The New York Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Orri05 N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 678. f ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Itauan Ors ma—L Teovarous. Toma’ Howrens—Hasvar sowaRy ‘TRE, Bowery—Soatr THEATER, Broedwey. oppostic Bond strect ‘two Hevoonrestvantwa ran TasLae—A Paurvas’s IuLv- wiou—Tux Va.ees Arorapoiny. WAaLLAaGK’s THEATRE, Deus Brondway—Lorrazy Tiorst— ‘Dessarep, os tas Last Dars or Baiguau Youre. 4 Kos co vam Daze. 4 ai Gowen Fonuzs. invenang “Pwo Loves amps Lara. Bareas HALL, 672 Broadway—Bayires Miverems a) Boves snp Bencnons -DaBKRy AsBURANGA, 44 BROADWAY —Marr. Pum’s Oamrsm Braprus Mavovins sxe Danons—Vincinis Momuy. CONOBRT HALL, Newark, N. J.—Bax Bour—Comc Bosce—Srace Strack Yauxee. New York, Monday, June 7, 1858, ——— ee ‘The News. ‘We have a despatch from St. Louis stating that a messenger had reached Leavenworth from Fort Laramie with news that Capt. Marcy's party, which was on the way from New Mexico to Camp Scott with animals and supplies for the army, had been “cut off” by the Mormons. It is now ascertained that the report of Gov. Camming’s expulsion from Balt Lake City wasa fabrication, and we have no doubt the statement regarding Capt. Marcy will prove to be equally groundless. Our latest accounts from New Orleans are to noon of Saturday. At that time intense excite- ment prevailed throughout the city. The Ameri- cans had issued inflammatory appeals, urging resis- tance to the Vigilance Committee, and an ex-filibus- ter officer offered to lead them to the charge. One of the vigilants had been killed and another wound- ed by casualties. The election takes place to-day, ‘aad the result will put an end to the trouble. The screw steamship Kangaroo, which left Liver- pool on Wednesdsy, 26th ult., is now fully due at this port, and will most probably arrive during the day, with four days later news. The Cunard steam- ship Asia sailed from Liverpool for New York on Saturday, 29th ult., and will arrive about the middle of the week. The steamships Ariel and Borussia, which left this port for Southampton on the 15th alt., took out the news of the British naval searches at Sagua la Grande, and of a number of the first out- rages committed in the Gulf of Mexico. The Asia will bring us news reflecting the first impression made om the public mind in England by such a course of proceeding. Captain Nichols, of the brig Lillian, which arrived at this port on Saturday trom Jamaica, reports that when near Sombrero Key he was boarded by a boat from a British war steamer, supposed the Buzzard. A full account of the affair is detailed in our columns this morning. Capt. Revans, of the brig Abram, ar- rived yesterday, reports that he was boarded on the 26th ult. from the steamer Styx, and his papers ex- ‘amined. The Abram is the vessel to which allusion was made s few days sinceas having put ashore some passengers at Key West. The Styx was at Key West at the time, and when the brig proceeded on her voyage the steamer gave chase. The result is now known. There are now forty-one similar cases of British visitation and search of American merchantmen upon record. The news of the boarding ef the schooner Mobile was re- ceived at Bermuda about the 24th ult. The official Gazette affects to disbelieve the report, but says if it be as announced in the Nsw Yorx Harap, the British officer in command of the Styx will be punished. When the New York papers contain- ing the other cases next following were received, the Bermuda journals still thought the reports exag- werated, if not fabricated for the purpose of creating 8 sensation. The conduct of the British cruisers in the Cuban ports has caused the Captain (General to issue orders to the Spanish squadron to prevent violations of the sovereignty of Spain. But it appears the Spanish menof-war are trying their hands at this searching business. The brig Tanaro, which arrived yesterday from Havana, reports that when off that port he ‘was boarded by an officer from a Spanish vessel of ‘war, who demanded the brig’s papers, which were shown to him, and after examining them he de parted. By an arrival at this port from Porto Cabello we have news from Venezuela to the 19th ult. The country was tranquil. The French Minister had made & peremptory demand upon the Provisional government for the release of ex-President Monagas, in order to enable him to leave the country. Gene- ral Castro, however, refused to accede to the requi- sition, and the Frenchman refrained from executing his threat of ordering the French ships to fire apon the town. It was thonght the Minister would soon be recalled. The people were still actively engaged in preparations for the approaching election of dele- gates to toe National Convention, and every precaa- tion was being taken to have it pass off without disorder. We publish elsewhere an interesting report