The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1858, Page 4

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Lansing, Baldwin & Co., 21 Rue Corneille. The ccotents of the Furopean eaition of the Hera ‘will combine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previcus week, and up to the hour of pedlicavon —— ‘The News. ‘The screw steamship City of Baltimore, which left Liverpool on the 18th inst., arrived at this port yes- terday morning, and the steamer Propeller, from Galway 2ist inst., reached St. Johns on Saturday last. Tbe news brought by these vessels is interest- ing. A British vessel of war has bombarded Jiddah, a Turkish town, in order to obtain satisfaction for the maaaacre of the English Consul and other Euro- pean residents there. After shelling the place for five hours the Turkish authorities agreed to punish the murderers, and accordingly eleven of them were executed. The vessel of war then left the port. The affair created an intense sensation throughout Eu- Tope, but more sepecially in France. The English funds, under the favorable news from India, the receipt of gold from Australia, and an ad- vance in continental exchanges, had improved. | American securities exhibited no change of moment. At Liverpool cotton was quiet, but slight decline | in prices is reported by some commercial circulars. | Flour was without change, but wheat had improved | 'D price. | The loss of the ship Abby Langdon, and the bark Mayfiower are reported. The Mayflower was bound from New Orleans for Nantz, and capsized at sea on the 3d inst. Fourteen persons were lost, but Capt. | Platt, the master, and seven others were rescued— how we are not informed. People in England were still highly grati- fied at the success of the Ocean telegraph. Queen Victoria's message to the President bad not been made public. Napoleon’s tour in the French provinces was a continued scene of popular ovation. From L’Orient he went to visit his old prison at Saint Luis. From China we have continued reports of the progress of the allied envoys up the Pei-ho river to Tien-sin, near Pekin, where the peace treaty negotiations were commenced. Lord Elgin and Baron de Gros occupied an imperial temple palace in Tien-sin, amidst all the pomp of victorious war, whilst the United States and Russian Commissioners were living in republican style in a mall yamun which they had rented on the banks | of the Pei-bo. By an arrival at Baltimore from Porto Cabello we bave important news from Venezuela. (n the 12th inst. the British steam frigates Buzzard and Tartar, anda French war steamer, under the com- | mand of Capt. Peel, of the Buzzard, blockaded the | port of Lagsuyra, taking captive a large number of small coasting vessels anchored therein. On the | léth, at ten A. M., the same fleet blockaded Porto Cabello, likewise capturing a number of coasting vessels. At the latter port there were thirteen sail taken. On the approach of the war steamers the shipping was deserted by their officers and crews, most of them jumping overboard and swimming to the shore. The blockade was caused by the | Venezuelan government refusing to give up the } person of ex-Prosident Monagas. The steamship Empire City arrived see | from Havana with advices to the 24th inst. No de- cision had yet been given in the case of the Ameri- | can brig Nancy. The Captain General had added greatly to bis popularity by a prompt suspension of | | two defaulting officers of the Supreme Court of the island. Great joy was expressed on receipt of the news of the success of the Atlantic telegraph, and even the sugar market was neglected during the ex- | citement which ensued. Sugars were active at an advance. New crop tobacco sold at high rates. We have news from Ceylon dated at Colombo on the 10th of July. The Observer ofthat day says:— The weather has been anything but favorable for shipping operations doring the last fortnight. Of |- the vessels in the roadstead three have sailed, taking | away 12,614 cwt. of coffee, in the proportions of 9,191 plantation and 3,423 native. The whole of | this coffee has gone to British ports. Our total ex- ports, including the shipments from the lst of Octo ber, 1857, amount to 485,365 ewt., of which the pro portion of plantation is 344,500; native, 140,865. It is now certain that, after all that was said of short crops, the out-turn of plantation in the season now closing will be very little short of the last. Of the 24,000 owt. of this kind deficient we believe that more than haif will be made up. It is on native, and not on plantation, that a final deficency will be ween. The deficiency ‘sitogether, we suspect, will oot |e more than 20,000 ewt. on the out-turn of last fens For the crop now ripening the prospects are «perally good, an’ '* soppy of inbor most ab t 4 gramme of the celebration of the «nccows mw! of the Ocean telegraph has Leen perfected | by ‘ne /eiat Committee of the Common ( ounoil, and ep blivhed in extenso io today’s Herat o. A \e:ge and cothasiastic meeting of the Hritish residents of this city was held last evening in Niblo'« Saloon to commemorate the saccessfal laying of the Allanvic cable. Mr. Archibald, the British Consul, Tresided, and gloqueut speeches were made by Dr. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1658. tinguished gentlemen; but the pressure on our colamna prevents us from giving a full report of their remarks, A eeries of resolutions, which will be found elsewhere, were adopted, commending the ac- tion of all those who tock part in the great achieve- ment, and their determination to join with the citizens of New York in the grand celebra- tion on Wednesday. The eighth anniversary of the New York Turnve. rein was held yesterday at Conrad's Park, Yorkville. ‘There was a very large assemblage present. We give a report elsewhere. The Board of Councilmen did not meet yesterday for want of a quorum, and adjourned till this even- ing. A destructive tornado recently visited several og the towns in Ulster county, destroying everything in its course, tearing up trees, demolishing build- ings, fences, and blowing down dwellings. At Dewittville the houses of Mr. P. Smith and Mr. Hoyt were prostrated. Mrs. Hoyt and her three children were at the house of Mr. Smith, on a visit. Mrs, Hoyt was instantly killed, and Mrs. Smith so seri ously injured that she died afew hours after. A lady named Hornbeck was also so injured that her life is despaired of. The three children of Mrs. Hoyt were badly hurt. At the time of the accident Mr. Smith was in this city. The tornado passed on its course towards Smithville, but whether any more lives were loet or buildings destroyed we have not learned. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,000 bales, the market closing without change in prices. F.our ‘was leas active and buoyant, while prices were without change of moment. Inferior and common grades were dull, while extra brands were firm. Wheat was in mode rate demand, end prices somewhat irregular for common grades, while prime lots were scarce and full prices de- manded. Corn was in fair request, with sales of Western mixed, sound and unsound, at 68c. a 82c., Southern white (common) at 820. and Jersey yellow at 960.a97c. Pork was steady, with eales of mess at $17 40 and small lots reported at $17 50, snd prime was $150 $15 15. Sugars were firmer, without change in quotations. The sales embraced about 2,000 boxes and 350 hhds, at prices given im another place. Coffee was firm, with sales of two oar- g008, comprising about 5,500 bags of Rio on private terms, ‘and small lots of Java and St. Domingo at prices stated elsewhere. Freights were dull and eng»gements were limited, while rates were unchanged. The Administration and the Factious Leaders and Cliques of the Democratic Party. It appears that the Hon. A’exander H. Ste- phens, of Georg'a, on his return trip from his late unprofitable visit to Ilinoisas a democratic peacemaker, declared at cincigeett that “he was in favor of the re-election to the Senate of Judge Douglas, and regarded the war of the President upon the anti-Lecompton men of IIli- nois gs wickedly foolish.” From the article which we publish to-day from the Charleston Mercury, the reader will also perceive that at least one of the most prominent of the demo- cratic organs of Georgia substantially endorses the views of Mr. Stephens, while the Mercury it- eelf flatly declares that ‘the evils of pardoning and supporting Douglas” will be the absolute destruction of the democratic party, inasmuch as the party, which “is now weak at the North,” will be divided and repudiated at the South, and between the sections fall hopelessly to the earth.” These views of the Charleston Mercury, how- ever, do not represent the opinions of the Southern democratic party. Some of the leading organs of the Southern democracy— such as the Richmond Znqguirer and the New Orleans Delta, for example—and some of the leading democratic politicians of that section—such as Stephens of Georgia, Speaker Orr of South Carolina, Governor Wise of Virginia, and others, entertain a strong sym- pathy in behalf of Douglas. And why? Be- cause they fear that his defeat, instead of strengthening, will weaken beyond reparation the already sufficiently weak and demoralized rank and file of the Northern democratic camp, and thus destroy the last chance of the demo cratic nominee of 1860. The solicitude of each and all of these Southern democratic leaders | and organs in behalf of Douglas, in this view, becomes a