The New York Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1858, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS. TERMS, cash in advance. THE DAILY HERALD two cents per copy. $Y prrannum THE WEEKLY HERALD, every 5 iv,at tx cents per copy, oF 8S per annem: the Hivropean Bilitwon, $4 per annum, to GaN Rert o Great Britain, or $6 to any part af the ontinént, tod ie THE FAMILY HERALD, every Wednenday, at four cents per Rb LUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important news, solicited ‘any quarter of the wortd; if used will be libe- rally paid for. B@-UCK FORmIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE Pan- FIOULARLY Ruquesxsp ro Seal al Latrers amp Pacwacas eENO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, We do mot return those JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and des No. 180 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Fourteenth street—Itatian Oren a Massa nigi0—La s Raviata. NIBLO’® GARDEN, Broadway—Excusu Comrpy—Lon- DON ASSURANCE. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Sraancer—Guprroy— A Yanuxs Burr amp 4 Yarxes Crew. BARNUM'S AMERIOAN MUSEUM, Groadway—Afer- pnoon—Jassiz Waaxtox. Evening—Postaam amp bis Doo— Goop rox Noruing. ACADEMY OF THE DRaMA, 585 Broadway—Ecrcras. ‘WOOD'S BUILDING, 661 and 563 Brosdway—Ermorian Bowes, Daxcas, &c.—Panonaa ov TH Hupson Riven. MECHANIOS’ HAY. Broadway—Bavanrs’ Mimsrreis —Nrdno tones ano Buaissaces—Boe Bipure Pestivat. 444 BROADWAY—Marr. Prex's Campnect Morsreecs— Ermoriax Maopizs axp DANCES—ANGLO-AFRICAR O1Rcos. New York, Wednesday, Jane 30, 1858, ‘The News, The steamship Ariel, which left Southampton on the 16th instant, reached this port last night, and the mails of the Anglo-Saxon, which left Liverpool on the same day, arrive d from Quebec during the forenoon. The main features of the news by both vessels were telegraphed from St. Johns, N. F., and Quebec, respectively, and published in the HzmaLp on the 28th and 29th instant. Although the Arabia at Halifax has brought three days later news, our files to the 16th contain some interesting extracts. ‘The leading London journals of that day earnestly advised Lord Derby's governmentto forever abandon the right of search at sea, as they were evidently alarmed at the unanimity which pervaded all classes of men here in denouncing the late naval outrages. The Paris Moniteur again asserts that the “ Empire is peace.” However, the English cabinet watched the assemblage of French war ships at Brest with much anxiety. Sayres, the champion of the Britis prize ring, won the belt a second time on the 14th inst., after an encounter with Paddock, which lasted for an hour and thirty-five minutes. By way of Charleston we have news from Havana to the 25th inst. There was nothing of importance transpiring in political circles. The sugar market ‘was active, at previously reported rates. Owing to apprehended serious troubles with the savage tribes in Oregon, the War Department has, it is stated, decided to send a portion of the Utah army to that Territory. Gen. Harney will be re- called from Utah, and proceed to Oregon and as- some command of the forces there. The new Mayor of New Orleans, Mr. Stith, had some difficulty on the day of his inauguration with a portion of the leaders of the party that elected him. Mr. Lucien Adams, one of the most prominent of the obnoxious portion of the Know Nothings, pro- duced a letter of Mayor Stith, written previous to the election, pledging himself to give the appoint- ment of Chief of Police to Mr. Adams, to continue during his entire term if elected. Instead of doing this Mayor Stith appointed Thomas E. Adams, Esq., recently a merchant of good standing, to that im- portant office. The existence of this pledge had been rumored, but its production caused great surprise. No further demonstration against the Mayor was ex- hibited, and he was sworn in, as was also Mr. Adams as Chief of Police. A court martial, recently held at San Antonio, Texas, to try Capt. Seth M. Barton, of the First In- Yantry, upon a charge of causing a citizen to be flogged, resulted in finding the accused guilty, and in his sentence to suspension for three months and confinement within the limits of his command. James B. Smith, lately Comptroller Flagg’s clerk, agaiust whom the Grand Jury recently found an in- dictment for forgery, in having altered the books of the Comptroller's office, was arrested on Monday at Yonkers. He was taken before a magistrate yester- day, and gave bonds in $5,000 to answer the charge on the first Monday of the’Jaly term of the Court of Sessions. The committee of the Common Council on the removal of the remains of President Monroe beld another meeting yesterday. John Cochrane has been chosen as orator at the ceremonies, and he has accepted the invitation to act in that capacity. An invitation is also extended to the Mayor and Com- mon Council, and the heads of departments, and the Board of Supervisors, to take pact in the obsequies. ‘There wil! be another meeting of the committee this afternoon, when it is expected that the programme of the caremonials will be arranged. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday, asked if there were any applications for licenses to come before them, and on receiving no reply adjourned for twenty-four bours. The committee on the celebration of the Fourth of July met yesterday afternoon, but did nothing worth reporting. The suit between the city of New York and the lessees of the State of certain lots fronting Wash- ington market towards the river, was commenced in the Supreme Court, special term, yesterday, by the reading of certain documents, and further adjourned to Friday next, at nine o'clock. Writs of mandamus ordering the Police Commis- sioners to pay the old police their salaries were granted some time since, and returnable yesterday morning to the Supreme Conrt, special term. After some discussion the hearing was set down for the first Monday in October. The Commissioners of Health met at the usual hour yesterday, Mayor Tiemann presiding. A letter was received from Peter Squires, of the Eleventh precinct, complaining of a nuisance of bones aud offal which were allowed to rot in the neighborhood, producing » dangerous effluviuam. A communication was also received from a citizen of the Twenty second ward, complaining of the nuisance occasioned by ewill carts, Both the communice- 9 Ba We repctted to the City Inspector, ” as 14th enavet ' She oment ot Columbia ® Niblo’s, and mt pree heat of the day the wwided by the (ike of the city. theatre was densely cr The pro were very interesting. The Pre. dent (Char t Keq., LL.D.) delivered an address, in which he announced that the ad deter ] to establish a post-graduate ©, which would euvrace a school n otters, and a law school. The F sh visiters—Lord F. Awe lord Richard on t end Hop. Evelyn Ashley—were poceont uring @ portion of the proceedings. The cotwe market was quiet yesterday, dealers being Jimpowed to await the recetjt of letters due by the Arabia befor: doing much. ‘The sales were confined to come 200 25% bales, without change in prise. Flour wae less boot ent and aotive, eapectally for com mon grades, which © at rather oasier reves, while extra qualilies were ce: ereed. Wheat was in fair demand, while prime lots ’m, and common qualities dal! and \rregular. Corn aly, with moderate sales at fall prices, Pork was with wales of moss at $16 60, and prime at $15 36.8 + $18 60. Sugars were firm, and closed at an ad- this week's enles of 0. > 4c. The sales em about 660 a 700 bhds. Cube and Porto Rico, and AUakapas anction, at rates given 2 another Preighta were beavy au! 60. ‘The Piceidcntial Qaestion—Cendition and Movements of Parties, All men, of all sections and all parties, we be- lieve, entertain the presentiment that the cam- paign for the uext Presidency will be the most remarkable political struggle. and the most im- portant in its general resuits, of any Presiden- tial contest of the last halfcentury. Old parties and party issues have melted away—new par- ties and principles are in process of formation; but as yet no party for 1860 has assumed a de- finite or tangible shape. There are two or three well established points, however, from which we may draw some profitable conclusions to all parties concerned. And thus let us proceed to business, We have, heretofore, shown from the records that the democratic party, since the year 1836, have been in a popular minority in the Union. ‘When the opposition united against them in 1840 the astonished democracy were borné down as by an avalanche; in 1844 they car- ried Mr. Polk, in consequence of the diversion of the opposition balance of power from Clay te Birney; in 1848 tbey were beaten; in 1852, the mission of the whig party having been ful- filled, it wasfrittered away, and it disappe: like the morning clouds from the mountains, Year 1853, however, betrayed the fact that the vote cast for Pierce was a democratic de- lusion. In 1854 the popular’ elections dis- closed the still more unwelcome truth that the opposition forces throughout the country were largely in the ascendancy; and in 1856, al- though the democracy contrived to secure the election of Mr. Buchanan, the record shows that it was against a popular majority of nearly four hundred thousand votes. And how stands the matter now? Unques- tionably the opposition forces still command an overwhelming popular majority of the Union— @ majority so decisive that, with » proper handling of their cards, they may not only carry the next House of Representatives, but the Presidential succession, with the force of a hurricane. ‘The remains of the regular demo- cratic party are now in a more crippled and emaciated condition than at any time since the organization of the party under Gen. Jackson. Their leaders, instead of harmonizing upon a common object, are divided upon selfish schemes and intrigues; and consequently the rank and file, instead of presenting a bold and united front, present us the melancholy scene of a beaten, disorganized and retreating army. The administration has labored faithfally to restore order and union in the camp; but the factious leaders and demagogues of the party, during the late session of Congress, in a spirit of reckless folly and stupidity for which we cannot account upon apy basis of honesty or patriotism, would have destroyed the administration itself—the very last hope of the party—but for the inter- vention of some