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

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1857. NEW YORK HERALD. —_—_—_—_————————— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, THEATRE, Broadway—Manerep eon CLacren—MY Metonstere wee Nifi0® GABUBN, Sroa¢way- Kary, tus Vivaxoisa— Macc. Mo- BOWSBY TL EAtn® BSowery—Ricatucu—Kenners. BUBTOR'S WBW CHZATKE, Brosdway, opposite Bond— Win Oats - Karuaning xp Psta vom. ‘WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Camnra, Broadway—Jupitn oF UBRA KsEne’s @hnevisvinaos Lawrse EW OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway—Lirtis Davii— dnuse Euionant. AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Sonas ny ge Wraan.‘Nicarixost Ravan on Conan Ganpex— 1O8!THES, & WOOD’s 4 ONRISTY warro. INSTBELS, 444 Broadway sin Frcnrixo Portas BY Qavanee " ew York, Friday, September 18, 1857. ‘Macro MuLopirs - ‘The mail steamship Arago, Capt. Lines, will leave this {port to-morrow for Southampton and Gavre. ‘The European mails will close in this city at balf paat ben o'clock to morrow morning. ‘The European edition of the Hunavy, printed in French ftnd English, will be pablished at ten o’olock in the morn. [mg. Single copies, in wrappers, six conis. Bubscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Baw Youk Hamatp will be reoe!ved ai the following places ja Eurone— Lowpon—Am. & Enropoan Express Co., 61 King Williaw st, Paxs— Do. do. bruce de la Bourse Lavasrcor—Do. do 9 Canpel street. Xavaxroor—B. Stuart, 10 Exct ange street, Kast. Mavee—am. & European Express Uo. , 21 Rue Corneille. ‘The contents of the Earspean ocition of the Bmeatp wi! @owbine the news receiyod by mal! and telegraph at the @fMce during the previous werk,and ap to the hour o” . ‘The Sews. The steamship Central America is lost! The steamer Thomas Swann, from New York, has ar- rived at Charleston, and reports having spoke on the 15th inst., about 15 miles N. of Hatteras, the Norwegian bark Elise, which had on board forty of | ‘the passengers of the steamship Central America, ‘The passengers stated that the Central America foundered on the 12th inst., and that oaly sixty out wf over five hundred passengers were saved. No- Yhing is mentioned concerning the trearure on board. The Elise, which has on board the ship- wrecked passengers of the Central America, is bound for New York and may reach herein a day | or two. There was considerable excitement in the cotton | market of New Orleans on the 16th inst., and prices | ranged from one quarter to threeeights of a cent | abeve the lowest rates of last week. The sales | ‘were large, and nearly all to fill English orders. | ‘The execution of the orders was the cause of the rive, and prices were firm at 15jc. for middling. | We have news from the Cape of Good Hope to the 25thof July, The colonial papers advocate the further territorial annexation and settlement by the | British of a large portion of Southern Africa as an effectual means of repressing tho slave trado. Slaves from Havana were shipped daily on the Natal coast, | and a heavily armed American vessel, said to be en- gaged in the trade, was boarded by the antborities, The German military settlers, sent ont by England, | were very popular. Baron Le Gros, French Eavoy to China, had arrived at Cape Town. Banks, railroads and insurance companies were being freely estab- | lished. The wool trade of Natal was flourishing and profitable. | A large and enthusiastic meeting, mainly of Irish. | ‘men, assembled at Stuyvesant Institute last evening, to express opposition to British enlistments in the United States for the war in India, and sympathy with the Sepoy mutiny. Some very strong resolu- tions and an address to the working subjects of Grest Britain were adopted, and eloquent speeches were made by Col. Doheny, Oliver Byrne and others- Bee our report. Nathaniel Merrill] appeared yesterday before Re- | corder Smith and made a complaint against F. Fowler, who, it is alleged, keeps a boguaticket | office corner of Chambers and Weat streets, upon which he was arrested. Fowler, it is charged, told Mr. M. that bis was the United States Steamship Company's office, and on demanding $25 as part payment for a ticket to California, it was given. The complsinant, on finding out that he had been “sold,” demanded his money, which Fowler refused to re- fund. When brought before the Recorder he gave up the money, and was admitted to bail on finding $2,000 sureties. His Honor is determined to punish all bogus ticket sellers severely in future. The Board of aldermen met last evening. A | preamble and resolution were offered by Alderman | Tucker, and referred to the Law Committee, setting forth that there is a large amount of work performed about the public buil Sings by persons not properly gathorized, and therefore contrary to law, and di- fecting the appointment of a special committee to investigate the facts. Reports reorganizing the Fi- nance Department, and on the appointment of as Bistants to tbe olerk of the Common Council, in or. Ger to prepare for the approaching clection, were presented, and ordered to be printed. A