The New York Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1858, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. “AMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE MW. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU OTS. TEAM cok THe 3 an port of Great SER CSuce poctnge. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Bmrngcor—Macic Puss —Mantac Lover, WALLACK’S THEATERS, Broadway—Ro: ras Bauer on—iausn MOBNON. ag BAZFUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Bros¢way—Aner noon and Bveving—Tiiopon's Tugaras OF ART, OF AMI- mare Woue—Coniositins, Ae. poe BUILDING, 661 Broad way—Erwortan Boras, Paxces, eovtecune tonnes MECHANICS’ HALL, 473 Broadway—Barancs’ Mrvereeis Wew York, Monday, August 16, i858, lation. Dering the tact fow cays about fiften thousand addi- YWonal eheots bave boon added to the already vast daily tircuiation of the HmxaLp. Phis we take to be a symptom afthe approaching revival of business in this greai metro- pois. If the Atlantic Telegraph line ehould be successfully es- tablished, and the new Ei Doraco on Frazor river torn out to be autbentic, there will be a rapid revival of busi- oes throughout the commercial world. We should not be surprised if, under the coming new era of developement, the circulation of the New Yorr Hera: should rise toe daily circulation of 150,000, or even 200,000. The past justifies the future. Now ‘s the timo The News, A statement from the chief electrician of the At- {antic telegraph at Trinity Bay, relative to the delay 1 transmitting messages, together with all sorts of suggestions from our correspondents, are given in our columns this morning. By our despatch from Washington we learn that advices had been received from Oregon, giving ‘information of a great fight between the Caynse and Snake Indians. The particulars are not given. In the vicinity of Fort Colville, on the Fraser river, the Indians are making hostile demonstrations, and have driven in the settlers as they were about har- vesting their crops. As this is on the northern route from St. Paul to Fraser river, emigrants are warned not to venture by this route iu parties of jess than one hundred. The United States mail steamship Philadclphia arrived at this porton Saturday evening from Ha- vana, with advices dated on the ‘th instant. She Janded one burdred and eighteen passengers and $212,000 in silver specie. One hundred and sixty thousand boxes of sugar remained on hand. A good demand was anticipated for the coming crop. Ex- change on New York was at 24.83 per cent. pre- miam. Captain Gage, of the American brig R. W. Chandler, died at Havana of yellow fever. There were no United States war ships at Havana. Our correspondent on board the States ship Decatur, writing at Payta, Perd* om 9th of July, furnishes an interesting account of the trip of that vessel from Panama to the first named port. ‘The health of the crew was mnch improved as she advanced southward. Payta has a population of about three thousand persons. Flour and oil mills ‘were at work in the city. A miraculous bleoding image was pointed out in one of the churches. The harbor is good, but the country around presents a desolate appearance. The Decatur and Merrimac were to leave onthe 10th of July for Callao. There ‘was stil! dread of anotber revolution in Peru. The Governor of Payta visited the Decatar. We have advices from Venezuela dated at Caracas ‘on the 15th of July. Our correspondent writes that the Aves Islands difficulty had been settled between the United States Minister and the provisional go vernment. Senor Herrera, Minister for Foreign Af fairs, expressed at the same time the best feeling towards the United States Cabinet. An official note, signed in London by the English government, and ‘the Duke de Malakoff, on the part of Napoleon, was presented to President Castrodemanding the instant delivery of Monagas, Gutierrez and Giuseppi,and it was thoaght the Venezuelan government would yield to the foreign pressure. The Constitutional Con vention had voted that Valencia City should be the seat of government in future. ‘The first stone of the new St. Patrick's Cathedral ‘of this city was laid yesterday afternoon, with the usaal imposing ceremonies of the Church of Rome. ‘There were seven bishops, iacluding the Archbishop, 2 couple of hundred clergymen, couple of hundred boy choristers, and a hundred members of the Con ferences of the Society of St. Viacent de Paul, in the procession. The ceremonies were conducted and the wermon preached by Archbishop Haghes. One hun- dred and three persons._including two Protestante— have responded to a cirecalar of the Archbishop sent to « limited number, subscribing $1,000 each in cash, or in four quarterly payments, to