The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1858, Page 4

/4 Stoua NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, ANEW YORK HERALD, | 2°, 20, 27 ste teez te seize, tees | me gen Mtiten dante Bucacan's Ade © | ewe of unscand to good acd aound Western mixed»! ’ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR | OFFUON BK. W. CORNER OF FCLTON AND NASSAU 87S. Fe reat Lp t sa ul } THE WEEKLY HERALD core Ramorden, wt ots conte Per | Sey, oF BS per annum, Kuropenn Edition #4 per annum, 1 Part of Great Brilnin, or ® 10 any part a the Comtinent, ‘@ steno THE baNTY HERALD, every Wednesday, at four cents per ery, oF per annum ° ULUATARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important ews, solicited From any quarter of the world; ¢f wsed, yoill be ly paid for, BGMUCa FoxeiGn ConR¥sroNDeN Ts ARE ARTICULARLY REQUESTED 70 BRal Ald. LETTERS AND PACK: 46us SxxT 03. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous communications, We do MRO! veterrn those » eartedl r Gann PRUNELTS cgonaed with oonintn, cheapness and div No 224 AMOBEMENTS THIG EVENING. 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Toe Furopaan edition of the Hxmatp, printes in French ani Fnglish, will be published at ten o'clock t the morning. Single copies, in wranpors, six cents. Sevecripsions and sdvertisoments tor any dition of th New Vows Amuaco will de received at the following place in Barope— Lampor..,. Sunaoa Low, Son & Uo. RuL an, a Sxpreas Oo., 61 Witten wi. Parr....., 4m.-Karopean Express Co.,8 Place do ta Bourse ‘Livaaruo, Aa.-Curopean Express Co., 9 Chapel street, R Stuart, 10 Exchange atreet, Last, Hovxs _ Am -Bardpean Expraas Oo., 21 Rue Cornetlie. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Heap ‘wil! combife the news roosived by mail and telegraph at the office deriug the previons week, and up to the hour of Pablinetion Revival of Buasiness—-Vaet Increase of Cireu- lation. Durmg the last few days adout fifleen thousand addi- ona. abeots bave boos added to the already vast daily @irculatios of the Haratp. This we take to bea symptom ‘of the approaching revival of business ip this grea: metro- Pots. If the Atlantic Telegraph Ine should be euccessfully ee tablished, aad the new E! Dorado on Frazer riverturu Out to be authentic, there will be @ rapid revival of bus! poss turoughout the commercial world. We enould not be surprised if, under the eoming new era of Gevelopement, the circulation of the New Your Bruaip shonid rive toa daily circulation of 150,900, or even 200,000. «The past justifies the futare, Now is the time for ‘reed men of enterprise to begin their movemcats. Tae News. The mails of the Niagara reached this city from Boston last evening. Our telegraphic sammary from Halifax, published on Thursday morning, con tained the chief points of the news. We give this morning very interesting letters from our corres- pondente in London, Paris and Berlin, containing » résumé of the latest events occurring in Europe. A Nt report of the preparations made in France for the royal fétes at Cherbourg is also given, with an important article from the London Post, containing Lord Paimerston’s present views on the right of fearch question. A despatch from Trinity Bay gtates that signals are constantly passing through the ocean telegraph cable, bat that, as the operations of the electricians are conducted privately, nothing farther is known as regards the progress made in working the recording instruments. It is conjectured, however, that tbe in- struments of the English electricians have not proved equal to the expectations formed of their ca pacity and adaptability forthe work. Some remarks upen this point, showing how the difficulty alladed to, if it exists, may be easily surmounted, can be fourd in our editorial columns. The special committee of the Common Council on the arrangements for the celebration of the laying of the Atlantic cable beld a third meeting yester. doy. The chairman and Mr. Lowber were requested to draw up the programme of reception and display Mr. Lowber announced that the surplus of the At- lantic cable will be drawn by teams throngh the city, and that each team will bear along twelve miles of the cable. Men were yesterday engaged in putting up the framework in front of the City Malt for the display of fireworks which is to take place on the occasion of the celebration. The Board of Engineers and Foremen of the Fire Depa pat met lost evening at Firemen’s Hall, and resolved to have 8 torehlight procession in honor of the success of the Atlantic cable The Washington Union of yesterday says that one-third of the ten million loan has already been deposited in the treasury, and it is confidestly ex- pected that the eatire amount will be paid in before the Ist of September. An extension of time could have been obtained by the bidders, but as the inte rest docs not commeuce until the deposits are made the bidders will not be likely to avail themselves of the privilege The Board of Supervisors met last evening and tek op the annual tax levy. A motion to strike 00% the allowance of $98,278 for compensation to Steet Commissioner Conover and his subordi Rates, Rao $15.900 for Conover's law expenses in the Devlin cotgroversy, and $16,500 