The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JaMBe GoRvon sETT, @itos ead OPrICR # © Couns OF HAsBAT AND FULTON OTS. er EI, een 8 ge ey thos cone boat CORRESPONDENCE, containing important tian one quarter of the world, ‘be le \peid for 6@-!'0R Fonsron Connesrowvenrs ans Pan- wy Regve-ren ‘co Amat Gut Catrens AnD Pacxages FO ROTICE mew of anomymone correepondence. We do not POOR PRINTING executed with meatness, cheapness and des- AMUSEMENTS TOMORROW EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad New Bacet Diverriseunst— Sworn. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Lixns. tur Bxuan Gini, On Mose AMONG THE CONSrTRATORS—-O'PLANIGAN AND THE Favkise. —Tigst Kors Frars— ANCO, O8 THR Macic RUBRTON'S NEY THRATRE, Brosdway. opposite Bod st. Conowrs's Inguiation—Usexorren.o Frvale—Staue Brave ULES OF THR Lousy WAILACK'S THR ATRE, Brondway—Ton Brno oiute: awe nn Ce LAURA KREAR'S THBATRE Broadway—Mankiro.Lire ~VaRinte. RARNTM'S AMERICAN MUARUM, Rradway— 4fternonn rapa Gontai~ Leuncua Bore Bretng—Pelte eee Viernw GEO, CHRISTY AND WOOD's MINSTRELS, (¢4 trond way—Bryioray ANtMTAINNENTS—New Year Case. BUCKLYY'S SBRENADER! So Brveracke OF ar appix—NxcKo Bemus, MECH. NICK HLL 472 Lrosdway— Ki “ay Brass Bromdway—Caixiss 2 Cin, Mrsonins, &e. us Bight of the individuals who were arrested in Ohio on Wednesday for assisting the United Stites Deputy Marshal in arresting*four persons charged with harboring fugitive elaves, were committed to prison yesterday at Springfield. Churchill and El- Liott were arraigned on two charges—the first charge was for ascanl'ing Deputy Sheriff Compton, and the second for assaulting Sheriff Laytonwith inteat to kill. After giewg bail to the amount of $2,500 each they were both liberated. We have news trom Venezuela dated at Caracas on the 2th of April. The new constitution was ra. tifled and proclaimed on the 19th of that month Gen. J. Tadeo Monegas, with his eon-in-law, Col. Jose. Oviach, had been sworn in as President and Vice President of the republic for a six years term each. ‘The treaty with the United States was before Con- gres® for final approval. The case of Captain Chase, of the echooner Julien, of Thomaston, Me., excited fmuch attention at Caracas. The captain, with his mate, bad been imprisoned at Laguayra for an al” leged aseanlt on a Castom Honse officer, who had insulted a lady from New York when on board the Julien. They had been iiberated, and sought re. dress in vain. Lonis Grelet, one of the parties implicated in the French railroad frauis, was yesterday surrendered to the representatives of the French government, in accordance with an order to that effect issued by the State Department to Matsbal Rynders. The affair was managed with no little expedition, as, before a writ ot babeas corpus applied for by the counsel for ‘the prisoner could be served, Grelet had been con veyed on board the steamtuz t> await the steamship Azego, bound for Havre, in her passage down the harbor. | A o'ue to ths identity ef the body of the young | woman found near Newburg some time since, is be- | Lieved tohave been discovered, by the appearance | of @ French negro named Brown, who claims that | the body is that of bis wife. We give in another | column @uch particulars of the affair as have been | allowed te tranepire. \ ‘The special committee from the Board of Coun- olimen, appointed vo make inquiry into the condi- tion of the streets of the city, and, if possible, devise somo plan whereby they may be kept clean, held | their final meeting yesterday. Dr. Wynne, formerly of Baltimore, bat now @ resident of this city, who | haa made the sanatory condition of cities a sabje:t f careful stady acd extended research for years, | end who bas travelled through Europe to gather in- formation and statistics upon the subject, Rt rae | before the committee. He gave a lengthy but high’ ly interesting statement of the systems of street cleaning at present prevailing in the leading cities of Great Britain and continental Europe. He also | gave some interesting statistics of mortality, show- ing the effects of filthy streets upon the public health and publi> morals Mr. A. T. Stewart stated that the «'reeta of New York in their present filthy con- dition were, directly and indirectly, a damage to merchants of one balf a million of dollars annually, ‘The steamship Arag>, which sailed yesterday for Southampton and Bromen, took out three hundred and seven pamengers, We give a list of the names under the eppropriate heading. Baron Von Gerolt, the Prussian Minister; Senor de Chacon, Spanish Vice Conaul; Madame de Wilborst, and others of note, are among the passengers. ‘The City Inspector reports 425 deaths during the | past week—an increase of 42 as compared with the | mortality of the week previous. Of consumption | sione there was an increase of 20, and of diseases of | the stomach, bowels, Ac, an increase of 22, over the | number of deaths of these complaints during the week ending 23d inst. The following statement ex: | hibits tte namber of deaths daring the past two | weeks among adults and children, distinguishing «sexes: | | | Men, Women, Boys. Girts, Pota!. | y Tr ee, ee yw o 88 «196 «8 4} rincips! causes of death were the fol- ——Werk end | mi ee 80 as as | | ul 1! “ 6} \ ‘deaths of bronchitis, & of con. | toelr 13 of congestion of the langs, Lil sr etthe bowels, 4 of disease of the tT ecough, 6 of palay, 5 of teething, | {Tetillborn, and 28 from violent | <cowied,4 suicides and 1 mur. | que j “te 1 + oe pofthe diseases and | ite ‘ © cach class of disease <orty ‘ Rover 4 t Pirain and oer 3 | Conarauve ora 4 Heart and bron \ ewe “ Ww | Lange, throai, ke . 