The New York Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1888, NEW YORK HERALD. _——e SAMES GORDOS BESNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPFTOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. ‘TBRMBE, cash én atrance THE DAILY HERALD re cutee cane, 0 Bev eam. THE WREKLY HERALD. cvery Saturday, at siz cenis per eopy, or 8S per annem, to b= toys Great Britain, o $5 to any part of the Continent, THE FAMILY every Wednesday, a four cents per ESPONDENCE, containing important ore! any come INO, containing importent foe ageobn Fonstan Connusronente ARE ‘Bequesta To Beal ali Letrees axp Pack- taken ef anonymovs communication, We do VERTISEMENTS wad every day; advertisemenis in SERN ia te Faxiiy Hanaib, and en the nd Buropean Editions. Woltmmne XXIIT,.........000:seceeree sree ee Oe 196 ANUSEMENTS THIS BVEMING. ACADEMY OF MUBIC, Fourteenth sireet—Gaanp Pre EA 234 0’ CLoox P.M. WIBLO’S GARDEN, Besadway—Porrina tne Questiox— phoussame Concust--Coususve x PIisvereno. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Inisu Assunaxcs— Young Actusss. Broadway—Afier- Betas, women, ar Was —Wowvarru: Oyriositixs 40. BUILDING, 651 and 563 Broadway—Erntoriay Goncs, (40.—P4Nonaua OF THR Hovson Rives. RDEN, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue— Py rns ‘Coxcent—DisriaY py nn ming ‘ae. New York, Saturday, July 17, 1858. ‘Tho News. A terrible and distressing accident took place on the New York and Erie Railroad on Thursday night ‘bout nine o'clock, by which six persons were in- stantly killed and nearly forty more wounded. The night express train encountered a broken rail at Glen Hollow, about five miles from Port Jervis, ‘when two cars were thrown off the track down the embankment, which at this point is nearly thirty feet high and very steep. The sufferers were re- moved as soon as practicable to Port Jervis, where the wounded received medical aid, and are attended to by the citizens of the town. We give an account of the lamentable occurrence, with the names of the killed and wounded. The Coroner's inquest is still proceeding. We have reliable news direct from the Atlantic telegraph fleet. Captain Cummings, of the ship Alice Munroe, which arrived off Boston yesterday from Liverpool, reports falling in with the steamers Niagara and Gorgon on the 27th ult., in latitude 52.06 north, longitude 33.15 west. Mr. Cyrus W. Field and an officer of the Niagara boarded the Alice Mun- roe, and stated that the squadron had experienced very bad weather from the time of its leaving port, and were sixteen days in reaching their destination in mid ocean. Two unsuccessful attempts had been made to lay the cable. The second attempt was made on the 26th alt. They had payed out up- wards of forty miles of cable, and were going along finely, when, at 12.55 on the 27th, the electric communication suddenly ceased. The Niagara and Gorgon then returned to the starting point, and were awaiting the arrival of the Agamemnon and Valorous, when a new splice would be made and the attempt to lay the cable resumed. All were well on board the Niagara. Her machinery worked ad- mirably. Mr. Field was sanguine of the success of the enterprise. The Alice Munroe brought a letter beg from the Niagara. The steamship Canada, with the European mails to the Od instant, arrived at Halifax yesterday fore- noon, having been detained off the harbor fifty-five hours by fog. Tbe commercial advices and the main points of the general news by this arrival were received by way of Cape Race, and appeared in ‘Tuesday's paper. A telegraphic eummary of the intelligence is also given today. The Jewish Oaths and the India bill had been discussed in Parliament Jord Derby had declared in favor of the first named bill, and it passed to a second reading bya vote of 143 to 97. The steamship Austria ix now due at this port with European news to the 4th inst. It will be seen by our special despatch from Washington that the government has sent a mes senger to Mexico with despatches to our Minister in that republic, approving his course in suspend- ing diplomatic intercourse with that country, and directing the withdrawal of the legation, and its retarn to the United States. We have additional news from Mexico by way of Havana, dated in the city of Mexico on the 3d, and at Vera Crnz the ‘4th inst. The clergy had aided Zaloaga with another loan of two millions of dollars, bot it was thought that this would postpone his fall enly for a little time. A revolutionary movement was br@wing in the capital, and several eminent men had been arrested. Senor Baz, former governor of the city, bad escaped and published an important letter, protesting against the rule of the clergy. The news received by the government from (iuadalajara was reported favorable. The federal forces had, it was said, retired from a strong position. Linares and Goozalez, two of the leaders of the Jalapa revolt, had been shot. It was said that Gen. Yanes would take the place of Generst-in-Chief of the agmy, left vacant by the death of General Osollo. Our correspondent on board the United States sbipof-war Vincennes, writing at Porto Praya, Cape de Verde, on the Sth alt., states that the ship had just reached there from a cruise on the African const. The general health of the men was good, although the cold st Porto Praya affected them slightly, owing to the sudden change