The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1858, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 7967. MORNING EDITION—SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1858. . PRICE TWO CENTS. UTAH AFFAIFcs, INTERESTING FROM CAPTAIN MARCY’S COMMAND. OUR FAR WSST CORRES, cx. Casue-1.4-PouDRE, Crem, May 15, 1858. Marching from Fort Union—Cr stain Marcy Ordered to Helt—Encamped on the /ikaness—A Subterranean Fountain to Rival the Sarat ige Springs—Planting Corn and Loying a Claim—Himing end Game—Reinforoe- menis Join, Tents Strack, and a March Cemmenced—Halt- tng oma Prairie Swell, end Scenes in «. Prairie Storm— Cattle Rum Og--Men ‘and Antelopes Froven— What Our Soldiers Enuhure and How They are Paid—Crossing the South Platte River-—Anwious for a Brush with the Mor mons, dc. If you desire to know where the French trapper Casbeel bid bie powSer, just place yourself before s map of the ‘United Steve and run your eye along the oastern border of Ge ‘Rorky Mountains until it rests upon ® very consi- erable protuberance in the topography of the chain mnown.s Soug’s Peak. Then picture to your imagination ‘an meremblage ef some 600 oldiers, and an indefinite ‘aumber of horees, males and cattle, with tents, wagons, ‘end4i) the other appliances of pra‘rie travellers, all quietly ‘yoprsing after « hard day's march under the eastern base of “thin towering snow capped continental dome, and you have ha Identical spot where the powder was buried, and at ‘the same time the geogruphical position of your corre. “ppondent at the prerent moment. ‘The modus operandi by which I have beem transported from the regions of civilization to this wild and barbarous corner of cur venerable ‘Uncle Samuel’s” exteuced pos- eeasions will conetitute the burthen of what I propoze to tel you at this time. In the course of my rambles during the past winter 1 most upexpeciedly found myself within tho Territory of New Mexico, and having no other object in view after dehoiding sil the sights of that interesting and highly moral locality, but to see as much of the great West 2s possible within a given space of time, I determined to em. brece an opportunity thay offered to visit the land of the “Later day Saints” in Utah, Aceoringly on the 15th day of March I left Fort Uaien ‘with a detachment of soldiers under the command of Oapt. Marcy, who was escorting to the army in Utah a Jarge bumber of animals which be had purchased in New Wexico. We bad marched about 250 miles towards our destina- ton without the giighteet accident, and were congrata- Iating ourselves on the prospect of speedily veaching Col. Jobnston’s camp, when, much t wur estenisbwent, an express overtook us, with orders for @apt. Marcy to halt and await the arrival of reinforce- ments from the Department of New Mexico, which order T learn was issued by direction of Gen. Scott, he having been informed that those loyal and persecuted Saints in Utah were maxing preparations to organize a large force to attack this party aud take away all the government animals. This unexpected detention placed ® damper upon the epirite of the entire party, as we were moving forward rapidly, and in all probability ehould now have been at Camp Scott bad we not been interrupted by the Mormon freebooters. Ae it was, we were obliged to remain an entire month upoa s tributary of the Arkansa¢, called Fontaine-qoi- oueclic, where we passed the time in bunting and in drmking the water of the fountain from which the s.ream @erives its name? My travels through our unsettled ter- ritory have been somewhat extended, yet I have never before met wits so etriklog @ natural curiosity. The water iewees from a solid sandstone rock, that bas been worn ‘ont by atirition inio the ehape of a hage symmetrical bow! or reservoir. The celamn of water rushes up with great force directly from beneath the centre of this reservoir, Keeping it constantly filed, bul never .o overflowing ; and 1% resembles an artidcial fountain more than a natural one, What the mineral constituents of the water are we had no means of determining. It had,to my taste, a groat eimallarity to Congress water, but is more agreeably pun- gent and ‘leiicaie; and J have no doubt if the locality was accessible to the peuple of the Eastern States !t would soon Decome more popular than the Saratoga waters. Who knows but what this may some day become a rival water- ing place? One of the camp followers, who placed four logs near the spring and piacted a hill of corn, with the inteatioa of claiming & pre-emp*ion at some fature day, seemed to be iampreaved with this belief. Quien sale’ As game abounded la the viciaity of our camp # afford- ed the votaries of Nimrod constant sport, and we great gumbers of elk, mountain sheep, black and white tailed deer and antelope that were “ bagged,” kept us coating eily supplied with the choicest game Un the 28th of April—the long expected reinforcement having jomed—we struck our tents and moved forward one day, ercamping near the summit of an clevated swell im the prairie which divides the waters of the Arkansas from those that flow ioto the South Platte. It was a mild and pleasant epring day. Tae trees were putting out their new leaves, the earth was covered with @ rich carpet of green grass, and evory object in nature scomed to indicate that the sombre garb of winter had been superseded by the amiliog and cheorful attire of The aimenphere was ceft and balmy, and there was 20 appearance of bad woatber until about dusk, when the eky became overcast, aud & snow storm suddenly arose, accompanied by a violent gale from the