The New York Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OTTWE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU OTS. ad YF HERALD, every Wedncoday, at four conte par al | per aneran. AMUSEMENTS TO MORROW EVENING. OF MUBIC, Fourteenth streot—Itautax Ore ait Rorarons. TSLO’S GARDEN. Breadway—Poxeo—Ticut Bors Evo- BOWERY ‘PRE, Bowery—SoaLr Hurraas—Hasvar Bmos—Frs % by -& Paurrea’s luiv- ‘intie ALLAGK'S THEATER, Tro itn Dantes, on tae Last ATS OF Baiamax Youre. Gowonn Fanuns. Two Loves ap 4 ,WOOD’s BUILDIN: Broadway—Brmoriax ues, Daxons, Don Steves er tun Inveraspest Fine ATERA. axes MINSTRELS Siasne bones axe Dtasmsems “Dataer aumveanen, 444 BROADWAY —Mare. Pam's Osmrsm @emerus Mavoviss ane Danons—Vincixs Momar. NORET HA) Newerk, cna bene J Yauxes. N. J.—Bax Bour—Como New York, Sunday, June 6, 1858, ———_—_— ‘The News. By way of New Orleans we have news of the cap- ture of Tabasco, Mexico, by the government forces. ‘The bombardment of the city commenced on the th, and continued till the 19th of April. The houses in the city suffered considerable damage, especially that of the American Consul, which was aituated in the line of the fire of the beseigers. ‘Two Gulf ports, Tampico and Tabasco, are now in possession of the Zuloaga party. In"Congress yesterday the announcement of the death of Senator Henderson, of Texas, was made in both houses. Eloquent and affecting eulogies were Gelivered upon the character of the deceased, and the customary resolutions of respect were adopted. The United States sloop-of-war Constellation, Capt. C. H. Bell, arrived at this port yesterday from Genoa, which port she left April 17. The following isa list of her efficers:—Captain, Chas. H. Bell; Lieu- tenants, J P. Bankhead, Chas. M. Fauntleroy, Wm. F. Spicer, Edward Barrett, R. L. Law, C. F. Stan- ton; Surgeon, John A. Lockwood; Parser, John Johnson; Assistant Surgeon, W. M. Brown; First Lieutenant Commanding Marines, Thos. Y. Field; Captain's Clerk, W. D. Bell; ;Boatswain, John Bar- rows; Gunner, Eugene Mack; Carpenter, John Jar- vis; Sailmaker, Francis Boom; Purser's Clerk, Chas ‘T. Float. ‘The details of the late extraordinary and sangui- Dary duels fought near St. Germain, France, be- tween M. de Pene, a celebrated literary man, and two officers of the imperial army, are given in our paper this morning. M.de Péne,an accomplished echolar and highly popular gentleman, was one of the chief contributors to the Paris Figaro and Brus- pels Nord. In consequence of some playful remarks made by him in the former paper, he was challenged by a sous lieutenant, who was quickly disabled by fhe editor; but on the ground were a number of army officers who had agreed to call out de Pene in suc- cession and killhim. In eonsequence of this he was met on the spot by an officer of the cuirassiers of the | (guard, who soon ran his sword through him. The affair has created intense indignation and disgust in ‘Faurope, and it remains to be seen if Napoleon him- pelf is sufficiently powerful to punish the assassins who wear his uniform. In another column we give some letters from oar correspondents in Ilinots, who farnish the partica- lars of one of the most destructive storms that per- bape ever visited this country. It swept over War- ren county in that State, and in its course entirely destroyed the village of Ellison, leaving not a house @tanding. The story tald by our correspondents is hardly credible, but the facts come to us from so many sources that there is no room to doubt them. We learn that upwards of twenty-five persons were Killed, and one account says five handred were ‘wounded. Christopher Reynolds, tried for the murder of his brother Dennis, in the Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer, was convicted of man- Slaughter, in the third degree. It will be recol- Jooted that he killed nis brother in a quarrel in the house they both occupied in Pacific street, Brooklyn, on the evening of the 17th of March last. We learn from the report of the City Inspector that there were 374 deaths in the city daring the past week, a decrease of 68 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and an increase of 2 compared with the number of deaths during the cor- responding period of last year. Of the whole nam- ber 209 were of ten years of age and under, and 43 Snmates of the public institutions. The following table exhibits the number of deaths during the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguish- ing the sexes :— ¥ 0.” sia ok cading oe AB Wonk pv 4 ~ A 6. .B 1” w ame Among the principal causes of death were the fol- lowing:— Week ending— Gonvs sions: 6 2 Todam mation Pry Tofiammation 3 Marasmu+ chy Dropey to i Croup. oe Broach tas, oe 6 2 There were also 7 deaths of congestion of the brain; 2 of cholera infantum; 6 of deliriam tre- mens; 4 of diarrhoea; 4 of dysentery; 5 of inflam, mation of the bowels; 2 of teething; 17 of amati pox; 11 premature births; 21 stillborn; and 1 deaths from violent causes, inclading 4 drown No suicides or murders are reported. The following