The New York Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1858, Page 4

4 JAMES GORDON BENNETT EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. DeLwE K. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAT OTS. Vetume XXII MIBLO’S GARDEN. Broaewar—Gaanorarare Wars: (@aap— f20mamang Concert—Cocuaaus. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery—Dairnscon—Macio Puss —Bartac Loven, WALLACK’S THRATEY, Uroadway—Rossrns or rus Bure (s on—inisn Exsoaant. METROPOLITAN HALL, 585 Broadway—Farvon Tuna sietin vesates po Ovet—Rvo.se BPOKeR. SUMS AMBRI MUS®UM, Broadway—Arter on erates Tumatex OF AR? Ok AMI- matey Wora—Cuniosirins, de. : Broadway—Eraroriay BUILDING, 66 Borsa Dasoas. o,—Vingint, x. ROR ANTOR: HALL, £72 Broadway—Burarrs’ Mivsveais ecko MELODIES AND BuRLESQums—Hor or F ASHioN. New York, Tuseday, Angus: 17, 1858, Revival of Bustness—Vast Increase ef Circn- lation. During the last few days about fifleen thousand eddi- Youal sheets have been added to the already vast daily Broulation of the Henanp, This we take to be a symptom Gfthe approaching revival of business in this great metro- Ma. Pir the Asien Telagragh Rio oheslé be wuccessfully os @adiisbed, and the new El Dorado on Frazer river turn Dut to be authentic, there will be a rapid revival of busi- Ross throughout the commercial world. ‘We saould not be surprised if, under the coming new era of developement, the circulation of the New Yore Hizsa:> should rise toa daily circulation of 150,000, or even 200,000. The past justifies the future. Now is the time for freab men of enterpriee to begin their movements. Sixth avenue— WORKS, £6. SAILS FOR SUROPE. The New York Herald—Edition for Kurope. ‘The Ouvard mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, will pave this port to-morrow for Liverpool. Tae European mails will close in this ¢ity at ten *clock this merning. ‘The European edition of the Hara, printed tn French fn4 English, wil) be published at balf-past nine o’clook i ‘the moraing. Single copies, ia wrappers, six cents. ‘Subseriptions and advertisements for any edition of the New Yors Huns. will be received at the following place gE Bon & Ue., 47 bin. fim Eevpess Exon O61 Rng nm gz Havas.....Am.-European Express Oo., Z1 Rue Corneille. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Bana wilt combiBe the news received by mail and telegraph at Bae ofice during the previous week, and up to the hour of prbdieaion. ‘The News. The message of Queen Victoria and the reply of President Buchanan, which we lay before our read- ers this morning, puts all doubts as to the complete success of the Atlantic Telegraph forever at rest. ‘The news that the line was in complete working order, and the reception of the Queen’s message, created a tremendous excitement throughout the city, and everybody seemed crazy with joy. It was the theme of conversation everywhere, and all weemed gratified and delighted at the success of the great enterprise. A full report of the manner in which the news was received here, will be found elsewhere. It appears by a telegraphic despatch from St. Johns, N. F., that a collision occurred onthe 14th instant between the Cunard steamships Europa and Arabia, and that the former put into St. Johns yes- terday to repair damages, having lost her cutwater ‘and stem. The Europa sailed from Boston on Wed- nesday last, the 11th instant, and from Halifax about three o'clock A. M. of the 13th, for Liverpool; the Arabia left Liverpool for New York on Saturday, the 7th, and probably received slight damage from the collision, as she proceeded on towards this city. She brings a week's later news. Now that the tele- graph is working, information of the accident can be at once sent to England, and in this way dispel all anxiety by her necessary delay in reaching Li- verpool. The value of the telegraph will thus be felt at once. By the arrival of the steamship Europa at St. Johns, N. F. (where she was compelled to put in in consequence of coming in collision with the Ara. bia), we have one week's later news from Burope. brought by the A., from Liverpool, 7th instant. ‘The news of the successful laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable was received in London with the Greatest enthusiasm, and the opinion was expressed oa ‘Change that the union of the United States and Great Britain would lead to the unity of all We have no report of the voyage of the A, Ron. Advices from Vienna state that Anstria had con- centrated a force of 33,000 men on the Danube, in Southern Hungaria. From India we learn that the rebellion in Central ‘India had been effectually suppressed. Lord Canning bad issued a proclamation, in which he states that ‘bo persons immediately connected with the murder OT British subjects need hope for pardon. The Liverpool cotton market was active and prices for uplands and Mobiles had advanced ene eighth, and for New Orleans three-sixteenths of a penny. ‘The lower qualities had advanced one-eighth to ane- quarter of a penny. In the provision market beef had declined 2s. 6d. a 5s. per tierce. Pork was steady bat inactive. ‘We have advices from Rio Janeiro to the 2d alt., by the bark Imperador, Captain Hubbard. The news presents few pointe of interest. The yellow fever was prevailing, but not with great force as yet. ‘The Marine Hospital announces