The New York Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 185%. NEW YORK HERALD. Pueteiachaenerenn eras SAMES COUDOS GESETT piven ore rsorsisTos. O°FRe & W. conxms oF «amar ANP FULTON OFS. ——————— WIRLo'S GABDEN, Brosdway—Tax Conrnasanorer— Busca. y YRBATRR, Rowery—Misore Gun ar S:s— Piel or 4 Boarman’s Lira. WALLACK’R THRATRE Rromawav—Pas ve Pasows ation —Burloes, 08 THE MancaNtT OF TRNICH PRESERVED. snes EW OLYMPIC THRATRE, 008 Brosdway— Fin? Nau: —OLrEriana— Swiss Ba Arte + BARNUM'S AMERIOAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Braioriay Munsramusy—Cuaiosizizs, £0. GEO. CHRISTY & WOOD'S WINSTRELS, 444 Broadway —Tas Migician—Nacao Minsramisy, Bo. MECHANTOS’ HALL, 672 Brosdway—Neono Mutoviss &0.—Sawovst Acuouats -By Buras's Minsenzis. New York, Tuceday, July 28. 4857. Mails for Europe. HE NEW YORK HESALD—EDITION FOR BUROFR. ‘The Cunard mail steamship America, Capt. Lang, qill leave Boston on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool, ‘The Bxopean mails will close ia this city ata quarter past one o'clock this afternoon. i ‘The European edition of the Hunsxp, printed in French (a4 English, will be published at ten o’olook in the morn- tng. Single copies, in wrappers, six coma. Bubecriptions and advertisements for any edition of the @rw Yorx Bmax will be received at the following place ‘a Burope:— s Oo,, 61 Pasm— Do, ia Bourse, Lverreoir—Do. do. 9 Chapel street. Lrvmmroo:—R. Stuart, 10 Exchange street, East. Baves—Am. & Eoropean Express Co., 21 Rue Corneille. The News The steamer North American has arrived at Que- bec with Liverpool dates to the 15th inst., four days later than previous advices. Cotton was buoy- ant, and an advance of one-sixteenth of a penny on all qualities is reported in the newspapers. A circular, however, contradicts this, and sta‘es that the market was firm at previous rates. Breadstuffs ‘were again lower. Tea was firm and active, while coffee had slightly declined. In London consols had declined to 91ja 91) for money. It was expected that the Bank of England would reduce the rate of discount on the 16th inst. Lord Palmerston had re- fused to submit the circular of the late Secretary Marcy on privateering tothe House of Commons, urging come official technica! objections. The offi- cers of the frigate Niagara had been entertained at dinner by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. Nothing important had occurred in France. Spain and Italy were again tranquil. We have advices trom India, dated at Calcutta on th and at Bombay on 15thof June. The native mutipy was extending,and embraced twenty-three regiments of sepoys. Qutside of Delhi the insur- gents were defeated by government troops; but they still held possession of the city, and had cut all the telegraph wires running thence to Agra. Great | alarm prevailed. The army remained faithful in | Bombay and Madras. Thirty thousand men had | ‘been lost to the Bombay army. General Anson, | Commander-in-Chief of the Eogtish army, had died | of cholera, and Sir Colin Campbell was to succeed | him. The steamship Erin, from Bombay for China, | ‘was lost, with a cargo valued at $1,000,000. From China we have Hong Kong dates to 25th of | May. The rebels had been defeated at Foo-Choo- | Foo. That city was quiet and tea was coming in | freely. The United States frigate San Jacinto had | gone up the river at Canton, in company with a flo- tilla of British gun boats, in order to attack the Chi- nese war junks. } We have news from Melbourne to the 26th of May. Mr. O’Shaughnessy’s ministry had resigned. Sixty thousand ounces of gold were shipped for and hhad reached England. Trade was languid in Mel- bourne. The steamship Illinois, from Aspinwall 19th inst., arrived yesterday with the semi-monthly California | mails, nearly a million and @ balf in treasure, a fall complement of passengers, and news from all parts | of the Pacific coast. The total export of gold from San Francisco for the first half of 1857 amounted to | $23 ,742,589—showing a decrease of $472,322 as compared with the first half year of 1856. The tonnage returns also show a falling off, while the | freight charges show a decrease of more than a mil- Non dollars. The net gain of population during the | past six months has been only 4,295, more than one- | half of which is made up of Chinamen. These | statistics certainly do not speak very flatter- ingly for the material prosperity of Cali- fornia. Business generally was much de- pressed. Mining operations, however, were as | successful as ever, and especial attention was being paid to quartz enterprises. The politicians were actively preparing for the gubernatorial campaign. Delegates to the democratic Stave Convention had been chosen, and the nomination and election of Mr. | Weller for Governor was regarded as certain. The republicans would hold their convention on the Sth of July. The Americans were exhibiting some little vitality. In Oregon Gen. Lane has been re-elected delegate | to Congress by a handsome majority. the came rate of charges as that levied on British skips. The weather was dry and the crops promis ing. Fever was prevalen’. The news from the mines was favorable. The Port of Spain Gazette (Trinidad) contains some highly exciting accounts Of the yield of the Angostura gold mimes; bat we have already warned our readers on the subject of « little caution in believing all that is eaid on this matter. Coohes from India were freely imported into Trinidad, Granada and