The New York Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1858, Page 4

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Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yous Hxnitp will be recetved at the following piace Me pune Son & cu nih, ‘Panis... European Express Co..8 Piace dela Bourse “VERPOOL.. ‘Enropean Express Oo., 9 Chapel street. 10 Exchange street, Fast. AYER... daa Burepeen Express Oo., 21 Rne Corvetile, ‘The contents of the European edition of the Hxnaip will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at bhe office during the previous week, aud up to the hour of pablication. The News, The steamship Arabia arrived at Halifax yester- day with European advices to the 19th inst., three days later than the accounts brought by the Ariel. The news is interesting. The slave trade question, and the differences subsisting between Great Bri- tain and the United States with regard to the right of search or visit, had been discussed in Parliament. Lord Malmesbury stated in effect that the assump- tion of the right by England to search vessels in time of peace had been abandoned, and that over- tures had been made to our Minister with the view of establishing a sort of ocean police for the sup- pression of the slave trade. The British ganboats will probably be withdrawn altogether from the wa- ters of the Gulf and sent to the coast of Africa. There is no news of special interest from the Continent. The Arabia reports seeing « vessel, supposed to be the frigute Niagara, with the telegraph cable on board. Assuming it to have been the Niagara, she had not yet reached the latitude appointed for the meeting of the ships for the purpose of joining the cable. The Arabia reports encountering on the pas- sage unusually rough weather for the season. At London the demand for money was more ac- tive. Consols on the 19th were quoted at 95] for ‘account. American securities were very dull and quotations nominal. At Liverpool cotton closed steady and firm, with an improved demand. The sales for the week amounted to 39,000 bales. Stock on hand 660,000 bales. Breadstuffs continued de- pressed. Our correspondents in Havana, writing on the 23d instant, report a total cessation of the visitation of our trading vessels by British craisers. The United States fleet off the island made a very respectable show. The British gunboat Styx arrived at Havana on the 16th, from a cruise off the northeast corner of Yocatan, and thus pleads an alibi to many charges of outrage preferred against her. The domestic diffi- culty which lately occurred in the family of Colonel Blount, of Alabama, had been happily settled, and the Colonel has returned to New York, with his wife and daughter. Captain de Reviere was at Havana. ‘The imposition of the capitation tax on whites was spoken of. Robberies of the most daring character were frequent. The weather was very wet for some days. The public bealth had improved. Captain Sanders, of the American ship Sparkling Wave, had died at Matanzas, and Mra. and Master Bates, of Maine, at ana. The sogar market was active and firm. Freights had slightly improved, but with a dull demand. We have news from the West Indies, dated at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 10th inst. The Colonial Standard of that day says :—There is no local intel- ligence of the slightest interest. The May seasons have wholly failed, and a large part of the country is suffering most injariously from drought. The rains, which have been very heavy in Porto Rico, have passed away to the south. Very heavy hail storms have been felt in St. Ann's mountains. Our Kingston correspondent states that the excitement concerning the rejection of the immigration act by the government in London, was far from subsiding. The Baptist clergymen stoutly upheld the rights of the free laborers, from whom they obtain their sup- port, and urge an advance of wages to them, instead of the introduction of negroes from Africa. Some descriptions of sugar sold at 20s. per handred pounds, and 17s. 6d. had been refused for other lots. We have dates from Camp Scott to the 10th inst., five days later. They seem to corroborate the re- port preqously received, that General Johnston would shortly move into Salt Lake City. Colonel Hoffman was within one and Captain Marcy within two days march of Fort Bridger when last heard of. ‘The'r arrival at camp would increase General John ston's force to 2,500 efective men, with abundance of provisions and supplies of all kinds. ‘The progratame fo the ~emoval of President Mon rue early arranged in all its mittee from Virrinia arrived turday and bave since visited the grave o Monrse. The committee of the Common Counci appoint d seventeen of the pall bearers at their meet- ing yestertoy, and the names ot the eight appointed by the Virginians in this city are given along with them in our report of their proceedings. The Seventh regiment have charterod the Ericsson at a coat of not Jess than $5,000, and it is estimated that their trip will cost the corps $15,900. The Virginians held a meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel last