The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. ! *A9 G68 GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. nen OFFICE H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU OTS Me. 935 Prowexape Oomosrt. WERY THER«TRE Grows soax Beis ax Baorass BIBLO’S GABON, Broadwag—Scno0. roe Boaupar— Tus Tkarrens- Rep ruAN. ALLAOK’S THEATRE. Broadway—Taxxax Hovrn ansran Bosses or tHe Raw(pon. LAURA KREBR®’S THEATRE, 6% Broadway—Tus Wu- Sal Dancing, a0 _2atenge umes, SI, teas maren Woms—Coniosirins, £0. ‘WOOD'S BUILDING, 61 and Broadway—Eraroris ‘Breedway—Buvanre’ MiverRels HESS iimonns use Besssavve~aotuss » Braior, GARDEN, Fourteonth strect and Sixth sreaue— nun Ooncent BY Dopwortu's Bap—Fiaxwonks, &¢. ———————————— jew York, Wednesday, August 25, 1858, COO The News. ‘The steamship Osnada arrived at Halifax last evening with European news down to noon of the 14th inst., three days later than the accounts pre- viously received. There is no political news of importance by this arrival, save the report of the opening of negotia- tions for the settlement of the questions pending between and Mexico. In London money waa abundant. Consols are quoted at 963 a 963. American securities were very dull, but railroad stocks are reported dearer. The Liverpool cotton market con'inued dull, but without quotable change in prices. The sales for the week amounted to 14,000 balea, The continual favorable ‘Jeports of the harvest caused a further depression in breadstufis. Our European files by the Anglo-Saxon reached Whis city from Quebec yesterday morning. The umple news summary telegraphed after her arrival vhich was published in the Hzratp on Monday con- tained the chief pointf the intelligence. We give to-day in addition a most interesting report of the progress of the Cherbourg fétes, with the latest details concerning the working of the Irish end of the Atlantic cable. The news of the successful laying of the wire was fowarded by a Queen's mes- senger from London to Victoria, at Cherbourg, and reached her as she sat down to a royal banquet with Napoleon, on board the war ship Bretagne. Sur- geou Mansfield, R. N., furnishes a graphic account of the voyage of the Agamemnon from mid ocean to Valentia, which will also be found in our columns. Our advices from the west coast of Africa are dated, Calabar the Ist, Lagos the 6th, Monrovia the 16th, and Sierra Leone the 20th of July. At the Cameroons trade was dull At Fernando Po the Governor had been superseded, and on account of the measures of the new Governor, Signor Don Carios Chacon, in reference to religion, the Pro- testant missionaries and a part of the inhabitants were leaving the island for Ambases, where they were about to form a settlement, At Lagos the palm oil trade was brisk. Porto Novo, which had been cloved, was re-opened, and palm oil was | coming down there in abundance. At Cape Coast Castle there was but little trade doing, and the coast was sickly. Her Majesty's ship Buffalo was there, waiting to convey the Acting Governor, Major Bird, to arbitrate upon some dis- pate that had arisen between the natives on the Goid Ooast. At Sierra Leone the rainy season had set in with violence; trade was dull, and the seed | trade was at anend for the season. Three officerse| of the royal navy were drowned on the 24th of | June, when a boat belonging to her Majesty's brig | Childers was upset on the (allinais bar, and Assist | ant Surgeon Francis Davey, Assistant Paymaster | Charles Kenrick Foulkes, and Master's Assistant | Henry Stronach, lost their lives. | The United States steam frigate San Jacinto | from Hong Kong, arrived at this port yesterday—all well. She bad been absent in the Chinese and Japan seas nearly three years. Our despatch from Washington announces tho resignation of Mr. Birdsall, Naval Officer of the port of New York. Ill health is alleged as the cause of Mr. Birdeall's retirement from office. The New York American State Council met at Albany yesterday, and after a good deal of palaver agreed to hold a convention, for the nomination of | candidates for State efficers, at Syracuse on the 8th | of September next. The republicans hold their convention at the same place on the same day. Hon. Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy, arrived im town yesterday trom his tour of inapection of the Eastern Navy Yards. Ho will visit the Brooklyn Navy Yurd today, where he will be received with ll the honors. The mechanics of the Navy Yard, about three hundred in number, accompanied by a fine band of music, last night visited the hotel where Mr. Toucey is stopping, and complimented him with & serenade. The mimority and majority reports of the Special Committee of the Central Park Commissioners, on | the manner of doing the work of the Pack, are pul} lished eleewhert in our columns. The question dis- cussed in these reports is as to the propriety of adopting the contract system. Our readers will judge for themselves, on perusing the documents, who bas the best of the argument. The Joint Committee on the celebration of the laying of the cable met yesterday again at the casual hour. Communications were received from several musical and other associations, and several large establishments in the city tendered & variety of services to the committee on the . day of celebration, and expressed their desire to co-operate in the demonstration. The message from the Lord Mayor of Lendon in reply to the one from | Mayor Tiemann was reed. Communications making inquiry as to the programme of arrangements to be acted upon in New York were received from Phila- deiphia and Toronto, anda resolution was passed inviting the citizens and Common Council of New York to join in the celebration. A full report of the proceedings of the committee will be found in another column, and they are by no means unin j At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last evening, the special committee on the City Hall | made a report. The committee recommend that the edifice be repaired without unnecessary delay, | and that the roof of the central building be raised | or elevated so as to afford accommodation for the business of some of the departments. The commit. {ee also recommend that an iron bell tower be erect ed at the sontherly end of the Park. The Acting Mayor, Alderman Clancy, sent in a message veto ing the ordinance providing for the construction of ® sewer in Kast Broadway, between Market and Pike streets. The United States District Court will be opened at the offices, College piace, on Friday morning at 11 o'clock A. M., before Judge Betts, for the return of process, and to hear motions, &c. There will be no Jury trials until the court rooms in Chambers street are fit for occupation. A ®ve broke out early last evening in Abner A. ‘Too! + «clothing store, No. 78 Vesey street, and bef «© *ho flames could be subdo 4 te the concern were destroyed. or lat $4,500-Insurance $4,000. While the fire © were getting the hose up a ladder in frout of , the ladder broke, and procipiteted fow five perons to the greand. William Branden, o | mem ber of No. 1 track, was taken ap reriou:ly turt and afver his injuries were examined by Dr. Maarer, te drog store in Greenwich street, he was sent to his residence. There were one or two of the others play lared, vot pwr seporter epald pet lear she's Dy The loss is ee a On ie eal | the entry of the first boat into the canal. From ‘the boata Passing West Point at mid- | and paraded the city, marched to the Battery, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1856. — unite the ted contivents by steam was succees fully accomplished by the arrival of the Sirius at this port from Cork; and it is somewhat re- markable that in the still cloxr aud more mar vellous union by electricity, juet completed, Ireland should be alo the connecting point oa the European continent. The Sirias was a emall steamer of 700 tons, and engines of 320 horse power. She was not intended for a transatlantic vessel, though under the command of Captain Roberts, of Cork, she made the voyage safely in ei, hteen days a1 088 the ocean. ‘The Sirius left tht port on the 4th of April, 1838, and arrived heie on the night of the 23d. When the news flew ar: und that the’ Atlaatic had actuslly been bridged by steam, and, in the extra- vagant language of the day, time and space had been annihilated, the wildest excitement preva'led in the city, and at daylight thou- eands of people were on the Battery gazing at the wonderfal little craft which had ao ad- venturously braved the perils of the ocean and triumphed over them. Captain Roberts, a noble gentleman, as well as a brave sailor, who utheppily shared the mysterious fate of the steamehip President, was thought very highly of in New York. The samo day the Great Western arrived from Bris- tol, efter s passage of fourteen and a balf days, having left that port em the 8th. She was a large chip, built especially for this purpoee, measured 1,340 tons, and was commanded by Captain Hosking; but the Sirius, baving arrived first, took away the largest share of the glory. The Corporation and a large number of citizens were entertained on