The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDMTOR AND PROPRIG SOR. Perice N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS TERMS, cash im advance THe Y BPR. ar cope. FF per annum, $ Wat win conte per E:dition $4 per annum, to {9 any part of the Continent, .. Ne, 190 ACADEMY OF MTBIC Fouriconth street—Grawp Paowe avs Os¥ckRT, CNOER THE DIRECTION OF MUSARD AND AN- sours La NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway—Tux Five Act Comey Evririap Tue Biv ats WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—inisa AssvRavce— ‘Tan Tours ACTRESS. BARNOM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Atter- noon sao evening. or Macic sy Wraay, THe WizaRD —Wospexrci Curiosity ec. ‘WOOR'S BUILDING, 541 and 563 Broadway—Ermtorian Bones Dances, &c.—Panonama oF THE Hopson River. New York, Sunday, July 11, 1858, Ths News. By the arrival of the steamship Fulton off Cape Race on Friday last, where she was intercepted by the news yacht of the Associated Press, we have European news to the 30th ult., four days later than the advices brought by the Africa. The Fulton saw nothing of the telegraph fleet. She reports encoun tering strong westerly winds to the Banks, but saw no icebergs. Intelligence had reached England of important successes gained by the British troops in India. In London consols were quoted at 95j a 954. in Liverpool the cotton market was buoyant, while breadstuffs were steady at unchanged prices. We have news from Vera Cruz to the 6th inst. Gen. Vidaurri, at the head of eight thousand troops, was marching upon San Luis and the capital. The Speedy downfall of Zuloaga and his party is regard- ed as inevitable. The forced contributions were collected with rigid exactness. Owing to an accident to the train between Balti- more and Washington, the Seventh regiment have not arrived up to the present time (half past one o'clock). The Seventy-first regiment, Colonel Vos- burgh, an escort battalion of the Seventh, and a company of the City Guard, paraded yesterday af- ternoon, and marched to the Battery, where. after remaining until eleven o'clock, they re-formed and proceeded to the Jersey City ferry—a telegraph des- patch baving been received that the National Guard would arrive by the Philadelphia train. At twelve o'clock a second despatch was received by the Colonel stating that all were well, and that the regiment would come by the Amboy boat sod land at the Battery. The military were again marched down Broadway and formed near the steamboat dock. Great enthusiasm prevailed and tvousands of persons are anxiously awaiting their arrival. Broadway, Cortlandt street, and the vicinity of the Battery were densely crowded during the might. The several armories had their flags half maast during the dey for the death of Mr. Hamilton, ‘whose melancholy fate is painfully felt by all mili- tary companies. ‘The brig Mary Alvine, which arrived at this port yesterday, reports the death of William Murphy, of Philadelphia, a passenger, of yellow fever, on the Bth inst.; also the death of her captain, T. A. Wy- man, of Lincoln, Me., of fever,onthe 9th inst. The brig was sent to the lower bay to perform quaran™ Nothing of importance transpired in the de Riviere romance yesterday. The Captain still keeps se- cluded and out of the way. Officer McDonough, who became de Riviere’s bail, turned up yesterday, but Genies knowing his whereabouts. Another romantic affair has just come to light in Hoboken, in which the daughter of the proprietor of Vauxhall Garden is reported to have become the wife of two Germans in less than one week. The Cancemi case was again brought up yester- day in the Supreme Court, when a motion was made by counsel for the prisoner for an arrest of jodgment and a new trial. A report of the pro- ceedings is given elsewhere in our columns. According to the report of the City Inspector there were 442 deaths in the city during the past week—a decrease of 5 as compared with the mor. tality @f the week previous, and 22 more than oc- uring the corresponding week of last year. Of the total number of deaths last week 287 were childrea of ten years of age and under, and 46 in- mates of the public institutions. The following tabie exhibits the number of deaths during the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguish- ing the #exes:— Men, Women, Boye. Girls, Total Weak enting J 0 8% Ms MS 4 Weeks eosing July 10.. 79 =«=6T = 57 18D Among the principal causes of death were the folowing: ~ ‘There were also 49 deaths of cholera infantum, © of diarrhoea, § of dysentery, 8 of inflammation of the bowels, 14 of congestion of the brain, 8 of de- bility (infantile), 4 of disease of the heart, 7 of teeth- ing, 8 of smallpox, 4 premature births, 25 stillborn, and 22 deaths from violent causes, including 2 sui- cides, 2 murders and 6 drowned. The following is a classification of the diseases, £! . .eetsaze ‘The aamber of deaths, compared with the corres- ponding weeks in 1956 and 1 was as follows: — ‘Wook ending July 12, 1956. ‘382 ‘Wetk en! 2g July 11, 181 od Gadng duty 3,185 “ Fook ening July 10. 