The New York Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1858, Page 4

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F., and Halifax, with the ews summary received by the Austria, published in the Heracp on the 15th, 17th, and 18th instant, contained the main features of the news, with the latest trade snd financial reports. We give to-day some interesting extracts from the papers at hand: A plan for the better government of Vancouver's Island, including the Frazer river gold region, is goon to be submitted to the English Parliament by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. The great la- bor supply question was still agitated warmly in England. Lord Brougham and the Bishop of Exeter, on behalf of Exeter Hall, are now will- fog to tolerate the new coolie slave trade, provided the Englixh West India colonies get all the emigrants transported in British ships from China. A strong feeling towards conviction was forcing on the public mind that the government of the Liberian republic had connived at the deporta tion, and even sale, of the Africans who lately mu tinied op board the French ship Regina Celi. It is even binted that traders in negroes are invited to that section of the African coast in order to buy the do cile and half educated colored men who have been bought, or voluntarily liberated in our slave States, ‘and then sent to the new colony. The leading jour- nals of Russia comment freely on the ultimate chances of the English troops in the Sepoy war, and the writers have evidently paid much attention to the conrse of events there. The inauguration of the new works intended to supply the city of Madrid with water passed off very happily amongst all classes of Spaniards. From the Cape of Good Hope we have more full advices, dated on 2ist of May. Governor Sir G, Grey was prevented from leaving for England in consequence of the fierce straggle which continued on the frontier between the Basutos and the Orange Free State. The colonists continued neutral. Two Basuto towns, with the French mission stations Beerseba and Moeiia, had been destroyed. At the request of the President of the Free States, Sir George Grey bad undertaken to mediate between the two parties. A correspondent at Caracas, writing under date of June 29, says the country is quiet. The conven- tion will meet on the 5th proximo, most of the members being already here. All fear of difficulty with foreign governments on the Monagas question has subsided. A loan o! 52,000 has been made to the provisional government by the merchants of the city. or special despatch from Washington states that the British Minister in Mexico had received orders from his government to suspend diplomatic rela- (ions with the Zuloaga government, unless a better disposition was evinced with regard to making re paratian for the claims of British subjects. Captain Peabody, of the packet ship Neptane, ar- rived yesterday morning from Liverpool, reports that on the 22d ult., when in latitude 54 34, longi- tade 25 10, he exchanged signals with the British steam frigate Agamemnon, and during the same night he passed « large steamer standing to the southward, which he supposed to be the United States steam frigate Niagara. Captain Peabody also reports that on the 24th ult., two days after seeing tue above vessels, in a burricane from west south west to northwest, he lost an entire enit of sails, main yard, maintopmast. crossjack yard, aud sprang fore- mast and fore and topsail yards—since which time has been leaking badly. He crossed the Banks of Newfoundland in latitude 46, and saw no ice The United States steamer Pulton, from the Gulf, bound to Portsmouth, N. H., put into Norfolk yes terday, with machinery damaged. We publish elsewhere the proceedings of a meet- ing of slaveholéers dents of Kent and the neign- boring counties i ry/aud, held to express their views in re‘erenc ne tarring and feathering of ono Bowers, who was couvicted in the court of Judge Lynch of enticin e run away from their masters, and also to d-y s to protect in fatare the property of the citizens from like moles tation. The meeting was addre y Jndge Camp- bell, Mr. Pearce, United States and Mr Ricaud, member of Congress. From the proceed- ings it would appear that the underground railroad association have maoy active and unscrupulous agents in Maryland, who, should they persist in their nefarious plots, are in a fair way to fullew the lead Of the aforesaid Bowers. A long debate occurred in the Brooklyn Common Council last evening on the gas contract question; but without any definite action the subject was laid On the table, and the Board adjourned until the 27th Of Reptember next. ‘The bodies of Ellen Smith, Margaret Flynn, Han hab H. Bryan and Aznba Van Gilder, four of the girls belonging to the House of Mercy, who were Growned on Friday last, while bathing at the foot of Righty ixth treet. were recovered early yester- Gag wornlag. The Wig of Mux Ever, thy Gsth vig tim of the unfortunate casualty, has not yet been found. