The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIRTOR | | | OFFICE NH. W. COaNKS UF FULTON AND NaSsal STS | TERWS cach om elrvnce THE DAILY -FRALP to comnts THE WEEKLY HERALD every wopy. or 8 erm the Bure 0 nelwde ge THE FAMILY HERALD, every Wotmenlay. af four cous per 1 FB poor ceeeesweon PUTO FAY CORRESPONDENCE. contning tinprortant ema. odicsted from any oF the wri; Ube Vide paid for DM FORmON CORRESPONDENTS 6B Pam LARLY KEQUK RAD TO Stak ald AnD PaonaGes tus. BOVROTICE tohen 0 anonimons communtcations, We do Rot selwrn ( eye te “ADVERTISEM NTS rencwet every day; alvertisemente tm terted om the PD vEKty eeaLD Faerie mene and in the California and Kuropean ' ditions JOM PRINTING executed with meutneas, cheapness and dee ope 8 per annum wrdaty, at iz ‘conte Pes Eidition #4 per annwmn, += Mo, 202 Velume XX. AMYSEMENTS THIs BVENING BIB 'A'B GARDEN, Broad eay—Oup Means ax Youso Beanrs. Sroadwar—Betan OTL OUSEKEBER. WaALLAOK’s THEAT TaRicn BanrieD—Yarker MEKICAN MOBKU! Brosaway Afr enn and croutag, YEATS OF MaGtC BF Wresn, vit Wizanp —Wonpsrrc: ouerostirs &o POON BUILVING, 361 ané 563 Broedway —Praiorta® Soues, Dances. £c --Panonaxas or tue Hopson Rives. ——— Wow York, Friday, Jury 23, 1658. Wares cers. wee Tee New York Heraa-Rettion ter surepe. ‘The mail steamship Fulton, Capt Wotton, will loave this port to morrow, at noos, for Southampton and Havre ‘The Furopean watle wil! clone is thie city at half-pest ten o'clock to-morrow morning. ‘The Ruropeas edition of the Hmnazp, printed tu Frenod and Engiish, will be published at ten o’ciock ip we woreing Single copies, io wranpers, six conts. Suhecriptions and advertisements for any edition of tor Nw Yous Samsip wil! be canetved at the following place ‘me Durope— R dyer:, 10 Kechange street, Kast Bavme Am Suropean &xpreen Je., 21 Rue Cornelile. Tae contents of the European edition of the feraur Wil! oobi" the cows ceceivnd by matt and telegraph a! be office turing the previons weak, and up to the bowr of padiiostins The News From Washington we learn that the eight ne ¥ sloops of , for which appropriations were made at the pel session of Cowgress, will be constructed at the following places:— One at Pensacola, one at Nor folk, one at Kittery, Maine; one at San Franci-co (side wheel. and to draw three or four feet of water), two at Philadelphia, and two at New York. Mr. Rush Elmore has been appointed Associate Justice of the Sapreme Conrt of Kansas, in place of Judge Cato, resigned. Mr. E. was removed from that position by Gen Pierce. Onr correspondent in Kingston, Jamaica, writing on 26th of June, states that the news of the passage of the resolutions of Congress, with reference to the British naval ontrages, and of the prompt despatch of additional United States vessels to the Gulf of Mexico, produced a high state of excitement amongst the people and officials in that place. When Commodore Kellett was ordered by Admiral Stewart to assume the command of the British fleet off Florida, the feeling was very intense. It was still aggravated by « report to the effect that the gunboat Styx had been captured by the Wabash Additional information was waited for so impa tiently as to demonstrate the great importance which the English colonists attach to the state of our international relations with the mother country. Govemmor Darling had made a visit to the Grand Caymans, and was again at Kingston. The soldiers of a West India (colored) regiment, at Spanish ‘Town, had made some gross attacks on the people, who retaliated and drove them off after two conflicts: ‘The reports from the mines are very good. Some refreshing rains had fallen. Advices received at New Orleans from Rio Janei- ro to Jane 9, state that the war between Buenos Ayres and the Argentine Confederation still con- tinues. The mediation of England had been refused by Buenos Ayres, and the intervention of France asked for. We have advices from Tarks Island to the 10th inst. The weather was fine and salt making very good. The stock of salton hand had increased to 30,000 boshels, and it was selling at 8c. A terrible thander storm burst upon this gity yes- terday morning, about four o'clock, which, though exceedingly violent, did no damage, so far as we have beard. There was a high wind and the rain was a perfect deluge. We do not remember ever having had so much rain for #0 brief a period in this city, The storm did not last over half an hour, but it thoronghly cleansed the streets and pn- rifled the air. The weather yesterday was sultry, but the afternoon was clear and cloudless. We have had splendid weather and a low temperatnre so far this month, and a warm term is now due. An interesting account of a curious case of al- leged embezzlement by British military store keeper, named James Sutton Elliott, his flight to this country, and the six weeks search after him, witb his final arrest by a New York detective, will be foand in another column. The accased is a man of fifty years of age, heretofore of unimpeachable cbaracter, and a man of family. He brings, asa partner of his flight, a young actress of half his years The Riviere-Blount