The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1857, Page 4

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All toe vessels compnaing the expedi- tion for laying the Atlantic telegraph cable bad ar- nived at Cork. A telegraphic despatch from Mr. Cyrus W. Field, at Queenstown, dated on the 3ist ult. -tates that the cable hed been jomed the even fog previvas, snd a meaage rent through i's entire length ix less then @ second, The shore rope was to be landed ard the vessels commence sickiug the cuble on the 3d or 4 in-tant, if the weather proved propitions. The royal ssent had been given to the bill woorporating the company. Uhesteamer Anglo Saxon trom Quebec, sud the Lebenon from this port, wrrived at Liverpool on the 29h ultiao be detais of the Iodis vewe reached London on the evening of the 3lst ult 4 let er from Madras, dated Jane 27, etated bat Deihi had fallen. at the last Butbentic account-, which were to Jane 17, Delhi Wes in poseeraion of the insurgenta, but it was gece rally believed in Lonoon that it bad fallen. Tae | mutin) is widespread, and appears to have affected the «hole Bevgalarwy. Ten thousand additional troove bave been ordered to India. Great alarm pre- wailed a) Calcutts, where it was feared the Mussut- Wav populetion bed forwed the design of rising aud taking possession of the city. The inhabitants kept them-eives a med, end the hotels aod principal paces were garrisoned by sailors belonging to the fbips in the mver. Further details of the war in | Chive +tate that on the 27th May thirteen juoks were des royed, end on the 28th twenty-seven heavily armeé junks were captured by the English. On the | 6tb of Jure two thourané of the British force cap- to ed @ fort end took or destroyed one handred end | teenty-seven jonks, mouniing over nine hundred guna with nine thovsacd men. The Eaglixh loss | war slight. The United States frigate San Jaciato | was still at Hong Kong. Louis Napoleon had re | turned to Parte from hie viris to Plomblere. The teiai of the Italian conspirators was to take place | oa the 6th or Sth instent, Lablache, the famous | Italian singer, is reported as having died. The | Bank of France bac re‘ured to lower the rate of Cisconct to five per cent. It is siw'ed that the har veet in France surpasses ex ectation. Spaic was etill in an unsettled state. The Spanish-Mexican | question was to be farther discussed in Paris, where Lafregua, the Mexican Euvoy, bad arrived, as bad also Lord Howden. Cholera was prevailing at St. | Peiersburg. On the 2let Ju'y toe deaths were 174. | ‘The race for the Goodwood Cup came off on the | 80th. There were fourteen entries, including the American horses Pryor and Prioress, who came in fitth and sixth respectively. The name of the wir- | ting borse is not given, neither are we in possession cf any of the details the time made, Ac. Money wes in increaved ¢emand in London, at five and a half and six per cent. Consol« fo- money | wore quoted at 91a 91}. Tre baltion inthe tank | ©} Bogiend bad decreared £163,000. Amerncan se curities were duil avd without sales of moment, at unsltered rates, The Brokers’ Olroular quotes a Gligh) advance in mi¢diiog qualities of cotton, and pt the letert moment the market was quict and wteady. Tbe market for breadstuffs was quie’ at Liverpoo!, with a declining tecdency st Louder the accounts of tbe harvest being encouraging. | White Ic dian corn bad acvanced one sti ling daring | the week. Wheat had « dechning tendency Holders of tes demanded an advance. Tbe provi sion market generally was seady. The screw seamship City of Baltimore arrived | from Liverpool yesterday afternoon with four bin- | rd anc fow teen parsencers. As the City of Bulti- j Tore satled on the 2%vb of July, ber news hed been antic'pacec by the artival of the ocian and Fulton Our e¢vices by the City of Baltimore faform us | that ‘be yecht Cherter Oak - deverined yesterday mor: ing—srrived at Liverpeci from New York of | the 2hth of July. She mede the pas-age ic thirty- peven deys. Mr Webb, herowner, sailed with three | bends on board, but oo the firet nigtt out one of the | men wen lost trom the ceck, He firet imtended to | toke five persons with bim, bot eventually left with & crew of three men. We have news from Hayti, at Cape Haytien and | Gonaives on 22¢ ané at Port ao Prince on 25th of Joly. Our correspondent states that yelo+ fever | continued uswbstet, and a namber of sailors were | @wept away. Privere boepitale bed been esta lished, | st 6 chorge of ove dolar per day foreach man, but | the convalescents cid not make good recoveries | Derertions from vessels were frequent, as each man wanted get away from port as soon as possible ‘The experiment of atipping colored crews daring eammer was recommesded Sagar cultivation was very backward, ard all local trade paratyzed. The * Providence Insurance Company,” ct Hayti, had ee tanlished @ guaranteed lottery, from which prizes would be drawn in order to pay persons insured the lowes sustained doring the late fire. Coffee was de