The New York Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1857, Page 4

"4 NEW YORK HERALD: wee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Orrics x. w. coRvER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS, THRMS, ah Ps. feo conte Pope ama The : ory ofr cone pr ©" pos) "erent Brat. 90 Wo any part afte Condinans, bo | eee ry AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. wIBLO'S pa, Rroadway—PERregrioN—SELIMs, OR vas lava of Nraras—Two Gueconies. BOWERY THEATER. MIANTINIMO, OR Tux Last Ov rue Naxeicanesrre—Pave Pay. BURTON'S NEW THEATRE, Rroatway, opposite Rond— Wert of tae Wisn-ton-wish—ANTHONY 4D CLEOPATRA. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Loan or 4 Loven— ‘Tue Consarn. LAURA KEES ®'S THRATRE, Brosdway—Natan Queer, O& RYMras OF Tun KEINE. ACADEMY OF MUSIC —Grexp Cuonat Ormna sr One HUNDRED anv TwENty-rive PERFORMERS, Bassuws IOAN MUSEUM Broadway—Brateriss aoeruatOvascarrias, a ai @€0. CHRISTY & WOOD'S MINRTRELS, 444 Broadway Tax Macicisn—Negno Minerusiany, dc. MECHANIO8’ BALL, 673 Broadway—Neeno Msopie (29. —Suaxerencay sxavinos- By Bavant's Misstaas, New York, Sunday, August 9, 1867. The News. Official despatches from Captain Armstreng, in command of the Chinese squadron, have been re- ceived at the Navy Department, Washington. Cap- tain Armstrong states that he has succeeded in pre- ®erving the neutrality of our government, notwith- standing the force of a sympathetic outside pres- Bure. The English government is concentrating a ‘very strong force in the Chinese waters, and appear- ances indicate a settled purpose on the part of the British to bring the Celestials to such terms as may be deemed satistactory. The force now there con- Bists of sixty vessela, mounting seven hundred and eighty three guns. Accompanying this foree are Several sea going hospitals and transport ships. Sir ‘William Haste, commanding the Spartan, had apo- Jogised for the insult offered our government in pull- Sing down the colors on board the American bark Henrietta Maria. Advices from Kansas state that Governor Walker evacuated Lawrence on the Sd inst. The vote in ‘Lawrence in favor of the Topeka constitution was €52, only two votes were cast against it. The Free Siate ticket for minor offices was elected. Incomplete returns received at Nashville seem t> incicate the election to Congress of seven or eight Gemocratic members in Tennessee. The election of Zollicoffer and Ready is certain. The majority of Harris for Governor wili exceed ten thousand. Both branches of the new Legislature will be demo- | cratic. In Missouri fifty counties have been heard f:om, which give Major Rollins for Governor a ma jority of 4,721. In Kentucky the election in the third Congressional district is still undetermined. In the fourth, Mr. Talbot, democrat, is elected. Returns from twenty-six counties in Iowa give a anajority of about three thousand in favor of the | mew constitution, which will be probably increased by those to be beard from. The Cunningham farce still occupies the attention | Of the authorities. Mr. Stafford, counsel for the acx | cused, has submitted to Jastice Davison his points on | @ motion to bail. The counsel holds that thé@circum- | stances of the case,as shown by the preliminary | sfidavite, obviously indicate that no object can ex- ist for any attempt to escape from trial on the part | of the prisoner, and claims that she should, therefore’ Le admitted to bail ina just and reasonable but not | excessive amount. The points were submitted to toe magistrate at a late hour on Friday night. Not being able to give them that attention yet which he fBupposed the interest of the case demanded, he de- termined to let the matter lay over until Monday. At 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon Justice Davison will decide either to admit Mrs. Cunningham to bail or to send her to prison forthwith. Elsewhere will be found the points of the counsel for the defence, together with several interesting letters in relation to the late extraordinary dcnouement inthe Bond etreet drama. The Metropolitan Police Commissioners met in private seesion yesterday morning, and after spend- dng an hour in talking over the candidates of Fri- , cay, without ceming to any decision, adjourned anti! half past eleven o'clock on Monday morning. Mr. Sickles spoke for over three hours yesterday in the Conover contempt case, before Judge In. grabam, on the testimony taken by the referee, ‘Henry Hilton, Esq. Mr. Field followed, but had mot concluded his argument when the Court ad journed. He will resume to-morrow, at .eleven | o'clock, and will be answered by Mr. Brady. | Tbe award of the Committee of the Common Council relative to the gold snuffbox of Andrew Jackson, appears not to have altogether met the ap- probation of some of the officers ot the New York Volunteers. Elsewhere will be found a communi cation on the subject. William Reynolds was yesterday sent to the State ‘prison for the term of three years and two months, by Recorder Smith, in the General Sessions, and his accomplice, William Watson, for three years. They are notorious river thieves. G. J. Gillet, convicted on Friday of stealing thousands of dellars worth of | waluatle papers from Judge Onderdonk’s office, was | fentenced to five ycars incarceration in Sing Sing prison. The Recorder denied the motion of counsel for James Shaw to discharge him fromeustody. At the last term Judge Russell decided that the indict- ment should have been for embezzlement and not larceny, while the Recorder was of the opposite opinion. It is rumored that the trial of Cancemi, for the murder of cfficer Anderson, bas been