is n classification of the diseases, The number of deaths, compared with the ponding weeks in 1866 and 1857, was as follows: ‘Week onding June 7, 1866.... . ‘Work ending June 6, 1857. Weok ending May ‘Week ending Jame " The nativity table gives Btates, 71 of Ireland, 22 of Germany, 5 of Englan: 5 of France, 3 of Scotland, 5 unknown, and th Daiance of various foreign countries. ‘The total number of deaths in Brooklyn last week ‘eas 95, of which 14 were men, 15 women, 36 woys and 90 girls, Of remittent fever there were “noarlet fever, 5; measles, 7; premature births, °; ' * ns ‘born, 7; smallpox, 11, &. m € sale of cotton yesterday embraced about 1.000 0 bales, on the basis of about 11\c. for middling up. oa Fiour waa more active and firmer for common ps ‘tom cxtre brands of State and Western, while sme Roieran'y Fen oe eriptions were without changs of moment. The eovionaly potioed in wheatswas sustained, with meer ‘noe sales at full prices, Corn was firm and wore gold at O0c. © @5c.; sound de. at 100.0 720; Southern white at 790.0 800.; yellow do, at 800. Pork ‘was dull and lower, with emall sales of meas at $17 45.0 SIT 60, and Of prime at about $14 12}. Sugars were quite firm, with sales of about 1,100 @ 1,200 bhds, Caba ‘musoovado and 900 do. molado at full prices. Collec was quiet and ales limited, while prices wore stes ty. Freights Were without further change, and closed with rather a stronger feeling, while engagements wore moderate. ‘The Municipal Revolution in New Orleans—A Hint te New York Taxpayers. The whole country has been surprised at the sudden outbreak of popular feeling in the city of New Orleans, and with the announcement that a Vigilance Committee has taken possession of the municipal government, and is determined upon permitting an honest expression of public sentiment to-morrow, at the polls, for the elec- tion of municipal officers, without obstraction or hindrance from the ruffianism that for years past has attended the city elections of that as well as of many other of our large cities. This outbreak in the Crescent City is the ini- tiative of a reform movement in municipal go- vernment, which, if honestly carried out there, will sweep over every large city in the Union. It is the same upheaving of the property hold- ersand taxpayers there that we have long since seen to be inevitable in this city, plundered and outraged as it is by politicians and epoilsmen. The citizens of New Orleans have determined to separate their municipal government from all questions of federal and State politics, and to have their affairs honestly administered by citi- zens who not only have interests at stake, but who have no connection with any of the political parties of the day. They have chosen as their standard bearer Major G. T. Beauregard, an officer of the army, who has never been immersed in the stinking pool of politics, but who, by his gallantry abroad and his honesty at home, has earned a high po- sition before the country and in the estimation of the government. The events in New Orleans that have led to this sudden ebullition have their parallel in New York. Their treasury has been openly plun- dered by a defaulting treasurer, who, though caught in his flight and brought back, has neither been made to disgorge nor brought to justice. Rascals and political ruffians, who have earned their reward by making the polls unsafe to honest men and political opponents, have been quartered in fat public offices, or en- couraged in the exercise of their bratal instincts by appointment as officers of the municipal police. Jobs and contracts of all kinds have been portioned out to the favorites ef dark lantern lodges, while the streets have become receptacles of filth, and the public works only 80 many schemes for obtaining more plunder. This state of things was inaugurated in New Orleans four years ago, by the election of the Know Nothing nominees, and they have ma- naged to maintain themselves in power long after the masses who were led away by that mushroom excitement had abandoned the dark lantern lodges, through the institution of a eecret band of ruffians, popularly called “Thugs,” after a sect of secret murderers formerly existing in India. During the city elections last year in New Or- leans, so great was the fear of these Know Nothing “Thugs” that fully two-thirds of the re- gistered voters refrained from going to the polls, Not only were naturalized citizens beaten and driven away from them, but even Americans were “ Thugged” and many of them killed. One of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana is now an in- mate of an asylum through blows upon the head from these “Thugs” at the polls in New Orleans, three years However much w@ deplore the violent course that has been réao! to by the citizens of New Orleans to purify and reform their mu- nicipal government, we cannot but look upon it as a proof of the existence of shame and a sense of right among them. The property holders and taxpayers of New York will be harassed into doing the same thing a few years hence, if they do not abandon their present criminal indifference in regard to our city government, and inaugurate the separation of it from all fe- deral and State political cliques. There is little doubt but that the city election in New Orleans will go off quietly enough to-morrow, because the honest citizens of all the old political parties have taken the affair into their own hands, and determined to oust the rascals from office. Coxoness—Tue Sessiox Exrennep onn Weru.