matter of vital interest to them- selves ; for they have, each and all of them, a scheme of their own for the succession, which muet necessarily include the strengthening, in. stead of any further weakening, of the Northern democracy. We suepect, on the other hand, that the game of the Mercury is the complete overthrow of the democratic party as a “ational organization, and that our Charleston cotemporary really en- tertains the idea that the widening of the breach between the Douglas and anti-Douglas factions of the Northwest; will very materially facili- tate the object in view, and the recon- struction of the Southern democracy upon | @ regular ultra, sectional, and Southern confederacy platform. It will thus appear that neither the sympathizers with Douglas nor his enemies in the Southern camp are actuated by the highest motives, but that selfish or factious considerations govern them all. It is a pity, however, that the Northern and Southern organs and leaders of the democracy who are now trembling in their shoes at the possible comeequences to the party from the Douglas feud in Illinois, did not discover their | danger alittle earlier in the morning. The | factions and sectional cliques which divided the democratic majority of Congress at the late ses sion upon every prominent measure of the ad- ministration, reducing that majority into a powerless minority upon Kansas, Utah, the | Army bill and the filibustering question, are now developing their bitter fraite. These fac- | tious movements in Congress against the admi- nistration were intended to rule or ruin it; but the President, through the balance of power which he was able to command from the oppo- sition side, came off victorious upon every issue; and thus, upon every issue, the disorganizers of the democratic party, North and South— Douglas, Toombe, Stephens and all concerned— | Were defeated. The defeat of these Congressional disorgani- zers, however, has not restored order in the camp: | They had accompliehed too much mischief in the party to be thus readily repaired. The Doug)as defection has sown broadcast over the North the seeds of discord and disruption, while ‘he Southern Congressional factionists, from Vir- ginia to Louisiana, have reduced the party in the South to almost as many cliques and fac- tions as there are candidates for the Presidential succeesion or the foremost honors of a “Southern republic.” It is too late now for Mr. Stephens of Georgia to declare that the “war by the Pre- sident upon the anti-Lecompton men of IIlinois is wickedly foolish.” The Illinois quarre} is be- yond the reach of the President; nor haa it been, nor is it the business of the Precident to interfere with it. The Presiden hae indicated very distinotly the policy and the manures of hie admirdetration; aod if the leaders of the party here and there chooee to distract and di vide the party upon this or that abstrao:ion, the consequences belong to themselves and to the party; for they cannot materially disturb the administration. ‘Thus, whether Donglae shall be successful or defeated in Wuizois; and whetber sympathy for Dovglas, or hostility to Douglas, shall control the Southern democratic camp, the results will make no material difference to the administra- tiop. It bas succeeded in spite of the factions and divisions which reduced the party at the late session of Congress from a large majority to an imopotent minority, and Mr. Buchanan can thus go on with all the needful measures of his administration should the democracy in the next House of Representatives be reduced to a positive minority of the members. The first question with every democratic aspirant for the succession, and with every section and clique of the party now is, or should be, how can we re- pair the divisions and demoralizations of the party, brought about by the scheming end reck- less disorganizers of Congress? Until this question shall be anewered by the broken and scattered rank and file of the party, the little plots and counterplots of its Presiden- tial candidates and cliques for the succession are the baldest abrurdities, Nor can there be any reunion or consolidation of the democracy, North or South, until the claims and schemes of every Presidential aspirant of the party are eunk in the common policy of rallying to the support of Mr. Buchanan’s administration. No section, nor faction, nor clique, or nice ab- straction will avail to bring the party together. They can only unite upon the common’ nucleus of the administration, asthe oppodtion factions can only be united upon the common policy of hostility to the administration. Jn this view the demoralized and disordered democracy have no time to lose. The opposi. tion elements are rapidly drifting to a