered and buried. Had there been Proper lifeboate and apparatus on the Cape, doubt- Lees the lives of the boat's crew would aot have been encrificed. The eales of cotten yesterday embraced wbout 1,600 bales, the market closing quite firm at the recent advance. _.le. 141 | Flour wes without change of moment in quotations, while sales wore made toa moderate extent, chiefly to the domestic trade, Canadian red (or club) wheat sold at $1.56, Minols red at $161, and choice Missouri red at $176, Coru was firmer, with sales of Western mixed tn store at O20. Pork was steady, with sales of moss at $260 @ $2565, the Inter figure for @ fayvor- eblo brand. Sugar coxtiaued firm, with sales of ebout 1,000 bhds, at prices varying from 10Xo. @ 12., including some Porto Rico. Coffee was quiet, ‘The tea exile yesterday was a very animated WALS.ACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus fonotan—Tus | one. The whole catalogue was gone through with, Lars Tasasuns. Leaps Ewe THEATLE, Broadway—Liae ax Un- BARNUM'S AMERIUAN meyom a [M, Broa¢way—Afarsooa mh Puuicopy—As Univoky Moxtai, Evesing—Naien- — GEO CHRISTY AND WOOD'R MINSTRELS way—Ernrorias Pruvommarors—New Yast Cas. BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS. &%3 Broadwa: an Puaroamancas, Ac., for the Clayton Club Festival. — MECHANTOS’ HALL, 673 Broadway—Neano Muzopus, Sausarbauas MasoinGe ay Devas Minoraais cs « CITY ASSEMBLY ROOM4, 448 Broadway—Tum Boras or Beortarn, &c., BY Me CRawrone. New Werk, Friday, May #2, 1857. via The News. whieh consisted chiefly of the finer grades of green. The sales exhibited an advance of Sc. @ Sc. on the fino qual!- les apd 1c, a 2c. on the medium grades. One of the largest sales of the season in tallow was made yesterday, which consisted of about 160,000 Ibs., on private terms. In freighta to British porta engagements were moderate. ‘To Liverpool, 10,000 bushels of corn in bags were engaged at4d. There wasa good demand for deal chartera fur the south of Europe, &c., and several wore taken up at rates given in another columa. Our Views of the Slavery Question—An Igno- rant Accuser. In the Charleston Mercury of Monday last we find « leading editorial “Om the New York Herxatp and the Missouri Compromise,” in which ‘The police question in this city is hourly inorene- a former charge of an “ uncenstitutional”’ policy ing in interest, and the public feeling in relation to | sgainst thie journal is attempted to be sustained it and the other municipal matters acted upon by | by the following specifications, The Mercury the last Legislature, is repidly becoming intense. | saye:— Chief Mateell, who has never officially recognized the Metropolitan Commissioners, was yesterday that from the De; » | Missouri ise, Ciguiemd by body pepsi srg Seta, wo a tenteticy, and Captain Carpenter, was appointed to the post. As there is not the | compromise. We bave no fe of the Henao before us, bat we think the repeal by Congress of the Missouri com; alse, The ° aa restoration of the Missouri According to the decision of the Dred Scott slightest probability of Mr. Matsell giving | c#s¢, such measure is uyconstitutional. way to the appointee of the Metropoli- tans, this movement ts rather farcical than other- wise. Both branches of the Common Council last evening adopted a preamble and resolutions averring their authority under the Dongan and Montgomerie charters to institute a city watch, and appointing a select committee to report an ordinance providing for the organization of such 2 force, to be independent Of State authority and under the exclusive control of the Mayor and Common Council. The Board of Supervisors had a stormy debate last evening mpon a proposition eetting forth that by the action of the Board the police force consisted ‘The HxRaiD advocated the exclusion of slavery by an act of Congress, from Kansas, and upon tbis ground sup- Col. Fremont for the Presidency. According to the ed Scott case, such an act is unconstitutional, The He2asp broadly aifirmed that ese had the power and ought to exercise it, of excluding slavery from our Territories. According ‘to the decision in the Dred Scott case, Congress has no such power, and would commit an usurpation by using it. Now, with regard to this first cloudy specifica- ton, or supposition rather, of our Charleston co- temporary, we have to say that the New York HERALD, 60 far from opposing the repeal of the Missouri compromise, advocated it from the in- troduction of the proposition into the Senate of but five patrolmen, and providing for ite in- | from the Committee on Territories all the way crease. It was promptly voted down. A resola-| through. Over and over again, during the dis tion to give the new Commissioners charge of the cussion of the subject in Congress, and since the station houses and other property pertaining to the | passage of the act, have we pleaded and argued Police Department, was laid on the table. It was | at voted in the Board of Aldermen to appropriate | $500 for a portrait of Mr. Mateell, to be placed in the Governor’s room. In the Board of Councilmen Mr. McCahill presented a resolution asking for the appeint ment of a special committee to investigate into the manter of keeping and rendering the ac- counts of the city government in all its depsrt- j Menta, and appropriating $3,000 therefor, which | was laid over. The argument upon the application for a per- petaal injunction restraining the Quarantine Com- missioners from with the contemplated works at Segume's Point was