The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1857, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1857. NEW YORK HERALD. wee Se, SaAMES GORDON BSEENETT, mDITOR 4D powtevedetovwnre, OFFigs BW. CORXEB OF FULTON AND MASEAU OFS. Pr 2 Pads as BS eae aS) ed Potame GEM....... AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. HIBS GASDBR, Broadway Tieur Rors Fairs—Aci- Lista—¥. LROWALOMBAD, BOWBKY fu merne, Bowery—Bic Prices or Pans ~ Onepix vt Linpaty Gruppo. BURTON'S A.W THRATER, Broadway, opposite Boad— Bawost laa Prom MAKER. WALLACK’S THRATRE, Brosdway—Piixara. LAURA KRBRWB THRATRE, Broa¢way—Tux Vrorias— A Consvaat Lessos NEW OLYMPI{0 THEATRE, Broedway—Devis tx Panis— Pook Priicoppy, AUADESY OF MUBIO, Fourteenih st —Ieautan Ormus— hnta Be RGA. — AMBBICAY MURWTS, Broadway—Tus Bo- Ne te vine Vinws Feats or Macto, £0 @BO. CHRISTY « WOO —Ermoruas Minsriav T WECHANIOS’ BALI, © Baskrrenean Reapine 12, 1857. new Vork, Friday, September ae Matis for Kurope. fe NEW YORK HEBALB—EDITION FOR BURIFR. ‘Tho Collins mail steamship Atlantic, Capt. 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Subscriptions aad advertisements for any edition of the Naw Youx Heratp will bo recelvod at the following places 1 Exrove:— Lospoxr—Am. & European Exprers Co Pars— DO a0 Livaarooi —Do, do. 9 Caape! aireet, Livaxroc.—B Stuart, 10 Exci ange street, East, Havzs—Am & Earopean Expres# To., 91 Rue Oornetile, The comtrnis of the Ear pean edition of the Hn aain wii Somtine the mows received by mall and telegraph os tbe office durteg the previous weet, aud up to the hour of pudi.a!'an. 161 King Wiliam st & Pince ¢e Ia Bourse. Tho Democratic State Convention organized at Syracuse yesterday and proceoded to business. Wm. Taylor, of Onondaga, of barnburner antecedents, was telected for President. The first important matter bronght up was the quarrel of the double delegation from New York, and it produced one of the most tumultuous ecenes ever witnessed, even in the exciting conventions of the New York democracy. But finally, efter the expenditure of much wrath, it was proposed that the Small and Cooper parties | should each select eight delegates, and these sixteen a seventeenth, and that they should be received as the New York delegation. The proposition was adopted with great unanimity. The delegates were seleoted last night, and if there is no reopening of the dispute the convention will proceed to nominate a ticket for State officers this morning. The city republicans finished up their primary | elections last night, and in another column will be | found a list of the de‘egates chosen to represent the party in the State Convention, which will be holden | at Syracure on the 25th inst. The proceedings in | all the wards were quiet, with the exception of the | Twentieth, in which there was considerable excite- | ment, growing out of an endeavor on the part of | certain prominent politicians to get control of the republican organization of the ward. The Grand Jury entered the Court of General Ses- sions at noon yesterday, and handed an indictment | to Judge Russell, charging Emma Augusta Cunuing- | ham, alias Emma Augusta Burdell, with frandulent- ly producing an infant, ssid to bave been the pro- | duct of a marriage with Dr. Harvey Burdell, thereby | intending to cheat the lawtul heirs to the Burdell estate. Recorder Smith yesterday rendered his decision | in the case of Daniel 8. Page, Secretary of the | Liquor Dealers’ Association, who had been errested | and held to bailin the sum of $200, on anindictment | charging him with selling liquor on the Sabbath: bat subsequently eurrendered by his bail and was | committed to prison for the purpose of testing the legality of the indictment and amount of bail re quired—the full particulars of which have hereto- | fore appeared in the Henaup. The Recorder dis- charged the prisoner, on the ground that the bail de- manded ($200) was contrary to section 16 of the Fx- cise law, the sum being therein fixed at $100. The Recorder also freely admits that the Grand Jury have no power whatever to find indictments under the law, only where a licensed’party selis liquor on Sunday in quantities less than five gallons—those selling without license only being liable to pay a fine of $50 under section 13 of the act. In conclusion, the Recorder says: “If upon this collateral hearing the question as to the validity of the indictment could be entertained, I should not hesitate to dis- charge the defendant upon the ground that the offence charged was not indictable under the act.’ The District Attorney immediately gave notice to the counsel for Mr. Page that he should at once ap. ply to the Supreme Court fora writ of certiorari to review the proceedings had before the Recorder. Judge Russell yesterday granted a writ of habeas Corpus aod certiorari for the purpose of reviewing the commitment of James M. Lawler, who stands charged with embezzling money from his employ- ers, the proprietors of the St. Nicholas Howl. The Proceedings were held at chambers in the after noon. Counsel for the prisoner maintained that he should be discharged, on the ground tha! the affi- davite did not establish the offence. His bonor was John Thompson, the Wall street financier, was ar. rected yesterday on two suits. The plaintiff were G. H. Buseing & Co., of Cincinnati, and the Wisoon. sin Bank. Mr. Thompson gave the required bail, and was released from custody. Both branches of the Common Council were in session last evening. In the Board of Aldermen a resolution appropriating $256 fora msp of the pro Pored new avenue weet of Broadway, was laid on the table. The Harlem, Hudson River, Second, ‘Third, Sixth and Fighth Avenne Railroad compa- made the special order for the 2ist inst. The ses sion of the Board of Conncilmen was employed m Propriety of concurring with the Aldermen in awarding the Jackson gold box to Major Dyckman, when, after spending over three hours in discussing the merits of the question, they concurred with the other Board by a vote of forty to two. In the Court of Special Bessions yesterday the trial of Sarah Sands for keeping & disorderly house in East Eleventh street was called on. Her counsel guilty to publishing an obscene newspaper. He wil! be sentenced on Satarday. Officer Walsh, of the Conrt of General Sessions, watched him, and found bat he received over a hundred letters each day, containiog money for obscene literature. ‘The Bogineer corps of the Fifth regiment, Capt, Louis Borger commanding, made an excureion yea- \verday around the harbor, visiting and inspecting ‘be fortifications of the same, viz: Port Columbus and Caste William, on Governor's Island; Fort Wood, on Bedloe’s Island; Forts Hamilton and La. fogctte, cn Long Island, and Porte Richmond and ' ‘Tompkins, on Staten Island, besides other inferior works. The excarsion was intended for the practi- cal instruction of the corps, and it passed off to the satiataction of all concerned. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before Judge Russell, a msn nemed Patrick Nally wae pat on trial for arson in the first evidence was very conclusive, showing the guilt the prisoner. The testimony for the defence, how: ever, went to establish that Nally was rery minded, ond ecarcely able to distinguish right wrong. The jury acquitted the prisoner,on tl ground of insanity, and the Court ordered him to be sent to the State Lunatic Asyiam, and a commit- ment was made to that effect and forwarded to the Sheriff. Freight were again better yesterday, and wheat wes freely engeged for Liverpool at 64. a 63¢4, im bulk and at €d. in begs, with flonr 1s, 64. The sales of cotton em- braved about 300 @ 800 bales, 800 of which were middling ‘Texas at 163., and 200 do middling uplands at 15%{0. The stock was hghi, and the chief boiders, ia view of the light ttock In Liverpool and advances ja prices, eom>ined with backward receipts cf tho new crop, were not one relex tbetr terms. It was thought that but for ners in money and the difficulty of negotiating storling ex- charge, cur market would more f liy respend to that of Liverpool. The recetpte end stocks of common grades of State and Weetern flaur wers light and prices unchanged, wilh 6 better demand. Extra grades wore dull and lowo-. Capedisn war elso Gull aud eater. Southern brands were in larger rupply, and oricos clasnd at @ dcc'ino for hots com- men cud oxira brands. Wheat waa lower, with a gov semerd at tbe diciize, Sound mow Bouthernred eld at $1 20 a 8126.0 $1 Se, and white do. at$t 40a$1 45. Corn was caster, ord clenedet 715 a 71359, for Western mixed. Pork, with light atcck and tn fow hands, was hold at $25 00 © $25 15 for mess, witd small saica, Bagars wore un- changed, with tates of about 1,600 hhds., at prices given in another column. Coffee was ateady and quiet a! qsota- tions given in another column. Sno Kansas Agttation—Half a Dozen New States Coming Into the Union. ‘The sixty odd delegates (pro-slavery) elected last spring for the purpose, have assembled in convention at Lecompton, to undertake the im- portant work of framing a State constitution for Kansas. With the numerous precedents before them--free States and slave States—one would suppose that they ought to be able to finish the task assigned them withia two or three weeks, or in seacon to submit their constitution to the peo- ple on the day of the regular Territorial election in October. But sooner or later, it is pretty well established, from the assurances of Governor Walker, and from the significant language of Mr. Buchanan's Kansas letter, that the constitution adopted must and will be submitted to the popu- lar yote; and, satisfied upon this point, we have no fears that the fical issue in Congress will in- volve @ dissolution of the Union. At all