The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ———— SaMES GORDON BESNETT QprvoR anD PROPRIBTOR. eee BPFIOS © W. COMMER OF NASSAU AND FULTON UTS. 0 velar nmeitatistciin hw | AMUSEMENTS THIS BVRNING, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway—Kruxs—81axco Y THEATRE, Bowery—Pizanno—Crimo une, on ux Aprancsces OF Hoore—Furing Dutcauan, URTON'S NEW THEATRE, Broadway, ovpoaite Bond— else Mvwcat Puenvat amp ch eons WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Lnvrsisce Paice — Young Wow. NEw iO a ba gh P——-yiaaa 6 Brosdway—O.rmriana Ly ted AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Conios!- (eres, Disso.vine Views, Faars or Macic, &c. GEO. CHRISTY 4 WOOD'S MINFTRELS, 444 Broad Tus Maowiss—Necno Mivsverissy, &c. wy MECHANICS’ HALL, 472 Breadway—Neoro Maopiss, @o.—Escarep NSTRELB. Jurtaman—By Bayant’s Mi New York, Tucsday, July 21, 1857. Mails for Kurope. HE NEW YORK HERALD—RDITION POR BUROPE. The Cunard mai] steamship Arabis, Capt. Stone, will eave this pert to-morrow afternoon fer Liverpool. ‘The Furopean mails will close in this city at two o'clock morrow afternoon. ‘The European edition of the Humacy, printed in French and English, will be published at ten o'clock in the morn fug. Single copies, in wrappers, six cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the sw Yorx Haxarp will be received at the following place Europe:— Loxvos—Am. & European Kxpreas Co., 61 Wiltiam at. Pane— & Place de ia Bourse. Lavenreoi—! ® Chapel street. Do. do. Livemroor—R. 10 street, East. Havas—Am. fn Baroyean —r ©o,, 21’ Rue Cornetiie, The News, A large meeting of the solid democracy of the Twentieth ward was heid in Thirty-fourth etreet, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, last evening, for the the purpose of taking mea- sures to effect the repeal of the odious enactments of the recent Legislature of this Btate. Not less than five thousand people were present. Bpeeches were made by Messrs. Chauncey, of Saratoga, Col. Alex. Ming, Conrad Swackha- mer, Hennessy, of the Fifth ward, Conuolly, of the Twentieth ward, and others. The meting was very enthusiastic, and did not adjourn uniil after ten o'clock. As the weather grows hotter our municipal quar- rel increases in intensity and bitterness. Tne Street Commissioner trouble has undergone no especial change since Saturday, excepting that, previous to the rising of the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, Mr. Sickles applied for and obtained another injunc- ‘tion, on a supplemental proceeding, to restraia Dev- in, Conover, Sheriff Willett, D. D. Field and Harry Bertholf from interfering with the books of the Street Commissioner's office. Mayor Wood senta message to the Corumon Council last evening, trans- mitting a communication from Mr. Devlin, detailing the manner of his arrest, and the conduct of Mr. Conover upon taking possession of the Street Com- amissi+ner's office, in order that some action may be taken in the matter. The Board of Aldermen sent the documents to the Counsel to the Corporation, and the Councilmen referred them to a select com- mittee of five. The habeas corpus in the case of ‘Mr. Devlin will be decided to-day. The spplication for an injunction restraining the ‘paying of $100,000 to the Metropolitan Police Com- missioners, was argued yesterday before Judge In- graham. A decision will be rendered today. The Commissioners have established the telegraphic ap- paratus at the station house in Franklin street, and | are about to make war on all vagrants and street | beggars. The vacancy occasioned by the resigna- | tion of Mr. Draper has not been filled. Governor King arrived in town yesterday to consult with refe- rence to this and other business. The City Hall Commissioners sent a communica tion to the Board of Aldermen last evening, stating tbat they desired to enter upon their du:ies, and de- | sired the co-operation of the municipal authorities. | ‘The document was laid on the table. It was the intention of the Commissioners of | Health to have taken a trip down the bay yesterday, Jor the purpose of inspecting the upper and lower Quarantine anchorages, and take a look at the Seguine Point hospitals. As several of the mem" | bers were unable to go yesterday, the proposed visit ‘was postponed till the fifth of August. The Board of Health met yesterday. A com- munication was received from the masters of the ‘brigs St. Michaels, Brothers, Col. Penniman and Lucy Atwood, and the schooner Norman, lying at the new Quarantine grounds, setting forth tuat there is mo sickness on board their vessels, enumerating | some of the reasons why cargoes cannot be dis- | charged at Seguine’s Point, and asking permission to proceed to the old Quarantine and discharge. ‘The subject was referred to a special committee, but afterwards © resolution was adopted allowing the Health Officer to use his discretion in such cases. Bince the Health Officer has initiated the rule of compeiling stevedores and lightermen employed upon quarantined vessels to give bonds obliging them to remain a specified time within the Quaran- tine limits, it bas been found impossible to ovtain a sufficient force of stevedores and lightermen to at tend to the lighterage of cargoes of vessels detained at Quarantine. rienced by shippers in consequence. There are six | vessels pow at the Jower Qaarantine anchorage, and | twenty-six vessels at the old Quarantine. No in- fected vessels have arrived for several days. In the case of Councilman Waugh against the Corporation, involving the question of the right of | members of the Common Council to receive com- | pevsation for services rendered, Judge McCarthy, of the Marine Court, yesterday decided that the plain- tiff was not entitled to recover. Judge