The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. The A@miatstration and the Democratic JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIESOR. OFFION H. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS TERMS cash in advance, "HE DAILY HERALD, two conte THE WEEKLY HERALD every per ; the annum, ¢0 { commun, per art ef Great Briain, or $8 to any part af the Continent THE PANILY HERALD, every Wednealay, at four coulsper MT UNEART CORRESPONDENOR, wolty paid for Ba-Obs Fonnian OonmesrorDn®: .¥ BequesEKD TO Seat alt Lerrers anv Us, NO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications. We do Mot return those 4 $ per annum. fal ei rents ..- Ne. 191 ‘Vetume XXIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. AOADEMY OF MUBIC, Pour‘venth street—Granp Prome ‘wave Ooncest, unpex tux Dinection Or MusanD AND AN Bouts, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Tue Five Act Coxrpy Bwrrrusp Tus Bivais. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Ixwu Assvnaxce— ‘Tux Youn actaxss. BARNUMS AMER! Ml Broadway—After ‘moor and eveuing. Poses cee ay Wraan, tas WizaRp —Wonpaurve Ovricsitins, 4c. sence Daren te neisonaes orrun Hoveom RIVER, New York, Monday, July 12, 1858. @me New Yerk Herald—Edition for turope. ‘The Cunard mail steamship Arabia, Capt. Stone, will leave Boston on Wednesday, for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will close in this city to morrow af- ternoon, at half-past two e’clock, t go by railroad, and ‘at balf past four o'clock, to go by sicamboat. ‘The European edition of the Herat, printed in French and English, will be published at tem o’clook im the Morning. Bingle copies, in wrappers, rix cents. Subscriptions and advertisements for any edition of the Wew Your Berar will be received at the following piace Lonvor....Samson Low, Bon & Oo., 47 Am.-Kuropean 51 . -Buropean Exprese + ay pe ‘VERroot..Am.-Zuropean Express , Chapel ‘Stuart, 10 Exchange street, Bast. avas..... Am,-Buropean Express Co., 21 Rue Corneille, ‘The con:ents of the European edition of the Henatp ‘will combiBe the news received by mail and telegrapb at the office during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication. ‘The Nows. The steamship Fulton, which left Southampton for this port on the 30th ult., arrived off Cape Race on Friday last, where she was intercepted by the news yacht of the Associated Press. The intelli- gence is four days later than the advices received by the Africa, and is interesting. News had reached England by telegraph of important successes gained by the British troops in India. There is nothing of special importance from Continental Europe. In Liverpool the cotton market was buoyant, at an ad- vance of an eighth of a penny per pound, while breadstuffs were steady at unchanged rates. In Lon- don, consols were quoted at 95} a 954. The Falton saw nothing of the telegraph fleet. She reports en- countering strong westerly winds to the Banks, but baw no icebergs. We have news from Vera Cruz to the 6th inst. General Vidaurri, at the head of eight thousand troops, was maching upon San Luis and the capital. ‘The speedy downfall of Znloaga and his party is re- garded as inevitable. Echeagaray had retreated to Jalapa, and Osollos was shut up in San Luis Potosi. General Salas had been recalled from exile by Za- loaga. The British and French Ministers had ad- vised their countrymen to pay the forced loan, under protest, but the American Minister opposed the de- mand, and had asked for his passports while await- ing instructions; meanwhile the decree for the forced contribution was being rigidly enforced. Advices from Yucatan are to the 30th of June. Government had imposed a duty of fifty cents per barre! on foreign and domestic flour from the first of August. Our correspondent at Maracaibo, Venezuela, writ- ing on the 19th ult., says:—The country is quiet, healthy, and crops very abundant. Ex-President Monagas and his associates in plander continue under the surveillance of the police, and will be ar- raigned before the proper tribunal, which is not or- ganized, nor will it be until after the election of President by the National Couacil, now about form- ing for that purpose, together with the formation of ‘a new constitution. The Danish schooner Navige- tor, bound to Hamburg, with a cargo of coffee, tobac co, &e., is ashore on the bar off this place, and is likely to prove a total loss. Cargo landed in good condition. The Seventh regiment, National Guard, of this city, which escorted the remains of President Monroe to Richmond, Va., for re-interment, arrived home at half-past one c’clock yesterday morning, via Wash- ington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, and received a most cordial welcome from their brothers in arms. We give in our columns a graphically detailed sketch of their proceedings from the time of the grounding of the steamer Ericason on the Kettle Bottoms in the Potomac river, including the review by the Pre- sident and Cabinet, the visit in Washington, the im- posing scene at the tomb of Washington at Mount ‘Vernon, an accurate description of the grounds, and @ detailed account of the journey from Washington to New York, and their reception here. The letter of our correspondent at Richmond gives full particn- lars