coali- tion. Republicans and Know Nothings are abandoning their impracticable crotchets, from day to day, in behalf of the paramount object of @ coalition. Nor, from present appearances, will any of their outstanding candidates be ad- hered to should they be found to stand in the way of a hearty fusion, but Fremont, Seward, Banks, Chase, Crittenden, Bell, &c., will each and all, if necessary, be thrown overboard, and eome such man as General Scott, whose public services and public character will make the best of national platforms, will be taken up. We know of no man at present capable of filling this position except General Scott. We cannot call up another name which would be so readily the signal for an opposition fusion like that of 1840, We have said that the opposition elements of the country are drifting to a coalition. The law of political gravitation is beginning to work among them, and, from present appear- ances, North and South, they will evidently co- alesce upon such broad and general issues as will suffice for 1860. In the meantime, looking to the other side of the picture, neither sympa- thy for Douglas nor hostility to Douglas, nor a little movement here for Gov. Wise, nor an- other there for Slidell and Bright, nor anything of the sort, will avail to unite the distracted, dismantled, disordered, disjointed and divided democracy. They can only unite upon the common besis of Mr. Buchanan’s administra- tion—they can only be saved upon that plat- form from that absolute annihilation which they ececaped with his election. The adminis- tration can survive and flourish without the party, for Mr. Buchanan has the confidence of the country; but the party can survive only through a prompt and general adhesion te the administration, regardless of the special move- ments of Douglas, Wise, Toombs, Stephens, Sli- dell, Bright and all the other would-be leaders of the party of every section. Tar Errors 10 Ger Ur ‘s Yextow Fever Panic.—Annually at this period, when the Quarantine reports usually record the existence of a few imported cases of yellow fever, certain mysterious and seedy looking individuals make their appearance at the newspaper offices with rumors of cases alleged to have occurred in the most populous parts of the city. It was only the day before yesterday that a person called at our office with an alarming statement of this kind, but being asked to sign his name to it, or to give his authority, he declined to do so. The circumstance is one of euch frequent occurrence that we rarely or ever pay attention to commu- nications thus received. It is obvions that there is nothing in the statement of a fact of so much importance which should render a conscientious person unwilling to authenticate it; and the systematic persistency with which it is sought to give currency to these reports, would, in itself, go to prove that they are dictated by in- terested motives. This supposition is confirmed by the reappearance of these identical state- ments in the colamns of some of our countey contemporaries. As they are generally rejected by the New York papers as unworthy of credit, and, therefore, cannot be copied from them, it follows that they must be prepared for both presses by the same persons. We can consequently arrive at no other conclusion than that these officious individuals who are so anxi- ons to keep the New York journals accurately informed as to the rapid spread of the yellow fever in their city, are the regularly paid and regularly instructed correspondents of the lead- ing papers in other large commercial ports which have a direct interest in creating a yellow fever stampede in New York, with a view to divert share of its enormous and continually increasing business into their own channels, Conduct like this is not only mean but wicked. The subject is too serious a one to be trifled with, and those who seek to make an instrument of it to subserve their interests are sure to be punished for it in the ond. No competition, whether commercial or otherwise, can be suo- cessfully maintained by falsehood or deception. An honest rivalry disdains such shifte, and they are shortsighted indeed who do not see that their use mast recoil with the most injurious effect upon their own heads. Sup-/ posing that they even succeeded for a season in keeping country buyers from coming to New York, do they imagine that this slight diversion of its trade could be rendered permanem. No; the result would be that it would tempt the merchants of Boston and Philadelphia to embark in speculations which they would be unable to sustain, whilst New York, recovered from the temporary check in- flicted upon it by euch unfair influences, would profit by their ruin. New York is the nataral Dbasinees entrepit of the