pressed in price, aithongh the ¢eliveries were not | sbhanéant. At Gonaives co‘Tee was falling and pro. visions plenty. The ship Haidee, whish sarived at this port yes terday from Roo de Jametro, brings advices to the 5th July. The city was reported healthy, witn ba few cases of yellow fever. The Bri ish seam frigate Forions and fifeen steam transporte had sailed for China on the 4th of July. No transactions in coffee are given and so quotations of prices. The Ucited tates frigate 6t, Lawrence and United States sloop of.war Bainbridge were #t [io Janeiro Jaly 5th, and would eat! to three days for the Unied States. Late advices from the Cape of Good Hope, by way of England, report that six veseels—names pot mentioned—were driven ashore at Table Bay, om the 7th of June No lives were lost, but there was a large amount of property at stake. Our correspondent at Washington states that the charter of the Tebaan'epec Railroad Company, un- éor the Garay and Sloo grant, is published in the New Orleans papers. Tne capital stock of the com pany is $10,000,000, $2,900 000 of which will be iamed as fall paid stock, and delivered to the trus- tees who now hoid tho title to those grants. Paile | / | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1857. ~ Je Bére and Senator Benjamin are made the agents Of the company, with full power to make arrange: ments eatistactory to all parties interested. Mr. Buchanan arrived at Cum eriand yesterday from Bedford Springs. He il! start for Washing- ton this morning. Senetor Bright, who has been confined at Wa-bington by serious iadisposition, left that city yes erdey for bis bome in Indiava. A mass meeting of fifteen or twenty individuals aetembled at Onderdovk’s Hall last even'ng, for the avowed object of regenerating the american party. The affa r seemed to oo black republican move ment in disguise, headed by some dissutiafed’ bi pg:y Know Nothings, and was so denounced by some of thos present. Very little progress was made toward the desired end. Cancemi, or as be signa bimeelt, ““Cangemi,” who is ct arged with tbe murder of policeman Anderson, waa beard on petition of his counsel, Mr, E. Biank- man, yesterday, in the Supreme Court for the removal of he trial from the Court of Sessions t the Oyer avd Termiver. This msy prove a fortunate move of the counsel, as toe public feeling against the ac- cusd will no doubt be eumewhat absted before Ov- tober. Two writs of certiorari were granted yes'erday by Judge Daiy, of the Court of Common Pleas, to review the case of Mrs. Ouoningham on tue recent charge of attempting to pass a counterfeit baby Mr. Stofford, ber counsel (Mesera, Dean and Clia'on aeem to bave given ber ap), waited on Justice Davison, but taat fanotionary told him that the pavers were delivered to the Disinct Atiorney, whereupon Mr. stafford obtained a second certiorari, returnable this morning ateleven o'clock. It is exid the District attorney has sent the case before the Grand Jury. On the suggestion of Mr. Field the decision of Judge Peabody as to the disposi‘ion of the books and papers of the Stre:t Commissioner's office was postponed until after Judge Ingraham's decision in tbe Conover coutempt case, which will be delivered on Saturday. Judge Peabody postponed the de cision as to the disposition of the books until next Friday week. We publish to day the answer of Chevalier Wikotf to the complaint of Miss Gamble's conrier for an alieged libel ssid to be contained in the celebrated book entitled “My Cocrtahip and its Consequences.” The answer completely settles the matter at issue, and leaves ttle to perplex a jury. We think that M. Vennod, the courier, ought to feel himself under an obligetion to the author of “My Courtship and its Consequences.” It appears that the courier had been charged before the tribunals at Genoa with a great crime—with having betrayed his trust, and that as courier to a single lady, whom he was ape- cially bound to pretect. He was tried, convicted and condemned to imprisonment by a Genoese tri- bunal. Without the explanation of that affair which Mr. Wikoff gives, showing that his (Mr. W.’s) inten- tions towards Miss Gamble were strictly honorable, the public would bave been perfectly justified in the conclusion that the conviction of the courier was just and his punishment deserved. Tuere is nothing in the book in question to sustain the complaint of Vannvd that be has been grously libelled. There is nothing etated therein which imputes to him the grave offences a0 os entatiously paraded in that com- plaint as a great wrong done to him by the author of the book. He is introduced in a playfal manter, and bis conduct so explained as to defend hiw from the very cherges be complains of. after readicg the book we have a much more favoravle opinion of M. Louis Vannod than we had after his conviction, and before the publicatioa of “My Courtship and its Consequences.” The Board of Exvise Commissioners met yester- day afternoon, and received a number of applica- tions for licenses, Commissioner Holmes