the building of the church. Contributions to « large amount were de- posited on the foundation stone. There could not have been less than sixty thousand persons present, half being females; and nothing occurred to disturb the decorum of the occasion. An interesting account of the recantation of Mise Margaretta Fox, the noted spiritaalist, of the cele- brated Rochester Pox family, and ber admiasion into the Roman Catholic Church, by baptism, will be | found in our columns to-day. There were bat twenty-six vessels at the Lower Quarantine yesterday, three of which have arrived wince Friday last. The steamship Philadelphia, which arrived from Havana on Saturday night, is Getained at the Upper Quarantine. The Spanish war steamship Berenguela came to the Upper Quar- antine yesterday, and will s#lute the Niagara as she ‘The sales of cotton ov Saturday embraced about 1,000 Dales, ciosing without change in prices. Vlour wee steaty, with fair eales to the trade, both domestic and foreign. ‘Wheat was in good demand, with rales of about 57,000 Dishes et steady prices. Among the traprections wasa sale of ch oe new Eouttmern white at $166. Corn was also ‘Mo fair ect): ity, with sales of unsound to good sound Weet orn mixed at Tle. @ 88¢ , and{common to good and prime Southern white at 87c. @ O60. Pork was some less buoyant nd active, with males of mess at $17 200$17 60, chiefty however, ot $17 40.0 $17 60, and primeat $14 86 a $14 90. Boe! was about the same, while ent meste amd lard wore Joss buoyant As usual, om the last day of the week, the ugar market wee les active, while prices wore firm. ‘The ales emornced avout 260 hhds all told, and 166 boxes, Sloning at slonay prices. Coffee was quiet. Freight en Bagoments were moderate, and without change of moment Jo rates, except for wheat in bulk for Liverpool, which wes taken, probabiy, to fill up at tower rates. A Potrrica. Love Frast—The Albany Statesman (Know Nothing) informs us that “from Uleter county we receive « handbill for a meet- fing of Americans, republicans and anti-adminis- tration democrats, at Kingston, on the i9th;” nd that the Hon. J. T. Headley, James 0. Put. nam, | orace Greeley and others are to be among the speakers. Headley and Greeley! Is the world coming to an end! Does Greeley go up with « dark lantern in his band, or does Head- ley come down with a nigger under his arm? Anybow, we hope this meeting of “black spirits od white, and blue spirite and silver grays,” ' } will have a good time. Things have been very | fiat and stale among the politicians for some 4 me past, and almost anything will do for a change. NEW .YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1858. late invincible whig party there, are looking te form as the basis upon which the opposition of Kentucky Know-Nothings, as a “People’s party,’ sre powerless now, and will be powerless hereafter, to accomplish anything except as allies of the great Northern repub- lican anti-slavery alliance. In this view, we suspect,the rump of the Know-Nothing organi- zation has’ been looked upon in all the Southern States where elections bave recently como off, and in all the resuit has indicated a prevailing distrust ofthese Southern remnants of the opposition, and the continued and undis- puted poseeesion of the whole South by the democracy, from the border slave States to the Gulf of Mexico. Apart from this local view of the opinions of Mr. Breckinri@ge concerning the republican party, his flattering observations of this party as “a powerful, a compact, a hopeful organi- zation,” must be qnalified with some serious off- setts and drawbacks. According to the Fre- mont vote of 1856, the republican party “is the strongest organization in the Union, unless the democratic party is stronger.” But the popular candidate, and the high and intense anti-Kan- sas Nebraska bill and “border raffian” excite- ment which brought out that tremendous vote for Fremont have been removed from the poli- tical arena. Fremont has returned to the walks of private life, and it seems that by general consent he is not to be the republican candidate in 1860, and the Kansas excitement has pretty well died out. There is, however, a slender thread of it remaining, which the black republicans may twist into a strong cord, as a party ligament, should the Southern de- mocracy be foolish enough to play into their hands. ‘The people of Kansas, had they accepted the Lecompton constitution, would have been ad- mitted a6 8 State with their present population, tixty thousand, fifty thousand, forty thousand, or whatever it may be. But they have rejected Lecompton, and now the proviso of Congress stares them in the face, that they shall not be cligi- pieces, wigh the removal of tae causes whic. orcught