The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, EDMTOR AND PROPRIETOR. FIO KN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 87S. TERMS, cash én advance. THE DAILY HERALD, to conte THE WEEKLY HERALD every Sueur Bory, Sper annum; in Edition bb per annum, to Pare of Great Britain, or $8 to any part af the Cowinent THE FAMILY HERALD, evory Wednesday, at four cone per or ‘annum. LUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing ¢mportant mews, ‘from amy quarter of the world; & wsedl vill be tide Fally paid for. B|-VUK FOREIGN CORKESPOSDRNTS ane PAX a Requsssep to Sea ai Larrans avy Packages NO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, We do Ret retwrn those . JOB PRINTING executed w&h neatness, cheapness and dew ST per annum. Wy, at ie conte Der No. 198 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway—Ocp Heaps xv Youra Besser. WALLAOK’S THEATE! Broadway—Ik: Docros— ‘Tunios Mazerer—Inwn Ganon. racaficrtan BARNUMS AMERIOAN MUaEoY, Broadway—After- moce and evening Fats or MaGio BY AN, THE Wizard —Woxparrun Ouriosirixs &c. BUILDING, 561 and 563 Rroadway—Ermoriax Bonen Daxous tornFinenams or Tue Hopson RivER. POLIT DEN, Thirtieth atreat and wrigenoom Riesnvainax ny Tae Hurcutx Bvenne—| Boa _—————————————— rel New York, Monday, July 19, 1858. ‘Tho United States mail eteamship Star of the West, Capt. Gray, will fave this port to-morrow afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwalt. ‘The mails for Callfornia and other parts of the Pacific ‘will close at one o’clock to morrow afternoon. ‘The New Yorx Wsexty Henatp—California edition— @ontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, will be published at ten o’ciock in the morning, Bingle copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents. Agents will please send im their orders as carly as pos- Bible. ‘The News. Letters from our Utah correspondent, published 20-day, contain full details of news from Salt Lake City down to the 19th ult. The departure of the advance guard of the army from Camp Scott, the weenery along the route, the famous Echo canon, and Salt Lake City itself are minutely described. -An account of the convention held by the Peace Commissioners and the Mormon leaders, the result of which has heretofore been published, is also given. -A despatch, dated at Fort Kearney, announces the arrival of the army ata point within forty miles of Salt Lake City. The troops had met with no op- position. A detailed account of the distressing casualty which occurred at the foot of Fighty-sixth street on Friday evening, is given in to-day’s paper. It ap- ‘pears that five girls, named Asjaval Van Gilder, ‘Harriet Bryan, Margaret Flynn, Ellen Smith and ‘Louisa Eba, belonging to the House of Mercy, pro- ceeded to the river to bathe. After the girls had gone into the water they joined hands and walked ‘ont into the river some distance. The force of the tide carried them beyond their depth, and being un- able to swim, they were drowned before assistance reached them. Every effort has been made since tbe accident to recover the bodies of the unfortunate girls, but mp to last accounts they had proved un- successful. The death of John Anthony Quitman, a Major General in the regular army, and Member of Con- press from Mississippi, at his residence near Natchez, Miss, on Saturday, was announced in yester- day's Henaup. We publish elsewhere an interest ing sketch of the personal history and public ser- vices of this distinguished jurist, soldier and states man. Gen. Quitman was born at Rhinebeck, New York, on the Ist of September, 1799. The Coroner's investigation of the fucts and cir- cumstances attending the shocking catastrophe which happened on the Eric railroad, near Port Jer- vis, on Thursday night, by which six persons were killed and between thirty and forty wounded, was concluded on Saturday evening, and a full report of Yhe evidence given before the jury, together with their verdict, appeared in our columns yesterday. ‘The jury in their verdict find that the catastrophe ‘was purely accidental, and, farthermore, that it was one against which ordinary care and foresight on the part of those having charge of the train could not guard. A large andience attended at St. Luke's Hospital yesterday to listen toa discourse delivered by the Rey. Mr. Muhlenberg, upon the death of young Lau- rens Hamilton, a member of the National Guard, who was drowned at Richmond, as the Guard was Jeaving that city on their return from the Monroe ob- nequies. ‘The Fifth avenue Baptist church was closed yes- terday evening. The congregation of the Dpiscopal eburch in Eighteenth street (Christ'*) take pos- session of it next Sabbath. Mr. Corey delivered an interesting and feeling address, which will be found elsewhere. We have advices from Rio Janeiro to the 12th alt ‘The port was considered healthy, though yellow fever prevailed to some extent. The hospital report from June 4 to Jane 9, was sixty-five cases of yellow fever, of which, however, only four terminated fatally. In tbe Legislature, which was in session, the conduct of the government in regard to a very important treaty recently concluded with Uruguay was severcly cen- sured. The sales