The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1858. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. THE DAIL T PERALE ul LY by D two conte annum. Ritu fay, at ce conte Per THE WEEKLY HERALD. every ‘Spy. or annum) Editio Tannin, (o ER ig Gree Bevin, oF Wo any part of iat’ Continent, ona a ‘HERALD, every Wedmestay, at four conts per NU NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, We do Mol return thowe rejected JOH PRINTING executed with neatams, cheapness and dis- AMUSEMENTS TO. MOABOW EVENING. BIBLO’R GARDEN, Rroedway—Wast Ex, on tx [nis Brceses -—l'uowex ave Concent. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—Haucer—Tur Fouoor aster—Pueasant Neicnzor WALLACK’S TREATBK, Sroncway—Buxro.0gr—Youne Actunes—Panvy Mugs’ Rov, BARPUMS AMBRICAN MUARUM, Brosdway— Boe a Macte, Vanranoacisu xp CURIOSTIRE. and 563 Broadway—Ermorran Sowon, Daweas, bo ¥ivetsin suuxy. ry MFCHANTOS HALL, 472 Broadway—Ber ants’ Mivstarrs ‘Bexisseums—Hor or Fasnion. —Nzcxo Mevopizs ax Revival of Basiness—Vast Increase of Circu- lation. Daring the last few days about fifteen thousand addi- onal sheets have been added to the already vast daily Girculation of the Hzray. This we take to be a symptom of the approaching revival of busineas in this great metro- polis. If the Atlantic Telegraph line ehould be saccessfully os- tebliebed, and the new El Dorado on Frazor river turn ‘Oct to be authentic, there will be a rapid revival of busi- ‘Ross throughout the commercial world. ‘We should not be eurprised if, under the coming uew @ra of developement, the circulation of the New Yore Hirxuip ebould rise toa daily circulation of 150,600, or even 200,000. The past justifies the future. Now is the time The News. Telegraphic communication with Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, was resumed yesterday. The des- patches received from that point, which we publish in to-day’s paper, confirm in every particular the Announcement exclusively made in the Heranp of Friday morning of the successful landing of both ends of the Atlantic telegraph cable. The electric current is now flowing uninterruptedly between the Eastern and Western hemisvheres. The great work is accomplished. Nothing remains to be done but the adjustment of the telegraphic apparatus, and the completion of some minor details connected therewitn. These indispensable preparations will Occupy several days. When they are dinished the Line will be thrown open for business. ‘The steamship Arago, from Havre and Southamp- ton, 28th ult., was intercepted off Cape Race on Thursday last, but owing to the inierruption of tele- graphic communication at Cape Breton her news did not reach the city till last night. Her advices, how- ever, have been mainly anticipated by the arrival of the Prince Albert at Halifax on Friday. The Arago will probably arrive at this port to-morrow. We learn from the City Inspector's report that there were 679 deaths in the city during the past week, a decrease of 19 as compared with the mor- tality of the week previous, and 128 more than oc curred during the corresponding week in 1857. Of the whole number of deaths last week 516 were of Children of ten years of age and under, and 58 in- Mates of the public institutions. The following table shows the number of deaths during the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguish- ing the sexes:— Men, Women. Boys. Girls. Total. . 72 285) 6253698 8 269 260 «(678 Week ending July ‘Week ending Aug. - 6 Among the principal causes of death were the fol- lowing-— ——— Week ending— Diseases. July 31. Aug. 7 Bronchrus 6 2 60 5 i 38 Coolers 195 “ 2 a 10 10 10 6 jolera morbus, 8 of Congestion of the orain, 5 of croup, 7 of debility (in- Tautile), 6 of disease of the heart, 19 of hooping cough, 5 of palay, 2 of smallpox, 6 of teething, 10 premature births, 27 stillborn, and 14 from violent causes, including 1 suicide, 2 murders,and 5 drowned. ‘The following is a classification of the diseases, and the number of deaths in each class of disease, during the week: Pravaste. Boves, joints, &c.. Brain and nerves Fuly 81. Aug 100 9 8 9 Oi4 age... Bk:a, ke , anit eruptive fevers Suttdorn and premarure births .......... Broroach , bowele ans other digest ve organs 322 Uncertain ceat aad ral fe 4 L ponding weeks in 1856 and 1857, was Week ending Avg.9, 1856 Week ending Aug 8, 1857 ‘Woek ending July 21, 1868 Week ending Ang 7, 1868 The nativity table gives natives of the United Btates, 78 of Ireland, 23 of Germany, 15 of England, 2 of Seutiand, and the balance of various foreign Qouutries. The annexed table shows the temperature of the @timoephere in this city during the past week, the Pange of the barometer, the variation of wind our- Fents, and the state of the weather at three periods @uring each day, viz.: at 9 A.M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. Mo follows: — Tt ee “re! yen pod prone B30 supe so) Ravurday—Oen Sup day —Oleas ¢ Dintey—Mort ag, overonst afte Overcast and rainy dering Ihe ev Toesday—Overonet wii light rain wii day, night, heary rain. Wedneatay— Morning. overcam with tivht . feos, overceet. tight. fain, Ht Fain; after Dre ternal