1868, “* ‘The nativity table gives 398 natives of the U: States, 54 of Ireland, so of Germany,7 ot England, 2 of Scotland, | each of France, Italy, Prassia, and the Weat Indies, and 2? unknown. ‘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 uring each day, viz.: at 9 A.M.,and 3 and 9 o'clock PM A Batarday—Overcast ali day shower during the evening. Sunday—Cioudy and sultry all day Montay , Clear and cool, afterneon, o'rar Digit, cool. ‘Tovwtay—Clear and pleasant all (ay Wi winestay —Olear ab pleasant al) day afternoon, clear night, we. sat Jag—Morn ng, cloudy Luecge were sixveru cases 02 the Calendar of the Court of General Sessions yesterday, but owing to the absence of witnesses, who supposed that there would be no jury trials on Saturday, only a few of them were disposed of. William Cotter and Mary Holland, indicted for manslaughter in the third de- gree, pleaded guilty to the fourth grade of that crime. They were charged with being engaged in an affray in the Sixth ward where a man was killed, but the evidence was slight. Judge Russell sent Mary Hoiland to the penitentiary for one year, and Cotter six months to the same institution. David D. Pullis pleaded guilty to burgiary in the third degree, and was sent to the State prison for two years. James O'Connor and William Hurley (youths) were tried and convicted of breaking into the store of Frederick Dole, 187 Charles street, on the night of the 16th of June, and stealing eight boxes of se- gars. Hurley was sent to the penitentiary for two years, while the other boy was sent to the House of Refuge. Jas. Tigh, indicted for stealing $27, plead- ed guilty to petit larceny, and was sent to the Island for five months. The records of the Court show that during the last four days Judge Russell disposed of thirty-nine prisoners—an unprecedented number—affording abundant proof of his industry and attention to his duties, notwithstanding the un- warrantable and malicious attacks made upon him every morning by certain journals. The City Judge, unlike his colleagues, sits tilla late hour each evening, refusing to adjourn until the business -of each day is transacted. The cotton market was firm yesterday, and the sales ‘embraced about 3,000 bales, closing stiff at about 127;c. for middling uplands, and in some cases an advance of 4y0. per Ib. was claimed. The market for common and medium grades of Biate and Western flour was firmer, while extra brands were unchanged, sad sales were made toa fair extent. Wheat was more active, and the sales embraced about 75,000 a 80,000 bushels at rates given in another column. Corn was firm for prime sound ote, which were scarce, while inferior and common qualities were unchanged. The sales embraced Western mixed at 64c. a 7c, a 77¢.; Bouthern white, 82c.; South. ern yellow, 85c. a 88¢., and prime round yellow, 8%. Pork ‘was firmer, with rather more doing. The sales embraced ‘mees at $16 66 a $16 75, closing at the latter figure, and Prime at $13 708 $1375. Lard was firmer, with sales of 1,000 barrels and tierces at 113;¢. a 116. for good to Prime. Sugars wero firmer, and closed at full xc. per Ib. advance on the week’s sales.’ The transactions yes- terday embraced about 600 hogsheads Cuba muscovado, at rates given in another column. Coffee was steady and quiet. There was a movement in naval stores; the sales embraced 1,000 barrels spirits turpentine, here and to ar- rive, at 45c., and 5,000 barrels common rosin, on the spot and to arrive, at $1623; a $1 70. Freights were engaged to a fair extent, without change of moment in rates. Historic Doubts and Diplomatic Assurances— ‘What has England Abandoned * We give in another column an article from the Washington Union, in reply to our doubts about the final abandonment of theclaim to the right of search by Great Britian, which closes with the reiterated assertion by the official organ, that “England has utterly abandoned the as- sumed right and thus closed the controversy.” It is very proper for our government to ac- cept the assurances given to it by Lord Malmesbury through Lord Napier, and to in- dulge in the kope that these assurances, if categorical are truthful, and that this long standing cause of irritation between ourselves and England is forever removed. Even if these assurances are not categorical and complete, our government could not properly go behind them. The intercourse between governments must be guided by the same laws that govern that be- tween private gentlemen. When one gentleman givesto another an assurance of any kind, the latter is bound to accept that assurance. Hecan- not go behind it and examine into the motives which have impelled it without coming to anim- mediate collision, His only recourse is to hope that the assurances given him are truthful, and that the future conduct of the party will be in accordance with his promises, whether they be categorical or only inferential. Such is the position of our government at this time in rela- tion