The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HE ‘ JaMBS GORDON BENNETT EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFrie> H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU GTS, TERM THE D. DAIL SUERAED, 0 ct OT per aroma, TOR WEEELY HERALD every ot cis emt pe Seino Riper ann, 0 Fehon annum. to Shree aon © ‘e ony part of the Comtinen: weak Fawil te HERALD every Wednesday, ot fowr contsper ‘Tesrrans- Reo WEEY TIE. Rowery—Tus hoa -! yt orn EK JOmaTH AN. Guoun—Joas Burs asd LAURA KEEWR'S THRATBE, 6% Brondway—Tux Wi Low Loree Daxcina a0. METROPOLITAN Halt, 5% Broadway—Prevon Tins gente Mantece oe 0 rode BRPSICHOREAM BXeacises— Les DRCK AYSNGLEB, e+ oSBRIO+R ¢5 MUBKUM, ‘ATer ‘Derutve—Turwor's TawaTEs OF ART, OR ARI Sites Wonun-Ouniosrrine, be. wi sonse, Dameas. bo-Oi BECHANTOS BALL 479 79 Sroedway—Buv anes’ Mrnernens —Feoec Mavorine a#p Buniasqou—Soinse p’Kiaior. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street and Sixth svenne— Cosoeat—? mav ons, do enc 663 Breadway—Brmiorus Bosal New Yura, Thereaay, Aagum 26, 1856, Tae News, The Hon. Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy, was received yesterday morning by the Commodore and various captains stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in an appropriate manner. The Secre- Lary visited the several factories, shops, &c., aud jninntely inspected the mechanical arrangements of the Yard. He afterwards boarded the Niagara, where he was most courteously received by Captain Hudson, and next went on board the North Carolina, amidst a salute of thirteen guns. We give a report in another column. Capt. Hudson and the officers of the Niagara have accepted an invitation to a public dinner tendered them by the Common Council of Jersey City. The committee of the Common Council on the celebration of the laying of the ocean cable met yes- terdey,and got through a god deal of business. ‘They appointed Geverai Yates Grand Marshal of the procession, and received and referred to committees & good many interesting communications in refe- rence to it. They agreed to have the great dinner at the Metropolitan Hotel on the 2d of September, and adjourned to meet to-day to transact business of importance. ‘The crew of the frigate Niagara came in for their Bbhsre of public attention yesterday. They pa raded through Broadway to the Cooper Institute. Where they were addressed by Mr. Cyrus W. Field aud others, and afterwards proceeded to the Palace Garden, where they partook of a supper, to which they were invited by Mr. Field. Elsewhere may be found an account of the affuir. in the Supreme Court yesterday Judge Clerke granted an alternative mandamus forthe Board of Bupervisors to show cause why they should not allo- cate the $500,000 appropriation for the Commission- ers of Record,as passed by the Legislature in the tax levy. The Supervisors amended the tax levy by substituting the sum of $50,000 for that purpose. ‘The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday, but transacted no business of general interest. The number of emigrants arrived at this port daring the present year, up to 25th inst., is 62,964, showing a falling off of 59,924 as Compared with the emigra- tion to the same time last year. Major Charles J. Helm, of Kentucky, late Consul at &t. Thomas, has been appointed Consal General of Cuba, and will «ail for Havana in about sx weeks to enter upon the duties of hia office. The statement that Mr. Birdsall had resigned the post of Naval Officer of the port of New York is contradicted by that gentleman. Mr. Birdsall is at Binghamton, slowly recovering from a severe ill. nees. He will retarn to town in a few days. We have dates from Great Salt Lake City to the Dist ult., but they contain no news of importance. The Kansas Board of Commissioners have issaed 8 proclamation declaring that the English proposi- tion was rejected at the recent election. The majo- rity against the proposition was 9512. Our correspondent at Georgetown, Demerara, writing on the Sth instant, says :—The crops this | year are beyond all precedent, and the colony is rapidly improving in mining and agricultural eater prises. Upwards of 1,000 persons are now engaged on the banks of the Exsequibo river gold washing, ‘and an English company is in the Pacaraima moun- tains breaking quartz by steam, and are reaping a Tich harvest. Cotton, tobacco, rice and corn grow well, and their culture has attracted the attention of capitalists to such an extent that the export of these staples in a few years will quadraple the present yield. Ditching the land along the sea shore is going on extensively, and | several charters for railroads in the interior have been granted to companies who possess wealth and enterprise. In my next communication, which will be about the middle of September next, ! will be enabled to furnieh you with the statistics of the colony. Quiet, bealth and plenty prevail among us. The receipts of beef cattle at the various yards during the past week amounted to 3,361 head, an | increase of 456 as compared