of coffee per day for Europe and America averaged 10,000 bags, and letters from both countries indicated a more active business at hand. The receipts of produce from the interior were improving. The clearances were seventeen weseels, with 69,704 bags coffee. The arrivals of American veseels to Jone 12 were thirty-two, being twenty-six from the United States, and the balance from other foreign porte. The demand for flour was fair, althongh some sold at anction at $10 4 $11 50, ‘The stock in first bands was 55,000 bbis., and in second hands 41,000 bbls. making a total supply of 79,000 bbls. Freights to the northern ports of the United States, 40c. a 4c. per bag. Two veasels were loading for Philadelphia at these rates. No quotations for Earope. We have files from Turks Islands to the ‘id inst. ‘The Royal Standard of that date says 22,760 bushels of salt have been exported from this island since our report, and 21,647 bushels from Hast harbor inst. We bave on hand over 300,000 4 Price 8 cents. Thtfannexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind cur- rents, and the state of the weather at three periods @uring each day, viz.: at 9 A. M.,and 3 and 9 o'clock REMARKS. Saturday —Merning, cloudy and sultry afternoon, clear warm sight, clear. —Olear il day. tightn : ariag the = vee iy lightning to S & pleasant ai) ' clear ear, rasa, j— A rain sual) ‘fand coe! al! day night, olear. —Clear and pleagant al! |, Clear an’ pleasant ‘The cotton market on Saturday continued firm, and the sales embraced about 5,000 bales, on the baris of 12% ¢ for middling uplands, and at 15. for middling New Grteaes Flour opened dull, but closed with more firm nese, withont change of moment to prices. The aales wore to @ fair extent. Pritos parcels of wheat contiacet scarce and firm, white commoe qualities were recharged. Sales were to a fair extent, amore which wes a srrail lot of good Southerr white at $140. Corn was firm for all sound quelities, which were acarce, The chief sales wore com Grsd to uneourd cargoor of Western mixed, at Gc & 70e, Prime gound eld at 80c , and @ 12} (1,000 boahels) of prime round yellow at Sic. No sound Souihern white or yellow wns effering. Pork was etendy, with sales of moss at $16 75 a $17—Whe latter Nguro for extra. Clear mess was ecarce and quiet at $18 75. Thin wae ab $16 20 and prime sold at $18 76. Beef was frm. Cut meats were more active, with purchasers (#specially of hams) for shipment to California. Sugars were quite active sod firm, while tbe sales embraced about 2,200 hhds. and £60 boxes at full prices. The sales of the week closed at an advance of about xc. perib Im another columa will be found the quotations of RL. & A. Stuart for their refined sugars. Freights wore firm, especially to English ports, while engagement were moderate. Political Parties in the North—The Elections for the Next Congress. In the Presidential election of 1856 the only Northern States which gave Mr. Buchanan a clear majority were Indiana and Pennsylvania. His majority in Indiana was some nineteen han- dred; but in Pennsylvania, with all his great personal popularity—with the powerful clemeat of State pride and all the divisions of the op- position forces in his favor—his absolute majori- ty, if we are not mistaken was about seven hundred votes, ont of an aggregate poll of more than half a million. In all the other Northern States the united opposition vote represented decisive majority, and in most of them the ma- jorities of Fremont were positively astoanding. With regard, therefore, to the approaciiing elections for the next Congress, let it appear that the Northern opposition vote of 1856 still exists, and that it is substantially united against the democracy, and we must concede that the chances are heavily in favor of an op- position majority in the next House of Repre- sentatives. It must also be admitted that nothing has oc- curred in any of our Northern elections since 1856 to justify the impression that the democracy have made any positive gains upon their popular vote of that year, but that, on the contrary, the party throughout the North, by factious disor- gavizers, has been weakened where it was com- paratively strong, without being strengthened where it was already too weak to stand without some assistance, Thus, while the New England States remain hopelessly derelict, Mr. Douglas has brought sbout a very ugly schism in the party camp in Illinois and Indiana, the affilia- tions of which extend to Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and thence down into the very citadel of the “Old Dominion.’ Such, from 1854 down to this day, have been the dreadful workings in the party camp of that terrible prescription of “popular sovereignty’”—the Kansas-Nebraska bill Had Mr. Buchanan been permitted quietly to manage the affairs of Kansas, all these troubles would have been healed months ago. It was his wish, in the outset, to have the Lecompton Convention submit their constitution to the popular vote. Accordingly, Gov. Walker was encouraged in all his legitimate efforts to this end. With the meeting of the Convention, how- ever, as we are told, an emissary from the Inte- terior Department at Washington, without the knowledge or consent of the President, tarned up in Lecompton, and proceded to operate among the delegates against a reference of their constitution to the people. The name of this emissary, we believe, was Martin; and doubtless he took good care to report himself as repre- senting the wishes of the administration. At all events, he sacured his object in arresting a direct submission of the constitution to the peo- ple; and we think it can be shown that there were some Douglas members of the Convention who co-operated with this man Martin in behalf of the indirect and partial plan of submission that was adopted. ‘This was the real beginning of all the Kansas party troubles that have followed. That myste- rious emissary from the Interior Department did the business, But the thing being done, the President had no alternative. Le had to ac- cept the Lecompton constitution as it came into his hands. He could not go behind the record, nor reject the lawful work of a legitimate Con- vention. Not #0, however, with Governor Walker and Mr. Douglas. They were free either to support or oppose the course pursued by the Convention, and they resolved to oppose it, and did oppose it, from first to last. Hence the factious war in Congress against the admin- istration, and the cmbarrassments which the factionists have brought, not upon the adminis- tration, but upon themselves and their party, especially in the Northern States. Hence the present anfortunate situation of Mr. Douglas, even in Illinois. As the matter stands there is no reconcilia- tion between the Illinois Senator and the ad- ministration; nor do we discover on cither side any eymptoms of a seasonable treaty of peace. What then! The Donglas defection remains open, and Illinois, with Mr. Donglas and the de- mocracy of that State, will probably go by the board in November. But, in the meantime, we must not forget that the Congressional elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana come off in the first week of October, and that the moral effect of the Douglas defection will first be mani fested in these three States. In Pennsylvania the republicans and Know Nothings have had | @ Union Convention, at which they appeared to harmonize very well upon Kansas and the ex penditures of the administration. In Ohio and Indiana they appear to be as harmoniously dis- posed; so that the chances in these three States teem to be decidedly in favor of important op- position gains to Congrere. Jn New York the rump of the Know Nothings sre holding off, and playing fast and loose; and it is quite possible they may set themselves up at a price too bigh for the managers of the Seward camp. The results may be advantageous to the democracy here and there; but nothing definite ean be predicted upon this point until we shall have had the conclusions of the approaching American State Council laid before ws. Our New York Know Nothing managers are evident- ly resolved to make Mr. Crittenden, for 1860 their-ultimatum this fall; but that concession is rather too much to expect of the Seward repub lican junta. They will prefer « triangular fight: and a triangular fight it may possibly be in No- vember, from Coney Island to Buffalo. Ina general view of the Northern political field. the prospect ie by all odds in favor of the opposition. Mr. Douglas occupies, to some ex: tent, the damaging position to the democracy which was hag by Martin Van Buren in 1848, and the con@jnences will most likely be the rame—the final overthrow of the bold deserter, but, with that overthrow, a local, a general, and: disastrous defeat of the regular party. In any event, however, the administration has nothing to fear, Indeed, after the various experiments NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SULY 19, 1868, of iasubordination and treachery which Mr. Ba- cbanan has bad to contend agsinst in 2 demo cratic Congres, ua opposition majority in the Houre may be contemplated by him with perfect iudifference and composure, All the leading measures of bis administration pursed at the late aession, were passed by opposition votes, including Kansas, Utah, Shy supplies, deficiencies, and all. Unques- tionably, then, the factious leaders of the demo cratic party, North and South, East and West, may rest assured that the mountaia will not go to Mahomet. ‘The administration, in a word, after all that has happened, cannot go out of the way to con- cilliate either Tom, Dick or Harry, nor can the President abandon the legitimate business of his administration to lift this or that clique out of their embarrassments, against their will Let them all, who are so disposed, take their own course, and soffer the consequences of their own folly. All other expedients failing, an opposi- tion Congress perhaps may bring the factious leaders, aspirants and cliques of the wrangling democracy to their senses in season for the hot and earnest work of 1860. If they will have iteo, then so let it be. F, Srars or Arrarrs 1s Uran.