of the proceedings on Saturday before the special commit- tee of the Board of Health appointed to examine the swill milk establishments of this city. It will be seen that while one physician testifies that in his opinion there is not a particle of deleterious matter in ewill milk, another considers it one of the causes of the great infantile mortality in New York. The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city daring the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind cur- rents, and the state of the weather at three periods during each day, viz.: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P.M legiaiative seasion was opened on the 20th. News of the British naval outrages on American traders was received on the 26th alt. Admiral Stewart was Still in the island. The price of provisions had fallen very considerably; flour being dull at $7, instead of 1%, the price ruling last summer. Twenty thou- Upwards of 4,000, averaging sixteen pounds, have been sent to England and France. Weather fine. American provisions abundant and cheap. Late accounts from Bt. Domingo represent that the had suffered extremely during the revolution. Many of them had left the city and reached the Haytien ports in a destitute condition. A sailboat, containing five men, capsized off Greenpoint yesterday, and three of the number, named John Rose, Jeremiah Elliot and Charies Bas- sett, were drowned. ‘The tales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 1,000 a 1,200 bales, on the basis of about 11% c. for middling up- lands. Flour was more active and Sirmer for common and medium extra brands of State and Western, while her descriptions were without chauge of moment. The advance previously noticed in wheat,was sustained, with tolerably free sales at full prices. Cora was firm and im good demand. Distilling cargoes of Western mixed wore seld at 60c. Gic.; sound do, at T0c.a 72ic.; Southern white at 79c. 8 800.; yellow do. at 80c. Pork ‘was dull and lower, with small sales of mess at $17 45 a $17 50, and of prime at about $14 12}. Sugars were quite firm, with sales of about 1,100 a 1,200 bhds. Cabs musoovado and 900 do. molado at full prices. Coffee was quiet and sa'es limited, while prices were steaty. Freights were without further change, and closed with rather a stronger feeling, while engagements were moderate. ‘The British Outrages.—Folly of English Di- Plomacy. We publish to-day a full and correct list of the vessels thus far heard from that have been boarded by British cruisers lately, and several interegifimg extracts from the Royal Gazete at Bermadis on this subject. It will be seen that this journal, which was published immediately under the eye of Sir Houston Stewart, Admiral in command of the British squadron on that station, doubts the facts of the searches and denies that the British officers have any orders to pursue such @ course. On the other hand, we have the statement of the commander of the British steamer Styx, at Key West recently. Finding his reception there to be of the most frigid character, he complained that the want of courtesy could not have been greater in an enemy’s port, and denied the truth of the statement of the captain of the schooner Mobile about his being fired into. He alleged that he wasin command of the gunboat squadron on the coast of Cuba, and that, as he was only obeying his instructions, the question was not a personal one with him. but was to be settled by the two governments. ‘This question of the right of search, which has again been sprung upon us by the conduct of the British naval commanders in the West Indies, is one which evidently remains to be settled. The war of 1812-15, which in great part originated from the practice of boarding American vessels in search of British deserters, and adhered to 80 pertinaciously by the British government as aright, was terminated by a treaty which un- fortunately made no reference to the subject. The long peace which followed rendered it ob- solete; but it is now revived in a new form, and under the pretence that the slave trade being declared piracy by all the civilized world, the right of search revives as a necessary means of putting it down. That the government of the United States will now submit to the en- forcement of the principle is not to be supposed. The English have long endeavored toconsider it as one involving the security of maritime nations, and founded on laws which they universally ac- knowledged ; but they early met with a sturdy resistance from their Dutch neighbors, who two hundred years ago declared “their captains and other sea officers” should not ‘“condeacend” to obey the commands of any foreigners; and for century and a half the immunity of ships of war from search was universally ad- mitted. The wars between France and England, and the controversies which arose out of the rights of neutrals under the