The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1857, Page 4

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ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourweath a.—Geaxn Comat Ornua of Une Husvers aco Twenty rive feeronesns. aoe Bascrine Vawe Paes MBCHASTOR HALL 471 Broadway--Negro MaLovuns, * o 0% Ativama—8y Bawant's Murer: Broadway—liuir< oF Micis, £0, few Vort, ‘Taceday, Avgust 18, 1857. Malls for Kurepe. TUN NEW YORK HXRA!.D- -SDITION FOR EUMOPS, ‘The Cunard steamsnip Persia, Capt. Judking, wil! leave 4248 port to-morrow for Liverpool. Toe European mails will croae ia this city ai tweive o/ NOck, 2008. The Buropeas edition of the Huxa:o, printed in ¥reach | and Engilad, wil! be published at ten o'clock in the mura- fag. Sivgis copier, in wrappers, etx coms. Savecr ptions aad advertisements for any edition of tae | New Yous Gxmiis will be received at the following pisces ta Surope. — Ypres am, & European Bxpreea Co,, $1 Kiug Wittam at, | Paree- Do is 8 Place de la Bourne. | for Western mixed. KuW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1867. that the Etaigration Commission have no discretion in the matter whatever. If the Quarantine Comm's- sdopers, the Governor, Lieu'enant-Governor aad Comptzoller of the State are satisfied with the build- ings that is sufficient. ‘The city still labors under the greatevil of having DO qualified Street Commissioner to transact the ba- siveas demanded by the exigencies of the seagon and the ri.hts of the taxpayers. The counsel on the republican aide seem desirous of playing a legal or illegal game at cheas, and checkmating their oppo- nents; accordingly they came armed to the Court of Common Pieas yesterdsy morning with two more irjunctions against Mr. Devlin, and in obedience to the law the counsel of the Street Commissioner of | the Mayor aad Commonalty of the city will refrain from aay further action at present in the Common Pleas, but will move in a day or two before some Judge of the Supreme Court to diasoive these in- Junctions which have been exacted from Mr. Justice Peabody. It is a strange and not very creditable fact thst judge is here pitted against judge, and when a democratic justice decides one way, an in- junction is obtained from a republican member of the bench. Thus there may be no end to a suit; the city may be destroyed by pestilence; necessary im provements remain at a standstili, aud yet this- legal quibbiing goes on. it is not right that judges | should be mae the iastraments of politicians, and the fact that they can be is a strong argument against their election by the popuiar vote, and that they should be appointed for life, or during good be- | havior, #3 are the judges of tue federal courts, The Destin and Conover controversy will tive in the his- tory of New York when the boues of the present | generation are mouldering in the dust. The Commissioners of Hoaith met yeaterday. | Nothing of much importance was done. The city and port continaed in an unexampied healthy coa- dition. Tbe anise cf cotton yestenlay being confined to a fow | hundred baies, ibe marxet ciored quite frm, We now | quote middting uplands at 15% , and midditng Now Or leans (which wore peace} at 16! %. per tb, Tho anles on Saturiay aft: rnoew embraced about 509 & 600 bules, not previously reported. Flour was a talr Baitera aod local demand, while prices were vastancod. Whost was less buoyant aad tales were confaet t> moderate tots of pew Southern eouod red at $1 70 a Bt Tl aad white do. et $1305 3189. Corn Lavanvo1—Do. de. 9 Capel sirest, Laverroor—R, Stuart, 19 Frebange adrcet, Eset. Havar—Am, & Faropesn f epee Cn., 21 Rue Corneilte. ‘Tne News. We have four days later news from Europe, | brought by the steamship Colombia, which left , Laverpool on the Sth instant and arrived at this | port yesterday morning. in Idverpool the cotton | market was quiet, and prices firm. Breadstuffs | were very dul, and flour bad fallen sixpence per , barrel. Sugar had decitned from 6d. to Is. in London. On the 4th instant consols closed at 0) to 90}. The Atiantic telegraph deet left Qaeenstown, lre- | land, on the 3d instant, for Vatentia Bay, and it was | thought that the operations coanected with the lay- | ing of the cable would commence next morning. | Practical experimen's made from the ship Aga-_ memaou were very sncceasfil. The greatest auxiety was felt in England with respect to the character of the next news fron | {ndia, which was momentarily looked for by the Australian mail from Sydney on the loth of Juce- The steamer wonld touch at Point-de-Galle about | the 11th of July, where later intelligence may have arrived from Madras. An immense sum of money had failen into the hands of the mutineers by the plunder of the district treasuries. A report to the effect that Delhi city was retaken by the Kuropean* was not generally credited. We have the particu’ lars of the arrest of the ex-King of Oude, with some details of the spread of tho insurrection. England was preparivg to increase the army and call ont the home militia. Admiral Seymour had forwarded official reports of the late naval actions on the Canton river, China; but the accounts do not differ from those already published in the Henan». Wagland proposed to seize on Canton. Lord Elgin was in Hong Kong. Diplomatic relations bad been suspended between France and Turkey. In order to prevent the French Ambassador leaving Constantinople, the Sultan had formed a new cabinet. Eugene Sue died on the 4d of August. The Hmpe ror and Empress of France were expected in England dally. All the Italian prisouers were fully commit ted for trial in Paris. The Adriatic and North Seas were united on the ‘Tth of July by the completion of the railroad be. | tween Vienna and Trieste. The Emperor of Austria was present in person. Forty miners were killed in Ragland by a colliery explosion. | were #oid to the extent of about 1,05 1,200 bis, tncludtoy mees a SH4.85, and prime, deliverable th's month, at bayer's option, at SZ. Sugars bods. Coda mas covado, cbieily reGulog -oods, at raies givoa la anoihes Column. Coilee was quiet aad steaty. Freight engage- menta were moverate acd rates unchanged. Agitation for Municipal Kights—What Aas been Done !