Demerara. Sugar was being exported largely from the islands. The crop was very fine. Freighta were generally dall. Toe Kingston markets were mostly of a retail character. The excessive receipts of fish caused a depression, and no immediate improvement was expected. Ex- cepting flour, the market for breadstuffs looked mote healthy From Bermuda we have files to the 15th instant. Governor Murray prorogued the session of the Legia- lature on that day. In his speech he eulogized the act conferring extenaed privileges on aliens, a3 having a tendency to attract an industrious class of set lers from abroad to the shores of the islands. A resolution appropriating $1,500 for the purpose of promoting the ictroduction of immigrants passed the Council, 5 for and 4 against it. The Governor gave his aseent to the measure. The shipments of produce to the 16th inst. amonnted to 1,128,534 boxes of onions, 37,848 barrels of potatoes, and 13,764 boxes of tomatoes. Rain had fallen in abun- dance, and the whole face of the country presented an appearance of the richest verdure. The growing sweet potato crop had been materially benefitted. From Tarks Islands we have news to the 4th inst. At the several ports they continued to gather large quantities of salt. Since last report 46,831 bushels had been exported, and about 400,000 bushels re- mained on hand. The American house of Reynolds and Company, at Grand Turk, had wound up their affairs, and closed heir business there. A motion was made yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge Ingraham, to vacate the order of arrest under which Lieutenant Odevaine and Doctor Ireland, of the British sloop-of- war Sap: pho, are held on a charge of having illegally arrested the American ship Panchita, on the coast of Africa, asa supposed slaver. A report of the proceedings will be found in auother part of the Heratp. The correspondence and the affidavits on botb sides are interesting, and will form a new topic in contrast with the dull details of the Street Commissioner's controversy. Judge Ingraham denied the motion to vacate the order of arrest, and thus the British officers remain amenable to the laws of the United States for arresting a vesselon a lawful voyage. The facts, however, remain to be developed before a jury of the federal curts. Several witnesees in the Conover contempt case were examined yesterday before the referee, Henry Hil‘on, Esq., but there are still quite a number yet to be examined by Mr. Brady. By special request, Mr. Dudley Field will be examined to-day, by his father, on behalf of Mr. Conover, after which the testimeny will be taken in regular order. The Health Commissioners met yesterday. The petitions of the brigs Fredonaand John Boynton, the former for permission to come up to the city and the latter to the upper Quarantine, were referred to the Hearth Officer, with power. The Excise Commissioners paid a visit yesterday to the First ward, for the purpose of ascertaining by personal inspection the character of the localities in the ward where liquor is sold, and to enable them touse proper discretion in granting licenses in the ward. The character of the places visited may be gathered from a report of the visit, in another co- lumn. From this report it will be seen that the Commissioners have already decided that they will grdnt no licenses to the proprietors of the cellar grogshops so abundant in the ward. The Committee of the Corporation charged with the awarding of General Jackson’s gold box to the most valiant son of New York has received several written communications on the subject since its last meeting. Sergeant Hugh McDonnell, late of the Second regiment of United States Artillery, claims the prize: Sergeant McDonnell is a brave soldier and a modest man. He has participated in all the stirring scenes of the Mexican campaign, and was particularly distinguished at the siege ot Vera Cruz and Molino derk Rey. At Vera Cruz McDonnell coolly lifted an unexploded shell and pitched it over the embankment of the trenches, thus at deadty peril saving the lives of many officers and comrades. The Sergeant has a fair claim to the box. The pales of cotton yesterday embraced adout 800 a 1,000 bales, iucluding 500 in t-sasita for Havre on private terms. The market closed quite frm. Flour was un- changed, and sales mae to ouly a moderate extent. The sales of wheat embraced Milwaukie clab, sold after *Change on Saturday, a: $1 62; North Carolins new ret (damaged) sold at $1 40, and prime red do. at $1 80, and white at $187 5¢ 8 $1 99. Corn was very active and higher, with sales of Wesiern mixed at 880. 890. a Wo. Southern yellow and white were scarce and nominal. *Pork was steady, with sales of mora at $24 12 a $25 25. Sogars ¢, and sales pretty freely made, cbieily regaing t prices given in another colume. For fair to prime grades prices exhibited no change from those carrent at the close of lst wes Large houses were not disposed to press sales. The views regarding the sugar market pat forward yester- day in an evening psper are extravagant and {Il fonnded It estimated the stock of sugars in this market at 100,000 hhde., besides 16,0008 20,000 bhds. of molado, which was covsidered by those posted on tre enbyect to be groeely in- correct. Besides, the decline prodused by the reduction The intelligence trom New Granada is decidedly | favorabie to an amicable and speedy adjastment of the questions in dispute between that republic and the United States. Our Bouth