The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1858, Page 4

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The statement madein the news from Washing- ton on Friday last, in reference to the arrangements alleged to have been made by Captain Comstock for the sale of the three Collins steamers, is entirely without foundation, no contract for the sale of those vessels having taken place. We iearn from the repert of the City Inspector that there were 447 deaths in the city daring the past week—an increase of 100 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 136 more than occurred during the corresponding week in last year. The increased mortality is mainly attributa- ble to diseases of the brain and nerves and the di- gestive orguns. Thirty-one deaths were returned as “sunstroke,” and nine as the “effects of the heat;” thus forty deaths were directly attributable to the extreme heat of the term which commenced on the 24th ult. and continued till the 30th. No deaths were attributed to these causes during the cor- reesponding week in 1857. The first death caused by sunstroke in 1857 occurred in the week ending July 18,and but one was reported. Of the whole number of deaths 249 were of children of ten years of age and under, and 60 were inmates of ‘the public institations. The following tableexhibits the number of deaths during the past twe weeks among adults and children, distinguishing the ses es: ‘Week ending Juve 26.... 76 68 10> 6 MT Wook ending July 3.....00 02 “2 (Olle O44T Among the principa! causes of death were the fol: cholera, 17 of cholera infantum, 4 of cholera mor- bus, 15 of congestion of the brain, 14 of diarrhea, 3 of dysentery, 4 of inflammation of the bowels, 9 of the effects of heat, 31 of sunstroke, 5 of hooping congfi, 8 of teething, 9 of smallpox, 8 prematore births, 24 stilborn, and 13 from violent causea, in- cluding 5 suicifles and 2 murders. The following is a classification of the diseases, and the number of deaths in each class of dis- during the week:— amm, July 5. » ate | awBSBSer6 £ ET The number of deaths, compared with the corres- ponding weeks in 1856 and 1857, was as follows:— ‘Week ending July 5, 1856. See es ‘Week ending Juce ‘Week cuding July Sines The nativity table gives 288 natives of the United States, 92 of Ireland, 40 of Germany, 11 of England, 6 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. The annexed table shows the temperatare of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind cur- rents, and the state of the weather at three periods Gating cach dey, viz.: at 9 A. M.,and 3 and 9 o'clock RRVARKR ;—Morning, clear and warm, afternoon u ee Ter, cama dione and maseain “3 —Morning, and very warm; afternoon, i ba An LJ cloudy, afternoon, clear, night, light **Setareap—tterning, overcast At a meeting of the Health Commissioners on Fri day, Dr. Thompson, the Health Officer at Quaran- tine, stated that the Board of Health of New Or. Jeans had reported two cases of yellow fever, and ‘that it was, theretore, apparent that the disease was prevalent in that city. He consequently made a gecommendation, which was adopted, that all ves: sels arriving at this port from New Orleans, having left on or before the Oth of June, be subjected to Quarantine, as yeasel . coming from an infected port. No business transpired before the Commissioners yesterday. At eleven o'clock yesterday morning the remains of ex-President Monroe were removed from the City Hall to the steamer Jamestown, under the escort of the Seventh regiment, the Eighth regiment perform- ing duty asa guard of honor. The remains were formally delivered to the Virginian Committee by Hon. John Cochrane, on behalf of the city of New York, in an appropriate and feeling address, which was replied to by 0. Jennings Wise, Esq., on behalf of the Virginians. The Ericsson sailed at one o'clock with the troops on board, and the Jamestown at half- past three. On their way down the bay they were saluted by the various steamers and the government forts. We give eldwhere a graphic account of the ceremonies, and full reports of the remarks of the various speakers. Just as the steamship Vanderbilt left her pier at noon yesterday, and headed down the river to pro- ceed on her voyage to Europe,the majority of the crew resolved on & mutiny, and struck for higher wages. The captain, however, immediately had theship’s head turned up the riverand the mutineers sent ashore. In quick time a cosmopolitan crew was taken on board, being gathered from about the piers in the vicinity of where the steamer was lying, and the Vanderbilt sailed in one hour afterwards as though nothing had happened. She carried out 346 passengers and $264,451 in specie. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 Dates, closing with more firmness, without change of mo- ment in prices. Flour was in fair demand, with sales cbiefly to the local and Eastern trade, while quotations ‘were without chango of moment. Wheat sold toa limited extent, including Michigan common to prime white at $106 a $126, and Milwaukie club at 91c. Corn was inactive, with light sales, including poor to prime mixed Western at 70c. a 75}. Southern yellow was held at 82c. a 88c. Pork was rather firmer, with sales of mess at ‘$16 50 and prime at $13 50. Sugars were firm, with sales of 700 800 bhds. at prices given in another column. Coftee was quiet and sales limited, while prices were unchanged. Freight engagements were fair to Liverpool and closed with e firmer tendency, especially for Sour; to other ports engagements were limited. We transfer to this paper a lending article from the Washington Union, on the “ Adminis- tration’s Triumphs, and the Prostration by the Democracy,” levelled at the “political logic” of the Heraxp upon this subject; and, a8 we cannot accept the logic of the Union, we purpose briefly a re-examination of the question from the facts—the fixed and stubborn facts in the case. First, our Washington cotemporary cannot understand how we are to reconcile the suc- cesses of the administration with the broken down condition of the democracy, as we have deecribed it; and secondly, we are assured, point blank, that, instead of being in “this hor- rible condition,” the party “were never in a more healthy state than now.” And why? Because “the only plank upon which the mot- ley forces of the opposition have heretofore operated, has been splintered to pieces.” The Union goes still further, and claims that “in more than half the States the democracy are ® perfect unit and of overwhelming strength,” and that in all the rest of the Union they are in most excellent condition. But the crown- ing conclusion of our Washington organ is this—that “the success of the administration is based upon the solid triumphs of principle over faction,” and that ft is difficult to see “how in these triumphs the party has become weakened and shattered.” Now, dismissing these declarations touching the healthy condition of the party as the unsup- ported opinions of a partisan enthusiast, we come to the main issue—that though the administration has been signally successful, the democratic party since Mr. Buchanan’s election has become more demoralized than at any other period in its history. Upon this point, what are the facts? Is it not a fact that with the proclama- tion of Mr. Buchanan's conservative cabinet ond inaugaral,*the Southern ultras of the party proceeded to put themselves into a position from which they might move to coerce his ad- ministration into terms, or break it down? Or, tor what purpose was the Richmond South es- tablished'—and what was the particular incen- tive to those ultra Southern resolutions passed in Georgia and Mississippi about a year ago, upon Kansas, if it was not to dragoon the ad- ministration into the exclusive control of the fire-eaters? Next, beginning with the late session of Con- gress, would not the Kansas defection of Mr. Douglas and his democratic followers have ended in the utter defeat of the administration, but for the saving balance of power secured from the opposition side? The Kansas settle- ment, then, was not a triumph of the democratic party, but a triumph of the administration, in spite of the distracted and demoralized condition of the party. And how has it been upon the filibustering question? Were the just and honest views of the President sus- tained by the democratic majority!—or did the party fire-eaters and filibusters of both houses array themselves in a solid body against the President? The records wil show that here, too, it was the interposition of the opposition that sustained the President. And so of the Army bill. Look at the speeches and votes of Mr. Seward, for example, in support of the ad- ministration, and at the speeches and votes of Mr. Toombs and other democrats against tho administration upon this question. And so of the Deficiency bill, which was first defeated by democratic votes, and finally saved by opposi- tion votes in the House. In truth, all these and other things oonsider- ed, there never have been any other such ex- amples of the success of a President upon his leading measures, in the teeth of a party ma- jority rendered impotent by factious and sec- tional leaders and cliques, as the examples of Mr. Buchanan’s euccesses during the late session of Congress. We entirely agree with the Union, that these were “ibe triumphs of principle over faction!” but the spirit of faction and factious opposition most in the way was unfor- tunately among the members of the do- mocratic majority of both houses. Nor is this the worst of it; for while the administration, in a “house divided against iteelf,”’ was rescued by the opposition, the de- mocracy, North and South, rank and file, have suffered, more or less, from the factious and sectional cou! thie clique and that clique, upon this question and that question, in both branches of Congress. Principles are great things; but Presidential aspirants are very apt to be guided by principles of their own, espe- elally when they have a suspicion that the ad- ministration is standing in their way. Herein lier the secret of all the troubles of the admi- nistration with there factions democratic leaders, and the secret, too, of all the troubles which they have brought upon themselves and their party. Upon this array of bard facts and fixed con NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1858, clusions, as easily proved as thet two taken