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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDOA BENNETT, SDITOR aFD PROPRIETOR. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY .8, .1867. Lake basia. These Mcrmons were composed mostly of Welsh and Kagtich, witn a sprinkling of Danes and Norwegians, and a few Germans. The American bark Panchite, which was dis- charged some months ago from a charge of being OFFICE H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU GTS, fitted out at this port for the slavetrade, is again ig. man Se oe FE Ftcerso ner Pid kg og oy UCI . part of Great ‘Britain, SS Samy part ofthe VOLUN PARY CORRESPONDENCE, Ft pond or mg-Oew Ponman Riv Reguasrer TO Bea, aL. Us. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous eorrespondencs, We do not Peturn those reece. gos PRINTING executed with neatness, ‘ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day. Volume XXII. DENTS ARE PAR amp Pacsacas No, 187 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteen’h street—La Somvau Bora. NTKLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Siur-ox & Co—La Sri Pair RURTON'S NEW THRATRE, Broadway, onposiie Homd— ‘Tue Nata QveRN, on tue Ruvour or tax Watex Nruras. WALL ACK'R THEATRE, Broadway —Love’s Sacmirice— (A Kiss oy rt Dakar. : NEW OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brondway—Pet 0 Piooats—Fiust Nicur. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Fraiort- 48 Missrnetsy—Cuniosrtins, Ac. tur Prt. F | GRO. CHRISTY AND WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 441 Broad- way —Tm. Maciouax—NrcRo Mixsmecsy, &e. MECHANTCS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Nrcno —paassreeran Reavincs—By Bryant's Mins DIES, New York, Wednesday, July 8, he News. ‘The Arabia, which left Livérpool on the afternoon of the 27th ult., arrived last evening. The news is three days later than previous advices. Tbe Liver- pool cotton market was steady, ata reported ad- vance of onesixteenth of a penny. Favorable ac” counts of the crops had been received from all parts of Europe, and the breadstuffs were depressed in consequence. Consols are quoted at 92 1-16 293 3-16 for account, with an excited money market. -The frigate Niagara attracted much attention at Liver- pool. Minister Dallas has been dubbed Doctor of Laws by the University of Oxford. The British House of Commons had passed the bill admitting Jews to seate in Parliament, and the divorce bill. ‘The result of the elections in France show that only four opponents of the government have been return- ed. Gen. Cavaignac’s election had been set aside | for informality, but another contest would be had + during the present month. In Madrid, on the 20th of Jaze, Senor Lafrogia, the Mexican envoy, had a lengthened conference with the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, but the pending difficulty between the countries had not advanced towards a settlement. | We have pews from India, dated at Calcutta on | the 18th, Madras 25th and Bombay 27th of May. ‘The mutiny in the Bengal native army had pro- | gressed to a fearful extent. Three regiments were | in open revolt at Meerat, but having beea dispersed | by European troops, they fled to Delhi, and, having been joined by three other regiments, they took the meches of the law. The Panchita was seized by the British sloop-of-war Sappho, Capt. F. Mores)y, ‘Gonsinent, bath @i the mouth of the Congo river, on the coast of Africa, on the 9th of May !ast. She was brought to Ry ge eeoprs the port of New York yesterday, under conmand of two British Ueutenants, the crew consisting of twelve British seatnen Capt. Sladden, of the Pan- chita, who protested against her detention, came Geapnees and der) home in the brig. The particulars of the seizare, as detailed by Capt. Sla den, may be found in another column. The matter, in all probability, will come under the cognizance of the United S'ates District Attorney to-day. Up to last evening he had had no Official notice of the seizure. =~ The brig Abby ana Elizabeth, from Port aa- Prince 21st ult., arrived at this port yesterday. Bhe brought the particulars of the ‘disastrous fire at Port au Prince on the night of the 12th ult.,a brief report of which reached us some days since by the steamer Iilinois, which vessel spoke the Abby and Elizabeth on her homeward passage. We translate a fullacccunt of the conflagration trom the Haytien Moniteur. The estimated loss in merchandise and bui'dings is $3,000,000. It is stated, however, that the loss of American traders is comparatively light. We also tzanslate trom the Monitcur some comments on the project introduced last March in the Massa chugetts Legislatue to recognize the independence of Hayti. The Moniteur assures us that Haytien in. dependence has in fact been recognized by the United States. There was considerable sickaess from yellow fever amorg the sripping in the harbor of Port au Prince. The names of some of the saf- ferers are given in the letter of our correspondent, published in another column. The captain of the Abby and Elizabeth reports having passed Inagua on the 22d ult, when he was informed by a pilot that salt was abuudant on the island, and selling at ten cents pec bushel. They expect the crop to amount to more than half a | million of bushels. Salt was aiso plenty at For | tune Island. On the 23dan American hermaphro- | dite brig was at anchor there, nearly loaded. The city was perfectly quiet yesterday. The in- quest on the bodies of the men Bernard and Lanten- berg, killed in the riot on the Fourth, was continued | by Coroner Perry. Several of tne parties arrested | were identified by