The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1858, Page 4

4 SaMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU OTS. eee ee eeneenness Fan Durr uenatd = 7 ALD. two conte, 5 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD. ever Suturday, at oe come per Gepy, oF 3 per annum, the b an Editon, $4 annum, to EBT GG Brat, or 85°10 ‘any part af the Continent, THE FaMiLY HERALD, every Wednesday, «at aur cents per 1. OF toni sans, elated rom any quarter ois wordy toad wl be ony Oe i wil - d = NDERTE Ace Pan rally patd for. ae Veneer Copauace — ar Sore ve FO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, We do nit reborn thoes reecied” Volume XXIII............ seseensesecseees Gs QUT AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ay ied GARDEN, Brosaway—Tur Last Max—PRown- ape CosceRt—Po Ca'WOw-tas, BOWERY THEATRE Bowery—Oresimc Apounss— Baarouss (x Incla—MAceRTH—1 18 SCHOOLMASTER. WALLACK'’S THEATRE, Broad wae Parreas—MISCHIEVOUS ANDIE. — Afr BaRNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. 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During the inst few days about /ifleen thousand addi- tional sheets bave been added to the already vast daily circulation of the Hxnaup, This we take to be a eymptom of the approaching revival of business in this great metro- polis, If the Atlantic Telegraph line should be successfully es- tablished, and the new El Dorado on Fraser river turn out to be authentic, thore will be a rapid revival of busi- mess throughout the commercial world. ‘We should net be surprised if, under the coming new era of developement, the circulation of the New York ‘Herarp ehould rise toa daily circulation of 150,C00, or even ‘200,000. The past justifies the future. Now is the time for fresh men of enterprise to begin their movements. The News. Owing to an unfortunate accident to the telegraph wire somewhere in Cape Breton we have no addi- tional definite information respecting the landing of the Atlantic telegraph cable. There is no doubt, however, of the complete success of the enterprise. ‘The land line of telegraph to which the accident alluded to above occurred, passes through a wilder- ness, and the work of repairing damages is one of no smal! difficulty. The necessary repairs will, we are assured, be completed in a day or two, and then we shall be in receipt of despatches from Trinity Bay that will, we hope, give us particulars of the landing of the cable at both ends of the line. It is not expected, however, that messages will be trane- mitted along the submerged wire for perhaps a week to come, that length of time being required to ad- just the apparatus and perfect arrangements gene- rally. In the present excited state of the public mind upon the subject, any delay, however brief, is certainly exceedingy vexatious. Our local reports and telegraphic destpaches from all parts of the United States and the British provinces show to what a pitch of enthusiasm the public have been wrought by this great event. Already it bas mani- fested itself in illuminations, torchlight processions, military parades, salvos of artillery, and other bois- terous aud joyous demonstrations. The screw steamship Prince Albert, which left Galway at midnight on the 27th ult., arrived at Halifax yesterday morning, with three days’ later news from Europe. The advices, however, are of an unimportent character. Consols closed in London at noon on the 27th at 95] a 95] for both money and account. The Eng- lish funds were flat and French stocks unchanged. Cotton closed quiet in Liverpool on the evening of the 26th and prices were without any particular change. Breadstufls were quiet. Provisions re- mained steady. A very heavy gale visited the Engiish coast, caus- ing a good deal of damage to the shipping. Mr. Barber, late acting British Consul at Naples, was appointed English Consul at Richmond, Va. Mr. G. P. R. James goes to Venice. Ex-President Pierce and his wife had sailed from Cadiz for Marseilles. The Vanderbilt mail steamship Northern Light will ail today at four o'clock P, M. for South- ampton, Havre and Bremen. Her mails close at the Post Office at half-past two o'clock. Advices from Tampico to the 20th of July report that affairs there continue in the same state as here- tofore reported. (Gen. Carvajal had cut off commn- nication with the interior, and was supposed to be preparing to make a move on Tampico. He had be- haved very handsomely toward the train of goods which he stopped, sending both boats and mules back to the city with their cargoes untonched. The Tampico journal accuses the liberals of having got some of Gen. Walker's old followers to serve their artillory at the siege of San Luis. Zuazaa, the liberal leader, had imposed a forced loan of $120,000 wpon the merchants there. In Mexico there has been a complete change in (Gen. Zaloaga’s cabinet. ‘The liberals have recaptured Tuspan Additional returns of the Kansas constitutional election, received last night, settle the question as regards the proposition submitted to the vote of the people. The Lecompton constitution has been most decidedly rejected, by an