patriotic men from the oppo- sition side upon this measure that measure and the other. But though the administration and its policy have thus been vindicated and carried through by opposition votes, the sectional and factious discords engendered in the democratic camp at Washington have been diffused, like a contagious disease, throughout the country, so that at this juncture there is scarcely a State in the Union in which the late great democratic party can hold up its head with any degree of courage, confidence or hope. At this gloomy crisis in the fortanes of the democracy we see that the money question, In its moet comprehensive bearings and in all its ramifications, is rapidly becoming the para- mount issue before the people. And here, too, a combination of causes and a chapter of ac- cidents, over which Mr. Buchanan’s administra- tion has had no control, and for which it can be charged with no responsibility, are ope- rating, and will operate, to strengthen and solidify the opposition movements for the succession. Mr. Buchanan has substantially settled the Kansas imbroglio; but it wasa legacy which, even in its settlement, has aggravated, rather than healed, the party disorders which it had previously created in the North and West. The President had no alternative than the straighforward course which he adopted and pursued; but the congequences were inevi- table. Nor could he, in view of bis constitu- tional rerponsibilities, and his representative character as the head of a just and honest peo- ple, pursue any other courre than that which he has pursued concerning the Walker filibus- ters; and yet this policy has resulted in strengthening the hands of the reckless party dis. organizers of the South. We know that what- ever the party may suffer, North or South, from such causes, the administration, standing fast to the principles of Jaw and impartial justice, has nothing to fear. But we are discussing the de- moralizations of the party. At this crisis, then, and in the demoralized condition we have described, the democracy stand; and how, then, are they to resist the ad- ditional preesure of the increased government expenditures—the Treasury notes and loans— for which they will be held accountable? We all know thet in regard to these things the administration has had no alternative; bat we know, too, that the party representing the administration will be held to answer for them. In this connection, from all the facts re- cited, and from all the signs of the times, the union of the opposition in 1860 upon a practical candidate, and the practical issue of retrench- ment and reform, will sweep the country like a tornado. The only chances for the democracy are in the great events which may arise and in the new issues which may grow out of such events within the next two years, and in the di- visions of the opposition upon two or three pintforms and candidates, In teference to thes¢ ultimate divisions, the présent inovements of the moe activ® organs and pipedaycrs of the oppoéitiont f«*tlons are decidedly encouraging to the otherwise forlorn democracy. The rump of the Know Nothing faction are moving heaven and earth to put Mr Crittenden in the foreground, when it is evident that, though a venerable and prominent etates- man, Mr. Crittenden belongs to a past age, aud that his respected nav merely used by the disbanded dark lantern managers to lift them ut of the mire into which they foandered ia 1856, Ou the other hand, the agents and team peters of W. H. Seward—such as Matteson, Thurlow Weed, the Chevalier Webb, and Greeley (*ub roea)—are working their plans for Mr. Soward’s elevation to the Presidency, as the great champion of the lobby. What would he the consequences of his election we may guees from his very liberal appropristion pro- clivities at all times, and hie widely extended lobby associations of the last five years. Mr. Seward’s election as President would be quickly followed by the full inauguration of the lobby as the first estate of the governm:nt; and what with land distributions, land graats, ‘ater- nal improvements, combination lobby contracts, Spoliation bills, indemnities, patent monopolies, railroad and eteamboat jobs, &c., his first or ee- cond year’s expenditures and liabilities would most likely reach thé splendid figure of one hundred and fifty millions of dollars. But the best of it is that the nomination of Seward could not command more than one-third of the aggregate opposition vote of the country; and we would admonish his friends to take their soundings in season, if they would not be ruined by the lobby enthusiasm of the Chevalier Webb. As an available candidate for the opposition forces of all factions and sections we have men- tioned General Simon Cameron, of Penngyl- vania, His position, geographically and po- litically, ia a centralone, His antecedents are democratic, and with a little spicing of Know Nothingism, be is, withal, a republican, though not an ultra republican. In fact, as nearly as any other man in the country, he may now be said to occupy the national conservative posi- tion of General Taylor in 1848. If any one of our opposition cotemporaries, North or South, can name a more available fusion candidate, let him be named; but at all events, let the oppo- sition mapagers, of all sections and factions, remember this admonition—that none of their old stagers—not even Fremont, and least of all W. H. Seward—will be available for the fusion of the opposition forces, North and South, ia 1860; and that without such fasion they will run the hazard of a signal defeat like that of '36 or '56; or of a doubtful scrub race, like that of 1824. Tue FasutonaBLeE Sxason—ProsPects or THE Warerina Praces.