The New York Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1858, Page 4

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BARPUMS AMERICAN Broad way—After Moon and Bveuing, Magic Vewrnivoatis any CusiosTies WOOD'S BUILDING, 561 and 645 Broadway—Frarorian Bowes, Daxews, 46 —Panonawa or Tax HuDson Rives, MOH A NIOB’ HALL. 472 Broadwar—Bevanrs’ MInsTRELs —NwoRo MELOPIS AND BURLESQUES— VIRGINIA FRBEIVAL, — METROPOLITAN GARDSN, Thirtieth etreet and Second eeenersunue Gewnseae asp AcRODATIC ENTERTALAMENT, Sew York, sancay, July 25, 1856, The News. By the arrival of the screw steamship Indian at Quebec yesterday, we have four days later news from. Europe. The pews relative to the telegraphic flect is important. The Agamemnon and Valorous ar rived at Queenstown on the 12th inst., and reported that the final break in the Atlantic Telegraph cable was just below the stern of the Agamemnon, after that vessel had payed out one hundred and forty-six miles. The A. returned to the rendezvous in mid- ocean, and cruised there for five days in hope of meeting the Niagara. On her arrival at Queens. town it was determined to coal and make another attempt to lay the cable. The vessels were to have left Queenstown on the 17th inst. In an important debate in Parliament on the slave trade, it was stated that the difficulties with the United States had been swept away, and that @eneral Cass had given assurances that any propo- sals suggested for the verification of the nationality of vessels would receive earnest consideration. A terrible massacre of Christians by the Mahome- dana, at Jeddah, when twenty-three persons were killed, among them the French and English Consuls. ‘The grand naval review at Cherbourg will take place on the 4th of August. The Liverpool cotton market was slightly easier; breadsfaffs were quiet, but prices without change, and the provision market dull. Consols 95} for money, and 96} a 93 for account. The steamship Glasgow, from Glasgowon 10th inst., arrived at this port yesterday morning. Her advices had been anticipated by the America, from Liverpool. A Court of Inquiry was opened on Wed- nesday, the 7th inst., at Cambelton, as to the causes which led to the shipwreck of the steamship New ‘York; and the Glasgow Mail of the 10th inst. re- ceived a despatch when going to press, to the effect that ber commander, Captain M’Millan, had been honorably acquitted, and his certificates restored. By the way of New Orleans we have dates from the Rio Grande, Mexico, to the 21stinst. Itis stated that San Louis Potosi had been captured by the con- etitutionalists under General Vidaurrri, and it was rumored that Zuloaga bad abandoned the City of Mexico. The liberals were about to unite against the city. A number of interesting extracts from the Deseret News, giving the sentiments of the Saints in the Mormon country, their feelings on the war question, and their opinion of outsiders, will be found in our columns this morning. Canal Commissioner Ruggles was sworn into office at Albany yesterday, and will enter on the discharge of his duties tomorrow. Mrs. Blount on Saturday morning, by the advice of her friends, took a carriage and proceeded to Maillard’s, in Broadway, where she was joined by her husband and daughter, and at noon sailed in the steamer for New Orleans. The reason why Mrs. Blount refused to leave the Napoleon Hotel before and join Colonel Blount, was on account of the bill she bad run up there, and which Col. B. refused to psy. Had she been able to have settled this bill, she stated she would have returned home a week ago, She informed Mr. Huncke that de Riviere’s bill will be paid, and that he may expect the moncy ust so soon as she can reach Mobile and get her own property under her immediate control. In the Special Sessions yesterday Peter Dawson, keeper of a notorious house of prostitution in Cherry #treet, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment in the penitentiary and ordered to pay a fine of fifty dollars. ‘The case of Cancemi was again up before the Supreme Court yesterday, on a motion to amend the record. The motion was argued at some leagth by counsel on both sides, and the decision of Judge Sutherland in the matter was reserved. From the report of the City Inapector we learn that there were 607 deaths in this city during the past week, being an increase of 54 over those of the previous week, and a decrease of 136 compared with the corre ding week of last year, Of the entire namber were under ten years of age, cholera infantum alone sweeping off 139 victims. The fol. * Jowing table shows the number of deaths daring the part two weeks among adults and children:— Men, Women. Boys. Girls, Total. ‘Week ending July 1 ot aes 192 663 Keck ouding Juiy St TSB GOT Among the principal causes of death were the fol- lowing agate July 26 Dreraet. a . eo . 