Berlin and Milan decrees, and the British Orders in Council reopened the question in its length and breadth; the obsolete principle was reasserted by England, and the attack on the Chesapeake by the Leopard, off the Capes of Virginia—to use the words of an American writer—was “an exercise of power beyond all patient endurance, and electrified the American nation to its remotest extremi- ties.” The war which followed was in great part the result of this act of violence, which long and earnest negotiations failed to obtain atonement for, and for which neither embargo nor non-intercourse had the effect to obtain any future guerantece. In the course of the subse- quent discussions, during portions of which Mr- Canning was Secretary of State for Foreign Aflaire, our government took an additional step in the argument, and going beyond the case of the Chesaptake, and armed vessels generally, insisted that our merchant men should also be exempt from search. When the treaty of Ghent was negotiated, the question, strange to say, was left unsettled; and though afterwards Mr. Rush and Mr. Stephenson both endeavored to arrange the difficulties thus left unarranged, and though on one occasion the terms of a trea- ty had been actually agreed upon, and the ao- tion of the United States Senate alone prevented ite ratification by the English government, the question has drifted along without settlement to this day. With regard to the right ofsearch for deserters, itis no longer enforced. Sinoe the suppression of the slave trade has been adepted as its leading policy, it has been at- tempted to re-establish the right by act of Par- liament; but the prompt intervention of our Minister, Mr. Stevenson, from time to time pre- vented its accomplishment, and subsequently, when the Quintuple treaty was negotiated by the agents of the five great Powers, the able me- moir put forth by Mr. Cass, then our Minister to France, upset that scheme, so far as the French government was expected to become a party in- terested. The war of 1812, and the negotia- tions of 1818, °39, "40 and “41 having thus effected nothing for the settlement of this ques- tion, and no practical difficulties having arisen out of the loose condition of things, the Northeastern Boundary question became the immediate and more alarming difficulty of the day, which, happily, however, was termi- nated by negotiation. By the treaty of Wash- ington an attempt was made indirectly to get rid of the difficulties connected with the slave trade by the establishment of a joint naval squadron on the const of Africa, each of not NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1858 lees than eighty guns, and o stipulation that this was “to enforce separately and respectively the laws, rights and obligations of each of the two countries for the suppression of the slave trade’”’—he squadrons to be independent of each other. This arrangement does not seem to bave been conclusive to the British govern- ment, at least while Lord Palmerston has di- rected ite foreign policy. For some time past our merchant vessels in the neighborhood of Cuba bave been brought to, fired at and searched by British cruisers, although displaying our na- tioral colora, It is eupposed, no doubt, that as slavers are declared pirates, even by our own laws, it is lawful to overhaul all euch veasela as may be suspected of this piracy. But it is a well settled principle of international law, for which we have long contended, and is recog- nised as such even by the English Admiralty lawyers themselves, that even in the case of the slave trade, the right of search caanot be ex- ercised except by express stipulation; and this was the theory which gave all its effect to the stipulations in the treaty of Washington, so far as they related to the coast of Africa, When- ever sny Power is opposed to the right of vearch—no matter what may be the reason—it is egal to attempt its enforcement against it. This is a sound principle, upon which Mr. Cass has taken his stand, and which will be main- tained by the American government. It is really difficult to understand why, at this moment, these very rigorous proceedings of the English cruisers should have taken place in the West Indies, and almost in our own waters. We do not see the occasion for it at all. Par- ticularly do they seem suspicious, if not mis- chievous, when the English government has it- self permitted the coolie slave trade to an enor- mous extent, and shutsitseyes at the deportation of African slaves to the French islands of Mar- tinique and Guadaloupe. From the barracoons at Angola thousands bloodily captured in war have already been taken off against their con- sent, and shipped by contractors with the French government to those islands, as s pecu- niary speculation. Are there any British gun- boate hovering in their neighborhood to over- haul the veseels there engaged