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Malls for Kurope. ‘THR NEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. ‘The mail steamsbip Columbia, Capt. Berry, will leavo (his port today, at noon, for Liverpool. ‘Teo European mails will close inthis city at half-pastten @ clock (hs morning. ‘The European edition of the Hussy, printed in French (aad English, will be published at ten o’olook in the morn- ing. ingle copies, In wrappers, rix cents. ‘Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Wrw Yous Hznaip will be received at the following place La Burope:— Wiltam oS aigae “pane daaae -ihpadiags gone Livesrooi—R. Stuart, Ae EE... Havas—Am. & European Express Co., 21’ Rue Corneille. ‘Tee contents of the European edition of the Fimarp will (Bombine the news received by mail and telegraph a the @M@ce during the previous week, aud up to the hour of Pubscation, = ,. "The News. We have important news from Kansas. The President yesterday received a despatch from Governor Walker, stating that en the day previous @ eeriona insurrection brgke out at Lawrence, and that he had summoned the United States troops to suppress it. The cause of the outbreak is not al- lauded to by the Governor, but it is supposed to have originated in an attempt to collect the taxes im- | posed by the Territorial laws, which the free State | settlers had resolved not to pay. @ Our advices from Mexico state that four of the | murderers of the Spaniards at San Vicente had been found guilty and were soon to be executed. | ‘It is also stated that the British claims had been | satisfactorily arranged. Mejia, the leader of an | insurgent band, had been defeated and captured. ‘The tedious quarrel for the Street Commissioner- | ship advanced a step yesterday. Judge Peabody | decided adversely to the application for the arrest | of Mr. Devlin, but the case was again adjourned till | to-day st noon. The certiorari was argued before Judge Davies yesterday. Mr. Field opened for Mr. | Conover and Charles O’Conor replied in a speech of | four hours long. Mr. Field briefly replied to hus points, taking occasion to express regret for his re- marks about Mr. Busteed on a previous day, Mr. O'Conor having warmly defended him. Judge Da- | vies will give his decision today. If he refuses to , eupersede the writ of certiorari, we presume the | case will be taken by Mr. Conover to the Court of | Appeals. A report of the argument is given elie. where. ‘The movements of the Metropolitan Police Com- missioners yesterday—full particulars of which we | give in another column—are important. Mr. Draper, tthe President of the Board, despatched his resigna- | tion to Governor King. There is a great deal of speculation as to the why and wherefore of this ac- tioa, and no little anxiety to know upon whom the | Board will unite to fill the vacancy. The special po- lice force enlisted to put down the riot in the Sixth ward, and continued in service since that time, were formally disbanded yesterday, after the delivery of epeeches by the Superintendent and his deputy. ‘These special policemen get no pay, mach to their Cisappointment; bat they are to stand fair for ap pointment to the regular force. | An important decision has just been rendered in | the United States District Court at Chicago, affect. | ing the legal rights of negroes and bearing apon the late opinion of the Supreme Court in the Dred | SBeott case. The facts, in brief, are that a colored man named Mitchell sued a white man named La mar. The latter entered the plea that a negro was | not « citizen of the United States, and could not, therefore, bring a suit in the United States court. ‘The question was argued before Judges Mclean and Drammoad. The Court, after a wedk's deliberation, decided thet the plea was not a valid one, but that Mitchell had a right to bring the snit. Joba Dorsey, the St. Domingo negro who was convicted of the murder of a courtezan (white) named Annie McGirt alias Hopkins, by cutting her throat with a razor, in an alley way in Worth street, suffered the extreme penalty of the law yesterday morning. He was hanged in the city prison yard, in the presence of fifty or sixty people. The cul- prit made no confession, but left some interesting | docaments behind him,which we publish in connec tion with our account of the execution. The trial of Captain Conway, of the ship Switzer- land, whe is charged with violating a young woman | named Jane Haggard, a steerage passenger, while | on the voyage from Liverpool to New York, in April Inst, was commenced yesterday before United States | Commi Bridgham. We give elsewhere a full report of Gaggard’s testimony, detailing the | incidents of the alleged outrage, together with a couple of letters written by