with the week previous. ‘The prevailing cool weather, combined with the in- fiox of strangers and the return of a large number of families from the summer resorts, has contributed to materially increase consumption, and notwithstand. ing the ample supply of cattle the prices of last week were fully maintained, the rates being 7c a 9}c. The quality of the cattle offered, however, was scarcely up to the average. With the subsidence of the swill milk excitement the demand for cows and calves has improved, and it is gratify ing to observe that really good cows are More sought after by milkmen than formerly. Sales Were made at $25 a $65, and as high aa $75 was paid fors prime cow. The receipts of veal calves last ‘week were very heavy, but the quality was inferior. ‘The general selling price was 6c. a Sje. There was ‘an smple supply of sheep and lambs. Sheep sold at $4285 each, while lambs were somewhat bolow those figures. There were heavy receipts of ewine, and with an active demand prices improved. First qimlity sold at Sjc.; other descriptions at 4jc. The wholesale prices of a1 kinds of 6 ock are now two or three cents # pound less than at this time last year, but the retails have @ way of managing matters so that the consumer derives but little if any benefit from the redaction ‘The eniee of cotton yesteroay em>raced about 1,200 Daire, part fn transite. The market cliwed without any que tsblecbarge ip prices We continue to quote middling uplan ts at 120 Flour was lom active and bosyant, ° prices im the main were without important change Wheat was Goll, and prices for fancy low of Southern ‘Were casior The sales embraced about 25,000 bushels, at eter, veo in another column. Oorn was sold freely at Show "Se 8 B40 for unsound Western mixed; siaw Selon’ Southern at Sho. a Se, and Bouthern yeliow at Fe FP O% we firmer and more sotive, with sales o, ae Dole, meas at $17 8 SLT 26, with some sales o Prove PANS 8 OTB. Bales af about 700 hhde. Cade mas- orvere 0 O80 boxes ugar were made at rates given fe © De COUME. Day before yesterday the sales indi- Cire © Coline of AdONt one-cighth of a cont below the By!) pret Of the previous week, while yesterday's @tlre Sere mace without further change. Golfse war Suet Freighwe were dell, and quotations for twenpoot Rows a Acer farable umber of vamela . NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1858. a The Late American State Oounsll—fAr age mente for a Leve Feast witm the Repubit- Come at Syracuce. The rump of the late great American or Koow Nothing party of New York, im their State Council at Albany, on Tuesdey last, after a very animated, ioteresting and significaut de- bate resolved, by a vote of 163 to 65, to hold their State Couvention at Syracuse on the 8th day of September, the entical day and place appointed for the Convention of the republican perty. Tois resolution is the cream of the pot. It is adeliberate step, on a grand scale, fer a love featt ard a fusion between the Kuow Nothing end republican parties; and the vote by which the resolution was carried—163 to 65—may be taken, we presume, as a pretty fair illustration of tbe relative etrength of the fusion aad anti- fasion fections of the American camp. The a: bate, however, shows that there is a very broad margin of difference among the brother- bood upon this important question of a sar- render to the republican party. Mr. George Morton “did cot wish to meet in the same city with the repudlicaus—they im one reom, the Americans in another, ard the wirepulicrs over- hesd.” Mr. Wood, of this city, “was in favor of nominating a State ticket before the conven- tions of the other parties met” He thought that the best way for roping the republicans io, after the fashion of Gerrit Smith. Mr. Witheral, too, “boped that the Council would not send delegates to Syracuse to look after the repub- icans.”’ Mr. Thompson, of Monroe, wae in favor of “‘an bonorable union with the repub- licans.” Mr. Prescott, of Herkimer, was not diepored to actin aburry. He w uld prefers later day than the 8tb of September, and would rether join the democracy at once than go for the republicans on the Fremont platform. The Hon. Daniel Ullmann, formerly of Cul- cutta, here came to the rescue, and asked, “Are we afrsid to meet in Syracuse on the 8th of Sep tember because the republicans mect there on that day?” That was a home, thrust; bat Mr. Headley (Napoleon and bie firstals) thought the 9tb would do as well, and perhaps better than the 8th—-the 7th would certainly be a day teosoon. Mr. Erastus Brooks ‘could not act witb the republicans, nor with the democrats. He was bound, as an American, to hold them at arms’ lepgth until they modified their dvc- trives.”” That's good; but Erastus, ia the next brestb, spoils it by declaring that “inasmuch as we bold principles in common with the re publicans—to wit, opposition to the extension of slavery (oh! bo!) aud opposition to the pre ent national administration and to its odious Kaneas policy (ab! ha!) he was williog to strike fellowship with them or any other party that would join and stand vy that opposition to the evd.” Here begins the lifting of the curtain, and Gen. Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs cordially seconded the motion. “Tle did not hesitate to ewy that he was strongly in favor of co-operation with the republicans, if the basis be honorable, #2 d not resulting in the encrifice of avy of our principles.” And Gen Scrogg:, we must re member, is the neighbor and right hand man of Millard Fillmore. Finally, during the evening sseion, Mr. Headley broaght in the resolutions of the committee readopting the Binghamton platform, denouncing the Kansas policy of the séministration, reiterating the policy of a twenty-one years’ naturalization law, declaring i tavor of a registry law, in favor of the Bible in our common schools, ia favor of 8 protective tariff, kc. as the principles upon which the “Americans” will staud ready at Syracuse to fuse with the republicans The “Binghamton platform,” which the Koow Nothiog managers have thus resolved to cerry up to Syracuse as their ultimatum for the republicans, involves, in addition to the points mentioned, “ hostility to the assumption of papal Rome, through the bishops, prelates, priests or ministers of the Roman Catholic oburch, a8 antiropublican ip principle and dangerous to the liberties of the people,” and the following sbarp-pointed and personal reso- lution -— Rerotved, That the ceciaration of the ive of the Stato of Now Yoru in the Senate of the United Sa oe— Wiliam H Beward— that ne bel eves that aos emigrants ‘eho come to this country and bare never bee osta 7-0 Bre as & geDerel [ect ae IMtelligeat aod capable of exeroting the furctioke of government a oar owa edu cate) ClUZADE, In @ lide! on every American citiz-: a di TeCk @sertOG tbat OUF Coramon SoQgOls, ® free B.bie aod Woeral netitations, aren» bower im preparng oor coiltren for the proper ane of the elective franchise than the coo rerce of the deepotiems of Ea 80d the sasnor of uch a sextimen: dese-vor, avd shouid receive, tho con dempation of every American ciizen. Here we touch upon the most critical point of the whole cose. William H. Seward has been, is, end will be, at Syracuse, the greatest of ali impediments to a coalition between the r publican acd Know Nothing parties—black, white, red and blae. The droppingof Seward, in fuct, is the firet necosslty to a practical fu- tion. Hence the defiant and intolerant bear- ing of Thurlow Weed and the Chevalier Webb towards the Know Nothing mans- gere who, for a month or two past, dork lantern in hand, have been endeavoring to creep into the republican camp. Hence the sine qua non of Weed and Webb to the rump of the | Koow Nothing party, vbich is substantially ns | followe:—« If you wish to join us, come and welcome; but we have no concessions of prin- ciples to make which will endanger the ascen- deney of our great anti-elavery champion, W. H. Seward, as the bead and front and chosen standard bearer of the coalition.” What is the prospect? The late Southern clectione bave shown that Koow Nethingism bas completely tzated out in that section; that the scattered rank and file of that party and of the old whig party there are looklog forward to a furion with the republicans of the North upon a national platform which will be equally availa- ble in both sections. No doubt this collapse of the Know Nothing party South has strongly predispored the leaders of the party North to- wards the rame policy of a general reconstrac- tion and coalition. This, we take it, will explain the conciliatory and amiable inclinations of euch Know Notbing leaders at this Troy State Council os Ullmann, Scroggs, Headley and others; while the Hon. Masea Greeley, with or without the concurrence of Mr. Seward, appeare to be fally diepowed to eplit the party difference between riggere and the Irish Catholics, in order to se cure © practical fasion against “the present national administration, and its odious Kanea policy.” Very well. The eighth of September will be ® day of some moment to the parties which will then areemble at Syracuse and to all parties of the State and of the United States. The “Ameriean” party bas fallen to pieces; the republican party is falling to pieces, the settle- ment of the Kansas question having left it at tow tide among the sands and breakers. There may be enough, however, of Kansas ministration and the democracy on the aigger que-tion; enough of the old whiz loaven of 8 Protective tart, c., to rope in the “Silver Greys” of the Webster echool, and enough in a registry law and the common echool Bible question for @ compromise oa Native American notions; but unless the republican mansgers chall go up to Syracuse prepared to sacrifice W. H. Seward to the com- mon cause, we fear that the proposed love feast will break up in 8 row, and result in a separate Ar-ricen State ticket for November. The “Binghamton platform,” excepting the anti-Seward resolution, will amoutt to little or nothing Thurlow Weed isa ely old fox, and kuows that the bead of Seward is