concluded yesterday im the Sapreme Court. We give a report elsewhere. ‘The decision will be rendered without unnecessary deisy. ‘The grain merchants have resolved to adhere to the custom of estimating @ bushel of corn to weigh | fifty-dix pounds, thas practically nullifying the re | cent act of the Legislature requiring Giny-eight | pounds to the bushel. | Our European despatches brought by the Niagara | reached this city from Poston last evening. There is but little news in sddition to that received by | telegraph from Halifax, and already published in the | Heeacy. A report of the proceedings in the Bri- | tish Porliamemt with respect to the Palmerston | policy in China and Central America, given in onr | columns to-dey, will be found interesting. | We have details of the news from the city of | Mexico to the 6th inst. President Comonfort had re- | turned to the capital from Tacubaya. There was an | active canvass going on among the candidate, for the Presidency and seats in Congress and on the bench * ‘he Sopreme Court. General Comonfort vest Gamer Lordv- lefeéa wep the most popular can- didates for the exeenti:e chair. The archbishop was dangercusty i. Senta Anna's friends were intriguing for his restocation to power, The new ministers to Bruseels snd Berlin were about to leave. ‘The minister to Rome left on the Sth instant. It wae thought that a state reconeiliation with the Pope wonld be effested. Two millions of dollars in mpocie had been shipped from Vera Craz for Eng: land Our Havana correspondenta, writing on 1th inst., represent the slave trade as flourishing. A British ehip nsmed—mmort inappropriately ,'we would imagine —the Dnebess of Satheriand, had landed six hun- length the unconstitutionality of the Missouri compromise; and over and over again have we declared that compromise as nothing better than temporary armistice among aspiring politicians, North and South, in reference to the Presidency and the “ public plander.” ’ Secondly. We have no recollection of ever having advocated, in any way or for any purpose, the restoration of the Missouri compremise, since the day of ita repeal. On the contrary, we can ascure our Charleston cotemporary that we have repeatedly pronounced and argued to prove this proposition of # restoration, when prominently advanced by any of our Northern cotemporaries, as chimerical, foolish and delusive. Thirdly. The Henry bas never advocated the exclusion of slavery from Kansas by act of Con- gress. On the contrary, at the outset of the late campaign, for the sake of peace, we boldly advo- cated the admission of Kansas as a slave State. After the report of the Congressional Kansas In- vestigating Committee, we were convinced that from the perfidious conduct of poor Pierce, the admission of Kansas as a slave State, except upon a more honest and satisfactory trial of the doc- twine of popular sovereignty than had been given, would bring no peace to the country. We contended that, instead of being an advantage to the South, or a meagure of peace, the hurried ad- mission of Kaneas as a slave State, not through the law, but by brute force, would be the ruin of the South, the North, and the Union. This is the ground upon which we supported Fremont for the Presidency—the ground of a return to the constitution and the orgnnic territorial law— slavery or no slavery. This, too, is the exact ground of our confidence in Mr. Buchanan’s ad- ministration since his election, and especially since the proclamation of his inaugural, The fourth accusation of our Charleston co- temporary, though not wider of the mark, is tho broadest of all We have “never broadly af- firmed that Congress bad the power—and onght to exercise’ it—of excluding slavery from our Ter- ritories,”’ nor anything like it. On the contrary, éred Africans near Sagus la Grande, and was then | we have fought and scouted this Wilmot Proviso barned to the water's edge. There were a dozen | in every shape in which It has appeared since its vessels in the port of Havana up for eale 94 | frst introduction into Congress We have advo- slavers. The joint stock speculators were progreaa- ‘ing in the organization on paper of steamship lines: new banks, and other enterprises. An American sailor named William Sinclair, of Lowell, Mas., was killed by felling through the hatchway of the bark Hydra. It is again asserted that the late endemic | gether. at the National Hotel, Washington, was the result of # Spanish conspiracy to poison the President. The monopoly of the trade of fresh fish was secured | Dy the payment of $90 000 to officials in Madrid. The proprietors of the leading hotels of New York have been holding meetings recently to dis- cuss the propriety of raising the price of hotel fare from $2 50 to $3 per day. The third meeting was held inet night at the Metropolitan Hotel, when there wne present representatives from the Astor, Bt. Nicholas, New York, Union, Everett, Metropoli- tan and Brevoort Hotels. After # conversational debate, in which the feeling in favor of o raise was all bat unanimons, tbe meeting adjourned over to next week, when an official announcement of the advance will be given, together with the reason therefor. It is understood that most of the second clase houses have advanced their prices from $2 to 2:50 per day. An interesting article on the in- creased cost of living in New York will be found elsewhere. The Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, which is holding its annual mecting at, the Metropolitan