to the right of search question and the as surances of Lord Mi rf. But this is not the position of the New York Herat, nor of any other independent journal. It has a perfect right, nay, it is its daty, to go behind these assurances and search out the motives which have impelled them. An inde- pendent journal is like an advanced sentinel placed in a high watch tower, so that he may scan the front, the rear, and each flank of the camp. It is the obligation of the independent journalist to go behind the assurances of men and of governments; and, carefully scrutinizing their antecedents, to judge whether they are actuated by a sense of right and a love of jus tice, or whether ambition, interest or a lust for power constitutes their motives. It is this obli- gation which has impelled us to go behind the asserted aseurances of Lord Malmesbury, and. reading the record of the past, to jadge an English Minister by the known ante- cedents of English history. It is there we find, as well as in the recent expressions in Parliament, the grounds for our well founded doubts of the abandonment of the claim of the right of search by England. They are historic deubts, for they are based upon history and will become a part of history. Such is not the position of the Washington Union. As partisan journal it cannot give an expression to independent convictions; nor is it permitted to inquire into the motives of its party, or the temporary friends thereof. Owing its existence entirely to milk from the udders of the public treasury, its arguments and assertions are not looked apon as its own, but are laid at the doors of the men who have the power to cause the fountains of its life to cease to flow, It must be the sycopbant, the echo, and the blind follower of others. It can have no convictions nor utterances other than these which apper- tain to the government; and it is therefore bound by the same obligations which bind the government to accept the assurances of Lord Malmesbury. It is this that makes the opinion of the Union upon aay question a thing of no value whatever. In fact, the Union has no opin- ion on any subject, and merely repeats those which its masters find it politic or expedient to utter. Our doubts—our historic doubts—in regard to the settlement of the right of search question with England, still stand good ; and they have even been eustained by further developements in England, notwithstanding the positive state- ments of the Union. Nothing can in any way affect them but the publication of the entire correspondence between the two governments on the late British outrages, and the questions springing therefrom. We have that of our government, but the replies of the Eoglish Ministry, both to Mr. Dallas, and to Gen. Case, through Lord Napier, are still wanting. It is evident, from the explanations in the British Parliament, that the same view is not taken there of the concessions by the English govern- ment as is taken by the Washington Union. If the language of Lord Malmesbury. in his de- spatches to Lord Napier, is “frank, manly and unequivocal,” the public mind would be calmed by its publication ; and we shall not be led to neglect our duty as the independent watcher for the public weal, by soothing assurances from any quarter. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY U1, 1858, Just one month from yesterday the squadron left Plymouth with the Atlantic Telegraph cable, According to previous calculations the Niogara should have arrived in Trinity Bay Several days ago, and her non-appearance up to this time has naturally created much surprise and not a little anxiety for the success of this grand enterprise. It is somewhat remarkable that no vesrel arriving at any of our ports has fallen in with the squadron, so as to be enabled to give us any idea of their operations. One steamship, indeed, had been seen, but not spoken, on the 23d of Jane, thirteen days after the squadron sailed, which may havé been the Nisgara or the Agamemnon; bat that is the moet definite intelligence we have of them since their departure thirty days ago. It was under- stood that they were to proceed under aail as far as latitude 52 deg. 2 min. North, longitude 33 deg. 18 min, West—about fifty miles nearer the Irish coast than the American—mhere the junction of the cable was to be effected and the paying out commenced. They would doubtless wait a favorable opportunity, calm weather and still waters, before undertaking this delicate part of the work ; and as the weather on the Atlantic has been more severe than it usually is in June, they may have met considerable ob- stacles at the very outset. Then again, we find by various reports of incoming veasele, that fogs and icebergs were unusually frequent for the past two or three weeks; either of which, if the Niagara fell in with them, would render great caution necessary and considerably re- tard her progrees. From the nature of the instructions furnished for the guidance of the mechanical and elec trical departments of the