case was reopened before Judge Ogden yesterday, at a special term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and, after a hearing, on motion of the District Attorney, bench warrants were iseved for the arrest of Messrs. Mulford, Davis and Huncke on acharge of perjury. The where- abouts of Mr. Mulford is not known, as he has not deen seen in Hoboken since last Friday. Mr 17 is confined in Bergen jail for contempt « was much astonished when informed ti. had been issued against him for perju Blount and his danghter, it is reported, are making arrangements to sail for Mobile on Saturday. Great excitement prevailed at the Marine Hos pital yesterday when it was made known that Col lector Bebell had refused to receive into the ware houses the wool, cotton and rope cuttings from vee eels lying there from infected ports. Captains of vessels detained, stevedores and lightermen who found their operations bronght to a close, were loud in their denunciations and violent in the expres sion of their indignation. A report of their doings and the condition of affairs at Quarantine are given elsewhere. The Commissioners of Health met yesterday noon. A correspondence between the captain of the brig Bestrice and Mr Collector Scbell, in which the lat- ter refused permission to store some cotton from Havana in the government warehouse at Quarantine, was laid before the Board, and discussed at some length ‘The corner stone of the Island Hospital, Black well's Island, was laid yesterday in presence of a Jarge namber of invited quests, amongst whom wore representatives from the heads of departments, Nard of Ten Governors, Emigration Commissioners, &c. After the ceremony the company were enter- tained with a splendid collation in the dining room of the board. The Commencement of the Normal echools ander the supervision of the Board of Education last evening at the Academy of Masic, which was crowded by « brilliant assemblage. Di slomas were awarded to one hondred and six lady gradoates, teachers in the various ward schools, and appro priate addresses were made by Jas. T. figady, Ksq., Jion 8. 8. Randall, and other gentlemen. The Police Commissioners yesterday, in open ses eon, passed upon a large number of charges against policemen. Devlin Suplia, of the Second precinet, was diemiseed for intoxication, and John Seaman, to any port ofthe Continent, | t 1 rr. of the Twenty first, for the same cause. ‘The charge | fxezes ae can tSt be cultivated by a amy | ore NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, againet Deputy Superintendent Folk, of strikivg a | oar wae ¥ the bend of a family, tnotud-ag | crew two to Half a Gorm fusty boys L-uce fireman who had insulted him, was dismissed, and a Propesition to reopen the case of C. BR. Jump, of “© Twenty first, was.tnid upon the tanle, Tu secret Bes sion it was understood that the Beard had under consideration the completion of the plan of dividiog the'city into three Kub-distriots— the first below Canal | street, the second between Canal and Fourteeuth | streets, and the third above that, It is understood that inspectors will be appointed, ax a sort of sab- deputies, to report as to the condition of the police and station honses in these districts, making three fat offices tor somebody. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday after- noon and granted one storekeeper's, and one inn keeper's license, for which apptica'ions were made, ‘They then adjourned til three o'clock to-day. A manifesto {fuga the Secretary of the New York Colonization Pee ince the circumstances under which it Benson and the colonists at Liberia heve Leen charged with conniving st the slave trade, will be found in our columns this morn- ng. He feels confident that Liberia will be vindi- ated from the charge, and asks fora suspensivn of public opinion. A severe storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, visited Boston und its vicinity yesterday afternoon. The lightning struck in a number of places, doing much damage to property, ana in Old Cambridge it entered a dwelling house and one of its Dmates wae instantly killed. Several other persons were injured, but none fatally. The Railrwad Convention held at Cleveland, Obio, on Wednesday last, determined to make the through passenger rates the same as by the Erie Railroad, and freights one dollar per ton less. A severe hail storm visitea Whitby, C. W., on Tuesday last, by which the crops in the vicinity were totally destroyed, houses unroefed, and a schooner dismasted. The cotton market was comparatively quiet yesterday Desiers appeared dinposed to awalt the receipt of later foreiga rows by the Curard eteamer, due at this port, be ore doirg much. The sales were coufined to a few hao red baies at urchanged prices. The feature pf the day's business was the beavy transactions in suger, which ware emong the largeetever before made ip one day in this city. They embraced sbout 5,800 to 6,000 hhds. aod ‘2,500 boxes, at rates given in another column. Ths mer- ket cloeed at ap advarce of 36. per Ib. Part of the sales were on speculation, part to the reguiar trade