in this traffic? Why psy such attention to American merchant- men, which, as such, repudiate the slave trade as frankly as the French avow it? One would think that with the war if India on its hands, where the British arms, though victo- rious and indomitable in the field, are becoming dangerously weakened by loss of life and the effects of climate, with the pressing difficulties in China, and the dangerous indications of a warlike feeling across the Channel, the British government would have enough to do withont stirring up any ill feeling against it in the United States. It is remarkable that the only free nation in Europe should be thus contiau- ally biting and snapping at the only free coun- try in America. What good does itdo? Are the English merchants and manufacturers so anxious to lose their best friends and their best customers to please the Po! merstons and the Derbye—the men who only ‘ive for office—and the lords and the chiefs of the aristocratic fami- lies which fatten on taxation and rise highest amid tumult and war? We appeal from John Bull in Downing street te John Bull at his fire- side and in his home against the inconsiderate and dangerous policy of the British Cabinet, handed down apparently from one to the other as the legacy of office, which is continually on the alert to irritate and exasperate the Ameri- can people by such acts as those of which we complain. The time has apparently come when this mast be put an end to, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must. The principle of the right of search must be resisted at all hazards. It involves great injuries to our commerce and to the rights and pursuits of our peaceful mari- ners. AlJl the negroes and all the barracoons, and all Africa itself, are of no consideration whatever when weighed in the balance against the rights, the interests, the nationality and the personal honor of s nation containing upwards of twenty-five millions of free people. No hu- manity, no English philanthropy, can be better directed than to the prevention of bloodshed between two powerful nations—an expenditure of millions wrung from the gains of industry, and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives, de- populating their fairest fields and desolating their happiest homes, A few cargoes of ne- groes, more or less—even if they are stolen and sold in Cuba, against the common eentiment of the day—are but dustin the scales compared to the mischief which a false and bastard humanity engenders. Out of such follies, however, spring half the miseries of mankind. Let our govern- ment look steadily at this question; and above all, let Congress at once sathorize the construc- tion of a sufficient number of steamers to pro- perly discuss this question—if it must be so dis- cuseed—for the last time. Tax Mrvrrerranean Squapron at Worx at Last.—We perceive that three war vessels of the Mediterranean squadron are ordered to the Gulf to take care of the interests of our mer- chant marine in those waters. The Wabash has just sailed from this port, and the Macedonian from Boston, to look after the British cruisers and protect our flag from insult. The Constel- lation is now in New York harbor bound for the same mission. Heretofore the Mediterranean squadron has been a mere show. Since the war of 1815 they have done no service in that sea, except bringing Koesuth from the territo- ries of the Sublime Porte, and protecting the demi-semi American citizen Kosta, two very expensive arrangements. If they had been em- ployed in China or in the Gulf of Mexico all that time some good results to American com- merce might be now on record. Singe the diffi- culty with Algeirs there has been nothing for the Mediterranean squadron to do. In case of any trouble with a European Power the few ships we kept there could at any time have been captured before they could get through the Straits of Gibraltar. We are glad to see that these vessels are about to be well employed at last. Tue Sraeet Commisstoxen’s Orrice.—The public are getting anxious to know what the new Street Commissioner is doing. There is no longer any doubt as to the legality of his ap- pointment. Litigation is at last at an end, and it is not too much to expect that the city should begin to enjoy the blessings of peace. Thou- sands of workmen are in need of employment; the streets are in a villanous condition; frauds without number in the Street Department are still undisclosed; Mr. Cooper is in full posses- sion of his powers, and he ought to make some show for himself. Why does he not publieh these frauds as he discovers them, eo that the public may get them in small doses, and not re- serve them, after Mr. Flagg’s principle, until they become too large to be swallowed? ‘The Proposed General Banbrupt Law—Re- port ef the Commitsee, ‘The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the recommendations of