eveu. ing, and intend to call a mass meet’ng of all the Virginians in the city on Wednesday evening, Every day the interest in this unusual coremouy which is now near ot hand, increases greatly, and th out on the occasion of the removal is looked f | to already as one of the grandest aud most creo ‘able New York ever witnessed. Me ers. Toomey, Tocker and EB. H. Reed, members o Special Committee of the Board of Health, t 0 Was referred the “ swill milk” investiga- t csented a majority report yesterday, in which t w stables are completely ‘ whitewashed,” qnd . vquire, in the opinion of the above géntiemen, © ‘ithe more air and an extension of apace to be ex « establiekinents. The cows, as reported, are healthy, have no sores on them only what are pro- duced by simple friction when lying down, no chil- dren have died from drinking will milk, and the system of stabling cows is good generally. Mr. Haswell dissents from all this, and, ia a minority re- port, affirms his belief in most of the disgusting statements heretofore presented to the public. The case of Henry Dwight, whose examination upon charges of perjury, embezzlement and traud has been going on for some time past, was brought to an abrupt conclusion yesterday. At the sugges- tion of Judge Russell, in which counsel on both sides concurred, Mr. Dwight entered into his own recognizance in $5,000, to appear when called upon, and was thereupon discharged. A report of the proceedings in the case is given in another column. The European news by the Ariel, combined with the severe beat of the woather yesterday, had s depress- ing influence upon the cotton market. The sales did not ports since the first of September last have been 2,983,- 810 bales, against 2,876,520 for the same period Inst year, showing an increase of 107,200 baies. The increase ‘The stocks a! all the ports bales, against 184,856 lass year. ateady, with a fair amount of change of moment ia ‘and especially for prime qualities, scarce. Southern, good to prime white, sold at $1 25a $1 30, and Western winter rea, $1 01. Corn was firmand gales were moderate at rates given in another colymn. Pork was more active, especially for mess, but closed Gull, The sales embraced mess at $16 12}¢ a $16 25, and prime at $13 260 $13 3734, and in retail lots at $13 60, Sugars wore active and firm, with sales of about 2,500 bhds, at prices given in another place. Coffee was steady and sales of about 2,250 bags of Rio were made at 10\c. & 105c., wih 50 bags St. Domingo at 9X0. a95;¢. Freight engagements were light and rates unchanged. Mr. Seeretary Cobb vs, Stephen D. Dillaye— The Tables Tarned—Hot Work for Hot ‘Weather. Our readers will recollect that within a fort- night or 20 Mr. Stephen D. Dillaye, late General Appraiser in the New York Custom House, did, on account of his dismiesal from office by the Secretary of the Treasury, issue a flaming mani- festo against him; that in this publication it was charged against Mr. Cobb that he had acted in the premises from selfish, dishonest and ambitious motives; that, substantially, he was a candidate for the Presidency, and that D.S. Dickinson, Secretary Floyd, and their friends, stood in his way, and that hence the removal of Mr. Dillaye was the result of a conspiracy between Mr. Cobb, Mr. Sickles, Mr. Emanuel B. Hart, and others, and that the Fort Snelling and Willett’s Point investigations were insti- gated by Mr. Cobb, for the purpose of damaging the reputation of the Secretary of War, and to secure the rejection of Collector Schell, (a sup- posed Dickinson man,) and the appointment of Mr. Butterworth (a supposed Cobb man) in the place of Collector Schell. It will also be remembered by our readers that, considering the bold and defiant manner in which these and other accusations of the aforesaid manifesto were levelled at Mr. Cobb, we deemed an official answer from him, or in his behalf, a duty which he could not safely disregard. He also appears to have arrived at this conclusion; and hence, we presume, the minute official vin- dication of Mr. Cobb, and the tremendous bill of official derelictions brought to bear against Mr. Dillaye by the special agent of the Treasury Department—Mr. J. B. Guthrie—in the paper signed by him, which we publish to-day. Of Mr. Dillaye’s charges in relation to the Fort Snelling and Willett’s Point investigations, Mr. Guthrie says that it isa matter outsido of his official duties; but that the story has been officially contradicted, and that “ nobody here (in Washington) believes one word of the vilely concocted slander.” But in reference to the charge against Cobb, of “ conspiring with Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, E. B. Hart, Esq., and others,” to bring about the removal of Mr. Dillaye from office, Mr. Guthrie opens a terri- tible broadside of round shot, grape shot and canister. The special agent first exonerates Messrs. Sickles and Hart, by the production of a letter which shows that the Hon. George Taylor “first called the attention of the depart- ment to the reports in circulation highly preju- dicial to Mr. Dillaye’s official character."’ Next, it seems that a certain endorsement in behalf of Mr. Dillaye, signed by Messrs. John Kelly, Searing, Cochrane and Russell, of the New York democratic delegation in Congress, is sab- stantially withdrawn, upoa a more careful exami- nation of the papers. Next comes a letter from Hon. Horace ¥. Clark, in which he not only takes back all that he had said in favor of Dil- laye, but says, “I think the case was one calling for the resignation of the incumbent, or his re- moval from office.” Next, it appears, from a card signed by Hon. W. B. Maclay and Hon. John Kelly, that instead of Mr. Cobb offering to give Mr. Dillaye “‘an official certificate that he had fally disproved every charge, on condi- tion that he would resign,” the boot was on the other leg, and that Mr. Dillaye had offered to resign if he could get a certificate of acquittal. Mr. Guthrie's charges aml specifications against Mr. Dillaye embrace names, dates, places, things and circumstances, and certainly afford a full vindication for the Secretary of the Treasury in this matter, unless these charges can be dieproved. Reduced to a few words, they may be thas enumerated :— 1, That Mr. Dillaye and others, in the matter of house rent, tried to defraud the government out of some three to four thousand dollars a year, for a term of three years, 2. That Mr. Dillaye was in the habit of bor- rowing or receiving money from a number of importing merchants. 4. That “he acted very strangely” in regard to five cases of segars, reported damaged, and im reference to a check of $300, drawn by the parties entering said segars, payable to Mr. Dillaye’s order. 4. Another regar transaction, in which Mr. Dillaye is charged with “some after thought ia his agreeing to the report sustaining the in- voice prices.” 5, Another eogar case, presented in a form not very complimentary to Mr. Dillaye. 6, 7 and 8. All segar appraisements of the eame prejadicial character to tue government officer concerned. An invoice of brass cornices, in reward to whicii it ie ewid that on the trial “Mr. Diilay.'s certificate to the defendants that no fraud was intended, defeated the United States, and the seizure was nol sustained.” 10. One hundred hogsheads muscovado mo lasses, in regard to which “it appears that the figures had been altered to meet the desired object.” 11. Two invoices of brandy—mutilation of records. Mr. Guthrie says “the cierk asked Mr. Dillaye if he would aliow the official records i i 9 be £9 Mutilated ; but Mr. D made no objeg | tion, and the record waa 8 fililaud, Ad fi now appearr.” 12. Thice ‘nveices of NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1858, under a late law partaer of Mr. Dillaye, charged as having been reduced ten per cont below ad- vances of local appraisers. 13. An invoice of cloths, concerning which Mr. Guthrie saye, “It can be pretty well estab- lished by the evidence that Mr. Dillaye received @ check.” 14, An invoice of cloths. 15, Nine cases of velveta, 16. A charge against Mr. D. of attempting to extort from his olerk, Mr. Krouse, $700, through a third party. 17. Charged with “frequently making out mileage accounts, and drawing the money on them, knowing that the travel performed was on his own private business.” 18. A similar charge with the specifications. Upon all these charges Mr. Guthrie gives the particulars, as in a bill of indictment before court of justice; and if they be true, then we must say that he has presented a most astound- ing budget of crimes and misdemeanors against Mr. Dillaye, and that he had better never open- ed his mouth after his dismissal from his office. Farthermore, if these charges be true, it will abundantly appear that official corruption here is not limited to our Corporation authorities; but that very likely the pickings and stealings of the Custom House afford a wide margin for the fighting factions of Tammany Hall. We present the statement of the case made by Mr. Guthrie, as an official document; and the indi- viduals, politicians, merchants, &c., mentioned therein prejudicially, will unquestionably clear their skirts of the allegations thereof, at their earliest convenience. As the case now stands, the original public accuser, Mr Dillaye, is thrown upon the defensive, and he is entitled to ahearing. He must, however, clear himself of these official charges and specificatious before he can undertake to prove that his dismissal was the result of a political conapiracy between a Tammany Hall faction and the Secretary of the Treasury, levelled at Collector Schell, the Secretary of War, and Daniel S. Dickinson, and in reference to the next Presidency. Rarroaps anp Rartroap Poricy.