The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1858.” NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, DITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. pee peers 2s as ERALD, oory Weimar, four conte por Or ‘Vote XXMIL .,......0-sessecesscosccesced@e LT AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtccnth ot.—ItaLis Oreni— Barro. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway— aftersecn ee eae ee Evening Jancis ‘WoOD’s BUILDIN' Broadway—Ermorux Bones, Dances, ee oat Fee aiteede Rsvene Roan ass. oy Reoway_Raranes mereenms BEOA! —Mart Pust’s Oamrssu. Mrvsrams— prmorus a ees ane ‘DaxoueANGLO-AYRIGAX CYRCUS. New York, Monday, June 21, 1858, AILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Herald—Caliturnia Edition. ‘Tho United States mail steamship Star of the West, Capt. Gray, will leave this port this sfternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific ‘will close at one o’clock to day afternoon. ‘The New Yore Weexty Hxnatp—Calffornia edition— Sontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the ‘world, will be published at eleven o’clock in the morning. ‘Single coptes, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents will please send im their orders as early as pos- sible. ‘The News. Col. Kane, who has been for some time engaged fn the settlement of the Mormon difficulties, ar- rived in Washington yesterday. He is the bearer of despatches from Governor Cumming, whom he left at Camp Scott. The purport of the despatches have not officially transpired, but it is ascertained that many of tbe reports circulated in regard to Mor- mon matters are erroneous, and calculated to deceive. Col. K. denies the truth of the announcement re- ceived from Booneville that the army would move on the arrival of the Peace Commissioners, as Gov. Cumming had requested Gen. Johnston to remain where he was until orders should be received from Washington. There was great hope in Utah, as elsewhere, that the war was ended. All the northern settlements were evacuated, and with the exception of the few persons left to guard the pub- lic property at Salt Lake City, there were no Mor- mons for forty miles south of that city. Another interesting letter from our special corres- pondent with the army en route for Utah, will be found in our columns this morning. By a arrival at this port we have news from Port au Platte to the 2d inst. Up to that time no decisive action had taken place between the troops of Santana and those of Baez.’ Santana, however, was before St. Domingo City with seven thousand men, and only awaited the co-operation of his fleet to make an assault upon the town. Both parties have procured aud armed pume dozen vessela each, and it was thought probable that the quarrels ot the opposing parties might be finally settled by a naval battle of the two squadrons. By the arrival of the steamship Black Warrior at this port on Saturdsy night, we have advices from Havana to the 15th inst. The letters of our Havana correspondents are unusually interesting. Besides various matters of interest, there 1s a full account of the double boarding of the American bark Marmion by the British gunboat Buzzard, with the statement of the captain of the Marmion. There is also a very fall abstract of the testimony of the officers, crew and passengers of the American schooner Cortez, seized by the British ganbeat Forward, and at- tempted to be confiscated as a slaver. The British officers are charged with committing gross outrages on these parties, besides robbing them of all their valuables. These accusations have been previously published, and did not originate with the American papers. It will be perceived that they have been noticed in England, and doubtless that government will soon investigate as to their truth or falsity. Our correspondent states that copies of these charges have been forwarded to our government for its action. Our correspondent at Bermuda, writing on the ‘14th inst. says:—The British steamer Styx is off and on, and has received positive orders to board no more American vessels,and Admiral Stewart very much regrets that visits performed in the politest and friendliest manner should cause unpleasant feelings between two powerfal na- tions of similar blood, manners, laws, language and religion. This archipelago is very healthy, and produces this year very largely. The extensive flour mills of Bills, Thayer & Usher, in Troy, with a large quantity of flour and grain, were destroyed by fire yesterday morning. The Joss of property is estimated at from thirty thousand to forty thousand dollars, and was insured for twenty-seven thousand dollars. The ceremony of the coronation of the Blessed Virgin at St. Mary's church, Hoboken, yesterday, was attended by a large concourse of persons. We give an account of this interesting spectacle, to- gether with a description of the painting, in another part of to-day's