removed fo the Oyer and Terminer. A repeal meeting will be held in Tompkins square to mcrrow evening to protest against the acts of the black republican Legislature. A number of em'‘nent speakers bave been invited, and there thould be a large attendance. The inquest in the case of young Tompkins, who €\ed last Sunday morning at Hoboken from the ef fects of injuries received on the evening previous, at | ® house of prostitution in Mulberry street, was con | cluded last evening at Hoboken. At a few minutes | fo 12o’clock the jary retired to deliberate upon their | verdict, but had not agreed at 2 A.M. this morning. From a report of the evidence we learn that two | wew parties have been arrested upon suspicion of | Jing implicated in the murder. } The Naval Courts Martial Nos. 1 and 2 have been e@djourned by order of Secretary Toucey, until the Sth of next month. Before adjournment the de- | fence of Lieutenants Marin, Harrison and Perry were heard. | ‘Accounts from St. John, N. B., to the oth inst., | 2¢present the prospect of an abundant crop of grain gs most cheering. The hay crop it is thought would Be below an average. The rumor of the rov in pota- foes in that province is not confirmed. Halifax px yorra to the Sd inst. state the crops as looking wei) “he salmon fishery appears to have been a genera! failure, while at the same time the waters in some Joealities are teeming with mackerel. Cod fishing fn the north shore of the St. Lawrence is represent 0 as being very encouraging. Our files from Bermuda are dated on 22d of July. Her Majesty's floating battery Terror, (a powerful steam vessel with heavy armament,) bad arrived from England and was to be stationed at the islands. The Bermudian says that the weather was exceed A ngly mild—the perfection of what summer affords but gardeners are lamenting the absence of rain. Advices from Demarara, W.1., dated on 7th of July, report that sugar was high at that place; no’ hing doing in freigh's, and no demand for vee: ia. ae City Inspector reports 551 deaths during the ast week—an increase of 20 as compared with the ity of the week prev'ous. The increase is mee due to the prev lence of cholera infantam— disease alone. The following table exhibits the num- ber of deaths during the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguishing the sexes:— Men Women. 1 Otris, Teal. Week ending Aug 1 3s 49 at 190 B31 Week ending Aug. 8. 2 7 M6 18k BBL Among the principal causes of death were the foilowing:— — Week ending Oonsumption. ae e a h ee i ascaiss 4 {nfiammstion of the lungs 8 Scarlet fover... 20 Oroup...- 7 Cholera infantu: 6 ‘There were also 5 deaths of bronchitis, 2 of cho- lera morbus, 27 of diarrhoea, 14 of dysentery, 16 of inflammation of the bowels, 7 of congestion of the brain, 4 of congestion of the lungs, 9 of teething, 2 of delirium tremens, 1 of sunstroke, 8 premature births, 22 stillborn, and 17 deaths from violent causes, including 7 drowned. Of the total number 383 were under ten years of age. ‘The following is a classification of the diseases and the number of deaths in each claas of disease during the week:— Bones, joints, &o - 3 Brain and nerv: hs 89 Generative - 6 Heart and blood 7 8 Langs, throat, 6 Ty Old age... 2 2 Skin, &c., and eruptive fevers 83 3% Stlliborn and premature births ++ 80 30 Stomach, bowels, and other digestive organs.219 260 Uncertain seat and fever 33 34 Unknown. 1 Urinary or; 8 TOtML....cecccsecsccecsercrsecseecscecees 651 The number of deaths, compargd with the correa- ponding weeks in 1855 and 1856, waa as follows. The nativity table gives 451 n States, 64 of Ireland, 19 of Germany, and the ba- lance of various foreign countries. ves of the United The Specwiating Mania in Cuba—Tne Cen- tralization of Wealth, We publish elsewhere a curious speculative let'er from Havana on the probable reeults of the present joint stock mania which has turned the beads of the Cubans. and alarmed the govera- ment of Spain as to the future of the revenue she now derives from that island. In order to pre- vent as far as poseible the dangers of a reaction in the Havana stock market, the home govern- ment has sent directions to General Concha to stop the creation of new companies and limit the transactions of those already farmed as much as possible. In pursuance of theee instructions the Captain General has already refused licenses to a dozen or more new project’, and has called upon the directors of others to come forward and demonstrate to him the public advantages of their echemes. This has no doubt caused some fluttering among the projectors, but we doubt if it will bave any effect in checking speculation. Rather may it tend to concentrate the mania upon a few favored companies, and by in- creasing the prospective value of their shares, stimulate the very evil it wishes to di- minish. These speculation manias, like all other fevers, must run their course, and they will not break until they have risen to a certain height of the ridiculous, the next step beyond which is the sublime of reality. Thus the South Sea bubble of old produced its joint stock companies for the most absurd pur- pores just before the delusion broke, and we thought we eaw some such indications in the Cuban mania lately in the announcement of a joint etock exprees company, the chief business of which was to carry home every man’s market- ing and do the family errands. The fact is, the Latin branch of the human race do not take to finance and speculation well. They bave not that phlegm which marks the German family and its branches. We have the history of the Law echemes that were to make every man in France a millionaire more than a