seventeen new cases in the week ending June 30. From Washington we learn that it is becoming evi- dent to the administration that a vigorous and energe- tic policy must be pursued towards the Central and Bouth American republics. With this view, our Rovernment may find it necessary to invite negotia- tions upon postal and commercial affairs, tram- moelied with as few restrictions as possible, in order fo facilitate trade and encourage good feeling between the peoples. The treaties, it is suggested, Bhould provide for the transmission of the mails in Brmed steamers, which at the same time can convey passengers and freight, protect commerce, and en- force the fulfilment of treaties. ‘The Health Commissioners held their daily session at the usual hour yesterday. The young woman named Cross, who recently died of yellow fever at Btaten Island, was found te have taken the disease from on board one of the infected vessels. Mary Heindrecksen, the servant girl, is recovering fast, in the Marine Hospital. The City Ingpector reported ‘that he had served notices of removal on several owners of piggeries. A few vessels were permitted to come up to the city, and the Board adjourned. The brig Mazatlan, from Cardenas July 29, e-rived at the lower Quarantine yesterday. en one day oat, the captain, Samuel Dodge, ‘oothbay, died, and the vessel returned to port to him and procure another captain, which having < she sailed again August 1. She had some bes. weather off Hatteras, Coming in the Hook yet day morning, David Long, of Detroit, a seaman, <a and was bronght up to the upper station for eo u. The brig J. Harris, from Ponce, P. R., also arived. All well. She was detained for the action Gi bag Hienith Qiicer, The stoamsbip Columbia, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1858. an elcotvic cable between the continents, The | The Indiam Greubies in the Fraser River Rerry, from Charleston, arrived at the upper station morning, and was detained for fumiga- tion, &e. The eighty-frst annivereary of the Battie of Ben- nipgton wae celebrated et Benningtgu, Vermont, yeolerday. The Rev. Charles 8. Robinson, of Troy, N.Y., delivered an address on the occasion. The Battle of Bennington was fought on the 16th day of August, 1777, and was the first check given to the march of General Burgoyne. The Board of Aldermen did not organize last eve- ning for want ofa quorum. They cannot now meet until a call ismade by the President. At the meeting of the joint committee of the Com- mon Council yesterday, despatches from Admiral Sir Houston Stewart and Captain Dayman, of the Bri- tish navy, were read. They were both in reference to the invitation which had been extended to them by the committee to be present at the approaching celebration of the successful laying of the Atlantic cable. Admiral Stewart's despatch was one decli- ning the invitation, and Captain Dayman’s was an announcement that he will accept it on condition that permission from the British Admiralty to that effect be received in time. No special business was transacted by the committee, but they will hold an" other meeting to-day. A deputation from several of the Irish societies in New York waited yesterday on Captain Waters | of the steamship Prince Albert, and extended to him their congratulations upon the quickness and success of his first passage from (alway to America, They informed him that it is their intention to char- ter a steamer on the occasion of his departure from the city, and accompany the Prince Albert as far as Sandy Hook, and to make a demonstration worthy of the occasion. They will hold a meeting at the Astor House to-morrow evening for the purpose of making suitable arrangements for the object they have in view. Mr. Lever has now come to the deter” mination of placing no less than nine first class steamships between Galway and New York. Our watering place correspondence will be found unusually interesting this morning, comprising as it does letters from the Highlands, Saratoga, Scholey’s Mountain, and other summer retreats, The proprietor of the Ocean Honse, at Newport, has sent us an advertisement which indicates that the revolution in hotel keeping has commenced there. The proprietor says “‘he employs no runners or drum- mers on board the boats or at the wharves to puff his house at the expense of his neighbors.” The grand ball of the season is shortly to be given at that house. An order was issued yesterday by the General Su- perintendent of the Central Railroad Company at Albany to discontinue the sale of tickets over the Michigan Central Railroad until further notice. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in view of the reduced rates at which the Erie and Central roads convey goods to Cincinnati and the Lake country, have made a retaliatory stroke by reducing the rates on first and second class goods thirty per cent less than they are carried for- by the Erie and Central. The reported arrival of the United States steam frigate Niagara at the Southwest Spit on Sunday morning turns out to be incorrect. Nothing had been heard of her at the time our paper went to press. The extracts from our European files, given in onr columns this morning, will be found of interest to the reader. The sales of cotton yesterday reached about 700 bales, the market c'osing without change of moment in quo tions. The firet bale of new cotton was received !n this mar- ket yesterday by Messrs. Nelson, Clements & Co , from Messrs, McMahon & Gilbert, of Galveston, Texas. It was grown in Colorado county, Texas, and came via New Orleana on the steamsbip Philadelphia. A telegraphic despatch, dated at New Orleans the 13th inst., states that the increase in the receipts at all the ports amounted to about 167,000 bales over those of the same time last year. This gives a total of receipts of this year, so far, of about 3,077,000 bales. The receipts only included 85 bales of the new crop at New Orleans for the week ending the 13th fost., out of 1,800, while the enles of the woek reached 7,000 bales. Only two weeks more of the cotton year remain. Flour was less buoyant yester eay, while prices were unchanged. There was a fair demand from the home trade, and the purchasers for expert were qrite limited. The wheat market was quiet and sales restricted in consequence of the firmness of holders, whose views were above those of purchasers. Corn was in fair demand, with sales of unsound Western mixed at 70c. a 80c., and common to prime sound do. ay 80c, a 90c, Northern and Southern yellow at 90c. a 95c., and Southern common mixed at S5c. Pork was quiet: tales confined to jobbing lots, at irregular prices, both of mess and prime. Sugars were steady, with sales of abou 600 bhds. at rates given in ahother place. Coffee was quiet, and im the absence of saies prices were nominal. Freight rated dull, and engagements were limited. The Queen's and President's Messages—The Great Problem Solved—The Atiantic Tele graph in Operation, The public mind of the country is at last re- lieved from the state of intense anxiety and sus- pense in which it bas been held for the last ten days. Never before, perhaps, in the history of civilization has there been so universal and so engrossing an eagerness to arrive at the solu- tion of a single problem, and that, too, not on 4 question on which the fate of an army, or dy- nasty, or nation depended, but ona simple ques- tion of science and progress. The solution has at length been reached. Hopes and fears are all merged in the glorious realization of euccess. The Atlantic telegraph is in operation. Over the international highway of thought, buried deep in the caverns of the Atlantic ocean, have passed words of greeting and con- gratulation between the rulers of the two great nations thus irhmediately linked together. Read those meseages, the texts of the great volume that is now unfolded to the study and admira- tion of mankind:— ‘THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE. To Te Bowonanue ‘Toe Preeroayt oF nim Ustrap Stare Her Majesty destres to congratulate the President upon the wucceesful completion of this great international work in which the Queen has taken the deepest interest. THE PRESIDENTS REPLY. Wasmimoros Crrr, August 16, 1868. To Hex Masnery Victoria, Quem or Gamat Bartars:— ‘The President cordially reciprocates the congratalations of her Majesty the Queen, on the success of the great in- ternational enterprise accomplished by the science, skil! and indomitable energy of the two countries. It is a trtamph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by comqeeror on the field of battle, May the Atlantic telegraph, under the blessing of Hea- ven, prove to bes bond of perpetual peace and friend- ship betwoen the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine Providence to diffuse religion, clviliza- tion, liberty and law throughout the world. In this view, will not all nations of Christendom spontaneously unite in the declaration that /t shall be for. ever neutral, and that !tafeommanications shall be held facred in passing to their places of destination, even in be midat of hostilities. JAMES BUCHANAN. Besides thoee greetings between the Queen and President, a message of congratulation was transmitted yesterday afiernoon from the direc- tors of the Atlantic telegraph Company at London to the honorary directors of the same at New York. ‘Thus, as we have said, the great problem of the age is now fully and favorably solved. The Atlantic Telegraph is in operation. Lon- don and New York are side by side. In the attempt to realize this grandest idea of modern days there were two distinet problems to be solved, two series of difficulties to be overcome, each of which was deemed by most men of ecience and by the world at large in- mperable. The first was the agtual laying of second, which was altogether dependent upon the achievement of the firet, was the possibility of senéing a current of electricity through two thousand miles of a eubmerged wire, When attempt after attempt to lay the cable result d in fatlure, those who held te the negative of the firet proposition plumed themselves upon their discernment, and almcst all men were on the it of acknowledging the feat an impos sibility, when, lo! the joyful news flew through alllands that the cable was successfully laid. Then the question was: The cable being laid, can the Atlantic telegraph be efficiently ope- rated? Three-fourths of the electricians and cavants of the country believed that it coald not, judging from the difficulties experienced in sending @ continuous current for a long dis- tance over land lines, It was on the answer to that question