The New York Herald Newspaper, September 17, 1857, Page 4

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She left Havana on the morning of the 8¢h, and on the following morning was canght in a terrific gale, which—according to accounts re- ceived by the Empire City, which also left Havana on the Sth—continued without ceasation during five days, The passengers and creweof the Central America probably nambered seven hundred souls. She had also on board a million and a halt in trea- sure and the Californian mails, Much alarm is felt for their safety, and the steamer David Webster, which leaves this port to-day for Havana and New Orleans, will deviate from her course in search for her. We understand that the Empire City, which put in at Norfolk, will likewise, during her passage to New York, join in the search. We have news from Havana to the Sth inst. A Frenchman, a black man and a boy had been landed | at Havana. They were picked up at sea adriftin an | open boat. The boy gave information that uhe party formed part of the crew of the brig Albion Cooper, of Portlend, Capt. Hamphbreys, which sailed from Portland in June last, bound for Cardenas; that the Frenchman and negro killed Capt. Humphreys, his chief mate snd three men, and then set fire to the vessel. The supposed pirates were in charge of the | Americsn Consul at Havana. The yellow fever was raging with virulence among the shioping in port and the newly arrived soldiers also suffered severely. | ‘The sugar merket was inactive. Gen. Lersundi, the new Capta'n General was soon expected. Wm. R. Calhoun, nephew of the late John C. Cal- houn, bas been appointed Secretary of Legation at Paris, in place of O, Jennings Wise, who has re- signed. ‘We publish in another column a speech delivered by Gen. Jeff Davis, at Hernando, Miss., on the 5th tnst., where the people had prepared what is termed in that region a “ basket collation.” The topics trested- Kansas, Governor Walker, the ad- ministration and slavery—are not the freshest, but they were no doubt highly relished, as the Mississip- piaos generaily find an unaccountable attraction in theee subjects. The speech, however, is well worth study ing, a8 it developed somewhat the policy which the Southern secession wing of the democracy in Congress wil! pursue regarding the question of the admission ot Kansas isto the (raternity of sovereign Btates. The contract for carrying the United States mail | appointing power, is one thing—the election | from time to time by the sovereign people of over the land route to California, was signed in this | city yesterday. B. Dinsmore, WillamG. Fargo, Alexander H»l- land, J. V. P. Gardner, M. L. Kenyon, Hamilton Spencer and others, ere the contractors. The go verpment was represented by Mr. Dundas, second esa.atant Postmaster-General. The contract, which js to run six years, is to go into effect twelve months date from Messrs. Joho Butterfleld, William | Six hundred thousand dollars per an- { num is the price to be paid the contractors, This | will doubtless prove to be « profitable job, ax itis in the bands of energetic parties who bave the means, and who understand thoroughly the business they have undertaken. It is understood that the con- tractors will form s joint stock company. The Central Park Commissioners met yesterday, Mr. F. L. Olmated sent in @ commucication accept ing the poet of Superintendent of the Park. ‘The Commiesioners of Emigration met yesterday, but did no public bosinese, It was snpposed that they would take some action respecting the Se- guine’s Point Hospital, since the State authorities have decided that it shall be « Qaarantine; bat toe Commiseioners say the building ‘s not in a fit condi- tion to be occupied, and they are prevented by an express law from spending the Emigration funds for any other chject than the care of emigrants. Shouid the Quaran‘ine Coo missioners put proper furnitare in the building they will take charge of it, bat not till then. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday Rich NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1857. supply, and sold briskly at $3 a $6 50, acoordiag wo quslity. Swine are beginning to arrive ‘reely ac market, and prices declned jc. per pound. Tne quoted rates are Tic. a Zio. | ‘There was a fariber improvement in breadetils yesier (ey, ard more activity, caused by aa !mproved exporiae mand and light recelp, Common grades of flour ad: vepoed aout 6 cepte or barrel, Whours, wth sealer o! 6+ 000 & 60,000 bnenels, advanced 20. to 30, per bashél Core alro advanced abovt 9c. per bushel, Wh @ fair amount of males Included in ‘he transactions wero 11,100 boehels of worn taken for expert, at 8c per bushel ‘Thi: movemen! is Coane ted to rome extent with information reo ived regarding the extent of the potato rt in Gres Britein «Private letters spesk of its progress and exten:, both ip Trelane and England, as being more eaton:ive an’ erious then the Bewrpaper accounts would leat one to beleve. Wib ovr large crops, shocls high priors be main teiped, which must be the case, more or less with colon, twebarco apd rice, and probably also wih breadetaff , ‘8 strong reouperstive soticn in our monetery affairs, and 0p @ more solid and bealthy basis, will probably ers loag be realized. The sales of cot yesterday wore conflued to ecme 4C0 bales, at quotations given elsewhere. Pork was qaiet at $26 for mess, and dull at $21 for prime svgar. wire