The New York Herald Newspaper, June 25, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. errr, JAMES GORDON BE fat be low 8,000,000 baies. Under the influence of a good recelpts four advanced 10¢. 0 1c. per barre! upen the lower grades, and Se. @ L0e. for medium ‘to good extra. Wheat was arm, wittr cates of Milwaukie clab at $255. Fair Canadian white sold at $180; prime mmo club do. a: $169, and prime white Oto et $190, Corn ges Cera er tis | sec ccipeer ce seen eee nes or SS per : ‘anna, . ° mixed et 68c., with Southern yellow Sere Ss Wa SS areen toh} at 68c, White Southern ranged from 0c. a7. Pork eee Of anonymous eorrespondenes. We do not was heavy and lower, with eales of moss at $2270 a $: . no change of importance, while sales were coafined about 200 bhds. Cuba muscovado, chiedy common grates, 2,600 bags Hic, and 500 do, at rates given in acother columa. American hemp was quict and nominal. A eale of 1,800 bales Manila was made at %., the purchaser to have the bene@t of the reduction in duties on the Ist of July, if not previously withdrawn from bond for com sumption. Freights continued dull, and engagements light : ‘The Slormons ef Utah—Mr. Bougias and his Remedy—Mr. Buchanan and his Policy. utah tae ; Mr. Senator Douglas, in his late Springfield ooh) Saue ‘RM, Broatway—Lore's Tex | programme for the Presidency, prepoees, if upon pBARNUMS aMRRIOAN MUSEDM, _Rroadmay —Aneraooa 8 full investigation the various crimes charged ee oe . Mvening =. against the Utah Mormons shall be established, and they shall thus be proved a community of outlaws and alicn enemics, unfit for self govern- ment, that their Territorial government, granted them by Congress, shall be taken away. This proceeding Mr. Dor thinks wonid afford an efficient remedy for all the evils of Mormondon:, because the Saints of Utah would fall under the provisions of the act of 1790, &>, and be subject to punishment through the United States Courts, in any State or Territory “where first apprehended or brought for trial.” This is the remedy of Mr. Doug’hs, and he thinks that in proving the Mormons “alien enemies and outlaws, denying their allegiance to and defying the authovities of the Unite? States,” body yesterday. The major part of the time was | Comatess may plesd the forfeiture of the Territo- occupied in discussing the admissibility of an afi. | Tia eharter granted by the general goverment, davit of Mr. Devlin, that he held possession of the | 2nd thus rightfully take that charter away. office only by permission of the Sheriff, in whose | The necessity given for this proceeding hands it was, by means of a levy or execution | is this—that before Mormon Juries and Mcrmon against the city. The aflidavit was finally admitted, | witnesses in Utah, all attempts to entorce law, sian ee for opens claimed ms heer 8c} order, justice, or decency, will be atterly useless, ba eaigraaa oR beak bes se pay sgn But, break up the Territorial government, ond Mayor Wood was the first witness called, and his thus bring these Salt Lake rebels and impostors testimony was not finished when the Corst aq: | *biect to the general law of 1790, for the pun- journed, until 11 o'clock this forenoon. ‘ehment of ccimes in the unorganized Territories; With regard to quarantine matters, the operations | 74 these Uteli offenders mey be sxraigned before at Seguine’s Point progress rapidly, and the beitd- | 9 ®atisfactory jury in avy State or organized Ter- ings will, in all probability, be ready for patients | ritozy of the Union. early in July, A large number of vessels have Now, inthe frst’ place, we apprehend that a taety Ra ig re = — x. the | Territorial goverment ix a: vested right which des : kness Congrcss cannot take away. Nothing of the kind, Havana, Gonaives and San Domingo are the onl! at all cvents, has ever been done or thought of comune nt Parwerdonrhbemiin om heretofore. But supjoaing that Congress shall itself in a very mit form. Holmes, who was ar. | #Sume and exercise tlie power, and that these rested for obstructing the Metropotitan police in | Mormon offenders are thus rendered subject to their errest of Ragan, asme time since, for violating | the law cf 1790, how iw the remedy to; be applied? Quarantine regulations, w: n the J Utah, itself a desert, wit h a few widely scattered tice’s Court at Stapleton defense set | patches of arable soil, is surrounded by vast de- Op was that the said policemen were acting without | serts and desert mowatali is on every side. The “= Pron ul F nearest white settlementa of any State are those nd Gocidad ahaha, gon linger ik arpa of Califorsia, some sii: hundred miles off; hospital at Séguine’s Point se soon °e tie porary’ | end how would a Douglas: proceed tine Coramissioners bed it resdy for wae, whiel will sme Wabi Gone ae ed aret Saba tae saat, ty of criminels, mea, vromen. and children, received from the United Stetes Consul at Frank- fort-on-the-Maine, notifying the Comminsioners thet, | o! pethaps fifty thousand souls? We say com- munity, for the whole Menmon community ore the government of Hesse Darmetadt, Messe Cunsel. and Wiesbaden had determined to stop hereafter | devoted to theteligious gov ernment of Brigham the practice of booking passengers in thefr dominion. | Young, asclviming their fret aad bighest alle- for points west of the city of Ifew York, o> the 4 giance. But if we assume that the majority of parties engaged in that business too often detend | iho. Mormons- are only the religious slaves of the ‘emigrants, charging them catravagantly: tor Young, and sve otherwise intioceat of any orime worthless tickets. The emigraticm 90 fer this vear- "| grainst the United