The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1858, Page 4

4 NN NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, as OFFICE MN. W. CORNEA OF FULTON AND NASSAU @T* ee ED. ERALD. (0 conte per 8 per annum sy 00 Steuer ALLY WEEKLY HERALD every ras ‘at six cents per eopy, or BS per annum; the European Edition $4 per annum, te to any part of the Continent Er forced Great Braatn, or to wartude pustage THE FAMILY HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per 8 $2 per annum. Woruntany CORRESPONDENCE, cos important news, solicited from any quarter of the world; if used will be tibe paid for” BGPUUR Forsics CORRESPONDENTS ake Pam LARLY BEQUMBRED TO Smal ali LETTERS 4ND Pagkagus ENT US. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, We do NE DVERTISEMERTS 1 day; adlrertisements in ADVE! renewed every day; a werted in the WerKty Baraty “amity BERALD and in the \d Burepean Filitions GOH PRINTING coecuted with neatness, cheapness and dee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. th street—GRinD Prowe- ACADENY OF MUSTO, Pouriecnts oe an: Bomurs. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway—Porriva ram Quastion— Covomeus wi. Fussvsrero .OK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Worxinc tux On- aceecinten Laon Ne, 193 -After- ‘and evening. Feats or Macio By Wruan, THs Wizanp Monpanror Ovarosirins, &e ‘WOOD'S BUILDING, 561 and 563 Se Bowen Paxcns, bo-Paxonina OF Tus upson Riven. New York, Wednesday, July 14, 1858. 'The News. ‘The steamship Empire City has arrived at New Orleans with the California mails to the 20th vitimo. The Star of the West is fully due at this port from A despatch from St. Louis gives in brief the con ditions agreed upon at the conference of the Utah Peace Commissioners, Messrs. McCulloch and Powell, and the Mormon leaders. The Mormons agree that the army shall enter Salt Lake City without opposi- tion ; that the federal civil officers shall not be in- ferrupted in the performance of their duties ; and boat unconditional obedience shall be paid to the jaws of the land. On the other hand, the Mormons avail themselves of the general pardon for past offences extended by the President. The Mormons, however, notwithstanding their apparent pacific in- tentions, do not seem disposed to fraternise with the Gentiles. It is stated that all the houses in Salt Lake City, except one occupied by the Governor and his family, were closed against both the federal officers aud the strangers who accompanied them. ‘The steamsbip Fulton arrived at this port yester. day evening from Southampfon, bringing one hun- dred and forty.one passengers and our files from Europe, dated in Paris on the 29th, and London on the 30th ult. The Fulton passed Cape Race last Friday morning, when she was boarded by the news yacht of the Associated Press. A summary of the news then obtained was telegraphed from St. Johns, N. F., and published in the Hzxatpon Sunday morning, the 11th instant. The advices from India are dated at Bombay, 5th of June. The despatches say that the English divi- sion at Lucknow was strong, and the city well de- fended; thus differing from the Calcutta news by the Africa, which reported the garrison to be sickly ‘and to number only 2,000 men. The chief of Nur- goond, who was at the head of the rising in the Bom- bay district, is reported to have beencaptured. We learn that the Arabs and Robillas were plundering towns in the Nizam’s country, but a field detach ment left Bombay te restore order. The mails from China are dated at Hong Kong on the 5th of May. It is said that the Emperor had replied to the foreign plenipotentiaries. He could give no direct answer to the demands of the English, but congratulated the Americans on their faithful observance of treaty stipulations and the avoidance of a participation in what he terms tne ‘aggressions of the British and French.” It is said that special envoys would treat with Hon. Mr. Reed at Canton, and with the Russian minister on the banks of the Amoor. A very uneasy state of feeling prevailed in and about Canton. The coolie slave trade to Cuba was flourishing. Queen Victoria's message to President Buchanan, to be the first transmitted by the Atlantic telegraph cable, if successfully laid, had been deposited in a sealed package with Mr. Dallas. The steamship Leviathan has been rebaptized, and is now the “Great Eastern” again. Some spirited contests had taken place on the English turf, the results of which we give in our compilation of the news. We have files from Turk’s Island to the 26th ult. The Royal Standard says:—26,264 bushels of salt have been shipped from this and Salt Cay since our last. Quantity on hand over 300,000 bushels. Price 8 to 9 cents. By way of Charleston we have news from Havana to the 10th instant. Sugar was active and firm. ‘The yellow fever was prevailing’extensively. There was nothing of interest transpiring in political affairs. The steamer Water Witch arrived at Charleston on Monday with despatches from Commodore Mclutosh to the Nevy Department. The bark Rapid sailed from this port yesterday for the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with a party of en- Gineers, mechanics and laborers, numbering 160, and an abundant supply of material of every de- scription, for the purpose of opening the transit route. It is believed that