—The original time fixed for the adjourn ment of this session of Congress, (Monday next,) according to the resolution of the Senate has beeen extended to the Thursday following, the 10th instant. Doubtless this extension will be sufficient to cover all needful measures of legislation required to keep the government wheels in motion till December next. In the meantime, from all that we can learn the rapa cious Washington lobby, disappointed and hun- gry, has become perfectly desperate, and will leave no stone unturned to make up, during the next three or four days, for the seven months of the session which bave been lost. We trust, therefore, that henceforth to the end of the ses- sion there will always be on hand at least one vigilant man in the Senate and in the House to watch and expose the artful dodges of the lobby. Tre Poor Newsnors np THem Pensrovrors. —Greeley of late has indulged himself in seve- ral flings at the poor newsboys, and their crime of endeavoring to raise a few pennies on Sunday mornings before the ringing of the church bells. This is very ungenerous on the part of Greeley, thus to kick away the ladder by which he has mounted the wall. What would the independent press have been without the newsboys? Richard Hoe, too, has joined the hue and cry of canting hypocrites, and James Harper signs the circular | for the gagging of the poor newsboys. We had always supposed that Mr. Hoe and James Har- per were somewhat above such snivelling and drivelling Christianity as this. We are sorry for the hypocrisy, illiberality and etultification VS Venling OPH Y Yee mags to which they have committed themselves is signing, with others, the circular got up by weak-headed old grannies and bard-hearted old Puritans for the gagging of the poor newsboys. fun Latesr Graxp Laxp Lony CT pire. —head le th another part of this paper, from the Sobuyler County Republican, upon the new land lebby job of Congress,proposing the grant among all the States of lands for educational purposes to the extent of 20,000 acres for each representative and Senator at Washington. Our Schayler county cotemporary thinks that a Mr. Charles Cook, of aid county, is the godfather Of the bill, and his “People’s College Association” will be very apt to get the land spoil, which may fall from this bill to New York. Thurlow Weed, as sual, ie aly wiaed up in this lobby buaiages, ONGRES NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1858. - and the echeme as detailed is a most beautiful plot for playing the Peter Funk with the gov- ernment. Read the case, and then let us hear some further explanation upon the subject from Mr. Matteson in the House, at least in behalf of his friend Thurlow Weed. At all events, we hope that this exposition from the Watkins (Schuyler county) Republican will receive a care- ful ventilation in Congrees when they next take up the discussion of the bill, Our Foreign Diplomacy. It is understood at Washington that a decided movement will shortly be made in the diplo- matic department of the government, and some important changes take place in its representa. tion abroad. We think it quite time; for the appointments made by the last administration have given but little satisfaction. The misfor- tune attending our diplomatic affairs is, that every needy and seedy politician in the country ‘magines himself fit to be a foreign Minister, and generally applies for it as soon as his party elects its President. Casting our eyes abroad, do we perceive anything remarkable in the cha- racter or conduct of our foreign representatives? We hardly know whothey are. Here and there we find an accomplished man, who is well quali- fied for his position; but it is a rare occur- rence. Should we unreservedly describe the career, the qualifications (or rather the want of them), the ill manners, the vulgarity and the self-conceit of most of these personages, there would be considerable surprise at our state- ments, and a general wish te kick them out of their legations. The truth is, we have not given atten- tion enough to the nature or requirements of diplomacy. On great occasions we have some times been represented by great men; but as a general rale, the United States have been exhibiied in foreign courts in pelto. From the time of the Cardinal de Richelieu, the reputed author of the system, and of Ray- mond de Beccaria, the first regular ambassador in Europe, down to the present day, diplomacy has been considered by wise men one of the most important of political sciences. And the famous instructions of Machiavelli to the