—We publish to-da: eeveral highly interesting communications from our special correspondent in Utah, describing the march of the army under General Johnston from Camp Scott to Great Salt Lake City, the fortifications of Echo Canon, and the City o the Saints, which it appears is quite deserted, the houses shut up, the population—including the Prophet himself—almost all departed, and not a woman to be seen within its precincts. It is highly improbable, however, that the Mormons intend to leave the city altogether. It is no doubt their design to return when the army is withdrawn, asit soon must be, either in consequence of the enormous expense of main- taining it there, or the exigency which demands its presence on the frontier to quell the hostile spirit of the Indian tribes. Nothing but the firmness and decision of Mr. Buchanan brought this threatened Utah war to so happy a conclu- sion. It wasa legacy bequeathed to him by poor Pierce, andhe has grappled so promptly with the difficulty that we have been saved from an expensive and unnatural war. The foily of Mr. Fillmore and the wedkness of Pierce’s administration encouraged the Mor- mons to defy the laws of the United States and resist the authority of its officials. They fancied that they could pursue a similar course with Mr. Buchanan; and this accounts for the war- like speeches of Brigham Young, Elder Kimball and the other leaders at the Tabernacle and the Temple in Salt Lake City, which preceded the advance of the army into Utah Territory. But when Colonel Kane visited them, and as- sured them that they had a different man from poor Pierce to deal with at the head of the gov- erdment now, and that he was determined to en- force obedience to the laws, without interfering with their peculiar religious doctrines, they dis- covered that they were making a grave mistake; and they submitted at once. Thus the difficulty of which the pusillanimity of the last adminis- tration laid the foundation, the firmness of the present one has overcome. From all indications | now before us the Utah trouble has reached a | peaceful issue. The Mormons have been intimidated into sub- | mission, and the lesson they have learned may | serve them for all time. They have been taught | that they cannot defy the constitution and laws | of the country with impunity; that resistance to | the law is treason, and will be visited with a | traitor’s punishment. How far that lesson may | affect their absolute obedience to the will of Brigham Young, and their belief in his infalli- | bility as a Prophet and head of the church, it is impoesible to predict: bat the probability is that it will materially weaken their faith in his lead- ership. The Mormons will no doubt retarn to the “Holy City” in Salt Lake valley, and re- sume their old ways. They will pursue for a time their polygamous system. until the pro- gress of immigration and the growth of civiliza- tion in the Territory puts their community in a minority, when many of them will become dis- gusted with the system, and it will fall a prey to its own rottenness, New York Srate Pourrics—A New Party “MPERANCE AND Freepow.’’—Read the call which we publish this morning for an inde- pendent State Convention, for the purpose of nominating Gerrit Smith for Governor upon the lofty platform of “Temperance and Freedom.” ‘The Cenvention is to meet in the city of Syracuse, on Wednesday, August 4, and the two great objects of the movement are de- clared to be 1. The suppression of the liquor trafic in our State. 2. The protection of the personal liberty of every human being who sets foot upon our soil, of whatever color, or from whatever clime he may have come to us for protection. In other words, a bold effort is to be made, outside of our old party lodges and conventions and caucuses, for a Probibiiory Liquor law, and for the nullification of the Fugitive Slave law. The proclamation, in reference to the fugitive question, says:—“ Let him (Gerrit Smith) be elected, and no fogitive slave will be taken from New York again, unless it be over the person of her Governor, and in spite of all the military power at his command.” Now, if we are not mistaken, this movement will be very apt to prove a sore thorn in the side of the republican party. last twenty-five years, have not been laboring without any resulte in behalf of “temperance and freedom.” On the contrary, they have succeeded in convincing very large body of people in “the rural districts” that nothing can save us from the ruinous evils of drunken. ness but a stiff Prohibitory Liquor law; and that nothing can prevent us from falling inte the clatches of slavery—whites, free niggers and all—-but a regular crusade of extermination against the “ e@ power.’ The Republican State Convention does not come off till September: this Gerrit Smith in- dependent “Temperance and Freedom’? Conven tion will come off in the first weck of August, from which it is evident that the republicans will hav make a compromise with thi+ Smith mo mt, or hazard the lows of per- hape fifty thousand allies. At the same time, the Seward managers will be called upon to make come strong concessions to the rump of the Know Nothings or hazard another bolt in that direction. Let the terrified democracy, then, wake up. There isa prospect of a fine open- ing for them among the isms and echiems of the opposition factions of the Empire State, however dark the horizon may look in other quarters, | } ] } | i } ' ! | | | } | ! | | | ' Seward and his organs, for th The Atiantic Triegrag—Probavle Ieue of the Undertaking--Progoatitows and Sugges- tons. ‘The report made by the master of the ehip Alice Munroe, arrived off Boston oa Friday, and which we published in Saturday’s aad Sunday's Hexa.p, would ceem to augur ilf for the euccess of the latest attempt to lay the Atlantic Tele- graph cable. Hefeli im with two vestels of the fleet—the Niagara and Gorgen—on Sunday, the 27¢h ult., in latitude 52 deg. 5 min. north, longitude 33 deg. 15 min. west; and like a prac- tical, intelligent maa, bore up to learn the news of the expedition. Mr. Field came on board his vessel, and informed him that the squadron had experienced very bad weather from the time of its leaving port, and had not made its connec- tion for sixteen days; that two attempts to lay the cable had been unsuccessful—the communi- cation ceasing om the secoud eocasion on the morning of this interview, after only forty miles of cable had beea paid out; but that he (Mr. Field) still entertained hopes of « successful ter- mination to the enterprise. We apprehend that Mr. Field will not find many persons now go sanguine of the result as he appears to have been. On the contrary, all the circumstances appear to indicate that the enterprise will prove a failure; and unless the next day or two bring us news of a mere favor- able character, there will be but one opinion entertained as to the fate of the undertaking. The captain of the Alice Munroe calculated that the squadron had not met at the rendezvous, where the Niagara and Gorgon were awaiting the Agamemnon and Valorous, before the 28th. Assuming that they met that or the next day, and that after time for splicing and further con- sultations and experiments, they again sepa- rated by the first of July, we can imagine no reason, consistent with an idea of success, why the Niagara has mot yet reported her- self. The calculation was that the steam- ers in paying out the cable would travel at the rate of four miles an hour, or one hundred milesa day. At that rate eight or nine days would be all the time that would be occupied in going from the rendezvous to either point. Twice that time has passed, and the Niagara has not arrived. Even if she only went at the rate of three miles an hour—as slow @ pace as we can easily imagine a steamer to be propelled—she would have arrived at her destination in twelve days after the day of starting, ifnothing untoward had occurred, and we should therefore have heard of her a week since. We are afraid that these premlses admit of but one logical deduction to be drawn from them, and that is, either that the attempt has failed altogether, or that the cable has been broken once, twice or several times more, en- tailing unlooked for delay. The latter may prove to be the case, and the end may yet crown the work; but such repeated failures are apt to damp the ardor of the most sanguine and enthu- siastic. Mr. T'ield, who has themanagement of the affair, and who has a large interset staked on its success, is a man of indomitable perseverance and apparently inextinguishable hope; and so long as there remains the glimmer of @ chance of laying the cable now, it is certain that he will persevere. ‘The vessels were provided with three thousand miles of cable—the distance | being less than eeventcen hundred miles—and though it may break time after time, still, so long as the portion left is of adequate length, the attempt, we presume, will mot be abandoned. All concerned in it must feel that there is little hope Of obtaining the aid of the two govern- ments for a third attempt, even if the stock- holders themselves would care to risk any more money in it; and therefore it is but reasona- ble to suppose that no possible chance will be left undeveloped this time. If the effort prove abortive, the company will have lost two millions and a half of dol- lars in the undertaking, besides the half million at which the expenses of the two governments | are eetimated. The great bulk of the shares are in English hands—the largest shareholder in this country being Mr. Field himself. The fact of the brittleness of the cable may be accounted for in this way ; After the former unsuccessful effort to lay it, all of it that had not been submerged and lost for the time being, was placed in immense tanks of water, to en- able the electricians to make experiments; and we believe it was so kept until it was again coiled on board the receiving vessels. The portion that was submerged last year was found, after its being raised, so corroded in paris by rust that it was condemned as unfit for use, or as being too lable to snap in the paying out. Now if that was the effect on the portion lying in the bed of the ocean, why must it not also have been the effect on the other portion that was lying in water in the vat where it was kept It may be that the possibility of its being rust- eaten was overlooked; or, if the danger was ap- prehended by those who were responsible, that it was concealed in the hope that their fears would prove ill-founded. Certainly the fact of the cable's breaking twice