The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1857, Page 4

ee Perron H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASEAU GTS. ‘ory Soret tO co per 470 HOTIOR taken of anonymous eorreepondencs. We do not raturn those retected., AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth ot.—Itatiax Orena— Le. Taorarone, NIBLO'S GARDBN, Broadway—Porrixa tux Question— Baris, Ls Prquanetrs. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond— ‘Tus Niap Quess, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—A Man witsout 4 Haso—Hiawataa. NEW OLYMPIC THRATRA, 05 Broadway—Tax Kinu’'s Gaavasee—OLyurtaxa—Teu DRAGOON. BARNUWS AMERICAN MUSRUM, Brondway—Ermioram Munstkcusr—CoRiosi ess, Ae ii GO. CHRISTY 4 WOOD'S MIN®TRELS, 444 Broadway Tas Magwian—Nacno Minstaxisxy, Ac. — MECHANTOS’ HALL, 412 Broadwav—Necuo Msrovixs, @0.—Dows wt Avasama—Br Bryant's Minstaaas, New York, Friday, July 17, 1857. Mails for Europe. HE NEW YORK HERALD—BDITION FOR BUROPE. ‘The maii steamship Columbia, Capt. Berry, will leavo Gis port to-morrow, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close tn this city at half-pastten @’olock to morrow moraing. The European cdition of the Haman, printed tn Frenoh fad Engitah, will be publizhed at ten o'clock in the morn- fag. Single copies, in wrappers, six cents, Babscriptions an. a\veriisemonts for any edition of the Wew Tors Hazan will be received ai the following place {a Burope — Lompos—Am. & Turopesn Expross Co.. 61 King William at. Pare— Do. do, $ Pinoe de la Bourse. Livmnreot—Do. 9 Chapel street. Lavemrooi—K. Saart, 19 een stroot, East. Bavas—Am. & Burop ao Fxpresa Co., 21 Rue Corneille, ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hararp wil! Bombine the news received by mail and telegraph as the Moo during the previous week, aad up to the hour of pradicavoa. The Sews The investigation into the cause of the riot im tho Seventeenth ward and the death of the German John ‘Miler, was continued yesterday by the Coroner in presence of quite a number of spectators. Captain Hartt, the commander of the police, and David | McKilvey, a member of the force, were among the witnesses examined. Their testimony of course goes to justify the conduct of the police at the be ginning and during the progress of the affray. Mr. | ‘Tomlinson was permitted by the Coroner to take a seat in court in behalf of the German citizens, and examine the witnesses. We give a fuil report | cise where. | The Metropolitan Police Commissioners are now in full posession of the station houses, telegraphs | and ali the paraphernalia of the old force, excepting | the furds. With regard to this very vital considera- | tion there will probably be no end of litigation. Yesterday Judge Ingraham granted an injunction in effect preventing the disbursement of any sums on | account of the new police. Argument inthe case will be beard on Monday nex.. Proposals for “Central Park Fund Stock” were ; opened yesterday at the Comptroller's office. The | stock was advertised to consist of two thousand | seven hundred and fifty shares, at one hundred dollars | @ ohare, at six per cent interest, payable quarterly, | the principal redeemable January 1, 1898. Only two | bids were received—one for nine hundred shares at a | quarter of one per cent premium,and another for five bundred shares at par. ‘The Board of Excise Commissioncrs meet to-day at two o'clock, in the City Hall. According to the computation of the City Temperance Alliance, yes- terday was the last day allowed by law for granting licenses. The Commissioners, however, give the | law 8 more liberal construction, and will issue li- censes as rapidly as their limited clerical force will permit. It was an oversight in the framers of the law in not making provision for the immense labor of granting licenses for this city. We understand the Temperance Alliance have perfected their ar- vaagements for an onalanght upon such of the liquor dealers as fail to procure licenses, and it is said that one bondred and gixty Broadway sellers will be com- menced with on Sfonday next. The First Ward Al- | Lance Lave also quite a number on their schedule. rich placer will be opened for the lawyers. ‘The weil passengers—some eleven hundred in all of the Ellen Austin and Albert Gallatin were ta ken from their ships yesterday, and provided tem. | porary quarters at the old Quarantine. Twentynine | of the crewaof the two vessels have been taken sick | with ameilpox since the arrival of the vessels. The veaseis ace badly infectesi with the disease, and have been ordered to be thoroughly cleansed and fumi- gated. There were no arrivals of vessels from in- fected ports yesterday. By the arrival of the brig Adelphi, Capt. Brown, | we have received advices from Para to the 25th alt. ‘Tranquillity reigned throughout the province. The old residents enjoyed good health; but mew comers | rarely eacaped an attack of yellow fever, which often proved fatal. The new tariff would go into effect on the Lat of Jal Our Havana oc odent, writing on the 10th inst, states that the British steamer Dee was in | port from Ver , With $2,500,000 in specie for Eugiena. A portion of it was sold in Havana at Jelivered in Southampton. The Spauish fleet was only preparing for the cruise be- fore mentioned. said