it into life, and that the practical issnce of the money queation are fast superseding tte tigger ia the public mind. Our State con- veeticns of September, and our great North- ern State elections of October acd Nuvember wilt throw a flood cf light upon the eubject; and taking the late St. Louis election as a sign, we are dispceed to believe that these approachicg elections will ecaow that this repuvlioan party will pot answer for the great practical neces sities and iesuca of 1860. Our worthy Vive Preeident would, doubtless, prefer to see the republican party and nigger latform occupy the front rank of the opposi- tion factions in the grand battle for tae succes- sion, but dear experience may yet teach our aigger worshippers a wiser course’ of action. Tho lesson of 1856 may reproduce the lesson of 1840. A}l parties are in a state of disloca- tion and confusion, and there is yet tim: enough for a complete reconstruction of parties and principles, casting the nigger in the back ground for the next Presidency. We must awalt the lifting of the curtaia. Nom-Reception of the Queen's Message—The New Telegraphic Problem—What's tho Matter? Where’s the Queen’s message? Is th» insula- tion perfect? Will the Atlantic tdegraph work? Why don’t they give us the news? ‘These and s hundred other questions of a simi- lar oharacter are heard everywhere—in our etores, our houses, our hotels, our strests—in- deed everywhere throughout the length and breadth of the land. What is the cause of this great delay? Our advices from Trinity Bay inform us that the re- cording instruments at that place record with a good degree of accuracy the communications from the electricians at the Valentia offe ; but that, owing to some unexplained cause, it has been impossible to communicate that fact or any other intelligence to the operators at Valentia. This is a state of things which often occurs upon the land lines. One office can receive correctly from a distant operator, and yet be unable to send a word in return; and the diffi- culty is sooner or later found to be in the bat- tery, its connections, or the instruments; and there is no reason to doubt that the present difficulty in working the cable will, as soon as the electricians can compare notes, be in @ measure overcome, and in a day or two we may expect something from the coast of Ireland. But according to the experiments thus far made public, even if the message of the Queen is got over the line, our opinion is that the transmission of business despatches will be so slow that other arrenge- ments will be necessary to satisfy the stockbold- ers and the public. Our readers are probably aware that the electricians have for years been experimenting on the force and continuity of the current ae- ceseary for the complete success of the tele- graph. Over the long land lines, which are in- sulated, and oa which the principle of induc- tion is without intermediate retardation, they are enabled to work with facility. It is only when the air is surcharged with electricity, and the lightning seeks the readivst avenues for its escape, that our telegraph wires refuse to per- of those reeults were only mde public by Me. Whitehouse bimeelf or his aacietants, and*that but little opportualty was. offered to outsiders to sascertain the truth of these assertions ‘for themselves, On the contrary, it was with ex- treme reluctance, apparectiy, that eay Ameri- can electricians, even on the great experimen- tal teiels, were permitted to witness hia opera tions at Keybam, or attempt any of their own Mr. Hughes, the inventor of the last telegraphic instrament in use, waa allowed but an hour to teet the principle om which it is now beileved the final success of the cable is to depend. The result has been, therefore, not in accordance, 60 far, with the first or even the last calculations of Me. Whitehouse. Indeed, at the experiments publicly made, Mr. Whitehouse succeeded in transmitting only eightcen words in seventeen minutes, while Mr. Hughes sent at the rate of four and a haif words per minute. Now that it is laid in the sea no words or even letters, as far ‘a3 we know, have been sent through. What is the cause of thiat ‘The electric current passes vigorously, but ao words are communicated. The real oause is anid to be that Mr. Whitehouse’s apparatus does not control or accommodate iteelf to the mag- netic waves; that they succeed each other so rapidly that the letters or characters all arrive together, the Iact as quickly as the first, and that they become an untranslateable jumbie. The retardation of the first wave of the current js attributed to the circumstance that it is not only weakened in the transmission naturally, but is diminished in speed and power by the