report: giving the exclusive use of pier fovt of 150th street to the Harlem Navigation Company, was adopted. The Board of Councilmen were in session last Evening, but the business transacted was of a rou tine natare. The special order of the evening—the acceptance of the report of the special committee ap- pointed to re-district the city in conformity with the | ‘new charter, was postponed till next week. A reso. Totion was adopted directing the City Inspector to | report the names and residences of all persons | Owning stands in the several markets, and the | mount paid per day for thelr use; also to print 1,500 copies of the recent laws passed by the last Legisiatare relative to the city, and to authorize the Comptroller to issue bonds at seven, instead of six ‘per cent, for assessments. The majority and minori ty reports relative to suspending Engine Companies No. 6 and 41, were presented, but both lost for want ‘of a constitutional vote. As soon as the Board ad- Journed « democratic cancus was held in the Cham- Mr for the purpose of making some slight amend ments in the ordinance respecting the re «districting of the city. ‘The trial of Michael Wogan, Jr., who is charged with arson in the third degree, in firing Mr. Boarnes wholeanle liquor store, No. 274 Front street, on the Qist of Febraary last, was continued yesterday in the Court of Seasions, and occupied the whole of the day. A large amount of testimony was adduced by the defence for the purpose of establishing an a/i/)i. ‘The closing apesches of counsel and the Jadge's oborge to the jary willbe delivered this morning. wneat was sold ut $1 60 8 $1 65, nud Southern do. at $1 44 #8) 48, and red do. at $130 a $135. Gorn was also scarce, ard firm et 800. for Western mixed, and Soathern white cold at 890. Pork was lees buoyent, and prime fell off, chosing at $20 76 a $31, while mess was qaiei at $28. The tnclemency of the weather tended to check sales of sogars, which embraced a few hundred hegshoads at Prices given elsewhere. Coffve was steady, with sales of about 1,180 bags Rio at llc. a 120, Freights were rather easier to Liverpool, owing to the light stocks aad firmaoss of breadatufls. Were supplies large and prices moderaie one might expect quite an active export movement, Our Rovember Blection—The Practical Lesnes Before the People. Notwithstanding the stultifications of the demo. cratic politicians at Syracuse, the stumbling block of Judge Denio’s nomination, the feuds and discords among the democratic factions, and the hue and cry still kept up by the Seward organs and orators over “blecding Kansas,” the practi- cal issues of our November State canvass are 60 very conspicuous that they can neither be pushed aside nor evaded. They must be met and tried before the people. There practical isenes are, first, the purification of the capitol at Albany, in the expulsion of the confederate crew of spoilsmen, stockjobbers and plunder mongers that have held possession of the Legislature for the last year or two; secondly, the restoration to our cities, towns and villages of their ancient chartered rights, privileges and local immunities; thirdly, a sweeping reform in the financial policy of the Commonwealth. These are the reforms which the necessities of our State Treasury, the usurpations of the Seward oligarchy, and the recklees wastages of the public money by our last Seward Legislature imperiously demand; and these are the issues which appeal directly to the sympathies and the pockets of our taxpaying people, not only in this Metropolitan Police dia- trict, but throughout the State. There is no Presidential issue before us. Our members for the new Congress were elected last year. The vacancy accruing in the Senate from the expiration of the term of Mr. Fish has been filled by the election of Preston King as his suc- cessor. Kansas is doing quite as well as could be expected, and a good deal better than she is represented to be doing by either nigger wor- shipping or nigger driving agitators. The Kan- eas imbrogtio, in fact, is in a very fair way to a peaceful and satisfactory solution. And even if such were not the fact, the agitation of the Kan- sas question in this purely local canvass of ours, would be only “sound and fury, signifying nothing,” because we can do nothing. We can neither help the Kansas pro-slavery party nor the free State party by an empty agitation, which can have no more effect upon the proceedings of any party in Kansas than upon the doings of the Legislature of New Mexico. The re-nomination of Judge Denio for the Court of Appeals does not satisfy the community that his decision upon the Metropolitan Police act was either logical or constitutional. On the contrary, the masses of the democracy will find it exceedingly difficult to reconcile his de- cisions against the Maine Liquor law and the nine million loan with this decision approving the most flagrant of all usurpations upon those great fundameutal principles of local wud munl- cipal eelf- government which underlie our whole system of popular institutions. A Judge may give an honest and conscientious decision upon a