that the Spanish soldiers in | hospital were severely affected with the slight febrile attack always eodured by persons newly arrived in and crinking freely of the water of the city. The markets remained aa last reported. Joint stock speculation bubbles were still in vorne. Advices from Honduras, dated at Belize, 20th wit., state that Colonel Kinzey, of Greytown, was ‘at ituatan and found much favor with the negro pop.st.om The colonial official eddress of England was «tl adbered to in the superscription ot all let- ters seat to ber Majesty's and other officers at Fuaten. Native sugar was extensively cultivated around Belize, and but tor the lazy habits of the tree negeoes the pe pie of the colony would soon | export that article. The mahogany trade was de clining, and other sources of industrial profit were rapidly failing al) over the Bay Inianda. The proceedings ia the Court of Special Sessions yesterdsy morning were interesting. Judge Ow | borne sentenced Patrick Mooney, Edward Dye, Pat- | rick McBride and Barney Gallagher, Sixth ward | rioters, each to the Penitentiary for ix months. ‘The trial of Leonard Schieflin, 4 Metropolitan Officer, for an unjustifiable assault upon Martin Ames, was commenced, but in consequence of the absence of @ material witness, the case was adjourn. od till Saturday. The Committee on Marketa of the Board of Coun- cilmen met yeeterday evening, for the purpose o° ecnaidering the advisability of selling Washington Market. Councilman Franklin, in an elaborate @peech, advocated ite removal, affirming that the convenience, profit and sanitory welfare of the city reqaired it. Mr. Taylor replied, stating that the sbove market paid more into the city treasury than ai the other marke's put together. We publish elsewhere an account of a serious dif feulty which occurred at Doniphan, Kansas, on the Oth invt. [t seems two prominent individuals, one of exch political party, had a personal trouble which Lbey endeavored to quietly settle with muskets at forty paces, but were interrupted. A great excite! ment was created, the politicians respectively taking wides with their favorite, and armed men gathered from round about. Gen. Lane was there, and seized @ somber of United States arma, and fora time a | bloody cont ! inevitable. Lane, however, | eiede eyvided & cvilision, aad dually peace wag 4j premicm, to be | | t scem! | bytery has approved the course of its delegates | doubt the venerable old sinner did ail this, and \ slavery shall be overwhelmed, and their broken ments were made yesterday K. Meade, of Virginia, 1s Minister to Brasil; B.F, Angel, of New York, Minister to Sweden; beau B. Lamar, of Texes, Minister to the Argentine Confederation. None of the first class consalates have yet been filled. ‘The Alumni Association of Harvard College cele- brated their anniversary at Cambridge, Maw., yes" terday. Phe banquet was attended by a large num. ber of gentlemen renowned in letters and science, including Lord Napier, the British Minister, Ed- ward Everett, and President King and Chancellor Ferris, of New York. The address tf Mr. Everett was one of bis happiest efforts. The speech of Lord Napier was, in tone and sentiment, in perfect bar- mony with the one delivered by him some time since before the St. George's Sooiety of this city. We give reports of the speeches of Lord Napier and Mr. Everett in to-day’s Hsracp. ‘The worshippers in Dr. Cheever's Church of the Puritens are stiil at loggerheads. Last evening a special business meeting was held, when Deacon ‘Wood and his friends entered a protest to the sum- mary manecer in which the majority at a recent meeting superseded the offizers of the church. The signers of the letter to Dr. Cheever condemning his Politico-rel'gious pulptt harangues, had prepared a long statement justifying their conduct, which they endenvored to bring forward; bat the majority, after an exciting oisputation, refased to permit it to be placed on record. The delegates elected to the Convention for forming a constitation for Minnesota met at the capital of that Territory on Tuesday last. The democrats and republicans formed separate con- ventions, and set about drafting separate consti- tutions; The democrats are in the minority, but they question the regularity of some of the pro- ceedings of the repubicans, and hence the split. The Vermont Democratic State Convention met yesterday, and nominated Willis Lyman for Lieutenant Governor, and G. T. Thurston for State ‘Treasuver. The seventy-eighth anniversary of the storming of Seony Pcivt was yesterday celebrated by the citi- aevs of Rockland ard neighboring counties, in a | spirited manner. The principal feature of the day | was the laying with appropriate ceremonies, of the | comer stone of a monument to be erected under the auspices of the Steny Point Association, on Stony Point, in honor of the brilliant achievement of the gallant Wayne and his compatnots. Addresses | were delivered by Hon. Amasa J. Parker, Hon. John Conger, President of the Association; Hon. B. F. Butler avd others, and the affair passed off very pleasantly to all participating. ‘The presentation of the testimonials by the public school teachers of this city to Thalberg and Madame d’Angri, took place last night, at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Henry