expedition, it is evi- dent that a very speedy consummation mide no part of the calculations of the project rs; but, on the contrary, that speed was in a'l cases to be sacrificed to safety. The orders wece as fol- lows :— enterprise to be abandoned, it is probable that no other attempt will be made to lay the cable until some new discoveries in insulation shall be arrived at, whereby a stronger cable can be used for the purpose. The two efforts already made to lay the cable will cost some three millions of dollars, and capitalists cannot be expected to advance money for mere scientific experiments. There is, however, no cause to pronounce the present attempt a failure, for we have no data whatever except a little overrunning of time | upon which to base any calculation either as to success or defeat. The weather in the neighbor- hood of Trinity Bay seems to have been very clear and calm, and the wind favorable for a few days past: so that the Niagara may make her appearance at any moment, bringing the good tidings with her of the triumph of the greatest scientific enterprise of the age. Transit Route Oreratioss ano Prospects,— It is evident on all sides that a change in the condition of the transit routes across the Ameri- can isthmus is at hand. The quarrels of the commodores, after having kept the question of travel by these routes ina state of turmoil for the last few years, have subsided, either from exhaustion or a conviction that, after all, the Kilkenny cat policy does not pay. Even their instruments or agents in Central America are, to use the expressive phrase of one of them, “played out.” But the chief oredit of this re- sult is dae to the present administration. As soon as the government determined to lend its aid to the opening of the Isthmus of Telmante. pec, by a contract for the transportation of the mail over that route with the company now holding the grant, a material change came over the entire policy of the Transit route managers. The plan of monopolizing the traffic to one ronte, by subsidizing others in order to keep them closed, fell to the ground. The final coup has been given to the monopoly policy by the announcement of the determination, on the part of the administration, to have the Nicaragua route also opened, and to protect in its posses sion the company which eball prove to have a legal and just title. The result of all this is seen in the active preparations of all parties for the com- ing industrial campaign. In the early part of the present week the engineers and workmen necessary for the completion of the preliminary labors on Tehuantepec leave here for that isthmus, and it is expected that by the month of November the line of travel from Minatitlan to the Bay of Ventosa will be in complete opera- tion. We learn that the managers of this onter- prise have determined to carry out their plans without connecting them with any of the great steamship interests on this side. Such a policy will insure to the country a permanent competi- tion for the traffic conveyance between the At- lantic and Pacific States—a thing much needed by the public, however little it may be desired by certain individual interests. If they succeed also in making their mark upon the trade, as they announce they will, by shortening the time of transit to San Francisoo several days, they will lay the foundation of the permanent con- struction of the railroad they have in contem- plation. . Active operations for opening the Nicaragua route arealsoonfoot. The Atlantic and Pacific Canal Company stands well, thus far, in its position before the public. It is asserted that Commodore Vanderbilt has sent one han- dred thousand dollars to Nicaragua recently, for the purpose of securing his possession of the river and lake steamers and the transit pri- vilege’ Our high opinion of the Commodore's shrewdness induces us to place some grains of salt on the story that he has slipped so large a sum into euch a bottomless sack ; but time will set the matter right ere long. (Of one thing we are confident, The weak and false governments now existing in Nicaragaa and Costa Rica must abandon their prosemt policy of deceit, whigh ia ntiztained for the chie’ purpose of keeping that route closed. From London we learn that the Honéaras Railroad Company has also god prospects be- fore it. The recent arrival of Mr. Squier there has given it a new impetus, and it wili probably soon be in the process of active construction. The Panama route enjoys for a time longer the exclusive trade between the two oceans, and is going on very well in the completion of its per- manent constructions on that isthmus, Our still continued diplomatic difficulties with New Granada bave in some degree an injurious ef- fect upon the interests of this route; but they have the advantage of being first in the field, and of having already made their great expen- diture. Mustany Visrrers—Rercrn or THe National. Gvanp.