at- traction of the outer coat of the cable, which is affected in turn by the water of the sea. The next wave is impeded somewhat less, and,so on, till the last one, having the way clear to itself, rushes forward and pushes with its antecedents into the first wave, thus making but one, and thet confused and contradictory. Mr. White- house has, however, prepared himself to apply Mr. Moree’s system of relay magnets, improved by a process of his own and that of Messrs Cooke and Wheatatone, to the receiving and re- gistry of the signals at either terminus ; so that if we may believe the publications sanctioned, we suppose by himself, ho was ready either with a di- reci voltaic current of seventy-two pairs of plates, of sixteen inches square, or with induction coils five feet long, generating a current of limited intensity excited by his Laminated Perpetual This is described as being on the principle of Smee, so far as platinized silver and zinc plates are used, but differs in its construction, as it isa combination of parts which can be removed and restored without interfering with the others in the transmission. So powerful is this battery, that but for another contrivance eimilar to Maintenance Battery. that we have already alluded to, the contact of the poles of the battery would destroy the metals of which they consist. But why does not the cable work? It is ten days since the cable was landed, and no message yet. We have come to the con- clusion that Mr. Whitehouse’s arrangements will not answer, aud that he has been unable to control or time the electrical currents into distinctnesa We have reason to believe that his batteries and instruments have been in or- for several months past, and more than der this, that they cannot be made to send even one | be preases bis fing", Or from whioh he removes ble for admission until they have shall secured the full federal ratio of 93,340 populaticn. That is the law; that is the tub which was thrown out to amuse the Southern whale in Congress, and it has served its purpose. It will not do to argue, like the Washington Union, that the re- jection of Lecompton proves that the people of Kansas desire to remain in the condition of a Territory three or four years longer. The peat meat ia coy Ora bond | word per minute. That was all he could do . operators Grtven from, tr senta. | ater Mr. Hughes precented himeelf at Ply- For all such contingencies a very ingenious ap- mouth. At best, he was compelled to adopt paratus has been contrived to intercept and | . | the principle of Mr. Morse both in strengthen- break the force of the superabundant fluid and ing the currents and in recording the signals, save the instruments from bina So| snd this principle, which is one of simplest nes in the! of all the methods for land lines, will not work | in this instance across the broad Atlantic. Sea, though hundreds of miles in length, are ; If anything is to be accomplished it will be question is, what shall be done with Kansas should she apply at the coming session of Con- gress for admission as a State under a new ¢on- stitution and with her present population’ ‘The answer to this question is perfectly clear, and yet the Washington Union does not seem to comprehend the force of it, and ehrinks from endorsing it. Should Kansas at the coming eession of Congress present herself for admis- sion with a new constitution, she must be ad- mitted. We say must, for there is no getting over that duty. She must be admitted, or the democratic party, in refusing her admission, will, in truth, make the republican “the strongest organization in the Union.” The cry that the “slave power” forced its Northern democratic allies to consent to the admission of Kansas as a alave State with forty thousand Poptiation, and to deny her admission ar a free State until she shall muster over ninety thou- sand people, would infallibly do the work. But let the opportunity oconr, and let Kansas be admitted at the next session, and the last ecrap of this dieastrour Kansas business to the democracy and the South will be taken away. That this will be done we fully believe, for Mr. Buchanan is a practical man, and knows the difference between practical necessities and nonsensical Congressional provisos. He knows, as we all know, that this Kansas restricfion served its purpose in securing the pamage of the English bill, and that for any other pur- poee it is “all leather and prunella,” and agite- tion and mischief. It gave something to the Southern ultras in Congress to ewear by, which was “the full intent and meaning” of the re- striction; and the sooner the Southern demo- cracy come to this understanding the better. They have lost Kansas, and they will do well to give her up at once, instead