her to the captain. who, it appears from the evidence, promised to marry her upon arriving at New York. Itap- | pears, also, thata cabin passenger named J’eachy was & witness of the promise of the captain; and it is one of the singular circumstances of the case that Peachy took sick and died ut sea very snddeniy. Councilman Wangh has brought an action in the Marine Court against the Corporation to test the point whether members of the Common Council are, under the terms of the new city charter, entitled to | compensation. Judge McCarthy will render his | decision in the case in a day or two. Lewis Simonet was arrested yesterday ona charge of emaggling three packages containing chronome fers and other valuable articles. Held to bail in 31,900. The General Jackson gold box committee inet gain yesterday. A letter from Gen. Harney was read, in which he recommends that the question as to who is entitled to the box should be submitted to the ladies for settlement. A young man named Wm. P. Hale makes # formal claim to the box. He entered the regular army as a private at the age of neventeen, and passed through the various grades to the rank of Sergeant-Major. He was present in every battle fought in the Mexican war, from the bombardment of Vera Cruz to the triumphant entry of Gen. Scott into the Halls of the Montezumas. A ‘List of his achlevements is published im another co Jomo. The Coroner's jury in the case of the steamer Montreal, which wns destroyed by fire in the St, Lawrence river recently, and by which disaster two hundred and forty-nine persons perished, have ren ered o verdict of mausiaughter against the owner, pilot, captain ard mate of the veasel. They are to be put on trial without delay. We give a full report of the inquest en John Mil- ler. The evidence om the part of the poiice is strong, and goes a great way to exculpate them from being the cause of his death. Dr. Sherman's patients were quite communicative to their physi- cian, and to!d him what some call “‘a cock and bull” story. John Thomas, a policemaa and eye witness, swears he saw Miller shet by a person from a second story window, firing from a long pistol, while on ex- amination the three balls extracted from Miller's body were too large for the pistol produced in court. The sixth day’s investigation opens this morning at 9 o'clock. ‘The St. Faul (Minnesota) Pioneer, of the 8th in- stant, states that a report had reached that town to the effect that Col. Noble’s wagon road expedition had been met at the crossing of the Big Sioux by a large party of Yankton Indians, and their passage across the stream resisted; and furthermore, that Col. Noble's party fell back, threw up temporary de- fences, and despatched a messenger to Fort Ridgely for assistance. Letters from our correspondent at- tached to the expedition, down to the 5th inst., are published in today’s Heraup. They mention that the Fourth was celebrated by the party with becom- ing festivities—that the Indians were encamped ahead of them, but that they were not apprehensive of serious resistance. The Yanktons are said to number five hundred braves. Col. Noble's party consists of one hundred men, well armed with ri- fles, revolvers, and a howitzer. We do not think, therefore, that any apprehension need be enter- tained by those havirg friends with the expedition. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced avout 1,200 bales, based upoa middling uplands at about 15c., and middling New Orleans at 15:c., which was an advance of 340. @ 4c. from the lowest figores of last week, Cotton bas now reached the highest price it bas been before in seventeen years, or since 1889. The average price of 15c. per ib, will cive a valne to each bale of 400 Ibs. (the ave- Tage weight) of $60, Estimating the crop at 2,960,000 bales, which may be considered from to 200,000 to 200,000 baies under the averaze actual growth of the two or three prior years, aud each bale at $60, will give a totay value of the crop at $17,000,000. Flour was firmer, aod closed at an advance of Sc, a 10c. per barrel. Wheat eold tom moderate extent, including Chicago eprinz at $1 40, and prime white Capadian at $2, and some Milwauite on private terms, Corn was in light eupply, with sales of Western mixed at 850. a 8440, a 86c., the latter figure for prime. Pork again advanced, with sales of moss at $20 75 a $24, chiely at $28 87 a$i4, Sugars were sold to the extent of about 400 bhds., at rates given in another column. Freight were dull, and rates unchanged. Ys ‘The Kiva of Speculation. ‘The past year has been remarkable for the ex- tent to which all sorts of speculations have been driven. The evil has been growing and increasing for several years past; but we seem at length to have reached