9 of “ at 138 uo 2 = ey D om the bead » Tri amestion of the ° 6 ‘Tifem mation 0’ the lungs. ° bb l i pd 38 Ly 6 7 ‘4 7 There were also 4 deaths of apoplexy, 9 of conges- tion of the brain, 6 of congestion of tie lungs, 3 of typhus fever, 4 of heart disease, 8 of inflammation of thestomach, 10 of teething, 5 of smallpox, 6 of eprue, and dof old age. There were 11 premature birte aud 25 stiliborn cases ; 19 deaths from violent causes, and 40 interments from the public instita- tions of the city The following is a classification of the diseases, and the number of deaths in each class of disease, coring the week Diseases July 17. Tully 2, Rore#, joints, Ae 1 reim end verves 107 168 Generative organs (7 6 Heart end blow v 7 8 Lusge, throat, &e... 190 105 O1d O80 ...6 00 5 2 4 kin, ke, and eruptive fevers 2 2 Sbllbora and premarure births 0 oe Hiomach, bowels and other digest rary a Leorrtain coat and geooral fevers .a ‘ai | iu 6 —i! | PPPETTITTT TTT bb or | The number of deaths, compared with the corres ponding weeks in 1856 and 1857, was as follows:— July 26, 1866., . seeees OI Work foame July 28, 1807, Week ending July 17, 1868 Woek ending July 24, 1868.. . The nativity table reports 505 natives of the United States, 61 of Ireland, 26 of Germany, 8 of Pagiand 2 of France, lof British America, 1 of Itmly, and 5 unknown. ‘The one bund:cd and filty seventh anniversary of | the settlement of Detroit was celebrated yesterday | pi that place with great spirit, All the military, fire companies and civic societies were out, and ora tions in French and English were delivered at the Firemen's Hall, A report of the proceedings at a meeting of the Castieton Board of Health, with the report of the Health Officer and his strictures upon Mayor Tie mann and the Heslth Commissioners of New York, together with a statement of the condition of atfains at Quarantine, will be found under the appropriate heading in our paper to-day. A meeting of the Scott Life Guard was heid on Fri- day evening last fo. the purpose of making arrange- ments for showing proper respect to the memory of the late Gen. John A. Quitman. Gea, Wheat spoke in eloquent terma of the deceased, and paid glowing tribute to bis public and private virtues. The remarks of Gen. W. were listened to with much interest by the Guard and a number of citizens pre- sent, who expressed a desire to unite with them in some demonstration of respect to the memory of Gen. Quitman. ‘The cotton market was quiet yesterday; the saics were confine to about 300 400 bales at unchacged prices ‘The flour market was firm, but the supplies of desiravie ebipping lots and freah ground parceis ef State and West ern were scarce. The sales were moderate, without change of moment tn quotations; Southern brands werein moderate supply, and prices firmer for some grades. Prime wheat was measurably exhausted, sod the supply of all kinds was moderate; sales more light, at prices given in another colame. Very little was done in [adian corn; the sales were confined to small lots of Western mixed unsound, which were sold on private terms, with @ little unsound round yellow at 930. Pork was firm, with @ moderate business doivg at $17 12}4 for mess, and at $14 for prime. Sugars were firm, with fair sales at fall Prices. Oocffee was steady, with small sales of Rio and of St. Domingo, with small lot of Maracaibo at sustaining Prices, especially for St. Domingo, which was firmer, Freights were firm, while engagements were moderate. The Position of Spain and Eogiand in Rele- tien te the Slave Trade—How te Stop the ‘Traffic. The journals of Madrid are filled with taunts against England because of Lord Malmesbury’s recent threat in relation to the slave trade. The articles are characterized with the usual amount of Spanish bravado, mixed with no little truth; but the position taken by some of the official journals, “that not a single fact can be proved which shall show that Spain is careless or luke- warm in the fulfilment of her existing treaties,” though true in the abstract is deceptive in its character. Great difficulty would no doubt be found to prove tangibly the connivance of the Spanish government with the slave traders. The world, however, does not require such tangible proof. The fact is patent and requires no proof. Spain agreed to abolish the slave trade with her colonies in 1820; yet not a single year has passed since that time in which it has not been carried on in Cuba, and for the last twenty-five years under a fixed tariff, with the sole exeep- tion of the short period of General Valdez’s ad- ministration. This tariff was first established by General Tacon in 1833~"4, who fixed the rate at $8 50 for each slave imported, and the tax was rigo- rously collected by an agent appointed for the purpose. When the Marquis of Anglona, an impoverished nobleman, became Captain Gene- ral he advanced the rate to $17 ahead. Gene- ral O'Donnell, the present Prime Minister of Spain, being still more bent on making a fortune than his predecessors, increased the tax to $51 4 head, and its collection was sharply looked after by his economical better half. A subsequent Captain General advanced the rate to $85 a head, but this was found to exercise a repressive infinence on