The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1858, Page 4

4 ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1858, NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU O76. HEB DAT ane, two cant por copy. 01 per ere. —— rae SERETEIES a8 AX ACTOR, OWAY—Mare Poar’s Say Seen - ame Daxons—DsRxsr’s How York, Wedcesday, June 16, 1858, ‘The News. By the arrival of the Arago port and the Enropa at Halifax yesterday, we hive European ad- vices to the afternoon of the 5th instant. The news is important. Our representative at London had communicated with the British government with reference to the outrages of the British cruisers. In the House of Commons, on the 4th instant, Mr. Fitzgerald, under Beoretary of State, in reply to an interrogatory, said that the American government had made grave diate explanations given. In the meantime orders had been sent out to the officer in command of the British squadron in the Cuban waters to make every inquiry into the subject of the recent visits to Ameri- can vessels, and that the greatest caution and for- taken from our files, which we publish to-day. The money market does not appear to have been affected by the receipt of the intell'-ence from the United States respecting the co..uct of the cruisers. Money was abundant. Consols, however, which on the 2d were quoted at 973.97}, had on the 5th declined to 974 a 97}. In the Liverpool market cotton had fluctuated both as regards price and demand. On the 5th the quotations were a trifle below those brought out by the Asis. The harvest throughout Europe was very promising, and breadstufts were consequently still We have some further developements as to the movements and objects of Monsieur Belly, the French diplomat in Central America. A Lon- don paper publishes convention entered inte between Costa Rica and Nicaragua on the one hand, and Monsieur Belly on the other, as agent of a French company, whereby ‘the privilege of constructing an interoceanic canal soross the Isthmus is conferred upon the said com- pany. The work is to be commenced in two years and completed in six. The cost is estimated at be- sum is deemed by some parties as a serious impedi- ment to the successful execution of the scheme. | ‘The Presidents of Costa Rica and Nicaragua of- fered to the convention a declaration of the suffer- ings they have endured at the hands of the filibus ters, and the risks they have ran from invasions now in preparation under the patronage of our go- vernment, and appeal to the European Powers for protection. q The Atlantic telegraph ships sailed from Ply- mouth on the 29th on an experimental trip. After proceeding to deep water, and successfully testing all the apparatus, they returned to Plymouth on the 3d inst. The expedition was to take its final de partare about the 10th, and is now, therefore, on the voyage. There is nothing of special importance from the Continent. The details of the news from India pre- sent no feature not heretofore reported. From China we learn that the plenipotentiaries of all the great Powers, including Hon. Mr. Reed, had met at Shanghae. A despatch from St. Louis announces the arrival of Col. Thomas L. Kane. He left Camp Scott on the 16th ult. He states that Governor Cumming had returned to Salt Lake City from his tour through the southern settlements of Utah, after an ineffe>tual to infer that the animals have been served out in rations to the soldiers. The supply trains had been retarded in their progress by the swollen condition of the streams. The Senate yesterday, in conformity with the pro- clamation of the President, assembled in special ses- sion. After the preliminary business, Mr. Green pre- sented a memorial from Benj. W. Perkins, of Wor- center, Mass., setting forth that he entered into a Russian Minister failed to perform his part, whereby Mr. Perkins was ruined pecuniarily. He claims the gum of $385,000, and asks the interference of our government to procure him relief. A resolution calling on the President for whatever information he may have regarding the matter was offered and re ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Mason called up the resolution relative to the British outrages. He desired an ex. pression of opinion apon the sabject because of the probable bearing ft would have on pending negotiations. Mr. Benjamin, of Lonisiana, also urged the adoption of the resolutions. In the course of his remarks he said there had not been energy enough in the management of our foreign relations—not what we had a right to expect from the tone of the inaugural message of the President. The debate was continued by Messrs. Doolittle, Wade, Clingman and Mallory. Mr. Douglas alluded \ the position of parties in Tlinois. He denied that the members of the Convention recently held at Springfield, and who denounced his course on the Kansas question, were the expositors of the regular democracy of Ifinois. Mr. Douglas’ remarks were characterized by his vigor of expression The Senate held a brief executive session during which several animportant appointments were con firmed The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening. An exciting debate ensned on the resolu tion of the Joint Committee on Accounts directing the Comptroller to request Terence Parley to refand eg og was overpaid to him, which was lost by a to nine thirteen votes neces. fary to adopt it. The