north, which in creased ja intensity anti! it became a perfec: raging ten. pest, driving everything before it in the most furious man per, and compelling men and animals to ly to the nearest places of shelter. Thave often been exposed to miorms both at eee and ‘wpon land, and ina variety of latitndes, but have never Defore witnemed Bne like this, It continued without the slightest cessation for sixty consecutive hours. Language faiis to fornieh words that will convey an adequate idea of the terrific ferocity of this angry and unseasonable tem- pest. A just conception of its fury can be bad by those only who were spectators. A faint idea may neverthe- Jere be conjectured from its effects, some of which | shall proceed to mention. ‘The public animals were guarded (as was customary) Doth day and night by armed men, who were continually riding around them and keeping them together. Yet, im epite of the utmost codesvors of the herdamen, about three hundred horses and mules stampeded, and ran frantically away, with the wind, for Gfty miles before they could be stopped or turned. Of three men who went off with these animals, one poor fellow was found dead upon the prairie after the storm, while the other two were badly frozen, and came very wear periehing. They had no food for four days, and when Giscovered wore crawling about upon their hands and Innecs in & state of great physical prostration and mental derangement. They were brought into camp, and are gow rapidly recovering. Anotzer man became bewil fered and lost in the snow nd perished within two hundred yards of the camp, and another was found about three miles from the camp, where he bad made « fire, and probably Iaid down ins state of exhaustion and went to sleep. When found bis body was almost entirely consumed by the fire. lee and oxen perished during the continance ; bat what we regarded as most remarkable several antelope were found dead after the storm. This @nimal is ® native of the plaina, and passes the coldes Winters upon the most elevated places, never seoking the cover of timber. Ho is clothed with a heavy coating of Jong bair, and is considered one of the most hardy ani- mais of the West, ani is probably capable of enduring a great a degree of cold aa any other animal. Heveral meuntain mon, who have lived for maay years in this country say they have never before seen so severe @ storm. I am yory confident I never have, aad [am equally confdent I have no curiosity to witness another My feelings opon this occasion were, | fancy, somowha: similar to those of a fashionable young gentleman from your city, who, on being pursued and hard pressed by « huge grizly bear in California, came to the conclusion hat Broadway was decidedly proferabie to a now country. “Who wouldn't be ® woldier?’ The trush is this ‘“soldiering” does very well in a city where the quarters are good, and the rations are woll sup: Plied; Dut om these bleak and barren piaing, whore the bivouse and blanket afford the only solr from etorme and the udden froake of a capricious olimate, the soldier's life is anythng bat a sinecure. 1 sympathized ‘with the poor fellows with all my heart, as they were un. able for two daysto make fires or to cook their rations, Bome of them, however, were veterans to exposure and hardebip, having crowaet the Rocky Mountains wisn ‘Captain Marcy in mid winter, and they did not suffer much. Kleven dollars a month is emal! compensation for the services of uch noble Yellows, yet we bear some members of Congress assert that this niggardly allowance is mere than en equivalent for what they perform. They know put little of the matter w o regard the life ef s soldier in the Onited States army as one of idleness, and the officers as drones who serve no other purpose ‘Dut to deplete the national treasury. Hf these same disin- terested guardians of the public weal performed their da- ties im Congress one-half as zealously as the officers and sokliers of our army they would render much more just ‘equivalent for the inflated pay they award to themselves, end their constituents would bave less cause ef complaint than they h ve now. It is an obvious fact thet the time has passed by whea demagogves can make pohtical capital out of abuse to the army, as the service it performs througheut our extended frontier is too well known and appreciated by our citizens. This humnbog is exhausted, and I would advise them to ‘urn their-aesaults upon some more vulnerable quarter. After a detention of ten days we again moved forward to the South Piaite, which we found about ten feet deep and rising. This obliged us to halt two days and con. struct a ferry boat, but at length we crossed in safety. ‘Whet forther obstructions await us in advance remains to beeen. We hope, however, io be with the ermy in ‘Uteh in twenty days from this time, and if there is any fighting done we caicalate to take @ small chance, as we ook upon a warfare waged against @ people, who openly sanction and encourage the expansion of vice in its most Bideous forms, and who are continually committing the mncet atrocious crimes, as more justifiable than any our government has ever engaged in—and it is to be hoped that the adm‘nistration, notwithstanding the sickening eympathy that come interested politicians have endea- vored to excite in favor of those traitorous outiaws, will persevere ia the decided course that was marked out to bring them into subjection to the federal authorities. COLONEL KANE'S ARRIVAL ON THE FRON- TIERS. MOKE DETAILS OF M18 MISSION AND INTERCOURSE WITH THE MORMONS—MOBMON COMPANIBS ON THB PLAINS—THE EXPSDITION—INDIANS, BTC., ETC. (From the Creacent City Orasie (lowa), June 8.