—On the 30th June inst. there will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., a meeting of railroad officers to “con- sider the recent very great and uncalled for reduction of fare by the New York and Erie Railroad Company, and such other subjects in regard to railroad traffic and management as it may be found desirable to act upon.” The call is signed by the Presidents of the Balti- more and Ohio, Pennsylvania Central, New York Central, Hudson River, Boston and Wor- cester and some other railroads. The action of the Erie Railroad Company which has called forth this practical remonstrance was a reduction of the fare between New York and the western terminus of the road from $9 to $5. The ground on which this reduction was made was that the desperate condition ef the road required adesperate remedy; that the high price of through fares benefitted the New York Centra}, but did no good to the Erie, which car- tied but few through passengers; that the Erie had made nine distinct bargains with the Cen- tral, every one of which had been broken by the latter almost as coon as it was made; that if, by areduction in fare, travel could be diverted from the Central to the Erie, the latter might be reecued from bankruptcy, while, at any rate, the injury inflicted on the Central was calou- lated to teach its managers a lesson of honesty, and to prevent their pursuing their present hostile policy to the Erie. These were the grounds on which the Erie direc- tors recently lowered the rates of fare. It is indeed alleged, and very plausibly, that the reduction was made at the instance ofa director who, in his capacity of stock operator, is known to be largely interested for the fall of both Erie and Central; but with these minor points the public has nothing to do. The act was the act of the company, and its conse- quences and responsibilities must rest on the corporate head. The effect of the reduction must of course be disastrous to both Central and Erie. Nothing is clearer than that railroads in this meridian cannot make money by carrying passengers at two cents a head. This the Central has repeat- edly asserted in its memorials to the Legislature; yet now we have both roads carrying passen- gers at eomething like one cent, and, in the case of the Central, less than a cent a mile. Competition in euch a case is a race of ruin: the road which does the most business loses the most money and goes to the wall soonest. It is to see whether some measures cannot be devired to prevent the inevitable consequence of this state of things that the meeting at Buf- falo is to be held. * If the principle urged upon the Erie Railroad by the bear interest be gene- rally adopted by railroads throughout the country, it is very easy to foretell the period at which all our great lines must go into bankruptcy. It has been the policy of this country not to regard the interest of railroads in building them, but to look rather to the ultimate reward to be reaped by the developement of the country. Hence competing lines have been built in every direc- tion, without regard to each other’s interest. If theee roads are to enter into s cut-throat competition and to agree, for the sake of exter- minating each other, to run at lees than half the lowest rate which pays expenses, the strug- gle must soon terminate in the collapse of all the combatants. It is only by a sensible mutual understanding and a nice adjustment of the relative rights of the roads and the public that they can poesibly hope to pay their way. Proper consideration should be bestowed on the purely patriotic and disinterested motives which animate the majority of the direct- ors of the Erie Railroad. It is well kuown that they are nerviog themselves to behold the ruin of our greatest railroads by a jp! losophic contemplation of the fact that the roads will remain, (cucu the stockholders are ruined. I is also understood that, with admirable self. denial, they console themselves for the injury they are inflictiog on the enterprise of which they are the managers and directors, by dwell ing on the benefit which they confer on the public by inaugurating the era of travel at bal cost. All there points shonld be borne in mind though it may happen that the stockholders in these roads may lack the peculiar philosophy necersary to appreciate them. Tarn Exp or me Dwienr Examination, The examination of Henry Dwight before Judge Ragreell, on various criminal charges, which has been occupying his Honor’s time for several weeks past, came to a hasty termination yester. doy by the discharge of Mr. Dwight on his own recognizance. The Judge, in view of the great amount of Inbor before him, suggested that counsel should waive farther examination, and j f the Disizic, Attorney, to be used or not, according as the Prosecutor saw fit to preas on the charges or to abandon them. Mr. Dwight’s counsel expressed & desire to have the investigation proceeded with, but consented to the course suggested by the Court, provided that Mr. Dwight was dis cbarged without security being required, but simply on pis individual recognizance. Mr. Oakey Hall consented to this arrangement, and on Mr. Dwight entering into bis own recogni- zance in five thousand dollars, he was at once discharged. This is probably the last of the caee, The Question of the Right of Search—E.ng- Innd Does Not Give it Up. The Washington organs and Washington letter writers are insisting that the whole ques- tion of the right of search, which was lately eo odiously exercised by England, has been en- tirely given up, and the old and so long sus- tained British position has been abandoned, in a despatch