the crisis of this social disease. Nor is it in this country alone that the same tendency to the wildest sort of speculation has been observed. It has developed itself as well in England, in France, and in other parts of Earope; and every- where else as well as here, it has been followed by results disastrous to many of those engaged in it, and injurious to the interests of the whole com- munity. If you ask any intelligent merchant in this me- tropolis why it is that the trade of importers has fallen off this spring from twenty to fifty per cent, you will learn that it is the reeult of over- driven speculation. If you want to know why it is that the receipts of the two great railroads, by which the traffic of the great West with this city is carried on—the Erie and New York Central— have fallen off in the aggregate $220,000 in the month of June, 1857, as compared with June, 1856, you will learn the same truth. The desire to acquire sudden wealth seems to have spread as an epidemic through all parts of the country. Small traders and village merchants, East, West and South, have been inoculated with the spirit of | riotous speculation, and have been recklessly | investing their means in wildcat lands and town lots in Kansas and Minnesota, at rates which these lote and lands will not be worth for a quar- ter of a century. The consequence is that they are unable to meet their engagements with the mercantile houses in this and the other principal cities, and as a matter of course trade declines and business generally falls into a state of stagnation. But thie speculation run mad has not been confined to the Western | and town and city lota It bas also extended t®almost all articles of produce; and whilst many of the conscience- less speculators may have made large fortunes out of the business, others have been sacrificed, and millions of consumers have suffered from the artificial dearness of the necessaries of life. At | the present day the cost of living in this city is fully forty per cent greater than it was four years ago; and all this is owing to the spirit of reckless speculation that has swept over all por- | tions of the country. We have been furnished with some interesting particulars in relation to the effect which this speculative mania has had on two important pro ducts—sugar and cotton civilized life. As to sugar, all housckeepers are but too weil aware of the high price at which it is maintained, compared with its price a few years since. And yet statistical evidence exists to show that one small sugar producing island, with an area not one-twentieth of that which is nominally devoted to the culture of sugar throughout the globe, is capable of supplying half the consumption of Europe and America, and that a price fifty per cent leas than that now paid would be remunerative. But nevertheless, for two months past prices have been maintained, and it is only now, when holders attempt to realize, that we see the market in favor of the buyer. A decline of about one cent per pound has thus been experienced within three weeks; and from the caution evinced by buyers, it may be inferred as likely that the fall will be two cents per pound with- in another month, unless, indeed, holders ehould be rash enough to withdraw their supplies from the market—rather improbable, in view of the favorable accounts of the sugar crop from nearly all quarters. The other article on which speculators have operated with still more disastrous results is cot- ton. Notwithstanding an estimated crop in the United States of about 5,000,000 bales, with a large supply from other quarters, and with fally 300,000 bales in the hands of manufacturers in Earope, prices have been raised four cents per pound over the rates current in this market last Jaly, or, in other words, the price of cotton has advanced forty per cent. Heavy brown sheet- ings, which were then dull at eight cents, are now quoted lifeless at nine to nine and a quarter cents, with a large accumulated stock. Some makes of goods are represented as beng twenty and twenty-five per cent larger in stock at the various agencies than they were at that date. Here is an advance of nearly forty per cent in raw material, and only twelve to fifteen per cent in the manufactured article Dyestuffs and other materials used in tee manufacture are all higher than at that date. Money is dearer. Is it any wonder, then, that we hear daily of stoppages among the mills at the eastward? The Stark mills at Manchester, N. HL, which consume about 15,000 bales of New Orleans cotton per annum, assert their inability both necessaries of | i Retard 208 ol NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY JULY 18, 1857. to make the epinning of cotton profitable at the