that the public mind of the civi- lized world haa been hanging—so to speak—in intense colicitude for the last ten days. The answer has at length been rendered in the affirmative. The telegraph is in operation. The Queen’s message has been flashed from London to Washington, and the President's response has been flashed back. That is the confirmation which men looked forward to, to remove their doubts and to assure their minds that the idea of an Atlantic telegraph has be- come a reality. Of course we are not to be understood as in- tending to assert that all the difficulties and impediments in the way of an efficient working of the line are removed. We do not know that such is the fact; we do not believe that it is. But what has been demonstrated is enough for us; and that is, that with what we believe to be an inferior style of instrument, the Old and the New Worlds are in telegraphic commu- nication. Whether superior instruments will not be adopted or invented is altogether an- other consideration, to be hereafter decided by the directors on wise business principles. The double problem being thus happily solved, and there being no longer any donbt left as to the practicability of laying and working two thousand miles of submarine telegraph, the linking together of all the continents and islands of the earth is now @ mere question of time and of necessity. To achieve this crown- ing wonder of the age will not call for any greater display of energy, any higher develope- ment of skill and science, than have been brought into play in the connection of Europe and America. To do e0, the submarine portion of the line will not require to be, in any place, over one-half the extent of that submerged be- tween Valentia and Trinity bays. It is not hazarding too much, therefore, to predict that within the next decade Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australia and the isles of the sea will be linked together by that most wonderful of all modern powers—the electric telegraph. Important rrom Mexico.—The news from Mexico would seem to indicate that the ad- ministration of President Zuloaga has run mad. Not only does it continue the most obnoxious and ineulting course towards our Minister, whose relations with it are closed, but it is re- sorting to schemes of the most outrageous rob- bery for the purpose of getting money out of the wealthy Mexican citizens. Don Manuel Eecandon and other rich men in the capital have been arrested solely because they are un- willing to advance money to the government on the promissory notes of the stewards of the cburch property. Such a course can only be counselled by desperation itself, and the con- duct ofthe French Minister there, Mons. Gabriac, is worthy of the highest censure, in permitting euch proceedings by a government of which it Is well known he is the main spring. This attempt to introduce the fiercest Bonapartism into an American republic will no doubt bring upon the heads of its authors a fearful retri- bution, and we ehall not be surprised to see blood shed in torrents before the conflict is ended. The anarchy of the country is fearful Our private advices from one of the interior cities tell us that the place has been taken and re- taken by the opposing forces three times within @ month, and on each occasion pillage, rape and murder was freely committed by both par- ties, The views we have so frequently ex- pressed are being verified with fearful truth. Mexico is fast receding into a state of anarchy from which nothing can redeem her but foreign intervention. She has long since ceased to have a government acknowledged throughout the republic. She has paid no interest on her national debt since 1853, and will never pay it again under the present state of affairs; and her international duties are being constantly vio- lated. Her only hope of peace must now come from abroad. Mewrerpa, Moraurrr i Cmcaco—We ob- served a statement in a country newspaper tome time ago that the system of em: de- tectives to visit houses of ill fame and crimi- nate themselves with their inmates, for the pur- pose of obtaining evidence against them, was extensively practised in this city. We publish in another column a late charge of the Recor- der of Chicago to the Grand Jury, which shows that it is not New York—which is already made to bear the weight of more sins than she is guilty of—which is chargeable with the crime in this instance, but the interior city of Chi- cago. The case, as put before the Grand Inquest by the Recorder, is a remarkable one. It ap- pears that an unfortunate woman was put on trial, at the last session ef the court, for keep- ing @ house of ill repute, the principal witness against her being a detective policeman named Brown, who swore that he was employed by the city authorities to visit houses of that charao- ter, and there prostitute himself for the purpose of procuring evidence. He stated that he was 80 employed by the late Mayor, had made his reports regularly to the lieutenant of police, and had received his pay of nine dollars a week “and expenses” from the City Comptrol- ler. Upon this revelation the Recorder {nstruct- ed his arrest on @ charge of criminal and in- dictable conspiracy. He was bailed almost im- mediately, the late Mayor becoming his bonds. man. In the charge which we publish