in « couple of days— | for the failure of communication mentioned | by Mr. Field probably arose from a breakage | off the Agamemnon—would seem to give a | good deal of pl@usibility to this supposition; | and if this should turn out to be the case, it | would certainly convict the engineers and clec- | tricians of the groesest stupidity or carelessness, ‘There may still, however, in the chances and | ancertainties of the undertaking, be a possibility of Mr. Field's expectations being realized. The | weather was bad, not only before the vessels | were spoken by the Alice Munroe, but for some days subsequently, and thy vessels may have | lain to, waiting fora more favorable time, for a | longer period than we have assumed. It is quite | unusual to experience so much unfavorable | weather at this season of the year ; but it seems that off the banks of Newfoundland thore was no | end of fogs and storms and icebergs during the | month of June. The letter from our special correspondent on hoard the Niagara, which we publish to-day, de- scribes the storm that overtook the ehips as be- ing terrific. eo bad, indecd, that the commander of the Agamemnon despaired of being able to rove hie veesel. The Niagara proved herself a magnificent chip. This experience would eng- geet the propriety, if ever another attempt of the kind is undertaken, of commencing on this side, where the moet danger is to be apprehended, eo that if the cable wae broken again and again there would not be so much of it lost, and then, having crossed the banks, the rest of the under- taking would be accomplished with comparative ease and safety. If this trial shall have failed, the vessels will return to Queenstown, to await further orders from the company; but it is not very probable that the attcinpt will be renewed, and the only thing that will be left for the Atlantic Tele graph Company to do, will be to dispose of the remaaat of the cable, That would be * "ey POor Jinale to euch @ magnificent enterprisa, 884 while circumstances appear to indicate cuch .*4 the result, there will be one general, universal burst of gratulation, if, instead of failure, theend chould be e teigmphant one. In the event of the company abandoning the enterprise, we should not be surprised to see the Britieh government undertaking it on their own sole recponsibility, There is no rensou why they should not. The line is to counect the mother country with her tranvatlantic possessions, now rendered inestimable to her by the recent gold discoveries on Frazer river. The projected Pa- cific Railroad through the British North Ameri- ean possessions, to which the gold discoverica will add a fresh stimulus, will also render this telegraph line invaluable, if not indispensable to England. She can detack a dozen or a score of her vessels of war to lay the cable. The whole Channel fleet could not be employed en a work of greater importance. The vessels, however: elrould not be so large as the Niagara or Aga- mempon, but the cable used should be three or four times the thickness of that made use of in the late attempts, The line being once estab- lished, there might be a convention between the two governments, fixing the terms on which our government and citizens could use it. In the meantime, the prospects of having a transatlantic telegraph are not to be limited by the failure or success of this undertaking. It is known that about a twelvemonth since, an as- sociation was organized in England, under the title of the European and American Telegraph Company. This company is quite independent of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and is, ia fact, a rival organization. Their scheme is to lay down a cable from the south of England and another from Bordeaux, or ‘some adjacent point in the south of France, to Cape Finisterre on the northwestern coast of Spain; thence along the Portuguese coast, either by land or sea, to Cape Rocca; thence westerly to the Azores, and frem the Azores to Cape Cod, or still nearer to Boston. The approximate distances are as fol- lows :— Though the total distance of this line would be 5,600 miles from Cape Cod to Lizard Point, near Plymouth, England, or 90 miles less to Bor- deaux in France, yet, traversing as it would France, Spain, Portugal and the Azores, it is claimed that the greater business it would do would compensate for the greater expense. Be- sides, the line would have this advantage; that its termini would rest in so many different na- tione—England, France, Spain, Portugal and the United States; whereas the termini of the Atlantic telegraph line would have been both in the British possessions. To be sure, the ocean depths on this route extend even to ten miles; but even with all that, the route cannot be much less favorable than the so-called pla- teau between Valentia Bay and Newfoundland, and its more southern locality would compen- eate for that difference. Another route which has been proposed and advocated with some persistency, is one starting from the coast of Labrador, crossing over Davis’ Strait to Greenland, thence to Iceland—iaking advantage of the various intervening islands— and thence by the Faroe, Shetland and Orkney islands to the