from the high temperature experienced southward. dressed to them, from 1857, had been the fiag ship Camberland. The Vincennes had rot 8 single slave prize, as the English,one way or another, carried off all. The United States ship Marion was on her way to Congo river. Lieutenant Walker, of the sloop-of war Dale, had died at Porto adopted directing the Clerk to the preamble and ordinance presented by Mr. (Genet quested to inquire into the propriety of designating other sections of the city than Washington and Ful- ton markets as stands for gardeners. The Street Commissioner was authorized to refit the Mayor's office as #00 a8 ‘possible. Mr. Ross presented a re- solution that the Williamsburg ferries be leased for a term of ten years. A resolution was adopted direct ing the Comptroller to report the amount of money he has received from the Ist of January, 1853, to the Present time, for forfeited bail bonds, and from intestate estates, specifying the date and amount of each receipt. the Board will meet on Tuesday afternoon. Judge Rossel] disposed of a number of cases yes. terday in the General Sessions. John Poe, a youth of respectable connections, charged breaking into the jewelry store of Rait & Co., Broadway pleaded guilty, and was sent to the State prison for two years, Robert Ellis, guilty of larceny, was also rent to the Sing Sing prison fortwo years. Adam Maller aod Martin Maller, youths, pleaded cuilty of burglary in the third degree, and were each sent to ‘the House of Refuge for five years. Wm. Johnson was tried and convicted of a similar offence, and was sent to the State prison for two eam. Wm. 8. Lee and Samuel Clay (colored) ware convicted of steal ing $73, and were each sent to Bing Sing prison for two yeam. Patrick Gordon, convicted of an sggra- iii eee vated aseanlt and battery, was imprisoned in the for one year. John Lyons, who pleaded having caused the death of his wife while in- toxicated, was sent to Blackwell's Island for one year. The cotton market clesed yraterday with an advance of adout 1x0. per Ib, The sales embraced about 2,500 bales, based upon middling upiands at 12Xc., and on New Or- jeans do. at 1c. The flour market wee heavy, and the turn of prices in favor of purchasers. Owing to the ad- vance in freights, the demand for export was limited. ‘Wheat was without change of moment. Prime sound lots continued acarce and frm, while inforior qualities were without change of moment. The sales footed up about 40,000 « 50,000 busbeis. Corn was quite firm for prime shipping lots, while the chief sales were confined to ua sound cargoes of Westorn mixed et 6€c. © 70c. while sound ranged from 76c. a 770 ; prime high mixed sold at 80c., and yellow do, at 8%c. No Southern corn of mo- mont was cp the market. A small lot of yellow was re- ported sold at 900. Pork was active, with sales of clear mess for California at $18 25 a $18 15, chieuy at $16 50. ; mess alao cold at $16 76, and prime at $1376. Lard sold freely at 11%c. for No. 1, amd at 1140. a 11Xc. for Prime. Sugars were quite active and firmer, closing at about 4c. acvance. The eales embraced about 3,500 bhds. at rates given in another columa, The firmness of shipowners checked freight engagements, which were moderate, but quite frm. ‘The Presidency and Presidential Candidates— ‘The Opposition asd the Democracy. We publish this morning, from one of our Western exchanges, a very earnest, argumenta- tive and plausible article, in support of the claims of Col. Fremont as the proper man for the Presidential candidate of the opposition in 1860. This argument is baced upon the remark- able popularity of Fremont, as disclosed by his eplendid run of 1856, from the results of which it is contended he stands “in every respect the foremost man of the opposition political world.” Furthermore, says our enthusiastic pleader, ‘it was scarcely within the bounds of possibility that be (Fremont) should be elected in 1856; but there was not another man, who, (in his place), could have carried half the electoral votes that he obtained.” Now, conceding all this in behalf of Fremont, we must not overlook the important fact in re- ference to Presidential candidates, as in regard to all other men, that “circumstances alter cases.” Thus, the circumstances of 1860, touch- ing the candidate of the opposition, may be wholly different from those of 1856. That a new state of things will be preeeated, requiring some new candidate, isalready abundantly mani- fest. It seems to be understood that Fremont would be as much dependent in 1860 as in 1856 upon the isolated vote of the Northern States. And here the ramp of the Know Nothings would be necessary to se- cure apy hope of success ; but who so foolish as to expect their co-operation, after their confes- sion that they supported Fillmore in 1856 for no other purpose than to defeat Fremont? We think, therefore, from these considera- tions, and from all the existing aspects of the political field, that Col. Fremont is not the man for 1860. But if Fremont has ceased to be available under the new necessities of the times, certainly there- is no availability in any of the rest of the eutstanding opposition candi- dates. The nomination of Seward would speedily reduce the great party which his trumpeters suppose are ready to follow him, to a mere abolition or free soil faction, like that which supported