overwhelming popular majority. Our special despatch from Washington gives the substance of an important decision recently rendered! by the Secretary of the Interior with regard to titles to land granted by Congress to railroad companies for internal improvement purposes. The decision immediately affects the La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company, but its terms will of course have | genera! application. The ship Columbus, from New (rieans, bound for Liverpool, arrived at this port yesterday. She re ports the death of her captain, Joel Hopper, of Tho- maston, Me., on the 20th uit.; also on the 2ist ult James Mooney, a boy, a native of Liverpool, died ‘The ship arrived with four sick men on board The Board of Supervisors met last evening, but did not transact any business of importance tax levy was laid over, after an ineffectual effort to take it ap, and the Board adjourned to Tuesday next at three P.M, ‘The sales of couon yesterday were confined to about ‘B00 baler (be market closing without change in prices. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1858. NEW YORK HERALD.|™ *“**%, Syjtuee em S| ™ Se noe ‘The news of the successful laying of the At- lantic telegraph cable has caused a general out- break of joy throughout the country. The peo- ple everywhere are delighted, aad the firing of guns, illuminations and other evidences of re- joicing are exb'bited on all sides. Some of the old fogies, it is true, are like the dull man who could never comprehend a joke cntil everybody else had done Isughing, acd wish to put off their rejoicings until every ouc else has got over the first flush of betag happy. They tii! want confirmation. This doubt they hangupoc the wording of Mr. Field@’s despatch. He no doubt wrote it under great excitement, and not so clearly as our own more coel and collected correspondent did his special despatch to the HeraLp, which places the matter beyond ali cavil. We understand Mr. Field to say that sll the ships of the telegraph fleet arrived on the 4th—the Niagara and Gorgon at Trinity Bay, and the Agamemnon and Vsloroua at Valentia. Besides that, he tells us the distance Tun—1,950 miles—the identity of the rate cf paying out the cable from both s2ips, and that “the signals sent and received througt the whole cable are perfect.” Besides this, M-. Field telegraphs to the President that the cabie “has been successfully laid, and as soon aa the two ends are connected with the lard lines Queen Victoris will send a message.” He siso tells the Mayor of our city that “ tue cavle has been successfully laid ;’ and Captain Huéson reiterates the fact in a despatch to his family. There is no roomfor doubt. The enterprise has been accomplished; and though the continuity should last only a week, that is nothing, What has been done once can be done again; aud it this cable will not last, we will make one that will endure for years—aye, centuries. But the most singular effect of the intelli gence bas been its operation upor our city press. It came upon them so suddeniy that they all seem to have lost their power of ana- lysis, if they ever had any. The saint of the Tribune displays a strange acquaintance with Byron, and runs off into the highfalutin; the sinner of the Courier and Enquirer breaks out in psalm singing, and trots out Milton and Byroo; the Aminadab Sleek of the Wall street Journal! consoles himself with the gratifying hope that the line will hang all fugitives from justice ; while the “little villains” of the Times do not know whether the cable is laid or not—first they think it is, and call it a success, and then that itis not, and wait with anxiety for the next announcement. The only journal that seems to have read Mr. Field’s despatches with com mon senge is our lively little neighbor of the Hartford Times. He sees in them that the other end is safe in Valentia Bay, and he says so. In order to estimate in some degree the work- ings of the Atlantic telegraph upon men and nations, we have no need to appeal to Byron, Nilton, psalm singing or highfalutin. Common senee, and some knowledge of men, will tell us much more than those, and an apt simile will give a clearer illustration than all the rhapso- dies that “ saint” or “sinner” can write. Men have first to learn to use it freely, and then its effects will be freely felt. In politics this may be illustrated by what our knowledge of men teaches us would occur if any ten or twelve men resided constantly in a room together, and two of them should begin to quarrel. The rest would feel the annoyance, and the two would have to go off to some out of the way place to fight it out or else stop their bickering. This was what occur- red not long since in Europe. The establish- ment of telegraphs and railroads has brought nations closer together; and when the three great Powers quarrelled they went off into the Crimea to settle it. The Western Powers would not attack Russia on the European side, for they knew that the first gun fired in Poland would set all the nations in a blaze and the Powers at loggerheads. Thus, the telegraph will be a great peace maker between Europe and