Pacific dates are—Valparaiso 15th, aud Callao 26th of June, and Gaayaquil, Ecua- | dor, lst of July. The Chilean Congress met on the | ist alt, when Senors Diego Benavente and Jero. | neme Urmeneta were choeen Presidents of the | Senate and House of Representatives. Members | were engaged with bills for disencumbering entailed | estates, granting money for public works and insti tutions, the raising of a foreign loan for railway purposes, and the perfecting of treaties with Chile, | Peru and Ecuador. The political trials had not endai. Several bishops had asked for an amend- rnent of the civil code on points conflicting with | cborch rules. A decree had been issued autho- rising judges to call for the exhibition of the books of all merchants testifying in court. This cansed great excitement and produced an indignant protest {rom the trading houses. In Peru the revo- Tution was at a stand still. The insurgents were in» Ariquipa, surrounded by three thousand govern- ment troops, under Gen. San Roman, but both parties feared to make a move towards attack. Government is anxious to ship one hundred thou and tons of guano annually to the United States by way of Panama, and will call on our merchants to establiah a line of vessels between New York and the Isthmus in order to carry on the trade. The Le | isiative Convention was in favor ofa general pardon for the revolutionists, but the executive would order, | if possible, a long term of imprisonment. From | Eousdor we learn that the government had | triumphed at the elections. Gen. Urbina was about to leave on his mission to Rome and Brazil. Cocoa had gone up to an enormous price, say #19 50 to $20 per eighty-one pounds. The ageate of the British andhelders were arranging the terms of a settle. ment of some of the public lanas with Irish laborers- Yellow fever was increasing in La Paz, Bolivia, ‘The proposition of the French Consul for the pur- chase of copper mines on the coast was siil] un- ‘answered. Trade waa dul) at Valparaiso. Flour sold at $875 per 200 Ibs.; coffee $15 per quintel; tin $27 per quintel, and hides $23 per quintal. ‘We have files from Kingston, Jamaica, to the 15th instant, with later news from most of the other islands. The Jamaica planters were very thankful for the “free labor supply” opinions entertained by Lord Palmerston as expreseed to their deputation in London. Admiral Walcott’s opinion as to the in- tility of © gun boat preventive flotilla: off Cubs is fidiculed by the local press. French wines in French Pbips are to be ndmitted to the port of Kingston at in duty, aod decline in prices, does pot make a difference im value ince the Ist instant of two anda half to tree miliions of dollars, The reductiog in doties entatls 00 lors on importers, as they can afford to sell lower, or to the extent of the reduction, withoct any loss. The total va uc of all the sugars, molados and molarees in thie market dose not probably exceed $14,000,000 a $15,000,000—hence a decline in value of $2,500,000 n $3,000,000 wonld give evens greater decline per pound than that it bas pot forward. Ite story that “every table at the West is sap- plied with maple syrup or sugar of ome make” is simply absurd. The maple sugar story has for rome time past been “played out.’ Coffee was quite firm, with sales of Rio at lic. a12)je. Some holders had withdrawn from | the market. Freight engagements were light and rates unchanged. A vessel was taken up to load with pipe staves for Marseilles at $25. ‘The News from New Granada— Settlement of the Dificulties with that Republic. Our advices from Bogota and from Washing- ton, which we publish elsewhere, all indicate an early settlement of the pending difficulties with New Granada. We stated some days since that Gen. Herran, the minister of that republic, had received fall powers from his government to negotiate a set- tlement, and that he had proceeded to Washing- ton for that purpose. We now learn that he had & long interview with Gen. Cam on the sub- ject yesterday, and that he has submitted his pre- liminary propositions. These would no doubt be somewhat modified by our government, bat our despatch leads us to believe that on the whole they were deemed acceptable. Mr. Bow- lin, our late Minister at Bogota, and Mr. Morse, late Commissioner there, had been requested to remain in the capital in anticipation of these negotiations, so that they might facilitate an carly settlement by personal conferences, if such should be necessary; and Mr. Hoagly, the Pre. sident of the Panama Railroad Company, is on the spot in order to take care of the interests of that corporation. From Bogota we learn that a change had taken place in public opinion more favorable to this country, and eeveral laws had been enacted by Congress to enable President Oxpina to settle all the pending questions with this country by convention, without the necessity of a final ratifi- cation by that body. The President is authorized to arrange these questions, with the sole limita- tion of not infringing the rights of national sovereignty to any part of the territory of the republic, or the property which at the expiration of the privileze the ca‘ion basiathe Panama railroad. Under these favorable etipuistions there is room to hepe that the claims of our citi- zens for a just reparation for the injuries inflicted more tbaz a year since in the Panama riot, and which have been co long detayed by clumsy di- plomacy, will soon be settled. It is not to be doubted that