from five will leave three, we maintain that | while the administration has been crowned with signal succese, the democratic party has been reduced by party disorganizers to a very low condition of demoralization and doubt. Nor can we believe the vain boastings of the Union of the excellent condition of the rank and file, North and South, until we shall have had some positive assurances in behalf of Messrs. Toombs, and Stevens, and Keitt, and Wise, and Hunter, and Douglas, and Harris, and Stuart, and For- ney, and all the rest of the clashiag leaders and organs of this section and that section, that they have all come toa “happy accord” upon the measures and principles of the admiaistra- tion. The Union says that “the democratic party stands firmly upon their old positions.” Thisis somewhat cloudy; but we suppose it means the old windy abstractions of the Cincinnati and Baltimore party conventions. Stuff, rubbish, nonsense, The Union ought to know—but if it does not know, we can tell it—that the party in power, in regard to the succession, must stand or fail upon the acts and measures of its admi- nistretion. Thus, but for the division of the opposition in 1856 upon two tickets, the acts and measures of Pierce’s administration would have defeated the election of Mr. Buchanan, in spite of all the reeolutions of Cincinnati and Bal- timore combined. “But,” says the Union, “sup- pose we are in an actual minority in the United States:—is it poesible to unite the majority against us?” We don’t know; but we think it is. The thing was done in 1840, and upon this very money question, which,is now coming again so broadly into the foreground; and the negro question being out of the way, the fight of 1840 may be repeated, and with a like result. In this connection our Washington cotem- porary, in reference to this journal, will be pleased to stick to the record. We, too, con- tend, and have contended, that Mr. Buchanan is not responsible for the heavy bill of appropria- tions and liabilities incurred by the Treasury at the late session. Nor do we charge the respon- sibility upon this Congress. These appropria- tions, Treasury notes and loans, are the conse- quences, firet, of the official legacies inherited by Mr. Buchanan from his predeceasors—such, for instance, as the Kansas imbroglio and the Mormon trouble; and, secondly, of the late crushing revulsion, which has taken directly from the Treasury some twenty-five millions a year of its previous receipts from the customs. But for all this, unless there shall come a timely reaction, financial and commercial, sufficient to put the Treasury firmly upon its legs again, these expenditures, loans and Treasury notes, may result in the overthrow of the democracy in 1860 as in 1840. That is all. In the meantime, it is a capital mistake to as- sume the late triumphs of the administration in Congress as evidences of the healthy condition of the democratic party—a great mistake, as the journals and debates of the late session will abundantly show. Better admit the truth, plead ‘the delinquencies of leaders, cliques and sec- tions, and convince them that the party is de- moralized, and must be harmonized, North and South, East and West, and consolidated upon the administration, before it can hope to recover its lost ground. The trick of again dividing the opposition is a shrewd one; but it is an old one, and it may fail. Progress or Iyriwwewrry, ATHEISM, ApoLi- TIONISM AND IMMORALITY.—The two organs of the advanced intelligence ot the day—the New York Tribune and the New York Times—are daily becoming more edifying in their efforts to promote the cause of universal knowledge. Not only do they labor themselves diligently to be- wilder the minds of people by visionary and startling speculations, but they make their jour- nals the vehicles of all the depraved and raving fanatics whose insanity or whose wickedness in- duces them to attempt a crusade against reli- gion and morality. Talk of the obscenity and corrupting influence of the amatory publica- tions which give the police euch active oocupa- tion, both here and elsewhere! It is nothing compared with the filth, the impiety and the blasphemy of which these journals are made the mediums, The Ovidian writoms may cor- rupt the morals, but they do not utterly destroy the souls of those to whom they address their secret instigations to vice. They do not dare to revile God, mock religion or ridiqnle the columns with sentiments and opinions of the most shocking and revolting kind, the bare perusal of which must work in- mischief. sion of such things into the columns of journals setting themselves up as the advocates of pro- gress, gives them a sort of weight and import- ance which cannot but be attended with the most pernicious consequences. By making the mind familiar with spectacles of irreligion or vice, they already half corrupt it, whilst at the same time they give to the utterers of theee ob- more widely the influence of their fatal doctrines. The prominence given by the Time and Tribune to the report of the proceedings of the Free Love Convention at Rutland, is one of the worst evidences of the spread of that contempt for all the old standards by which the morals of our