America, and throughout the world. By bringing nations and communities closer to- gether it gives them alla direct interest in maintaining harmony. ‘The greater political effect, however, will be felt in Europe. The European nations are first in arts, science and manners, because their crowded communities give them advantages for their developement. But we are first in the world in mental actlvity and practical de- velopement, and the Atlantic cable will make us firet in politica\ influence in the world. The telegraph will increase the impress of our poli- tical theories and our civilization upon Earope. Already constitutional forms of government are growing up there, obeying the impulse given by our political success. In material matters, Moree’s telegraph, Stevens’ yacht America, McCormick's reaper, Hobb’s lock, Rerey'’s horse taming system, Hughes’ tele- graph instrument, and a bundred other indi- vidual things, are making havoc among the old vaye of Europe. The class interests of society, as well ae of government, are giving way be- fore the freerom of individual developement. The standard of merit in practical matters and political theories in the Old World will soon be the fact of their coming from America. The facts wrought out by free thought here will be ineiantly transmitted by the telegraph to the whole world, and America must lead, and will | lead. the vanguard of the world’s march of prog rere. What now have to do is to lay « subma- rine cable at once along the Pacific shore from San Diego to Bellingham Bay. with branches to the mouth of Columbia river and Vancou- | ver's island. The great interests now develop- Flour wae agen (rm for ai) good inspected brands, and | closed ata farther advance of Ove comts per barrel, and | ‘tm some Caser at about ten centehicher. Wheat was with- out change of importance The sales embraced about 60,000 bushels, at prices given» another column. ‘was steady and goo! deman’é without ebenge of importanc rk waa somewhat trreguiar, with eles at $17 7 40, while prime was im good demand and sold at higher rates, cloning at $14 80 ® $16—the intter figure said to be fora parcel to arrive Bugare were quiet, there being quite & panic in the mar ket The trade have lately purchased 0 freely that it sooms to require some respite in order to have sone time allowed it to work of supplies. The sales were coiioed to about 1608 170 bhde., in email lots, without charge in Prices. Coffee was quiet, but steady heavy, while engagements were light 'e quotations were Isvorwarion Waxten.—Oan any correspon- Gent give us a history of the obscene and libel- lous journals called the Whip, Flach and Sulter published some twelve years ago, and particularly of the perrons @gaged thereon, end Ut rigs. punishments inflicted o@ them at that Cora | The | ing there require it, and we shall then be in a position to make an early connection between the Atlantic and Pacific telegraph syateme. and across the North Pacific to the Russian settle- ments on the Amoor river. Russia is already contemplating the construction of a line across Northern Asia, and the union of the two at Amoor river will complete the girdle of the eorth, This Pacific shore cable to the Frazer river region is the next link in this girdle. Let us have it at once. “Free Woo..”—The creditors of Lawrence, Stone & Co., it appears, have instituted a suit againet their lobby financier (Wolcott) for the re- covery, if possible, of that mysterious free wool lobby fund of $74,000. Very good. We hope the prosecution wili be pushed into the merits of the | case, for thereby we shall doubtless get at a Freighte con:invea | good many interesting facts which were beyond the reach of the Congressional Committee, Push the investigation; for we suspect that there may be more than one new lobby bird buried away in that “free wool” fund of $74,000. Should it turn out that the money is all in the bank of Gardner, Woleott & Co., so much the better for the creditors of Lawrence. Stone & Co, We bave received as yet only a fex returns of the Kanssa Constitutional election; but they are of a complexion so decided as to leave Boarcely a shadow of a doubt of the rejection of the Lecempton constitution bya very heavy Popuisr majority. ‘Telse, for example, the returns from Leayen- worth snd Kickapoo, as cympared with the tiection of January 4, for Governor, under the Leeorspten echedule :— Lacomptom. — Amt Lesonpton. ‘Avguat, rey Pokaan sia Here we bave s marked Ioas on the small Lecompton vote of January, and a direct gain of over four hundred on the anti-Lecompton cide. In Kickapoo the majority for Marshall, Lecompton candidate for Governor, in January, ae 864; now the Lecompton majority in that precinet is lesa than forty, These returns, therefore, without going any further, we regard as sufficiently indicating the result of the clec- tion. By the act of Congress under which this elec- tion wss held, it was provided that, instead of the twenty-one millions of acres of the public omain which would have accrued to Kansas under tae Lecompton ordinance, pure and eimpie, ehe should have some 3,500,000 acres. ‘To teet