the trade, and it was reduced by General Canedo to the former rate of $51. At this it stil] continues, if we may believe popular report in Havana. These are matters of public notoriety in Cuba, but no man who hus ever paid the rates would, probably, be induced to testify to the facts. Of Spain’s vaunted inability to stop this in- famous trade in Cuba we have abundant doubts. General Valdez stopped it during the short "period of his official term ; and the efforts of General Concha in the eame direction during his first administration there produced an open conflict with the slave traders. He arrested Senor Zulueta, one of the most prominent of them, and banished him to Spain: Zulueta pro- ceeded to the Court at Madrid, and not long after returned to Cuba in triumph. Since then General Concha has not been so active in seizing slave traders end their Mlicit merchandise. The Spanish government in Cuba is one of the most abeolnte in the world, and its behests are easily carriedout there. It finds no difficulty in dis arming the white population, in collecting the most onerous taxes, in executing the most arbi- trary decrees of its venal courts, and in carry- ing out a most perfect system of espionage through all the island. Bat no exercise of power even is needed to stop the slave trade. Let the government liberate with the forms of law but one unlawfully imported negro, and declare that from this day all eo imported are entitled to their freedom, and it will coon see the ceesa- tion of the African slave trade. Itis the cer- tainty of protection in the right of property thus illegally acquired that makes the market, and the market makes the traders. Let Lord Malmesbury give up all useless threats and dan- gerous claims in relation to the negroes already imported into Cuba, eo that his course may not alarm existing rights, and demand of Spain a simple declaration of the freedom of every African imported into Cuba from the date of the deeree. This will stop the slave trade, the right of search question, and the numerous points of dispute which England's unwise phi- lanthropy has entailed upon her with the rest of the world. Kaysas—Trre Last Snort or Jack Catuovx.— It appears that the labors of the immortal Jack Calhoun, in behalf of “popular sove- reignty” in Kansas, were brought to an end the other day in his issue of certificates to all the Legislative members for the State of Kan- aa elected under the Lecompton constitution; and it farther appears that, according to these certificates, the free State party will not only have a majority in both branches of the State Legislature under the Lecompton programme, but that “the returns for State officers will be made to the Legislature, in whose hands the whole subject resets.” Accordingly, should the Lecompton constitution be adopted, the whole power of the State Legislature and Executive will be in the hands of the free State party, and they may proceed at once to get up a new conetitution, which is as mach as they can do | should they reject Lecompton. In any event, the slavery struggle is ended in Kauras, and she must be a free State. In this view, as a fraction of the federal ratio for one member of the popular branch, Congress has voted suffi- cient for admission under Lecompton, the best plan will be to allow that fraction as sufficient for admision ander a new constitution, should Lecompton be rejected and a new one adopted and submitted to Congress. The elec- tion on the Lecompton question comes off on the first Monday in Anguet, so that the last act of the Kaneas drama quietly draws to a gloss. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1858. ‘Tne Hembug of Tripartite Arrangements— ‘Tue Retative Position of the United states and Eaope. The London Herald, which rejoices ia being the organ of Lord Derby, now Prime Minister of Engiand, takes the ground that an exclusive- ly American influence in Central America is a thing uotto be admitted, and advises Mc. Bu- cheaan to “drop the exclusive claims of the United States and enter frankly and cordially with the other great maritime Powers into aa effort to settle, once for all, this Central Ameri: can imbrogiio.” ‘We suppose that the British organ, in making this diplomatic proposition, ia prepared to sus- tain it with all its consequences, and coacede to us the same things that it asks us te concede to the great maritime Powers. In this view we like the preposition hugely. Let the three great maritime Powers—which we suppose mean the United Stutes, Eagland and France—enter upon an arrangement for eettling om the same basis all questions of mational progress. Let all claims to exclasive influence beabandoned. The firet proposition that we chould probably have to settle would be our share of the Hindostan empire. ‘Then the isiands of the Australasian archipelago might be divided out, proraia. A third interest in the Australian continent would accrue tous. Next would come. our share of the Cape of Good Hope plunder; a third part of the China difficulty; a large interest