Hale in 1852, or Van Buren in 1848. Mr. Banks would not do, for his Know Nothing affiliations are too prominent; Moc- Lean will not answer, because he is too old: nor will Chase or Hale, because they are men of but one sectional idea—hostility to slavery. All these men and all other Northern candi- dates of the anti-slavery pattern will be un- available for 1860, because the nigger, in that contest, will be overshadowed by other issues of a new and more practical character. On the south side of Mason and Dixon's line Mr. Crittenden looms up into the foreground, and close behind him stands Senator John Bell, asa leading opposition conservative. But Mr. Crittenden, we apprehend, is also out of the question, and also Mr. Bell, if we would have a man whose name would be the signal for the fusion of all the opposition odds and ends, North and South, Mr, Crittenden and Mr, Bell were among the most active supporters of the Fillmore movement of 1856; and the supporters of Fremont in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Iili- nois will not forgetit. It would be a difficult thing, even at this day, to rally the hard demo- cracy upon 4 candidate who was an active Van Buren campaigner in 1548; and i¢ will be mach more difficult in 1860 to rally the Fremont rank and file upon any prominent Fillmore leader of 1856. Old partisan accounts of this sort can only be accommodated by some sort of half way compromise on both sides; and hence the appa- rent mecessity of dropping all the hold-over candidates of both the republicans and the rump of the Know Nothings, and of nominating some entirely new man, after the fashion of the democracy when they find themselves tied up, hand and foot, by their old candidates and the wrangling cliques who support them. But where is the new man who will answer the necessities of the opposition in 1860? Upon whom can Northern republicans, old line whigs, Van Buren and Silas Wright and Fremont @emocrate, radical Germans and conservative Irishmen, tariff men and free tradera, and Northern and Southern Know Nothings, be brought to coalesce’ We have indicated the man, according to our understanding of his position, antecedents and principles, upon whom all these odds and ends of the opposition camps. North ith, may be fused; and General Simon , of Pennsylvania, is the indi- vidual. He isa central man, a republican, but not an ultra republican, and a man, too, of democratic, old line whig and Know Nothing antecedents and affiliations, quite sufficient to swear by, but not enough to hurt him any- where. He ir also a tariff man; bat of that moderate Pennsylvania school which is not without a host of disciples as far South as Georgia. Above all, the late session of Con- grees has shown General Cameron to be an eminently conservative man, when it was gene- rally expected that it would prove him to be a violent nigger worshipping agitator. We name General Cameron, then, as the pro- per man upon whom to perfect a conservative amalgamation of all the opposition forces. If any of our cotemporaries know of any new man more available for 1860 as the opposition standard bearer, why let them trot him out. That is all. At all events, let them profit from the teachings of the past, and from the wholesome lessons taught them by the demo- racy, if they would win the Presidency. The best of these democratic lessons is this: that where your old candidates stand in the way of union and harmony you are to set them aside and take up some new man not identified with any of these old wrangling and clashing cliques. Thus Polk was nominated and elected io 1644; thus Pierce was nominated and elected * to a central government. in 1852; and thus, by the’opposition, Harrisos | than five dollars were two years ago, and until in 1840, and Taylor in 1848, were each taken | we return to flash times the watering places and up and elected. But, having shown the existing necessities for & new opposition candidate in 1860, and baving indicated a man for the purpose, what cen we say for the democracy? Mr. Buchanan will return to the grateful retirement of Wheat- land with the expiration of his official term. The field is open on the democratic side to all aspirants, The President is not a candidate, and has not, as Old Hickory had, an anointed heir for the succession. What democratic can- didates, then, have we from which to make a selection! First azd foremost, ali Northern candidates must be set aside, for the good and sufficient reason tbat the last three democratic candidates—Cass, Pierce and Buchanan—were all from the North. The South, then, will claim, and will in all probability be allowed, the candidate in 1860. But where are we to find him? Not in Vir- ginia, for there an intestine feud between the Wise men and the Hunter men threatens. to tear the local party all to flindere; and the selection of either Hunter or Wise would be an experi- ment too dangerous to be attempted. How is itin Georgia? Why there we fear that be- tween the rival claims of Cobb and Stephens, and others, a choice is out of the question. Bat there is Mr. Speaker Orr of South Carolina, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, and Aaron V, Brown of Tennessee, who are available men. The conservative and statesmanlike character of Mr. Speaker Orr has been fully developed in Congress. He isa man of national