events, proslavery or no slavery at this particular time, with the issue in Kansas in a re- gniar course of settlement, there can be nothing more foolish, useless or absurd than the continued agitation of Kansas affuira by the fire- eating nig- ger drivers of the South and our howling der- vishes among the nigger worshippers of the North. If the question of slavery in Kansas, through a balance of political power, involved the altervative of the de-‘ruction of the élave labor eyrtem of the South or the free white labor system of the North, there would be some sort of justification for this horrible uproar in both sec- tious toucbiag the manifest destiny of Kansas, But the admission of Kaneas into the Union, with or without slavery, will not affect to any practi- cal extent the balance of power now beld in Con- gtese by the North, inasmuch as out of some half dozen other embryo States at least four will in- evitably be free States, Minnerota will undoubtedly be admitted by the coming Congres as a free State; and if Kan sas is admitted with a population short of the full federal ratio required for oue member of Congress, then the Territories of Nebraska, Ore- gon, Waehington and Utah may also claim at once admission into the Union. Nor can even ‘he most foolish or stupid of of our nigger worshippers suppose that there is the shadow of a possibility that either Nebraska, Oregon, Waebington or Utah, when admitted, will be admitted with a constitution recognizing the local existence of the institution of slavery. On the contrary, we bave no doubt that New Mexico herself will ultimately come into the Union ae a free State, ard for the simple reason that the arid rocks, sandy wastes and rigid cli- mate of that desolete region will forever exclude the introduction of niggers, except as fugitives from Texas. There Is, therefore, neither rhyme nor reason, nor common sense, nor common decenoy, nor avythirg of the sort, in this ferocious clamor, North and South, concerning slavery in Kaneas. Sectional enimosities, eectional pride, sectional stupidity, religious fanaticiem, political charla- tanry, and nigger driving and nigger worshippiog 3 eiife? philanthropy ran mad, are at the top and the | bottom, and run through the whole mass of this Nortbern and Southern uproar. What will the | North lose should Kansas be admitted as a slave State, with Minnesota leading the way asa free State, and with Nebraska, Oregon and Washing. | ton Territories following close behind asfree States? And what will the gain or loss of Kansas be to the South, with three or four new free States added to the political prepoaderance of the North’ Pushing into the subject a little deeper, what will it avail the South should they succeed in stecring Kansas into the Union as a slave State, when from the heavy preponderance of the free State settlers the constitutions! recognition of slavery will be changed into the abolition of slavery within a year or two? Nay, more, what is the use of this suicidal struggle on the part of the South to establish slavery in Kansas, when it is only reacting from the pressure of an over- whelming Northern emigration, to expedite the abolition of slavery in Missouri? In a word, looking over the broad field of all the Territo- ties, and the manifest destiny of Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon and Washington as free States at an early day, to say nothing of Utah and New Mexico, the excessive folly and impudence of our Kansas agitating fanatics, fools and demagogues, North and South, can only excite the commisera- tion and contempt of the intelligent and thinking reader. It is as clear as anything in the future can be, do what we may with elavery in the admission of Kaceas, that in the Presidential election of 1860 Kansas and Minnesota will be among the free States; and that fn the election of 1864, Nebraska, Oregon and Washingtoa will be added to the list. We, therefore, of the North are per- fectly eccure in our political ascendency, and all thir hullabaloo of the fearful strides of “ the slave power” to trample us down with negro tlavery, is sheer humbug, and the most inso- lent trickery upon our eredality. On the other hand, if such enthnsiastic and violent champions of Southern rights as Jeffer- son Davis, Senator Hunter, Barnwell Rhett, Mr. Keitt, the Richmond Sowh, the Charleston Mer- cury and the New Orleans Delia are really de- sirous of originating @ movement to strengthen the South and her institations, let them abandon &t once the unprofitable Kanses issue, and tarn the parchase of avother slice of Mexico, em-| The New Combinations Relative to the Mt bracing the eugar, coffee and cotton region of the Gulf coast ; ard to the reclamation of the great and fertile islandof Hayti from the black savages who are fast reducing It to {tsoriginal condition of & barbarian wilderness—let our Southern fire- eaters, we say, turn their attention to such practical echemes as these for the South and extending the area of the Union, and the Southern people will very eoon appreciate and reward their patriotic exertions. In the meantime, the simple facts that we have enumerated in this article, with a moment’s re- fiection, will suffice to convince our intelligent readirs that at least till the meeting of Congress, we, the people of this State, may dispense with all further weeping and over “bleeding Kansas,” and turn our attention and our efforts to the relief of “bleeding New York.” Deornenacy or Tax Ban.