people were directed and regulated. It is truly alarming. as showing the daring lengths to which the Fourierite and free love philosophers are prepared to push their execrable theories. From communism and the principle of woman's rights the transition to free love, common proe- titution, infidelity, and atheism is one, how- ever, for which we ought to have been prepared. They follow as naturally as the plant from the seed, and we are now called upon to witness their fruits, That our contemporarics of the universal intelligence school should constitute themselves the organs of these vile doctrines, and help their dissemination, is, considering their tendencies, perhaps equally nataral, al- though the public may be inclined to think that it is pushing beyond the bounds of all justifiable latitude their privileges as journalista. What are the theories promulgated by this Rutland convention, and circulated by the aid of these progress loving journals? We give them textually—that woman has a right tolove when she will, where she will, and how she will—that the marriage ceremony keeps woman degraded in mental and moral slavery—that she bas a right to bear children when she will and by whom she will—that the Bible is not the word of God—that any Christ, or any God, who, by silence or otherwise, autho- rize@ man to enslave man merits the scorn and | very justly remarks that in doing this Mr. Meade contempt of mankind—that religion is the blackest and most scoundrel like name in the world, &c., &c. In apy country where the prin- ciple of religious toleration is not carried as far as it is in this, the reproduction of such atro- cious sentiments would have led to the instant suspension and punishment of the papers re- portingthem. Here, however, the discretion of the jourzalist should eapply the place of re- pressive laws. That it haa not done so is a sad proof of the exteat to which vice and infidelity are epreading amongst us, as well as of the dis regard entertained by a certain class of jour- nalists for public opinion. To pander to the appetites of the vicious and depraved, and thereby secure a circulation, these rivals of the Venus Miscellany school of publications are, it seems, prepared to hazard anything and every- thing. Ifthey cannot render their sheets read- able except by such prurient materials, our readers will agree with us that their task is one of the most pitiable that can fall to the lot of hungry humanity. Free Neoro Movement mm Jamatca—Curi- ous CONFESSIONS OF THE PHILANTHROPISTS.— The subject of colored emigration from the United States to Jamaica is again the subject of sgitation in that’ island, and we publish in aaother column a report of the proceedings held at a public meeting in Kingston on the subject. The state of affairs shown to exist, and the admissions made by the spealwera at this meeting, in relation to the free negro communities gene- rally, are of an extraordinary character. Jamaica itself is acknowledged to continue its recession towards barbarism; Liberia is pronounced to be a humbug, both as a country and asa social eom- munity; the free negroes of the North are re- jected as vicious and worthless, and those of the South are pronounced to be the only ones fitted to become colonists. In this admission a strong but indirect compliment is paid to the effect of Southern legiMation and education upon the negro nature, and it is not the leas significant that it comes from the cqlored humanitarians themeelves. Both our Northermanti-slavery and our Southern pro-slavery agitators are treated without gloves, by a gentleman who seems to have come in contact with them for philanthro- pic purposes, and a curious state of discord is shown to exist in the happy family of the philanthropists. But the most extraordinary fact developed at this meeting is one stated by the Hon. Robert Osborn. He informs us that the last census showed that the average of the females to the males in Jamaica was three to one. What the cause of this immense disproportion of the sexes is he does not tell us; and he probably does not tell it because, if told, it would mili- tate seriously against the object of the meeting, which is to entice free colored emigration to the island from this country. We know the cause, for it has formed one of the prominent facts that have struck us in our studies of the social phenomena of the West Indies and the Spanish Main. It is because the Jamaica negro will abandon his Jamaican paradise and go to any country where he can obtain employment under a white man. The building of the Panama Railroad carried thousands of negroes from Jamaica to Aspinwall, to take service under American contractors there, men who have not been noted as being the mildest task- masters in the world. And they still prefer to remain on that isthmus—and particularly in Aspinwall .rather than ?anama—because they can there come in contact with, and in some de- gree partake of, tn: euperior welfare of a white community. This is not flattering to the prospect of free negro emigration from the South; for if there is any place in the world where a pure negro com- munity is held in contempt it is among the negroes, slave and free, of our Southern States. Neither does it contribute to the belief that Jamaica is ever to be built up again by the social elements now within it. The fields turned to wilderness, the stately mansions crumbling to decay, and the general dilapidation con- fessed to by the Jamaica speakers themselves, hold forth no promise for the future. In view of the fact that its own male population is run- ning away from the curse of emancipation, we cannot but think that the fallac! idea of filling it with population till it shall be cnowded into the energy of starvation must fall to the ground. Awenican Raturoap Contractors ty Braztt.