in the new gold region of Frazer river; several bastions in the fortifications of Gibraltar; a portion of the Morquito Protectorate and the Bay Islands, and # foothold upon the thousand and one strategi- cal points which Kogiand has secured upon the face of the earth. From France we .could accept a third of Algeria; thirty-three per cent in the Suez canal; three or four of the Society Islands, and a pretty strip of French Guians. This is what the propo- sition of the Mrs. Harris, of the London Jerald, amounts to; but we suppose that she will not recognise her own doctrine when she sees it. The European advocates of tripartite divi- sions of the world have yet to learn that the progress of the United States asa nation springs from very different causes than those which create the growth of monarchical em- pires. While Europe is pursuing her conquests by the sword, imitating the old Roman policy of building up an empire by force, the advance of the United States arises entirely from the in- crease of individual power within them, and their empire is bared upon the free volition of man. An untrammelled developement of the material resources of the soil and the largest freedom of individual enterprise is the whole secret of our growth. We do not conquer na- tions, though we may absorb and amalgamate them in our system. This is the secret of our moral conquests, not only on this continent, but even in the Old World. While the public men of Earope are contem- plating the possibility of inducing us to accept a partial influence with them in territories con- tigaous to our own, the inevitable destiny of which is to come into our system, it would be well for them to turn their eyes homeward, and look a little more closely into the victories which we are achieving in Europe. The spec- tacle presented at the present moment in the relative position of the three western Powers of that continent isan instructive one. England is accused by France and Spain of having suc- cumbed to the United States upon a great ues- tion, and they are already doubting her good faith as to the final rerult upon themselves. The press of England, too, is not at all satisfied with the poselbility of new relations epringing up between the French empire and ourselves, Spain is alarmed at the moral advanee of the United States in the estimation of European cabinets, and is alarmed at the prospect of being forced to sell her much prized colony of Cuba. When the advocates of the tripartite inflnence shall weigh theee things duly, they will find that we have no need of extrancous eesistance in our ad- vance. Our course a5 a nation is oaward and upward, aud we care little whether the ralers of Europe accept or reject it. We have no need to fight batties to make our weight felt in the family of nations. Every day adds to our moral influence, and brings some new recogni- tion of it from other Powers. As for the Cen- tral American‘imbroglio, we shall go on in the policy we have marked out, and settle it in the epirit of justice and with due regard for the rights of all. Tur Arram or Mr. Corcoran axp Ma. Mv- rvaoa—We published some days cince a por- tion of the correspondence of the imbroglio at Washington between Mr. Corcoran, the banker, and Mr. Muruaga, the Secretary of the Spanieh Legation. That narration presented the cide of the affair most favorable to the diplomat and we, therefore, to deal fairly with all, gave yesterday the account of the friends of Mr. Corcoran, which certainly doce not place Mr. Marusga in a very favorable light. In relation te the main story, the evidence seems to be about the same on both sides, and with the ad- ditional facts concerning the behavior of the parties since our first statement was published, we have the whole affair before us. I! appears that Mr. Muruaga attempted to force bis atten- tions upon one or both of the ladies of Mr. Cor- coran’s family; that he adopted the old dog- ging and rope ladder etyle of wooing; that he was continually in the lady's path. In the promenade, in the social gathering, or while at her devotions, it wae always partridge —ever- lastingly Muruaga. Too much partridge, says the French proverb, ie not good; neither is too much Muruags with diplomatic sauce. So the lady thought, according to Mr. Corcoran, and the Secretary was admonished by the banker, and generally given to understand that he was cut by the family. Upon this Mr. Muruaga sends challenge to Mr. Corco- tan. The daughter of that gentleman, in her anxiety to save her father from bodily peril and with a view te arrest the meeting, sends a note to Mr. Muruaga, who then repairs to the house of Mr. C. “in his known absence.” The master of the house found Mr. Muruaga con cealed under a piano. Ile was thereupon incontinently expelled. Some of the diplo mats seomed to try to force the conclu sion that as be was the representative of her Catholic Majesty, he was not really put out as Mr. Muruaga, but as the Queen ef Spain. Bot as this argument will not hold either & priori or & posteriori, it