The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, . OPTION M. W CORNER OF PULTON AND NASSAU @Ts. eure Fan batt? WHRALD, v0 conte © be onmee: The Wathit TRRALL. woory Fix conte pe er 2s Spe enum ‘annum, te Se pears af Gres Metintn we O8 OS tay pert hea SHE 'PAMILY HERALD, every Wednasday, at four cente per mtUN per eer (ak) rm teoPOND! . sta may ar of the world Y toa ati B@-'08 FoRmiGn CORRESPONDENTS Sea au. Lervens amp Pacnsame BO NOTH + tanen of amomymews sorvespondencs. We do nat we ige PRIN TIAA ecwceted with monte ohana snd der ADVERVIKRMF PTS renewed eortad in the Werety Pernain, i be Editions ly potd | Reaveerer eo { advertixerents rr dy ovceng and in AMURREMENTS THIS SVENING GABUMA Arondway—Penrection—Saiima, O8 Brerw—Two ORIER. —MIANTIRIMO, OR THE Last ‘27 qu inser BUWBRY THEATER How: Or tus Nazuscanenrte—lacr eRURTON'S KEW THEATRE rresiar. opposite Ron jet OF ThE WiSH-TON-WISE—ANTHONY AND ULEOPATRIA. 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Bingle copice, in wrappers, six cents, Subscri;4ione aod adver isementa for any edition of the New Youk Bxxatp wil) be received at the following places ( Europe:— Lonpos— Am Spepee Ree , 51 King Witiam st. Parn— Do. 1. 8 Place de In Bourse. Do. 9 Chapel street Livexroor—R. *tuart, 10 Exchange strect, Raat Bavez—Am. & European Express Co., 21 Rue Ocrvetile ‘The conten's of the Furovean edition of the Haratn wil ‘Combiae the pews received by mai: and telegraph as wis office during the previous week, and up te tae houro publication. By the steamer Indian, which arrived at Quebec yesterday, we have four days later news from Eu- rope. The Indian left Liverpool on the 29th ult. ‘The vews is interesting and important. The mutiny in the East Indies was spreading and Delhi still re- mained in the possession of the insurgents. The late King of Oude and bis minister had been arrestec | 2nd imprisoned for complicity in the revolt. Several | sorties had been made from De'bi, which were re- pulsed with severe loss to the insurgents, General | Barnerd was awaiting rein‘orcements before attempt- ing to storm the city. Elsewbere we give a Ceserip tion of Delhi, once the cap'tal of the Mogul empire. ‘The dates from Hong Kong were to the 10th of | June Two severe eugugements bad taken pls :e | between the English and Chinese fleets, in which | the latter was destroyed. The Chinese are | represented as kaving fought with remark- | eble bravery. Tea bad advanced in price at | at Loo Cboo and Sbangnai. The Collina | steamer Columbia arrived at Liverpool on the 20.b | ult; the Negara ontbe 20th. the yach: Charter Oak, from this port, had arvired at Liverpool with only two men on bord, The demaud for money | was very active, anc ‘he Bank of Eugiand was daily | loving spreie. Corgols bad declined, and were | quoted at the close on Tuesday at $7 a 91 for mo bey, and #1 a 91} for account. The cotton market at Liv-rpool was reoorted as generally anchenged and steady, by the newepspera. Richardson, Spence & Oo., however, rept an advance of oue-sixtcenta of ap-nzy. The sales of the last three days amounted | to 26,000 bales. The market for flour was rather more | active. Indian corn tad advanced one shilling for white. Wheat was quiet, with a declining tendency. ‘There is very little change to notice in the markets generslly. It will be seen by reference te our marine bead, that the steamers Vanderbilt ana Atlantic «ere both seen On the Sd inst. by the bark 4azoi—the former at 5:00 A. M., the latter at § A.M. The Vanderbilt was going ®t @ tremendous rate. The wind was Light from the scutbesst and the sea smooth Our fles from Mexico city, dated on 15th of Jnly, contein some rdaitions! news items, wuict we publish this morning There was uo doubt of Genrra! Comonfort's re-election to the Presideotial chair. The voring in the district of the city of | Bexico was ja:gely in bis favor over many canci dates The best #pirit prevails with respect to re fisting an iovesion oo the part of Spain, The monthly exports of gold and sllver are very large. General Negiete bad de'eated the insurgents aade: Vicairo Our correspondest at Rio de Janeiro, writing on | the 26th June, seye: — Che g. veromest of Brazil has ehown os hostile a dixporition towards slavery as | England aod bas concentrated ané exercised her | power for ite total suppression. American aad | Earopesn ideas as regards comme:ce and agricultn- ral acvancement are now ioseparably counected and Geveloped with us, and are prodacing « crop as if they bad been indigenous. Eur pean capitalia’s continue to invest. oweli aod manurcture here; in ternal improvements ere ov the increase, and lands and water power he-ctofore useless are being brought into enccessful and prosperous bearing. ‘The United States storeship Supply will sail for New York in a few days. ‘The bark NH. Gaston, from Dominico, arrived | yeeterdey at the upper Quarantine, having gone to New Haven, Conn, first, and thence to New York Defore arrival at New York the captaia was in- | formed of his duty to report bimeelf at Quaran tine, and ¢i¢ so accordingly, thae jug bim- self from being muleted in $1,000 fine, which ctherwise he would have been compelled to pey. The brig Truxilio, from Port au Prince, arrived yesterday, and was sent to the lower Quarantine anchorage. She lost six of her crew from yellow fever in port, but had no sick meas on board on her arrival here. The schoouer Cary Sandford has teen permitted to come to the | city today, and the bark Argus to come ap to the old Quarantine, Both