Hotel, spent the day yesterday in visiting the insti- tations for the insaneat Ii\oomingdale, Finshing, L. L, and Blackwell's Isiand, in acoesdance with invite tions previously received from the anthorities of said | institutions. | Bagene Grelet, one of the persons implicated in | the French railroad frand case, died at the Fi- Gridge etreet jail yesterday. An inquest will be held to-day. Jobn Dorsay, a negro, was convicted yesterday in the Gourt of General Sessions of the murder of Ann Motirr, alias Hopkins, by cutting her throat with a Tevor. The jary were absent only balf an hour. He | will be sentenced on Saturday. The case of Le | barnes sod Linford, charged with arson in the first degree, was aain postponed, as the District Attor- ney had an important official engagement which cold not be set aside. On Toesday morning last, during the violent gale then prevailing, the schooner D. ©. Foster was wrecked on Cape Henlopen. Anxious to succor the crew of the vessel, Captain Walker and four men embarked in & boat to rescue them. The boat capsized while making the attempt, and three of them, James Roland, Gardner Burton and a negro named Bristol, were drowued. Captain Walker and one man clung tothe boat until she drified on thore, The bodies of the unfortunate victims were cated the policy of maintaining to the South an equilibrium or balance of power in the federal Senate, by the admission henceforward, on all occasions, of a slave State and a free State to- At the present day this policy seems to be impracticable, and we must, thercfore, accept | or reject the individual application of this Terri- tory or that, North or South, for admission as a State into the Union as it may be presented. We have taken the trouble thus specially to enlighten our Charleston cotemporary upon the several iseues we have met. We have heretofore expressed, on more than one occasion, our approval of the fairness and candor of the Mercury in its political discussions, however wild, visionary, delusive and revolutionary ita peculiar views and aspirations. We must now confess that the ontepoken ignorance of the writer of the afore- said accusations or suppositions concerning the course of thie journal on the great national is- acs of slavery indicated, passes our comprehen- sion, It must be ignorance—it cannot be wilful misrepresentedion, nor reckless conjecture—that has led the Miwery inte these extraordinary blanders. Perhaps some new editor of that jour- nal, or some amateur assistant, more conversant with politicians, party epirit and party organs, than with the independent popular newspaper press of the country, has undertaken this ludi- crous taek of proving the New York Henatp guilty of supporting “unconstitutional mea- eures.”” Bat with the assurance that the wrong will be righted, we recommit (he constitutionali- ty of our antecedents to the careful reconsidera- tion of our Charleston cotemporary. Any intel- ligent reader of the Henao through the Inst five, ten, fifteen or twenty years, will answer as @ witness. Danet. Stexues Spraxixo Ovr. —We find the following telegraphic despatch in # corner of one of the city newspapers which are black republi- can organs (fit instrument) sent from Washing- ton by Mr. Dan. Sickles, Waconycrow, May 20, 1857. Mr. D. F. Sickles his complimemia to Ue editor of the Hanaip, and has the honor to state, with reference to the editorial article in to day's paper, that be strove as industriously to defeat the infamous acts of 1857 as the Henan did to elect the Legislature which passed them. DANTEL FE. SICKLES. Brevity Is sometimes said to be the soul of wit; but bere itis the soul of falsehood. Mr. Dan. Sickles concentrates two impudent falsehoods into one short telegraphic despatch costing pro- | j i) 2% NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1867. bably @ dollar. Against these two falsehoods we place two palpable truths, Ist We opposed Governor King and the State candidates of the republican party more than any other journal, and we supported Judge Parker and the demo- oratic State ticket. The second truth is, that Sickles himself has acknowledged publicly that he voted for one of the most infamous of the infamous acts of 1857, namely, the Prohibitory Liquor act, which injures a greater proportion of indastrious people in this city than any other of the dozen acta passed by the Legislature. Mr. Dan. tickles uf- fected to oppose the other atrocious acts while secretly encouraging them, as is well kaown to Thurlow Weed and others, who carried them up to be passed at Albany. The administration of Mr. Bachanan can gain no honor by giving patronage and influence to double faced politicians, either in Washington or New York. ‘The Munictpal ConMict—Mereditary Treason. Whatever defects may be urged against it in detail, there can be no doubt that the most per- fect political system ever devised is that em- bodied in the constitution of the United States. By a species of Providential intuition, rather thaa from the lessons of experience, its framers seem tohave guarded against every possible dan- ger that can threaten the noble etractare which they raired. Nothing leas than the direct inspi- ration of God himself eould have gifted them with the prescience which enabled them to meet perils that were latent and remote, and which nothing but an almost superhuman vision could foresee. ‘The chief feature of the constitution, by which £0 much iseffcted and 80 little left to chance, is that which seems to have been