paper. The Jewish Beth Hamedresch, or House of Learn- ing, at No. 78 Allen street, between Broome and Grand streets, was consecrated to divine worship yesterday. An account of the ceremonies is given elsewhere. The annexed table shows the temperature of the Stmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind cur- rents, and the state of the weather at three periods Goring each day, viz.: at 9 A. M.,and 3 and 9 o'clock Lia] overcast with rain; afternoon, heay fresh all day ay ‘and cool all day ‘cloudy » Overcast hight confined to Western mixed, at ‘mainder of the West Point’s cargo, at 0c. allc., and about 1,000 bags Laguayra and 200 do. Gonatves, St. Domingo, at rates given elsewhere. Freights wore lower for grain to Liverpool, while other articles were unchanged. About 60,000 a 70,000 bushels of wheat were taken in bulk at 4d. a 43<d; flour at 1s. 6d.; cotton at 14d.; cheese in cabin at 26e., and tlerce beef at Ss., and flour to Glasgow at 2a, 5 The Difficulty with England—Bushels of Apologies, but the Question Not Settled. We publish in another colamn an important article from the organ of Lord Palmerston—the London Post—on the subject of the recent British outrages and the principle of the right of search. This foxy old statesman has always been noted for his blustering policy when in power; but he has been equally remarkable for his toadyism and truckling spirit when opposed with firmness, and when out of place. These characteristics of the ex-Minister will explain the otherwise inexplicable admissions in the article we to-day reprint from his organ. In view of the fact that he sent out the gunboat fleet to Cuba last fall for the express pur- pose of doing what they have so thoroughly done, the admissions of the article in question would be doubly remarkable, if we could con- fide in their truthfulness. It is there admitted that “England, except by treaty, would not, more than the United States, permit the belligerent right of visitation and search to be exercised in time of peace,” and advocates that this rule of public law be consistently acted upon by the government of the two countries. And it adde: “We have strong faith in the mu- tual good sense and forbearance of the people of England and the United States.” We have not the slightest idea that Palmer- ston is truthful in these expressions. No one of the living statesmen of England has been more pertinacious than he in endeavoring to coax, argue, bully or delude those of the United States into consenting to the exercise of this claim by England; and none have exceeded him in the pertinacity with which instructions have been issued, as Earl Hardwicke confessed in the House of Lords, to British cruisers to board and examine into the nationality of ves- sels atsea. Effort after effort has been made by every successive American Minister in Lon- don to induce him when in office to admit the plain principle now enunciated by his organ, but without success. Now that he is out of oftice he pretends to be convinced of its truth, and ready to concede it. Ags for his strong faith in the mutual good sense and forbearance of the people of England and the United States, he may well entertain it, for no man has abused both more than he. But for our part we have no confidence in the possession of either of those good qualities by the court cabal of which Palmerston is the willing tool. They would be glad to sever every inte- rest that now binds the two nations together, for the base purpose of bringing England under the Coburg rule and placing her in perpetual alliance with the despotisms of the Continent. It is this fact that may yet turn this question of the right of search into the far greater one whether England's sympathies with republican America shall be broken up forever, and Eag- lishmen converted into ardent supporters of the theories of Luropean despotism. This is one of the high reasons why the ques- tion of the right of search should be settled now. We do not want a simple apology from Lord Malmesbury, and a fictitious order for the discontinuance of British visits to American ships in time of peace. The files of our State Department are crowded now with such apolo- gies and assurances from British Ministers. Yet, notwithstanding all this, there has been no cessation of these acts. The course of the British government in this question has no parallel in diplomacy, except in the falla- cious promises of Spain to England that she will stop the slave trade in her do- minions. Every six months since 1842 our government has received from the Britith go- vernment an apology for the exercise of this unlawful right on the coast of Africa. Within the last eight months the British government has dismissed three naval officers from their commands upon complaint of the government at Washington for thisvery thing. Yet, on the heels ofall this, Palmerston orders his Mosquito fleet to go on worse