the President's Meseage on the subject of s general Bankrupt Jaw, bas made a report strongly adverse to them. The conclusions of this document may be thus briefly stated: That the Congress of the United States has no power under the constitution to subject banks to the operation of any Bankrupt law on the mere ground of failure te pay their abilities on demand in specie, and that the ex- ercise of any such power would infringe upon the rights of the States. In trying to sustain these conclusions the com- mittee have resorted to a vast amount of special pieading. Not contented with arguing the question on technical grounds, they have alse entered into a long fin.ccial disqauisition to prove that the banks were in no way to blame for the late revulsion. This elaborate defence of the action of the banks previous to the crisis forms a curious prelude to the political argu- ment. It looks as if the committee are con- scious of the weakness of the grounds on which they are about to resist the constitutional right vested in Congress, and seek to strengthen them by statements deprecating the necessity for its exercise. Curiously enough, in the effort to fortify themselves by extraneous assumptions of this kind, they unconsciously make out the case infer- red by the President’s recommendations. They state that there is not only a total absence of uniformity in the remedies provided by the dif- ferent States against defaulting banks, but that in the absence of any such remedies there is no power in Congress to provide them. Thus they admit the full extent of the inconveniences and hardships to which a creditor is at present ex- posed in the endeavor to establish his just claims against an insolventor fraudulently dis- posed banking coporation. It was to correct this unjust and anomalous state of things that the President recommended the adoption of a uniform Baskrupt lew, ex- tending to banking institutions as well as to individual traders. But, say the committee, Congress has no power under the constitution to pass any measure which would make it the irreversible organic law ef each bank’s exist- ence, that a suspension of specie payments shall produce its civil death. Although the proposi- tion thus strongly stated is not what the Presi- dent's recommendations contemplate, in order to cut short the argument we accept it in its most exaggerated sense. We assert that, under the provision of the constitution, Congress does possess this power, if it chooses to employ it, just as the exercise of a discretionary right in- fers the possession of a more arbitrary one. The attempt to reduce to an absurd conclusion, by such reasoning, a fact so clearly to be in- ferred from the very wording of the constitu- tion, betrays, we think, the inherent conviction entertained by the committee of the weakness of their position. ‘That the framers of the constitution never contemplated excluding banking institutions from the operation of the bankruptcy laws which they empowered Congress to pass, is evi- dent from another fact—namely, the prohibi- tion which they imposed against the issue of paper money by the States. No constitutional doctrine is more firmly established than that nobody can delegate to others powers which it does not itself possess. Now, in granting to banking institations the privilege of making paper issues, the States have clearly transcended the rights reserved to them. The distinction that is sought to be established by the commit- tee, between the paper money of the States and the paper money of banking corporations, is a fallacy rendered only the more ridiculous by their respective values. Inasmuch, therefore, as the States governments have exceeded their powers in the authorization of paper issues by banking institutions, there can be clearly no infringement of State rights in the eense contended for by the report The very restriction itself proves that the con. stitution intended to reserve to Congress, as a measure of imperial policy, the power to deal with banking institutions as with individual traders, A more flippant, ill-reasoned or illogical docu- ment than this report has never, we will ven- ture to say, emanated from any congressional committee. Nothing is said about the vast in- terests endangered by the diversity of State legislation on this subject—nothing about the absence of any adequate legislative remedy at all. As it stands, the report might in fact be taken for the ex parte statement of a case got up by a pains taking counsel for a wealthy oli- ent. Had the grest body of creditors through- out the Union subscribed amongst themselves to get up @ $100,000 lobby, after the fashion of the free wool men, the iron manufacturers and the patent monopolists, the result might have been very different, With a little judicious ear- wigging on the part of insinuating and pereua- sive agents like Mesars. Matteson and Corbin, the conclusions of the committee might have been as strongly in favor of the general inte- rests of the country as they are new dead against them. Nortnern vs. Sovragen Law ano Orver— Prortx iw Grass Hovses.