and part to refiners There were said to be some or- dere ob western scoount ip market, aod as far distant se St. Louis, Flour, with light receipts of desirable shipping brands of State and Western, was again firmer, with fair sales, considering the suppiles Wheat continued firm, while sales were restricted from the want of stccks. Sales of pew Southern rea and white, were made at rates givea in another place. Corn was qviet and enles light Unsound mixed Western ranged from 65c. to 75°., apd a sale of prime Soutbern white was made et O6c. Pork wna steady, with eales of mees at $17 0 $17 12, and of prime at $13 90 © $14 Coffee was steady. Tee cargo per Carilla, embracing an invoice of §,000 bags of Rio, was sold om private terms. Freights to British ports continued firm, with fair epgagements at full rates. ‘The Late Meeting of Maryiand Siavenoiders— Slavery in the Border Finve States. We published the other day the proceedings of a meeting of slaveholders recently held in Chestertown, Kent couaty, Maryland, in refe- rence to “ the better security of their slave pro- perty,” &c. The immediate cause of this meet- ing was the late notorious Bowers affair. A man of the name of James L. Bowers had been charged with, and proeecuted for, aiding a slave of a Mr. Davideon to escape. The testimony was not deemed sufficiently clear by the Court to justify a judgment agsinet the accused; but, sccording to the speech of Mr. Senator Pearce, the facts stated in this case, aod many other facts as to eubsequent escapes of slaves, brought a moral conviction to the minds of ull who knew them, that this man Bowers had been actively engaged in eeducing or aiding slaves in the county to escape trom their ewployers. Accordingly, a party of the indignant citizens bad waited upon Bowers at his house, and bay- ing called him out, bud tarred and feathered bim, (notwithstanding the most desperate en- deavore of bis wife to prevent it,) and bad given him the usual waroing in such cases to quit the county, The affair created a great local ex citement pro und con. Thie Chestertown meet ing was the reeult on the pro-slavery side, and its proceedings were concluded with a series of resolutions substantially justifying the lynch- ing ot Bowers, and threatening a summary pun- isbment in the future to all such offeaders and their active eympathizers and abettors. The most remarkable fact, however, deve Joped at this meeting, was the statement of the Hon Jomes B. Ricaud, that “two of his per- sonal friends some time since lost each a slave, and shortly afterwards he was told by a most respectable gentleman in Pennsylvania that, secing two negroes in bie neighborhood, appa- rently new comers, he had inquired of them who they were. They informed him they bad arrived the day before; that they had runaway from their master in Kent county, Maryland, whom they named, and from the time they left home until they reached Pennsylvacia they had been furnished at every five miles on the way with a place of refreshment and refuge.” In other words, in a journey of forty or fifty miles through the slaveholding population of two of the counties of Maryland, there two runaway tlaves had found a station of the underground railroad at every fifth mile—a revelation which is, indeed, of a very significant character in tion with these underground railroad von ibe precarious tenure of elave property in Maryland is thus very strikingly disclosed; and the above statement of Mr. Ricaud is strongly fupported by the high rewards of from two to three hundred dollars which the Maryland planters frequently offer for the recovery of a single runaway slave, and by the long con. tinuance of such advertisements in their local newspapers, The question, then, of the per- petuity of slavery in Maryland and all the bor. der slave States thrusts itself before us, and we are compelled to look into it, from the com- manding importance ef the general subject to the whole country. There sre eeveral things which are operating to the extinguishment of slavery in the border tlave States, and among these we may enume- rate:— 1. Climate, sofl and productions. 2. The preseure of the free white labor of the North. 3. The underground railroad lines. 4. A local anti-slavery sentiment. ‘The border slave States are Delaware, Mary- land, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri. Dela- ware isin an active transition state, and is | generally regarded as little better than a yok place | merely nominal slave State. A considerable portion of Maryland extends along the Penn- Sylvania line, and is an elevated and moun- tainous country, better adapted for free white than for slave }sbor, aod admirably adapted for runavey negrowe. The western half of the great State of Virginia ie a mags of mountain ranges, with narrow valleys between, afford- ing ® very limited area for large slave holding plantation, but besatifally cut up into emall arable districte, suitable for such | | { there are Compariilyely few tlares in Weetera Virginia, and throughout the State tee com perative irerease ef the free white population betwcen