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Health ySterday 4 communication from Health Officer hompson, suggesting important alterations in the | Quarantine regulations, was read, whereupon the Board adopted resolutions declaring New Orleans, Havana, Port-au-Prince, Matanzas, St. Thomas, Ponce, Cardenas, St Jago de Cuba, Sagua la Grande, Trinidad de Cuba, Cienfuegos and San Juan de los Remedios infected ports, and that all vessels, save thore navigated by steam, coming from said infected ports, shal) anchor at the lower Quarantine ground, and there remain, subject to the orders of the Health Officer. Dr. Thompson anticipated some opposition to these new regulations from merchants and ship- owners; but when it is stated that there are no less than sixty vessels from infected ports at the upper Quarantine, through which crowded ferry and ex- cursion boats, laden with passengers, paas hourly, and that the effluvia emitted from the quarautined vessels is constantly impregnating the atmosphere with disease, there can be no question but that the public at large will sustain the Doctor in his praise- worthy efforts to preserve the health of the city and suburbs. Mr. Michael Murray, representative of the First Aldermanic district, died at bis residence in Green- wich street yesterday at noon, it is said of cholera ™morbns. Mr. Murray was in the enjoyment of good health until within a few days, and was one of the deputation from the city which went on to Rich- mond, Virginia, with the remains of ex-President Monroe. The Board of Aldermen met last evening and adopted resolutions expressing the high regard entertained ior the deceased, and tenderiog the sympathies of the Board to his afflicted family. A committee was appointed to make arrangements for the funeral. The Board of Councilmen also held a special meeting, and concurred in the resolutions passed by the Aldermen. Mr. William T. Porter, the widely known editor of the Spirit of tne Times, died at his residence in this city yesterday. A biographical sketch of the de- ceased is given in another column. The de Reviere and Blount affair came up before the Hudson county, New Jersey, Court yesterday. In the course o! the proceedings the incidents of the flight of the Mobile maiden from the Hotel Na- poleon to Gloucester City, thence to Philadelphia, where she threw herself upon the gallantry of the police and a railroad conductor, who provided her with facilities to reach New York, and to join her father, Col. Blount, were all brought to light. To be sure, the narrative is from the lips of matter of fact lawyers and unromantic bartenders, and lacks those touches of high color that romance writers indulge in; but it is none the less interesting, as a perusal of our report in another part of to-day's paper will prove. The peales of cotton yesterday em>raced about 1,000 bales, closing firm at 12%. for middiing uplands and at 1c, for middling New Orleans. The receipts of flour were light, thore being only a partial tow in, owing to a canal break near Schenectady. This fact, combined with the private advices from Europe by the Canada, tended to suffen the market and impart greater aciivity to the trade. Advices from the interior speak discouragingly regarding ‘the prospects of the harvest, which is abundant only in rections. In East Tennessee, whence so much good wheat came last year, private letters state that the crop is almost efailure. Letters from Virginia and many sections of the West speak discouraging!y of the crop. We understand that the mills at Richmond, Virginia, are paying $1 40 per bushel for good new white wheat, flour made from which, it is supposed, cannot be afforded below $7 per barrel, if socheep. Very little new wheat has yet appeared in this market, That which has been received came from Geor- giaor the Carolinas, and sold at $1 40a $1 43 for the white, and at $1 26 a $1 26 for the red—part very choice. Wheat was firmer yesterday, with sales of about 40,000 a 50,000 busbels, at prices given in another place. Corn was quite firm for all sound lots, with sales at full prices, white heated and common grades of Western mixed were unchangei. There was an increased inquiry for cured provisions for shipment to California; and pork ‘was firm, with sales of mess chiefly at $16 90 0 $17, and of prime at $13 75.8914 Out meats, beefand lard, were also steady and im fair demand. Sagars wore firm and in good request. The sales embraced about 1,400 hhds. ; 600 boxes and 8,500 bags of Manilla in bond, all at rates givec m another column. Coifee was firm, with sales of 1,800 bags Rio at 10%c. a llXc. Freights were firm for English ports, with a fair amount of engagements. The Breaking Up of Mexico—What ts to Come After? Mexico, as @ federated republic, has ceased to exist. Our own legation there has been closed ; and we now learn from our Washington correspondence that the British Minister has also been directed to cease his relations with the government of President Zuloaga. It is very doubtful if either of the two na- tions will again be represented near a federal goverment in Mexico. The republic, as it existed in the past, has broken up—never again to be united. It has followed the fate of the old Central American republic and that of Colombia; and like them, its component parte bave separated from each other. The cohesive power of publie plunder has been exhausted by the mismanagement and ruin of their revenues. Should any one be disposed to doubt this fact, be peed only look to what has been passing for several years, and is w-day occurring in that republic. Two years ago Governor Vidaurri annexed the State