board, the Sirius the day after her arrival, at a banquet, by Mesars. Wadsworth & Smith, to whom ashe was consigned. On the 28th of April Captains Roberts and Hoskins were feast- ed by the Corporation, at the Astor House, Mayor Clark presiding; and on the 30th the freedcm cf the oity conferred upon them, and they were escorted with great enthusiasm to Blachwell’s Idend. While the Sirius remained in port the excitement continued unabated, and when she }:ft, on the Ist of May, for London, the 2 ousards who bid her farewell with accla- matiins and firing of cannoh, congratulated themeelves that the great event of that day was consummated. Steam navigation across the Atlantic was a fixed fact. Yet this was but twenty years ago, and to-day there are ten steamehips on the ocean bound to these shores from different ports of Earope. Here is the names. Henry Flender, captain of the insurance patrol watch, ell through the skylight of the baild ing No. 74 and received some slight iojaries. The cake of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 balew, the market olesing firm at adsut 1210. for mid: ting uplands, Fiour was some leas active, the sales be ‘erpecially of the betier class of brands; rejected grades were leas buoyant and closed cbange of moment im prices; 90,£00 bushels, at prices given ws rether easier, while the sales embraced unsound Weetern mized at 75c. « 81 s0., and Jersey yellow at 960. bags Rio, 1,100 do, Laguayra, and email lote of Java and Savanilia, at prices given cleewhere, Freights were dull and epgeg: ments light. nication by the Atlantic telegraph cable be tween the two worlds, which is to come off on the lst of September, will probably be the grandest affair ever witneseed. If it is carried out in a proper epirit, befitting the event it is intended to commemorate, it will be a grand internaticnal jubilee, embracing not only every city, town and village on this continent, but every leading city in England, Ireland, S:ot- land, and the countries ‘of the European conti- nent also. One grand simultaneous ebullition ot joy should go forth from all quarters of the c'vilized globe for this triumph of science, this conquest of the elements, this final annihilation of space and time. And in all probability the warld tball beho d this great spectacle. In this country we bave but one national fes- tival dey—the Fourth of July—and it is always welcomed with becoming honor. Henceforth, why should not the anniversary of the laying of the Atlantic cable on the shores of America and Ireland be kept 28 @ na‘ional holiday by both countries ? The c.tizens of New York have been called upon in previous years to participate in the celebration of three impor :snt events bearing upon the ma- terial’prosperi'y of our city and country, and on each occasion popular enthueiasm reached its height, ard everything which the facilities of the times sfforded was employed to demonstrate toe public rejoicing. These were, first, the open- ing of the Erie Canal, by Governor Clinton, in 1825; the arrival of the Sirius and Great West- era from Europe in 1838; and the introduction list: of Croton water into the city, in 1842. The union of the ee: sar ~~. eo Seamer neice, Devinn, é “4 the ocean was an enterprise of such magnitude, at soi pies... New York.. .Ang. 11. fraught with eo much good to the interests of Dremee.s. "New Ye m4 it New Youk, that the inauguration of the canal Aug. 14. ‘Aug. 18, was considered the great event of that age, and ‘Aug. 18. the whole State, from Buffalo to the Atlantic, a = was fired up with enthusiasm. The entire ~ s. scene, from the lake to this city, was a general ovation. On the morning ofthe 26th of October; 1825, the canal boat Seneca Chief left Buffalo with Governor Clinton, Lieutenant-Governor Tall- madge anda large party of guests, including committees from the corporations of New York and several interior towns, on board. Aocord- ing to arrangement, cannon were posted at convenient distances along the entire route, and as soon as the boat entered the waters of the canal at Buffalo, the booming signal passed along from station to station, from Buf- falo to Sandy Hook, and back again to the lake. Thus the commencement of the expedi- tion was announced to the whole State within sound of the guns. The cannon at Sandy Hook proclaimed the event just an hour and twenty minutes after the salute at Buffalo announced Not only are ali these vessels now crossing the waves of the Atlantic, but down in the depths of its bosom lies a highway over which thought may travel from hemisphere to hemis- phere almost as quick as the brain of man can conceive it. How little is thought now of the almost daily arriva! of steamehips in our harbors!