—The scene which took place in the Supreme Court on Wedoesday last, in the argument of the Lowber case, was of so editying and suggestive a character that we cannot forbear noticing it. It furnished the spectacle of two high legal functionaries—one an ex Judge of one of our highest courts, and the other the Counsel to the Corporation, bandying personalities with the vigor ard usction hitherto deemed peculiar to the Five Points and Washing- tou Market. Where these gentlemen could have culled the flowers of rhetoric which they used on this occasion is a subject of surprise to everyone None of the echools of law that we are aware of has any special department for the cultivation of this bratch of forensic eloquence. Whatever may be the latitude of language per. mitted by our courts to a counsel arguing the case of his client, we canaot for 4 moment admit that it will justify the expressions ured by Judge Whiting in reference to the conduc’ of the city authorities in regard to thie claim. He broadly charged the Meyor, Common Council and Corporation attorney with having conspired to cheat the pecple of New York out of their money. This is one of those general allegations which mean notbiog, but which are Dot the less offensive for all that; and coming from an eminent lawyer like Judge Whiting, they are especially deserving of reprehension, But the buret of recrimination to which this charge provoked was certainly such as has | rarcly or ever been heard within the walls of a court. Mr. Busteed, the Corporation Couasel, who has never, at any time, been remarkable for command over his temper, was thrown into a perfect frenzy of rage by it, and retorted on his opponent that “he had grown gray in filth and slime "—that he was “a man whose glory was his shame”~—-that “he was a briefless lawyer, disappointed in his political ambition ”’—that “he had made use of the vilest falsehood that had ever escaped from ® loathsome mouth,” &e., &e., &e. Now, this is very melancholy. On reading it, we are led to ask ourselves to what depth of social degradation are we fallen when men who, from their education, should be gentlemen, and whose profession gives them a title to the distinction, venture to uze in public lan- guage which the bully ond the prize. fighter would scarcely dare to employ? Still more are we astonished that there should be found Judges to sit by and tolerate the use of such personalities. Before no other tribunal in the world would it be porsible for counsel to 80 far forget themeclves without incurring indig- nant cersure and punishment from tho bonci-— tor we presume the laws everywhere give Judges the power of ensuring respect for the majesty of the interests they represent. The tiuth is that the fault lies more in our legal eyetem than in the men who administer it. Before our judiciary was made elective such scenes as these rarely if ever occurred. The old system ensured the choice of a higher claes of in- tellect and of manners in our legal functionaries than can be secured under the present one. The fear of wounding some political interest or of offending some political partizan would now seem to be paramount to the dignity of the law | and the respect dve to its administration Whilst such a state of things continues we must be re- signed to see our courts converted Lato bear gar- dens, and our Judges into bottle-holders for pro- feesional bullies. A Catt vor Gexenat Scorr—The remark- able letter on the diplomacy of the Mexican war recently published to the world by General Pil- low, requires of General Scott a careful, search- ing and deliberate answer. As the cat is out of the bag concerning the bribery and corruption of Santa Anna, it devolves upon General Scott to tell us all about it. After the acceptance of that | inetalment of ten thousand dollars by Santa Anna, we should like to know the upshot of all those terrible end bloody battles before the city of | Mexico, and the American people will expect their gallant Commander-in-Chief, in reference to these battles, to Tei) hom 9! abou. the war, Aud what they killed each other for. Was Gen. Scott, by sort of patent safe or Peter Funk operation, diddled out of his ten thousand? and did Santa Anna try the trick merely to get a little ready money for the uses of the defensive garrisons of