The New York Herald Newspaper, September 1, 1858, Page 2

2 patty for ue acd approval of the system for €Bd thal it will femd tO Cement the good ‘ork apd woatreal . SreVKASON, Of the artillery, in reply, alluded to tho very Sethoring monnee in which they bad been re elve* by eo ‘would never be celle? upon to ure ‘arms’ other than these piven them ly natmre. uty nee cer pan rT, end el Wo oo are them chat be slivuld ever remember Som, abe concluded by wishing thom God’e Diomiag. ‘They were then conducted around the several baildiogs op the island, snd a} sures o'clock returned bo $08 steamer ard 10 Bieckwou’s Island. ‘At Blackwel’s lclaud they visited the work house, after whiok they wero entertained witt & sumptuous col a- tion prepared by the Gorerncrs ia the chapel. Alter the gees things bad been Gnpeneed, oem Deere. otike tow by lof remarks, returning his than! pedeenpteons thew, and conc uded Fe a any Wi Richard Ware, of the Second oompany, and Capt. leo rang—the latter, ‘God Save the Queen," received Whieb {tarense applause. Gov. ¢ wer, being called upon, favored then with a Tow remarks, regretirg that it was not tn his power to give them a moro extensive view of the iustitutions, bat owing to the late hour, and re 6of 6th) guects (© return to the city, be hoped tha’ en some future occasion they would have @ more fayorabie opportunity, Three bearty chee were then tor the few Governors, the President of the United States ard tho Queen of Eagland; and at eight o'clock the company again returned to tbe steamer, reach ing the city sbout vine o'clock. It was tbe intention of the Montreal ariillery to pay @ visit in the evening to tlre Opera, but they were, however, escorted to the armory o° the Second company, corser of Thirtesmth street and Uni versity piace, where they wore again entertained with a collation. After the guard bad atackea arme and all had dope justice to the repact, the Canadians were to deir quarters at the Stevens Hotel, which plave they reathed about ten o'clock, They wif remain in the city until Fricay, sad will participate im the parade to day. PREPARATIONS FOR THE DINNER AT THE HOTEL. METROPOLITAN The spacious ditieg room of the above hotel, to which the “cable dinner” will be given, bas been en- Urely renovaied, acd workmen, artists, &., &c., are | ‘Dusily engeged in Cecorating it for the occasion, Flags ‘and banners of all vations and sosieties will be displayed ‘and eections of the “identical cable’ will be placed in Prominent locations. One of the greatest features, how- yor, will be the appearance of a telegraphic recording wument, by which the officers, chairman and guesis Can transmit meses, from the hole! in Broadway to Europe,® wire baving been laid from the Metropolitan to the cfice in Wall street. THE DINNER TO CAPT. HUDSON IN JERSEY city. Atan informe! meeting of the Jersey City Common Counoll, at which a number of prominent citizens were present, the following named gentlemen were appointed ‘on the cormmitices for getting up the dinner to Capiain | Hudson and the ofccrs of the Niagara :— Reception.—Aiierman Harvenbergb, Judge Job Grif Sith, W. G. Murray, Capt, W. 7. Roogers, Com. Cans, A. Weolsey, ox Msyor Wertontt, Capt. J. J. Comstock, Capt James Rodgers wud Judge Coes Fink Toasts —alcerman Thurston, E. B Wakeman, J, D. Mu- ler, J. W Scudder, and Robert Gilchrist, Jr. Music. Alderman Tilden, Erastcs Randall, Col. D. 8. Gregory, Jr, A. M. Trapbagen, aad Devid Smith. Dwnor-—Arserian Decker, Oapi. 8. Woolsey, H. J. De. J. M. Cornetisun, George McLaughlin, Sy! vestor and Keone) rvitation. i. GUchrist, Sr., A. ©. Zadriske and ex Meyor Manners. Oyras W. Field, Pesor Ovoper, Mayor Tiemann and owers are to be invited ‘The sum of $2,6(0 use been appropriated to defray the | expeuse by the Commen Council aud over $1,000 has been | subscribec by c.vens. — Grein has tendered the ladependence Guard as a inilitary eacert. Aa er Holt, will be sung by & giee clud ‘The depot buix ing, which is to de used for the occasion, is to be appropriaicly decorated. NEW JERSEY IN THE PROCESSION. Mr. Marcelies leodered two mammoth and five otber omnlbueses to the Mayors and Common Councils of Jertey Gay and Hoboken, and citizens, for the purpose of Jotming iu the procession in Now York to-day. Tae omal- Dusres are