the sense of the people of Kansas upon ‘hia reduction, it was further provided that, if tbreugh a majority of her legsl voters she should accept this proposition, then Kansas, without further ceremony, would be considered a sovereign State, admitted into the Union ua- Ger the Lecompton constitution. On the con- trary, if the people of Kansas should reject the sforesaid land proposition, that rejection would be secepted aa involving the rejection of the Leccmpton constitution. Furthermore, it was ordained in the said act of Congress that, with this rejection of the Lecompton constitution, Kansas would not be regarded as available for edmission under new constitution, until she could number the full ratio of 93,000 popula- tion, required for one member of the federal House of Representatives. In pursuacce of this act of Congress, the com- missioners designated appointed the Kansas election for the first Monday in August—the day of the Missouri election; and we repeat that, from the returns received, there can scarcely be & ehadow of doubt as to the general result. The Lecompton constitution is rejected, and with it the Governor, State officers and State Legisla- ture elected in January under the Lecompton schedule, and in reference to which Gen. Jack Calhoun had such a world of trouble and em- barrasements, all fall to the ground and go for nothing. The late incipient State relapses into her Territorial condition, and must again begin her work of @ State organization at the begin- bing. Under the careful and impartial arrange- ments of the admistration, including the judi- cious appointment of the Kansas election on the eame day with that of Missouri, it appears that the best anticipations in reference to law and order have been fulfilled. The law of Congress, under the most unexceptionable plan of operations, has been carried out—Le- compton is rejected by a fair, and, apparently, by a remarkably full vote of the Kansas peo- ple. The question then recurs, what next? Will the people of Kansas—now numbering perhaps fifty thousand—be content to wait until they can muster the full federal ratio of nearly twice fifty thousand before they undertake the work of a new constitution? This is a very nice and a very important question. The taxpaying masses of the Kansas people would perhaps be content to remain a few years longer asa Territory, because, while in that condition, their government expenses are paid out of the federal treasury; but the politicians rule the roast. We know, too, what they are after—the two seats in the United States Senate and the seat in the House, the of- fice of Governor and other State offices, and the handling of the land spoils, banks, rail- roads, public buildings, and all the other spoils and plunder incident to the organization of a new State. These ore what the unscrupulous and bh Kansas politicians are after. And their neces- sities are such as not to justify any delay, not- withstanding the restriction of the late act of Congress, We may, therefore, expect, in the tecth of this restriction, that a new constitution from Kansas will be laid before the two houses at the next session, coupled with « demand for admission under it. What then? Why, then, as the Le- compton constitution is definitely rejected, and as Kaneas can never be a slave State, though ehe should be kept waiting at the door for ten years to come, the best policy with her is the shortest. Admit her and be done with her; be- cause a refusal to admit fer on the plea of the restriction of the last session will only furnish a new fund of political c :pital for our Northern Kaneas shriekers and agitators. The pro-slavery party, after a protracted and most desperate contest, have lost the prize, for the simple reason that the balance of squatter sovereignty was too powerful against them to be resieted. Now let them gracefully give it up, and admit Kansas as a State as soon as pos sible. The sooner the better. There ix no bind- ing force in the restriction of the act of the late session. may be repealed as readily as the Miseouri or apy other restriction depending upon the mere discretion of Congress from one tcesion to another. We cannot be mistaken concerning the wishes of the President. His desire is to have the lastnail driven into the coffin of this Kansas agitation. Let it be done. In this connection we hope that there will be no further intermed- dling on the part of any Cabinet officer, like that misebievous interference (unknown to the President) of a Cabinet member with Jack Calhoun at the Lecompton Convention. Let us have no more intermeddling, on any side, of that fort; but let the people of Kansas close up their case to suit themselves. Thus the late pestilential Kansas nigger agitation will be completely extinguished; and by the year 1860 the nigger shrieckers, of the North and of the South, will be silenced under the pressure of public contempt. The country is thoroughly sickened and disgusted with this Kansas hum- bug: the South have committed a great blunder in the business, which they would do well to confess, aa Senator Hammond has done. Kansas must be a free