of reopening the quarrel upon the shallow and foolish pretext of & compact which is a mere nullity, | In the meantime the republican party, judging from its present condition in the Empire State, is anything but “the strongest organization in the Union.” Very true, Thurlow Weed, the Chevalier Webb and other organs of the party have refueed all concessions asked by the Know Notbings as a bond of union, and stick to the test of “no more slave States and no more tlave territory ;” Wut this is from the blindness of the hatred of Weed and Co. to the late ad- herents of Fillmore, and not from any con- victions of the requisite republican strength to carry the State. On the other hand, the temperance faction and the regular abo- lition faction of the State, both of which have been deceived by the soft appliances of the Seward managers, are resolved to be thus de- ceived no longer. We should not, therefore, be eurprieed if, in oar November election, be- tween the rump of the Know Nothing order, and the abolition and temperance factions, the re- publicans were to lose the State, Governor, Congress, and Legislature. The work can be done with anything like a proper amount of union, tact and energy on the part of the democracy. Our own opinion is, at all events, that since the pastage of the English Kansas bill and the aéjournment of Oongress, the republican party hee been rapidly disintegrating and falling to perfectly manageable, and no difficulty has yet occurred in transmitting intelligence, although the operators, under the most favora- ble circumstances, have thus far enly been able to send four words per minute through the Mediterranean line. In the Irish and British channels, and between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, there is the eame facility in ope- rating the lines as on shore, because these are all short lines, but on the Hiborno American route some obstacle, as mentioned above exists, not yet fully understood by the electricians, or clearly explained to the public, We imagine the fault lies with the electricians. Our readers have been aware, from facts from time to time made knewn through the Henany by its special correspondent, ax well as its other channels of communication, thet Professor Whitehouse has long been engaged in experi- ments upon the electric current, in the various forms in which it is applicabic, and the beat kinds of batteries to produce the most wseful effects, The “Lightaing King,” as some of the English journals choose to style him, has in vented varlous ingenious machines. aad among his inventions, the magneto-electrometer ts his «pet child.” This shows the number of grains in weight which a steclyard at one end of the wire will lift, when excited by the voltaic stream at the other. Another invention of his, by an ingenious process de- termines the velocity of these currents. Lis ex- periments, however, have been conducted with much secresy, and nothing has really been learned of their results but what he himself has permitted to be made known. He has also de- termined, or claims the credit of determining, that the cable is nothing but “a capacious Leyden jar, Atlantic breadth long, the gutta percha sheath being its insulating conductor, the copper strand its interior conducting coat, and the iron covering and the water of the sea its outward coat. Every time a signal is sent through it the entire jar must be filled with electricity and discharged.” But Mr. White- house, notwithstanding this dictum, also asserts that with seven minute points of zinc, triangu- lar in shape, dipped in seven small cells of very diluted acid, he has printed telegraphic marks through six hundred miles of wire in nine. tenths of a second, when he certainly could not have filled up this Leyden jor. Ile, therefore, ie, or was, confident that a very feeble current would be sufficient to set at work at the western terminus of the Atlantic cable relay power enough to make the usual printed or dotted signals. Thus confirming what was well known © Moree and others, that the direct electrical action of a voltaic battery, no matter how forci- ble, has less useful force than the weaker stream operating by magnetic induction. It was also established, and it is now generally admitted, that the electrical currents follow each other in waves with such regularity that each transmis. sion of the fluid clears the way, as it were, for that which follows, particularly when the nega- tive follow the positive current, or vice versa. It was announced that in this manner, on a line of about a thousand miles, seven and eight cur- vents recorded themselves accurately every fecond, It must be borne fn mind, however, that many in the opinion of competent judges, only through