McCarthy's decision may be found in another column. The letters of cur correspondent at St. Paul, Min- | nesota, published elsewhere, furnish full details of the quarrel now going on in that Territory between | the cemocrats and republicans, for supremacy in the | Convention called to form a State constitution. At | la@ accounts the democrats were in a fair way of | out wancouvring their opponents. Rochester and its vicinity was yesterday visited by & terrific bail and rain storm, and it is feared the | crops sustained considerable injury. An interesting legal question was decided recently | by Jadge Welles, of the Supreme Conrt, at Roches: | ter, in a case where a prisoner charged with drank- | enness had refused to be sworn as to the case of | such intoxication. The defendant was brought be- | fore Judge Welles, on a writ of habeas corpus, and | discharged on the ground that the Justice had no suthority to imprison him. Justices of the Peace | throughout the State are interested in this reenit, as | canes are frequently arising of a nature similar to the one just disposed of. If Judge Welles is cor- | rect, Justices will be cautious about committing to prison persons charged only with ‘passive disobe- dience” to an order of the Court. The case of Capt. Conway, o! the ship Switzer land, was decided yesterday by Commissioner Bridgham. The Commissioner stated that he had prepared no written decision in the cause, but that he had carefully reviewed the whole testimony, and that from the conduct of the complainant while on board the ship Switzerland, from her silence for a long time after the termination of the voyage, and from the testimony of the three witnesses on the part of the defence (exclusive of the letters introdaced by the defendant enbject to the objection of the United States Attorney) he, the Commissioner, was fatisfied that no violence hed been committed on the person of the complainast, and that the charge of rape had not been statained. The complaint was, therefore, dismissed, and the defendant dis- charged. Mr. Childs, chief mate of the packet ship Mereu- * Considerable inconvenience is expe- | | press ue with that conviction. ry, who was charged with the manslaughter of « paseenger on board that vessel, while on the voyage from Liverpool, was yesterday discharged from cus- tody by Comntissioner Betts, who, after hearing the testimony offered, dismissed the complaint. A warrant was issued yesterday by the United States Distrist Attorney against a certain captain of a chip recently arrived at this port for bringing 9 slave to this port from the coast of Africa, which is a violation of the fourth section of the act of April 20, 1818, which prohibits the importation of slaves in‘o this State. Fire Baker last evening presented his semiamhual report to the Board of Aldermen. It was received and ordered on file. The report em- braces the occurrence of all fires and alarms of fires for the preceding six months, up to the 3lst day of May, together with the amount of losses and the amounts paid by underwriters. It also contains, as near as ascertained by investigation, the origin of each fire. The document is well got up, and is one of considerable interest and importance to the city. We give, under the proper bead, a brief abstract from it. Ex-Seeretary Guthrie, it is understood, will be in Brooklyn to-day at 114 o'clock A. M, as the guest of the city, and will receive his triends at the City Hall in the Governor's room. ‘The eales of cotton yesterday embraced about 600 a 70) balee, the market closing firm at Batorday’s quotations. Flour was dull, and common grades of Stete and Western were easier. The sales cfall kinds were moderate. Wr cat ‘was in good demand, with sales of Milwaukie clad at $1 50 @$1 51, chieby reported atthe latter figure. Canadian fair white wae at $1 95, prime co. on private terms, with | scme lo's new Georgia white at $2, and some new North Carolina, damaged, at $1 65. Corn was firm aud supplies moderate. Ssles of Western mixed were made at 85. 8 85340., with some lots prime reported at 86c. Pork was firm and active, with gales of betwoen 4,000 a 5,000 bbls. mess, in the regular way and for future delivery, at $23 80 a $24 Sugars were more active, with sales of 1,200 1,400 bhds at the rates given in another column offre was quiet but steady, Freights were uncaanged, while there was rather more offering for Britizh porss. he Metropolitan Police—Ite Ineffictency— What 1s to be Done? Corrupt and scheming and weak minded as was the Legislature which imposed on this metro- polis the Metropolitan Police bill, we hardly think that, could they have foreseen the momen- tous consequences of that picce of legislation, it would ever have been enacted. We caunot con” ceive it possible that ordinatily intelligent men from the rural districts, or anywhere else, would fora moment harbor any intention or desire to degrade and ruin the interests of the great city, in whose glory, freedom and prosperity the citi- zens, not only of this State but of the United States, should feel gratification and delight. And yet who fails to see now that the tendency of that law is not only to degrade the city and to disfranchise her people, but also to injure ma- terially ber great commercial aud prop2rty in- tereste? He must be wilfully blind to reason or destitute of intelligence who will deny that the condition of anarcby and riot in which we bave been drifting for the last three weeks is ruinous to the trade and commerce of New York, as it is disgraceful to her reputation. The necessary tendency of this state of things is, as we have said before, to deter merchaots and pleasure seekers from visiting this metropolis, andgto drive away and keep in the country