from Lord to Lord Napier, which has been communicated to our We have for good reasons heretofore stated our doubts that this result has been achieved, and the only reply that has been given to them is, a few confident assurances that have leaked out from the State Department and the inti- mates of the British legation. Bat notwith- standing the positive character of these statements, we still entertain grave doubts that the true question at issue has been definitely settled. We do not suppose that an honorable disclaimer of the course of the commanders of the British gunboats in the West Indies has not been made by the British Minister of Foreign Affairs; that the obnoxious ordefs, in their in- stance atleast, have been countermanded; and that the most polite assurances have been given of the disposition of the British government to admit all the claims of our citizens for reparation of the recent outrages into the devious passages of the circumlocution office. Lord Malmesbury may even have informed Lord Napier that in his private opinion England has no right to claim the power of visit and search at sea in time of peace, and directed him to communicate this fact to our government. But all this does not settle the great question of international law—the right of search. Eng- lish Mimster after English Minister has made sapologies to our government for the exercise of this power over our vessels at sea, until there are bushels of them on the files of the State Department ; every one of them acknowledges that England does this at her own peril; that she is liable for damages if she does wrong; and half a dozen Britieh officers have been broken for doing this wrong. Even Lord Stowell, a Chief Justice of Great Britain, gave his opinion against England on this subject many years ago. Yet has England continued to exercise the right of search, and has laboriously endea- vored to graft upon the law of nations a par- tial admission of this right. When shg found that the United States refused to admit it, the made strenuous exertions to prove that there was a difference between visit and search, and seemed to claim only the former. Not- withstanding all this, in the last exhibition of her determination to exercise the right, her officers have proceeded to the minutest exami- nations of cargo, contents of casks, their num- ber, 0. thus searching, in tho full sone of the term. In addition to all these facts, in the present instance we have the conversation and state- ments in Parliament of the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Malmesbury and Earl Hardwicke. All of these gentlemen insist upon it that the Ameri- can flag covers the slave trade and many other illegal acts; that it is necessary to obtain from the United States some stronger convention than that of 1842 regarding the African slave trade; and none of them give up the right hitherto claimed by England, for her officers to search every vessel they may meet at sea until they are satisfied that she carries the American flag in what they may consider to be an honest busi- ness, The unsatisfactory nature of these decla- rations in Parliament, and their great similarity to others made previously on the same subject, are, in our opinion, sufficient grounds for doubt- ing that the great question is settled. To these we will add what we have before stated—our doubt that a despatch from the British Minister of Foreign Affairs to the British Minister at Washington is sufficient to bind the English government, for all time to come, to change its private instructions to its cruisers, and respect what we have always claimed and they have always denied to be the law of nations. To all this we may add a still gravert reason to doubt the final settlement of this question. We have private letters from a high source in London, which state that the action of Lord M is not there looked upon in that light. His assurances to the American govern- ment, through Lord Napier, are stated to be merely glittering generalities, which cannot bind his government, and that the whole thing an artifice to get over the present trouble with- out a direct committal for the future. The despatch may be seemingly clearly worded, and yet intended to deceive, from its poesibility of bearing two interpretations. If General Cass has been deceived in this question we shall aseuredly have it opened again by future Bri- tish searches; and then its settlement will be ten times more difficult and irritating than ever. The only way to satisfy the public mind on this point is to publish Lord Malmesbury’s letter. Both Gen. Cass and Lord Napier owe this to the British government if it is in carnest, and to themselves if it is a snare. Kayeas Arrains —Tige Free Stare Bonper Rorrtans in Pent. Feataer.