when the route is in opera- tion passengers and mails can be transported from New York via New Orleans to San Francisco in seventeen days and a-half. A meeting of the Board of Health of Castleton, Staten Island, was held yesterday afternoon, to de- vise measures to prevent the apread of contagious diseases from the Quarantine ground, should any in- fectious sickness present itself. Dr. Munday, the Health Officer, stated that there was danger to be apprehended by permitting sailors with their baggage, and men employed in the Quarantine ground,to have access to the town and proceed- ing to New York in the Staten Island boats. The resolutions passed in 1866 were re-adopted, and the Health Officer was requested to wait on Dr. Thomp- gon and request his co-operation in the efforts of the committee. Nearly all the members of the Board evinced a desire to have Dr. Thompson's assistance in the praiseworthy objects which they have in view. In the Board of Aldermen last evening a resola- tivn acknowledging the courteous reception ten- dered to the © on the Monroe obsequies on their recent visit Richmond, and offering the hospitalities of the city to the delegation of Virgi- nians now in New York, was adopted. Communica- tions were received from the Mayor vetoing the Feport and resolation for the purchase of the Ward's Islanc jroperty; also against the resolution for the new public peund at the corner of Fifty-fourth stree and Fifth avenue; against the ordinance to reap propriate unexpended moneys on account of lamps and gus for 1857; and against the reduction of tax on property of the New York and New Orleans Bteam-hip Company from the valuation of $360,000 to that of $200,000, and other remissions. A com- munication was received from the Comptroller rela- tive to the purchase of sites for the use of the Fire Deparivent, and one from Mr. I). D. Conover with regard ‘> the affairs of the Street Department. All thes dc oments may be found iu oar report of the brow of the Boord A of mem! hot being present last eve bio Board of Covocilmen, an adjournment » this (Wed sv) afternoon. fa? sard of Buy rs last evening nothing of in ance was done The consideration of the te was postponed ti.) (sc next meeting of the » ¢ Supreme Court yew'erday a formal decision ‘we <cadeved upon the exceptions taken by counsel Cot jus delenge sa the case of Camceui The points of | adm inistr NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1858. a © ‘be defendant's counsel were overruled, and the mo- tiem for anew trial denied, An appeal will proba- bly be taken to the court of Jast resort. Judge Russell disposed of a number of prisoner yesterday in the Court of General Sessions. Henry Furdovt, alias Forrought, and Charles Belger, alias Blocking, were convicted of attempting to break into the clothing store of William H. Salter, No. 12 Bowery, on the night of the 6th of Jaly. They were ach sent to the penitentiary for one year. William Kimball pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand lar- cepy, and was sent to the penitentiary for six months. Robert Monet and John McLaughlin (youths), pleaded guilty of an attempt at burglary, and judgment was euspended on condition of their removal from the city. George Williams, an old «fender, indicted for breaking into the dwelling house of Edward Bonnell, 298 Bowery, pleaded guilty to burglary in the third degree, and was sen- tenced to the State prison for three years and ten months. Mary A, McMullen, charged with stealing $700 from her employer, pleaded guilty to an at- tempt at grand larceny, and was sentenced to two years imprisonment in the State prison. Joseph H. Thompson, a bad youth, pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny, and was sent to the penitentiary for two years. Wm. J. Hamilton and Benj. Qgrton, river thieves, were guilty of a similar of 010d, Aud were each sent to the State prison for two years. Thos. Rooney was sent tothe Sing Sing prison for two years, having stolen over twenty-five dollars’ worth of property. Bryan Brady, charged with breaking into the premises of Albert Metcalf and stealing two hundred dollars’ worth of property, was convicted of grand larceny. In consequence of his previous bad character the City Judge sent him to the State prison for three years. Sarah A. Dubois (colored), indicted for stabbing Sarah E. Jackson (another colored lady), was convicted of assault and battery, and sent to the City prison for three months. Ber- nard Hefter was acquitted of a felonious assault upon Isaac Steele, having been wantonly provoked by the complainant. The remains of Laurens Hamilton, the member of the Seventh regiment who was recently found drowned at Richmond, Va., were interred yesterday, at Trinity Church, with the solemn Episcopal ser- vice. The edifice was crowded to excess. The Vir- ginia guard of honor which escorted the remains hither, will return home to-day. . The British steamer Tamar was at Lisbon on the 29th ultimo, with news from Rio Janeiro dated on the 7th of June. The exchange on London was 25}. Coffee 4,700 to 4,800 reis. The shipments since the departure of the previous mail had boen 98,000 bags, of which 70,000 were to the United States, and the stock on hand was 100,000 bags. Two very serious failures in Rio are announced—one of them for an amount little short of £700,000; but