—That wise old saw which says that “peeple who live in glass houses should never throw stones,” will apply very well just now to those egotistical Southern jour- nalists and philosophers who delight to contrast the good order of Southern society with the dis- orderly and revolutionary isms and cliques and factions which are so abundant in the North. Look at the Southern cities of New Orleans, Louisville, Washington and Baltimore. During the last few years have they not all been disgraced by the bloodiest ruffians and riots in the Union, since the great Know Nothing church barning riots of Philadelphia? And look at the condition of New Orleans to-day—the regular municipal govern- ment suspended, and the city placed under the martial law of a Vigilance Committee. And Washington, too. From the proclame- tion of the Mayor in reference to the election of to-morrow, the 7th inst., he evidently appre- hends another outbreak of the “Plug Uglies,” “Blood Tubs,” and other savage barbarians, like that of last year, when the United States marines had to be called in and discharge a broadside or two among them of ball cartridges, But the Mayor says: “Let lawless gangs be as- sured that they will not escape condign punish- ment, should they venture to commit outrages similar to those enacted in this city bat a year y” and there is some comfort in that. If ruffians disre; the warning, them a ace A cold lead; and ha bh not 5 © persuasive powers a few rounds of PA grape and eaciater. Meantime, we would simply to our Southern critics of Northern society that good old maxim, that “people who live in glass houses should never throw stones,” Avvams oy Mextco—Svcorssas or Bora Par- 11ea.—From time to time we receive advices of the encoess at some point of each of the parties now contending for supremacy in Mexico. Not long einoe we heard of the atter defeat of Garza before Tampico by Mejia, who came down upon him with some 800 of his Indian followers, The accounts of this victory must be received with eeveral grains of allowance, as we have not yet heard the story on the other side. Every little success reported by = Mexican officer is, in his view, a Pharsalia or an Actium to the enemy. About the same time we bad news of the utter defeat of Miramon, and that he had taken refuge in San Luis Potosi from the forces of Nueva Leon under Col. Luazua. The next thing we hear of these is thet they have taken Zacatecas, some distance weet from San Luis, and shot many of their prisoners, while Miramon has re- ceived reinforcements from the capital, and is now 4,000 strong. Not many weeks ago Blan- carte was driving the flying constitutionalists into the Pacific at Colima; new these same run- aways have turned, aad under Degollado were in possession of one-half of the city of Guadala- jara, with every hope of getting the other half. Recently General Echeagaray entered Orizaba and Cordova in triumph, and was soon going to take Vera Cruz. Now we learn that his troops are euffering great privations, and that he can make no movement for want of resources. The steamer Guerrero lately blockaded Vera Cruz, when suddenly she abandoned that and turns up at the little swamp town of Tobasco, which is not of the slightest account to either party. There are two striking characteristics in this state of affairs in Mexico. One is the utter want of resources on both sides, and the consequent inability to follow up any advantage obtained; and the other the shooting of prisoners by both parties, thus turning this civil war into a bloody strife. The reply of the Indian to Mejia at Tampico when asked where his prisonera wero— “ A)l are cold” —is one of those key notes that show the tone of the public mind, and may pos- sibly be but the beginning of a contest of exter- mination. Those who know Mexico well are convinced that neither of the parties struggling for supremacy there have the power ta organize & government that ehall be felt beyond a radius of seventy leagues from the federal capital. Both are making extraordinary exertions to raise funds, The Juarez government has an agent in this country, Senor Mata, who is doing all he can to negotiate a loan. Zuloaga, shut out from every servicable port, has established a echeme of a national fund to which parties in Mexico are to make revolutionary subscriptions by coercion. We see no prospect of the estab- lishment of any government in Mexico fora long time to come. Toe CenTrat Park Commission—Prorest or Messrs. Du.Lon anp Betmont.