—Who are Moving ta the Matter! | bat from a partioan and factions aptrt Tostead | inquiring whether our dealings with these Indians of being confined to the one aole object for which the movement was insugurated, they have used the movement to forward the views of politica; demagogucs. In fact, it must be confessed that those who have taken lead in thig repeal move- ment are not men the best calculated to give re- epectability and strength to it. They are, for the most part, the malt Hghts of Tammany Hal; and we all know that it is not with sach defenders that our liberties are to be won back. We are afraid, therefore, that unless there be a speedy awakening of those influential citizens of the metropolis and State who are now apathetic in this cause, and to whom our great city looks ia this, her hour of oppression, she witl have to cou- tinue for years more a disfranchis:d, disorganized and disgraced municipality. Must it be eo, or will we have the eatiefac'ion of seeing, even at the eleventh hour, the fame of oar old city re- deemed and her righte won beck from the grasp of » decpoiling Logisiatare? Let us hope that we will have tbis corsolation. Bororean Viaa.ance Coanorrre--Tur Sean- rH Mextcan Diseure, —Eogland and France have become, since their alliance against Rusla, peace preeervers among the nations of Europe. They have ordertaken to @otae to Tariey in relation to her principalities and internal government, to Denrrark In relation to the Sound Bucs, aad to | the King of Napiesin reference to bis treatment | of bis untortanate subjects, Andeow they have | intervened with Spain to prevent her carrying | out ber iaeane project against Mexicd. In fine, they have constituted themselves a Contineatal Vigilance Committee, and will not allow other na- tionsof Kurope to indulge in war or revolution _ or ultra-deepotism, unless it jumps with the policy | of France aal Logland to permit these diversions, Their practical intervention in the quacrel be- tween Spain aud Mexico ehows with what a high | hand the governments of Victoria and Napoleon | are resolved to perform their joint réie as peace | prescrvers, So long as Spain confined horself to | blustering and bravadoing and mock prepava- | tions for an invasion of Mexico by land aad sea forces, the representatives of the English aud | French governments at Madrid contented them- selves with merely insinuating the dangers that | would attend any real act of war between Spain and ber old vice royalty. They did not believe that the Spanish government was in earnest. | | adeeb generous and Chris- epirit which becomes thia great nation, Tae Vrrat Issox wrra Tax Dewocaatic Parry —Kansas iy ConGress.—Mr. Bachanaa has illus- trated bis policy in reference to Kansas in the executive course purtued ty Governor Walker. ‘The President and the Governor can stand before the country upon the merits of that policy, rest- ing as it does upon the popular sovereignty doc- trines of the organic law, honestly administered. But the issue with the democratio party, as 2 na- tional orgauization, is widely and vitally diff rent. ‘The case is clear. This party have a majority in the new Congress, and upon them will devolve the admission of Kansas a3 n free State, or as a slave State. If they admit Kaazns as a ¢lave State, the party in the North wili be swal- lowed up and lost in the Northera auti-slavery reaction—if they admit Kansas asa free State, the party will be eplit in twain ia the South. Ore or the other of these alternatives is the crowning colisequenee awaiting the flual solution of the Kansas issue ia Congress. The administration is- right aud safe ax it stands; bet the. disolaticn of the Just rc motos of the old democratic party, wcd x recow struction of parties ali rouad for 1660, are distinctly foreabadowed a among the first events of the Kanras agitation in the coming Congress. “That's so.” And why should it not be so? Every settlement of the slavery question has resulted in the dissolution of oae or more of the old pre-existing parties, and in the re-organi- | zation of all parties, Thus, the Missouri com- promise of 1820 was followed by the Presiden- tial ecrnb race of 1824, in which four several | candidates bad eash a party of his own, but | which, in 1828, were concentrated into the Jack- ; sonand Adams parties—the beginaing of the | whig and demccratic parties, Thas the compro- } mises of 1850 were followed by the death and | dispersion of the whig party in the election of | 18525 and thus, with the Kansas-Nebraska bill of | LsS4, the disintegration of the demoralized de- } moctatic patty commenced in the North, and its | fical dissolution awaits the issuc in Congress upon 4} Kaneas. H The democratic party standa just now in the ondition of the Roman empire after its division into the Eastern and Western empires, with the When the court of last resort decided thas | THY could not believe that it would be guilty of ' Fuce, the Goths aud Vandals harassing them the Metropolitan Police law did not conflict with | 897 ‘uch folly and madness, And when the | ypon ail sides. There is a Northern and there is State, but was a constitutional enactment, the Hrnaty counselled the people aud authorities of the city to conform to that decision. But the | Herarp at the same time did not abandon the cause for the success of which it had so long struggled. The principle of municipal rights was one too vital in its character, too essential to the growth abd prosperity of this metropolis and ot every other city in the land, to be lightly abandoned, or to be surrendered to a usurping Legislatare until every resource bad been tried and had failed. Such wae not our condition at the time. To be vure, a black republican Legielature at Al- vany had aot hesitated to trample oar long prized | and inchoate rights under foot, by stripping the | duly elected authorities of this city of all control | over its police, its hazbor, its parks, its projected | public buildings, its health regalations, and all | that, and by reducing these same authorities to | “the condition of mere ciphers ‘To be sure the Supreme Court had, through sorhe tortuous- | ness of legal reasoning, upheld the Legislature in this usurpation ; and, more wonderful still, the Court of Appeuls had afirmed the decision of the | Supreme Court, and stamped the Metropolitan | Police act— the one on which the fight was made | -with the seal of constitationality, But not- | withstanding all that, a remedy etill remained to | us—a sovercign remedy. The people could still, through the ballot box, reverse the judgment of | courts and of Legislatures, and indirectly re- store to the metropolis the rights and privileges | of which it had been so unwarrantably deprived. It Was to that final and all-sufticient remedy } that we then looked forward with hope and con- | England and France favored bis mission, and ea- | deavored to make it successful by notifying the | Spanish government that in case it persisted in | Its insane project of war, they would not guar- | antee the safety of Cuba, or the other Spanish \ islands of the Antilles, But now we find, by our Madrid correspondence, that when that go- | vernment proved itself recklessly obstinate, {as it has just done, and would pot listen to reason and common sense. Kaghiad and France stepped in, forbade a breach of the peace of na- | tions, and transferred the negotiations from Ma. | drid to Paris. can digpnte, ‘Thos we have the eingular spectacle presoated of the two most powerful nations of Hurope con- stituting themselves a Continental Vigilance Com- mittee. Of course, while enforcing good con- duct on the part of others, the Vigilance Commit- | tee, like others that we have known i American history, may violate all laws, and eet at defiance | all principles of fair play. We expect, however, that when they do, the other nations of Earope, thas curbed in the exercise of their sovereign | | Tights, will re-aseert their independence, return to their normal condition as co-equal States, and | pul an end to the existeace of this novel organt zation. Vigilance Committes are come’ ceseary, bat alwuysdangerour. Generar. Sam Hovsron Hiram axo Dry. About the most conspicuoas of all the wrecks | stranded among the shonis avd breakers of Know Nothingiem, i# that stalwart maa of war, ieneral Tt was enid that the Shab of Persia now refuses fidence. We recommended a hoalthy and | Sam Houston, Like Millard Fillmore, General to evacuate Herat. At Singapore, B.1., on the 17th of June gold | dust rated—-Molayan, $27 50 a $28; Australian, #29 80 @ $0 per bupkel. #rom South America we have news dated ut Ilo | ment for the restoration of our right of self. thorough agitation of the subject. We called upon the liberty-loving citizens of this metropolis, | and of the State at large, to unite in a move- | Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, Andrew son, John J, Crittenden, Jobo M, Botts, Commo- dore Stockton, George Law and a whole army of others, desperate politicians of both the old whig Janeiro 24, Babia 7th, and Pernambuco With of | government. We pointed out the evils that had | 894 democratic parties, (1d “an Jacinto waa de- Jaly. Sixteen British gunboats, destined for the China waters, were at Mio, Mr. Gollan, Eagiish jytion of our police and the disorganization of of the mysterious and terrible party of the dark | lantern. But the dark lantern was a will-‘o-the- | wisp, and has led ita hopeful followers on their | Vice Consul at Pernambuco, was murdered on the Sth of July. The Rio coffee market was steady at | arise. Freighte had improved. Flour was scarce and high. At Pernambuco prices of sugar con- tinued high. Produce without change. I'rvights nomina!. Exchange 2s. 4d. la the Prensa of Havana we tind advices ‘rom Porto Rico to July 27. The government had deter mined to abolish the milled coin of the idan, end a decree bad been issued, in conformity with orders trom Spain, todo away with it in cight days time It is to be replaced by Spanuh hand money. an! the war steamer Pizarro brought ont