constitutional issue, and yet his opinions and his arguments may be directly in conflict with the | clearest facts and guaranteces of our constitu. tional rights. By special pleading our constitu- tional government may be converted into a con, stitutional despotism; anda very long step in this direction was taken in this Metropolitan Police bill approved by Judge Denio. The very essence of despotism is the centrali- zation of the governing powers—the very es- sence of popular inatitutions is the distribution and diffusion of the machinery of the govern- ment to the various political subdivisions of the State. If the Legislature at Albany may assume | and exercise the power to control the municipal | affairs, great and small, of New York city, simply by lumping it with other cities and villages, it may alzo exercise the power, in the same way, of making the local appointments, and managing the local affairs of every county, city, village and hamlet in the State. The usurpations of the Metropolitan Po- lice act establich a precedent which covers the whole ground, and thus we have a basis for the most absolute legislative despotism at Alba- | ny, if the people are agreed. The tinkering democratic politicians at Syra- | cuse while recognizing this to be the true view of the subject, have seriously embarrassed the action of the patty upon this important que-tion in their renomination of Judge Denio. Many, oppoeed to his decision, will support the man ac- cording to the usages of the parity; but there are many others who will not eupport him. And the factions and the personal influences which effected his nomination will operate most heavily against his re-election in this police district. This was expected by the several cliques and politicians combining to carry his nomination; but in the | sequel they will discover that they have been paying very dearly for their whistle. Apart, however, from this bungling Denio bu- siness of the Syracuse Convention, there is yet a way through which the will of our vo- ters, opposed to the late usurpations of the Albany oligarchy, may be expressed to some purpose. This Metropolitan Police act and the other acts of the same kidney, may be reached through the Legislature. To this end, let the voters of all parties opposed to these out- rageous measures concentrate their strength upon such candidates for the Legislature as may be most safely trusted, and in apite of the confasion of principles and parties, created by our scheming and wrangling politicians, this Seward oligarchy may be stricken down ia their stronghold. Thus, should we secure from our next Legislature the repeal of these despotic municipal measures of the last, or any of them, we shall have gained the requisite foothold for a total rout of the Alba- ny spoils and «tockjobbing conspiratore in the next election. We await the action of the black republicans at Syracuse upon the case of Judge Denio. They like him; he has done them a good service; per haps they may nominate him; but in the mean- time, let the voters of all parties opposed to the continuance of the despotic reign of the Seward stock and spoils jobbers’ alliance, cast about them for proper candidates for the Legislature. Reversion or 1837-'40.—The last great finan- cial revulsion began in 1837 with the suspension of the United States Bank and all the State banke, and ended in 1840 with the explosion of the Manhattan Bank, the very one that bogan the war. Within those years 30,000 housee broke, and took the benefit of the Bankrupt law of 1841, Their debts amounted to $400,000,000—their assets to almost nothing. ceed Take THe New York Srock Secvrity BANK Crrnexcy—that is the best, vefferson Davise—The Mephistophiles of the South, It is announced in the journals of Misiesippl, vs we have already stated, that Jefferson Davis, cx-Seeretary of War to “‘ poor Plerce” and now 8 Senator, is stumping that State during the present canvass, as a democratic spesker friendly to the administration, but opposed to the policy of Gov. Walker in Kanses. We have also given our readers a epecimen lick of his oratory and poli- tics, being an extract from his last published speech, ‘The evident design of such a contradiction in principles as he presents is to create discord in the democratic ranka-in the South, and to lead off a portion of the Southern ultras to an eventual op- position to the administration, Col. Davis was the ruling epirit of poor Pierce’s Cabinet, where he bungled matters sadly, and when the new admi. nistration came into power he had hoped to secure a paramount influence in its councils. But Mr. Buchanan was tco cautious in announcing the choice of hts Cabinet advisers to suit Col. Davis aud his friends among the Southern fire-eaters, avd they began some time before the close of the last Congrese to throw out intimations of opposi- tion if their wishes were not complied with. When they- found that public opinion was actting strongly in favor of General Cass for the State Department, these very Southern ultras that are now 60 fierce in their opposition to Governor Walker’s impartial and upright course