the witnesses as prominent parti- cipators in the riot. Some ciue was also given to the identity of the party who was seen to shoot Ber- nard deliberately; while it was proved that Bernard himself was a leader of the Dead Rabbit party, and was actively engaged in the fight at the moment of his death. The testimony produced on the inquest, 80 far, shows that the riot originated in an old quar- rel between the Bowery boys and the party from the Five Points, known as the Dead Rabb.ts, both fac- tions having availed themselves of the disbandment of the old police, and the ineffic'ency of the new body, to settle their disputes bya bloody contest. The Coroner has had much difficulty in procuring the attendance of witnesses competent to give the re- quisite information. They have manifested a desire possession of the city, and proclaimed the son of the date Mogul Emperor as King, after having commit- | ted. many marders and outrages. Government troops | were being concentrated around Delhi, and the Rajah of Givalior bad proffered aid to the English | goversment. ‘The dates from Hong Kong, Caina, are to the 9th | of Mey. There is nothing new from the seat of war A prevalent scarcity of food bad produced much distress all over the empire. Rebellion was rife at | Foo-Choo-Foo, and trade considera ly deranged in Judge < delivered am elaborate and able charge to the Grand Jury yesterday, which will be found: in another part of this morning's issue. He referred to the powers and duties of the (irand Jury, and gave it as his opinion that the provision of a recent act of the Legislature giving the Special Sessions exclusive jurisdiction of misdemeanors, ‘was unconstitutional. He said that if the metropo lis had become a modern Sodom and Gomorrah its criminai officers should bear the reproach. He dweit at length upon the police organization, de- fending the action of the Mayor and himself pend. ing the decision of the Court of Appeals, and con- cloded by suggesting the propriety of purging the criminal courts of disreputable legal practitioners. | Twenty-five veseels arriving yesterday were order- | ed to be detained at Quarantine, to be taoroughly | cleansed and fumigated. They came principally } thom West India ports, where yellow fever prevails: | A few came from New Orleans and adjacent ports’ having cargoes of Lides, which rendered their deten’ | tion necessary. No cases of yellow fever arrived in | any of the vessels. A few cases of doubtful fever were, however, reported, and the parties sent to the Marine Hoepital. The Excise Commissioners yesterday granted | thirty licenses—two storekcepers at $30 each, twenty seven innkeepers at each, and one inn keeper's license to Mr. Treadwell, of the St. Nicholas Hotel, at 75. The Treasurer of the Board reported , having banded over to the County Treasurer $3,500, | bags. the full receipts for all licenses from the com- meacement of the operations of the Board to the 5d inst. The Board adjourned til! Monday next. | The Board of A)mshouse (/overnors met yesterday. ‘The vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the late Joseph S. Taylor, in May last, was filled by the election of Mr. Wm. T. Pinckney, republican. A special committee was appointed to confer with the Commissioners of Emigration with the view to an amicable adjustment of the long standing pecuniary disputes of the two Boards. A cemetery is to be boitt on Randall's island, where children will be buried with ceremonies in accordance with the reli- | gious faith of the parents of the defunct. On the 6th inst. there were 6,245 persons in the institutions under the charge of the Governors—a decrease of 24 ‘as compared with the week previous. The Parieh will case, which has taken up the freater portion of the Surrogate’s time for more than a year past, was closed yesterday. The evi- dence teken during this time amounts to between ovr aod five primted volumes of seven hundred pages each. The value of the property contested is estimated by the million. The counsel in the case li bave Will after the holidays to prepare for the final argument. On Thursday the Sarrogute's Court will close till September next. if diligence and patience entitle the hea! of any Court to a rest or ; vacation, the Surrogate certainly deserves one. The good people of Boston are ina furore of in- digration respecting the oration delivered by one | Rev. Mr. Alger before the city authorities of the modern Athens, on the Fourth. Here is an “elegant extract” from the patriotic orator's discourse: “When we are lifting our marble martyr to his niche on Banker Hill, the slaveholder who forced the Fogitive Slave bill down our throats is intro daced with complimentary flunkeyism in tue very shadow of the awfal place, and we listen to his hanghty toned commonplaces with respectful pa- tence.” This vulgar abuse is intended for the spe cial benefit of Senator Mason, of Virginia, Jobn P, Kennedy, ot Maryland, Edwara Everett, Robert C. Wintsrop and other distinguished gentlemen who participated in the inauguration of the statue of General Warren on the !7th ult. at Bunker Hill, ‘The respectable portion of the Boston press un sparingly denounce the bad taste displayed by Rev. Mr. Alger; and the Board of Aldermen of that city refused unanimously to pass the usual vote of thanks to the orator who treated them to an abolition | harangue when they bargained for something in keeping with the celebration of oar national anniversary Bince the first of warty last there have arrived in this country by four different vessels upwards of two thousand one bundred emigrants who had es poused the Mormon faith in the Old Country, and