the practical views of Mr. Buchanan ard General Cass will not de'ay this matter by apy false sentimentalism in policy. We ore assured that General Herran is ani- ma'ed by the best disposition on the side of New Grazada. Indeed, the course he bas pursued during the excited state of feeling that followed the late rupture of relations between the two countries has been a most prudent and praiseworthy one. His communications to the local authorities at Panama led them to place no interruption ia the way of our mails, and to take a very prudent and conci-iatory course towards our ships of war that were sent to the Isthmus to prevent any re- newal of the attacks upon our citizens aad their property in the transit over the Isthmus. He en- joys the confidence of his own country and government in a high degree for his conciliatory couree ia these matters, and we have reason to know that he stands on very favorable ground with Mr. Buchanan.and General Cass for the same . It is to be expected; therefore, that ‘Under his wise: guidance the relations between the two republics will again be placed on a friendly and firm focting, to their mutual ad- vantage, for a long time to come. The News from Europe—Phe War in India, The news from India is of the most startling and alarming character. As was apprehended by those who were best informed, the mutiny has epread; the eepoys in the other Presidencies have flown to arms, and all India, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, is a blaze. The Britieh troops —by which we mean the handful of Queen’s troops together with such of the natives as had remained loysl to the government—had marched on Delhi, and concentrated their force against it; they hed captured certain guns, and seized cer- tain heights; but they had not retaken the city of the Grand Mogul, or dethroned the newly crown- ed King of Delhi. For further particulars we must refer to our news columns. We take this event to be the most momentous in all the history of India--the greatest epoch since the battle of Plasey, just one haudred yearsago. Had the sepoy revolt been such an affair as has happened before in India—such, for instance, as the mutiny which broke out when the sons of Tippoo Saib stirred up the natives, or when the Mahrattas burst into revolt, we shouid by this time have been hearing of the measures taken to punieh the rebels and of the new distri- bution of authority consequent upon the affray. As it is, we hear of absolutely nothing but of the convulsive endeavors of the English to avenge their murdered countrymen at Delhi, and to guard against more massacres elsewhere. “ The late Lord Metcalfe, one of the most com- prehensive minds that ever engaged upon a study of Indian affairs, pointed to the probability of a sepoy revolt as the one danger against which the Indian government ought to guard: his predictions are being verified long before the time he indicated. No doubt the blind folly of Exeter Hall and the weakness of the new Governer, Lord Canning, have precipitated the crisis. At any rate it is upon the Eoglish, and we ehall now see whether the bluster of the don journals, and the undoubted bravery skill of a few devoted men will suffice to stay the hand of fate. There are at the present momert about 10,000 a 12,000 British troops—that is to say, Queen’s troops—in India, lent according to custom, to the government of the company. Usually, these are more numerous ; but since the outbreak in China a large portion of the English army ia Hindostan has been draughted to Hong Kong, leaving only the number we have stated. In the couree of a few weeks, this number may be swelled to 20,000 or 25,000 by reinforcements from England and other parts of the world. The number of Englishmen capable of bearing arm: and susceptible of being concentrated on any one point in India is not likely to amount to more than 10,000 effectives. It is possible that a few regiments of sepoys may join the English against their countrymen. On the other hand the sepoy army falls but little short of 300,000 men, in the highest state of efficiency and discipline. With these will side, as a matter of course, the entire populace ot British India— the rabble apd peasantry of a country counting 156,000,000 inhabitants. But this is not all The Sikbs, men of great bravery and military aptitude, are in arms; the Affghans, who have never been punished for the invasion of 1845, are eager for a new foray; the Birmere, lately robbed by the company, are only waiting for a fit occasion to renew the war; and in all the sea- board towns, the Chinese are ready to offer money and aid to the foes of England. Sub- jects and aliens, all will take up arms with joy against the atrocious and inferoal despotism which has fattened on India during the last cen- Indian empire; and that the hoary Lord Ellen- borough—than whom no man in England better ominous, awful warning! Small wonder that appalled at the manitude of the possible cstas- trophe ! been the best and the choicost market for British produce. It has been asort of private | other there. It so happened that the Journal garden for Englishmen, cultivated by a hundred | man was not disappointed. The Courier man and fifty millions of slaves for the exclusive bene- | was econ mounting the steps of a house on the fit of a few thousand natives of England. It has | opposite side of the street from where the Journal been, in a greater extent than any other country | man had established his