-—Read the startling information from our Kaneas correspondent which we publish this morning. It furnishes 4 vivid idea of the sort of “popular sovereign- ty” which the administration has had to deai with in Kansas from the beginning. According to this account, and we have every reason to be- lieve it perfectly tiac, a more abandoned gang of cutthroat banditti never existed among the mountains of Italy, or along the highways of Meaico, than this free State robber horde which hae plundered aud depopulated the Southern eottiements of Kansas. Uf Gen. Jim Lane had not xen detained at Leavenworth on account of the killing of his next door neighbor, per- haps the redoubtable Jim would have been ‘at the head of these Southern bor- der free State marauders, We think, how ever, that a much more reliable man in in reference to law and order has gone down to look after them, in the persen of Governor Den- ver, aud we are gratified to learn that he has gone to work promptly, and in the right way to bring them to justice. We can now understand the necessity that has heretofore existed for the sence in Kancas of a lorge amy forou, fiom A e the outbreaks of this fierce and Woody border rufflanism, which have followed the removal of the army. Cannot the Hon. Massa Greeley give us a groan, or 8 shriek, or adrop of comfort in reference to theee new sufferings of “bleeding Kensas,” from her anti-slavery border ruffians, Is Oaptain a leader of the cause of freedom, or the chief of a band of robbers. We should very much like to have the precise opinion of the Hon. Masea Greeley upon that question. ————___. ‘The News from Central America—Adventures of = Transit Route Grant. Our advices from Central America, and those of some of our cotemporaries from Wall street, are of a curious but not a very clear cha- racter. From the first named country we learn that the Cass-Yrisarri treaty is not yet ratified, and that opinions differ as to its future fate; that Mons, Belly has not got his bellyfall, and so has come to New York to get a taste of a Bowling Green Commodore; that Presidents Mora and Mar- tinez have certain rebellious subjects in their domains whom they expect soon to have to take in hand; that General Lamar wants to come home, but will hold on a little longer in hopes that something will turn up; that several ple have got the Transit route at last, and each of them are going to put it in operation at once—Mr. Fitzgerald is putting the route in order for Stebbins or Joe White; somebody else has got the one steamboat that is left for Com. Vanderbilt; and that no one really knows what is going to happen. From Wall street our cotemporaries learn—and are said to have paid two hundred dollars for the news—that Commodore Vanderbilt has got the route im his breeches pocket, out of which he took, in order to make room for it, $100,000 and sundry knick knacks—all of which he sent down to Central America by the Philadelphia, few days since, as a present to President Martinez. All this news may be very clear to somebody, but we can see in it nothing but confusion. As for Central America, it seems very probable that another political revolution is preparing there, while Walker is preparing in the South. Martinez’ Cabinet has broken up, his Congress has thrown out his last grant to Mons, Belly, and the members from Leon ecem ready to break out into open rebellion. As for the Transit route grant, it has been so often finally and ir- revocably settled that we begin to doubt its settlement at all. First, the “house of Vander- bilt” had it sure, and Capt. Spencer came home to get his $50,000, Then Webster and Young Anderson had it; but they split, and it fell out, Then again Morgan had it through his son-in- law, Harris, assisted by Webster. Something went wrong, and Vanderbilt sent his son-in- law, Allen, to look after it with the same Mr. Webster. They got it certain; but somehow Stebbins was found to be in possession of it, for Bcbleseinger brought it tohim. Then nobody had it till Joe White was said to have rode the Case Yrisarri treaty to victory. Suddenly we heard that Mons. Belly had beat all the Yankee Commodores and cooked it up in a French stew. Besides all these, Manning the British Consul at Leon, took it home to London with him, and at last we hear from Wall street that it has tarned up safe in Commodore Van- derbilt’s breeches pocket. Now, our opinion about the Nicaragua Trausit route grant and its holders is the same as our opinion about the little pea and the three thimbles. Nobody can guess which thim- ble the little joker is under. We are glad Mons. Belly has come here to take @ part in the game, and we hope that he will give the Transit route workers a specimen of his gastronomical diplomacy, and a touch of his known opinion about American rapacity. We hope he will do another little thing. When we first proclaimed, some months since, that he was going to Central America as a great French diplomat, Mons. Sartiges, the French Minister at Washington, wrote on here to inquire who Mons. Belly was. Now we trust that he will enlighten Mons. Sartiges, and make himself known at the Legation as well as in Cen- tral America. As for those republics, we be- lieve that they are about going into another grand fight among themselves, and that the Transit route is not yet open. Tur New Inn Traxsatiaytic Line.