130 May | 5 Bullvoru aed premarce (1 6 46 | Old met. Rein, Ae and eruptive eer Feomach, boweleans otherdianet: or on Uroerta'n an) eneral fever Unknown Urinary organ eoesees Al Teant orev rery The number of deaths, compared with the corres. ponding weeks in 1955 and 1856, was aa followa:— m + BT ‘The nativity table gives 201 natives of the United Slates, 78 of Lreland, 23 of Germany, 16 of England, of Reotland, 2 of France, 2 of Wales, 1 each of Po land Denmark and the West Indies, and 1 unknown. ‘The cotuon market was firm and dull yesterday, while tales were pot made on a sufficient scale to evtablish quotations, being confised tw « few hundred bales. f Was quiet, and prices without quotable change, while the demand wae moderate. Wheat was (oncti whtie quotations continued to rule about the aa qual 'y considered. The lote sold embraced fair to good Ca- oadian white at $1 80@ 61 86, aud common Canadian club At $1 60, choice white was foarce and prices firm. Corn was lows buoyant, and sales chiefly conined to Western mixed at Bia $1 01, Southern yellow was held at $1.00, and white do. at $1 05 0 $1 06. Pork was tolerably active, with sales of mess at $23 85, and 200 do. good quality or brand 08 $24. Bugars were quictand without notieable relaza tion om the part of bolders. Rio coffee was firm, with sale: Of about 1,260 bags at 103¢0. 8 11.c , and 900 Babla at at 10jgc. Freights wore inactive aud without change of moment in quotations. ‘The Late Abolition Revol: Ange In Ohio.— What Next! According to our telegraphic advices, on Tacs- Gay ast the Deputy United States Marshal and eleven assistants left Cincinnati to arrest foar Persons in Mechanicsburg, Champaign county, up in the interior of the State of Ohio, charged with harboring fugitive slaves nine months ago. ‘The accused parties were arrested on Wedues Gay, when awritof habeas corpus was sued out in their behalf; bat before it could be serced, the United States officers en roufe to Cincinnati, were beyond the bounds of the county. They were, however, pursued through the next county, which is Clark, and were overhauled in the next, which is Green, where another writ was taken out and served by the Sheriff, assisted by a eort of posse commitatue, in the form of a yolunteer mob. A collision ensued. Several shots were exchanged between the contlicting parties; the United States officers were overpowered, and as prisoners were taken back to Springfield, ia Clark county, for trial for resisting the Sheriff in the discharge of his duty. ‘Now, conceding that in thie case the Sheriff and his posse believed they were right; conceding that under the State laws and authorities they will be snstained, as having done their daty, this whole proceeding becomes a revo- lutionary proceeding om the part of the State of Ohio against the supreme laws of all the land, which are, first, the federal coastitution, and, secondly, the laws carrying out the provi- sions of theconstitution and the decisions of the Supreme Court defining aad affieming them. ‘The federal constitution provides that in the event of the escape of a fugitive slave from his master into a free State, he shall not be smag- gled off into Canada, but shall be secured and returned to his master. In pursuance of this pro- vision the Fagitive Slave law ot 1850 was passed, imposing certain pains and penalties for the of- fence of resistance to the federal officers engaged in the duty of recapturing and returning a rnaa- way slave tohis master. These underground railroad agents of Champaign couaty, Ohio, were charged with having laid themselves subject to these pains and penalties; and, as in daty bound, the deputy United States Marshal and his as- fistants proceeded to arrest the offenders and bringthem before the proper court for trial. While proceeding to his destination with his pri- soners, this deputy marshal is overtaken by a local Sheriff, with his writ of habeas cor- pus for the prisenere; and it is just here that the Sheriff and his posse were guilty of a higher crime ageinst the lawe and against the good order and hermosy of the country than those skulking underground railroad fugitive elave agents which the Sheriff came to rescue. In the case of Slocum vs, Mayberry ¢ al, (2 Wheaton, 1, 9,) the Supreme Court of the United States has decreed that “ the courts of the Uaited States have supreme jurisdiction of aH seizures made on land and water for « breach of the laws of the United States, and any intervention of a State authority, which, by taking the thing eeized out of the hands of a United States officer, might obstruct the exercise of this jurisdiction, is illegal.” We take it for granted that the term “ thing,” in this connection, will legally appty to each of these men arrested by the Ohio deputy United States Marshal; that the intervention and rescue effected by the local Sheriff did invade the United States jarisdiction, and was intended to obstruct and to nullify the laws and supreme authority of the United States. This view of the entire jurisdiction of this case is sustained by the late opinion of Judge Kane, of Philadelphia, upon the habeas corpus case of Passmore Wil- liamson. The spirit and substance of the constitutional provision respecting fugitive slaves are lost if the offenders against this <upreme compact, and againet the laws passed to enforce it, may be spirited away or forcibly rescued and shielded from punishment by a mob, or by nullifying State laws. Under such a violeat conflict of authori- ties, federal and State—the latter nullifying the binding supremacy of the former—the harmony of our whole federal system is invaded, the iategrity of the Union is endangered, and the constitution becomes a