made a speech, de‘ending the Board against certain attacks made against the integrity of the Commission, after which the Board adjourned until Tuesday tte Qoaran‘ine Commissioners with a number of in- vited guests yesterday visited Seguine’s Point. They expected to bave bad the company of the Commis- eioners of Ex:igration in accordance with a previous invitation, but the lattor Commissioners did not pre- sent themselves. As it was, the new hospital grounds and outidings were looked through by toe gue-ts, and general approval expressed asto the bealthfulness of the locality and suitableness of the hospital buildings. A dinner and speeches followed Particulars of the visit aod points of the speeches will be found elvewhere. The Quarantine Com nis- sioners intend to-cay to notify the Emigration Com- missioners cf the completion of the Hospital vuiid- ings, and require them to take the future charge of them. They will to-morrow cismiss the renaining police force As there is @ likelihood that the Com missioners of Emigration will refase to take the buildings, there is a further likelihood that the premises which have cost so round a sum to keep guarded up to this time will soon be left unguarded ane at the mercy of the winds and oystermen. Mr. Franklin offered a resolution in the Board of Councilmen last evening, directing the Comptroller to advertise for suitable plans for the erection of a new market op the Gansevoort property, which was | amended by Mr. Ottarson, who suggested that the above property be let to the highest bidder, for twenty-one years, for the construction of a public mezket. It was referred to toe Committee on Mar ket. A communication was received from the Comptroller relative to the jadgment procared by Robert W. Lowber sguinst the city, for the sam of $199,000, in which be gives @ history of the legal quibb cs whereby the city wes deprived of its right of appeal. The paper was referred to the Finance Comniittee. in Committee of the Whole the report of the Committee on Lands and Places, recommend ing the purchase of twenty-three acres of land on Ward's Isiand, was passed to a third reading. The coustect for the filling ap of the Battery was de clared annulled, and the Street Commissiover ad- vieed to advertise for new proposals to finish the work The tody of Mr. Edwin Pitcher, who was acct | dentally crowned by falling from the steamboat | Long Branch, dnfted ashore on Sanday afternom, and an inquest was held by the Coroner yesterday Arrangements have been mace to bring his remains | to this city for interment on the 12th inst. A young girl named Sarah J. Minery, was tried and convicted yesterday in the General Sessions of giand larceny. She induced Albert Klaberg to vi- site well known panel game house in Thomas street, where he was robbed of $150. She was seat to the penitentiary for two years. Subsequently the proprietress of the establishment, Susan Smith, ‘was convicted on the same charge and sent to the State prison for five years. John Crombelis, an old offender, was convicted of burglary and sentenced for the same term. On being removed from the bar he saic, “I won't go a foot.” Stephen Pinkett, a colored sailor, indicted for taking the life of Pa trick Sheehan on the (th of Jane, pleaded guilty to manslanghter in the fourth degree. His counsel, Mr. Green, narrated the circumstances of the case to the Recorder, when it was shown that the de ceased wantonly attacked the accased, and he fear ing that his life wasin danger, stabbed him with « knife. He will be disposed of today. We give elsewhere letters from Newport, Long Branch, and Yosemity, California, all of which are interesting and descriptive. The cotton market continued quite firm yesterday, with sales of about 60 bales at quotations given in anotaer colomm. Flour, with Nght reveips end far demaed, opened firm, without change io prices, but exhipited leer bonyancy atthe clows, Woeat was stondy, with @alen 0 indiana old red at $1 6254: Chicago red at $1 40; Tennessee new red at $172, common Virginia white at @1 00; and nee prime Trnnensee whie st $185 89186 Gorn wae tolere bly active, at 4s @ PGC 5 B60, but closed heavy Pork woe siendy at $24 00 & $24 40 for mons, ani at 819 be for prime. Sngars were firm with sales of about 646 bhds.,at prices given le ancther column Oyfee wae qoiet bot firm For stocks and price we refer t» anothe heed. Fretebis were unchange!, while engagements were light. ‘Lhe Beat Cungreas—The administration and the Gansas Ihewe. From our Congressional tables, which we pub- lish to-day, it appears that in the House of Rep- resentatrves in the last Co gress tie democracy and the cppoxition elements of all pares and factions were thus repregented:— Ooreetien members . Dex mocratic do, “ Opposition majority... For the next Congrers the elections actually beld give us:— Demecerats.. ... one Opportti n members... And there are still to be eleoted the delegations from Georgie, Lousiana, Marylacd avd Missis sippi, which in the last Cougress stood as fo'- lows:-- el 