century ago. That bubble taught them a leseon that France remembered for two generations; while England recovered from the South Sea scheme witb the same generation that created it, apd went on prosperously with her East India end other joint stock companies during all the time that the French and Spanish laws prohibited anonymous association. In fact, it is not a very long time since they have forgotten it acd embarked anew ip grand schemea, the prosecution of which the system“of an incorporated Credit Mobilier is to produce un- told of benefits, Thus we ree these institutions springing up wherever the Latin family rules, Spain has followed the examole of France, Cuba that of Spain, and now Mexico is contemplating the same thing We do not find this kind of speculation in Eag- land or ber offshoots. We take to speculation too, but not in the shape of enormous companies that | are to make the fortunes of all the shareholders by cheating everybody else. With us it becomes individualized, and every one expects to make a fortune in the general prosperity of all. Kansas affords at this moment a good example of the Anglican spirit of speculation. Everybody is buying and selling land, always at a profit, and 91) believing that the general prosperity will be the ultimate paymaster. The system is quite an ridiculous and as certain to explode as the Credit Mobilier system, but when it does break up and all the epeculatore fiod themselves ruined, they rub out the old scores, and some go honestly to work to mal living, and others look round for new speculations to operate in. All take a prac- tical view of the thing, and lay the result to themeelves at their own door, for not having got out of the thing in time, resolving to be wiser next time. With the French and the Spa- nierde the evil laid upon the banking tystem, or the joint stock system, or the credit system, and laws are enacted—as has been the case and will be sgain—against banks and joint | stock companies and Credit Mobilier. As for the fature result in Cuba of the pre- sent speculation mania there, time only can tell whether it will have any other end than the uenal one in such cases, which is a general in- debtednese. Whether the existing laws, protect- ing the property of the sugar planters will, as our correspondent euppores, enable the Alfonsos, Aldamas, Disgoe, Moras, Quilustas and others, to absorb all the wealth of the country, is very Goub'ful. The sugar planting interest there is legitimately profitable now becauee the price of that article largely exceeds the cost of its pro- duction. The general impression in the sugar growing countries is, that present prices will be maintained because the supply is not equal to the demand, and that there are insuperable ob- stacles to the increase of production. Bat this very impression tends to overthrow those obsta- cles, as we eee, for instance, in the readiness of & large portion of the people of England to con- sent to a quasi re-opening of the elave trade, A few months, however, will tell us if any class in Cuba can escape the evils of a reaction that must come upon them. in | when the priests have their way. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1857. no leas than 115 deaths having oc arred from that | Crime and ite Oautes- The feaching of the Modern Pulpit. ‘There are periods of ebb and flow in the histo- ry of crime, as in every other tide of human ac- tion, There are times, for instance, when, with- out apy apparently explainable causes, murders will become of more frequent occurrence than at others, and it is the eame with offences of lesser megnitnde. Curious to sey, there is a tendency to as-imilation in crimes affecting the security of human life. At one time the mode will run in favor of poison—at others in favor of the knife. These capricious features in criminal statis- tics are all to be philosophically acccunted for if people will only take the trouble of examin- ing them attentively. They are to be traced in most instacces to crises of social disorganization; to the immunity attaching to particular crimes, ‘as in the Burdell case; to the indifference to their duties on the part of public prosecutors; to the fever of political excitement, or to sudden out- bursts of religious fanaticism. It bas been the subject of general remark that since the last Presidential campaign the crime of homicide has been alarmiog- ly on the increase. -A day seldom passes without our having to record some fearful tragedy inspired by political hostility or individual malice. At one time it is caused by the resistance of the State authorities of Ohio to the exercise of the jurisdiction of the federal go- vernment, at another by the indignation created in the minds of our own citizens by the usurpa- tions of the Legislature of New York, and at an- other, again, by the importation of a party of Bal- timore rowdies to controt the polls at Washing- ton. Add to these wholesale massacres individu- al murders and homicides without number, and we furnish within the last few months as frightful a catalogue of horrors as the criminal annals of apy country canpresent. Certainly, no where has the value of human life sunk to so low an eati- mate as with us, and if it continues its present downward tendency we fear that we ehall be re- duced to the condition of France in the time of the Fronde, when every maa took upon himeelf the duty of avenging his own wrongs—when no traveller could pass along the highways without running the risk of having his pockets rifled and his throat cut—and when the outrages committed in the name/of the law surpassed in atrocity even those attributed to