of the recovery of the body of young Laurens Hamilton, who fell overboard from the steamer Glen Cove and was drowned, together with the subsequent proceedings of the Richmond military respecting the shipment of the body to New York, and the names of the persons composing the escort., The commencement exercises which have been already held in different colleges of the United Btates, are duly noticed in our paper this morning. An interesting résume of the University commence- ments which are in prospect, and of the proposed meeting of various learned bodies, is appended. ‘The celebration at the Ladies’ College, Elmira, N. Y., ‘was quite a happy affair, and is well described. ‘This institution presents the peculiarity of not in- cluding « “senior class.” At the examinations in Central College, N.Y., the negro lady and white men students all distinguished themselves—the colored literati bearmg off the palm in some instances. Nothing new has transpired with reference to the Ge Riviere and Blount affair. Up to last evening the captain's whereabouts had not been discovered. We publish elsewhere reporta of sermons delivered yesterday by Rev. Messrs. Strickland and Weeks, two converted actors. The cotton market was firm on Satarday, and the sales embraced about 3,000 bales, closing stiff at about 12i¢0. Tor middling uplands, and in rome cases an advance of Wee per tb. was claimed. The market for common and meodiam grades of Bute and Western four was firmer, while extra brands were unchanged, and sales were mete to a fair extent. Wheat war more sctive, and the males embraced about 75,000 © 80,000 bushels at rates given in avother eolumn. Corn was firm for prime sound ota, which were scarce, while inferior and common qualities # ere unchanged. The sales embraced Wostern mixed ab 640, a T5e. © 176.; Southern white, 82c.. Set ere yellow, 86c. s 88¢., and prime round yellow, 88¢ Pork ‘wae firmer, with rather more doing The #alee embra ied meee at $16 05 a $16 75, cloning at the latter figare, and prime ot $15 700819 76. Lard wae firmer, with snins ‘Of 1,000 barrels and tierces at 11%(0. a 11146. for good to prime. Sugars were firmer, and closed at full Keo por BD. advance on the week's sales, The transactions on Sat- urday embraced about (00 hogsbonds Cubs musoovado, fmt rates given in another column. Coffee was steady and quiet. There was a movement in naval stores; the saise embraced 1,000 barrels spirits tarpentine, bere and to ar- rive, at 46, abd 6,000 barrels common rosin, on the epot find 0 arrive, at 8167. a 8110. Freighte were engaged to © ‘air @x°ont, wilhout change of moment in rates. Party We transfer to our columns this morning an article from the Washington Union of Friday last, in which that partisan organ undertakes to answer and deny the position of the Haran as to the present demoradization of the democratic party, North, South and West. The Union sets out by affirming what it says the Heratp ad. mite—that the euccesses of the administration so far have been the solid triumphs of principle over faction, and that such victories always inure to the exclusive benefit of the democratic party. Thia is a two fold proposition, part of which is true and part fallacious. We not only admit, but claim aod bave always claimed, that the success of the measures brought out hitherto in the stateemanlike course of Mr. Buchanan’s administration, bas been a triumph of principle over faction. But that is asserting or admit- ting nothing in favor of the democratic party. We have always drawn the distinction—a dis- tinction which mere partisan organs like the Union are incapable of drawing—hetwoen great measures of national policy and sound states manship and thore measures that have their origin simply in the base, contemptible spirit of party. The successes of the administration were sucereses achieved in measures of the former character, and it was because we regard- ed them in that light that we gave to them our heartiest support. They were “triumphs of principle over fac- tion.” But on which side were the faction- ists? Clearly and undeniably on the side of the democratic party. It was the se- cedere, the demoralized and disintegrating element of that perty, that interposed all the obstacles and impediments to the free course of the President’s policy; and were it not, as we have heretofore shown, for the aid which was rendered by liberal minded members of the op- position, not a solitary measure brought for- ward in the la+t session of Congress, whether to tarry out the policy of the administration or to make appropriations for the expense of govern- ment, could have been carried. They were in- deed “triumphs of principle over faction”—over democratic faction—but we cannot understand the logic which justifies the Union in saying that “such victories always inure to the exclusive benefit of the democratic party.” Why it should be eo, why that should be the effect, we are at a loss to conceive, when they were no! won by that a ie it is again that the Un'on shows its inca- pacity to make the distinction between the great, elevated, national policy of a conservative ad- ministration and the miserable huckstering mek~rhifts of party. Because the present incum- bent of the Presidential chair was the candidate