in Kansas, united in urging him upon the choice of the Pre- sident in opposition to General Cass. They thought at that time that he would serve their purposes, £0 far at least as to keep Cass or Cobb out of the Cabinet. But the policy he has pursued in Kansas—a policy that is approved by Mr. Buchanan and the grest majority of people inthe whole couatry—is now made the pretext of an issue with him, though not with the administration, The pretext is a flimsy one, and will not avail them. The whole course of these Southern ultras, under the guidance of Colonel Davis in the late Cabinet, and with the New Orleans Dela and Charleston Diercury and the Richmond South as their ex- ponents, has been directed to a fanning of the elements of disunion; and now when they find that the good sense of the people, both North and South, is abandoning the sup- port of their ultra agitation, they feign an acquiescence with the policy of the ad- ministration, merely for the purpose of drawing the incautious and unreflecting over to their support. Their real aim is to create a faction in the next Congress, which may be brought to work upon the administration: and force it to some of its purposes, by holding the balance between its friends and the opposition: The course of Col. Davis and of his organ, the New Orleans Delia, in this matter, is patent to the whole country. During the last campaign that journal gave a very equivocal support to the democratic party, and finally ended by de- nouncing a just and sensible speech of Mr. Breckinridge on this very Kansas question, and advising the democratic voters to stay sway trom the polls. The truth is that any settlement of this question is distasteful to these Southern fire-eaters, for it deprives them of the advan- tages they had hoped to derive from a wild agi- tation, which should prevent the rule of reason in the South and in the North. Such a desire is very evident in the course of the ex-Secretary of War in the late Cabinet. While he was ruling the aimless will of “poor Pierce,” and urging on Stringfellow and his partisans with assurances of support, he saw with pleasure the appoint- ment of Reeder as Governor of Kansas, and after him of Geary. He knew, and so did his supporters in the South, that these ap- pointments would keep that agitation alive. Their opposition to Governor Walker springs rom the same cause. He has calmed the excite- ment in that Territory, and thus taken away from | them their political artillery. The people of Kaneas are satisfied with the assurance that they will enjoy the full rights of self-government; the whole country is satiefied that neither South ern or Northern ultras will be allowed to force their policy upon an unwilling community. Why, then, should not this political Mephistophiles be satisfied too, and not attempt to stir up the em- bers of disunion with a distinction where there is no difference, and an opposition that is illogical and without reason? Tue Amertcan State Ticket —The Ameri can party at Syracuse, considering all things, have done the w ork of a State platform aod a State ticket for the November canvass very well. Their resolutions are very much to the point and purpose, and decidedly more explicit and decisive against the corrapt proceedings and affiliations of the last Seward Legislature than the platform of the democracy. ‘Their State ticket is composed of highly respect- uble men, in talent, character aud experience in political affairs, Mr. Hiram Ketchum, their can- Gidate for Court of Appeals, is a distinguished lawyer, and was an old line whig, of high stand- ing in that church, when the whig party was most celebrated for its men of mark. Upon one point, however, Mr. Ketchum’s position remains to be defined; and his fellow-citizens, especially of this Metropolitan Police district, would like to know his views upon the expediency and con- etitutionality of the Metropolitan Police act Some suppore that upon this point he will be content to ride behind Judge Denio, and on the same horee; while others are of the opinion that Mr. Ketchum will ride a horse of another color. A frank and flat footed letter from Mr. Ketchum would throw a flood of light upon this subject. Let as have a letter from Mr. Ketchum. Speak cut, Mr. Ketchum. Yacuttxo.-—During the last season the manly amusement of yachting has made great progress in our waters. We observe that Senator Seward: of this State, could not resist the contagion of the day. A few weeks ago, being at Quebeo with some fellow travellers, be chartered a schooner called the Emerence, rigged her out as a yacht, and went on a cruise down the coast of Labrador. ‘The journal of their cruise is published in one of ihe Albany papers, and it is quite interesting: This is a much more creditable and Christian ba- tines for the distinguished Senator than setting up grogshops in Auburn, and retailing rum at a shilling a born. Curvarer Weve all at cnce manifesta a deep interest in the Know Nothing State nominations: He thinks that they are quite respectable—al- most worthy of borrowing $52,000 of any bank on little security. The Know Nothings, we learn intend to nominate a full municipal ticket aleo— Mayor and all ; 80 we shall have fan by-and-by. Daw Stcxies ts tre Covrrry.