has been abandoned, and Mr. Muruaga, receiving congé from his government, sends another cartel to Mr. Corcoran, which he very properly refused to sccept. Mr. Muraaga has since behaved very foolishly in the matter and by attempting to provoke Mr. Corcoran to a street fight has placed himeelf ina most un- enviable position. Under the circnmstances we do-not see how Mr. Corcoran could have acted ju qny other manuer than pe did His course wae precisely that whick would be adopted under similar ciroumstances by aay father of 5 fomily or head of a household. The whole affair is only an exaggerated form of the proverbial impertineace of aurs- ing diplomas. We remember an alfray which occurred here several years ago, when the Seoretary of one of the South American governments itsulted the wife of @ citizen ta a public piace, The indigsant bueband wreaked summary vengeance with 4 pair of stout fists upon the countenance of the Secretary—impairing the beauty of his face and the dignity of his government, so it was said, to an alarming extent. These adolescent red tapists will do well to remember that they are not in the Soath Sea islands, and that there is 8 certain amount of respect and courtesy due to & woman, even if she does chance to be hand- seme and rich. Because they happen to form the tail of a foreign Legation, it does not follow that they are licensed to stare every Woman cut of countenance, and bully every man who has aright to cali them to account for their conduct. If no amount of tape, sealing wax, court suits, moustaches and eye glasses will keep these. young Tailleyrands in order, the argumentum bacculinum wild eccasionatly be ap plied even to their sacred persona, The Walt street men needn't be afraid. The Huropesn governments won't to go to war with us about a secretary of legation or two. They are too plenty to have much fuss made about them. Uran Arrars—Bravtms or our Mam. Sys- THM.—There appears to be now no doubt, jadg- ing from all the intelligence that we have lately received from the Great Basin, including Mor- mon newspaper items which we publish to-day, that the Latter Day Saints never had any se- rious intention of going to war with the United States government, and were as little in earnest im their pretences about aban- doning Salt Lake. We knew that Brigham Young was too cute a Yankee to run his oeck recklessly into a halter. It did very weil in the Boyery—as they call their tabernacle—to talk fire and brimstone, and of “ranning the troops to hell across lota,”’ to quote the unctuous lao- guage of the Saints; but when it came to a proof of their courage or their sincerity it was quite another matter. Brigham has had quite too good a time of it for some years past to ea- tertain any longing to add his own name to the roll of the army of martyrs; and consequently, it was not to be expected that he would allow a shot to be fired upon our troeps by one of his fanatical horde. He quietly submitted himeelf and his people to the authority of the United States, but indulged in some excuzable, though equally sincere, menaces about abandoning Utah, and transporting the ark of their taber- nacle to Sonora, or somewhere out of the juris- diction of the United States. That was all bluster, too. The Saints did evacuate Salt Lake City, but only to show that they were in a buff, and—to come back again. They know that, after all, the visi- tation was a godsend to them; aad no doubt if their secret thoughts were known, ail but Brigham and his hierarchy are rejoiced at it. At all events, they will not abandon Sait Lake, nor the desert which their industry has made productive. With all their faults we can- not deny that they are industrious and. frugal to a remarkable degree. They have been piant- ing fruit trees and raising fruit with great suc- cese; and now they have commenced the culti- vation of tea—the plants it is said growing thriftily. Brigham, himself, has his house sur- mounted by « beehive, as an emblem of indus- try. We hope that their industry will not have received a check by the late expedition, but that the Saints, relieved of a little of their non- sense, will go quietly back to their old homes and resume their former occupations under the protection of the laws of the United States, and with s respect for the prejudices of our Christian civilization. In connection with Utah affairs, we would beg to direct the attention of the Postmaster General to the beauties of our Post Office sys tem, or at least of its operation. We first learned the news of the submission of the Mor- mons by a telegraphic despatch from St. Louisa. In two or three days the government received its despatches at Washington by mail. The same mail brought us the St. Joseph papers contain- ing the news, but did not bring us our own cor- respondence. This should have arrived at the tame time, but did not reach us for fire days tubsequently. And on Friday only, we re- ceived the Deseret’ News. Now all theee—the despatches to the government, the St. Joreph papers, our correspondence and the Salt Lake papers—must have all come by the same con- veyance. At least they ought so to have come. Why, thea, the irregularity and difference of time in their delivery? Wil the Postmaster General plese to eolve this curionsenigma aris- ing in the affairs of his department. “Smex Tanving on My Davairer.’