wl! pew and will be gaily deo i for the oc cation. The large omuibusses will ve @rawn by eix hortes and the otters by four each. THE CABLE CELEBRATION IN BROOKLYN, From present appearances {i does vot appear likely | that the City Hall or other pabiie bui'dings will bei! Yomitated thivevening, notwithstanciog the aciton of thy Common Council in appropriating $25¢ for the porpome. The bills of the former celebration are stil! unpaid—the Comp- troller refusing to cash the account on the grouad that there are vo funds applicable; and the Commiesioner of Repairs end Supplies declings to ivenr additional expense: anc thus subject the creditors of the city to eue for mate rials furnished and labor done. The conzequence will be, upless arravgements are mace to dey, that tae City Bali wili rematn in darkness. Some of the storekeepers and others slong the principal etreots will adopted bere & the departments, ‘whom My ped i a we ever fee! indethed ter the uate they must necessarity spend. 04 He | ever evince in our wellare, We hepe your viel | We hope wil! «Vor oxit between ine cities ot io Jee little army, aud boped that they | Be aid it was tnived gree | i se united in suck @ band | aaicerta hand for each other's | lute proves the existence of repast for T Rickby, of the Ariillery, who favored | the favoaite air of the “Red, White and | in oddition breezes every year or two, on and cif the Western tic coast. These ioeber, far South as tbe latituce of New orf), and the ’s Ray. Betwoen the failing there bth, joe bound coasts, and the stroeg currents, would there not be multiplied dangers 4 ire ‘on the ocesn bed It must leave the tack to toe Greenland shore, leave it agein, aud crossing the Greenland straits—from four toeix bundred miles -~ attach to the coest of Iceland, A wire extending from Green/aud to Ireland bas one of two points of direction and avtacbment. It must take the ehortest cu! to the southweat corner of Iceland, and be landed near Cape Rei- haress (lve very southwest +), Or it mus. go further rorth, enter the deep bay (] lord, 1 think) acd be Innded at Roikjavik, the capital of the country, where there is @ peaceable, excellent community, a univer- sity, with eclentiGc men, and a Govercor ani overnment officers to 4 it, and keep wt operation. From Rei ic it could be stretch sa across the island, distance of from tbirty tive to six'y moilee, abd leave ibe south coast at Krisuvik, or Vogtosar, acd thence away to Ferro. If the wire was landed at the poivt first named, Capo Reikaoess, being the shortest stretch from Greceniand, it would pass close by two bold rock wlands, the Moaisack (‘‘Mecisakken,”’ Danish) ard the Grevadier. Between theso (both uainhabited) and the ebore, some ten miles, if I remember rightly, (1 be- Neve the dirtence ia given ip the narrative of my visit in , Which | bave not by me,) there is a most powerful current ruua'rg southward, at a rat joording to the captain whe commanded the Danish echooucr that I was on, Of not less than eight or ten miles an hour, Riekances is low, bleak, and upiauadlied, some twenty or thirty miles or mors from the first village, Kov Afty or sixty from Reikjavik. The more tavor I believe, would be eome miles to the aorth of the Meaizack and Greundicr tsland, aad inta the deep, quiet, Inod locked bay w'oreeaid, with the taina'on the orth side, and the fertile couatry (compara. tively) around Reikjavik ou the eourh, Io this bay the Icelancers bave bois pleasure and profit in pursuing the small bottienosea whale--one exciting chase ocsurriog while I was there; but these ayocations aod the gambols of ine #ea monsters would uot, probably, Cistarbd a subd mariue wire. By this longer route from Greenland the clectricisn would have a submarine wire near a buadred miles greater in length; but the capitalist would have hi place lesa iwble to be tora or moved from ita bed by the powerful ourrent eart of the Mexisack, and kas fiab'e to interraption froma a moving randed looberg, You wili bear ia mind tbat for ice and cold weather Greeniand is in €ilect twenty or thirty degrees of | iatilude worse (colder) than icoland. If au electric com: ¥ can once get their wire safely aud securely laid rom our ebores to Reixijavik, the d:ficult and dangerous t of the youte is over. I won'd as rendi- 5 undertake to jay a@ telegraph cable from Ice- land to Aberdeen as over any other equal | this route jovor, the Mayor, Alderman Hawkins, | | tain, bay ) point, caps and beadland, alon; | lage and every al ode, prepared for the occasion by Dr. H.D. | | laying Gown a second wire from Galway to the | Aimeries. This plan, I heve no doubt of Mr. Lever | ty to carry out jaminate, nolwithetanding, and apumber of | once fairly considered. Tele | distance of island checkered sea. Of coursy, care would | have to be taken to guard against marrow passages where j thore might be strong currents, amovz the Fwsro aud Shetand islexds. 