—and how insignificant appears the once gigantic echeme of joining Lake Erie to the ocean! Such is the progress of the age in which we live, and it is little wonder that people fall down and wor- ship it. The other enterprise which received an im- posing celebration in this city was the intro- duction of Croton water, on the 14th of October, 1842. That event, the harbinger of comfort and cleanliness and public health, was cele brated by an immense procession composed of over 15,000 people, and a general illumination of the city, which was witnessed by half a mil- lion, The procession, military and civic, formed at the Battery, at nine o’clock in the morning, under command of General Gilbert Hopkins, and having paraded the streets, entered the Park, where, at a given signal, the fountains (now, alas! dry) threw up their jets of pure Croton water, thus announcing its presence in the plainest way. The guests from abroad were received in the City Hall, and here addresses were delivered by Samuel Stevens, President of the Water Commissioners, and John L. Law- rence, President of the Croton Aqueduct Board, and an ode written for the occasion was sung by the New York Sacred Music Society. Alto- gether, the celebration was a superb ons, and worthy that important epoch in the his tory of the city of New York. And now we are approaching the celebration of an event the magnitude of which overshadows all the others—an event fot local in its charao- ter or results—net merely national, bat uni- versal ‘n ite promised advantages to the whole globe, While America and Great Britain may in ‘an especial manner rejoice at the success of an enterprise which has stirred the hearts of both nations to their centres, every portion of Europe, and even Africa and Asia, will be affected by it. Therefore, it is eminently proper that the jubilee shou'd be an international and ® simaltaneous one, We have no doubt that the celebration in this city will be the most splendid spectacle ever witnessed here. It is contemplated to have a brilliant illumination of all the public build- ings, and a magnificent display of fireworks never equalled. Arrangements are progressing for a grand procession, embracing all the mili- tary and civic bodies in the city. Invitations have been sent to Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, of the British flag ship Indus, and Oaptain Day- man, of the Gorgon, to be present, and should their vessels arrive here they will be greeted by a salvo of a hundred guns from the Battery, and a national salute from the forts in the har- bor. At night the firemen will celebrate the triumph by o torchlight procession. It is expected that a despatch will be received from London, announcing that every city and town in Great Britain and Ireland will unite with us on the firet of next month in a glorioug international jubilee at the success of the electric communication between the two ne tions, In any event, we may be sure that New York will do her part superbly. Buffalo to Albany the fleet was greeted at every town and village with the thunder of cannon and the acclamations of thousands. Rochester, Syracuse and Utica contributed their quota of enthusiasm ; and, as the committee of the New York Corporation were instructed to invite their fellow citizens frpm other towns to join in the celebration, and accept the hospitality of the metropolis, the number of celebrants grew daily larger and larger as the canal squadron advanced. On the 2d of November the fleet arrived at Albany, where the wildest excitement prevailed. A procession was formed and marched to the Capitol, when congratulatory addresses were delivered by the Governor and several others. Another committee of the New York Corporation here met the party, to coa- duct them into the waters of the Hadson. On the marning of the 34 of November, six steam- boats, gaily decorated with the fings of all nations, were added to he squadron, under the direction of the New York Corporation com- mittees, These were filled with distinguished guests, committees and delegations from several Western cities; and in the midst of the utmost enthusiasm the squadron started on its way towards the Ocean. All down the river the scene was as exciting as it had been on the cane). At night the villages were all illumi. nated, and threw up fireworks to welcome night, the officers came off in boats with band, and offered their congratu- lations to the Governor. As the fleet approached the city the wharves and houses were thronged with people eagerly awaiting ite coming. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of November they anchored off the North Battery, amid a than. derous welcome from the forts in the harbor. Here they were surrounded by steamers and barges filled with people, while a grand civic procession, under command of General Fie- ming, which had formed in Greenwich street and passed in colamn along the circular walk at its margin, uniting the aquatic party and the city procession in one grand ova- tion. At thie time all the bells in the city were pealing out, and the guns from the forts were thundering their greeting to the visiters. Running up as far asthe Navy Yard, where they received a national salute, the fleet, now largely increared, steamed gaily down to Sandy Hook, where Govermor Clinton poured some of the waters of Lake Erie into the Atlantic, and Dr. Mitchill poured the waters of the Ganges, the Nile, Amazon, Oronoco, La Plata, Colum- bia, Thamee, Elbe, Seine, Neva and Tagus upon the borom of the ocvnn. The fleet then returned to the Battery, and « grand illomina. | tion and dieplay of fireworks at the City Hal! followed. 1,542 wax euadler, 454 lamps, 19 variegated lights burned in the windows « Tar Carvarme Ween Warne Ur Aoas.— The Chevalier Webb gives us another rearing broadside on the subject of the republican can- didate for Congress from old Westchester. As rentter stand#, be thinke come party or other ts Lound to be cheated. Why, then, don’t the Chevalier put in? Nobody w*ald be cheated by him, for he is known by everybody—United Stake Bank fees, mahogany slocked pfetuls, bankrupt law operations, Austrian mission. { and | the iali, uch wae the faehion ia which the junction o Lake lrie with the ocean was colebrated thirty three years ago. The whole proceedings, toge- | “frex wool’ negotiations, and all. Let the ther with a memoir of the canal, were published | Chevalier Webb, then, put in at once, and save by order of the Corporation. 7 the Westchester district. Groat men are aceded Just Herpnty yeare mga the Orel atlerrrt te ' for grgnt emergencies, eo Ticstcs ano Rownms—Deap Raparrism 18 Tas AscENDANT.—It wou'd appear, from our daity police items, that New York is again iv the hands of the rowdies, and that the Dead Rabbits and other gang of ruffians and vaga bonds who intest the city have things all their own way. Weare told in yesterday’s issue of outrages committed by parties of rowdies upon quiet and inoffensive people—for the most part women and chiidren—whe ventured to leave the city last Monday on a picnic exoursion to one of the islands. Immediately after the boat bad started on her trip, the ruffians who had got on board of her comntenced their work, and the whole trip is represented to have been a continuous scene of the most disgraceful braw!- ing and fighting, in whioh several persons were stabbed or maimed or otherwise brutally treated. On the Island affairs were no better, groups of pleasure seekers being everywhere attacked and outraged ‘by gangs of drunken, lawless vagabonds, who went about from place to place seeking for objects on whom to gratify their devilish propensities, The worst of it was that the pleasure seekers were all unarmed and un- able to defend themselves from these numerous and organized gangs, and ‘the three policemen who formed the plonic escort were powerless against them. One quiet, inoffensive man, who had gone with his wife and party to enjoy what he expected would be a day of reoreation in the country, was set upon in the midst of his inno- cent amusements by one of these gangs and shockingly mutilated. So great was the terror- ism exercised by them that on the return trip t» rhe city the quiet, well conducted portion of the passergers declined to come back by the same boat, but sought the protection of a mili- tary company which had been out on a target excursion to the island, and on whose boat they returned to the city. While this should be lesson te our citizens not to go on large picnic excursions, whether for the benefit of churches or Sanday schools, or whatever other benevolent object, it ehould also arouse our police and jadicial authorities to a sense of the danger of allowing these law- less organizations to obtain such headway a: they seem to have now got. In the case we hawe recited it was the duty of the captain of the boat to have run into the nearest point of land, and, with the aid of his crew, the po- lice, and the well disposed portion of the men