than ever, and transfers the scene of his insolence from the coast of Afri- ca to our own shores. The last British apology crossed the Atlantic simultancously with our first complaint of the recent aggressions in the Gulf. We repeat, we want no more British apolo- gies. We have bushels of them now; and if Congress was in session it should call for a list of them from the State Department. The whole country would be amazed at the length of the record. What we desire is, that Great Britain, in conjunction with the United States, shall en- ter upon a formal declaration and disclaimer which shall settle the international law of the right of visit by armed cruisers at sea, on the basis of the resolutions passed unanimously by the Senate a few days since. This is what Mr. Buchanan should urge at once upon the British government ; and if it is not acceded to, he should be prepared to come before Congress at its meeting with a list of the outrages committed and apologies made by the English government since 1542, accompanied by a mes- sage showing the hollowness of these apologies. Already the governing classes and the journalists of England have talked themselves into the be- lief that the stories of the captains who have been overhauled are all exaggerated and mostly false, and that a mere indiscretion of a naval officer has been committed, which a polite apo- logy will fully expiate. They believe that we will be contented to take it outin talk and blus- ter and do nothing, as we have done heretofore, and that the whole affair will end in smoke. But now is the time to settle this question and Mr. Buchanan should act upon it at once No season could be more propitious for us, if it must be carried to the last appeal of kings— the cannon’s mouth. No time may be more propitious in England than the present. The cabal that sought this irritation of the United States is out of power, and a ministry holds the reins there which, whatever may be its course on domestic questions, has higher and more no- ble aims in ite foreign policy than were ever conceived by the bluetering and truckling spirit of Palmerston. If it is not settled now the cares will periodically recur, and every day that passes will add to the difficulties, the dan- gers and the sacrifices we shall have to make to obtain that respect for our flag upon the ocean which is ite due, and which this country is de- termined to obtain. siren ta onethar place Tho sales of com | Toe cean Matt Survive But—Tux Cousiss | Loe—A Specomy or Conorxsstonay Eoono- uy.—Under the act making appropriation for the ocean mail steamers, approved June 14, 1858, (which we publish elsewhere,) no new contract can be made by the Postmastér Gene- ral for transporting the mails on the sea for a longer period than two years, nor can he give any greater compensation to United States ver- sels than the United States inland and sea post- ages. Our European service has been done by three American lines. Collins’ line, under contract for twenty trips a year, will expire on 30th June, 1860, and he will receive his regular contract pay, with the exception of a little un- paid item of $147,000. The case, as we understand, is this :—Several years ago, on account of the loss of the Arctic and the Pacific, the CoMins Company, in order to accomplieh the trips required under their con- tract, were compelled to substitute, on several cecasions, some other steamer for the trip, which would otherwise have been performed by the Aretic or the Pacific. But the service was per- formed, and the company asked for their pay. It was refused by President Pierce, upon a de- cision, we believe, of his Attorney General, Cushing. The company laid the matter before the present administration, and Attorney General Black decided that this claim of $147,000 was good and valid. Mr. Buchanan, however, in deference to the decision of his pre- decessor in office, preferred to submit the matter to the sanction of Congress, and an appropriation, covering the $147,000, was accordingly introduced into the Ocean Mail bill. It passed both houses; bat in arranging certain disagreements upon other items, this appropriation was reconsidered and rejected by the small potato economists of the House. Mr. Collins, we understand, has since fallen back upon the President; but while the President, (under the decision of his Attorney General might authorize the payment, and upon the faith, too, of the original appropriation,) we presume that he feels bound to adhere to the arbitrament to which he submitted thecase. We may thus consider this money as having been denied to the Collins company—first, by the narrow-minded administration of Pierce, and secondly, by the hostility of our Western mem- bers of Congress—those very economizers who have squandered within the last ten years not lees perhaps than two hundred millions of the government resources in swamp land grants, railroad land