} To-day Col. Kane, the special agent of the Presideat to the Mormons, with an escort of five men—viz.: Major Soward Egan, and Messrs. Murdock, West, Kaowlton, Van Eitan and Worthing—arrived via north si the Platte, at Floreuce, N.1., oniy tweuty-three days out, baviog started ow’ the 1éih ult. Col, Kano is bearer of important despatches from Brigham Young and Gov. Commmg to the sutborities ay Washiogion, and starts in Continuation of his journey to-morrow. We visited Col. Kane to day, acd conversed freely with himself sad his party, and bave learned tbe full particalars in regard to ‘Whe ptate of a 8 io the West. From his long and ardu. ous traveis exposure of some five months of the worst season of the year, the Colonel iz in delicate health, and somewhat worn aod indispose, yet seems cheerful and patient, and shows himecif as, not only » humane man and @ pbitacthropist, bu: an intelligent gentleman. The Colonel croesed over from California in the winter, and after # short stay at Salt Lake City, and having a talk with Brigham, jed to Camp Scoit, where he staid for some time, returning with Governor Cumming, who bad received ap imvitation to come in to Sa't Lake City and £e8ume the reeponaibiiities of hie office After proseeding & short distance they were rtopped by a large armea force of Mormons, who, after informed who they were, escorted them into the city, where they were received kindly, by not only Brigham and the authorities, but by the peop!e, who honored teem with music, feasting and every Kind attention. Brigham gave over to Governor Curpming the gudernatorisl authority, books, papers, &c. The Governor examined the court records, library and other public property, papers and recoris aud to his astonishment everything was found and ia their place and in perfect order, and not destroyed, as had been reported pone sworn to by the rascally officials = Ig re. arped and succec: getting up this ¢: . Agreat bumber of families had gone and wore sti! elarting svutb, in antictpation of allowing the troops to come ia, aad there- Dy avoiding « collwicn with the government. ‘The women and children bad pearly ali left the city and setudements north, but their destication southward was a Becret the could pot penetrate. Some conjectured they would go to Mexico, Soaors, or the valleys to the in- terior, tothe south, they have recently been exploring, where segar. corton, rice and vines grow profusely. The Governor followed in the route of emigration. Some sixty miles southward he overtook large companies, and desired ‘them to return to their houses, farmg aud homes; and al- though the Mormons everywhere treated them respectful ly and kindly, they were firm, kept tusir owa secreis, and Moved on, the watchword being ‘‘To the South.” From all that could be gathered, it seemed wat the Mormons had Gevermined to em\grate en masse from the valleys o° Utah rather than come in contact with the troops and authority of their own nation and country, and for their loyaliy to the American fing they would once again leave their homes, Greaides and possessions. As far as Dis power extended, the Governor offered overtures of peace, aud Cesired that the emigration be arrested; and Colonel Kane, with an escort, was immediately despa:ched fo Wasbicgton with important business, the = rertioment of —difficuities. ah lets Great Salt Lake City on the 13th ult , arriving at Camp Scott on the 16th, where they found the army nearly des- tute of the means of subsistence, paving but ton days ‘short rations in rime, and soldiers very much diasatisfled and many desersing. Goneral Johnston seemed in bad bumor towards the Gevernor and inankind generally, at the peaceful indications being made. Governor Camming mtended to return to Great Salt Lake City in a week afer bis arrival in camp, aad it was generally supposed that all the other civii officers would go with him aesume their Various duties. The Colonel's express mot Major Haws’ train, consieting of rixty.five men, seven and 250 bes of cattle, on the 2let an, near Devii'e Gate, ing along slowly. Met the mail and Colonel Hoffmau’s supply traiuon the 22d, ote day’s travel west of Platte bridge, consiting of 199 ix mule teams and 110 ox wagons (each conta'ping 12,500 ibe), and, all told, about 1,200 men, seme the Peace Commissioacrs passed them on Mut: Five companies of infantry and throe of dragoons met the same day. Arrived at Laramie oa the 25th, plies very short, and south fork of the Platte exces: sively high, #o that neither soldiers; mail nor trains could crovs. The express company cross- od main Platte here, preferring tae north sido,’not only 88 voiding the badiy ent up and thi 4 route, bat on acoount of graes an‘ abortoees of route, a Mr. Allen sear Chimney Rock, — by two others, and taking throngh thirty head of cattle aud one wagon | Met no Indians on the route, a few lodges only appearing in the distance, Weather rainy all tha way through and gare good, Met over a hundred Mormon missionaries sixty miles below Laramie, on their retura to their Vee in Utah, all well and getting fiasly. No other parties wore met until this side of the Loape Fork, whea, 60 Sunday, the 6th inst., Col H. 8 Eldridge, with « oom les this wide of part About thirty men, were met ver, ana twelve mies still further ewan rk. The party arrived at Florence to day #1 one o'clock, all wel), and put up at the Winit House. To night thoColonel gives the members of his ay BE with kind ex- # Of bis gratitude for Ir attentions and waten- ‘ulness over him on