motion to prseadaren pt to allow the above committee to prosecute their la. bors was also laid on the table. The report of the Committee on Assesements in favor of paving Lex tween fifty and eighty millions of dollars, and this | 21,831 begs Rio, and 48,420 bags of all kinds. Freights ington avenue with Belgian pavement was, after a noisy debate, laid over. Mr. Brady pronounced the contract @ gross fraud. The Board will meet this ‘The Boston Light Infantry yesterday breakfasted at the Astor, and in the afternoon were escorted to the boat on their return home by the Light Guard, a detachment of two hundred and fifty of the National Guard, and company F, of the Seventy-first regi- ment. The ceremonies of the farewell were highly interesting and enthusiastic, as will be perceived by our report. The testimony in the Cancemi case still continnes. The defence yesterday contradicted officer Webb, who testified for the prosecution that Cancemi, on the morning of the murder, jumped on s car corner of Canal street and Broadway in his flight. Tho Superintendent of the Eighth Avenue Railroad de- posed that their cars are never there at such an early hour in the morning; and the Deputy Superin- tendent of the Sixth Avenue Railroad gave similar testimony. Counsel for defence offered witnesses to prove that Mr. Webb said that if he got $1,000 he would leave the country and not testify on this trial. This was ruled out by the Court, as Webb had not been asked the question. They also offered to prove that Ann Elizabeth Smith (the colored witness) told a lady that the butchers had given her a silk gown or $20 for her testimony. This, for the present, was ruled inadmissable. The trial of Martin Dowd, charged with the mur- der of John Dooley, is drawing to a’ close in the General Sessions, Mr. Busteed summed up the case for the defence last evening, arguing that the prison- er acted in self defence,after which the Assistant District Attorney replied for the people. The Re- corder will deliver his charge to the jury this morn- ing. There are five murder cases on the calender, which the prosecuting officer intends to dispose of this term. ‘The proceedings in the case of Patrick Lally, ac- cused of the murder of George H. Simonson, were continued yesterday in the Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer. The Committee on the swill milk question held their last meeting yesterday. Seven or eight wit- nesses testified rather forcibly against the swill milk establishment in Sixteenth street, but the evidence was merely a confirmation of previous testimony in telation to the subject. The committee declined holding another meeting to hear more witnesses against the swill, though requested to do so by thé parties who originated the investigations. ‘The cotton market was firmer yesterday, and the sales reached about 2,000 bales, clesing on the basis of about 11%c. per Ib. for middling uplands. The increase in re- ceipts at the ports this year, compared with last, amounts to about 87,000 bales. The increase in exports to Great Britain amounts to about 228,000 bales. The decrease in exports to France to about 16,000 bales, and to other fo- reign ports 16,000; showing a total increase in exports over that of last year of 157,000 bales. The crop is now cetimated at about 3,100,000 bales, which will be below the average yield, which may be stated at not less than about 3,200,000 bales. slr. Wright, in his circular for the steamer America, estimates the damage to the growing crop by the floods in the Missiasipp!, &c.,at not less than about 200,000 Dales, and thinks it may poasibly reach 250,000. There continued to be a specu- Istive movement in flour, and sales reached abeut 22,000 bbis. here and to arrive, about 12,000 of whieh were said to have been taken om speculation. The market closed at an advance of about 100. per barrel. Wheat was firmer and active, with sales of about 60,000 ‘8 60,000 bushels, part to arrive, at prices given elsewhere. Corn was sold to the extent of about 30,000 a 40,000 bushels, at full prices for sound lots. Pork was lower, with a speculative movement The sales embraced about 3,500 bbis., chiefly mess, at $16 75 a $17; with prime at $14. Sugars continued firm, with sales of about 700 a 800 bhds. Cuba muscovado, chiefly within the range of 6c. 63<0. Coffee was quiet; sales of 400 bags St. Domingo were made at about 9c. The stock consisted of about of the sea.” She thus takes upon herself the character of # volunteer policeman, and claims under it the right to enter every man’s house, and do just what she pleases, At one time the pretence is to catch her own runaway subjects; at another it is to prevent the catching of fish in certain broad localities, which, as “raler of the waves,” she calls her own; then, again, she pretends that somebody’s law is violated, and she carries the victim into somebody’s port, breaking up the voyage and ruining the owners, whether it be legal or not. If it is legal there is no redrees for the sufferer. In fact, she claims the right, asa volunteer policeman, to enforce every nation’s law upon its own citizens or subjects at sea. This is the true point at issue. This is what the United States has always denied to Great Britain, and always will deny, to the point of war if necessary. The government of England may instruct her cruisers to enforce her own laws upon her