Kiddle, Deputy Super- intendent of the Public Schools, made the presenta- tion speech, to which the great pianist neatly responded. The testimonials were in the form of peculiar devices on parchment, done with a pen ‘Some sixty teachers participated. ‘Tho tales of cotton yesterday embraced about 700 bales; the market closed firm, with no middling uplands to be bad of moment under l6c. per Tb. Flour was in more active demand, and the mavket was firmer and higher, with a fair amoun: of sales. Medium and lower grades of wheat were dull apd sold at a decline; Milwaukie club soli at $1 46.8 $1 47.891 48; Chicsgo spring, part out of order, nald at $1 0754 a $1 48; mew Southern red at $1 97, and new white do. at $2064$2 07. Corn was firmer, With enles of Western mixed at 8c. « 84}4c.; Southern yello and white were scarce and nominal. There wasa movement in pork, and the saleson the spot and for fu- ture delivery, between €0 days and Ist of November next, embriced about 4,500 bbls, mesa at $23 60 a $23 6254. Sugars were quiet, and sales under 1{0 bhds., with 80 bbls. Cubs at prices given in another piace. Colles was quiet and sales limited Frights were unchanged aad engage- menis light The New School Presbyterian Split, North and South—Letter of Joshua KR. Glddings. The preceedings of the Hanover Presbytery, | lately held at Liberty, Bedford county, Virginia, | in reference to the rupture in the Presbyterian General Assembly (new school) at Cleveland, we | publish this morning, in order that our readers may be regularly informed of the progress of this new church eplit, North and South, upon the sla- very question. It will be remarked that this Virginia Pree- and others from the South in opposition to the re- solutions of the Northern majority at Cleveland, that slavery is “asin in the sight of God,” Xc., and that the Presbytery, accordingly, has appoiat- ed a large number of delegates to attend a gene ral Sowthern Convention of the church, to be held | in Wathington on the 27th of August. With | these facts before us, it is evident that the busi- ness of dividing the new school Presbyterian | Charch into a church North and a church South | was substantially accomplished by the Cleveland General Asscmbly. And yct, if we may believe the Hon. Josbua R. Giddings, of Ohio, this General Assembly, at | which he was present as a delegat», was pretty well supplied with what he would call “Northern doughfaces,” for, in a late letter to the Anti- Slavery Standard of this city, the well known member from Ohio complains bitterly of the | compromising spirit of the Assembly. We give his letter in tull, as the best illustration of the temper of the genuine Northera religious fanatic | on this ugly question of Southern slavery. | Mr. Giddings confesses his sorrow at the con- | servative spirit of this General Assembly, and | says: “When the Assembly gathered around the | sacramental board, methougbt I saw the blood of those victims (twenty-five thousand slaves | prematurely burried to the grave every year) dripping from their hands, besmearing the sacred vessela, and defiling the holy emblems which were ewallowed by Northern doctors of divinity. My soul sickened at the sight. I tarned away in anguish. I wept in sorrow.” We bave no very much, too, with the air of a Pharisee who | thanks God that he is so mach a better Christian than other men. With all his sorrow and anguish, how- ever, Mr. Giddings is yet fall of hope. He says that “the billows of agitation are rolling, and I trust the storm will continue until false theories and infidelity, the love of op pression, of tyranny, violence, polygamy and wrecks cast upon the sterile coast of political | and religious conservatism.” We know what | this means. It is theery of a Peter the Hermit to Tescue the negroes of the South from slavery, after the fachion of wresting the Holy Sepulchre from the Saracens by the bloody crusades of the middle ages. it is the old fanatical war cry of persection and extermination against Southern } Slaveholders, under the old horrible delusion of all sanguinary fanatics, that fire and sword and blood and slaughter are the best instruments for the propagation of Christianity In another passage, however, of this remark ble letter of the leading abolitionist and oldest member of the House of Representatives at Washington, there is genuine ray of comfort: for, says Mr. Giddings, “while our religious sects have adhered to creede and covenants, and ab stract articles of faith, the popular mind has progrested =i religious = knowledg ‘NEW YORK MERALD, FRIDAY JULY 11, 1861. ‘American | ech citoumstances, or for its toleration of the | expelled by the decisive vote of 31 to 1. day.” Now there is a great this; but instead of leading the American mind to disunion and civil war, in order to abolish churches that are splitting to pieces on the break- ers of the slavery question may be rotten to the core, hut the heart of the American people is sound, We are sorry that Father Giddings cannot per- ceive this matter in its true light. He says: “We see a great and rapidly increasing political par- ty, basing its existence and its expectations of sucess on the self-evident truths that all men hold from the Creator the equal and inalienable right