present prices of their goods, although they have in their warehouses a stock of raw cotton to run them four months, and the average cost of which at the mills is twelve aad a half cents per pound er about three cents lower than present prices, either at the Southern depots er in New York. ‘Their goods have accumulated, and they think it wicer to stop manufacturing, and lose the interest on the raw material, than to go on end add to the dead capital the additional cost of labor. ‘The large steam mill at Rockport, Maine, has stopped manufacturing. The directors announce that they are steoked with cotton up to Novem- ber, but having an unusual surplus of goods on hard, which cannot be sold at remunerative prices, they will not resume, touse their own words, “until there is a corresponding rise in the manu- factured articles, which cannot be looked for as long as the markets are full and the demand light.” At Lowell, Mase, the largest mills are running only four and five days per week. Some there and in that vicinity, are announced as “stopping for repairs, which are not likely to be completed before November”—in plain language, stopping the useless manufacture of goods until the people can buy them. Moncey is in unusual requestall over New Fog- and. Thisis owingin part to the eums drained out of all classes of eociety for Kansas contributions, but chiciy to the wild speculation in land and city lots all over the Westean States, which, let the result be as it may, will not enrich the eection called New England. There is no scarcity of cotton, but owing to the causes we have indicated the ability of the mass of families to buy new clothing this year is not eo great as heretofore, and economy and severe retrenchment from all but necessaries is the universal rule. That a storm is brewing in the commercial horizon there can | be no doubt. He who runs may read. New State Constitutions—Lessons from New York, Constitution framers throughout the country have been recently getting quite enough to do in that line. The State of Iowa has just had a newcon- stitution framed, on which the people are to vote next month. The Mormons framed their constitu- tion last summer, but for obvious reasons have not yet applied to Congress for the admission into the Union of their State under the name of Deseret. That exciting and difficult question has been re- served for the next Congress. In the Territories of Minnesota and Oregon conventions to frame the constitations of their respective States are now in session; and the convention fora like pur- pose is to assemble in Kansas in September next. Besides all these, the amendment of the constitu- tion of the State of New York has now become a question of immense political magnitude, and one which must be made the great issue in the next and future elections. The new constitution framed for Iowa limits the tenure of State officers to two years instead of four, provides for the election of three Supreme Judges to hold office for six years, divides the State mto eleven judicial districts, for the election of Circuit Judges and District Attorneys, fixes the number of State Senators at 50, and of members of the House at 100 (now 35 and 75 respectively), retains the legislative seseions as biennial, locates the capital at Fort Des Moines (the city to be called Demoines), and limits the State debt to $250,000, and that of cities and towns to five percent of their respective valua- tions, There is no popular opposition to this constitution—the only question on which a strug- gle is to be made being as to whether the word ‘white” in relation to the qualification of citi- zens is to be retained or stricken out. If etrick- en out, the political rights of white men and ne- groes will be on a level in the State of Iowa. ‘The constitution of Deseret has been framed on ® republican model, steering clear of all ques- tions relating to Mormonism, State church and polygamy. Nevertheless, that avoidance of those points will not avail when the matter comes be- fore Congress, The debate on the Mormon ques- tion will probably be the great feature of inte- rest in the next Congress, as all the peculiarities of Mormon life and of church government io Utah will be then fully discussed. The convention in Minnesota kas had a very extraordinary opening. The democratic dele- gates, it appears, are in a slight miuority, partly owing to the fact of the exclusion by the Register of four democrats from the Saint Anthony dis- trict, on acoount of some trifling informality in their election. And so, instead of contesting the matter in the convention, the democratic dele- gates hold a separate and independent conven- | tion, and the republicans do the same—the latter | sitting day and night, lest