mere thing of «treds and patches. ‘The present State governmeat and State au- Proceed- thorities, and the popular sympathies of Obio, | are intensely black republican. The KansasNe- braska bill, the border ruffian doings in Kansas, and the Dred Scott decision, have furnished the party capital requisite to keep alive and ia active effervescence this condition of things among tne predominant New England population of Onio- But in this case their nullification proceedings most be met by the strong hand, after the fashion of General Jackson's treatment of the South Ceroina nullifiers of 1632~"s We believe that NEW YORK BERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1857. Other community but this would ewh a state of things be ww ereed for en lasteat; bet ia New | York suffering is our pormal condition end pa- tience our ci-tingul bing virtue, Tt requires the terror inspired by the prospect of the return of the cholera or the yellow fever to arouse the authorities to the necessity of putting | an end to this, the most dangerous of the ehams connected with the interoal administration of the city. We should probably, however, have gone on in the same rou ine courae, allowing the con- tractors like the doctors to fatten on our mise- ries, had not the plan of the City Inspector and a clip in the new city charter offered the oppor tunity of an experiment which eeems likely to af- ford un relief. Mr Morton does not set out with the promise that the system which he is about to carry into execution will be more economical than the old one. On the contrary, he tells us fairly that it is impossible to execute the work asit should be exe- cuted. to meet all the conditions of sound, sanitary regulations, without adding considerably to the present expense, He sets dowa $300,000 as the amount which we. must expect. annually to pay -if we would keep“ our streets in the same. ogndi- tion of cleanliness as the Earopear cities. And the work, he says, can only be accomplished for this eum. by the enforcement of certain economi- cal arrangementa, by which the manure produced | by the streets, and which has @ high agricultural value, will not be mixed with and deteriorated by inferior substances, such as coal ashes. He will have carts traversing the city daily for the removal of these distinct accumulations, and thus he will be able to ineure to the market gardeners and farmers who contract with him, the manure in an unadulterated etate, which, under the old system, was never the case. He will have Broad- way and others of the principal thoroughfares, where the traffic requires it, ewept daily, while, with a little less labor, the subordinate strects will be kept in an equally irreproachable state. ‘These are fair promises, and if faithfully observed, the benefits that we shall derive from them will be worth ail that we shall pay. Mr. Morton, in any case, may rest satisfied that we will not grumble at the expense, provided we see that the money is conscientioualy laid out. An sonual expenditure of even half a million of dollars would be cheerfally submitted to to obtain the blessinga of clean thoroughfaras and an unpol- luted atmosphere. It was only the conviction that we paid our money for the pleasure of being humbugged that made us restive under the old system. Let Mr. Morton do for us what the health inapector of London, Mr. Simon, has done for that metropolis, and there are no rewards within our gift to which he will not fairly be entitled. ‘Why do People go to the Watering Places? ‘The country press seems to have found a mine of editorials in the few suggestions we threw oat the other day in reference te the fashionable wa- tering places; and while the organs of the hotel keepers at Newport, Saratoga, Nahant, d&c,, seem to consider that banging would be a very inade- quate penalty for our impertinence, and that we ought at least to be drawn, quartered and left un- buried besides, the respectable journals of our sls- ter cities and the rural districts generally concur with us in denouncing the bad fare, atrocious dis- comfort, rascally cheating, and ignoble snobbery which are the ruling characteristics of our fa- mous watering places during “the season.” Some of them go so far as to urge their friends to set a good example by staying away this year; others, like the Boston 7raveller, while tacitly admitting the justice of our remarks, seem to think that the oid fogies and the young fools will continue to patronise their old haunts in spite of our admoni- tore, it may be so, The crop of fools is large, and to them it is follyto talk reason. But there are, we apprehend, very many persons who do not belong to the category of fools, and who nevertheless yield to the general fashion, and suffer annual agonies at the watering places; up- on these a little common sense may perhaps be plied with a possibly beneficial result. Let these worthy but weak persons only think of their last year’s experience. Let them recall to memory tbe horrible meals they made at Sara- toga and Newport; the tough beefsteaks, the | dishwater tea, the leathery toast, the leaden rolls, the lean fowls, the half cooked potatoes, the sick- ening emell prevading the dining room. Let | them remember the despair with which they tried | to procure a dinner: and the overwhelming help- | lessness with which they discovered, after they had | given a waiter a dollar, that there was ieally | nothing catable on the tables, and that even cor- | ruption could not better their case, Let them | dwell on the bed, too, that memorable gridiron, | on which they groaned and tossed the livelong night, between severe conflicts with mosquitos | and frightful nightmares about