to enjoy life, and that civil, religious and spiritual liberty which is so nesessary to render life useful to the individual ard the world;” and, in substance, that the “higher law” of Mr. Sew- ard is the perfection of political platforms. But here our past experience comes into violent collision with these delusive {deus of Mr. Giddings and his abolition co- laborers. The American people regard the fede ral constitution as their supreme political law, and we bave no fear of the future success of any attempt to supersede the constitution by any false teachings of the “ higher law” of a nigger-wore shipping christianity. In the last dying speech of Mr. Calhoun in the United States Senate he deplored the sectional divieions avd troubles which had occurred in the Methodist Episcopal aud other Protestant church- es as the snapping asunder of so many cords which had contributed to hold the Usiou together. In this view of the case we might deplore this eplit of the new school Presbyterian church into a church North and acburch Sout, But holdiag to the idea that these church d.visions are the results of the trickery of political demagoguos, | and that the bulk of the membersof these church- es of both sections are really attached to each other and devoted to the Union, we do not share in the apprehensions of Mr. Calhoun, nor in the expectations of Mr. Giddings, from these church ruptures, as between the North and the South. Political parties, North and South, may ex- plede into fragments, churches of a national or ganization may split up into sectional churches; sectional parties and churches may be arrayed against each other like Turks and Tartars, but ia every exigency of danger, we believe that the intelligence, common interests, common safety and common sense of tho American people, of all creeds and sections, will be fully equal to the danger against the Union. Thus, while all the signs of the times foreshadow a most terrible scc- tional contest, political and religious, in 1860, we believe that the policy of Mr. Buchanan, the religion of conciliation and the bonds of the Union will stil prevail. Ovr New Bartsu Consvt.—Everybody will be gratified to learn that there is a strong proba- bility that Mr. Barclay may re-appear among us ere long as British Consul at this port. The uniform popularity of Mr. Barclay with all clasecs here, his family connections, his extensive interests in this country, his long experience in the duties of his office, and his intimate know- ledge of and prudent dealings with men and things here combine to render his re-appointment a matter of sincere congratulation not only to his countrymen but tous. We hope therefore that the rumor of his return may shortly be con- firmed. It is of the greateet consequence that the Bri- tieh Consul at this port should be a man with whom business can be done well and pleasantly. We will take the liberty of eaying that while Englishmen possess as many fine qualities, per- haps, as any other race, amiability is not always one of them, nor that loye of approbation which is the parent of popularity. There are a few crose-grained and slightly pig-headed English- men floating up and down the world’s stream; and it would be powible for the British govern- ment to pitch on one of these: in which case we can only say that a very hostile feeling toward England fn a class hitherto friendly to her might very easily be aroused. Exrvistoy or A Brooxtys ALvermax.—The Brooklyn Board of Aldermen deserve some com- menéation for the promptitude with which they Rave just disposed of the case of one of their number, who, as a member of the Board of Health, was shown to have received a douceur of $250 to influence his official conduct. Ata epecial eertion of the Board on Wednesday even- ing, Mr. Preston, the Aldermaa in question, was His functions as one of the Board of Health had previously been suepended. This prompt and t eummary proceeding is calculated to do good, and will probably lead officials in Brooklyn aad elsewhere to be somewhat more scrapulous and honorable in the discharge of their trusts. The vote against Preston was even more overpower- ing than that against Matteson, Edwards & Oo., in the last session of Congress. We understand that the expeiled and disgraced Alderman is a deacon and leading member of one of the Brook- lyn churches; and further, that he was of such a turn of mind that he voted against the proposi- tion to permit the Brooklyn Rathoad Company to run their care on Sunday. There is another member of the Board—-A'der maa Walsh—who is more or lose mixed up in the | affair for which Preston has been thas punished. He does not appear to have received any of the bribe himeelf, but he called Preston's attention to that chance of making money, and is culpa- ble to that extent, if no further. We think that his case should not bo allowed to rest here, but should be further sifted. If the conviction | of the Board be that he is* morally guilty, he should be laid on the shelf with the same una- nimity as bis asociate has been. We have two questions, in this connection, to ask the Brooklyn Board of Health: First, how | is it that Mr. De Burg’s manure making estab- lishment— although it has been a eimilar nuisance for several years—has not been complained of or abated until the present summer?