the families of wealthy residente. Thies is at once a disgrace and a eerious injury to our city. Whetever may have been the faults of that old police system that was annihilated by the act of the Legislature, all candid persoas will admit that, due allowance being made for the smallness of the force, it was highly efficient. The peace | of the city was preserved in all quarters. If row- dyism showed itself it was promptly subdaed. Peaceable citizens were not then, as they are now, iable to be attacked and beaten in open day, in the most populous streets, and before the eyes of the police officers too timid and inefficient to in- terfere. Property ‘was as safe in New York as in any other city of its magnitude in the world. But all that is changed now. Associations of brawlers disturb the peace with impunity ard overawe the new flock of police, Riots break out from day to day, and the majesty of the law is spurned and contemned. Outrageous mobs attack and demolish a factory in the very teeth of a large police force, and no effort is made to prevent them. When the police do venture to show any pluck at all, they do so not in the character of police officers, but rather in the character of adherents of an opposite fac- but as combinations of Plug Uglies or Dead Rabbite might be supposed to act with their es pecial enemies arrayed against them. Instead of sternly and determinedly seizing on the ring- leaders of a riot, they draw up in battle array, and—as described in Capt. Hartt’s mock heroic reports—dush forward into the ranke of the enemy, giving and receiving thrusts and blows, Who ever before beard of police acting in such a way? And yet such is the new system of police tactics to which, unfortunately, we are now delivered up. It is plain that this condition of affairs must not be allowed to continue. Toe city pays for a police force, not for an organization of figutiag men. But to all intents and purposes we would be just as well off if we chould take iato the ser- vice of the city a Plag Ugly asociation, a Dead Rabbit club, or the Empire Guard. We have had evough experience of the new force to im- regiment of Albany janissaries, for our new police just amounts to that, and no more. We want steady, orderly, experienced men, whe kaow their duty as officers and will not shrink from perform- ing it, The question is, how can we get such a That is a momentous question at the present time, It is a question which presses desideratum? iteelf on the attention of every good citizen, more | especially on the attention of that numerous class of persons who represent hundreds of millious worth of property in the city, and whose proper- ty is now at the mercy of the thieves and outlaws, who are enjoying a complete saturnalia in our midst. Of couree no improvement is possible for the present, except what may be effected under the Metropolitan Police act itself. That act has been declared constitutional, and, until abrogat- ed or repealed, we must make the most of it. It is idle, foolish and absurd to be raising up petty little obstacles in its way, or to attempt to thwart its fall execution by the legal quibbles of pettifoggers. The battle was fought in open field. The iseue was fairly and broadly made acd thore who were on the side of municipal tights were defeated. That campaign is ended, aod itis not creditable for usto continue the fight by guerilla skirmishing. We have en- tered on a new campaign. The iseue is made ona broader basis than bef The battle field is to be, not the leg! forum, but the ballot box. But until thie second Wattle is decided, let us, for our own sske, Co the best we can with the meavs that we porsers, We bate seen the question asked in one of the black republican organs of this city—the Tritune—why does not Mayor Wood, now that tie coustitatiouality of the police act is eshtablish- tion—they act, not as guardians of the peace, | We don't want a | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1857. ed—take his seat as ex officio Police Commission- er? We bave also seen it amerted in another black republican organ—the Courier and Enquirer — that if Mayor Wood had lifted his finger in the Seventeenth ward he could have stopped the riot. Now there ig some force in these suggestions, al- though they do come from hostile partisan jour- nals, There is no doubt that the Mayor possesses great executive abilities, He isa man of action, and of judgment, too. He has had besides a good deal of experience in the management of a muni- cipal police. The present set of Commissioners, on the other hand, are—so far at least as the da- ties of that office are concerned—a set of noodles and imbeciles. The only practical, business, com mon eense man they had among them, Simeon Draper, bas thrown up the office, disgusted with the puerilities of his associates. Now, therefore, more than ever is the presence of a practical, ex- perienced man in the Board absolutely necessary. We do not ourselves see why Mayor Wood should not take hia seat there. The public safety de- mands that be should. The great public interesta of the city have been reposed in his care, and he should not, through any promptings of offended dignity, be untrue to or regardless of that trust. Mayor Powell, of Brooklyn, has recognized the call of duty, and has taken his seat as a Commis- sioner. We hope that Mayor Wood will be guided by the same feeling, and act similarly. His con- stituents, and all who bave an interest in the pro- tection of the peace and property of the metropo- lis, expect him to pursue this couree. We trust that their just expectations will aot be disap- pointed. Sm. Drarer’s Resianation—Wuo 1s To Svc- ceep Him ?