for that one | one miliion three hundred and fifty thowand doi lars lately coined in Seville for thi« change in the currency. The peopleappear to be highly delighted | with the measare, and the papers ore loud in their praige of the government. By the arrival of the British schoouer Reindeer we have files of Bermada papers to the Sth instant. They, however, contain nothing of interest. The «crew frigate Termegant left on the 5th for Logtand. It ia confidently expected that the Surrogate will render his decision in reference to the Barde!! estate oo Thursday or Priday of thie week. A special meeting of the Board of Aldermen is called for Thursday next, to take euch action in the matter of the judgment which has been recovered against the city by Robert W. Lowber, as may be necessary, and prevent, if possible, the eale by the Sheriff of the city property to atixty that judgment. The Board of Representatives of the Fire Depart. nent held a special meeting ! yt evening to consider the resiguation of four of the I ite Commissioners, to take effect on the first of September. A wriea of reso\ations, offered by Joho A. Cregier wa adopted approving the course of the Commissioners, censur ing the Common Council for interfering with them in the discharge of their duties, requesting thom to withdraw their resignations, and appointing a com mittee to confer with them in a revision of b ire Cony missioners laws. The course of the Chief Pnginee, | in taking charge of the conceri for the benefit of thy Mire Department Fund on the lat of May was oon sured, and « vote of thanks was refuwed him by « vote of 121 to 10%. The inqueston Alexander Boyd, who was killed by burglars on the Sth inet., while defending bis | brother's atore, was resumed yesterday at the Six teeoth ward station houre, before Coroner Perry ‘There is plenty of evidence, bat it is very contra | dictory. [1 ia hoped the p lice will be able to ferret | oot the guilty parties, for they bave had plenty of time for the display of their vigilance. The Coroner was obliged to commit one of the witnesses inte castxly in consequence of his prevarication. Attorney General Cashing has given ao opinion with respect to the power of the Commissioners of Emigration to accept or refuse the hospital buildings recently erected at Seguine’s Point. He decides | chirement and anarchy can not reasonably be already been brought upon the city by the disso- | all authority. We called in evidence the dis- | macefal riots that were permitted toragein some | of the wards, aud to the increase of murders, | | burclaries, robberies and garrotings, directly re- sulting from the dcemoralization of our police. We ebowed that a continuance of this state of things was calculated to injare the commerce and prosperity of the cliy, hy producing @ wide- spread fooling of insecurity for life and property; ' and thus how all our people were directly interes in the repea! ef the odious enactments of the late black republican Legisla- ture, we called for such # manifestation of the popular will as would teach these unprincipled legisiatore that the liberties of a great city like are not to be v New Y ated and wiped out ly apy unwarrantable stretching of the provi- sions and principles of the constitution In thie movement the wealthy classes of thet Property holders, the merchant princes, the manufacturers and traders, were vitally in terested. A blow struck at the liberties of the city ie a blow struck at ite proeperity, and conse- | quently affects the wealthy classes even more than it docs the industrious classes, Bat how | has our appeal to the {interests of these pro. | petty holders and merchants been answer. ed? By stapid silence. By an anaccount able jcthargy. By ap utter withholdiog of | themeel ves from the stragale that is being fought on their bebalf, at without their co-operation. | Some dozen of public meetings have been held | within the laet month in vaiiom parte of the city in sapport of this rep it: but what part bave our wealthy or intellectual citizenstaken therein’ None whatever: they have stood aloof vn the movement, as if it did not concern them tereeta in the slightest degree. This re is disheartening to those who ity and who would never consent © a deprivation of her muantelpal rights in one tor tit » movement be univer- | wal, poly in the city but throughout the State. Tom out present condition of dlsfran- or ove this preat ¢ ; for unless 4 fe looked for We are afraid, too, that thoxe who have taken prominent parts in there gathorings of the people have lost sight of the true olject of the stroggle. The speeches made at these meetings and the resolutions adopted, with an exception here and there, have had for the most part a totally dif- ferent bearing. They seem to have emanated not from apirit of love for municipal freedom. luded and caught by the first atonishing flare up route to the spoils and plander of the govern- Away to the lake of the Dima! Swamp, And the ex-President of Texas fs as fast in the quagmire as the Buffalo ex-President of the United States, Bat the Know Nothing move- ment in thus killing off ite extensive catalogue of Presidential aspirants and political huacksters, has done come service to the country. We may regret the fate of General Houston, but he must submit to the fortune of war. His late crushing defeat as the Know Nothing candidate for Go. vernor of Texae, removes «a prominent figure from the political arena, but it adds another to that Interesting retired list of distinguished poli- ticians restored to the sweets of private life. Tue Isptans or Tue Weer.