the irregalari- ties of the telegraph between Lisbon and London are such that names were not mentioned. The great base ball match which was to have come off yesterday afternoon on the Fashion race course, L. L, between the “crack” players of New York and Brooklyn, has been postponed for one week on ac- connt of the rain sterm. The players and members of the clubs were not a little disconcerted by the circumstance, but console themselves with the hope that next Tuesday must be favorable. The arrange- ments on the ground were admirable for the copve- nience of those who would have been spectators of the game. Notwithstanding the approach of the storm, there were upwards of two thousand persons on the course at the time the play was to have com- menced, and it is estimated that there would have been ten thousand had the day been propitious. The cotton market continued firm yesterday, with sales Of about 3,000 bales, closing firm at 1250 per!b. for mid- Gling uplands. Flour opened with greater firmness, and with fair sales. On some descriptions of common and me- dium grades an advance of about 5c. per bbl. was realized. ‘The chief sales were made to the domestic trade; exporters Preferred to await the receipt of private letters due by the Fulton and Canada before doing much for shipment. ‘Wheat was active, and Ic. to 2c. better for some of the lower and middling qualities. Corn was firmer. The heaviest sales were conned to heated cargoes of Western mixed, chiefly at 700. a 75c.; yellow Western, a little mixed, sold at 80c.; scund mixed at 78¢,, and Southern yellow at 85c. a 88¢., while prime was beld at 9c. Rye told at 69, Pork was rather firmer, with sales of mess at $16 70 0 $1675; the latter figure for retail lots, and prime at $15 75. Lard was quite active and higher, with free sales at 11}<c. a1) 5c. Sugers continued firm, with tales of about 700 a 800 bbds. at raies given in avother place. Freights were firmer. Grain to Liverpool was en. gaged at Sd.,ané about 7,000 bbia. flour at Is. O4., with cotton at 3-164. 87-324. Tierces of pork to London at ds. 94. and bacon at 50s. Mr, Douglas and the Lilincis Campaigu..His Appeal to whe Poopte. In the introductory campaign speech deliver- ed by Mr. Senator Douglas at Chicago the other day, (the official report of which we publish in these columns,) he laid down the programme and the iseues upon which he intends to submit his case to the Illinois people in their ap proaching November State election. A Legislature is thus to be chosen, upon which will devolve the duty of filling a vacancy which will soon ocour in the United States Senate from the expiration of the present term of Mr. Douglas. He is a candidate for re-eleo- tion; but finding him (with all his anti-Lecomp- toniem) not exactly to their liking, the republi- cans, lately, ina State Convention, flatly repa- diated the “Little Giant,” and set up one Abra- bam Lincoln—a popular man—as their candidate for hie place. Mr. Lincoln, being on hand, joy- fully accepted the high distinction, and made a stiff republican speech, abounding in strong sec- tional and antislavery doctrines and senti- mente. Thus left without an alternative, Mr. Douglas has gone home, appealed to the de- mocracy, defended himeelf as a democrat, and joined fesue with Mr. Lincoln and his partisans upon the anti-slavery programme of their own choosing; and thus, from Chicago, hither and thither, henceforward till November, it will be the business of Mr. Douglas to “stump the Having leid down his plan for the cam- paign at Chicago, let us see what there is im it, and how it will apply to the necessities of his case. Of course, in the very outeet we are confronted by the Kanear hobgoblin, and the exceedingly mis chievous and equivocal position which Mr. Douglae occupied upon that mbject during the late session of Congress, from first to last. Nor can we reconcile the asseverations of Mr. Douglas as a strict party man with this extraor- dinary act of party rebellion, at a crisis and upon a question in reference to which a division of the party was almost equivalent to its de- struction. But, afler having opposed to the last the original Lecompton bill and the English compromise, Mr. Douglas contents himself with the reflection that he regards ‘‘the Lecompton battle as baving been fought and the victory won, because the arrogant demand for the ad- miseion under the Lecompton constitution, un- conditionally, whether the people wanted it or not, wae abandoned, and the principle which recognizes the right of the people to decide for themvelves wae substituted in ite place.” ‘This victory, however, says Mr. Douglas, or rather “the credit of this great moral victory, is to be divided among a lerge vumber of men, of verious and different political creeds.” Thus it wou'd appear that the learned Senator has not yet softened down into any very amiable mood towards the party of the ion. This ia the more apparent from the rVading of his closing remarks at Chi- cago, wherein he char zes the republican leaders with having formed “an unholy and un- natural alliance with a portion of unscru Pulous federal office holders,” and says that be eball deal with these allies as the Russians dealt with the allies before Sebastopol—blaze away among them, regardless whether he knocks over English, French or Turks. We may thus