The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1857, Page 4

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MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Broadway—Nearo Muropres, bo. — Dor Avanama—By Bryant's Minsteeis, rk, Wednesday, July 15, 1857. Ime News. We again devote a large portion of our space to the details of the popular tumult going on ic our city, Yesterday the inhabitants of the Seventeenth ward continued in a highly excited state, but no breach of the peace occurred. The military were andererms during the evening, but there was no occasion for their services. The police remained in their station houses, and did not attempt to patrol the ward, ‘earing that their presence would be the signs! fora renewal of the rioting of the previous | day. | ‘The funeral of John Miller, the German who was shot in the Seventeenth ward riot on Sunday last, took place yesterday from his residence in avenue A. About ten thousand persons were present, among whom the most intense excitement and hatied of the new police force were manifested. Fears were entertained that the occasion would be used to create a riot, and accordingly Superinten dent Tallmadge issued orders for a large force of police to be in attendance at the Seventeenth ward station house on the Bowery. ‘Whe Germans insisted on conveying the remains of Miller past that atation house, a proceeding that threatened for a moment ‘to lead to a dangerous collision. A flag was bome after the coffin, with the inacription, in German, “A | Sacrifice of the Metropolitan Police.” The spirit which dictated this device is easily understood, and ‘its effects were plainly visible in the exasperation and fierceness which pervaded the whole proceed- ing. Not less than five thousand men were in the funeral cortege. A full report of the scene is given elsewhere, We give a full report of the meeting of Germans beid last night. The people were excited, the speeches pacific and the resolutions law abiding. ‘There was a eprinkiing of political capital. Funds | are to be raised for the support of the family of the deceased. A rumor, which proved unfounded, prevailed yes- terday morning at Stapleton and in other parts of | Staten Iaisnd that a second attack had been made the night previous upon the police force at Se- | guire’s Point. Everything on the contrary has con- tinued quiet at the Point since the attack of Satar- | day night. Captain Walling sent yesterday to | Superintendent Talmaége for a still further addition | to the police force under his charge, but the request was not complied with. At the old Quarantine some dockmen, belonging to New York, were arrested yesterday for boarding | the Ellen Austin, which arrived on Sunday last with several passengers sick with small pox. They | were locked up in the Quarantine jail, and will be detained there till they can be brought to trial. A eteamtug, designed to ply regularly between the opper and lower Qaarantine anchorages, was put in | operation yesterday, and is found to be of most essential use. It was expected, when the Board of Councilmen met last evening, that they would conour with the Al- | dermen in transfering the property in the Street Com- missioner’s office to the custody of the Counsel to the Corporation; but they were restrained from do- ing so by an injunction issued by Judge Peabody and served as soon as the Board met. The Court of General Seasions adjourned yester- day for the term. Recorder Smith sentenced Daniel | H. Pierce for manslaughter to the State prison for two years, and Thomas Holland, a Custom House officer, to the penitentiary for one year foran aggra- vated assault on Thomas Goldston. From the re marks of the Recorder it would seem that Holland is ® notorions character, for the efforts of distin- guished men proved unavailing in the mitigation | of his sentence. His Honor took occasion to refer | to the disturbed state of our city, aud affirmed that | no efforts were made to punish the violators of the | aw. He said be would panish every case brought | before him with the utmost severity. The District | Attorney signified his intention of trying all the | alleged rioters next month. Judge Robizson, of the Albany Court of Sessions, yesterday charged the Grand Jury that selling | liquor without license was no misdemeanor, and | that the law fixes the penalty at fifty dollars for each offence, the amount being collectable by suit. The Board of Councilmen met last evening, but | transacted no business of importance. A special | committee was appointed to investigate into an al- | leged scurrilous report of the proceedings of the | Board, published in the Trrilune of Saturday. A | petition of the school officers of the Third ward for | ‘the premises lately occupied by the Municipal police was preeented and referred. A resolation to extend the hospitalities of the city to the Mayors of St. Louis and Cincinnati was adopted. The report of the Conterence Committee on the street cleaning | contract specifications was received from the Board of Aldermen and ordered to be printed. Bome inveresting extracts from our European files, brought by the Arago and City of Washington, are | publisbed this morning. Lords Ellenborough and | Granville, in the Houre of Lords, had both acknow- ledged that the native mutiny in India