the rack and other tormenta. Let them give a thought, too, to the society for whose sake they underwent these tor- | tures; the silly women without an idea in their beads, knowing nothing of the world or of books, unable to sustain a conversation on the most ordi- | constitution ix eurrendered to the spirit of faction | ing || It ie to be hoped that the exercise of it in this H | $5,600 & week, or $141,000 ayear. The work Mr. Buchanan possesses the necessary decision of | nary topic, unable to cut a decent figure in a character, and the necessary discretion, to main- | drawing room, and apt for no other use bat to be tain the constitution and to enforce the laws in | toyed with; the young men, foppishly dressed, this case without bloodshed, and to bring the of- | priggish in manners, empty in head. and mean in fending parties to trial and jadgmevt without the | heart: the old fogies, thinking and talking of ald of troops. Bat should troops be required to nothing generous ot liberalor manly or candid, cforce the supreme law, they should be called | but the males engrossed in sordid considerations out; for we have no guaranty of law or order, of | of the rise and fall of stocks, the females security in this Union, if the observance of the coarsely speculating on scandal, matriages, iMicit liasone. Let them try to | conjure up this picture from the depths of their memory—let them throw in the incidentals of svector’s Pias vor Creaxive tae Staeets.— | ewindling hotel bills, insolent snobs, foreign By « resolution of the Board of Councilmen, } chevuliers Tindustrie, nondescript ladies with star- passed ai the ise! meeting, the existing contracts ing clowks and hats; and then let them say for the cleaning of the streets have been annulled, } whether they will or will not volantarily subject and fanaticism. A New Broom os Orriwe- tae Cory Ty. and the City Inspector aatborized to exeente the | themselves to other weeks of misery from the work on « plan suggested by him. The Board | eame caures this eurnmier, because they dare not obtains the power of rescinding their contracts | resist the flattering example of the codfish under the provisions of the new charter, which | aristocracy. pives to a three-foarth vote of its members the | We do not know any country in which it ought | taculty of superseding all bargains of this nature | to be so delightful to take sammer recreation as the United States. Here we have the fidest rivers, the loveliest woodeides, the fairest sylvan hiding placer, the prettiest lakes, the sweetest of islands, the ehadicet nooks and crannies where there is just room for # pair of lovers, a fishing rod, and a pleasant book. Yet with all these blissful retreats at our right hand. we muet needs was performed in «uch a manner as to render a | go and roast and boil, and fume, and eat trash, | strictly do-nothing «ystem preferable, private en- | and sleep badly, and submit to extortion and | terprise being in most cases called in to com- | impertinence, and associate with underbred men | plete what tbe contractors had left unfinished. | and women, and bore our souls out in doing This, for instance, the merchants in Beaver anything but takiog wholesome exercise—all for street, ae is seen by the list of subscriptions pub- | the sake of following the fashion, and being ata lished yesterday, are compelled to club together | grand hotel—a blind caravanserai—at Newport to remove the accumulations of filth which on- | or Saratoga. Would any intelligent Chinese ever cumber that street. During the winter the | believe euch @ thing? or, if he did, would he same necessity was constantly imposed upon | admit that we were an intelligent people? our citizens, so that they caught the The Saratoga, Newport, Nahant, and other expense both ways—in heavy taxation for work | watering place hotels have had their cay; it is unperformed, and in voluntary assessments for | time they succumbed to the progres# of decency the discharge of the contractors’ duties. In no ~ and common sense. No doubt the proprietors, | case will be prodactive of the desired results: | The experiment is, at all events, worth trying, | Under the late contracts, the cost of cleasing | the streets, or rather of occasionally agitating | the filthy deposits with which they abound, was foresoeing the necemary ending of their career, bave lstierly been endeavoring to make hay while the oun shone; whence thelr preposterously and steadily lengthening billa But we apprebead that even this recourse, whioh they will no doubt prosecute with renewod vigor this season, will not avail them much longer. Even young fools and old fogies grow tired of getting fleeced; and when once it is well understood throughout the country that that the quict, respectable, and really refined classes are not to be found at the fashionable watering places, the anobs will goon leave them too. When that day arrives, let us all eay—Amen! Tax Vrrorta Exection.