conclude that upon the Lecompton iseue, the defection of Mr. Douglas, as a party map, bes made a breach in the party camp in his own State, which remains open, and which— so far as we may judge from the indications and foieshadowings of his Chicago speech—is likely to remain open tiH November. The State elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and In- diana, however, will come off in the interval, and these may cerve materially to enlighten Mr. Donglas and the democracy of Illinois. As this Lecompton matter now stands, we cannot perceive that his Chicago spzech has in any material degree improved the position of Mr. Douglas upon Kansas, either as a party man or 388 stateaman—as, from a strict party dirciplinarian, the inconsistency between his acts and his professions has received no satis- factory explgnation; and from a atates man, Mr. Douglas, upon Lecompton dwindles down into the pettifogging and quibbling politician. He refers to party r: olations and platforms, and all that sort of atuff, when he knows, or ought to know, at the Kansas im- broglio was a question concerning which the President had but one alternative—not the making of the law for Kansas, but the execu- tion of the law; and that upon this point it was the duty of his party to support the Presi- dent. But as with the settlement adopted, the President seconded the action of Congress, and as with the law then passed, the substantial triumph of “popular sovereignty” was secured, how is it that Mr. Douglas has never a word to say for the administration? He ignores it, as if no such thing existed. But let us walt a little longer. Much may be done in the long interval from July to November, in bringing Mr. Doug- las to a full understanding of the necessities of his position. Relieved from the quicksands of Kansas and Lecompton, and turning out upon the broad blue waters of the federal constitution, Mr. Douglas rides the waves as gallantly as a new war steamer on a cruise for pirates. In other words, taking up the glove thrown by Mr. Lincoln, his republican competitor for the Senate, Mr. Douglas assumes an attitude upon State institutions, State rights, and constita- tional obligations, which is impregnable, be- cause it is perfectly consistent throughout, and absolutely indispensable to the harmony of this great confederacy, and to the best in- terests of the several distinct human races here thrown together. Mr. Douglas is right in assuming that the American constitution was framed upon the free white basis; that it contemplated a government of white men, the predominance of the white race, and the submission of the black and aboriginal races. He is right in defending the Dred Scott decision upon this broad and general interpre- tation of the constitution; and his arguments against the equalizing of the blacks with the whites, as drawn from the deplorable results of the experiment made in Mexico, Central and South America, are conclusive in every view against this most false and atrocious philan- thropy of negro equality. In relation to State rights, Mr. Douglas has equally the whip hand over his nig- ger worshipping competitor, Mr. Lincoln. The latter assumes that there can be no peace in this Union until either the free or the slave States go tothe wall, and all the States shall be slave States or free States; while the former maintains that these diversities of State institutions are the very life of the Union, and that, under the constitutional law of State sovereignty, they may be extended indefi- nitely in every direction—each State adapting itself and its institutions to its peculiar climate and productions, and all, without interfering with each other, moving on in their glorious career around the constitution, aa the planets circle around the sun. Between these two men, upon this great issue touching the general echeme of our federal system, there can be but one opinion. Douglas is right, and Lincoln is on the high road, with Lloyd Garrison and al! his ungodly abolition crew, to bloody revolu- tion, disunion, anarchy, and all the horrors of an endless war of sections, factions, races and religions. With nothing else, therefore, in his way than Abraham Lincoln and his most repulsive dis- union nigger eqnality principles and doctrines, there can be no doubt that Douglas would give his black republican competitor for the Senate a crushing defeat in November, in the verdict of the conservative people of Lilinois. Even the New York Tribune, infatuated, degraded and be- fogged as it is, with niggeriem and all the other abominable isms of Northern fanatics, lunatics and confidence men, admits that in this Illinois shaping of the nigger issue, Douglas holds the vantege ground. Nor is it improbable that this Tilinois platform of Mr. Lincoln may soon become the general rallying cry of all his party through- out the North, and the platform of a remorseless eectional Presidential party crusade against the South. The .old Buffalo platform, modified £0 as to read—“ no more slave States—no more slave Territorics—no more Dred Scott decisions —no mofe Fugitive Slave laws,” would suffice for a di Presidential election of the moat terrible 3 and all these points, over and over again, Kave been broadly threatened by our black republicans in the East and the West. Mr. Seward, in one of his most