principles. Jefferson Davis, too, has of late proved himself entitled to the same distinction, The ad- ministration at the late session had not a more useful, earnest and consistent sup- porter in the Senate, upon the great issues of the day, than Jefferson Davis. As for the Postmaster General—an able and capable man—he wasa favorite of Old Hickory, is a favorite of the Tennessee conservative democ- racy, and stands in a very favorable position, local and general, among the prominent con- servative chiefs of the party, in reference to the succession. Before, however, we can determine anything in regard to parties, or sections, or factions, or party candidates for 1860, we must await the upshot of the approaching elections for the next Congress, In theinterval, parties, cliques, candidates and platforms remain like ships and thallops in a shallow harbor at dead low water, awaiting the return of the tide. Our Relations with Mexico—Grewing Anar- chy in that Republic. The government has taken the best course possible in our relations with Mexico in direct- ing Mr. Forsyth to close the legation and re- turn home. (See our special despatch from Washington.) The affairs of that republic are going fast from bad to worse, as will have been eeen by the advices from there which we pub- lished yeséerday, and also from those given this morning. The spirit of robbery is rampant throughout the republic. It is not only the government, but every petty leader advocating the name of some authority or party imposes forced contributions on every eide.. To such a degree had this extended that the Zuloaga go- vernment has found iteclf under the necessity of issuing a decree prohibiting its subordinates from following its own example. against which our Minister protested, were stil! being continued in the capital, although the | earthquake and the more atrocious exactions of Miramon and other generals had quite shaken it out of recollection. The leaders of the constitutional forces were following the same odious system. Pueblita bad subjected the city of Guanajuato to a con- tribation of half a million of dollars; Huerta was following the like course in Michoacan, and Zuazua at Zacatecas All of these indica- tions prove the state of utter demo- ralization into which all the so-called governments in Mexico have relapsed. No indication is to be seen anywhere of the forma- tion of a general government that shall have power to repress these disorders. Juarez has relapsed into complete insignificance at Vera Cruz, as we long since suppored he would. The only evidence of political power is found in the ability of the several States to defy the federal government. Sonora boldly annoances her determination to secede from the Mexican union; Videurri in New Leon, Garza in Tamau- lipas, Alvarez in Guerrero, and Barbachano and Mendez in Yucatan, each is a sovereign yielding such obedience as suits his convenience | Lt is, probably. this state of chronic debility that has encouraged the priesthood to advance another two millions of dollars to the Zaloaga government, in the hope of conquering a supremacy throughout the country. The loss of Gen. Osollo is, however, a great one to them; and it is very doubtful if Gen. Yaiiez will accept the chief command they with to confer upon him. He is now supreme in Sinaloa, where he rules without question. The contest which it was supposed would take place at San Luis Potosi has been adjourned to the west, by the march in that direction of Gen. Miramon to encounter the federal forces under Gen. Degollado. We place no confidence in the rumored defeat of Zuazua, as our late dates from the capital make no mention of it. In this state of things the firm attitude of our government becomes doubly important; and the presence in the Gulf ports of Mexico of a few of our cruisers will confer a material benefit on our citizens and our national in- terests in that republic. Dent, Times ror THe Faswionantes.—We published the other day our first batch of corres- pondence from the watering places. It veri- fies the predictions already made, that the fashionable resorts are going to have a hard time of it this sencon. The weather hae been hot enough to drive everybody out of town, and to make them eeck the sea shore especially; yet we find Newport almost deserted, and the other places in the same eategory. The finan- cial revulsion of last year came upon us at the culmination of the season and brought it to a endden close. The effects of the money panic will be even more dieastrous during the presen: eceason than the last. The fact is everybody is economising and everything ie dull. Even the yachtemen have abandoned their midsummer and fall regattas. The uncertainty of the next reason has knocked Barnum’s Opera scheme in the head, and Mareteek has another cam. paign at the Academy in September and October. Tt is not a bad sign when the peopte quietly retrench their expenses down to the point of their incomes, and this is what we have all been doing Qae dollar is thought more of aqw The forced ubscriptions to the stock of the Nationai Bank, | other luxuries will do well if they can keep their heads above water. As to making money this ceason, that is out of the question. ‘The Gold Discovertes at Frazer River and the Hudson’s Bay Company. The discovery of goid in the territories of the Hudeon’s Bay Company, the immense