—Mr. Draper having resigued his post as Police Commiesioner, the question arises as to who shall be his successor. The Board of Com- missioners have power to fill vacancies for the residue of a term, although the power to appoint for the full term resides only in the Governor. Se- veral names have been mentioned in connection with the office—among others the name of General Hall, of the State militia, One of the arguments used in favor of this gentleman is that he isa military man and a strict discipiinarian— qualities which, it is seid, would be useful in the organiza- tion of a police force. No doubt such qualities would be, if allied to other qualifications, of great service in the Commission. Wedoubt, how- ever, whether those other qualifications would be found to exist in this candidate. General Hall is, we believe, a strict disciplinarian—so strict as to have earned for himself the title of a martinet. And however desirable an acquisition to the Police Board a good disciplinarian might be there is no doubt that a martinet would be anything but a desirable acquisition. Besides, we understand that General Hall does not powess in a very high degree those other more neceseary attributes, coolness, tact, discre- tion, and a large share of good practical common sense. We are told shat he is a man of no little vanity and eelf-conceit. But worse than all, if he were to get the appointment, he would be the mere puppet of his nephew, Mr. Oakey Hall, the District Attorney ot this city and county; and Mr. Oakey Hall, however he may be destined to shine in “Old Trot” literature, and in dramas on and off the stage, is little likely to make himsel¢ ® great name either as public prosecutor or Grand Vizier to a Police Commissioner. He has talents of a certain order; but those talents would be more appropriately brought into play as a etage manager, or censor of plays, than as Dis- trict Attorney or the adviser of a Police Comnis- sioner. But if a military education and a habit of enforcing discipline be @ sine qua non in a candi- date for the vacant Commissionership, why should not the choice fall upon General Sandford? He is a good disciplinarian—a man of experience, good sense, suavity of manners and liberal views. No one is better acquainted than he with the wants and requirements of the city; and few, we think, would be found to bring into the Board better or higher qualifications for the office than he. If, then, the vacancy occasioned by the re- tirement of Sim. Draper is to be filled by a mili- tary man, by all means let the choice fall on General Sandford. If, however, a military education be not indis- pensable in a candidate for the office, we do not know a civilian on whom the choice might better fall than Mr. Havemeyer. This gentleman, it will be recollected, was once Mayor of the city, and executed the responsible duties of that office with great credit to himself and service to the city. Like Genera] Sandford. he has large expe- rience, good commun sense, sauvity of manners, and those other high qualitice which make a man popular, We doubt whether the Commissioners could make a better selection than that of ex Rotation my Orrick—Mr. Pierce's vipto- mats.—Our special despatch from Washington on officeholders, c., shows that between the ins and the outs, in the struggle for the spoils, the administration bas no test. As early as the time of Jefferson that observing statesman had dis- covered that few officeholders die, and none re- sign. This can hardly be said of Mr. Pierce's diplomats in Europe, for several of them have resigned, very much to the relief of Mr. Bu- chanan ; but some of the most conspicuous still hold on, very much to the embarrasament of Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Mason, at Paria, for instance, of | all men, should have been the first to set a good example, by gracefully vacating his post ; bat of | all the lot of our Ministers in Europe, he seems the most intent upon holding fast. But what is the duty of Mr. Buchanan? Clearly to carry out the rule of rotation that be has adopted, and not to make fish of one and flesh of another, unless for the best of good reasons. No such reasons apply to Mr. Mason. one nothing—he has nothing to do but to is salary, and of the emolu- ments of office he hae had a full share, even ac- cording to the highest Virginia estimates. Accordingly, Mr. Mason, with all others of the diplomatic corps of Mr. Pierce who will not take he hint, should be dismissed without farther eremony, inasmuch as their places can be filled | with men jast as good, if not better, than them- velves, At all events, the idea that a mere office, holder, once fairly established in a fat place, has 4 permanent claim as a pensioner upon the trea- tury, is perfectly absurd But above all, it is the right and the duty of every administration to eelect its own agents, foreign and domestic, and to make the fat old drones in the hive give way to some of the working bees outside. Rotation is the rule; and let it be enforced where it is not respected. Nothing more is required to put an etd to this trouble about the spoils at Washing- ton. Let them be divided according t the rule, and when there are no more epoile to give, the begeare will disperse. There should be a limit to the forbearance even of an amiable man like Mr. Buchanan. Where his generosity is abused he should interpose the law of rotation, That's all. Humbug Day at Harvard College. Some Mrs Gamp was lamenting not long since- that as a people we were not good at a pageant We cannot get up @ public show with éclat. We have no Duker, Earls and Counts, no golden rods ror gentlemen usbers, bedeoked and bedizened with gold lace, crosres, stars and garters; no mob of gentry to take their place in the solemn mum- mery, and play their parts