sold to the extent of about 1,200 bods., with Oct ct ange in prices Bales of 1,800 begs Rio coffee and ‘0 maw Of Java were made at prices given io anther column. Freigbte were some east: r and some lees ative es fay as flour and grain were concerned, on account of the advance in breadrtuifn Independence of the Judiclary—Judge De- nlo s 4omination, ‘The singular stultification of the democracy at Syracuze involved in toe re-nomination of Judge Devio for the Court of Appeals, is beginning to } excite a good deal of newspaper dixcussion oa the independence of the judiciary, the elective sys'em of Judges and the proper mode of nomi- nating our judicial candidates, But we cau dis cover nothing in all the special pleadiog from vurious quarters that has come bevore usin de- fence of this nomination of Judge Devio, prov- | ing it either consistent with the principles of the Gemoeratic party or essential to the doctriae of av independent judiciary, when we have no such thing—our judiciury being dependent upon the | will of the people. Toere is a manifest contradiction between the dectaration of the Syracuse Convention of “un- compromiting hostility” to the usurpations ef the Seward oligarchy of our last Legisiatare aud the nomination of Judge Denio, upon whose decision the most odious of taese usurpations is declared @ constitutional act, valid and binding upon all concerned. “Uncompromising hostility” to this | encroachment and an endorsement of the act can- not go very well together. Lfa candidate for Jadge is pomiva’ed asa party man he should be heid to the pricciples of the party; if nominated in- dependently of party considerations, then there are no party obligations in force to support him Thus much in a partizan view of the case. Next, as to the aseertion in this nomination of Judge Denio, of the great principle of the inde. pendence of the judiciary. The doctrine sounds well: but reduced to a close analysis under our elcctive system it becomes nothing but a glitter- ing and unmeaning generality. This idea of an independent judiciary is derived from the exam- ple of our Eoglish ances‘ors, whose laws and in- stitutions enter so largely into the framework of our own. But while the appointment in England ot Judges for life, independent of the smiles, frowns, intrigues or caprices of the court or the our Judges in New York is quite another thing. The great fundamental principle underlying every branch of our government isthe sovereign- ty of the people, and the supremacy of the will | of the people, Thus, even the Judges of our | Court of Appeals have been made elective by the | people for a limited term, in order that the peo | ple, from time to time, may make sach changes | among their jnéges es they may deem expedient. | During the term of bis office the Judge is beyond all interference with sis legal deci as, and they, coinciding with the mejority of the Court, are the eupreme Jaw, To this extent we have an inde- pendent judiciary, but no further. With the ex- piration of his term ot office the Judge becomes a private citizen, and with no further claims to a re-election by the people than can be furnished in his judicial @ecisiors affecting the rights, the j liberties and the wishes of the people. The object and essence of an elective judiciary is to reetrain the action even of that branch of the government, rubject, from time to time, to the sovereign judgment of the people. We might as well bave our Judges appointed at once tor life, if they are to be re-elected from time to | time, ro long os they shall right or wrong, | covscientiously discharge the duties of theie | | office. But as thie power, possessed by the peo- ard Sherene, « youth, was tried and acquitted for | being in compavy with & man who attempted to | pars a five dolla: counterfeit bill on the Lee Bank Massachusetts, upon J. V. Smith, on the 18th ult. The defendant's counse! clearly extabliched an alii, and proved by several witnesses that the secused bore an unexceptionadle character. The trial of Michael Wogan, Jr, charged with arson in the third degree in setting fire to the wholesale liquor store of Win F. Bearnes, No. 274 Front street, on Sanday, | the 2st of February, was commenced. 4 number of witneseos were examined for the prosecution, | whoa evidence was of a circums‘antial matare. The case will be coninned to-day. The Scot Legion, under the escort of General Ward 8. Burnett and the New York Volunteers, ple. of a periodical lection of their Judges, in- cludes the power to elect new ones, the pretence that the renomivation of Judge Denio was essen- tial to the independence of the judiciary falls to the ground Grauted that Judge Denio’* decision upon the Police act was faitnfuily rerdered accordiog to his views of the constitation, be knew very well that that decision wae subject to anotber court of appenle, in which the people of the State of New York are the eupreme judges; and he was doubt- less prepared either for a nomination or a rejec- tion hy the democracy at Syracuse, upon the exact cocstitutionsl merits of bis decision. Bat what can we. or shat can he think of a nomina tion bs a bo?y of men declaring “ancompro- miting hostiliy” to the act which he approved, | and yet vomivating him as their faithfal ex- pounder of the law? Is this the way to maintain ap independent jodiciary’ Can we denounce the wrong, and applaud the wrong doer at the same time’ Our impression