for the law expenses ‘¢ Board in their contest with Meyor Wood, Wes jost for want of @ constitutional vote, there being five in the affirmative and foor in the negative. The statcte requires seven afirmative votes on propositions invoiving money appropria- | tions. The Board adjourned t Tuesday next. A very good conception of the state of affairs at Vancouver Island and Fraser river can he gained | from an analysis of the contents of the Victoris | Gazette, the first paper published on the Island. We received the second number of this sheet, dated June 50,1858, and we give elsewhere a description of it. with extracts from ite news and advertisement columns. The account which the editor gives of the difficulties under which the editing and composition of the paper is done is quite characteristic, and reminds one of the early deys of the California gold fever The steamship Propeller, which leaves Galway on the 2ist instant for St. Johns and Boston, is @ sister ship to the Prince Albert, and in every respect her equal She is also a new ship, having been con strocted at the same time and place and for the same Purpose as the Prince Albert. She will be an inter. Mediate ship, running between the above mentioned Cities, and will be ready to “fal! in” with thove com posing the Galway and New York line whenever her services are requieite. She ts also one of Mr. Lever's steam ships. The cotton market was rather sasier yesterday, with. Out quotad'e change, however, in prices. The sales om Braces about 16,000 bales. Flour was in steady demand. Rejrotes brands of superfine State and Woetorn wore camer, while wtandara brance and extra were firm. Sales if extent. Wheat of prime quality cop aterior qualities were irreguiar. The * C@Drkecd about 6F,000 bushels, at rates given ia ‘Te. @R4e , Western peilow at S60. ; white Southern wat | a Me end Fellow co at Obie Perk was inactive, with ealet cf mere at SIT 40 end of prime et abou $14 90 6 $16. O her provisions were cocdanged. Sogars were een'n active axd firmer. The eales embraced adrat 3,200 thds. end about 1,6C0 bexes, at rates given in avoihor column, Ccffee was quiet, and ‘ales limited to ama! low of St Domingo and Java, Freight engagements were 0 ® modorate amcunt, at rates given clsewbero. ‘The Queen's Message. The public bas been wondering why the meesage from the Queen of England to Presi- Gent Buchanan has not been transmitted by this time through the Atlantic cable. A week has pow expired since both ends of it have been landed, and we have the assurance that signals have been constantly received at the Newfoand- land station from Valentia Bay, showing that the electric current is perfect. ‘The rearon is explained in our despatch from Trinity Bay published this morning. All the arrangements for working the line are confided exclusively to Professor White- house, the electrician of the company, and his assistants, and they have not yet been able to get the Queen’s message through the cable; and, judging from the experiments made at Keyham, they will not succeed in reaching any satisfactory result with the present instruments in use. We were told that the message and the reply of the President were to have been imme diately transmitted, and then the line was to bave remained some weeks in the hands of the electricians for experimental studies. The failure to send the message is significaat. It is probable that the recordisg instruments of the Englien electrician have failed to give intelligible results, and we may bave nothing through the Atlantic cable until they are laid aside by the company. The instrament in- vented by Mr. Hughes is the only une suttiviently delicate to record a message through the bie faithfully, and though it bas been reject d tur far by the company it will probably have wo be adopted. A fortnight or more may yet pare 0 befcre this can be accomplished, as Mr. Haghe is in England, but not at Vulentia Bay, and oue of bis instrameats will bare to be sent from here to Newfoundland and attached there. Tbe parties here who are interested ehould communicate by the steamer which sails to-day for Europe with the directors in England, so that the proper steps may be taken at an early day. Wuere Are tae Pouice?—In our news columns yesterday was published an account of the mysterious divappearance of a lady under circumstances which render it all but certain that ehe has met foul play. The lady ia ques- tion is the wife of an officer of the United States army, stationed at Key West, Florida. Nearly four weeks since—on Tueeday, the 20th of July— she came into the city from Staten Island, for the purpose of shopping, and was accompanied by her mother and brother. She intended to have returned to the island by the half past three o'clock boat, having promised to meet her mother and brother on board. She accidentally missed that boat, but was afterwards seen walk- ing down Broadway, as ifto get on board the half past five o’clock boat plying to Port Richmond, There all trace of herends. She has never been seen since by any of her relatives; and her for- mer life and connections, and the fact of her only child being left on the island, preclude the -upposition that her disappearance is due to any mpropriety on her