were ey route to Utah Territory, in the Great Galt to keep out of the way, and it is doubtful whether they can be produced at all. The policemen can identify only a few; and their account of the affray on the whole is disjointed and unsatistactory. That there are persons who can throw much light on the | subject there is no doubt, if they could only be reached. If the investigation was entrusted to one Coroner alone, there would be more probability of arriving at some satisfactory conclusion as to the canse of the riot. Unfortunately, however, Coroner Connery has undertaken to hold inquests on the bodies of some of the dead, while Mr. Perry, who took the case in hand first, put matters in training to ferret out the parties most conspicuously engaged. The rules of the Coroner's office should be more rigidly attended to, and the cause of justice would be better subserved. The deaths of the viccims of this riot are attributable toa common cause, and the investigation ought to be entrusted to one offi- cial. Several of the rioters were convicted yester- day in the Court of Special Sessions, but sentence was delayed, in order to secure, if possible, the ap- prebension and conviction of their confederates. Both Boards of the Common Council met last evening, and adjourned, the display of fireworks in the Park preventing the transaction of any business. The cotton market was firm yesterday, while sales were confined to about 500 a 600 bales, at full prices. Flour was ip good demand, and closed Ormer for common and good gradge of State and Western, with a fair amount of sales. Wheat was drm, with sales of old Southern red at $1 65, Chicago spring at $1 45, and Milwaukie club at $1 57. Corn sold freely, at 820. a 8c. for Western mixed; while Suthers yellow was at about S6c.a8Tc Pork sold at $22 50 a $22 75, in lots, closing Grm. Salea of sugar | embraced avout 500 a 400 Lbds., aed 100 boxes, at rates given elsewhere, A cargo of 2,700 bags of Rio coffee sold for export at 10’,¢. cash, with @ smal! lot Jamaica at 12e. Treights were engaged to & moderate extent, at quotations given 0 anetber columa. Amoog the engage ments oj] cake was taken for London, at lis. 6d a 15s. ; cot- | tom to Liverpool, at Ga. and 4d. and the City of Baltimore Kansax—Governor Walker—Good Sews from Washington. The highly gratifying news from Washington which we published yesterday, to wit: thatin a Cabinet council on Monday last upon Kansas af- fairs it was resolved to stand by Govervor Walk- er, will contribute immensely to enlarge the confidence of the country in the justicy, steadi- new ang stability of Mr. Buchanan's administra- tiow, How stands the case? The late local Legisla- ture of Kansas paseed certain laws providing for the election of a convention to form a State con- stitution. | Kaneas he found those proceedings, de facto, the laws of the Territory. But he also found the iree State party in an organized attitude of arm- ed neutrality against these enactments and all | others emanating from the same legislative body. He soon learned from the free State men that they would have nothing to do with any of these Jocal laws, inasmuch as they were held to be the spurious proceedings of a spurious Legislature— the creature, not of the people of Kansus, but of the Missouri border ruffians. Under the very | nose of the Governor, accordingly, the free State party called together a Legislature of their own, and a State convention, at which it was resolved to stand by the Topeka free State constitution and to carry it up to Congress as the legitimate basis for the admission of Kansas into the Union. But the most important discovery made by the new Governor, in this connection, was the palpa- Vie, impressive and overwhelming popular as cendency of the free State over the pro-slavery ecttlers in Kansas. He foresaw, from this ae cendeney, that in the event of another border war the local pro-slavery party would suffer the most disastrous reverses, and that the conse- quences would most likely be a perilous sectional excitement throughout the Union. He also dis. covered that, from the land speculating mafia which had followed the spring emigrations to | Kansas, all parties in the Territory were des'rous } of conciliation atd pew Nor did he fail to perceive that these substantial aad heavy spring reinforeements to their side had imparted @ apirit © and loldness to the free State par- ty which his policy, as a national man and 6sa° Southirn man, to conciliate, rather than drive to extremities. ‘These solid facts and reasons stand out in bold relict w justification of the eoagili tory course —steamer—engaged 4,000 bushels gratn at 45,d., in ship's | When Governor Walker arrived in | pureued by Gov. Walker. No man in his posi- tion, charged with the execution of the laws, the Preservation of the peace, the meintenance of justice and {fe vindication of the constitutional rights of the people, could ‘have adopted ra wiser and fairer line of policy thao this of Governor Walker. He has adhered to the lawe, be has used the most convinciag argu- ments toall partiesia bebalf of peace; bat he has committed an unpardonable piece of treachery in the eyes of the Southern ultras, in that public de- cleration shat the State constitugion which the forthcoming ez parte convention may adopt should be, end must be, submitted bona fide for the rati- fication of the people, or that he will do all he can to bave it rejected by Congress. Axainst this official declaration of Governor Walker Southern ultras and ultra newspaper organs, from Richmond to New Orleans, have raised the cry of “treachery to the South,” and are demanding the ‘official hcad of Walker as the only adequate punishment for his criminal audacity. A democratic State Convention in Georgia and another in Mississippi have condemoed this procecding of Governor Walker, and demanded his recall. Bat what do they want? will be the inquiry of tbe impartial reader. They want the State constitution of this approaching Kansas pro slavery convention to be carried up and adopted by Congress without eubmitting ‘it to the popular vote of. Kunras; be- cause, they say, if this said constitution be eubmitted to the popular vote it will be rejected, Kansas will be abolitionized, and the South will be cheated of her just expectations from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. But a few weeks will suffice to show the shallow- bess, the fallacy and the mischief of this pro- gtamme of our Southern secession democracy. Taking it for granted that the objections of the free State party to the late pro-slavery Kansas Legislature cannot be legally sustained—that the Jaws passed by the said Legislature were good ard valid—that the pro-slavery convention elected the other day was the fruit of a legiti- mate electioa—that the convention will have the full discretion to recognize the institution of slavery in their State constitution, and the dis- cretion to submit their work to the ratification of the popular vote, or to dispense with that forma- lity, and that they will dispense with it, and car- ry their constitution, without further ceremony, up to Congrers, what then? Why, then comes in this impediment of Mr. Walker, the representa- tive of Mr. Buchanan ins Kansas, that he will do all he can to bave the constitution rejected, But let us suppose this impediment removed, and tbat Mr. Walker aod Mr. Buchanan shall use their best exertions to secure the admission of Kansas into the Union as a slaye State, upon the basis of this pro-slavery constitution, and that Kanens is thus admitted, what will the South gain? Nothing. What will the adminis- tration gain? Nothing but a rapid demoralize- tion in the party camp. What will the country gain’ The very thing which, of all things, these Southern ultras and our Northern aboiition dem- agoguee most detire, but which all the substan- tial business clases of the whole country are most anxious to avoid—a sectional revival of the slavery agitation upon the Kansas issue, tenfold more bitter and ruinous to the interests of all sections and all classes than anything preceding it in the history-of this ugly question of slavery. What will avail the admission of Kansas as a slave Stat> upon the faith of a constitution with- held from the Kansas people, expressly because they would be certain to reject it? The instant they become a State this constitution will be re- pudiated, slavery will be excluded, and Kansas will thus become the moet intensely anti-slavery State in the Union. This revolution in Kansas will next operate to strengthen, incalculably, the anti-slavery legions of the North, to leave the ad- miristration wholly dependent upon the South, and to make the campaign of 1860 a hand-to- hand fight between an overwhelming and confi- dent Northern majority and a Southern minority, | desperate and reckless in proportion to the sense | of its weakness, in a purely sectional contest. | But while the federal administration stands | to its Kansas policy as represented by Governor | Walker, it holds the commanding middle ground | between these fearful sectional extremes. It was | the abandonment of this middle ground by poor Pierce that brought him down to swift destruo- | tion, It was the retention of this middle ground by General Jackson that made his name as illustri- ous in the civil as in the military history of the republic. Kaneas is like a city set upon a hill; | ard the proceedings directed to her admission | into the Union cannot be sercened from the | public eye, If she can be brought in as a slave State by the fair and liberal application of the principles of ber organic law, the North will scquicsce, for she has an interest in the Union too great and cemprehensive to quarrel upon quibbles and trifles. But if the administration stoops from its high position to make peace with our Southern ultras by emuggling Kansas into | the Union, as we are told King George the Third | Was emugeled into Paradise, then the fall of this administration will be infinitely more disastrous to itself, to ite party, and to the peace of the country than the last. The result of this late Cabinet council, how- | ever, confirms our faith in the justice, honesty and sagacity of Mr. Buchanan. His Kansas policy is not the mere experimental trick of a shofflirg politician with a Cincinnati Convention to look after, but the result of a deliberate and well digested conviction of public duty. This policy bas been faithfully represented by Gov. Walker, and the assurance that the administra- tion will not be frightened by the impotent and | impertinent vaporings of this faction or that faction of disorganizers is an assurance which will give unmixed satisfaction to the conservative masses of the American people. The adminis- tration thus stands as a solid breakwater between | the waves of Northern abolitioniem on the one | side and the surges of Southern secessionism on | the other; and it is only in the maintenance of this breakwater that we can depend for the restora- tion of the integrity of the Union. What say the conservative press and the con- servative masees of the country? When our sec- | tional agitators of discord and disunion, North and South, are so loudly blustering and threat- ening, it is time for the honest body of the peo- ple