lobby jobs, and things of that sort. According to the law passed at the late ses- sion, for every trip required of the Collins com- pany which they may fail to perform with one of their own steamers, the Post Office Depart- ment is authorized to employ some other steam- er, and to pay for the service pro rata out of the yearly appropriation to the Collins line. We suppose, therefore, that the company will re- sume their trips, and trast to the next session of Congress for the back pay to which they are fairly entitled. The contracts made in May, 1857, with the Havre Steamship Company and with Vander- bilt will expire on 30th June, inst., and any new contract entered into with them must be for a sum not greater than the United States inland and sea postages, nor for longer than two years. The contract with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for carrying the mails be- tween Panama and California will expire on the first of October, 1858, and any new contract can be made for the postages only. The postages be- tween New York and California are about $340,000, and this eum will be distributed pro rata, according to distance. The mail is carried | by this line and the United States Mail Steam- ship Company between New York and Aspin- wall. The distance from New York to Aspin- wall is 2,000 miles, and between Panama and Astoria 4,000 miles; so that the Pacific Steam- ship Company can receive four-sixths or two- thirds of the postages, after deducting $100,000 paid to the Panama Railroad for transporting said mails, or about $160,000. Read the act, ‘Tue Late Mcrper Triars.—The jury in the case of Michael Cancemi, indicted for the mur- der of Policeman Anderson, have found him guilty of that crime. This ig the third trial Cencemi has had, and we trust it will be the last. On the first trial the jury failed to agree; on the second he was convicted and sentenced to death, but an appeal to a higher court pro- cured a third trial, which has resulted, as we have eaid, in a second conviction. He has cer- tainly been awarded a larger scope and more chances of getting clear than most criminals charged with a capital offence. Nothing re- mains for him now but an appeal to the cle- mency of Governor King, which will no doubt be made, and, from the previous course of Mr. King in similar cases, it will probably be suc- cessful. We publish in another column a communica- tion from one of the jurors who tried Patrick Lally, indicted for the murder of Mr. Simonson, in Brooklyn, in which case, it will be remem- bered, a verdict of manslaughter in the second degree was rendered. We have no remark to make upon it, farther than to say that the spirit of this document, coming from a jaror, taken in connection with the verdict in the Cancemi case, exhibits a healthier tone of publio senti- ment with regard to trials for murder. If all juries in such cases were animated by the same feeling, and if Governor King would only learn wisdom from the juries, we would stand some chance of purifying the community from the dangerous rowdies and bullies who infest it. Iurortant Decision Unper tie Liqvor Law.—A very important decision has jast been rendered by the Supreme Court at Albany, ina case before it on appeal from the General Term of the Court at Onondaga, under the Liquor law of 1867. The question arose as to whether the civil imposition of « penalty for selling liquors without license did not give the offender immu- nity from a criminal indictment for misdemea- nor. A person named Behan was indicted for that offence in Onondaga, and convicted. He ap- pealed to the General Term, and the judgment was confirmed there, He then appealed to the highest court in the State, and Justice Pratt decided that, according to the constrac- tion of the law, eelling liquors without license was a misdemeanor, and indictable; and that the imposition of a fine on the offending party did not release him from indictment. This fs a decision of no mall interest to the liquor dealers of this city. Up to this time only about six hundred liquor dealers have taken out licenses from the Excise Commiseioners. There are now twelve thousand liquor sellers in New York; #0 that according to Mr. Justice Pratt eleven thoueand four hundred of them are lia- ble to be sent before the Grand Jury for indict ment. The liquor dealers imd better look out, Tux Faw. Evrcrion—Truw anv Fars Ls- surs.