States, are ttey, in being left pranpearpie oa odeeaepardaise ip 26c0u ast -| unpunished, to be left without a local govera- the emigration of last year. The Commissioners; | St tas seep veibial . thaw. he fave « surplus in band of $56,877 0". jj ment? No. ‘Take that away. ey, have City Inspector Morton yesterday commenced’ thee | 204 they will form one of their own, and the at- work of cleaning the streets, as directed’ by the | Yempt to interfere with that will be the signal for Common Gouncil, and he wil go on until the entire. | insurrection. city is purified. As soon as the necessary epecifica— But, again. We suspect that the reporis which tions are prepared the work will be given outto | we have received of the horrid enormities-of avi- contractors again, and it is to be hoped the remus | versal polygimy, incest, perjury, aud onganized wil heeat trem Cet wWhteh ‘ne hevetatieees- nmuriderers exivting at the Salt Gake, are vastly tended Ones Sees eee eee exaggerated. We suspect that certain soured The Germans Commie On tbe matter of | and disappointed federal officials, in abondoning prnevor dhe met = perso wart their offices in Utah, are aig 4 of epee a ead arguments for and against the proposed remo to these exaggerations. The Prophet may have val were read and heard, and the eommittsead { a harem of forty or fifty women, or more, and journed till Wednesday next. some of the leading apostles and. elders. may | The Excise Commissioners granted a number o have cach a family including a first wife and five | icenses yesterday, the fee impored ranging fore 1 ‘| or six to fifteen or twenty concubines, bul the frightful natural poverty of their coun AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NBLO'S GARTEN, Broadway—Covtaasaxoit ~Bianoo, ox ta Magic BwoRD, pers cn . — i Soweny THYATRE, Rowery—Lora'sSacairice—A Tare SURTON'S NEW TR! ’, Opposite Bond— Varkae Hovsanusras’ Youre drome Hex Bor. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broa¢way—Bour A Kiss oy fap Dark, ‘decidhiuaad — GEO. CHRISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, Broad- way—tai0riaw Ewrartarvaests—Biack Buesbses. " — BUCKLEY'S SERENADERS, Broadway—Missis- Sire: SueAMaKS AND Missigsiera NicGEas. aiiipans MECHA NTOS FAL, Te or aust = gy Broadway—Sawousr Acgozar few York, Thursday, June 25, 1857. The News. The Court of Appeals have as yet rendered no decision in the Metropolitan Police case. ‘The mandamus case of D. D. Conover against Street Commissioner Devlin, compelling the latter to show cause why he should not deliver the office and accompaniments to Mr. Conover, the appointee of the Governor, was continued before Judge Pea- fifteen to forty dollars. We give elsewhere th oe. y, and set ee the general poverty of the Mormons themselves, himbens ag oer me rerp nirvana sccciaseli es POM the possiblity of a general indulgence taken place at the Merchants’ Exchange yesterda 7, | * ita achinta 9 i a caains ad den eell was postponed at the instance of the Depaty Atv y- in this orienta luxury of pi ity t sey General of the State,S. H. Hammond,t> gi ge | concubines. : f mon Council of the city time tor pass ‘ he The evil cc ts, however, in. the organised | neceaeary eppropriation to buy the gror.nésfor che | existence ot institution of polygamy, and in | Centra! Park, as they have already dec’ ded to di», ite being only limited to the resources of the com- The Committee on Streets of the Bor .rd of C+ mn-| munity. But the remedy has not been reached | men met yesterday at the City Hal’,,to bear par | by Mr. Douglas. We incline to think, indeed, | ties interested in the proposed ex tension of the | that his proposition is rather for political effect, s avenue, as per old York road, Several per- were prevent, some of wh om advocated , the proposed extension and other 4 opposed it. The Committee have not come to & yy decision upon, the biect “he Twenty-eecond ward [ jemecratic Associ: ition, of which Mr. Striker is Pr .sident, has repud fated of the Tammar y Hall Convention. The ‘ngs are publishee jn another colamn. We have received fie 4 of the Diario de Atm ot Coraccas, Venezaels to 0th May, and extra ct fom them news In ference to the guano i dan de caimed by Shelton & Co, of Boston, the treaty wi.th the United States. ? .¢ English debt, commervisi. re- ations with Russia yo, We have Puer¥ , Cabello, Venezuela, dates to the 11th inst. bat & oy contain no political intelligerice. Native produce was im good supply. The weafher , , was fine, 27d the appearanee of the crops ercellent..| us, a thousand miles from our Mississippi fron- ‘The country was healthy. tiers, into the deserts beyond the Rocky Mountains, The Me? ships Canada and Argo sailed from | the people of these States regard thie evil as as part of a bold bid for the Presidenoy, than any- | thing else. But Mormonism as « thing for politi- | cal capital has never paid expenses. The Sew- ard anti-slavery faction, ia hitebing on to the name and popularity of Col. Fremont lest sum- | mer, made the extirpation of Mormonism a | pleak in their platform. But it was never heard | of among the issues of the Presidential campaign. ‘The reason was that neither Mormonism nor the | remedies for Mormonism can be made a party | question. The people of the United States (Mor- mons excepted) are unaniraously opposed to Mormondom, and unanimously in favor of the best means for the «peediest extinction of this re- volting excresceace—moral, political and reli- gious—existing in Utah, Removed from amongst the ac NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1857. Setbrarinenerer-t-arermnnmiibdiaiiili edit. Christian wiseionaries under the wing