the two last census drendes bas been rowewhat remarkable, as will be econ by the follow: g atatistics of the cereus of Virgiata atlon of 1850, as compared with that of Sows. AT2,5 8 449087 Loremse .., - ane sdBE 24a — Whiek shows au increase of twenty pec ceat {the white population against an increase of about five per cent of the slave population True, we must take into tis estimate the 20,000 davis that eve annually shipped of from Vir- ginia to the cotton States of the extreme Soath., Bat still the resuls is the positive gain of the white population; and this gain, from the opeuing of the Westera section of the State by railroads, &e,, will be still more remarkable in 1860 than in 1850. Next, let us took at Kentucky, from the figures of the censns: TREO... 210 O81 1640,. TrereMee. ee cses ess cesseeser APEI6O “are —From which it appears that Kentucky holds ber position much better as 3 slave State than Virginia: but then she has fewer wornout ea tates, aud her oatural increase of slaves has been pretty much retained at home. The long Obio river boundary of expoeare of Kentucky, however, to the free States of Ohio, Indiana and Ilinoie renders her peculiarly liable to josees by the underground railroad, and these losses are constantly operating to diminish the value and security of her slave property, while the increase of her white population is rapidly encroaching upon the value of her slave labor. Miscouri comes next in order. Here the re- lative increase of the white aud the slave popu- lation is very etriking:— Slaves. 87,422 29,182 Here we have a white increase of nearly seventy-five per cent against # slave increase of fifty per cent; but the peculiar advantages of the free white labor movement in Missouri are these: her comparatively bigh northern situa. tion and free State surroundings, the pressure of a Northern free white emigration and the marked ascendancy of ber free white over her slave population, which stands in the ratio of seven to one. In Kentucky the whites are less than four to one slave; in Virginia they are Jess than two to one, In Maryland the whites to the slaves stand in the ratio of near- ly five to one; and there, while the increase of the whites between 1840 and 1850 was from 318,000 to 417,000, or about thirty- three per cent, the slave population remained nearly at a stand etill, the total number being 89,737 in 1840. and only 90,368 in 1850—an in- crease of 631 in ten yeare, which is considera- bly less than one per cent. In Delaware, in 1840, the slaves numbered 2,605; in 1850, 2,290—a decrease of over 300, and a decrease from 1830 of one-third of the whole number. From these figures it will be seen that slavery is nearly extinct in Delaware; that it has ar- rived at the turning point in Maryland; that the white population is crowding upon it in Virginia io the ratio of twenty percent increase agalnst five per cent; that it is losing ground in Kentucky, and that in Missouri it is on the high road to emancipation. Possibly within the next fifteen years all these will be free States, And whst then? Disunton? No. A very large proportion of the slaves of these bor- der S ates will be thrown into the cotton States, and from the natural prejudice against free nig- gers in these border tlave States, when they tball have slongbed off the institution, they will *tillafford a barrier for the protection of the cotton States, In the meentime it becomes a para- mount duty of the free States, and cspe- cially the border free States, to carry out faith- fully the provisions of the constitution as em- bodied in the Fugitive Slave law, and to dis- countenance these underground railroads and all their agents. The only security henceforth to the Union is a rigid adhevion to the constitu- tion. The South bas now only the justice of the North to depend upon: for the South has Jost her balance of power, and from the laws of climate, soil, productions and popalation, she most eventually lose her present northern tier of slave Siates. In view of all these facts and probsbilities, our conservative readers will per- ceive the vital necessity of « controlling Union rentiment la 1960 apainst all sectional agitators of “ slavery,” the “ slave power,” gnd “ the ag gressions of the slave oligarchy.” Otherwise the next Presidential election may bring npon us all the evils of the most mischievous disunion agitation. Ay Urniout Juncr—We had occasion re- cently to animadvert rather severely upon the singular manner in which our friends on the other side of the Hudson dispensed the law of the land. We are, therefore, the more happy to bear testimony to the very proper course purened by Mr. Justice Ogden in the matter of Jolin Hancke, who was adjudged guilty of con- tempt in making « falee return to the writ of habeas corpus in the case of Miss Blount, and sentenced to be imprisoned twenty days and fined two handred dollars, There is cer- tainly one court in New Jersey where the law is administered withoot fear or favor; and we recommend some of our Judges to imitate the conduct of Judge Ogden, and maintain the pn rity end dignity of the ermine as he has done. It bas been too much the fashion of late to treat the bighest writ known to the law with no more reepect than if it were so much blank paper; and counsel will do well to bear the fact in mind that all Jodges cannot be anubbed or bullied with impunity. The farther remark of Judge Ogden, that “people must learn that they are bound to know ard understand the contents of affidavits before they swear to them,” will anewer as well for this latitude as for New Jersey. Grverat Cavenon Loovtne Ur.