emigration which that discovery is attracting from California, Oregon and Washington Ter- ritories, and the trade that has inetanta- neously sprung up, and that will go on increasing, with these hitherto desolate re- gions, render it necessary to understand thoroughly the prerogatives of that com- pany. We have published the fact that the company has a vessel of war stationed at the mouth of Frazer river to prohibit foreign vessels from navigating those waters without a permit from the Custom House on Vancouver’s Island, which is only issued on the master’s entering into stipulations by which he undertakes to take on board no goodaeave those of the company, to import no arms or ammunition except from Great Britain, not to trade with the In- dians, and to carry no paseengers except miners having @ license from the compaay. These ap- pear to be extremely oppressive conditions, and such as will not be willingly complied with by masters and traders, and emigrants from the United States. The questions that immediate- ly arise are: first, has the company the right to impose such restrictions on trade and industry; and eecond, has it the power to enforce them? As to the legal right of the Hudson’s Bay Company to regulate trade with these regions, and to prevent all not duly licensed by it, from working the minee, or even entering upon the lands over which it has jurisdiction, we think there can be no doubt. We have before us a copy of the original char- ter granted by Charles the Second in the twen- ty-eecond year of his reign, to his “dear and entirely beloved cousin Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria and Cumberland, &c., (in whose honor the country was called Rupert’s Land); William, Earl of Craven; Henry, Lord Arlington; Anthony, Lord Ashley; Sir John Robinson and Lord Robert Vyner, Knights and Baronets; Sir Peter Coleton, Baronet; Sir Edward Hungerford, Knight of the Bath; Sir Paul Niele, Knight; Sir John Griffith and Sir Phillip Carteret, Knights; James Hayes, John Kirke, Francis Millington, Wm. Prettyman, John Fenn, Es- quires, and Joba Portman, citizen and gold- smith of London. It recites that, whereas these persons have —at their own great cost and charges undertaken an ex , ip the northwest part of ame- Tica, for the discovery of a new passage iuto the South Bes, and for the finding rome trade for ture, minerals anc other considerable commodities, and by such their under. are ako Donen asdo encow rege 40 proceed further in pursuance of their said design, by mears whereof there may probably arise very advantage to us and our ktagdom. The charter then goes on to create these per- sons and their successors a body politic, by the name of “The Governor and Company of Ad- venturers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay,” and confers upon them certain rfgbts and privileges—among others the following:— \titude they eha!i be, that lie within the ea- commonly calicd Hudson's Streighta, territories trance of the streighta: together with all the lands and upon the coan- | tries, coasts and confines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, | creeks and sounds aforesaid thatare not alroady actcally possessed by cr grasted to acy of our subjects, or pos- seared by the subjects of any other Christian prince or State, with the fiening of all sorts of fish, whales, | geons, and all other royal fiebes in the scas pa, ii aad rivers within ine premises, aad the fish togetber with the royalty of the sea upon the im the limita aforesaid, and all mines royal, wered at net discuvered, of , eilver, ger cious stones to be found or discovered with ees, limite and places aforesaid; and that the from henceforth reckoned and od we sveigutly clavge, command and probibit, for oreenent weshesne on ibe subjects of us, our heirs ard svocessors, of w! legroe or quality soever they be, that cove of tuem, directiy or do visit, haunt, {requent or trade, trailic or adventure, by way of mereliarcige, into or {rom any of the sald territorten © * other than the eaid Governor apd company, and such 4 ticular persons aa now bo, or hereafter sha'l be, of that company, their agonts, factors or assigua, unless it be by the license and of the said Governor and company in writing, firet ead cbteimed, upon pain that every such ‘a shall tpcur our indignation and the forfeiture There can be no question, therefore. of the right of the Hudson's Bay Company to impose such terms and conditions on masters of vessels, traders and miners going into their territories as they may see fit. The right existe. But is it expedient for them to exercise it to an offensive extent! If they attempt to do so, they may provoke a collision, the consequences of which it would be impossible to foretell. On the other band, by acting in a liberal and enlight- ened spirit, the regions over which they exercise jurisdiction will, ina few years hence, become settled up with a rich and prosperous commu- nity, and they may enrich their exchequer, in the year which their charter has yet to run, to an extent greater than the profits of half a cen- tury’s fur trading. Powrictans ano Artists ox THe Wove.