the all pervading idea of the great minds who framed this grand political charter of a nation’s liberties—namely, a wide epread, but harmonious distribution of the governing power. With euch a variety of mixed races and interests to deal with in the future they forecaw that they must depart as widely as possible from the principle of centrali- zation, and diffuse to the remotest extremities of the body politic a share of the vitalizing influence of self-government. How admirably this has been effected and how completely the constita- tion has answered all the purposes contemplated by its founders it is not necessary for us, after seventy years experience of its benefits, to say, No higher eulogiam can be passed upon it than that, at the present day, human wisdom cannot detect a necessity for altering any of its main features, France gave effect to her republican aspira- tions almost immediately after the adoption of our constitation. The revolution of 1789 was undoubtedly precipitated by our example, al- though matters had already been long tending in that direction. In their endeavors to imitate us, however, the French republicans neither profited by the lessons of history nor the model which we held up to them. They either did not appreciate it or they thought it inapplicable to their caso, although their subsequent experience must have convinced them that it was the only practical realization of the republican theory possible, Whilst we carefully guarded against the tendency to centralization, which all governments, repub- lican as well as monarchical, exhibit, they en- couraged and sdopted it, and 80 cherished the parasitica influences which ultimately brought to the ground the noble tree they had nourished with their blood. Had they restored to the cities of France the rights and privileges, the extinction of which enabled Louis Quatorze to exclaim, with unfortunate truth, J’éat c'est moi! it would have been impossible for the Jacobins, despicable in numbers as they were, to enslave a brave and intelleotaal people, or for a despot like the first Napoleon to centre the supreme power in his own person. By this fatal error of the French republicans the possession of # single city in France secures to any snccessfal military adven- turer an absolute control over the destinies of the French nation, and renders populer freedom in that country an imposible condition of thingr. There have not been wanting amongst us traitors, who would gladly have nullified that gtand feature of our constitution which scores to all sections of the country the right of self- goverpment. The federal party, throngh the Alien and Sedition acta, contemplated objects which would have established the principle of centralization amongst us, and gradually sub- verted all our local privileges. Amongst the prominent leaders of that party was Rafus King, the father of the present Governor of the State of New York. Tb pére tel file. After the lapse of half a century, sufficient we should think to convince him of his worthy progenitor’s errors, we find the son at the head of a conspiracy to deprive the people of New York of the right of self-goverument. It would seem as if the family were determinad to render itself famous ia history by ita attempts | against the popular liberties, Fortunately there is sufficieat public epirit amongst our citizens, and enfficieat inherent pow- er in our existing municipal government to ena- ble us to defeat with ease these treasonable ef- forts at political usurpation, We do not deny to the Legislature the right to pass such acts and make sach appointinents as they please, so long as they do not conflict with those higher rights which we derive from the constitution of the United States as well ns from our ancient char- ters. There cannot be the slightest aoubt of the unconstitutionality of the attempt to bring the counties adjoining New York within the same measure of police legislation as that of the city iteelf. Were the Court of Appeals to decide that question in favor of the Legislature, the point Is 80 clear that it is certain the citizens of New York would not hold themeclves bound for a moment will they be more disposed to selim quish the rights which they derive under the Dongan and Montgomerie chartera. These documents expressly give to the corporation the power of local legislation and of executing their own ordinances. If the control of the police, the management of the finds raised by taxation for city purposes, and other measures having refe- Tence to the good government and prosperity of the city, be not included within these conditions of local legislation and execative action we do not know what rights these charters were intend- ed to confer. M it be conceded that these char- ters have any force at all, it will be fund impos- sible to qualify or derogate from the extent of those rights. The Legislature, it is teue, may exercise a co-ordinate power, and inflict upon us another body of police, to be governed by ite nominees and paid out of the State funds; but it cannot and dare not forcibly interfore with the Privileges thas secured tous Any attempt on their part to do so, even though backed by a de- cision of the Court of Appeals, would only lead to a violent anticipation of that bloodlegs solu- tion of the difficulty which we elections of Deormber will fe i 3 ‘The Mormons—What ts te be Done with | New American ‘Themt Bowe of our cotemporaries have been publish- ing long letters dated from Utah aad