was a most serious matter, and the former went so far aa to hint | that it may even permanently shake England's | power in Asia, The project for the renewal of the | African slave trede by England was warmly dis- | cussed in Parliament and out of doors in England. | ‘The names of the persons killed and wounded by the Iste accident on the North Kent Ralway in England are given. A Mormon missionary in Edin- barg, Scotland, had uttered some most treasonabie slang against the United States government. The seventh annual commencement of St. Francis ‘Xavier College in Fifteenth street, concluded last evening in the church adjoining the college. There woe large audience in attendance, aud the students ecqnited themselves satisfactorily. Jobn Hyde, Jr., a Mormon elder of experience, éelivered a lecture last evening onMorm nism as a Religion.” Our report of the discourse, which was very interesting, we are compelled to lay over. D. BR. Eckles, of Indiana, has been appointed Chief Justice of Utah. All the Territorial offices are now filled except the Marshalship, the duties of which will continue to be performed by the present incumbent, Mr. Dotaan. ‘The New Haven Railroad depot, corner of Canal street anc Broadway, was abandoned yesterday, and hereafter passengers over this road will take the cars at the company's new and spacious depot at the cor rer of Fourth avenue and Twenty-seventh street. The travelling public will rejoice at this change, as the old, dismal and dimly lighted depot wase favo- rite resort of pickpockets and other thieves, The leases for ten years of the Hunter's Point and Hellgate ferries were put up for eale by auction yesterday. As there were no bidders for the Hell- gate lease the sale was postponed till the 3d of Sep. tember next. The Hunter's Point lease was knocked down to A. W. Winans at one hundred dollars per annum. ‘The cotton market was very firm yesterday, with sales Of about 1,600 bales, based chiefly upon middling uplands at 147¢¢. a 160. Flour was again dull, and closed at a fariber decline on common and medium grades of abeut 50. per bbl. Wheat was dull for inferior grades, while prime to choice lots were firm. Sales of prime white Oa. nadian were made at $2, and Milwaukie club, in the alip, at $1 623; new red Southern at $2, and Chicago spring at $145, Western mixed corn was rather firmer, with sales at 830, 0 83}xc. Pork was firm, with sales at $22 80 $22 00 for mess. About 400 hhds, Cubs muscovado suzar were sold at rater given elsewhere. Coffee was steady, with moderaiesales. For stocks and prices see another colume. Freights were dull and engagements light at unchanged rates The City in a State of Anarchy—The Causes and the Remedy. For now nearly two weeks the priccipal busi- ness cf the newspapers of this city has been to chronicle riots and disturbances of the peace, all of them eerious and menacing in their general aspect, and eome of them resulting in a deplora- ble loss of life. This state of things is very dis- creditable to a bighly intelligent and prosperous ccmmunity like ours, and if it be allowed to con- tinue, must operate more or less injuriously to the business of the city. It is rot at all uolikely that numbers of country merchants and persons intending to visit New York have been and may be deterred from coming by the altered condition of things, and that many of the families of our own citizens who have gone into the country will be inéuced to remain there longer than they otherwise would have dene. Thus not only do these daily disturbances of the peace bring sorrow acd wo to many a domestic hearth, but they | diegrace the good name and injure the mgral and material interests of this great metropolis. How is it that the character of the eommunity appears so suddenly to have become changed? How is it that in a city remarkable for the re- spect which its citizens have always entertained for the Jaw and its officers, there should have been within the last few weeks so many violent manifestations of disrespect for the law and hatred of its officers? It is not to any sudden revulsion of feeling on the part of our people in reference to the necessity of obeying and uphold- ing the laws that these disorders are to be at- tributed—nor are they justly to be ascribed, as they have been by some partisan journals, to secret underhand influence brought to bear upsn them by the officers of ovr municipal govern- ment and the disbanded police. At bottom the citizens of New York are, as a whole, as deeply attached as they ever have been to the princiole of obedience to and respect for the laws. That sentiment is too deeply implanted in this commu- nity to be co easily and suddenly uprooted; ard if tomorrow the Metropolitan police should be disbanded as the Munici- pal police have been, the peace of the city would be undisturbed; nor would it be ne- ceesary to have nightly alarms beaten for the military to march through the streets with fixed bayonets, as if the city were in a state of siege. The preservation of public tranquillity might be safely confided to the good citizens of New York. The riotous mavifestations that we have so often had to record within the last fortnight are directly traceable to two causes. One is the un- wise, uncalled forand unconstitutional interfer- ence of the State Legislature in the