—The élite corps of our State militia re- turned home this morning, after performing the most sacred duty that can be assigned to the citi- zeneoldier, and consigning to the sod of Virginia the remains of one who was brave as the bravest in the field, and wise as the wisest at the coun cil board. The tour of the Guard, of which we have had full accounts from our reporters, has been one grand ovation, from begining to end. By ali accounts, it appears that the Virginians had reaolved to give their visiters a thoroughly old time welcome. And they did it. This means something in a State where the Christmas holi- days are not over till February. Perhaps the reception of the Guard was the more prononcé from the angry feeling which the politicians have stirred up between the ultras at the North and South. Brothers embrace much more fer- vently after a slight dispute than at any other time. At any rate, the National Guard has come back overflowing with honest pride for themselves and the city—a pride shared in by all New Yorkers, as the enthusiasm with which the splendid military display of last evening was greeted, as the Seventy-first, the Seventh and the City Guard moved in solid column down Broadway, fully evidenced. These military visits are more than mere jun- ketings or displays of drill, though in the latter respect the Seventh has stirred up the amour propre of the militia at Boston, Richmond and other cities, who will doubtless improve by the example. When New York sends five hundred of the flower of her young men—gentlemen as well as soldiers—to salute the memory of the patriots of the Revolution, whether under the shadow of Bunker's Hill Monument, or by the statue of the pater patrie at Richmond, or be- neath the elms of Mount Vernon, it is an impor- tant event, with important consequences, strengthening and binding the silver cord that holds us all in fraternal union. The city owes something to such gentlemen as those of the Seventh. They prove that New York is not quite so much of a Sodom as the country editors repreeent. If they come among us, they will find with metropolitan vices metropolitan grandeur and metropolitan libe- rality. We can show them, too, other regiments, honorable rivals of, and not much behind the Seventh. We commend to the proper authori- ties of this city, also, the propriety of detailing a battalion of citizen soldiers to accompany all committees of the Aldermen and Councilmen when they travel abroad. Then there will be the bane and the antidote together, and the blackness of the Corporation staff will be hidden by the polish of the citizen soldier's bayonet. If anything could elevate the status of a New York alderman it would be to travel with the Seventh regiment. Earty 1 THe Fretp.—The republicans of this State have already commenced the agita- tion of the Presidential question upon a side issue. The State committee, which met at Albany on Thursday, hada grand row whether the State Convention, which is to meet on the 8th of September, should be composed of one or of two delegates from each Assembly dis- trict. The question was agitated in the repub- lican paper before the meeting of the com- mittee. The old whig, Weed or Seward organs— the Albany Evening Journal and the Courier and Enguirer—advocated the one delegate system, The Courier ehifted from one side to the other just before the meeting of the committee, who, however, refused to be led by Weed or by Webb's second thought. The secret of the matter is that the Seward men desired a small convention, which could be easily “ engineered.” These men are the rump of the old whig party. The fag end of the barnburners is composed generally of Fremont men; but, in any event, are opposed to Seward. The 7ribune, without being positively committed in favor of ‘any one candidate, has ruled Seward out of the field, and on the delegate question sides with the barnburners, who were victorious on a division—the vote standing ten for two dele- gates and nine for one—or, plainly, ten in oppo- sition to Seward. The Tribune believes this vote to be an index of the feeling of the republicans in this State. It is certainly an indication that the party is teriously divided; and the chances of Seward for the voice of his own State in the Presiden- tial Convention are growing very shady. The State Convention will, doubtless, be a stormy time. Thurlow Weed has carried his party, through lobby influence, in his breeches pocket for eo long a time that the defeat will exercise him fearfully. If the republican sentiment is expressed by the majority of the State Commit- tee so far as it was represented at Albany, we may safely predict a general shaking up of the elements between this time and November, and a complete break down of the party. Well, the republicans have no longer any Kansaa bone of contention to quarrel over, and it is, therefore, quite natural that they should turn about and eat each other up. Who cares’ More Jersey Law.