the real price which the Know Nothinge will demand for their services in bebalf of the republican party. Bat as thi surrender of Seward to the exeou- tioners will involve the abaadonment of his re- publican mechivery, we cannet undertake to soy that these soft appliances of Ullmaan, Head_ ly snd Scroggs fer a coalition between the nigger loving republicans and the Irish hating Know Notbings will be successful. In any event, the two Spracase Conventions of the 8th September, hit or aplit, will go very fer to iasugurate the reconstruction of the op- position elements for 1860, either as one party, mak vg the nigger a secondary issco and loav- ing Seward bigh acd dry, or as twe or three Partice, including @ little cections! anti-slavery perry, with Seward a6 its anointed champion. The Greoking Up of Mormeniem—Condition of ATsirs in Cieh The ign: rance, misery and destitution on the port «! the people, and the folly, rasoality and gre«d on the part of the leaders of the Mormous in Utoh, which bave been laid open to the view of the world by the entrance of the army aad Cflicials of the United States into Salt Lake Val- Jey, surpasses anything that bas ever been found witbin the admitted pale of civilization. Tbe pictures of the social condition of the great mass of the inbabitante, which have beca so graphically presented by our special corre- epordent in that region, exhibit the most ap- pellins degradation. The retarn from Provo of those who had migrated southward by order of Brigham Young was a lamentable march Men, children and pigs huddled together in ¢ few wagons they possessed, while women, with scanty dress, bare feet and sunbarnt faces, drove their emall herds of cattle and swine along the dusty road. On the otber baod, the prieste of this theoc atical organization, rigid in collecting the tithes and dues of their iniqui- tously organized church, and rathless in their oppression of the people, have rolled in laxury and perpetuated their rule by bands of assas- sins, called by them the tribe of Dan. To the well koown existence of the terror in- spired by the leaders and their faithful Danites is no doubt due the fact that thousands of men who bad known other and better states of existence have hitherto showed no signs of apostacy from this degrading rule. They had been lured into aperrow valley a thousand miles beyond the borders of civilization, from which exit through & few oerrow canons or ravines was surrounded with difficalty, and escape was almost impossi- ble. To the tender a:d loving nature of wo- man, whose betier instincts rebelled most strengly against the brutal position assigned to ber, there was presented an impaseable barrier to all relief. How large numbers of them clung to the soldiers of Captain Steptoe’s com- mand four years since, when he wintered in Salt Lake on his way to California, is well known. Onur recent advices fram there lead us to entertain the hope that the end of this state of things hes becn inaugurated, and that we shall yet see a peaceful, free and happy community thriving where rascality has so long held eway. The march of the army into Utah has broken the wand of Brigham Young, and the establish- ment there of the officers of the United States promises protection to those of the Mormons who wish to throw off his despotism, The self-styled Prophet ts reported to keep bimeelf screened from public view, closely shut up within bis house and gardens, where he, no doubt, is closely watching the march of eventa, and preparing new schemes for the ro- establishment of his power. But schism is elready at work among his followers; and we bave no doubt that as soon as it shall become evident there that the government can and will protect the rights of Individuals against Young and bis fanatical adberents, the number of the seceders from the Mormon church will become very large. The same inceative—a do sire for temporal well being—whioh has led so many of the ignorant and poverty stricken people of Europe to seek a new and more Inxu™ rious home in Utah, will lead them to abandon @ faith which has only involved them in poverty and degradation. Fanatics will, no doubt, continue to exist there, for they exist everywhere; but when they are once deprived of political and social rule in the community, ite character must necesearily undergo a great change. These beneficial resulte have been brought about by the firm and persistent course par- sued by Mr. Bachanan. The sppointment of the Peace Commimioners merely af forded the bragging lenders of the Mormons a chance to escape from the con- sequences of their own folly and rebellion, and in this way it perhaps saved the Mormon people from much suffering ; but the Commis- siovers could have done nothing at all if Gen Johneton and his forces had not been at the gates of Utah with both the will and the power to go in. Notwithstanding all of Brigham Young’s threats, it was the troops he feared, for he could cajoly and deceive the civilians with a multiplicity of lies. Since the entrance of the army into Utah