—Some of the journals opposed to the admin- istration are beginning to look ahead and make preparations for the fall election in this State and county, and cast about for isauer upoa which to concentrate a party vote. Among the rest, our cotemporary, the 7ribune, declares that the true issue to govern the election of State and county officers next November is Lecomp- ton. This is certainly the most absurd thing we have had yet, even from that quarter. The constitution and laws of the Kingdom of Dahomey, or the final disposition of Commis- sioner Yeb, or any such other out of the way question, has just as much to do in controlling the election in this city and State as the Le- compton constitution. That instrument has been pronounced upon by the highest tribunal— Congress; it haa gone back to Kansas either to be accepted or rejected by the people upon whom it is intended to operate, and we have nothing whatever to do with it. ‘The issues here are the proper government of our own State and city, a radical reform in the Finance department, the election of men who will pur- eue a statesmanlike and honest course in the administration of public affairs, both at Albany and in New York; these are the issues which are to govern us, and not the concerns of the vagabonds and border ruffians of Kansas. But we do not believe that the parties who put forward this idea are quite so absurd as they would seem. They are simply rogues, who are endeavoring to hoodwink the people, to throw dust in their eyes, and di- vert them from the real issue involved in the next election. While this State and this city are so miserably misgoverned; while the taxes are annually mounting up to an oppressive point; while our police system is eo vilely conducted, and fraud and corruption are running riot in every depart- ment of the city government, how wicked it is to thrust this old Lecompton stuff before us as the issue between the people and their nominees! But the public will not be deceived. They are suffering too deeply from the evils of domestic misgovernment to be carried away by false is- sues, especially by one so stupid and hollow as this of Lecompton. If the taxpayers of this country do not deem it wise or necessary to .make nominations of their own in November, they can exercise a close supervision of the tickets of the other parties, and make a judi- cious selection therefrom; but above all they should support no man for office unless he be a taxpayer—has some stake in the city—some ob- ject in its proper and economical government, Let the payment of taxes be the practical tes; of qualification and we shall get rid of the crowd of hungry locusts who are fattening on the public funds in every office under the Cor- poration. The true issues of the coming elec- tion lie nearer home than Kansas: they are to be found at our own doors and in our own pock- ets. Let the public of all parties, and the tax- payers in particular, remember that. Tux Mopern Cavsape Acarst Newspors.— Time was when the great men of the most en- lightened society of the world went off on cru- sades against the infidel holders of the Holy Sepulchre, and sold all their goods to make good their cause, The great men ofour day crusade not against Turks, but against news- boys; they not only do not sell their.own goods fx the good of the crusade, but will not let the enemy sell theirs. It is a much safer though less glorious business than crusading was in olden time. One of the obscure journals which is used by these modern crusaders for the advancement of their purpose affects to deny our statement that the names of James Harper and Richard M. Hoe were not affixed by these gentlemen themselves to the memorial against newspaper crying on Sunday. It says:—“No names were signed to that paper without the assent, either written or verbal, of the persons themselves.” The adjectives which qualify the “assent” are curious ; it would appear that according to the theory here put forward “ verbal consent” would justify the signing of one man’s name by another. A general promise to find another an endorsement would thus justify the forgery of the endorser’s name. This is very new and very striking doctrine. Not to dwell upon trifies, however, we beg to refer the crusaders to the following letter from one of the two parties whose names are said to have been fraudulently though piously used without au- thority—Mr. Richard M. Hoe. : Orricn ov R. How & Oo., Provrive Pass, Mactine AND Saw MANUPACTORERS, New Youx, June 19, 1938. Let us now hear from Mr. James Harper. Did he sign, or did he not? The public demand the facts. If the memorialists committed another fraud, they should be shown up. Let Mr. Har- per tell his story as straightforwardly as Mr- Hoe has done. These worthy citizens—Mesera. Peter Cooper: Wilson G. Hunt, Pelatiah Perit and others who are preaching against the newsboys—should think a little oftener of their own origin. If rumor speak truth, some of them began life in niors half acentury since? They may by this very act of theirs be breaking down and de- stroying the hopes of ever so many fature Peter Coopers, Perits, Hunts, Harpers and Hoos, It is a pleasant responsibility. Tux Ivcwpations 1s THe West.