The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YOKK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1857, | «or France, aad the base of various osien “ae a correspondent at the Bahamas, writing at Naseau, N.P., on the ith iast., says that the Bishop of Kingston, Jamsica, had confirmed one hundred Grricn #. w. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASSAU OTS. | goa ten children thee. This was his Lordship's first visit to that porcion of his dioceas. The weather g o- was exceedingly hot. J aaary 4 4 Late advices from Turks Islanda say that there have been about 250,000 bushels of salt raked at Inagua up to the lst inst. They have had rain, which would put the raking back about three weeks. The cotlon market was eomewbat less buoyant yesterday, ssaneesceseeesM@e 940 | with rather more willingness on the part of some holders torell. The saies embraced about 400 a 600 bales, closing rather eof for middling uplands at 15%c., end for mid- dling New Orleans at 16\;c. Fiour was in fsir Kastorn end local demand, but prices were irroguiar and casior for some grades. Whea\ was solid more (reeiy and wat firmer, with sales of prime Tennessee new red at $1 45 0 $1 49, and Southern do. at $145.0 $1 460 $1 47}¢, and white do, at $1 608 $1 71%. Corn was firm and active. nee A break was reported oa the Erio Cana! at Frankfort, this LA! EENwS PHBA side of Utica, which was likely to ieterfere with receipts & Ge wo Gene er ee. for eome days. The sales of Western mixed were }n>r0, Brosdway—Jaany Lixp— ENT, SHISHA RR cass oa i ae i SK nsheernaty a ‘NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GOROUN BENNETT, + MUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ane @ABDER, Brosdway—Bri is, La Pagveaurre— vrowey vHesaTRR Rowery— were AND its Viens — . THE Boarsw ain—Wisrur Bi BURTON'S THEATRE Bond st.~ Broadway. opposite Rew War to Par Ovp Pears—Tae Ouniacs Broadway—Hxi 4c Law— BARNUWS AMERICAN MUQEUM, Broadway—Bocvs | sold (0 the extent of 920 hogsheads, at rates given in an- Boape1z Bane —Dusorrine ViEws, Pais ov Maste, As. other column. Coilee was quiet, and dealere were die @kO. CHEISTY & WOOD'S MINSTRELS. 644 Broadway | POted to await the public ale of Rio, to come of on Tues RO, CBB nacamanr Maw Yuak Calis, Os. day ext, 1st proximo, Grain freighta to Liverpool were Ormer, wish eng wcments Of about 20,000 bushels at 34. Pree yrre £2 Broeterey Rasee, Mmonrms, | ia bulk, and 44. to enip’s bags. Kagegemonte tor other ar- Ucles were moderate, ow Fort, Sunday, August 30, 1897. The Bogus Authorities of Kansas and the Bogus Authorities of New York. ‘There are two political partics in Kansas—the free State party, claiming an overwhelming ascendency of the popular vote, and the pro slavery party, in actual possession of the Terri- torial government. party it is alleged that they usurped the Terri- ‘The Scwe. ‘The storm of Friday morning last was very #e- vere for the time it lasted. In addition to the ships Roswell Sprague and Olara Brookman going ashore os Squan Beach, ap account of which we published yesterday, the Italian bark Carlo Alberta, from Ge- nos for New York, went ashore about eight miles north of Barnegat, and two of her crew and one pas- senger were drowned in endeavoring to reach the shore in the longboat. The remainder of the pas- sengers, forty in number, have arrived in this city. The Clara Brookman and the bark will prove a total | loss, and the position of the Roswell Sprague, at last | accounts, wa: a very bad one, The pilot boat | Thomas H. Smith also Grove ashore near Baruegat | and went to pieces. Phe crew were saved. In our actual war, marine columns we give farther particulars. The | st the free State party it is alleged that storm appears to have extended along the entire | their Topeba constitution and State government coast. | are purely fictitious, ridiculons and treasonable, pro slavery border rufianism and United States éragoons, and that consequertly the local autho- | tities of Kansas thus put into power are bogus, | and their laws are bogus; and that the legitimate yoters of Kansas are compeiled to treat them ac- cordingly, even to the extremity, if necessary, of The seventh annus! Social Tarnerfest, or featival | poy ing no more of the clemente of yali- of the Turner societies, was commenced last even- | dity cr legality about them than would ing by the reception of guests from various cities. | Liong to a Governor and State An account of the reception, together with the ar- ‘Neck 4 “at ss pov rangements for the festival, will be found in another csi ‘5 an yee , nad colama. tive authorities of the State by a ayuad of the Sachems of Tammany tion, cere is thereal ‘law and order party’ of Kaneas, is admissible o : int one answer, to wit—tbat both are bogus patties, as far as they claim respective- ly the right to the local government, according to the strict principles of law and order. It has been proved, through the searching in- ) quiries of a special committee of Congress, that segars on Wednesday last, by the Custom House