the use of Mr. Hughes’ apparatus and the adoption of his principle, or some other yet to he discovered. Every wave by his arragement makes « distinct letter, while by Whitehouse’s it requires seven current waves to produce two letters. Hughes’ telegraph prints, as does that of House, bat it works upen the plan of using but one electrical impulse per letter, while House's requires even, and Moree’s three and a half. One impulse is the one for a long subma- rine line. The revolutions of the type wheels are kept at a similar speed, not by any clock or pendulum work, but by vibrating springs, which by the laws of acoustics give invariably fixed tones for certain numbers of vibrations, one and all alike, according to those vibrations. These springs unlock the escapements at the same time at cach end of the line, and the type wheels eet free, ordinarily make one hundred revolu- tions per minute, equivalent to forty words. This, of course, is through land lings. His mag- net is a combination of a natural and an electro- magnet, snd the current of electricity is used to detach an armature from the poles of the elec- tro-magnet, which is replaced again by a lever, and the current for the transmitting station in- fluences the magnet at the receiving station, and not its owa. Thus the effect is direct, the conducting force is undisturbed, and but a tenth of the usual battery power is required. This curious property, as it is believed from experi- ence and observation, enables a communication to be made both ways over the line at once, and we understand that the ingenious inventor has offered to transmit ten words westward and ten words eastward, or twenty words per minute, through the Atlantic cable regulirly and continuously. The type wheel is governed by four clock wheels, and these by the vibrating spring, and as the current for the distant station arrives, it detaches the armature spoken of, opens a detent, the preeswork goes on, and the letter is printed. House's telegraph is also a printing machine, in which the electric current is used to preserve equal time and a correspondence in the applica- tion of the letters. The number of pulsations required to indicate a letter is unequal; from A to B takes one, but round to A again twenty- eight; and this is done by a rapid opening closing of the cirouit. The battery circuit completed and broken fourteen times respective- ly with each revolution of the cylinder. All the other results are produced by local mcehani- cal means, while the electrical power is only used to ensure 8 correspondence of motion at each end of the line. This mechanical power is that of stout Isborer at a crank and wheel operating upon « condensing pump, which works a little atmospheric engine operating on the eecapement and the spring which regu- lates the motion of the type wheel. Moree’s is one of the simplest of all these in- ventions, and eo well understood that any de- eoription of it here is superfluous; yet it may be well briefly to say that ft operates in the fol- lowing manner :—A wave of electricity passes along the wire and excites an electro-magact through its coils. This attracts an armature, throws up the long arm of a lever in which isa point which indents a mark upon the paper in contact with ft, long or short, according to the me the opernter permits the cur- rent to paa' Over. This is determined by a key cak'*d & signal key, om which Azitval of ths Steam Fiigaut Niagwe—a Nastonal Jabiler: The United States steam frigate M‘Sgera, Capt, Huéron, arrived at this port yeaten tay from Trivity Bey and St, Johns, after comph* ing her successful enterprise of faying the great cable ia the bed of the Atlantic. The. Niagara, however, remained below last night, in order to give the authorities an of carrying out their intention of receiving her with a ealute of a hundred guns from the forts on Governor's Island and the Battery, and che will come up thie morning, welcomed by asalye of artillery and the congratulations of the people. The joy and excitement which this event has given birth to is aniversal on this continent. From every quarter of the Union we hear re- ports of a general rejoicing at the long expeot- ed consummation. The Sonth and the distant West, equally with the Atlantic cities, have spoken out in jubilee, and are ready to unite im one common celebration as soon as the message from the Queen of England to the President has flashed along that mysterious highway which liesin the botom of the “vasty deep.” As yet we are ignorant of the effect which the arrival of the Agamemnon at Valeatia and the Niagara at Trinity Bay created in Great Britain; but it was doubtless as profound and emoationable as that which has been experionced here. The next