is, however, that the pretence | thet the nomination of Judge Denio for a re | election was a party concession to the indepen- | dence of the judiciary is a false pretence, and | | that other influences connected with the legisla. | visited Walker's prliery of paintings on Broad vay | yesterday forenoon They intended to have visited some of the fortifications of the narbor, bat on learning that they would have to start for home oy the four o'clock train, as the six o'clock mail train would pot carry them, concluded there was not time to go down the bay. The Independent Guard cum ducted them to the depot The Board of Education were o have held a mreting last night, bot there was to qnorum pre rent nineteen members only answering to their ames. The vaine of foreign goods imported at the port of B ston doring the week ending 11th inst. amounted to $643,799. The value of imports during the cor. responding week in 1856 was $968,738. The receijts of beef cattle during the past week | amounted to 3,927 heaa—an increase of 1,0% head es compared with the receipta of the week previons ‘There was an active demand yesterday, bat the large supply, and the inferior quality of the stock, caused « decline in prices. Common and inferior Grades brought Sc. @ c., while I1jc. amd 120, were prid for the best descriptions only. The average Price was about 10c. In cows and calves there was Boe change to notice from inst week. Veal calves sévanced about $c. per pound—the range being tive branch of the government secured his nomi- netion. We betiere that the Metropolitan Police act Wes & rote neurpation of the local municipal rights of thie city and of other places within thie present Metropolitan Police district | we believe that it was an act of usurpation | etrik ng at the very basis of our ancient local chartered Hbertics and privileges that a large majority of the people of this district | and of the State bold this act to be an unconsti- | tutional act, and that the marses of the demora- | tic party have been disappointed and deceived by their Syracuse Convention. We believe that we believe thie nomination of Judge Den o was not a coa cession to the doctrive of an independent jnti Clary, but a concession to the Seward oligarchy, and a very unwise one, too. The ueurpations of the late black republican Legislature, the decision thereon of Judge Dento and bis nomination for a re-election, as we take it, are wl of the same piece of cloth, Coupled with the Syracnse democratic platform, this no- mination is a mockery and a stumbling block to the marses of the party, and an offence to the in telligence of the people. If the people may not touch the ermine of a Judge on the ground that from 5c. a 8¢. Sheep and lambs were in plentifyl | thie would interfere with the independence of the | the judiciary, why let the people abaodon the right sud the power which they hold to rever-e a judg- mect trampling upon their rights; aod tet them eemand that their Judges be appointed for life. Thus we may have, indeed, an independent jadi- cary, and we may place it above ali corrective appliances, whether its decisions are good or bad, or coptistent or inconsistent, with our system of popular institutions and popular rights. But while we have an elective judiviary rest- ing upon the intelligence of the peopl —a sys tem under which tbe decisions of oar Judges, from the lowest to the highest, in the persoos of the Ju@ges themselves, are rendered subject, from time to time, te the popular judgment, why prate to us of an independent judiciary? Let usabde by our political eystem as it exists, If » party bas a nomination to make to fill an occurring vacancy on the bench, let the candidate aud the privciples of the party—at least upon the fundamental issues of the constitutioa—ap- proximate to sometbing dike consistency. The rule which governed Judge Denio’s nomiaation would also jurtify the nomination by the democracy of Gerrit Smith or W. H. Seward for the same of- fice. This Syracuse process for securing an in- dependent judiciary through the nomination of purty candidates, in defiance of unconstitational laws ard party principles, is, in a word, a mise- rable delusion. THe Gate on THE SovraEeRN Coast—Our | Southern coast has again been visited by one of those terrible storms that have made the month of August co disastrous to the shipping interests, From the accounts that have come to us from several quarters, and particularly from the re- port of one of the passengers from Havana by the steamship Empire City, which is published in avother column, we learn that the gale began ou Wedneeday, the 9th instant, off the coast of Florida, and that between that day and Sunday, the 13th it swept the entire range of coaet from Cape Canaveral to Cape Hatteras. The destruc- tion caured by this harricane will probably amount to millions of dollars, as the disasters that we are as yet enabled to report are those of a few steamers that survived the gale, or of ves- sels that probably were caught within its outer circle, The Empire City is safe at Norfolk, and most of her passengers came on last evening; but the mails were delayed by some misunder- standing or improper course on the part of the Postmaster at Norfolk, who re- fused to forward them. As they contain large remittances from Havana, which in the present state of our money market are eminently desirous to the recipients here, this delay may cause them serious