these vessels have been laying fome time at the lower anchorage. Our correap ndent at St. Paul, Minnesota, says that both conventions are hard at work in making Constitutions for the futare State of Minnesota, and expect to get through in a couple of weeks. Grea excitement prevails in both bodies—xnembers are leaving their seats daily to address mass meetings, and the mumber present at any one time is nut more than e third. Letters from Bedford Springs, the Adirondack Mountains, Newport, Navesink Richfield Springs Florence, Lake Mohegan, Oid Poiat Comfort, & giving an account of the doings at these several watering places, will be found in our columns this morning. They appear to have quite an avreeah'e time of it at Florence in the way of theatric:ls and tableaur vivante. At Newpor: public attention hae been attracted to an exhibition of pedestrianiem the performer, « Mr. Hughes, having andertaken to Walk eighty covsecutive hours at the rate of two end & baif miles per hour. At Navesink the priaci pal attraction dusing the past week has been a Jer | sey scrub borse race, at the “Branch,” whica seems NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1867. etn ney t bive created quite a furore among the fasbiona- bles and Jerseymen, and resulted as such races usually do, in the ewindling of outsiders and enrich- ing landlords, which latter seem to have reaped an ebundant harvest. At Richfield trout fishing is all the go, one fine fellow, weighing two and a half pounds having been caught by a disciple of old Izaak Walton. It is said a few more of the “same sort” are left. Mr. Buchanan, who has been etay- ing at the Bedford Springs, wili leave there to-day for Washingtox. ‘These springs are a favorite summer resort of Mr. Buchanan, who first visited them in 1816, and bas continued to do 60 anoually when circumstances permitted. These springs were at one time much frequented by eminent men from Maryland and Virginia. Our Adirondack cor respondent gives us a gruphic account of an excur sion in that region of lake and mountain, witha sketch of deer bun'ing by moonlight. The Quarantine Commissioners have invited the Commissioners of Emigration to visit Seguiue’s Point with them to-morrow. The object of the visit is to make a formal transfer of the new Quarantine and borpital buildings to the list named Commis. eicners. It remains to be ee:n whether the latter Beard will accept the new buildings. Mr. Field is expected to conciude his argument today in the Conover contempt case, in beralf of Mr. Conover. Mr. Brady will reply for the plain- tifls; but Judge Ingraham’s deci-ion wiil probably sot be given for a tew days. It he dec.des ad- versely to Mr. Conover, taat gentleman may s)0n find himeeif in the unpleasant dorance from which Mr. Deviin has just been released. We give a re- port this morving of the proceediugs of Satarday. The ease of John Smith, the Portuguese sailor, who was copvicted of killing the captain of the brig General Pierce, and who is now under sentence of death in the city prison, has not yet been decided upon by the President. A letter from one of the jurors who convicted the prisoner, containing much evidence in mitigation of the offence, has been laid before the Attorney General. The jury in the case of Theodore L. T mpkins, who was fatally injnred at a house in Mulberry street on the niebt of the 2d inst., a‘tera brief de- liberation returned a verdict that the deceased came } to hie ceath from blows inflicted witn a loaded cane, lung shot, or some other weapon, by persons utknown. Mr. Walter Jarboe, a policeman, whose family reside in the Seventh ward, cisappesred mysterious: ly on the evening «f the 2d inst, and all endeavors to ascertain his whereabouts, if living, tave proved frnitleas. From the fact that he was severely beaten the night before by a gang ot rowdies who infest that neighborhood, and that his life had been threatened a few weeks previous, suspicions are rife that he has been foully dealt with—probably mur- cered,or drugged with chloroform, and while ina wtute of stupefuction put on board of a vessel and carried off Great exertions are making to ferret out the mystery by the police and citizens of the Seventh ward, with what result remains to be seen. Fall particulars are given elsewhere. The body of Mr. H. E. Thomas, of this city, was found on the Cecil side of the Susquehanna yester- day. Mr. Thomas is supposed to have been drowned in that river. The fifiy-thi:d snniversary of the University of Vermont was celebrated at Burlingion on the 2d stent, with the usual commencemect exercises. The rervices were of an excellent order, and the collegiate displey made by the pupils very credita- ble. A full report is given elsewhere, with a list of the names ot the graduates, The imports of foreign goods at the port of Bos- ton, for the week euding August 7, amounted to $1,623,370, being an iocrease of $639,362 over the correspording week in 1856 §§Vbe principal tems of import were:-- Dry goods, $934,217; saltpetre, $61,265; sngar and moiatses, $65,841. ‘Lue annexed tabie enows the temperature of the atmouphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the vurtstion of wind, the currents, anc the stave of the weather, at three pe jods durtog each day, viz: at 9 A. M., and $ and 9 o'clock P. B.:—~ a& RTE |e oe Me ary Iso 1 ie 6 ‘w.6 165 0.90 ys 6: mel 6 lo ay iis (Amman? Clear all Gay aud night ‘ —Clear ail dey and bight vaday—Chear al day and night. Tu Rémy — dear all cay; night, rain. @ ecpesday —O. ercart