to-day, Re- corder Wilson recommends the case to the epe- cial attention of the Grand Jury, and intimates that if on investigation the late Mayor or any others are found to have been in conspiracy with the policeman, that they should be in- cluded in the indictment, Country editors are very fond of abusing New York and attributing all kinds of vices and atrocities to her citizens, She has enough to anewer for without concocting crimes for which she is not responsible; but this exposé in Chica- go will serve as an admonition to folks in the Hegion. Every indication from the Territories of Ore- gon and Washington, for some months past, presages a bloody and protracted war with the Indians in those regions; and since the dis- covery of gold on the Fraser river, which lies on the northern boundary of the latter Terri- tory, the condition of the Indians on that fron- tier has become a matter of the utmost impor- tance. The last accounts represent the tribes in the neighborhood of Fort Colville in open hostility to the white settlers, making sudden descents cpon them, and driving them off their farms at the very time when they were gather- ing in their crops. Fort Colville stands on the east side of the Columbia river, near Clark’s Fork, on the northern route from St. Paul, Minnesota, to the gold regions, and if the In- dians in that locality continue in a hostile atti- tude, it will materially interfere with the transit of our citizens from the West and North- west to Fraser river. We are not advised as to the tribes who have made this unfriendly de- monstration. To the west of Fort Colville, be- tween it and Bellingham Bay, the nearest American post to the boundary of the Hudson, Bay Company's territory, are the Flatheads, a tribe from immemorial time, as the Indian Superintendents inform us, friendly to our nation and ecrupulously observant of all treaties’ and contracts, At the east side is the country of the Pend d’Oreilles, an enlightened and cultivated people, who, like the Flatheads, have succumbed to the influence of the Jesuit missionaries, and are anxious to embrace all the advantages of civilization; but, unlike the Flatheads, they have not been deprived of the services of the Jesuits, who were driven out of the Flathead country in 1849 by the depredations of the Blackfeets. The Flatheads, Pend d’Oreilles (north and eouth) and Kootenays of this region number in all seventeen hundred. Farther south are the Nez Perces, another friendly and enlightened tribe, who are rich in horses and cattle. But it ap- pears by late accounts, that the hostile tribes between the Columbia and Fraser rivers have been using every art to form a coalition with the Flatheads and Nez Perces against the whites, but fortunately up to this time without success. How long the good feeling of these now friendly tribes may be preserved it is hard to predict ; for it is quite evident that our deal- ings with them have not been of a character calculated to perpetuate it. There have been many mistakes fatal to a continued good under- standing made by the government agentsin their dealings with the Indians in these Territories, They have driven hard and oppressive bargains with many of the tribes in purchasing their lands, which the Indians have discovered when too late, and the consequence is that discontent and secret hate have taken possession of them. Asan example, the tribes of the Rogue River Valley surrendered their possessions, which com- prise the most fertile soil and the richest gold resources perhaps in the wholecountry, for a sum which in the aggregate scemed very large, but which in reality only secures for each individual of the tribe an angual sum of two dollars and a half, or a fraction over. Many of the treaties made with other tribes have never been ratified by the government, and distrust and dissatisfuc- tion reign among them in consequence to such an extent that the Indian agents in their reports | for last year state that they are ready to take up arms at any moment for the recovery of their lands. The Indian Superintendent for Oregon and Washington Territories, in his report for 1857, predicted the very trouble in the gold districts and on the southern frontier which is now veri- fied, and urgently pressed upon the government the necessity of ratifying the treaties, particu- larly with the Spokanes, the very tribe which has given eo much trouble to Colonel Steptoe. The deduction from these facts and from the present hostile attitude of the Indians in the neighborhood of Fraser river district, is that we are much to blame for the unfriendly posi- tion which the Indians have now assumed, and which threatens an expensive and deadly war. The Indian war of 1855, which cost millions of dollars and thousands of lives, has left very small practical results in our favor. It is esti- mated that the loss of life on our side was quite as great as that of our red enemies, and the Indians, in all probability, came out of it with no very exalted idea of the strength of our govern- ment. A peace was patched up upon the basis of certain treaties, which in many cases were never complied with, and the disappointment accru- ing therefrom has left the Indians with all the disposition to make war upon our settlers at any moment. The last official report from Ore- gon Territory