—and second, how was it that the yellow fever broke out last summer at the foot of Joralemon street? As to the first question, we are not aware of any facts in relation to it, further than that the poudrette establishment has been some years in existence, and that Mr. De Burg prides himself on being “a business man.” Asto the second question, we understand that a certain vessel laden with hides whence the yellow fever was supposed to be commuuicated--did land ber cargo at the foot of Joralemon street last summer, contrary to the Health Officer. Was anything paid over for the connivance of the Board of Health at the discharge of this veseel under express prohibition of the De Xorg institution? We think these are perti- nent ingwWities while this matter is under exami- nation, anc’ we would respectfully eall the at- tention of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen thereto. American Art and Agti:ts—Tne Trae Grounds of their Claims to @ubiic Favor Defined. We publish in anether column two articles in- teresting to the friends of American art—one a letter from « Cincinnati connefsseur, condemna- tory of the illberal manner in which Hiram Powers, the sculptor, has been treated by the government, and the other a tribute from the Washington Union to the merits of another Ame- ticaa sculptor—Mr. Wiltiam B, Barbee. Both these gentlemen are natives of Cincinnati, and whilst the ouo bas already largely contributed to, the other seema destined to raise still higher, the reputation of that city as a nursery of American art Having said thus much, we do not wish to be understocd as subscribing unconditionally to the extravagant eulogiums which it is the habit to bestow upon American artists simply because they are American. Whilet a generous patron- age undoubtedly contzibates to promote the in- terests and elevate the character of art by stimu- Igting competition, we are convinced that undis- oriminating praise bas a directly contrary tendency. The history of the different schcols of painting and sculpture, ancient as well as modern, shows that genius is not an exotic, and cannot be forced into an artificial growth. Great sculptors, like greet painters, mast be “to the manner born” and possess the organization neceseary to the developement of art in its highest aspects. No study, however severe—no echool- ing, however classically correct, can make an artist of a man to whom nature has denied those finer physical and inteilectual gifts, which go to meke up what is called genius. A great artist not only sees, but feela, in the full force of the term; and it is this intensity of fecling and vision which strike the spectator of his works with a sense of his superiority. These qualities may, it is true, be acquired in a degree by long schooling and a close observation of the works of others, but they are never to be found in their full force unless when they spring from an organization osiginally endowed with them. When, therefore, we behold the highest triumphs of art we are forced to acknowledge that the inspiration comes from above, or, inothcr words, that nature herself has guided the pencil of the artist. There ia another distinctive characteristic of original genius which should not be forgotten in estimating the merits of modern works, No mind of large creative power likes to reproduce its own conceptions. For tempting pecuniary inducements a great artist may be prevailed upon to repeat the same work, although it must always be a distasteful task; but if true to his genius he will not stoop to repro- duce in other forms an idea once fully developed. When, therefore, we find a painter or a sculptor introducing into his subsequent productions the prevailing characteristics of a successful work, and living, as it were, upon the credit of a single happy effort, we may safely set him down as a man of but limited genius, if genius can at all be allied with poverty of conception. Now, if we apply these tests to the works of the two sculptors which have drawn forth the communications to which we refer, it will be | | found that the conclusions at which we shall ar- | rive will be very different. When Powers gave to the world his Greek Slave, it was acknow- | ledged to be a remarkable effort. It was the first American work of the kind which had ever succeeded in eliciting any very large amount of foreign testimony to its merits. The pride with which we naturally regarded this success of our countryman, naturally led us into the mistake of overestimating thoee merits, | "The qualified character of the praise which the most reliable of the European critics awarded to | | it should have moderated our self-gratulations and led us to examine more narrowly into its claims as a first class work. In the excess of our patriotism, however, we set down their reserve to jeslousy, and raised an altar to the Greek Slave, What, however, our own critical judgment | failed to detect in this work—the absence of cre- ative power—the artist has himself presented us convincing evidence ef in his subsequent pro- ductions. The softness of expression, the delica- cy of manipulation, and we mast say it, the gene- ral feebleness which constituted the prevailing features of the former, are to be