put forward by the democratic party, it assumes and argues on that assumption that all the acts of his administration must be governed by party considerations. It would thus bring the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, having in charge the mighty in‘erests of this great nation, down to the level of a Tammany Hall Council of Sachems, assem- bled to devise means for parcc'ling out the public plunder and for selling the public offices to un- deservers. What sort of a position is this to be taken by ihe reputed organ of the administra- tion? Is this the vort of service it renders to its patrons? Better for it to confine itself exclu- sively to the publication of advertisements for mail lettings, in which none but a few mail con- tractors can discover any meaning or feel any interest, than thus injore by its unwise advo- cacy the cause to which it is abeurdly supposed to render service. The Union, in the article to which we allude, goes on to speak of two or three troublesome questions which the administration inherited, and which had been thrust upon the party by fierce demegogues, and says that the Heraup will agree with it that in meeting and over- coming these difficulties the President achieved a signal triumph. Most undoubtedly he did. That ie what we have all along asserted. The President achieved a signal triumph in the Le- compton matter, but the democratic party did not. The contest saw the democratic party, North and South, rent into fragments, one sec- tion opposing the measure at one time for one insignificant canse, and another section op- posing it at another time for another and an equally insignificant cause. But calmly and imperturbably the President looked down upon these squabblings of the factions. He felt that he bad acted upon a great and immutable principle, and that however his course might be assailed from the one side or from the other, its correctness would be eventually recognized by Congress and the nation. The high statesman- like stand which be took cowed and deterred the renegades, and shamed them back into their proper orbit; and he had the satisfaction of seeing the whole army of nigger worshippers in Congress, headed by the venerable Giddings, come forward, and, by voting for the Crittenden-Montgomery amendment, abjure all their former errors on the subject of rlavery, and perform a solemn auto da fé. That was, indeed, a triumph of prin- ciple over faction—but, we again repeat, it was not a triumph of the democratic party. It was 4 triumph of a national administration. The Union, however, does not sce it in that light. It has no comprehension of, or apprecia- tion for anything but party; and so it claims that this and other events of the last session have strengthened the democratic party—else they would not be victories but practical de feats. And yet, with a looseness of logic that is refreshingly naive, it by-and-by docs admit that “there are many members of Congress who, like fruit picked from the popular tree before it is fully ripe, require a good deal of brushing and rubbing to give them even the appearance of maturity and perfection; and that “there are others again who have been so much in the public service as not clearly to understand whe- ther they belong to the State or the State be- longs to them.” In plain language, this means that many of the new members were unmanage- able, and that the old members were unmanage- able. Well, that being the case, on the Union's own show og, we think we were not vory far astray when we proclaimed the utter disorgani- zation of the democratic party. The Union, however, with a perepicacity that does it credit, and which we should not have expected to see manifested by it, finds out the difference between the Henatp and it to be— that it supports democratic principles and organizations, and that the IHerraty supports democratic principles and is quite indifferent to organizations, There the Union hits the nail right on the head. It may be, as it is, the organ ofa party, The Herat occupice higher ground. It is the organ of no party, of no organization, of no Clique, of no set of seoun- drelly politicians, who meet in low grogshope and dispose of nominations to office to the ' highest bidder ; ite animating prinoiple is the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1858, peace, honor and prorperity of the nation at lerge. Whatever administration of whatever party guides its policy on other than great na- tional statesmanlike principles we will oppose as we bave opposed; whatever administration of whatever party guides ite policy on great na- tional statesmantike principles we will support end maintain as we do that of Mr. Buchanan. There ie our whole article of political faith. Our Munierran Exrravacance.