part, or to any step that a irtuous woman would not take, This is one of the mysterious events that ecur from day to day in the metropolis. Hardly a week passes that the community is not startled by the intelligence of the sudden and inexplicable dleappearance of persons—men and women. In many instances the mystery is cleared by the finding of the body of the missing person in the East or the North river, with evi- dences of their having been murdered. In others the body is never found—the mystery never cleared up. If murder has been committed the murderer is never known—the circumstances never traced. Some Coroner starts off on & wrong scent, perpetrates the most ab- surd blunders, and winds up by leaving the matter a greater puzzle than he found it. The police never do snything but help the Coroner in bis blunderings ; and the event is soon for- gotten in the whirl of city life. In the case to which we now refer, some of our detective officers have been engaged for weeks past endeavoring to get some clue to it; but, with the exception of the facts we have ttated, nothing has been discovered. Bow ix tbat! There murt be ignorance, carelessness or inefficiency somewhere. Where were the police *ben the lady was kidoapped aod murdered ae circumstances indicate that she was’—kidnap- prd and murdered, too, in the most populous part of the city. Llow is it that they have not teen able to gain the slightest clue to her die- appearance? What can we conclude from it!— what can we conclude from similar occurrences equally unexplained’—what can we conclude from murdersand burglaries and highway rob- lvries perpetrated in our midst, day after day, with impunity, but that our police force is totslly dirorganized and inefficient? In Loudon or Paris, or any other great city with a pro- perly organized police, such a case as this would be impossible. {f violence bad been used its perpetrators would have been long ago in the hands of the law; if it hed been a volan tery disappearance. all the circemstances would have been, one by one, followed up, and the mystery made clear. But with us violence is allowed to go unrestrained and unpanished, and the capacity of our police officers goes no further than clubbing some poor drunken wretch over the bead. The fact is that our Metropolitan Police or- wonization is as much an asylum for political outlaws and shoulder bitters now as ft has been at avy time since the establishment of @ police here. Men are selected, not for their fitness but for their services at primary elections, or for the political influence of themselves or friends. The ranks of our detective police are filled up by the Police Commitsioner:—favoritiem, not fituees, being the motive of the selection Out of twenty £0 called detectives, there are not five who are really qualified for the posi- tion. Their incompetency is so well known that foreign governments, when they want to trace out in this country a fugitive from jastice, have recourse, not to the regular police, but to an independent police, compored of some of the most experienced officers of the old force. Our own merchants do the same. The favors of the Police Commitsioncrs are secured by presente of houres and lots; the favors of superintend- ents ard captains are purchased with expensive Portraile and gold shields; new offices are created to reward favorites and toadiee; and the whole department ix a great know nothing and do Lothing coucesu. iinet in é Mr, Secretary Cobb muy congratulate him self on the retpmrkeble euoerss of bis tea million losc—the first instalwert of the twenty millions rutberized by Congress, Upou the heel of aa expenditure of twenty millions of treasury Bores, sud in view of ao jndeGuite prolougation of a deticierey in the annual tresgury receipts to meet ils current expenditures, this Joan is a Brcet achievement From four to five per cent prisuiom ou aloas of ten millions at five per cent for fifteen year-, and with offers amounting in »ilto forty millions or so, caunot be other- Wire than bighiy gratifying to the head of the department, the Prevident and the country. Unquestionably the aburdance of money in the country, sud the want of coafidence in rail- roau and otber epeculative investments, result- ing from the general emash-up of the late re- vuision, bave operated materially in this mat ter to the advantage of the goverament; but stil the extraordinary euccess of this ten mil- lion loan furnishes the most satisfactory evi- depee of the confidence of the country in the government, and in the financial solidity and mora) strength of Mr. Buchanan’e adminis tration. Onr readers will all remember that under Martin Van Baren's sdmiuistration there was an issue of ten millions of treasury notes; that to meet other deficiencies arising from the tremendous revaision of 1837, ther was a Joan of twelve millions made in 1841 (six per ccnt interest), which was increased to seven- teen millions in 1842, followed by an act autho- rizing a re-issue of treasury notes in 1843, and that these loans went abegging in this country ané in Europe, and that a special act had to be paerd to prevent the stock from being sold be- low par, while the treasury notes were looked upon with anything but public