position. Bang! goes a tury. Small wonder then that the gravest and | valry, or a strict observance,of the code of honor, wisest of England's etatemen should consider | The Louisville Journal undertook the other day | this the most serious crisis in the history of her | to speak of a democratic candidate for Congress understands the subject—should utter woris of | of the rival journal and the candidate whom he the funds should decline, as they have done, | The editor of the Journal thereupon sends one, and that the mercantile community should be | two, three missives to a certain Mr. Durrett, The utter ruin of the British empire in | of the article in question. Mr. Durrett replied India—for the events which are occurring fore- | curtly to each successive missive, referring the ehadow nothing short of this—would be an | writer for information to the proper quarter, to event in the history of England far more mo- | wit, the editor of the paper. Whereupon the in- mentous than the loes of the American coloaies, | censed Journal man sent word to his antagonist three quarters of a century since, India has | that he would be in a certain street at a certain tory, but for eheer existence. It must not be supposed that the +e:oy outbreak—which we now eee had ramifications throaghout Indis— was unexpected or unforeseen by the leading stateemen of England. It may be taken for granted that they eaw it from afar. A perfectly cound judgment on the pending contest cannot be tormed at this distance, on tbe materials we have before us. Too little is known of British India to apeak positively on any material point. But eo far as the facts indicate —retting a true value on the British failure to retake Delhi, on the spread of the mutiny, on the organization of the mutineers, and en the rela- tive strength of the contending parties, it does really ceem as though the destruction of the In- dian Empire had commenced, and a new era Pregnant with disaster and calamity com- menced for Great Britain, Dancerovs Cattovos.—Recent events in this city and suburbs tend to show thatthe professions of burglar, garroter and general marauder, how- ever profitable they may seem to be, are alto- gether too dangerous to become very popular. It is not many months eince a boat's crew of river thieves was fired on in the East river and two or more killed. Somewhere about the same time a burglar'was shot while pursuing his voca- tion in the house of a brother of one of the mem- bers of the city government. The rogue managed to make his escape; but it was believed that, as every bullet has ite billet, the one in ques- tion had its own, which was to terminate the mis- sion of the professional gentleman whom it sur- prised. He, however, survived the wound, only to be taken up afterwards and sent to the State prison. Then, again, in the midst of the disorganizing proceedings by which our city police was broken up, three burglars, acting on the suggestion of Mr, District Attorney Hall, effected an entranoe into atailor’s store up Broadway. A rifle bul- let, fired by a watchman within the premises, pat anend to the career of one of the three. He proved to be a well known ‘professional, named Myers, who carried on the business on an exten- sive ecale and on a regular system, including the payment of discount, under the name of hush money, to certain members of the police force. A very extraordinary story was got up to ac- count for the gunshot wound which brought Mr. Myers to bis end, it being asserted that he re- ceived it on the Fourth of July, when peacefully wending his way homewards, in the neighborhood of the locality of the riot of that day, and that he did not realize the fact of his being wounded till he got near home. For eome time this story attracted to his case a good deal of sympathy and interest; but the real facts transpired on the inquest, and the jury found that the person who gave Mr. Myers his billet had pertormed a very creditable act. And then, right on the heels of that case— showing that this is an inauspicious sca- son for burglars and other offenders—comes the case of the young lady, Miss Wilcox, of Staten Island, pistolling another of the contrater- nity, whose body was subsequently found floatigg in the waters of the bay—the face presenting evi- dence of the correctnees of the aim with which Miss Wilcox fired. The Coroner's jury in that case, as in the case of Myers, found that the young lady had performed a very meritorious act. And so in yesterday's Heratp was published report of a Coroner’s inquest held on the of one Patrick Dwyer, who was stabbed by a eailor whom he and his confederates had attempted to garrote and rob in Oliver street on the night of the 3d of July. In this case, too, the Coroner's jury considered the stabbing “clearly justifiable.” Not to multiply instances in proof of the dan- gers attending these marauding professions, we need. only allude, in conclusion, to the case of the Italian, Cancemi, who has added murder to the lesser offence of burglary, and who, in all human probability, is reeerved to die at the hands of the hangman. These numerous cases | show pretty conclusively that those who live by rapine and violence in this city pureue a most dangerous occupation, and are pretty sure sooner or later to mect their deserts, if not at the handa of the law, at least at the hands of citizens who take up arms to defend their own lives aod pro- perty. The greatest terror that can be held out to there lawlees vagabonds is the strong proba- bility that exists of their being shot down in the act, or of having summary punishment inflicted on them in the style which Mr. Cancemi came #0 near experiencing the other morning. The law justifies and public opinion applauds the man who shoots down the burglar and the footpad. We hope that if these callings continue to be exercised in our midst, those who pursue them will experience no diminution of watchfulness and determination on the part ef the honest peo- ple of the community. Tae Curvatny or Sovtuern Eprrons.