of. | the Kansas pro-slavery party did secure the lo- ficers at this port, was erduy ordered to be seized C8! CO¥ ncnt through the seizure of the polls by Eman! B. Hart, Esq , Surveyor of the Port, oy, and the management of the first regular Ter. a charge of having been caugat in the act of viola- ritorial elections, an armed invasion of Mie- ting the revenue laws of the United States, inat- | sourians to the number of tbree or four thousand tempting to smuggle foreign goods into the port. men, And it js true that the free State party of She is now laying at Quarantine, where she was de- jcangas, in anticipation of these outside appli- taiwed by the Liealch Officer, and will probably be ‘Twenty-one appointments of Deputies and Clerks Halt. were made jest rcay afternoon in the office of the Commissioners of Assessments. The salaries | range from $2,600 to $500. The namber of appli- cante for the places now filled wes very targe. The successful are taken from almost every party, and the whole affair bas a sort of compromise appear. ance. % The bark Express,on board of which were dis- covercd upwards of forty-eight thousand smuggled es again, permitted their clections for brought to the city on Monday by a steamtug, whieh a last 6 Te Boor q Jsture to » : will then be sent down by the United States authon- % : ; @ z ¥ Ges ete ter. The is pened on beardef her, default Avd that thus the pro-slavery amounting to several hundred dollars in value,are Paty in the actual government of the Territory bave everything their own way—elec- ticns, Jaws, apportionments, ta’ else ; and that some of the code of laws of the first of these two pro-slavery 1 tures, are, as Gen. Cass declared in the Senate, “ a disgrace to ihe civilization of the age.” the proslavery party. On the other band, it cannot be disputed that in posseseion of the Custom House officers. The brig T. BM. Mayhew arrived at this port yes terdsy, from Rermnda 2st instant. Our correspoa dent writes (hat the isiand is perfectly healthy, but euflcring from a protzacted drouth. There is, how- ever, every appearance of the isiaud being soon retresbed with rain. The Legislature is not now i session, and politics are at alow ebb. The earnest end faithful manuer in which the present House of Assembly heve d their duty leaves nv room for compiaint. The botel (building at Hamilton) is now rooied, and rapidly approaching compietion. AG we shall want then to induce a large number of cla‘mcd by a village meeting of a clique of noisy persons to visit Bermoda in search of health or | pot house pi jan There is this diffrence, veaeure will be the putting on the line between | }owever, between the policy Of the pro-slavery New York and Bermnda of s good and efficient | party and that of the free State party Death has been lately at work among our | has the torms of regularity aud law, while the men and carried of from our midut the | intser has s the pablic sentiment of the Territory s favor, without even the shadow 1 authority to make or administer the y or public respect than a government pro- steamer. both of woom wei en of the town of Hi iiton. Mr Ovterbridge wax for 55 yearsa merchant of Hamilton. He was for {7 yoars a member of the Hamilton corporation, 43 years broker of the the local party in power, prose Hamilton Assurance Aneociation, 43 years a y of making Kansas a slave State Justice of the Peace, and ter 10 years one of | in ation of the wishes of a large majority of tbe Court of General Ansize. Mr! 41, s pcople, and the pe of power of the Hamilton Corpora ming the cove is of the ” directors of the Asenrauce | yp ooecdings of = town m0 we must Association He was well known to many Ameri- | 0” ® : usa cans who have visited Bermuda for hisunbounded | * ‘ ; fi . be eictetited towse assumption? of beth parties to impudent, : “f ' ’ frandulent, and s taw and order strat ger ‘ 4or Court, in the care But 2 ther the authority of Joba Thompson, | to mah r the T ries, nor to sit in th ir constitutionality, be has to Monds. a the conflicting part! Commodo ‘ government and laws, ©. ©., emterdag of the Territory. What else coald he bsraclhtegacy < ee eee He couid cull an extra session of Congress ported Give Hrewest, Gomocrat, ® | 1, revise and regui doings of the local The City Inapectr re 3 deaths during the 2°¥¢ermment ortunately the pest week — as compared with tho | Dew Congrets clected ; and morti f the week previous. Disesses of the | even if it w re, the ex itility of an stomach and bowels bave taken a favorable tarn. extra ession would be very questionable. Even | The deaths from cholera infantum alone are 52 lesa. with a border war In full blast, it would, Lang compisints also” ve fallen off considerably: perhaps, le lest to await the regular The following table exhibits the number of deaths ¢. cf Congre and to do all during the past two weeks among adults and cnil that cond d in the interval dren, distinguishing a wen Dove. Gite. Tam | % Testore ond maintain the peace. This is the Week eacite August 23.108 758 «417, 24) wo” couree which the President ‘s pursuing. His ob- | Werk coding Avgust 29. 