—We publish in another column a card from two of the Cen- tral Park Commissioners—Mesers. Dillon and Belmont—together with a protest from these gentlemen against the action of the majority in the selection of a plan. We have all along de- nounced the Commission as a corrupt partizan job. The facts set forth in the documents we publish to-day afford cenclusive evidence that we were correct. Messrs. Dillon and Belmont, it will be remembered, submitted eighteen modifi- cations to the plan of Mr. Olmstead, the new Architect-in-Chief, on the faith of a resolu- tion that whatever plan should be accepted should be open to amendment and modification by the Commissioners. These amendments were referred to Mr. Olmstead, and he reported substantially against them. They have, there- fore, been virtually rejected; and a resolution has since been passed by which all future amendments shall be referred to the President and the Architect-in-Chief alone for their deci- sion. This annihilates the Central Park Com- mission completely; ignores the rights and powers of all the Commissioners, except one ; and places in the hands of the President anda hired servant of the Board the most important duty of the Commission. This is certainly capping the climax of ab- surdity and impudence, and is deserving of the severest censure. It is quite certain now that the public are going to be grossly defrauded in this matter of the Central Park. Read the documents. Tux Heatra or tux Crry—The health of the city is providentially very good at the present time; but it will not long continue eo unless the narrow streets and alleys, now recking with filth and gathering strength for a fearful outpouring of disease as the hot weather comes on, are properly cleansed. If the City Inspector would look to this, and the Croton Aqueduct Department would give us a copious supply of water to clean out the gutters every morning, we would have a fair chance of a healthy season. For a year or two past the Street Department has been a nullity, except to the lawyers: it is time that some measures were taken to preserve the public health. e Scvmer at Last.—From a cold, wet, unplea- sant May, we have suddenly jumped into mid- summer weather, with the thermometer mark- ing 83 in the shade. The city has at once be- come enlivened ; Broadway swarms with ladies and loungers in gay summer attire, green being the fashion for the ladies. All kinds of retail trade will be improved by this weather, and the hotels will soon be overrunning with South- erners en rowe for the springs and the sea shores of the North. To the invalids who have been suffering from diseases incident to our variable climate, this return of sunshine and fruits and flowers is an inestimable boon. New York city is now the finest watering place in the Union. With the fresh breezes from the sea, with the beautiful environs and fine rural drives, deli- cious excursions in the bay, the palatial hotels, the Opera and the theatres, the man of leisure cannot complain of a lack of amusement or gaiety in the metropolis, We want nothing, in fact, but clean streets and the Central Park, and that seems so far in the distance that even Lord Rosse’s telescope couldn’t make it out However, let us enjoy the fine wea- ther and attendaft luxuries of the season, giving God thanks, and imitating the exam- ple of that eminent philosopher, Sancho Panza, “never look « gift horse in the mouth.” Also keep cool, look out for sun strokes, and don’t drink too much iced water. More Waren Wanrxn.—The summer is now fairly upon ws, and the demand for Croton water is urgent; yet we perceive that there is uch a dearth in the receiving reservoir that the Croton Aqueduct Board cannot afford even to keep the fountains playing; whereas, if we had the abundance which the city absolutely requires, a stream of water should be allowed to run through the gutters for half an hour every morning, and sweep off all the garbage and filth, There is no remedy for the present ecarcity but the speedy construction of the now reservoir. No time should be lost in getting i into operation ; the city is growing eo rapidly that in a few years we will want two or three reservoirs, 30 that we had better have one ca- pacious one, euch as that contemplated in the Central Park, and have done with them, Crrr Exscrions mw Wasamaton ann New Onrmans.—To day the city elections of Washing- ton and New Orleans are to take place. We publish elsewhere » recapitulation of the measures adopted by the citizens of both places to protect the polls from the raffianism that has of late years made many of the elections in our cities a scene of danger for all peaceable and well disposed citizens, and given over nearly all of our municipal corporations to the possession of political traders and epoilamen. Ali that is now requisite in those cities is that the taxpay- ing citizens shall go to the polls and vote fer honest men. We hope the recent occurrences in these places will be « warning to our owa taxpaying citizens to organize and cleanse the Augean stable of our city before they are driven to the necessity of establishing a Vigi- lance Committee, with its thousand special po- licemen, as in New Orleans, or to call upone United States Marshal to protect the polls with mounted troopers, asin Washington. The reige of “Thugs,” “Plug Uglies” and “Dead Rabbita”” aust come to an end. Wo. Comprsotter Fraga Resian?