av Cay apd right Thursday—Moralng, Overcast, with beary rain 13g hour; sfiernoa cloudy; pight, Clear and moonlight Fs idey—Ciear y and night Haturday—Mornl:(, clear ‘The market for cution ¢vatinued firm, but quiet. The rales were copfin-d to about 600 bales, at fall prices Flour was {x Night mock, while the receipts were t (ing; the demand wat good and prices wore from 69. to 10s, higher. Whest wes fem ar of new red Southern at $170 (to arrive) and at $1 $1 80 om the epot; fair white Genesee eold at 1 eo Corn was heavy, and clwed at 2ige. decline—selling ay | foe w ROSge for Westere mixed, Pork aud beef continued trm and active, with far amountof sales Oollee was sendy, bot sales were light. The freight market, (nued louetive, while rates were without quotadle, “e Tue Estisruest vor tae Burrisu Service tx Innta —We eee that rumor imputes to the Britisn offeers bere tome attempts to enlist mea for eer- vice in India; end some of the emall papers call wpon the authorities to pat o stop to such breeches of the law. We don't bekeve that any attempts have been mude to enlist iroops for the British service here; | and # there had, they would have been breaches of no law. The law under which enlistments of troops | here for foreign rervice sre illegal is the Neu- trality law, which binds us not to allow our peo ple or our ehips or our arms to be openly used against a friendly Power in time of war. This was the law which Mr. Crampton violated, and which was enforced against bim aud bie confede- retes, the British Coneuls. It is a sound proper law, and we hope that it will always be carried out as vigorously and more promptly than it was in that case, But it only applies to the case of hostilities between Powers with which we have treaties of amity. It does not apply to 9 case where Eng lishmen, Frenchmen or Russians entisted men here to serve againeta nation or a race with | which we have no treaties and whose national exieterce we do uot even recognise. That, how- ever, is the position of the Indians in Hindostan against whom Great Britain ie now carrying on war. They have no national existence. They are not known to our State Department. We have not, and never had a treaty with them of any kind. The neutrality law, therefore, could not be invoked in the case of our allowing mea to be enlirted to serve against them. We repeat, we have no reason to beliove that Shy ective measures have yet beea taken to en litt men here for the Britich service in India Bat we rhould not be surpaised to hear that toeavures were to be taken. There is a vast num ber of men here, ready and anxious for military service: we could spare them well. and they would be of great use in the Bast. We should be glad to hear that the British government were sending sene'ble agents, with money, to avail ives of the chance {0 g20¢ demand, with sales | Spread of the Mutiny in ¢he Indian Army— Reported Captare of Delhi. ‘The news received from Europe throngh Que- beo, by the Indian, is of an important character. From Madres it was reported that Delhi bad falien, but the news was regerded in London as premature, rot baving been confirmed by later edvices from Bombay. There is no doubt, how- ever, as to the fact that the besieged had been de- feated in [several actions by Geo. Barnard. The *puit which they had ebown in assuming the of- fensive nevertheless shows that the conquest of the place wi!l not be attained without severe loss It is far from certain that the captare of Dethi wii lead to such discouragement on the part of the ineurgente as to promptly put au end to tho movement, At the last accounte the mutiny was rapidly spreading amongst the native troops At Calontta and Barrack poor it was found necessary to dirarm the whole eepoy force stationed at those places. Considerable alarm prevailed at Madras as to the probabilities of a rising, but nothing hed occurred either gt that presidency or at Bombay up to the latest dates to justify that feeling. If any additional proof were wanting of the extensive apd dengerous character of the revolt, it is to be found io the severe measures which the Indian government feel themselves compelled to adopt towards some of the native princes. We leain by this arrival that the ex-king of Ouce and h’s minister have been arrested and thiown into prison on evidence, said to be posi- tive, of their being concerned in the movement. It will be recollected that ut one time it was de- nied thet the higher classes of the Hindoos had shown apy disposition to favor the rising. We believe it wiil be found, before the revolt is crushed, that the spirit that prompted it is more netioral and wide +pread in its ramifications than the Indian authorities are willing to admit. In the mea while the Engiish people seem de- termined to give to the government in this dan- gerous crisis of their affairs all the moral and material support «hich it calls for. It will be seen that a warm debate in the House of Com- mons, etarted by Mr. Disraeli, ended in the adoption of an address to the Queen, offering her all the sid in their power to assist in bringing the Indian difficulty to a successful termination: It is ov occasions like this that the patriotism and energy of the English character are most to be admired. In questions of such gravity Esglish- men rarely allow party divisions to interfere with their duty to the public interests. Itis not probable that we shall hear of the capture of Deihi tor another week or two. Gen. Bernard was waiting for reinforcemeats to s‘orm the city, and as these were not expected to arrive for some little time, all he couid do was to main- tain bis position until they reached him. In view of the interest excited by these eventa, we publish in snother column a description of the ancient capital of the Mogul empire, which at present seems to be the strooghold of the insur- gerts. It wil! be sea from the details therein given tbat the continued possession of a city of *uch rescurces would soon rally round them the whole population of the rich province of Dethi, avd thus give to the insurrection a basis of ope- rations which it would be found difficult to destroy. Law 0s THe Newsrarers.