of the @z-| ported in all his acts by the chosen repre- my would take effective work among those peo- | sentatives of the clty in the Common .Joun- ple, thus far denied by Brigham Young the f eil: the dirt that is thrown upon him falls. \pon freedom of dveussion. But there is another | oar own faces. If he is wrong in his una°r- thing which we @hink should be tried. Nine- | steading of the constitutionality of the Metropo tenths of the Mo."mon community of Utah are | politan Police act, he will yield to the mandate from Yurope—frow England, Sweden, Den-| of the courts: bad he yielded without it he mark, Norway and Germany, with few excep. | Would have been liable to impeachment, and tions, These recruits ave deluded by our Mormon | would Gave been banded down to posterity missionaries, by their fal've representations of the | asthe Mazor who had not the pluck todefend the glories of their New Jerusalem, and by that dis- | rights of bis city when every respectable muni-- tazce “which lends enchavtment” to religious | cipal officer m it was ready to back him, and the fanaticism. Let these false miestonaries and | eoundest couzeel advised him that he was right. their falee pretences be officietly exposed, and | We repeat, the attacks that are made upon him these annual European reinforcements of the Salt | by the Albany cligarcby and their orgaus are the Lake colony will be stopped. mere empty ouspeuring cf spite and disappoint- To this end, we would respectfitly sugygest to | ed knavery; they stand in licu of sensible argu- the administration at Washington thy expediency | menta, and will heavily recoil upor their authors. and propriety of furniehing to the eeveral gow- eznments of Europe concerned, throug our gov- erament ambassadors and consuls, such’ official and unanswerable facts of the social and political condition of Utah and Mor- mondom as will eonvinee the most ignorant Corn- wall miner or Norwegian peasant of the raimous folly of a Salt Lake pilgrimage. Let the foun- tains be stopped aad the étream will dry up. In the meantime, all attempts of Mr. Douglas or Mr. Seward, or any other Presidential aspirant, to make political capital owt of Mormonism wi!l’ be “love's lator lost.”” The Mayor's: Contempt Case. the contempt oase in which the Mayor was ar- raigned before Judge Ffoffman on a charge of Perry declares that he went'to serve a warrant vented from doing 80; the offcials ef the Mayor’s office and some twenty policemen swear that Coro- acr Perry did not state the object of bis-visit when divine that he had ewrit in his pecket. Ac- and disereet behavior of the Goroner were the means of defeating his~object. As Judge Hoff- man neatly put it in his provisional judgment, either ‘the Ceroner is mistaken,.as a man of his Profession may well be in-trying.to remenrber so Taz Exrecrep Decision or Trax Court or Apreats.—The publie is looking forward with intense interest to the decision of the Court of Appeals on the new Metropolitan Police bil, That august tribunal has never, perhaps, been called on to decide a question of greater interest or importance to the community. Its decision will affect the citi?ens, not of this: metropolis alone, but of every city, village, county and township in the Stajte‘and in the Union, If the Metropolitan Poliee* bill be declared to: be not a violation of the pretvisions of the constitution, there is not an iets ation of local government uow existing througha ut the State that may not We published yesterday morning the report of | yo usurped by a cone ‘ienceless oligarchy at Al- bany. Bat it is consolatory 1 ‘o think that such a vio- having resisted service of process wpon him by lation of the elective rig, hts of the people cannot the Coroner, lax week. The point ef the case be eustained or tolerate d by the Court of Ap- was one of fact, and’ lay in-a-nutehell. Coroner peals, unless thet bodys hould prove untrue to ite high calling, and stm ud, like the Supreme of arrest on the Mayor and was forcibly pre- | Court of this city, take a narrow, pettifogging view of the great questi on submitted to it. If the law is to be sustainea at all—and we think itis not to be—it can only be by a miserable, be called, and that neither they aor the Mayoreould quibbling, illiberal interpze’x \tion of the phrase- ology used in the constitution ,and by an utter ig- conding to their testimony, the excessive cawtion | noring of the spirit and'intent of the instrument. We do not anticipate that the Court of Appeals will imitate the Supreme Court of this city. We look to it for something-moze @ ‘editable to its re- putatiox The publicdoes 20, The public want to have the question decided;.ne t upon quibbles, exciting- an occurrence, or the Mayor, Deputy | put upozr broad und? of pubiik > polity—to have Sheriff, Captain of Potiee, and some twenty | it pls A once Licey others, have committed rank perjury. Every person of judgment can doeide which is the-more likely contingency. In point’ of fact, this azrest andtrial of the Ifayor is merely another link in the long.chain cf frauds, acts of violemce, tricks, and-rascalities by which the Albeny oligarchy and their agents here are endeavoring to get our money for their political uses. When th e Legislature had before it the network of acts by which the administration of (he city government w ‘as proposed to be taken frora the city cficinls an | bestowed on. the crea- tures of the oligarehy, th e onty defence that was made by the organs of th e oligarchy was a flat denicl of the meaning th at we put upon them. They said that the acts i 1 qacstion did not con- template the transfer of th ve city government ‘to Albany, or