another fear pose ap before him. The presence of our short-hand reporter among the congregation put a stop to his cus tomary revilings and braggadocio, for he feared the publication of the truth. It may yet be de- sirable, and perhaps even necessary, for Gov Cumming, or his successor, whom it fs to be hoped Mr. Buchanan will appoint at an early day, to call a porse of troops into the city to sustain the civil authorities. Brigham Young's resistance to the lawfol authoritios mast be completely broken down before the people, in order to inspire with confidence those who are Aixpored to obey the behests of the law rather than thore of the church. When this is done we have no doubt that the end of the impoeture of Mormoniam will be at hand. People may continue to believe in its spiritual teachings, as thousands do In epiritnal fem and other iems of the day; but Brigham Young will come to occonpy « position similar to that of Henry Ward Beecher, whom he is said much to resemble, or other of 0 Ms, bpeaber Orr om the Ka wee Questios and Ge African Siave C-04-. Tp an extra of the Acdereon (8 C ) Gazelle wo heve received a full report of the proceedings at bertecue at Craytonville, complimentary to the Hep. James L. Orr, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the present Congress. ‘There wes a grend tarnout of the people on the occasion, @ fine military display, do., the exer- cises of the day oloaing with a speech from the Speaker apon some of “ the leading measures that engaged the attention of Congress at its last reesion.”” Of this speech we give in full, in another pert of this paper, 60 much as relates to the Koneas quettion, the British right of- search question, and the African slave trade, Mr. Douglas ecd the Charleston Convention ; the remsinder being devoted, in the old partisan wey, to a glorification of the democratic perty, which ie matter of no perticular interest to cur fptelligent readers Nor fs there any remarkable velue in the views of Mr. Orr on Kenses and the African s'ave trade apart from bis official ed sectional position; but as Speaker of Congress, and a8 ® conservative democratic representative Grom the fiery and forey littie State of Sontt Carolina his opinions will chulienge the attention of all sections and al) pertice. Fires, then, upon the Kanaes ananblon, Mr. Orr gives us @ brief history of the ogse, from tbe clection of the Lecompton Convention Gown to the parrage of the Eogliah bill, In the cooree of this running history he very jostly remarks thet the vote on the Crittenden amendment developed “the most avomalous tergivereation in the profeseed principles of the ebolition republican party—the baldest aban doument of lovg cherished political tenets that J ever saw, heard or read of; and if its effects are bot greatly to demoralize their organiza- tion, then their rank and file are less honest than I bave supposed them to be.” But “its effects” have been “greatly to demoralize their orgenization.” For example, who can now tell what is or where stands the republican party of New York? Thurlow Weed ssys it stands upon its old platform of ‘no more slave States and no more slave territory;” but “hold, hold,” seys Greeley, “you are too fust. Our Know Nothing friends want to come in, and you must take down the five barred gate of 1856, and substitute sometbing a lit- tle easier to get over. In fact, you must be prepared, good Master Thurlow, to abandon Uncle Tom entirely, if that step ehould be needed to secure the Know Nothing balance of power in this State now, and in all the States hereafter. Do you understand?” Sach are the visible effects of the “tergiver- eations” and stultifications of Seward, Hale, Giddings od the republicans en masse of both Houses of Congress upon the Lecompton con- stitution. The old anti-clavery landmarks of the party have thus been obliterated, and the party is all upset and tumbling to pieces upon this question of “no mere slave States and no more elave territory.” Mr. Orr says the con- eervatives of the North who voted for Fremont in 1856 “had made up their minds to repudiate the extreme sectionaliem of the Rhiladelphia platform,” avd that thas the vote on the Crit- tenden amendment “was a concession by the leaders to the moderate men of the party;” bat it is our opinion that the object of that vote was to embarrass the administration and split up the democracy, without counting the conse- quences of the stultification to the republicans themselves. The only “concession”’ in the case was to the Southern Know Nothings and the Douglas dererters. We should next like to know what the honora- ble Speaker means when he says that “the constitution (Lecompton) is not submitted to the people for ratification,” and that “only the change in the ordinance is to be passed upon by them?” Are we to understand from this that the Lecompten constitution “ still lives?” for if it be dead, as it surely is, then, most assuredly, has it been “passed upon” by the people of Kansas, and most conclusively too. But giving the Speaker