Arserican continent; aud ae well might these puny atrigucrs endeavor to make the cecan recede in its vel as to aivert from it the trade which lows te it as the legiti mate centre of a our connnetecia Oop. cations, And now, one word to quiet the apyrotivn tivns of these whose net re Hable to b shaken at the bare mention ¢ epidemic. Up to the present time there is notlhig in the re ported cases of yellow fever to chow that the dieease ia likely to aeaume this form On the contrary, all that baye beon tnvertigated hare been traced to direct contect wiih we infection. The persons seized bave in every in tance been citber employed on the ia feted vessels, heve watbed or worn the © otbes of the sick, or exposed themeelres reck- lcesly to danger. In aimost every instance tre antecedent habits of the parties attacked rerdered them ready victims, Ia the preva lence of bilious diseases, always noticeable ut this period of the year amongst persons of in- temperate habits, it is not surprising that aa imported influence, like that of yellow fever, should find in them an affinity sufficieut to gene- rate a few sporadic cases of that malady. But were no infeoted vessels to arrive in our port, we believe that we should have just as many of the cases which are at present set down as yel- low fever. The truth is, that bat very few of those reported are attended by the black vomit. The majority are nothing but cases of ordinary bilious fever, accompanied by discharges of blood or colored mucous. In the hands of igno- rant practitioners and frightened relatives these are, of course, readily magnified into the worst character of epidemic. Such being the facts, it is to be hoped that the industrious efforts of paid emissaries, earn- ing a miserable livelihood by the circulation of false reports, will not be allowed to shake the nerves of the timid, or to prevent strangers from visiting our city to transact their usual business, We can assert, without fear of con- tradiction, that New York was never freer from diseage or less in danger of an epidemic than at the present moment. When there is real dan- ger we ehall be the first to sound the alarm; at present we have the more grateful task of re- aeeuring the public as to its non-existence. Some of the evils of our existing Quarantine fegulations tend to foster this system of ficti- tious excitement about yellow fever, and the merchants of our city owe it to themselves and to the trade of this metropolis to organise a reform in our Quarantine, as we have already suggested. Tus Demonstration To-Morrow—Svcces- Tions FoR THE AvTHoRrtes AND CrTiZENS.— There probably never has been such a univer- eal turnout of the population of New York as will be seen to-morrow along the whole route of the procession, from the Battery to the Crystal Palace; and more than o.dinary measures of precaution will be necessary to prevent acci- dents and misdemeanors. All the available po- lice force of the city, exclusive of the men actu- ally required for duty elsewhere, should be posted along the line of Broadway; and if their number is net sufficient, special constables might be ewornin and employed in preserving order. Some of the military or civic companies would, doubtless, willingly detail men for that par- pose, and these should be furnished with a distinctive badge. The occasion will certainly be taken advantage of by the professional pick- pockets of the city, and by thoee of other cities, who will flock in to ply their vocation here. It is well known to the police that the number of this class of criminals has increased very much of late by emigration from Eng'and, and from other causes, and that there are mor» pickpock- ets now in the city than it was ever infested with before. It will, therefore, require all the vigilance of the officers to guard against the operations of these gentry, and every one of them discovered in the crowd should be imme- diately arrested and kept in a safe place till after the celebration. Of course it cannot be expected that even with the utmost vigilance of the police there will be complete immunity from the operations of the lightfingered gentry. People must look out sharply for their purses and watches, and ladies particularly ought to be careful not to exhibit too much jewelry on the occasion. Then, again, we would advise our readers not to lock up their houses and let all their inmates and servants go to see the procession, lest they might find on their return that a burglar had been prying open the doors or windows, ran- sacking the drawers and paying his attention to the plate and valuables. While the pick- pockets are operating in the streets, their brethren of the jimmy and skeleton keys will be prowling about the houses. People should be cautious