conservative speeches In the Senate, at the late session, boldly admonished the South that the Supreme Court would, at no distant day, be reorganized and regenerated. Mr. Douglas, then, will have no lack of materials with which to maintain his fire against Mr. Lincoln, on the broad disunion is sues raised by the latter upon the nigger ques- tion ; but still, the lesson in which Mr. Douglas is eo apt a teacher—that of party discipline— he must again read over for his own instruction, before he can hope to repair the mischief which he has done to bis party generally, or restore back to his own cause that balance of power which, from his own declarations, it appears he has turned adrift in Illinois. In 1856 the oppo- sition elected their Governor by a very hand- some majority, and Mr. Buchanan only carried the State by the diversion of the opposition balance of power to Fillmore. And yet Mr Donglas enters upon this campaign with the air of a conqueror. We like his pluck, con- sidering the long journey that lies before him and the hard road he will have to travad. We may be certain of a great fight; and let us hope for the best reeulte. The Cental Park—Who are the Commie stoners? The whole course of the Central Park Com- mirsioners shows that a mejority of them are wbolly unfit for their position. They have con- ducted matters in such a way that no one knows what is being done on the grounds or how the money is disposed of. With some fifteen hun- dred men at work there for the last eix months, we ought to have a road open now the whole \cngtb of the park, where the people could promenade and enjoy equestrian and carriage exercite. Instead of that, there is only a couple of miles ef graded road finished, which is almost neelees for the required purpose. The lecality on the borders of the park is rendered ineufferable by the foul odors emanating from the bone drying and fat melting operations car- ried on in tbe buts all around, every one of which the Commissioners should have had re- moved long ago, as public nuisances. Bat much as we have bad occasion to censure the majority of the Central Park Commissioners—their par- tisan sppointmente—their removals— their predetermined adoption of a plan which omits two of the very elements ofs park, and in particular rejects the popular demand for a Grand Walk—their disgraceful refusal to per- mit even an explanation of the excellent amend- ments of Messrs, Dillon and Belmont, intended and well calculated to remedy ita defecta, follow- ed by a shameless denial, proved to be untrue by their own minutes—their self-staltifying refe- rence of them to their architect, whose plan they proposed to correct—their exclusion of the press and people from their meetings, and the general secresy and mystery of their move- ments—we nevertheless supposed that all those who assumed te act as such majority were yet really members of the Commission. We are surprised, however, to find that out of the ma- jority of seven, there aré certainly two, and perhaps three, who are not membersof the Com- miseion at all; and that, consequently, the acts of the majority, of which we have complained, are wholly invalid, as they could not have been consummated without the votes of those two or three who were not entitled even to sit at the Board. Mr. Charles W. Elliott removed from this city last November, and became a permanent resi- dent of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, there pursuing, it issaid, the study of divinity. Mr. Wm. K. Strong abandoned his residence in this city in April last, and now resides in the county of Westchester. Mr. J. A.C. Gray is a resident of the county of Richmond, but resided there at the time of hissappointment by the Al- bany Legislature. Now, the law upon this subject is very plain, and admits neither of subterfuge nor evasion. The Revised Statutes declare:— Every cffice shall become vacen: on the brn see J of either of the tullowing events beiore the expirativa of the this city, have aleo ceased to be Commissioners of the Central Park, and their acte, as such: have been wholly illegal since their change of residence. The case of Mr. Gray is also clearly within the spirit of these statutes; but whether it is within the letter we must leave for the lawyers to decide. He has not ceased to be, because he never was, an inhabitant of this city, and it may therefore be said that he is not within the words of the statute; but yet it was clearly the intention, both of the constitution and of the Jaws, that local officers, spending public mo- neys, should be subject to taxation and reside within the city or district assigned for the dis- charge of their duties, and no man of honor would desire to hold an office which the spirit of the constitution and laws both forbid. These vacancies should therefore be filled immediately by the Mayor, by and with the advice and con- sent of the Board of Aldermen. If, however, contrary to our expectations, these quondam Commissioners shall contemn the létter and spirit of the laws, and insist upon holding over, the Attorney-General should pro- ceed against them by quo warranto, and the Dis- trict Attorney by indictment for misdemeanor. It is bad enough that the Legislature should usurp the chartered rights of the city and make these local appointments in violation of the constitution, which