100 Democrats. Opposition me 6 2 Lar te 38 1 Mar land 1 6 1 ills. sctieec te REN ry r Now, eseuming thatin the approaching elec tions in these Stares the democrats will at least hola their own, the next House of Representa. ‘ives mey be tous made ap:— ‘embers elected a aims 0 be elected... Mu Total... Se ivel 136 —which will give us a democratic majority of sixtern, end it may be eighteen or twenty, joégiog from the lamentatle collapse of Kaow Nothivgiem in Virginia, Kentucky, North Caro- lina a d Tennessee. It is enough for our present purpose that ‘there will be in this pop:lar branch of the next Con- eress a democratic majority of froa sixteen t» twenty; but the more impo taat “question! vext recurs, will it be a comract working majority in co-operation with the administration of Me. Bu chanan? The cohesion or ¢iseolution of the de- mocratic party, the re-construction of parties for 1860, and the peace of the coaatry, depend very materially upon the solution of this nice and delicate question ‘The first point has been gained in the election of a Congress upon the same general itsaes which eccured the election of Mr. Buchanan; bat what are the chancee for a baruonious concurrent ac- tion of this Congre+s with the President, upon the great issues of the day? Assuming that a demo- cratic Speaker ard other officers of the House will be chosen without difficulty, what are the proepecta concerning the Kansas imbrogliot One of two things appears to be inevi- table—a split in the democratic party South, or the absolute anninilation of the Northern democracy. It is eqnally evident, from tbe conservative position taken and ad- hered to by the administration, that Mr Ba- chanan hes made up his mind to run the bazardy of a Southern rebellion in the party camp rather then d+ part from the Kansas policy indicated in his election and Cefined in his inangaral address. It is not for him to capitulate to Northern or Southern vltras, The fatal consequences of the trimming policy of poor Plerce, were there no princyples in question, will stand as a sufficient warping to his more savacious, more honest and more independent successor. We may, therefore, take it for granted that, in the teeth of Northern and Southern ultras and disuvion agitators, the Presideat in bis anoual message to Congress will reiterate tne views of bis inaugural, and commend to the two hoases the general conduct of Governor Walker as con- sistent witb the “popular sovereignty ” doctrine of the Kansas-Nebraska bitl The democratic members from the North, en masse, will, we dare say, etand by the administration; but we have seen enough and heard enovgh from the ultras of the South to justify the impression that they will make the desperate attempt upon Kangas to rule or ruin the administration and the democratic party. And bere the conflict of fac- tions and sections, and the disintegration and confusion of parties and party principles and dodges will fairly begin. A democratic msjority in the House of Repre- sentatives, of sixteen, may be neutvvalized and rendered good for nothing by a defection of seven or eight impracticable men. Thus, a mere cor- | poral’s guard, bent on mischief, may arrest for a | time the wisest measures of peace and concilia tion. From the republican members on the Kansas issue the administration can expect nothing; and from the scattering Know Nothings of the North, | with scarcely an exception, about ‘he eame de gree of co-operation as that which may be ex- | pected from Nathasiel P. Bavks. From the | South, according to the tone and emper o such « American” organs as the Richmond Whig, the | American members of the House will be more | likely to give aid and comfort to the Southern democratic malcontents than to the conservative | measures and counsels of Mr. Buchanan. We have thus the occasion, the pretext and the ele- mente before us, of the flercest and mo-t momen- tovs Congrestiowal agitation upon slavery ia the | Whole history of the country. | The old democratic party of Gen. Jackson has | run to seed and run out. Its ancieat landmarks | have been obiiterated, aod the pernicious admi- nistration of poor Pierce has reduced it in the | North to a mere balance of power, and in the | South tos mixed commission upon the avery question, in which the secession ultras claun the right and the power to rule or to destroy. It is a great mistake, however, to suppose that from the clamor of there Southern ultras, aad from | their noisy pretensions avd threats, that they are | capable of leading the masses of the Southern | people by the nose, The results o° the late elec- tions in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina are strikingly Ulastrative of the drift of popuiar opimon in the South upon thie Kana coatro- versy. These results are equivalent to the em phatic approval of the course, adopted and par- ved by Mr Bachanan and hie executive agent in Kenan, Governor Walker. We believe, too, that the Legislature of Virginia, before the ball | ie fairly opened in