go long and toilsome a journey—ds — _ hat ‘Majer Egan, who acoompanies him to ‘ashington. grasshoppers or crickota had yet appeared ferters trom Camp Scott arrived in Florence yesterday. The Ry A over er mules by cold and @arvauion through winter. Oe] highly of the man ner in which he was received by Brigham Young and the Mormors, and the kindness and hospitality of the people there. Col. Kane is entitled to much creglis for the daring perseverance and energy evinced in maKing thie length- ened journey in mid winter; and we congratulate him and th untry generally upon the successful reeait of this n. FOR UTA. A company of some twonty of the “elders,” most of ‘hom are returning from missions aud whove families are loft F.oreace lest week with teams of horses and mules attached w Wagone, (or their far distant homes, through i can. Col. A. 8. Eid isa) of Goneemay, tates waliorind 7 Man. MORMONS IN CAMP, From some of our down country exchanges we are ‘Utah trops. A number of per- shore from boats coming up, on fon. It is pow generaily acceded fight if ‘upon and that Set Pepireaan are not idle 1g; Consequently any pumber of brave offl- cers and patriot soldiers Ls looked anxiously for the time of the ment of hg Doped snes be eh) ‘that were eoc! rous a)l winter, that sprivg spould ‘that they might make a descent upon Utah, are just be- ginning to “ go slow,’ now talk Mormons some time in July—brave Amertoan soldiers, in- deed. If there arc any squawe, paper houses, women, children or old men to murder, they would bas been proven; but let them oome ‘o action with the Utopians and one-half will desert, as fully that portion of the troops never went out to fight, but just for a bit of fun. ‘hoever thinks the Mormons are a sleepy, ignorant people, are slightly mistakem; they will be found wide awake and in every regiment and train that crosses the plains their practised eyes will spy out every movement as they march forward, not wo fight their brethren, but to watch, Important from Bermuda. ARRIVAL OF A BRARER OF DESPATCHES TO LORD NAPIRR—RBTUBN OF THE DEVASTATION TO BEBMU- DA—ORDBRS TO STOP THE OUTRAGES DELIVERED TO THE STYX AND BUZZARD—AKRIVAL OF SIR HOUSTON STRWART AT HALIPAX, BTC., BTC. Lieut. Davis, of the Admiral’s flag ship Indus on the West India station, arrived in this city from Bermuda on Thursday, with despatches for Lord Napier from Sir Houston Stewart, and proceeded to Washington that evening. We have not learned the purport of the despatches. The Devastation, which had been despatched by the British admiral in search of the cruisers Styx and Buzzard, with pe- remptory orders not to overhaul any more Ameri- can vessels, has returned to Bermuda, and reports having fallen in with both vessels, and having deliv- ered the orders to their commanders in due form. This will no doubt put an end to all further outrages on our flag in these waters. We learn from Halifax that Sir Houston Stewart arrived there yesterday in the flag ship Indus. Mr. Arthur Jones, Secretary to Admiral Stewart, arrived in this city yesterday from Halifax, where he has just been married to Miss Sawyer, daughter of the High Sheriff of Halifax. Mr. Jones is staying with his bride at the St. Nicholas, where he will re- main fora few days and return to Halifax by way of Boston. TBE BRITISH APMIRAL AT HALIFAX, ETO. Haurax, Juae 25, 1858. The British dorew ship of tho line Indus, besring the flag of Admiral Stewart, arrived here yesterday from Bor- muda, The war steamer Devastation sailed from Ber. muda for the West Indies on the 18th, and the Atalanta on the same day, for the protection of the fisheries on the coast of Newfoundland. Our Kansas Correspondence. Laaverworm Orv, K. T., June 15, 1858, ‘The Lecompton Constitution—The Certainty of its Rejection— Solution of the Burt Scott Dificulties—Departure of Gen. Harney and Staj’ for Utah, déc., dc. The rejection of the Lecompton constitution by the peo- ple of Kansas Territory seems to be settled. Everybody bere says the dill will be defeated, and what everybody Pro-slavery men and free Siave men alike are determined to vote against it in order that quios may be reatored to the Territory. The mass of the people do net believe that it is expedient for Kansas to come into says must be true, the Union at present, and this desire to remain a Territory will be fally demonstrated on the 24 of August. The rejection of the bill will be a rebuke to the political bucksters of both parties. The people will signify their desire for law, order and quietoess instead of agitation, misrule and disorder. The ‘‘shrieks for freedom” 02 ons mde, and the bullying of the “nigger drivers’”’ on the Other, is played out, Tbe day for agitation the agitators have been consigned to the wmb of the Gapu- lets, and nought is now in store for the people of Kansas ph and prosperity under the government of ele Sam. on the borders, and made occasional into the neigh ‘Qoring counties for the purpose of hay leg vhomeselves with and whatever necessaries they thought wero To hold the pro-sia- very men ia the neighborhood of Fort Scouts responsible for the outrages of these adventurers is as silly as it is 's Conduct at the door of the Free State Purpose of making a trip to Ari- determined a>.tion of Governor Denver nav pul an end tg the antics of these atventurers. As an evi- dence of the fact, tse distur bers have nearly all departed Too tah, than to run the risk of being banged at the hands of oe eee Fort Scott This being #0, & has been ed to Kanans from ove end of the Territory te the other, not. withstanding the determined efforts of