the democrats should take possession of their chamber. This double convention, if persisted in, will probably neutra- lize the whole thing—for although each might frame a constitution, and both constitutions might | be submitted to, and one approved by a majority of the people, still, unless the majority in Con- gress should happen to be of the same political complexion as the majority in Minnesota, the whole work would go for nothing. We live, however, in revolutionary times, and of course it could not be expected that the Minnesetians would remain unaffected by the prevailing in- fluence. Even far away hyperborean Uregon evinces her ehare of eocentricity—for we sce that the possibility of making her a slave State is con- templated. We would as soon expect to sce slave institutions established in Nova Scotia as in Oregon ; and yet the thing is being seriously dis- cussed. The movement is eaid to be under the lead of Gen. Lane, the Oregonian delegate to Congress, who has made himeelf famous in Wash- ington by his thrilling recitals of the tomahawk- ing and ecalping knife propensities of the Walla-Wallas and other savages. We do not think it at all likely, however, that the attempt to make a slave State of Oregon will ever be re- garded in any other light than as a good practi- cal joke. The Kaneas Constitutional Convention will at- tract more public attention than perhaps any of the others, The eyes of politicians from all sections of the Union will be fixed upon it, as the struggle there will be a real one between slave and free institutions. We would recommend the delegates of all those States and Territories that are framing new constitutions to provide themselves with copies of the constitution of New York, with reports of the recent proceedings that were instituted in our courts to nullify an unconstitutional law, and with the decision of the Court of Appeals thereon ; so that they may frame an instrament that will be really protective of the rights of a free people, and which cannot be evaded or se aside at the will of an unscrupulous Legislature If they do not take advantage of the bitter les ron which our citizens have been taught, and do not guard well their municipal livertics, they will prove themselves utterly unworthy of the Gonfidenge of their constituencies. Loro Narn at Harvanp.—The British Mia- ister has availed himself of the Harvard com- mencement to deliver another of those graceful end pleasant epeeches for which he bids fair to become famous. There was a certain appropriate- cess in making Lord Napier a witness to the great scholastic and literary event of the year in New England—for, himself an author and s mem- ber of a family highly distinguished both in the lite- rary and the scientific world, he stands here as the repreeentative of the country from which to this day we borrow one-half our literature and three fourths of our science. He must have look- ed, at Harvard, something like an agent of the proprietors watching the distribution of their pro- perty among unlawful possessors. ‘The chief point of his lordship’s epeech was the closing sentence, in which he “invoked the gene- rosity and moderation of those who are embark- ‘ed in the enterprise of everyday political life;” and on behalfofhis country, “asked for patience, for incredulity of evil, for confidence in good.” To such an appeal there cannot fail to be a free and aatisfectory reply. That reply is that this country earnestly desires to be “incredulous of evil and confident of good” so far as England is concerned; but that the incredulity on the one side and the confidence on the other sometimes involve severe difficulty. However, the paths of diplomacy change every day; and perhaps, with the Lord Napier race of diplomatists, a new race of British statesmen may be springing up who shall respect their neighbors’ rights and not call every one a rascal or a blockhead who docen’t want to see Britannia ruling earth as well as waves. Tux Execution or tax Negro Dorsry.—In another part of this paper the reader will find an account of the execution and last moments of the wretched negro Dorsey, who, as will be re- membered, murdercd a white prostitute some weeks ago. The execution was, as usual, strictly private, nane but the officers of the law and the reporters being present ; the sentence wax carried into effect with perfect decorum. The negro at- tempted to make a speech and did utter a great number of confused and incoherent sentences, which were not quite intelligible to the persons around him; he seemed to require Divine sup- port, and died—we may eay—uttering convulsive appeals to the Holy Virgin for aseistance and spiritual comfort. The most curlous feature of the execution was the appearance