—We have endeavored, day after day, for years past, to rivet the attention of the citizens of New York to the recklees waste and plunder committed by their municipal officers of every grade, and to endeavor to arouse the tax payers to some course of action that will put an end te this prof- ligate system. A comparison of the cost of this government with that of the State and of the United States wil) be the most eloquent reason- ing we can resort to. The total expenditures of every kind, for this city, with its 700,000 inhabitants, for the year 1857, are shown by Valentine's Manual to be $16,280,538 69. This includes over six mil- lions for redemption of revenue bonds and four millions for the Central Park improvement and awards. Of this amount $6,855,326 11 was rajeed by direct taxation, being at the rate of ten dollars for every man, woman and child in the city. The tax raised for the support of the State for the same year, with its population of three anda half millions, wae only $3,224,946 68, or at the rate of less than a dollar. a head. In other words, the cost of the State government was only one-tenth of that of the city govera- meat, in proportion to their relative population. Of that sum this city contributed $1,171,226 88, or considerably over one-third, besides contri- buting $390,408 96, in an equal ratio, to the school tax—this being independent of the pub- lic echools of the city. The cost of the United States government for the same year, was about seventy millions of dollars, or at the rate of little more than two dollars per head for every man, woman and child of the population. We have thus these fects established:—This State pays proportionately more for its govern- ment than any other State in the Union. The United States pay proportionately more for the general government than any of the States pay for the State governmenta. And yet, while the cost of the government of New York State re~ presents one, and the cost of the government o the United States represents two, the cost of the government of the city of New York repre- sents ten. It would be well to ponder on these facts, and to consider the means by which this fearful ex- travagance in our municipal affairs can be stopped. There is no doubt but a large propor- tion of the city revenues disappears in the shape of plunder pocketed by pilfering officials. The late investigations in the Comptroller’s and Street Commissioner’s departments have suffi- ciently demonstrated that fact. One of the most powerful arguments made use of by the opponents of John Quincy Adams’ administra- tien was, that in the second year thereof the ex- penditures of the whole country reached thirteen millions. Now, for this city alone they exceed sixteen millions. Let every taxpayer weigh these startling facts and figures, and consider what is to be done to stop all the fraud and corruption that are at the bottom of this immense waste of money. Lanp Sprcu.ations ms Mexico.—There is a set of scheming, plotting, land jobbing, specu- lating politicians in this country, who, wherev- er there is a chance of operating—whether in Kansas, in Minnesota, in Central America, in the guano islands of the Pacific or elseewhere— are constantly getting up fictitious sham titles to land, and then calling on the government to assert and maintain their’claims. These same operators have been lately doing something in that line in Mexico, and assert that they have obtained a contract from some of the mushroom governments of that country for surveying the unclaimed lands in Sonora, Chihuahua, and Du- rango, they to receive a certain proportion of the lands so surveyed. The first intimation which the people of these provinces had of such a grant or contract, was the arrival at Guaymas of a party calling itself the American Scientific Com- mission; and they immediately took mea- eurer 1 prevent the comsummation of such a scheme of plunder. The government of the State or province refused to ratify the contract, because there was no provision in it as to the right of the ownere of the soil being respected— the fact being that there is no unclaimed public lands in Sonora or theee other provinces of Mexico—every foot of them being covered by grants from the oki Spanish or the more modern Mexican Governors. Under these circumstances the interested land jobbers have applied to the President for the assertion of what they claim to be their tights; and the President bas very properly declined to heve anything to do with them. If Mexico is to be absorbed, let it not be through such instrumentalities, but by an in- ternational convention. Yacutixne anv Boat Racine.—The friends of ranitary reform will be glad to note the progress of aquatic sports. The numberof yachts and pleasure boats of ail kinds, in our bays, harbors and rivers, has been quadrupled within the last three or four years. Where we formerly had one yacht or boat clab in New York we have half a dozen now, snd the people of the interior seem to be following the metropolitan example. One of our country exchanges, printed on the banks of the Merrimac, says that at times “the whole river seeme alive with boats; eighty-four were counted at one view.” AtSpringfield, Mas. sachusette, on the 22d inst., the boat clubs of the colleges will meet for a rowing match, and it is expected that upwards of twenty boat clabs, from the different Wastern colleges, will be represented on the occaeion. On the following day, Saturday, the 24th purees for six ond four-oared boate will be offer ed by the citizens of Springfield, open for all boat clubs, whether belonging to colleges or not On the sneceeding Monday, 26th, the clubs o Hertford propore to get up another regotta, to take place at that city, to which they will invite uJ] the