distinctly confers that power upon the people or authorities of the city; but, in addition to that aggravation, it cannot be tolerated that their appointees should also undertake to violate the law in holding on to offices which they have vacated by their own act. Ovr Retations wire Mextco—It will be gratifying to all of our citizens having any re- lations with the neighboring republic of Mexico to learn that the government has determined to follow the policy so strongly urged by the Heratp, and to sustain Mr. Forsyth in the course he took recently in opposition to the extortionary loan of the Zuloaga government. It has been too much the custom of the tran- sitory rulers of Mexico to hold in slight regard the duties of every government toward foreigners who come to settle in that republic. We hope that now the government has made the first step in our Mexican relations it will not pause, but will follow up the matter with an examination into some of the other pending matters between the two countries. We also hope that our Minister in Mexico will be im- mediately informed of the determination of the goverpment, and that some demonstration will ‘be at once made to show the Zuloaga adminis tration that we are in earnest, and can reach it. An appearance of one or two men-of-war be- fore Tampico, with orders to blockade if the Ameriean Minister's protest was not imme- diately respected, would have a good effect upon priest ard Jayman in that church-ridden country. The determination must be followed by action. Tar New Catnoric Catuevrat.—Archbishop Hughes contemplates erecting new cathedral on Fifth avenue, which is designed to be a structure of extraordinary magnificence, the grandest specimen of ecclesiastical architecture on this continent. The cost will probably ex- ceed a million of dollars, and the Archbishop is now engaged, we believe, in an endeavor to raise that amount. It is a very proper and com- mendable undertaking doubtless; a building of euch cost and grandeur as this is intended to be— arival of the cathedrals of the Old World— might well be the glory and pride of the metro- polis; but it is very probable that it will never be completed. It will be like the cathedral of Cologne, which was commbnoed before the Re- formetien, and is not finiched yet. ‘The Organs of Modern Svciaitem. The epecial organsof the free lovers, free think ers, free farmers and unitary household phiioeo- phers—to wit: the New York Times, the Berlin Heights (Ohio) Age of Freedom, the Agitator, the New York Tribune and the Social Revolutionist— have lately served up for the delectation of the faithful, some piquant reports. The eyerlast- ing Mr. Brisbane comes ont in the Tribune with a long letter, to show the great advaatages which would acerue from an immenee iand speculation in the West, where a grand “unitary household” should be colonized, partially, we presume, with the pemsons who now occupy similar establishments in Church and Mercer streets in this city. We suppose that it is Mr. Brisbane’s idea to get up a colony combining the principles of socialism, spiritual- ism, free loveism and Mormonism all together, in one grand orgie; and the Zimes and Tribune seem to have been enlisted as the particular organs of the affair. Mr. Brisbane argues that marriage is, per se, a8 great a stumbling block in the way of gocial progress as was the want of good roads an impediment to travellers half ® century ago; that if we would do away with marriage restrictions we could all go ahead on the track of social reform at the rate of forty miles an hour. But, before this is done we must al! embrace the unitary system, and break the isolated families into communities of conve- nient size—thus destroying the privacy of the family circle, which we discover at this rather late day to be a humbug of the first water—at least, so this philosopher tells us in the Times and the Tribune. The last manifesto of Mr. Brisbane, adopted by the Zimes, is rather muddy than otherwise, although it is evidently intended to be particu- larly clear. Its conclusions, however, are that we are all wrong, and the new light philoso- phers are all right. Woman, we are told, is degraded by cooking her husband’s dinner, or even superintending his “isolated household.” She should be perfectly independent of roast beef, and have a soul above shirt but- tons. She should be altogether beyond the control of her husband—we mis- take, there are to be no more husbands—her male companion. In a guarded way, Mr. Bris- bane argues in favor of giving the woman the privilege of changing this companion, and ac- cords, of course, the same right to the man. When the civilized world is converted to the views of the 7imes, the Tribune, Brisbane, Pearl Andrews, Mrs. Gove Nichols and Mrs. Branch, the millenium will have arrived, and all the thirsty souls will have plenty of love of all kinde—their motto being expressed thus:— O, let me live to love and flush and thrill, Or let me die. — And this distich brings us to the official organ of the Berlin Heights philosophers, who are still in working order at the old spot. They had with them an unfortunate, half-crazed young man, Charles Latcha by name. He was an in- fidel and a free lover. He had a “bad organiza- tion,” was not “developed,” (we quote the slang of the tribe,) and shot himself to