—The Washington Union of Friday last gives a very flattering description of the beautiful results of peace and harmony that have followed the pas- tage of the Eaglish Kaneas compromise; but towards the close it completely spoils this pleasing picture by such dark shadows as these:— “Ithas revealed the hypocrisy of disaffected democrats who are making that measure (Le- compton) an exouse for their treason’’—“mere Cisappointed and disgruntled political moun- tebanks.” Hard hit, that. Then we were told that by-cones were to be hy-gones, “upon the basis of a eilent aoquicecence in this Koglish bill;” but that “these advances of the sapos- tates were but additional acts in the career of treachery and hypocriey they were reeolved on pureuing;”. that “they were content to practice deception sud to employ falsehood,” and thet, “ through their leader at Chicago (Douglas) they used the very occasion in which they had intimated their purpose of making forins! deciaration of fraternity and peace, to reopen the strife, to fire off new vol- eys of Genunciation and abuse at their party, to ‘ery havoc, and let «lip the dogs of war.’” Finally, the Washington eelfanointed organ of the administration, and self-appointed arbiter of the demecratic party, has no patience with those men, “who are still amiable enough to suppore that these factioniats are actuated by sentiments of loyalty and fraternity.” This, then, it the upshot of the English bill: a war of extermination ageinst Douglas, and the loss of hie supporters in Tilinoia, Indiana, the North- weet and the North to the democratic party. There must be a change in thie wind, or the fall election will east the democratic ship broadaide- on among the breakers. The more sensible of the Southern fire-entors appear to understand the policy of the party a good deal better than the shallow mapagers of the Washingtoa Union, Tux Commenctar, axp Frayer, Conprrion or. Brazn.—The growing prosperity of the empire of Brazil is a eubject with which our reeders are already familiar. We wutch witb continued. interest sad hope the developement of tbis elemeut of order ia South America. With political and social institutions analagous to our own, there exist strong bonds of sympa- thy between the two people, and it is a source of gratification to tind that her material de- velopement and national progress assimilate so closely to our own. : The report of Seohor Souza Franco, the Minister of Finance, to the Brazilian Cham- bere, ia May last, exhibits some remarkable fea- tures, Senkor Souza Franco is one of the lead- ing free traders of Brazil, and established o tariff policy similar to ours. A reduction of the tariff was obtained by him last year, al- though upon the admitted hypothesis thet it would diminish the revenue. The result has been like that which followed our reduction of the tariff in 1846; and the customs revenue, instead of decreasing, has increased in the first half of the eurrent year in| the face of the revulsion which afflicted com- merce. From the report of the Minister we learn that the revenue of the empire is estimated to exceed $30,000,000 in the present year, and that it has exhibited a continuonsincrease since 1838, when it amounted to about $7,500,600. No other fact is needed to demonstrate that the progress of public and private wealth in Brazil stands on solid foundations. Another pleasing fact exhibited by the report is that the empire bad a surplus of about $5,000,000 after paying all the expenses of the last fiscal year. A por- tion of this was appropriated to paying off the national debt, which, at the close of the year 1857, amounted to only £5,345,500 sterling, which is subjected to the operation of the sink- ing fund for its final liquidation. This prosperous condition of the Brazilian treasury has not only enabled Senhor Souza Franco to take further steps in the free trade direction, by increasing the number of free articles, but it enabled him to take certain effi cagious measures during the recent panic which ran through the commercial world. On the 15th of December last, when the convulsion existed at Rio Jeneiro, he placed a million of dollars at the disposal of the Bank of Brazil, in order that it might not be compelled to narrow its discounts to a point prejudicial to the regular liquidation of the commercial transactions in the market. He also aniicipated. the payment of interest on the bonds of the public debt and of the dividends on the shares of the Don Pedro I. Railway. These measures contributed largely to the maintenance of public confidence, and diminished the stringency which was natu- rally felt from the condition of the money markets of the world. The report also gives us some interesting in- formation