own subjects on the ocean, but that che shall hold any executive power over our citizene and their ships, for enforcing upon them a respect for our laws, is out of the possibility of concession by us. Be. sides the impossibility of an English officer being so versed in the laws of every nation as to judge whether a crime is being committed or not, there is the incongruity of entrusting so great powers to a rival in trade, who may abuse them for sinister purposes. Then, too, we are sufficiently able to cause our laws to be respect- ed, and do not require any assistance frem England. As for the pretence of putting down the slave trade, it isallhumbug. The truth is that Eng- land only seizes upon that to cover the exercise ofa right she has never possessed, aud to which she wishes to secure, if possible, a partial ad- mission. If her real object were to stop the slave trade, she could do that by simply en- forcing upon Spain the observance of her trea- ties, and the causing of the Spanish laws to be respected in Spanish territories. There was piracy as long as England, France and Spain permitted their Drakes, their Lolo- nois and their Bascos to sell and enjoy the fruits of their piracies; but when the mar- kets for their plunder were broken up, piracies were no more. When Spain shall break up the market in Cuba for bozal negroes the African slave trade will cease to exist. We commend to Mr. Fitzgerald, and to every member of Lord Derby’s Cabinet, a frank ac- knowledgment of the true cause of the diffi- culty between the two nations—that it is be- cause England insists upon an odious, unjust, impudent and overbearing pretension, which never will be admitted by the United States, Away with all side pretences, like taking Bri- tish seamen out of American ships, catching Yankee fishermen in British waters, or covering the Spanish slave trade with the American flag. Let them make the manly recognition that there are other nations equal to Great Britain; and whether there are or no, the rights of the weak as well as the strong shall be respected upon the sea. Lord Derby may be aseured that in this question the United States is defending the whole world against England, and that she is aware of the importance of her position and the justice of her claims, and will never give up | either. Instructions to the British officers ‘to observe the utmost caution” is not enough. It is, in fact, an evasion, and an insult to the United States. If that isall that Lord Derby has to concede on this great point, coupled with an expression of regret which means nothing, the sooner Mr. Buchanan brings the subject to an open issue the better for us. No time can be so propitious for settling this great question as now. Ourcommerce must be | put upon a safe footing; our ships, which upon the ocean are a part of our territory, and carry all our national rights with them, must be safe from invasion; and our flag, which represents our national honor, must be respect- ed. We hope Mr. Buchanan will press this matter home, and if any volunteer policeman on the sea undertakes to enforce the law with- out due authority and warrant, we hope he will bave him brought in and punished; for every one who falsely assumes the character of « public officer, and invades the rights of another, does so at his own peril. wore unchanged and engagements moderate. The Derby Evasion ia Parilament—Truc Cause of the British Outrages. We give in another column the reply of Mr. Fitzgerald in the British House of Commons, on the part of the Derby ministry, to a question put to the government on the eubject of the searching of American vessels at sea and in the ports of friendly nations by Britieh cruisers. When the question was first put Mr. Fitz- gerald was not prepared to answer, and asked for one day's delay, doubtless that he might coneult his colleagues in the Cabinet. The next day he made a reply, which is not only indefi- nite but is utterly evasive of the true point at issue in this question. He plead the usual want of official knowledge of the cases referred to, stated the great regret of her Majesty's govern- ment that any such occurrence should have taken place, and closed by saying that “ orders had been sent out by the Admiralty giving pe- remptory instructions to our officers to observe the utmost caution.” This is all very well as far as it goes, but it does not touch the real point at ieeue; and it evinces either great igno- rance on the part of the Derby ministry or a disposition not to look at and settle the real difficulty between the two nations. Mr. Fitzgerald avoids the point by false- ly stating that “the real difficulty arose from the fact that avers almost in- variably hoisted the American flag.” Not only is this not the cause of “the real difficul- ty,” but it is not true in fact; and is only a pretence to cover up and hide the true cause of “the real difficulty.” We have on a former occasion demonstrated that for the successful prosecution of the slave trade the combination of three elements are essential :— let. The consent of the Spanish government in Cuba to the landing of the negroes. 24. The conveyance of the British goods for the purchase of the slaves under the British flag to the coast of Africa. 