death. In a letter which he left behind, he says he could find no one to love him enough; “my soul,” he aays, “has not found another with which to rest—my heart no home.” He believed in the entire an- nihilation of oul and body after death, and re- corded this fearful imprecation:—“And here I write my protest against and utter my curse upon marriage! And I curse religion, and I curse God, the Father—Master.” It is pain- ful to reflect that this horrible blasphemy on the brink of eternity came froma young man of evident intelligence and some education. The poor wretch was undoubtedly in a morbid state of mind, produced by the wild vagaries of the Berlin Heights people. They appear to have taken the affuir very coolly, and argued upon it as a matter upon which they might string to- gether some of their incomprehensible sen- tences. One philosopher, named Barry, alluded to the fact ofthe suicide by speaking of “our brother who has just separated himself by his own free act, from the tangible form through which he has, till now, manifested himself to us.” Tho speaker then defines his position on the subject. He held that “any one had a right to do what- ever he or she thought would cause the most happiness or prevent the most misery.” Ergo, Latcha had a right to commit suicide. He was troubled with several “great wants,” the chief of which was “the gratification of his love.” The Berlin Heights people flatter them- selves that if he could not get enough “love” there, his stomach was too unbounded for this world, and he must gp to the “angel sphere, where freedom and parity and love aboumi.” So he went, and lived long enough “to show, as he did, sublimely and gloriously, how an in- fidel could die.” The second speaker, a wo- man, added her protest against marriago— “the unnatural and unphilosophicai bind- ing of two individualities.”’ She likewise pitched into the “unwise, unnatural, and unbeautiful separation of the sexes” in early life. She would have males and females mixed up promiscuously together, and, we presume, would favor the adoption of the costume, with other habits, of the South Sea Islanders. This amiable person was rather gratified than other- wise that the young mon had killed himself, but did not promise to follow his example. A third speaker justified the blasphemy of the suicide, and inveighed against all things generally held sacred, in a way that is too horrible to print. ‘The lesson that would be received by any mind not lost to shame, by this shocking episode in the history of the Berlin orgies, is obvious; but it would seem to have had no effect upon there lost men and women. We have shown with what ineffable sang froid they looked upon the corpse of the self-murderer, to whose death they were accessories before the fact. Their maudlin sentimentality, their utter lack of de- cency, their beastly profanity and awful bias- phemies are unparalleled in history. They are worse than the Mormons themeelves. It is to the eupport of such people and such doctrines that the New York Times, the Agitator, the Social Revolutionist, the Tribune and toe Age of Freedom are prostitited. And while they are agitating the filthy work at Rutland, one of their dupes, a lunatic boy, is wejtering in his biood at Berlin. We shall have the Times or Tribune telling us that he was an unfortunate exception to the “harmony which regulates the unitary whole,” or some precious nonsense of that sort, Bat all the special pleadings and sophistries in the world will not alter the faots of the case, nor remove from the organs of modern soctal- jem their share of the odium. So far and 60 fast as they epread the eystem, so far and so fast the foundations of public virtue will be under- mined; but we have more faith in the conserva- tiem of the public mind than to believe that they will ever attract more than the half crazy crew who are always ready to follow any new light, whether Joe Smith, or Miller, or George Munday, or Mrs. Gove Nichols is the prophet o the hour, Types may give them a temporary, importance; but a few more such occurrences a thet at Berlin Heights wiil shat up even tht Times and Tribune, who wid) not dare to carry the load of free love and free suicide ut the teme time. Jerrerson Davis IN Maine —The ex-Seore tary of War, and now Senator from Mississippi-— the Hon. Jeffereon Davis—taking a Northerg tour of pleasure with his family, found himself the other day in the thriving city of Portland, snd found himself there the object of much at-; tention. Among other marks of respect paid to the distioguished Mississippian was the henoring him with a serenade, in which, says the astern Argus, the citizens of Portland joined, without dittinction of party. The epeech{delivered by Mr. Davis on the occasion we publish to-day, as we find it reported in that jourual. This epeech, coming from one who has hither- to had the reputation of being one of the mos ultra fire-eaters of the South, disappoints us very agreeably. It is free from all sectional and party bias, free from ultraisms of every kind, and is throughout marked with gaod sense and patriotic feeling. We begin to think that the high stateamanlike qualities which Mr. Davis showed in the Senate last session, and which are manifested also in this Portland speech of his, must have been violently smothered in the councils of the last miserable vacillating administration, between the iron dogmatism and stubborness of Mr. Marcy and the tortuous and perplexing circnmlocution of Caleb Cushing. Now, however, that be hi emerged from that prison of the mind and got upon a new theatre of action, he bids fair to outshine all the chevuliers of Virginia, at pre- sent in a hopeless condition of decrepitade, and all the blustering demagogues of Georgia. We should not be surprised to see Mr. Davia loom- ing up in the political horizon. Tus Harry Fairy Fiema Ur.