private malice. To what is this deplorable state of things owing? It is not that we have a less amouat of religion than other communities—it is not that we hold in less respect the law. We multiply our churches with praiseworthy rapidity—we bow our heads in reverent submission to our courts of last resort. Lovers of law, order and religion, how does it happen that we present the spectacle of a people whose excesses are only to be compared to the bloodthirsty saturnalia of the untutored savage, and hold life so cheaply that we do not scruple to take it under the slightest pretence? Those who have reflected on the subject can- not fail to perceive that no ordinary causes have been at work to preduce such inconsistencies. We were amongst the first to point out the alarming tesdency of the doctrines enunciated from the pulpits of certain popular preachers in this city and elsewhere some months ago. When ministers of peace openly preach to their congregations the duty of taking up arms to carry out their insane and fanatic views, and even originate subscriptions to place rifles in the hands of their fellow abolition- ists, we cannot but expect that the corollary from such teaching will be the redress of indivi- dual wrongs by the same summary process. If ‘it be proper to shed blood in defence of a mere political abstraction, weak minds will not fail to argue that it is justifiable to take life in the vin- ication of their most precious interests. To the conclusions induced by such doctrines we believe that we owe many of the crimes that have latter- ly struck terror iato the public beart. To say the least of them, they familiarize peoole with the idea that hothicide is but a venial crime in the eyes of the ministers of religion, and no crime at all when the motives that impel it are in ac- cordance with their views. It is needless for us to | point out to what a condition of things this train of reasoning would lead us, if uachecked. We would speedily realize the justice of the axiom that confueion and bloodshed must always'reign Mr. Tuackeray’s Dereat.—The last steamer brought us the news that Mr. Thackeray’s Par- | liamentary aspirations had been defeated, and that bis opponent had been returned for Oxford by «small majority. We perceive that several of our cotemporaries have discharged eloquent Articles upon this subject, on the ground that Mr. Thackeray was defeated because he was a lite- rary man. This is alla mistake. Mr. Cardwell, | who was preferred by the electors of Oxford to the author of “ Pendennis,” has previously eat in Parliament for that city. He was known as one of the best working members of the House, thoroughly acquainted with the practical details of legislation, and eminently popular. Mr. Thacke- ray is exceedingly unpopular, even among his own class, and it was represented during the canvass that he favored the abolition of the Sabbath. The truth of the matter is that Mr. Thackeray favored the opening of the pictare galleries and British Museum on the Sabbath, agd the old fogies of Oxford thought him a dan- gerous nam. His speeches were likewise very in- judicious, and altogether it was surprising that be made ro good a fight. He was defeated, not becaure be was an author; but, notwithstanding that fact, literary men rarely make successful déiuts at St. Stephen's. Disraeli is a leader of the opposition, and one of the few orators that can command the ear of the House, bat he failed as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Bulwer made a terrible break down at the first, and even now makes no great figure in the House. The very greatest boon to an author is success as an utbor. If the world rewards him by reading his books, he may look down upon Kings, Par- liaments, Lords, Commons, Prime Ministers, stare, garters and all the machinery of govern- ment. The prees and the people keep it in order, and can destroy it at any moment. Let Mr, Thackeray and other aspiring /iteratuers remem- ber the good old maxim, ne swtar ultra crepidam. Tur Tax Levy.—From the table laid before the Aldermen on Monday night, it appears that the valuation of personal and real property in this city, for the present year, is $521,175,252, which is about seven and a half millions over the valuation of 1856, The increase, strange to say, is wholly in the value of real property; accord- ing to the published tables, the perronal proper- ty bas actually declined four millions and a half since last year. How it comes about in a groat city like this, which is manifestly steadily in- creasing in trade, prosperity and affluence, that the valuation of personal property can decline, we cannot well understand: no doubt there ia a good EEE EEE OO reason for it, other than any supposed decline in ‘he amount actually porsessed in personal pro- perty. ‘The increase of tara'ion is about ten per cent of the increase of taxable property; or to give the exact figures, the increase of property is to the increase of taxes as $7,485.972 are to $640,341. Consequently, the tax levy this year must be something like $15 on the thousand—a pleasant prospect for rate payers. We thought it was awful, in 1853, when we had to pay $12 in the thousand; what will our people say this year to $15? If thie money procured for us ® good govern- ment, if our police was efficient, our streets cleaved and kept ia order, our laws carried out, and our rowdies kept down, one might reconcile it to one's conscience to pay this money; bat really to pay $15 for no government, no cleanli- ness, no law, no order, nothing that is worth pay- ing for, is rather trying to people’s feelings. ‘The Hise and Fall of Modern Nations, National