—The Boston Traveller expresses the following opinion of Gen, Simon Cameron a8 ® proper maa for the com- bines cpposition candidate in 1460: The New York Henan copies our article fn favor of | Fremont's pominetion for the Presidency crediting Mr Onmoren’s portion and taleuta, But becuase \y — be the battle ground in '60, a was in" The article in question we first noticed in the Chicaco Demorrat without credit, and supposing it to be original with that paper, we gaye it the JULY 23, 1858. Cit sceoreingly. Wire refery_vow w Geseral re aniyS Leet Heoented by the Tranter, iat OY veral 40’ Pontay ivants exchangy; and at ree ot whieh by has etered we shoals not be Curried of, #ithio © few mouths, Simow Dame- roe Were to ekind shea’ of Critteaden Seward, Meoke oder Fremont blasetf, for the ewe crest, Tek OG bewxpager cotemporaries of oli certione aod partion bring Oat thelr men, 60 ‘bat we mey know how the tod Hee, North, Sonth, Past snd Wert Commercial, Frupostenmo om Crvrnat Aste.— Cartyle's famous raping “Commerce * King,” bas for years beld powession of the uinds of men, but Bistory i» proving that it » faltacionn, The true reading is now foand to be, commerce is the great Mlibuster. Ever since a few Brition m-robante met tn a little back parlor in Loodon and founded a company to trade into the Kast ladies oo « porely commercial bottom fects bare been ac cumulating to prove the truth of our correction of Cartyle, The British wercbant fil) muster. bave founded ia India au empire test promnie~ to be more durable than the State that nave eprung from the enterpriaes of the Spaaab con quistadores of the came+re Acting apon thi theory, Sir Rajah Brooke is now engaged tu Borneo ia a vimilar operation Doctor Livieg- stone, too, after having been fifteen years a tir tiovary in Africa, hes abandoaed that profes sion ae fruitless aud returned to the Zam>osi as trader and civilizer. And Austria hus been for years filibustering commercially oa the Dapube. Bat the most wonderful commercial filibus tering of the present age is undoabdtedly the system which bas been adopted, aud is being carried out, by Russia in Eastern and Contrat Asia. Our readers are already familiar with her enterprises on the Amoor river and the northern confines of China We now lears that ebe is pushing forward her froatiers io every direction tn Central Asia, and that by « recent ukase of the Emperor a commercial com- pany bas been formed, the true onjecte of which are to open new courses for trade, and to establish her political dominion throughout Turkistan as far asthe northern slop: of the Himalayas and the westera bouudaries of the Chinese empire. Moos. Kokorew, a weulthy merchant of Moecow, has been authorized to form a TransCaspian Commercial Company, with a capital of $15 000,000, for the parposw of navigating by eteam the large rivers which flow westward into the Sea of Aral. The ecene of these operations includes the large cities of Bokara and Kokam, the central homes of the great caravans carrying oa the internal traffic of Asia. The most remarkable fea- ture of the company is the authority granted to it to establish factories and commercial colonies wherever it may deem proper. These colonies will be protected by existing treaties with the rulers of the pastoral tribes now inhabiting the country, and will soon rise to the position of military stations. By this system of commercial filibas- tering one of the greatest hives of men in Asia, and which sent forth its swarms under Genghis Khan, will be brought into subjection and intimate connection with civilization. In pursuing this gigantic policy of commer- cial filibustering over Asia, Russia is laying the foundations ef a material developement which will render her the most formidable Power in the world. A commerce with hundreds of mil- lions of men, in which she can have no rival, and which no enemy can approach, will yield her a revenue that can never be affected by the evils of war or the intrigues of diplomacy. A conscription of one man to the thousand of the population will swell her armies far beyond those of Western Europe; and whenever she ball have completed her web of iron roads, now in process of construction, which shall give her ‘mobility for her forces and their supplies, she will be in a position to give the law toa large portion of Central Europe. ‘Tnx Scsquenanna—YELLow Fever on Boarp. —More than a month since the Henan called the attention of the public to the delay which had attended the purification of this vessel, to the negligence shown in commencing the work before the warm weather ret