overcast, afternoon, clear, night, “ar Friday—Clear and warm oil day night, clear, Paturday—Ciear. ‘The ship Sparkling Wove artived at the lower Querantine anchorage yesterday from Matanzas She left New York ander command of Captoin Thomas Sounders, on the 224 of December last, far Havana, where she arrived on the 5th of Janvary nd remained at that port until June 12, when she tailed with part of a cargo of box sugars for Ma fanzas, to finish loading for Falmouth or orders While lying at Havana, January 20, Thomas Patter md mate, died in the hospital of yellow wes interned « enperintendense Of the capime, J Ala lea, Hula " © the wae § oF $2 per anu VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important rolicited from any quarter of the world; if used, will be Foun. poid jor, ggrOUR Forsian ComResroxDENTS ARB ARTIOULARLY REQUESTED TO KEAL ALL LETTERS AND Pacn- died of the same complaint ie the hospital. Also, John McCanna, a seaman, died about June 20. The ship arrived at Matanzas June 15. While there, June 16, Duncan Talman and James Myers, eeamen, were sent to the hospital, and died; date not known. Captain Saunders died in Matanzas; also Daniel Moore, first officer, and John Penny, second officer, and two seamen. After shipping new officers and some men, she sailed for Falmouth, England, but subsequently put into Savannah, previous to arriving at which port Mr. Gordon, the new chief officer, and another second mate (name not known,) and one seaman, a Spaniard, died. She sailed from Savannah for the original port of destination July 28, when, on 2d August, Capt. George F. Carpenter, sickened, and died on the 5th, having previously given orders to shape the ship's course tor New York. The charge of the ship ihen fell upon Mr. Isaac Beebe, of New London, first officer, who had been sent on from this city, by the though disabled in his left hand by having his small finger torn nearly off by a hawser, while towing out of Tybee river, has by untiring efforts safely brought the ship and cargo to this port, having six sick men out of a crew of fourteen, all told. The sick were taken up to the Quarantine hospital by the steam tug Cinderella, and cared for.. A large amount of business was transacted yes- terday in the Court of General Sessions, Recorder Barnard sitting till a late hour in the evening. Three noted burglars, who broke into the house of Benja- min J. Howland in Tenth street, were sentenced as follows :—Thomus Early, a youth, ten years to the penitentiary ; Lundy de Vesey, 15 years to the State prison, and John Francis, 12 years to the same insti- tution. These men were intelligent, cunning ne- groes, and im attempting to escape fired at the of- ficers. The sales of cotton yesterday were oonfined to about 300 @ 400 bales, without change in prices. We siil! con- tinue to quote middling uplands at 12%;¢. Flour was firmer and bigher for most devcriptions, while eales wore made to a fair extent, including purchases for the home trade and for export. Wheat was firm, with froe saies at steady prices. Corn was some less buoyant, but in fair Cemand, with sales of heated to fair and sound mixed ‘Wemeern at 68¢, a 90c., white Southern at 90c. a 96c., and yellow Jersey at $1. Pork was in better request aod firmer, with ealer of mess at $17 40 8 $i7 50, and prime ot $15. Sugars were Grm, with sales of 600 a 700 hhds. Porto Rico aad Ovuba muscovados at ful) prices. For tho words ‘pause in the sugar market,’ in our summary yee- terday, we were made to sy ‘a panic In sugar,” dc. Coffee, in view of @ public sale of Rio to come off next week, was quiet, while prices were steady. There was rather more offering in freights, while engagements were limited. *Ohange was thinly attended yesterday, many merchants baving departed in the forenoon for the country. Enterprise in Journalism —Th: Herald the First to Announce the Sueceas of the Cable, The true spirit of energy and enterpriee in journaliem is nowhere better exhibited than in that spirit of systematic forecast which has ena- bed the Hrrap, on so many occasions, to be the first paper to announce to the world the consummation of great events. It was neither luck nor chance that enabled us to be the first 6nd only journal to announce the complete suc- cess of the attempt to lay the Atlantic cable. B was long continued and costly labor, extending over a series of many months, and through all the previous failures. This foresight and system in the management of our paper enabled us on Yriday morning last to give the following tele- graphic despatch from our special reporter, an- pouncing the successful laying of the great Atlantic cable:-— Usarep Staras Pricare Niacans, ‘Tumiy Bay, N.F., August 5, 1868, 5 James Gorvos Bewnarr, Esq. — The Atlantic Telegraph cable is laid! The United Siates frigate N has reached Trinity Bay, Newfoundland end Janded ber end of the line. The \elentia, Ireland, on the same day, with ber end of the the electrical communication ® perfect. Signals aro Posing between the two siations with the greatest ac- curacy. The Niegara will leave for St. Jobns, N, F., on the 6th ‘r stant, acd will start tor New Yorks