the disposal of : the money of the peo- ple of the city for the ben efit of Thurlow Weed and hisfriendsat Albany. Welt, the acts passed; and from that hour the org ans of the oligarchy change! their line of. defeno >. It was nodonger possible to argue that the ac ts did not constitute a partial disfranchisement of ' the city, for there was the text of them, plain an (clear, transferring the appointment of our police: to Albany, taxing us to support a Stete const: ibulany, taking our money and putting it ia the hs nds of State officers to build city balls and lay or it parks, depriving us ot the control of such nei essary officors even as port wardens. It was onl y necessary to pub- lish the text of the acts to sho w what their mean- ing was, and how truly we ha d interpreted it. From that momeat, the f olisy of the orgeas / changed. They abandoned t he ground of bare- faced falsehood to reeort t) the safer field of vague calumny. The cours: they adopted was unmitigated abuse of Mayor Wood, The Alben , Evening Jovrnal, the Tribune, Tires, Eooning Pos :, and Courts» of this city exhau sted ibe vocabula y of expletives on the head of Mayor Woe , They eoid ‘he was a felon, and « law-breaker; an associate of thieves and gam blevey arogueaa da liar; « rutian, and a candidtite for the pea ten- tiary. They abused him for his-course bef ¢ he was May nd after; they alueed him # wr his private acts and hie public course; they 4 .bused him for carrying out the haw, and they ¢ abused him for neglecting it. The object of all this was-twofold: first, to frighten the Mayor fom the course he buf | adopt- ed: secondly, to bully the quiet poopy | of the city into. desertion from support of hiw Then we put it to these journals tt ‘ould be more manly 2nd more sensible to argue the # .ase of the obnoxious law on its merits, the only: answer we could get was that Wood wasaraw 41. Wo re- minded them thas, whatever Wood a ight be, he was ceting in thie matter merely x the chief magistrate of the city, in accord. awd , concert with the clected city authorities; that ) Je was, at the very worst, merely carvyingowt = y and defending owr municipal righ’ < to the best of his ‘udgment aad ability: batna word could we get from there partisass but ti old anathemas against the individual Ferranda Wood And when, at the last, the + corrupt and infa- mous oligarchy saw their sch mes defeated, and pereeived ‘that they cow? 4] noither bully te people into. hovtility to the Mayor, ror frighten Mr. Wow | from bis po- sition; when they 4) serned unequivocal this pott yesterday, respectively for Liverpool and! iu: 9 distant, lary and te affair; poser he. sockmemrnsiafe Boe and they are content & look to the government cartio’ , out 111 passengers, and the last mentioned 4 ies whict led. 153. The Canada also tovk ont $1,526,188 im speeie. and to time ‘or the remedies which are needed. ven. Cass recently declines 2 complimentary din. In this view Mr. Buchanan fecls his responsi- ner tendered him by his fellow citizens of Detredt. bility, and we bave great faith in his wisdom and discretion. His present plan is to send out o ‘The republicans ‘of Massachusetta met in State Convention yesterday, and nominates N. >. Ranks | new corp: of federal officers—Governor, Secretary, and Oliver Warner as candidates for Govirnor and | Judges, &e.—and a detachment of the army com- (.ieutenant Governor. | petent to caforeea proper degree of respect to there signs that.the mass of the people were against them, that the courte Wa uld infallibly explode their corrupt seheme fo? invading our liberties, and that they had sctw .Ily damaged their party irretrievably in the Sw .te without any compen- eating pecuniary gaim jn the city: then it was that they decided, as? last deparing effort and coup d'élat, to arzest ¥ ae Mayor. Arrest the Mayor’: Did ever anybody hear of The receipts of petra pom apt aaa | officers, Through these means the despotic usarpa- to 3,089 } an » . ; “ rate, but last week’a prices were fully |“! ' ye 8 ae x a rn 7% Other descriptions, of stock advanced | as Governor will break the prestige of his power We sive Gutait elsewhere. Th movement of the | 804 render him subordinate to the government, botebers in Ubiladelphia and Baltimore against the Mr. Fillmore concluded to trust him as Governor; ee! monepolists has proved tm some extent snccess- | Mr. Pierce was afraid to remove him; but Mr. ful, but in New York the speculators hold thetrown. | Buchanan understands his duty and his true Nothing short of total abstinence from beef for a brief period will effect the desired reduction in prices. Perhaps the nationa! convention of butchers, to be held in Baltimore in a few days, will adopt measures to enforce such a restriction. ‘Toe cotton market cotinved firm yesterday, with sales Of about 2,000 bales, including about 1,000 In transitar dent from too mach indulgence, but he will become tractable under a strong hand. ‘The powers of the federal administration over the looal government of Utah may not extend to the local institution of polygamy, epiritual wifery or concubinage. The so outrageously, sv ly and impudent an attempt? Suppose a rict in ‘the city, and the Mayor at the head of the cons¥ sbulary and military authori- ties: suppose ble od to have begun to flow, and life and proper? y at large to be in danger, what would be thought of a Judge who, in that emer- gency, should, on the affidavit of a rioter, issue a warrant to drag the Mayor away from the scene depriving the defenders of order of their legiti mate head? What wonkl have been thought of a Judge who, wken the Plug Uglies were drag- ging cannon through the etreets