State, and the sooner the better for all parties and sections concerned. pee The black republican and Know Nothing journals seem to have great sympathy for Branch and his attacks on Peter Cooper & Co. Did they secretly edge the Alligator on iu re. venge for Mayor Tiemann giving no spoils to their cliques, who supported the Peter Qooper dynasty at the laet Mayor's election? ‘The Slave Trade and the Right of Searoh— ‘Tene Cousse for America and England to Puzuc. The question of the right of eearch that has recently been €0 violently resueoitated between the governments of the United States and Eng- land is one of the most important embraced in our foreign policy. It may be that it involves the peace of the two countries; and it is pretty evident that the policy which may result from its diecussion will have great influence on the future government of the British empire. Tbe full report of recent debates oa this eubiec:, which we publish in another column, will be read with interest. A contest is now going on in Haglaad for the porsession of power there during a long eerics of coming years. The eudden overthrow of Palmerston and the rapid wane of his populari- ty have left England without a political clique which could rely on a parliamentary majority. The great party organizations ceased to exist long since; among the debris, the only polii- cal schools that give any eigns of life are the Marohester and the Evangelical. The plat- forms of these may be easily defined. That of the first stands upon the pocket, or the practical interests of the nation; the ee cond is based upon the abstract or fana- tical idea. In the recent contest between the Derby ministry and the “outs,” the former were sustained by the Manchester school of practical liberals, while Palmerston, Ruseell and the hungry leaders of the opposition did all they could to court the eupport of the Evangelicals, The ministry of Lord Derby did not feel strong enough to announce boldly some new policy in relation to the slave trade and the right of esearch, fearing to excite the ire of the wavering and partially divided Evangeli- cals, This is the key to the twistings and turn- ings of the debates published in another column. The prorogation of Parliament has given tho present administration a leage of power, at least until the close of the year: and in the meantime they may lay the foundations of that long con- tinuance in administration which they hope for, with the usnal ehort breaks which have charac- terized the past long holding of the lip liberal school. In the contest for power the Derby clique, with its tory theorics, has encountered the bit- ter opposition of the London Times, which looks to the coming rule of the practical school; while the parliamentary leaders of that school have given it a temporary support, in order to perfect the overthrow of the Palmerston and Russell cliques. The tories were brought into power suddenly and unawares, and consequently they were not prepared with a policy adapted to the new state of things. The alternate bravado and truckling of Palmerston bad brought the country into difficulty with France and Naples, to which suddenly was added that with the United States. It had always been manifest that the tories of England were better disposed toward the United States than Palmerston or any of the semi-liberal school: and in the emer- gency that was sprung upon them by the Bri- tish outrages, they evinced a disposition not only to do right by us, but even to gratify our whims. They are now undoubtedly anxious to secure, as the principal plank of their policy of government, an enfenle cordiale with this country. If they succeed, it will bring them much closer to the commercial school that helped them over their first danger, and elevate them into the position of sole al‘ernates with the Manchester men in the administration of government for the next generation. But here is the trouble. In order to come to a good understanding with the United States, some of the old battle horses of the politicians have to be given up. Chief among these worn out carcases are the right of search and the fea crusade against the slave trade. Now, theee two points have been the favorite ones of the Evangelical fanatics, and this party is too strong yet in England to be defied. They became a little frightened at first, when they saw the excitement which the outrages of their cruisers had produced in this country; knowing that a war with us would sink all the fanatical crusades of Ex- eter Hall into the lowest depths of ob- livion for the British people, they experienced equal relief when Lord Malmesbury announced that the difficulty with the United States was settled. As soon as they got over their fright they wanted to know on what terms a settlement had been made—what points had been given up by England. Lord Malmesbury had apparently said that they had given up the claim to exercise the right of search on Ameri- can vessels in time of peace. Mr. Dallas had said ed’ categorically. All fear of trouble with America had paseed, and the Evangelicals be- came exigent. Hence the debates, republished