after taking on board tuflicient coal for the passage. py pe Eh hg was accomplislied by both ships in a Little over The above is the first special despatch sent to ony newspaper in this country announcing the success of this great enterprise. The hand that penned it came with the Niagara across the Atlantic, and the mind that prompted its terms knew well what it was doing, and bad » fall knowledge of the facts transmitted, as isalready evident by their confirmation from other sources. Doubts having been thrown upon the authenti- city of our special deepatch, the manager of the American telegraph which connects with the Atlantic cable has sent to us the following note :— ‘TO THE EDITOR OF THUR HERALD. Ornicn oF THE AmmniCAN TmmcRArH Comrany, 21 Wait. erexer, August 7, 1868, ie dated Ftates ~ $y. the “\'nitet sud publiensd inthe New Your Hamat’ ou Fr ing, te word for word as ‘t came through this th.pg being added thereto or taken therefrom except the @cnature Wo the despatch. ALFRED B. TALOOTT, Manager. A mean and contemptible paper of this city, whose highest emotion is a feeling of jealousy, vad whose greatest effort of enterpriee ie an at- tempt to imitate the typographical arrangement of the Hrratn, has had the impadence to pro- pounce our despatch bogus. The only motive it had for making this statement was its envy at our having exclusive news, and the reaction of its own stupidity at not having been able to comprehend the terse deepatch of Mr. Field to the Associated Prees. Accustomed as it is al- ways to deal in and eave itself with quibbles. it supported that Mr. Field was guilty of the same mean practice when he stated that “the cable is snceessfully laid.” It will have now the shame of publishing in its columns the very facte which it affected to disbelieve yesterday. This eating of ite own words, which it is eo fre. quently obliged to do, would turn the stomach of anything but a hog. The doubters are now convineed; and as our well meaning Mayor was among them, we trust he will make a hand. some amend to Mr. Field for the discourtesy of diebelieving his despatch. We would suggest to him that he do another handsome thing: When the meseage of Queen Victoria to Presi- dent Buchanan is announced here. let him order a national salute to be fired in honor of } it, and send a telegrapbie salutation to the | Lord Mayor of London announcing the fact. Tur ox, 6, 1858,” ‘morn- | Massa Greetey Natiowat Keo y.. The Hon. Maesa Greeley is great on Fourieri«m, free love, philosophy, fustian and on niggers, especially niggere and “ free wool: but as a financier npon government economy he is somewhat behind the age. He recom- mendes ihe abolition of the army and the navy, on the ground that thereby » good many mil- lions of our presem government expenses would be saved. But bas not the Hon. Massa | Greeley heard of the Atlantic cable? and does | he not know that the close contact into which { it will bring us with the great Powers of Ha- | rope will require us rather to strengthen than | to weaken our army and navy, in order to pre- serve our prestige ae a first rate Power among the nations, and to keep our next door neigh bors of Burope subject to law and order’ The Hlon. Maesa Greeley must brash up and stir } himeelf, or he will be left behind, among the } old fogies of an age that is gone. We are | living now fn the second division of the nine- teenth century. with Eogleod and France at Vo | President of the La Crosse aud Milwaukie Rail- | read, of a pamphlet justifying the action of steamer Huntsville, expressly for the ship, and al-" New Lobby Developements—Grounds fer Anctasr Committee of invesugaucn in Congvers, | The publication by Mr. Kilbourn, the late be compelled todo eot The House of Repre- sentatives, at its next session, will fee] bound to notice this official statement of the President of the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Rail- read Company, as they noticed, at last session, tbe entry of $87,000 on the bocks of Lawrence, Stone & Company; and be it recollected that the $64,190—to which the fore- going bill = amounte—is ~— exclusive of $75,000 paid toward the same object by au otaer railread company, and is algo exelusive of contracts, conditional on the Chicago company gtting the lands, and which conditional con- trects are estimated by Mr. Byron Kilbourn at over 8 million of dollars. There was a gigantic ewindle perpetrated by the lobby of the Thirty-fourth Congress, and now revealed by the presidents of the railroad companies involved in it. How many members of the House and of the Senate were won over to vote fo: the Wisconsin land bill by the gol- den arguments of this $139,000, paid uncondi- tionally, and of these contracts for over a mil- lien more made conditionally? That is a ques- ‘ion for the answer to which the country has a right to look to Congress. There can be no great difficulty in arriving at all the facta in thie etupendous fraud. Matteson and his band of forty thieves were not then so careful to cover their tracke as subsequent events have caused them to become. ‘Mr. Wheeler and the other agents can say haw this money was dis- tributed