1 would rot slop at all at tho Orkney roup, botrua the cable direct from the ca'm, beautiful ay of Lerwick~-the “capital” of Snetisnd—to some amy on the Soottish consi; either Wick, the fishing vil- age pear ‘John o’Groa:'s House,” cr farther south, to Petechead or Aberdeen. At rst thought | should be in. clined to say Peterbead. The distavce from Lerwick t ‘hia village cavnot be three huadred miles, or at any rate not much over that, if is is as much. ‘There is another dificuliy of ee nature attending It would beg’n and en4 on British soll, the gare ae the preeent ope does; aud at thisend, Newfound. lund, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine have granted exclusive powers tothe compaty headed by Cooper and ield. If these bints, however, are of any value to Mr. Sbailcer or others, they are certaisiy quite welcome to them. They will find a large, elaborate beautitul and ac curate map of Iceland and its shores, wilh every moun- with every vil< single house in the island, laid dowa with great rc inuterese—said map being ip the Smibaonian Lort\- tution. It was @ present fromthe Na‘icual Library of Iceland at Reikjavik to the people of the Laited States, | and forwarded by mo in 1852. | Ic wy opinion, a moro feasible, and natiovally, afar better route for asecoud telegraph cable, will be from (Gal- wey to Cape Cod. Just look at those points They are about 2.400 or 2,600 m'les apart. Now, i? you can send | an tovelligivie, talking etream of electricity through 1,800 » oI £250) miles; at any rete, we bave reason to suppose we can; and that can be accurately tested by joining, for experi: ment, si veral wires that goto make up several rou'es— say ail ue way from Portland, Maice, by Trinity Bay, to Vaientia, The wire from G: iy could lay along Maury's | telegraph plateau, (he came as the preseat one doss, til! ib came Lear to the coast of andiand, and then come away south. Tt bas all been ¢Xsmined end sounded; or if it bas not, it cam be, and land at Cape Cod. One end of such a cable wou d be on our own shores, ani a singic wire could be Iaid from the landing place to Now York city; another ta Boston; end communication would bo er tothe Old Worlt, and be less expensive in in | struments, working and stations than by t | route, & thonsand miles by land to Trinity Bi | then serces the ocean. Tue other oud of such would be at a city ol more than twenty five thousand in- babitents—a city pow rapidiy rising t0 great commercial importance throvgh the aciivity and buswees of a suc- | ceeefnl lite of tranaatiantic steamers. You have | ween and copied a letter from Mr. Jobn (rrell Lever, the | prejecter and princips! cwner of these «teamers—tho Gal | way ard York line—to a telegraph company (a new | ove) m Begland, cficring to take £30,600 ($160,000) —mis | prinu ct $30,60—stock, aud employ his own steamships in i ores of ‘a abill ® company were formed and the work businete men have signiiied their intention to close ibelr | too important and of tco great ultlity te the masses to be Places at ten o'clock this foreuova, to enable them to see | monopolized by @ few companies, or by one or two na the eights of Now York. THE CELEBRATION AT ALBANY. Avhas, Ang SL, 1888, ‘The city is al! excitement tn anticipation of the great | ‘erybodg ts preparing to do honor | Jupilee to morrow. tothe day. The de'idings on all the principal aveaues are already i readiness for the {llamination. Banners, flags, and mcitors are everywhere displared, avd every thing indicates that the display will be by far the most maguificent evcr witnessed in this city. THE CELEBRATION AT UTICA. Unea, N. ¥., Aug. 51, 1855, No more gerers! cr