34. The delivery of an American vessel on the coast, in order to run the cargo over to Cuba, when an opportunity to escape ocoura. When the three elements are successfully combined for the expedition, the slaver starts from the coast for Cuba; but it is not trae that she hoists the American flag, or any other flag. If she hoisted the American, or the Spanish, or the Portuguese, or the British flag, and she were captured, every man on board of her would be hung, for the act is piracy by the laws of all those nations. A slaver sails under no flag, and this is the reason why no slave trader bas ever been hung in England or any- where clee. Mr. Fitzgerald might say with equal propriety that the true cause of the difi culty is, that goods are carried out from Man- chester and Birmingham under the British flag to buy negroes with. The “real difficulty” arises from a far higher and more important conflict between the two governments—a conflict of principles with im- padent aseumption. The government of the United States asserts the broad principle that every American veasel upon the ocean is a part of the national territory, carrying with it the national immunity from invasion by a foreign Power, and an accountability to eur own na- tional authority and law only ; that, ina time of peace, every American chip has the right to sail the ocean without hindrance or questioning by any foreign officer; and only in time of war actual belligerents have the right to ask for the exhibition of the register, and nothing more. But England assumes the right to exercise upon the ocean what she is pleased to term “a police Tux Jcepomest om THe Dwicnt Perseny Case.—We publish elsewhere the judgment of Judge Russell in the case of Henry Dwight, ao- cused of perjury by Brown, Brothers & Co., in relation to the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad. It will be seen that the Judge decides that there ts probable cause to believe that Dwight did commit the offence of perjury, and therefore orders him to beheld to bail to answer the charge at the next Court of General Sessions. The next proceeding will be the production of this evidence before the Grand Jury. Should they find « true bill, Mr. Dwight will have to stand his trial at the Sessions What the result of the inquiry by the Grand Jury may be, no one of course can tell; nor does any one desire to see Mr. Dwight made an example of unfairly to atone for the faults of a bad system. But there is a very decided wish among the public to have the management of several of the railways and other great corpo- rate enterprises of the country thoroughly over- hauled and sifted to the bottom. An impres sion very widely prevails that fraud and dishon- esty have been largely used in the financtering of at least four out of five of our great railway enterprises, and that the facts would blast more than one glittering reputation. Hence the pub- lic earnestly expect and desire that every scheme which can by any chance be got into court, should be subjected to « searching legal inves tigation, and the rogues, if any there be, ex- posed. As the case stands at present, guilty and in- nocent are confounded. The contrivers of the ruin of the Ohio Life and Trust Company, the knaves who pocketed the money of the stock- holders in that concern, stand before the public in no worse light than every director in every railway or other public enterprise. The public merely know that much swindling is generally supposed to be carried on by men in that position; and the uncharitable conclude that all are alike It is due to the honest men who are still con- nected with railways and other prominent en terprises that no effort should be wanting to fiad out who are the rogues. It is due to the com- mon sense of the country that the truth should be discovered and made known. Without expressing any opinio~ 98 tothe ye iili or innocence of Mr. Dwight, it nay be said that it would be well if the example of the Browns were generally followed Wf évery one who con- ceives that he has been injured by any railway enterprise or ite management. Legal measures should be taken, not asa matter of individual vengeance, but for the enke of the whole com tounity which suffers when rogues escape punish. a “ss Lee ment. Especially ehould inquiry be instituted in every case where there is ground for suspect- ing that the fraud has taken the shape of a breach of trust—tbat the stockholders in any concern have been robbed by its directors. The very name of inquiry will at once call to every mind the Ohio Life and Trust Company. Of all the concerns which broke last year this was the one which did the most mischief; this was the one whose ruin was the most mysteri- ous; this is the one about whose catastrophe the leaet has since been confessed. If we are to have apy inquiries at all, this Ohio Life and Trust should be overhauled, and every officer’ connected forced to tell the truth. The Victories of the Administration—Colicc- tor Schell’s Confirmation. On the last night of the late session of Con- grees the nominations of Augustus Schell as Collector and George N. Sanders as Navy Agent of the port of New York were confirmed— the first by a vote of 37 to 7, and the second by a vote of 33 to 9. The reault, in the case of Mr. Schell particu- Jarly, is doubtless somewhat surprising to the “anterrified democracy” of this bailiwick, con- sidering that, from the first to the last day of the session, he remained suspended, like Ma- homet’s coffin, between heaven