Congress, will give a doci- | sive blow in behalf of the administration and | agninet the recemion disorganizers, in the eleo- tion of Gov. Wise to the United States Senate. Whatecever, therefore, may be the precise di- visions of parties, sections and factions in the coming Congress upon the Kanens policy of Mr. Buchanan, we feel assured that this policy will carry the day-—that Kansas will not be smuggled into the Union asa slave State—that po balf way or er parte measures of any party in Kaoeas will be adopted by Congress; but that, elthoagh it may require ancther year or two to work out an bonest rolation of the orga nie law, it will be done, and done to the aatiafac- tien of the solid masses of the country, North and South, even though the result should be the ad- mission of Kansas into the Union by Southern votes as a free State. ‘The Southern democracy may be eplit into fragments—tbe floating remnants of Southern Know Nothingiom may fuse with the fire eaters {nto a sectional organization — the loose materials of the Know Nothing party North may be merged in the republicaa camp—a reconstruction of parties and principles may follow in 1860, in which the fragments of the old democratic party may be swallowed up; but out of all this chaos and confusion there will arise a party competent not only to uphold an bonest national adminis- tration, but fully competent against all dieorga- izers, North and South. to malotain the integ- rity and indivisibility of the Union. Tae Emprzzi.xuent Cass or Avams—Neaiect or EmrLorers.— We see in the papers a good deal of indigpation displayed ut the condact of the bar- keeper Adama, who is accused of robbing his em- ployer, the keeper of the Howard Hotel, of severa! thoueand dollars. What are the factst Adasny was employed as a barkeeper, having ele charge of large daily receipts of money. He was paid a moderste ealary as barkeeper. H+ was a young map of expensive tastes; kept his mistress, dress- ed ber in cilks and diamocda, drove a tiret rate team, and eou'd hold bis own on the rvad with the fastest men about town. This sort ot life he bad been leading, it eeems, for years before the turpicione of bisemployer feilupon bim Oceday, Acams, who eeeins to have been a poor creature cpongh in respect of rognery, engages a enbsti- tute to fili bis piace while he took bis mistress to a fasbionable wateying place, and faithfaliy en- joins upon this enbetiute to render to his em- ployer only 60 much of the earaings of the bar The sutetitnte consente, and betrays Adans; whereupon he is arrested, accused of embezzle. ment, sud a terrible row is made in the papere about his iniquity. There «ass law in an ancient State which de- creed that when s minor obild did wrong the father mnet be eommoned te stacd bis trial; and if be could not prove that the wrongful act had been committed in d-fiance of his teachiogs and in spite of bis paternal vigilance, he was sen tenced to tho peral'y in lieu of the real offender There wasn great deal of common eenay and philoeopty in that law. The responsibility for the inteprity of our young men reste oa the beed+ of their employers, All young men —who are worth anytning—like horses, ani five ladies, ond gvod clothes, snd rich wines, avd the otber luxuries that money can preeure; and none of them can purchase fs much of there things es théy would lite ont of their salaries. Al! ere tempted to use what other money is thrown in their way; and 8 great many have not the strength to resist the tempts tion, These youths fall or live, according to the facilities which are afforded them for going wrong; if their employer looks vigilantly after ther habits of life and bis own cash. they escape the danger; if he does not, they succum), and yo to uin. We have frequently bad occasion to say here that the most important daty of bauk presidents end managing directors would appear to be to aecertain thoroughly the manner of life and the babite cf every person engaged in their instira tions. By pursuing this courve, uvd diligentiy tcintinising tbe habitual expenditures of the clerke-—a thing which need not be impertinently done, or give any offence—they might detect de falcations and embezzlemente at the very start, and save not only money for their institutions but the character and future prospects of many a young man. This precantion is reatly so sim: ple that it onghtto be made imperative; acd juries should be directed to find for the prisoaer, in cass of defaleations committed by persone who bed been subject to n0 such supervision. That pilfering on a small, and some tines ona Jarge scelr, is quite common amoug the young clerks who, in various capacities have charge of money in this city, is too commonly asserted to be evtircly destiture of truth; we hope that the rogues are lrse numerous than is usually eup- powd. However pumerous they may be, how- ever, we think their crime vevial in comparison with that of their employers, when no means are taken to curure their integrity, and temptation is thrust in their face with every assurance that they may not only steal bat likewise speod the movey publicly without awakening the least eus- picion. Tux Custom Hovsr Reronw Acaix.