—The Virginie elec- tion of Thursday appears to have gone for the poor Know Nothings about as disastrously as “manifest destiny” in Nicaragua, under the man- agement of Walker and his fillibusters. The re- turns from the Old Dominion, like the handle of @ jug, seem to be all one side—even that last strong citadel of “Sam” and his motley crew, the city of Richmond, seems to have caved in bodily, like a railroad-embankmentvafter a aoak- blanket upon the shoulder’ of the .Louisville National American Council of the second.of Jane | But perhaps the case may mot be so desperate in Virginia as it now appears. We believe the Know Nothings have elected one member of Congress, and if they have elected another there willbe two. Thisconsideration affords yet achance for Mr. Fillmore and the Louisville Council. ‘Will Mr. Botts be good enough to be present and report progress? THE LATEST NEWS. The Civil War in Ohio. BLLIOTT AND CHURCHILL LIBERATED ON BAIL—THR BEMAINDRA, BIGHT LN NUMBER, COMMITTED TO PRI- ba Gxvcunatr, May 30, 1867. ‘The United States Deputy Marshal Churchill and his as- sistants were brought before Justice Christie, at Spring- field, this morning, ‘Messrs. Elliott and Churchill were arraigned on two chargea—one for assaulting Deputy Sheriff Compton, and the other for aseauiting Sheriff Layton with intent to mur- der. Messrs, Churchill and Elliott asked, through their coun- fl, that the amount of bail be fixed for thelr appearance atthe next term of the Common Pleas. Their bail was then fixed at $2,600 each on beth charges. The balance of the party, cight in number, were required to give bail in the sum of $10,000, and refusing to do so were all com- mitted to jai. From Washington. PROCERDINGS IN THE NAVAL COURT—THE CAGES OF LIEUT. CARTE, CAPTAIN NEWBLL AND LIEUT. LATIMER, BTC. Wasamoros, May 30, 1867. ‘The first Naval Court was not in session today. In the second Court the case of Lieut. John C. Carter was still up. ‘The following witnesses were called and examined Tor the defence :—Capt. Tyler, Com. Perry‘ and Mr. Staples, of the bar of New York. Mr. Staples teetified toan acquaintaace with Lieut. Car. ter, in which he stated that he always considered that Lieut, Carter's habits in point of sobriety were very good, and be always was eo esteemed among his friends there. Belng cross-examined as to bis knowledge of the #epu- tation of Lieut. Carter in the~navy, he stated that he thought he did possess some knowledge of the professional estimation {n which he waa held. In the third Court the defence of Capt. T. N. Newell was presented, and read by his counsel, T. M. Blount, ‘Faq., and the Court was cleared for the final consideration of the case. Capt. Wm. K. Latimer will next be tried before this Court. Charles E. Mix, Esq., the Chief Clerk of the Indian OfMce, bas been appointed acting Commissioner of Iudian Afairs during the temporary absence of Genoral James W. Denver, the Commissioner, from the seat of govera- ment, who is attending to important official business in Western New York. An immense crowd attended the music at the Presi dent's grounds this afternoon, Wheo Mr. Buchauan ap- peared o rush was made to get to him by those whose political fortunes scemed desperate. Women ant chil éren wore literally run over. Old Buck horned his way through them most perseveringly, and reached the open grounds. UNIQUK LETTER FROM A WSSTERN POSTMASTER— NATIVES POTATORS IN TEXAS, RTC. Wasmxcrox, May 30, 1967. The following letter was rece!ved by the President a few cayssince, and for e.mplicity and unso phisticatedness exceeds anything that has been received by this or aay other administration. Through the kindness ef one of the Secretaries I bave been permitted to take a verbatim copy, leaving out, however, the Post Office and the name of the individual, There are other people in Missourt besides border ruffians and republicans, Hore Ls the lotter:— Cxawrorn County, Mo., April 90, 1867. Mr. Brewanan-— Duan Sin—Mr, ——— {9 the Posimaster at this place, ‘and he is gone out West, and bae been gone for three or four weeks, and be has no deputy here, but I bave been opening the mails and attending to it since he hee been gone, an he left the key with me, and the Post. master told me that {must make a report at the end of every mouth and did not tell me who | was to write to, but [ suppore it ts to you we should make our reports, ad we are all citizens of the government of which you are now President If you are not the right one to recéive the reyort ploare drop me a few lines, ledting me know who I atm to report to, apd T will write again. Rowort at tue Exp oF Arki—The weather (scold for the eeason—Provisions acarce and very high—But pot withetapding all that we bave regular mails onca wweek, good health, and the people of this country univer sally pleaved with your administration; thi 11 know that would interest you; if there is anytl mitted in my report please let me know. My best respects to you and Mrs. Bwchanan. 1 undermand that Mr. Buchanan is so well pleased with this letter that he (ntends to give the writer @ good office. ‘The operations of the Agriculteral Bureau of the United States Patent ice are spreading themselves over every part of our extended territory, and, under the superinten- dence of Mr. D. J. Browne, are producing great changes in the agricultural department of our country. A letter has just been received by this bureau from Capt. Larkin Smith, of Fort Davis, Texas, of ebich Ihave procured a copy, aud anor it herewith. The potato crop ls now one of the most mportant grown, and the native potato of Texas may yet be the fruitfal source for @ plentiful supply of this valuable root — Fort Davia, Texas, April 21, 1857. D. J. Browne, Pag., Patent (Mloe: — Drak Six—You will @nd contained in this, and alvo in apother package mailed at the ame time, what we aup owe to be the native potato. They were certainly grow ing in a wild state, and are found in soveral places on the Limpia and elsewhere, in the nai valley # of the Sierra Diabolo, These grew in a gravelly soll, with a mixture of rich loam, the gravel greatly prevaiiing, a» if washed upon the loamy soil. There are a great number of mols and rat boles in the ocality. Perhaps the gravel protected the potato from them. Very truly yours, ‘ e LARKIN SMITH. THE GENERAL NRWHPAPHR DRRPATOR NEW ROUTE FOA A SHIP CANAL ACKOSS THR 18TiI- MUS—STATR OF THE TREASURY--ARMY MEDICAL