contestonts at Springfield to participate It is intimated aleo, that there will be another regatta at New London on the 6th of Septem. ber. Some of the New London oarsmen, we learn, bave already given orders for the construe- tion of boats after the medel of those of the Yale nevy. All these water contests should be encouraged. There is no exercise more manly and more like- ly to promote the physical and mental health than rowing, and when to thie exercise is added the excitement of a regatta we have the highest order of sport. Ifthe boating era shall con. tinue five years the next generation will relieve Americans from the odium of the charge of physical decline, which has been laid to us by European writers, and with more truth than we care to admit. It only needs a little out-door exercise to bring up the physical stamina of our youth. The stock is good enough yet. The trouble is in the rearing, training and feeding. Prospects or THE Brirsa iw Inpia.—The Indian news by the Fulton does not accord well with that by the last Qunard steamer, though seemingly both refer to the same Indian mail. The Africa brought intelligence (by telegraph in advance of the mail) from India, which, according to the commercial circulars, had depreesed the stock market, The Fulton, four days later, reports, on the contrary, “a variety of British successes.” However the discrepancy may be explained— whether another Indian mail has been tele- graphed or the details of the last were incor- rectly analyzed by the telegraph—certain it seems that the English must be beginning to realize the terrible position in which they are placed in India, and the absurd mockery of de- bate after debate in Parliament on abstract theories for the government of millions, who, it is now pretty clear, are in no hurry to put themselves in the way of being governed again by foreigners. The little army commanded by Sir Colin Campbell is not only insufficient to keep the country in subjection, but is actually dependent on its native allies for bare existence. Even the loyal correspondent of the London Times confesses that were the Sikhs to abandon the English, the best that the latter could hope for would be a safe retreat to the seaboard. The Sikhs are three to two, and in some places two to one, of the Eaglish. They can stand the heat, which the latter cannot. They can live upon s handful of rice, while the English require substantial food, and plenty of it. They are at home. How long, with these immense advantages in their favor, they will continue to do the heavy work of the Europeans and conquer the country for their benefit, re- mains to be seen. Meanwhile the Indian dog days are upon the Europeans, with their necessary accompani- ments—rmallpox, jungle fever and sun strokes. Our fearful heats would be there considerod mild, pleasant weather. Itis with the thermo- meter ranging, in the shade, from 105 degrees to 115 degrees that these Englishmen, in their woollen coats and bearing their weighty koap- eacke, are 1unning after the naked sun-born Hindoos thrcugh the most deadly part of the Indian jungle. Of the strategical consequences of this heat, one may form a judgment from the item of news brought by the last mail, to the effect that the Commander-in-Chief had with- drawn the bulk of the garrison from Lucknow— which post will probably be reoccupied at no distant day by the rebels. To understand the pending Indian war, one must fancy the Florida war magnified ten thou- sand times. For every hostile Indian that there was in Florida when the war broke out, Hindos- tan contains ten thousand natives who are hos- tile to the British; but it will be as hard to sub- due the ten thoueand as it was to catch the one, and the expense of money and men will be pro- portionately increased. The Hindoos may be beaten over and over again in the field; but that they ever can be conquered again it takes a very sanguine Englishman to believe. God gave them capacity to support extreme heat and to live upon next to nothing ; their Euro- pean masters have given them arms and disci- pline—the two are calculated to make them un- conquerable. A Rus# To tHe Counrry.—The heated term, which has teen upon us for the last few days, is driving people from the city in shoals, to seck shelter and cool breezes in the country. All those who intend tospend the whole summer in rustication have gone away before now, but those who can only afford to give a week or so to country recreation are being fairly driven out of our sultry streets by the intense heat of the preeent fiery season. Nevertheless, the fashion- able watering placesdo not make as much show as might be expected under the circumstances. They are doing very little better than they did last year, when we were on the very verge of the panic. Most probably many folks whose crinoline swept the promenades, and whose jew- els sparkled like their eyes in the ball rooms of Saratoga and Newport last summer, are rusti- cating themselves in some modest farm house in the interior this year, or enjoying the convenient hospitality of some relative’s country house. We sce that Virginia is making a great effort to rival New York in her watering places. She is endeavoring with patriotic zeal to keep the Southerners, whose money flowed like