of Coahuila to hisown of Nueva Leon, against the express decree of the federal Con gress. Alvarez, the Governor of Guerrero, has not for years recognized any federal govern- ment, except upon the payment of a monthly stipend. Witbin afew months past the parties contending for power in Yucatan agreed, after a failure to settle the question by conquest, to Givide the State, and it bas now two separate State governments, A few weeks since Sonora publicly proclaimed that she secedes from the Mexican Union until a government is establish. ed in it of which she approves. Governor Garza, of Temaulipas, unable to subdue the insurrec tionary forces at Tampico, has installed a gov- ernment and customs tariff of his own at Mata- moror: and following the example of Vidaarri in Monterey, Zamora in Vera @raz, Mendez in Yuestan, Alvarez in Acapulco, Yanez in Mazat- lan, and Peequeira in Guaymas, seizes upon the federel revenues, and converts them to the sup- port of bis own pretensions. This isa true picture of the present condi- tion of the Mexican republic, and it is only an exaggerated form of the state of affairs from the time of the withdrawal of the Ameri- can army. Since that event no government has existed tn Mexico which has possessed the entire adhesion of the several States. The cessation of relations with the two great government. of the world will no doubt be followed gradually by a cessation of those with other countries; and as the improbability of the establishment of a general government increases, the resumption of those relations will be still farther delayed. What causes may arise to control the course of the separate divisions of Mexico it is impossible to foretell. We already know that a party exists in what are called the Northern States looking to the ertablichment of a separate republic, possibly through the admission of an American ele ment. In Sonora a similar feeling is growing up, and in both of these regions it is stimulated by the constant increase of the ravages of the Indians. The necessity of self-preservation is becoming the ruling impulse of the Mexican mim! in those States. In Yucatan weakness fear of the Lodiane are alec porsmouat ad ty f NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1958. The eparse population of Tehuantepec looks for ite future in the opening of the Transit route across that Isthmus. The Central communities of the Mexican republic may yet hold together for « while, but they must be, before long, di- vided by the conflicting interests of the Atlaa- tie and Pacific ports. It is the growing evidence of this state of things that has led the so called government of Mexico to hold in slight regard its international duties. After the American war the Arista ad- minietration expired in two years of inanition. Sapta Anna endured for two years through the virtue of asale of territory to this country Comonfort existed for the same period, en- gaged in a constant struggle with petty revolutions; but at no time were the deorees of the government capable of perfect execution at sdistance of seventy leagues from the capital. The federal government was therefore incapaci- tated to render protection to foreiga merchsats seeking ita markets, and its whole intercourse with the foreign legations has been little more than a continued series of demands for repara- tion on the one side, and evasions on the other. The crowning act of the priest riddea govera- ment of Zuloaga, to rob the foreign merohaate as the only means of perpetuating its own ex- istence, has given the finishing blow to govera- ment there. No government exists that can make reparation, and our administration has adopted the true policy in refusing to recognize any longer a Power that is but a sham. What course we must pursue for the future can only be decided in thefature. Many of our citizens will cling to the hope that a miracle will be performed there, and a government brought into existence which ehall render them justice. The British bondholders, confiding in their mortgage upon the revenues of Mexico, still look for the drawing of wine from the jar that does not now even contain water. They have received no interest since the payment that was made them out of the American indemnity io 1853, and they will receive no interest for all time to come, because the revenues, as we have already shown, are absorbed by the seceding States. The whole country is engaged in one conflict of disintegration, and priest and lay- man, eoldier and civilian, have all givea them- selves up to the pillage of ruined society. A New Panapise For Tovurists.