to speak. Resiexation or Foren Mrststers,—The public was informed yesterday that Mr. Spence, | United States Minister to Turkey, had sent in his | resignation to the President, and requested that bis successor might be appointed. This makes the fourth resignation tendered to the State Department since the inauguration—Meaera Belmont of the Netverlands, Vroom of Berlin, ard Oars of Rome, having already placed their frsigpations on file. Some inquiry bae been made among interested parties as to why the resignations of foreign Ministers wereeo slow in coming iv. We are unable to anewer that query. Perhaps the fo- reign Ministers like their offices, and want to keep them, or to place Mr. Buchanan under the necessity of sending to ask them to come home. Mr. Mason at Paris, Mr. Daniel at Turin, Mr. Fay at Berne, Mr. Seymour at St. Petersburg, and a host of others have enjoyed their fall four years of foreign service; yet no word comes of their willinguess to make room for hungry pa- triots at home. According to etrict etiquette, the unfinished terms of Mr. Dallas at London, Mr. Dodge at Madrid, Mr. Forsyth at Mexico, and others are at the President’s mercy; the incum- Dents do not reem inclined to give him a chance of escaping the exigency gracefully. If it has taken four months for four foreign Ministers to resign, it will take at the same rate, two years for the whole two dozen to retire; s0 that, at this rate, the applicants for foreign missions have a good time in prospect before them. JvvGe Ressei.’s Cuarce To rae Granp Jury. —We publish, in another part of our columns, a full report of the charge delivered yesterday to the Grand Jury by the City Judge. It appears to have been well considered and elabvrated, and ¥ as an exposition of the duties and powers of a rand Jury, a very valuable juridical document. It is one which, especially in these days of excite- ment, will not fail to be extensively read ‘and commented on. Paging by Judge Russell's learned review of the history of Grand Juries, of the powers they exercire, the responsibilities which they incur to eociety, and the restrictions by which their powers are limited, we come to the practical part of this address. It may be recollected that a month ago we bad occasion to criticing the charge of the Recorder to the same body, to'refute his as- sertions that crime was vastly on the increase in the community, and to show that if this could in any sense be said to be true, the cause was pro- perly sesignable to the culpable remissness of that functionary himeelf, of the District Attorney, and of other officers of justice. We fird the same thing referred to in the charge which we are now discussing, and we find the opinions which we then put forward endorsed by the Recorder's associate in the Court of General Sessions, Judge Russell says, in allusion to the | extraordinary assertions of the Recorder, that if roffianism does rule in the city, if the desperado does defy the law, if the peaceable citizen is abridged of his rights, if the arm of the criminal law has been palsied and its mandates treated as waste paper, if the departments of goverment are overturned, disorder jubilant and anarchy firmly seated on its throne, that the Court of Gen- eral Seesions, with its Judges, Grand Juries and prosecuting officers, must bear its proportion of the blame. The Judge might very safely, we think, make that admission before this community, trust- ing to ita generosity and sense of fair play to de- clare that eo far as he and the Grand Juries were concerned they had done their duty impar- tially and efficiently; but that as regarded the other officers of the Court, their supinences, or eemething worse, has done more to encourage crime in this city than probably any other single cause, Jadge Ruseell, in this charge to the Grand Jury, devotes a considerable share of attention to the very important matter of the recent change effected in our police system by a partizan Legis- lature, He had been a Police Commissioner under the abrogated law, and having, from a sense of duty, co-operated with the Mayor in testing its constitutionality, he was right in thus | justifying his conduct before the people of New York. He glances at the salient pointe of the | question, defend? and justifies the course he | adopted, and, like an honest Judge and a good | citizen, declares that the new law having been | | eustained by the Court of Appeals, nothing now | remains but to obey it. Among the other points of interest in this able | charge, attention is called to that sore of long | standing in our criminal courts, known as sbysterism—a system of extortion and robbery | practised by a gang of discreditable Tombs lawyers, with the aid of police and other officers | —to the violation of the laws for the preserva- | tion of the public health—to violations of the | Election law, and to the extensively practised crime of adulterating liquors with poisonous or deleterious drugs, or selling the same. To these | and other crimes the attention of the Grand Jury is directed, with the observation that if virtue and morality are dying io our midst, and if obedience to the law is becoming an obsolete idea, the Grand Jury and the Court can do much to resuscitate the one and restore the other. | Tbe charge, which we have thns hastily re viewed, is a clear and able production, and ve- flects much credit on our City Jadge. Tox Trmexe on tHe New Ponies Law | We publish elsewhere, and desire direct | attention to a very fair article from the New | York Tribune, berating the late Lieutenant Go- vernor of this State for his support of the new | Police law. At the time the