—Are we ever to hear the last of the floods in the West! Each mail brings tidings of some new disaster. The telegraph has only just ceased to recount the tale of the crevasse in New Orleans, when it is called into operation to describe that of Missis- sippi. At other points above these there are brief accounts of overflow. And in the North- west, the inundation bas been without parallel. The storm of the 12th June almost laid the whole prairie land of the West under water. The Wabath and all the other valleys are con- verted into lakes, The river has risen eo high above its banks, that every wharf and levee, beginning with that of St. Louis, is under water. On the upper part of the river, the papers con- tain accounts of twelve towns or villages which are either partially or wholly destroyed or submerged. Cairo is a mere wreek; the Tili- nois Central Company must have lost all their workshops, stores, cars, track and wood. It is estimated that in Louisiana alone the loas of sugar caused by the inundation is equal to $3,000,000, and that of cotton $4,000,000. It may be enid, parhaps, that allowing fairly for the destruction of corn and other crops in the Northweet, of railroad property, real estate and dwelling houses, the total damage by this epring’s inundation is not less than twenty-five millions of dollars. This calamity is not wholly unredeemed. The submerged lands on the Mississippi will yield vastly increased crops for the next few years, and the loss of corn in the West will enhance the market value of that which remains. There is some good in every ill. Constrrvtiona Revorm—Tue Etection or Jupcxs.—Several of the papers are descanting upon the degradation of criminal justice in this city, as evidenced by the facts which have lately come out in the case of Cancemi and other eimilar cases, But none of them scem to have touched upon the root of the evil. They com- plain bitterly of a state of things which unhap- pily is notorious but their complaint is unpro- ductive, Now, it is easy to see that the true cause of the decline in the sound administration of criminal justice in this city is the deterforation in the character of thejudiciary caused by the election of Judges. Ever since the principle of an elec- tive judiciary was adopted in this State, the Judges have been declining in worth, talent and character. Nor could it be otherwise. The power of nominating the Judges who administer justice in this metropolis has now fallen into the hands of the lowest, most unprincipled and most debauched class in the community—the ward peliticians, The bench is their creature and it is consequently what people see. Formerly, the power of appointing Judges rested with the Gevernor. In those days, the people of the State, rightly appreciating the importance of the office, generally selected as Governor a man of character and responsibili- ty; and he usually filled the seats on the bench with accomplished and intelligent men. The day this system was departed from the adminis- tration of justice began to decline. The Legislature, at its last session, passed an act calling upon the people to vote whether or no a convention ehould be called to remodel the constitution. If no other clause of the State constitugion required amendment but the one which makes the office of Judge elective, the people should vote for the amendment, and the convention should be called, solely in order to relieve the people from the terrible conse- quences of that fatal clause. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch. THE OFYOSITION TO THE TEHUANTRPBC MAIL CON- TRACT—THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE BRITISH OUTRAGES—THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND MONS. BELLY—HBALTH OF THE PRSSIDENT—INDIAN TREATIES, ETO., BTO. Wasimncron, June 20, 1858. The Sloo opposition party to Benjamin La Sere and others of the Tehuantepec Company are active in pressing their claims. They have filed a declaration in which they say that the now eompany have insurmountable obstacles to encounter, because the Isw Congress hag just passed limits the compensation to all new contracts for carrying mails by sea to postages; because the thirty- fourth article of the decree of Comonfort forfeits the grant if the work was suspended four months, and that nino months’ suspension has occurred; because no ap- propriation has been made for service; be- cause there is no treaty with Mexico securing the contract, that government having refused to make one; and because the new company has not pro- ‘vided means to complete the contract, {snd in conse- queuce, the vouiract Bas Ot Decu completed by do- livery. On the contrary, the Postmsster General finds authority in the law for making @ new contract, and has carefully guarded against infringing upon the rights of any company by limitations and terms of contract, look- ing only to parties actually in possession, ani requiring evidence of means to complete the contract. The administration expects that the great overland routes opened by the Postmaster General will tend to counteract the check to emigration to our western shores which the