at the windows of the prison— which are s0 built that the prisoners cannot, through them, see the court yard—of a number of mirrors of all sizes and ehapes. These were he looking glasses of the prisoners, by whose aid they rendered themselves distant spectators of the scene. Whether any of these prisoners run any chance of finding themselves in Dorsey's place, we know not; but if they did, they could not have displayed a greater anxiety to see how men are hanged. The execution of a murderer is undoubtedly a wholesome and proper event. No greater mis- take has been made in modern times than the approaches toward the abolition of capital punishment. Nothing but the fear of death will deter the aseassin; he laughs at prisons and penitentiaries; he knows that every sentence is ehortened by executive clemency. It will be a bad day for society when capital punishment is altogether abolished. With these views, we are not inclined to criticise the conduct of Gov. King in refusing to pardon Dorsey ; but we do think had he been a white man, and not “a poor negro in a strange land, without money and without friends,” as he described himself, fortune might have dealt differently with him. Carryiye Tar Wan isto Avrrica.—Read the extracts which we publish this morning from two of our leading Virginia cotemparies—the one on the secession tack, and the other in defence ofthe administration and its Kansas policy. The Southern conservative democratic organs, it will thus be seen, are assuming the offensive plan of warfare, and are “carrying the war into Africa” against the secession clique of disorganizers. This is good. The adminietration is thus brought prominently into the foreground and centre of the picture, with this little knot of scheming po- litical nigger drivers of the South at the one ex- treme, and the Seward and Garrison tribe of Northern political nigger worshippers at the other extreme of the canvass, Standing thus firmly and decisively against these Northern and Southern nigger agitating disorganizers, Mr. Bu- chanan occupies a proud and glorious position before the country. We see now how beneficial to the Union, and how fortunate for himself, would have been to poor Pierce a little of the | consistency and honesty of his successor. The conservative democratic press of the South have now removed all doubts in regard to the position of the President on Kansas affairs, The South and the North will stand by the administration. Police Intelligence. ARREST OF AN ALLEGORD BURGLAR AND PASIER OF COUNTERFEIT MOREY. im, keopor of a concert ball co-ner of Sitteenth | avenue, was yesterday arrested by Ser geant Coulter and officer Morphy, of the Twenty second ward police, charged with boving committed numerous burglaries, and been engaged for years past in passing | counterfeit money. The complainact is Ann Carry, a ballet tinger, who, for the past two years, hat lived with him as bis wife, Dot of late his treatment of her has been 80 severe that she was compelled to leave him. She makes affidavit to the commission by him of various bur- g’ories of which he informed her at the time, and showed her the proceeds. She also charges him with having Ppasred numerous counterfelt bank bills, and states that his chief business was committing burglaries and passing counterfeit money. He has, she says, frequently been | arrested \n Philadelphia and Baltimore, during the time abe a. Lb with ag vat ‘_ P to a Foy Fh: years of age, bal appears to be considerably older. affidavit sg ! i in i iit th z ? f 3 i Justice Davison, bail he recently opened is i 5 33 3 regort of the vilest characters, large numbers of thronged the court room anxious to Srarem ov « Lacan Bree Stoo —On Thursday nigh! Peter Ivem, a sailor, entere! the Ingor bier saloon No, 140 Greenwich street, while intowicated and soon got into n fight with several persons who were there assembled. During gxamioas ow THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS. INSUBBECTION BROKEN OUT AT LAWRENCE. ‘The United States Troops Ordered Out, M0. ac. a, Wasiencrom, Jaly 11, 1367, ‘The President received a telegraph despatch this morn- ing, dated at Leavenworth yesterday, from Governor Walker, etating that « serious Insurrection had broken out at Lawrence, and that he had called out the United States troops to suppress tt, The Governor bad started tmme- diately for Lawrence, ‘The cause of the outbreak is not known, but it is sup. pomsed to have originated from eppositioa to some of the Torritoral laws—probabiy the Tax law. ‘The receipt of this news bas caused some lijte excite- mont (a cortain quarters, The Cabinet were in session anti! a tate hour this evening, and I doubt not this subject was prominently before them. Br, Locus, July 17, 