containing heart rending accounts of the sufferings inflicted on poor helpless women by the brutality of the Mormon leaders. Itis perhaps as well that the public should know that these letters are made up on this side the Mississippi, and we have no doubt do more credit to the imagination than to the memory of their writers. No journal has a correspondent in Utah at the present ‘time. It reflects come credit on the ingenuity of our oo- temporaries to bave bethought themselves of getting up an excitement about Utah just as Kansas died out. Of the facts of the ease, in Utah, it is very difficult to form a reliable judgment, simply be- cause our most reliable authorities, such as Judge Drummond, row in Washington, are tainted with asuspicion of interested motives, Judge Drum- mond, we hear, has no objection to return to Utah as Governor, with a proper armed force to void his quarrel with the Mormons, But it may be assumed as a fact that the United States au- thorities have been set at naught there, and that polygamy exists toa certain extent among the leading members of the Mormon government. We have no ides that polygamy is » common in- stitution, or that, as a general thing, the Mor- mons bave more wives than other people. The Jaws of commoneense, economy, and domestic har- mony forbid the general practice of polygamy; ever in countries like Turkey, Persia, and China, where the civil and religions law upholds po- lygamy, it is, we know, s rare occurrence. Nor do we imagine that any peculiar dispensation of nature enables the Mormons or any cousider- able portion of them to live in a manner which example, precept, and desire have proved unable to popularize in the most luxurious oriental countries, With this reservation, then, and un- derstanding the polygamic institutions of Utah as being a modern convenience for the private luxurious uses of Mr. Brigham Young and a select few of his associates, we conceive that the case of the Mormons can be grasped in a very moderate compass. There is no authority in the constitution to justify an interference by Congress or the federal government with such an institution as polyga- my ins Territory. It isas clearly without the pale of Congressional or executive regulation as elavery; if Congress may not pass a law to govern the one, it may not pass a law to govern the other; if the President cannot interfere to drive slavery out of Kansas, neither can he assume to drive polygamy out of Utah. Mar- riage, a civil contract, is essentially subject to the control of local, municipal, or civil laws; the federal government has nothing to do with it, and Congress can make no laws defining ite natare, altering its effect,or prescribing penal- ties for breaches of its obligations committed by people residing within a Territory of the United States. $ Those therefore who assumed that Mr. Bu- chanan was going to carry fire and sword among the Mormons because they were polygamists, and to put down polygamy by force of forms, gave the President very little credit for judgment or kmowledge of the instrument under which he holds his powers. But if the Mormons have really rebelled against the United States authorities, violated the United States Courts, and expelled the United States jndges—es we believe there is ample evidence that they have done—the United States have the right and it fs their daty to punish them. They are entitled to send an armed force into the Ter- ritory, to inquire into the offences committed, te punish the guilty, to offer security for the future, and to give the United States Courts adequate protection. This line of duty, properly carried out, will, we sapprebend, achieve every useful Mahe f force required for Utah should consist of not leas than 3,500 men, formed into a corps d@’armée ander proper leaders, and provided with arms of all kinds, including light artillery. They should not be selected from the present ranks of the army. On the contrary, men for the pur- pose should be enlisted in the cities and villages ; ® preference being given to young married men over all others: and a few regular soldiers being thrown in from time to time to leaven the mass. With this army, which ought to be followed by thousand women or more, there should be gent to Uteh a maa of great nerve, firmness and legal skill a4 Governor. His lino of duties should be traced to him so lovely a8 to leave him no room for indiscreet zeal on the one hand, or timorous concessien on the other. And finally with the Governor, there should be sent a staff of Christian missionaries selected for their skill and boldness from the va- rious churches. It should be made the duty of these missioouries, immediately on their arrival at Utah, to commence a series of discussions on the cardioal points of Mormonism, with a view to show the absurdity of the system, and the errors of polygamy. We apprehend that a full and free discussion of the subject would explode it in the eyes of its most devoted adherenta And if Mr. Brigham Young, or aay one else were so far to forget those clauses in the constitution which secure to citizens of the United States freedom of speech and of discussion, as to interfere with the missionaries or their discuasions, why, then, it would of course become the duty of the Gov- ernor to lay hands on the offender and prevent the repetition of the offence. This policy would be likely to bring the Mor- Mons to reason; perhaps no other presents ao few objectiona, A Crrtyo Evr.