Flo- rentine agent at the Court of Charles I. of Spain, show that even earlier than the establish- ment of a regular intercourse between govern- ments the important consequences of the system were anticipated. Our relations with foreign nations gcnerally have not been ofa character to involve us much in their peculiar difficulties. We have had frequent important questions to settle with England and France at various times, but with no other countries in Europe. It is somewhat singular that whenever any very peculiar question of late years has arisen be- tween us and the former nation, its solution has generally been adjourned to our own shores, Our representatives at London have never ef- fected much there. When the British govern- ment wish to conclude a treaty they transfer the negotiations to Washington. It was Lard Ashburton who came over to settle the North- ern boundary question, Bulwer to humbug Mr. Clayton; and Lord Napier and Sir Gore Ouseley are here to terminate, if possible, the Central American question, retaining, if they can, a little slice in the pie. It is because the English Ministry are good diplomatiste that they do so. An American Minister at the Court of St. James, in any serious difficulty is almost a nonenity. He may write very forcible letters, but they amount to nothing. The Foreiga Secretary takes his ov time to answer them ; it is, in fact, mere logomachy and a hollow de- bate. But an English Minister at Washington is in a different clement, and Ba ephere in which he may freely and et ‘ely operate. He can see the President and Seoretary of State whenever he pleases, and on familiar terms; he can become the confidential friend of the lead- ing Senators, who are a distinguished part of the treaty making power ; he can magnetize by his attentions the most important members of the House, and win their regard and esteem ; he can extend a generous hospitality to influen- tial strangers who happen to stand well with the administration, and be can reach the American people through the newspapers when- ever he chooses to do so. If the stories are true which were in circulation not long since in re- gard to the large amounts of mouey paid by foreign parties to influence Congressional votes on the Tariff bill, a foreign Minister, taking ad- vantage of his position at Washington, such as we have described it, might exercise secretly a most dangerous power even over our legislation. It is confidently expected by European states- men that the United States, owing to its rapid advancement in wealth and power, must very soon become mingled in the discussions of the Eastern world. It is said openly in England that St. Petersburg, London and Washington will ere long be at the head of all political affairs. If so, it is time we paid some attention to our foreign diplomacy and our diplomatic agents. Our object can no longer be lovingly “to em- brace sovereigns,” but to secure to ourselves the rights of nations, and promote the peace and happiness of mankind. Let us imagine what sort of a person a thorough-bred American Mi- nister should be. He should be master of the laws of nations, and of their muni- cipal laws. On a recent occasion this know- has been found indispensable on the part dathe Wrench ministry, in order to understand far the English law protects the Emperor such plotters as Orsini and Allsop. He industry and the arts, and which give tate where they flourish ite greatness and h. He should be well versed in h of his own country and that of others. buld be a linguist, a scholar and a man of Brid. He should write with force and ele- and possess a cool head and polished The duty of » minister is closely to the tone of public feeling, the moral hysical resources congregating around o be ever on the look out for opportuni own countrymen, when under his protec- pd, in short, to be equal in argument, and quickness to any with whom he im brought in contact, and for every pos- sible gency. And finally, his correspon- dence with the department at home should be ful’ of valuable intelligence, and a gulde to the preparation of even his own instructions. How many of our foreign Ministers come up to this standard we leave to our readers to de- cide. Moet American travellers have decided siready. It is the opinion of those who are pretty well qualified to judge, that we have not at this moment » single great man abroad to represent the growing power of this country. It is onsily t be seen that affaire are by no means settled. Italy is disturbed by the difficulties between Naples and Sardinia. Spain is on the eve, it is thought, of a new and importaat movement—a fasion of family interests, disturbed hitherto by the accession of Isabella, Switzerland is in alarm in consequence of the desiga of Louis Napoleon to post a cordon of military conzuls on the Franco-Swissfrontiers. Austria and Rus- eia glance sourly at each other; and France and Russia and Turkey are growing red im the face as they look at Perim in the Red Sea; in short, there is « haziness in the political atmosphere of Europe quite curious for its extent, and through which the future seems quite uncertain. We leave Mexico out of view in these remarks, for at present it is but @ mobocracy. Isit not time that our foreign diplomatic stations were bestowed upon some other kind of persons than the fossil remains of broken down aristocratic families in the South, unwashed stamp and barroom orators of the West, and ward and town electioncerers in the North? Let us have a change, if we wish to be con- sidered a respectable member of the confede- racy of nations, Inwa = Investwents—Mussionary Specona- ‘rions.