municipal government of this city; the other, the despotic tendencies of those State officers to whom the peace of the city has been committed. Since the occurrence of the Astor place riot — which itself was promptly quelled—there has not been a time in the history of this metropolis when any incipient movement tending to a riot or go- neral disturbance of the peace could not be and was pot promptly crashed out. Bitter party ani- mosities and violent feuds have at times menaced public tranquillity—as, for instance, in the case of the homicide of Poole two summers ago—but in no instance since the Astor place riot has the peace of the city been disturbed by riots. | Our population of 700,000 is largely, if not main- ly, composed first of citizens from all parts of the United Statee, and then of natives of the various countries of Europe, who, flying from the despo- tiem of the Old World, come here with the wild- est notions of American liberty and democracy. We have the Irish laboring classes, to whom law has been ever synonymous with oppression; the French red republicans, who would expunge all laws, human and divine; and the Germans, deeply imbued with socialistic ideas, and cling- ing with Teutonic devotion to their language, their kindred, and the traditions and institutions | of their fatherland. It was no easy matter to | mould thcse apparently impracticable elements into the fasbion of good, peaceable, law-abiding American citizens; and yet the municipal gov- ernment and the police authorities of our city did that very thing. They went the right way about it, and they succeeded. The Irish, with only an occasional indulgence in a row, just for the love of the thing, have hitherto proved them- selves industrious and peaceable citizens, The French red republicans have kept their peculiar notions of government pent up, letting them explode harmlessly once a year in celebrating the anniversary of the | republic of 1792. The Germans have kissed their frauen, emoked their pipes, drank lager and | Rhine wine, enjoyed their Moiferts and the cele- bration of their Sengerbunds, und showed a good example of social and domestic enjoyment. But now the Irish riots in the Sixth ward and the German in the Seventeenth show, with too sad re- sits, that the system of dealing with them has been changed for the woree. The origin of all this trouble in our city is the interference of the State Legislature with our municipal government. The last Legislature was largely black republican, the city largely demo- cratic. The Legislatare, with the twofold object of humiliating the city and increasing ite own strength therein, undertook to tinker ap unpopa- lar laws. A couple of years ago a liquor law, in imitation of the Maine law, was passed with the object of wiping out barrooms which were tupposed to be hot beds of democracy. Instead, however, of the barrooms being wiped out, the law Itself was wiped out, it being declared un- conetitutional by the courte The next session the Legislature tried to pass 9 Pol'ce law for this city, but failed at that time made a dead set upon the meta: t dozen laws, all more or | a constitution and destr municipal franchises. The | attrocted most Oppo- tition on the part of i law, w t, Was hy a straege decision of the Coutt of Appeals, declared constitational. But it may be eaid of all the laws aff. ting thie city passed by the last Legislature that they are adverse to the best interests of the city, socially is was the Police OM avd commercially, and are consequently opposed by all clarees of our citizens. The partisan cha- racter of the vote by which they were carried, as well as of the spirit which gave them birth, will be seen when it is remembered that out of 82,000 votes cast in the city at the Imet election, the re- publican party received only 16,000, and that at least half of those votes were due to the perso- nal popularity of Col. Fremont. Besides, the votes of come of the raral members of tae Legis- lature in favor of the Police bill were obtained by false representations of the disturbed peace of the city, and by getting up a hue and cry of gar- roters in our etreete. ‘The legislation that originated in such a parti- ean spirit has, we regret to say, been seconded by Governor King in a like epirit of partisanship and nepotism. The iaws in reference to port and harbor, and all other affairs, haye been entrusted to Commissioners selected by the Governor from party and family motives; and the knowledge of that fact has helped to embitter the hostile feel- ing of our citizens, and make them opposed in- stead of being obedient to the laws. And then there has been altogether too much petty despotism exhibited on the part of the new police officers. It is the old story of the tricks played by men ‘clothed in a little brief autaority.” Ceptain Hartt, of the Seventeenth ward, made himself extra officious last Sunday in having the lager bier saloons closed—an officiousness which, as we showed yesterday by the extract from the Excise law, and as is shown by the recent decision of the Supreme Court ia reference to lager bier, was not justified by the law. This created eome ill feeling there. But the trouble was principally occasioned by” the barsh, brutal and utterly unjustifiable con- duct ef some violent members of the Metropli- tan