—We call the attention of the Coroner's jury that will be empannelled to-day, to ascertain by what means Eugene Grelet, de- ceased yesterday, came to his death, to the con- dition of the Eldridge etreet prison. Our read- ers will remember that Grelet was a brother of one of the persons charged with defranding the Northern Railway of France; that the Supreme Conrt, through Mr. Justice Davies, decided that there was no evidence to show that Eugene Gre- let had any connection with the misdemeanors charged to his brother, and made an order that he should be set at liberty, provided he would agree not to bring an action for false imprison- ment against the persons Who instigated his de- tention. Declining to agree to this condition, Grelet was remanded to Eldridge street prison, where, notwitbstariding bis complaints of illness, be wes confinéd in a room occupied by fourteen other prisoners, In that room on yesterday he died. To uses mild term, the whole matter shows a monstrous abuse of authority. The Eld- ridge street prison is only a place of detention, and its condition is a diagtace to the civilization of the age. It has been several times presented ae a nuisance by the Grand Inquest of the coun- ty, and we call apon the Coroner and his jury in investigating ne cog opty a thorough examina’ ol prison, re port accordingly. Poltoy in Regard to the Bast Co-operation with Russia in China, While Lord Napier is seeking to repair in this Countey the mistakes that Palmerston is contion- ally making in his policy toward the United “Btates, and endeavoring not only to re-open ne- gotistions with our government in regard to Oea- tral America, but also to re-establish that fair weather that seemed to hail his annoancement on St. George’s day of a desire for co-operation, & little and ecemingly unimportant event that has occurred far away in the wilda of Tartary threat- ens to overthrow ell his diplomacy, and give an entirely new direction.to our policy in the great contest that is germinating in Eastern Asia. The satisfaction with which Napier viewed the recep- tion of bis co-operation speech here has been blasted by the eudden change that a triumph in the pariiamentary elections produced in the mind of Palmerston. “To the surprise of Lord Napier, as well as many others, Ruatan is not to be returned by England to Honduras, and the Dalias-Ciaren- don treaty is flang back to us—Palmerston re- verts to bis old intriguing and grasping policy in tropical America, in the vain hope that the bis way to his post in Eastern Tartary, visits the Russian trading town of Kiachta. There the Chinese and the Tartar merchants meet to barter their respective productions, and to compare notes on political topica He is entertained by the Russian officials and mer- chants, together with the Chinese mandarins and traders of the contiguous city of Maimatchin, and after the healths of the President and the Emperors have been daly toasted, he too makes co-operation speech, which is received with as great appleuse as that of Lord Napier at Del- monico’s a short time «ince. He enlarges upon the advantages of trade, and tells them he hopes to see @ profitable commerce opened between them and the United States, by the way of the Pacific ocean and the Amoor river. They are delighted with the thought, and both Russian and Chinese promise their co-operation. Here we have the key to the policy our go- ‘vernment may pursue toward China with signal advantage to our interests, and one that may be adopted without any counter demand for assist- ance in reducing the rebellious Chinaman to English or any other rule. The Russian policy toward China has secured her, a college at Pekin, whose services she tenders to us. Russian offi- cials proffer their assistance to open a trade be- tween onr citizens and those of Northern China. In a time of distress, not long since, the Russian post of Petropaloweki sought and found relief in San Francisco, and the day is not far distant when American steamers from that port will be navigating the Amoor river and demonstrating to Chinese and to Tartar the advantage of steam navigation for great rivers, How long it will take to tranefer our river craft to the Yang-se-Kiang and the Hoang-ho, after they are once in operation upon a river of East- tern Asia, is no very difficult problem to solve. Let this new field of oo-operation be tilled. It produces no “entangling altiance;” it calls for no outpouring of blood or treasure; it is in accord- anee with the true spirit of the age—the spirit of peaceful progress; and it will carry civilization end the steam engine to the crowded East sooner than any other method, and above all under the energetic direction and ready adaptability to cir- cumstances that is characteristic of the American people. Ho, then for Eastern Asia. Syarroms of Tm Coma Cnasn.