Cunard steamer will, however, bring us intelligence on that point, if we do not hear of it before by telegraph. It is evidently the general desire in this country that the cele- bration should be held on the same day all over the country, as in England and Ireland, so as to combine the festivities at different points into one grand international jubilee; and we hope it will be carried out, for that would be the most appropriate way of commemorating a triumph in which the whole na tion is interested. When the communica- tion by the instruments of the elec- tricians is perfected between the two continents, arrangements can be made so that Europe also may participate at the same time in the rejoic- ing, and thus we would have the Old and the New World conjointly celebrating their union, the potency of science, and the greatest tri- umph of the age in which we live. From all the indications now present there is every reason to expect that the celebration will be conducted with proper epirit all through the United States. Indeed, it is from an inte- rior city of the South that the idea of 3 great national jubilee emanated, the following des- patch having been received at this office from Nashville, Tennessee, signed by Hon. Neil S. Brown, late Governor of that State:— Nasuvnae, August 14, 1858, it at pleasure. Ba't both House's and Morse’s instruraenta, it ia tha tght, would be no more effective than Whitebo e's, if so much a9, in- deed, for the Atlantio oa*ble. Thus it wili be seen éhat, whatever merit Morse, Bain, Wheatetone and others, the cable has not yct performed its expected duty, even in the simplest manner. The message of tho Queen was to come first, to be succeeded by the President’s reply, and then the electricians were to have two or three weeks for their expe- rimenta. With this the eager public were con- tent; but the mecsago has not arrived, and the experiments in advance ef the time set for them amount thus fur to a failure. We presume, therefore, that nothing eatisfactory can be ex- pected antil the Hughes or come other instrument is placed in the hands of the electricians. With en imperfect instrument Mr. Hughes at once threw Mr. Whitehouse’s apparatus into the shade while experimenting through the Atlantic ca- ble at Keyham, and having, as we believe, mas- tered the true theory of electro-magnetic power, its character, laws and difficulties, and under- standing the practical working, transmission, retardation, conduction and induction, he has adapted his instruments to meet every contin- gency, and that to him or some other inventor yet to spring up we can only look forward for complete success, or the directors and stock- holders in the company for a practical and re- muncrating use of the Atlantic Telegraph. Time, however, will eettle all these points. We are in favor of using the best means of working out this great enterprise. Avrams oy Havana—Case or Bria Nancy. We learn from Huvana that the captain and crew of the American brig Nancy, lately ar- rested by the Spanish authorities on suspicion of fitting out to engage in the slave trade on the coast of Africa, have been released from prison, and the vessel returved to her owners— no grounds to justify the arrest and seizure baving been found. In another column will be found a letter from the owner, with copies of the charter party, and of several letters and papers connected with this case. They contain some severe accusations against our Acting Con- sul there, which his own certificate and letter do not satisfactorily explain; and we fear that Mr. Savage has permitted the Spanish authorities to exercise an unwarrantable jurisdiction over an American ship. In hie certificate, stating the reasons why he did not object to the arrest of Captain Williams, wi! ee Os emnaton he states that he did not do eo—“because I had poecies incre ‘a gencral jubilee in boaor of tne the assurance, both verbal and written, that Kitaatte telog , and to committees in the authorities were in possession of evideace to sustain the charger.” Mr. Savage seems to have been satisfied without due reason to have been so, for one week after the arrest the authorities released the captain, and a few days later the vessel and crew. Before consenting to #0 extraordinary proceeding as the seizure of an American vessel, and the arrest of several American citizens by authorities which might be found to haveno jurisdiction over them, it would seem that an American Consul should have something more than assurances which within a few days might prove to be fallacious ‘The proceeding may yet form a precedent of grave consequences to our vessels in the ports of Cuba. Captain Williams aleo makes against Mr. Savage the grave charge of permitting his