—Our spe- cial correspondent, writing from Salt Lake City, gives the most glowing description of the scenery on the route from Fort Bridger to the capital of Utah. Itappears that the grandeur of the Old World mountain peaks is eclipsed, and even our rugged Northern cliffs and ra- vines must give way befere the massive heights which environ the Mormon plateau. This Rocky Mountain region was almost a terra incog- nita until the explorations of Fremont and his followers, and now but little is known of its real condition. By all accounts it is impossible to give an accurate painting of its splendid views, either with the pen of the tourist or the pencil of the artist. As itis opened up for travellers and settlers we shall find some adventurous spirits taking the lead in pleasure excursions across the plains to the Great Basin. It has already become fashionable among the young men of England to make the tour of the States, instead of going to the Continent, and eome of the more daring of them have hunted the buffaloes and skir- mished with the Indians upon their own jRi- ries, We hear that the ecions of the noble houses of Cavendish, Shaftebary and Grosvenor, who are now on a tour through this country, contemplate making the excursion to the plains, and the time will undoubtedly soon ar- tive when the whole fashionable world will do- sire to follow in the track of Fre- mont and Carson. Already our pleasure seekers are beginning to tire of the same round of travel and the same faces year after year, and to pine for something new. The yachtsmen, who were formerly satisfied with barbor and river sailing, now begin to enlarge their cruises, running down in the winter to the Virginia capes or the Havana, and in the summer dashing away to the northward along the Atlantic coast to the sandy shores of Mas- sachusetts or the wooded inlets of Maine, The time will come when travellers by land will avoid Saratoga, Lake George, the White Moun- tains or the Catskills, and fit themselves out for a journey to the Rocky Mountains and back. If the Mormon war has done no more than to open this almost unknown section of country, no one will grudge the money that it has cost. It seems almost like a paradox, but it is true, that war and military operations generally have always been the pioneers of civilization and its attendant blessings. Barycw’s Lasr Hoax.—Our London corres- pondent, in a letter which we print elsewhere, explodes Barnum’s last enterprise, which had already received the coup de grace on this side of the water. It appears now that Bar- nom had no authority to use the name of Mr. Lumley ; that the director of her Majes- ty’s theatre never answered the letters written by the proprietor of the mermaid, and that in no event could the artists which Baroum announced have crossed the Atlantic this sea- son. The whole matter, it seems, was a dodge of Barnum’s to keep his name before the public, ‘and he succeeded in humbugging the shrewd director of the Academy, impresario Ullman, and also secured notices, good or bad, from nearly every journal of consequence throughout the country. This is Barnum’s last and most impudent hoax. When he brought out Joice Heth, the mermaid, and the woolly horse, he had some foundation for his operations—that is, he had an old negress, an artificial mermaid, and a horse; but in the present affair he made his hoax out of whole cloth, with nothing but a eupporitious sum of money—eeventy five thou- sand dollars in bank—to sustain it. A man who descends to such shifts to obtain a little noteriety must be hard pushed indeed. We are afraid that the Chevalier Barnum is on his very last legs. “TeMPRRANCE AND FReepoM.”’——Temperance iso great thing ; freedom is a great thing ; but freedom and temperance combined ought to be irresistible. Accordingly, let all out-and-out opponents of the liquor business, wholesale and retail, In every shape and form, and all oppo- nents of the Fugitive Slave law in this State, who are desirous of voting for an out-and-out “temperance and freedom” candidate for Go veenor, be at Syracuse on the 4th of August, and help in the nomination of Gerrit Smith, or be sure to send upa delegate. We expect a demo- cratic candidate or two for Governor, a Seward candidate, a Know Nothing candidate, and who knows bat that among so many the “ tempe- rance and freedom ” candidate may be run in? Let the “ freedom and temperance " men move on ja the good work. Tux Massacns on THe Erm Rairoap—ANy Oxx To Buamet—Lact Toursday night » train of care, containing severel bundred persons, etarted from the terminus at Jersey City ou the New York and Erie Railrosd. There was an implied compact on tbe part of the company ‘bat the pacsengers would each and all be set cown at their respective places of destination safe as to life and limb, By the observance of tboce strict safeguards and precautions which ivpumerable railroad calamities in this country cbould have taught directors, euperintendents and employés, that compact might have been taitbful'y complied with, and the confidence of thore who gave themeelve- up to the safe keep- ing of the company might not have proved to bave been misplaced. But bow wasit? Not a quarter of the whole journey had been perform- ed when a startling orach was felt throughout the train, aud in an iastavt, without a moment's warning, the two hndmost cars were violently disconnected from ‘he forward ones and gent toppling over a dee; precipice, where mer, women and children, a!! equally betpiees, were jarred, and crasbed, aod muti- lated, and heaped together, maimed, dying and deed, in one terrible macs of ruin. When the train was stopped and the ruins of the two cars cleared away, it was found that of those who, four hours before, had stepped into them in full health and bigh confidence, six were lifeless corpses and the rest—some forty or fifty—more or legs maimed and injured. ‘The usual solemn farce of a Coroner's inquest was held upon the bodies, and the stereotyped verdict in such cases returmed—“No one to blame.” But was there no one to blame? Did