—We publish in another column a communication from the Jowa Sioux agency to the department at Wi on the late Indian troubles; it will be read with | interest, as another link in the chain of the his tory of our dealings with the red men. The late Indian attack, the capture of Mrs. Marble and Mise Gardiner, their rescue, the pureuit of the Indians «rd the merited punishment of the ravish- , ers, have already been laid before the public, We trust that whenever [ndians—of the Sioux or apy other tribe—ehall carry off white women, maltreat and outrage them, and refuse to surren- der them without a ransom, they may be panish- ed with all the rigor that may be needful. But it is a strange and not wholly a gratifying circumstance to remember that of all the 300,000 Indians who ehare with o# this broad continent, pot one tribe can be said to be onr friends. All from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Mexican ine are our oper or our coreoaled enemies, rom time to time the enmity breaks out, and then there ie a rezzia among the tndians, and we shoot # few score of them and drive them farther into the woods; and then there is peace agala, and the white traders pueh further out, and sell bad whiekey to the poor ted men more vigorously than ever. If these Indians were inffalo or door, we could not use them more roughly than we do. We could not drive them about more savagely; encourage more openly the developement of their animal instinets, or punish them more cruelly whea there instincle show themselves in action. Mr. Buchanan might perhaps do a humanity as well w bis own sdminiat ee | Mexican Envoy, Lafragua, was sent to Madrid | the Wisio f the fun | ’ ’ @ provisions o| e fundamental law of the | to cual Ranoutniions with tha ae We may, therefore, expect a | | speedy and fiual settlement of the Spanisu-Mexi- | + Donel- | # Southern democratic party, and as the Western Romax empire in its decay looked to the Eastern | for support against the barbarians, #0 have | the Northern democracy been made subservient , to the Soathern democracy, under a pressure | which bas brought the Goths and Vandals into the very forum of Tammaay Hall. This atate of | things cannot last. Varties, like empires, are subject to the same inevitable lawe. They riser flourish, become corrupt, fall to pieces, aad other organizations rise upon their ruins. Thus, our | democratic party, which, with the passage of the Kaneas Nebraska bill, was distinctly ecparated sto two divisions, the democracy of the North and the demecracy of the South, must now yield | to the ascendancy of the one or the other, or go | to pieces. The five-caters of the South will not | yicld; the conservatives of the North cannot, | and we leave the consequences to the test of the | crucible. | The real issue which the party North and South have ingeniously evaded and put off since the repeal of the Missouri compromise must now be met and solved, yen or nay, in the admission | of Kareas as o slave State or as a froe State, | It is one thing to “leave the people of the Terri- tions in their own way” in a bill, but it is another thing to administer this doctrine without losing ! the 'Tomritory to the North or the South. Ove Cite Liorstarors, —Af the black republi , can Legitlature of the State, which at its last ses- sion inflicted such a mass of bad laws on this me- epithets, we muat in candor admit that our mani- | cipal legislators are not much ahead of them in | point of honesty, talent or respectability. Look- | ing back for the past four or five years we see | many evidences of the corrupt character of our Common Council, We find thom on one oovasion arraigned +» maze for corruption in reference to | the Broadway Railroad project, and for contempt | of coart in disobeying a legal injunction in that | matter. We find them again accused of corrup- | tion, collectively and individually, in reference | to other grants for city railroads. Agaio, we | have several of them indicted for epecified cases | of individual bribery, when they only cecape conviction and punishment by having one or two | uvecrupulous political friends on hand at thelr trial. | in regard 10 oar Common Council, Let a9 se ‘This ia the record of the recent past | pam were property charged 24 per cent; also confirmed | the decision of the Collector of New York that welouts tory perfectly free to form their domestic institu- | taopolis, deserved to be brauded with opprobrious | Since then the matter has been allowed to continus in an unsettled condition; and now the claimants of the property require the city to pay them $360,000 for its restitution. A modest request, traly; but will it be belleved when we state that ® committee of the Board of Aldermen has ac- tually reported in favor of that outrageous de- mand? ‘These are eome of the evidences of honesty and respectability afforded by a New York Com won Council, Fill up the outline with a sketoh of a rough and tumble fight on the floor of the Council Chamber between a Councilmen and one of these epeculators, and with a sketch of tho drunken broil between three of these city fathers and the proprietor and waiters of a Ger- maa lager bier salcoa, and you will have a pretty accurate idea of the Common Council of this great city. This is more disercditable to us an honorable, intelligent community than even our tubmission to the distzaxchising laws of our State Legislature. Tar Amsnican Parry Norra—-A Sor:x Con- SOLATION.