and earth, But it is the end that crowns all; and the actual vote ehows most forcibly the folly and the feebleness of the terrific factious conspiracy, in Tammany Hall and in Congress, organized for the purpose of ousting Mr. Schell 4 la Judge Bronson. Bat the most important develope- ment in connection with this and other appoint- ments of Mr. Buchanan and in reference to the leading measures of his administration, is the disclosure of the moral power which may be wielded by a firm and resolute President over the sections, factions, cliques and mutineers of a demoralized and disorganized party in Con- gress. For the first time since the days of General Jackson we have a man in the White House who has proved himself the positive master of his situation. He is the actual, undeniable head of his administration, and as President of the United States he has no notion of sink- ing into any subordinate capacity. He makes his appointments and adheres to them; he lays down his foreign and domestic measures of le- gislation and stands by them in the face of ap- parent difficulties from which a vacillating man, like Pierce, or an accommodating man, like Fillmore, would sbrink and fall back; but the results of a firm and resolute line of action have been vindicated as overwhelmingly in fa- vor of the inflexible policy of Mr. Buchanan. A man of ripe experience, with a will of his own, is the very man of all men for the White House, and such a man is James Buchanan. In the outeet he may be met at every point with party traitors, and plots and conspiracies to break him in or cripple him; but let him stand fast to his principles and purposes, and in the long run he is sure to win the day. Let his ap- pointments and his measures be essentially fair, proper and right, and he need not depend upon the caprices of a party majority in Congress, because, as we have abundantly shown, the reasonable and patriotic men of the opposition side will counterbalance all his own party de- ficiences. ‘We have asserted, and we repeat, that for the successes which Mr. Buchanan’s administration has achieved during this late session of Con- grees he is very materially indebted to the indispensable incidental support upon this mea- sure, that and the other, which he has re- received from the opposition side, “There never has been, and we hope there never may be, a legis- lative majority party at Washington so disorgan- ized, disorderly and intractable as the democra- tic majority of the present Congress, in both wings of the Capitol. There are men among them, in the House and in the Senate, who have proved themselves faithful, “true and trusty;” but the unscrupulous leaders of cliques, factions and sections here, notwithstanding these honor- able exceptions, reduced the majority party of each house to an unruly camp of vagabondizing filibusters. In this respect, the Virginia leaders have betrayed those symptoms of jealousy, sus- picion, faction and disruption, which, within a year or 80, have overshadowed the party of the State; while that recent democratic convert from Georgia, Master Toombs, has played the game of a disorganizing and filibustering dic- tator on a very grand ecale, upon great things and «mall things, after the most approved man- ner of Bombastes Furioso. We now perceive, however, that in squaring up the accounts of the session the administration comes off, upon great things and small things, victorious, and with “drums beating and colors flying.” The President and his able conserva- tive and consistent Cabinet remain a unit—their policy is vindicated by Congress, right and left, in spite of a broken up and filibustering party majority in both houses. The administration has triumphed over factions and sections in the hardest contest ever fought with them, and can now defy them. Mr. Buchanan may pro- ceed, without apprehension, to the work of shaping out his great measures, touching his domestic and foreign policy, for the next sea- sion. And why? Because the experiments of the late session have proved that wherein the demoralized majority of Congress may be defi- cient, the just and reasonable men of the oppo- sition campe—eufficient for the purpose—may be relied upon. In regard to the confirmation of Mr. Schell, the practical test question has shown the con- temptible weakness of the cliques, and combi- nations, and schemes of the mousing politicians of Tammany Hal). He was to be decapitated without fail, and one or two of the members of the Cabinet were to follow him speedily to the guillotine. Brought to the test in the Senate, there are seven votes against him all told, « fitting commentary on the Willett’s Point investigation. In regard to George N. Sanders, we understand that his prin- cipal opponents were the Southern fire-eaters of the Toombs clique. The result shows that their opposition was # feather in his cap. But let the Collector and the Navy Agent beware of the disorganizing cliques of Tammany and the Coal Hole, or they may suffer the fate of Mr. McKeon, and upon a very short notice. The administration has shown that it is not to be trifled with by sections, factions, cliques or mischief making intermeddlers, and that it is fully competent to maintain its ground against them all. This is the great moral of the late session of Congress, Taxrayers to Tie Rescve.