and to whom and in what proportions it was paid. The contracts, too, were, as in Si- monton’s case, legaily executed documents; and even if they do not now exist, the names of the vatious persons to whom they were executed must be known to Wheeler and his associate agents. Here isan opportunity for developing the operations of the lobby and the corruption of members and editors and ccrrespondents on a scale to which the Des Moines grant inquiry and the tariff investigations were mere petty circumstances. We press the matter on the at- tention of Congress; and in the name of the people of the United States we demand a com mittee of inquiry. himself und associates in corrupting the Exe cutive, Legislature and Judiciary of Wiscovsin in the matter of the land grant for railroad purposes, bas revived the whole subject of the operations of the Washington lobby. We first borrowed aa extract from this extraordicary Peblication to chow how the Zimes correspou- dent and vote broker in Washington had.actually hadin bis pocket a contract giving him four thousand acres of land—valued by himeelf at $40,000—for his services in the passage of the Wisconsin land grant bill, at the very time that he swore before the Investigating Committee that all the interest be had in the maiter was thst he was “ told by ontside parties” that it the bill paseed he should receive a certain com- pevsation. We again borrowed from this pam- pblet to illustrate the moral views of a Western railroad president, who could see in the whole- sale bribery of the entire State government “nothing repugnant to the trictest principles of humanity.” And today we revert to its pages for come other facts and revelations, opening up a magnificent ground of inquiry into the operations of the Washington lobby. It appears that when Simonton attended be- fore the directors of the La Crosee and Mil- waukie Railroad to press his claims for the four thousand acres or its equivalent in cash, under his contract with the agent of the Chicago, St. Pau! and Fond du Lac Railroad Compauy, he informed the directors that the whole prize was not coming to himself alone—that he had to go shares with another reporter for a New York paper—whose name he gave—and with two gen- tlemen in Washington, whose names he did not give, intimating that they were members of Congress, Now, we should like very much to get the tfames of this reporter and of this pair of honor- able members “under the rose.” Mr. Byron Kilbourn being at the confessional, and soon to be, as we hope, in the hands of a pious father of the church, cannot do better, as partial atone- ment for his bribery of the Legislature and Ex- ecutive of Wisconsin, and for his dreadful heresies proclaimed in the “ Review” we have been quoting from, than reveal all that he knows on this end kindred subjects, and inform us, among the rest, of the name of Simonton’s reportorial associate. If Mr. Kilbourn should happen to fall into the hands of one of the pious Jesuits of Fordham—to whose attention we have commended him--he will learn that without a full confession and atonement he cannot hope for absolution; and, therefore, he must out with all these damning secrets. Should Kilbourn, however, still peraist in his errors, it may be that the pilgrimage which poor little Simonton has been making to Salt Lake City will have had a good effect upon his scheming soul, and will have produced in him ®@ humble and contrite heart; and it may fol- low that on his return he may unburthen his couscience and reveal to the world all the lobby iniquities of which he is cognizant, with the part which each New York editor and each member of Matteson’s band of forty thieves has borne therein. Such revelations would be very apropos at this time, when that immaculate chieftain of the lobby is again secking the suf- frages of the republican voters of the Utica dis- trict, and his other chieftain, Wm. H. Seward, who isambit\ous of being President of the United States. Asa sort of refresher toSimonton’s me- mory, let us, in connection with the Wisconsin land grant, for instance, call his attention to the following bill of expenditures presented to the La Crosee and Milwaukie Company by that identical Mr. Wheeler, who signed the contrac’ to him for the 4,000 acres of land. We clip it from this same extraordinary pamphlet which we have had such frequent occasion to STATEMENT AND BXPENSES OF TER CHICAGO, ST. PAUL AND FOND DU LAC RAILROAD COMPANY, IN AND ABOUT PROCURING LAND GRANT TO THE Canapian IxpEPENDENCE.