of Washington the other day, had issued a warrant, on the appli- bared upon middling uplands at 14°%6., and middling New | federal courts may be crippled by Mormon juries; | cation of a Plug Ugly, to get Mayor Magruder Orieans at Lic. The falling off im receipts at al! the Soothe’) ports compared with the same period iaat year, is staiod to be 647,000 bales, The whole supply last year was 5,05 00 bales, which goes to show that should the receipts from this time to the Ist of September next yal to what they were last year and reason i In addition to these app! anges, & corps but the presence of the army will put an end to Mormon outrages upon life and property, and do much to bring even Mormon juries to trath | rant iseued against Mayor Wood! out of the way? Would such a thing be tolerated atall? And wherein does it differ from the war- ot may be, Whatever Mayor Wood's chara of he te the Mayor of the eity, throughly sup he State laws* If the Gourt of Appeals regard —as we: think it is bouad to regard—the whele m ‘ope of the con- stitation, and the main purpose-am d intent of its framers, which was to deprive the State govern. ment of ita then immense patronage and to vest it in the people, there cam be uo question as to what the decision will be. But if it should en- dorse the Metropolitan Police bill, it will have utterly disvegarded the spirit of the constitution; and then it will be for the people to re-exprem, by an amendment to that inetrumeat, their idea ot the great principle which lies at the basis of republicanixm—the principie of self-government. Let not the Court of Appeals sabject itself to that rebukey Ye.iow Fever Beopme.—When the actfor the remove! of the Qarantine was passed, and the threeCommis sioners were appointed, we were told that the chief source of infection last year would be avoided, by anchoring the vessels at such a distaace fiom the shore that no belding could drift to the beach. We were likewise-told that a floating furnace would be constructed for burning atl infected bedding. We beg to inform the Commissioners that on Sunday lest, bedding from the Lucy Heywood, now in quarantine in the lower bay, floated ag hore in front of Lane's farm, and that thesame Was picked up and carried home by a poor oys- d.erwoman whose means are small, and whose family is-large. As this is the beat and surest way of domicil- ing yellow feveron the island, we beg to in- quire whether it he im the programme of the Commissioners, and whether infected bedding may be had throughout the summer, on the same beach, on the same easy terme! ‘The Metropolitan Police Commissioners, Atthe White street office the Quarantine special fowwe was paid up yesterday, by the Treasurer of the Police Board, Mr. Bowen. The money comes through the Qua- rantine Commission, aa the men are only a special posse furnished upon a temporary requisition. A number of ap- polntments for the filling up of Capt. Hopkins’ command were made Dally despatches from Albany are received ‘at White street asto the movements of the Court of Ap i#, aul the speculations upon the fortheoming decision. ‘othing rellabie in this connection can be however, as members of the Court have already ' lousy of the approaches aad Canvassings upon the topic Poreoon crrtven bere from Albaay, who have had retiab! mation, say it is doubtful if the decision wntil the end of the term. Upon the sam y on whieh an extra Tribune was issued with u . eiston (exclusive) 03 Monday, it ts again reconstructed { Friday meape of be re Laura Keene's @heatre=Love’s Telegraph. A play, or comedy rather, entitled “Love's Tolegrapu,” was produced at! Keene's theatre last night, it being its dirst representation im this city, though it is well known mon andiences, where it was brought out under the s Keene, who placed it on the stage with jor of scenery aa appointments for which his ets famous. This pier Tas a the grace, dulsh and witchery of the modern edy, au must la the original have been dis- wit, brillancy and verbal felicities. It pended more on ite dialogue than on its {aci- ences The plot of “love's Telegraph” is simple, though the detai's are otrcate and would hardly bear relating here. it turns a the love of a German princess for ber secretary, who loves and is beloved by her confidant: and friend The lovers, in order to blind the princess, converse each other befure her face, by means of signals given by the indy with her fan and the gentleman with his glove The princess Gnally overs the intreve, and with a generosity (ound nowhere Let on the stage, forgives them and consents to their marriage, while she herself weds a young prince whom she does not love. The objection to th: is that (1 \# t00 tail.» for the througl it; indeed, at times almost duli, and is on'y saved Lif Miss Keene, who play: ¥ the splendid acting the role of the rincess charm- ingly, Mr. Wheatleich bad a part out of his line, aad the other characters were of very little account. In one particular this play is deserving of al! praise. It is placed on the stage ia @ most supe:> manner, and it i¢ ibtfa! if Charles Kee: ‘maeif could have done | The comtemes, scen Ha Ppoiatmenta, furnitare, ail are perfect, and display ont exquia te taste on the part of the ‘alr managress. “Love's Telegraph’’ will be repeated to-night * Kuta Looax,.—(be excitement created by the d artistic actin: of Mics Eliza Logan, at Wal- , continues to imerease. The theatre iv nightly rowded. [ast night she eared as Julia, in the ‘Hanchback.”” To night she repeats the character of Juliet. Miss Log mocess is secured. She stands at the bead of the American stage Tan Paownct ty Cauronva—Guaat Foro oF Gorn policy better. The impostor has become impu- | of action, and facilitate the aim of the rioters hy | ANMOTATE.