in, and the possi- ble consequences of this neglect. Straightway there wae a correspondence published between the Health Officer and the Mayor to put the Heratp in the wrong, and to lull the public into a feeling of security. Now what are the facts? The boasted measures of the Health Officer, and the assurance that the veseel was perfectly cleansed, and no danger was to be ap- prebended from clearing ber out or landing her stores, prove to be official humbags, and a fair specimen of the manner in which the pablic is im; osed upon by those entrusted with the su- pervision of their most vital interests. What is the fact? Cases of fever are occurring daily on board, and those on board-said to be forty in number—aere very much alarmed, and wish to get away from her. Five persons have been taken down with fever since Monday, and it is publicly stated that “all past efforts to free her from infection have signally failed.’ One of the suggestions of the Hernan, made at the time, were that ebe should be sent north among the ice for a few weeks, which would have done the business; and she would bave found plenty of it but « short distance north of Cape Race. Tue Harriet Lane Curren axp Tae Navy.— It is announced from Washington that the fteam revenue cutter Harriet Lane is to be loaned to the Navy Department, and will form a part of the expedition to Paraguay. This proceeding is a practical compliment to the efforts of individual citizens to improve our navy. The Navy Department itself has never sveceeded in obtaining the construction of small and light draft steamers, After some years of exertion, the merchants aad under writers of New York succeeded in getting through Congress a bill aathorizing the con- struction by the Treasury Department of a steam revenue cutter, for the purpose of ren- dering assistance to ships approaching our const in the winter season, She was not com pleted in time to be of much service last winter, but great hopes are entertained of her useful nesa in the fature. We have no doubt she will prove the most efficient and serviceable craft the government can send on the Paraguay ex- pedition; but we trust that the navy will get through with her in time to enable her to re- turn to her station before the storms of winter commence. Perbaps the bureaus of the navy will learn, from the good service of tho Harriet Lane, the folly of building large frigates for commodores who are only fit to cruise on such holiday stations as the Mediterranean. We want in onr navy more small veagels and younger men to command them, Sl Steam Navigation 10 Evxors —The speeches | bridge that will nut apport a materately heavy cron, We perectve that oar tn bea wot | at the jubilee on board the Gaiwny steamship Kudivn Empire on Weduesdtay, give us some Hight into the procpecta of the cew line, Tae ema! Proprietor of the ships, Mr. Lever. has evidetitly por into the affair vith all bis might, ard bar plenty of (et faith which St, Pant telly we il move WOvAtaine Bis next sbip, « Cip_e bait eteemer ectid the American En- pire, is expected to weke thé Qickest cneterm perrage ever yet achieved acrom Se Attantio ‘rey. If this live is liberally and prop. “7 Co0- ducted, we eee mo reason why it should not Se come popolar with ail classes of pansengers, Ocean stenm navigation is yet in its infancy. Rut little more than twenty years sgo the pic- reeradip- tbe Siriure—bove in mybt off the Bat tery ; avd now we are ia almost dally commu- stoation, by steam, witb the principal Earopean porta A glance at the following table will show the progress that bas been made since 1838, te pumber of lives now in oxistence, ex- chusive of the Quedeo line of three steamers, Covridering that we are constantly told th: ocean steam navigation does not pay, people seem to have @ wonderfully seifeacrificiog #pirit in going inte it. Not less than ten mil- lions of dollars are invested in steamsbips ply ing between thie port and Europe, and the chief part of that eum bas been subrcribed by foreign enterprise. The American ships make a small #bow in the list, and almost the only comfort we bave is found in the fact that they are very good. Every ove will rejoice when Mr. Collins again commences operations with the queenly Adri- atic, the swift Baltic, and the stout Atlantic. The parsimony of Congrem diepinyed towards this line is the chief cause for the paucity of Ameri- can sbips in the above statement. If our capi- talists do pot wake up, the carrying trade be- tween New York and Earope will be monopo- lized by foreign lines. We will give them this crumb of encouragement—-tbe number of pas- sengers from New York to Europe has increased in two years from thirty thousand to sixty thou- sand per anpum. Pourics axp Sectanuxiem wore Pic Scuoois.