— The travelling season having fairly commenced everybody is on the wing. The politicians, orators, artista, and so forth, are distributed all over the North and West, making themselves heard on every convenient occasion. Some, like Mr. Douglas, have gone back to their constitu- enga, and are stumping their States or districts. We hear of the Miesiseippian fire-oater, Jefferson Davis, at Portland, where he has gone probably to see how his chances for the Presidency look in the Northeast, The members of Congress are scattered about the country cooling themselves off, and getting points for the next campaign. The long session generally exhausts all their ideas and prostrates their physical powers, and in the recess they can by flying about among the people renovate themselves and come out with a bran new lot of speeches for the next ersion. The Southern Senators, Slidell, Brown and Benjamiv, have been travelling in the North, and do not seem to have been badly treated in the “enemy's country.” Mr. Brown hes crossed the line and taken a view of Canada, the annexation of whioh he will probably favor after we have sabsasb- ed the southern portion of the continent. Washington is pretty nearly deserted. The Cabinet Ministere, with the exception of the Secretary of State, have taken a recess. The President is enjoying the fresh air in a suburban cottage, preparatory to his annual visit to Bed- ford Springs. The musical artists are en rowe to the country, where they will recruit their voices and try to pick up a few dollars to carry them over the dull season. The painters are eoattered in the mountains, seeking new sub- jects for landseapes. They will all be in tip- top order for their winter's work, and ready to make the fur fly all around. A abe hie eeteil Hitiit Fuicetru. Acomenr on tas Enum Rane R0aD.—We are again called upom to re- cord a fearful sacrifice of humaa life, the result of railrond mismanagement, The bight express train from this city to the West, on the Erie Railroad, which left the depot at Jersey City on Thursday evening at five o'clock, met with a shocking accident near Port Jervis about ten o’clock the same night, by which six or seven people were instantly killed and forty mangled. It appears that a broken rail etruck the two last cars of the train off the track, tumbling them down an embank- ment forty feet high, and crushing them to atoms. Nearly every one in these cars was in- jured more or lees, and, as far aa at present known, eix or seven souls at least, perished. Is there to be no end to frightful calamitice like these? Cannot railroad companies be made amenable to some law by which they can be compelled to exercise proper caution and some consideration for the lives of passengers? It is bat a few weeksago since, through the parsimony of the company, a whole train on the Central Railroad went down into a creek through a rot ten bridge, the timbers of which wore proved by the fragments to have been no firmer than a fungus, killing and mutilating several people. | And what was the upshot of the disaster? An investigation, reeulting in nothing, The company probably compounded with the injured parties; but public justice remained unsatisfied. The Erie road,on which this last accident occurred, has been grovely mismanaged for a long time past, financially and in every other way, and it is quite probable that ‘at the present moment the rolling stock is almost unfit for use; yet the company persist in carrying pas- sengers. And here is the result. We would insist that an investigation into the cause of this dis- aster should be had, only that we know too well what investigations are worth in such cases. The only remedy is for every person injured by this accident, and the friends of the unfortunate dead, to bring suits for damages against the company—make no compromises, but mulct them as heavily as juriescan be found to do it; and juries are to be had who have no equeamishnees in dealing with such cases. More than this: the Grand Juries in every city on the line of road should indict it as a nuisance, unless it is put in a safe condition for travelling. Much pretension has been made about the security of the Erie road, on account of having its own telegraph line from end to end, where- by communications warning conductors of dan- ger could be despatched to every station; yet in this case the telegraph proved worthless in warding off a calamity frightful to think of. Expenses or Tue City ror THe Paesesr Year.—Comptroller Flagg has just completed his report for the first six months of the present year—from January | toJune W. If the ex- penditures of the city government for the entire year should be in the same ratio, it will show a slight diminution from that of 1857. But we may be sure that by some means or other the figures will grow amazingly during the remain- ing six months. The expenditure up to the 30th of June, 1858, is $7,213,978, and the receipts $5,742,989. The receipts, however, do not include the taxes, which are not payable untll September, and they are higher in proportion than last year. Supposing that the tax levy should not be great- er than 1857—though it undoubtedly will be— the aggregate amount paid into the city treasury will be, at this rate, over nineteen millions and half. Among the items of expenditure is one of £13,367 39 for Mr. Conover’s law expenses in conducting the suit in defence of his claim to the Street Commissioner’s office, to which he was declared by the highest court in the State to possess no claim whatever: and another, to the amount of $16,550, for a