erarr, fro. Wasmvotow, May 90, 1867. Surgeon Caldwell, attached to the United States ship Independence, under the date of “Paname Bay, May 8," bas unoicially advised the Navy Department tha he has been informed there is @ practicable route for 8 ship canal from the Gulf of San Miguel, Rio favana, to Fuerte dol Principe, @ few miles above which place the tide ebbs, thence about north by east, over low ground, to Caledonia Bayou, « little north of It: that the whote country is low, well wooded and watered, and abounds in game; and that @ «mall party can crows from the Savana to the Atlantic Ocean and return, maging & path or road as they go, In Jems than ten days, without fear of the Indians or disease. De. Caldwell, having obtained leave of Commodore Mer ving, hastily explored the route, and reports the summit level on the route from Principe northerly te the Aliantic, ‘and that (t (e within eight miles of the Savana, and woeid not prove insuperable to engineering akill In constructing canal. iy he not amount in the Treasary subject to draft is nearly twenty theee millions, of which in New York there is over eleven millions, at New Orleans three millions, at Philadelphia (wo tuilllons, and at the branch mint in Sao Francisco one million and @ balf. ‘The Army Medioal Board, recently convened at New York, bave reported to the War Department that the fol. lowing were found qualified for appoivtment in the Modt- cal Btalf:—Boberts Bartholomew, of Maryland; Jo-eph 0. Bailey, of Penneyivania; J. Cooper McKee, of New York; Kirtly Bytend, of Missouri; and Wm. A. Carswell, of ‘South Carolina. General Walker has telegraphed from New Orieaus that |. bbe will be in Washington as soon as possible, apportionment will disfraochise one-half of Kansas, and that only twenty out of forty counties will be represented in the convention. Some counties where ne census has been taken ere allowed & representation on tho list of ‘voters on the old election books, and other counties have written to scting Governor Stanton for election precincts. He replied that he could do nothing, there being no law to supply the omission. Acard bas been published, aligned by sixty-two promi- nent persons, urging tbe State Legislature to -eassembie on the 0th of June and complete the State organization, News from Texas. Wassincrox, May 20, 1967. ‘Texas advices state that Gen. Twiggs arrivod at Sea An- tonio on the 14th inst. ‘The crops in the interior of Texas looked very pro- ‘The Minnesota Legiciature, The Minnesota on the 26th: inst, the tneorporation of railroads and now counties, ‘The election for delegates to the Constitutional Conven- on will take place om the first of June, General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Cunvetanp, May 30, 1857. AIGITH DAY—APTRRNOOD SESTON. Mr. Hastings, of Rochester, N. Y., made a specch on slavery, which called out an oxprossion of thanks from ‘Mr. Ross of Tenneasee. Mr. Corwine, of California, read burlesque resolutions representing the extreme Southern view of slavery. Mr. Dickerson, of Kentucky, spoke ably on the same question. worra Day. é Mr, Seelye, of New York, replied to Mr. Dickerson’s speech. ‘The report of the Committee on Foreign Missions was re- Loos of the Bark Medina, of Waterford. Quenso. May 50, 1867. ‘The steamer Saguenay on ber first trip to the River du Loup ran into the bark Medina, of Waterford, {thirty miles below this city, striking ber amidsbips, She sunk in ten tmiputes. No lives were lost, The bow of the Sagnenay was knocked in, but she ran ashore, sustaining no other damage. ET by ClO ee ‘The Schooner Caroline Ashore. Oswnao, May 30, 1867. ‘The schooner Caroline from this port for Montreal, with flour, went ashore on Dack Island on Wednesday night, in fog. Seven hundred barrels of flour were thrown over- board. Break on the Erte Canal. Atsany, May 30, 1867. A break occurred on the Ertefcanal at May bee's, yester- day. The water was partially drawn of and the break repaired. ‘The rumors that the culvert at Counterport had again given away are probably without foundation. fiavigation of the mrte Canal. Miuwwavurs, May 50, 1857. ‘The propeller City of Madison, of the old Oswego line, arrived here tbis morning with the first goods by the Erie canal this seagon. She Seeemner Ceunee for ‘The steamer Circassian sailed this pool, via Halifax and St. John, N. F., with forty-five passengers. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Puuapairaia, May 30, 1867. Pennsylvania 6's, 83c.; Reading Railroad, 40%: Long Island Railroad, 115; ; Pennsylvania Rallroad,'46. CuaRtnvtom, May 99, 1857. ‘Beles of cotton to-day 22 bales; market stringent and unchanged. Sales of the week 4062 bales. Receipts of the week 5,800 bales. Prices have advanced on the week 3<0. Oswaoo, May 30—6 P.M. Flour unchanged. Sales of 1,000 bbis. at $7 25 for au- | -y-y1 Contig, $6 75 © $7 25 for Oswego brands, and 60 for extra Wisconsin. Wheat and corn scarce’ and quiet. Canal freights dull and unc Lake imports to-day:—2,200 bbls. flour, 11,200 bushela wheat; canal ex- porta—17,000 bushels wheat, 0,000 bushels corn. Mx. Tomuson's Srxxci.—In the report of the epecch of Mr. Tomlinson at the Canal street meeting, he ts made to say, in alluding to the Courier and Enquirer, that he “never crawled on his belly to secure a wife.” It should have read: “never crawled on his belly to secure a bribe.” ‘The Alleged French tatlroad Frauds. RATKADITION OF LOUIS GRELET. Mar 30.