with a gravity that could only attend the great business of the wearer’s life. The rough and busy people have no pomp in them. and so we fail whenever we undertake to get up a precession. But if as people we fail in a pageant, as a people we excel inahambug. We like it; we run after it; we rejoice aud take part in it; we reproduce it ia city sfter city, as long as the novelty lasts, and no longer. But during this time we are perfectly sincere in our worship of the bumbug, and in proof of our sincerity we lavish our time, our money and our public men on it. Where was there ever a greater humbug than the reception we gave to Kossuth, and before him, to Dickens? We were perfectly sincere in it, however, for a time ; but these keen witted fellows soon saw through our national bent, and, returning to Europe, abused us roundly for it. It was this national characteristic that formed the success of Barnum and Jenny Lind, We were sincere in that, too; and we etuck to Barnum just as long as he had any new and striking phase of hambug to present to us, though we had found out and stamped him in his true character long betore. And it is not in exotic humbug that we excel— we have our domestic humbugs, and nothiag is done without it. In politics we must have a “ bleeding Kansas” or a “ dissevered Union ;” in philanthropy, an “Uncle Tom” or a “ White Slave”; in religion, a Beecher or a Brigham Young. Our public men are fall of humbug, for if it is not innate to them, they assume it, in or- der to succeed. No better evidence is wanted of this fact than the late proceedings of Harvard College, in Cambridge. There was Mr. Winthrop, with his humbug about the alma mater, know- ing full well that of the thinking and doing men of this country not one in a thousand ever saw even the outside of a col- lege, while of thoee that* have seen the inside not one in a thousand has ever done anything. There was President King, of Columbia College, with his humbug of “the blood of the Kings,” the great progenitor of which almost heard the sourd of the battle of Bunker Hill—and that is all. Then there was Mr. Everett, too—a brilliant statesman, a brilliant orator and a brilliant hum- bug, who skips over the country with one oration in his breeches pocket, and fifty invitations to deliver it, Some of our public humbugs, like Tom Beaton, undertake to save the Union, and take out a copyright for it. We had too, therg, as we had had on former oc- casions, a little diplomatic humbug. Some years ago Sir Henry Bulwer, who was a sort of dandy in literature and a Pelham in diplomacy, thought he had discovered our national weakness; and he did, but he did not find out that it only runs upon the eurface. So he went over the coun- try delivering flowery epeeches, fall of hum- bug; but as scon as the novelty wore off he was played out, and he could never understand why. Lord Napier has hit us in our national vein, and treated us toa little hambug on his part, and very dexterously rattled his ancestor's “ Napier bones” at Harvard. In his late speech, as in his previous one, there is blended a vein of his own national trait, a strong, practical, Scotch common sense, that takes very well with us, too, and is more lasting than the humbug in the public appreciation; for as soon as the former has lost its novelty it is thrown aside. It would perhaps be well for him to reflect on this, and whether the practical common sense of our people requires much more of this sort of thing. His first apeech was an excellent®ne, and his second is in good taste and place. They will do him service in the “ silent craft” of diplomacy, if he does not re- peat them too often. The philosophy of all this love of humbug on our part is, that we are eminently a practical people, and desire to bring at once into practice every new idea that strikes us. Does a man pro- mise to do something great for his race or his country, does he bring forward a new idea, a new invention, or a new amusement, we take him at his word, and praise him, and parade him, and then go home to see if it will pay, If we find that it will pay, it is immediately put at work and becomes a part of that silent economy that is working out our national progress, while we are again intent upon another novelty. Such is our round, and in it the humbug of alma mater, or the patriotic blood of a patriotic sire goes for nothing beyond a sort of family pride with those who wear them. _ New York avo Pattaverrata Newsrarer | Movements.—Our telegraphic advices of this morning's issue furnish us some fanny and very dying resort of democratic subscriptions-—that the Times is manwuvring to supplant the Vees— that the Express is in a transition state, and from a Know Nothing caterpillar is ambitious to c’ out a fall blown democratic butterfly ; and that ‘even the old Commercial Advertiser is “bobbing around’ for a place under the sheltering wings of Mr. Buchanan’s administration. These are good signs in behalf of the administration ; and as far as regards the new editorial joint stock combination of the Evening Mirror, that will speak for itself. It is a nice littie family con- cern—started upon a nice little family platform, £0 very modest withal, that no reasonable democrat to grind. The Forney newapaper movement at P’hiladel- phia is quite another thing. We concur with our Philadelphia correepondent that there is mischief in it, and nothing but mischief, to the Pennsylva- nia democracy. It is the entering wedge to the same splits, and squabbles, and fights and eternal wranglings among the party in Pennsylvania as those which have made the New York demo- eracy—city and State—very little better than public nuisance. We are not just yet prepared for this, It is about as much as we