police, who undertook to force the teeming population of Third etrect within doors. The houses there are are occupied by from five to twenty families each, principally industrious Germans, and men, women and children were on Sunday evening on the sidewalk and in the atreet getting whatever pure air they could. They were quiet, orderly and peaceable, and when they were commanded to clear off the sidewalks they very vaturally declined to obey. The police commenced to use their clubs, The Germans be coming inceneed, retaliated with what weapons they had at hand; and heace the riot. All this is much to be deprecated and de- plored. There are no better, quieter or mere in- dustrious citizens than the Germans; and when we find them involved in a riot or fight, the natu- ral inference is that they must have received great provocation. That they did eo in this case we have the highest assurance. But let us have no more of these riots, which are disgracing and in- juring the city. Let obedience be rendered to the laws, unpopular and outrageous though they be; and if we would be free from anarchy, let all good citizensof the metropolis and the State at large indicate by their votes at the next election their desire to see our municipal rights and good government restored. Tue Scrence or Burcuary iw New Yorx.— ‘The extraordinary developements made in the case of the defunct burglar Myers, alias Jack Spratt, give us a valuable insight into the sys- tematiccomplications of the science of burglary aa practised in this metropolis of taw and order. Jack Spratt had several active confederate bdrglars, his house was supplied with all the useful implements of the profession, the gang were aided in various ways by several women, doing the duty among other things of pioneers and inspectors of stores to be robbed. It also appears that this gang were not dependent for the warehousing of their stolen goods upon the notorious junk shops of our filttiiest localities; but that euch as Jack Spratt & Company transfer their deposits to agents holding the character of respectable retail storekeepers, It further ap- pears that these upper crust burglars of the Jack Spratt order live in a flourishing style, and have a happy way of closing the eyes, ears acd moutbs of the police with what Mra. Myers modestly calls “hash money,” which is the climax of perfection in the art. At this rate, before another year is over we shall bein a nice condition for the introduction of a San | Francisco Vigilance Committee. Gov. Wise on Kansas Arrairs,—Read our | despatch from Washington touchiag the position of Gov. Wise on the Kansas question. We have | no doubt that our correspondent in the premises is substentially correct. Ourreaders wiil remem- ber the Washington letter from the Richmond | Enquirer, to which he refers. It advocated the policy of referring the Kansas State constitution to all the people of the Territory, bona fide, as the only policy of justice and fair play. Tere, thea, is the iesue exactly made up for the next demo- | cratic Virginia Legislature, as between Mr. Ba- chanan, Gov. Walker and Gov. Wise and the Ne- braska bill on the one side, and Senator Hanter, Senator Douglas and the Southera secession ul- tras onthe other side. We are with the adminis tration, and for the fair application of the Kansas Nebraska law; and we shall now pretty soon flad out who are against the administration, and what they are after. | Davy Bropertck Derintxe mis Posrrios.— | The letter published to the Californians by the | new democratic Senator from that State (in days | gone by one of the lively boys of the Tammany brotherhood) is a very curious letter. It shows | that while Davy not only secured his own elec- | tion to the Senate tor six years, but the reeleo- | tion of Dr. Gwin for the short term, the Doctor | ond his set have carried off the lion's share of the spoils at Washington—this, too, in spite of the eapress understanding that Davy was to have the lion’s share. Davy does not like this; but we derive some consolation from the assurance that he still intends to stick to the administra- tion. And this is the example we com- mend to all democrate—«poils or no spoils. It was lucky thing that this Senator from California went out to that country when he did. (Other- wise he would now, perhaps, be no better than the demoralized epoilamen of Tammany Hall—a mere epoilsman, and nothing more. Stavery In Orrcon.—We perceive that some of our Seward republican organs are rolling up the whites of their eyes at the reports which they hear of the design of “Jo Lane” and the Oregon democracy to fasten negro slavery upon that Territory. Humbug. When white men ere substituted for black men in the cultivation of the sickly rice swamps of South Carolina, then we ehall be prepared to believe that black slave Jabor can be made to pay better than free white labor in the high Northern latitudes of Oregon. Tf we could repeal the laws of nature we might establish African slavery in Greenland, bat in default of this legistative power African slave labor and a nigger climate must go together. This is the law that is eolving the nigger question in Kaneas, @he African Slave Trade—One wf the Pro- blems of the Dey. We publish in another colama, frost the Lon- don Times, a remarkable article ou the mw plan for meeting the