—We publish from day to day communications on Mrs. Cunning- ham’s case in its tegal beariogs. These commu- nications are likely to prove of great use to the prosecution, as containing tbe best pointe that may be urged pro and con atthe trial. The amount ot intejleet, legal, medical aud general, that is being brought to bear in socivty on this important cese, ie very striking. The whole community is retained in it ; and the peo- ple have the benefit of an aggregate amount of learning. ingenuity and experience which is abso- tutely unparalleled. We trust the District Attorney and his col- leagues are Guly gratetul for the assistance they are deriving from the papers. Under the old system, when the newspapers were muzzled, not a word of these hints or these disclosures would bave been made public. Justice would have “ gone it blird ” till the day of trial ; when some unforeseen difficulty might have tripped her up. Now the District Attorney takes the field, armed at all points, and apprised of every thing that may occur. ‘The pres# is the lantern by whose aid society gropes its way ; it is not surprising that some in- dividuals ebould complein of the too bright light, | and pine for a little darkness, Layiwo Tax Tetxorarn Canie.—While we are sitting quietly at home, wondering w hat the | pext news may be, the greatest experiment of the | age—the laying of the telegraph cable—has pro- bab'y commenced off the coast of Ireland. We do not here desire to re-echo the doubts and fears of the croakers im reference to the possible fail- ure of the expedition. Its projectors are men of too mach business experience and tact not to be eware that in every enterprise involving hazard | failure is a possibility ; but they have embarked their money in it, and have the fullest confideace in its euccers. Nor do we doubt bat the great expeiment will be successfal, thoagh unques- | tiovably great risk overhangs the first efforts, We think the change in the plan, namely, the proceeding to lay the cable from the coast of | Ireland in a westerly direction to New Found- Jand, instead of starting in the middle of the ocean acd paying it out from both eteamers at ovee, judicious and sound. The risk of accident is thus diminiehed one half ; and the chances of discovering and the opportunity of repairing a break in the cable are largely increased. This mouth of August will be a memorable one in the world’s history. Common Saxse at tHe Warknixe PLaces— Among the letters which we publish to-day from the watering places, will be found one from Newport of an interesting character. It appears that the people of that city, discovering from the deerth of visiters this season that hote and boarding honse keeping are precarious de- pendencies, are turning their attention to the means by which a decent livelihood may be made out without their being compelled, like the beggar in Gil Blas, to trast to the chances of obtaining it from stray travellers. This is as it should be. We have always thought that there was something rotten in a eystem which maintained whole communities ina state of idleness three parts of the year. It affords proof presumptive that the public must have been fleeced enor mously for their three month's endurance of hard beds, short commons and saucy waiters Luokily the returning good sense of the victims has ap plied the remedy just in the form ia whieh it is likely to make the most impression. We are gled to find that in their turn ite healthy iufluence is rapidly extending among the latter, and (hat they are beginning to regard their oc- cupation—it not like Othello’s, entirely gone— at least as requiring to be promptly amended. Tax Custom House anp THE Mencuanty.— In our columns ‘his morning will be tound » Communication from “An Importer,” in whieh the writer com of the action of the eommit- tee appointed at the meeting of importing mer- chants, held in the Exchange on Moudny last, for the purpose of investigating into the ceuse of de'ay in passing goods through the Castom Roure, ard conferring with the Collector as to the best manner of reforming that and other grievances. In Saturday’s HeraLy we gave an account of what the committee bad definitely accomplisned up to that time, namely, virited the Appraiser’s stores in Broad strect, in company with Mr. Schell, and, after satisfying themselves of th-ir crow: ed condition, resolved, as the firat step to- wards a retorm, to avail themselves of the oppor- tunity offered by a Treasury circular, issued on the ninth of July, to have their goods removed immediately on their being appraised. Oar cor- respondent seems to think shat this compris+s the whole report which the committee were intended to make, and that they consider their duttes aow completed. He is mistaken, however; for, as we uuvdersiand the matter, the committee have but commenced their labors, and mean to