to guard against both specimens of marauders. It will be the duty of the police to keep the line of the procemion clear of hacks and stages and carts; and we expect that this will be done effectually, not only during fhe actual march, but for a sufficient length of time before and after it. The umination of private houses on the line will be, if not general, at least sufficiently #0 to justify us in giving a word of caution to the oo- cupanta. This lighting up all the front windows of a house with candles is attended with pretty considerable risk of fire, so much so that we be- lieve there isa clause in the insurance policy freeing the insurance company from responsi- bility for damage done in consequence of a fire originating from such a cause. Persons intend- ing to illuminate would do well to look at their policies and see whether they do or do not con- tain euch a clause, and in cither event they should exercise great care if they do light up their houses. It would be a pity to have the great gala day marred by any untoward event, whether of a private or public character. We presume that it is needless for us to ox- press our hope that manufacturers, store! ei and employers of all kinds will shut up their establishments to-morrow, and give all their employe an opportunity of participating in or wil the demonstration. We are sure that all or nearly all of our firms have come to that determination already, and we hope that thoee who do not do so will be found in a very miserable minority. Let the manner of the first celebration of the success of the Atlantic Tele- graph in New York be as memorable as the event which it is intended to signalize. Tue Atiantic Tetkorarn Desratones.—By the arrival of the steamer City of Baltimore wo have advices Europe which confirm, in part, the news ved some days since by the Atlantic telegraph. We learn, indeed, that the news was not remitted by the telegraphic ope- rators with that rapidity which we expect to see accomplished by regular news reporters, but this fact may have been owing to © variety of Causer other than any defect in the telegra. phic commnnicetion for we have reliable asen Pances that We electric current between Trinity Bey ov Valentia t# porfect. Th Inia published in last Satarday® received in Loudon on the instent, hut waa, there ou the date of th8 despatch, waich th inet. No partioulare of the news f China bave been recefved, although the latest dates received in London, on the departure of the City of Baltimore, from the Pei-Ho rendered the formation of a treaty very probable. Qa Unitann vight of the the latest reo waa 15th nou doubt the 44 of Jane the French end Hoglish embarsedore were living in o large tem- ple in the city of Tien-siv, about two days easy journey from Pekin, and it is stated that they were determined to advance on that city with their disposable force if the Chinese Commissiovers did not come to terms at aa early doy. The tenor of the despatch of 27th of Au- guet, from London, leads us to suppose that the news from China came by way of St. Peters- burg, a it is stated to bave reached that city on the 21st of that month. It will be seen by the veports to the London papers, published in another column, that Dr. Whitehouse bas attained a speed of. transmission by the telegraph of a little over one word per minute. We have no doubt that when the Hughes instrument comes to be tried this speed will be much exceeded. There is great anxiety on the part of our commercial interests to have the Atlantic telegraph opened to public use, and to learn the rates of the tariff to be adopted. It is aleo a subject of remark and unfavorable comment that the Eoglish press is favored with frequent advices of the at Valentia, while on this side a rigid silence is observed in Trinity Bay. Can we'not also know~ wht is going on? History or Tap Carrurep Siaver.—A good deal cf curiosity is expressed to know what is the true name and history of the recently cap- tured slaver, and we have taken some pains to find out the particulars about her. The impres- sion down town is pretty general that she is the brig Putnam, and not the Echo, as reported by the telegraph from Charleston. As we stated in our Sunday's issue the Putnam is a fall rigged brig of 187 tons barthen, built at Balti- more in 1845. She was for some time owned there, and engaged in the Mozambique trade. Subsequently she was purchased by Mesers, Everrett & Brown of this city, and ran for some time as a packet between this port and Cartha- gena, New Granada. In the spring of 1857 she was cold by Messrs. Handy & Everrett, the suc- ceesors of Messrs, Everrett & Brown, to Mesers. Rosevelt & Griffith, shipbuilders in this city. She was then fitted out by a Captain Brown, who claimed to