—The heated term has, among other things, set people thinking as to where they shall spend their summer vacations. The pleasure seekers by the sea shore, at the springs or the mountain side, are divided into many classes. There is the parvenu who passes the season at Newport or Saratoga, and suffers all sorts of torments for the sake of ap- pearing fashionable ; the restless business man who knocks about from place to place, and makes a tour ofa thousand miles in a fortnight, and the quiet family parties who achieve “country board” in some sylvan retreat “con- venient to a railway station.” This season, however, we believe will be distinguished by the mixing up of these classes more or less. The re- vulsion of last autumn and the succeeding dull times have diminished the profits of the mer- chante, so that pater familiés cannot afford to send madame and the young ladies to a fashion- able place in fashionable style. The Saratoga trunks will diminish in number and in bulk, and the fachionable hotel registers, ordinarily fat, will wax thin apace. The ladies who usually sail about the piazzas at the “United States” or the “Ocean” will be compelled to hide themselves in some less expensive retreat, and to console themselves with the reflection that flush times must come again sooner or later. The fact is that when the commercial world balances its books, on the first of July next, the result will be, “nothing made.”” Those merchants and traders who can write “nothing lost” are lucky fellows. Even they must cut off their luxuries, and we believe there are still some people who call living at a fashionable water- ing place hotel a luxury. From the scarcity of money and the duinces of trade, any one can deduce the conclusion that the season at the fashionable summer re- sorts will be a bad one. The landlords, by in- | troducing certain reforms, auch as doing away with the system of bribing the waiters, etc., and reducing their prices, may manage to work through witheut losing a great deal. Uualess they conform to the general rule of economy, however, they will surely go to the wall. are of the opinion that people generally will hie to seme quict retreat in the country, where they can be more comfortable than at the fashionable places, and save their cash at the same time. Frvate or Tue Opera Srason.—The short summer season at the Academy will be brought to a close this evening with the soirée d'adieu of Mme. de Gazzaniga. The seventeen perform- ances already given have barely paid the ordi- nary werking expenses of the house—so that the principal artists have been singing for nothing. The Opera, at this reason, depends a great deal upon strangers and sojourners; but they do not seem to be so numerous or to have #0 much loose cash as usual. At any rate, the andiences have generally been composed of habitués and connoisseurs. They have had a musical feast such as is rarely offered. The singing and acting of Mme. de Gazzaniga in the “Favorita,” the “Traviata” and “Sappho,” place her in the front rank of the great artists of the day. Such an artist as Mme. de Gazza- niga would make a furore with the most exact- ing European audiences; and the more exact- ting, the greater would be the success of the artist. The others—Brignoli, Miss Phillips, Gassier and Amodio—have all the qualities for first rate artistic rank ; and it will be long be- fore the quartette is matched. It may be asked, with propriety, why, with this great artist at the head, and a company quite perfect so far as the chief singers were concerned, did not the Opera succeed? It could not have been altogether owing to the hot weather, because Miss Charlotte Cushman attracts a great house at Niblo’s on the same night that the Academy is almost deserted. ‘The comparative failure of the Opera, in a pecuniary point of view, may be traced in part to the fact that there were too many managers. Commonwealths of actors or tingers never succeed. The great combi- nation of Bosio and others against Maret- zek, some ten years ago, will be remembered. Both parties lost money. The fact is, the artists want an energetic manager to rule over iuem, apd the pabjic must be stirred up by the manager before they’ will go, Ts success of the Opera lies quite as much in thé Manage- ment as in anything else. Ronconi failed t¢ attract, s'mply hecanse he was not well managed. We must tell the artists of the Academy one of their greatest errors, which was in the reduction of the choral and vschestral forces. A dollar nominally saved by this course really keeps ten dollars out of the honse. All these things—to wit., the economy of the strangers, the many- headed direction, and the parsimoay in the choras and orchestra, combined with the hot weather (which, of course, keeps some people away) to lesren the average attendance at the Academy. It is unfortanate that such fine artists as Mme. de Gazzaniga should be obliged to sing to small audiences; but after all it mey do them some good. After suffering the terrors of management they may become molii- fied towards their future directors, It seems now that we must go without the Opera till Sep tember. Meanwhile the Aabitués of the Acade- my can console themselves with Musard’s pro- menade concerts, whiob, on dit, are about to be commenced, We) Precious sheet we shall notice :— Tum Yacur Racn.