continue their action until they accomplish some lasting remedy for the evils complained of. If this is not their intention—if they are going to stop by recommending the adoption of a plan which, as oar correspondent tates, has beca tried and found eo beset with difticulttes and biucders that it is pronoanced “an utter fatlure’’—th-y might us well uever have been appointed. How- ever, it is well that Mr. Schell should know the facts s'ated by our correspondent regardiog the mistakes occurring in the delivery of packages, ‘and we bope he will look after them. For mavy years the merchants of th's city have not bad co favorable an opportunify of orocu:iag areform in the Custom House as now presoute it self. it iserident that Mr. Cobb is disposed to give the full sunction of the Treasury Depart- ment to any echeme for amendment which msy be availabie and proper; and we are sure he will be cheerfully aseisted by Mr. Schell. If, then, the interests of commerce continue to suffer from the grievances urder which they have s0 long been Jaboriag in this respect, it will be attriba- table to the dila'«riness of the merchants them- selves. If they pursue the movement now ia hund, diligently, by affording information to the Colicctor, and otherwise aiding him, we will have what has long secmed almost an impossibie thing —a perfect Custom House. But this fact should not be lost sight of: that the present Custom House is so miserably iaade- quate in point of size to the purposes for which it is intended, aod withal eo badly constructed, that no reformation in the mode of conducting business in that building will accomplish what is required. A new Custom House we mu and no structure limited to the dicwnsior present one, or even double that, wil suffice. We must have a building proportionate to the vast commerce of this queenly , and it mast be located in an appropriate piece, There is rocm enough at the Battery. Standiug on the very point of the water entrance to the city, and near enough to both the great rivers through which all our foreign commerce travels, there is no place in the entire city where the Custom House can be located more available tor its pur- poses. Let us have acommodious Custom House at the Battery; and with efficient officers and an able Collector things will go smootbly enough. Tue New Ayeio-Arricany Stave Trape.— | We publish elsewhere, from the Londoa Post, tbe organ of Lord Palmerston, what may be éeemed as the official announcement that the ex- periment of bringing negroes from Africa as ap- prenticed laborers to the West India I-lauds bas been definitely determined upon aud will be car- ried out In fact, we have hed little doubt at any time that such would be the cuse, for | when we first called public attention to the scheme we were in possession of evidence (hut led us to the belief that the matter had been fully discuss- ed in the Cabinets of London, Paris and Madrid, and adopted jointly by them, not from a high desire to supply their fumishing colonies with labor, but as part of a scheme in the eentimentul policy of those courts to bar the southward pro- grees of the United States, What the flual reeuit of this measure will be it is impossible to foresee, but that it will altimately lead to serlous compli- cations between our own goverument and those of Europe we have not a doubt of. In its present aspect, however, it has produced some marked changes in the public miad of England. The 7imes and the ministerial journals of London bave sustained the scheme by arga- ments that approach very nearly to a defence of involuntary servitude by the negro, and a split bas been occasioned in the Exeter Hall school of English philentbropiets, some of them teking tidee with the government on this question and others against it. Among the arguments of those who favor the government ecleme, one of the most prominent is that the system of African apprentices will do away wih the Afri- can elave trade, and eventually destroy the in- stitution of slavery itself. While we agree with the firet part of thie proposition, on the ground that there is no inducement to contraband traffic where trade is free, we do not see at all bow the institution of an apprenticesbip for six or ten years is likely to be cheaper than what is an apprenticeship for life, unless we covsider the negro as so much raw material that it is cheaper to use up and replace with new, rather than to care for, medicate and patch up the partially old. Only in fact in Cuba can it affect the institution ot slavery, It may be a part of the compact be- tween the three Cabinets that Spain shall aboiish slavery there, and establish the system of ap- prenticed labor from Africa. We have already announced ina letter from our Port Spain correspondent, the arrival of the firet of these new Portyguese African emigrants at the British Island of Trinidad. We may eoon expect to hear of the arrival of the French expe- ditions at Martinique and Guadaloupe. As for the affair being an experiment, we think that is only some of Palmerston’s customary humbug. Negroes are plenty on the African coast, and it is not likely to fail there; and as for their failing on the sugar estates, why that experiment has been tried for the last three bundred years, and found to work admirably. New negroes from Africa are always preferred on them to those half worn out. We leave the humanitarian view of this new traffic to the philanthropists of Exeter Hail; bat ite social and political aspects shall have our watchful care in their developement. It would be well that Gen, Cass instract our Consuls abroad, in Africa and the West Indica, to send regular reports to the department of the statistic of this new elave trade, In the mean- time we wish our own correspondents abroad to rend regular returns of arrivals and deaths to the Department of State in the Herann office, and we will lay the information before the world. Gen Jackson's Gow Box.