says that the Indians look upon every white settler as an emissary sent there to rob and despoil them. The whole number of Indians in Washington and Oregon Territories—now united in one su- perintendency—is thirty-three thousand five hundred and twelve. The most hostile portion of these are located east of the Cascade Moun- tains, those towards the Pacific coast, in the neighborhood of the settlements, being the most civilized. While the gold regions of Cali- fornia lie west of the Rocky Mountains, of which the Cascade Mountains form s continuous chain northwards, the new gold district of Fra- ser river lies to the east of the Cascades, so that the hostile tribes are situated mainly be- tween that range and our Northwestern States; and from the disposition they evince, according to the latest intelligence, our connection with the mines stands a fair chance of being cut off in that direction. To the north of Fort Col- ville, around the base of Mount Baker, which Ties quite close to the boundary line, are the Neuk-Sacks, a strong tribe, hitherto friendly, who have three trails directly to Fraser river, and one trail to the Bristol post, Fort Langly, which stands right on the frontier. In their im- mediate vicinity are the Neuk-wers and Sia- man-nas, who had never seen a white man until 1862. How far these various tribes may have been influenced by the emissaries of the savage and always hostile Cayuses to join in the common feeling of hostility to the white race, we cannot tell at this juncture of affairs, but it is well known that the Cayuses have been always roving about from tribe to tribe, stir- ring up disaffection and warfare among them. In all these late gloomy reports from the frontier there is one, however, which may fore- bode good, and that is that the Cayuse and Snake Indians, the worst foes of our race in that region, have just been engaged in a bloody fight at Dalles. And as nothing proeaged greater danger than the evident combination of all the hostile tribes, it may bea matter af much moment to see the fiercest of them at each other's throate, inasmuch as it is proof posi- interior that those whe dwell in orystal palaces | tive that the dreaded union among them does should not throw stones, not exist (9 the formidable gxtent we supposed. All things being considered, the state of effairs in our Western Territories is anything but eatisfactory, and unless the government takes active measures to improve it, either amicably or by foree, we will find our interests in that region very materially affected at this most critical time, and very probably find our- selves engaged in a costly and unnecessary Indian war. At present, at all eventa, every- thing tends in thet direction. ‘The New Coolie Slave Trade in Ergiand—A Hint te the Sons ef William Wilberferce. The London Times tells the sons of William Wilberforce that they have succeeded to the in- heritance of an exhausted mine, where the ore is all worked out; but that though it may be, per. haps, a pious, filial duty to dig and delve in the old spot, the opportunity for great re- sults is gone. An occasion for the use of this simile was foand in the recent attack of the Bishop of Oxford—who is a son of William Wilberforce— upon the coolie slave trade and the new French system of African emigration. With aself-satis- fied air, the Times assumes that “stories of the hor- rorsof the middle passage, and the crack of the planter’s whip fall heavily on no Englishman’s conscience;” and that, therefore, every Briton can afford “to look a black man steadily in the face and to tell him that, like us, he is a creature born to live by labor.”” On this ground it sets forth to defend the modern phase of the slave trade, which would transport Hindoos and coolies to till the tropical fields of Mauritius and the British West Indies. “The shores of India,” it tells us, “and the coasts of China are crowded with a congestion of population,” and that the true policy of the sons of William Wil- berforce is “to people the islands of the torrid zone with Asiatics and Africans laboring in freedom.” In evidence of the wisdom of this policy, it cites the fact that the Chinese are migrating in a constant stream to California and Australia, to Singapore and Borneo. We do not agree with the Zimes in believing that the sons of Wilberforce have succeeded to an exhausted mine. On the contrary, there is abundant evidence in the schemes of the present day that the mine is as rich as ever it was, and that the present generation can get out as much ore as did the past. But in order to do so they must go back to the old and true vein of the mine, and not follow the false lead that has car- ried them into sterile workings. The true mine that Wilberforce, Clarkson and young Harry Brougham opened, was the attack upon the sys- tem of carrying thousands of involuntary emi- grante from Africa to the islands and both con- tinents of America. As long as they fought the infamous African slave trade they had the sym- pathies of the civilized world with them; and nation after nation abandoned the traffic. But when from their rich workings they branched off to dictate to other countries the terms of their own social organization; to interfere in the relations of master and man, employer and laborer, in communities where change might not