article was written, | that law was still a project; but its leading fea | tares were well defined: and the judgment formed | upon it by the Zribune was based on an accurate conception of its provisions. It has since been | | paseed by the Legistature, without material | alteration; has been declared constitutional by | the Court of Appeals; and has gone into actual effect in the city, after a struggle on the part of the civic authorities unexampled in our municipal history. One of the most marked features of that straggle bas beerf the ferocious and almost raf- flanly abuse which the leading organs of the | Albany oligarchy have lavished upon all oppo- nents of the bill. [t must be consolatory to them to perecive that, little over two years ago, the chief among these organs, namely, the Tribune, so | far coincided with the present views of the Mayor and municipal authorities in their late stand against the law as to denounce it as a mere , scheme to “add to the burdens of this official | ridden city,” and to “add to the complica- tion which renders our municipal administration unwieldly toa proverb.” They will be pleased to see that at that period-—when, it may be re- marked, the likelihood of the 7ridune's friends | becoming Commissioners was small that journal | “expected no benefit’ from new Boards of Com- missioners, and “ objected to arresting the process of improvement eo happily begun by the pre- ent {late) Commissioners” The Mayor's friends may likewise derive comfort from the fact that the Z'ribune once thought it would ben deplo- | rable error to diminish the power the Mayor exer- | clees over the police, ae this bill (the present Metropolitan Police act is designed to do;” and that “to curtail that power would be to di- tminish the means of rendering life and property secure.” Nor will any read, without a smile, the earnest hope expreseed by the 7ribune that “ the Legislature will panse before it imposes on this metropolis a measure which the people bave not lo $$ —______—___.. ‘arked for,and which, were it submitted to the electors of the city, would be rejected by an over- whelming majority.” We do not think this is the strongest case that could be or has been made out against the prescat Metropolitan Police act; put we think it is a very fair case, and of attention. We desire to recommend to the editors of the Tribune, if not a regular. perusal of their own colamns— that perhaps would be asking too much of any person of taste and sensibility—at least an occa- elonal reference to the files of the sheet which they produce. Such, researches will not alweys be adequately rewarded; but every now and then they will yicld a decent profit. In this instance they might have saved our cotemporary unnecessary humiliation and exposure. To the public at large, such little accidents as this are of no consequence, save as illustrations of the old proverb about the goring of the ox. Very Importasr reom Kaysas—Gunerar. Waker Sustarep xy tHe Tenerrorra. De- mocracy.—Our readers are aware that since the inauguration of Mr. Buchanan the Kansas border roffian pro-slavery party of poor Pierce has been superseded by a democratic party resting upon the national priociples of the democratic party of the Union. This party have just held their Territorial Convention for the nomination of -their candidate for Congress; and as an evi- dence of the way the democratic wind is blow- ing in that quarter, the said convention substan- tially resolved, by a vote of forty to one, that the State constitution which the approaching Constitutional Convention is expected to adopt (pro-slavery) will not be considered a valid in- strument until it shall have received the ratifica- tion of a popular voté, (See our news from Kan- sas under the telegraphic head.) This looks very much like a hearty approval by the Kansas de- mocracy of the course of Gov. Walker, and very much like a sign of the course that may be an- ticipated from the approaching Constitutional Convention. We perceive, aleo, that the Kansas democracy have declined, for the present, our old-time fel- low-citizen of New -York—Ely Moore—as their candidate for Congress, apd have nomi- nated ex-Governor Ransom, of Michigan— a constitutional administration man, no doubt, slavery or no slavery. This is another striking illustration cf the downfall of Pierce's border ruffian policy, and the supremacy of law and order in Kansas, or else some such fire-eater as Dr. Stringfellow would have been nqminated. We are somewhat sorry that the Hon. Ely Moore failed of a nomination; but he will probably have better luck next time, and there is gome comfort in that. The all-important fact for the presentis the almost unanimous approval of the policy of Governor Walker by the Cemocratic party of Kaneas; and this fact we commend to the special digestion of our Southern seccseion brethren, who are moving heaven and carth to compass the re- call of Walker. If the Kansas democracy are sa- tisfied with him, what right have the Georgia de- mocracy to flare up, or the Mississippi democra- cy, or qny other democracy? That's the ques. tion. THE LATEST NEWS. News from Washington. SBMI-OFFICIAL EXPOSITION OF THE KANSAS TROUELE --RRSTEOT SHOWN TO THE MEMORY OF MR. MARCY —OBJECT OF THE PORTUGURSE MINISTER'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON, ETO. Wasunoroy, July 1, 1867. ‘The article in today’s Union, which bas the marks of a distinguished functionary of the government, headed “Governor Walker and the South,” is an able exposition of the Kansas imbroglio, aud meets the approbation of the Cabinet. ‘The Cabinet met this afternoon, and agreed i close the