00 =62 = 20d 1S OLS | ect, to the meeting of Congress, is to administer | Among the principal causes of death were the following such of the | ticable to the ends of peace and conciliation, and to leave to Congress, where the power belongs i$ | the duty of putting the government of the Terri- existing laws of Kansas as are prac- — Week mding 22 Avg ts Coraomption Ooevaisinns (in “antile).... lofiemmation of () Soarlet fever pain H | tory upon the true basis of law and order. And Poca’ 78 | we submit it to the common sense of every in- | Dropay te the bead | ; Mooiee,... : telligent reader that the President, under the cir- uf onmetances, can do no more, his active authority Gaoters infaotar... There were also 4 deaths of ‘epoplexy, Tot ile chitis, 7 of congestion of the brain, 10 of congestion of the lungs, ° of debility (infantile), 29 of diarrhoea, 29 of dysentery, 12 of hooping cough, 9 of inflam. mation of the bowels, 6 of teething, 4 premature birthe, 24 atillborn, and 15 from violent causes, in | being limited to the execution of the laws, Jn this practical view of Kanana affairs, what immediate concern have we, the people of New bogue no-slavery wrangling politicians and short loys of that Territory? cluding 6 drowned, 2 murdered, and 1 wicide, The following iss classification of the diseesa: | and the number of deaths in each class of disease during the weck:~ other! Can our State officers to be cleeted in slature, do any thing to modify, repeal, or ang 2 Ang ©. * Not *) 99) cot firm the lecal laws of Kansas? No! They will too 11 re authority over the eubject | " t lature of California or Oregon. omnge aa 4 ' at, then, in out November elec Mikio “Ae, and errvtiy: . 7 ? tic “ teide and whol Sublibe oe 8 Cocarte > aeatand general t ‘ ie as 60 hot 4 meted ts the Urinary orgeas » a mischief io he ~ -~|% ot we can dh nnor of good to cither Total. oN part her of coaths compared with the corres: | had the PP The nr c . r } But I n if they sould ponding weeks in 1455 and 1856, wasns follows: — ve « helping lv Pade Wook ending Sept 1, 1486 oe " r clection to Week ending Avg. 05, 1806 61 | the short boys aad patriots of Kansas Wook codizg Avg 2, 18 ” } n Weck enting Ave. 49, 186 62 | on either eide, ha tofry. We har The ostirity table gives natives of the the bogue laws of out own bogus Legislature of fitates, 09 of Iredand, 17 of of F wt Ws fer at appression of Against the pro slavery | torial government through Missouri invasions, | The ques- | s to which of these two parties | ‘everything | Acd so much for | the local Topeka government of the free State | leeders, bas, in trath, no bigher claims to legali- | the first | York, between the bogus pro-slavery and the | How can we reach them | in our approaching State election, one way or the | mber, or our Corporation officers, or our | the lobby apoitamen of tha Seward, Weed and Matteson clique at Albany, is a question of more vital importance to as than the doings of ali the Dorder ruitiana of all the Territories put together. The great living and vital issue with us is sitoply this:—Shall our cities, towns acd villages be restored to their ancient right of managing thelr own local affairs, or shall they be subject hereafter to the despotism and “bleeding” of the ravetous spoilsmen of an accidentai ma- jority of this or that party in our State Legis lature? With this issue before us, the affairs of the con- Hicting bogue authorities of Kansas may be safely left to take thelr course, and to afait the practi- cal solution of Congress, Of late years, not only Kansae, but every other promising Territory or new State, has been cursed with a flood of reck- less and ravenous political hacks, quacks and spoilsmen, The nuisance was fairly inaugurated with tho great politicians’ hegira to California The consequences in that State need no repeti- tion here. But look at Minnesota—two party State conventions formed of the delegates elected to one! It is the dirty disease of Tammany Hall spreading itself everywhere among the dirty spoilemen of the political parties of the day. Such diseases cannot be cured by quack nos trums. They must be left to time, to the people directly affected, and to the purgative of Con- gres:, a8 far aa the Territories are concerned. Thus, our best course towards Kanaas, as we cao do nothing for Kansas, is to let Kausuz alone, and _ to attend to our own affairs; for if we go on at our present rate of an incrcased taxation of three, | four or five millions a year, the State will soon | be drained of every drop of blood in its body, “Bleeding New York” is with us the main and only practical ieeue for November, and it cannot be shirked ina hue and cry about “bleeding Kansas.”’ Tar: Lessing Systex—Tur “Tarre Byo Law.’’