north coast of Scotland. By this line the longest continuous piece of cable would be that across Davis’ Strait—some six hundred miles; but besides the objection that both ter- mini would be on British soil. there has been this insuperable objection urged—that the great icebergs coming down this strait from Baffin’s Bay would tear up the cable—it being well known that their submerged portions very often rub against the sea bettom there. Still another route that has been suggested in the American Institute is one in connection with a railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific—to extend that telegraph line from San Francisco up through Oregon and Washing- ton Territories, through the British possessions, (by Frazer river,) on through the Russian terri- tory and across Behring’s Straits into Eastern Siberia, there to connect with a line which the Czar might in the meantime have constructed to St. Petersburg. That would be really carry- ing out Puck’s idea of girdling the earth. It would be connecting not two but three conti- nente, and traversing the whole of Asia with a telegraph. The scheme, however, is altogether too magnificent for an initiative measure. Looking at all these various propositions, and regarding the intense interest with which a transatlantic telegraph is universally viewed, we think we are fully justified in saying that, whether this enterprise—to the result of which the world is eo anxiously i~ king—be crowned with success or meet with failure. a telegraph to Europe is among one of the certainties of the futare. Tun Watenne Piactis.—Last summer the proprietors of watering place hotels had their eyes somewhat opened to the bad policy they had been pursuing, in regarding only the profits they could put into their purse from the busi- nees of the season, and paying the very slight- est sort of attention to the comfort, convenience and pleasure of their gueste. But the falling off in visiters to these places last year was attri- buted more to the coolness of the sammet and the tightness of the money market than to its real cause. [t requires a pretty foroiille argu- ment to convince landlords of watertrg place hotels that the aniversal feeling among those whom a regard for fashionable habits induce to leave their comfortable homes in the city, and to put up at such cetablishmente, is one of dis- satisfaction and diegust. The substitution of suffocating cells or attic pigeon holes, for hand- some, well ventilated bedrooms, may le tolerat- ed for a short time under the pressure of fash- ionable necessity; but common sense will make itself felt at last; and when common sense is in full operation watering place hotels, as at pre- sent conducted, will have precious little busi nees. Our correspondence some of which we pub lished last week, and some of which we publish to-day —while suggesting the historical know- ledge that fashionable tourists may acquire, docs not give a very flattering account of the pfospects of watering place ostablishmente. Last year was bad. This year is no better. And next year will be still worse, unless hotel pro- prietors come to reason, When they can make their guests feel eo comfortable as not to miss and regret too much the comforts they have left bebind them at home, then they may have reatonable grounds for expecting their houses to be well patronized—but not till then. The financial difficulties of last year have dissipated a great deal of {aehiouable nonsense, and among i a eT the reet the idea thet one muat not stay at home durisg the cummer months. That is now am exploded ides, a6 managers of these country Coravansaries are realizing to their cost. Tae Pacntc Ramroap—Exensu versus ArmeicaN Exvenvnise —Whils we in this onan- ty have been meiiag the question of a great railroud to our Pucific pewsesiens a political question, justas we do everything alse, eur great rivals in trade and enterprise have beem preparing te give vitality to the same idea om their own territory. English capitalists bave had their attention turned to the subject, and—not diverted by ditty politioe—have gone practi- cally to work to find out the best route for euch aline. Already their surveyors are im the field, mapping out a line from the western shores of Lake Superior through the territories of the Iladeon’s Bay Company, to Vancouver's Island, on the Pacific Ocean. The recent diseo- veries of gold on Frazer river will give a frosk impetus to the enterprise, by convincing Hag- lish capitalists that it will pay; and we may, therefore, expect, while,our sectional peliti- cians and party schemers are mutually blockiag up the game on each other, to hear of the or- ganization of an English company, with an im- mense capital paid in, ready to go to work, build the road, colonize the now colitary tracts of Rupert’s Land, and gain te themselves and their country all the advantages for such a liae that ehould have accrued to us. There is little doubt that such will be the case. We are in the habit of deriding British- ers and vaunting our superior progress and ea- terprise; but one thing is certaia—that whatever great public work Englishmen undertake they carry out well and thoroughly. No lack of