whe partisan press ise. and the other members of the Board of have appoiated the following preciacts and judges of election in Leavenworth county, for the —— August, under the Eagtish Lecomp- Kickapoo precinct at Kickupoo—Jadges, Spartes, F, Re ge saven oe, in Pi Tard in Lewvenworth—Judges Jeremiah ari, J, Ras: Leavenworth precinct, at the usual 20 in the Second ward, Leavenworth—Juoges, C. F. , Joho A. Halderman, WG. Mathias. Delaware precinct at Delaware—ladges, George H. Twombiey, Jonas Hage, J. W. Pennoger. cupenrs present, ‘at Quindaro—Judges, G. E. Budding. , Ria Wend. Wyandott precinct, at Wyandott—Judges, J. P. Root, W. at — Ju P. R. Orr, el Kookagee, Charles Chadwick. r ‘ ones, the men ir, Currier, Jadge Dr. Few are well knowa “shriokers"’ wii have no st Torre Haute, nominate! Henry Socrest, of Greencastle, Putnam county, to succeed John G. Davis. Mr. Secrest ie ‘anti-republican. Dectinms —Hon. John M. Wood publishes a note in the Portiand (Me.) Advertiser, stating that on no consideration would he be induced to serve another term in Congress, his private business being of soch & mature as to make it wholly impossible to accept @ re-nomination. Mr. 8. BE. Barrie, acircus ‘National, a few day Tae Naw Caxt.—The Director of the Mint in writes Ht ki 7m toroughout the country ell known a 80 successful at the old in Philadelphia, with “nele Tom's Cabin,’’ died ‘ago at Alloonah, Pa , of consumption. Feouiph of ehd copper Uged Mates Geta fee the Sout phones cent Binley esr sabe ei sant ree lar issued by me on the of April, 1857. itis not al must be presented to the Mint, showing the vaiue by count of the pieces offered, and the denomination thereof. rhe person offering ooin im Cxonange will deliver It free of charge to the Mint, bas tho Mimt will pay all reasonable express charges for the transportation of the now cont. THE GREAT YACHT RACE. All Long Iijand in a State of Exxeitement— Baltetias frem all Along Shore. The latest intelligence concerning thts interesting race ‘Was supplied yesterday morning by our shipaews ro- Porter. Since then the followig communications bave ‘come to hand:— Isurr, Jane 25, 1868. ‘The yachts psssed Fire Isdand light yesterday. The Una appeared to us tw be leadiog ine fleet about four miles, the others close together, with the exception of a small slocy and schooner, two or three miles astern. ‘The Una passed fivi the wind 1s light. The folowing letter from Fire Island shows the relative situation of the yachts as they passed that point :— Firs tetas, June 24, 1858. ‘Tee yachts passed Fire Island jight about haif past three, in the following order, as near as the vessels could Domade ont, viz :— Sloop Une ahead, with all kites set, going st a Flora pace. Gloop Rebeccs about four miles astern. Schooner Haze nali a mile astern ot the Rebecca. Schooner Syivie three-quarters of a mile astern of the Madgie close aboard of the Sylvie—passed both Haze and Sy!me betore they were out of sight Schooner Widgeon one mile astern of the Madgie. wine Minnie (supposed to be) three miles aatern of the r Favorita four miles astern of the Minnie. The steawer Ansonia, which arrived from Bridgeport at noon yesterday, reports astrong current with but little ‘wind im the Sound, but did not see anything of the yachts, The Traveller, which arrived puoctually at half: past three P, M. from New Haven, saw Long Island piainly at ten o clock yesterday morning, but at that hour not one of the boate was in sight. The captaic of the Cataline was equally unsuccessful, All that he could report was that the sea ‘‘was as smooth ax a looking glasa in the Sound,” and not a sail was to be seen. Tteppears that the wind, which was fresh and strong when the yachts siarted, had almost altogether died away by yesterday morning. Immediately after the arrival of the soveral steamers Bamed above, a considerable number of persons hastened to the plers to inquire concerning the race, thus manifest- ing the interest they feel inthe new movement of ocean yachting Mr. Edwards kindly sent us the following:— Brown’s Huis, Onrewt, L. 1, June 25, 1858, ‘The yacht fleet passed here at 6:45 this morniag on their return to New York in the fotowing order:— First, a large sloop, tollowed closcly by another sloop; then three schooners and a sloop well together; after a short interval a sloop and three schooners. ‘Three miles wil! cover the whole fleet. Wind W.8. W., ® nice gaff topsail breeze, Distance 100 miles from New ‘York, LEWIS A. EDWARD3. We are indebted to Mr. 0. J. Munsell, of the Long Is- land Railroad Express office. Broadway, for the following interesting report of the progress of the fleet: — Lona Istanp Rartroap Express Orrice, Jane 26, 1868. } four o’clock this morning. following order, viz:— One large sloop abead. One eloop next. One sloop and three echooners next, and One sloop and three schooners next. abead of the remaining two. reat. ‘Sound. almost an eight knot breeze, but falling off. arrive at that hour, may bring some news they will arrive by that time. TELEGRAPHIC. TRE YAORTS OFF NEW HAVEN. New Haven, June 26, 1858. and the remainder of the flect badly behind. THE YACHTS OFF FAIRFIELD. . New Havey, June 25, 1858. field, about thirty miles from Throgg’s Neck. they were discovered. sailing finely, an eight knot south woat breeze. ‘The Re! nearest the Fim City, and appearcd to be ahead; the Una and Madgie, however, were nesrer the shore and had the beat breeze. and Silvie, which were scattered off the Long Island shore, and tbe nearest of which was about five miles trom tne Rebecca, The Favorita was off the Connecticut river, full