confidence, The goid of California and Australia, and the tariff of 1846, and the general mania which they created, by al) eorts of epeculations and of extra- vaganee in foreign dry goods, from the time of Gen. Taylor to the startling and crushing col- lapse of 1857, kept the treasury full to over- flowing. This plethora under Mr. Guthrie (the immediate predeceesor of Mr. Cobb) was so oppressive that all his ingenuity was applied in vain to effect a depletion, and the calculation Was that, under the first year of his management of the department, Mr. Cobb would be afflicted with the insupportable eurplus of at least forty millions of dollars. The New York Henraxp, taking a cooler view of the subject, told a different story, and, months before the meeting of the late seasion of Con- gress, predicted that the firet necessity with Mr. Secretary Cobb would be a loan or an issue of treasury notes. He has had to resort to both, and twenty millions in each case have been granted him to meet the treasury deficiencies of the last and current fiscal years. Thus, from the expensive legacies entailed upon bim by bis predecessors, Pierce and Fillmore, and from the preesare of the late crushing collapse, Mr. Buchanan bas been compelled, at the first session of his first Congress, to assume an aggre- gate debt of forty millions, and with the cer- tuinty before him that, under our existing re- venue laws, this debt, instead of being dimi- nished, must be heavily increased for an inde- finite period to come. And yet we find the balk of this ten million loan, at five per cent in- terest, taken up at five per cent premium, and an excess of money offered at lower rates to the extent of thirty millions more. We have said that this successfal experiment muet be materially attributed to the abundance of idle money in the country, and to the con- tinued want of confidence in railroad and other corporative and joint stock securities; but we may also argue that a loan to the government upon a five per cent interest, at five per cent premium, indicates a very gratifying degree of confidence in the government and in the admin- istration immediately charged with its responsi- bilities. It shows that all these allegations and arguments of the opposition journals, to the ef- fect that Mr. Buchanan has entered upon a policy of recklers extravagance and corruption, which is carrying the government and the coun- try headlong down to bavkraptcy and ruin, are all stuff and moonshine. The long and the short, of it is that his administration has the conti- dence of our capitalists as well as of the masses of the people, and thiv is the best evidence of the moral and financial strength of any adminis- tration. Tn fact, considering the obstacles against which he bas had to contend, and eepecially within his own party camp, all the successes of Mr. Buchanan's administration, thus far, are mainly due to the considerations of justice and good fuith, and to the spirit of moderation and firmness which has controlled the President upon every question, foreign avd domestic, with which he hae had to deal. Thus he bas reduced the rnffiani«m of Kaneas to law and order, and the ferocious Kansas agitation to a dead calm: thas he hav redneed the nuisance of Mormondom into sub- mission to the laws; thus be has brought Eng- land to a prompt abandonment (at least for the present) of her unlawful searches and visitations on the bigh seas; thus he has put an end to the stigma and reproach of filibustering as « part and parcel of our republican system; thus he is gtadnally bringing order and decorum out of the chaos of Central American affairs; and thus, while he has secured the confidence of the American people. he hascommanded the reapect and the moet satisfactory manifestations of friendship of the great Powers of Kurope. An administration standing thu before the country and the world has nothing to fear from the upe and downs of this or that political par- ty. Granted that the democratic porty is de- moralized, divided, and a dead weight to carry, we see only in bolder relief the positive strength of the edm‘nistration. Nay, more: we ses the wisdom of the prevailing movement for the re- union of the democracy, which recognizes in all quarters the administration ae the head and front of the party. And why! Because, with or without the party, the administration is re- cure; while without the admiuistration, the party toust soon be frittered away. Tax Goeat Works at Cunnvovne,—All France bas been unusually excited on the ocoa- sion of tbe inauguration of the dock Napoleon Ul. at Cherbourg; and the feeling has ex- terded to Great Britain, althougd the cauee for the excitement in England is entirely the oppo- site of that which influences dt in France, Daring the ware of Louis XIV., and While that grand monarch was involved in the hosilities which characterized his reign, the necersity of having a harbor on the French Chanel const into which vessels puraued by the Doteb, Spanish or Englich fleets of that day might ron for shelter, became painfully evi- dent, and ome of Lis ministers (de Tourvijley preesed the matier ox the ax'*ti0a of the Kicg: The great milituty cngisedr, Cf that reign (Voutan) wae dir cted to exsariine Qe ecast ant to select the mort ndvantageows potst fur bbe coistrvetion of sueb a work He recommenced La Hegve ae the best point for the parpose, but at the sume time did not overiook the merits of Cherbourg, aod drew up a plaa for its defenes- Cherbourg ws fixed upon as the site Under every subtequent goverament since the time of Louis XIV.