—The editor of the Loutsville Journal says that “notwithstanding the reverses which have fallen to the share of the American party in Kentucky and Tennessee in the recent elec- tions, a careful observer of the signs in the poli- tical borizon can’t help secing the necessity for a strict preservation of the American orgauiza- tion;” and then he looks to the position of the She Equadron on Its W peetments in Laying the Cable by ‘The attention of the whole world ‘s now fixed upon movemeats of tfhat email combined fleet of American Fagiieh war steamers obarged with layiag down the yentic telegraph oabjo, whieh is ai ths moment, BO doubt, steaming towards our abores, and dopusiling in the bed at the oceaa that mysterious ohain wiich is dostined (o com- vey thought, from bemispnere to hemisphere, almost as rapidly as ike brain can conceive tt. steamery, samely, the American ships Niagara and Ses- quobanna, and the British ships Agememaon, 0; 0lops amd Teopard, steamed out of the beantiful barbor of Cort: towards Valencia bay, there to make fat the end of the cable which is to connect the two worlds. [hey were oa- peeted to leave Valencia em the 4th, but as 7ot wo bare as imteiigence of ihetr departure. ‘The steamer Columbia, delonging to the! Collins tte, which arrtved ai this port morning, lef Liver. pool on Wednesday, the 5th 7» t Zo'clook ta the after- Boon, and up t that time no otws of tha movements of the equadroa after it left Cork had beca recsived. The southera coast of Irciand, from the Old Hoad of Kindaie to Dingle Bay—a point a Little to the north of Valencla—is marked by projecting hesdiands and shoals, which Compel bessels of large tounage to Keep wel, clear of the land, eo that it probabiy required some ten or ‘weive boars to make the voyage from Oork to Valensia. ‘Then ‘t would take some hours to secure the cable te tha connectiag point onthe coast. We learn from Captaia Berry, of the Columbia, that he made Cape ear tn iwon- ty-three hours from Liverpool, reaching that point at eme o’ciock A. M. of the 6th, at which time the wind was biow!ng stroug from the westward—about west northwest —s0 strong that he thinks the officers of the equadtron ‘would not venture to pat to ea with the oadie. It mast be remarked that in westerty winds the weves of the Atlantic beat tn with tiersendoas force on the west- ern coast of Ireland. Free that time unti) Feturday ing the 15th inet , Capt. Bony bad @ stiff head wind and a jh sea all the way, the wind varying from est north- “American party in the North” as exceedingly, one west southwest. @uch weather was rather anpro- evcouragipg. Sorry consolation thia, we are con- strained, with tears in our eyes, to say. We had supposed that the vote of New York State for Mr. Fillmore would be remembered even at Louisville; but let that pass. A State Council of the brethren is to be held, we believe, in Brook- lyn, o the 28th instant, and then we shall, per- haps, know whether the party in this State stil! exists, is disbanding, or will continue to hold to- gether at a dead loss to the subscribers who fur- nish the sinews of war. Meantime, Brother Pren- tice will derive some curious instruction of the drifts of the wind in this quarter of the camp from a more careful reading of our Know No- thing organs. Inquire of the Brookses. THE LATEST NEWS. News from W1 THR COMMISSIONERSUIP OF PATENTS—A NEW MINIS- TER PROM NICARAGUA, ETC., ETC. Wasanuros, Aaguat 17, 1867. A delegation from Maryland, headed by Chief Justics Legrand, called upon the Presideat today pressing the Sppointment of Col. G. W. Hughes as Commissioner of Patents. It is understood that the appointment Lies be- tween Hughes anda Judge is ome of the New Fogiand Sates. The hope of those having business with the office is that no one wedded to legal pleading wil! be nom!- pated. fr Nicaragua. Ho doubte that Webster has received any recognition from that Staté of bis Transit Route graut, ashe holds authority from that goverment to negotiate a sale | of the eame, ‘Tho French Mistater leaves to-morrow for Newport. Secretary Floyd and several other members of the Cabi- net contemplate a visit to Old{Point Comfort. Four bun- | dred guests are now at the Hygeia Hotel. Indian ccuntry with @ viow of making treaties and examia- | tng into the condition of the agoncies. Much dissatisfac- | tion ta expericned of lato with the missionaries During General Denver's absense Col. Charles E. Mix acts as Com- miasic ner. Sumner Obass, of lows, haa been appointed Kegiater at Osage Land Ottice, vice Jenkins, roetened, and Robert Brown, Register of Fort Desmoines, vice Walker, ro- | tigued. | Major Heiss, of the Sia’, gives the Washington Union | “Jeseie” this evening. Major Lee, late United States Coral at Basie, died of lock jew {n this city on Saturday last. He had been eccl- dentally wounded in the foot by « pistol la his own baud, ‘His remains were this ‘morning conveyed to Virginis. | There was a general Sight amoug the colored yeatiemen ata negro church jast nighi~aticks, brickbats and stones. | Noserious damage done. | ol. Savage, of Tenoessee, and Hen. % Kilwell are at | Brown's, Hom N. F, Clerk and Fon. Rdwin Croswell, of | New York, and Albert Binigtell, Maasachusotts, are at | Wilard’s, Tho War Department received a dompatoh thie morning confirming the news of the Cheyenne Indians stealing 800 head of cattio~not from the army, but from the army contractors. They were being drivew in advance of the ‘arty for Utab. THE GEYERAL NeWwerarim DRAPATOH IMPORTANT DROISION OF THE SHCRETARY OF THR FREABURT—MO\ KMENTS OF OBN. WALKER, ETO. Wasxoros, Auguat 17, The Secretary of the Treasury has om appeal covirmad | the fecision of the Collector of Paliadeiphia, that cotton whether we have any cause to boast of the pre- | rent. Paesing over all minor matters aod fraudalent | contracts, involving no very large amount, we | find the city just now being victunized by two schemes, one involving some $200,000, the other some $500,000, The one is the matter of the ket « coutract which, if the teuth were known, | Would probably be found to have netwd, or to promice the netting of, quite a nice little sum to | many of our virtuous legislators. The property | of the city i# at this moment ander execation to | isnoremedy butto have the money paid, | Flagg cannot or will not raise the needful (for the city treaeury isbankrupt) to pay off this judgment, the city must undergo the shame and mortifica- tion of secing ita chattels brought to the hammer So much for the Common Council's | tor. reck- fabrict, cords or corduroy, veiveteens, molekios, dresd } naagbts, repellant molesting, colton fabrics and ging were property charge! 24 and almonde 30 per cevt Gevoral Waiker loft here thie aNernoon for Nashville. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, annowuces bimeclf a canditate | for Congress, and decidedly but coureously condemns Lowber contract for ground for an ap town mar- | Governor Walker's course in Kaneaa, and thiaks be should be recalled. Semocr B Chase bat been appointed Register of ibe Tand (fice at Osage, and Robert Brown Register at Fort dew Moines, lows. Althoogh the jury im the care of the doven alleged elec on rioters, were confined io their room four days, they | Wore this morning dteharcod, being umabie to agree upon | & verdict. The Court then adjourned for the term. satiely a judgment procured in this case, and there | If Me. | and eold like the furniture of « defaulting credi- | losely if not corruptly making contracts for the | benefit, not of the city, bug of themselves and other speculators. the Mort Gansevoort property. That achome was not commenced by the present Common Council | but it is to be, if successful at all, carried out by | it. Some three years since the city owned whw' was known as the Port Gansevoort property ou | the North river. Conecienceless speculators had cast their eye on it, and a proposition was intro- duced in the Common Council to have it sold set of speculators we are selling for the benofit of another eet, The project wus carried through both boards. The law prescribes that euch sales shall be always by auction and after due adver- tisement. But in thie instance the law was vio- lated and the pooperty was sold at private anc- tion for £160,000, although two hone fide offers of $500,000 had been made for it, The title was taken by Sim. Draper. This gentleman was then an Alm:houre Commirrioner, and, as a city offi- cial, was prohibited from being interested in avy such eale or contract, On smortaining | The other matter in which the city is on the | | verge of being victimized is that of the sale of | ‘Thus, while we are buying for the benefit of one | Tk Ws reported that Mr. Shorman, of Michigan, has been lopdered Ure office of Commissioner of Patents. We ars in receipt of no New Oricans ‘papers to day. The Crops te HTNOTON, August 17, 1887. A letter from Plaquemine says that the sugar cane was frowing rapidly, and that the now crep of sugar would be in the market by te middie of Ostober, three weeks earlier than aaval, The corn crop wae larger than it bed over been before. [ice was abundant, and ihe harvest ‘would commence in two weeks. ‘The Baten Rouge Advora’e says the cotton crop im that vicinity had been seriously injured by rain, and confirms | the report of the forward state of the sugar crop. ‘The Caddo Gosstie says that cotton promised wel! in thelr region Shooting Affair. Denvges, lows, Avgost 17, 1867. Quite an exoitement wae created here this morning by an attempt of Mr. Mulieken, prosecuting attorney, to shoot Mr. Derr, editor of the aprew ond Herald, The cause of the di on Satarday, Me. Mullekou Ored twice at Mr Dorr, neither Abo taking effort Phe Atiantte Telegraph Cable Sr. Jou, NF, August 17, 1867 The Telegraph Company's stoamor Victoria lef, this port yesterday for the eastward, and will orutse off Trinity Bay nail the eriival of the telegraph oadie feet, which ‘will dowbiless reach that point on of about Thursday or Friday next ‘The mail steamship Merlin, from Halifae cho 14th inet., arrived hero to day, with Boston papers of Wednesday teat Mark Omeruo, A wor Mm Flour firm. Whoat dull, and the resetpt of the Colam bia’e News caused adecline. Corn clored with @ fog tendency, Onte quiet. Shipments to Baitkio—No tour, 12,000 boshele wheat, 80,000 havhele orra. Re- calpte to day—000 bole, four, 90,000 bushels whem, 44,500 hoabols corn Commissioner Denver has cone prospecting through the | pitious for laying the cable, and it is tobe hoped that the fleet did mot start o) the appointed time. Indeed, it {s most probable that they did not, for as there Is @ telegraphic commanication