—Our neighbors on the other side of the St. Lawrence have got a very pretty knack of manifesting their diregard for, and their independence of the home gov- ernment. They have just overthrown two min- istries, and a third is in prooces of organization, which, it is hoped, may prove more to their tastes. The first ministerial crisis was brought about by the capital question. For years past the standing dish of disputation in the Canadian Parliament has been as to the location of a seat of goveroment for the united upper and lower provinces, The alternating plan that had becn adopted, of holding the sessions of Parliament one year in Toronto and another year in Quebec, was found to werk badly, inasmuch as the people of neither city would, under such circumstances, make the outlay necessary for providing such accommodations for the legisla- tive body and for the influx of strangers which its sessions attracted. Parliament itself could not agree as to where the capital should be definitely fixed. All the principal cities put in their respective claims, and had of course their respective local adherents, in and out of Parliament ; and so there was no possibility of Settling the question otherwise than by submit- ting it to the decision of a disinterested party. It was consequently referred to the the Queen ; or, in other words, to the home government. As the selection ‘of either Toronto, or Kingston, or Montreal, or Quebec, would bive insured the united opposition of the members favoring any of the other places, it was deemed advisable to overlook the claims of all; and @ place was accordingly fixed upon which had never been dreamed of in connection with the question. That place was a liitie out of the way wilderness settlement named Ot- tawa, situated on the river of the same name, which forms a portion of the boundary line be- tween the two provinces. Doubtless t'e govern- ment, in this decision, was influenced somewhat by the same motive which led to the location of our own government at Washington—the desi- rableness of having the sessions of Parliament held at a distance from the great centres of popu- lation, where they would not be likely to be mo- lested and broken up by mols, as had not unfre- quently been the case in Quebec and Montreal. The home government, however, could have had little idea of the effect which the selection of Ottawa was to have on their Canadian sub- jects. It acted on the presumption that as all parties had agreed to refer the question to it, its decision would have been abided by. In that very natural tuppovition it was doomed to be disappointed. Instead of giving offence to the adherents of two or three of the cities claiming the honor and advantages of the seat of govern. ment, it arrayed against it all the united ele- ments of opposition. The result was that on the 25th ult, the House voted that it was inex pedient to locate the seat of government at Ottawa. This was a virtual refusal to abide by the award; and as its recognition had been made & ministerial measure, parliamentary usage | compelled the Ministry to reeign. Ministerial crises are not very uncommon 6c- ourrences in Canada, but it does uot often hap. pen that the inauguration and overthrow of a new Ministry are simultancous events, as was the case there the other day. Mr. George Brown, of Toronto, the editor and proprietor of the Toronto Gide, was called upon by the Gover- nor Genera) to form a new Ministry. He ac- cepted the call, and after a few days the Speaker of the House announced the names of the va- rious members of the new Ministry. Some of the names were received with shouts and jeers and derisive laughter; and, einmltancously with the announcement, a proposition was submit- ted that the new administration did not posscas the confidence of the House or of the country. After a long and exciting debate, the proposi- tion was carried and the mushroom Ministry vanished from the scene, even before they had fairly entered upon it. Another effort is being made to get up a Mi- nistry more suited to the taste of our indepen- dent neighbors ; but from what we have seen of them lately it is not at all unlikely that the Parliament will continue this game at ministe- rial nine pine. The question in dispute is, as we have seen, merely a local one, involving not a shadow of principle and only important in a business and speculative point of view When the Canadians contemn and overrule the couree of the government and overthrow two Minis. tries on euch an unimportant question, what might they not be expected to do if any diMfieul- ty, involving principles, should spring up be- tween themselves and the mother country? Theee events show clearly that the tenure which England bas on the Canadian provinces is of the freilest kind, and may be enapped asunder atang teymcuta’ dou the elightcet provocation, of some $76,000 expended by the lave RK. Y. Cauapuny te courte to obtain onid oven. There is a great dealin this account which needs explanation, and we have no doubt that Simonton—if he comes back in a compunctious mood—might be indaced to supply it. $3,140 is a pretty high figure for cash expenses and disbursements for a few weeks ot Washington. We should like to see the items—how much went for champagne end dinners for members, how much for gloves and laces and crinoline for the females of the lobby, and how much, in fives and tens and twenties for the letter writers who there disgrace the pro- feesion of journalism. But we see that the lat- ter outlay is embraced in the third item of $4,500, “for editors and reporters of news- papers and for newspaper articles.” &. That, certainly, does not seem to be an overcharge, if we take as @ criterion Matteeon’s suggestion to the managers of the free wool movement, to