—Tho counsel for the accused prisoners were somewhat surprised this moruing at learning that Mr. Morrough, one of the counsel for the French government, bad arrived in New York from Washington with an order for the immediate extradition of Louis Grelet, one of the accused parties, and brother of the victim of a badly von- Ullated jail, who died some days since. As soon as the fact wax arcertained Mr, Townshend, one of the counsel for the pe dem od to Judge Clerke, of the Supreme Court for a writ bess corpus, but so sudden was the movement ov the side of the prosesution that Grelet had been carried off on board » steamtug to meet the Arago in the stream, on ber way to Havre ‘The other two prisoners yet remain. Their case has not been acted upon. The following is @ copy of the extradition warrant:— Ammnica TOF Srare, To Au. To Wnow These Presiw inc —Wherrax the Count De Sartiges, Knwor Rxtraordinary And Minister PMibipo'ensinry of bis Majesty the Kmoeror of the Freneb, hath made requiaition ia con‘ormity ~ith the pro visioor of the evvention between the United States and France of the ho! Bovember, 1815, and additional artiels af the 2éh Febrarry. 1845, for the mutaal surrender of fariive criminals, for the delivery up of Louie Grelet charged with the crime of forgery, (/atwr) 00 tin France ; Aud, whereas, anid Ton! d La Come, GRert P raat y his en 0 ve he nei tous 1 of which 7 f the edings faraivhed Wo jaderthe hand and sealof sald C mmissioner: hese presents are to require of the United the Southern Distriet of Ne ¥ York. or any otber public officer or cerson having ¢ sarge of aforesaid Louis Grelet, to sur an! 4ell the Freneh Consul General at New York chy, or wo any ol eran duis authorized by the eld Mluister Plenipoteatiar to receive dhe anid Lonle Grelet into custody . Lewis Cans, Secretary of Sta'e of id caused the real of thin Dey tty be aillved at Wash. ogvon thin ah Any at May. Ae Th. I9hr, aad of tha Tadep.nd ence uf the United Mates, ihe eighty free | or ypans, United Marshal for the Sou'hern ‘York. Tt appears that about 10 o'clock A. M. Captain Ryaders sent one of bis officers up stalre to the room a the wlaer. bie butlding in_ Coll which te 4 Cited fates ra United” Staten Judges” chambere, where the Frevch prisoners bave been cont ‘since Eu ton, a inwority of Ly 2,000 voter, will owe this to the neglect bave in many Instances refused to register, or give ficti- tious names, We presume that they intend to vote down the State constitution when it is submitted to the people, ‘and therefore fee! indifferent to the political complexion of the constitutfonal convention to be holden in June nex.t i HOTICES OF BEW PUBLICATIONS. Books Received to May 30. Adventures and Explorations ta Hondures. Edwards’ Travels a Europe, ‘The Life and Public Services of Dr. Lian. ‘The Bible and the People. Miss Botoher, Exbiopia, by the author of Cotton ie King. ‘The Heiress of Groenhurst: A Novel. pL ] Magic Staff, an ‘autobiograpy by Andrew Ja ckaen ‘The Herald of Light, @ vew spiritualist monthly jownnal, edited by the Rov, 7... Harrie, No. 1. « cteisine Hawley, oF tho Jeet and bis viowim, wy OF. Bynevor Terrace, by the author of the Holr of Rodety@ . Muspratt’s Chemietry. Parts 24 to 27. Chit Chat of Humor, Wit and Aneodote. Mr. Hardy Lee. His Yeoht. Ostrea, or the Loves of the Oysters. ‘Trips Through the Lakes and River St. Lawrence. ‘The Oebkosh City Directory, for 1857, ‘The United States Insurance Almanac for 1867. ‘Harper's Story Book: Justice Justin. yiulletin of the Geographical and Btatietica! Sooteyy Wilson's Business Directory for 1867-8. Harpies, MAGAZNS FOR ar, Putnam's. Seats moa 2 | OF. ndarroet. ashington Irving. Vol We GB Poteaas kOe ‘This volume bringy'us down to the installation of Wash- ington es President of the United ‘rates, Completing the plan of the work so far as his military life and his agency {a public aMfaira up to the formation of our Constitution are concerned. Mr. Irviog promises us, should his health per- mit it, another volume, giving the Presidential career and Closing life of the Father of his country. That portion of his task which remains unperformed Is almost of as mucia Interest as that which he has accomplished. The reader is dorirous of contrasting in the luminous pages of Mr. Irving’s history the acts of this great man, with the nlodest doubts to which he gae expression immediately after bis inauguration. “I greatly fear,”’ writes he, “that my countrymen will expect too much from me. I fear ( the issue of public measures should not correspond with their eanguine expectations, they will turn the extrava- gant, and I might almost say, undue praises which they sre heaping upon me at this moment, intoequally extrava- gant, thongh I will fondly hope, unmerited sensure."” No sentiment ever expressed by Washington aflurded a truer index to hie character than do these words. Modest, but self-reliant to the last, he felt that however political cir- cumstances might concur to lessen his popularity, the con. aciousness of the honesty and sincerity of his actions would afford him compensation for the low of public favor, and finally place his motives in their true hght. It is to the task of showing how nobly he justifled the expectations formed of bis political ab lites and his own confidence ta the purity of his intentions that Mr. Irvirg will next have to address himself. We concur sincerely with him im the hope that bis health will be spared to bim to accom- plish it. Tax Lrg axp Pcetic Seavices or De. Lewis Ete Sy eS ened Rte: Apple- Although Dr. Linn oocepied @ prominent palitioal poat- don, as Senator from the State of Missouri for a period of ten years, his public acts were hardly of a character to call for so elaborate a tribute to his memory as hie bt- ograpbers have prepared in this work. He is chiefly re- membered at Washington for his handsome person, his ge- nial manners and bis popularity in female circies. Ik