be the owner, and who is sup- posed to be now in this city, but the bills are said to have been paid by a Spanish house established bere. On the 7th of March, 1857, she was cleared from this port by the master, whose name was reperted to be Dobson, for Gaboon, on the Coast of Africa. It is generally understood that she landed a cargo of negroes on the coast of Cuba, and the next trace we find of her is her arrivai gt Havana on the 29th of Janu- ary, 1858, reporting from Sisal, and with Townshend as master. On the 17th of the next month she arrived at New Orleans, still report- ing Townshend as master, and on the 5th of March she cleared from that port, as we stated in our Sunday’s issue, by Messrs. Goldenbow & Lesparre, for St. Thomas and a market. Since that time she has not been heard of until she fell in with the Dolphin, off Sagua, with a cargo of negroes on board. The Baltimore Sun of yesterday denies that the captured slaver is the brig Echo of that port, as she was at Mayaguez on the 12th inst. Who and where are Captains Brown and Towns hend? Barytum at Bapen-Bapen—Music axp Hom- Bue at Issvx.—We publish, in another part of to-day’s Henan, @ very curious pronunciamiento from Mr. P. T. Barnum, who was at the date thereof recuperating his energies at the very appropriate locality of Baden-Baden. Barnum’s letter is intended, apparently, as a refutation of the etatements of our London correspondent, in relation to the echeme of transporting the principal artists of Her Majesty’s thegtre to the Academy of Music in this city. The statement of our correspondent was, that the Chevalier Barnum had no aathority from Lumley to promise that the artists aforesaid should come to America. We do not see that this statement is refuted by Barnum. He talked the matter over with Lumley. and they made an estimate of the probable expense of the enterprise. Subsequently Barnum came over and issued his did not believe in the Wager] ness at all, but preferred the He has lived long enough to value of promises where money is cerned. So the whole affair, as the say, was “off.” e to Lumley about it; then Barnum saw the English director and found oat how much it would cost; then came the panic, and the whole matter went over for a year. Subse- quently another diplomat appeared on the scene, and told Barnum that Lumley was willing he should go ahead; Barnum did go ahead, but the result of his circular not being very cheering, the hero of a thousand humbugs was complete- ly floored, and after soothing his mind by send- ing us puppet show—from the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step—retires to the congenial atmoephere of Baden, and amuses himeelf with writing a letter to the New York Henarp. Now, to sum up the case: On Barnum’s side, there is but little evidence, except that of the hearsay order. Lumley seems to have followed the magnificent examples set by the philosophers of Downing street. Lumley always reocived the manufacturer of the mermaid with “urbanity and kindness.” So did Lord Palmerston receive the Chevalier Wikoff with “arbanity and kind- nees,”’ inviting him to dine and sleep at Broad- lands. Yet we all know how Wikoff was treated in the Circumlocution Office. The fact is that Lumley has said as little as possible on the sub- ject. He simply allowed Barnum to try the temper of the American people, and pave the way for the joint enterprise of Lumley and Ull- man, Thus Bacium, who supposed himself the elected emperor of finesse, has b it-generaled, avd completely kpocked off his feet by the Bag lich manager No wondor that the groat genius whieh brought Joyce Heth before the American public; tue mighty mind which originated the behy show: the natural philosopher who disco vered tho mermaid and the woolly hore; the Philanthropi+t who attempted the reeurrection of the Crystol Palace—no wonder that thie grea inteNect should bave been prostrated at ‘iv failure of ik grandest iaception. Henoe these tence, Blemee MBs emigration to Badcu Dad.a, Hence these lines to the Henan, Hence the Jacteal fluid in the fruit of the palm. Hence this wail that comes so piteously from the giavt overtbrown aoross the Atlantic, But while we are willing to shed a tear or two for Barnum; while we regret that hie tranecendent ability cannot have, just at present, am opportunity to display itself in the operatio field—where dofeat is the rule apd victory the exception—we may yet be pardoned if we smile a little at the adroitnees of Lumley, who has humbugged humbug itself—in fact, “bearded the lion in his den, the Douglas in his hall” Lumley, like an operatio Talleyrand, wrote nothiag to Barnum and said little. Barnum advertised for Lumley as if the affair was a fact accom- plished; Lumley receives the benefit of