— After the disgraceful exhibition which two Kentucky editors recently made of themselves in the strects and before the people of Louisville, we do not think that our Southern editors can lay claim either to much decorum of conduct, much chi- as considerable of a drunken rowdy. The Louis- ville Courier retorted by characterizing the editor supported for Congress as a pair of drunken sots- who was about to enter upon the editorial corps of the Courier, demanding the name of the author time of the afternoon, and expected to see the in the world, the source of England's wealth, and | pistol from the incensed Prentice. It does noharm. the cause of her power and her greatnem. Let her lose this and what will she be? Darrett reaches the door of the house which he is entering, turns round and returns the compli- When the British government intimated to the | ment. No harm done. Pop goes another pistol administration of Mr. Buchanan that if such a | from Prentice; and the ball finds a resting place man as Robert J. Walker were sent to China, | in the leg of a gentleman in the house, who has and entrusted with the entite management of | no connection whatever with the fray. Durrett American concerns in that part of the world, | gets within the door, and, with arm stretched out- England would be happy to see this country re- | side, returns the fire. Prentioe’s armory is ex- gulate the affairs of this continent to our liking, hausted: but a good Samaritan supplies him with the long-headed ministers of the Queen must | more loaded pistols, and thus the pair of Louis- have had something more in view than the pal- ville editors pureue their high vocation in firing try dispute with the Chinese. They must bmve | pell-mell in a crowded thoroughfare. seen—what we did not—that the Chinese quarrel was but the prelude to a far more important ‘This ayetem of duelling can hardly be recon- ciled with the punctilios of the code of honor. and dangerous war, in which England would be | Certainly, in any well regalated community the farced to coatend, not for noquisitions of terri- precious pair who indulged in the amusement would be very apt to be left to feed upon the vapors of a dungeon for some time. In Louisville, how- ever, they are free from any suoh risk. The up- ehot of the affair is that the Courier man next dey intimates to the Journal man bis readiness to meet him, either in duel or encounter, at some place where the lives of parties unconnected with the at- fair need not be jeopardized; and the Journal man replies, in the coolest manner possible, that if an innocent man was ebot on the previous day it was because he of the Courier sought refuge in the innocent man’s office, and that, finally, it had become perfectly immaterial te him whether the Courier man’s life wes taken or not. Now, on this plain etatement of facts, we re- spectfully submit that there is nothing in the con- duct of these Kentucky editors calculated to con- vey a favorable impression either as to their in- dividual chivalry, their sense of the proprieties of life, or the interpretation of the code of honor that is extant in Louisville. Mesicrrau. Bopres on 4 Granp Deap-Heap Spree —The Mayors and members of the Muni cipel Councils of St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chil- lcothe bave been for some weeks past indulging ins moet magnificent pleasure trip, at the ex pense of other people, just as a great many indi- viduals in the world are always ready and willing todo. Some line of railroad or other has been completed, it seems, which connects the Chesa- peake bay with the Misaissippi; and the com- pany were unable to find any better mode of cele- brating the event and calling attention to the fact than by getting hold of the Mayors and Common Councils of these three cities, and some three or four hundred other sponging characters —men and women—-always on hand for chances of the kind, whisking them off in‘ excursion trains, supplying them with ham and chicken, champagne and eegars by the way, and dumping them down in this, that and the other city along the rcute, to be provided for at the expense of the several communities honored with such visitation. All the way from St. Louis to Baltimore these four hundred dead-heads have been riding andeat- ing, and drinking and carousing at the expense of the railroad company and of the tax payers of the various places where they halted. To give an idea of the costlinees of one of these visitations, it is only necessary to say that the tax payers of Baltimore were saddled with the nice little sum of $10,000 in order to eupply these travelling gourmands with a grand banqueXat the Mary- land Institute. They made adescent fhe next day on the city of Washington,.and we suppose have bankrupted the municipal treasury of the capital. The last we heard of them they were meditating a descent on Philadelphia; and it was not improbable that even this