—Ont of the eight handred aud four acta passed Gusing the last session of the Legislature, ove of them is entitled “an act to suppress in‘em- | perauce, and to regulate the sale of intoxicating | liquors.” This is enpposed to be an improvement on all previous legislation, but that it is eo has yet to be seen. In cighteen hundred and fifty-five the s jurisdictica of the Mayor and City Council aud Jomissioners of xeise, Licenses were issued to persons of “meral character” entering into bonds of $125, with surety, for the due per- formance of ail the conditions upon which the license was granted. Tor any infraction, suc as permitting gambling, keeping a disorderly house, ec, the proprietor of the saloon, ina, or tavern | was fined, sometimes confined, and at ail times under the surveillance of the authorities, On Sunday, according to the law azd ordinance, no | strong drink could be sold to aay one, except an | actual iraveller, boarder or lodger: and judging | fom the number of smiles and winks geuerally exchanged upon that day, we should suppose the city contained only travellers, buazders and lodgers. But, however lax the execution of the jaw may have been, or careleas the scrutiny of the Aldermen and Assistants of each ward in the granting of licenges, of one thing we are certain —the law iteelf was good, and sufficiently strin- gent for all the purposes intended Under its licensing regulations there were au- nuay issued about seven thousand licenses to owners of hotels, restaurants, Xc., bringing into | | | | } | | | | | } some sum. By eom us pocus legisiation the fystera was put in abeyance, and an un- restricted traiic in intoxicating liquors was ‘freely permitted and indulged in by persons of moral aud immoral characters. It is supposed that | under this free system of universal whiskey selling, not icss than twelve thousand persons could have | been engaged in the trade, as in every oie and coruer of the city the black bottle and lager k: wore installed as the houschold gods of nuuber- lecs spititaous devotecs. This rum satarnalia produced its own reformation, in arousing public sentiment against its abominations, and the “act to suppress intemperance and regulate the of intoxicating liquors” was the resalt. On the principle that any Jaw is better than no law, the new act may be said to have its ase; but in comparing it with former enactments and ordinances it emsa very foolish attempt todo more than can be effected, and on the whole a bungling pitee of legislation, With the ex- ception of that quaint injunction to allow 20 one sal i the ner of “three spare beds” oll wi { pesebeorbtchp ee ee ee ee In the exercige of that discretion they sold at pri- and liqaors on the premises, the taking of all from the Major and Conncil, substituting place three Commissioners of Excise, of from thirty to two hundred », there is no he system ses were granted in 1455 and now entered npon. ueand ecliers of intoxicating ly not more than six hundred under which lic we bay Of the twelve the Th have passed, and the recusante, eummérily shut up, are graciously informed time fifty days allowed by the law instead of being they may seil away until the first of September, and evcn—as one of the Commissioners suggests to the firet of January. Is not this a palpable admiss According to this precious enactment, no per. a obtain a license to sell less thad five gal- lous of atroug acd iluous liquors and wines, to be drapk on the premises, uatess ench person | keep an inn, tavera or hotel having at least throe } #pare beds What alliaity there is between three | epare beds and temperance can only be explained | by our eapient legislators, 1 | } of weakness? fu One thing is certain—that under this three- bed law the most temperate and thirsty citizens pérambulating our streets cannot get a glass of | wine, for the law suppores only travellers to need | such an accommodation. What ufarce! Do the Commissiovers cver seriously expect to carry out such # ridiculously stringent provision? We have not alluded to the audacious attempt mace by this act to abridge the iberty of the citiven—to interfere with the social enjoyments of the temperate thoursnds of the working | clasece—to the*inquisitorial powers of the Com- missioncrs—-the summary juriadiction given to an—the encouragement offered to tef, and the general demorali- zation predicated. These require no comments from us, being sufficiently plain in their conse- It is evident, trom what we have al- ready stated, that this “three bed law’? will add avotker melancholy example to the fatuity of endeavoring to accom. tmonta, a chert impor. | qnences, ibility, Legis lation hever yer plantkd a virtue where@oral pereoasion fuiled to drop the eed: and if all part exporicnee did not convince us of the folly ef sumptuary laws, surely the recent failures of such attempte in Maine, Boston, Cin cinrati, ve. cbt have raved this city from the of this crowning absurdity. ¢ of intoxicating liquors was under the | the city treasay $70,000 a year—a very hand- | | 4 for licenses up to the present | \ ail | from the cours weCATION in VWimaosia —Some years ago— fifteen, perhaps--Mr, Wise, then a member of Coogrese from Virginia, bad a severe altercation in the House with a gentleman from New Eag- lend, in the course