— It will be seen by an extract from the Correio Mercantil, which we publish in another co- lumn, that American enterprise has undertaken another work in South America, which may lead to important results. The Brazilians are just entering upon the construcfion of rail- roads; and, being unschooled in the mecha- nical acquirements, necessary for the ceo- nomical construction of internal improve- ments, applied to their ministers abroad for the purpose of stimulating competition in proposing for contracts. Propositions for the construction of the second section of the Dom Pedro Il. were made in April last by Amo- tican, English and French contractors, and it will be seen that the work has been given out to those from the United States. The Correio accompanies this announcement with a flatter- ing notice of the American contractors, and the expression of just hopes in regard to the future of American enterprise in Brazil. There is one advantage possessed by American contractors over those from Europe, on public works, in the thinly populated countries of the New World, that is not generally known. The workmen of Europe, accustomed to the facilities afforded by an abundauce of capital and crowded populations, are used to overcome obstacles that may present themselves by greater expen- ditures of money and labor, in order to make a permanent and heavy work. The American, on the contrary, apprenticed in the building of roads, bridges, &c., in a country where capital is searce and labor dear, is accustomed to over- come the obetacles to construction by ex- pedients, and that fertility of invention that flows from necessity. The ecanty purposes of ‘he day are attained, and the greater expendi- ture for permanence is left to the fatare, when a fuller population both require and have the ability to make it. It is this great difference in the system of the American and European con- etructors of public works that is giving the former the preference in ali the countries south of us In the narrative of the recent proceedings in Rio Janeiro we notice another fact that is not without importance. Our Minister, Mr. Meade, instead of busying himself with presenting dry arguments to Dom Pedro IL. on the musty questions of State, has taken a personal interest in the material prosperity of Brazil which oan- not but have # good effect there, The Correia bas hit upon the best means for cultivating those good relations which are desirable be- tween the twe countries, Savparu RaRoap Traveriine,—We see that & correspondence has been taking place be- tween a committee of persons who have as- sumed special charge over Sabbath observances and the presidents of the various lines of rail- road throughout the country as to the proprie- ty of railroad travelling on the Sabbath. From the replies received by this very pious committee they have published some extracts, tending to show that Sunday trains are not pro- fitable, and that, through some unexplained cause, they are asa general thing very badiy managed. As to the bad management, that difficulty, it appears to us, would be very easily obviated for all the days of the week as well as Sunday, if the proper class of men happened to be choeen to fill the responsible positions of presi- dents, superintendents and directors of rail- road lines. That isa matter altogether inci- dent to the choice of officers made. We do not eee why an efficient superintendent could not institute such a system as would allow Sunday ex- cursion traing, at least, to be run from each of the great cities of the land for a certain distance— fifty or one hundred miles into the country. It is not necessary, we should suppose, that the em- ployés of the line should be thus kept at work seven days in the week, or that the locomotives and cars should be allowed no day of rest. A generous Christian heart might have easily suggested to it the idea of giving to the men to whose lot it should happen to be employed on Sunday one or two other holidays in the week—with which arrangement they would not be likely to grumble—and we presume that on every well arranged line there are enough of superfluous locomotives and cars to preciude any great difficulty on that head. In theee remarks we mean to be understood as speaking only of Sunday excursion trains. As to the running of through business trains, that is a totally different question, which we do not propose to discuss. But we do believe and af- firm that the running of Sunday pleasure excur- sion trains, instead of being a violation of any Christian principle, would be one of the most be- neficent and salutary changes that