—The movement celebrated by the testi- monial dinner given to the Rey. Robinson Scott at Niblo’s the other day, is one'that has not as yet received its due share of notice from the press. It was an event thatdeserved the same philosophical consideration that is usually ac- corded to strange fanatical delusions, The large amount of money raised for this echeme entitles it at the same time to be classed amongst the most successful of the impositions that have been practised upon the credulity of the American public since the Irish insurreo- tionary aid subscription of 1848, That movement, it will be recollected, origi- nated with the Tribune philosophers, who pro- feesed to take a deep interest in Irish affairs. At the period at which it was set on foot Irish politics and Irish patriots were not as well understood or at as great a discount amongst us as they are now. ' The clap-trap sentiment of the Repeal societies had not been submitted to the teat of physical analysis. The bogus patriot- ism of Young Ireland paseed generally current among our people, ever ready as they are to aid any movement calculated to advance the cause of popular liberty. It was, therefore, easy for men professing an interest in what was styled the last death struggle of Irish inde- pendence to draw heavily upon the sympa- thies and the pockets of the earnest and ener- getic spirits of whom the great mass of our community is composed. What became of the large sum thus raised— amounting to nearly fifty thousand dollare— the subscribers are, we believe, ignorant to this day. Of one thing, however, they are pretty accurately informed, and that is, that but a very small proportion ofit was applied to the object for which it was destined. In vain have efforts been made to elicit from the pro- moters and managers of this fund some account ofthe manner in which it was disbursed. A discreet silence has been the only response by which the various provocations to explana- tion offered to them have been received. The conclusion, of course, is, that the money has been too satisfactorily divided for any of the recipients to be tempted to quarrel with it. Again we find another speculative Irish movement in operation, and, singular to say, the Tribune men again figure prominently in it. This time it is not a question of a revolution: Ireland is politically content, and there is no longer any capital to be made out of such a pretext. Abolition and Fourierite theories find no application in that land of primitive faith, and some other pretence in connection with it had to be found to satisfy the craving appetites of our subscription mongers. What so profit- able, what so unctuous as the religious dodge In England the evangelization of the Irish Pa- piste had already proved a mine of wealth to those who had embarked in it. There was, therefore, no reason to suppose that in Ameri- oa it would prove less acceptable or fruitful. The result has justified the speculation. Se venty thousand dollars in hard cash, and a certainty of thirty thousand more, will well repay the trouble that has been bestowed on this enterprise. What the actual religious gains will be it is not difficult to calculate. The la- bors of Protestant missionaries and of prose- lytizing echools in Ireland have never, as it is well known, been attended even with the limited share of success which pecuniary temptations to the cupidity of a starving population might have been expect- ed to secure for them. The poor Irish remain firm to their faith and to their pastors, and the only persons who profit by the gullibility of the foreign populations amongst whom these evangelizing missions are set on foot are the missionaries themselves and their partisans. It is time that all such impositions should be ex- posed in their true colors, and that well-meaning people should be protected from being cheated out of their money by Pharisaical pretences. If it be desirable that the Irish Catholic should be weaned from the religion of his forefathers, why in God’s name is not the work commenced here! The field {4 large enough to employ any amount of clerical zeal, and the parties favor- ing it will have the satisfaction of witnessing the manner in which their money is disbursed. This closeness of supervision, however, does not uit either the Irish evangelists or the Tribune philosophers. It is more convenient that the subscriptions raised for these purposes should find their way into the fathomless boarne in which the Irish revolutionary fund of ‘48 has disappeared. — Tus Litten Lame Duck Wester on ree Wiusert’s Powr Case.