—Day by day the signs are thickening around us of an im- pending crash, financial and commercial, which will shake the country from its centre to its cir- cumference like an earthquake. Among other things, we perceive that owing to the inoreased prices of provisions, and especialty of sugar and tes, our principal hotels are about raising their standard charge from two dollars and fifty cents to three dollars a day; and that in ourrestsurants and eating saloons a corresponding increase of prices may be expected. At the same timo we are informed that in Michigan (and in other places the lust we should think of) the people are starving for lack of bread. At the same time a spirit of land speculation, amounting to a morus muiticaulis or South Sea babble, has eeized hold of the people of the West, and they are all in for it, up to their necks. At the same time an aggregate of perhaps not less than ten millions of dollars is involved im the building, at this moment, of splendid churches, stores and residences in this city; and how many millions during the sammer Will be expended in Paris furnitare, finery and byouterie, and European excursions, it is impossi- bie to conjecture. Let it suffice that in all these, and in various other signs of these ominous times, we have the rame eymptoma, only on a much grander scale, of an impending crash, as were furnished in the warnings of 1836 of the terrible revulsion and bankruptcy, and demoralization, misery and rain of 1837, It was the bank inflation and paper cusrency system of the former period, and the wild and reckiess moonsbine speculations and ex- travagances which this system engendered that worked out the grand collapse of 1837. This time the gold of California and Australia, and the land and railroad, commercial, bank and credit adventurers of all kinds, will aa surely do the same thing, in proportion to the tremendous stakes involved. Pay day must come. It must come, asin 1837, with a general crash, It will come to hundreds and thousands when least prepared for it. Prudent men will take in sail and keep near shore. It isa tornado that is gathering in the horizon. AguccurcraL Eximeron at Eutma.—A new agriouk tural association, of which Silas M. Barroughs is Pro- sident, Charles Morrell, Secretary and General Super. intendent, and Joba Arnot, Jr., Treasurer, bas .been formed in this State under the title of the “Young Mons’ National Agricultura! and Mechanica’ Society.” This society will give its first exhibition at Elmira, commenoing on September 1, and continuing tll September 6. The exhibition will include choloe stock, trials of speed of colebrated horses, including Flora Temple, Lancet, Brown Dick, Rossiter, the Tid Hinman mare, and others.” There Will Alto he trials and parades of fire compantes from all pets of the country, under the direction of Chief Engineer loward, of this city. Thirteon thousand dollars will be offered ia prominms, of which three thousand will be given to the firemen. Iti intended to make this display tho mont attractive show of the kind ever given in the country, The Cuban Munitions of War. TO THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD. To the complaint of Mr. Gouicouria before Jadge Clerke, Of the Supreme Conrt, in relation to cortam transaction: with the arme of the late Cuban oxpedition, my name is included aa one of the defendants, from the fact of my having been a member of the late firm of Hitchcock & Co. Lowe it ip justice to myself to state that I waa absont from this country from the Lith of January, 1866, to the Zeb of January, 1887, with the exception of a fow days in the lattor part of July and first part of August last, and Knew nothing whatever of the traction which is the subject of Mr. Gouicouria’s complaint. WM. BURROUGHS, Jr. New Youn, May 21, 1867. Naval Intelligence, ‘The United States Naval Lyceum will despatch » mail to the home rquadron on the West India station, conaisting hg eee ree Wate ont loops of war int wil betorwatea” , OH AP THE LATEST NEWS. coneeemeiiy rus usmnorion oP san MONDOSSO RAAT BT HONDURAS, Wasumaros, May 21, 1857. ‘The fact which I sent you some days since, that the British treaty for the return of the Bay Islands to Honds- rea bad been rejected by the Congress of that republic, is confirmed by letters from Central America. Tt was the etatement that the British Cabinet bad net been advised of the ratification of this treaty by Honds- ras that formed the groundwork of Lord Palmerstoa‘s pretext for rejecting the Dallas-Clarendon treaty. The news of Its rejection comes most inopportanely to Lord Napler’s hopes of a re-opening of negotiutions on the Cen- twal American questions. ‘Tho cause of its rejection was that while the treaty pre- INGS OF THE NAVAL COURTS, ETO. ‘Wasaratow, May 21, 1867. ‘Notwithstanding all the rumors, the President has net yet determined upon any of the foreign appointments. AR ‘that has been done is to read over the names of the seve- ral applicants. It is now the intention not to make « gene- ral sweep at once, but to make appointments from time to time se opportunity offers. Scarcely any of the present incumbents have intimated a desire to resign. This wil doubtiess cause a geod deal of embarracement. This ie the case of Mr. Dalias. Mr. Buchanan qill feel great ddil- cacy in removing him, and yet otherwise there is no pres- pect of @ vacancy. ‘The President and Secretary of State have been actively engaged for some time examining and writing up eur foreign policy. Tkoy found some things at rather loose ends. Governor Wright, of Indiana, I understand, is the per- son whom the administration have selected for the Gover- norship of Utwh. His friends say he will not accept. He is candidate for a foreign appointment. Governor Daniel S. Dickinson and family, and Joka R Dickinson and family, arrived this evening, and are step- ping at Willard’s. Pierre Soulé was taken quite ek yesterday, aad a unable to leave his room. ‘The soveral naval Courts of Inquiry are swelling their records, to the tune of twenty-five dollars per day foe / each of the four Judges-Advocate. This furnishes the key to these protracted examinations, The lighthouse ao counts of Lieut. Bartlett