—We have seen a private letter, which came by the last steamer, from a gentleman in San | ran- cisco, which states that io the writer's opinion the y eld of gold for the year 1857 will not be much short of one tan. dred mill.ons of dot The assumption \¢ based on the kcnow ledge that the lites for washing have been gront- ly \nereased by the completion of numerous canaie and @ tehes which have been in progress for a year or two ‘The letter further states that trade in fan Fran- © 800 wll be good throughout the summer. stoy ON Tas Stem. —Sam Houston has made out and f ishet a programme for stumping Texas on the gubercatorial question, He invites fion. a. B. f pag Pemoces'.c can? fate, to meet bm, bears internal evidence of its French origin. | THE LATEST NEWS. Saannmnnnannanne ‘The Conrt of Appeals—Tne Metropolitan o~ |} Toe Masonic Ace Case. Ataawt, June 14—1.80 P. M. ‘The decision of the Court of Appeals in the Metropolitan Police case has not yet been rendered, Case No. 23 Dow on argumeat, A@atre in Wi IMPORVANT EXPERIMENTS Wis “ FIREARMS, RTO. Wasainorom, June 24, 1857, The decre'artes of War and Navy, with « large company of spectators, virited the United States arsenal today to test the raiative merits of the breach-londing firearms, ‘The following ams were on the ground for competition:— Colt’s rife carbime and pistol, distance one, two and four hundred yaris; Sbarp’s 7:5¢ and carbine, eame «istanve; Burnstides’ "Rhode Isian@’’ rifle, came distance; Merrtise’ ‘<Baltimore’’ ride and carbine, eame distance, ‘The result of the test app'ied is not ye? ascertataed in de- tail. At one bundred yards Sharp's rifle proved the moat accurate, thougifthere was a apirited contest with Colt’s and Burnsides’, at three bundred yards the contest was nearly equa!, Sharp’s missing owce. At fore hundred and five hundred yardaCoit’s ride won the day, Surnsides’ carbine beat Sharp's badly at five hundred yards, the lat- ter hitting the targetonly once in: five shots. The Sccre- aries of War and Navy remained om the groand duriug be whole time, the former making some excellent shots with Colt’s pistols at one hundred yards, ‘The Nsw Yorx Hzrat> announced the appointment of Col. Cummings as Governor of Utah the day alter it was made; other papers, which then contradicted it, are now publishing it as news. Governor McMullen leaves for Washington Territory on the 20th of July. The President bas recognized Edward Walkhouse Mark aa British Consul for Mary!and, to reside at Baltimore. ‘The Masons of this District were joined by their brethren of Richmond, and celebrated St. John’s Day by a visit'te Mount Vernon. The ceremonies at the tom) were of a deeply solemn character. Among the incidents was the christening on the premises of two children to bear the name of Washington. BABACH-LOADING Republican State Seyetee of Maussachu- . setts. NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR STATE OFFICES. Worocmerxr, Mass., June 24, 1857. The Republican State Convention met in this city to-day. Fifty-two towns were represented by 580 delegates. Mr. Joseph White, of Lowell, presided. After the organiza- tion had been perfected an informal vote was taken for a candidate for Governor, and Hon. N. P. Banks received 291 votes out of 464. The result was recelved with great applause. the afternoon session a warm discussion took place upon the informal nomination of Mr. Banks. ‘Messrs. Erastus , Charles G. Davis, Rodney French, Charles Francis Adams and J. Z. Goodrich all gave in their adhesion to Mr. Banks, provid ie should come uarely on the republican platform. it definite information as to the plank or planks on which Mr. Banks stands, he received nomination for Governor by the following vote :-— out Banks J. Z. Goodrieh, “str Geodri Rah ‘acc! lined. Once Warten, of Northampton, was then nominated for Liewtenant Governor; Thomas 1. Eliot, of New Bed- ford, for a Sas Joseph t Upese, of paige ad Secretary of ; Valerus Tuft, of 1" ly uditor, and Thos. J. Marsh, of Waltham, for Treasurer. Resolutions were , adi to the Philadelphia ; in favor of limiting Legislative sessions to one jundred days, and demanding more economy in State ex- penditures. It was also resolved that we regard the decision of the Sapreme Court i the Dred Scott case as an usurpation of the judicial er for political insult to the government—a violation of the plainest, natural and cou- Stitutioual principles of law—a ‘ersion of history—an encroacliment upon the rights of the States, and a blow evaiely struck at the rignts and freedom of maa. ‘The last resolutioa pledges the republican party anew to untiriag and uncomprom! opposition to the existence and further extension of slavery. Personal Rencontre at the Capitol of Con. necticute Hartvorp, June 24, 1887. At goon to-day James E. Dunham, of Bridgeport, one of the Dank Commissioners of Connecticut, and William E. Noble, also of Bridgeport, attacked Judge Brooks, Chair- maa of the Bank Committee, in the vestibule of the State Houve, calling him an old liar, scoundrel, &c., om account of bua position im regard to a bank. Jodge Brooks seized Mr. Noble by the collar and thrust him against the wall. He was about to throw him down stairs, when the spectators inierfered and separated the combatants Dy force. Mr. Dunham fied on the first de- moastration from Judge Brooks, A commitiee of \nvestigation was appeinted by the ‘Howse, and they are now evidence, with a view to bring Messrs. Dunbam and Noble to an accountability for ¢ assaulting an ovticer of the House while in the discharge of bis