—There is evidently eomething rotten in our school system. Every day or two some- thing comes to the surfece to show that the eda- cation of the youth of this city is not in proper bapda Only a sbort time ago the most scanda- lous stories were afloat in reference to two mem- bers of the Board of Education, and now we see that their meetings are occupied chiefly with political wrangles. Every little grogshep poli- tician shoulders bimeelf into the Board, and when there knows about as much conceraing his duties as a Hottentot does of the Sanscrit. But a short time ago there wes « disgraceful quarrel on the Bible question; aod now that gigantic humbug, the Free Academy, has given rise to a dixcussion still more absurd. It seems that two of the adolescent philosophers who were “ finished” at the last term, took occasion in their cbarming orations, to allude to the politi- cal topics of the day, and were particularly se- vere upon our Southern brethrea who hold the children of Africa in bonds, This was all very charming to the bread and butter young ladies who simpered at the young bachelors from the boxes of the Academy of Music, but is cousider- ed to bave been rather inappropriate to the oo- casion. If these sucking Ciceros were incapable of handling euch delicate topice, which puzzle even ® veteran staterman, they should not be al- lowed to touch them; and the fact that they were permitted to do so argues that the Pro feesors who bave bad the young men in band are afflicted with more than Boetian stupidity. The Board of Education took the matter up, apd eeveral Commissioners aired their oratory in a debate, which, as nual, came to nothing. The fact ts, that with all these quarrels and wrangles and nonsense of all kinds, it is quite clear that our ecbool xystem bas been perverted from its primitive simplicity, and unless some thorough reforms are instituted we shall soon find it a curse instead of a blessing. Let the Free Academy «mens construe their classics and lave politics alone, remembering the good old maxim, ne midor ultra erepidem. The only political text book for our schools is the “Con. stitution of the United States” That the in- fanta can understand; but when they attempt to treat upon Kansas and niggers they are alto- gether out of their depth. Kaysas ann Missoun: Lean Orr.—The elec- tion in Kansas on the Lecompton conetitation comes off on the first Monday in August, the same day on which the Missouri State election takes place. Of the five Commissioners desig nated hy the act of Congress to appoint and superintend the Kansas election, three are ad ministration execntive officers, aod two Kaos free soilers—the presiding officers of the two branches of the Territorial Legisletare. On the motion of one of these legislative officials to fix the Kansas election on the firet Mooday te Angust, it was adopted, the object being to take advantage of the day when the Misouriane would be too busy with their own election to have any time to «pare to arsist in that of Kan- sas, The appointment of the day indicated, therefore, is a satisfactory proof of the desire of the administration to have a perfectly fair and free election in Kansas, In addition to this there can be no longer any complaint in the Territory concerning the army, for the army bas been removed; and from the general good order which has followed the adoption of the Englieh bill, we may conclude that border ruf- fianiem has been played out, and that Kansas will bleed no more. Such are the results of a just, firm and decisive odministration. Avornen Raiway Mvxoen—The telegraph informs us that on Wednerday a coal train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad went through the bridge at Alientown, Pa, and that two men were killed. One account says that the break- ing of the bridge was caused by thecarsrunaing off the track. At the same time we arc told that the bridge contained two spans supported by pier, and that the span broke, preelpitating the cars into the river. Now, it seems to us that if the train ran off the track while on the bridge the span would have held, had it been securely and properly built. The fact ie that railway bridges are too often very poor affairs, as the late slaughter on the Central fully proved. In the case of the Lehigh Valley road we have a coal train, and the romé, therefor:*sis inefficient for the conveyance of ite Apecint frvlght. We rave had quite enough of tive marde, "4 Of late, snd they ore as directly chargesdte upon’? 4d ministration of the raitconds ne if ey bag t PYF rovslly tuben off their victims with ehot, @ cr poison, All the roads need a thorong, ‘ overbauling. With ove of two exveptions thers ix hardly a cafe rood ia the couniry—that is, & road where the ordivary precautions are taken to secure safety of life aud limb Tus Granp Contiventat Tour oF AMBRICA.