progress is a term very much in vogue among us, but few recognise the law of its developement or the ultimate certainty of its end. Yet there are few things more clearly defined than the fact that the career of every nation is marked by a clear pendulum like swing between internal dissension and external expan- sion, and that during ite forward march it carries in its bosom the latent seeds of decay, which begin to germinate whenever the process of developement has ceased. The continued exten- sion of the power of mind over matter, in rail- rosds, steamships, telegraphs, and the thousand appliances that bring the continents nearer to each other, increases the contact and intercourse between nations, and enables man to stretch out his hand to the utmost limits of the earth to sup- ply his material wants, while it stimulates national progress, also hastens the coming of national decay. The first of these propositiors may eeem strange to the reader, but let him look at it a little as it bears upon oureelves and others. A very cursory examination of our own histo- ry as a nation ehows its truth. The internal struggle that ended in the adoption of our fede- ral constitution came very near destroying the union of the old Thirteen States; but no sooner had the excitement subsided than the public mind took an opposite direction, and, clamoring for the free navigation of the Western waters, forced the statesmen of that day, much against their will, to the purchase of Louisiana. Then came the backward swing of the popular instinct, and the Miseouri Compromise question threatened a rupture of the Union, as the adoption of the constitution had done before it. On the subsi- dence of this agitation the popular wave again turned to expansion, and the Texas and Mexican war questions overwhelmed the statesmen who oppoeed them. From the expansion over one-half of the Mexican territory, the public mind flowed back again to internal disquiet, and the Kansas question for a time seemed destined to no other solution than disunion. Whether the popular in- stinct is now receding from dissension, and again carrying us to an era of expansion time will de- cide. Present appearances would seem to indj- cate that the next swing of the Union pendulum may carry it to Cuba, Mexico, or Central Ameri- ca, all of which exhibit the signs of approaching annexation. In Europe the same law of national progress holds in the three nations which really pre- sent unmistakeable evidences of political life and increase. France is vibrating between revolu- tion and aggressive war. The sanguinary era of 93 was followed by the conquest of En- rope; that again by the expulsion of Charles X.; then came the acquisition of Algeria, followed by the revolution of 48, which was in turn sueceeded by the war in the Crimea and exten- sion of conquest ie Africa. Russia, too, exhibits a continued alternation between domestic conepi- racy and territorial aggrandizement—the one as- sassinating her Emperors and the other extending her boundaries from the shores of the Baltic touthward to the Black Sea and east to the Pa- cific ocean. The great problems of Earope now are, whether France is on the eve of another re- volation, and shall Russia extend her limits to the Mediterranean in Europe, or beyond the heart of China in Asia A like operation ie seen in the British em- pire; but the conservative instinct there pro- vides against the dangerous excess of the element of internal disquiet by repeated administrations of small dores of revolution to the popular instinct. Thus the emancipation of the Catholics, the Reform bill of Earl Grey in 1830, amd the concession of local Legislatures to the colonies, were all concessions to the internal dissension spirit, and they alternate with farther conquests in India, and wars with China aod Rus- sia. Even lately we have seen the operation of this natural law there. No sooner was peace declared than the public mind was again intent upon internal change, and Palmerston skilfally retained power by appealing to both of the phases of popular instinct. He promired the na- tion not only a war of aggression in China, bat a bit of revolution at home in the shape of 4 re. form bill next year. Such are the characteristice of national pro- grees; and no sooner do the elements of expan- sion become exhausted than the seeds of decay which every nation carries in its bosom begin to germinate. In fact, we may see their partial operation in the midst of present national life and progress. England and France exhibit it in the decay of that portion of their empire within the American tropics. There a portion of the body politic has become paralyzed and withered. If a like effect were to be prodaced upon the whole mase, their national decay would be a consummation. Such # result, it isto be hoped, however, is far distant; but it behooves all to examine closely what are the causes likely to produce it, ard what are the signs of their ex- istence. We believe that a philosophical examination of the life springs of national progress in the pre- sent age will demonstrate that the germ of nation. al decay for all of the great living and progres- tive nations of the civilized world not only exists within them, but that it is the same with all, al- though nnder different stages of developement in each. This germ of decay for Baropean civiliza- tion is the desire to reduce all races of men to one moral and social standard. In Great Britain we ee its deleterious influence in ite past exer- cise upon the negro in the West Indies, and its present application to the Hindoo in India. France exhibits it in the doctrines of the social. iste, communiste, and other rocial sects, which aim at the universal levelling of man. Russia possesses it in a less developed stage in the sorf question, which has shaken her political fabric on more than one occasion, and in the growing taste for the prevailing literature of France and Germany. Among ourselves itis in daily exer- citation in the slavery question and purita, ical Election tn Mansas—Evacuation of Law. rule of the New England school in politics avd religion. Where or when it will end can only be colved by time; but how, isa question that admits of no discussion. ‘Tae ATTRACTIVENESS OF MorveR.