the facts and circumstances justify a jury of twelve respectable men in rendering such a verdict? We donot think so. Our cotemporaries, whose articles on the subject we publish to day, do not seem to think so—there is no doubt as to what was the cause of the catastrophe. A rotten, worthless rail—one of that cheap aad condemn- ed class of rails which no railroad company should p+rmit to remain on any part of the line for a single day, broke under the weight of the huge locomotive—or, perhaps, under the weight of the freight train that had previously passed over it, and was shattered into seven fragments. The engineer felt the check as the engine jump- ed over the broken rail, shut off steam and whistled for the brakes to be applied, but at the terrific rate of speed which the train had then ac- quired—rated at not less than thirty and as high as forty-five miles an hour—the train could not be stopped till it had gone on some three- quarters of a mile. In the meantime the couplings between the two last cars and the others had been wrenched asunder ; and these two cars, with their human freight, were hurled down the precipice, with the fearful results we have indicated. ‘That rotten rail and that headlong career of speed were the immediate causes of the disaster. Were not these causes that might have been easily avoided, and that would have been avoided if the officers and employds of the Erie Railroad had only exercised that due mea- sure of care and precaution which they owe to the community? Certainly they were. It was the common remark of the people in the locality that that section of road had been always dangerous—that it had been laid with bad iron; and yet we find the train dashing over it at a rate which made the travellers held their breath for terror. The fact of that portion of the road being in bad order is ehown even by the testimony of Mr. Riddle, the division superintendent. When questioned as to its condition, his answer was that the track was “considered good enough there.” That answer, coming from a functiona- ry of the road, is equivalent to its being “con- sidered bad enough there.” “Good enough” certainly means “not as good as it might be,” or perhaps “‘notas bad asit might be.” We will give the company the benefit of either in. terpretation. It isa somewhat remarkable in- cident, too, in connection with this, that this eame Mr. Riddle wrote to the president of the road, the night of the disaster, asking to have some one sent on to his assistance “ authorized to settle with the injured.” That would show that he did not then entertain the opinion which the Coroners’ jury afterwards officially expressed that “there was no one to blame.” He knew that there was some one to blame, and recog- nized the responsibility of the company for the injuries caused. We do not want to arraign the fidelity or the independence of the Coroner’s jury. Asin all such cases, the jurors were necessarily selected from the people of the locality, whose interests are directly or indirectly involved in the pros- perity of the railroad; and no matter how de- sirous they might be of rendering a verdict ac- cording to the evidence, their judgment would very naturally be warped in favor of the com- pany. Then again these inquests are got up in hurry; a few facts relative to the deaths of the unfortunate passengers are given, and the reeult announced in twenty-four or thirty-six hours after the “accident” oo- curs, But the verdict is, after all, a mere matter of form. Grand Juries may act upon it or eet it aside, just as they think proper, and may find bills of indictment against the officers of the road, just as if no such solemn mockery had been perpetrated. There is no reason, however, to expect anything of the kind. Bat the injured and the representatives of the slaughtered are no more precluded by that ver- dict than they are by the interested white. washing comments of the New York Express on the subject, and may sue the company for ex- emplary damages. By doing #0, and by press ing those suits to the last extremity, they not only do justice te themselves and thore depen. dent on them, but they render inestimable ser- vice to the community; for it is only by amero- ing railroad companies to the severest extent that the travelling public can ever hope to put an end to the periodical recurrence of euch ter- rible scenes a that of the last railroad mas- secre. Tur Centra Park ann rvs Commisstoners.— We publich today two communications ad- dressed to uson the subject of the citizenship of two of the Central Park Commissioners, Mesers.Gray and Strong. By one of these com- munications we are informed that our original statement as to Mr. Gray being # resident of Richmond county, and not of thie eity—and which statement we subsequently withdrew on representations made to us of its being erro- neous—was strictly correct. In proof of it, our correspondent sende us a gertifieate from the County Clerk of Richmond county, showing that Mr. Grey's name is on the poll list of that county, and that he voted there both for local and State officers in 1856 and 1857. As to, Mr. Strong, on the other hand, we are informed with equal positiveness that we were to error in arcribing to bim legal residence out- tide of this city—that although be is the 6 #uer of a country house at Throg’s