of which Mr. Wise thanked God that there was not acommon school wer printing press tobe found in the district of Ac- comac, which he represented. Timea havo changed since then; Mr. Wise is now Governor of Virginia, urder a new constitution, which pro- vides that the capitation tax, amounting to about a quarter of s million per annum, shall be ap- Plied to educational purposes, and we tind Gov- ernor Wise taking an active part in a convention held for the purpose of recommending to the Le- gislature the best means of appropriating the fund. This isa step in the right direction, and although it ix only a small siep, yet we dail with satisfaction any attempt to remedy the condition of the poor white laborer at the South. Com- pared tohim the slave isa prince, and the “down trodden miilions of Europe” happy, comfortabie, well lodged, well informed, well ted people. But our Virginia philantbropists have still a great deal to learn. We give clsewhere the seve- ral speeches of Governor Wise at the convention, and it will be eusy to see that the worthy chief magistrate was talking at random. He saeered at the common school syatem of tbe North, which he evidently docs not understand, and sppesred particularly distreesed because grammar was not taught in the primary schools of New England. Now a New England “primary” achool, strictly speaking, is one where pupils are taken beiweeu the tender ages of four and eight years, and they weuld hardy be prepared for the intricacies of Licdley Murray or Goold Brown. The common school system of New England is not perfect, but it is the nursery from which she has sent forth her greatest states- men, her most eloquent orators, her most skilful mechanics; and it isin her old red schoolhouses that she has fitted the men and women who teach the first families of Virgisia, and the mecchauts who send the cotton and the tobacco of the South into every open port on the globe. When Gov- Wise eball give to Virgiuis laborers the edaca- tional advantages evjoyed by their Northern brethren there will be vo need of Cowm jal Conventions to devclone the resources of the O14 Dominion, or to attract te ber ports the chips of he commercial of the earth. The point, Lowey which is most striking in the remarks of Governor Wise, is the com- placent manner in which the appropriation of one hundred and iifty theueand dollars for com- mon schoo! cducation in Virginia is spoken of, Tt mast be remembered that this sum Is considered sufficient for the education of a million of people, when we pay eight hundred thousand doilars in the city of New York, alone, for seven hundred thousand people, and our system is not nearly so gocd as it ought to be. The fact of the matter is, that the perseas call- ing themselves the aristocracy of Virginia have moropolized all the education, and arrogated to themselves all the talent in the State. They are rapidly deteriorating, and the State, by couse. qeence, is going backward, while its despised Northern sisters are steadily progreming. Gov. Wise and bir coadjutors see this as plaialy as we do, but they go to work in a very clamsy Way, if it is really their intention to renmdy it. Let us, ho 7, give them the credit of good inten- tiona, and hope for + the ‘best. Sace ov twe Fort Ssenuine Reservatton— Reriy to THE CHances or Fravp.—One of our Washington correspondents has eupplicd us with copies of documents—which we publish elsewhere designed to show that in the recent sale of the Fort Spelling reservation in Mianesota there was no collusion between the purchaser and the azeats | | tor the sale, but that the interests of the govern- ment were properly protected. There have been serious charges made in reference to the sule of this property, baccd principally oa the groand | that the lands were diepored of at private sale, | inetead of at public auction, it being alleged that if they bad been put up to public competition they would have predaced $100 aa acre, inetead of | $12, al which they were sold. The answers to both these complaints will be found in the official papers which we publish on the subject. Tbe Secretary of War, in appoint. ing two agents to dispoxe of this property, left it discretionary with them to geil either at pri- vate sale or by public auction, and fixed the minimnm price in either event at $7 50 per acre vate sale at petacre, and have given as a reason that combinations had been made to keep down the bide to from £1 25 to $2 50 per acre. It seeima, therefore. that the advantage accruing adopted by the Commtasioners is that the guncral government reccivee $90,000 for the property, instead of $15,000. Under the cirenmstances the agents appointed by tho Sceretary of War could have done no better. Iysot.vt xt Baxxixe Istrrerions—Since the fuilure of the Ohio Life Insnrance and Trust Bankiog Company last Monday, events have been daily coming to light exhibiting what a monstrous thell of a concern that was, Accord- | ing toareprint which we publiehed yeeterday from a bank uote detector, ander the date of De- | cember 4, 