—There must be something very fascinating in murderers and murderesses, for they are more run after than heroes or operasingers. Ever since the interesting “eccouchement” of Mrs. Cunningham took place, the street where ehe lives has been thronged with idlers, especially women, who have taken np their position there early in the day, and have been got rid of with difficulty by the police late in the evening. On Friday, the police officers were obliged to assure the crowd that she would not be moved from 31 Bond street; they seemed to wont to stay there all night. Equally singular was the rage of the Edinburg crowd to see Migs Madeline Smith. After her acquittal, the officers who had her in charge hired a female to perconate her, and drove off through the crowd, which followed the carriage shouting and vociferating. Meanwhile, Miss Smith walked away in another direction with a friend. It eeems that great murderers possess a charm superior in the eyes of certain classes to any other category of celebrities. Sometimes the desire of the crowd to see them is nearly akin to a wish to lynch them; this we fear has had something to do with the Bond street assemblages. But just a3 often the curiosity is merely idle and gross. It is nota part of human nature to be proud of. THE LATEST NEWS. Interesting from Washington, OFFICIAL DESPATCH PROM CAPTAIN ARM3TRONG ON TBE BRITISH AND CHINESE DiFFIOULTY—THE CAEROKEBS—TAE NAVAL COUBT MABTIAL—THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, ETC., BTC. Wasuinctos, August 8, 1857. The Navy Department bas received an officia! despatch from Captain Armstrong, from which I am permitted to make the following extract:~- Unrrgp Sraras FLAG Sip Saw Jacinto, ) Gos KonG, May 28, 1857. j tment that so far lam gratified to inform the Depar we bave been able to maintain our neatrality amid all he cOmplicated difficulties between Eng'and and and ‘against the pressure of our #;mpathieing countrymen. From the enorm*us force the Engiisb are collecting on the station and the arrangements they are making for its permanency, it (x clear that China isto be compelled to w off her exciosiveness. ‘The English equadron now on tho station consi-ts of thirtecen tailir: veesels, mounting two handred and se- venty-elybt cans; t steamers, with one buodred and seventy one cuns ; se 0: boats, with fourteen The following are now on their way to join the squat- ron :—Two salivg ebips, mountivy ifty.two cans ; twelve steamers, with two hundred and forty guns; fourteen gunboats, with twenty-eighi guns ; total, sixty vessels, seven hundred and eihty three «uns, Accompanying this force are several soa geing hospitals and trapsport sbipe, with a very large supernumerary medical staff, all indieating @ continued and permanent purpose oa the part of the Fpylish government. Cap'ain Armstrong also reports that an apology had been made by Sir Wm. Haste, commanding H. B M. ship Srarten, for the insult offered our government by pulling down the American colors on board the American bark Heorietta Maria. The injury is yet a matter for consider- ation by the two governments. General Herran again spent the day with Secretary Cass, and bad rather s boisterous discussion of the details of set- \lement of our Penama difficulties. Keep cool, gentlemen. 1am authorized to say that Governor Wise, of Virginia, is not the author of the editorials in ths Richmond En- quirer, nor was he the party who sent the hostile note to Pryor, of the Richmond South, as charge’ by some of the Northern press. Fort Gibson has been turned over to the Cherokee In- dians, according fo tho stipulations of the Treaty of 1836. President Ross will appropriate the buildings to public purposes. The reservation is to be laid off iate town lots, upon which is to be erected Cherokee city. ‘The Naval Courts Nos. 1 and 2, after hearing tho de. fences of Lieutenants Marin, Iarrion and Perry, stand adjourned by order of Secretary Toucey, until the 7th of September next. The Jast Congress made an appropriation of $17,000to it up & room in the Smithsonian /netitution for the reception of the collection of natural and other curiosities beretofore on exhibition in the United States Patent Office, and the removal of the museum commenced yesterday, This re- moval was resisted to the last by Judge Mason, late Com- missioner of Patents, and by other emioent persons. The Sroitbsonian Institution has nv connection whatever, and should not have, with the government. Tho appropria. tion already made is but the opening of a contemplated re gular <irain upon the treasury, and the result isa proposed purchase of the whole esta) lishment by the government, as mentioned by me some days since. As the Institution now exirts it is entirely Inade juste for a proper dispiay of the valuable collestion now on hand. This removal wili result ina call for appropriations to enlarge the building, and if the public treasury bas to bear the burden, the cov erpment should own the property. It ts also urged that as the Dasiness of the |nstitution