twelve miles behind the Rebecca, with but little wind, and the Widgeon was five miles behind her. ifthe breeze holds good, the head boot would reach Throgg’s Neck about eleven o'clock. It is reported here by ® yacht, which was off Fisher's Island when the fleet passed, that the Rebecos passed through Plum Gut instead of through the Race. News from Buenos Ayres, By the arrival of the bark Dawn, Capt. Chase, we have Buence Ayres papers to May 13, ten days later than pro- The most terrible that bas for many ocurred yeare in the Rio do ian took piace on May 9, when the schooner Florde Salto ran upon a sunken wre3k on tne Banco Oaics, while on her from Montevideo Buenos Ayres, and out of ied prostrated. Doubloons, May 13, qioted at 5€8 4 36834, at which there were transacted w ‘the amount of 6, News from British Gatana. By the arrival of the bark Princeton we have a Dema. rara Royal Gasette of the 8th instant. Tho Colonial Legislature had adjourned. They imposed From these sources It was calculated that the de- ficiency in the revenue wonid be suppliod. Resolutions for ro rang, the application made last year for sepoys for agricultural }, Aad one thousand of the graver oflenders to be employed on the public works The bark Hopewell bad arrived from o&. Melena with 240 Africavs, and the screw stammer Clareodou from Ual- cutta with 096 coolles, eighty-five having dict on the pas- sage fom cholera. Naval Intell The United States practice sni; Craven, arrived in Hampton y from Anoapolie. The Preble, we believe, is b Korope, and will probably wail ioday. The Uaned 8 ship Cyane was taken out of dock yesterday at the (oe port Navy\yard, and the sloxp Jovn Adams put io ner place.—Nor/olk Herald, June 34. Preble, Commander Yesterday morning, to 108, "COTTON, SUGAR AND LABOR. The yacht fleet paesed the light boat, New London, at The fleet passed Orient at 6:45 this morning in the They passed Greenport at 7:30, all the four sloops ahead of the schooners, and two of the sloops considerably They passed Mattituck, fifteen miles atill nearer New York, at 9:30 A. M., with one large sloop ahead of the ‘The remainder of them were then scattered all over the At 7:30.A. M. the wind was west southwest and blowing If the yachts do not arrive by two o'clock P. M. to- morrow, the steamer Bridgeport, which is expected to concerning them; but it is to be supposed, if there be any wind at all, The New York racing yachts were spoken te-day at one o'clock under the Long Island shore, searty opposite this city, by the yacht Mary, belonging here. The Rebecca lea, and the others came after her in the following order:—Una, first; Madgie, second; schooner Hass, third: The Kim City, on her trip (rom New York this atter- noon, passed within six or seven miles of the yacht fleet engaged in the ocean race, at quarter past six, off Fair- Captain Lewis had intended to run near them, but the weather was so hazy that they had nearly passe’ before The Rebeocs, Una and Madgie were five miles abead of all the others. They were near the Long Island shoro, The Minnie was off the Connecticut shore behind the tloope, with but Little wind, but in advance of the Haze ‘and if I have erred it is in company “with the late Store. fina Waal the cotton crop of 1850, equal by the average of the three crops of 1849, 1860 and 1851, to be 2,488,987 bales, Was produces by the labor of 812,769 field nands, apd \ ieided ap average of 3 06 Dales to the hand. | now propose to shu#, io # tabalar form, approrim te- ly the incres ¢ of » aves in the cotton gro: ates from 1860 to 1860, at vos rae of 61.46 per Coat, aud tae io- cretse of cotton productions for the same period at the rele of 506 bales to tho nend, The resalt wili be ag fo) owe:— $12,769 Crop, at 3.06 per h’d 2,488,987 Southern Slavery and the Cotton Trade— The Production and Supply of Cotton la the United States—Cotton and Labor in Britkh Gulana—Gauritius and e- unlon in 1858—Sugar Flantiag in the East—Free Slavery in the Fiela nanda, 1850 add naif of 5t.41 for 6 yr8., 01855, 208,881 Field bands, 1865..1021,000 do. do._—«3,16, French Colonies—Spain and AGG 61S wees BR GL aan the Free Slave Trade—The \ yn crry Field le, 1956,,.1,073,.62 do. do. 3,263,876 Covlle Slave Trade and Ad OAS. ce vesese | 68/160 pepe How it is Condueted, Field bande, 1867,.1,128,002 do. do, 3,452,606 en, an ae. Add BAA. esses) 67,005 Field bands, 1858,.1,180,817 do, do. 3,630,190 SOUTHERN SLAVERY AND COTTON. AIG D14........., 60,976 THE COURSE OF THE COTTON TRADE—THS LIMIT OF hy ny PRODUOTION—NUMBBR OF SLAVES BMPLOYED— yes del Ast Sa ae. do. 3,816,713 BATS OF INCRBASE—PKODUCTION AND CONSUMP- wer ete se > TION—THE COTTON BUPFLY QUASTION IN ENGLAND, } Field hands, 1860, 1,311,403 do, 40. 4,019,898 ‘The oottos crop of 1#56, ns reported, was 3,627,800 bales; Dut it raust be borne in mind that this crop was increased by at least 200,000 bairs, kept bac from tne prodace of the previous year by water in the rivers in alabama, Lowsians, Texas and Arkangas. The average of the three crops of 1864, 1855 and 1856 was only 3,108,266 beles, a fraction less than the result produced by my cal- culation, The cotton crop of the United States has never reached 3,500,000 bales, nor will it for some years, uaiews elave labor Joerg Pap 2 pe cotion growisg States at a greater r AD a present In coder to. profues ibe crop of 1860, estimated at 4,912 892 Dales, wust bean increase of field hands, as we bave seen, of 289,753 over the numer employed in the crop of 1866. The natural increase from the excess of birtos aod deaths for the period meatioaed qill, at the census ratio