—The at) tention of more than one clase has been waked up by the movement now on foot to reform the Custom House, To-day we publish a letter from “A Cartman,” containing some interesting state- mente relative to the interests of bis class, as af- fected by the new rule proposed by Mr. Schell and edopted by the importers. He compiasins thut tbe cartmen employed oy the merchants will be excluded henceforth from their share in the work of transferring goods from the public etores to the merchants’ warehouses, all of which will be absorbed by three or four cartmen regularly attached to the delivery department of the Cue tom House. Of course it is quite proper that ali agen‘s—cartmen as well as others--evtrusted with responsible duties by the Custom House sbou'd be under its control, Bat it ie obvious that three or four cartmen will be entirely ineuf- ficient for the purpose referred to, so that the pat-ooage in this line murt be extended. Ho ever, a8 no reform can be carried out effectaa'ly without interfering with the interests of some class, we may be satisfied if this one only curtails or incommodes the business ot the carriers It is an evil which will remedy itself. What is to pre. vent the cartmen now employed by the mer- chants from entering into the service of the pub- lic department? The service is the eame; the change of employers cannot make much differ- exce Meantime, the new regulation is working briskly avd successfully, quite to the satisfaction of the mercbenta) The Committee of Importers continue to meet every day, and are progressing steadily with their inquiries. aduty in which they are assisted most cordially by the Collector. We would direct Mr. Schell’s attention to the statements contained in the letter above alladed to relative to the negligence of the carriers now employed to travefer goods A little reform in that department would be very timely. It is suggested by another correspondent that persons epeaking the French, Spanish and German lan- guages finently should be employed in the public ttores to facilitate business with the large aum- ber of merchants of foreign birth in the city. Intelligible suggestions upon every topic con- cerning the eubject of the proposed reform are valuable at the present time, and may be of much arsistance to the Collector. We are glad to perceive that our remarks have been the means of drawing out so many. It is remarkable that both thie queetion and the case of Mra Cunningham bave brougtt out #0 large a number of communications and eug- gestions from different classes of people, all pertinent to the questions at issue, and often highly valuable, as throwing now light on them, and striking out new paths for the investigators. It chows the activity of the public mind ou every subject of vital moment, and is one of the best ilinetrations of the usefulness of a free and in- telligent press Genoer Surra on cuz Neu®0 43 4 Farwen— ‘We publish elsewhere a very ourious and in- structive letter from the Hon. Gerrit Smith to the philosopher of the Tribune, on the subject of the former’s extensive gifts of land to free negroes. This document does honor te Mr. Smith @s ® generous man, but will tend very little to increese his reputation as @ student of the character of the negro and benetactor of the race. He acknowledges that of tnree thousand colored men to whom he gave land, probably less than fifty have taken and continue to bold their grants; and that ha'f of tae three thousand bave either cold their land or been 60 careless a8 to allow it to be eold for taxes. He proceeds to excuse the blacks tor doing this, on the ground that the location was where “the winters are Jong, the enows deep, aud the voll thin,” and that “white meo who dwell there can support their femities ovly by very bard work and very frugal habits.” We are not of the echool that believes that the negro, becunse be will not werk berd and dees not posses frugal habits, should have better lands than the white man, and we think that portion of Mr. Smith’s exoure for the negro is a very poor one, The first reason that he gives in favor of the ab:cond- ing black might iead one to suppose that Mr. Smith had become a convert to the “isothermal line” idea; but whether that be the caase or not, it is evident that if free negroes did fiud “the winters }ovg, the exows deep and the eoii thin,” there were whites there who not only could sup- porta family by their industry, but also save enough to buy the Jand that Mr. Smith’s ungrate- ful negroes cold. But the truth of the matter is that Mr. Smith was disappointed in his expectation to make ao agriculiurist of the free negro, becasue in do- ing so he violated one of the most power‘ul na. tural laws or instincts of that inferior race. If be wiil look abroad through the world, and stady the negro in every land where be is free to fol- Jow the promptings