in regard to the foreign commerce of Brazil. The total imports for the year amount to £2,761,773. of which fifty-nine and a half per cent were from England, thirteen and one-third per cent from France, and six and one-third per cent from the United States. The exports during the same time amounted to £12,722,601, of which Great Britain tock thirty-one and three quarters per cent, the United States twenty- seven and two-thirds per cent, and France eight and one-third per cent. The commerce of the country exhibits the same progressive growth that marks her revenues. It is not unworthy of notiee in this connection that the policy of Brazil resolutely ignores the formation of treaties of any kind, whether political or com- mercial, with foreign nations. She is guided in this respect by the axiom that treaties between governments of unequal power are liable to unequal interpretations. A treaty with a strong government is always likely to be inter, preted to the disadvantage of the weaker Following the practice of treating both weak acd strong alike in her commercial policy and the laying of her tariffs, she commands at once the respect of all. Brrrish Practice ov Tue Riaut or Skarcn.— The account which we publish in another column of the seizure of the brig Caroline, of Boston, a regular trader to the weet coast of Af- riga, is another proof of the evil influence of the British practice of tho right of search, not only upon 8 legal commerce, but aleo upon the cha- racter of the British oflicers themeelves, The Caroline was seized, her hatches broken open, part of her cargo taken out and examined, and finally carried as a prize into Sierra Leone. ‘This ie a epecies of interruption which no honest trade can prosper under; and while all expe- rience teaches us that the slave trade does thrive under it, our regular traffic with the coast of Africa bas rank almost to a nullity. It is true the Caroline was liberated, bat besides the in- dignity, she has been subjected to great loss and deluy on her voyage. The most remark- able point, however, of the proceeding, is the ef fort made by the commander of the Alecto to induce Captain Gibbs to destroy his ship's py pers. “They are false, and you had better let them swim,” eaid he to the captain; and seve- ral times afterwards he endeavored to indace the captain to let his ensiga “swim,” or, in other words, to throw it overboard. The only motive the British officer had for thus endea- voring to obtain the destruction of the Ameri- can papers and flag was the prize money that would come to him and his crew in the event of the condemnation of the brig. It has become fall time that the American flag should ewim without any interference from Britieh officers. Turrtow Ween Stra. wy rie Dewrs.—Hayv- ing given in his testimony in respect ‘to his pe- culiar services as the chief caucus, lobby and convention engineer of the whig and republican partice of the State of New York, Thurlow Weed is mach perplexed by the eross examina- tions of Mr. Fillmore’s home organ, the Buffalo Advertiser, and is getting out of patience. The Alvertiver charges that Weed was opposed to the nomination of Fillmore as State Comptroller, and also oppoted tothe nomination of Governor Hunt for the eame post ; whereupon Weed aays that the Advertiser “is the organ of Mr. Fill- more, and will be eupposed to speak for Gov. Hunt.” We will wait a reasonable time for the withdrawal of this charge-—-a charge which both gentlemen (Fillmore and Hunt) know to be false. If itis not withdrawn, “the trath of history shall be vindicated.” There, now. Let Meesre. Fillmore and Hant look toit. “ Area sonable time” may be a week, and it may be only two or three days, There is no time to be lost. Weed is in the humor for it, and if not stopped he will tell everything he knows. Carrrat, Hit av His Howon vam Maror.—It is well known that, under directions of Mayor Tiemann, the “largeet liberty” has been taken With certain claaseg of correspondepge passing through the mails, Yesterday a letter from the West reached a respectable firm in this city through the Post Office, having inscribed upom the envelope the following neat slap at bis Honor:— ie ey aM tl ss py ove.” American Monumunts.—We publish else- where several accounts of the progress of monu- ments commemorative of important events in the hietory of the republic, or indicating the last resting places of patriots who served the State in its time of need. The chief monameats now ip progress, or recently finished, inclade the splendid equestrian statue of Washington at Richmond; the unfinislied avd apparently never to be completed Washington monument at the Capitol; the equestrian statue in Union square; the monument at King’s Mountain, commemo- rative of the turning point in the war of the Revolution; the bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin at Boston; the projected monuments to President Monroe, Generals Wayne, Ethan Alien and Steuben, and the proposed trophy com- memorative of Leelie’s retreat, near Salem