capital is ever allowed to stand in the way of its completion. The readiness with which tye and « half millions of dollars was subscribed to the Atlantic telegraph enterprise—the success ef which was so doubtful—is an evidence of it. Another evidence of it is the build- ing of the Great Eastern—equally pro- blematical us a paying speculation—at a cost of two or three times that amount. Then there is besides the great trunk railway of Canada, built chiefly by English capital, and traversing the Upper and Lower provinces. These are proofs of the liberality, forethought and en- terprise of the moneyed men of England; and the Pacific Railroad will now come as tire com- pleting link in this chain. When Jeffereon Davis discoureed to the peo- ple of Portland, the other day, on his great hobby—the Pacific Railroad—and spoke of ite being not a sectional but a national matter, he little thought, we dare say, of the position which that town was so soon to occupy in connection with it The Great Eastern is to be run te Portland—as being the nearest suitable port te Canada. From Portland there is a splendid line of railroad to Montreal. The Grand Trunk line extends from there across the two pro- vinees ; and with it will be connected the Bri- tish Pacific line. Thus the trade of the great East will have to pass through the British pos- sessions, and thus will they secure to themselves the monopoly of that magnificent commerce which it has been the aim and object of all powerful nations, ancient and modern, to obtain. Tur En Rau.rzoap Acctoert—Conpition oF tHE Roap.—A correspondent, whose letter we Publish in another column, assures us that the rolling stock of the Erie railroad is in excellent condition, and that large sums of money have been expended on it recently. We hope it is true that the rolling stock is in good order; but it matters very little how munificent the company may be in their outlay, it is quite evi- dent that the rails, which are not portion of the rolling stock, were not in the condition they should be at the point where the late terrible slaughter occurred. It is trae the Core- ner’s jury acquitted the company of all blame; but it is well known that Coroners’ juries, in cases of railroad accidents, pay little attention to anything except merely ascertaining the cause of death, which in this case was patent enough; they do not institute any proper inves- tigation into the condition of the road or the conduct of the officials, If they had done so in this unfortunate affair, and examined some par- ties who were recently engaged on the road, we think they would have been compelled to render a different verdict ; for we are informed that some employes of the road, engineors and oth- ers, have lately abandoned their situations out of fear of danger to their lives from the unsafe condition of the rails. If this be not trae, the company ought to demand an in and demonstrate its falsity; if it be true, then the verdict of the jury was a criminal deception. THE LATEST NEWS. News from Washingten. Wastineton, July 18, 186¢, Baron Gerolt, the Prussian Minister, having re- ceived permission of absence from this country, will leave for Europe in the course of a few days, for his family, with whom he will return in the autamn. M. Blondel, the successor recently appointed by the Belgian government to IH. de Bosch Spencer, who was appointed minister to Turkey, has since been named to Sardinia, and it is not improbable that this arrangement may retain M. Spencer in this country. Sertous Accident from Camphene. Nawank, July 18, 185%. Late last night Susannah Joeck, an aged German woman, while attempting to fill a campbene lamp, was so badly injured by its explosion that she died ina few hours. Her daughter lies in a precarious condition from the same accident. NI 17, 1968. madly highet : eaten bo Crvewssann, July 17-6 P.M Whiskey 22/¢. Mose pork, #16 60, Cmcaco, July 17—6 P.M. Wheat steady at 0. :’ salen 3, ‘and advanced 340. Cats steady, Flour steady Barrel lard, 1030. Corn firm Buffaio—100 bbie. flour, 3,500 bushels wheat, AJ corn, shipments to Oswego—16, ven sSeovipte 2.700 BUI . flour; ro00 bushels wheat, 46,000 bushels corn. Berraio, July 17—~6 P. M. Market for flour dull to day; transactions confined on- tirely t the local and retail trade: sales do not exceed 400 ote. at yesterday's rates, oat in fair end market without change, ealos 15,000 bushels 700. for unsound and sound Chicago Bering, 700, aged Club: 8030. 8.900. for red Oho and indiana: for common white Canedian. Oorn in pretty for distilling; sales 40,000 bushels unsound at 490 a 608, Oats without change and in good ; salen Dueb. at Jo, 0.59340. for damaged: 370. «97 Rye slomly; sales email"lows at 680. 2 6840, firmor:; sales 60 bbls. at 220. Canal lie, on wheat, 100. op corn to New York, 1,608 bble, flour, 8,714 bashele wheat, corn Dushels ote. H Oowna, July 176 P.M. Flour unchanged. Wheat Bales 30,000 buahote at 700. for Racine and Chi pega (ud con- . Onte dition, Corn dull: sales 6, hot at dull: sales at 390. a 400. firm. 1,000 bbis four, 166,000 b wheat, 66, corn, 11.000 bushels’ onts, Canal exporia flour, 19 0#0 bushels wheat, 21,009 bashelg corn, ‘bushels omts. 16,008