—When our friends on he other side of the Hudson seize upon some poor wretch who trembles under the grasp of » Jersey constable and falteringly confesses to the felonious stealing and taking of a pullet, the majesty of the law is splendidly vindicated by locking the rascal up for a year or two. But et the classic shades of Hoboken be invaded by a cool blooded, well bred, well dressed and good looking fellow, who, it is alleged, bas been guil- ty of larceny, and your minion of the law treats him “like a perfect gentleman” ~ rid, the case of the romantic military exile, Riviere, who was ar- rested for larceny and brought before a magis- trate, who committed the hero for examination. Subsequently the examination was waived by the defendant, who was then fully held to ap- pear at the next term of the higher court. The writ of habeas corpus was next brought to bear upon Riviere, when that person could not be found. He had heen during several days in the custody, or rather under the surveillance, of the Chief of Police, who afterwards kindly be- game big bondemay. The prisoner, now alio- getber free, although a® keys bad ever been turned upon him, walked off, curling bis mous- taches at the Aabeas corpus 30d turning up his nose at the sovereign Siate of New Jersey. This shows « curious siato of things. An offi- cer is directed to commit a culprit to’the jai or station house. The prisoner, howevey, is simply under supervision, but is not restrained; and when the tacts become known to a judge of a higher court, and the captain has a prospect of being really committed, we find the officer coolly justifying as security for his prisoner, and de- feating the whole purpose for which he was ar- rested. That is a notch over New York, and the Hoboken police must have been taking and im- proving upou some lessons of the Metropoli- tans. Dancer to Lire ox tHe Ferrres.—When a terrible calamity happens at any of our ferries— generally an annual occurrence—by which several lives are sacrificed, a great public ex- citement arises for a while: common councils, to make capital, appoint investigating commit- teee: grand juries sometimes take hold of it, and the ferry companies make a great aplurge, pro- cure a lot of old fire buckets, or sham life pre- servers, or something of that kind, and then the excitement is all over. getting on the Hoboken ferry boat at the foot of Barclay streeta few days ago, fell from the bridge into the river, and there was not even a boat hook or a ladder at hand to save him. Some months ago Mr. Tallmadge appointed in- A poor man, while spectors to examine all our ferries to ascertain whether the boats and bridges were provided with the means of saving life in case of acci- dents; and they reported them, with one er two exceptions, fully provided as required by law— able tosave any number of lives—yet they were not able to save this one poor fellow the other day. The truth is that most of our ferries are mere traps for human life, which it is a tempting of Providence to meddle with. Is there no autho- rity to control them? _———_e—— THE LATEST NEWS. Arrival of the Fulton Of Cape Race. NO NEWS OF THE TELEGRAPH FLEET. Important Successes of the British in India. CONSOLS 95 3-8 a 95 1-2, &o., &o., to. Sr. Jonna, N. F., July 10, 1858. The United States mail steamship Fulton, Capt. Wotton, from Havre and Southampton 30th alt., passed Cape Race yesterday. She was intercepted by the news yacht of the New York Associated Press, which arrived here to- day with a summary of her news. ‘The Fulton has 140 passengers for New York. She experienced strong westerly winds tothe Banks, but saw no ice. She saw nothing of the telegraph fleet. The steamship America, from Boston June 16, via Halifax, arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, the 27th ult., and the Hamburg screw steamship Hammonia, from New York 15th ult., reached Southampton on the same day. The principal features of the Fulton's news are the important and interesting advices from India, detailing a variety of successes on the part of the British. The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant. Breadstuffs at Liverpool were generally steady, at rates materially unchanged. Provisions were dull. Consols for money closed at 95) a iT) Interesting frum Me xtco, New Onveans, July 9, 1958, ‘The bark Brilliant brings advices from Vera Craz fo the 6th instant. Business there was stil! prostrate. ‘The health of the citizens was good, but the yomito was prevaient among the troops. A violent earthquake occurred at the City of Mexico on the 18th of June, killing fifty persons. The British and French Ministers had advised their countrymen to pay the forced loan, under protest, but the American Minister opposes the demand, and has asked for his passports while awaiting instrac- tions. Generals Vidaumi and Garza wewe marching upon the capital. Echeagaray had retreated to Jalapa, and QOsolios was shut op in San Lais Potosi. General Salas had been recalled from exile by Zuloaga. ‘The decree for the forced contributions was being rigidly enforced. Advices from Yucatan are to the 30th of June. Government had imposed a duty of 50 cents per barrel on foreign and