—The Rebecca, which frat arrived at the recent yacht race around Long Ialaad, the part of the sailing master of the verbal and incomplete orders from Mr. Haswell, of the Sailing Committee, she went through Plum Gut instead of the Ruce, ‘sweeps, changing her course, and eo forth, are Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the Heratp, was on board the Rebecca during the race around the island. Mr. Bennett never even saw the yachts etart, and it was merely by riding over from Fort Washing- ton to Throgg’s Neck on Saturday morning that he happened to be present when the slow ones came in to the stake boat. The proprietor of the took but very little interest in the it was otherwise engaged than with boat racing. ‘ In the chagrin of the beaten we should not be surprised to see a story circulated that the Rebecca had a steam engine in her stern to enable her to beat all the yachts in the fleet. The truth is, her great quatities for sailing, in all winds and weather, were never brought out in the short boy’s play races heretofore ran by the Yacht Club. The Rebecca was modelled by William Tucker, and built by Mr. Van Pelt. Her model is considered of the most compre- hensive character for all weathers and all seas, All her qualities were brought out in that long ocean race around Long Island by Captain Luke Rustin, under whose entire management she sailed; and he deserves all the credit for having beaten, by nearly four hours, the whole New York Yacht fleet. By a card in another part o° the paper, and also by a statement from Captain Luke Rustin, which can be verified by a dozen other persons, it will be seen that the young proprietor of the Rebecca replies to some of the ridiculous fabri- cations about her sailing and management, and to show his sincerity and high sense of honor he offers to run the same race against the Min- nie around Long Island next week. Will he dare to take up the challenge? Our Issue with England and the State of Europe—Reasons for Humbugging the Uni- ted States, It will be seen from our special Washington despatches that the question of the right of search is not yet settled, and that a difference of opinion as to the value or meaning of Lord Malmesbury’s despatch to Lord Napier exists between the President and the Secretary of State. Our view in regard to the deceptive chavav- ter of the admissions by the English Minister is still further borne out by the report of con- versations in Parliament on the 17th inst., pub- lished in our yesterday's issue. We are well aware that statements on the floor of Parlia- ment do not bind a minister or a government, but they sometimes show the arriere pensee which animates them. The Bishop of Oxford and Lord Brougham wish to turn Cuba into a free negro colony. Lord Malmesbury regrets that the slave trade still continues, and says that on the abetract question of international law he agrees with Lord Stowell and the law officers of the Crown; but that he has put strongly to the American government the ne- cessity of an ocean police, and that an under- standing should be come to as to the man- ner of exercising it. It wMl, therefore, be eeen that the true position taken by the English government is, that as the law of nations prohibits England from exercising the power of an ocean police, or the right of search, the lay of nations should be changed. The despatch to Lord Napier no doubt covers up all this diplomatic language, which may seem to concede a point, but this is done under the pressure of existing emergencies in Europe. The political condition of the whole conti- nent is precarious in the extreme. France is making stupendous preparations for war : England knows that these are not directed against her, and consents up to a certain point to the schemes of Louis Napoleon; but she wants no difficulty at this time with the Ameri- can government, for she knows not how soon after the dykes that now protect Europe are broken away she may have to go into a war to protect the stipulations she has made. Louis Napoleon is determined to complete the cycle of the empire, and to carry out the great policy of his uncle. In pureuance of this policy, Italy is to be severed from Austria, and the Austrians and King Bomba are to be driven out to- gether. The Italian peninsula is to be recon- stituted on the old Napoleonic plan, for the only dangers that now menace the throne of the Bo- naparte come from Italy and the Italians, Eag- land bas consented to this on condition that Belgium ehall be respected, and that the condi- tion of things in the Iberian peninsula shall not be interfered with. Louis Napoleon has accepted these conditions from England for the present. No man knows