was of thim that, alluding to these characteriatics, Col. Benton sald, “He was everywhere welcome, for he carried his leter ‘of recommendation in his face.” It must not be sapposed from what we have stated that the carcor of Dr. Linn was simply that of an Adonis. He rendered important ser- vices to the country in the opening up of Oregon Ter- ritory, and in promoting the interests of the West gene- rally. For his efforts to procure the passage of the bill te remit General Jackson's fine, Old Hickory wrote to Mrs. Linn a letter of fervent acknowledgments, in which he gave expression to a feeling which showed how strongiy the natural affections were rooted in his “Thave often told you and thé Doctor," he sayn, « although the Eternal One had blessed me with so many good friends and dear objects to love, that I sometimes felt very desolate when I reflected that not a drop of my blooi flowed in ‘be veins of one of the human family, and that all that I had to leave my country was my good name. And how con Texpress all the gratitude I feel t» the benefactor who had wiped off the. only obloquy that I thought might rest on my name?’ The closing effort of Dr. Linn’s Be- natorial career was in the debate upon this bill in Febru- ary, 1843, when it again paased the Senate bat failed tm the House. He died suddenly in the October of the same year, of disease of the beart. A warm and well merited eulogy was pronounced upon his memory in the Senate by Colonel Benton, with whom he bad for years beer asso- ciated in the closest ties of friendship. EXPLORATIONS AND ADVeNTURES IN Honpuras, with 4 Revigw or tua History aNd GeneeaL Resovecrs or Centrat Ameaica. Br Y. Wells. Harper Brothers. The importance, both political and commercial, which Honduras has assumed from the recent negotiations between this country and Great Britain, andthe now al- most certain prospect of the realization of the interoceania railway, render this work peculiarly acceptable at the present moment. Mr, Wells is an intelligent avd con. selentious traveller, with the desire to ren fer useful to the world the results of his researches ant observations. He does this in © modest, unpretending manner, which, of course, enhances the reliability of the information coa- tained in his book. Mavevine Law ey, On THE JesvrT awD ms Vro- tim. By William Earle Binder. Dayton, New Toie of this story sufficiently explains ite object. It Is sougbt, under the cover of flotion, to circulate covertly the sianders which are unsuccessful in a more serious form. These are the weayons which bigotry thinks (teelf fustiied in resorting to to obtain the ascendancy for ite own views, It is scarcely necessary to say that no cause ever prospered by such means, stil! less that of religion. Truth will prevail in spite of all obstacles, and efforts to Aid It by falsehood and calumny only serve to throw doubt on the best authenticated facts, The fate of Engone See should serve as a warning to the other enemics of the confraternity of Jesus. In the violence of his hostility to that body he gave free rein to his imagination in bis pre- tended statements of facts against thom {n the netes to the “<Juif Errant,’’ and thereby lost all credit with the Freack public, prone though they are to listen favorably to charges against the Catholic clergy. Writers like Mr. Binder are too clamsy and inexperienced as romancers to succeed in what Sue failed in, and therefore their efforts will only serve to produce a reaction in favor of tho body whom they seek to persecute. Such {« invariably the result of all religious crusades of this sort. Cuamistay, TEKORETIOAL, PRACTICAL AND ANALY- TICAL, AS APPLIkD ann Revating TO THe ARTS ano Maxvracevars, By Dr. Sheridan M ae by Professor E. N. Hosford, Harvard’ Unt We have received the last isuos, from Part 24 to Part 2, of this eusyerd work. They contain amongst their bumerous illustrations, two Gnely eograved portraits of Sir Humphrey Davy and Professor Mitschertich, of Bertin. The article on electro metallurgy, im parts 25 and 26, ie capecially deserving the attention of chemists, Tur Maoro Starr: an Au a Jackson Davis. J. St ti eae ‘The autobiography of @ Spiritualist would be curious If written in all sincerity, for people are nafurally desirous of studying the processes by which ths human mind ar- rives at such strange delusions. Coming from « high priest of the sect, like Andrew Jackson Davis, we cannot but regard a work of this sort as tainted with the same sort of suspicion which we would be dispowmd te attach to ® history of Mormonism by Brigham Young. The object of the present autobiography is um- doudtedly to make out a case in favor of the good faith of the writer; but we muffsay that, afer a 2areful peruse Of it, that conviction is wanting to ws, Mr, Davis has made of bis pechycological studies a stopping stone to his am- Vitlon, and the Internal evidence which his book affords us of this fact will not conduoe to the Interests of spiritual. fem, It would have been better for him to have kop himeelf wrapped up in the cloud of his fantastical theories than to have exposed bimself in such nude colors 1 bis disciples, . Dinke, Mayurw awn Hotonwsonx on tar Dog, by Frank Forrester. Stringer & Townsend. This is a new and enlarged edition of Mr. Herbert's tavt compilation, Col Hatebingon’s excellent treatise on dog breaking being drawn upon to complete its collection of facta. The work is now the most comprehensive and ratisfactory which has been published on this subject, Dywavor Teneace. By the author of the “ Redely fe.” ‘Appleton & Oo. sity Another tale of remarkable powor from the master hand that produced “Redelyffe.”’ If not quite equal to ~—