domestic flour from the first of August. An earthquake had occurred at Minatitlan. ‘The City of Baltimore for Liverpoot, Hatmax, July 10, 1859. ‘The steamship City of Baltimore will sail at noon tomorrow (Sunday) for Liverpool. Despatches ta be forwarded by her, left at No. 21 Wall street, New York, before the hour of closing this evening, will be duly forwarded. Lynch Law tn Kentucky. Laxioton, July 10, 18° City Marshal Beard was murdered by a man name: Barker, while endeavoring to arrest him. A crowd collected, and hung the murderer a few hours after. wards. Minrkets. New Onceans, July ¢, 1864, Cotton dall and inactive, with a downward ten- dency in the lower grades, but no quotable change in es: sales to-day, 1400 bales: sales of the week, 7,000 bales; receipts do., 4,100: increased receipts at this port, 106,500; do. at all Southern , 134,000; stock at this port, 65,000, Freights stifiening. Sugars have advanced an eighth. Flour is selling at $4. Wheat, Sige. Pork improving, and commands $16. Prime Rio coffee is quoted at loge: sales of the week, 6,750 bags; stock in port, 23,500 bags; receipts less than last year's at this date, 82,000 bags. Bacrimone, July 10, 1858. Flonr quiet and onchanged. Wheat’ unchanged. = firm. Whiskey very firm. Provisions rather irmer, Par aoeirara, Jaly 10, 1958. Flour quiet. Wheat dull and scarce. Corn ac tive, Whiskey firm and scarce at a We. Flour duft Borraco, Jaly Wy , “lour dull; rates unchanged: sales 500 bbis. a $5 75 for superfine Wisconsin and Tlinots: $4 for do. Ohio, Indiana and ae + $4 26 for do. extras; $4 60.0 $4 75 for double extras. Wheat dull: sales 2.300 bushels Milwaukie clab at 70c., Chicago spring nominal at 65¢. a 6be.; red Obio at 874c.. Corn steady: sales 23.000 bushels at 59¢. for sound; 474¢. for unsound. Oats \in fair demand and market unchanged: sales 16,000 bushels at S7§c. a ake, Whiske : gales 200 bis. at 22c.; re- ceipte and shipments I Canal freighta—400. on flowr, Lle. on wheat and 0c, on corn to New York. ne Non-Ansivel ox” dhe Teiegraph Flyot, ‘Tem Y Bay, July 10—10 A. ML There are yet nto ind\cations of the approach of the Niagara with the Atlantic telegraph. Weather clear and beautiful; wind easteriy, —— Our Spectal Washinton BOW THX BRITISH PLWeOSa.. FOB AN OvgaN POLIOR 48 RAGARKDED—THR ADMANISTRATION aND THE TRANSIT GRANSS~-AFI AIRS 'N MEXICO, Erg, Waextnazon, July 10, 1858, With reference to the proposal of the British gov- ernment, that some arraagement be entered into be- tween it and the United States to'lmave the true cha- racter of vessels at sea determined, ir .order to pre- vent piracy or abuse of the fiag, the: .administra- tion does not see how any arrangement ca. be made without compromising the principle’of itnvi olability of the flag, and subjecting us to greate.” evils than those which it is proposed to prevent. There being many contradictory and ister, :sted accounts about the Nicaragua Transit route, and the attitude of our government with respect to'it, I ma state, on authority, that the administration is deta ~ mined to sustain whatever claim to privileges of the transit are valid. The administration, will not permit the ephemeral, ever-changivg: governments of Central America to abolish by deerea the bona fide grants and vested interests of our citizens. Before any actual grant can be'set aside it must be shown to be invalid by regular pro- cess of law. Under this decision of the government, it is not likely any of the new grants made of the transit privileges are worth much. The original grant, until it expires or be set aside by regular pro- cess of law, will be sustained, and vessels of war are now there for that purpose. Reliable advices from Mexico to Washington bring information that Gen. Vidaurri, with nearly eight thousand troops, was marching towards San Luls, and on his way to the city of Mexico. Zuloaga’s downfall is regarded as inevitable. Sepator Brown, of Mississippi, has returned from a tour in Canada. The Secretary of Wax will Jeave for Cincinnati on Monday. THE GENERAL NEWEPAYER DESPATCH, Wasuincron, July 10, 1858. The Secretary of the Interior, @ an appeal! involy- ing the titles of Monticello, Lot Monticello and Moritions, Minnesota, has decided the law the only beneficiaries of the trust are fe occupants of the towns. No other proprietors are ized, nor can the Department protect the claims or inte- rests of non-resident shareholders or lot owners. ‘The quantity of land for town purposes cannot ex- ceed three hundred and twenty acres, under the law regulating that subject. Samuel Hippell has been appointed Postmaster of Leavenworth, vice Clarkson, resigned. Speech of Senater Douglas at Chicago. Cuicago, July 9, 1858. Senator Douglas was received this evening with great display. At one o'clock a committee of four hundred, from Chicago and the adjoining counties, proceeded to Michigan City, and there met Judge Donglas and escorted him to this city. The arrival of the train was greeted with the firing of cannon and the cheers of the people. A procession