of hie nature, he will find that everywhere he abandons the country and congregates in towns, Africa itself preseuts only a continent covered with towns, s+parated from each oiber by Jarge breadths of wil- derness and virgin forest. Toere is no broad agricultural district anywhere, but the necessary labors of tillage to support life are carried on on little plots immediately round the congregated huts The same tendeucy is ob- served in Jamaica and in the countries of Spanish America that bave liberated their slaves. The blacks have buddled together where they can coutribute to each other's sensual enjoyment, while the forest has assumed its away over the once cu'tivated fields. The sagacious Humboldt oterved this tencency of the race, and more then thirty years ago, in analysing the social ele- ments of Cubs, he stated that ‘the free colored prefer & make sbift residence in the towns to the labore of agriculture.” If Mr. Smith will study the result of his land gift to the free negroes with critical care, it will teach him a very instructive end important lesson. Toe WarerinG Piaces—A New Featore For ovk Summer Tovrists.—In the interesting butch of letters which we publish to-day from the watering places, will be foand one from Newport, describing Mr. Wetmore’s magoificent fete cham- pitre. Tis brilliant affair, it will be seen, rival- led in eplendor and coatlinese any of the cele- brated floral fites at Chatsworth, Chiswick, or Sion House; and there were not wanting, it seems, ‘ live lords” to lend to the scene all the éclat with which such festivities are attended in the Old Country. Thus we rigid republicans are, it seems runing the race of laxurious competi- tion with the aristocratic classes of Europe, and fquaring our democratic theories in as con- venieot a manner as we can with the Sybarite hebits imported from May Fair and the Fau- bourg St. Germain. Let it not be understood, however, tbat we quarrel with the fact—we merely sigualize it. As long as the refinements of wealthy indolence do not threaten danger to the simplicity and permanence of our institutions, it is not ovr business to find fault with them. Men who bace acquired money by the fruite of their own hard industry bave a right to spend it as they please, and we do not kuow « better way in wbich their redundancy of wealth can be be- towed than in proving to the distinguished straogers who visit us that our merchant princes ure pot to be outdone in hospitulity and munifi- cence by the titled descendants of those who fonght st Cressy and Agincourt. There is no reason why modern repablicanism shouid be ot ap sostere and rigid stamp; and the influence of oor political example will not be the less power- ful becewre we show in our babite that the liber- is we enjoy needs no sumptuary enactments to safeguard it. Amongst these letters will be found one that will charm by the novelty of the scenes that it devcritys as well as by the graphic force with which they sre delineated. Our people, we are told, are rusbing in crowds to Earope to drink the waters of Vichy and Carlsbad, to make the ascent of Mont Blanc, or to take the uual Vani- ty Fair trip up the Rhine; but they do oot seem to be aware that our own contineot fur- nishes, in the variety and efficacy of its mineral springs in the picturesque beauty aud volume of its principal rivera, and {n the stupen dons grandeur of its mountain scenery, objects of interest with which the lions of Europe cannot for ® moment compare, They will be surprised, for instance, when they are told that high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but accessible to the enterprising tourist, are to be found scenes of a beauty and sublimity to which the Swiss glaciers and Iakes are as but miniature effects of natare, whilet even the grandeur of Niagara dwindles into insignificance in the view of waterfalls of nearly thousand feet in descent. In reading the letter of one of our California correspondenta, who has just made this glorious trip, we are carried away by the excitement of the imprestions which his descriptions create, and we ask ourselves how it is that the explorers af- ter the sublime and beautiful do not lay aside the cockney reverence for European sights, which they have imbibed from Murray's band books, and sek in the wonders of our own continent the gratification of their desires, One such expedi- tion as that which our correspondent desoribes is worth all the experiences of a trans-Atlaatic tour, and the man murt be soulless indeed upon whom it does notmake a life long impression. Tue Rew ror THe Goopwoor—Tue American Horses Braren.