—We rather think the immortal hero of New Orteans did not add to bie reputation for good ense by that famous clause in bis will which bequeathed bie gold box to “the bravest eon of New York.” The bux bus already bothered us » good veal; it is guiug to prove @ very Apple ot Discord. ‘The commuttee of the Corporation awarded it last week to Mujor Garret W. Dyckman, some time Register of this city, aed a very yal lant coloier of the war with Mexico. The award was based upon vurious epeciticatious of the notable services rendered by Major Dyckman Curing tbat war; which. in the aggregate, go to prove that he was a good officer, a brave soldier, atrustwortby servant of the State, and a faithful guardian of his mec. No coouer is the award made known than a nowber of Major Dsckman’s comradee—to wit: Major Faircbild, Major Tay- lor, Lieut. Pinto, Lieut, Gaines, and Lieut Dar- @onville- meet and protest against it; and we are bound to eay that their protest, which we published yesterday, certainly sopears to ehake the credit of thp award They take the ground that, in reepect of the high qualities for which Major Dyckman has bern honored by the com- mittee’s choice, many other officers were equally We think this quite likely. Indeed, the committee entrasted wiih the eelection of a man to own the gold box appear to us to have bad imported upon them a duty shich no bumen intelligence could have eatisfactorily fulfilled. To select one man as the bravest out of several thousand who were brave, was in reality, an absurd task, only fic for the amusement of a college debating society. Op- portunity, conspicuonaness of service, good fuck, and a thousand collateral contingencies are much more likely to decide such an award than sctual brevery ; and however conscieutiously the selec- tion may have been made, the absolute impossi- bility of obtaining reliable evidence to test the relative degrees of courage displayed by ail the thousands of the competitors, as well as the want of some standard to graduate the several cegrees of bravery, must in avy case have render- ed the contest purely nugatory. Had the Commen Couucit decided to pat a li- beral construction on General Jackson's bequest and awarded the box to the Colonel of tne New York Regiment, not as a personal honor, but as a testimonial to tne body of which he was the head and the type, then, perhaps the very difficult task imposed on them might have been per- formed without dissatisfaction. As it is, we ex- pect notbing to foliow from the plan pursued by the committee but heart burnings, jealousies, strifes and geperal discontent. We are quite ready to believe a rumor to the effect that if the Council ratity the award, the entire remnant of the New York Volunteers will march down in a body tu protest aguinst it; for, it is palpable that, how- ever wortby Major Dyckman may be, neither his comrades Lor the public can ever be satisfied that he was the bravest of all—the Achilles of the war. Tue Swiss Treaty.—We bave received the following letter from the Swise Consul, in refe- rence to the treaty lately concluded between the United States and Switzerland:— 70 THs EvITOR OF THE HERALD. 43 New creamer, New Vouk, august 8, 1857. Sm—In reaciog your inieresung paper of aay, find an article beginning wiih these words, ‘The yews and the Unled States Government—The Swine Treaty.” Al low me to ask of you the favor to read the treaty conclud- od between the United ‘tates of America sud the swine Copfeteration, ens signed by bis exoebenoy Frankia Heres, Presicent of Unived States, on the 0th of No vember, 1866. You w il pet Gnd tn saic weaty a single word against the Awerican citizens of ube Lsreelii'sh pornuaaion. Bot tp arti ie } you will One the folowing: — “The citizens of the uited States of Ame: ica and the citi rene Of S#i'gerland shail be admitted and treated upou a footing of reciprocal equality in the two coactres, ware such acmiseion end treatmen not coniict with tne © pwtlutloual or legal provisions, as woll federa an diate ‘ana Caniomal, 0” tbe coptraciing partios,”’ Ac , &o. ‘The Cantons of Switzerland are roverriga Suter, an well ee the reverai Mates of the American Union and have eech the right to make doch laws as they tuink wo make; and | believe chat tp mort of ihem Ue Israelites ba -e Bot the same rights as the Ubristians Bot of thatthe Americans have no more rigbt t complain thaa the Saige aliens residing tn the Unied States, vhere, ia many ‘States. they have not the righ} to hold real osiase, and are cluded of some otber privileges Sobmitth g there few lines 0 your consideratioa, I re. main, sir, very respectfully, your orediont rerwart, LA, PA. DE LUZ! Consu! of Switzeriand ts New Y From this explanation and the text of the treaty it appears that the Swise conf-deration impose po disabilities on Jews, though # veral of Cantonal governments do; and as the coufedera- tion can no more covtrot the domertic legistation of the several Cactons thaa oar coofederacy can that of our several States, it may sem perhaps unjust to bold the confederation liable for the prejudices and the narrow policy of tae Cantons Practically, however, our correspondent the Coneut will notice that the effect of the treaty is just the sume as if the restriction flowed from a jaw of the confederation. For instance, be can- not deny that sn American Jew, doing business in the Canton of St. Gall, would have to cross over into Austria to eleep, the laws of the Cau- ton forbidding Jews to epend the night in the Canton. So much for the treaty and the expla- uation. State Usvrratrton ty Intinots.