— Amongst the fast men of the Emerald Isle the Galway people have the reputation of being the fastest. They can drink, hunt, shoot, or make love with the people of any other county— the Tipperary boys not excepted. Their cat- tle fairs show the best stock, their race horses the best blood, and their fox hunters the most reckless daring of any in Ireland. When they get out of their depth, however, we are afraid that Galway men are but ordinary mortals You cannot drown them in whiskey punch, it is true; but it would seem as if the smell of sea water was fatal to their constitutions, They make bad sailors and worse navigators, being, like Barney O’Reardon, content to follow in the track of older and bolder pilots. The scheme of transatlantic communication between their port and that of New York has long been a favorite one with the Galway people. They would [ike to show what they really could show if they were to go the right way about ft; that, geographically considered, Galway is the most advantageous point in the United Kingdom for such a line. Under proper conditions the distance be- tween the two ports might be accomplished in about eight days. But, whilst oa land the Galway men imitate the qualities of the hare, on the ocean they only display those of the tortoise, Three different attempts have they made to prove the superior advantages of their port as a transatlantic starting point, and three times have they signally failed. The present experiment, with the lumbering old tub, familiar fo ancient mariners, but freshly baptised under the imposing name of the Ladian Empire, promiees to be the woret of all. Oa Friday last thie veesel was already cight days out, and wp to this time there are no signs of her appearauce. By the end of the week she will probably crawl foto port, thas demonstrat. ing the character of Galway enterprise and Galway judgment in matters appertaining to ocean navigation If the Galway men would like to shoot round the corner of a difficulty, we might iodi cate to them a short way of accomplishing whet they have taken euch a laborious route to arrive at. Instend of spendifig their money upon slow steamers, which bave been condemned for the abeence of the very qualities that are necossary to prove what they are aiming at, they should pend over and charter such fast heeled veasela as the Adriatic or the Vanderbilt, A single trip with one of these fine bovts would show Galeay to possese aévaniages of situation ia regard tc this goua try that po English port can boast of, and at the same time establish for the Galwaymen af sea the same fast character which they enjoy on land. As a question of expense, such an ex periment would be far less costly than the re peated failures that they are now making. 8) much for Galway. Errscr or New Gowp Discovenms.—If any re liance is to be placed on the recent gold dis coveries on the rivers flowing into the Gulf d Georgia, in British North America, we ae about to witness a revival of the California e citement. It has already been observed thé - scientific reasons would justify the discovery € gold on the whole mountain slope of the Pacié shore, from the Arctic Circle to the Equato No scientific theory would account for a limite tion of the gold field to California alone, ani now discovery is proving that there is no sud limitation. Gold exists in Sonora, Arizons az Mexico; it is being produced likewise in tb Hudson’s Bay territories, Presuming that more thorough researche will confirm those which have already bea made, it may be taken for granted that an in crease of from twenty-five to thirty-three pe cent is about to be added to the annual gol crop of the world. In other words, it is cala- lated that the annual gold produot of Califr- nia, Australia, and the other gold prodamg countries of the world, has averaged for ihe past nine years over $100,000,000 a year. Jat- terly the average has risen above this; it imot less, now, than $125,000,000, or perhaps $B3,- 000,000. If the gold mines on Frazer’s rver add thirty to forty millions to the annualpro- duct, the world will receive annually an aces- sion of nearly two hundred millions of dclara in gold, or one-twentieth of the whole amunt now held in circulation and on deposit i the form of jewels, bullion, ornaments, &c. It has been estimated by careful statisthians that the California and Australia discovrics, and their additions to the gold possessed ly the world at large have been the means of ehanc- ing the price of all raw materials and staple commodities from forty to fifty per ceot. Fresh discoveries in British North America woud na- turally stimulate a further increase proporioned to the amount produced. It may be that these new discoveries wil in- augurate an era only second to that whic fol- lowed the first developement of California. We shall see. —_ THE LATEST NEWS. The Atlantic Telegraph Expeditien. THE WEATHER AT NEWFOUNDLAND. 