— We present to our readers to-day the outline of a tout from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which may well be designated the grand Continental teur of America, and which will, doubtless, « few years hence, be made by many » party of pleasure seekers. Nowhere else, in countries taversed by civilized man, are euch wouders of nature preeepted with eo lavish a band. From the rapid rolling Missouri to the placid waves of the Pacific, by the ronte we have outlined, every variety of scenery that can charm sand ewe the beholder, from the park-like prairies of Kansas to the pyramidal peaks of the Sierra Ne- vada, rising cevent-en thoarand fect above the level of the sea, is presented. In comparison with these stupendous works of the Great Arobitect of the. Universe, what are all the objects of ad- miration that He along the beates tracks ef tourists? Absolately tame, common place and insignificent. The sights that enter into the programme of European tour—the Giant's Canseway, the lakes of Killarney, the Highlands of Scotland, tbe Cumberland Jakes, the Tyrol, Mont Blane, the Lake of Geneva, Vesuvius, aud all the reat of them, are grand in themselves, no doubt, bub can bear no comparison with the sights on this continent, which we have roughly jotted down, And so it is with the great eights nearer home. Niagara, the Cutskill mountains; the White mountains with the Dome of Mount Washington glistening bigh over all, lakes George and Champlain; the St. Lawrence, with ite rapide and Thourand I+iand+; the Mam- moth Cave of Kentucky; the Natural Bridge of Virginia; Saratoga and its mineral springs—all find their counterperts on a much more magnif- cent scale in regions almost fresh from the band of nature, and whose solitudes have been invaded by few civilized men, save trappers and scouts and government explorers. There, indeed, is a virgin field for tourista apd naturalists and sportsmen, and all who worship nature in its grandest developementa, and to whom perils past constitute one of the greatest charms of travel. The Plains abound ia buffaloes and anteloper, and all sorts of feathered geome. The Utah expedition and the Indian bortilities bave led to the scattering over the whole route thousands of troops, by whom these roads will be opened up, new passes through the mountains discovered, and much of the pre-exieting perils and difficulties of joar- ney over the continent removed. Recent events, too, are conspiring to urge on our government the necersity of an immediate construction of the Pacific Railroad. Th: n, if not before, will Awerican tourists, instead of following the beaten tracks of their grandfatbere in search of the picturesque, either to Switzerland or the New Hampshire mountains, cross the coatineat, and balt only where toe blue waters beat against the lonely shores of the mighty Pacific. Tue Attaytic TeLeorarn—Hore ror tas Bust —We trust thet the official account of Mr. Fuld of the last attempt to lay the cable met with the attention it merited. There is one that Joly i by far the most Le VOramis Mente for laying the Cadse between Ireland and Newtoorclacd Now, if the Agamemnon reached Queens ‘own in fair time—say by the tenth of this mouth the ebips could be ready for anotner trial by the 25th, ro that they could have the early part of Anguet, whieh i# better than June, for another attempt At any rate, it is proven that Jone le the worst of the three scammer months, and it is fair to infer thet bed the work been postponed three or four weeks the rerult would tave been more suspicion, We don't give it op yet, by ary means When we learn thet “for one hour acd forty-three mi- vuter the Niagera was anchored by the cable ie water over 1,000 fathoms deep, ond the wiad blowing all the time quite frech,” we beliewe that all things are posite, aud that the sbipe ouly want a little fair weather fortene to make the occ an telegraph a perfect euccesm Tur Coevaren Were ave te Poscwons Misacems. The covfemion of Boohy Brooks and others thet they supported Filimore ta 1856 pot witb any purpose or hope of electing bim, but simply to defest Fremont. is an offence which the Chevalier Webb can ceither forget bor forgive. He says, “the devi, (1 t+ presumed, derives po Lepefit trom leading maukiod inte sip, ond yet such is the great olject of his ex ietepee, because be glories in the evil be eo complishen, And the mon we refer to teke were pot benefitted by Buchanan's election ot Fremont » defeat; and yet they cheated the peo pie into the support of Fillmore.” Well, we Dever have seen the case presented In so strong & light before, and with euch opinions of the Fillmore masag re we do not onder thet the Chevalier Webb should become per.ectly rarage when they propose to come in aud dance among the republicans over the bend of Thurlow Weed “in a charger.” We are really afraid thet the Iwdevilled managers of the rump of the Fillmore faction will have to fall back ap o Tammany Hell, leaving their dark lantern outside the door. They must do this, or coment to play se- cond fiddle to Tharlow Weed, or join the «Tem perance and Freedom” movement in behalf of Gerrit Smith, or relight their dark laotern and try Jt again. Expectations ro Percwase Crna. — The quid- nance of Washington bave discovered, from aa unquestionable source. that the government ia now in a fair way to acquire the island of Cuba. We are not informed what now pasage has ‘been discovered through the Asetic regions of Spanish diplomacy to this desirable object. Whether Lord Derby has repented him of Fag- land's Louis Napoleon adopted the policy of his uncle, Marshal O'Donnell, the new Minister in Spain, obtained new views, or Whether the most unrvesoaing goverament ia