on board, to have expelled by force the mis- creants who were making disturbance. If the latter were too numerous to admit of that being done, he should have turned the boat's head, steered back to New York, signalled for a force of police, and given every one of the marau- ders into custody. Primarily, the fault lies at the doors of those who get up such excursions, and who exercise no sort of care to see that tickets do not get into the hands of rowdies, thieves and vagabonds, The only way to renie- dy that is for all decent, quiet people to avoid going on any of these crowded excursions until the time arrives, if it ever does, that they can do so without fear of ruffian violence. But it is not only outside of our police juris- diction that the rowdies are allowed to carry on their outrages. They do a0, unmolested by the police, in the heart of the city. The news column in which we read the fore- going facts also contained an account of an attack on one of our engine companics by a party of Dead Rabbits of the Sixth ward, in which stones were hurled and pistols fired at the company; and yet not an arrest was made by the police, nor did they seem to know anything about the until information was received at the station house. A night or two ago a respectable woman was attacked by ruffians as ehe was walking through the Battery; but, for- tunately, her cries for help were heard and she was eaved from further violence, though her assailants made their escape. The mysterious disappearance of Mrs, Brannan, a most reapeo- table lady, the wife of an army officer, has not yet been accounted for, although the ciroum- stance is now over a month old, and altheugh she must have been kidnapped, if at all, in broad daylight, and at the lower end of Broad- Stes and outrages, and mysterious disap- pearances of this sort are fearfully on the increage in our midst; and if they cannot be checked by our police and judicial organiza- tions, the people may have to take the matter in their own hands and apply their own remedy. They should not be driven to that desperate expedient, but events seem to indicate that there Is no other resource left. Lyrercuanor or Conoratotations Berwaex man Marors oy New York ann Loxpox.— Our readors must have been considerably an- noyed and disappointed on perusing « para- graph in yesterday's Henatp, stating that Mayor Tiemann’s message to the Lord Mayor of London was intercepted at a station in New- foundland, antl not forwarded even to Trinity Bay. The given was that the operator in refusing to forward it was only obeying instructions to the effect that no mes gages should be transmitted to parties in Europe till the line was opened to the public. As soon as this fact was known Mr. Field took immediate measures to set the matter right, which, we are informed, had besn already done, and Sir Robert Oarden’s reply to Mayor Tic- mann’s message had been that moment raceived. It will be found in another column. It will be seen that the commanication from the Lord Mayor of London does not touch the mabject of the proposed international celebra- tion of the Ist of September. The reason is that Mayor Tiemann’s despatch was drawn up by him immediately after the re- ception of the Queen’s message, and before the day for the celebration had been fixed. There is still time enough to have it so ar- ranged that the celebrations will take place throughout Great Britain and the United States on the same day; andif conimunications to that end did not pass yeeterday, we presume they will pass today. We expect, too, that Mr. Field has taken measures to prevent any fur- ther intercepting of such communications by any thick headed official on either side of the Atlantic. Deatns ny Drowxiwo—Brware ov Suarks.— Three young men who went ont to swim off Staten Jeland last Sunday never returned to shore. Two of them went in together, and nothing was known of them till the discovery of their clothes on the beach told their melan choly fate. An advertisement published in our colomps next morning was probably the firet notice which their families had of their death. Another advertisement pabliched in our columne yestérday morning tells a similar tale in regard to a young Coban, named Val dea, who met his death on the same day in the game woy and of the same Island. The bodies 1 of sone of the three have been yet recovered, ata the smp,rosition fe that they were all attack- ed aud devourea yy sharks, It ie Gisgrecctut to us that, with cud eplendid facilities, n0 mea- sures have been yet téhen te get up public baths all around the city and environs, in which our youth could enjoy the luxury of a ewim i” the salt water without risk of drowning or being devoured by sharks. We hope that the terrible lessonsof last Sunday will not be with- out their fruite, , Tux Cucesnation at Cunepourc.