similar purpose, in regard to the Metropolitan police. Voting the money of the city to pay expenses incurred by the stupidity and arrogance of the Executive at Albany, as in Condver’s case, is a little too much of a good thing; but it is only on a par with all the rest of the doings'in that quarter last year, THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. laterruption of our Relations with Mexico. Mr, Forsyth, Our Special Washington Despatch: Waanivoton, July 16, 1858. It is reported that a special saeesdljentabgeter day for*Mexico, carrying despatches to Minister For- ayth from Washington, approving his suspension of diplomatic intercourse with that country, and direct- ing the withdrawal of the legation and its return to the United States. Information received here Gen. Degollado, commanding the constitut: in Mexico, had been defeated in the vicinity of Guadalajara by Gen. Miramon, commander of Zuloaga’s forces since the death of Osollo; but as Zuloaga had a force of about four thousand at Salinas, within thirty miles of the toad to Guadalajara, in position to flank Miramon, the reported victory would probably be without sub- stantial results. News from New Mexice. Sr. Lovis, July 16, 1858. The Independence mail, with dates of the 15th ult., from Senta Fe, haa arrived. The news is unim- portant. A difficulty had occurred growing out of the persistence of the Indians in driving cattle and horses upon the hay grounds known as Ewell Camp, near Fort Defiance. Major Brooks had been obliged to send a company of soldiers to drive the herds off, and protect the grounds from encroachments. Seve- ral cattle and ponies were killed by the soldiers, and a skirmish occurred between the troops and Indians, but none of either party were killed or wounded. letters from Fort Kearny, June 30, say that General Harney’s headquarters had been encamped there six days, in expectation of the arrival of new instructions from the War Department. A teamater had been tried and acquitted on the charge of inciting his companions to rob Captain Hancock of $50,000 onder his charze for meeting incidental expenses. Colonels May and Morrison had passed Fort Kear- ny. The latter gave General Harney his first sa lute as Brigadier General. A postecript to the letter says that an express has sarived, but brings no advices from Washington. We shall resume the march to-morrow. ‘The Plortdn indians. Avovata, Ga., Jaly 16, 1858 Tampa advices of the 10th inst. have been receiv. ed. The Peninsular of that date reports that Capt, McNeil had eucceeded im having » talk with the chief of the Pallahassees on the 7th, and that the prospects were favorable for their removal to the Went. BMovema.cy of Trevps on the Plates. Sr. Louis, July 16, 1858. ‘We have despatches from Leavenworth to the 13th inat., per United Btates express to Booneville, saying that an express arrived here to-day from Gem. Harney, who was on the 6th inst, encamped sevemty- five miles beyond Fort Kearny. Colonel Monroe's column was beyond the south fork of the Piatte,ané Colonel May was a short distance in the rear, The headquarters and all the columns were well and ia splendid condition. A despatch dated Nebraska City, 5th inst., says trains just arrived from Fort Kearny report that the officers at the fort had received the intelligence that General Johnston had entered Salt Lake City with his troops. This, however, is probably a mistake. Affairs in Albany. Ausany, July 16—6 P. M. The trustees of the Dudley Observatory and other public bodies met to-day, and passed resolutions of respect to the memory of Mr. John N. Wilder. The flags of the city are generally at half maat, and much depression is felt in all circles at his death. The body found on the Schenectady turnpike, supposed to have been murdered, has been identified a8 that of @ respectable man named Martin Larkim, who was oa his way to visit his‘son in this city, - Suicide ef a Physician. Exmina, N. Y., July 16, 1868. Dr. 0. D. Wilcox committed suicide here ¢o-day. He had amputated a leg fora man by the name of Hammond, in the town.of Chemung, who soon af- terwards died. Dr. W. was then charged with mal- practice, andcriminal proceedings instituted against him, and immediately after the Sheriff served the papers on him this morning, he took some deadly poison, and died in halfan hour. The Coroner is now hohling an inquest over his body. Whe Arabia Outward Bound. Haxir ax, July 16, 1858. The steamship Arabia sailed from this port at half-past one o'clock this afternoon, for Liverpeot. Weather clear, with a slight south wind. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD, Paraperesta, July 16, 1868, Stocks firm. Pennsylvania State 5’s, 88; Read- ing Railroad, 23; Morris Canal, 43; Island Railroad, 11]; Pennsylvania Railroad, 41]. Mosizx, July 16, 1858. Cotton—Sales today 500 bales, at Iljc. for middling. The sales of the week add up 1,700 bales, and the receipts 910. The receipts here up to the present time, as com with of last year, show an increase of 35, bales. Stock 17,000 Freights to Liverpool 13-32d. Bariiong, Saly 16, 1858. Flour steady. Wheat steady: new red, $1 15; new white, $1 20a $1 30. Corn Whiskey steady. Provisions firm. Curcago, July 16, 1858. Flour dull. Wheat dectined 1c.: sales at 62c. a 69. Corn dull, and declined lc. Oats quiet. Shij ments to Buffalo—2,400 bbls. flour; 27,000 wheat; 48,000 bushels corn. Shipments to Oswego— 12,500 bushels wheat; 16,000 elacorn. Recerj —1,700 bbls flour; 38,000 bushels wheat; 17,500 bushels corn. Burravo, July 16—1 P.M. Moderate business doing in flour, and rates ua- changed; sales 500 bbls. at $2 75 a $3 for sour, $3 75 tor aes Wisconsin and Illinois, $4 a $4 25 for sate ‘0 choice extra Ohio, Indiana, Mic! and ‘anadian; $4 50 a $4 75 for double extras. Wheat— Market a shade firmer, with 3 11,000 bushels unsound Chicago at 65c. afloat, 5,300 bushels sound do. at 70c., 2,000 bushels white Wis- consin on white Michi unsound at 55c., 1,060 bushels hot at 50c., and 5,000 bonsai — Oats dull; salea 2,000 bushels at S7gc. Rye unchanged: sales, 1,000 bushels at 58}c. _. better; sules 100 bbis. at 21 Canal freights—40c. on flour, Lic.on wheat, and I on corn to New York, Borraro, July 16—6 P. M. Flour—No change to note in market; de- mand fully equal to the su ; holders firm: ‘sales Of the day 2,000 bbis, at $2 Si}'a $3 for sours $0 49 for good superfine Wisconsin and Illinois: 25 for choice to extra do.: $4 12h a $4 St tor a to choice extra Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and ‘anadian, and $4 50 a $4 75 for double extras. Wheat in demand and market a shade better: bushels, at 65c. a 66e. for unsound Chi- cago spring; 70c. for sound do.; 88c. a 89¢. for red winter Ohio and Indiana, and 75c. for Milwaukie club. Corn steady: sales 45,000 bushels, at 55c, for ansound, and 394c. a 50c. for hot. Oatsdull and market not so firm: sound held at %7c. Rye un- changed: sales 1,000 bushels at 58}c. Whiskey active and better: sales 700 bbls. at2lqce, Canal freights—40c. on flour, Llc. on wheat and 10¢. on corn to New York. Receipts to-day—7,740 bbls. flour, 90,841 bushels wheat, 47,806 bushels corn, 8,915 bushels rye. Canal exports—6,058 bbls. flour, 45,720 bushels wheat, 16,144 bushels cora, 20,000 bushels oats. Osweao, July 16—6 P. M. PE ac range . Wheat Se quod Gensaad for the bet- grades, some sl inquiry; lower de- scriptions dull- sales of Fry it boatels at We. & $L for white Canadian: 98c. for white Indiana; 93c. for red ditto, and 70c. for unsound Chicago Corn and oats quiet. Freights steady, at 27c. on flour and 74c.on wheat to New York. Lake im- ports to-day:--10,000 bbls. flour: 55,000 wheat; 12,000 bushels corn. Canal ex) OO Pacha bushels port Shee bushels wheat; 17,000 corn; 1,500 1s oate, Auraxy, July 16, 1858. Floar qniet and steady; the receipta keep the suppl. Sales 2,200 bbis. Wheat quiet: white Can: $1 i4 a $1 22. Com ive and un- changed. Sales 12,000 bushels; some damaged at 660. a 67c., and Tle. a 72c. for sound. Oats firmand mot pe Sales 40,900 bushels at 449. a 45. for to prime Chicago, in lots. Some Ohio 0 — corn, 7,000 do. wheat, 36,000 do. eats. Finer Ocray Mam Cowrmact Usper ram Law ov 14m Jens, 1868.—The Postmaster General has coociuied « contract with the New York and New Orleans Steamship Company, R. C. Crocheron, President, for the transporta- tion of the United States mail twice a month each way between New York and Havana, and twice a month each way between New Orleans and Havana, for two years from the 30th of June, 1858, the compenaation for this Toute to be the United States ocean and iniand postages om the mails carried. We learn it is the intention of the Postmaster General to make all the ocean mail contracts for the same peried: and for the same compensation, es authorized by the new law, so that all the ocoan mail contracts may expire om the 50th of June, 1800—the same time that the Colline contract will expire—and it is hoped that by that time Congress will have organized an ocean mail service worthy of our country, and on more liberal terms to contractors. ‘We see that the Postmaster General is determined thas contractors under the new law shall perform the servios agreed upon, or be subjected to fines and penalties pro- portionate to the failures and delinquencies. Letter wri- tors should bear in mind that all letters to go by United ‘States mail steamers must be seat through the Post Office, no other letters are allowed to be received on board the ‘mail steamere—not even thone in stamped envelopes. The fine for violation of this law is $600 for each offence; and all letters found in possession of passengers or any other Persons will be seized and brought back to the New York Post Office. ACADEMY OF McarC.—The ladies wi!i all go to the matinée to-day, for two reasons—(irst, because the programme te & very taking ono, and second, beosuse each of the fairer next seagon, and that Mme. de Ia Grange and the teaor, Tiberini, are to belong to his company.’’ Wo fear thas the Mexicans wil! be disappointed. wh Mp ye hg BS New ‘ork Persons were furnished with money for the fa wo own ylogmeort with vile women, ‘and then appess oi tnessos againat the keepers of such houses. ‘The ®t. Louis Demoorat, in which that paper stigmatizes the “vite policy” as “atrocious, contemptible and worse tha: worthiens.”” Vory right; but if the Democrat will loot to ite exchanges from which it received the infoream. tion it will see that this vile pradtice belongs to Obicago, Tilinols, and not to New York, ——— A Crow Kinua ny DRINKING BRANDY.—A Ofild, threw ‘end a half yoars old, while alone in aroom at No. 70 Gan- sevoort street, on Tuesday, botia: a Cor re hae Pt oe a son “4 and a vordiet of Death sion af tam brute aed