—The country papers by no means compliment Dan on his pluck at bringing libel suite, They think he ought to have used his pluck for other foe. Dan fe not a bad fellow, though sadly out at the elbows. The Moral Condition of the Country. ‘The recent elicited by the eelzure of obscene literature in Frankfort street give us a very curious insight into the moral, or rather the immoral, condition of the country. One would naturally suppose that in a republic like ours, where education, wealth and refine- ment are more equally distributed than in acy other part of the world, that the men would be more pure and the women more chaste; that the eanctity of the home circle would he respected; that the good, the true, the beautiful wouid be exalted; that the bad and the obscene would be cut down, cast off and despised. Such is the theory; euch are claimed to be the resulta ot a general system of common achool education, euch as has been extended from New England through the Central and Western States. Bat what are the facts ia the case, as shown by the recent ac- tion of the police? We find here a man engaged —extensively engaged—in reprinting the most disgustingly obscene works that have ever been issued from the London and Paris presses, accom- panied with plates too filthy for description—sad evidences of the fact that the more noble the art, the more degrading it becomes when prostituted. ‘Well, we find also that the persons who buy these things are the leading men of the country—- preachers, teachers and guides of the people; members of the national Congress; lights of the pulpit, the bench and the bar; thunderere upon the political rostrum; presidents of councils and caucuses and conventions; directors of banks and insurance offices; pillars of the olmrch; leaders of class meetings; deacone and elders; Pharisees who pray at the corners of the streets—mighty wrestlers with the devil, with whom it seems the victory reste. Join with theee develope- ments the fact that the newspapers teem with accounts of seductions, adul- teries, violations of the domestic hearth, de- rertion of children by their nataral protectors, extraordinary elopements, &c., &c., and it would really seem that our social system is rotten to the core. ‘ ‘The increase of these crimes agninst socicty has been much more rapid than the increase of population, and it cannot be said that it is owing to foreign immigration, because the sinners are chiefly well informed well-to-do people, not perbaps all in the best society, but respeetable persons, whore positions one would think should teach them the necessity of placing some check to their passions, That check was most effec- tually found in the preservation of the marriage and those social enactments, conveniences and compromises which make the common law of society; and which, however uufair and irksome in individual cases, are after all the only guide and tafeguard for the majority, because they are founded upon common eense. Thirty years ago this position was generally received as an axiom, and our people were much happier and better for it, Our country was not perhaps Arcadia, but wives respected and obeyed their husbands, husbands cherished their wives, children obeyed their parents. But missionaries came to tell us that we were all wrong, and to prove it to us philosophically. Robert Dale Owen and Fanny Wright came over, like St. Paul to Athens, preaching, teaching and converting many. Owen was full of all sorts of new fangled ideas, agrarian, socinias, socialistic and otherwise; and Fanny Wright told the wives of America that they were all mean spirited slaves, and that the very best thing they could do would be to run away with any nice young mau for whom they took a fancy. They join- cd issue with the anti-slavery agitators who were just then commencing their work, and fulmizated their doctrines from the ros- trums of lyceums and lecture halls, and once occupied the boards of the Park theatre. All sensible people looked upon thete philosophers a harmless lunatics—leughed at them, and said that the temporary excitement would cease after it had lost the charm of novelty. The seed, how- ever, wassown, and we are now eating the bit- ter fruit. It was from the Wright and Owen doo- trines that some hard headed epinsters conceir- ed the idea of the Women’s Rights Conventions, the preachings and teachings of which have car- ried corrow to many a hearth. Before the pro- mulgation of the Fanny Wright creed a single elopement, seduction, or a crim. con. in respecta- ble society would make an excitement all over the country; now they are too frequent to excite much attention, except from the aggrieved par- ties. The women’s rights mania is strongest on the line of country from Boston west to Chicago. It is in the cities and towns upon that line that their conventions are held, and the journals of those same cities are constantly publishing ac- counts of abductions, sedactions, adulteries, ea- capedes of married