ap- propriate $25,000 to the Tribune and Times of New York; but still we would like to see the items, #0 as to ascertain whether the editors of these Seward organs fared as weli as one of the editors of the Journal of Commerce did for writing up “free wool,” or even Thurlow Weed, who had his $5,000. The facts wrapped up from public ken in thie little item would prove highly interesting, if any one would be good enough to disclose them. Bat the principal iteme in this )'!l are thoee for mortgage bonds and shares iesned to agents at Washington, and by them disposed of in aid of the passage of the land grant. The aggregate value of there is $46,500, This sum, the presump- tion ie, wes divided directly among members; for the os neu to agents, editors and re- porters for istinet charges. Who received jit Ba DN. KR Whegler cna tell. Shall ke apy Tae Guevarier. Wess Loouma Ur—Like a lightboure in the evening twilight, the pros pects of the Chevalier Webb for Congress in the Westchester district, loom up into bold relief. He feels better than he did some time ago, and will, perbape, make a splendid run. We say perhape, to be sure against all contingencies. He will certainly do well if he will only follow the special line of advice which we hope ehortly to chaik out for him. We say hope, be- cause we may forget it. While thus magnanimously inclined towards our revilers and our enemies, as if they were our friends and brethren, may we not put in a good word, likewise, for the Chevalier Greeley? They say he is anxious to run for Governor, as the black republican candidate; and if we can go for Webb, why can’t we go for Greeley? Each may be rather hard to take; but the one will neutralize the other, like a dose of calomel and jalap. Thurlow Weed would prefer Bryant of the Post, for Governor; but Greeley would make a better Governor than Bryant. If elected, Greeley would write a eensible mes- fege of facts and “etatistics,” barring the “free wool,” and if defeated, he would take his defeat like a philosopher. On the | other band, Bryant is too full of poetry, piety, moonshine, old ruins, and such trampery, to make a practical Governor. As between Bry- ant and Greeley, by all odds let it be Greeley. On the democratic side, having gone the whole figure, head, tail and bristles, on Le- compton, John Van Buren, the Prince, is, we are told, up fer Governor. Well, John is no slouch of a statesman, and quite an acrobat as @ politician, fully equal to any of the Ravels. But being a capable man, and having turned up at last perfectly “sound on the goose,” Joba ought to havea chance. He would make a very witty and a very amusing Governor, at all events, and his party “may go further and fare worse.” Let us have-Webb for Congress in old Weetchester, and a fair and square stump cam- paign between the Chevalier Greeley, Gerrit Smith and John Van Buren for Governor, and we chall have a campaign that will be remem- bered when Colonel Pluck will be forgotten. Ovr Taxpayers AND THER Apatity.—All three of the political factions of this city—the de- mocracy, the republicans and Know Nothings— are preparing their usual machinery for the work of our next municipal elections, and sport- ing men, gamblers, shoulder hitters, “short boys,” pugilists, “dead rabbits,” “live rabbits,” and all the odds and ends of ruffianism, are coming again into the market for the spoils and plunder of our city treasury. But atill there are nosymp- toms of life among our thirty thousand tax- payers, although our tax list, of from nine to ten millions this year, may be increased to twelve or fifteen millions next year. Is it not time, high time, for the parties who have to pay the piper, to begin to take a band in the dance ?— or are we still to go on and on, from bad to woree, till driven to the extremity of a provi- sional government? We should like to know. Morr Sramistics to sh Hap Wirsovr Cuancr.—Aminidab Sleek, of the Journal of Commeres, presents a statistical account of the services which he has rendered the democratic party, for which he received no “ reward” ex- cept the consciousness of virtue. Aminidab claime that be elected Mr. Polk in 1844—that he carried the Compromise measures in 1850, and that in 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska bill could not have become a law without his sup- port. For all these great services Mr. Sleek says he received no pay; but in his statistics he has omitted to mention the “free wool” service, for which, it is said, he received three thousand dollars. That is @ bit of statistics which the good man bas omitted, and we beg to supply it for him. Literary Forornies any Arremprs at Were— The Tribune published yesterday a letter pur- porting to have been written by Mr. Buchanan, in relation to the Indiana election. It is a gross forgery. and bears prima facia evidence of the fact. On Friday Mrs. Biddy Bigelow published in the Pos two burlesque despatches, by Atlantic Telegraph, purporting to have passed between the Queen of Wogland and the President of the United States. The article was a coarse, disgusting and miserable attempt at wit: and we are eorry to see It reproduced