the ad- verticement; Barnum files to the Black Forest and attempts to wash out the memory of his de- feat in the waters of Baden. Piccolomini comes to us, but not under the mormaid auspices, Lamley has eung to Barnum the song of Ciree, and beguiled his bark to be shattered on Cha- -tybdis, Piccolomini is a mermaid that does ing, a syren that does enchant—she is not for Barnum who deals only in mute enchantrosses manufactured on the premises, We are really sorry for the Chevalier Bar- num, and now that he is defeated we will not see him abused. We hope that he will spend eome time at Baden-Baden ; that he will keep a eharp lookout for the chevatiors d’industrie who congregate there, bathe feedly and drink a great deal of the Haubourg water—a capital thing for bile; and we will give him a bit of Virgil as a sort of comforter in his affliction:— ——Facilis descensus Averni: Bc Inbor. bic opas eet rhe CVaAere A tarma, THE LATEST ‘ST NEWS. Our Special ‘Washington 1 Despatch. A PLAN FORK DISUNION—ENGLAND TO BROOME A PROTECTORATE OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDRS acY— VIRGINIA TO BB WHARBDLED IXTO DISUNION— TUR NICABAGUA TRANSIT ROUTR—THE DBMONSERA- TION AGAINST PARAGUAY, BTC. Wasuinoton, August 30, 1858. The Hon. William L. Yancy sent to the Richmond Enquirer office on the 25th inst. a long letter, with the request that one of the editors of that paper would present it to Mr. Pryor, of the Richmond South, for publication, and in case he refused to give it publicity, to demand it for publication in the Enquirer. It charges Mr. Pryor, as I understand, with having betrayed the disunion party at the South, and with having violated certain conditions proposed by him on the subject of disunion. It appears that a disunion league was formed, of which Mr. Pryor was a member. The understanding was that the leagne should appoint a commiasion to negotiate certain arrangements with England in the way of a protectorate, direct trade, 4c., and after these arrangements were perfected disunion was immediately to follow. Mr. Pryor was at first to make a hypocritical show of preference for the North, and, after a little dodg- ing, to carry Virginia in favor of the disunion pro- ject. He agreed, in other words, that she should not join the Southern confederacy at the outset, but that he would bring her in after a slight show of favor for a league with the North. All this, I am told, is charged in a toe letter. Although General Jerez has not yet offcilty made known to the State Department the precise character of his mission, or the relations which his government wish him to assume personally here, it is supposed that he has full powers to place exer himself or Yrisarri upon a firm and friendly footing with the United States, and to indicate the line of policy which the Martinez government wish to pur- sue in reference to the Nicaragua Transit roate. If that policy should meet the views of our govern- ment it is not unlikely that Jerez may advertise in the Heap for sale to the highest responsible bid- der a liberal charter for a term of years, conveying to the purchaser the right of transit through Nicaragua. Such a course, with the under- that the charter is to be guaranteed United States government, aocord- i During the last month patents have been issued to the State of Arkansas for over six bundred and fifty thousand acres of swamp lands in the Helena dis- trict, and to the State of Missouri for one hundred and thirty-four thousand acres in the Milan district. THE ORNERAL NEWSPAPER DRETATCH. Wasninoron, August 30, 1868. Commodore Shubrick and Commander Page were atthe Navy Department to-day on business con- nected with the Paraguay expedition. The latter will be connected with it, and serve under the former aa fleet captain. The government having been officially advised of will be made to restore them to their native land, ‘Twelve slaves have died since the captare of the vee sel, which was in an extremely filthy and unsafe condition. New York State Politics, ALBANY, Angust 30, 1858. PTS, rh 30, 1868. laren oo ~ en! the ‘27th inst. hr, ha has calloa a cial on 0 oe to convene on the 21st - the Tenaya a hich alee ws be in with each other, And Pie ee derfelde one "or TI vetan omnia Calif mail contractors, has arrived in this city. His pur- pose isto complete the arrangements for stom aad contract in operation by the Lsth of September. ——_ Yellow Fever at New Orleans. Naw Onnrans, Angmat 30, 1958, low fover in tlie city on Satar- The deaths iy} if and for the-week en ting on thet day last were ! day 402 . Altea at 30, 1958 The tenmer Augusta arrived at th o clock Monday morning. = wanis ot hes Markets, THILADELPRIA STOCK BOARD. LADRLPTIIA, Acgunt 80, 186% Baviy Gui, Veaaay aan WOW 45, Wy, Beeang