odiela) duty. A later account of the affray that Mr. Noble inter- | fered to prevent a Sight betwees Messrs. Brooks and Dun- liam, Dut was not at all involved bi the fight. The committee reported to tbe House that Mr. Dunham ought to apologive to Mr. Brooks, and also to the House; and thu Mr. Danbam is willing to do; but Mr. Brooks, it ts understood, refuses to accept an apology. Sooting Affair at Memphis. Tenn, Mawes, June 24, 1987. John Able, known as a cambler here, was shot dead this afternoon by a man named .Jobu Everson, in front of the Warsham House, Able asked lverson for some money that he owed him, and the rey be got was a pis. tol ball trough bis body, The af euied great ex citement among the citizens, who assembled atthe jail, determined to hang Everson, but through the persuasion, of the Mayor and others they were calmed down, A meet ing Was appo'nted for this evening, however, to decide upon what was to be done with | verson. Movein Bai Hon. W. |. Marcy arrived here inst evening, stopping atthe Sans Souci Hotel, where he will remain until the time of bis departure for Rurope ‘The Great Rave y: the Winner of t A race for $2,000 a B i ve- ween the Daiton horse, owned here, and the Taylor | horse, owned in New York. The distance was twenty miles, in harper. The Dalton horse made a waiting race for seventeen miles, laying clove to Taylor's quarter and taking it easy, and at the 18th mie drew ahead and maintsined \ for a mile, when Taylor ran past him, going in a few lengths abead. The time for travelling twenty miles waa one hour twelve minutes and Sfty four seconds, The jadges decided the race im favor of Daiton, who cets the stakes in consequence of Taylor's bora ron- ning. The horses are matched for a fifty mile race, to come off at New York. Advance W At a meeting of shipowners this morn was made that alter the Ist of Joly next, @ivance wages to seamen was to be cis ontinued, in ar- cordance with the plan of shipowners of other ports. Hereafter they will farnish one suit of warm clothing, and " of 10 per cent on the earned wages who perform the voyage; and in case of the loss of the ship on an outward voyage, the seamen to be paid the wages earned to the time of such loss, and in no case lees than for one month on foreign and for two ‘week: on Coasiwise royages. Boston Weekly Bank Statement, Bawrox, June 24, 1887. ‘The following are the footings of our bank statement for the past ween — and $) ead totes. "Corn stoady; sales 45,000 buah, at Tle. ; sales 20,000 bushels at 6x0. firmer; sales 560 barrels at 200. hts—10e. for corn and 1514¢. for wheat to . Lake imports for the v4 hours endi day—2,000 bbls. flour, 23,000 bushels wheat; 14,000 do. corn, 12,000 do, oats, Cana! exportea—21,000 bushels wheat, all to the interior 94,000 do, corm, two-thirds to tide water; 20,00 . oats, al , Atmasy, Jane 21—6 2. M. Flour i# io better demand, bat the market is not very il are more a 0, New 76 a $7 for extra, $8 75 a $025 for extra Genesee, # FY H s oO or emia Canadian, Wheat—l‘rime samy continue scarce ‘are firm: inferior qualities are doll. Sales to-day 16,000 hushela, at $1 98 for white Canadian, sia choice tape ot and $1 25 for Milwaukie elit. white Canadian brought $2 06, Corn—There is a fair # lative demant, ant t market (a firmer at Ie. a 20. vance, Salea to-day 0,000 lshele, at Sle, a 880, tor Western mixed afloat, and Sto. in lotsa Ne Sales of oate today, 6,000 bushels at "8, Whisker coe, and the market iad advanced at the cl.se Es Oxwneo, June 4—6 P.M, Sales $00 bols, at $7 tor Wiscon:in, 7 50a $8 50 for superfine Sales 26,000 bushels at nd $145 for Itacine, 49,000 bush Flour unebanged. $6 95 for common State and $7 and extra Canadian. Wheat firm. $1 58), a $1 40 for Chicago 9) n dull MASOMWO CBLUERA’ = ROVIDENC! TIOW AT Pi Re be 7 nL, ane i Ser rise owen core Zandt” Both were ‘The de Molsy Ea. campment made @ particularly good Appearauce, diner was qiper). TAB COLORED FREE MASONS OF PRVLADELPHIA. Paaapmraia, . ore 24, 1867. ‘The colored Masons of this city made an imposing pro- oetebration was laxge Ceasion this morning to cotebrate and dedicate their Hal, which bas just been Qnished. There wore Lwarly seven hvodred perrons in the line, who wore hands ome regalte and other paraphernalia of the Order, The 14 wor accompained by bands of music, and display. 4 sevorai rich bapners. Among the strangers present wa.\ a lodgs from Camden, the Maryland Graad Lodge, and ti’ Mori. dian Lodge of New York. Expiotts of Howebreaksrs, BXTE"SIVE BURGLARY IN ALBXANDRIA, Vio The j store of W. W. Adasse, it’ this place il ve jewel of W. Ww. 2 entirely eweot by burglars last ight, Uy of $20,000 worth of \eweiry and piate was stolen by them. ‘There 18 no clue tw the radbers. BURGLARY IN PATERSON, WN. J. Parzrsow, June 24, 1657. Murray, in this place, was dollars in money was @ thief has gone to New York. A liberal articles. ‘ed for the recovery of the missing: reat Destruetive ING OF THE OAKUM WORKS AT BRISTOL, B. ¥- Bawro:, R. I., June %4, 9857. ‘The Bristol Oakum Works, owned by Messrs. Bain meeciniy res weerered to Be on Are ak & ofoloke oon destroyed. for" 910,000 8 : if the Hartiond a estern, Wieet- 1 and North: ern Mas and Slater Mutual Insurance e melee 1967. OSTON, . Tho building No, 114 on Blackstone street, oat by Wk: P. Brooks, furniture dealer, Joh brean. tase seller, and others, was nearly destroyed night, ‘The loss is ‘about $25,000, oC BURNING OF Alt IRON FURNACE. Drrror, June 24, 1867. ‘The new blast furnace in Banitrank, owned by the De- troit and Lake Superior Iron Mining Company, with some valuable machinery, was destroyed by fire about o'clock this morning. The loss is