the benefit of his quibble upon this point, Jet us try him upon another. He says, “T do not concur with our able and distinguish- ed Senator, Mr. Hammond, that the Kansas Nebraska bill was a cheat aod a humbug.” And why? Because, eays Mr. Orr, the bill was important, inasmuch as “it wiped out that odi- ous Missouri restriction, which degraded us from a just equality with the free States,” and because the bill of repeal established the doo- trine of popular sovereignty. Mr. Orr contends that this was a great achievement, and that in suppart of it, “the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case protects our rights during the exist- ence of the Territorial government.” We fear, however, that Mr. Orr is thus filling his stomach with the chaff of Southera abstractions which doee not satisfy the more practical stomach of Mr. Hammond. The underlying “mesning and intent” of the Kansas Nebraska bill was that Kansas should be o slave State—a practical offeet to California; but the experiment has not only fatled at every point and in every shape and form, but at every stage of it the failare bas been still more and more disastrous to the proslavery policy under which this Kansas. Nebraska bill originated. It has thus operated all the way througb, as Senator Hammond has declared, “as a cheat and a fraud, « snarc and a delusion to the South.” What is the abstraction worth, If tho mb- stance be lost? What value is there in this new dogma of “ popular sovereignty,” if it has opened, not only Kansas and Nebraska, but all the Territories south of them, to the Northern emigrant aid socletios? Prior to the repeal of the Missouri line, the South were at least seoure on the south side of that line, and free there to organize slave Territories and slave States at their d@iveretion. But now all that ia practt- cally lost; and the Dred Seott decision does not mend the matter; for what is that decision worth In securing the rights of the slaveholder in a new Territory, if he has no security against the antirlavery pressure of “ popular sove- reignty” in the matter of organizing a State constitution ? ‘The fact ia that Mr. Orr discusses this matter asa Southern man with s Northern exposure, while Mr. Hammond treate it as Southern statesman peaking of 4 Southern issue upon which Southern politicians have deluded and cheated themselves. And, indeed, the gross of green spectacles which poor Mores got in ex- change for his pony at the fair may be pro nounced a good bargain compared with what the South bas obtained from that Poter Funk operation of the Kaneas Ncbraska bill of Atehi- son, Douglas and poor Pierce, views of a sensible, conservative and bumane man; but the echeme thus reprobated is so utterly impreoticable, Impossible aod absurd, tbat it is scarcely necessary to say another word about it. Upon the whole, the seotimeats, rea soning, tone and temper of this speech of Mr, Orr show him to be refreshingly free of ali Soutbern ultra excesses, and, for South Carolina, 8 remarkable specimen of a conservative unton democrat, He bes the moral courage to say that all his cympatbies are with Doagtas, in hie contest with Livcolm in [tlinoia, which is some- -thing worth noting when we are assured that Mr. Orr isa fast friend of tho admiaistration, and when it is understood that be is not the least prominent, but among the most available of the demooratio candidates for the great Presi- dential battle of 1860, American Olaimante agelazt Foretge Govern. ments and American Protection Absoed. An article from the Wasbington Union, which we print cleeshere, makes some cand'd ackuow- edgments in regard to the laxity with which the claims of our oitizeus upom foreign govera- ments are prosecujed, aad co: feases to the com: plaints of our citizens abroad that they are “left to the chances sod accidents of life and native shrewdness” to protect themselves, There is some consolation in the fact of know- ing that the government at Washington has come to an acknowledgment of this crying evil, and deems it necestery to present au ex- cuge to the public for the do-nothing policy which bas in former times cberacterized our State Department. The Union pleads, in excuse, that these complaints “result directly from the in- efficiency and indifference of Congress, aod tbat the President's hands are tied because of a total want of authority, and of the entire in- difference of the public to auything beyond the local political characteristics of their represen- tatives”” There is nodoubt some reason for the excuse that the President’s bands are in a mea- eure tied; but that the action of Congress is always necessary to enable the Department to ect upon the admitted law of nations, or that the people spend too much time in coneidering the political characteristics of their representatives, belongs solely to the peculiar logic of the Union. The great source of the evilcomplained of and admitted by the Union, is the inefficient organization of the State Department, and that the chief officers in it epend too much