can do pending this “heated term,’’ to manage the Southern secessionists, the Seward disorganizere, the Kensas agitators, the Mor- mons, the Central American question, our muni- cipal affairs, and the fag ends and rag, tag and bobtail of Tammany Hall and the New York democracy. Add to this heavy busi- ness calendar in the dog days a aplit among the Pennsylvania democracy on account of Colonel Forney, ond we shall be very apt to lose our patience with all these small beer politicians, right and left, North and South, East and West, In the meantime we call upon the administra tion to crush out these symptoms of disogrd and significant facts in relation to certain news | paper movements in this city and Phila- | delpbia It thus appears that the New York Daily News is reduced to the last | can resist it, unless he may have some other axe | rebellion in the Peonsylvania camp without fur- ther delay; for what will. be the use of attempt- ing to harmonize the demooracy in New York, while they are breaking up the demovracy in Philadelphia? Finally, it is perhaps full time to let the demosalized democracy go to the dogs, and to settle the administration upon a new con- servative party, embracing the solid Union masses of the people throughout the countey; for we must come to this at last. But still we ask for an armistice til after the August elections. Bigns of the Future in Europe, We reported yesterday, as part of the news from Europe, that insurrectionary movements had been with difficulty suppressed in the south of Spain; that troubles had broken out in Italy apparently with a view to the expulsion of the Bourbons and the Austrians; and that the three Paris circonscriptions which had not elected députés at the last election had made a choice of representatives among the opponents of Louis Nepoleon’s government. We have reason to be- lieve that these events, disunited as they appear in point of time and space, were in reality diffe- rent parts of the same schome, and intimately connected together. Nine and a half years have elapsed since the last revolution took place in Europe. That revo- lution disturbed an era of quiet which had lasted eighteen years, and which had succeeded to an era of quiet lasting fifteen. According to pre- cedent we should have no revolutions in Europe till 1866-70, or thereabouts. But however faithful to precedent in matters of principle, his- tory deviates widely from precedent in chrono- logical points. No two successive eras are ex- actly alike in point of time. The general rule in France is that a revolution is effected by each successive generation, but that ne generation makes two revolutions—one having taught it the cost of such frolics, Butin theee later times, men live faster than they used to do, and the events that used to filla generation are now compressed into ten years or less. Perhaps this rapidity of movement may have its effect on re- volutions. At least one-half the revolutions which Europe has seen have been precipitated by finan- cial disorders. The financial troubles of the kingdom overthrew Louis XVI.; financial em- barrassments killed tbe Directory ; financial straits precipitated the fall of the elder Napo- leon; a financial deficit was the prime secret of the ruin of Louis Philippe. There is a fiuancial sore at the bottom of the present French régime. When the present Emperor ascended the throne, he found the national finances in a disastrous condition, and undertook to cure them by creat- ing fictitious wealth in the shape of bonds and promises to pay, which depended for their value on an increase of wealth which no human power could command. The remedy had a primary success. France, always a speculative country, took hold of credits mobiliers and other like schemes with ardor, and every person in the kingdom from the péres to the garyons de café be- gan to speculate in stocks, This has now lasted four years—a long period for an era of specula- tion and inflation. A short while ago, when the speculation became obviously absurd, the Emperor tried to check it by repressive edicts; but he found the task beyond his power, and eo far receded from his design that he authorized an increase in the capital of the Bank of France. That institution has for the past eighteen months been buying specie at the cost of about twice its usual profits; with a result which will be shortly seen. The wine crop has failed for several consecutive years; the silk crop has not been as good as usual latterly; even the harvests have fallen short of their average. Everything in France points to a proximate financial convulsion. Thus, though the accustomed period has not yet arrived, there may be plausibility in the idea that the movements in Italy and Spain, coin- ciding in point of time with the unexpected revival of the spirit of the Paris republicans, in- dicate a rapid approach of the old revolutionary timee. Politics in Spain and Italy are in a large measure—and have been for years—dependent upon the politics of France ; the revolutionaries of Madrid and Florence or Rome take their cue from their friends in Paris, The Emperor has played his whole stake on the success of his ex- periment. He has eet his whole soul to work to win the favor of the people of the country paris, who are always half a century behind the leading minds of the nation; and has trusted entirely to bis bayonets, to his subterranean passages, to his wide streets and swarms of soldiers to keep the people of the city of Paris in order. The result } successful. The people of the agricultural dis- tricts—like their fathere—vote as they are bid- plainly that nothing but the bayonet keeps them Spain show that nothing is wanting there but the signal from France. Altogether, the