—The little Wall street stock gambler, Wesley, who was laid out among the lame ducks by the financial revulsion of last fall, is perfectly savage on account of the successful sale to the general government of he Willett’s Point real estate for the anug lit- tle figure of $200,000. The little fellow grum- bles terribly about it. He is as much disgust- ed over the transaction as was the Chevalier Webb when he discovered that the Chevalier Wolcott had pocketed the whole of that “free wool” lobby fund of $74,000. But the little lame duck Wesley should not forget that he at- tempted a sale of a certain old brick church with a dubious title, and the ground under the church and around it, and the dead men’s bones in’ the ground, for the nice little eum of half a million or so; and that he only failed be- cause the government thought it would be a bad bargain. That failure, we suspect, gives the edge to the little man Wesley’s indignation concerning Willett’s Point; and so we think the little fellow would do well to shut up, and say uo more upon the wahjegt ees‘ O™O ‘The Caso of Judge Oniver in Brovin'Y™- The reader will find elsewhere some par.ticu- lars of a case which will remind him of the «4 tales of New Eogiand in the days of the Scarlet Letter and the Puritan busybedies, Judge Cual- ver is a personage who is well known, not only in , where he lives, but in this city and elsewhere. He is understood to be a man of strong opinions on several political and social questions; for instance, he is said to entertain strong anti-slavery prejudices, and to be given to express them in places and at times at which per- haps they are not precisely seasonable. However this be, Judge Culver seems, by eome proceeding or other, to have given mortal offence to cer- tain of his co-disciples in the Baptist faith at Williamsburg; and accordingly, some weeks since, ecclesiastical proceedings were duly in- stituted against him, not for the alleged license of his tongue, not for the freedom and looseness of bis opinions, but for—can it be believed?— for an alleged sinful commerce with one Widow Brown, a person whose husband had the mis- fortane to be killed some years ago. The indictment laid, the deacons of the First Baptist church in Williamsburg fell to examining the case. They summoned ali manner of wit- messes and put them through the cus- tomary indecent interrogatories. One can easily perceive how these deacons relished the job, and licked their lips at the foul and prurient parts of the examination. In- deed, the only feature in their conduct which can be compared to the prurience of their ima- ginations is the intensity of their stupidity, in receiving all kinds of hearsay evidence, and finally making up a case on which the Judge was found guilty. This, however, was done. It had probably been resolved beforehand; and if poor Widow Brown could have saved herself, there would have been a Widow Smith to take her place. By a formal sentence of the deacons Judge Cul- ver was expelled the church, and left te pursue his remedy in higher courts. We believe that the case is unparalleled in modern times. In the early history of New England such cases were not uncommon: we find several of them in Winthrop’s journal; and it is impossible not to persuade oneself that they were often got up by the judges for the sinful pleasure of putting indelicate questions to blushing maidens, and extorting indecent reve- lations from young wives. The peculiar taste— such as it is—seems to have descended to the deacons of the First Baptist church of Williams- burg. But when the gratification of such plea- sures involves, as it has done in this case, an in- decent and miserable scratiny of a man’s pri- vate life, they ought to be stopped. No one of us is safe if any enemy can accuse us of having commerce with a widow, and charge usand our family, wife and daughters through the scandalous ordeal of an ecclesias- tical prosecution for fornication. In such a case an acquittal is no consolation for the out- rage. And when we are judged by deacons, we have no security that we shall be judged according to the evidence. The churches certainly seem to be doing their best to disgust the public with the very name of religion. Here we have the religious papers scolding at each other like very drabs, all in the name of Christ and the gospel. Then the clergy every now and then fall foul of each other, and send each other to hot places. Week after week sermons are preached which are positively immoral in their tendencies, and com- pared to which even Paul de Kock is almost harmless. And now the deacons of our churches undertake to try the members of their congre- gations for fornication. These gentlemen are certainly trying our patience. They may some day find that they have gone too far. They may drive us to remember that religion costs us in the United States over two hundred mil- lions of dollars every year, independently of the cost of new churches, and that this enor- mous outlay yields positively not a cent of re- turn—in this world at least. A like sum spent on bridges, railroads or steamers, would aid civilization as much as many of our clergy- men are trying to keep it back. And it might be a gain to the country to heve our clergy at work at some calling which would really pro- duce something. The deacons of the First Baptist church in Williamsburg must blame themselves if these views hereafter prevail among their flock. Baryvw’s Orera Srecutation.