1867, ‘The Democrat has advices from Kansas stating that Gov. Walker has issued @ proclamation declaring his inteation to put down all opposition to the Territorial laws by force, and censuring the citizens of Lawrence, and warning them Bot bo organize under the Topexa charter. Rumor says that seven hundred troops are summoned to march against Lawrence, and that it (s the design of Walker to retain the army in Kansas and to break up the Utah expedition. ‘ws from Washington. THE CAS® OF TB BARK PANCHYTA—PROCESDINGS OF THE NAVAL COURTS. Wasuicrom, July 11, 1857. ‘The owners of the suspected slaver have not, as it ha erroneously been stated, called upon our government to demand indemnity from Great Britain for losses sustained by them, All they ask, and all the administration can do, is to protest agaimet foreigners boarding or searching American vessels on the high seas, and demanding satis” factory reparation therefor, which Great Britain, through her Min'‘ster, Lord Napier, will doubtless accede to. ‘The case of Lieutenant Stevens was ro-epened by Nava Court No. 1 to-day, against the protest ef claimant, and Commander Alden exafhined on bebalf of the govern” ment. He teatified that Lieutenant S. had disobeyed or- ders in not haying a certain veasel repaired. It seemed that Lieutenant S, had been Iimited to three thousand dol- lars, axd he ascertained he could not get the work done for iess than thirty-seven hundred. The case being again closed, lieutenant Stevens read and submitted his defence. In Court No. 2 the case of Lieutenant Kilty (fur- loughed) was takea up, and Commodore Perry and Com- mande? Rogers examined on behalf of the government. Hon. Reverdy Johnson appears for claimant. These offi- cers bad seen Kilty intoxicated twico—once in West Bay, Prince Island, and again ona pleasure excursion up St. Paula river, Monrovia—never on ehipboardjor when on duty, Lieutenant K. is noted for his musical talents and fine social qualities. At Prince Island he was brought from shore in a skiif and lifted on board. Court No. 3 was not in session to-day. Rhind’s defence will be read to morrow. Lieutenant Brayton C. Ives, U.S A, died at Fort Clark, Texas, on the 27th ult, ‘The weather is excessively hot and the streets deserted. No business dong. Lieutenant ‘TO GENERAL NEWSPAPER DNSPATCH, INDICTMENT AND ARREST OF THE “PLUG UGLY” ELECTION RIOTERS, ETC. Wasinsorom, July 17, 1867. ‘The Grand Jury to day found true bills against a num. ber of (ho alleged participants im the election riots, and also 'o several cases of assault and battery with intent to kill, Fourteem of the accused partics were arrested on bench warrants, and officers are in pursuit of the remain. der of them. The Grand Jury ip their report say ‘“‘the exciting causes of the riot and subsequent bloodshed in the Fourth ward may be ascribed mainly to the pre- sence of certain Baltimorians, joined by a large number of disorderly persons of Washington, at or near the polls.’’ ‘The City Councils this aNernoon accepted the invitation ofthe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to join the Western excursionists in Baltimore next Monday, and ap- pointed a committee to extend to them the hospitalities of Washington. The citizens to-night held a mecting to make arrangements for a cordial welcome. Arrival of the America at Boston, Borrow, July 17, 1867, The steamship America, from Liverpool via Halifax, was below last night, detained by the thick fog, and only reached her dock « little before three o'clock this after” noon—too late to allow her mails to be sent forward by the three o’clock train. They wore forwarded by the steamboat train to Stonington, and will be due at New York at an early hour to-morrow morning. ‘The despatch from Halifax embraced ail the general news worth telegraphing. ‘The Magara Outward Bound, Haurax, July 17, 1867. The steamabip Niagara, from Boston, arrived here at tw, o’clock this morning, and sailed again at half past three for Liverpool. Weather calm and foggy. The Verdict on the Steamer Montreal Disaster, Queno, July 17, 1867. The Coroner's jury have returned a verdict of “Man- slaughter’ against Wileon, the owner of the steamer Mon- treal; Rudolph, the Captain; Derval, the pilet, and Ro- berge the mate. They also strongly censore Mr. Wilson, senior, the controlling agent. They recommen te sirin- gent enforcement of the steamboat law. The parties im plicated will be tried at the present seasisy of the Court of Queen's Bench. Indictment of the Ohio State Treasurer, Covemars, July 17, 1857. Two indictments have been found against Gibson, late State Treasurer; one for the embezzlement of the State funds, and the othor for the embezzlement of the funds of the Seneca County Bank. An indictment has