could be ef- fected—and we also believe that instead of pro- ducing a pecuniary loss to the line or lines car- rying out the plan, it would aid in saving from bankruptcy several of those having their start- ing pointe in this city. Sach is the experience of all the European lines connecting with the great seats of population. The weary and overtasked mechanics, and their fami- lies, pent up during the week in small, ill-ventilated apartments, situated in the nar- rowest and most squalid streets of a large city are thus enabled, one day out of the seven, to vitit the forests and lakes, and moun- tains and meadows, and places of historic in- terest throughout the country, and are the bet- ter, in mind and body, for the recreation. Who would be so narrow minded or so despotic, as to attempt to deprive the toiling millions of European cities of such a source of health and enjoyment? None but straight-laced Pharisces, who thank God that they are not as other men. And why should not the same facilities of Sab- bath recreation be held out to the hundreds of theusands of poor people in New York and Boston, and Philadelphia and Baltimore? ‘There is no reason, except that the presidents of railroads are too narrow minded and gene- rally too incompetent for their positions, and that cant prevails here to a more considerable extent than it does on the Continent of Europe. Let the Hudson River Railroad, for instance, throw off the sham pretence of extreme godli- ness, and run half a dozen excursion trains every summer Sunday as far up the line as West Point, stopping at all the intermediate stations, putting the fare at the lowest possible figure, and tens of thousands will gladly avail themselves, and with benefit to body and soul, of the chance of communing with nature in its most grand and charming aspects. Let the Erie and the Long Island Railroad do the same, and we will ven- ture the prediction that the effect will be ten times more beneficial to the poor classes of this city—who are now entirely confined to suburban retreats accessible by water—than the circula- tion of a million of the tracts of the Sabbath Committee on Railroads and the Sabbath. Tue Natronat Dress Rerorm Association.— This is truly a great age. We pass from one projected reform to another with a rapidity that takes one’s breath away. No sooner have we been called to discuss important changes in principles than we are summoned to alter forms. As a natural corollary to the recognition of ‘woman’s rights we are invited to alter the style of woman’s dress. Petticoats, it is contended, are a distinctive evilence of female degrada- tion; therefore the breeches must be substitated. We have no objection to go t for breeches, convinced that the form without the substance can work no harm. We are not quite sure, how- ever, that when women get what they profess in this instance to want, they will feel quite satis- fied that they have all that they require. Some of our readers may not be aware that there is in existence in this State a body styling itself the “ National Dress Reform Association.” We have now before usa report of the third annval convention of this society, held at Cort- landville, Cortland county, on the 24th and 25th of last month. At this convention, as at all conventions, letters of apology for nonat- tendance, from “distinguished persons” were read, and amongst others from the Hon. Gerritt Smith, Giles E. Jackson of Nebraska Territory, and Ellen Beard (happy hirsute coincidence), Corresponding Secretary of the “ Aurora Dress Reform Association of Illinois.” Miss Beard, amongst other eloquent and per- feotly accurate things, says “that the right to live without the power to live is a shadow with- out substance, and that the right to act without the power to act isa speculative phantasy.” Our readers may not be able to reduce this im- posing syllogism to a vulgar interpretation. If we must do it for them, then we say that it simply means—breeches. Hear Miss Beard, to be satisfied of the fact:— Tt in becaure the reform In the dreas of woman bids faii and factiity of pre me Be. of all suecesstul ti Tt is becxuse it will anbeti- tate vigor and efficiency tn the place of debility and irre- folution—because ft will erable woman to grasp end Power and freedom ; and because it i* only by tratniog and tracing her present power thet our as jones for the future can be saved from an unhappy failure that this reform derainds a conscientious conside- ration end becomes worthy of a profound devotion. It is evident from this that if no man can be strong without a beard, no woman can be strong without breeches. Strong minded women, it is conceded, have no mind at all unless it is Shakeperean theory, you can hedge round « king with divinity, but you cannot hoop round a divinity with mantiness, Again, therefore, we say thatwe goin for the inherent female right to breeches. Profetcor Avariah Smith, of Kishacoquillas, Pa., is also a strong advocate of bi-partite un- der coverings for the ladies. In his letter te the Dress Reform Association, he says, “that as the health and beauty of the spirit are so inti- mately connected with the health of the % it is an imperative duty, as also a high delight, to