time in studying “the local political characteristics” of the parties who are obliged to appeal to them. The State Department has to-day the same organization—with exception of a few cleri- cal additions—that was given to it in the fermation of the republic. It is evident to the most common mind that what was sufficient for the business of a country contain- ing three millions o! people must be inadequate to one cont sing thirty millions, The whole Department imperiously requires an entiré 79 organization, and until this is done the public business that passes through it must be ineffi- ciently performed. Mr. Buchanan has done whut he could in the matter, and has succeeded in at- taining, in regard to our foreign claims, what n0 one before him has attained. He has madea treaty with New Granada tor the settlement, by joint commission, of all the claims of our citizens againet that republic, and it is to be hoped that they will soon have justice rendered them. He has also succeeded in ob- taining the authority from Congress to bring Pareguay to terms. If the Paraguay expedition is conducted with proper energy and spirit it will go far towards bringing about a settlement of some of our other claims upon the Spanieh-American States. The State Department is now engaged in pre- paring a report to Congress, in answer to a re- solution proposed by Mr. Benjamin of Louisiana, showing-the claims against foreiga govern- ments that have been presented to that Department, and what has been done in regard to cach. It will form the most vo- luminous report ever made to Congress, and will show that not one in every hundred of the claims preeented has obtained any redress This document will exhibit more than volumes of argument could do the necessity of giving new life to the present one horse concern called the State Department. The course the President has determined to pursue in regard to Para- guay will form a precedent in our foreign policy that we hope will be soon followed by similar action towards Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Central America, and all the other petty Spanish-American powers that have coufided ia their own insignificance and weakness to plan- der our citizens. Itistime that this abuse of weakness was stopped, and we hope Mr. Ba chanan will continue the policy he has sdopted until it is done. Kawsas ty tum Next Covonssa—Mr. Jobo W. Blake, who is the democratic candidate for Congrers in the Highth district of Indiana, having been interrogated as to whether he would or would not vote for the immediate ad- of the democratic porty | Go not remng, unquestionably involves the power to repeal the Englich compromise. But {t is time that some of our democratic organs in this quarter were epeaking out upon thie sabject. The Bug- lich compromise has served its purpose. It has done everything to settle the Kansas imbroglio except the admminion of Kanene, and that choutd be done at the first opportnnity. That act, aod that alone, will forever close up the agitation of this Kansas nuisance. Any other expedient will only revive the agitation to the prejudico of all concerned. Tuvriow Weep ann Ovr Crry Hats.—In the last number of the Albany Journal Thurlow Weed geta off come “ statistios’’ concerning out City Hall, which ehow that he is posted up on the appropriations and cetimates, both for the old and the new hall. Another Albany paper, however, accounts for the milk in the cocoaout upon the theory that “the old man has a finger in the pie.” Very likely ; but is it five thow- sand, or ten, or fifteen, or how mach? Give us the “ statistios.”” Gener Suir on Tie Stewe.—Gerrit Smith ie » mode! stamp orator, and stands upon a plat- form of his own, from which be is ready to answer all questions from all quarters. Read THE LATEST NEWS. Ovr Washiegten O-spatch, APPOINTMENT OF 4 KPW CONSUL GENERAL ar OBA. Wasnisaton, August 26, 1868, The President has appointed Major Charles J. Helm, of Kentucky, as Consu! General at Havaaa Mojor Helm was an applicant for the Londoa Com ulate. He had been promised the London Consa- late if General Campbell was removed, but having accepted the place a: Havana it ls now understood that no change willbe made at London. Major Helm will sail in about six weeks. THE GEVERAL NEWSPAPER DESPAECH. Wasnnoron, Angust 26, 1868. The War Department has determined to order General Harney to the command of the army ta Washington Territory, to conduct the winter cas paign against the Indians. He and his staff will feave for the Pacific in about six weeks, and in the meantime all needful preparations for a suecessful prosecution of the work will be made. A change in the chiefship of the Bureau of Provwi- sions avd Clothing, Navy Department, will be made during the coming month. The candidates are Par. sera Slamm, Harris and Rittenhouse. An order has been sent from tho Navy Departmeat, detaching the officers of the San Jaciuto, and graat- ing them three months leave of absence. ‘Tne Navel Oficer of the Port ‘of New Yark. 10 THB BDITOR OF THE