in another column, and the announcement by the spokesmen of the Derby ministry that they had given up nothing, and that the question with the American government was in abey- ance. All this confirms the opinions +0 per. sistently maintained by the Henao, that the right of search question is mot yet settled. It is not settled; and now comes the question how to settle it. We propose this plan to the con- sideration of both the American and the Hoglish | governments. It is now about foriy years since England turned her attention to the putting down of the African «lave trade, and about the same time since the American staicemen began to think seriously of the admis. sion of Cuba into our Union. Neither government has attained its aim, though both have made much progress tewards it. The time is now favorable for the final accomplish- ment of the purpoees. Both Gen. Case and Lord Malmesbury have got themeelves into difficulty by @ premature announcement cf the settlement of the question of the right of search, The question is now in abeyance. and they mast carry on the correspondence in the hopes of getting out of the snarl. Let them now enter into a convention for the settlement of the dispute on the right of search, the arrangement | of the manner of co-operation for the suppres- sion of the slave trade, and the joint course to be pursued toward Spain for the persistent vio- lation of her treaties with England, and of the obligations of good neighborhood with the United Statee, in stimalating her subjects in Cuba to avail themselves of our flag to carry on their nefarious traffic. In this convention let the two governments make an express deciara. tion of the following points :— That Spain is now the only civilized country which fosters the African slave trade. That as she is incompetent or unwilling to cloee the marts Yor Afrioan slaves in Cuba and Porto Rico, she should, for the good of civili zation and the pesce of the world, consent to the transfor of these colonies to some stronger Power, which cen cause the lawa to be respected in ther. ‘That whem the markets of Cuba and Porto Rico are closed to the introduction of African slaves the trans-ocean elave trade will cease to exist, and all necessity of exercising the right of eearch in time of peace will have passed away. ‘That if Spain refuses to accede to these just demands for the peace of the world, she must take the consequences of her contumacy. If Gen. Cass and Lord Malmesbury will unite in such a convention as this, they will both gaia great advantages, England caa thea give up the right of search without fear of the Evan- gelical party. Gen. Cass can claim the settle- ment of this great question, and possibly also the acquisition of Cuba. The Derby ministry will have the glory of adjusting all differences with the United States, and of having finally put down the African elave trade. It may save a million and a half sterling per annum, by the withdrawal of its no longer needed fleet from the const of Africa, and become the most popu- ler ard powerful ministry England has had sinoe the time of Pitt. Osscenzy Newsrarce Lormnatore.—We no- tice with reget that the person lately sent to Blackwell’s Island for printing gross and ob- ecene libels upon the Mayor and others, re- ceives the sympathy of a portion of the daily press, including the Times, Tribune, Express and Journal of Commerce, We have long ago des- paired of the government of this city. Our high places are filled by low, ignorant and vul- gar persons, who have elbowed themselves into power in order to plunder the taxpayers, which they do in the most magnificent manner. Pro- bably nothing short of extreme measyres will ever oust them from their snug places. But the true sense of the public has been represented by the reepectable press,which has been and is now in amensure conducted by gentlemen of education, ability and refinement. It is the power of the press, through the confidence reposed in it by the people. that alone checks the corrupt poli- ticians, and prevents them from being even worse than they are. But if this great power is to be prostituted to the defence or pallia- tion of such publications as Branch’s Alliga- tor, Porter's Spirit, and the Red Flag, then it follows that the preas is going the same way as the politicians, and the journalists will be- come as far degraded in public opinion as the most corrupt and shameless officials. It is the duty of all respectable editors to applaud every action which tends to elevate the profes- sion and conserve its respectability. But when they pursue the opposite course, they put them- selves upon a level with the Mbellous and scur- rilous publicists who conduct the journals above named, and afford room for the aseertion that they all row in the same boat. A Graxp Operatic Campaigx.