Mexico, or how was it? In due time we may expect a letter from Santa Anna, giving his views, not only of this ten thou- sand dollar fee, but of that “pass’’ from President Poik’s Cabinet, which must have been given upon another Peter Funk promise of an early treaty. In fact, but for the flutter and anxiety of Mr. Polk (who was @ peace man), to get out of the Mexican war as soon as possible, and but for the objections of Gen. Scott to a mixture of the colored Mexican hybrids with our unadulterated Anglo-Saxon blood, we might just as well have had the whole of Mexico as a slice off the north- ern end. At all events, General Scott, no longer a can- didate for the Presidency, is in the very best po- tition for a fall and complete vindication of him- eelf os a diplomat in the Mexican war, for asa sbldicr he has ‘filled the measure of hia country’s glory” and his own. Let him, therefore, sit down, not after “a hasty plate of soup,” but after @ good substantial breakfast, and give us his intimate knowledge of the diplomacy of the Mexican war, Mr. Trist, we beliovo, is still alive and kicking. We have even heard that he lives in this city, content with the fame of the treaty which he made (with the letter dismissing him from his office in his pocket). He seeks no further re- wards than those which a great pacificator may derive from the recollections of @ treaty of peace thus accomplished without authority, and for which, though accepted as a godsend at Washington, he got no thanks at all. Still, as Mr. Trist is involved in the letter of General Pillow, we ehall expect to hear from him, What is to hinder him from comparing notes with their attention to the acquisition of Cuba; te | General Scott? caragua Transit Route. There are certain indications in the atmosphere sround Bowling Green that the fillbuster commo- dores are about to take our advice, and unite in one grand tcheme for regenerating Nicaragua and re-opening the Transit route from Sen Juan del Norte to the Pacific. If they had taken our advice months ago they would have saved to themselves many thousands of dollars, and to fllbus'ers and anti-fl'bu-ters many a good maa. The new plan is to fall back upon the old grant fiom Nicaragua for an inter-oceanic canal along the line of the San Juan river, and from the lake to the ocean. The Accessory Transit Route Company was a sort of tender upon the big pro- ject of the canal, and, under the management of Commodore Vanderbilt and Joe White, was to do all the business until the carrying trade should grow large enough to demand the canal. It is eaid that Vanderbilt and White now own nearly or quite all the steck of that company, and are ready to convert it into stock in the new scheme. But while Vanderbilt and White have been buying up Nicaragua Trensit stock at prices next to nothing, Commodore Morgen and Capt. Gar- rison have bad their agents in Costa Rica, and have taken President Mora avd Commissioner Webster into copartnership fora new grant of the route, which they now wish to play inas a set off to the'old stock of Commodore Vander- bilt. The plan is to admit a few “men in buck- ram,” 60 a8 to have wherewith to make up a di- rectory, and bring a new fancy tnto Wall street, There a fine game of foot ball can be played, with Joe White and Vanderbilt on one side, Gar- tison and Morgan on the other, and Mora, Web- ster, Spencer, Harris and Young Anderson to make up the crowd of inside players in the game. Besides this there is Senor Parraga, who has just returned with his new grant from Gen. Jarez, aud Gen. Martinez, the present Dictator of Nica- ragua; but the knowing ones eay this is a new trump that Vanderbilt has just drawa. Unfortunately there are two things in the way of this arrangement that may yet prevent Van- derbilt and Morgan fiom lying down like the lion and the lamb in the millenium. In the South Waiker is gathering head to make a grand dash at Nicaragna as coon as the cool weather and @ry season eets in, with three thou- eand Georgia militia, and any quantity of Law muskets and hardware; and if onehalf of what bis partizans say istrue, he may prove to be a wet blanket for the new speculstion. Be- sides thie, there is as yet no lawful and recognized govepment in Nicaragua, ard the administra- tion at Washington have not as yet accepted the credentials of Senor Yrisarri as Minister for that republic. Very strong efforts are being made by the combination to have him recognized at Washington, as they count upon such a step to head off Walker. The government is probably waiting for some insight into the true condition of Central American affairs from Mr. Carey Jones’ reports, but he seems in no hurry to send them on; perhaps he cannot get an insight himeelf. We advise the Commodores to have paticace and cultivate this lamblike dispesition among them- eelves, so that they may take alldue advantage of the good time that is coming. Tae Busses or tae Dar—Prery, Porrrics asp Srocks.