were criticized to-day, and Capt. Wateon, late of the marine corps, examined on the part of the defence. Nothing of importance was brought out, Com. Ap Catosby Jones is expected to testify to-morrew, ‘and bis evidence is looked for with much interest by all ‘The defence of Tieut, Sartori was reed and submitted yesterday; and the case of Lieut. Carter, furloughed, commenced before Court No. 2 today, Commodores McKean, Gregory and Newton, testified on the part of the defence. In Court No. 5, Commander Long was examined on be- half of Commodore Boarman, and testified to his efficienay a 8 naval commander. Judge Gilchrist, of the Court of Claims, was absoot frem the court to day, on account of sickness. ‘The city is again full of strangers, watching their chances Tor a division of the spotis. THE GENERAL SU WSPAPKR DESPATCH. TWO THOUSAND TROOPS EN ROUTE FOR UTAH, ETG, ‘Wasuunoros, May 21, 1867. Tt is estimated that the troops now moving in the diree- Won of Utah comprise about two thousand men. ‘There are two vacant federal Judgeships in the Territory which will soon be filled, and probably another Marshall will be appointed as preliminary to inforcing the olvil process. In the event of opposition on the part of the ‘Mormons to this the military will be employed to inforce the laws and protect the citizens of the United States from Mormon oppression. It is supposed, however, that ne necessity for extreme measures will arise. The Governer- ehip is still unsettled, although several gentlemea are solicitous for the position, The government is evideotly anxious to select one who will combine personal bravery with administrative talent and unquestioned discretion, ‘The programme of operations for Utah will be consam- mated with the least possible dolay. Hon, Thomas Capningham, of Pennsylvania, has re- signed his associate Judgeship in Kansas Territory. Wreck of the Schooner D. C. Foster—Three Ben Drowned. Punapmrma, May 21, 186%. ‘The schooner D.C. Foster was wrecked off the Delaware breakwater in the late gale, and in an attempt to resoee the crew the wreckmaster's boat was upset and three of the crew, named James A. Rowland, G. W. Burton, aad a colored man, whose name is unknown, were drowsed. ‘Two others of the crew clung to the bottom of the beat, and they and the crew of the schooner were aflerwards saved. ‘The Great Rallroad Celebration. Gyounan, May 21, 1857. ‘The City Council last night passed ajresolution inviting the President of the United States, the Vice President, the members of tho Cabinet, Ministers represeating foreign governments, the Governors of Maryland, Virginia, Ohte, Kentucky, Winois, Indiana and Missouri, the Mayor aad Council of Baltimore, Parkerburg, Marietta, Chillieothe, Vincennes, St. Louis and Louisville, to visit Cincianati em the occasion of the opening of the Ohio and Missiasippt Railroad and the Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad on the ‘Sd and 4th of June next, as guests of the city in ber corpo- Tate capacity, Arrangements are making on « grand scale for the event. Murder Cases in Massachusetts. Woncerren, Mass., May 21, 1867. Four murder cases have been bronght before the Se- Preme Court im this clty since Thursday morning. The Court finished its reasion this afternoon with the following result :—Jobe Glynn, for the murder of Peter Naughtes and his wife, last November, was found not guilty; Samuel Gieason, for the murder of his infant child, in January, was discharged on his own recognizance; Godfried Reddi- man, for the murder of Samael Fleehiman, last December, plead guilty on a charge of manslaughter, and was see. tenced to two years imprisonment in the House of Corres. tion; and Lacina Ransom (colored), tried on a charge af killing a colored girl, was nolle prosequied. Thero ts com. siderablo feeitog exprested at the result of these trials. An Absconder Caught. Curvetaxn, May 21, 1867. A clerk in the office of the American Express Company st Plymouth, Indiana, absconded this morning with $3,800 of the company’s moncy, but he was arrested at Crestline this evening, and the mousy recovered, The Convention of Christian Associations at Richmond, Va. Rucuxowp, May 21, 1867. ‘The Convention of Christian Associations for the States and Provinces assembled here to-day, They organised, and Norton A. of SoMa baeas Reems. eae ‘Washington, New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, and New General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States. CurveLaxp, May 21, 1867. ‘The Gonoral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States met here today, One hundred and sixty three persons were enrolled aa commissionors, and many members are still arriving. The mocting wae opened with a sermon by the Rey. Lawrence B. 3 ee Launoros, Ky., May 21, 1867, The Preabyterian Genoral Assombly mot hore to-day, and two hundred and twenty five members wore Present eee te wes reeenes by Rev. Dr. Hoge, the Fire and Loss of Life in Boston, Bowron, May 1, 1867, ‘The boarding house of Mre, , in BUlimem treet, in thia city, waa partially destroyed Ay d— ht, and herself and « boarder, named David paretd to deh in ' — Trial of Dr, Boigicr. Bevravo, May 21, 1967, Dr. Beigher, of Rocher, has been on teal forthe past ‘wook, and has been convicted of manslaughter in the se cond degree, for procuring an abortion on the ‘Amelia Muir, fentence “was apse eas Counsel will make a bill of exceptions » See Caer New Onumawe, May 21, 1807, ‘The captain aad owner of the schooner MoLoan, which