estimated at $38, ‘and is partially covered by insurance. ~ The German Sangerbund at Detroit. Deraor, June 24, 1857 number of delegates have arrived hero to attend. the ninth aaaiv of the German Sangerbund, whist commences in this city to-day. They will give a grand concert this evening at Russel Hall, and another to-morrow evening. The festival will conclude with a ball on Friday eveping. Itis understood that the net proceeds of the concerts and ball will be devoted to the benefit of the des- titute population of Northern Michigan, ‘The Excise Commissioners, The Board of Excise Commissioners met in the Commoa Pleas Court room at 11 o’clock A. M. on Wednesday—pre sent Commissioners Holmes and Kerr. The following per- ‘sons appeared with the requisite petitions and made apoli- cations for licenses, which were on of the sums annexed to their EE oa a James A. Tilford, corner of Third avenue and Sevente street, $50, Nicholas C. Houseman, 154 East Broadway, $00. Herbert Harris, 164 Church street, $0. ‘STORFKERPRES’ LICENSES, ‘was referred the subject of the removal of of the Saat river steamers to or above the street, East river, and the landings of Ney eee Canal SiR itt New York, June 18, 1857. (0 the Honorable, ‘ommon Council New Yor! -—We the unde " Cd and others, doing business in respectfully represent that the present location boas owners, merchants city of New York, would to iu honorable body of landings of the steam ca the North property of our citizens. and that arean the want of sufficient whart for shipping We would, therefore, petition your honora- to pass an ordinance, removing the « street, and those of the East river steamboats to or above the foot of Grand street. And your petitioners will ever pray. ® sad two bundred signatures were attached to this peu- mn. a. Newton, of the People’s |\ne of steamers, opposed. proposed ' Messrs. Migs & Grant, merchants, dolag busines in the “Swamp,” thought that they could get tieir goods carted quicker and with less trouble to the foot of Grand pee honnagha damon’ etd 0b account of the press in troadway , 80 Were in favor of the proposed remo\ of the steatnboat Tandings. ie Mr. Micis was also in favor of the proposed removal. = ymca then adjourned ail Wednesday next, at Affairs in Kansas, TUR FREB STATE LEOISLATURE. | Correspondence of the St. pemocrat, | Qcivp sno, Kangana, Jane 16, 1867. ‘The followirg euactments were passed oy both braaches of the Legwlature on Friday and Saturday, end signed by Gov. Rebinsou:— Aa act providing for taking the census, and apportioning the representation of the State. It vides for the ap- pointment by the tovernor of five Marshals, who will ap- point deputies through tbe Territory, and take the consua immediately. The appointment is to be suca as to give the Senate not more than twenty members, aod the Howse not more than sixty. An act for an clection on the first Monday in Auguat, to fll such State offices as may be vacant, and to elect a re- Preventative to Congress. it also provides for an election ‘anoually on the first Monday of August, An act locatiog the seat of government at Topeka, Au act establishing a Sate Universit A joint Memorialiving Congress for admission to the (pion under the Topeka const!ty:jon—the memoria: p3 = on through the Territory, for am expression of upon Both branches of the Legisiature ac jcurned sine diz, ab balf past 11 o'clock Saturday night. There was a disposition on the part of the House to en act laws prov! for the incorporation of towns, the or- eee of sand age otc., to give the free government immediate vitality and force: but the ‘Senate only cor curred in the enactments named above. A I desire seemed to exist in the region south of the jaae river to put the State government int m9 diate operation; and several towns, including Lawrence, be and Hmporia petitioned for | ion. some of these towns completo squatter organizations already An unanimous feeling wag manifested that whenever Kantas does come into the Union ii must be under the conatitution. Governor Walker waa in Topeka during noariy all the session of the [egisiature no movement was made to Interfere with it. Coroners’ Office, . McRorRovs Assatit et BiG warway.—[ofermation was received at the Coroner's office yesterday, that Dr. —— Kimshief, of 197 Seventh street, was lying dan; the eft ved on Thu: 385439232 ig BpgeS255 eatle H 2 : i <I 38 3 i H z about 15 years of age, whose parents reside at 67 Mangin street, was drowned while bathing in the water, yesterday, at the foot of street. The deceased di! not divest bimself of all bis while bathing, and It is eupposed fats Osng drowned. Coroucr ills heh Sa teruon upon LJ . the body ‘af anvamned. stuns jailed Fatat, AccipeNT To A New Yous Voncvrmer —Coroner the body of New York Vol es a New lunteer named George A. Sea- Tau, mko dio from the etvcis of a blow accidentally re. ceived. ae eae while engaged at work in the Navy Yard, (trookiyn. was % years of wee native of this city. " jh tess Seriow lIness of Gen. Wool, The Times of Tuesday evening says (sen Wool cow bes dangerously |!! at his residence in th: rite and it is very doubtful whether he will recover. His disease is pneumonia, of inflammation of the lungs, ‘The General was in good health until satu last, when he caught & violent cold, whic i onthe cineane. | LI morning he was very low, and insenal council of physte called this afternoon, consisting of his ahebeteg paras cian, Dr. Thorn, and Drs. James McNaughton, of ‘Alvany, and Wotkyns, of Troy. Later in the afternooa the cows’ ral was casier, sat bis symptcmsa were considered more fhrorable, We learn that le suders much trop bemor rage of tag lunge,