in several respectable journal, It is a disgrace to them no less than to the journal in which it appeared--the Hvening Lox, THE LATEST NEWS. PORNO. Our Special Washington Despaten. . THE NEWS OF THE LANDIFO OF THR TALFORAPT CA- BLE BFPRCT OF TAR ST. LOUIS A) KANSAS ELRC- TIONS-—-IMPORTANT RAILROAD &! AE RISB CON DITION OF THE NATIONAL FINANORS, BTC. Wasnrnearon, Auguet 7, 1858, The effect of the news received this afternoon, of the eafe landing of both ends of the cable, and the perfection of the current through it, can hardly be described. Owing to the non-working of the line, fears began to obtain that the whole story was a well contrived hoax for stockjobbing purposes; bat the joy expressed this afternoon, expecially at the departments famong the government officials, was perfectly inspiring. The achievement is pronounced wn advance of at least half a century in a day. ‘The administration men and papers are exultant atthe defeat of Francis P. Blair, Jr., of St. Louis, but bave only a word to say about Lecompton in Kansas, and that is that the people have evidently decided tozremain under a ‘Perritorial organization till they noquire the requisite population for a repre. sentative in Congress. The recent visit of ex-Secretary McClelland, of Michigan, and Mr. Gzowski, of Canada, to this city, was to obtain from the War Department the right of way for the Detroit and Milwaukie railway, a virtual extension of the Grand Trunk westward through Michigan, and on which Mr. Gzowski is contractor, through a military reservation between Saruia,on the St. Clair river, and Pontiac, in Michigan. [tis un- derstood that Secretary Floyd acceded to their pro- position, under the usual restrictions. The sometime deferred visit of Secretary Toucey to his home in Connecticut, and on a tour of inspec- tion to the Northern navy yards, is again annownced for next week. General Cass spent some time at the State De- partment to-day, The receipts into the Treasury for the quarter ending June 30, 1858, were upwards of $23,000,000, against $11,000,000 for the correaponding quarter of last year. Of these enms $9,850,000 were received from customs in 1858, against $10,000,000 from that sonece in 185%. The expenditures of the same qnar- ters were $17,000,000 in 1857, and $23,000,000 in 1858. Of the receipts for the laat quarter $12,600,000 were proceeds of treasury notes. . , The Treasurer's statement for the 2d inst. is as The city in comparatively dull, and the weather inguflerably hot. There is aleg the usual amount of a consequent upon the heat and eatiog of m irult, ‘The Kansas Miection. Br. Lovrs, August 7, 1858. Leavenworth advices of the 4th have been re- ceived per express to Boonville 7th. Complete returna of Leavenworth county give a majority of 1,748 against the bill. Partial returns from Shawnee, Johuson and Franklin counties in- crease the majority against the bill to 4,704. The total vote of these counties ax received is 6,846. It is thought the whole vote of the Territory will reach 15,000, and the opponents of the bili claim a majority of 9,000. Topeka cast 246 votes againat the bill and 10 for it. Lecompton gave 122 against the bill and 27 for it. Nothing has yet been re- ceived from the southern and western counties, ‘The Missourt Election. 8r. Louis, August 7, 1858, ‘The administration candidate for Congress in the fourth district has a majority in Buchanan and Platte counties of 1,730 over Adams, opposition. It is believed that Craig’s majority in the district witt exceed 3,000. The official retarns from St. Louis county give Barrett, democrat, for Congress, 7,057; Blair, 6,631; and Breckenridge, 5,658, ‘The whole democratic ticket is elected by from one to three hundred majo- rity. In the fifth district Woodson is re-elected for Congreas by about 600 majority, Anderson, in the second district, will get upwards of 4,000 majority. Scattering returns from the seventh district indicate Noell’s election over Zeigler by a large majority. In the fourth district Craig will be re-elected by about 3,000 majority. . News from Utah, A Sr. Lovurs, August 7, 1853. ‘The Utah correspondent of the Republican, under date of July 3, says that Brigham Young has had all the animals taken from the government trains Inst fall driven into Salt Lake City, for the purpose of having them delivered to Gen. Johnston. Young has desired Governor Cumming to receive them offi- cially, and forward them to Gen. Johnston. Com. panies are forming in this city to proceed to Frazer river via the plains. Army Movements, Sr. Louis, Augnst 7, 1858. General Harney, Major Bell, Capt. Pleasanton and Surgeon Wright, arrived here last evening. The councils between General Harney and the Cheyennes, at Cottonwoid Springs, and with the Pawnees, near Fort Kearney, resulted in their pledging themselves not to molest the whites, and promising t> remain in peace with each other. Non-Arrival of the Nova Scotian. Quenxc, August 7, 1858. The Canadian Screw Steamship Company’a steamer Nova Scotian, with Liverpool advices of the 28th ult., is now about due at this port, but has not yet been signalled off the River du Loup station. —_______. The