of 2.8 per aopum, supply 143,031 of this number, leaving 146,722 fiela bands to be received by mi- gration or purchase from the other slave But will even this large accession of Bre. [From the Nachitoches{La ) Chroacicle } ‘It appears to be very generally considered in this coun: try and in ‘that the regular and permaaent supply of raw coun the commercial wants of tbe world must, to # large extent, be produced in the United States, and from slave lavor. The quantity of raw cotton imported into Eogland from Brazil, Madras, Calcutts, Egypt, &c., has not increased to ny comuiderablo extent duriog the last toa years, not withstanding the patronage and fostering care of the Bri- lish government; while, vn the other hana, the sotton crop of the Uni.ed States hes continued to augment, and now amounts to over eighty per cent of the whole conaump- tion, with an increasing demand, abfully remunerauog ices, Prot the American oot‘on trade has not reache 1 its pre Sent prosperous condition wishout meeting several almost ruinous vichweltudes. From 1835 to 1846 the annual pro duction Of american cotton exceeded the foreign and domestic cemand, and the accumulated | the succeesfal producticn of acrop of 4912893 bales im stock in Liverpoot alone, at the close of the | 1860, meet the legitimate demana? I think no. The con- commercial year, December 31, 1846, footed up | sumption of raw cotion, at least since 1850, has been at nearly twelve hundred thy ry . The | the rateof 6.2 per cent per annum, while the rate of su D- ply, on which [ have based my calculation, has been at the rate of 6.141 per cent per annum. The crop of 1858, at my estimate, was 3,126,249 baies, which, increased at the rate of 6.2 per cent per aanum for five years, wo 1860, ‘would produce the following result:— Crop in 1866, bales 3,126,249 price, which in 1835 was sixteen cents per pound, gradually depreciacved, in proportion to te over produc. Ucn, vptil 1845, when the average of the season was only five and three-quarter cents per pound—acwially less then the cost of production. With this immonse stock on haad: and the poepect of an unlimited future supply, the com: mercial and manufacturing classes in Eagiand notonly | Crop in 1866 3,822,076 dictated their own prices to the Americaa planter, but | Crop in 1867 8,526,982 they seized the favorable opportanity for aa attempt to | Crop in 1858. 3,146,663, emancipate themselves s'together from any fature de- | Crop in 1869. 9,077,888 pendence upon the United 8 for the raw material of | Crop in 1860. 4 224,511 Weir most profitable commerce Various impracticable | —Tue crop of const jon rate of schemes were set on foot and vast sums of money ex pended, in order to stimulate and extend the production Of the raw cotton by free labor, while the British press, in aid of the eifort, denounced the institution of slavery in the United States in unmeasured terms. This was a gloomy period for the American cotton Planter; but every one possessed of any commercial sagacity was aware that this state of toings could not coa- tinue for any very peried of time, and the result ‘was what a political economist would have aaticigated. Tne supply of raw cotton bad been greater than the demand, and cotton ceased to be remunerative. Ospital was diverted to other and more table means of iavereneeh, | until the equilibrium ~~ be restored the gradually increasing consumption o raw ma- pg From 1845 to 1865 the condition and prospects of the cotton growing States of the confederacy bave boen slowly but steadily improving. The poin: of extreme de- pression in the cottou trade has been reached and passea, and it is now admitted by manufacturers and consumers thatthe supply of cotton, stimulated as it is by full and remuperating prices, is unequal to the necessary and !m- perative demand. Public meetings have recentiy been held in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and other com- Increase being more than 200,000 bales over my estimate of production, and that much at least more than the at- most that can be reasouaoviy expected from the cotton crop of the United States. But if it is contended that » crop of 4,224,511 bales can be produced in 1860, snere must be a corfespondiog increase of slave labor, whica will involve the necessity of employing 69.166 additional field hands, making in al) 215,878 neid hands over the natural increase of slaves in the cotton growing Sta'ee. To produce a crop even of 4,012,893 baies ta 1860 will require an increase,as we have seen, of 146,722 field hands, which, if procured by purchage, will require tne investment of at least $146,000,000, at the present value Of thie class of slave property; and if the crop is to be increased to meet the expected demand im 1860, the in- vestwent ip slaves will be proportionately iacressed to about $250, ae or $60,000,000 per annum for five years from 1 x The inquiry naturally suggests iteelf—Where is this vast accession of slave labor to come from? Can the siave States of Maryland, Virgim'a, North Carolina and Kentuck: Neen oe — Or, ie tyro ‘@ result at probabie? difficulty of procuring slaves at reasonabie rates pon seeey bem severely felt by the cotton piant- ers, and this difficulty is constantly increasing. The pro- ction of rice, tobacco, wheat, Indian corn, &c., with raising, in those States, affords nearly if not quite as ie employment for labor the other States. by posed, a redundancy of He But it is uselees to figures eny farther, It is simply absurd to suppose that the cotton crop of the United states can be increased over ‘Unis position it will be —— slaves had heretofore i within the cotton grow- ing States, and what augmentation may reasouably be — for the future. we Dot i : 1 ‘ it! been about twenty eight per cept for each decade «ince 1700;, while the igcrease within the co¥on growing Sates, from this source Bnd from accessions from other Mtates deen 103.8) per ceut from 1830 to 1849, and Lat Wo 1859, This large augmentation of ‘States bas been Ty i i z ile! i : if i Peal 3 HE iz H H , H 4 i i i 3 il iment for her expend taking the gi the Brith eq Of Africa should be withdrawn and the object sbaadoned, An immense change has been effected in the opinions of the Jeading and influential classes of Eagieod within the last fow years by toe gigantic power of ‘Cotten.’” They now fully comprehend the idea, and freely admit the /act that if an adequate savply of cotton is to be bad i 298 Der of these slavee were actuaily occupied as field hands im the cuitore of cotton. Mr. DeBow, the 8a) of the United States Oon- periotendent sus of 1840, remarks, at page 04 of the y them that aay fanatical intermeddiiog with domestic slavery would be not only unwise and smpolitic, but that a successful invasion of the ri Of slave own- ers in the Southern States of the con! sy would react ‘With fatal effect upon Hritish commerce. COTTON AND LABOR IN BRITISH GUIANA, BVIL RESULTS OF BAITS POLICY IN THE weer INDIR6—RFFECTS OF EMANCIPATION IN GUIANA— COTION PRODUCTION THERS—INDIAN COOLIES AND x GUIANA LAND—BRITISH CORDESCRNSION TO FRANCE. of siave ey States in 1950, a AND SPAIN—COTTON IN INDIA AND IN OVLANA— ascertained by tne census, was 188,000, or 14.01 per cont, GREAT PRODUCT—I10W TO MERT THE QUESTION OF and the number of slaves under ten COTTON SUPPLY, BTU., BTC., ETO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE meRALD. New Yorn, Jane 1, 1868. eo { avbenjereavaeepternene coat Om 1 beg to call the attention of all who take an inerest im Dosbed tame "ashes tas tad See shai anes ck the cause of humanity t> the heartless policy pursued by England toward ber own West lodia possensions, and to the destructive comsequences which have resuited from the manner ‘n which the Siavery Emancipation act of 1834 was carried out. The imme:tiate rewuit of that act was such, on the yaloe Of property in Guina, that a sugar estate which had been sold previously at $150,000 was Parchased on speculation at $26,000; yet the unfortunate new possessor was com- pelied to abandon the same in a couple of years. More than one-half the number of sugar estates im British tirely seventy one partially, iy nine cofee catates entirely estimated the number of abandoned and sixty s'x partially, aod cattle pens cotton crop of 1836 at $40,000, and or grazing establishments callrely sbandoned anataceans to the band. ‘Wo partially—the entire comprising 391,187 acres, It Mr. Woodbury was certain! most be borne in mind thet sacr.tices do not em- means of information upon brace the abandonment which took piace prior to Jan- subject gravely communicated to wary, 1848, or since Marob, 1852—every other Britiah Woat pom th HO r ade pecan (rarvedcs, owing vo the denetty of tte cis wehiecs “Tasenmtanan wh oun Sun Beet o per cent 7 employed in 1360 will be found as follow: thas opieedsa eoleay. ‘es teen teen ee = ; Prosperous manner. Its cotton crop, the cultivation whieh bad been but afew youre crmioeacnd; wound to 46, en, derides a a Total field hands, 1840, 9,951,610 Ibs, coffee; wherene Tea lero Foams pinins Add one half 51.41 per cent pe? of this Union amounted io only 40,000 small the ynality bein 20 per cent Total field hands, 1846 inferior to that of Gens, Tm ales on recore ‘hat the Add one-half 61.41 per cent pnw Lyte gy into Great Britain from the ni! States in was only 13,200 bales, whilst the Total field hands, 1960. quantity i ppenes Go came jou tree brian Gulaes and The difference between the other West India poesessions amounted to 163,512 my own eatimate is quite iminstorial: but for greater a0. | baise. This fact alome must be sufficient to prove that curacy | will assume the average of the two to be the | had England not goverved her ‘Wert ludia possessions in @ correet sl eenteale Gat os pustens revaiting trom the most in\juitoos manner she ¢ynid have increased the oul- Before 1 eae, ae onenemtons resaling f ook. Livation of cotton and agar 'n the colony of Guiana sient to an extent sufficient to supply all urope with ties. British Guiana contains 100,000 equare miles, of which 82,000,000 acres ia known to be the richest wil for every Tpoge, but in particular for tha’ of cotton, of any on the ‘koe of the globe, Is an eetadliahed fact thet every sore Oultivated in cotton will yield @ crop of 490 ts 600 pounds bal yearly, and when ones planted will for agees whereas the cotton onitivated in the South, ad mi ‘that, it is not destroyed by frost, eeidom av pounds, and mas: be planied every year bad to the cost of free ishor, more than sould be removed from India to Oriana fo than the coat of one tieys ja the South F 4 in the cotton crop of 1850, I will state very frankly hat moch depends upon accuracy jo te particular, Bul my estimate cannot be very far from the true number, tary of the Treasury, who wae noted for general acca racy. Iwill also here remark that there is no socurate information open the raijo of siave increase in the cotton growing States since 1860, It cannot be greater, and is probabiy less, then that of the provious decade; bat, for subsequent porposes, I will courider it to be the same, say 51.41 per cent for ten yours, of 614 per cent per appnt Acuming the Hove estadiisbot ty be correct, we