1855, it is clearly shown that at that | time the deficit of the company was some two | millions of dollars, And yet, in face of that ex- hibit, it kept its doors open, continued to solicit | and to receive public confidence, to swallow up | poor | the reeources of benevolent institutions, men, widows and orphans, and to impose gene tally upen the community. And even now it haa had the effrontery to present @ legal opinion, elgned by one of its own directora, to the effect that the trust fund, or, in other worda, the de- posits entrusted to its care, are liable for the | general debte of the concern. What the aggre gate of there debts is the public has not yet | learned, because the New York branch has not published any statement of its accounts, but it is set down in round figures at seven milli dollars, The chances of realizing any conside- table share from this wreck are, therefore, is will be seen, elim Indeed. Hove we any otber monstrous banking con- ceTns among us operating on the same fictitious baeis as the Ohio Life asd Trust Company—any other fio: monster devouring the lifelong savings of poor lent institutions? It is much to be feared that and (oat with whatever artfulness they marage to conceal their real bankrupt condition and tw stave off the day of final they cansot be much longer suooeraful ia their effort nel we have; exposure, Ti Cleverasn Ea awnctrytres Convention The srsocialion which, ander the lead of Gerrit Smith and a Burrett, proposes to buy apall the aid of the Southern ‘al government at Clevoland » slaves of the South, with the State gov nts andof th clowd it t remarkable eee ‘amilies and the funds of benevo- | few days slice, kaving first organized a3 a regu- iar aseociation with its headquarters in this city. As the proceedings of the Convention constitute an interesting piece of cotemporancous history, we publish today a pretty full report theveof. Further comment upon the movemant is unneces- very at this time. Tur Orvxa in A Fuvanctas Pout ov View.— Elsewhere we give & communication in relation to the Opera, which represents a popular bat euperficial view of the matter, The writer argues that the Opera fails to pay in New York because the artista have heavier salaries than in Earope, wbile the price of admission here is less thaa it is there, For the sake of argament we might bo willing to allow that our correrpondent was right in bis premires. Even then we should say that he was wrong in his conclusions, Tor the Opera, weil managed, our people would uot object to paying the prices of the Academy in Paris, which run from two dollars and a quarter down to eighty cents. Our Academy will seat, com- fortably, a larger number of persons than either of the English or French Opera houses, and would therefore hold es much money. Artists are en- gaged in London and Paris by the year, and here we have them for a fow months. It is necessary, then, that the terms per month should be, say twenty per ccat higher; but thisie more than over- balanced by the heavy expenses for the ballet, which tie Euglish and French managers must pay, ard from which our directors are free, to sey nothing of the great outlay for costumes, exira chorus, orchestra, &c., &e., at which an American manager would faint with horror. No, a gocd Opers in New York, Boston and Phila- de)phia will always bring what it costs—say twelve bundred dollars per night. Tie grand difficulty bas been jound in the fact that the managers did not know their busin They are tike the railwey managers, making magnificent promises, levying out eplendid plava, which are vever realized, and tuKing people's money with- cut giving any tangibie return for it, Pretty coon people get tired of psying their money for nothing—the stock goes down—the Opera house is Geserted—the whole affair fails, and everybody is ruined, except & few capitalists who set the affair going, peckct the protits, and retire at an early period of the game. If it is possible, we shou'd like to cee sume capable man, free from all cliqnes or int. fgnes, and with saficient capi- tal, undertsle Opera management here in a quict, modest way, never bringing his perronal affsira | before the pubic, but giving a good entertata micot fora fiir price, We have the most good natura, |terai public in the werld—a public that car's a great deal of nonsense, and which is So anious to encourage what is really good ia ait that it often pays for a counterfeit rather then the genuine article shoaid languish in mercial Agure of our correspondent is an absardity, The manager provides an cater- tainment at a certain nightly expense, and he has good reason to believe that the attraction will be sufficient to induce the public to pay sullieleut to cover the expenses, and leave a margin of profit. If he falls, it isan error of judgment, jusiasa merchant may sometimes lose money oa an in- voice of foreign goods, for which, on account of tome stupidity of his own, he cannot get a mar- ket. In this country the price of an article has nothing whatever to do with its