better than he how to bide his time, and to ac- cept his nde by piecemeal. Tle has secured the consent of Rueeia and England to his first step, fand has eent a fleet futo the Adriatic to support a French army which is preparing to pour over italy. The Cobarg policy conrents to the des poiling of Austria, for it is now allied with the crown of ite rival, Prussia; aod Russia perhaps oresees a division of the Austrian dominions afer the manner of Poland. Thus the French Cinpire sweepe over Italy; Russia advances over the southeastern provinces of Austria; and Prus sia, Coburgized, becomes first in Germany. This is the reward to be meted out to Austria for her double dealing with all during the late Eastern war. But each of these great Powers ces the poesible necd of keeping the others in check, and therefore no present diilicnlty is de sired with the United States. good relations with usin every way. disclaims Mons. Belly and his Central American imbroglio. England portpones the issue of the right of ecarch question by envelop Fraace NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1858. mass of: diplomatic generalities which may mesn something or may mean notbing at all. Bat in all this portioning out of the conti- nental crowns and kingdomsto the three houses born to empire—Romanoff, Bonaparte, and Coburg—care is taken not to forget the universal European sentiment, that the national advance of the United States on the American continent must be delayed, and if possible thwarted. The Bishop of Oxford thinks this can be done by turning Cubs into a free African colony. Louis Napoleon thinks it can be done by grow- ing cotton in Algeria, bringing some hundreds of thousands of negroes to Martinique and Gua- dalupe, and sustaining the germ of a confedera- tion of the African Antilles in the Haytien em- pire. Spain, the crackbrained Quixote of Eu- rope, believes that she can do the deed by libe- rating the negroes in Cuba when she can no longer hold that island, and then couching her doughty lace in vengeance against this country. These are the reasons why England wishes to lay over, but not settle the right of search ques- tion now. She will continue to assert the ne- ceesity of a police of the ocean, which is the only ground upon which she has ever really defended her exercise of the right of search in time of peace; and if we do not agree to that she can then resuscitate her practice at some time more propitious to her than the present one of serious complications in Europe. If there is really a desire on the part of England to settle this issue and extinguish the African slave trade, let a convention be at once entered into, setting forth a full dis- claimer of the right of visit or search; and let the United States and England unite in a joint declaration to Spain that the market for African slaves in Cuba must be closed, or the two governments will undertake to close them themselves. Let it also be stipulated between the two governments that the American fleet on the coast of Africa shall be withdrawn and placed on the coast of Cuba; that the English fleet shall be instructed to land men and burn every baracoon and town on the African coast where the slave trade is carried on; that the American cruisers shall be instructed to chase every slaver on the coast of Cuba, even into harbor, and land men and burn every bara- coon or town that harbors the slave traders or their victims. The only objection to such a convention as this is, that if it is entered into and the joint declaration to Spain be made, ehe will sell us Cuba for one-half of what we have offered for it. But this is precisely what England does not want. A New Speck or War—Tue Inpian Batrex or Sake River—According to all the ac- counts received, Col. Steptoe, with a detachment of the United States army, has suffered « disas- trous defeat in a battle with the Indians in the Territory of Washington, on Snake or Lewig river, near its junction with Clark's, or the north branch of the Columbia riv Of the exact details of the fight we are » yet i but it appears that it was comme Indians, fifteen hundred strony, while Ool. Step- toe and his command were ¢rsi) the river—a fordable stream; that the ronment \roops were reduced to a precipitate fight, end that they loet some fifty men kilied, much of their baggage, &c., and all their suimels, excepting sixty mules. We do 94 kiow what was the force of Col. Stepte, bu. we prowume that it could not have ber. « ‘han three or four hun- dred men; and feo! of euch a force by even fifteen hund:- !miieo cannot very well be explained, excep. upen tbe theory of crimi- nal negligence or bad mao zement. We await the official report. In the mean- time it appears that the government interprets this reported battle as the beginning of a gene- ral Indian war in Oregon and Washington Ter- ritories, and that, accordingly, a strong detach- ment of the army, originally intended for Utah, will probably be marched to this new theatre of war, under that terrible Indian fighter, General Harney. Of the costs of this new war we may form some idea from the locality of this Snake river battle. It is something of a journey from Leavenworth to Fort Bridgy or Camp Scott; but to reach this Snake riter battle