Maseachusetts, These monuments are the graceful tributes with which art honors the memory of the brave and the good. They are indications hat the people still remember with gratitude the deeds of their forefathers, and proofs that the good old spirit has not yet been wiped out by the corruption of politicians or the avarice of money grabbers. THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Despatch from Washington, 4 BXPESDITURRS OF THB GOVBRNMENT—EXPaDITION 70 NBW MEXIOO—ARKIVaL OF THE AROTIO, ¥TC., ETC. Wasainaton, Jaly 24, 1868. The law requiring that a complete exhibit of ap- propriations for the fiscal year should be made by the proper clerk st the Capitol has been done; and I learn that the total definite appropriations is eighty-one millions and eight hundred thousand dol- lars; estimated indefinite appropriations, two mil- lions five hundred thousand. Ont of that must be deducted the earnings of the Post Office Depart- ment—say twelve millions—making the expenditure seventy-two millions three hundred thousand dollars. Considering the extraerdinary expenses of the Utah war expeditidn and other extraordinary expenses, not ehargeable to the policy or conduct - of the ad- ministration, this is not a large expenditure. What say the republicans to this exhibit? The sloop-of-war Artic arrived here today. She left at Key West the Colorado, Macedonian, Wa- bash, Constellation and Saratoga. The Arctic re- ports the good health of the squadron. The Secretary of War it is said will shortly sena an expedition, under command of Mr. E. F. Beale, for the purpose of constructing bridges and other- wise improving the road between Fort Smith and Albuquerque, New Mexico, and from thence west- ward to the Colorado river at or near the thirty-fifth parallel of latitude. The expedition is to start im two divisions from Albuquerque—one eastward and the other westward. In a letter from a person of the highest position near the Emperor Napoleon, to a member of the diplomatic corps at Washington, it 1s stated that the “entente cordiale,” 80 called, between the Empe- ror and England exists undisttrbed. But, as was added by this sagacious diplomatist, it is but the “entente”™ of political convenience, and afew years will prove it. The “entente” exists, but the “cor- diate” doas not. TUR GYWERA) NEWSP4IER DESPATCH. Wasnixatow, July 24, 1858. Captain Hudson, ina letter to the Navy Depart- ment, dated Queenstown, July 8, says that the Ni- agara was then waiting the arrival of the Agamem- non and Valorous, when he hoped to start again for the rendervous in seven or eight days, under more favorable auspices of weather than that experienced in June. The United States steamer Arctic, from Key West, arrived here this morning. Allon board were well, Later from Mexico. New Onueans, July 24, 1958. The steamship General Rush has arrived here from Galveston, with Rio Grande dutes to the 2lat instant. San Luis Potosi had been captured by the consti- tutionalists under General Vidaurri, and it was ra- mored that General Zuloaga had abandoned the City of Mexico. The liberals were about to unite against the city. Installation of Canal Commindoner Ruggtes. Axnany, Joly 24, 1868, Commissioner Ruggles was sworn into office be- fore the Secretary of State to-day, and will go west to take possession of his division on Monday. Rocursrrn, N. Y., July 24, 1868. A remonstrance is in circulation in this city against the removal of Mr. Ruggles from the western division of the canals. It is numerously signed by leading citizens of all parties. Celebration of the Settlement of Detrott. Dernorr, July 24, 1958, The one hundred and fifty-seventh anniversary of the founding of Detroit is being celebrated today with great spirit. The weather is delightfal and the procession is very large and imposing. All the military are out, and the fire companies and civit societies are fully represented. The town councils of Sandwich and Windsor, C. W.,and a fire company from Chatham are participating in the celebration. Orations will be delivered at the Firemen’s Hall in English by Mr. C. J. Walker, and another in French by .Mr. EB. N. Lacroix. The ceremonies conclude with a grand banquet at the Russell House this evening. Mail Cars Destroyed by Fire. Axpayy, Jaly 24, 1858, ‘The baggage and mail car on the down train om the Central Railroad, due here at 4:50 A. M., waa destroyed by fire at St. Johueville. The fire is sup- posed to have originated from some combustible ar- ticle among the baggage. The contents of the car were nearly destroyed, and the mails from Buffalo and some intermediate sta- tions lost. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicage Ratiroad, Prrrsevre, July 24, 1954. Markets, PHILADELPHIA #TOCK BOARD. Stocks Penaryiventa Sate ven, Be; Row steady. Railroad, Se Werrn sagt Ininnd Railroad, 1174; Taare j Onemans, uly 29, 1858. £00 bales at ic, for middling; 2,600 daien; poe te, one coy TE ; ats fod unchanged. Corn frm, Whisk To. Provisons — anvirms, Jaly 4, 1968, Four firm but quiet at $4 75, Wheat sivas, white