restrictive monopolies imposed on the Panama Toute. ‘The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, it is said, are very Ditter against the California Senator, who has done so mach to facilitate these overland communications. Nothing is yet determined at the War Department as to ‘the disposition of the troops recently ordered to Utah, nor will there bo unti! very positive official information arrives as to the ultimate course of the Mormons. The language of the British pres and the administra- on men in Parliament as to the conduct of the British cruisers, is not up to the demands of our government on that question. The President will require the renuncia- tion of the assumed right to “visit” our vessels. It is not believed here that the French government will sustain Mons. Belly and Company in their schemes in Central America. If it shouid, there will be serious trou- ble. The high toned American course of the Hexato on this subject ts fully endorsed in Washington. ‘The President is better, and will soon remove from Washington to a country residence for the summer. Two treatics were yesterday entered inte at the Indian Bureau with the Upper and Lower Sioux of Minnesota, the object of which is to confine them to a portion of the large reservation set apart uoder the treaty of 1851, to quiet the land titles, and provide them permanent homes, with the usual educational and industrial amnisiance. Fire tn Troy. Tror, June 20, 1858. ‘The extenstve flour mill of Bille, Thayer & Usher, in the Sixth ward of this city, was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning, with a large quantity of four and grain. The lose is cetimated at from thirty thousand to forty thousand dollars, on which there was insnrance for twenty seven thousand dollars, as follows:—On the build. tng, Howard Company, New York, $3,500; Arctic Compa- ny, New York, $3,500; Washington Company, New York, $2,00¢ ; Hartford Company, $4,000; Corn Exchange Com- pany, New York, $1,000. On the stock—American Com- pany, Providence, $2,000; Atlantic Company, Providence, $2,000; Roger Williams Company, Providence, $2,000; North Western Company, Oswego, $5,000, Corn Exchange Company, New York, $2,000, The fire was the work of incendiaries. From Rio Janeiro. Rauriwors, June 20, 1868, We have Rio Janeiro dates of May 13. The bark Soa Foam, from New York, bad just arrived. The schooner Jonephine, from New York, waa also in port, loading. Spoken, Mey 21, lafitude 22 deg. 22 min. ee tuce 86 deg. 90 min., ship Tarolinta, from New York, forty five days out, bound to Singapore. than buyers. Money abundant and dil a6 « 10 per gaat , Jane 108 P.M. Onweeo, MM. Flour steady, Wheat dull; sales 6,000 bushels, at 820. for Miwaukie Mud, afloat; Bo. a Slo. for Chicago spring, delivered, Corn fi bushols fitinois river, at Operatic and Dramatic Matters. PRODUCTION OF “SAPPHO”—Muw. De GAzzANIG4 — MIS CUSHMAN’S FARBWELL ENGAGEMENT, KTO. ‘The associated impresarié of the Opera bave weurly Cou cluded their season and are just beginning to be property appreciated. The last week was 4 very good ons in overy respect, and at the matings ou Saturday there was an im- Mmense array of pretty feces under the moat Dewitohing bonnets. Such faces and such bonnets cannot be seem anywhere else in the world The performance was a mixed affeir—a bit of ‘‘Maganiello,’’ with Mme de Gazza- nigs’s charmingly saucy ballad, ‘La Narapjera,” and the last of “‘Favorita,” in which Gazzaniga and Brignoli made such 8 furore that the ladies forgot for the moment thelr bonnets and their beaux. This evening wo are to have an opera new to this house—the “Sappho” of Pasini. ‘The story of Sapphe is made from the simple materiais that compose the Greek tragedies. It is a story of uare- quited love, jealousy, despair and suicide. The opera ‘was written by Pacin! eome twenty years ago for one of tho great tenors of that day. It has been eung in this country, but never with a tragic artist equal to Gazzaniga. ‘The finale of the second act, where Sappho is driven from the temple where her lover is about to be united te her rival, is the beat work of the composer, who is of the school of Rossini, and is, like that composer, ‘a little out of fashion. There are many fine pieces in the opera, and a grand air for the tenor, which Brignol bas sung admirably at rehearsal. In the last act Mme. de Gazzaniga has to delineate the despair and calm resigna- tion of Sappho when self condemned to suicide—her con- ict of passions when she discovers that her bitterest ‘enemy is her ‘long lost father’ and her rival is her sis- ter. Agitated by these discoveries, and borne down with Brief at her lover’s perfidy, she sings her sweet- eat song and throws herself from the Leucan Rock. Those who have seen Mme, de Gazzaniga m the last act of the ““Favorits,’’ where the situation is not dissimilar, may confidently expect something grand in “Sappho.” We predict, without