ground from Camp Scott a still more dreadful desert march of about six hundred miles will have to be made. The costs of the amy transportation, therefore, of General Harney will be a nice figure by the time he reaches te Columbia. The Oregon local authorities wd people, if we are not mistaken, bave alrady presented claims to Congress amounting & five millions of dollars on account of Indian hostilities ; and thus it is very likely that the spevulators concerned will take good care to make wother Florida drain upon the Treasury before ey are done with it. It will, therefore, becomk the duty of the administration, while engagti in reducing the Indians to submission, to kee, a sharp look out after these Indian war jobbera and speculators, who are at the bottom of all these Indian dis turbances. Items from Corresponéents. ‘Tre ANWUAL CoMMENCEMENT OF TRuNTTY Cortece, Hant- rorD, Gows., occurs om Thursday, July . The annual meeting of the House of Convocation oocurt on the Wed- needay previous. Tae ScreauNteypent of Te Carron Exteemoy, Mr. Warten, denies that he bas sent in his resignation, to take effect in six days, unless bie superior, Captait Meigs, is removed. A New Porrmart or Waswwerow iv Breuy.—a letter from Dusseldorf, dated April 1, says:—There is oxhibited ‘now in our never closing gallery of pictures of art @ por- trait, m full size, of the father of the North American Union, George Washington, which has been executed by an American artist, G.C. Bingham, amd is destined to orm the State House at Jetleton, the capital of the State Of Misgouri. It is ® pictere emeured m besutiful style and of an vomistakoable reremblnce, Unto Pane Come at Nur P. Ma Otyig sends use prove’ which i endorred by “Ph@-abiic,”” against the closing of this park at such ®© UMF°Ronabie hour, Ho thinke that the citizens generally, 40%pariculariz the working classes, who have been comlinedyi! day, should have an opportunity to enioy the gratefthnies and cool pone of this park anti ® laterhour, 800% Kee 0 parks open, by all moans, Foren or Seuise Stones Promect.—TBy proverty Clerk, C.J. Warren, says the report of bis la&eeiurn to tho Paltce Comm esioners should bave 1 sad $2%, Rnesia cultivates | giliiaa paid to the Treasurer oni only $56 paid for wale of th yoots, Tam Tastixy sooty, on Coummman Ovomn, WA gato. brute the coming national enalversary »* Fotlty of at Temmany Hall, om Munday, the 5th prox. Tas Ocras Postar Senvier Quemoan,- Justice” &, gests that if W mobdere of Congrogs are cot wilh that the ted: coverpment shou'd help to eapoort a fre clan line of steemers from New York to England, ehon! New York members bring forward ® reestation against the general government supporting the Western post efices from fands reosived from the Now York offices? It aceme to him that thie would be bat fair, as New YOrk in ome of the few Staten whose pont office re ovipts exceed tb) expenditares; therefor | w aceistarce from the other Staten to steamers, even should they con! double what the Colina line ever cost, perticutarly as there steamers benefit the Other Siates ap well as New York:--otherwies, tot the sur offer rere of Now York eceras to ber bens. | WekaTtore he cea Agort to support tals aod othor ineo motacst, ota line of BO) 1, ROUTE—WHO 18 AHBAD, BELLY OB vam TRANSIT DEABILT? Wasmaron, Jane 2, Notwithstanding all the assurances to the coutriiry, Question in regard to the right of scarch by dad ers af eee is not settled by Lord Malmosbary reoout despatch to Lord Napier, as I learn from an e thority; and there isa difference of opinion in wo ea w the meaning of its language, as { tn formed you. The President thinks the all the points, while Gen. Cass holds to the * Tunderstand General Harney is to bo recalled from the Utah expedition and sent to command against the Indians in Oregon. Letters from Goversor WoMulion te Governor Stevens, and from army willoers tothe War De- partment, speak of Col. Steptoe’x detest. It ts believed he was surprised in the attack made oa Lim, or that the efficient, though small, force under bis command, would have defeated fifteen hundred Indinus. The Dopartment apprehends a sanguinary contest with the tribos im Ore- gon. Part of the army for Utah wil) bo somt om this service. The report in part of the New ics: proms that the Pre- sident had determined to take posveron of dan Juan dad Norte, and that Lord Napier s)prove: such «course, is not true. The President has resolv o', ho wrover, that the Nicara- gua Transit route shall be opens’ Tho trickery of the Nioa- Faguan government, or other of!