injury. The telegraph ad- vises us that they have now been sent on, but the conduct of the dilatory Postmaster should be in- quired into. The steamship Southerner has reached Charletton in a disabled condition, and we avnouuced the safety of others in our yester- day's iseue. Buteome anxiety will be felt for the steamship Central America. She left Ha- vana on the Sth, with some six hundred souls on board, including crew and parsengers, and $1 600,000 in treasure. She soon ran away from the Empire City, after leaving Havana, and it i® to be feared that she encountered the heaviest part of the gale. We learn that the steamship Daniel Webster, which leaves to-day for Havana, inetead of the Empire City, will have directions to look out for the Central America, aud it is probable that the Northern Light, which will leave oo the 20th for Aspinwall, in place of that | ship, will have the same. It is tobe hoped that the may be beard of from Nassau or some part of | the Bahama banke, as when the gale struck the | Empire City it was blowing from the Northwest. Tux Power Descent Upon tie Litrraters.—There is, we believe, a little rem nent of faith in what {is called rural simplicity, ard we have ro doubt that there area great masy | nice people who believe that Philemon is more virtuous dressed in homespun and making hay, than when attired in browdcloth and balancing a yardstick in a Broadway bazaar—that Phillis is Onscenn | | Ge orgie, which we publish in another column; | but it does not cover the ground it purports to pure as the running water of her owa mountvin | brooks, while the mind of her city cousia flo rs with pollution like the metropolitan sewers. Ia | to exelude it forever from their own territories, fact, ovr conntry consins would have us believe | that New York is a Gomorrah, doomed to eter- nal perdition, while the rural districts are Ca- paso, where the chosen few dwell forever in ja- noceuce, purity, truth and love. We have several times been called upon to in- sinuate, in a delicate way, that this was an erronecus idea—that the moral condition of the city, all things considered, was much higher than the country. Our Boston cotemporaries have been especially indignant at the comments of tbe Henanp in relatior to the degeneracy of the Puriten stock, and have even been so imper- tinent as to deny the truth of certain positive facts drawn from their own colamns to support our position, We have now to call thei¢ atten- tion to some further particulars of a recent seiz- ure of obecene books and piates made by the po- hee of this city, and beg that they will note the fact that the business of the proprietor of the stock eo taken was almost entirely located in the | | country, and the groater part of it in New Eag- land. The books of the concern show that its chief profit was derived from correspondents in Boston, avd tbat its sales to its Athenian branch were much larger than to any other of its agents. Indeed, it has not, so fur, appoar- ed that there was any demand for filthy trash in New York city, aod that the police bave given the public the first in- timation of the fact that any such establishment existed. We are glad to see that the reapectable bookeellers of this city had no part in circulating the poisonous stuff, and that they resisted the temptarion held out by the extraordinary profit derived from the foul business This export by the police proves distinotly what we have so often alleged—that the vice and immorality of the city is drawn from the coun- try. We believe that it is notorious that there | Ie more couceuled lewdnews, more ely ram drink- ing, in the «mall cities— Boston, Phiiadelphia, Providence, Buffalo, Clevelaud, Cincifinati aad Chicego—than in New York. The chief demand for otecene bouks and nasty newspapers isin the smell manufacturing towns in New England, and it is from these same towns that the brothels of the metropolis are chiefly recruited. The police can prove that the prostitutes of this city come chiefly from New England and the otner side of the Atlantic; that it is arare thing to find a woman bora and bred in the city an in mate of a bonse of ill fame. These obacene books are published here, because the solitude of a areat city affords the b-st shelter for crime—the heat means of disseminating its work and of safely collecting its profite, Having been published, he books are eagerly snapped up in the rural districts, and the reed they sow brings forth frait for the brothel, the priton and the hospital. In- deed it is within the knowledge of the police that | all military matters, and that his availa | the United States and trespassing on the rights | | Strictly to the Southern States, and it is from | and attach, as well as to overawe and terrify. there have been found men 89 vile as to place in the hands of poor factory girls the poisonous stuff, for the express purpose of preparing them for a life of public shame. It is & sad commentary upon the morals of the country, that the victims are generally, found eager for the sacrifice. So with otber crimioals. That notorious woman, whose escapades have lately attracted 80 much attention, was brought up and educated in the countyy, and yet her case hus been seized by the rural press as a text whereon to preach long homilies upon the vice and immorality of the metropolis; avd if one reads carefully the reports of the Court of Seesions, he wil! find that the majority of