— By the steamship Canada, ar- rived at Halifax yesterday, we havea partial account of the Goodwood races, in which Mr. Ten Broeck bad entered the American horees Pryor and Priore It appears that these horses were beaten; but we mast wait for further accounts for the causes of their defeat. We were not altogether unprepared for this news, however, as we had been informed that there were cousideratiogs other than tat of oc tn @ desire to wx" Operating upon the persons having contro! of sryor and Priore. The race bas excited attention from all classes, and ite re- eult was lovked for with Alxiety by perwous alte- getber strangers to the tarf; in fact, it wuse national matter, avd if it eba!l appear that there was any trickery or foul play on the part of any ef our countrymen having obarge of the borses, they will receive, as they meric, the ecorn and cont-mps of every Americun. We belreve from the record of the previous performances of these horses that they were fully capable of winning the Good- wood cup, not withtanding the disedvantages us- der which they labored, aad in this view of the matter we are eustained by the majority of thoas beat able to judge. It was not necessary that thry should win to prove our supremacy in all those arts which indicate the true progress of the age; the victorice of peace are nO Ieee renowned thun thoee of wer. But we know that our horeeg are guperior to those trained for the turf in Hag- land; and asthe race was apparently not well contested, we ehell demand, in the name of the American people, a full exptanntion of all toe circumstences attending the sace. It seems to have been a trumped up affair altogether. —_—_—_—_— THE LATEST NEWS. Movements of the President, Cumnamenp, Md., Aug 11, 189. The President arrived bere this evening from Bedford Springs. He starts for Wexhtngwn this morning. From Washiugton. MR. BUCHANAN STILL ABFENT—AMALTY OF SENATOR BSIGHT-OPF.OIAL OHANUED, RTO. Wasninoton, August 11, 1654. Bemator Bright bas suffoientiy recovered from hie inte serious Illnere to leave for Indians this morning. Private advices reosived bere from Alabame intimate the re election of Hon Geo. 8 Houston ta Congrom. Joba ©. O'Neill bes rerigned the suporintendeney of Indian affairs in Utah, to which he was isiely ap .o:med. Hon. FP Stenton, tt ts rumored, will bo aposined te the Misrour! Superintendency, vice Cummings, apratxted Govervor of Uta. Gen. Horran again spent the day with Secretary nas. ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. THE TEHUANTEPEC MAILROAD—THR FORT SNELLING PROPERTY—KXPROTED ARKIVAL OF fHE PROG DENT, BTC. Wasurwatom, Aug'st, 11, 1867. The New Orleans papers of the 6th inet contain the char'er of ths Tebuantepec Company for the soutrocsae of rairoad and other communication acrows the intbane under the Garray and Sico grapis, The company's tapas’ stook ts $10,000,000, $2,000,000 of which will be Issued ae full paid stock, and delivered to tho trustees who ao Dold the title to these grants. As it will be necessary te enter into some arrangements sith the governmes's of Mexico and the United States, Emile 1a Sére and Seanter Benjamin are made the joint agents of the company, wih Call power to agree with either or >oth governments for euch mod ‘fications, amendments and changes in ond as may seem most judicious for neouring the full and protection of the rights and interests of the com. pany. Orders bave been issued for the transfer of the Fort Snelting property to Francis Steele, the purchasor under the recent sale by the governmont. The President lel Bedford ‘his morning, and will arrive in Washington to Ex-Mayor Towers, of this city, died to-day afler an Beas Of seven weeks duration. Later from Mexico. New Ontaane, August 11, 1961. ‘The stemship Texas has arrive: from Vere Crus oe the ‘Ith tnst., with detes from the city of Mexico to the ‘The news ts unimportant, President Comonfert has been almost cnanimousty re elected. a Nebraska Eiection. St. Lovrs, August 11, 1867. ‘The following footings have beon recetved of the result Of the recent election im Nebraeke for delegate to Ooe- grees—ope county remains to be heard from:— Bilssourt Election, dc. Btate inebriate Asyium. Maratoga, August U1, 1867, ‘The Locating Committee of the Sate Inebriate Tarner, of New Boston Weekty Bank Statement. Bowron, August U1, 1887, The following are the footings of oar bavk the past week, as compared with those of statemeni Por the woek Death of the Lady of Gen. Lesite Died, ot 1PM, afore palatal aedilanetiog | 7 ., after a ite. of General ‘Leatie tombs, ‘onpected, Bolovod ‘and mourned by 8 whole commnnity. New Haves, agen 11, 1088, | 8 made ascension the pablic care sim i aero, He waa accom. od yA’ Piokerman and 0. F. Tuttle, of city.” They landed eafely at indian Neck, Branford, hace nen = he Pacis Horm, Axgest 10, 1867 ‘The of the Pact Railway, the seven mostte of ARLaTON, Aaguat 11, 1867, ‘The United States mall steamer Marion, in Poster, bere from New Vork a, four o'clock morning. Tae aveveta & SAVANNA, VANNAR, —, ‘1857, The Uoited States rtoymer Auguste here thie morning, in sixty hours from New York. India Rubber te the United States Otrentt Court yesterday, Con) toby pany, tome dozen tm teeta, and maqufactarers of cane ween rel injunction was made rome time Tate one finally dieporee of ati question of the title tn cave id which bee oocupted the Oourt so aad We lam wa monlbs, By thong decisions the right to