--whether monarcbical, iaperial, republican or recolutionary—-the tame idea bag prevailed ; and from 1739, wheo the commercial port was formed and the quays built and two moles constructed, down to 1858, wben the great inoer basin, now called the Dook Napoleon IIL, is inaugurated, the works have bees carried on with greater or less persis tency. And row Cherbourg etande a cwilitary port cf the first order, at once a menuce to its neighbor and ally acrose the Channe}, acd & de- fence on that ride trom any warlike descent upen its Channel coast. The entire cost of the breakwater amounts to $13,400,000, nod of the dock Napoleon III. $3 200,000. It is nded by numerous forts, constructed at imaense ex- pense. Forty-five years ago, in this same month of August, the outer port was inaugurated io the presence of the Empress Moria Louisa, the s¢ coud wife of Napoleon I. And no#, on the 7th of this month, the Queen of Lagiand—the head of the nation agsiast which this port of Cherbourg is an object of offence acd defence— astiste at the grand féte whereby the dock Na- poleon III. is inaugurated; and the Empress Eugeuie, the wife of Napoleon LIL, is probably by her side. The event is of sufficient importance to make the history of the construction of these grea’ works a thing of much interest. We therefore give, from the Paris Moniteur and from the Moniteur de la Fiotte, « historical sketch of Cher bourg and a description of the works, with an outline of their design. Though everything now bears the aspect of peace, the storm of war may come suddenly at any momeet and change that which is now the centre of imperial fetes and royal magnificence into another Cronstadt or Sebastopol, against which the armaments of the other great Powers of the world may be directed. The Cuban Budget for 1858 acd the Cuban Qaestion. We publish in another column a synopris of the estimates sent from Caba to Spain, of the revenue and expenses of that island for the present year, based upon those of 1857. This information is from the secret report of the Spanish officials in Cuba to the home govern- ment, and is every way reliable. We have divested our synopsis of many repetitions which are artfully inserted in the official document for the purpose of making the aggregates appear Jarge, and give only the actual annual revenue and expenses of the colonial government. The totals of the official document make these ap- pear to be over twenty millions each yearly. It will be seen that the eum really paid to the crown is something less than one million four hundred thoueand dollars. To this there should be added the interest on the amount of claims against Spain settled by the Convention of 1834, the ocean mail service of the mother country with the colony, the pension Jist of the Spanish officers and soldiers who have served in Cuba, the allowance by the crown to the heir of the title of Columbus, and the annual present of segars to the Queen. Theee make the total smount received by Spain from Cuba about two millions six hundred thousand dollars. Some of the Spanish journals have recently stated that the annual revenue derived from Cuba by Spain is now over five millions of dol- Jars; but the official statistics show that to be either an error or an exaggeration. It has lately become very much the fashion in Spain to magnify the importance ef Cuba to that country; but whether this proceeds from a dis- position to brag still higher, for the purpose of holding on to the island, or through an exag- gerated valuation to obtain a higher bid for it, no oue can tell. The impression is spreading in Spain, ae well as everywhere else, that the Spanish crown cannot much longer hold its pos- seesion of Cuba. Even now there are move- men!s on foot that may wreet it from the mother country; but to what destiny they may carry it is another question. The spirit of disaffection there is again beginning to raise its head, and to agitate for a revolution through any and every means that maybe found at hand in the idand. A spirit of wisdom and forecast should counsel Spain to give a permanency to the ad- vantages she now possesses in Cuba, while che has yet the power. Fifty millions of five per cent United States stocks wonld give to the crown of Spain a per- petual income equal to that she sow squeezes out of an unwilling people. One million of this, now expended in mail service and annuities to pensioners, would soon accrue to her advantage by the expiration of these al- lowances. Fifty millious of dollars more, which | might be obtained by the admission of Cube | into the American Union, would go far to- wards settling that cancerous problem, the Spanish debt, which now consumes the energics of her national life. Another important benefit would accrue to Spain by the tranefer of Cuba to thie Union. In ite present relation to that ecuntry it draws a triple current of the youog- est