sale. ‘The best reply, if any reply was really needed to an argument so fallacious, might be fouud in the fact that Lumley himself, the most acute of ali the managers, bes reeolyed to come to Ameri- ca next year, bringing Piccolomini and Guiglini, moni thas was ever given by an American manager to any eperatic artists, except Grist and lario We are tired of hearing these com- j «lscus between London and New York. We have beard Grisi and Mario, Bosio and Ronconi ting to emailer audiences than we ever saw for | the most miserable operatic performances io New York, and we have counted u house in the Grand Opera, Paris, of one hundred and seveuty- five persons--not quite equal to the number of the orchestta and chorus. Vor anything really good we can get together at tho New York Academy of the principal Opera hovses in London or Paris, because there the Grand Opera ta patron- zed ouly by a claes, while here it is rapidly be- coming @ popular amusement, to the support of which everybody contribotes something. It is hardly neccesary to say tbat the above remarks apply to the general subject alone. By all accounts, the coming Opera season will be oae where persousl quarrels amoug the managers will interfere materially with the enjoyment of the public and the success of toc Opera. Tut Gorn Box.—Our readers are doubtless aware that o comauitice of tbe Common Council lutely awarded General Jackvon’s gold box to Lieutensnt Colonel Dyckman, very much to the disgust of wveral other herors hereabouts, who coveted it. That award has not yet been con- firmed hy the Common Council, but the commit- tee seemed to regard confirmation as a foregone | conclusion, and invited the custodian of the box, Mr. Andrew Jackson. to come to New York and | make the presentation, Mr. Jackson replicd that he could not make it convenient to do ro, but tuggeted that a meesenger should he eent for the box. The conunittee therenpou reelected three of its | own members—the chairman, (Alderman Mono- ghan,) Alderman MeConnell, and Councilman Van Tine. These dignitaries were to proceed to Nashville, obtain the box, and retamn to New York—an operation which would have coet at least five hundred dollars, when the service could | have been performed by a special mersenger for one-third of the expense, or better still, by the Adams Express Company for five dollars Wo are glad to say, however, that such was the force | of public opinion that the two Aldermen thought better of it and declined, placing the bnsincss in the hands of the Coancilman, who will probably | Le able to get to Tenneseee and bring the box to | us quite eafely. It is refreshing to sev, in ! theee latter days, that even Aldermen have some senre of what f# proper and decent, and that they are tatisfied to take what they can got by the old fashioned way, and to refraia from invent- ing new methods of plundering the public trearnry. Weerers Lavo asp Rannoan tr mLts.—-We publish today, from the Richmond Examiner, a very eensible and rearouable article on the West- ern jand and railrosd babble es of the day, and we recommend it to tbe depecial attention of our Wall street flannciers im these Western railroads, city sites, town lots and water privileges. The whole ruperstructure of apcculations raised upon these rotten fonrdations, mnst necessarily be flimeey and able to be biown down by the first sharp pall of a cold east wird. The collapse of the Ohio Life and Trast Company, and the mise rable dodges of the Michigan Southern Railroad Compeny, are but the first external symptoms of to whom he pays by the year a larger sum per | twice as many people as will be drawn to either | Fes ¢ rd away all these jobbers and specalators titious capital and profita,as the brings the loose drift down a mountain We have had buta sprinkle of the threatened rein—the storm hes yet to come. THE LATEST NEWS. i i i i Qube. The administration intend to keep a close watoh im reference to certain matters there during the next $wo years. Acvices have been received from the Fort Yuma and EL Paso wagon road oxpeditions, They are p: finely, notwithstanding they have expertonded epg of bad weather and heavy roads. Commodore Stephen Cassin, who was placed by the late Naval Board on the retired list, died this morning. The Navy Department to day received information ef the denih of Lieut. W. H. Cheever, who died at Ble éa- neico on the 1éth of July inst. Jogeph E. Devit! has. been appointed Pension Agomt at Philadelphia, vioo Azdorson, A distinguished ex-member of Congress from New York, rumor eayes, will ehortly lead to tho sitar an sooom- plished lady of this city. Ebenezer Slocum has besa appointed Postmaster of Pall River, Mass., vice Morton. ww Work Politics, ALunT, Avgust 29, 1869. Albazy county sends from its four Assembly distrtow the following delegates to the Democratic Staic Convea- (lon to be held at Syracuse:—Benjamin Nott, J.C. Chis- holm, Peter Cagger and Francis Koarm is & bard ead an ex Know Nothing, are soft, ‘The (vilowing are the delegates chosen for tho Jadictad