—Thurlow Weed, since it was decreed that the Repubiican State Convention shall be a double instead of a eingle delegate affair, has been in a very belli- gerent frame of mind. He has even attempted to get up a quarrel with Booby Brooks, which Booby Brooks wisely declines. Ia his reasons for this course, too, the booby has decidedly the best of the argument. The fact is, Booby Brooks does not care to have anything to do with Master Thurlow, after that shabby and selfish free wool $5,000 lobby operation. Could not Booby Brooks, or avy other booby, get up “statistics” on free wool to any extent for $5,000? And yet Weed slipped in and carried off the prize, and our booby was none the richer and none the wiser. But it was worse with the Chevalier Webb. He wanted his lobby house rent, wines, oysters, brandies and segars, all paid for out of the free wool fand, and didn’t get a copper; whereas Booby Brooks would perhaps have been satisfied with thu payment of bis buccher’s bill at the modest rave of even dollarsa month. As the matter stands between Webb, Weed and Brooks, we must say that while the first has deserved nothing, the second has managed to get more than his share of editorial free wool perquisites, and that the latter has sbown a degree of magranimity to- wards the Republican State Convention (two delegates from a district) which should secure him from the Convention, if they get on smooth- ly, at least fourteen dollars a month for his’ butcher's bills. Tue Cuances or Tae ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The Britich steamtug Blue Jacket, which ar- rived at St. Johns on Sunday, reported havin seen three steamships on the 24th ult. under euch circumstances as leave no room to doubt] that they comprised the Atlantic Telegraph! fleet. They were at that time within about fifty miles of the point at which the ends of the cable were to be united and the work of laying down commenced. Allowing two days for the ship to get together, and make all preparations, iff we suppose that the cable was joined on the 26th] of June, that would give the Niagara seventeen days up to yesterday, to make the voyage to Trinity Bay, a distance of about 900 mile Supposing that she steamed at the rate of 4ven three miles an hour—and that, we think, about the minimum rate of speed—we know thi} the made seven miles an hour on the former! occasion—she ought to have reached her desti nation in thirteen days, barring accidents, which leaves a margin of four days to account for. Tomwrxixs Park.—We beg to call the par- ticular attention of the Superintendeat of Lands and Places to the present disgricefal condition of Tompkins park. During the “bread or blood” excitement last wiar, a mob destroyed the wooden fence which fomeriy enclored the ground; and it is now as open as any thoroughfare, and is used as such py all eorts of vehicles. The grass is almost extirely, worn away, and m%ny of the trees are mati lated. Unless something is done every w of the park, as a park, will disappear in « short! time. In its present condition it isa d to the city, and offers a fine chance for tle ne Snperintendent to distinguish himself. Somo| of the other city lungs need doctoring; bat none are in such a bad way as this park,which| is situated in the centre of a dense, overcrowded, | overworked population, that especially n open air recreation. Reat Estave anp Rewts.—It appean that the late financial revulsion has had a er‘ous| effect on the value of real estate and houe reat in Philadelpaia. Landlords have beer com- pelled to lower their tariff, leases ofoostly stores have not been renewed this year, ad the) building associations are at a stand still. How! comes it that there is no depreciation f real estate in this city, and but small reducton im renta, except in those of large marbe and) brown stone fronted stores and fashdnabl houses up town? Houses of moderate lime sions and ordinary stores maintain thir ac-| customed exorbitant rents. It is curios th the poorest kind of domiciles pay th be Tenement houses, for example, often pa’ fron thirty to forty per cent, while mansions h Fifu avenue return only two or three pe cen Both rents and real estate in New Yorl con mand too high a value; yet we see no ndic tions, as in Philadelphia, of ® matéral cline. Acavemy or Mv.ac.—The promenade concerts hire off the most delicious lounging place in the city ,and music is admirably played by a fino oroheetra, lod by t of the best living conduetore— Murard and Anschus. ‘vooatirts, Mmo. Zimmerman, Mr. Weinlich and Mr. Pert are ateo very good. We cannot romember & plersaal summer entertainment than these promenaie conget and reccmmend them to public support. To pe Hvwe—Albert Myers, convicted of murder of Neville, in the Ohio penitentiary, been sentenced to be bung on tho Jd of Septal