81. Jonys, N. F., June 28—10 A. M. ‘The weather ‘hick with rain, but has somo appearance of a clear up. Our Special Wi Deopatch. THE NBW YORK POST OFFIOR APPOINTMENTS—THE CASS HBBRAN CONVRNTION—AMERICAN CLAIMS O% FORBIGN COUNTRIES, ETC. Wasuryoron, June 28, 1858. ‘The appointments of ppstmasters for the State of New York are under consideration of the President. He will not, as reported, make all of them immediately. He has all the documents of qualification and recommendation before him, and bas heard the arguments of partisan friends who have crowded the White House the woox past, and will now take time to maturely consider therm. They will bo disposed of, not upon the spur of pressure of politicians, but upon merit, during the reseas of Con- 88. eo Now Granada I learn that the new constitution ‘would como into operation in May, and that the Senate bad intentionally put off the decisionon tho Cass-Herran treaty till that time. By this constitution the House of Representatives would no longer be a part of the treaty making power. The Senste can decide as it chooses, and overrule even the veto of the President. The ratification of the convention, or treaty, under these circumstances, is improbable. One argument used now against the coa- cession of territory for « naval station among the islands inthe bay of Panama—and there is some force in itis that Great Britain, France aad other Powers have inti- mated that they would require the same conceesions. ‘Tho State Department is active in preparing a schodule of all claims cf American citizens against foreign govern. ments, with the view of a cecisive settlement of them. ‘The General Land Office bas the following surveys of Jand grants contirmed in California:—Rancho ‘“Rincovata del Arroyo de San Franciaquite,” to the heirs of Maria Antonio Mesa, conta.ning two thousand two hundrod and fourteen acres; rancho ‘Aguas Frias,’ to Samuel Todd, containing twenty six thousand seven huadred and sixty one acres; raschoria “Del Rio Estanislas,”’ to Francisco Rice and Jose Antonio Castro, conta'ning forty eight thou sand eight hundred and eighty-six acres; ‘San Juana,” to Hiram Grimes, containing nineteon thousand nine bun- dred and eighty-two acres. ‘THE CRIRRAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, Wasinyorow, Jane 28, 1868, A Gecided stand bas been taken in regard to Contral American affairs. The governments of the several States will at once be informed through our Ministers that the administration is determined in any event to sustain all the rights and interests which have been secured to our Citizens by grants or charter in that quarter. The Secretary of the Interior bas rendered an impor. tant decision in the case of the alleged proprietors of Sus Perior City, on # question involving conficting pre emp on Claims. The coptestants failed to «bow that they nad settled on any ‘mproved land for thoir own benefit, and it was in evidence that they were empioyés of others, uncer whore direction and for whose benefit they acted. Therefore their claim is invalid and ordered to be cae- colled. This decision catadlishes the precedent that neither of the acts of 1841 and 1844 for the relief of citi- oma of towns on the lands of the United States refers to town sites pot aiready occupied as such at the time of their passage, and that the parties mut be actual ooom- pants of the town in order to enjoy the advantages they confer. Attorney General Black, Postmaster General Brown and Secretary Cobb, accompanied by Fncineer Bowman, bave left for Philadelphia in order to arrange for the buildings for the Courts, Custom House and Post Office in that city. Governor Sibley, of Minnesota, arrived here this morn- Ing Wo attend in person to the important business of that ‘State, Major H. C. Wayne§died thie morning of hemorrhage of the lungs. St. Lov, June 28, 1888. ‘A despatch from Loayenworth 24th inst.,by the United States Express Company, to Booneville, says that an ox- press from Camp Scott, bringing datos to the 10th inst, five days later than by the mail, bad just arrived. Lat tera from the garrison, by this arrival, report Col. How. man within one and Capt. Marcy within two days march of For. uridger, Th was plated that Governor foit considerable dirtrast of the Mormons and their pro- mises, and that the army would breek camp acd march om the capital. By the 16th inst. there would bean of. ficleat and well armed force of 2,500 men, provision: to plenty, and (he troops eager for the command to march. — ‘The Case of Gen. Vane, of Kanens. Br. Loris, June 28, 1958, A dempatch from Leavenworth 24th inst says that ine, tentimony in the cage of Ceroral Lane was concluded to- day, and to morrow is fixed for the »- “th Partie opinion ts too mush étrited to allow of a prediouon of the renelt. ee Indian Depredations at the Weert, Cnicra>, Jumo 28, 1868 Reporte from Pacotah Territory state that the Yeoktoa Indiazs, theres thousand in number, are committiog “o)re dations in ibe white settiome ate along the Minnerota rivor. The canee i dissatisfaction at their annuities, now dow, not being paid by the government. They therefore intend to recover their lands, and drive the whites away. Thoy beve destroyed the village of Medary and barntthe town of Fiandran, An emigrant train nad sito been plundered. The settlers were concentrating at Minnesota Falls pro. paratory to defennive operations. Vermont Republican State Convention. Mowrerram, Jon» 23, 1859, eo to the Rapuducaa Stale Caxyeawoe, Abe de.ogs