prisoners brought before it are fresh from green fields and babbling brooks, Quacks and quack medicines also abound in New York ; but they would starve were it not for their country patrons. The people in the them to leave these shores and eater a hostile country, and then. under a sudden spusm of neu- trali y, cut off their eupplies, upoa which their very lives are depending, as was doue by Marcy and poor Pierce after permitting the Lopez ex- pedition to leave the ccuntry. In one word, it is the duty of this government to permit this expedition to sail freely, sud its supplies and reinforcements to follow without let or hindrance, eo that its permanent success may be assured, or at once to crush it out with the whole weight of the executive arm. The maay American bearts that are cold and decaying under Nicaraguan soil, and the thousands of suf- fering wretches who huve dragged back their ul- cerating limbs, all demand that the American government shall trifle in this matter no longer. Let us have no repetition of the scenes of Gra- nada and Rivas, There must be no farther at tempts on Nicaragua; or if allowed to be made, rural districts allow themselves to be poisoned |*humanity urges that they should not be per- mentally and physically; and some good old women in New Englend have such faith in humbug vegetable pills as to physic and purge themselves when they are not ill. Is it re- markable that the children of these people should be likewise ignorant and credulous, and that having once fallen they should fice to a great city as the best shelter from the consequences of their vices and the best field wherein to practice them anew? We cannot allow the people of our city to be abused for the crimes and follies of their country cousins. We euffer sufficiently for them without that. The late seizure by the police will doubtless put an end to the trade for a short time, but while the country demand is so great other per- sons will doubtless be found ready to risk the penalty for the sake of the profit. Meanwhile, we trust that the law will be thoroughly carried out, aed we are induced to believe that the police were lax in performing their first duty, which was to burn all the books. We have heard that the office of one of our philosophic and philanthropic cotemporaries was quite flooded with specimens of this curious literature. Can it be that the black republicans intend to use the books as campaign documents during the coming contest? = ‘The Rew Ful ng Sxpedition—Policy of the United States. It is now pretty well understood that a new filibuetering expedition is in procees of organiza- tion, which is iatended to be on a more compre- hensive scale than any which has preceded it, and better defined in its purposes. The nucleus of this new organization is still the bold adven- turer Walker, in whoee star, notwithstanding his many failures, some, it appears, still place faith, and it is asserted that it will number fully three thousand men. He is aided, it is said, by a number of officers of the United States army, who are weary of waiting for the tardy glories of the national service, and who think that science in the field will ac- complish what courage and daring have failed toeffect. Walker is reported to have put bimseit’ in their hands; he isto furnish the prestige and they are to contribute the skill, which, combined, it is suppoeed, will be irresistible. It isiatimated that General Walker will have to con- form to the decisions of his officers in bility consists in his title as “President of Nica- ragua.” He will go back to resume his govern- ment—not as a filibuster, violating the laws of of a peaceful neighbor, but as a citizen, obedient to the call of his confiding and affectionate coun- trymen. A portion of the argument upon which the new movement is based will be found in a»letter of Gen, Walker, addressed to a gentleman in | in its opening paragraph. There is a want of logical deduction in defending the introduction of slavery in Nicaragua on the ground that by £0 doing the interests of a sectional portion of | this country were subserved, or from the reason that neighboring republics were making treaties It the social requirements of Nicaragua do not call for the introduction of slavery, it would be unjust to that republic to use her merely aa an instrament to serve the interests of other coun- trics; and we doubt not that a much better ar- gument for his course in relation to the annulling of the laws of the old Constituent Assembly might have been found in her own domestic policy than in the citation of reasons in which she may not participate. In ac- cordance with the tone of tis letter, the new movement thus far bas been confiued them alone that the money and the men are to be drasn, In fact, the hero of Sonora aad Rivas is in no wise enamored of the North. His recep- tion in New York was on the whole rather a chuling one. Courage, joined to an obstinate perseverance, is & great quality, no doubt; bat tne man who is to baild up ® new empire, and mould and harmonize | an alien people, must have the power to con- | etuct, as well as to tear down—to conciliate | But we do not propose to discuss Walker or his character. In whatever may hereafter occur, in the direction which he has indicated, it is very probable that his pact will be a subordinate one, Should the present expedition get fairly started and meet with sacves4, nothing is more certain