city would be in- cluded within the devastated circle. In fact, the danger is, or was, 20 imminent that a proposition to appropriate $1,000 is before our Common Council, just as if that insiguificant figure would be a circumstance in the cost of their entertain- ment. Now this and all similar railroad excursions appear to us to be grandhumbugs. People now- a-days are not in the habit of outstepping the bounds of liberality for nothing. They usually expect an equivalent in some form or other. No doubt the railroad company that has incurred the enormous outlay attendant on this jaunt of municipal legislators will have some favors to expect frem them in return; avd we do not see how such favors can well be refused. If they do not expect to advance the interests of their road by such means, then they have no right to squan- der money in this way at the expense of the stockholders, Mayors and municipal legislators show a bad example in accepting these treats, They can only render an equivalent for thom by being faithless to their trusts; and when they do accept such favors, the natural iaference is that the equivalent will be forthcoming. Besides, these dead-head excursionists are’ always unmitigated nuisances to those who are travelling for either business or pleasure, and who pay their fares like Christian peo- ple. On the whole, this grand Western dead- head excursion evinces much folly on the part of the railroad directors, much meanness on the part of those functionaries and others who ac- cepted public charity in this way, and muchsim- plicity on the part of the civic authorities that assumed the duties of hospitality thus thrust on them. We hope to hear no more of such follies or swindles, Amusements Last Evening. WALLACE’S THRATRE—SHYLOCK BORLESQUED. A barlerqueon “3hylock,”’ entirely new In tilis city was Produced Jast night at this establishment to «fall house, It is from the pen of Francie Talfourd, son of the eathor of “Jon,” and achieved a decided success when first brought outat the Olympic, in London, some years since. It has been played, we believe, in Boston, but never in this city —e circumstance our playgoers have much reason to re- gret, as It is one of the wittiest extravaganzas in the Eng. lish language, and provos {is author to be among the very first burleeque writers of the day. The toxt is brimful of wit and humor, and every second word is a pun—some good and others bad—but, good or bad, laughable in the extreme. Indeed, so numerous were the verbal folicitios of this j!ece that the andience failed to perceive them all, and enough were lef anncticed to bave made up two or three ordinary extravaganzas. It must be confessed an audience does not properly ap- Preciate burlesque writing and acting. The nicest points are often lost upon them, while an obvious ad caplandum Jocal witticlem, however poor, is recetved with shouts of \mughter and applause. When we have a properly cénsti. tuted burlesque and vaudeville theatre in this city, and our play goers are educated to it, as they are in Paris and London, no doudt but these evidences of an anformed taste will disappear. There wore no local ‘‘hits,’’ i i eli is i iF is THEATRE. Manager Eddy produced to an overflowing nouse las night, a new semi looal drama entitled “‘Twonty Years in men, an Irishmra and Irishwoman, @ negro, a Dutchman, a gambler and a newaboy, all of whom have ample oppor- tunity to make a sengation, and they do it. Paul Pinder, a B. Clarke) rill ig i E i & fi $33 3g E i i a I i § i i i. ! i 2 g Ey = = 2 5 THE LATEST NEWS. from Washington. NBGOTIATIONS FOR THE GHTTLEMBNT OF THE WEW GRANADA TROUSLE—THEB BIRD ISLAND DIPPt- OCLTY WiTH VENEZUZELA—TUEB C485 OF Ma, cam LBY—BESIGNATION OF COMMISSIONER Mason— SMALLPOX AT THE CAPE VERDE [8LANDS—Pao CBEDINGS OF THE NAVAL COURTS, BTC. Wasuinaron, July 27, 1867. General Herran submitted to Genera! Cass to day, after a long personal interviow, a basis for the settlement of ear Now Grapadian difficulties, which, with some modifes- tions, may be acceptable to our government. It is quite certain that President Ospina and those in power in New Graneda are not disposed to refuse full justice to the Amo- ricap claimants at whose {nterposigjon the la e and prosemt ‘dministrations made recis mation on that government, amd Tam bappy to learn that all difficulties areina fair way of amwable settlement. Mr. Eames, our Minister to Venezuela, has made fulf reports of the conduct of the Veneruelan government ia elation to the Aves Isiand claim of Shelton & Co, and his course, It is understood, will be sustained by the a?miats- tration. In this Mr. Bachanan and General Cass are bud carrying out the positions advanced by Mr. Marcy. Ih is believed the only question undecided is, whether the Kxe- act of war, apd not even a c2sus belli, ‘The cae of ber. Seeloy of your city, agains the govera- ment of the Hague, is under the serjoua consideration of Cogent terms. The obly contest is as to the amount and it is understood that Gen. Cass has adopted means have this ascertained in an authentic manner, that further quibbling cannot be bad om that score. end that our new minister, Mr. Murphy, wilt carry out emphatic instructions respecting it. Maroy and Belmont totally neglected it for the last four years. It is gratifying to know that the present administration think some attention to private claims of our Citizens against foreign governments, though not quite so prolific of demagogical populari:y as ad captand::m