found in all, whether the subject demanded more vigorous treatment in its mental characteristics or « freer chieel in its artistic treatment. Infant life and undeveloped womanhood, in which soft and eff minate lines are sufficient to embody the little character which there subjects possess, will always find a sneooesful delineator in Powers, But when he has characteristics to deal with such as the voluptuous grace of the Venus de Medici, the virile force and muscular develope- | ment of the Farnese Hercules, or the classic beauty of the Apollo Belvidere, he utterly fail | Like the student of anstomy who has traced where the nerves and muscles of the human body teke their ramifications, but who has not master- ed the philovophy of their arrangement, Powers | seems to have reached a point in art beyond which his abilities cannot carry him. The con- sequence is that we have the immatared propor- tions and characterless features of the Greek slave reproduced in all his later works. It is | not to be wondered at, uader such circumstances, that his creations, instead of rising, should have fallen in valae and that they should not unfre- quently make their appearance in the anction marta © After being compelled to utter euch distasteful truths in reference to the works of one of our best known eculptors, it is fortunate that we can make some compensation to our na tional self-love by applying the converse of these criticisms to those of another American ar- tist, who is as yet but imperfectly known to fame- Two years since, when in Florence, we were taken to the studio of Mr. Barbee, a young sculptor from Cincinnati, whose creations were beginning to excite a sensation amongst the art connoisseurs of that city. We were shown there the plaster models of two statues—the ‘Fisher Girl” and the “Coquette”—to the latter of which the article of the Washington /‘nion makes reference We felt instantly, on beholding these works, that the artist possessed the true instincts of genius, and that it required but time and carefal study to raise bim to the highest rank of his profession, They bore the unmistakable stamp of strong creative power, whilst they were not wanting in those mechanical excellencies which are the indis- pensable adjuncts of art. The knowledge of anatomy, the exquisite grace, and the vitality dis- played in those figures were evidently the results of the most careful study, and it wae plain that the epirit that pervaded their ensemble could ouly have been borrowed from nature herself, ice then Mr, Barbee has transferred to marbie thes beautifal creations, and one of thew ia now on extiibition in Baltimore. We trust teat this promising young éculptor will soon afford the lovers of at in our city aa opportunity of testing the correctne:'’ of our judgment, We are much mistaken if the public voice does not at once confirm its justice. Pay ov Tux New Pottce—Legal proceedings have boen taken to prevent or impede the pay- ment of the Metropolitan police. A temporary injanction was yesterday eued out and obtained before Judge Ingraham in the Court of Common Pleas, at the suit of John Fitzpatrick, a tax. payer, against the Comptroller, Mayor, Clerk of Common Council, City Chamberlaia and Police Commissioners, reatrvining the Comptroller from drawing his warrant, the Mayor and Clerk of Common Council from eomntersigaing it, the Chamberlain from honoviag it, aad the Police Commissioners from expending money under it. Monday next is set down for tae argument as to whether the injunction should be dixsolved or made perpetual. We published in yesterday’s Hiwiato the cor- respondence that had taken place between the Comptroller and the Mayor on this subject, The Comptroller had sent to the Mayor for bis signa- ture two several warrants for $100,000, payable to the order of the Chamberlain—one to be paid to the State Treasurer, the other to be placed to the credit of the treasurer of the Metropolitan Commissioners of police. To each of these forms of warrant the Mayor objected, suggesting that it should be drawn to the order of the Comptrol- ler of the State, to be disbursed to the treasurer of the Board of Police. Mr. Flagg assented to this alteration; but now the injunction comes in to prevent the money being so drawa or dis- bursed. We do not see the propriety of this move. The Police law has been declared constitutional by the Court of Appeals, and that decision is not to be thwarted or nullified by any such petlifogging trick as this, The only tribunal that can over- rule that decision is that of the ballot box, and to it alone does an appeal lie. The quibbic that the Police law directs the money “collected” for police purposes to be paid into the Staie treasury, and that the fund now on hand for that purpose was not collected but raised on the credit of the city, is too ridiculous to stand for a moment, We have advocated the right of the old police to be paid up to the date of their final disband- ment, on the principle that they were employed in the service of the city and were entitled to their wages, The same argument holds good in the case of the Metropolitan police. That they must be paid out of the city taxes is clear; and it is neither creditable nor profitable to be inter- posing vexatious objections and saddling our tax- payers with costs of legal proceedings. Oc Forricy Acents.