than that Walker will be succeeded by other and abler leaders. We are, however, anxious to know what policy | the government proposes to iteelf in this matter, | It cannot be ignorant of what ie going on ; it | must know that a number of ite army officers are engaged in organizing the expeditidR; it | cannot be ignorant of the fact that the timid | are encouraged to join in the movement, or | to aid it with money, on the assurance that | the echeme is viewed at Washington in a fa. | vorable light, and that no impediment to its | snccess will be offered by the federal govern- ment. It ts certainly time that our government had a | policy in Central America. If it ie desirous of | agarega’ing any or all ot the Iethmas S ates, the | toek will be inno way difficult. Most of them | would rejoice to surrender their sickly nationali- | ty to the slightest demonstration of force on the | part of the Uvited States as such; woile all would | resist to the last any private assault oa their in- | dependence. In that case the change would be effected without bumiliatioa, and the States themeelves feel that they were safe and Likely to be prosperous and happy in their new relation If pot prepared for this, and if Araposed to leave the rescue of these States from their pre- sent hopeless condition to private enterprise and dering, then let the conduct of the goverament be at least consistent, Let it not be a party to the murder of its own citizens, by permitting mitted to fail. Newspaper Srocksossing Eprrors.—To con- duct @ leading journal and to gamble in stocks of any kind are hardly compatible occupations When a blacksmith has too many irons in the fire some of them must get cool. In the existing re- vulsion among railroads and other speculative stocks, the managers and principal proprietors of two of our datly journals have speculated beyond their depth, and gone to the wall—at least to a certain extent. Mr. Thomas McElrath was one of the original founders, conductors ard ma nagers of the New York Zribune, but whiist he was managing that journal he was eternally dab- bling in speculations of one sort or the other. During the recent railroad mania he became an agent for the sale of railroad bonds, advancing his own funds on such securities, speculating in other fancies, purchasing country seats and build- ing town palaces. He was also an officer of the Naseau Bank, and hed facilities for borrowing money on ihe credit of the Tribune establishment to the extent, it is said, of $40,000. He has sue- cumbed to the pressure ef the day, been com- pelled to part with his interest in the Zribune, and to clear out, and abandon that concern alto- gether. The other newspaper man is one of the princi- pal proprietors of the Daily Times, by name Mr. Wesley, and for anything we know a lineal de- scendant in piety and purity of the famous Rev. John Wesley. Originally he kept aa ex- change office in Albany, was a broker there, aud was intimately connected with the stockjobbers of the Ceutral Railroad and other prominent speculators in the capital of our State. He came down to New York and purchased the major part of the interest in the Times, including all the “little villains” of that concern, whom we suppose formed part of the property, and started afresh as a newspaper con- ductor and broker, for the buying and selling of stocks in Wall street. He was engaged for the Albany clique, above referred to, in buying and selling stocks, and in “bearing” and “ balling” the same, until the other day the pressure over- whelmed him, when he had to suspend for a few hours and get an extension from his brother brokers, It is stated in some of the newspapers that as agent for this raiiway clique he has had to pay $400,000 of differences on the bulling and bearing operations of the last few months, Such are a few specimens of the managers of the stockjobbing journals of New York, which for the last year or two have endeavored to de- ceive tbe country by bolstering up rotten enter- prises, and humbugged the uninitiated by palm- ing off bogus stocks on them. ‘The present financial crisis is as yet principally confined to the estockjobbing and stock gambling interests ; and with good management and the exercise of liberality on the part of the banks of this city— which are well conducted—it is to ve hoped that tome amelioration will soon take place in the stringency of the times. THE LATEST NEWS, Interesting from Washington, AT MADRID HaakD FROM— TARY OF LEGATION aT Pa- TRAATY WITH SiAM—VIoi? OF ONE OF THE KINGS OF SIAM 70 AN AMERICAN MAN-OF-WAR—ABS 0&0 BS AND PRODUCTIONS OF ro Wasincrox, Sopt. 16, 1857, Deevatehes wore recolved to day at tho State Do art- ment from Mr Dodge, our Minister to Spain, rolative to the Spanish Mexican imbrogiio. Ho has just ascertained that there «tll be nowar, and that all differences will be Adjusted throngh the mediation of Franos and Engiand, This ‘s the first and oply ixtelligence recetved from him for upwards of six months, W. R. Calhoun, of South Carolina, late an officer of the army, and nepbe of Jobn U. Uaihoun, deceased, has boon Appointed Secretary cf Legation at Paris. ‘The Navy Department has received a letter, dated Lis- dom, August 18. from Commandor Oabigren, of the United Sates ordoance ship Plymouth. Arrangements wore betng made to leave next day. The pessage from the cases of ‘Virginia to the Bay of Aorta, Fayal, was made in ton aod Shalf days. Thesh'p