men and elopements of mar- ricd women. Owen and Fanny Wright were, however, only the pionecrs before the grand army of lewdness. They surveyed and Jaid out the broad road that leads down to the pit; it was reserved for other miseiovaries to make the way clear that all might walk therein. These missionaries adopted the Goctrines of Fourier, including that of promis cuous intercourse between the sexes. They im- perted all the filthy books upon the subject and repriated them in Boston, They organized pha- janxes all over the country, and found plenty of male and female dapes, Their chief priests were the philosophers who now edit the 7hibune, and that journal was their epecial organ. For several years the Zribune attempted to cram down the throats of the American people the filthy doctrines of Proud’hon, Saint Simon and Fourier. The pbalanxes all fell through, but the effect of the teachings of their projectors is still apparent. These philosophers continue to preach the same doctrines through the Tribune, while their confederates are engaged in publishing the dirty literature for dissemination through the country. All these fellows revel in obscenity, li- centiousness and beastliness of every description. ‘They carry on their trade chiefly in the country, constantly making recruits for the brothel, the prison and the hospital. It waa they who brought these dirty books first to this country; it is they who have demoralized the country; they alone are responsible for the disorganization of society the deserted hearthstone, the general immorality of the youth of our country and their rapid pro- gress in crime. They have sown the wind; we eball reap the whirlwind. IxrorMAtion ror THR Ignorant —The morals and character of the black republican party lead- ers may be found in the evidence of the Investi- geting Committee of last Congress, particularly that which explains the lobby operations of Mat- teson, Edwards, Greeley, Simonton and others. Look up and read that brochure of rascality. Very Svsriciovs—Thurlow Weed and his gang are bursting with praise of the democratic State nominations, especially Jadge Denio. Is there not a “ nigger in the fence” somewhere? Tax Sickres Live Case.—The Hon. Dan Sickles, once engaged by us as our counsel in the Fry case, is going to turn the knowledge he picked up in that frial against his old olfeat- Oh! fie! One day something was said, during our absence, in our columns that looked like im- peaching bis great political integrity and perfect purity of character. On that publication he has begun two libel suits—one criminal and one civil—the latter for $150,676,14 damages, we euppore. In the criminal suit, we intend to bave a long preliminary examination before his Honor Justice Davison, that will probably last aa long as the Devlin case or longer. In that inquiry we intend to subpoena and have ex- amined the following distingués in politics and Jaws Hin Daniel E. Sickles—Cross examination, end very cross too. Hon Fernacdo Wood— Direct examination. Charles Devlin, Esq., the ejected Street Com- mirsioner—Ditto. D. D. Conover, Erq., the Street Commissioner in power and pay—Ditto. Hon. Thomas N. Carr, formerly Consul to Tunis—Ditto. Hon. Richard Busateed, Corporation Counsel, commonly called “Slippery Dick.” Hoa. James T. Brady, quiet gentleman, Hon. Charles O’Conor, principal counsel in the case of Devlin, Wilson Small and all his committee men ina row. Peter Cooper and all his committee men ina row. Daniel E. Delavan and all the Sachems ina row. The remains of the Savage and Sweeny Com- mittees, &e., &o., &e., de. F Also, John McLeod Murphy, to close the ex- amination. Recently the famous Michigan Southern Rail- road began two libel suits, -claiming large damages; but after sleepinglover them for two holy Sabbaths, they came to our counsel, said it was all a mistake, paid their own costs and wad- dled off in peace. We hope the Hon. Dan Sickles will chow more pluck. He should immediately send to Europe for Chevalier Wikoff to come back and cheer him up on the occasion. Another good dinner from the Brevoort House would be a capital first move, particularly if the Custom House, Post Office and Corporation were to be present. . Way tue Law Covrr Carexpars ARE so Heavy.—The Supreme Court Circuit has now been in session since Monday, and although there are three thousand causes on the calendar, not a single case was ready. This is a waste of public time; not only is the Jujge unoccupied and called from the consideration of other matters, buta large cumber of jurors are unnecessarily teken from their buriness withcut having the satisfaction of serving their country. It ap- pears, from the number of inquests. taken, that sbam pleas have been frequently sworn to and put in, and when the causes ate set down to be tried thoy are left to go without any defence or even an appearance on the part of the defend- ants. We have heard it suggested that it would be well to send those pleas, with the accompany- ing, affidavits before a Grand Jury for their action, In the English courts it is not a suf- ficient excuse for the postponement of a cause