—State usar- pation seems to be the order of the day. We are yet groaning under ite cousequences here; they have just suffered from itin Louisiana; they have bern threatened with it in Connecticut; and now it seems [liinois is having ite ehare. We have received several communications from sources worthy of credit, going to show that an act parsed at the Inet sersion of the [linois Legislature, and entitled “An act to incorporate the Llinois River Improvement Company,” actu- ally takes away the control of that river from the State, the counties, and the people, aud bestows it bodily on a epeculative company. No guaran- ties, as it seems, are exacted from the company for the disproportionate powers awarded to it; end the remonetrances of the people and counties interested have been treated with perfect oon- tempt. The act is notoriously in direct opposition to the will of all the people concerned. We presume that a proper appeal to the judi- ciary of [limois will consign this obviously un- constitutional act to the Tomb of the Capuleta But it is worthy of attention, nevertheless, as a fur‘her illustration of the grasping tendency of our Legislatures, and the necessity of energetic action on the part of counties, towns and muni, cipalities generally to preveut their rights being turn away one by one. The cave of New York is already that of other cities; if the practice be not checked it will not stop so loag as there is a free city iu the land. Ate of the Royal Inetitntion in London, an in teresting description was given of the subsanoe to which the name parcliment pa as been applied. This sub. PL. invention of Mr. W i deine, 0. &., by whem prooens for ite preparation naa heen patented Tt being Known that solphuric acid, nador oortain condidoos mod: fed vegetable fibre, Mr Gaine Inatlinted ® course of ox periments (0 apoertain the exact ft of actd which Fould produce that effect on paper which le soaght, os well as the tme during which the pare: shoald be sub jected to ita action, He auooeeded in discovering that Shen paper ik exposed to a mixture of teo parts of con centrated wuiphurie ecid (¢ g 1854, or thereso str) wiih one part of water, for no longer time than I# taken op in drawing ft throngh the sold, |< !s immediately conver: into & strong, tough, skip like mayer ial. THE LATEST NEWs. ee CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIMS—THE VewssuNLan ‘TrBATY—OsSE OF BMITH THE FORTUWUEER— aD TUBN OF FHS PARSIDANT TO WARBINGTON, Waanneron, Aug. 0, 1897. The administration is somewhat saxtous to hea, rem ‘Wiliam Cary Jones relative to affairs tm Contra) Amerten, He bas vow becn absent upwaris of taree montua, ane ‘Bet cue word or line bas thus far beep received from mm ‘The newspaper rep:rts from there ere entre y anredaDe, and betore the acmipistrauos tke any deanite action Wey deaire to know the essot stete of affuirs, If Costa men Pereiste in the course she is represented aad reported we Dave taken towards Nicaragua—inal ts, for» divinion ext abeorption of the Mtate apd the seixing of the trem route— cer government will ase its gond cffloes to prevess ‘what they conceive 10 bee mowt ouirsxeoun proceeding ae ‘the pert of Oosta Rica, ander the otroumsiances, Vevesuelaa affairs romain just as they did whee Mr, Eames rotursed. General sea bas been we much engaged with other maiters to give i ea attention, The report, therefore, that aay arrange. ment or course of polloy bad been adopted, or aw tlement made, is, to use no harsher term, premature, ‘The treaty with thet governmen', which wes ratiied « In the care of John Smith, the Portuguese whe we cor victed and sentenced to be bung, I stated that mo des sion bad been arrived at by the President, wno has hat the papers before bim for some tne, Simve the Care wer submitied ad iitional evidence, of a very strong nature, has been laid before the Attorney General, which may change the whole aspect of the case. It is a lone from one of the jury who oonvicted him, and | understand there are many mitigating circumaasos which were not in the evidence laid before the Amornes Genel. Alihongb the attorney Goneral wee averse up er the evidesce, to a commutation of the sentence, the additional evidence, ! am inolined to think, bas changes his mind, ‘The Pr will leave Bedford Springs to morrow, ie 10th inst., for Washicgton. A gentloman who recentiy re turned from there mys that he ia in excellent health an! spirits, His niece, Mise Lane, and Miss Black, © deugtser of she Attorney General, will return *ith aim. North Carolina lection. Prrarspvsc, Aug. 9, 1867 But few returns bave been received from Norts Care lina. The Firstapd Sixth are the only closely contested districts, th the First it is thought tha: Smith, amet oan, ts elected over Shaw, democrat. In the Sixth whe returns are favorable for the election of Xcules, demon a over Puryear, American. Fire at Newark, 5. J. New4ax, N. J., Ang. 9, 1857 About three o'clock this afernoon the drying building connected with the Chadwick Pa\ent Leaiher Manufactaring Company's