is healthy and in good condition for which great credit ie ¢ue to the officers. During the stay of the Ply mouth in Lisbon taore had been no British or French sbips of war there. A Dutch rareo—the De Rayter—was at the port when the ship arrived, and since that «screw frigete, tho Wassenar,and « sloop of war: tbe Gronigen, bad come im from Holland, also a side wheel Seamer. Commander Dahigren says. — The De ter ie @ large vosee!, men who bave pe red the first stage of service in ema lor versels. The Gronigen browgnt tho Prieco of Orangs, who, Deing @ naval officer, Is meking @ crniee. ait the [a a ae due to Bis rabk wat Observed on ovard Plymouth, The Wrerenar is the latest Daten sore frigate, bat few weeks in commierion, and on a trial croie. The comwmander afforded me every facility for looking at her arreng ments, On toe gun deck are wound trepty gine, which are heavy hy en except eight shell On the forecastic isa heavy pirot 7 appliances to those seen ta the gine ia nominally three hundred borre power, but can be workes Preduce a ayoed «f eleh water Op Sorday evening ted Sales Mister provonted Don mander Dahigren to the King, whe oon versed st leagih 00 tbe su” jeot of ordnance, in which he appeared exceed ingly well» ered. ‘The Navy Department haa deepaichos from Commander Foote, in command of the Portamonth, dated “olf Merian, River Slam, Jome 16, 1967." The Portamonth reached Siam from Singapore on the 2s of May lart, etx days from that port. Commander Foote and all the officers to bo spared for such an expediion scoompaniea Mr. Consu Bradley, the bearer of the treaty, in the King's steamer (© Bangkok, where they found ample accommodations provided for them by the King’s directions. Jom. F wte As prevent at ine frat interview between Mr, Bradioy and the Siem Commissioners, bere the troaty was fret dwoursed, relative pa tioolarly to our Senate's rejo ition of the ffm art le. During their ttay at Bangkok the officers were presented to both King, aad trested with diedn. Pulsbod copaideraioo, The Second king having manifested much loterert !n the ebip, her armament, Ac, wae invited to gorn board which he did, hie visit being the Arst royal Siam viet to @ Phip of any foreign nation. Heo was acecmpanied by & soit of twenty princes and nobler, and rpert the greater part of two days of board, going on shore at night. A royal salute was fired (im bl honor, the batery was exorcised, and the ship ma beenvered for bis entertainment, Ac He went presente of food and other necessary ariicles on board, for which pay MEDI Was poritively declined. Tho treaijos of Siam with the United Stator and the Wore n Feropean nations are doting muon for the ¢o velopement of the commercial resources of the nation. Sugar and rico ere the principal experts, and though the “1am machinery for the mann facture of the former is most Imperfect, ts is very abundant and choap—three dollars or foar doliare per bundred pounds, Several veasolr were shen londing \ for the United States = The export of rice (0 Chime 1s great, and there were thea in port there at Amert an vessels, besides many of other rations, loading It for Boog Kong, ‘The Chinese are their agrioultarism, mecbanice apa laborers Com, Foote attributes to the influence of the Ameriena missionaries the formation of most oi the late treasies af Siam with Westerp vations, which he thinks are already epabling tbat country to progress 60 rapidiy. T understand that quite ® scene cocarred on beara af ene of cur bay steamers a few days smoe. Capes Buchanan, of the Nevy, mot Mr. Williams, of -arynna 0B he deck of the boat and raluted him, but the litter de clined to return it. Captain 6. afterwards approwbed ‘Mr W. and seked him if he bad observed the salutedue- “Yea,” repiied Mr. Wiliams, “but [den's recognise yoxr right to speak to 8 the same time 6p lying we eplibet to the Captain Captain Buchanan was for battle, but was knocked down hefore he had time w act «ffensively, The matter, I understand, is probebiy pot yet finally dispowed of These gemiemen had beer neighbors and on totimate terms, Some little misunder standing was the cause of she difficulty. ‘THE GENERAL WEWerareR DEP ATOH. Wasuracrom, Sept. 16, 1857. ‘The financial excitement basin « great meseure sed sided. Tre Gauk of Commerce continues 10 redeem Me Boter, but temporarily refuses depo:tiors’ checks, Tee run on the banking housts is discontinued, and they ol Continue to par, and confidence te general restored. Of the sixty miihons of domestic specie exported dnving the year ending the 80h of June, thirty one millions anc pearly a third was bollion; end of the apward of twelve millions and a half of specie imported, little less than tay was bullion Theahove makes more specific the officta table recently published. Associate Justice Curtis was to-day oficislly notites o the acceptance of his resignation of his neu tn the S1premne Court. The President, through the Attorney Generni thanks bim for poetponing the time for it to take effest o» Ui the lat of October. ews from California and the Sandwis» Islands, Wasmuncros, Sept, 16, M457. The Obarieston Courier of the loth inst , sontaine the dotalis of the Bows from California per Ooatral aveina received by the Catawba It is gonerally destitue intereet. The Metropolitan theatre in San Francisco was burw ~ the 16th of August. In Washington Territory twenty f1-e democrats ant @ Tepublicans had been eleo ed representatives, Revam’ majority for Governor was 619 Sandwich Islends dates are to July 9. Tne cane ore- promises abopdance. The coffee had beos atiacked »: blight and the yield would be reduced one third, The Empire City at Sorfolk. Nonyouk, Sept. 16, 1857. ‘The steamsbip Ewpire City has $70,000 im specie for New York. Tho mails will be despatched via Baltimore to-day. Shedid not ascortalo the amount of spente or sumber of passengers in the Centra’ america Whe Quaser City at Havana. Monna, Sent. 16, 1887 ‘Tho steamship Quaker City, from Havana the 13th inst, has arrived here, bot ber news is unimportant, ‘Sugar was Grm and unchanged. The Aashvilie at Coarieston, (Cu umuzston, Sept 16, 1862, ‘The United States mall steamabip Nasbvilie, arrived bare trom New York, at an early nour this morning. Democratic State Convention of Mussasha- setts. NOMINATIONS FuR 8TB OFFICESS. Bosrom, Sept. 16, 1887. ‘Tee Democratic State Convention assembied in Troms ‘Temple this forenoon. About six handrod delegates were prevent, and Isasc Davis, of Worcester, was choses Pres- dent, receiving 828 votes out of 672 votes cast «Prelim ss Fy to entering upon business tbe Conven:ion was a dressed by the President, and also by Gamcel W Waldron BP. Builer and otzers. A committee of one delegate from each coupty, om the further permanent organizatios of the Ose vention, was thes appointed Having permanently organized, the Convention, afer e brief discussion, nominate Erasmus D. Beach. of Gyriag. field, for Governor, and Albert Currier, of Newbur: port, for Liew nant Governor Soth nominations were unsaj- mously made by acclamation. ‘The other nominees are as follows:—For Secretary of State, Jonathan E Field, of Stockbrioge; for Tresrurer, Charles Thomyecn, of Charlestown, for Auditor, 8, L Mead, of Nantucket; and for Auorney General, Kare Wu kinson, of Dedham. Affairs in Albany, THE MERTING OF Tas DRMOCAATIC KDITORS OF IEW YORE STATB—TBE Canal FUND, ALBANY, Sept 16, 1867 ‘The social and business meeting of the comocratic edi. tors of (he State held at Syracore last evening was woll attended. Mr. Hagacorn, of the Syracuse Cburier, pre sided, The lire of policy to be purmved by the press was Cisonaged, and & resolu ion was adopted wo form a deme. cratic association and bold similar mectings annoaily. A committee for next year wat also appointed. Tae sepeer took place at the Voorhees House, and was a superb af. intr. The tnforence drawn from a letter addressed by Audher Benton to the Canal Commissioners, in walsh the ember rersed state of tho cara) funi is alluded to that the Sese cMoers bave been tp the market for a loan, Is \Loorren No attempt to borrow has boon made by tho Stato Whe Maine Klection, Portiasp, Sept. 6, 1867 We have to-day returns from only twenty-six ade} towns, which give ® ropublicar majority of 1,:80, which ts more favorable to the republicans than was indi cated yertervay The vote thos far (291 towne) stande:— Morrell, 26 008; Swith, 26,768—republioan maj ity 9,240 Last year the samo towns gave Hamlin 47,175, Welle and Pation 94,68—republican majority 19,672 Whe Indian War. Sr Lom, Sept 16, 1887 Five bundred troops lef Leavenworth on the A fo New Mexico. The & Joseph Jowrnal of the 10th gives an account of & batle between Col Sumner's command and a bead of indians sbout the middie of Angest, on the Arkaneas River, The troope bad four and the Indians had twausy killed ‘The same paper aye the report of the slacgbter of fow hundred Indians te dea Burn of a Uovton mull Newwauner,N Hf, Sept 16, 1897 Mill No. 2of the Newmarket Cottoe Company was deo troyed by Gre thie morning Lows $100,000, of wham $44,000 is Insured in Boston ———— fo-Upening of the Phiiadelphia Academy of Muse Punapeurma, Sept 16, 1861, Our Academy of Muto re opened this evoning with whe Rozart pallet troupe, in « Faostus.”’ fhe house wae brit Menuly crowded, and the artises were wel med onthest. aetically The piece was produced in matchions style, the scowery surpaasing anything evor heretofore sttempred Markets PRILADELPAIA #TUCK BOARD. Pau «paurma, Sopt. 16, 1867, Stocks rteady Pennsylvania dves, $0; Xen’ loe 4; Soe Taland Railroad, 8%; Peaney)- vee petty New Ournaws, Sept. 16, 1891, Cotton market ales jo day, 400 Dalow, a 15K6 8 16540, for miodiing to wot middling Reort List week, 440 bales — Fion’ , $6 8 85 20. | Mixed orn, 2766 Frelghtsm Cotton ts favre, 10 Sterling exchange ‘ork 1 per cant ‘8 per coat premium, and on ain, oa tase fair inquiry Sa!0# 1,200 be. 04 former qooes sr wheat quiet Sales 2.600 bustole Om. fralan op prieate ter na; po viber transacdone Orn very quiet Salen ot of 10,000 washels, (9 more, at oe to fair demant, bul scape tao pe Balen about 12 000 burbels, at O2i¢0, Fe ora ee seat core, 1,000 ao, whe, NPP . . whos showcase Herraio, daly 6? w emer. tales 2,000 DbIA wt $6 for ol naan Mer tb 00 for extra io and lows, he My ovis extra = Wheat advanced. ‘Halos 83,000 ad 200. 0 986 for Chiong spring, closing at the outex joe, $1 0 $105 for ret Onlo, and $1208 81 gs Kewmony. Cora drmer, 1 oe itanels noid wt 00 , but al var wn ok meet the views of by Oate My oes 7 2ayo 0 bushels #hest. Cana exp rie 12,006 Flour dni . ols, at $1 0236 for Milwankia slob; 966 for Ubicags tpring; 91:05 for mized Mitnote and BI 50 for Amal! rele eee do, Horn quiet Lake Importa to-day—5,000 onehele wheat, 9.600 do. corm, Canal exporta—800 bole, floar, 17,000 busheia wheat. Gamal freighta firmer; 100. for wheat to Now York.