—The vigo- rous manner in which the little Napoleon of the Opera, Signor Ullman, conducted his cam- paign last year, has set all the other impressari: in motion. Maretzeck commences operations at the Academy with a new prima donna (Mme. Gastier) on the 30th of this month, and after a short season goes to Havana, giving way to Ullman, who will probably give the Opera con- tinuously during the succeeding five or six months. UlUman and Strakosch were both on the Continent at the last accounts, picking up celebrities for the delectation of the public on this side of the water. Barnum’s specula- after the fashion of the infant who was £0 soon done for that it was difficult to tell what he was be- tion was knocked in the head gun for. It scems to be pretty well settled that Ullman has engaged the charming Piccolomini, who bas been all the rage in London during the past three seasons, and has achieved a list of conquests as long as the record kept by Lepe- rello of the achievements of Don Juan. Picco- lomini’s attractions are of a peculiar order. She depends as much upon her personal beauty and sympathetic acting as on her voice, and by com- ing here alone she will make a greater /wrore than if Barnum’s original intention had been carried out, and she had visited us in company with the other principal artiets at Her Majesty's theatre, Signor Strakosch has a new prima donna (Colsen), who is said to have “ youth, beauty and genius; so we may expect a lively time altogether. All the young ladies and loungers at the watering places will please to prepare for an operatic avalanche. Mar or tHe Parry Factions ox res Cery.— The two great parties in this city—that which supports the administration, and the opposition— are divided into six separate, hostile and war- like cliques. many party, which claims to be the elect repre- sentative of the democracy; the party headed by the Witter Committee, and that which is at- tached to the aseociation known as the “ Regu- lars.” All there factions are warring bitterly together; and theugh all agreed in supporting the administration, they quarrel bitterly upon municipal, Congressional and State affairs. The members of Congress, too, are divided in support of one or the other of these cliques, The opposition is likewise engaged in « trlengular fight between the republicans, the Americans and the debris of the Wood party. All theee factions are quarreling like the famous cats of Kilkenny, and jast now it is dificult to predict the result of the war. Tae New Mistster rrow Nicaracvsa.—We learn that General Jerez, the new Minister from Nicaragua, has got so clear a view of the mad in which the Transit queetion is involved in this city, that he is about to depart for Washington. in hopes of finding clearer waters there. In Washington, however, several interesting little questions await him. The government would like to know what Gen. Jerez’ principals mean by the impudent declaration that this couatry officially protects the fitting out of the filibus ters’—What they meant by assuring General Lamar that the Cass-Yrisarri treaty had been ratified, and asking him to recommend the bearer of it to the American naval commander at San Juen, when such was not the case?—Who violated the correspondence of our Minister in Nicaragua ‘—What the twisting and turning sbont the treaty means’ We hope Gon. Jerez can explain there little pointe, for if he doos not he will probably not find the diplomatic waters mach clearer than those of the Transit route negotiations, Stare Coxventions.—-Our Republican State Convention meets at Syracuse on Wednesday, the 8th of September, and our Democratic State Convention in the same place on Wednerday, the 15th of September. The work on all sides, therefore, for our November election has actively commenced. The Know Nothings temaia bid in the administration party we find three antagonistic factions: The old Tam- away in the bushes; but, according to Thurlow Weed, they are the busicet party in the field, sod will probably blow up the Republican Coa- veation. Let us all prepare for the worst. Fiour Over tae Custoa House Orrices— Sscretary Cops anp Coutxcror Souen..— Gur special correspondent at Washington sends us the following despatch by telegraph:— Tegerd to Gant Howse appoiaimaula in Now ote" et ewe where. ‘This is only an attempt to convey in a dy way an apparent denial of certain facts which have been given in the Hznatp, We never etated that there was any difference between the President and Secretary Cobb about the Custom House appointments in New York. What we said was that there were serious diffe- rences between Mr. Cobb and Mr. Schell; aad we calied upon the President, if they did not settle them, to interfere, in the exercise of his executive duty, and turn them both out. This course may yet have to be adopted. Ever since the appointment of Mr. Schell te the office of Collector of this port a bitter and un- yielding struggle has been waged between him, members of Congress from this city prominent politicians thereof, and the Secretary of the Treasury, as to the disposition of the petty offices under the control of the Collector. Mr. Schell appears to have eet out with the very eensible © 4 proper determination not to de- prive any eubordinate of his place except for caus But that did not please the members and politicians. They must needs exercise pat- rouage, so as to secure votes when the occasion for them arose; and that