affect Eugland, but might ruin the recipient of their interference; when they claimed the right to exercise jurisdiction upon the sea, over the flag of ever nation, then it was they followed a sterile lead in the mine they had opened, and soon ceased to bring out ore. By following this false policy of Exeter Hall; by attacking the social status of every country which might not square with their self consti- tuted standard of right and wrong, England has estranged every nation from her, and done more evil than she has good. This is one of the reasons that induces the London Times to turn against the errors of Exeter Hall. But in turning against these errors it has rushed into the opposite extreme. In defending the emi- gration trade in Hindoos and Chinese, it has brought back to the sons of William Wilber- force the old mine, from which they can get as much ore, and as good, as ever their father did. In this trade the crimp takes the place of the slave dealer, and the Hindoo or the Chinese is as much aslave as the purchased African. The difference in the term of service is only appa- rent, and not real, and as far as true humanity is involved it is decidedly in favor of the slave trade. The Asiatic gives up his liberty to his master for five years; the African loses his for life, With the latter the promptings of interest lead the employer to preserve the existence of the slave; with the former they prompt him to get all he can out of his servant during his bond- ship. Where the Asiatic emigrant is brought, the community in a generation or two is filled with aged and overworked paupers ; where the African slave is, pauperism among them is un- known. That such are the true relative results of the African and the coolie slave trade is already being developed. The countries to which they have been taken are already beginning to re- ject them. As temporary slaves they are not rejected to so great an extent as where they come as free emigrants. But this is only be- cause the trade is new and the evil is not so soon developed. A generation of exhausted and copflict, similar to that now being fought over the descendants of the Africau negroes brought here. Letthem search, and the Wilberforce will find as rich ore in the old mine as ever waa got out by their father, _—_ Liperta AND THE Frenon Free SLAVE Trape.—Some two or three communications bave been published by gentlemen connected with the Colonization Society to explain away the accusations made against the Liberian gov- ernment of having connived at the new Freneh system of procuring voluntary slaves om the coast of Africa. None of these contain any de- nial by authority, or any statement of the facts was first made. The evidence adduced to clear the skirts of the President of Liberia is all oir- cumstantial, and fails to carry that conviction which a plump denial and a clear statement of the facts would enforce. ‘We publish elsewhere to-day a letter from Mr. Joseph Tracy, who, we suppose, is somehow connected with the Colonization Society in Bos- ton, to the secretary of that society, in which another attempt is made by Inferential reasoa- ing to explain away the charges of the Freach officials. A denial of the facts, however, which is only based upon the general charge of a want of veracity on the part of all French officers, is worse than a poor defence for the Liberian President. But when this sweep- ing charge is made on the personal experience of Mr. Joseph Tracy alone, the defence steps at once from the sublime into the ridiow- lous, Mr. Tracy does not tell us where, when or how he obtained this immense experience, which enables him to bring a charge of menda- city against the whole French nation. We sua- pect, if no better defence of the negro republic can be presented than the bold assertion that Capt. Simon, Surgeon Bonlais, Count Walewski, Louis Napoleon, and every other Frenchman having knowledge of the affair have lied, the well meaning men connected with the Coloni- zation Society had better refrain from dipping their pens in their inkstands. The other coinoi- dent explanations of Mr. Tracy may or may not have a bearing upon the facts. We give them for what they are worth, and leave each of our readers to follow his bent in accepting or rejecting its argumenta, THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch. THE PRESIDENT AT THE WHITS HOUSE—THK POLIOY OF THE GOVERNMENT TOWARD THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN BEPUBLIC8—GEN. JEREZ—NEW MILITABY DRVABTMENT ON THE PACIFIC, BTC. Wasaincton, August 16, 1858. The President appeared at the White House be- fore nine o'clock this morning, and proceeded to look into the accumulated business requiring his attention and that of the Cabinet. He seems as fresh and vigorous as a man of forty years, and ex- presses himself as much pleased with the complexion of political aflairs, as indicated by the results of the late elections in Missouri, Kentucky and North Carolina. He regards them in the light of a general approval of his course by the people of those States, and the effect is unquestionably to strengthen his administration. There will be a Cabinet meeting to-morrow. Gen. Cass was at the State Department to-day, at- tending to his official duties. He had the Cass-Herran treaty as modtfied under consideration, and it ia