—A distinguished gentleman, recently returned from a visit to the Northwest, gives an amusing acccunt of the manner in which the spe- culators in that region have managed to turn the Kaneas fever to their own account, and the result of which is now being felt in the swampiag of railroad companies and the explosion of kindred bubbles, It is a great error to suppose that the New England Siates continue to deserve their character for “emartoees.” Their day is past, Wooden nutmegs and basswood bams were well enough some years ago; but that sort of business at best was mere petty larceny, and utterly beneath the dignity of rascals who “goin” for their handreds of thousands, and whose opcra- tions rain households instead of merely giving them indigestion. The keen fellows now live ia the West—men who, in point of shrewdnesa, can twit an unfortunate Yankee round their fingers; and who, in point of fact, have done so to an almost incredible extent. In justice to the New England Btates we admit that most of the operators are emigrants from the land of pumpkin plea, who, having found that paradise too circumscribed for their genins, have sought its expansion amidst the prairies of the West. We have every reason to believe that thousands of the citizens of the New England States have been taken in by the land and railroad compa- nies of Kaneas, Wisconsin, Iowa, &0. Their stock is found in almost every farm bonse—their bonds in every village. The plac of operations adopted by the speculators was beautiially simple, and easy to carry out. Agents were sevt to the East to describe, in glowing colors, the prosperity of the West. Chicago was an instance of the bene ficial effects of railroad communication. A thou- eand Chicagos were in embryo, and it was fortunate for the people of the East that they had thus an opportunity to receive some of the golden fruit. Then, again, it was necessary to check the progress of the slave- holder, and this could best be done by building railroads, and thus opening the country for set- tlement. The ministers, too, were told that whilst all this temporal prosperity existed, there was a woeful lack of religious feeling; there were few churches, and no dependence upon stated preaching. Here was an ample field’; bat shepherds were wanting. Thus rail- roads, freedom and the gospel were beautifally mixed up, till the result was that every man who had a dollar laid by felt that he was not only assisting humanity and religion, but bettering himeelf by an investment in the “ West.” This bas been the true seoret of the Kansas fever, and it is easy to eee that its collapee is a necessary and natural resalt, buying experience at the expenee of ruin to all the dupes who have been sbrieking for freedom, and hoping, at the eame time, that it might bring in a handsome divi- dend. It is exceedingly doubtful if even the present | warning—severo as it will be—will prevent a repetition of the same game whenever it can be played. It is not the first time that “ stated preaching ” has been lugged in to help to bolster up a stock epeoulation, and it is expecting too much to imagine the race of dupes is dying out. The Kansas fever and Western railroad bubbles simply mark another lustre in the commercial history of this country. A New Reawstry Law.—A great many at- tempts have been made at Albany, from time to time, to get up @ registry law for the purification of the polls. The latest attempt was by the Sew- ard reformers Inet winter; but they found it convenient, after reflection, as with some other things, to continue the liberal margin existing for election corruptions, We now advise the de- mocracy to make » registry laws plank in thelr platform, and to carry it into a law as son a6 practicable. They will thus not only cut off a mass of roguery of all sorts st our regular eleo- Hons, but they will secure, through the poll lists, the power to manage their own primary clections, to the exclusion of pugiists and short boys. If the Seward party bave found it inexpedient to adopt a registry law, it cannot be a bad move for their adversaries. Werxty Jovurnatism—Dying Harp.