and best blood and sinew from the mother country. Nearly three thousand fresh troops are annually neceseary to kerp the ranks of the Spaa- ith army there full; as many more of the youth of Spain come over yearly, fleeing from the con- scription, and another equal number as volun- tary emigrants, secking their fortunes. Few of there ever return. What the yellow fever does not carry off, either remain ia the country or teck better openings elsewhere, Thus nearly ten thousand men, just eatering upon manhood and a career of usefulness, are drawn from the moet activclasees in Spain, If the Spanish crown consults the true interests both of the government and the nation, it will not seek vainly to oppose obstacles ty events that are in the e*rence of thinge, and aust come to paes, The history of every European nation chronicles the lors of its colonies, and the re- cords of Spain are filled with the same result, marked with longer and more ruinous contests than thoee of any other country. What but ruin accrued to her from her contest with the colonies that hed grown too strong to be kept in leading strings’? It was only when she fivally gave op the uselers contest that her commerce began to epring up sgain, and the nation to re vive. The reappearance of the Spanish flag upon the oceon was coincident with her first recognitien of the independence of some of the Spenieh American States. It would be well for AMIGUST 14, 1858. net fe Gictinet from that of Europe, aud has within it ep imperetive lew which impels it to ry! off forety® mination. This law governs the futute of Cubs a6 It has that of che revt of Anxrica EAL Mlb ea pe scat Tne Rervsnicanyy anp Kyow Noruives oF New Youk—How, J, £. Heapury’s Pran ov Unios— We publish ia another coiuma the pronuncinmiento of Hon. J, T. Headley, Know Nothing, late Secretary of Shite, on the ques- tion of a fusion between the olack republicans and Know Nothings of this State; ont, after a careful perusal of the document, we cannot discever that Mr. Headley has made auy prac tical advanecs for the rolurion of the difficulty which he has attempted to cettie. His theory is somewhat pluusible; but the trouble is that it is wholly impracticable for existiog necessities. Hie declaration that “ all callson the part of the republicans for Ameri- cans to co-operate with them against a corrupt administration, witbout recogniziog in any way American principles, are both childish and insulting, and are intended to prevent what they profess to bring about,’ covers, we fear, the whole ground. From the Chevalier Weed, the Chevalier Webb aad the poets of the Hve- ning Post, the decree has gone forth that if the “ Americans” wish to unite with the republi- cans, they must cast away the dark lantern and all ite trappings, and agree to staud fuirly and squarely on the republican nigger platform. Nothing short of that will answer. The sur- render must be absolute, Mr. Headley is not prepared for this, but in- sists that “Americans” shall come into the re- publican camp at least with their side arms; but capnot Mr. Headley see at a glance that a hotch potch coalition, made up of philanthropy for niggers and hostility to foreigners, would never touch bottom? Such a plan of coalition, instead of bringing the Know Nothings over to the black republican camp, would carry the balance of power from that party over to the democracy. The only plan for a practical op- position fusion is the abandoament by the republicans of Thurlow Weed’s nigger heresies, and the repudiation by the Know Nothings of the Native American tomfooleries of Booby Brooks & Co. Otherwise there can be no coali- tion of any practical value. Mr. Headley, we think, will find his plan as impracticable as the late experiment at Buffalo of General Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, and the twe men, with Thurlow Weed as umpire should put their heads together and try it again. Bye oats THE LATEST NEWS. Departure of the President for Washington. Baprorp, Pa., August 13, 1858. The President and party left the Springs this morning, and will pass the night at Cumberland. ‘The President's health is greatly benefitted by his sojourn here. ero 2 Our Special Washington Derpatch, DECISION OF THE FIRST COMPTROLLER OF THE TREA- SURY INTHE CASE OF THE NEW ORLEANS, Vana ©BUZ, ACAPULCO AND SAN FRANCISCO MAIL CON- TRACT—ILLNESS OF SBORETARY CASS, ETO. Wasurseron, August 13, 1858. Governor Medill, as First Comptroller of the Trea- sury, has just rendered his decision in the celebrated case of Carmick and Ramsey. The chief points in the case are as follows:—During the latter part of President Fiilmore’s administration a weekly mail was carried between New Orleans and Vera Cruz ‘by the Mexican Ocean and Inland Mail Transporta- tion Company. A project wasset on foo’ of making road across Mexico, and of continuing the said line from Vera Cruz, via Acapulco, on the Pacific side, to San Francisco. The aid of the Post Office Department was invoked; but there was no appro- priation, and the expense of the Pacific mails were already severe upon the treasury. On the Sd of March, 1853, however, the very last day of the ad- ministration, Postmaster General Hubbard entered into a written contract with Carmick