enthusiastic celebration will oscar &ny where to worrow in bonor of the Ucoun telegraph tkav in Utica, The milfisry, the firemen, the traces and civic kocietine, are 4)! preparing to join 'n the proceedings of the day. Ai night almost the antirecity§will be ittumlcated: wiih oiler appropriate demonmira'ions of re) viciog THE CELEBRATION AT ST. LOUIS. Sr. Lois, August 20, 1858 The Cuaber of Commorce this moraing unenimousiy Bdcpied & resolution that the Chamber of Commerce be clo 04, and reccmmesding @ goncral suspension of bast- neces Ca Monday next, September 6, for the purpose of celebrating the opening of the Agric. itural and Mechaaical Pair, and also the successful comp!ouon of the Atlantic telegraph THE CELEBRATION AT BOSTON Boston, Aagust 31, 1858 ‘There bas as ) ct been nothing done towards celebrating the let September by the city goverument here. Some few private i‘lumisations will take place lo afdition to those of the lelcgraph companies ¢Mosa CABLE FESTIVAL DESPATCHES Toe American Telegraph Compauy have a telegraph instrament ia the banquet bal! during the ETCH) telegraphic Ciomer, (0 seud despatches to al! parte of he werld BATONS OF CABLE. Measre. Tilany & Co. bave presented to the Grand Mar. sal eed each of bie alde a baton made of the “Atlamtis cable,” to be ured at the oolebration to day CANNOT PARADt TO THE EDITOR OF THE ReRALD Naw Yorn, Auguat 51, 1858. ‘The Young Men's National American Union Club will b* Prevented parading in the procession (> morrow, in con requence of necessary delay attending the printing of its idcomt new banner. I regret to announce this fact, Dut trust you will make * pubse INO. THOS. PHILLIPS, Secretary OCEAN TELEGRAPH LINES TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘The question is often asked among business men Can the present wire from Valent’a to Trinity Bay do all the bovimems that the busy and wealthy communitie: on eact: ide of the Atiantic will require Of course, the larger the price the rmstier the performance, and whether the Dompany svooced v sending five dred words an hour, Or only eighty—about their present rate—they can #0 adjust the charge: as to send all the meaenges that wil De offered. Ten collar. bas been spoken of as the mini mum price for # merstye—ten worle—from Now York to London, the great burinces centres of the two countries. Now #0 one can doubt but, at five dollars « mosenge, there would be at \east (Cur times the bosiness that would offer at donbie that rum. Certainly, oo one gradges the ploneer company « good return for the money have risked and j still, with the improvements con manly going on in electrical ecience, no one doubts but large and profitable business could be ore throug! a ats som — considerably wrder ten dollars a . The great question then is, how econ can we beve wire inid, who is t do it, where shall be ite coca bed’ Mr. Shatiner nas ex Dis (nter tion of surveying & route, and ing to a rafe and ciroultour paamage Canada, Nove Seo. Us of Newfoundjand, by Labrador, to some point on the | southern const of Greenland, thence to Icolaed, thee poutherst to the Fu rros, Shetland Orkneys, and the cont of Scotland. If physically practicable route bas the * veotage of shorter periods, ro that [a cave of commun: Caton Beng broken there would be, at most, only from | } pamely, from Galway to od York. | Munication of the Commissioners of the Brooklyn W | already built from Bale | Were drowned. cue. let Mr. Shaffiner or spy olber company lay down an coean lize wherever it is feaaible, but Tee's have at least one Sine resting on our own soll, fs Yankee land. route by way of Labrador, Green. tand, catend, Fierro, Shetiand, Orkney and Bouttaad may be sound pract'ca' hough the prospect looka to me au¢ dublous; but ! am satiafled we can bave a very direct route, where we pow Lave » eucceestu! me rm New Yorx, Acgust 31, Brooklyn Common € te THR OPEN CANAL ON THE WATER WORKS. ‘The Board met on Monday evening, to cvasider a cv relative to the construction of a closed condcit, instead of an open canal, from Baiseley’s pond to Jamaica cresk. Alderman Kalbsleisch, the President, occupied the chair. After the usual preliminary business, the communica tion, of which the following is the substance, was read by the Clerk: — | The Board of