—We are daily in the receipt of inquiries as to the prospect of Barnum’s opera speculation, which includes, according te his account, the transpertation of the entire company of her Majesty’s theatre to this city, provided a certain small amount, say eighty thousand dollars, is sub- eoribed in advance of the arrival of the artists, The public mind hasbeen the more auxious since Barnum published a letter in an obscure city journal, saying that his prospects were very good. The public does not believe in Barnum for several excellent reasons, and we have only to cite the admission of that philosopher to show that this disbelief is founded upon good grounds. There was the celebrated mermaid, which Barnum said was the real article: that was an artistic lie. There was Joice Heth, rep- resented to be over one hundred years old, and the nuree of Washington: more artistic lying. There was the last grand coup of Bar- num in a court of justice, where he stated that he was so poor that he was obliged to depend upon his friends for his food and lodg- img: more artistie lying. His own book exposed several of these exploits, and it is barely possible that the great charlaten showed his hand a little too soon. Perhaps the public is right in believing Barnum’s statements about the opera to be simply artistic lies, This is the more evident from the distrust with which Barnum’s present speculation is looked upon by the public and the press. In fact, it seems tobe generally admitted that we must take Bar- num’s assertions as old women do dreams—by contraries; and that if he says he has obtained a large number of subscribers and that matters are progressing well, the state of things is ex- actly opposite to that which he declares. We must take it for granted, then, that through the indifference or the positive opposition of the public and the press, Barnum’s opera specula- tion seems likely to result in a grand fiasco. Barnam’s operations are generally of the same character as those of the philosophers of Wall street. They will not believe a man when he speaks the truth—an article which is never heard of in the temples of Plutus, They will not believe any one, and take all statements as the public takes those of Barnum—by contraries. Thus © man who tells the trath in Wall street is more likely to humbug the financiers than one who invents the most elaborate and artistic lies Péthaps Barnum might find it to his profit to tell the public a little truth qnge in a while, as sluxury. It would be refreshing to know, for example, precisely how much money he has left after settling up his paper at the rate of five THE LATEST NEwWs. Our Special Wi PROBABLE EXTANG{OW OF THE Ausdion Oe no vanes —FPROPOSED ARMING OF PRIVATS SHIPS TO REPEL BRITISH AGGUBSSIONS—OUNRRAL OONOHA’S VINDI- CATION OF THE HONOR OF SPAIN—MORE VESSELS ORDERED TO THE GULF—MBXIOAN AGENTS IN PUR- TAAL AuMmIOA—aOuIA OF THR SomoDenase TH OOLLING STRAMERS, YO.” Wasamworon, June 6, 1858. It fa generally believed that Congress will extead the session beyend Thursday. ‘Mr. Biokles, from the House Committee om Foreign af. ‘airs, will introduce a bill on Monday to meet emergeacies in our present relations with Great Britain. It will pre- vide for arming our merobant vessels for their own de- fence, and authorize the President to employ the naval forces to repel and capture any vessel of war ongaged in ‘Visiting or searching our sbips. ‘The Navy Department has ordered that the Constelia- tion, on her arrival at New York, shall proceed to the Gulf, The Macedonia and Saratoga are also ordered there. ‘The officers of the latter are to reporton board on the ‘10th inst. Official information has been recetved at the Spanish Le- gation that the Governor General of Ouba had adopted measures to prevent British violation of the sovereign rights of Spain in entering harbors and waters of Cuba te seasch veasels. The war vessel leabella Ii had been de- ‘spstched for this purpose. Upom remonetrance of the Governor General the British Consul General at Havana had declared against the conduct of the British cruisers. Senor Mata, agent of Juarez, and a Mr. Moses, agent of Vidaurri, are here, working together to raise funds with which to oppose the present goverument of Mexico. They have bad several interviews with Corcoran & Riggs. ‘These shrewd fipanciers are not likely to invest their money in Mexican revolutionary schemes. ‘The French Minister and the Foreign Logations in Waeh- ington do not