Earopean demand for cotton and sugar by transporting large numbers of negro apprentices trom Africa to the West Iadies. We repeat, a remarkable article, and it is eo for many reasons. Besides being wanting in that logical eequence that usually marks the articles of thet journal, it contains # tacit admission of the forbearance toward the institution of invol- untary servitude that is springing up in the Eurepeen mind in contemplation of the’ resulta that have attended its partial sudden abolition; and in assuming that the slave trade, and not the institution of slavery itself, is the object of Euro- pean attack, it completely ignores the true and only cause that maintains‘in the present day the African slave trade. We have said that it is Mogical. Opening with a distinction between the African slave trade and clavery itself—sgainst the latter of which it adds, “enough can certainty be said, but with this at present we are not concerned”—it recognizes the good effect which slavery has bad upon the world in producing sugar, edinits that “is is allowed on all haade that when elaves were well treated their condition wes tuperior not only to that of their couatrymen at home, but to that of many of the poorer classes in many parts of Europe,”’.and then urges aa “the final argument” in favor of a large African emigration, that “this promises to be the only effectual method of abolishing slavery.” The admission of a new feeling in Europe toward slavery is to be fouad ‘Moreover, it is not for the interests of civilization that productive estates should go out of cultivation, or that an article of slmost first necessity should failin the European markets.” This is a weighing of emaucipation against the cotton of our Southern States and the sugar of Cuba ia the balance of European civilization, and emancipation is found wanting. It ignores the true sud only cause that maiatains the African slave trade in the present day, in stating tnat Spain “will not be at the pains of executing its engagements against the will of an important colony,” meaning Cuba. In this the 7imes is radically wrong. It ,has never been the will of that “iwportant colony,” 8 expressed in the utterances of ber leading native statesmen, to continue the slave trade with Africa. For many years they have contem- plated with alarm the dangers that menaced the social fabric there by the increasing numeri- cal preponderance of the African race; and more than twenty years ago, when Cuba hoped for the admission of her representatives which she sent to the Spanish Cortes under the constitution of 1833, a pamphlet under the title of “A Letter from a Patriot, or Clamor of the Cubans, addcess- ed to their representatives to the Cortes,” and which was universally approved iu Cuba, contain- ed the following strong language:—‘“The slave trade is one of the cardinal points on which it is requisite that our representatives shall manifest all their zeal and patriotism. Humanity, reli- gion, the clamor of justice, a faithful tultilment of existing treaties with England, the interest of Spain herself, her honor highly involved, and the salvation of the island, whose existence is menaced with death, all loudly demand the immediate extinc- tion of the contraband slave trade.” Neither have the people of Cuba ever engaged ia the Af- rican slave trade. It has ever been carricd on dbere by Europeans and an occasional Brazilian. It is the Europeans in Cuba, and not the Cubans, who to-day send here to New York to purchase vessels for that tratlic. We know full well the truth of what we say, And tbis trade is car- tied on to-day because it is the policy of Spain to inc#base the disproportion between the black and white races in Cuba as a measure of prevention against that co- lony’s following the example of the other Spanish American States in severing their con- nection with the mother country. In this policy | Spain is today supported by England aud France, under the idea tbat they are thus de- laying the advance of the American Union. If it were only the stoppage of the slave trade that was desired by the policy which has ruled Europe so many years, that could be easily attained. There woald be no necessity of ap- | pealing to an African trade in free negroes to put it down, The United States stopped it loug since; Brazil has stopped it; and Caba, now the only country whose government fosters it, would stop it if she were free to rule her owa destiny independent of Spain. But Eagland isin a di- lemma of another kind, as is p'ainly evideot | by the illogical reasoning of the Times. She is beginning to awaken to a sense of the dangers to her material greatness that lurk in the theories of Exeter Hall. In the deficient supply of sugar caused by the desolation of the fields of | Hayti and Jamaica she sees what evils might have come to her bad not this country withstood | her clamor and her abuse, and refused to Gestroy the social fabric in one-half of the States of this Union. Amid the torrent of ber villifica- | tion cotton was and is saved to us and to her. But besides the stoppage of the slave trade there is auother evil in this plan of a vast traas- portation of free negroes across the Atlantic. | ‘The echeme is not one of sudden growth., It is now eeveral years since it was first afhrtea, | though it has only lately