—We learn from Wash- ington that the President and Cabinet are en- gaged in making « few foreign appointments. It appears, however, that the resignations of poor Pierce's appointees abroad drop in but slowly, notwithstanding the intimations supposed to have been made to all of them that their places are wanted by the administration for new and less objectionable agents, who would, in fact and in form, be the representatives of Mr. Buchanan’s foreign policy. It is well known that many of the incumbents adverted to have been rendered powerless for good by their imbecility and want of discretion. Besides, as they are at best but the representatives of a defunct and repudiated administration, they cannot command the confi- dence of the President ; and it would be suicidal in Mr. Buchanan to suffer them longer to embar- rass that unity of policy and purpose which it becomes bis imperative duty to impress upon our relations with foreign countries. The law of change and rotation, in regard to all high official potitions, has become a necessary fundamental principle in our government, and no administra- tion can make itself powerful or respected which disregards the obligation of giving to a progres- sive system the impulsion of faithful and well se- lected agents of its own choice. , Tur Seventenvta Wann Riors—Cary, Danrr’s ‘Testimoxy.—The testimony given by Capt. Hartt yesterday, on the inquest on the body of John Mil- ler, the German who was shot in the Seventeenth ward riots on Sunday night, appears to deviate very considerably from his official report of the riot made to the Deputy Superintendent of Police. The material deviations are in respect to the origin of the riot. In his report Captain Hartt eays, in bis Homeric style: Going down Fourth strect, acrors First avenue, the mob force, near avenue A, cox) We marched down about half way between Fires aveune and avenue A, whon we baited, with vaoant loteon either side, and then formod five abroast in the centre of the street, the mob in the meantime advancing towards us, with large Sized boy® In advanca, as skirmisbora, 0a lng us they wero evident! ot knowing our derign them. As they came tt THE LATEST NEWS. sepa wey cunts ‘4 Siw MILE om wee re ,708 UTAH IN PLACE iNBBAL f RARER Wasmnarom, July 16, we Venezuela, called a ae paunees Oar MidstSe We vad a brief intorvow. B Gretary of State to-day, aad . Inid before the D imny of the facts restive | thedimoulties between the two g ‘Vernments, sad wi comuplete his report ina few days, .” bar? ream to Hove that bis course wili be eustained % fon, The despatch in the Hema of \ yet Atubstaatiaiy correct, There is no tratir up & '° FePor the Venezuelan government refused to erecta tons of the now treaty, in view of the posskare < vernment in reference to Aves Island claim. The edmintsiration expects Geooral Ho*T, Now Grapadian Minister, every day to open neg*t& for the final reitiement of the pending questions botwoA the bwo governments, as they have been notified tas! bas received bis instructions to that effect. Llearn to day that the Secretary of War contempiatar eendizg Colonel Johnson, who now is tn command in Texas: to Utab, instead of Genera! Harney. This change is deoma necessary, owing to troubles that are apprehended in Kan gas ‘2 case be should leave the Territory. The receipts into the treasury aince July 1,atfar @ beard from, amount to $5,340,000. In Naval Court No. 1, to-day, Captain Rogers and Liga, touaats Mzf% and Van Morgan testified strozgly in behas of Lieut. Stevens, now on trial. Im Court No, 2, Lice temante Fairfax and Dallas, Captain Cunningham ap James 8. Sterrett testified in favor of Commander Sterrett In Court No. 8, fm Lieut. Rhind’s case, Charles Reilly Nicholas Callan and Commodores Auliok and Smith wer examined on government's behaly. Achild of Major Charles Wallach was badly bitten by dog to day, supposed to be rabid. Our city fathers will make arrangements to receive th Weatora railroad excursionists. or TOR ORVERAL MSWEPAFER DESPATCH. DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS, ETO. Wasarnarox, July 26, 1867, ‘The President to-day made the following: Richard Kidder Meade, of Virginia, Envoy Extraordinar and Minister Plenipotentiary to the empire of Bras, t place of Wm. Trousdale, of Tennessee, the present ‘as oumbent. Benjamin F. Angel, of New York, Miniter resident ¢ Sweden, in place of Francie Schroeder, of Rhode Lslanw recalled at his own request, Mirabean B. Lamar, of Texas, Minister resident to th Argentine Confederation, in place of James A. Poden, « Florida, the present incumbent. Wyman B.8. Moor, of Maine, Consul Geveral for th British North American provinces, from the first of Beg tember nex, in place of Israel D. Andrews, of Maine resigacd. Wm. Previtt, of Oblo, Consul at Valparaiso, to af th existing vacancy. Henry Owner, ef Californis, Consul to the Tabiti Soctey Islands, in piace of Wi. H. Kelley, of Massachusota, tb Present incumbent. Joba F, Portevs, of South Carolina, Consul at Opare Portugai, in place of Nicholas Pike, of New Yori, the prc sent incumbent. Charies Glantz, of Pennsylvania, Consul at Stettin, Pras sia, in place of Frederic Schullord, who is not a citizen « the United