works took fire, aod togei.er with the adja» tng budding, containing the offiee acd warorooms, wee almost entirely consumed. The | 6s is eetimaied at $20,000, and is filly covered by insurance. Several persons ewe ver; seriously injured by the fa'ling of a wall Among them are James M. Quinby, « large carriage manda turer and formerly Mayor of tbe cl:y; Peter Riker, a tre mau; Peter Wetzell and Christopber McVoy. The cagm Of the fire has pot been ascertained. A New Yorker Hound Drowned. Havew pe Guaca, August 9, 188. The body of HE. Thomas, of New York, was foun om the Ceci! side of the Susque sacna this morning. He weup pesed to have been drowned Four Ladies Oruwned. Bouton, Aug 9, UH. Four young ladies, two of them daughters of @ B Soule, and the other two of Mr Grant, were drowned of Waterville, Me., on Tharaday, New Oxcxaye, August 8, 1867. Cotton.—No sales to day. Siock 21,500 bales. Uotire advanced 46. ; ealesal 10i¢c. a lli¢c. Sales for the wees 6,000 bags. S.0ck 107 000 bags. Storling exchange 10 pw cent premium. Oiber articles generally unchanged. Cmicaco, Augost 1—6P M Flour firm; wheat steady; corp duli—sales as Obie buoyant, Shipments to Baffaio—no flour or whos; 90,000 bushels corn. Brrrato, Angust 8~8 P.M Flour unchanged; pales 1,000 dbis. at $6 50 0 86 63 Ime ruperfive Wisconsin; $6 75 © $7 for extra do. $6 62s 96 76 for superfine Ohio and Indiana, and $6 8° — $1 ub exira do. Wheat fayors buyers; sales $15,000 bushels at $1 28 for Chicago spring, api $| 33 for Milwecew civd. Corn oj stead) ; salon 30,000 bushais at 7h , clostug very dull, One 6c. 962, Whiskey duiiat s- fre bis corn 06. to Troy and lose to New York Lane imyorte for the twemsy four hours ena'ng at vvon to 116,606 busbels corsa, Canal exports, 5,600 bushels ‘woes ane 8,000 bushels corn. ogust 6—6 P. Osweao, Ai Floor dull. Sales st $6 76 tor Indians, and $60 84 66 for common to extra State, Wheat dull aod uacksuged very luke on Way bere; sales 8 209 burhele, Gorn quiet. Sales 200,000 bushels sfvat for this per. Lake im, to-day ;—16 800 buabels -rheat, 2%,700 bushels core. ea porte: —4,C00 pow. four, 4,600 bushels wheat, 21000 buanele corn. Shipped to Montrea, 11,900 brie, floar, ALUANT, August 6—4 PM Flour ard wheat unchanged. Corn lower and in good ory Sales 49,000 buhois at to. afloat Rarloy by meus ing woll for detivery before the Lbuh of September Tee crope of barley in the Wes ern Yates are sald to be very , Shipped last evening to New York, 143,000 iehels Oorn, 14,00 busbele oats 16,00 burhole ware, bipped to New York wo day, 80,000 bushels vorn. PRovioesce. Avgns. Printing clotha—The Journal reports witben Spe tendeory. Cotion—The demand has been stesoy, with moderate sauce durwg thr week at ac adranoe of \¢0. ou the prices of ina ween, the market closing frm aud with « tendeooy te higber rater Wool—Trade ts rather quiet in aed + caareaaaateahieid light, Sales of the ween, es Unrran Stare Acnicvirrmat Sxaert.—The fifth anpes) exhibition Of this society it to be beld at Louisville, Ky , Curing the first Ove days of Septemoer. Anno.cemcnm thet the ethibidoo has hep postponed to Ootober are « rro- peons. ‘The society has offered @ lit of premiums to be awarded at Lovlevitle, amounting, tm the sggrepatc, to teotre thousand dollars, for the various ciaases of domestic amt- mals, farm produow, fruits, Gowers, native wines, agri- culteral implements and machinery. The society's aa Uonal trial of Implemonta will be continued af Lovisvilie, The svar of the jury on the mowers and reapers ried a Syracuse, N. Y., will be anpoceced, and the machines Deen appointed to act with the officers af tcciely iM parfeoting arrangements, and thirty thoe- rand doliars have been g:arantied to meet oxpensce & mageidoces Sorel and trait ball and @ spacious implement ball have been already erected on the grounds. Tale yalnabdle co-operation and material ald, coupled with the excellence of the selected location and the large amount of premiums offered, induce ibe ¢xpectation that the exhipt- tion of 1867 will be eupertor to ary of ite predeoomsors. Favorable arrangemauis for the transportation of stony and other articles wisi be made with the various ralirceds. ue As a misunderstand! tain bequests of my Andrew Jackson, and the box Mexican mob ting the galiant ptare and nripes in defiance cf e Feeling a interest in the approbation of these valued ond yaluatie relics, arly in the leet year { wrote to 8 ator Slidell, reqvosting him to call the attention af my Iamented friend Senator Butler, to the fot were awaiting the scdon of the State of Bouth and the latter replied += ‘Just at the close of ovr tore, I brought to tho view of Governor Adams the of Gen, Jackaon’s will, to whieh my attention hed boon Called by Mr. Sildell, Pome proceeding wili be inetivated to carry into effect tho honorable bequest of the General, He manifested patewnal x to Lit waive State, eeu worthy of commendaiion. It aii! be diMoclt, however, to carry into effect the olaure of the will referred te”? = GW. BUTLER i CTea ee Cree REET Te Tee Seog PET SOM TPS i ES, | eee! of ten y ca Wall thelr hopes aod expectations be thea dvomed to disappototment, if ihey reatet the oouting of mud oom yal. wor) labor whieh their contracts require them to ancergy, they would revern ta Afviea (0 alaparage and aot to pre. mote Intercoures; to dixanane thelr fellow oountrymem of the notions from whidh they bad euif red; to render Ba- Topcan coivbies will) mote cious 0 Airisaa lade, vd #1) 08 co exhibition, Loss! committees of citizena 0!