taken root in the Cabi- | nets of Madrid, Paris and London. Pezuela first tried it as a means for subjecting Cuba to “ the torrent of European thought and idea,” in 1853; but the people of Cuba resisted it so strenuoudy, and invoked the aid of our filibusters so euccess- fully, that Spain became alarmed at the threat- ened revolution, and ebandoned it for a time. She did not give it up, however, bat artfully sought to bring France and England over to her views. What arguments she used, or what promises she has made in regard to the social laws of Cuba, can only be inferred. The ad- berence of those two Powers to the scheme, and the argament that it is the only trae means of destroying the institution of slavery, leave abundant room for conjecture. Louis Napoleon adopted it at once, and has sent out his free negro traders to the old slave marts of Africa, fortified with passports from the Eu clisn government as well as his own. Pal merston is a little more coy, and seem ingly desires that public opinion should force him to adopt a course to which there is abundan reason to believe he has already assented. The other evil to which we allude is, that it is an adherence to an old and mistaken policy: that of building up beyond the southern boundary of the United States some polttionl fabric that either throngh its social activity or eocial inertness shall be @ bar to the southward extension of oar Union. That policy is fraught with more evil for Europe than for us—for extension is neither virtually im- portant to us as nation, ‘or essential to our material developetaent. The eocial desolation of Hayti snd Jamoaica does not «fect us at all; but the want of those supplies which they formeriy contributed to the markets of Europe is be, sinning to be seriously felt there. This policy im olves two pointe—the destruction of slavery, saa’: in tte words of one of Lord Palmerston’s official dss patches, “a powerful element of resistanee to am" scheme for annexation to the United States, where slavery existe.” Time is slowly answering the question that the truthful Humboldt asked thirty years ago, and which the European poli- ticiana have been continually repeating:—“Who ehall dare to predict the influence which aa Afri- can confederation of the free States of the Antilles, \y- ing between Colombia, North America aud Guatemala, might have in the politics of the New Wold?” The Mutiny in india, ‘The reader will find in another column some information upon the mutiny in Indie, contained in the debate in Parliament, and the leader in the London Zimes on the subject. Among the speeches, the best worth reading is that of Lord Elleuborough, whose long residence in India, and official experience give great weight to whatever he says; though possibly some allowance mast be made for the jealousy with which he views the policy of his successors. Mr. Smith, the go- vernment speaker in the House of Commons admits the charge that the disaffection among the sepoys arose from an apprehension on their part that measures were about being taken for a comprehensive conversion of the natives to Christianity, in which work they—the sepoys— would naturally be employed as instruments. But no facts are given. The London Times, which doublesa writes with the concurrence of the go- vernment, says that the outbreak indicates the necessity for more stringent measures of dena- tiopalization and tyranny than have yet been at- tempted. Tne whole story is not told. Before us we havea few plain facts. The army of India, not in one piace only, but throughout the country, with the exception of ore or two cantonments, is in a state of actual or proximate insur- rection: there does not seem to be re- liable troops enough in India to protect the capi. tal in case of a decided movement on the part of the ineurrectionists. The Indian army consists of 200,000 men, the bulk of whom are excellent soldiers, as they have proved during the Persian war; and though, in the event of a general insur- rection, it would lose its officers, there are edu- cated Hindoos in abundance to take their place. The first symptoms of insubordination were no- ticed in January last. The firet actual outbreak wasin May, at Meerut and Delhi, and was cha- racterized by much bloodshed. The only cause assigned for the mutiny—where a cause was as- signed—was the new regulations obliging the troops to bite cartridges smeared with hog’s lard, which no Hindoo will touch. Upon these facta we have to reason. Aad in the first place, it will appear utterly preposterous that an insurrection of such yagnitude, and a movement so widespread, could have its origin in the character of the grease employed to lubricate cartridges. This must be a mere pretext. Re- membering that the Hindoos have no newspapers to tell their story, and that the government of India can regulate the press of that country by the methods used by Napoleon in France, it can be easily understood that there may have been a deeper cause for the outburst. In the ab- rence of positive information we are in- clined to believe that the government of India, under the dictation of Exeter Hall fanatics, bas actually entered upon a comprehen- sive policy of proselytism, and that the apprehen- sions of the Hindoos have been well founded. This is only conjecture; we are content to