was formed, and congucted him to the Fremont House, where he thon 95 2 in a brief speech, in behalf of the citi- zens, by Chas. Walker, President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Douglas, after returning his thanks for the magnificent reception, reviewed the action of the last Congress on the Kansas bill. extolled the Crittenden bill as honest, and as the! very best pro- position for the practical illustration of popular sovereignty. He claimed that the struggle with Le- comptonism was for the integrity of principle. That struggle was triamphant,and Lecomptonism was virtually abandoned by its friends, and had been defeated forever. He had opposed the English bill, although practically it sent back the constitution to. be accepted or rejected by the people, because the manner as well as the form of that submission was at variance with every just principle of popular go- vernment. It was a submission of the constitution to the people, with the threat that if they did not accept a slave constitution, its 25,000 inhabitants should not come in as a free State until it had 93,000. He could never countenance such a dis- crimination between free and slave States. The best energies of his mind had been several years devoted © the great principle of the rights of the people of the Territories to frame their own fundamental laws, and he intended to devote all his future life to the same doctrine. He contended that the compro- mise measures of 1850 were founded on that principle, and were carried out in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, He affirmed the Cincinnati platform and reaffirmed President Buchanan's inaugural, He regretted to see, however, a political party of this country determined not to acquiesce in this line of policy. The Republican Convention recently assembled at Springfield nominated Mr. lincoln as his (Douglas) successor to the Senate, to repudiate the doctrine of popular sovereiguty. He (Lincoln) proclaimed that Congress, and not the people of the Territories, had the right to establish the domestic institations of the Territories. Lincoln endorsed not only this doctrine, but proclaimed a line of policy which was incompatible with the existence of the Union, for he declared that the Union, divided into an equal number of free and slave States, cannot endure. Mr. Douglas showed the dangerous tendency of this doctrine, and said that it invited and proclaimed a war of extermination— one section against the other. He regarded it as subversive of the fundamental principles upon which our complex system of government rested. He denied that a uniformity of local policy and of domestic institutions in the different States was either desirable or even possible; on the contrary, he held that our political aystem rested upon the theory and the practice of a dissimilarity of local policy and of domestic institutions in the different States. Our forefathers clearly perceived that the kind of domestic institutions which would suit New Hampshire would be totally unfit for the rice plan- tations of Carolina. Hence they adopted a consti- tution which provides that cach State should be sovereign amd supreme within its own limits, on the supposition that they would be as diversified as States as they were numerous. Thus it would seem, the diversity and dissimilarity of the domestic institutions of the sovereign States are the cardinal principles underlying the whole system of our government. Its strength, harmony and adaptation to the wants and interests of the people all depended upon the right of each State to form and regulate its own internal policy without reference to its similarity or dissimilarity to other States. Repeated uniformity is neither desirable nor possible, If possible, how can it be obtained ? ‘There is bat one process through which it can be accomplished, and that would be to abolish the State Legislatures, convert the government into one consolidated empire, investing Con- gress with full power to adopt police regn- lations, regulate internal policy, and adopt do- mestic institutions for all the States. Let this be done and there would be uniformity. Then the States would be either all free or all slave States, Then the negroes conld vote everywhere or no- where. Then our glorious confederation of thirty. two sovereign States would be merged into one con- solidsted empire, and the uniformity of despotism would reign triumphant throughout the land. Mr. Douglas proceeded to answer Mr. Lincoln's erosade against the Supreme Court, on account of the Dred Scott decision. He could sanction no crasade, he said, against the highest jndicial tribunal in the land, nor yet was he prepared to yield obe- dience to the law, as exponnded by that Court. He did not agree with Mr. Lin. coln, that it was a great wrong to deprive a negro of the rights of citizenship. He did not believe they were ever intended te be citizens, Oue Government was founded on & white lasia, and waa oreated by white nen. True humanity required that