—The New York Tribune is, we eee, groaning over the decline of the circulation of its weekly editioa— tho main prop of its establishment. It com- plaine that it has latterly lost thousands of sub- ecribers through the influence of the postmasters— some acting ander the influence of political con- straint, others through hearty good will. It is natural enough that the Tribune, which made its circulation through the instsuctious issued to the postmasters under General Taylor, should now attribute its decline to a similar agency. This, however, isa mere sham. Supposing the post- masters to’ be hostile to ite interests, there are other ways of supplying the psper than through the post. A paper having to fight against poli- tical influenges luke those alleged, would have no difficulty in plecing its subscribers boyond their rach. That the Tribune has not succeeded in doing eo is a proof that there are other agencies at work than those assigned. ‘There are few persons who have watched the course of journalism in this country who have not marked the ephemeral character of the weekly press. Weekly newpapers are @ luxury, not a necessity, and hence they are eubject to fluctuations and changes unknown to the daily press. A daily newspaper Tepresents the wants, the wishes and the busi- nees interests of the community, and it conse- quently growe with the growth and strengthens with the etrength of the locality in which it is published. It must be the grossest mismanage- ment, and a total abandonment of the business principles in which a euccesaful daily jounal has been established, which diminish its circulation and deprive it of its status. We have seen the effect of such mismanagement in the case of one or two of the leading London dailies; and, on the other hand, we have before us that of the London Times, which, notwithstanding its frequent changes of political views, maintains its circula- tion and its supremacy solely through its busi- ness energies and its close attention to the public wants. We bave witnessed repeated failures of the same sort here; but in every instance they have been occasioned by the attempt to create by political influences solely what must be the gcowth of the popular necessities in the various other branches of public affairs. There is nothing surprising, therefore, in the fact of the decline of the Weekly Tribune It Teprecents no business want, it is the organ of no great interest, social, religious or politidal. People can breakfast, dine and sup with the most perfect equanimity without having perused the Weekly Tribune, though whether they can sleep without its aid is not quite so certain. This weekly is, in fact, only obeying the inevitable law which governs the existence of such publications. It is one of a brood of hebdomina! journals which start periodically into life, thrive for a while on the freaks of public taste, and then die eut, from the absence of consistency in the causes that called them into being. We have witnessed in our time aconstant eucceesion of these artificially inou- bated newspaper broods, but we do not recollect a-ingle lustance of one of them reaching a re- spectable old age. The Weekly Tribune is reach- ing the termination of its mortal career through a natural and not tbrough a political process, and it might as well give up the ghost honestly, with- out eaddling the postmasters with so innoceut a murder. <a Newsrarer Fatuorss.—Our readers may re- collect the fuse that was made some little time since about the concentration of four Boston journals into one, under the title of the Boston Traveller, We were informed with a flourish of trumpets that this union of interests and talents was to have for reeult the creation of a great leading organ, rivalling in importance any of those in New York. Well, the experiment has been tried and has proved a complete failure, The pereon who undortook the editorial manage- ment of the Traveller under the new manage- ment, has, it eeems, retired in disgust to his native place, Springfield, to resume the conductof his little village sheet, from which he should never have been removed. This settles the ques- tion, if ever there was any doubt of it, of the impossibility of establishing a first class daily paper out of New York. None but a great metropolitan city can support journals pretend- ing to any extensive influence over the public miod. We think it will be some time before any foolhardy speculators will be tempted to repeat such an experiment as that made with the Boston Troveller, So much for the general question connected with this enterprise. With regard to the epecial causes that contributed to its failure we have & few words to say. For persons who aimed at such extensive objects as the proprictors of the Traveller, nothing could have been more absurd and ridiculous than the means that they em- ployed. They had the meanness and littloncss, for instance, to commence their operations by a series of attacks on the Herat, in the hope that we would bring them into notice by replying to them. We are not accustomed to let fly at euch amall game, so we let them slide with the merited oblivion into which we knew they must fall. Reguieseat in pace. — Ovr Democratic Party Squansies.