ex- pected that it will be discussed before the Cabinet to- morrow. The General intends leaving the city for a short sojourn at Stonington, Conn., as goon as this matter is definitely settled. It is becoming more evident daily that a vigorous and energetic policy must be pursued by our govern ment toward ail the Central and South American re- publics. The instability of those governments, and the revolutionary character of the people, renders it nearly useless to treat with them, unless we can have some better guarantee for the performance of their portion of the compacts than their short-lived governments afford. We have had treaty after treaty with Mexico, Central America and Granada, which are of little or no use, becanse after the parties with whom they negotiated have been overthrown they have been repudiated by their successors, who, in their turn, would offer negotiations upon a new basis. Hence we are always treating, but never know ex- actly what we may depend upon. In this view of the case it has been suggested that our government may find it necessary to invite negotiations with all the South and Cen- tral American countries upon commercial and postal matters. The object will be to encourage a reciprocal trade which shall be trammelled with as few restrictions as possible, and in order to give protection and facility to such trade and to foster the best feelings and most intimate relations be tween the people. The treaties will provide for the regular transmission of the mails in armed steam- ers, which will be at the same time fit for the trana- portation of passengers, mails and freight, and for the protection of commerce or the enforcement of treaties. We shall thus establish a commercial pro- tectorate over our sister republica on this continent. Gen. Jerez informally called at the State Depart- ment this morning, bat did not communicate tho object of his mission. He is undoubtedly charged with a special mission, perhaps connected with the Transit route in some way. It is hardly probable that our government will meddle with these op- posing interests for the benefit of a few stockjob- bers in Wall street. Our trade with all Central America is less than halfa million of dollars, and the route is not absolutely necessary to the tranaaction In Australia adeep agitation has begun, with the same object. In Borneo Brooke, the Brit- ish Rajah, has been obliged to take sangui- nary vengeance upon the Chinese, and to de- prive them of all political privileges. Expe- rience is demonstrating that the Asiatic, as well as the African, is incompetent to live in large nambers upon terms of social equality with the Teutonic race. The new empires which our kindred are building up on the shores of the Pacific proclaim it; the old communities that have sunk beneath the wave of African bar- bariem on the shore of the Atlantic con- firm it. Truth travels with a anail’s pace, but she will yet carry this great fact, that dissonant races cannot live in com” Brazil, a powerful nation, with whom we have a commerce of twenty-seven millions, and no steam facilities. We trade nine millions with Mexico, sixty with Cuba, seven and a half with Porto Rico, five munity upon terms of social and political found is immediately represented here, demand- equality round the world. ing, through two or three different claimants, the Let the sons of William Wilberforce, then, | protection of government. Anything which offers work the old mine. Let them attack this new system of carrying hunger and sword-driven volunteers across two oceans to till the tropical fields of European proprietors. The middle passage from India and China has all the hor- rors that were possessed by the African one their father so thrillingly declaimed against. The developement of this new traffic in human blood has all the social evils that the old one had. Its advantage of cheap labor, of pro- curing a man to work for three or four dollars & month, can only be secured by keeping him at starvation point, and reducing him to pauper- iem in his old age. The iden that the trade in Hindoos or Chinese coolies is less blunting to the sentiments of humanity, is less repugnant to true philanthropy, or is more consonant with the principles of human freedom, is a fraud and achent. The planting of these races in Ame- tiga gust eventually generate anothey social determinedito protect all the interesta of our citizens, and abroad, which are honest and , it is also quite too well aware of its func- coge itself to be made the tool of shrewd fancy stocksor bogus paper mail It will waste no more time in such matters. is some talk of the erection of a new mili- tary department on the Pacific, to be composed of the Territories of Oregon and Washington, leaving the State of California in a department by itself. We have plenty of officers for the purpose, and it is thought such a distribution of them will render these services much more efficient. We have now in the Walla-Walla country about one thousand men, includ- ing garrisons, against whom there are about three thousand warriors. An agent has been despatched from Walla-Walla northward to Colville, to treat with the hostile tribes and Giendy one, and report w tke Supeis g ‘ want of the fostering care of government. 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