Neck, be cetaias bis domicile in New York aud perfocms ail the Guties of a citizen here. We have vot much interest in the question as to the domicile of either of these gentlemen. We regard it 4 slwgether a side issue, of mizor importance. The gracd point with as is to bave the Cep'ral Park laid out promptly, ecovomically and well. If the present ses of Commireeoners satixfy us om that head we are prepared to give them all due acknowledg- ments for their services, without regard to the fact whether they reside on Union square, Throg’s Neck or Staten Island. THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Newe from Meztoe— The B 1tuh Legation There to be Cleed—Prebable Caaugs im cne ticxi- Cau Cabinet— Viiaarsi's Suppurt to Provident Jusses—Posttion of ver Gevermment on ths Mextean Quertion—The Nivacagus Transit Rente—Ou Minister to Onina aoe the C vette ‘Trade—Statistics of Coolie Kangra, &. Wasurnaton, Jaly 19, 1858. Private letters received by the last mail from Mexi co, from high sources, state that Mr. Otway, the new British Minister, had received directions from his government to suspend relations with the Zuloaga government, unless a better disposition was evinced towards making reparation for the claims of British subjects. This does not involve any action in rela- tion to the forced subscriptions to the National Bank, as the news of this decree had not reached England. It is said that a change in the Mexican Cabinet is imminent, and ‘he following combination is spoken of as being probable:—Foreign Affairs —Castillas Sau- zas (formerly Minister Plenipotentiary at Washing- ton, and lat ly same at London); Governmeut—Jose Joaquim Pesado (rich banker, poet, litterateur, Je- suit and editor of the church periodical organ at the capital); Fomento—Riode la Loza; Treasury—Gera; War—Kcheagaray; Justice—uncertain (very). ‘The same letters state that Lerdode Tejada has been compelled to take refuge from the peisecution of Zuloaga and his old enemies, the clergy, with Mr. Forsyth. Vidauiri has written a letter to President Juarez, at Vera Cruz, saying thut he will not rest until the liberal government is firmly established in Mexico; that he intends to fight his way to the capital and ensure a triumphant entrance o. Seaor Juarez and his ministers. A studious attempt is being made by some of your city journals to misrepresent the position of our government in these Mexican questions. The opinion of the government is that the late decrees of President Zuloaga, against whish Mr. Forsyth protested, were simply decrees enforcing a subscrip- tion to the stock of a nutional bauk, and that it was not a tax in the true seuse of the term. When taxes are imposed ne return is made to the taxpayer; whereas, in this instance, the contributor receives stock in a national bank in-return for the contaiba- tion exacted of him. Against this Mr. Forsyth very property protested, and the government has sup- ported his views and determined to close the Le- gation. Still later official news has been received here that the besieging force at Guadalajara had been re- pulsed, and that the two commanders of the federal forces—Degollado and Zuazua—had commenced to march, the first towards Colima and the last towards San Luis Potosi. Caravajal, with a force of three hundred, had left Victoria for Zula for the purpose of attacking a convoy of money on its way to Tam- pico. Col. Sage’s federal army had been defeated in El Valle Maiz, with the loss of ammanition and two pieces of artillery. Vidaurri had not moved from Monterey. Garza had taken eight bars of silver— eight thousand dollars—belonging to the English Consul at Matamoros, which it is said had been de- posited in the Custom House pending a law suit. There is no intention of giving Gen. Robles, the Mexican Minister, his passport, although Mr. For- syth be recalled, unless he should demand it, or the Zaloaga government, which he represents, should fall. It is understood that the government, in view of events transpiring on the Pacific side of the conti- nent, and the necessity of cheaper travel for our citizens, are very desirous that the Nicaragua Tran- sit route be opened. Should Joe White open it at once, under the old Canal and Transit charter, no doubt the administration will support him. . Mr. Reed, our Minister in China, has forwarded a lengthy communication to the State Department on the coolie trade. He had addressed a circular to our Consuls in China against it, stating that in his belief it was illegal and certainly against the instincts of humanity. He had addressed also the Spanish Consul to the same effect. It does not appear what course he had taken as to the British, who are engaged most extensively in the trade. He attaches a statis tical table to his communication to the State Department from the Hong Kong goverament Gazette, giving a return of emigrant ships to which certificates had been granted by the Emigration Officer during the year 1857, by which it appears that there were shipped— To Guicben Bay, Sydney and Melbourne... To San Francisco. ... oo sedeeeesecee To Singapore... The only females shipped were to San Francisoo— 512, +e 17,722 « 6,273 TEE GENERAL MEW PAPER DRSPATCH. Wasainaton, July 19, 1858. Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Eeq., having been appoint ed by the President of the United States to carry out the act of Congrese providing for the comple. tion of the unfinished work of the seventh census, has entered upon the performance of his duties with an able corps of assistants, and is basily engaged in revising and completing the statistics of manufa> tures, in order that the work may be prevented to Congress at the commencement of the next session. These statistics, taken under the direction of Mr Kennedy, and nearly completed when he was dis placed from office, will, when finished, present the most complete and perfect exhibit of the condition of the American mechanic arts that has ever been prepared, These details have never been published, and the interest occasioned by their appearance will not be limited to our own country. It is ascertained from a reliable source that about two years ago treaties were made with certain Indians of Oregon and Washington Territories, in cluding those who recently fought Col. Steptoe, and which the Senate failed to ratify. This omiv sion hae bad the effect of producing an impression on the minds of the Indians of the absence of good faith on the part cf the government of the United States. Several weeks ago, when the rumored defeat of Col. Steptoe reached this city, the Indian Burean promptly sent out directions to the United States Indian Agent to use all available means at bis disposal fer such an emergency, and to check at once the farther spread of hostilities, aud to prevent the commission of outrage opon onr citizens. Captain Longstreet has been appointed by the President Paymoster of the Army, in place of Dashiell, dismissed. General Burnett, Surveyor General of Kansas, has made all hia appointments, and will leave for the Territory this week. ‘Toe Krie Canal. Sonennerapy, July 19, 1858. The repairs on the Canal break were nearly com pleted this morning when the bottom gave away. Boats m y pase tomorrom night, Seu Arsival of the Telegraph Fleet, Sr. Jouns, N. F., July 19, 1868, This morning the weather is fine and clear, with @ westerly breeze, Nothing bas been beard from the telegraph feet, nor of the steamers Kangaroo and Asia, now due off Cape Race, Sr. Joun, N. F., July 19—P. ML We have as yet no tidings of the telegraph fleet or the steamers Asia or Kangaroo, The weather to-day has been clear and beautiful, with a westerly wind, ‘@he Grand Sational Convention of the Sons of Mnita. Puitapsiraia, July 19, 1858, The grand National Convention of the Sons of Malta, met this morning in the Grand Counoil Chamber in this city. ‘The Convention was temporarily organized by the appointment of Curtis Guild, of Boston, as Chaie- pas and Samuel R. Glen, of the same city, ae Seore- On motion, & committee of one delegate from each lodge represented was appointed to seleot irom the convention permanent officers to preside over its deliberations, which resulted in the umani- mons choice of the Hon, Henry Southers, of Peansyl- vania, as President, and one Vice President from each delegation. G. W. Dilks, Esq., of New York, and G. W. Wood, of Philadelphia, were appointed the Secretaries, ‘The follow‘nga re the names of the Business Com- mittee:—H. Watkins, of New York;§Curtis Guild, of Boston; Mr. Thatcher, of St. Louis; J. C. Johnsoa, of Kentucky, and Mr. Sloan, of Maryland. The Committee on Finance reported that $78,664 42 was distributed by the various lodges in the United States for charitable purposes during the year 1867 The funds in the Grand Treasurer's hands at the commencement of the present year was $1,596 26. The different lodges in each State are well repre. sented, there being about three hundred and fifty delegates present, and fifty more foreign ones to ar rive. The meeting adjourned at four P.M. until ten A. M. to-morrow. The Convention will be in session several days. The utmost harmony prevailed in its deliberations to-day. The hotels are rapidly filling up with visit ing members irom ail parts of the Union. It is eati- mated there are from twelve to fifteen hundred strapgers, members, in the oy. A grand procession of the Order will take ae before the adjournment of the Convention. Great enthusiasm prevails among the Order. Particulars ef the Fire at Leavenweith, anes. Sr. Loots, Jaly 19, 1858. Additional despatches from our Leavenworth con respondent, per United States Express Compaay to Boonville, say that the largest losses sustained by the fire there are as follows: — Weaver & Newland, $20,000, insured for $15,000 in the A2tna office, Hartford; Stewart & Co., $15,000, insured for $6,000; Sands & Bio, $6,000, insured for $2,000; Dr. Park, $6,000, insured for $2,000; B. Loeb, $3,000, insured for $2,000; Paul Dexter, $5,000, uninsured; L. R. Smoot, $5,000, uninsured; Simon Cohen, , uninsured ; Grazier & Brother, $5,000, uninsured; Davis & Lutes, $8,000, uninsured; H. Gorman, $6,000, uninsured; Thomas Ruasell, ———, uninsured; Mr. Calvert, $4,000, uninsured; Albert Fisher, $5,500, uninsured; McGhey, $3,000, and Currier & McCormick, $3,000, uninsured, There are various smaller amounts, ranging from $500 to $2,000, which increase the total loss to over $130,000, on which there is $35,000 insurauce, chiefly in Hartford offices. ‘The report that a man and two boys were burned in the theatre proved incorrect, Postponement of the Regatta at New Havea. New Haven, Conn., July 19, 1853. Tt was