that the lawyer on ene side or the other is epgaged elsewhere. Counsel there confine themselves to one or two courts, and they are consequently invariably ready to attend to the business of their clients. Here, with a bar al- most as numerous as that of any two cities in Great Britain, the “heavy business’’—legal, not dramatic—is confined to some eight or ten big lawyers, one or other of whom is almost certain to be retained in any case involving an interest ot even a few hundred dollars. THE LATEST NEWS. Affairs in Washington A FRW COMMANDSE FOR THE SQUADRON IW THB CBINESE WATRBS—TRE STEAM PRIGATE) NIAGARA AND SUSQUEHANNA ORDERED HOMB—DIEBTRAR- MSNTS OF THE INDIAN BUREAU, BTO., Bro. Wasmvatom, Sept. 17, 1867. Captain Josiah Tattmell, now in command at Sacketts Harbor, bas Deen detached on the 16th of next month, and baa been ordered to proceed by the overland route to the East Indies, to assume command of our squadron on (at station, and to relieve Commodore James Armstrong, who has been there two yoars, and whose health ts bad. Captam Tattnall will hoist bis fag temporarily on the San Jesters, the present flag ship, until the steamer Powhatan, Bow Mtting out af Norfolk, can be sent out to him. The sloop of war Levant, now on that station, bas been order- ed to return to the United States, to enter the port of Boston. ‘The frigate Congrese—the fing ship of the Moditerrs- bean tquadron—bas been ordered ‘0 Philadelphia, where Ormmodore Breese will haul down bis diag, Thie will leave the sloop Constellation the only vessel on the sta- lon. The squadros will be renewed next spring. The Secretary of the Navy baying been informed that the laying of the cable has been postponed until nexi year, bas ordered the Niagara \o return to New York, and une Suequebaans, ber consort, to join the Home Gquadroa. Col ector Schell arrived here to day. He has deen en- gaged with the Secretary cf the Treasury relative to New York Custom House matters. I learn at the War Department to-day that Gen. Soott bag not been telegraphed te come to Washingtoo—ihat ‘tho Utah expedition bas all been arranged. ‘The Indian Barean is now remitting very large amounts te the West, preparatory to the October paymonts, The Construction of seve: al treaties le now being considered by the President, whose decision will involve several handred thoosand dollars of Indian aanul des. Bofere Naval Oourt No. 1, to day, the defence in the conse of Lieatenant George R. Gray was road; then, owing to the absence a” material witnesses, the pendiag case of Mr Merah was temporarily postponed, and that of Lieutenant James M Watson (furloughed) was taken up, and Capt. Cunningham examined ass witness on behalf of the go- vTernment. Before Court. No. 2, in the case of Lieutenant Charles Foner, moch docdmentary testimony was adduced and rexd to day, and @ medical survey was ordered upon him. ‘The Examining Board consisted of surgeons Woodworth 004 MoClelland, and assistant eurgeon Landedale. Before Court No 3 the case of Lieut. Giasson wes con tinged today. Commodores Stringham and Kearney, Capt. Taitnall and Commander Mason were severally ex. amined on Mr. Giasson’s bohalf, and gave him « good character. ‘The contom for the transporiation of ooal to China is quite animated, Ten or twolve partios have sent in pro- porale. The President has ordered in May next tho sale of two and a haif millions of scres of California lands, oxi in arch, cf five bandred thousand e0°ae of the half breed f\oux rése vaiion ip Missour! and Minnevote, A grand piano, purchased by the government of Ohick. ering, arrived last evening for the White House. Old Back tn determined to face the music. An official statement shows our corporatian reonipte to be, from dividends on bank stook, $1 20; from dogs, $1,000—large balance in favor of dega. Total receipts fo the year, $176,800, ‘THE ORVERAL SRWePArER DERPATOR, shout two millions and » half of acres of public ante in California, and upward of 450,000 acres in Missouri and in the unlocated tracts in the Sioux haif breed reser ration on Lko Pop'n, Minnesota, The sales in California will take place to May, and tn Missouri and in Minnesota in Maroh next Despatches have been received from Commissioner Parker, relative to the alleged complication of Consul Koonan in the Britian hostilities at Usatom eae icates bi nself by saying tat he wens thithor in the dir ‘charge of his official duties, and instead of osrying te Amorionn fing at the bead of the forces, be merely @is- Possensed a seaman of the sloop Levant of tie flag the ‘will not again present himself for official recognition umti; after the new government of Nicaragua shall have been The Politicians and the Boiters—Wadswerth and his Party Movirg. Rocessran, Sept. 17, 180t. In the Hunatn of the 16th September you have an art. cle with the above heading, true in its statements and sagacious in Its deductions. It ts known here at Rochester, that on the OWh inet. James 8. Wadsworth, and other radios! democrats, did bold the conclave for the purposes and with the views stated in your article. AS that meeting all seotions of the Slate were