hesitation, a grand tragic Performance worthy of Ristori, whom Mme. de Gazzaniga much resembles instyle. Brignoli wil! be on bis mettle, ‘and will do bis best, and Gassier is always safe and good. ‘The desire to hear and see Gazzanigs in a new part is se great that the Academy to-night will be attended by the cream of the fashionable, artistic and literary circles of the metropolis, and will present a coup dail never seen out of the metropolis. The week will undoubtedly be s briliiant winding up of a season which bas witnessed several great artistic triumphs. Let us have a great first night for “Sappho.” ‘Miss Charlotte Cushman will commence her farewell’ engagement at Niblo’s Garden this evening, playing Queen Catharine in ‘‘Heary VIII.” Mr. E. L. Davenport is the Wolsey of the night, and the remainder of the charac ters will be in good hands, Miss Cushman’s farewell to her New York admirers will be cclebrated with a series of the most brilliant performances ever given here. The closing of the other theatres gives the manage: an oppor. tunity to make very strong caste. At Barnum’s Museum “Jessie Wharton,’’ the new na- tional drama, enters upon its second week this evening. Excellent entertainments are announced for the after- noon. At the Bowery theatre to-night Mr. Eddy produces a new dreams, nauticaland patriotic, called “Saul Sabber. day,” with the “Blacksmith of Deal,” and the ‘King’s Gardener.”’ The Colored Opera does not yield tothe weather, ant We find Wood’s, Bryants’ and Peel’s minstrels all out with extra attractions for this evoning. will dod either or all of them pleasant places to ‘‘drop in” for half an hour or more. On Tuesday the French company will play for the firet time at Wallack’s, giving the “Dalila” of Octave Feuiilet, & powerful drama, written with great ability. It was Produced at the Vaudeville, Paris, in Juneof Inst year, and made a great excitement. The plot is nearly the same ‘as that of Mr. Goodrich’s “Fascination,” and the action of the French author in stealing it was duly denounced iv our Paris correepondence at tho time the piece was pro. duced. “Dalila,” however, is rather better than “Fasci- nation.” ‘The last week was nots particularly brilliant one for the world of amusement. It was signalized, however, by the termination of tho sosson at two theatros— Wallack’s ‘and Burton’s—which cloted on Saturday. Wallack’s wus temporarily leased to the managers of the French theatre, which bas lately been so successful at the Moire. politan Music Hall. We are not informed as to the future movements of Mr. Burton, One of the theatrical events of last week was the bono. Mt of Mr, Edy, the vigorous and indomitable director of the Bowery theatre. Nearly five thousand porsons were packed in the theatre, like herrings in a barrel. It might truly be called « rousing demonstration, and one well de- served. The theatre is advertised for rent for tho engu- ing year, Mr. Eady not being disposed to pay the sum de- manded, which is excessive. Eyausn Orera at Wasnuvctos.—The Rosalie Durand Opera troupe are at the Washington theatre. The Union bas the following remarks upon their last matinee: — The operatic matinée was miserably attendet, and for a time there was such @ small number of spectaters that doubts were expressed as t> whether there would be performance. any These doubis were solved by the stage manager, who came the curtain and made the following remarks — Lanres AnD GuxtiEwex—The eparse attendance has in- duced several to inquire whether the matinee would be given, ea. and I appear to anewer y: This eniersaipment, lading and ie ae eee jem Segeen << coverehet Jeading ladies tn ton. one of whom is st this moment prevent t the but Uhone that p pany presented to you for the past six nights bave not paying auditors guMoient to cover the expenses, | yy! apety, nor interfere with your enjoyment of matines, Bvery jece of music advertised shall be ccuied by the artist, taam whoun the world hanno, eepenes; as much exactnees as though the house were filled from river, four and and a half blocks. It should be borne in mind that the moneys which the commiasioners have de- manded for their services is only to pay for declaring the avenue opened. The expanse of actual opening is yet to come, and the enormous amounts which are to be paid to the property owners along the line of the aan indemnity for the proportionate increase in the oe their property ia yet to be added. Although it is not customary to aasess more than slevon to fifteen blocks from the point of opening, the commis- for opening the avenue, and yet these wise commission - ors, after meeting two hundred and forty times, aod charging four dollars each for their attendance at every ‘mocting, have arrived at the conclusion that the owners could stand one more assessment, and they no doubt ‘The following are the items in the commissioners’ ba aeZe8s33 Ssssensssss 358 33 sé oI z