Convention:—Mesare, Van Duzer, Lyman Tromaing, Jos J Olcott, Smith and Waterman. ‘The eofts carry the district, but givo the ynie of the de legation to Rufos W. Peckham, a bard sheil, but who voted against the Neorosks bi!l, and who was deveassced by Mr. Schell at Tammany Hall. Phineas L. Kiy ts olected a democralic delegate to the Syracuse Convention from the Firat district of Niagara. The Convention of the Southern New Schoot Presby tertana, Ricunonp, Virgioia, August 29, 1867. ‘The cew rchoo! of Presbyterians met he:e in convention yesterday. The usual offices were ohosen, and « com- mittce on resoletions was appolntod. Ts was slated in debating a resolution on orgacization, that @ namber ef churches which rympathized with the convention were not represented from motives of doltsasy, becaure they were prosided over by a New Kogiand clergsman, bet that those, rotwithstapding, had soms members (0 express eympatby, and that thoge churshes would, after the action of this body, sympathize with the objects of the convention. After a debate of an unimportant characier tue conves- tion adjourned till evening. RVENING SEBRION. The Committee on Resolutions reported tn effect that whero the relation of master and servant does not proper- ly belovg to church judicatorics as a subjest of discussion or inquiry, therefore, that !t s resolved by this Coayeation that the General Assembly of the church has no powsr te Pronounce a tentence of condemnation on a lower judica- tory, or individuals, for any cause, vnicss they Bave been before the Assembly in the way pre- scribed by the constitation; that the Convention recommenda all Presbyterians opposed to tho agi ation of siayory to appoint delegates to the Assembly to meet as Knoxville, on the third Tuesday in May next, for the pur- pose of organizing a General Synod under the name of the ‘United synod Presbyterian Church of America. After some discussion on tho resoiutions, action apam hem was postpoued until to-day. The Missourt Gabernatorial | Klection, Sr. Loum, Angast 20, 1807. Tue following (9 the official vote of Missouri for Gover- | nor:—S , democrat, 47,916; Rolling, tndependom, | 47,641—msjority for Stowart, 234 Recruits for Mlcaragun. , Ga, aaguat 24, 186T. Handbills are boing in upper Georgia aad Tennoesee for Nicaragus troops, who are promised 926 per month and 250 acres of land. | ‘The #oop of War Falmouth, Nospoua, Angust 29, 1857. The sloop of war Falmouth has bees ordered bere to | be docked, and then to retura to Rio immediately, and Sulctte, Srowmctor, August 29, 1867, ‘Thin afternoon Charles Babcock, of Deveriy, . 1.» killed bis wife with aa axe and thon cut bis own throm. ‘The Southern matt, Wasuincrox, Angast 29, 1867. | Wo have papers from al! points South by the arrival of the wall, as late as due. The Savannah ews bas later advions from Naswaa and | Inagua. Two thousand bushels of wal; had been raked upto the Istof Augus', At Turk’s Island a million of Duabola were ou hand, aud lt wae eclling a ton con per bushel. ASbip Asbere. Gantt Hoon, Acgust 29, 1867. ‘There is anctber ship ashore at Craaberry Inia Ne particulars as pot. Markets. PHILADBLIHIA STOCK BOARD. Putaperwa, Aagust 29, 1867. ‘Stocks heavy. Perneylvania 6¢, 54: Tisacing Ratiroad, | 20%; Morria Canal, Aa Loug isiand Railroad, 105; Penn” aye wvenle Raliroad, 46 pine, | 1,000 Dales. Receipts of the week 230 bales. Stock tm 7,600. Decreased rocoips bore as win year 245,000. Ditto at all Soothern $34,000, Other art.cies gevoral’y dull and cachaugod. Otty Politics. CONFERANOR OF THE PRMOCRATIC OOMMITTHRS THE PROPUSED UNION OF THR DRMOCRACT—NO CON- CLUSLO® ARRIVED AT. ‘The special committoss appointed by the rival dome. Cratic organizations to patoh up the basis of ® truce be tween the factions, #0 aa to present @ united front at the Syracuse Oonvention, met yesterday a’teruoon at Tamme, by Hall, and epent four hovre !n consultation without an viving at any very definite conclusion. Reprosentatives ‘were presont from the Wileon Small Geseral Committes, the Idward Cooper General Committee, and tho John ¥, Favage Genoral Commiites, and aa each member of the conference lad bia own plan to propose, there was oso. arity some confusion in tbe canous. Tre Cooper and Savage people ited on n dat Involved a eclitation of all the eo as one whole, wo view to ineolng & united call, but to this plan the Small Tome ities demurred, as it would blot them ous of exist. trea an4 band them over, hound hand ani foot, to the tondor meroles of the Post Office cliqne. Withent to any definite ocne ualon, the cancur at iength ad; over to Mondey, at noon, when another meoting wil A bel! at the #ame piace. Onoper prownd o Hove bate plan will be sgroed upon at that time whch will be genorally acoepta bie. Lowe ova New Yous Vacitr Om Sanday oigbi, aid inet , the yacht Katydid went to pieces of May, af «f the bands, however, being saved. Thie bow was 6 Tavorite wemnel, and waa & fast railing craft. she having imely won a prive io ® rogaum at Now York The rausm Ss VRIvOd 84 90,900, bal wae aot inaaret