believe that Felix Belly has an official cha- racter representing the French government in Osatral America. They believe he is a more speculator, con- nected with a great capitalist in France, named Miliaud, endeavoring to slip im to secure the Transit route, while our American steamship Commodores are quarreling about it, for the purpose of making great stock operations. It is not unlikely he may have obtained some encourage- mestfrom the Emperor, as the Transit route and ship canal there has always been a hobby with Louis Na- poleon. Joe White and Vanderbilt still cling to the hope that the Cass-Yrisarri treaty will come back ratified from Nicara- gus, while others assert positively that what will come by next steamer will be the dismissal of Yrisarri as minister for that republic, and several thousands of old and sew capal shares that have been largely offered there. Com- modore Vanderbilt’s chance of humbugging the govern- ment is much reduced by the factious course of his sea- in-law, Horace F. Clark, in Congress. Joe White is urging upon General Cass another grand naval bombardment ef San Juan del Norte, but the Secretary is not ready to listen to him either, as he is mot quite sure of the honesty of the source of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Great efforts have been made to induce Vanderbilt to join the Canal Company, but he wants to know who will have to stand the brunt of the two million contingent stock that has beon is- sued. Schlessinger is to go out by to-day’s steamer to Nica- ragas, he says, as genersiagent for the Canal Company. He asserts that if Yrisarri w dismissed by Nicaragua Ge- neral Cass will receive no minister from that republic. even if he were to bring the ratified treaty. The Senate Committee on Finance this morning resolved to change the terminus of the Collins line of steamers from Liverpool to Southampton, agreeably to the applica- tion of Mr, Collins, The prospect is, then, that this line will commence its transatlantic service again imme- diately. ‘The foliowiug shows the ceadition of the United States 65,922,898 2,718,610 Drafts owed ot tes Increaze,..... 650,363, ‘The House Committee on Military Affairs have referred to Mr. Faulkner, of Virginia, all the memorials, &c., re- lating to the establishment of « national foundry, with the view to full report upon the same at tho next sossion. They have also referred to the same gentloman all papers conpec\ed with the war debt of Washington and Orogoa, amounting to six millions of dollars, for the purpose of a thorough examination during the recess, and the presen. tation of a report at the next session. ‘The Senate have confirmed the follewingostm Pastors: — ‘Trott, New London, Conn.; O’Flynm, Detroit, Mich.; Stil- well, lowa City; Smyth, Augusta, Ge ; Murphy, Louciny, Mich. ; Winans, Monroe, Mich.; Merritt, Norwich, N. ¥.; Cuyler, Palmyra; Shaw, Fulton, N. Y.; Peck, Brookiyn, N. Y.; Yale, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Cheney, Jackson, Mich, ‘THR GENBRAL NEWSPAPER DRSrATCH. THR RUGHES AND HARRIS DIVFIOULTY, ETO. Wasuworon, Jane 6, 1868. Mr. Hughes, of Indiana, sent © challenge to-day to Mr. Harris, of Tlinois, who promptly accepted it, but it was afterwards suspended or temporarily withdrawn for ex- Planations. Late to-night an arrangemont was made by ‘which the offensive languago in the debate in the House, om the 2 inst., was withdrawn by each party, in the or- dor that it was uttered, and the difficuity thus amicabiy “Tne following officers have been ordered to report os ‘Doard the sloop of-war Saratoga on the 10th instant—now st Norfolk, preparing to join the Home squadron:—Com- mander Turner ; Lieutenants Wainwright, Crosby, Gambie, Jesse, Taylor and Hamilton; Surgeon Wheelwright, As- sistant Surgeon W. Jobnaon, Jr., and Purser C. J. Emery. The court martial ordered by the Secretary of the Navy to convene here oo the 10th instant, to investigate the charges against Commander Bout well, consists of Comme- dore Stringham, President, Captains Breese, Sands, Giynn, McKean, Mercer, Lowndes, Marston, Wilkes, Gleady, Pur- viance, aud Commanders Rebb and Tilton. Mr. Hovsron, (opp.) of Texas, announced to the Senate ‘the death of his colleague, Mr. Henderson. From his re marks wo learn that the deceased was born in Lincole county, North Carolina, March 31, 1908; that he received ® liberal education, and chose the profession of the law, to i i i i nl i i i : I ie iil z a & 3 i i id i 33 Hie iH fit ee Bite | veedrbey Senator, when, bursting into tears, without offering the usual Mr. Davis, (adm.) of Mina, adder his teatimony to the poreveal welts ead lion courage of the deceased, having Sema. Onrranves, Copp of mare. RN . Ky., Rewn, (adm.) of N ©., and Haver, ein) Re colatibered (netr apres: sions of esteem, and Mr. Swann, of N. Y., fron his inti. macy with the inte Senator Rusk, having recently formet the with the deceased, added a meed of praige, taking occasion to add that if a oootrifuenl force Gxist (M Powtins, @ Geutripetal power in the couniry and j tae