—Whea peo- ple who claim to be great friends before the world entertain any little heart-burnings towards each other, they always make violent efforts when in public to seem most heartily cordial. This truiem comes aptly to mind on reading the published accounts of the meeting of the royal families of Eagland and France at the celebration of the completion of the great naval arsenal at Cherbourg, the long contem- plated imporial echeme of France to hold Great Britain in check. If we may believe these, never were greetings more cordial than those between the Courts of Napoleon amd Victoria. The British press, however, with true English tenacity, will express ita dogged opinion that England has no reason to be satisfied with this event, and gives a not very flattering de- nial, in faot, to the fine words of Prince Albert. Yet the pageant was a great one, whether it were truthful or not. The French press, too, whether from the fact that it is under more control than the English, or any other reason, follows the cue of the Emperor, and permits only one or two expressions of triumph to eecape in its comments. Bat there was one fact, one great event in the celebration, that though not receiving so much notice as it deserves, far out- weighs Cherbourg, and its docks and fleets, in its political importance and futare influence on the destinies of nations. While the Queen of England sat at dinner on board the flag ship of the French Admiral, with Napoleon by her side, a little missive that had come on the wings of the lightning was handed to her. It simply said, “The Atlantic telegraph has been laid.” Whatever misgivings might have nestled in her heart at the portents of the event she was honor- ing toward her own people, they were at once scattered to the winds. The nations and peoples of her world-wide kingdom were bound together in instantaneous communication, and a mighty and kindred Power was within call. Abso- lutism might take a pride In its armies and its shipe, but liberty was now quickened with a higher and a nobler impulse, for the great tri- umph of peace had prevailed. The true event on the day of Cherbourg was the landing of the Atlantic cable. The docks and ports that it opened to the instruments of war will crumble into dust countless ages before the impulse which the ocean’ telegraph has given to the world shall cease to produce ite results. Greetey ov Foston.—Greeley and Headley have made a good beginning for the fasion of the republicans and Know Nothings of this State; but Masea Greeley has forgotten in this business the great element of “free wool” and the lobby business generally. In fact, he has advised the drowning of Matteson at onoce, which we think a bad move. How is Master ‘Thurlow Weed to work up his “statistics” with- out the aid of “free wool” and Matteson? THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington Despatch RESIGNATION OF THE NAVAL OFFICER OF NEW YORK— POSTPONEMBNT OF NBBRASKA LAND SALBS, BTC. Wasnrneron, Ang. 24, 1858. Mr. Birdsall, the Naval Officer of the port of New York, has sent in his resignation, as the ill state of his health precludes his attending to the duties of his office. The public land sales which wete ordered by pro clamation, March 30, 1858, to take place at the land offices at Brownsville, Nebraska City, and Omaha City, Nebraska Territory, on the 6th of September next, have been postponed, by order of the Presi- dent, for one year from this date, to August 24, 1859, prior to which date the lands will again be adver- tised. The almost entire failure of the crops in Iowa and Nebraska this season, together with the late financial revulsion, bas left the scttlers without the means to pay for their lands the present year. Should the sales be allowed to take place 94 aanounced, they would lose their homesteads, which they h*ve im™ proved at more expense than the first value of the land. For these reasons the President has wisely concinded to postpone the sales, and give the set- tlers another chance to retain their property. General Harney left this city this morning for St. Louis to make preparations for an early start for the Pacific coast in case the next steamer does not bring intelligence indicative of an early adjustment of the difficulties with the Indians in that quarter. It is understood