been found against Breslin, the previous treasurer, with several counts for emberziement. The National Reaper and Mower @rial Sraacvem, Joly 17, 1867, The reapers made a fine day's work today. Sixteen machines were ip the fold at once, and their trial caused immense interest. At about the end of the trial the mow- ers wore put to a severe test with dynanometers attached. ‘To-morrow all the reapers will startin» forty five acro feld. ‘Telegraph Cable Across Detroit River. Deenorr, July 17, 1857, A Wwlographic cablo across Detroit river at this point wan successfully laid yesterday. Death of Mr, Olutter, ex-Auditor of Virginia, Ricawown, July 17, 1867. Mr. George W. Clutter, the (rst auditor of Virginia, died yesterday, in Preston county. ‘The Southern Mall, Wasmnsarow, July 17, 1967. The New Orleans mails of the 11th came to hand thi afternoon. The papers contain nothing of Interest. Marketa. PHILADELPHIA STOCK OARD. Pastanmnrnra, July 17, 1887. ‘Stocks firm. ere G's, 86's; Reading Mai). road, 385;; Long Island Railroad, 117%; Morris Canal, 62%; Pennsylvania Railroad, 47. Salea of the week sg00 bales, & unahadgns wh pa Cotton — a ces, The decreased receipts at ail Southern porta, as com- pared with this time last year, amount to 868,000 bales. Oswaco, Joly 176 P.M. Floar in steady; salca today 650 bbis.. shi to Montroa! 670 bola. Wheat is in moderato milli sales to-day 6 000 Chicago spring at 33, and 2,000 do. Milwaukic club at $1 46. Corn in quiet, and i uote At 790, a Te. Take imports —1,400 bole, flour, 16,700 corn, and 4,900 ¢o. wheat. ' shi by canal 1,100 nes Nour and 6,00) bushels corn. Flour in unchanged aioe vo-day bo rie . tode bi. $6 25 for superfine Wisconsin: $0 sa goth Co 2m See Ge ae bee, Te" ante ‘ing at $1 28, Corn Sales 44,600 vessel aan 780. Oats nominally 670, a 67 ye. oo ase to Troy, and 1054 he) oar ene up 20,000 | i wheat am I. ane time—8,000 busheig wheat, 3,000 bushels corm and 9,000 bushels gale, Mt Tae 8 ‘and to arrive, . Frolgnte ‘irmer—corn New York. Our W Vblngton Correspondence, + The Barwa, he Techinus af Darien, ‘The Beoretary of Wa bas detailed Liceul. Michier, of ane Topographical Corps, for éhe expioration of the country be- low tho Isthmus of Darien, im Order to ascertain the pras- i ae it = i ie z. ; Ff | ; f rh t EE Eight or ton days before tho arrival of the Mercery te New Yorks the passengers came up stairs and made com- piaint that there were three or four men down in the cabin drunk; ihe captain sent down and bad them brought ap; ‘those who were able walked up, and those who could mot walk were pulled up the hold; the deceased was one of STATEMENT OF THE SHIP'S OWNERS. ‘The Mercury is owned by Messrs. Boyd & Hinckem, of 161 Pearl street. The following Is the statement they gave our reporter :— The eflects i i i i 8 8 : E z [ i F i i E i i : é i Hi Hy li Eta all Eggs til Hi et 3g HI rH! Hi § H i IN THIS CITY—MEETINGS AT THE ST. NICHO- LAS HOTEL AND ELSEWHEXB. The following mysterious document speaks for \teeif:— e (rmivare} 2 Naw Torx, J uA Smn:—A few frlenda of the preseat general’ ade will Thursday evening at 8 ‘at the amembiled at the St. Nicholas Hotel, to seo whal was re- quired of them. They there found several of the parties who bad signed the circular, together with leading mer- chants, bank presidents, stock brokers and others eup- posed to be in the interest ef the administration party. Ab first it was supped that the meeting had some referenos to the distribution of the spolis in the Custom House, but ‘The firet meeting was hold on the Friday evening to pond cire ition to contribute for the A committee to solicit contributions Pore learn thet four mectings io all have three of which have been atthe St. Nicholas i i ; : 2 : i i ' come in this city. City Politics. THR COMING DEMOCRATIC STATE OONVRNTION-—AN EPTORT MARKING TO HARMONIZE THE CITT De mOORACY. Several of the members of the Democratic State Oontral Commiitee are now in the city, endeavoring to effect a fu- tion between the rival factions of the democracy tn this city. Should matters goon as they promise, the regular democratic committee, of which Wilson Small is chairman, ‘will order primary elections for the choice of delegates to the State Convention, which will meot early in September. The #0 called reform committee, of which Fdward ia chairman, will algo order primary elections for will soon be isued. THE YOUNG MEN'S DEMOCRATIC UNION OLUB AND {THE NATIONAL CLUB. ‘A movement is on foot to fuse the Young Men's Demo. cratic Union Club, soft shell, and the National Clup, hard shell, into one body, and the initiatory measures were taken last night to consummate the union in the Young campaign, and is the come ome |! xn DAY acilyilz from your to your vot ee ec aeecatsee ~