guard well the casket of eo priceless a jewel. Let both soul and body be ministered unto ac- cording to the highest nature and most exoel- lent uses of each, so that there may be a beas- tiful correspondence between them—the health- ful, vigorous body fitly representing the manly glowing eoul!.” Mistress Azariah Smith is evidently in pos session of the article so coveted by the mem- bers of the Association. The “manly glowing eoul” of this lady has been so well protected by it, that it is no wonder that the Professor waxes warm in praise of its general adoption by the sex. Is he quite sure, however, that hia own soul is in his nether garment. We mast refer to Mre. Smith for satisfaction om the point. We regret that we have not more space to de- vote to this interesting and highly philosophi- cal eubject. It involves, however, such intricate and delicate considerations that we are com pelled to postpone any further speculations im regard to it until after the next annual meet- ing of the National Dress Reform Association. Tae Duptey OnservaTory Dirricunty.—We publish to-day all the correspondence which has paseed between Mrs. Dudley and the trustees and Scientific Council of the Observatory rela- tive to the late action of the trustees in summa- rily removing Dr. Gould from the directorship. This entire quarrel is very discreditable to all parties, and is, moreover, for the sake of our national honor, greatly to be deplored. It seems as if our public scientific institutions were destined to be the theatres of eternal dis- sension, petty jealousies and personal difficul- ties, instead of being the disseminators of soi- entific learning. We have no disposition to Pronounce upon this unfortunate quarrel at the Dudley Observatory. We conceive it is a mat- ter of very little importance to the scientific world which party is right and which is wrong; but it may be said that the trustees are all practical business men—bankere, and so forth— while the Council, who are at loggerheads with them, are men of science merely—a class which is usually censorious, hair-splitting, and given much to emall jealousics and quarrels upon very trifling pretexts. Mrs. Dudley, however, it ap- pears, sides with the Scientific Council, whether because she is well or ill informed about the matter we do not know. We repeat, the whole affair looks very contemptible, and is much to be regretted for many reasons. _—_—————_—— THE LATEST NEWS. FOUR DAYS LATER ‘FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the City of Washington off Cape Race. Unfavorable Weather for tne Tele- graph Fleet. CORN AND COTTON DEPRESSED. consots 95 5-e a 95 3-4, &., &0., a0. 1, Jouns, N. F., July 3, 1868, ‘The steamship City of Washingtoa, from Liverpool om tho 234 ult _ passod Cape Race youterday. She was boarded by the news yacht of the Assoolated Press, which arrived bere (hisevoning with a synopsis of her nows. The advices or .,- +) the City of Washington de mot Possersany I+arr¢ ¢. peculiar importance. We ae 2¢1 learn «) any new proceedings in relation to the rignt of search question, Tho City of Washington does not report having seem anything of the telegraph feet, bat we understand thas the weather she experienced was not of the most favorable deacription. ‘The Liverpool cotton manket was goverally dull. Breadatuffs were without particular change, aad very doll. Provisions were quiet, and prices without alteration of moment. Consois for account closed at 95; a 961; @ur Spectal Washington Despatch. FRIENDLY DISPOSITION OF THE UTAH iNDIAWE— TROOPS FOR ORRGON—AMEWICAN STEAMSRS TO BB ALLOWED TO ENTRR MBXICAN PORTS —CALIFORNIA LAND SALES, BTC. Wasmivoros, July 3, 1868. Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Utah, informa the government at Washirgtou that the Indians in ‘that region were disposed to ‘be friendly, although great efforts had beea made by Mormons to cxcite them to nes- lity. Should the news be truo about Col. Steptoe’s situation, it Is understood that eitber the Sixth or Seventh regimens of infantry will be immediately sent from Utah to Fort Walla Walla. There in nothing in the despatches of Mr. Forsyth relat- ing to Mexico beyond what has apposred in the news- confirmed to J. M. Harbin and others, containing 26,687 Acres, will also be sent by the steamer of the 6th to the Surveyor General for delivery. Interesting from Northern Mexice, Wasnivorow, July 8, 1868, The Southern mal! brings dates from all points as lateas due. The New Orleans papers contain detain of Mexioam news. ‘The seat of goverament of Tamaulipas has beon moved to Matar oras. Another victory had been gained by the Constitation- allste under General Blanco, at San Juan do los Lagos. Rianco took one hundred prisoners and the camp equipage of bis opponents, and it waa reported that he shot all the chiefs and a priest. The apecte heretofore shipped at Tampico is now coming to Brownsville. The American Consul at Monterey, Mr, Walsh, ia re- ported to have closed his offics and piaced the archives im the caro of the Britieh Coneul. The state of Tamaulipas bas a considerable foros in the field under Carvajal and others. Glothed in gontinuatigns. According tq old “ General Gargy nod pial had qrrived st Matamoros