await inquiry for its verification. Should it prove cor- rect, to what depth of infamy should the misera- bie fanatics who bave caused so much suffering be consigned by common sense world ! As to the result of the movement—there are, we believe, some ten thousand Europeans in In- | dia, avd one hundred and fifty million na- tives. Notwithstanding this disproportion of numbera, the two races have been contending for s hundred and fifty to two hundred years, and succers bas uniformly sided with the foreigners. Should the Indians be victorious this time, it would be the first example of such a thing in their history, and the first example, too, where an undisciplined and unorganized people tri- umphed over a compact, well organized, and amply equipped government. Still, this is, we believe, the very first occasion that the contest has been one of religion as well as of race; and that consideration would naturally tend to im- part unity to the counsels and action of the Hin- Goo, and to rendcr their courage It is impoesible to take leave of the subject without a singular mixture of horror and admira- tion at the eublimely impudent and atrocious doc- trines put forth in a moral and sanctified tone by the leading organ of the British press, For a centary and more the poor Hindoos have been mercilessly trampled by the English; their land has been sized, their daughters have been rav- ished, their sons have been made servants, their money has been appropriated, their political in- dependence taken away; nothing whatever has been left them, no—neither family, nor national, nor religious, nor caste, nor personal rights, Yet at this hour of day, when all this frightful oppres- sion bas been practised for a century, the Lon- don 7'imes coolly tells us that the reason of the failure of the East Indian experiment has been its too great leniency and its too impradent favor to the Hindoo. Nothing therefore remains but to cut the poor creatures’ throats bodily. Tan New Stuven Country or Artmonta— Some of our credulous cotemporarics are giving currency and color to the otherwise vague and irresponsible reports of the abundance of silver in the Gadsden purchase. Against these vague Tumors we interpose the official teetimony of such men as Gen. Kearney, Col. Emory, Col. Fremont, Col. Cooke, Kit Carson, Lieut. Beale, and last, though not least, Mr. Bartlett, of the Mexican Boundary Commission. From the personal obser- vations of these and other United States officers, to say nothing of private citizens, who have travelled through this territory of Arizonis, we are satisfied that it isone of the poorest and most Godforsaken regions in the world, in water, tim- ber, gold and silver—the very next thing, in fact, to an African desert. We therefore caution all persons interested in silver mines to await the definite location of these wonderfal mines of Arizonia before investing in them—otherwise they may turn out like the Mexican silver mine of Dr. Gardner & Co., a regular swindle. THE LATEST NEWS. Non-Arrival ef the America, Hauwax, July 14—I1 o’clock, P.M. ‘The Royal Mail steamship Amertca, now due at this port from Liverpool, bas not, up to the present hour, been aig- palled. Weather calm and foggy. Nows from Wi 70E KANSRS I88UE—THE ADMINMTRATION—GOV. WISE AND BRNATOR HUN?22. Wasuuscrom, July 14, 2867. Some dayr ago @ communication to the Richmond Ewaminer, frow this olty, on the Kansas qnestion, wat transferred to the columns of the Huna.p, with an (olf om- Moa that the writer seemed to speak as one having autho rity. Ibave reasca to believe that your surmise was Correct, and that no leas @ personage than Gov. Wise, of Virgiuis, was the writor or hustigator of that letter, Drawn to Washington by the signs of rebellion ig, the extreme,Southern camp, Gov. Wise bas taken his porttion fatrly and completely on the side of Mr. Buchanax and Gov. Walker. Nor is it the habit of Mr. Wise to do any half way work upon any buriness whick he takes in hand. Accordingly ke goes to the full leng:h of sustaining the policy of Goy. Walker’s course in Kansas, even to the ea- mission of the State constitution to the vote of all the People of the Territory before making application to Com gress. This will make the iseue between Wise and Hunter im Virginia, for the United States Sonate, very interesting, but as Wise bas the Constitution and the law and the adminie- tration on his side, and as “the king’s name te a tower of strength,’’ the probabilities are decidedly ta favor of the election of Wise. Hi election, too, is somewnat necemary to the administration, inasmuch as tt is needed to transfer the balance of power of the Virginia delegation in Con- gress from the eecessionists to the Union men of the twe houses. ‘The Kansas Nebraska bill ts coming to a foous, and the partion getting it up have been, come of them, and the rest will be, thrown sky bigh by the operation. Jeff. Davis, Atchison, Mason, Douglas and poor Pierce have already had enough of ‘ pepular sovereignty,” bat as they gave the law to Mr. Buchanyn so they must abide by it, Bia duty is to see the laws faithfully executed, and the people say amen. Even 60 let it be. A SPEEDY SETTLEMENT OF THE NEW GRANADA TROUBLE LOOKSD FOR—THE WALKER FILISUSTEBS AT ASPINWALL—THRIR NUMBER AND PROBABLB DESTINATION--THE NAVAL COUBTS—PROPOSED ADJOURNMENT