—The taxpay- ers of New York ought to remember that the taxes this year will probably be ten, and in another year twelve or fourteen millions of dol- lars. This, too, ina time of dull business and movey pressure, Suoets Waren Sauorsmr—Yaontiva 1s Porviagty Unperstoop.— Yachting is a delight- fal amuseme."t if properly understood and en- joyed. Like fy hing and hunting, however, it must not be pursad a a mere poco-curante spirit. The true disciple of Jzsak Walton is ready to brave death, in the form of fever or consump- tion, to secure the prizes of the lake or stream. The ardent hantaman is equally willing to hazard his life in conflict with the savage deni- zens of the prairie or jungle. It is the sense of personal riek which lends the greater part of their attraction to the sports of the field. There is nothing which men love more to dilate upon than the perils reoklessly incurred in the pur- suit of a favorite sport. It is singular that with a eea-loving people like ours the only exception to this contempt of danger should be found amongst our yachts- men. With beautifully constructed vessels and efficient crews, they rarely or ever venture out of smooth water. Unlike the English amateurs, who fearlessly navigate the ocean, enlist their services in aclentific expeditions, or roam about from port to port, our American yachtsmen hug the shores of our rivers and harbors with the same degree of timidity with which young birds cling to their nests. Some do this, it is true, not so much from an indisposition to face danger as from the belief that the capacities of their vee- eels will not admit of their taking to the open sea. Whatever be the motive, it is unworthy of the spirit which carries our people onward in most other pursuits. It is not the habit of the American mind, whatever it engages in— whether it be business or amusement—to evince a secondary ardor in the attainment of its ob- jects, Our yachtsmen are unfortunately exceptions to the emulation which usually distinguishes our people. Content to compete with each other in smooth water, they do not seem to re- gard what is being done by the craft abroad. If they can gain a prize without the risk of a wet jacket or a sick stomach, they think that they have reached the culminating glory of amateur sailorship. Such featherbed efforts, however, neither redound to their credit nor contribute anything te the general benefit. When we find them lending their aid to the ad- vancement of science, or diffusing a taste for aquatic sports, like foreign yachtsmen, then we may be disposed to acknowledge that their amusements are productive of some public ad- vantage. It will give us pleasure to see something of this spirit of venture displaying itself amongst our amateur sailors, We believe that it requires but the influence of example to excite amongst them the spirit of competition necessary to place them upon a level with their foreign rivals That example has been recently afforded them by two vessels of their own body, each of which has proved that the pleasures and enjoyments of yacht life have a much wider range than that to which the ambition of our yachtsmen has hitherto confined it. In order, however, that more general encou- ragement may be given to the timid, and prac- tical experience to those who are in need of it, it should be the aim of our yacht clubs to de- velope by every means possible the qualities of their veseele. This cannot be done within the limited field to which they confine their efforts. A race in smooth water and under cover of the shore can never possess half the interest or lead to half the practical benefits that a con- test on the open sea is attended with. It should therefore be the object of these clubs to give their sanction as frequently as possible to devi- ations from their old sailing points. We are glad to find that a movement of this tort is to be inaugurated on the 24th inst., ori- ginating in the disappointment caused by the late regatta. Owing to a variety of circum- stances, that race was not looked upon as a fair test of the capabilities of the vessels entered: Tt was resolved at a meeting held on Monday last that a sort of scrab race around Long Island, at fifty dollars entry, should take place. This will put fairly to the proof the qualities of the different yachts, whilst at the same time it will give their owners an equal- ly fair chance of displaying their seamanship. With plenty of sea room and a good stiff breeze, there will be no difficulty in deciding with which vessels the palm of superiority lies Tue Money Qvestion.—We have no doubt but that the money question, as connected with the general government, will be the great ques- tion of the day. All other issues seem to be settled, with the exception of this important one. The fact that the government of the United States is under the necessity of con- tracting loans of from twenty to thirty millions & year when we are at peace with all the world, isastate of things which ought not to exist- The taxes of the country should be adjusted so as to meet the annual expenditure within the compass of each year. This is the only system which should be allowed to prevail in time of peace. Asoxmas Steex w an Excrrement.