\;ials, oy the scheming of the steamship company monopyiists, wil! oot be suffered to prevent the free passage of that important route. I understand there ts 20 agrsemen} botweon the Pacific ‘Mail Steamship Compscy anc Commodore Vanderbilt wita reference to the Nicaragua toute. ‘ais, doubtless, ts to keep up the enormons profite takon from the pockets of California passengers, ®1d Wo »oepetuate tho monopoly. There is ne dowd) Lire but Vanderbilt's hundred thousand dollars hat done the business effectually for Belly and willed. Wader such an arrngement, said to have beca mado With the Pacific Steamship Company, Vanderbilt could well atord to outbid the Freachmen ia buying the Marine. government. TSE ORNSAAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasuarom, June 20, 1856. ‘ae Navy Department has confirmatory accounts of the procsodings of Commodore! McIntosh at St. Do- miogo. ‘The Dorainican fleet, with the exception of a bark retarted to ber original owner, had been given Over %o Semtana, who, with his troops, would imme- dintply occupy the city. It is true, as has been rumored, ‘ad be cave Commodore McIntosh the most solemn assur- encen of the protection of all American citizens, and ex- |cntaeniowint rorst amicable relations with it. By order of the War Department, a military post, to be known as Fort Abercrombie, will be established on the mst eligible site near the head of navigation of the Red River of the North, in Minnesota. Operations will com- mence without delay. Two companies from Fort Ripley and one from Fort Ridgley, are charged with its con- struction. The post of Fort Ripley will be brokea up. ‘The Secretary of the Navy hes instructed the Bureau of Construction to prepare a drawing of plans for build- ing, without unnecessary delay, the eight vessels of war recently authorized by Congress. Two will probably be constructed at the Philadelphis navy yard, and ono at exch of the other yards, with the exception of that at Washington. It is said that the sidewheel steamer for the China sees will be bullt at the California navy yard. The Secretary of the Navy intends leaving Washington ee ee ee x Tt in said the affairs of Mexico occupy the attention of the administration. The paragraph announcing the death of Major Wayne accidentally found ita way into the ‘General Newspaper Despatch" yesterday. Tho item was from Sayaanah, and doubtless intended to convey the intelligence of the decease of Mayor Wayne of that city. News from Havana, Ouanietow, June 20, 1868, The steamship Cahawba has arrived from Havana and Key Weat 26th instant. She brings no political news of interest. Sugars were in active request at unchanged prices, ex- cept inferior descriptions, which were depressed. Cuba ‘molasses was selling at 3}; reals and muscovado at 1 real dearer. Sterling exchango 12 a 18 per cent premium; exchange on Northern cities 134 a 2 por cons premium, ‘Vermont Republican State Convention. Monrraiixn, Jane 20, 1863, The Republican Stato Cyunvention held here to-day nominated Hiland Hill, of Boanington, for Governor; Burnham Martin, of Chelsea, for Lieutenan! Governar; and Henry M. Bates, of Northfield, for State Treasurer. Sewator Collawer, Hon. W. C Howard, member of Coa- gress {rom Michigan, and others, addressed the Conveo- on, which was largely attended and very enthusiastic. Missourt Politics. 8r. Lovrs, June 29, 1868. ‘The republicans of the Si. Louis Gongressional distriet in convention yesterday nominated Hon. Frank P. Blair, Jr., for re-election to Congress by acclamation. Resolu- tions were passed reaffirming the doctrine of Thomas Jefferson, denouncing the administration, opposing negro: equality, advocating the extinction of slavery in Missouri, and the removal of the negross from the State. Three full tickets are now in the feld—Amorican, democratie and republican. Indiana Democratic National Nomination. Crvcenn att, June 29, 1868. The Democratic Convention of the Fourth Indiana Cov- greesional district to-day nominated W. S. Holmes, aati- Lecompton , for Congress. Movements of the Troops. ‘St. Lov, June 29, 1968, A despatch inted Leavenworth the 27th, by the steamer Platte Valley to Booueville, seys that the two companies of the Second Infantry. coming to garrison Fort Leavea- worth, together with two companies of the samecommand Row at Fort Scott, are ordered back to Fort Randall. They ‘will be accompanied hy two hundred and sixty recruite, who will arrive bere within ten days, from the Eastern States, This movement is understood to have reference to the reported hostile attitade of the Indiaos in Nebraska. The officers commanding this detatchment are Captains Lovell, Lyons and Gardner and Lieut. Smith. Sad Casualty at Port Jervis. Port Jawvis, June 29, 1858 Colonel Sam Fowler's eldest dangbter, Laura, while bathing in the Nevisink river, near bie residence, in com- pany with her younger sister and ® servant girl, were nocidentally drowned on Monday evening. The bodies wore found avout three bours after they went down. Tae @augbier of Colonr! Fowler was about eleven years old, and the other gir! about fourteen. Fire Near Covington, Ky. Awcisnani, Jane 29, 1868. Tho distillery of George Curry, with three aéjoining Dnildings, three oes below Covington, Ky.. was on. Uirely destroyed by fire last might, Loss estimated at $90,000. “oe Inmurance. Rooting ») tolpiata. Prcapetrns, Jone 29, 1a68, Aban alarm of fire last nights ight ceourred betweoa members of tLe Moyamensing and S)ifflor Fire Companies, ia which Samuel Carr, © member of tho Inttor, was in- ly killed by & pistol bail Urough the head. Two hiLer wen were wounded A fracas eceurred in the evening on board the Glouces- forry boat, in which Mr. B, Noal was killed. The TM ierer e caped. ‘The Fier ta Savannah, Bavannan, June 99, 196% TDS Somehip Flotide arrived here im sixty hours from The Sailing of the Raropa. oer ow, Jane 29, 1958. The 1099 gu steamanlp Carpe will leaye Lory og