—The Board of Councilmen have passed a resolution that Mr. Flagg should be requested to resign, and # committee has been appointed to urge the matter of his removal at Albany. We never expected that poor Flagg would be polite enough to accede to the request of the Councit- men, or brilliant enough to comprehend the na- ture of the resolution, nor, indeed, that they believed he would resign. The movement look- ed like a spasmodic attempt to crush the popu- lar sentiment in favor of an independent tax- payers’ party—which would utterly annihilate all the corrupt factions—by a semblance of re- form in that department of the city govern- ment in which it is certainly most nceded—the Comptroller’s office. But from all the facts which have come to light about the manage- ment of Mr. Flagg’s department, and his own repeated acknowledgments of his incompetency, we have a right to expect that he will be re- moved. Weehould like to know what the com- mittee of Councilmen are doing in the matter. Let us have some report, THE LATEST NEWS. THE INSURRECTION IN NEW ORLEANS. Intense Excitenent Among the People—The Americans Organizing te Resist the Vigt lance Commitiee—Fatal Casualty ta the Vie gllance Camp, dic, dic. New Ontzums, June 4—7 P.M We are on the eve 0’ fresh excitement. Infammetory Placards have just been issued by the so-called American party, calling upon the Americans to resist the authority Of the Vigilance Committees. More than one half of the American party are on the Vigilance Committes, and many of the leaders of the Committee are well known Know Nothings. One man has been killed and another wounded accidentally in the Vigilance camp. Naw Onzans, June 5, 1858. Incendiary speeches have been made tothe mob by Qolonel Christy, one of the candidates for Mayor, aad Colonel Henry, cf the Nicaraguan army. They call the Americans to arms, and offer to head a charge against the Vigilance Committee to day. Seine a id T. P. White, a money broker, was shot at and very daa- gorously wounded last night, in front of the City Hotel. He is a white man, and is said to have furnished the cotton for the barricades of the Vigilance Committes. Over fifteen hundred names have deen enrolled by the ‘Vigilance Committees. Trouble is expected to-day. Important News, if Truc, from the Utah REPORTED CAPTUBE OF CAPT. MARCY’S PARTY BY THR MORMONS, RTC. Br. Loum, Jane 6, 1968. ‘The Democrat has just recetved the following despatch from Leavenworth, 34 inst.:—William Crossman arrived here last night from Fort Laramie, and states that Capt. ‘Marcy's train has been cut off by the Mormons. Partica- lars of his story have been forwarded by mail. ‘The Repudlican learns from a gentleman who left Fert Leavenworth on the 2d } and who bad read all the letters from Camp May 6, that the nows that Governor Cumming bas been driven from Salt Lake Ouy is discredited. Leters from Camp Scott of the latest date mail on the 6th of May,and as the news of Gov. Cum wi Despeteh. MAGNIFICENT SCHEME OF BUROPSANS IN CENTRAL AMBRICA—THR UNITSD STATBS TO BE HEMMED 1N— MONS. BRLLY'S MISSION, BTC. is an agent, having money for this purpose, favored by Loula Napoleon and other parties to the scheme. He pre- bably will be repudiated for his impradence. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, will report back from the Territorial Com mittes the bill for the admission of Oregua on Tuesday, and put it immediately upon its passage. The Committes of Ways and Means have rejected most of the Senate amendments to the Civil Appropriation bill. La Sere and Benjamin. The Now York steamship Commodores are besieging the State Department, and tho fight bide fair to be inter- esting. Vanderbilt threatens to annihilate the adminis- tration aniess his demands are saveded to. ‘The statement that the President desires Congress to remain in seasion until answer is received from Kngland relative tothe British outrages is untrue, When the Ap- propriation bills arc passed he has nothing further for them. Collins bas triumphed over his opponents. The com. mittee of one house agrees to pay his claim, and the com mittee of the other to permit his line of steamers to run to Southamptominatead of i yerpool. There js notymuch ‘excitement about the election of Mayor to. morrow. Ti intbelioved rowdies are effectually ed by the energetic preparations of the city authori. ei fer the peace. Mr. Hastie te ina bad Mix. Tt is enid there is damaging evidence aa to his ‘conduct in the matter of the Willett's Potnt committee. Senator Henderton’s funeral took place this afternoca