as far as Killareey, leaving only « few Bours staging 0 convey the news from Valencia to that paint,’ is almost oortain that intettigenos of their sailing woald have reached Liverpool before tae Colum Lis left, bad thas evemt taken place. ‘The Lod Lieutemant of Ireland and stat had arrived et Kivarpey on the thind of August, on theirjway}to Valencia, bo wiinees the starting of the squadron. While the vorsela ‘ay in Cork harbor the Mayor,the High Sheriff aad se ‘veral other dignitaries of that city invited the directors of the Telegraph Company toe banquet. Nothing ecoms to have been left undone to render this the most (mportant ‘event of the nineteenth ceatury as imposing, as posalie. ‘The entire contro] and responsibity of laying tha cabie @ committed to Mr. Charies Tiston Bright, Engineer in @hief of the Atlantic Telegraph Oompauy, who is on board the Agamemnon, together with Mr. K. W. Cooke, the famens Rogtish marine painter, who is deputed to sketch the naval incklente of the voyage. Mr, Bright occupied the time daring the trip of the Agamemnon trom Greenwich te Cork with expertments testing the appilances (or éepoett- img the cable in the ocean, by means of the email engine which movethem. The most perfect success attended these trials. When the Agamemnon had passed the track of the Sab- marine Company's cable between Dever and Calais, order to avoid the possibility of its being tajuret by the inying or Laaling up of another line at right angies tof, the experiments commenced. A thirteen-inch shel wae attached (o tho ond of a spare coll of the Atinatie cabie, Senor Yriaurri haa asked to be reooguized as Minister | oF the purpose of sinking tt rapidly with «strain upon ft to the bottam, and was then cast into the sea, drawing after it a sufficient quantity of slack to énabie 1{ @» tame hold of iheground and eo eet the machinery (n motion. ‘Tho pay tng out then commenced at ihe rate of two, thres, and four knots an hoar respectively. The ship was then stopped, and the cable was hauled up trom the bottom of the sea with great facility, by connecting the smal engine | to the driving pinion geared to the sheaves. When the end was brought up to the surface it was found that the shell had broken away from the loop, by which It had been fastened for the purpose of lowering it. | ‘The cable was found to be quite bright from the friction. The exterior coating of tar had been completely rubbed off by boing drawn through the sandy bottom of (he sea, and attached to the iron coating of the cadle were some weeds aad severn) small crabs, which came up with {to the surface. On the following day a length of cable was run Out and | hawed in with perfeot success opposite the Isle of Wight, | attached to an pachor, The apeed was increased in this | case to fve knote, During the afternoon of the same day a length was ren ont, having fastened to the ond of te | log of timber, and after having been towed with « mile | and a half of cable was coiled in again with success. About half way between the land's Hed and the const of Trotand another length was run out, at the rate of six end | ® half knots per hour, and eubsequonily hauledim. The Agamemnon then steered for Cork, all on board being mare than ony satiafied at the success off the enterprise, | ‘Some highly successful exporimenta, it appears, were af the samo time performed with an cloctrical log invented | by Mr. Bright, for the purpose of continuously ascortesa- ing with aoouracy the rate at which the ships are sailing, and thereby of enabling him to give corresponding dires” Hons ag jo the rate of pay ing the cable so as to prevent the | porsibuity of any unnecessary strain being put apes tt. | It wae done jo this way —The log was suspended ia the sen | from the ship's qnarter by a line, carrying withia tt e wire | (peulated by gutta percha, which was, in connection with | a battery and electro magnet, contained within aa imdl- | cating instrument on deck. This was so arranged thet af | each revolution of the wheel Leiow aa electric current was j brokem, and by the deflection of a magnet, which farme | Part of the circuit, a etep by step movement was comma- | Bicated to a register, which indicated the distance ran aad | the rate made by the vemel. | 0 far everything looked fair for a successful completion | of the cadertaking. All the electrical experiments wore | completed on the ist of thie month; and up to thet time | signals had pagned over tweaty-five hundred miles im the ‘Toost satisfactory manner and In less than @ second of ime As the Colina and Canard lines have both agreed thing | thetr steamers shall keep on tho track of the plates | where the cable is to Ke, we will very probably have nome important informasion as to the movements of the squadron by the Arabia, now nearty due at this port. She Jaf Liverpool on the 8th, and onght, of course, to have four days news by telegraph from Valencia; and as ar, | Capt, Herry reports for ten days of his voyage, they coakt | not have made moch progess—for in no part of the voyage | would a heavy sea and contrary winds be more likely to ailect their operations than immediaicly off the Irish const The greatest interest in \urope was manifested ts the Mariing of the expedition, Oo this side of the Ataaie anxiety wil! continue to intensify aa the fleet nears the p08! Of Its deationsion on the American const. Ged apesd the guilant ships on thetr way | Hk ai i i i : |