is at present conducted, there is need only for ® small office at which its funds may be paid out or squandered, as the care may lo Bat while the humbog exists it should be confined to a waste of its own ineome ($0,000 annually) and not be permitied to lay ite bands on one dime of the public money. Wil! not Con gress check thi movement at ite sturt, before the [mstitu tion ge's a strong hold of the government pap? The public will see. Don. ©. Roberts was to day commirsioned latian Agent for | mb. THE GEVERA! NEWorAre® DEYrATON Wasnincrow, Avgust 8, 1867 Tue Navy Department this morning received a letter from flag officer James Armatrory, dated United Siates ship San Jacinto, Hong Kong, May 23, in whiob he says: — From the enormous force glish are collecting this station and the arrangements thoy are making for its pert ;itivelear chat China ts to be compelled to Wrow off ber exclusi venoes. He adie — ‘There will bo a total of 60 vesrels, moantiog 783 guas. Accompanying this foree are several sea going hospitals and transportehips, with « large supernumerary medical tat ‘The State Biection. MISSOURI. St. Lowm, Avgavt 8, 1887 The retorne from fifiy counties gives Ma). Roitine, for Governor, a majority of 4,721, being a gain on Fillmore’s vote in the Presidential election of 4520 rbtes. In fifty counties, Messrs. Richardson, Soot ‘afton, for Judges of the Supreme Court, were largely ahead. KENTUCKF. Lovrevnim, Aggust 8, 1857. ‘The election in the third Congressional district is stil un- determined, but it \s claimed for Mr, ( nderwood, Amert- can, In the fourth district Mr. Talbot, democrat, is elected. OWA Dencgen, towa, Auguat 8, 1887 Retarpe from twenty six counties foot up 6,665 for the new Conatitotion and 3,398 against it. Thos counties to hear from will probably increase the majority for the consti. tutlon. Nasnvittm, August 8, 1867, ‘Tho incomplete returns received indioate ihe election to Congress of seven or eight democrats. The election of Mesars. Zollicotier and Ready is certain. Etheridge’s it doubtful. The new Legisiature is democratic in both branches, The majority of Harris, for Governor, will ex. ceed 10,600. The Suit of the People against the Supervisors of Orange County, ALnany, August 8, 1967. A decision was rendered at the General Term of the Su- preme Court, in the case of the l'eople agains\ the Super. ‘visors of Orange county, to compel the county to levy a tax under the law of 1855. The decition sustains the conati- totionality of the law imposing the tax, and givos jodg- ‘ment against the Supervisors for nogleot of duty in not levying the tax. ews from Texas, Wasninaton, August 8, 1857. The San Antonio Herald of the 204 wit, mays that Captain Pope’s artesian well party had left for the upper country. Chief Justice Mcleod, of Bexar county, died on the 2ist ultimo. Mobile papers of the 24 nat. are to band, but contain no news of interest, Burning of « Cotton Factory. Mowruna:, Auguat 8, 1867. ‘The Harris cotton factory, on the Lachine eansl, was Ored inst night by an incendiary and totally destroyed. rence, dic. St. Loum, August 8, 1887, Advices from Kansas state tbat Governor Walker eva- lated Lawrence on the 8d inst., with all but forty of the treo,"s. The ostensible caure of this is the Indian attack on Fo,t Reilly, which is regarded here as a ruse to got the troops away. ‘The vote ia Law:ence on the Topeka constitution was 662 in favor of it to 2 agaist it. ‘The free State ticket for minor officers has beon elected. Sailing of the Ctreassian for Liverpool. Bostom, August 6, 1667. ‘The steamer Circassian safied from Portland this after. ‘noon for Liverpool via Ha‘lfax and 31, Jobn’s. Markets. PHILADBLPHIA ®8TOCK BOARD. ParLapatrata, August 8. 1857. one te dull, carey pg Fives, 8536; nd rer Pensaylvenia Halirend a0. "6 Uusad Railroad, 1X; Religious intelligeuce, LOCAL MOVEMENTS, Rey. H. Dana Ward will preach this evening in the Memorial church, corner Waverley place and Hammond street, one block from the junction of Elevemth street and Greenwich and Seventh avenues. ° ‘There will be preaching to day in the John street First Methodist Episoopal church, by the pastor, Rev. Charles E. Barris. Bishop Bayley will celebrate mass and preach in the new Catholic church, Long Branch, this morning at 103, o'clock. Rey. Samuel H. Cox, D. 1), will officiate this morning and evening in the Madison square Presbyteriam church. Rev. Edward 0, Flagg, from Paterson, N, J., will preach tn the Church of the F,iphany, 180 Stanton street, between Essex and Norfolk streets, this evening. Divine service will be held to day in Grace chapel, Astor piace. ‘The North Dutch church, corner of Fulton and William streets, will be re opened for divine service today. The fr vices will be condusted by one of the pastors of the Collegiate church alternately. The North Reformed Dutch church edifice, at the corner of Fulton and William streets, fs, next to St. Paul’s Fplvcopal cburch, in Broadway, the oidest now existing in this city. St Paal’s was oponed for divine service in 1766, and the Nor'h Dutch in 1769. At that time it received the name of the North, as belog built in the most nortbern cenfines of the city, aud 80 became distinguished from the South Dutch church in Garden street, now Exchange pisce, and the Middle Dutch church, pow the Post office, in Nasau street. For a number years pact the tide of removal from the lower part of che city, 18 connection wi.b ite conversion for commercial bu. riness, bas increased ranidly, until now but few families, brought up within the church, and under pastoral care, remain in the vicinity. till, a population equally numer ous, but of a different