the ever- flowing sea into the coffers of our Northern hotel keepers, at her own watering places this season and in future. she succeed in making them as acceptable"@®, Saratoga, Cape May and Newport, the salons of these fashiona- ble reeorts will miss many dark, flashing eyes, and our Northern belles may be tempted to turn southwards in search of husbands with fabulous wealth, when they weary of distin- guished foreigners with titles before their names. Tee News rrom Mexico—The late news from Mexico, by way of Vera Cruz, which we published yesterday, confirms the intelligence which previously reached us from Monterey: The government of Zuloaga is evidently on its last legs. Generals Vidaurri and Garza have changed their tactics and are marching upon the city of Mexico, doubtlees with the intention of making 1 grand coup on the capital, where Zoloaga and hie Cabinet are located. General Ovollos, the Commander-in-Chief of Zaloaga’s army, is still shut up inSan Luis Potosi, and it seems very likely that he will be allowed to re- main there while the two Gencrals make a com- bined aeesult on the seat of government, so that, inetead of San Luis Potosi being the turn- ing point of the campaign, it may terminate with the successful siege of the city of Mexico by the constitutionalist army. yikes Finer Feerrs or tae Reaiaiocs Revrvars.—A state of wild religions exoi‘ement, such as pre- vailed in ‘hie city and throughout the country ast winter, bes, like everything else in this world, its bright and ite derk rides. If it brought ferme pugilists and burglars and re- probates to the foot of the cross, it also brought some innocent women to shame—women whom the exaltation of the occasion deprived of their ordinary control over their own actions, and rendered irresponsible for them. Two such aces have been recently brought to light in this city eud ite neighbor across the Bast river; although it must be said that the male offenders in each ease—both men high in social position—aseeverate their innocence, and declare themerlves ready to prove it. Whether the charges in theee particular cases are true or not, it is none the less certain that many an unprincipled libertine availed himself of the half frenzied condition of females in these re- ligious revivals to pursue his debaucheries, and was the better able to do so under the garb of assumed piety. There have been, of course, bright sides to the picture. Among others was the spectacle presented yesterday in this city of two reformed actors, preaching morning and evening to at- tentive congregations, and probably reciting the parallel case of the conversion of St. Paul on his way to Damascus. Thus it is that all things contain their good and their evil. We may well be thankful if, in the recent religious excitement, the evil did not predominate. Avyoruer Horz ror THE TeteGrara.—The tenth of this month was fixed upon by certain of the best informed friends of the Telegraph expe- dition as the last day on which it would be rea- sonable to look for news of the successful laying of the Transatlantic Telegraph cable. They said that if by that time nothing had been heard of the Niagara at Newfoundland, it would be safe to conclude that the expedition had failed and returned to Queenstown according to the There is, notwithstanding, a hope left. The vessels which have lately arrived at this port from Europe under sail have made unusually Jong paseages, and report invariably adverse winds. Several ships not remarkable for infe- rior sailing qualities, have taken fifty and sixty days to cross the ocean. Now presuming—as it is fair to presume—that the Telegraph fleet met these adverse winds, why should they not have been delayed in a proportionate degree? There is no reason to suppose that the Agamemnon, for instance, which is a steamer, and we know, was very deep, could sail with any great speed, even with a fair wind; what then could she do with a foul one? It is possible—not to say probable—that the Telegraph fleet were delayed by bad winds fall ten days beyond the allotted time for reaching mid ocean; that they did not aplice the cable till after the Ist inst., and that the two ships arc now slowly steaming toward their respective desti- uation. While they are not heard from, thereis still room for hope. Senator Doveras at Cicaco.—The Little Giant has opened the war in Illinois in his ac- customed style. Rebuffed by the republicans, viewed as a stranger by the bulk of the friends of the administration, he has begun the triangu- lar fight with no little ardor and vigor. To borrow his own figure, he has imitated the Rus- asians at Sebastopol, who kept blazing away at the enemy not caring whether they hit French or English. He pitches into Mr. Lincoln, the tepublican candidate, with as much gusto as he attacks the English Compromise bill; repudiating the republican doctrines as heartily as those of the supporters of the law which has pacified Kansas. It is difficult to foresee the iseue of the contest. The Little Giant evidently enjoys some popularity in his State; he is a man of courage and resources; but triangular fights are danger- ous. If the rank and file of both democrats and republicans oppose Judge Douglas, who will be left to support him? Trve Women anp Womay’s