Canadian Ministry Troubles. Toxonro, August 7, 1858. ‘The new government was announced this mora” ing, as follows:— General for General, With the exception of Messrs. Galt, Bellean and Sherwood, all the foregoing were members of the late McDonald administration. Boat Race at Pittsburg. Pirrssvro, Cony., August 7, 1858. There was an exciting race here this evening be- tween the rowboats Putnam and Darling for one hundred dollars a side, distance three miles. The Darling won by fifty yards ahead. Time twenty two minutes forty-five seconds. —<—<—$$____. Ohio Congressional Nominatien, Crnerswari, August 7, 1858, The Democratic Convention at Athens, Ohio, yes- terday nominated Mr. E. D. Martin for Congress, Tne University Regency. Annany, August 7, 1858. Hon. Gideon J. Tucker, Secretary of State, this morning received a letter from William C. Bryant, of Exsq., dated Paris, July 9, declining to accept the oftice of Regent of the. Universit; to whieh be was chosen at the last session of the Legislature. Large Cargo of Fiour un the Erte Canal. Scnenecrapy, August 7, 1858. The boat Candor, of Kirkville, bere this = ing, with 1,600 bbls. of flour, the largest load et. Burning of a F! Mm. : Aprtan, Mich., Angust 7, 1858. Messrs. Cook & Waldron’s flouring mill at Hills- dale, Michigan, with a considerable quantity of flour and grain, was totally consumed this morning. The fire first broke out in the engine room. Loss $12,0003 no insurance, Markets, PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. ADBLIMIA, August 7, 1858. Stecks v hoavy. Penpeyivania State fives, 4; Reading Raiitead, 2%; Morrie Gaual, 4436; Long’ island Ratlroad, 1214; Peonayivavia Railroad, 42. New Onueans, August 4, 1858, and bas advanced %c. Tebaoce ia 76. : cotton to New ORLEANS, August 6, 1858. wore | bales, ate dectine eu Of the week 4,390 pew the . aay tho ee aoe “oa Ddalos. Increased over oar 900 al! Southern ports 160,0C0 baler. moa c Barnmonn, A ‘7, 1858. Fiour firm; Howard street at $476 Wheat frm end nachsoged. Corn mares: White at 860. a 870.; Yellow at 960. a 960. Whiekoy firin at 27c.a27\e. Pro: mee bacon at 74. a OSyc., and bulk monte at 7 . Pr tey Ky! toc ; 0. muddling at Lic. (2. tries, and recelpin oft satns Pintarerwa, Al Flour quiet: new at $4 76: extra at — Sales of 4.500 bushels red at $1 20 a $1 25; whise ‘st $1 25 a $1.43. Corn firm: yellowat $1. Pork buoyaut: meets at $18: hams at lle. 18c.; sides at igo, and shoulders at 7\kc. Whiskey firm at 2c. ugust 7, 1858. $6 50. Wheat Tin Mowean Jenner at Jones’ Woon wil! commence to- morrow, at teno’clock tn the morning, ap4 continne till ten in the evening. Ample means of transit, both by river and rail, will be provided for the great mass of peoplo who will wend their way towards the beaatiful river side park—nevor more beautiful than just at the present time. To the Can't get away Club—and that respectable institu. tion numbers about haifa million of us—theee open air feativaln, with their jolly accompaniments, are partioular- ly de} cious. ‘We bear that on one of the days the manage- ment intend to make s demonstration in hovor of the At- jant'c Tolegraph cable. The fall programme sor Monday Will be found in the proper place in to day's Henato. Brooklyn City News. Divp oF vas Ixscrume,—James McCluskey, who wes shes in @ row on the Oth of July last by Alexauder Jamaisor, and who has eince been lying at the Hoapita:, died of bis fmuries on Friday night. (+4 viewsd the bedy end summoned « jury, when the investigation was adjourned until Monday, at two o'clock. A Gynt Beaxey ro Dear.—A girl oamed Catharine Colston, aged 14, im the employ of Mes, Dorian, No, 320 Pear! gtrect, mes with her death ip @ sicck!ng manner on rated ating epoch jing aaleop, Kemp and communieated to ber clothes. She awoke and ran about in a bewildered state, and finally fel) down ex- bausted. She died in ashort time afterward. An iaquess was held by Coroner itedding, aod A verdict in accordance With the facts above stated was rendered. Passive Countenrrit Bri is. ——-Two mon were arrested by Deputy Sheriif Jobn Frien’ on Friday, on a charge of pas- fing counterfeit $6 biils on the National Bank of Providence, R, 1. upon George U. Green, a hotel keoper at (ravesend, iggine’, Hendrick»on's and Totton’s public houres ‘on the Coney Is'and plank road. One of the accused gives hie neme ae Sylvester Collins; tho other refused to ve bis oame, And was put down ae “John .'' The man who refused to give his name put two bills in his month when arrested, but the officers . ing some murcular force upon his windpipe be was to disgorge. The bills wore found to be a counterfolt 86 snd 8-0 on the above bank, and a!l they had loft. They bi got g pL nnd a ‘1 their posseasion, They mI lore Justice Voorhies and mitted examioation 00 Tuesday next, iia ” Fors Drowarn.--The body of an unknown man wae found drowned at the foot of Harrieoe stroot yesterday. The ¢9 of the deceared was about forty yoars; bad on light woollen pane, a dark coat and coarme boute: wae scout five feet eight inches bigh, amd had probabiy been tu (be Water hoot thes we He waa taken to tbe Gewe. homes far Wee bileation, 7