VOR A FEW WEEKE—FAROICAL CHARACTER OF THS WHOLE BUSINESS. Wasmmcron, July 14, 1657. Despaicher were received to-day, giving the most en- couraging prospect of a speedy settlement of all the points at issue between our government and that of New Grama- da. The British Coneul at Cartbagons wrote to Captaia Erskine, commander of the British equadron now in those ‘waters, as follows:— Mr. Griffith me that instructions have been sent Sreryihing tone Americans and to decree 16 the gover. to nors of the littoral to communicate that fect ping do of war © might be seat out frem America wita The Acting United States Consul at Aspinwall, Mr. Mor- Fell, aleo writes, in confirmation of the above, as follows:— The difference between the United States and the repub- Kio are soon to be amicably |, a8 the Exeoe- tive has, it is eaid, been authorized by to settle it at once, and on the beat possible terms. probably he by the present mail to Gen. Her- ran on the su! ‘This is in corroboration of what I have heretofore said, that matters would be adjusted without difficulty. President Buchanan removes to the ‘‘Soldier’s Bome’’ to-morrow, where he will remain during the hot weather, attending regularly, however, at his office in the White House. Secretary Cass will remain at bis post during the season. His family are now enjoying the delights of sea bathing, and will join bim bere about the Lat of Soptember. Secretary Floyd contemplates a brief sojourn at old Polat Comfort. ‘The Navy Department received today letters from Commodore Mervine at Panama, and Captain Montgomery, commanding the Roanoke, senior officer at Aspin wall, ia relation to the balance of Walker’s Glibusters, three bun- dred and fiftyseven in number, which arrived there recently, in as he says a most wretched condition, being in a state of utter destitution, At the time of the sailing of the mali steamer no decision had been arrived at as to what disposition would be made of them,as he wae somewhat embarrassed as to his future movements. A few of them—some ffiy in number—who were principally from the North, were to be sent to Boston on board the Cyane. It is reported in some quarters that all of them Will be sent to Boston. A list of all the flibusters, giving their names and where they embarked from, was also re- ceived at the Navy department. They are principally from New York and New Orleans, When thoy arrived at Aspinwall (beir supplies were in so filthy @ condition thas ‘the Captain was compelled to throw them overboard aad farnish them from bis ship. In Naval Court No. 1 to-day much documentary evidence ‘wag submitied in the case of Lieut, Dulany, on the charge Of dishonesty in money matters, Bayard Smith, of thie city, was also examined as a governmont witness. In Courts No. 2 and No. 3 Commander Sterret and Licutenant Rhind continued accumulating testimony to prove eff- cieney. The Ja¢ge Advocate in Court No. 1 suggested that an adjournment for a few woeks would bea great favor to the Judges Advocate, as they had been required to prepare a synopsis of the testimony in each case for the examination of the Secretary of the Navy and the Preai- is The Judge Advocate to SeyDopeis of tho testimo- ny |—and by this cyaopels trey were to sink or swim! It a on'y one of the many {arcical foatures of the whole protended naval reform. ‘TU GENARAL NEWAPAPER DPAPATCH. OUR DIFFICULTY Witt NEW GRANADA—THE 4m- KAKS48 AND MISSOUSI LAND GRANTS ADJUSTED— FEW CHIBF JUSTICE FOR UTAH, BTC. Wasmusorow, July 14, 1867, The Navy Departement received official despatches to- day from Commander Montgomery, of the Roanoke, im which he rays that reports from credible sources have reached bim, such as to induce the belief that our diffoul- ties with New Granada are in fair way of spoedy and am'!- cable settiement. ‘The adjustment of the lands grantea to Missouri, by the act of Congress of 1865, to ald in Mraction of & railroad from a point on ary, has been compleied and approved by the secretary’ of the Interior. connecting ling between the lilinois Central Raliroad. ‘amount of iand already apportioned Mirsour! and Arkaneas is 1,125,000. DRE kles, of Indiana, has been commissioned aa j i i é z i { i 5 ES : i zt i =F F. 23,’ a Fit ke Reete ie ee Fig Hi ; i ef i ty H it fe it iti : i i li F p from the of Lunatic Asylum tm fan chy. ‘Boon and column, and then burned down the wings oa the woat. By ‘with lumber cover- od with ‘checked, The same effort wae the cot cad, and that dai . The le oceans upon the fire, but rummit of the bei ‘hed bat lide wars eure nck of water in the Tein delay iat’ cienon, ca Oe Ge ‘water, . faltoe ot the caval ad he wun {nruticlent 10 etely burned out the main buldiag to the very collar, damaging much the east wing and somowha | injuring the weet 4 rear wings are aninjares Fire companies Now Yor Mile, Little Falls and Herkimer came an jen Vive Lea dred patients were in the asyinm at tho time. They were y July 14, Hannah Conian appeared before Jndge ()’Connor, ‘ef the Second District Court, No, 5 Chambers strect, for the purpore of sucing Mra, Canningham for wages. Mr. Stafford, Mra. ©.'s counsel, a) ed for ber, and reqnosted that the'ease should. not be dlemmmed, but continved, 10 gd f-F-— 5 not be tanned against caused the eummons to be drawn ta the mame of Canning ham, to be returnable thia morning.