essays ‘oh transcendental subjects, is part of their duty. Itis be- Neved that at the next seasion of Congress the organization of a dist! ct bureau in the State department to take ocogni- zance of such claims will be suggested. These claims have accumiated in large numbers in the State Department, aad such « bureau is necessary to retrieve past neglect and se- cure future efficiency. The laborious diplomatic duties of the Secretary of State rendes it impossible for him to pay personal attention to all of these cases. Official advices report the arrival of the sloop of war Dale at Porto Grande. Cape de Verd Islands, on the 27th of June. Smallpox was raging so dreadfully on shore that thejehip’s boats could no} land for table supplies. Before Naval Court No. 1 Lieutenant Dulany’s case was Continued. Surgeon Nelson, « witness for the claimant, bad been intimate with Dulany for years. His mental capacity was of the highest order. His moral character ‘was equal to the average standard of naval officers He knew but few so highly Gt for naval service. Lieutenant Kenberly, a witness for claimant, served two years with Dulany; considered him « competent officer, but fond of playing cards; neither saw nor heard anything de- Togatory to his character as an officer. Captain Chichester, called by the claimant, had known Dulaay from boyhood; was intimate with him; his reputation among his neighbors was in every respect as good as any man’s; deemed him very fit for naval service, A number of depositions of a favorable character were read. The case of Licutesant Horace N. Harrison, charged with dissipation, was commenced before Court No. 2. Commander Young had seen Harrison drunk and unfit for duty twice—once at Valparaiso and once at Callao. Oon- sidered him well fitted in every other respect for the naval service. Lieutenant Huger bad seen him drunk once; had ‘been with him on the coasts of Nova Sootia and elecwhere in company when he drank nothing. Before Court No 3 Commander Taylor and Lieutenaat Almy testified in bebalf of Commander Long. They had sailed with him, but sever knew him to be under the ia- @luence of liquor. The President contemplates leaving Washington for Bed- ford Springs some time during the present week, and ett! be abseat about two weeks. He is at present in excellent health, but bis friends deem it essential, in order that he may undergo the fatigue and labor of the fall months, that be should make his accustomed visit to those springs. Mr. Angel, of New York, came here yesterday, of the request of the State Department. I understand he has concluded to acsept the Swedish Mission, and will leave the United States in time to reach Btockhoim by the lst of October. Jadge Mason, Commissioner of Patents, bas positively placed his resignation in the hands of the President, and his place will be filled as soon as the proper person can be selected. ‘THE GENERAL NEWRPAPER DENPATOH. Wasuivatos, July 27, 1867. An official despatch has just been received from Kaneas, which exprearce the belief thas the present difficulties witi be quieted without bloodshed. ‘With the three companies just ordered from Forts Inde- pendence, Hamilton, Mackinaw, and Sioux, &. Marys, Michigan, there will soon be ton companies in Minnesota, in view of tho threatened Indian disturbances. Hon. Fayotte MoMulian, Governor of Washington Terri- tory, will leave for that Territory on the Sth of August. John € O'Neal, of Pennsylvania, bas been appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Utab. Wm. B. Shaw has been appointed Postmaster at Fulton, N. Y., vice Albert Taylor. Depositortes of the Metropolitan Police Fund. Aunany, Jaly 27, 1867. ‘The Comptroiler states that the Shoo and Leather Baak of New York and the Mechanica’ Bank of Brooklyn are to receive the deposit of funds for the payment of the Metro- politan Police. Soldiers for Minnesota. Boerom, July 27, 1867. The second company of Artillery, under command of Major Hayes, left Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, thie morning, according to instructions from the War Depart- ment, for Fort Snelling, Minnesota, The Sioux Indian Troubles, that the Sisseton tribe are to recetve their annuities. Disaster to the Bark Vermont. Sr. Jouy, N. B., July 27, 1867. , July 27, 1867. Eagle Hose Company No. 2, of Buffalo, was recetved here to-day, by ve companies of the Kimira Fire Depart. ment. No. 2 was escorted to the Brainard House, where Of & splendid dinner, At eight o’olook this evening © supper will be given to the company by the Fire Department and citizens, after which there will be © torchlight procession, and No. 2 will leave for Philn- delphie. Fire at Hastings, Minnesota. Dervges, Jaly 27. 1867. ‘The steamship America will sail from this port for Liver. pool via Halifax, at noon on Wednesday, Her maliafolose at 10 A. M. ‘The thermometer today 90 deg. in the shade, Death of Captain Henry, U. 5. N. Panapeurma, Joly 27, 1867, Capt. Henry, of the Navy, died Inst night at York, Pa, He was on the retired list. Important India Rubber Case Deotted, Boerow, Jaly 27, 1867, In the U. 8. CiromitjCourt thie morning ghis Hanor Judga Sprague delivered the opinion of the Court at grant Tongth in the matter of the demurror to the bills in equity of the Congress Rubber Company against tome dozen of the importers, dealers and manufacturers of vulcanived India rubber clastic fabrics, In consequence of this decision Govoral of the partion consented to ® final decros, they