Riouts—The Women’s Rights Conventions that assemble from time to time in New York, Vermont and else- where, to show to how low a degree the sex may be degraded under the influence of spiritualism, and dress reform associations, and free love doctrines, might take lessons in mo- desty and womanly grace from the humblest Irieh or German girl who may have the mis- fortune to be called on to serve them in the capacity of cook, or laundress, or chambermaid. In the other qualities that go to make up the perfect woman, they have examples wherever there is refined society. Every now and then, besides, extraordinary instancee of female worth, and devotion, and intrepidity, and noble heartedness come to light—always outside of their philosophical coteries—which put to shame their immodest pretensions and show how true woman can always make themselves honored and beloved by all who hear the story of their goodnees. We do not now instance the story of Florence Nightimgale, which, after all, is the story of thousands and tens of thousands of those good sisters of religion, whose very names are un- known even to each other, but who act as min- istering angels in the crowded hospitals and poverty stricken abodes of this and every large city. If the brazen-faced dameels and unmatron- ly wives who frequent the platforms of Wo- men’s Rights Conventions were to imitate, even at the remotest distance, the noble lives of these true women, the community would not be dis- gusted with the utterance by female lips of such licentious doctrines as we have recently heard promulgated by the Convention at Rutland. But other instances of female fortitude and intrepidity are not wanting. It is but a short twelvemonths or #0 since the wife of a hardy New England mariner—the captain of the ship Neptune’s Car—performed acts of heroiem and endurance which reflected honor on her name, her sex and her country. We allude to Mrs. Patten, who, when her husband was stricken down with brain fever, undertook, and actually performed the task of navigating his vessel from the Atlantic to San Francisco. It was bat the other day that we had to record a parallel in. stance of woman’s heroism. It was the case of Mra. Nichols (not Mrs. Gove Nichols) who, when her husband—the captain of the Grotto— fell a victim to yellow fever, assumed the com- mand of the vessel and brought ber to port with a crew reduced to two effective men. It is but rarely, of course, that a frail and delicate women finds herself called upon to evince heroism of this character, but it is always she who is most modest, most gentle, and most retiring, who, when occasion calls forth ber energies, is sure to prove herself equal to the emergency—true, faithful and devoted. It is not of such creatures as figure at abolition conventions that true women are made, Garrison in Acony.—Masea Garrison in last weekis Liberator, alludes to the eelebration. of Independence Day at Boston in the following choice excerpt:— Monday, the 5th, was obrerved throughout the mation with the usual characteris of Independence Day. In Heston, there wore various devices resarted to to excite popular curiosity. There were a o''y procession, under military cscort—n havkerish, insu og, venomous, pro- vlevery, Union waving cration by Joun &. Holmes, Beq.— & dipuer et Fanev! Bali—a “National,” alias Satanic, », Leormpton Swindle, bam-Democratic celebration, by the “Young Men's Demooratic Club" —« igh falutin’, double-and.twisted, pro siave- saving oration by Hon. Rufus Choate, and aa ive =< a the Rovere Basse Cy. Lt <4 ita on te i) rae | ston! Lor moe brilliant ‘Goong of fireworks in the even- tageAe., ke. “4 The “venomous” and “double twisted” ora- tors may consider themselves used up; but why get into ach a pastion about a Fourth of July. oration? The weather ia too warm for san- guincous irritation, ‘Massa Garrison should pat 8 piece of Wendham Lake ioe on his head, and keep cool, Tux Hero oF rae Mataxorr at Hovoxen— oe penal at Home amp ABROAD.— A short ti the English were ringing with denunciations of 7 ate officers who attempted the life of a writer on account of a harmless boutade, The sub lieutenant was fully desoribed in a not very flattering way. His airs, gow cheries, stupidities, were all duly chronicled, The storm of sarcasm and ridicule had its ef- fect. The sub-lieatenant’s sabre did not clank so heavily on the pavement; the sublice- tenant’s moustache was not curled so fiercely | towards the empyrean; not that the sub-liea- tenant bas become a gentleman—he is stilla, boor of a mitigated order. The sub-licutenant, at home is the king of seamstresses—the ter- ror of tsilors—the monarch of the ca/é—the glory of the tobacco shop. It makes no matter whether he came from the bourgeoisie, or even @ lower grade of society than that occupied by a emall trader, the sub lieutenant jostles aside the shopkeeper with supreme contempt. The militaire ia, in the eye of the sub-lieutenant, the chosen one of the earth, upon whom all the good fortunes should alight. So much for the sub-lieutenant at home. The sub-lieutenant abroad is the son of a reapeot- able provincial trader, and is brought up te look askance upon the business of his father. After a run of a year or two with the young scamps of Paris, he gets into