—Mr. Aminidab Sleek, of the Journal of Commerce, who writes occasional paragraphs for the newspapers, finds out that the HzraLp committed s blunder in relation to the news of a vessel having been fired into off Pensacola, and which, he states, was originally published in our columns. If Mr. Sleek will only look over his own files, he will see that the statement was forwarded by telegraph to the associated press, and thet he published it himself in common with the other papers. His is, therefore, part and parcel of the same blun- der, and he must net refuse to share it with the same selfishness with which he monopolized to himself the whole of the three thousand dollars of the free wool editorial service fund. Tur Conoressionat, Lxvestications.—Tho two investigations about Fort Snelling and Fort Willett, which have ogcupied so mach at tention, have resulted in nothing. Their object was simply to damage politically the Secretary of War, and to prevent the confirmation of Col- lector Schell by the Senate, Both purposes have beon defeated; but the free wool tariff investigation has turned up something positive. There we have three or four editors and any number of lobby agents caught in a trap with- out their tails. PorsricaL Fuss tm Pexnsyivanta.—Several of the mean and dirty little papers of Pennayl- vania, with a view to circulating a few handred impressions more a week, are making » great fues about Simon Cameron, who is mentioned as one of the candidates of the opposition for 1860. Some of them remember that the Heratp was the first paper which ‘pointed out with force the availability of Fremont in 1856, This sou- venir gives them the belly ache, but if they had only taken a stiff dose of medicine they would not have bad such difficulty in gotting over it. Wonpenrvt Proorees w Mora Rerom— Tho newspapers generally otate as a remarkable step in the cause of moral reform that George D. Prentice, the drunken poet and politician of Kentucky, has abandoned his bad habits and be- come a sober man by joining the Society. Let us be thankful for emall favora, Tue New Osxxans Revowvrion.—This reve- lution turns out to be no revolution at all. ¥é was a mere trick of a set of blundering ticians, who attempted to bluster pre fh og ing the talent or the courage to carry thelr blustering into effect. —_—_—_ THE LATEST NEWS. HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM UTAH. Arrival of Col. Kane from Camp Scott—Re- turn of Gov. Cumming to Salt Lake Oity— ‘The Mormons Evacuating the Norther Settlements of Utah, Sioc., dio, Sz. Loum, June 18, 1858, ol. Thomas L. Kane, from Camp Soott May 16, paase’d Booneville this evening. He reports Governor Cumming having returned to Salt Lake City after making an ineffectual attempt to stop the Mormon begira to the South. < Balt Lake City and the northern settlements were neariy deserted, a few persons only remaining to guard the buildings. Forty thousand persons are said te be in motion—their trains extending for miles down the valley. ‘The advanced trains were already three hundred miles distant. To evade answering where they are bound, they eay they are going South, but their supposed destination is Cedar City, or some part of Sonora. ‘There were ro mules at Camp Scott. Col. Eoffman’s train was met twenty miles from the Platte bridge. Colenel Johnston would wait the arrival of the Peace Commissioners. The Indians were annoying the Mor- mons, call them squaws, and say they won’s fight. Brighsm Young had delivered the great seal, recerds, &e., which !t was supposed had been destroyed, to Gov. Cumming. The recent heavy rains extended far to the ‘west, and all ibe streams are full. Affairs In Washington. ‘Wasnryarom, June 16, 1868. Lieut. Richardeon bas arrived at the British Legation from the A: miral at Bermuda. Orders have besn given against interference with American ships, and the Btyx is recalled to Halifax. Contrary to the advices sent from here tosome of the preas, the War Department has received no later dates from Utah than those from Governor Cumming. Tae ‘Views of some officers of the army, as expressed in letters, are that he went into Salt Lake City tco hastily; that he has been decetved, and that the Mormon frisndship is Rot to be relied upon. It will be recollected that the army ‘was sent to Utah as a posse comitatus, subject tothe orders of Governor Cumming, and cannot move without his direction. There are no new developements by the last arrival. The army will mov» as recently directed, branching off at such intermediate localities as require protection. Astrong military force will be diverted from the troops intended for Utsh to Arizons, Lieut. Mowry, delegate from Arizona, will shortly return thither, ch arged with tmportant government duties, but will be in Washington next December, he Senate having made the bill for the establishment of » Territorial government @ special order for that time. A numter of miscellaneous nominations were con. firmed in : xecutive seasion to day. It i@ doubtful whether there will be a quorum of mem- bers present to-morrow, some of them having left for home this +fternooa. THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, SPECIAL SESSION. Senate. Wasmarox, June 15, 1858, The proclamation of the Prosidemt, convening the ex- traordinary session, was read, and acommittee appointed (heasrs. Allen, (adm.) of R. I, and Seward, (opp.) of N. ” ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT BY RUBELA. Mr. Grxen, (adm.) of Mo., presented the memorial of Berjamin W. 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