repre- sented by men of chara %er, influence and determinatics. From Long Isiend to Erie the feeling wes unanimous, to oppose and break down the onward course of Sinte corruption, and if no other course presented itself, to form 8 new radical demooratio party, and take the chances of the honest men of the Bate raging themselves in i, A} this meeting, and with these views, were found such won us Wadsworth, Ward Hunt, Robert Campbell, Weleh, of Erle; Grigg, of Chemung; Floyd, of Suffolk; Orooke, of «Sir gs; Selden, of Monroe, (Lieutenant Governor;) Heary J. Sickles, Sheril and their associates, known and identi. fied with the democratic party of the State for twenty years past, until they were driven off by the postion oy the Gemocratic party on the slavery question. They last year turned up as the radical democracy and helped the republicans to carry the State for Fremout. They now find that they got int bad company. Among other mat- ters talked over was the fact that the republican party had been managed lorg enough for the benefi: of the schemes of Woed, Seward & Oo. ; that a revolution in that party was necessary, to get rid of the old corrupt ieaders; and that the radim] Kaders should moet in Syracuse om the S34 inst. and watch the doings of the Republican Convention, and see that ihey were not cheated. This by no means impossible that such « combination might carry the Sate, amidst the disgust felt by the peo- ple generally at the present arpect of the State govern. ment. Large Fire at St. Louis. Sz. Loum, Sept. 11, 1867. Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in Eleventh street, Bear Market, and before the flames could be subdued evs. Fy building in the block was destroyed, including the caz- penter shop of Hugh Raub, the soda manufactory of Cairn, Biock &Co,, the wagon and blacksmith shops of Joseph Worden, and several other buildings and tenements. The extensive lumber yards of Wm. Morrison and Wright & Co., containing between two and three million feet of lum- ber, were alse destroyed. Mr. Morrison’s loss is $60,000 —insurance only $5,000 ; Wright & Co.’s loss is $40,000— insurance $13 000. The lotal loss is estimate’ at $150,000. Fhe amount of the inturance has not yet been ascertained, ‘but tt will doubtless prove small. News from Nebraska and Kansas, 82. Loum, Sept. 17, 1861. ‘The Board of Canvassers, which met at Omaha Gity, Ne’ braska, on the Sth inst, decided om the election of a delegate to Congress. after denying the authority te in ‘vestigate the illegal returns, or to correst the [rauds of certain Mormon precincts, the Board gave Mr. Fergusca Certificate of election over Mr. Chapman by forty votes. ‘Mr. Chapman will contest the seat. ‘The Kan+as Constitutional Convention has adjourned til) the third Monday In October. Governer King at Troy. Taor, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1887. Governor Kirg and staff visited the fair of the Renssiaer Agricultura) Society at Lanaingburg. He was recetved in ‘Troy by Major Gencral Wool and the Citizens Corps, whe ‘accompanied him to the fair grounds. He listened to the address of the Rey. Dr. Boman, and returned in the after- noon to the city, where he is the guest of D. T. Vail, Haq. Suspension of Charles H. Mills & Os. Boetom, Sept. 17, 1867. ‘The extensive dry goods establishment of Charies H. Mills & Co., suspended this afternoon. Their liabilities are said to be heavy The Alabama at Savannah, dc. Savamnan, Sept, 16, 1867. ‘The steamship Alabama arrived here from New York W., bound from Wilmington for New York, with a cargo of naval sores. Failure in Boston, Bowros, Sept. 17, 1867. Movers. E D. Bridgham & Oo., commission and few merch ania, in this city, failed yestervay. @egement at Burton’a theatre, Miss Cushman, as a urgis actress, holds the highest position. Her repertoire inciades Lady Macbeth, Bianoa, La Tisbe in the Actress of Padua, (the “Angelo” of Vietor Hugo,) Mrs. Haller, Mog Morrilies ‘and Romeo, Miss Cushman doee play other parts, but !t ‘a tn those aforementioned that she achieved her fame,e fame even greater in Kugland than abroad. Miss Cushman has not the classic repose of Rachel, nor the molting, sym" dalle years after the most delicately beantifal and finely finished plotare has passed from the memory. Mise Cushman wil) find theatrical matters mueh !mproved during her abeenes. She will not find « great surplus of good actors, bub ome will fad @ more liberal, appreciative, anprejudiced and Jaatly oritionl audience. Ghecomes before that as perhaps the only actress in this country who ie fit to be what is called a ‘star.’ She is « giant among the pigmies. ‘Te Ormna—Mare, pe 14 Gaance.—Norma” is given this evening at the Academy, with Mme Grange, Mme, Strakosh, ani M. Gasser in the roles, The card of the managers states they will be ‘with La Grange and Frezzoloai, to preseat some Rew to the public here, Thus far the Opers Academy has had greater poouniary ecocess than previous season. Poliee Intelligences Caarce or Eionway Rosmmmy.—A | sr di irik Foromay ny 4 Bor.—John Hoary Wilson, an errand boy Moe, charged with forging the namo of the firm to a