some scrape, and is sent off to Algeria, as American fathers sometimes send their sons to sea as an alternative to the penitentiary. In Algeria our sub-lieutenant is put into the Zouaves, and meeta among the officers of that wild corps men even wilder than himeclf. They are something like our Texan rangers; and though rash, and sometimes not over-scrupulous in the enemy’s country, they are good soldiers and, with a few exceptions, are above any ao tion which is criminal, mean, or ungentlemanly They are generally toned down by camp life and, if they are afterwards impertinent to civi lians, it is more the fault of the system than a the soldier. But our sub-lieutenant cannot eve be restrained by the loose morality of thea free lances. He is detected in a conspiracy t defraud the creditors of a tradeswoman; and a the laws are rather more stringently execute in France than in this country, he finds it cor venient to place himself under the protectin, folds of our flag. The ex-sub-lieutenant wan ders about from place to place, living upoi eleemorynary contributions, or by deceiving con fiding tavern keepers. He has a mistress whon he marries; and afterwards, taking advan tage of the hospitality of a generous South erner, carries off a foolish young girl an her still more credulous mother. The fa ther, armed with proofs of the lieuten ant’s misdemeanors in France, his previow marriage and general evil courses, follows in pu suit; but the hero of the ‘romance, with a d¢ gree of impudence which rises to the magni ficent, pereists in refusing to surrender the pet son of the daughter, even though he is alread legally married, according to our laws, an therefore cannot be the husband of th unfortunate young lady whose future he ha ruined beyond reparation. This fellow stand now defying the laws ef the country that ha given him shelter; and, after ruining the peac of a family, refuses to make the only reparatio in his power, and inform the father of the wher abouts of his child. We do not remember { have ever read of an abduction more crimim and more shameless than this of the sul Neutenant abroad. Taking all of the facts together, the case of th exiled militaire has no parallel even in this cour try, which is so fruitful in crimes aga‘nst a ciety. Had the chief actor in the affair attempte the eame thing in France he would, at the tim of this writing, be sporting ® ball and chain i the galleys of Brest or Toulon, and on ou own borders his punishment at the hands ¢ Judge Lynch would have been still more sum mary and severe. As it is, it appears tha nothing can be done with him. A gentle rid upon a rail or an envedope of tar and feathers i eald to be the best prescription for the malad which affects our sub-lieutenant abroad. W thould have fewer of these escapades if youn, ecamps like the eub lieutenant and hero of th Woodman affair should happen to feel the effect of a little extra-judicial punishment. Cancemt's Case.—The Judges of the Suprem: Court at general term will probably render ¢ decision to-day in the case of Michael Cancemi which was adjourned over on Saturday. The decision, whatever it may be, whether it con- signs the prisoner to death or offers him another chance for freedom, will, we trust, be final, Cancemi has had three trials, and has been twice convicted of murder, yet it seems afterall that he may escape the punishment due to hia offence through some mere technicalities of law. They manage things differently in Kentucky, 8 appears by our telegraph despatch of yester- day. We hope that the numerous escapes of mur- derers will not lead to similar results in this city. Acapemy or Mvsic.—We have received a com- munication signed George Hargan, relative to the Academy of Music,contaming certain charges against some of our prominent citizens, which we decline to publish for obvious reasons. Inurwors.—The republicans of the Third Con- gressional distsict of Illinola have nominated Hon. Owen Lovejoy for re-election to the House of Repre- sentatives. ' Marya Unirep Starrs Savator.—The Portland ‘State of Maine intimates that the democratic candi- date for the next United States senatorship in that State will be Hon. John Appleton, now Assistant Secretary of State, Massacnverrrs Democratic Stare Convan- TION.—The Democratic State Convention of Maasa- chusetts will convene at Worcester on Thursday, Sept. 2. ——————————— Personal Intelligence. Hon. N.P. Banks, Jr., Governor of Massachusetts, was in Hartford on Saturday. Gov. Newell, of New Jersey, accompanied by Hon. W. L. Dayton, Attorney General, and Thomas S. Allison, Eaq., Secretary of State, arrived in Mom- mouth on the 7th inst., en route for Tom’s River. Old Dr. Lyman Beecher fs described as now quite feeble; his memory has signally failed; hesitates at plain words, while all his anditora know what is —" and it is often quite painful to hear him ak. yi Father O'Reilly, of the Catholic charch at Waterbury, Connecticnt, on the 6th inst. fell from his wagon in convequence of the breaking of the axle, and fractured his leg, Hon. Elihn Washburn, of Ilinois, is now on a visit to his relatives in Bristol county, Massachusetts, ARRIVALS. reine MF ihirop. Mrs Meaiey “and dager, ter MMrinact, Mr Recdes and lady, ‘From Oardeane, ta tbe bark [ndian Belle—A Frick,