private desk to be broken open when he was under arrest and had the key with him, which would have been readily given up if asked for. He also complain that the Consul neither took charge of the vessel when he was taken out of her, nor did he place any responsible person on board. Mr. Savage declines to give any ox- planation of these charges to any one except his government. Thus fur the affair wears a very serious as- pect, and calls for an immediate investigation by the government. We are also informed that Mr. Savage is a native of Mavana, and not quali- fied, under the existing law, to hold the office of Acting Consul of the United States, which requires that such offices shall be held by citi- zens of the United States where it is practice- ble. It is certainly possible to have so impor- tant an office as that of Consul General in Ha- vana filled by an American citizen. Mr. Savage has been for many years a clerk in the Consu- late at Havana, and should possess sufficient ex- perience in international law to prevent his act- ing erroneously. We trust that his explanation of this affair will be a satisfactory one. At all events it should be at once examined into by the government. Council for the celebration in this city promises 8 splendid display. It is as follows:— mre. Oa the of the of the President of the United puis ae vay ber Le | Vie toria, one hundred guns to fired im ll Datioual eaiutes at the Hi 5 i i é i £ He if “1 P i Taw Caste axp Scripruns.—The success in laying the Atlantic cable has impressed many with the idea that the year 1858 will ever re- main a memorable era in the history of the = . new or original, is simply a fulfilment of pro- phecy, and carrying out of suggestions made by the inspired writers. We append a few extracts to convince the sceptical:— Prats, t1x.: 14.—Their line is gone out through all the ‘and their words to the end of the world. dissent from the proposition for a general illami- come down from heaven, clothe: with a cloud, and a - q Sew was ot snd Dis fase wen as & wore the nation of private houses throughout the whole 2° And be had in his hands little book open; and he | City, and we are perfectly satisfied that the good ee on ae the | sense, as well asthe determination of the public, 3, And cried with # loud voico, ax when @ tion rosreth; | are decidedly with us against any such pro- ‘and when be had cried, seven thunders utiered their cedure. 4 And when the seven thanders had uttered their | Overlooking the danger of fires, which is a po senying thio me, at apt tings 5 whieh tee very seriou objection, the expenee attending it 8. "And tbe get which I aw stand upon the sou and ia a very important one, particularly not ‘— “ouind sree tym hs teu everiad eer who | ordi, and oho wil not under any clr. created heaven and the things that thersin aro, and ‘the | ®tord it, and who will not under any cireum- stances make even the attempt to illuminate. It is very proper for the city authorities to take such steps with regard to the public build- ings and places as they may deem proper. No one objects to their doing #0, although the suffering taxpayers are already pretty well ground to the dst with the frequency of the expenditure of the public money on every plausible occasion for a show. Phlebotomy is pretty well understood at the City Hall, and our blood very often “stains the heather.” If our joy at the auspicious event is best tos. tified by spermacetti and tar, so be it; but to superadd an outlay large enough to light up every chop and dwelling in this city, is to take from the pockets of thousands of hard work. ing and industrious citizens what they cannot epare. It appears by official returns that there are in this city upwards of 42,600 buildings—or which 00,000 are beigk, aud (he residue of onger. Jon, xxxvit.: 3.—He direoteth it (his voice) under whole heavens, aad bi lightuing to Sue ends et the-earthe Jon, xxvut.: 26.—Whon He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning and the thunder. Jon, Xxxvini. 25.—Who hath divided a watercourse for tho overflowing of waters, or s way for the lightning of Provenas, vin 29.—When Fle gave to the nea his decree that the waters should not pass his command. The coincidence of the seven thunders and seven voices in the Evangoliet’s vision, with the seven wires of the cable; the several allusions to the “way for the lightning,” the inquiry whether the lightning can be made to'speak; and the dircet reference to the insulation of the cable by giving a decree to the sea, that “the waters should not pass his command,” ought at onde to settle the question of priority of the idea, concerning which there is now much wrangling in the newspapers. Verily, “there is nothing new under the sua.”