and Ramsey for the transportation of a semi-monthly mail between Vera Croz and San Francisco, upon the the above named route, for four years, at an annual compensation of four hundred snd twenty-four thou- sand dollars. Not knowing that it would meet the approbation of his successor, or that of Congress, and not wishing to embarrass either the one or the other unnecessarily, it was expressly stipulated that the term for which the contract was to run was not to commence until the same should be approved by Congress, and the necessary appropriation made to carry it into effect; and that until such approval the said contract was to have no force or validity what ever, any more than if the same had never been wade. Carmick and Ramsey at once turned the contract over to the Mexican Ocean aud Inland Mail Transportation Company, who were anxious to ex- tend their line as contemplated, and who proceeded to prepare and stock the road between Vera Cruz and Acapulco without waiting for the action of Con- gress as required by the contract. At the meeting of the ensuing Congress Mr. Campbell, who bad suc- ceeded to the office ofel’ostmaster General, expressed some disapprobation of the contract in his annual report, on the grounds of the probable impractica- bility of the route for mail purposes,and the very large mount it would draw from the treasury, to the pre- judice of other sections of the country more in need of such facilities. Congress took no action on the subject. The contract was neitherapproved nor any appropriation made to carry out its provisions. The project of opening a road and ruaning a line be- tween Vera Cruz and Acapulco was abandoned, and Carmick and Ramey, the contractors, memorialized Congress for damages, on the ground that they were greatly injured by the alleged interference of the Postmaster General, whose course in relation to the matter was considered by them as an abrogation of the coutract. Congress, on the Itth of Avgust, 1956, two days before the adjournment of the session, referred the subject to the First Comptrol ler of the Treasury, “to adjust the damages due to Cormick and Ramsey on account of the abrogation by the Postmaster General of their contract to carry the mail on the Vera Cruz, Aca- puleo and San Francisco route, and to adjudge to them, according to the principles of law, equity and Justice, the amount so found due.” The coutractors presented a pro forma account, showing that they expected to clear thirty-one thousand dollars per month on the said contemplated route from the fwansportation of paes@mgers and property alone, over and above the expenses of maintaining it, and carry on the same without any reference to the con- tract price fgr the mail, and filed a statement of their alleged damages at something over one million eight hundred thousand dollars. The case has been argued by some of the ablest counsel in the country, and the Comptroller, after careful @Ramination of these elaborate arguments, has delivered hia written opinion at great length, deciding that the contract was merely conditional, and that the contingenoy upon which it was to go into effect never having ocenrred, it was not subject to abrogation by the Postmaster Gencral or any one else; that he finds nothing in the conduct of the late Postmaster General that is inconsistent with a proper discharge of hie official duties, or which so violates any one of the provisions of said contract as to render the government liable in damages; that the contract has never been abrogated, annulled or broken, but stands as it always stood, subject to the approval of Con- arces, as it was originally agreed it should be; and, therefore, that there are no damages due to the con her to recognise the fact that Americap develope: | tractors for the abrogation of the same. It is under tt ten" that the principal points in the case were sub- mitted to and conourred in by Attorney General Black. ‘. General Cam, 4 80 alarming attack of » ol4 chronic affection tam “&ht, which called up the whole household, bat ie qu.'te revovered today. THE GRNERAL NEWAPAPSR By sea Wasurneron, Augns* 13, 1858, Preparations are being made for the orgwizatiow of an efficient military etaff for Washingtow and Ore- gon Territories, preliminary to the contemplated operations against the hostile Indiana, and to pre- vent a repetition of such defeats av were experienced by Colonel Steptoe. The object of the of War is to muke them fully sensible of the power of the federal arm. A force of 2,500 men will be kept in Utah. One of the Peace Commissioners, in « private letter, represents the affairs of the Territory asin a good condition. The arrival of the Peace Commissioners here is daily expected. General Fair, of Alubama, recently sppointed Minister to Belgium, is in the city awaiting instruc- tions. Bows from Kansas, 8r. Louis, August 13, 1868. A despatch from Leavenworth dated the 11th inst., per express to Booneville, says that General Ward B. Burnett, Sarveyor General of Kansas and Nebras- ka, arrived there yesterday, and that an effort had ‘been made to procure the removal of the Surveyor General’s office from Nebraska City to Leavenworth, bat that the proposed change had not yet been au- thorized. Republican