departments to-morrow , and suspend al! business connected with their administration. This mark of respect is emi- | nently jos’, and will be gratifying to the family and | friends of the lamented stateaman, Governor Marcy. Tt appeare there was a mistaxe in the statement in re- gard to the recent interview of Mr. Figantere, the Portu queso Minister, with the Secretary of State. I! was sim- ply an act of humanity. At the recent trial in New York of the crew of the brig General Pierce for the murder of the captain, three were convicted of manslaughter and one of murder, while all were equally guilty. Mr. Figaniore, deeming |t to be his duty as a bumane man, as weil as Portaguese Minister, to save John Smith, who is a Portu gueve and the one convicted oi murder, {rom the gallows, and believing bim to be no more culpabie than his ahip- mates, makes an appeal to the Presiden to commute Smith's punishment trom hanging to imprisonment. It is not yet known what will be the result of Mr. Figaniero’s efforts. There \# no truth in the report thet Judge Mason has | resigned the position of Commissioner of Patents, and equally untrue is the story that any difficulty has occurred between the Commissioner and the Secrotary of the Ia- terior, Governor Wine arrived this eresiag, and will remain for a fow days. TH GRNFRAL NEWS" APRN DRPATCH. VIEWS OF THE ADMINISTRATION ON KANSAS APFATRS: Wasmseron, July 7, 1867, ‘The article in the Unson this morning on Kaneas afairey is the authorized exposition of (he views of the administra. tion om that subject, and, as intimated in last night's des- patch, fully sustains the conrse of Governor Walker in ad vising the submiseion of the constitution to the vote of the poopie, and defends him from Southorn a tacks. ‘The President and all the membors of the Cabinet ox- cepting General Caas, attende! the anoual commencement of Georgetown College today. The [resident was occu- pied for severa) bourse in distributing the premiums and diplomas: #hould the public bariness permit, the President wi)! leave for Bedford the last of this or carly next week Interesting News from Kansas. Sr. Loum, July 6, 1867. At the Democratic Congressional Convention at I ecomp ton, Kansas, a resolation to ihe edlect that tbe democracy ‘will adopt the constitution to be framed by the Conatitu tional Convention, whether that constitution be submitted to the people or not, was loat by a vote of forty to one &. Loom, July 0 An unpublished letter in the Republican says the demo cratic convention, which met at Lecompton on the dd, was composed of a majority of pro-siavery men: bat that the whole democratic party will support Walker's inaugural ‘and the submission of the constitution to the people. Reso- lutions were passed excluding all sectional distinctions, adopting the Cincinnati platform, and assuming that the | name, “National Democracy of Kansas,’ embraced all | democrats whother from the North or the South. Gover: nor Walker was invited to address the convontion, which he did with great efiect. Mansom's election is regarded as certain. Later advices from Leavenworth state that General Harney clecredits the reported battle between the ladians ‘and the u cope under Colonel Su mner's command. Melancholy Casunity. A PLEASURE BOAT DISET AND SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED. Poxrowrer@m, July 7, 1857 A eailiog party of nine pereous, (rom Mamaroneck, were | upeet at Rye thie afternoon, Seven of the party ware drowned; and two (ladies) saved. Two of the bodies have been recovered. Invitation to the Councils of St Leute and Cincinnatt to Visit Baltimore, Baitiwone, daly 7, 1967 ‘The railroad companies between this city aad St. Loule have extended an invitation tothe City Counalis of St Louie and Cincianat! to visit Baiimore and Washington on the 16th inst, The invitation hag been accepted, and the Preparations are making for the occasion Pire tn Philadelphia. Pariapawna, July 7, 1967 MeLaugbiin's siabies on Prime street, and three large Awollings adjoining them, were destroy ot Dy Gro iaat aight ‘The horses in the siadios wory all resoued. the Albany Burgesses corps, proceeded ‘at eleven o’clock this morning to Schenectady , to receive the remains of ex. Governor Marcy from the Baliston Spa committee, At twenty minutes past two o’clook p-ecisely, the epectal train arrived at the Central depot, the presideat of the road having despatched it for tbe express purpose. The locomotive, the Erastus Corning, was enveloped in mourn. ing decoratione. The three cars containing the delegations from Balleton and Scbenectedy were entirely new strue- tures of the most modern pattern, As the depot there was in waiting “@ hearse drawn by six elegant white horses, decorated with a profusion of black ostrich feathors, and balf @ dozen other car- rieges, for such of the commitiee a might choose to ride, A single company of military formed the escort nd guard of honor. The procession forme, oom- slating of the military, the committee of the Albaay Common Counci! and Coleone from, Ballston aud dare toga, then proceeded througlf the north gate of the depos ground, throvgh Steuben, ‘Hroadway @ad State streew the Capitol, eae ee "a braas band di 4 35 Many nothing could be seen, exeept the pall which. coffin contatning the remains. After half an hour's esloma, silent meditation the people quietiy left the chamber, lea Ing the corps under charge. of a detachment of 5 the fuperal services to morrow. During tbe movement of the procession the streets were densely crowded mith thousan is, clothed in ihe ead- des tcountenances. Since last evening a letter has been received by the Commirtee of «rangement from ex-Prevident Fillmore. explatning as the reason for his absence from the funeral that he is euffaring from inflammation of the eyts. Ex- Presidents Van Buren and Pierce and Hon. William H. Seward have telegraphed their acceptance of the invite- tions eent them, aud will be bere to night. ‘The Students’ of Union College, Schenectady, and the Mayor aod Common Counci! and military of Troy have aiso signified their intention to be present. Major-denera! Cooper bas jasved an order tothe ments of the Third Brigade to attend the funeral armed and equippe@. At the requeet of General Wool, who was in the city to day, the Burgesses Corps will attend as mourners, aad will flank the bearse without arma. ‘The tags of the ebipping and all public plices are and will remain at balf mast. of the stores and buildings in the city are already 4 in mourning e heavily draped mourning chamber wil be open for vioiters from seven unul eleven o'clock to aorrow mora- ph at Mrs, Marcy’s request the coflia will not be opened. The Burgeeses Corps is divided into four companies, for the porpose of guarding the remains. The irst company is under the command of Sergeant Taylor, aad will be on duty from 12 M. til 6 P. M.; the second @mpany ts in ol of Liout McHenry, and will be oncuty from 6 P.M. until 12 o'clock eee the third com; isin ebarge of Lieut. Cutler, and wil! be on duty frem 12 midnight until 6 A. M., and the @apany is charge of Sergeant Wemple, and will be oa duty cy A. M. until poon to morrow. n' to morrow after- noon at two o’clock, in the Assembly chamber, where the remains were this day deported. wil bo three of fe! Rev. Dr. wil feud aperopraio pareags {rows the Bole; Rew. Dr acue’ Baptist, will deliver a short discourse. ‘Toca wer: : wil'be as: form end vices gre, tbe procesin, Cortes Ui coment hee News from the Plains. St. Lous, July 7, 1887. ‘The Salt [ake mai! has arrived bere, with independence Br. Jouns, N. F., duly 7, 1857. ‘The catch of fish off this island has been rather better going on prorperous!y. Her B. M. surveying steamer Cyclops has compieted the Coast soundings for the Atlantic telegraph cabie, which show a very bold shore and great depth df water, whiok are desirable to protect the cable at the joint of landing. The Cyclops sailed for London yesterday, \ad will doubt- lees arrtve there about the 20th inst., at or about which time the whole of the cable will have been pisced oa board the Agamemnon and Niagara. Professor Shepherd, geologist, in the empl of the New York and Newfoundiand Telegraph Compan;, is actively engaged in locating valuable mineral lands ind the any square wiles of territory granted to the company, which is understood te be of great value, as it abrunds tu rich lead, copper and other valuabie minerals. pateaeeer eeneenntienncettenely Reported Indian Massacre in the far West. Sr. Lows, Jy 7, 1867. The St. Joseph Journal of the 2d tast. pubshes « report brought bya French trader, thata hundrd troops aad fifty teamsters, under commaad of Colonel Smmers, were attacleed by a large body of Cheyenne and frapachee In- dians, two hundred miles wost of Fort Kerney, and al) vlan. The report is confirmed by a trader who arrived at Pacific City, Iowa, on the 24, and also by ihe emigrant train from Salt Lake. The Health of New Oriens. New Oncaans, aly 7, 1867. Ow city at the prevent time is very heahy, and there bas not deco a single case of yellow fever ths season. Fire at Cincinnati, Covenant, aly 7, 1987. Al tix o'clock thit evening « fire broke ut here tm the | apper part of Earl's agricultural warehwe in Walnut street, near Front, destroying |t, with its coteats, Wan & MeDougall's and Tait & Son's stores adjaing were da- | maged by fire, and the goods to them biwater, Loss $10,000. Insured, Boston Weekly Bank Statesent. Bosros, aly 7, 1867. ‘The fouowing are the footings of oar benstatement for the past woe — 7 Marketa, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOA) Pricanm 7, 1867. Stocks firm. Pennsylvania we: Ratiroat, 59; Long Isiao4t Railrond, 12; Maus Canal, Pennsylvania Railroad, 4. New Onuaans, Ty 6, 1967. New Onreays, Jy 7, Cotton.—There bas been an improvemmin i be dling qualities to day, prices ad Se The sales to-day add up only 1,600 bales, nt Ivor . for mid. dling The receipts tor the Inst three been 660 bales. recetpta at th's port up to the time, as compared with thore of last year, fall 000 balee. | The receipts at #1] the Southorn up to Gs date lew than thore of last year, are 57,000 bales. ML tag pant. Cotton to Liverpool *,d.,and to Haréxe. Steer. pd some email males at Sle. Cats In fair | for State, and 650, for Chicago—welght. 100 ratty Jur a a. Jour unchanged. Sales bbl. at $6 per. fre Wicauatn, 90 87 081 3b for oxtra do. and jae, and $7 a $7 $0 for cxtra Ohio and lows, ly 4 Bales 16,000 bt ore Chicago spring ai $1 36. on Sales 600. Whiskey dall at 36¢. Freights—100. efor wheat o New York, Lake imports | the ‘our hours ending at noon to-day—2,00bbis, 19,000 busbela wheat, 15,000 bashels cord, Js oats. Canal exporte—8,600 bushels corn. Onwnoo, Jaly 7-6 M. Wheat in rood demand. Sales 6,000 ‘bushels Wihsin club at $1 45%, 14,000; bushels do. at $1 46, 3,000 Chicago spring at $1 99, 6(00 bushels do, at # ailoat, Corn—tales 6,000 bushole at 746, Lake ii to day — 1,400 vbis. four. Canal exporte——12,000 Bots wheal, 5,700 bushels corn, Cmcaco, July 76 P. Flour doll, and slightly lower, Wheat inactive. wen very quiet. Oata slow of sale. Pork a Shi; Lo Buttaio’~000 Bole flour, no wheats 100,000 ioe corn. Receipte—2,100 bbis four, 90, Duahels my. 100,00) Vushois corn, 4 than the average thus far this season, and the businces ts |