HERALD. Brxenamron, N. Y., August 26, 1868. The despatch published in your paper this morn- ing purporting to come from Wasbington, statiog that I had resigned the office of Naval Officer of the port of New York, isan error. I am slowly recover” ing from my long and severe illness, and shall retarn to New York in afew days. Avsnuan BrmpsauL. Important Canal Regulations ALBANY, August 25, 1858 Mr. Raggles bas just succeeded in carrying anani- mously throngh the Canal Board the following mee- sures, which he sustained with much earnestacas and force:— Stop gates to protect the Irondequoit and Holley embankments and the long level. $15,000 further appropriation for strengthening the Erie basin at Buffalo. Priority at locks to steambosts, and exemption of their machinery from tolls The raising of the bridges, after an animated dis- cussion was left to the dicretion of the Commissioa- ers, to be done as repairs. The cost will not exceed $80 000, and the operation will enable the passage of boats carry ing 260 tons, or 2,320 barrels of four. Wews trem Utn, Leavanwoern, August 22, 1868. The Utah mail, with dates to July 31, per expreas to Booneville, August 25, has arrived. The news is uninteresting. The army continues occupied with their prepara tions for the winter. All was quiet at Salt Lake City. Surgeon Watts, of the army, arrived with the News trom New Mexice and the Piaius, Sr. Lovis, August 25, 1853. A despatch from Independence, dated the 2ist instant, per express to Booneville, sajd that the Santa Fe mail, with dates to the 2d instant, had ar- rived. A private letter received in Santa Fe intimates that a war with the Navajoe Indians is inevitable, they having determined not to surrender the mar- derer of Major Brooks’ negro, and had even invited the troops to fight. Business at Sante Fe was very brisk. The Ge 2ette states that nearly $200,000 worth of goods had been sold there within two months, An abundant rain bad fallen throughout New Mexico, rendering irrigation unnecessary. The crops were in a very fine condition. The Kansas Wiection. Leave woura, August 22, 1958 The Board of Commissioners constitated by the English bill have issued a proclamation declaring the proposition rejected by 9,51 majority. The whole vote cast was 13,088. No fraudulent votes were received. A few precincts were rejected on ac- count of informalities. Honore to General Wiltiams at Halltax. Harivax, Augnst 25, 1868, General Williams was the recipient today of « grand ovation given in his honor. He was acoom- panied by the Mayor in a triumphal car, drawa by the young men, who headed a procession coum- pored of the military and fire companies, and an immense throng of citizens. On reaching the ter- minus of the grand parade, an addreas of weicoms was read, which was appropriately and feclingly re- plied to by General Williams. Salutes were fired, bells rang, flags dieplayed and other demonstrations of delight made. The dixplay was very enthusiastio, and highly flattering to the hero of Kure. A grand levee was held in Temperance Hall, where he received the congratolations of the citizens. He remains « week as the guest of the city, when he leaves for New Brunswick. Arrest ter Forgery tn Horton, &c. Boston, August 25, 1853. Walter Hayward, charged with forging bank checks to the amount of $4,000, was arrested and fully committed today. He was from Cincinnati. Hayward was held in $3,000 for examination on two counts at the Municipal Court. Two orders were found on him with the name of Clark, Cheney & Co., drawing in hie favor, on Clark, Dodge & Co., New York, to the amount of $100. The examination of Plummer and other murder ers of the officers of the ship Junior was postponed tillnext Wednesday. Pittada ig Anti-Tex a and Ameri Amertonn County Conven tens. Prrrepvae, Pa., Angust 25, 1858. The Anti-Tax and American County conventions aesembled here today, and made an unsuccessful attempt to fase. The Anti-Tax Convention nomi- nated Thomas Williams for Congress for the Twen- ty-seeond district, and nominated tho balno « of the democratic ticket. The Americans nominated Gea. Moorhead (republican) for Congress for the Twenty- first district, and appointed a committee to make a nomination for the Twenty-second district. The balance of the ticket nominated is composed partly of the nominees of the late Republican Convention. ———_ --— Uitnote Republican VYomtn ations, Cat0ac0, Angust 25, 1858. At the Republican Convention held at Auguste, Til, today, Jackson Grimshaw was nominated for Congress, and John Tilson, of Quincy, for State Benator—both for the Fifth district, LL Congeoration of an Kiptecopal Bishop. PHiLapetrata, Angnat 25, 1858, Rev. Dr. Samuel Bowman was consecrated Cheiet Charch this morning aa ‘The Vacant Seat in the State Senate, ALBANY, Avguat 25, 1858, Secretary of State today inmued an election notice for the election of & Senstor in Mr. Wad worth's district, bat took no action with respect Mr. Mandeville’s district. a Yellow Fever on Shipboard. j The He oR a =ternareer se arm ancaxe. mie, Coan calles |