voted this evening, in consequence of the drowning of young Mr. Dunham, a student of Yale College, as well as a member of the Yale College Boat Club, at Springfield, on Saturday, to postgone he regatta which was to have come off in this city on Monday, to a future day. Markets. PHILADBLPHIA STOCK BOARD. MMILaDELPIA, Jaty 19, 1868. Stocks Gull. Penverivania Sai fvee, 89%, R Railroad, no ea'ea; Morris Cansei, 424; Long Isiand Sad. road, 117,; Pennsylvania Ratirosd, 4) New Onveans, Joly 19, 1868. Cotton market unsettled; sales t>-day 200 Dales. Sugar firm. Flour quiet, at $4 for superfine Wheat So. Lard firm at 10369. Freights—Ovttou w Liverpool, ied. Paivaperrata, Jaty 19, 1858. Borraro, July 19—1 P. Ww Flour market cull; email ssies, uot to exceed 400 & St previous rate+— $3 75 for superfoe, $4 a $4.25 for tras, $450 a $476 for double extras Waeat ie good mand apd Armor: sacs 6,000 bushele Milwaukie Pie. ; 2,000 ao. Fed Onto at 900 ; 2,100 do r Feeasek Pho. ; 18 000 do. Thicago spring at 6Tc a 68c demand and market steady: sales 30,000 bushels at & blo, for unsound: 690 a OCC for round Obio, Oate fatr demand ard firm: enles 6.000 huabeis sound at 37 a Ske Rye steady: sales 3,600 bushes et 580 Wai firm: awien 1,000 Dbia at 2tige. Canal frei flour, 11¢ on wheat, 10¢. on corm to New York. Re coipts—Fiour, $878 dbis.; wheat, 27,398 bushels; cora, 36,196 do ; vate, £8,610 do ; rye, 104do. Expors—Fioar, 4.018 bbis.; wheat, 23,727 bushels; corn, 34,199 40.; sats, 46,182 do. Very little doing in flour to a ue ‘tare ‘ory ay; DO Chango Dot exceed 660 Dhis and mainly for Dome trate a 62 8T & $3 for our; $8 75 for choice mwperfiae; $4 for [ody chowoe extras; $4 60884 76 for doable extra ‘beat tp sotive demacd and market firmer: sales $0,000 boeh. at 67. @ 700. for Ci Sprivg; 700. for assvaed club; Te. for souné ditto; 6 a$i (5 frommm prime white; 0c forred winter Cora In good demand anc market Grm: rales 49,000 Dushels a . sound, and bic. . for unsound. Oate scerce aod ta demand; market better: wales 20 000 bushels at s6c fur unsound, S70. «3% for soand Rye uc changed: saee 6,000 bushels at fe = Whiskey tn fair request: rales 300 bola at Zl ye a2i igo Canal freignw auchanged; 490. om flour, Llc op worst, 10c on corn to New York Re- Cripte in the leet forty eigb: bours- Fivur, § whoat, 2,041 dush ; corn, 69,783 bueh ; oats Caval exports io the sams time-Ficar, wheat, 59,199 bugh ; corm, 66,80 bush , oats Ovweeo, July 19-6 PM Flour steaty — Wheat ip good Gemacd Salen of 16,000 Dosbels st 9 ©. for white Southern Mchigan, O40 for red do., and 120 for Choage spring at fle warm Core dat. Sa ot of 10,000 bushew at 620, for warn and 480 for bot. Oars tonotive Cana! freight: firm at 270.00 flour, 7K. 0m wheat to New York, No gram receipta Dr laveot um portance, Cac al expo te 2,000 b's. fl var, 62,000 ousnews wheat, 26,000 bushels core, 19.0 bushels oats mctnnart, July 19, 1968. Flour Is unchanget Provis'ons sre buoyact Meas ik is held at $16, with onyere at $1659 a S15 75, iskoy 20% 0. Laced of The Oucseo Joly 0-6P 4 Flour dull. Wheat active and to higher Sales at 6tc, 2 70¢. Corn booyaat st4ve Shipments ty Bullaio—808 bie fur, 29,000 busnels wheat, 100 000 bushew own, Recolpta - 1,000 bia. 96.090 buehe'a corm, rs Ps E. as 8 7 To Oxwego— 24,000 boanata @heat flour, 23,000 bush: t New lace. [From 0 Correia ul of To de Janeiro, Jane 7] (ror letters ab 4 Dewapap: ra (com Moo trideo are to tae Bist of Inst mouth. The wate o' she republic continued to be the same = It seems pase order was once more ow Capgered at Mootevides Rawors of a new revolution were aflomt, aba reveral energetc moasures taken by the eulbcrities makes ua believe tha. wey were pot coure ubfoun-ed [t wae likowiso apaorted that tacre bo — amonert he eae So & modiicative im Abe Cebmet was continually ayoken The Chainbers hac not yet begun the diecansion of the budget, it becoming Dow useless ria toe Miaiater of Fi- Dance, in bis report, declared the S:ate 0 be insolvent, ibe m of Camioa, accunng tbe Minister of Fiaawors of baving, ip violation of the «xiating lewa, sold pubis lands, bas beeo withdrawn by tte author The cowmixsion of the Coamber of Depution which wae to examioe nto the Brazilian treaty bad not yet pre. st uted ita conclusions. Tae prejudice agaiast tast t eaty whicd bad been creed by wows tit miaded aud pession- atc writers, to the ena of serving their revolut pro. joote, had, io the part, dimappoare | from amongst we ae was continuing, aa itcoud, ita owtirity aq The goversment, oy & decree dated the 224 inst., or- dered ine conmuar tivaon!, reipetiiated fa 1853, 10 se 60 ms Mare. oe merchants, inierested tn overcome or the arferences which might arise their isliow mer. ‘bants, it wan very rare that the covtending parties ret redenetied Ye consequence of the eftrte sua bani these Judges empinyed. on og the wm Couuse'or Paraobo waa pursal negotiations which be was cberged. is Rrostteocy eoteriained the bea. understanding with the Oriental government, ‘The Caso of John Quinian. TO THR EDITOR OF THR HERALD. On looking over your paper datea Sunday, July 18,1 ‘war surprised to #06 a statement in the police intelligsnce comoerving the aetault of Mr de Loeg, in which I was re presented ae baving served & term at the Siate prison, noch we utterly ialse, aa Lor my friends oan teatify if ne Cueeary. JOAN QUINLAN,