that Secretary Floyd intends, if the hostile movement on their part continues, to send General Harney, with instructions to prosecate a vigorous and unrelenting winter campaign until the savages are reduced to entire subjection. Mr. Turpin, our Minister to Venezuela, left today for New York, en route for that country. Nosettlement of the Aves Island difficulty has yet been arrived at that has met the approval of the State Department. It 2 said in diplomatic circles that Gen. Walker is j now negotiating with Jo. White or Vanderbilt in- dependent of his old friend Gen. Henningsen. It is believed here that the military skill, tact and practi- cal knowledge of Henningsen would have carried Walker safely through in his first expedition had his advice been followed; bat no one thinks Walker could invade Nicaragua now with success. His prestige is gone withh is two failures. Private advices from Ohio state positively that Tom Corwin will carry the election in his favor by an overwhelming majority. The democrats of Maine write that they expect with good reason to carry at least two districts in that State for the administration candidates. ‘TUR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATOR, Wasnrworon, August 24, 1468. Purser Danforth has been tried by court martial and sent home; and Purser Nixon has been trans ferred to the Vincennes in his place. The sale of public lands in Nebraska, advertised to take place next month, will be postponed for the benefit of the settlers thereon. William C. Wheeler has been appointed Chief Engineer of the steamer Water Witch, now fitting ont for the Paraguay expedition. Col. Rector, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southwestern district (west of the Arkansas), will on his retarn thither distribute to the Seminoles and other tribes nearly half million dollars in pre- sents and annuities. Mr. Turpin, sneceasor to Mr. Fanmes as Minister to Venezuela, is om the eve of leaving for that country, having received his instructions. Jomes Green killed a Mr. Carver, of Mobile, at Warrenton Springs last night, with a bowie knife, ia @ rencontre. The same parties were recently arrested in Washington and prevented from fightins ad Both are young. Creen is in custody. ‘Heenominntion of Hon, Lewts D © Crrernnats, Angust Hop. Lewis 1D. Campbetl was re-nomiuated to-day by the republicava of the Third district, receiving ite vote of every delegate. os, Proceedings of uo Now York Amestoan Beate Oouncll CALL FOR & oR AES NOMINAFING CONVENTION AF bymacuse OY TAB ben OF GFTMees. : i i : i i z hilett i f anaddress, to be pabiiened at a future PGiecdloy, George Briggs, Dwight Uacholdee, 3. 8. Roy T ley, 53 er, J. N. le Bolcs, A. Yas Horey, P. J. Coons, Gubert Wilcoxoa, and James R. Thom psoa. ‘The following despatch was bere received :— Exarea, August 24, 1858. ‘The American 4e'egation of Kimira bewg ape Rae cose lln! to our paris, which ate: justana tateligest tase cbice, proieotion to Am schools, and american men. isa the tents Corttcten os titoaee te kee eek Sate Convention at Syracuse, by making it en the abe Seen ber tial ce saiay'ie . CHARLES &. MACOMBER, moved Tesolution on the tadie. se Motioe carried by 128 to 87. Mr. Wrrumrat, of New York, thon moved to call the Convention at troy on the 7th of ber. A motion to lay this on the tab © was lost by 86 te 109, Mr. Warxivs, of Troy, moved to amend by substitating Syracuse, on the 6th of Septomber, the day of the Repab- can State Convention. point, but referred tothe minutes, and showed that the was amended in tha! clause at last year's Y spoke in favor cf holding the Convention for the ican party alons, courtiog no support except such as could be gtven to American iplen. Mr. Gronak Kortox, of New York, favored the calling of the convention on the 8th of September, a} Troy, er some otber piace Woovs, of New York, favored the of the Then, if others de- could do se, i i iF il i i z | 5 dir’ : i Gg i i f i [ Hi fe if it its Hi i sie i g ft i if ¢ E g i 8 H i E § i s : 1 i i if E i sf il F fi § 4 : | f i E if i i ? f H 3 i { i i! Hl u i if & s i Ss it , i . : i ih é i F ri i Fj # : | i E nt Ee i ii i Eesti if ii il i i ii g i : sel i 7 TE i FT ; _ 3 i { 3 ii i 1} [x Fe ili i i yf lie American , rom the Com. Fries Of resolations, ae follows: == epeciine Cow f the Hints he re anise from 6 amornhiy diate rineiplea sdopten at fioghamton, Biate Noevingiiog Coavenvon to be aed Keerived. That, bei'crieg in the prinotple that the will the comauiiiionsity ‘expressed ta thn snorems ts be M6 Mery CU TRG INR patlataglon Lag sesteh Om