moral of these events is that | the masees in Europe are a# republican as they ever were, and that the Napoleon dynasty will | last so long as the Emperor preserves his life and health ; but no longer. Personal Intelligence. Col Fremont bad a stateroom engaged upon the steamer | Ceptral America, recently the George Law, which left yos ter¢ay for Aspinwall, and it was bi tention to have started yesterday for California. He 4b and business compelling him to stay some time longer in the city, be has postponed his proposed visit till fhe 6th of next August, Lord Napier, ihe Britivh Minister, is in town, and stop ping at the Stevens House D. & Leo, Req., of Virginia, United States Con! for | Basle, Switzerland, was in Washington on the 16th inst. Hon. W. 8 Aabe, of North Carolit Mr. B Bowlto and family, of Missouri; How. J. R. Tyson, of Mbiladelphia, and Major Laidey, of the army, are in Washington. Miss Morphy, ® young and pretty American beirese, was married tn Paris on 2¢ of Jaly, to Mr, Halllot, a Captain of the Stal end Aid.de Camp of the Gen. Regnault de Saint Jean d@'Angely. The nuptial ceremony was witnessed by Mr, Mason, the United States Minister, and several French go perale and high functionaries. ARRIVALS. Portamonth, &e. 1 Roanoke—C PWhite, Fedees. K Cotler, &F Bsiteer, Mins M ikinson and child. Mes Webster RM acama, or LM Cineg. © W Goring, 3 Ht Megat oh HT Cocke, © Blanchard, 8 T Glover, nck, Mra OM kmith J Moore, Capt Stricbiand Mrs Fitepatek, Jobn Brady, P O'Dosnell, u Mrs 1, Rennet, W Jobnaon, Samnet Stone, § A Mareball. GT Sinclair USN, V rr ~7" USN, ee, | Simi From h, USA, and family, © Hives, HOD Rirg. J Fel tiner, Mt Phog Web, Jog Blunt. © F Campbrih J 1 PM Hendy, Ew froter and indy?) Sarkey And indy, WEm Geo Fisher and dsughter, Minn Mt M Jonea—and 18 in the steerage, : ; io DEPARTURES, ‘or Charleston, in the sieamer Nashvitle— Jno Rehacble. 8 Dow, Ir, ie Oe Barong W alien: Mr FE Morrell, 48 Sianbon. 100 F Baum, H Armatrone, Jno and 13 in the steerage siento? i iis Raval Intelligences The United States sloop-of war Faimouth sailed from Buenos Ayres on the 28th of May, for Montevideo. Ter Axti-Renrens.— Spadeholts and Bradt, ths two men arresied in the anu rent district, for soootl 1g at ‘& party of officers, while p ooeeding along the road in the discharge of their duty, were held 10 ballon Saturday, om Albany, by Judge Robinson, in the sam of $3,000 each, the sureties justifying in double that amount. appears to show that he has not been entirely | wo New York Inst Saturday, that be den; but the people of the city intimate pretty | iy tie On pe jun satsing the Wow Yor in check. And the movements in Italy and | THE LATEST NEWS. Hews from W: THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE PIERCE OFPIO HOLDERS ABROAD AND AT HOME—THg INEVIT! BL® NEOKSOITIRG OF ROTATION—COK\OUB PAPER MOVEMENTS IN NEW YORK, AND ALL TBR SPOILS, BTC. Wasnincron, July 20, 1887. ‘The admipistration is embarrassed by the Pierce o holders at home and abroad, who decline voluntarily to Out, and by the hosts of applicants who insist upon o im, A few of Mr. Pierse’s European diplomats have rously resigned, but quite ® respectable number of tick like shoemaker’s wax to their places—Mr. Dallas, London; Mr. Mason, at Paris; Mr. Daniel (00! Daniela), Terin; Mr. Fay, at Switzerland, and others, nave given signs of any desire or intention to return home. M’. son is particularly obstinate and self-witled, and no short of Pad 4y’s bint to the unwelcome guest will pro bly reach his case. In the meantine. the President do not wish to be barsh, and Is seriously an.oyed by Pressare of the two or three hindred expectants, from day to day for this man's or that maa’s ehoes. The same difficulty attends the doctrine of rotation home. In the New York Custom House, for example, it said some of Pierce’s retainers are meking all sorts ‘arrapgements for holding on, We are informed of a Curtous case—that of Mr. Brodbead, Naval Officer, game is first to be promoted to a foreign Hague—and should he fail in this, secondly, to bold om the berth which he occupies. Mr. Brodhead has had taste of the honors of diplomacy as Secretary of ander Mr. Bancroft, and has subsequently been the of both Bancroft and Marcy. He is a sort of semi. ‘kid glove politician, who entertains a perfect disgust bard work, and believes that he is one of that class of the democracy that should be supported out of Public treasury. I understand that he isa! present at bottom of the late curious transmogrification of Mr. ler’s New York Evening Mirror. Under the stock com: Pany arrangement thus effected, Mr. Bloodgood (father-tn. law of Mr. Brodhead, I believe), has become ono of corps editorial, Mr. Oakes another, and Mr. Fulle is retained in the way of ballast The special object this combination is ® newspaper influence for the benefit! as indicated, of Mr. Brodhead; and yet there is reason to fear, with all that the Mirror can do, that Mr. will neither be promoted to the Hague nor retained Naval Officer—so strong is the outside pressure for tion. We shall see. Another curious New York newspaper movement ts of the Daily News. From all that we can learn here o one of the managers of the move:nent to bolter up th sinking concern of democratic subscriptions has an axe to grind at Washington, or a litte job in view in the way off making somebody pay the piper, Then it ts uni that the black republican Times, overshadowed ass organ by the Tridune, bas fallen deeperately in lovewith administration, and is patting on all sorts of wiming to get an offer “for better or for worse.” The elder Broo of the Express, on the other hand, with the violent death poor “‘Sam,’’ is making love tothe Southern exposure the democratic party. Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, oa per-| baps explain. Even your old slow ceach, the Cn cial, slnce the burial of Fillmore, is winking and linking, es only an eld fogy can do it, fora corner among the de-| mocracy. Before the expiration of the next sesion of Congress the strangest events among politicians ail news- Papera may be looked for, and nota few nowspwors and politicians, right and left, will go to the wall. THE KANSAS BXOITEMENT SUBSIDED—PROCRDINGS IN THE NAVAL COORTS, ETO, Wasainaton, July 20, B67. The Kansas excitement hos quieted down, and the Preat- dent no longer apprebends any serious disturbanaa The Utah military division, however, will remain in Kansas| ‘until further orders are issued. Commander Dulany’s case was before Naval ort No. again today. Mr. Humphreys, of Lowell, fornerly « Meutenant in ihe navy, was called by the governanat, bat! testified that he considered Commander Dulany ndoubt, edly fit for professional service, mentally, physicily and morally. Of bis navel skill be knew nothing, neve having sailed with him. Thomas Brown, of Georgetow, # con- tractor for bread, was called by government, an@estified that he leaned Commander Dulany two hundred follars, while the latter was Bread Inspector for the Navy,a 1864, which amount had never been refunded. He diinot in- tend to influence Commander D. by the loan. 1 Court Ne. 2 Lieutenant Kilty’s case was continue and General Smith, of Baltimore, was examined in hisfavor. Hon. John Nelson, of Maryland, read Commande Ster- rett’s defence at one o'clock in the Court. In tht third Court Commander A. Klong’s case was up. Purar Bu. chanan bad seen bim under the influence of liquotonee, but not to such an extent asto bring scandal upo him- self or the service. Purser B. was a government wines. Commanders Boutwell and French also testified oubehalf| of the government. 5 ‘The new steamer Colorado will go on atrial tip thig| week. Complete success is predicted. ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. ORDERS SENT TO KANSAS—FATAL OASULTY, Bro| Wasuinaron, Jaly 20, B67. Both Governor Walker aad General Harney havezower, | under discretionary orders heretofore transmittedto de- tain troops destined for Utah to preserve the pace of Kansas. Ebenezer Dodge has been appointed Surveyor 0 Cus-| toms of Salem and Beverley, vice Jomlyn, removed Robert Farnham, the oldest bookeeller and statiaer tm this city, and universally esteemed, was killed this fore- noon at the Stanton station of the Philadelphia and Rall- more Railroad. He was standing on the track as thetrain approached, Mr, Farnbam was a native of Boston and extensively known throughout the country. From Philadelpnia. COL. FORNEY’S POUT AND IVS CONSEQUENCE}—-THE COLONEL’S VI8IT TO NEW YORKK—DANGERS OP A NEW YORK FUSS AMONG THE PENNSYLVANIA MOCRACY, ETC. Pmapevema, July 20, 867. l understand that Col. Forney paid (oaactl viet a number of] friends there, inclading Mr, Barlow, Mr. Sickles, Mr. Pow- Jer and others; and that shorily thereafter Mr. Barow aad Mr. Sickles got up & private democratic meeting, ostenst- cracy, but really for the purpose of financial aid t Col, Forney’s new Philadelphia perty paper. Mr. Sehell, your Collector, modestly declined, however, having anything] to do with Col. Forney’s new organ, believing tha the duties of the Collector's office will keep the Colledor suf-' ficiently employed for at least #ix mouths to come. ‘This newspaper movement of Col. Forney is prognant with mischief. Mr. Rice, of the /’enneyleanian, refas+ ing to sel out, is not to be driven from his pysition by Gol. Forney—depend on that. Col, Forney, m tle other hand, i# evidently in for {:, ond will make a ceape- rate fight. The contequence will probably be the same divisions, fos and fury among the Ponnsylvaah de- mocracy that have dirgraced and demouiized: the democracy of New York since Van Biren’s defection in 1845; and thus there is « very fair prospect) that henceforward Cameron and the black repableans will rule the roast in Pennsylvania for some years to| come. The elements in this g.x old Staie of a denporatic| rupture abound, and ~ very little fire will set then all im aame, Bat what of that? We may be sorry for Oolonel Forney apd the wrangling democracy, but we tave no| fears concerning the administration, for {t will be amply mustained 20 long as it is true to iwelf and the @untry. That is the sentiment of our people? What says the’ ‘Hrraiot ‘ Stews from Kansas, Sr. Lovm, Jaly 20, 1867, A gentleman from Kanaas on riday, statorthat at ublic meeting on Thursday, It was determined to rested) the United Siates troops if an attempt was mace to collect the taxes. A gentleman had met Governor Walker ten miles from Lawrence with seven compantes of Infantry, and he said that he would arrange matters peacoadly If poast- bie, but that he would use force if necessary. The free State men were hurrying to Lawrence, and General Lane! had been sent for. Tremendous Storm at Rochester, Rocaserm, July 20, 1867. At about three o'clock this afternoon our city was visited) by the most terrific rain and hail storm of the soasog. Rain and hail fell very fast for baif an bour, Much of the} bail wae of sufficient size to break windows, and it te feared that much damage has been done to the crops in: this vicinity-particnlarly te corn and fruit. The Resignation of Police Commistoner Draper. Avuaxy, Joly 20, 1867. Governor King received Police Commissioner Draper's: resignation on Saturday, and left bere for New York om Saturday night without filing the resignation in the @Mfice f the Secretary of State Chapter 126 of the inwn of 1860 provides that In all cases not other@ise provided for by Jaw, Wag resignation of an oilicg may be made by Gling