Nomination for Congress. Roox.anp, Me., August 13, 1858. ‘The republicans of the Third district have nomi- nated Ezra B. French, of Damariscotta, for Con- gress. Fire at Oswego. Oswxao, Aug. 13, 1858. Fire was discovered about half-past one o’clook this morning in the Empire Grain Elevator, occa- pied by F. T. Coddington and P. Rathbone, which spread rapidly throughout the building, destroying it altogether, with the grain stored in it, amounting to about 60,000 bushels, nearly two-thirds of which was corn. The elevator was valued at from thirty to forty-five thousand dollars, and was insured for about $22,000. The grain was mostly insured. Total loss estimated at $75,000. All the insurance is in eastern offices. Fire tn Philadelphia, Puiwapsvrai, August 13, 1858. The Mariners’ church, on Penn and Shippen streets, was considerably damaged by fire this morn- ing. A fireman belonging to Hope steam fire engine was drowned in the dock. The Yellow Fever at New Orieans. New Oxxzans, August 12, 1868. ‘The deaths from yellow fever on Tuesday were 35, and to-day (Wednesday) reached 45. Ne Gold tn New Brunswick, Boston, Aug 13, 1858. The St. John (N.B.) papers state that the story of gold being found there is a hoax. Death of an Oid River Captain. Asany, August 15, 1358, Capt. Thomas S. Knight, an old and well kuown river captain, died here to-day. ‘Ihe Europa Outward Bound. Haxirax, August 13, 1858. The royal mail steamship Europa, from Boston, arrived at 1 and sailed for Liverpool at 3 o'clock this morning. Weather calm, raining and very dark. Markets. PRILADBLPBIA STOCK BOARD. fapmiraua, ny 95%: Morris Cenal, 45; sy ivania Railroad, 42),. Naw Onceans, August 12, 1858, The salc: of cotton to-day were 700 bales, at unchanged prices. Prime svygar #0 Barrons, Auguat 18, 1858. Flour unchanged. Wheat frm: red, $1 20 a $i 25; white, $1 25.8 $1 40. Corn lower: white 60c. « 820.; yel- low, S80. a ttc, Provisions—Average sales at unchanged quotanons, PHILADELPHIA, August 15, 1858. Flour dull: ea'rs, 1,600 bois. at $525. Waeat Orm et $1 20 a $1 20 for red and $1 40 for while. Corn active: alin cca 993, Whiskey duli at 28¢. « Cixcrvart, August 18, 1988, Flour steady , sales 2,000 bbis. at $4 75 0 84 85 forse pertipe, and $4 00 & $6 26for extra. Receipts to-day 000 bble. Whwekey active et 224c. Provisions dali. Curcaco, August 13-6 PM Fleur active. Market excited apd unsettie’. Ssies— Wheat S2c. a 67c. Corn cull and declined Sc.; ales 683¢c. Oats firm. Shipments to Buffalo—18,000 bushels wheat; 46,000 besbels corn —Receips—420 bbls. flour; 14,£00 bushels wheat; 40 000 busnets corn. Borrato, Abgust 1312.30 P. Flour Very Orm market for p all kiods: sales 600 bbia. at $5 10 for sour; $6 66.068 75 for choice extra Scetbero, Obie ard Joubie extra Indiana. Wheat—mode- rate ccmand auc urchauged; no prim the market, boicers firm: sales 6,000 bushow rica epring at S60, 060 bushels pow white Canadian at 1 20 orn quiet and steady: eales 27 C00 bushels at 6Fe for ausound anda 8c, for sound, part on private terme. Rye aoarce and the markot firm at 690.0 700, Oats in inir den avd and fim Whiskey te quiet: sales of 100 bbis. at 2be. iret une! Q or extra * Caracian, and 5 for double exiras. Whost—Suppiy Limited; good comavd; market very firm: sales 25,000 bushel’, at 85'4c for Catcage vpring, 96>. for prime Mil- wankie cub. noc $120 for new white Canadian, Cora in foir Gemand, but holders’ views above thre of bayers’; tales 26,000 batdels, at Se, for unsound and 73>, a To, fer ecurd, Rye pomipally 6% «700. Cats scarce and cominel, ot 450. for uneound and 48c. for sousd., Whis- key quiet: salon 100 bdis, at Shc, Canal freights ua- cbanged and dull. Lake rece!pts fer the ‘ast (wenty-four bourr—3,199 bb't. four, $458 bushels wheat, 10,090 Duebels corn, 5,910 bushels oata, Cave! shipments same time—2,442 Dbio four, 14,145 bushels wheat, 49,400 Dusbeis corn, 9,900 bushels oata. Oswnoo, August 18—6 P.M. Flour steady. Wheat is quict. Corn wyhout ma. terial change; sales 4,000 busnele sousd Indians at 75. sfoat. Unig steady ; sales 21,000 burhels Western at 460. Canal freights unchanged. Lake importe—%8,000 bushels Shoat, 8.000 bushela corn, Capal exporte— 5,000 bdbis flour; 8,060 bushels wheat; 21,000 buabels corn; 8,000 barbets cats. Seeneieeemmneneeal Affntra at Quaras tine. Scboorer Preni¢ent % Taylor, Capt. Drinkwater, ar. rived Augest 12, from Oaréeras. with rugar and molade to master Two of the crew sickened with yellow fever ‘aud died on tho passage, Allon board wore apparentiy in good health on the yeseel’s arrival. Anchored below, Bark Aboone, Capt, Page, arrived August 12, from St. Jago Co Ia Remedios, with sugar to Roberta & Williams, All well on board. In the lower bay. Schooner J. P. Wetherill, Capt. Parker, arrived August 12, from Segus Ia leases to Grinnell, Siintarn & Co, No Povomer alten Gite Cape aw, avived. Anguet 1, ate, from Grand Caymaa, with oscos outs, mua & % ‘metal to master. well. Detained afew ‘« Norom! Saunders, arrived ¥ from Galveussn, Gee at ‘Brower. he wt from Ne and T. J. Brig Rainbow, from Sagua, and tbe bark Express, from Tecony, from from Ne 4 M ter ies a : oy , ow x irom Cardenas, August 18, Frig Wingold, rom Coeaeas August 20, sad brig N. P. i i 2) g i i i f eH i