and more ‘luctuating character, is found witbin the lower wards, whore spiritual wants need to be invents; plied. edifices ip this while the Dutoh church, or: houses of worshi; city, remains, linked as ® memorial to end in tanto Row a bogey a fleld, tt by oi! ‘surrouncing population. to bring them means of grace, and with the divine b! saving ipfiuence of the truth and spirit of isterial services are conducted alterrately by inters of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch church, 1 DeWitt, Vermilye and Coambers. APPOINTMENTS OF THE PROTESEANT EPISCOPAL BSH UP, penorane. pesday afternoon, . ne forenoon, at Kingerkost; afternoon, at Va- Saturday forenoon, at Wavpirger’s Falls; afternoon, at St. eee, Fishkill ee : ORDINATIONS. Rey. C. C. Tiffany, late of Baltimore, Md., was ordained over the egational church of Deroy, Jaly 15. Sermon by Rev. Dr. er. Mr. Franklin Tuxbury was ordained pastor of the Con- gregational church in Hadley, Mass., on (he 15th inst, Mr. R. T. Drake was ordained by the ib iy i of Des- moines, and installed pastor of the church of Desmotaes, ail Bezel ee #? E i H Jone z Rey. Henry L. Edwards, formerly of Soca, who bas for the past two years been supplying the of the Congregational church in South kbiegtea, ‘Mase., was or- pony core of that church on the 14:b ult. INVITATIONS, Rev. Joel Mann, of Kingston R. 1, has accepted a call to settle with the Congregational church at Hanover Four Corners, Mas. Rev. J. J. Hill, of Wapello, lows, bas declined a call from the Congregational church, Newark, Illinois, Rev. Mr. Boynton has decided to accept the call to Mil- waukio, Wis., and bas asked a dismissal from the South Copgre ational church at Pittsfield, Mase. Rev. George C. Cortis, of Adrian, Michigan, who reoety- ed ap upapimous ca’! from the Toird Presbyteriam church (iate De. Ridale’s) to become their pastor, desiines. ot rcniteaa Cane o phn yar moe the Segue pgfeld, Ohio, hes accepted a cal > Lutheran cbureh of Comberiand Rev. Robert W. Allen has accepted a call to become ‘pastor of the church of Jacksonvill, }ilinots. Mr. Hevry ©. Thomas, Jr., lieentiate of Loulsville Presbytery, bas accepted ao invitation to supply the church of Charlestown, Ind charge of Calva- Monigomery. The Rev. A. H. Bailey bas accepted the ry cbureb, Berkehire, ano Uni »m chureh, INSTALLATIONS. Rev. Wiliam MeLare: # recently installed as pas or over the Knor Preabytorian churet, st the Chapel in Free- mon place, Boston. The sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. William P. Clark, of Quebec Rev. Mr. Kempt, of Montreal, deli the charge to the pastor and church. bam, of Penn Yau, was in- Cong! church at Gainesville, Y., o@ the 2ist ult, Rev Aaron © Adams, formerly of Malden, was recently Inetalled as pastor of the Franklin street church ia Man- chester, N. Hi. Rev D. J. Anid, late of Madison Florida, bas beon in- tailed pastor of the church in Tallahassee, Florida, vacated by the transfer of the Rev. D. MeNetll Turner to the Pros- dercy of the State Seminary, in the same city. Rev. Mr. Phillips was installed over the Presbyterian eborch, Cedar Falls, on the 6th of July. The servi- cos were held in » gr RE: Rey. Edward Clark, of Ashiend, Mase, to resign bis pastoral charge, in consequence of ili healta, Rev. Benjamin Tappan, pastor cf the*Green street Cor grepational cburch in Charicsto wn, Mass., bas resigned, The Rev Noab Hunt Scherck bas resigned the rectorsh, of Harconrt Parish, Gamber, 0, and an unad- mous call to Trinity Church, Chicago, Ill The Rev. Lewis P, Clover, has resigned the rectorship of ®t Jobo’s church, Jobnstoan, and acall to tim of St Pavl’s church, Spring teld, lllinots. NEW CHUROHES. The church at Lebanon Springs will be dedicated to dey by Biabop McCioeny. It ta neat, frame building, roma- ically situated at (be foot of the mountain, and commant beuatiful valley of Lebanon. ing ® magnificent view of the A new Methodist xplecopal church was dedicated on tle 20th alt. at New Provideoce, Union county, N.J. Tie | services were conducted by Bishop Soot, arristed ty | about twenty other clergymen. The imposing ceremony of the laying of the corner store of the sew St. Michael's German Catholic charch tox place on the 24 {nat im Balumore. A Second Presbyterian church has bad a feeble ox- tence for some yrars in Onwego, N. Y., on Lake Ontars. Tt was recently diabandeo, and a Congregational one ¢. ganized in ite stead ©The old chorch pas bean palld down, and a new one for the Congregationalists is nor building. MISCRLLANROUS. Rev. Mr lowe bas found it necessary, from the statert hie health, 10 resign positively his connection with te North chureb in Salem, Mave., ee its pastor. Mrs. Lydia Jenkine, of Port Byron, N. ¥., has cov menced preach See course of study, ands pow fully entitied to the appellation of * Ag An exchange rays that a few Sundays since a {pn one of the raval districts near Anganta, Me , seoing tht none bat femsies were present at tho chureh re and remerked, ‘that all the men fields taking care of their nay; be to do #0, and hie to go and be'p them.” the ladies with a beneriction, and friends, to show them bis om | congre y editee in Tieton, the object of devising as to secure « better and Christian Sabbath, caped even a censure, I relation betwees the Rev. R. 8. Hitcher been dissolved bys Stan early hour yesterday moruing enya tne Bata an carly faye tho Baltion ‘Sun of the 8d inal, With & view to witheas the solema t \mpoeing ceremony of the consecration of an episcopants immense crowd of went to the cathedral, and- fore ten o'clock, the hour appetnted for the ccromonie begin that immense stracture was (lled to \te atmos