Btates. Samuel E. Fabens, Consu! at Cayenno, to fil! the exten ‘vacancy. Francis M. Weoms, of Florida, Consul at Santa Marthi New Grenada, to Gill the vacancy. James C. Derickson, of Maryland, Commercial Agent + Apla, Navigators island, in place of Mr. Jenkins. j Mcaes Jovuran, of New York, Consul at Curacos, Wa Indies, to fill the vacancy. Chas. E. Flandrowu, Associate Justice of the Unie States Court for the Territory of Minnesota, in piace « Pottit, resigned. ‘The sum appropriated for prosecuting the land survey ‘m Callforaia for the year ending with the S0th « June Iast has been exceeded by about $176,00 In copeequence of this deficiency the socounts of tt Deputy Surveyers have been suspended. The Labtlin will He over till Congress provides the meanr for tha liquidation. The Secretary of the Interior has decided th: the surveys must be continued, and that the $10,000 % the fiscal year ending June, 1858, can be used only te that period, and not to d.scharge previous Nabilitics. Major Parke G. Howle, of the marine corps, died today Robert Croes, another of the election rioters, was to-ia found guilty of attempting to kill the policeman who « rested him, and sentenced to ei:ht years tmprisoament | ‘the penitentiary, the utmost extent of the law. Whe Minnesota Constitutional Convention. Mwarem, July 16, 1867. ‘The Minnesota Coasttutional Convention met at the Cap at St. Pacl on the Mth inst. Fifty olne republican: present. The derscratse—forty four im oumber- & separate convention in the Coune!] chambe: H. H Sibley President, Each convention is draf & Constitution. The republicans intend to remain | , night and day, to retain possession ef the hall. Vermont Democratic State Convention. Remiasp, July 16, 1867. The Democratic State Convention assembled hore « TE ik ‘The correspondent of the Osurier states that James Bhouse, of Marseilles, has failed and absconded. Two hue dred thourand dollars of his forged paper is in the poses sion of citizens of Woodford, Fraakiin and the adjaces countion. centre, dividing the mob im two bodies. Then commeaced & most fearful end appalling eceve Hand to hand we met them. After a desperate struggle they gave way. We drove them to the corner of aveaue A and Fourth sirest. In this report the Captain evidently plamed himself on the heroism and impetuosity with which himeelf and his little army ‘dashed for- ward” into the centre of the mob, dividing it into two bodies. In his testimony before the Coroner he gives himself credit for a quality the reverse of dashingness. He would appear to have car- ried conciliation and toleration to the extremest limits, and not to have resorted to force till ex- published in full in another part of to day's Heratn: ‘The position was s very unpleasant one: alone, without anything io hand, and waved hand ' to them, expecting to perse them by gentie means, Perse them by force; It per for me to go away and leave it an tt war: i gave order to advance toward the crowd—the stones oomt from the boys in fromt aud {rom those who wore in the rearwe Aid #0, and advanced in the contre of the crowd: 1 was somewhat in advance of the men, and 7 to them | ex ye re. = nd ou we to mi them; but did not oem disposed eto hear me aL al. the tone begaa wo come ickor and farier: we drove thei down opposite thenext Dutlding to the ss We do not see how these two statements can be easily reconciled with each other, and wish Captain Hartt to elect whichever he intends to stand by. corner. Political Intelligence. Cret caucus by ® unanimous vote:— Resolved, That we nominate John ©. Fremont as can dante for the Presidency of the United States in 1960, upon tare Ristoetee ira of the proneat I egisiature im re [ nited States Court tn the sedject to the decision of # repulliong uational convention, Death of Dr. Hose, of the State Lunagh) Asylum, at Utica, Una, N Y., Jnly 16, 1867. Dr Rose, who burned at the fire at the State Lane tie Asylum in this city on Tuesday, died this aflerson from the effects of hie injuries. Whe National Trial of Agricultural impte ments at Syracuse, Srascvne, N. ¥., July 16, 1367. Twenty mowing machines wore tesied to day, by ola 2, \m Cutting grass. The ¢ynamoneter trial will take pue to-morrow, The irtal of reaping machines grill commese on Friday. ‘The America’s News at Sew Orleans, The Furopean aivices brought by the Amerin Wore Fe ceived here this morning, and plebed ‘exclusively t the regular evening editions of the amociated prews ¢ Markets. PHILADKLPHIA BTOOK BOARD. Pun.anmret a, Jw Stocks firm. Peansyivania fives, 555 L eylvania buabels wheat 17,000 bushels corn. treal 5,500 bois. flour. Omeaco, July 1 Flour closed with a declining tendency. ‘reat; 10,000 bushels Zorn El ts oOrweges ws wi 5 corn Rt or 26,000 Beahels corn. Receipes to dey 0 bie 000 bushels wheat, 71,000 bushels corn. Tar Cenernaren Boonowy Case.—We han from the Pittaburg Gazette that the celebrated Foono: case, Joshua FE. Nachtrieb vs. RB. I. Baker ot al, w, bar been in con hands for seven years, was inaly concluded within @ fow days by the payment ‘of coste—e heavy {tem—and the settiement of the minor business tendast upen @ final decision, Cnr readers, indeed whole covntry, are familiar with the details of the cass which bas reselied 49 triumphaotly for the Harmony & Gioty at Loomomy