—The har- mony of the democracy at Syraouse is illas- trated by three delegations and three or four committees from this city, each claiming to be the genuine article. Among the managers of these delegations and committees are Mayor Wood, three Congressmen elect—Mesara, Coch- rane, Kelly and Sickles—and a gang of federal officeholders, including such shining lights as John McKeon and Captain Rynders. These dis- graceful squabbles among the officeholders are calculated to convey but a poor opinion of the sagacity or common eenee of their leadera, Members of Congress and federal officcholders, one would think, if they consulted the fitness of things, would keep away from all party conven- tions limited to purely local affairs, Their pre- sence at this time at Syracuse only serves to keep alive the spirit of faction and mutiny among their followers. The President hereafter, we hope, will make an example of some of those subordi- nates who leave their duties to the government for the purpose of serving as pipelayers of this or that faction at Syracuse, Collector Schell has eet a good example in his own case, which should be made the example for all federal officeholders, The people of this city, including the masses of the democrats of all factions, care nothing for the mummeries or flummeries of Tammany Sachems and Tammany committecs; bat they are anxious to vindicate egninet the despotic asurpations of oligarchy. Let-the squabbling managers several at Syracuse eee to it their rights the Albany of that masses of the party and the expectations of people are not betrayed. THE LATEST NEWS, Sews from Wi SIGNING OF THS CONVENTION WITd FEW GRawape —TAB MILWAUEIN BAILBOsP LANDS—THE Nava, COURTS, ETO, Wasumorom, Sept 10, 186%, Gen. Horran, accompanied by his Beoretary of Lega tion, atiended at the Departmeat of Siate today, ang signed tho articles of convention agreed upon between Gen. Cass and himself on Saturday last. ‘Yeaterday sf ernoon a young man—Wm. Voss, of this city—socidentally discharged a revolver while taking @ from his pocket. The ball entered the left breast under the boart. The pisns and maps of the Muwarkie Railroad heve ‘been filed at the General Land Office, and the lands voted. to this road b7 Congress will be designated { mmodiately. The Attorney General decides that the sentence of the Court Martia! In the case of Charles Crowell, lately sem tonecd by Navy Court Martial convened in New York, ts legal, and (ho party wi be confined three years im the Diairiet penitentiary, deprived of pay aud marked om the lulp with the letter D. ‘The death of the Hon. Geo, R. Dunn, of Indiana, is om- wonoced in an evening paper. Hons. F. W. Pickens, of South Carolins, aud George Rena Riddle, of Delaware, are at Brown's. Also Gens, Call, of Florida, and Ouilom, of Tennesses, In Naval Court No. 1, Lieut. Gray’s case was closed after bearing the testimony of four citizens of Portamouth in favor of scoused, and reading the deposition of Sargeem Chase for Gray, and Surgeon Williamgon agains} him. In Court No. 8, Commsnder Stecdman, Liout. Bier ead Commander Ritchie were called by government and testi- fled against Lient. Wiltiamsrn, Court No. 3 again adjourned over for the tes‘imeny @f Lieut. Temple, a government witness agains! Commander Lockwood THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATOR, Wasumetow, Sept. 10, 1857, 4 decision important to contractors with the government: bas jurt been rendered by the A‘torney General. H. L. Gal- laghor had @ centyayt for doing certain werk on the Wash- ington aqveauct—the government reterving the right te suspend tho work under the contract at any time. The em gincer in charge gave him notice to suspend in July, 1866; snd in March, 1857, be was notified to resume work, amd did so. He now says that be is doing the work at «loan, and asks for larger compensation than he bargained fer, or else to be released from the contract. The Attorney General informs the Secretary of State, who submitted to him the case, that the latter has no authority to do etther, and thal if Gallagher violates the contract ho must do es at his own peril, and that of bis surotie:. A treaty between tne United States and New Grenada wareigned today at the Siste Department. It merely provides for @ commission for the setilement of all clams on the part of cur citizens against that government, The other questions are postponed. ‘ ‘The pampbiet jatt issued in this city {n defenoe of the edministra'ion’s Kansas policy and of Governcr Walker, instead of being ® semi official document, as is published on the author’s own respor sibility. ‘and other prominent members of the party. At the ballot for a candidate for Governor, Henry J. Gaydnor had $63 nomination a ible and resolation were ffir ao wa rrenen nomen rent arene ence uigated by the National on Council The ras very ont Pe Fy ihi Bye BS ete Ey L at Fe ie E 33 7 HE iis ra art: i fi i i o H 3 F 3 ~EEFE ite | E 3 : at # i Hl A if 25 i z : i | i i i i i ak i i = # : ki 5. j , ! | ; lr Hf i tt | ? : if i i ii | | E i if i gee l i z i | li Z8 i : i i i : | i mls i i i ? i i FY i ah i i i | a it Hy i : Sept. 10, 1867, ‘The American Board was engaged this morning with the farther consideration of the proposed fund for disabled