they could not do unless a pretty general sweep was made. Mr. Schell modified his original plans, to the extent of ridding his department of come of its most unworthy and discreditable officials; but that proved to be equally distaste- ful to those who assume to control his actions in regard to dismissals and appointments. Rowdies and shoulder bitters are necessary auxiliaries in our system of politics, and such characters must not be interfered with on any account. Finally, it has come to be an under- stood thing that the Collector can make no mo- tion toward ridding his department of nuisances or filling it with proper men without having previously consulted the members of Congress from this city and the handful of politicians who control our primary elections. The con sequence isa most unseemly contest over the spoils, in which the Collector is rendered power- less, All this springs out. of an ignorance of, or disregard for, the relative duties and privileges of our public officers. If these were not ignored or overlooked, such unseemly squabbles could not take place. The Collector is the appointee of the President of the United States, the ap- pointment being ratified by the Senate. To the President is the Collector directly responsible for the proper management of his department. It follows, as a matter of Decessity, that the subordinates of his department must be men on whom he can rely for the faithful and efficient performance of their duties, and that, therefore, he must have full and unrestrained power over them. If he finds the department filled with lazy, ignorant and corrupt men he must be at liberty to exercise, without restraint, the weed- ing process, and to supplant these idle loafers with proper men. If he exercises that right im- properly, and turns out good men to make room for bad, and so render all good order impos- sible in the Custom House, then the President knows how to remedy that evil by removing the cause of it. The President is responsible to the people, the Collector to the President, and the minor officials of the Custom House to the Collector. As the people elect the President, and the President appoints the Collector, so the Collector has the right to appoint his subordi- nates, and should not be interfered with in -the fair exercise of that discretion. It would be hard to find out the origin of the right of revision which the members of Con- grees for this district assume to exercise over the Collector's dismissals or appointments, Their powers are exclusively legislative—his exclusively executive. Their powers or duties cannot by any possibility clash. And yet we find these eame members of Congress, with the aid or sanction of the Secretary of the Treasury, impeding the action of the Collector, and pre- venting the ratification of his appointments. The same game which was played out in the administration of poor Pierce, between Guthrie and Bronson, is now being performed between Cobb and Schell. The President should not tolerate such proceedings. If the of the Treasury and the Collector of this port cannot act together in harmony, let him set adrift one or both of them; but let him not sanction any outside interference with them in their respective epheres of action. Tue Curvauer Ween iw rim Rrve—Macr Roow.—It appears to be now pretty well andor stood that the Chevalier Webb ie to ran as an independent candidate for Congress ia tho Westchester district : and these questions are thas brought home to us:—What shall we do with him? Shall we support him’ Shall we oppose him’—or shall we stand a neutral spectator of the fight’ We have known the Chevalier Webb for the last thirty years, and we know all that is neceseary to be known of his aps and downs, his ins and oute, and vary- ing fortunes and hair-breadth escapes—tmilitary, financial and diplomatic —through all that long period. We have given him, from time to time, the best of good advice, which, if he had fol- lowed, would have eaved him several fortunes which he has wasted ; but, for all this, we can- net abandon him now. After the shameful treatment which he re- ceived from Lawrence, Stone & Co., in that “free wool” business, we think his claims for Congress deserve a favorable consideration by the generous people of the Westchester district. We must back him up against all competitors. He is just now clearing away the underbrash and the brambles; bat he does not go far enough. He is standing too much upon cere- mony, and this is a case where that sort of thing is superfluous. He should come out boldly and squarely, and blaze away without stint at his competitors, right and left, in his old “ma- hogany stocked pistol’ fashion, which would make them tremble in their boots, and rouse up the entimeiasm of the people. At all events, we must give the Chevalier a lift in this patriotic movement of his for Congress. Put us down, then, for the Chevalier Webb in the Wosat- chester district against the field. TwerpLenem verats TweenLepen —Gover- nor Wise and Senator Dougins are enid to be the team against Senators Slidell and Bright, making ap for the aext Democratic National Convention