Commissionera reprerenm! tha! the origin | comiract for supplying the city with water provides that ai | the water evat ye pond shall be brough! from is | nouroes to the easterly terminus of (hs con tai Jamatoa j creek, ip Bn OF caval of seven aot wha. with "ro ether protection to iis | than that sfforéed by a paddling of ‘bengh it is posidie #9 to construc: it ae to temporarily enrwrr the pu , every day'¢erperionce sinre the com mencement of (be corstricti on of the esnal hes eerved to oom (hem thet it can rever be mace an exduring work, nor hich eon ever rive any eatiefaction. prodadly far ¢ xeee rence between tte cort and ba! of A more permanent struc ture. world en’ of eo muck of the werd of suca breach toget Male abandonment, aod the mructae is to | Importance changeon the oem. The ¢ sub constr act a cylin ariel wi : to the Co- #0 more periec! more eaduring a onder al! clrenmatan terminus acs ful working of tbe tu fticiece From 1b. Cornel'’s pood 16, 0 feet ta terior i 2 0 fret, Interior ¢ ped, 6,100 r creek, 5.0 1 ponds to the provided in i contrast. a's9 to be charred 10 ngpedncte of alike ebaracier and winiar to that Jay's papd io the main conduit. ewcm 7 aa fhily to enable it to carry the ‘the soures WiD which it connects, bringing the entire supply through crered 9 .educia of MAFOBFY REOUTe AAIOK breaches (roe. LF enow, AS asthe davger of the vuality of the water be-oming It ured from animal an’ vegetable tmpyrities belug ‘rows or blown into ft. ‘The ditlerence of cost between ibe cannis ax ow a Prerereiae voce cuteates t Bli4 2 and by the eugineger a: Fis, 28) the ater ew, however, of redused price of Be aries Welles have ag wa io make, this change fo: 10.(40, in addition to thelr Coatract prive, the work all ty be done according to plane and speci® cations Wo ba mace by the engineer and cobject to hia approval, shey guarantesring tie diepey of the work in all ite paris. On anbmitting Proposiiows, however, 10 the ergigesr, he recom ands tar 1) feet of the proposed work which is required t@ be As foot diameter, should be 12 I rm thick instead rder vo render it sabetantial an feeure. ‘This would increase the cost by about $25,000, mak log An aggregate increase aver the eontrag! price of 5135 poo. The Commirrioners urge ths hnportance of immediate « in (he matter, #0 that mesmures can at one be taken to com Meee the Orsi notin Of theo rder to Insure Use elivery cf ten milton setiona day into the city, ‘ontem pi he contract. ‘Thre t comet te tine thet theWnier i poet colltractorn to de w pplv of Water in the city ie the Coming fal. 10 they make (he Decessary exertion to do ao The commit ication ' john HL Prention, 3, © Breveort, © Danial Van Yoorhis, Thomag Bull md by James P. Kirk’ wood, Ergive The communication wae accepted ter Aplight dis cureion, the subject was referred to ‘ater Committse to report on Monday evening two weeks hence. ons Drownsd.On Saturday, a boy fell into & pond pear Ellenville, | ister A farmer, Mr. Bilin Fi immediately jumped endeavcrod to rescue the drowning boy, bat both Th ie paid thet two or three Perrone ware dm } -{ ‘ben who did not mw Pond to rowning persons. uel Barlow, cad immediately went to their count in ap near the Any nae ' ar taw the ocourrence, | *, ook the bodies from the water and attempted to recuecitnte them, bnt without sucetss. Mr. Hart leaves & wife aod several children to mourn his Se brave desth Ap inquort bas since been held v] he bodiae of tho unfortanete pair, when the jury rendered « Yerciot that the deceased came to their deaths by drowa- ee. | found at low wate: | thence to Tien sin twetvo | Water, there is considerably more at bigh water. | river bet | uniform breadth, he, in this fast age, are | tal \ ‘This consideration, aided to the danper from which it | heir opsasionnily | until repaired, | pole | much the better that we who pour in money to the soush | loaa | here, but | tory, | artifcia! obstraction, and conceived that the Chinese would cera most violent resistances to their a, they sdvanced at Grst but slowly ey pro ceeded, however, it became noparent that these fears were proundlers ; vial country, with richly cultivated and partisily wooded banks, bad an average breadth of «bow 8 Cepth of water at ball tide ranging from ton y \ \Hages were not very Bumerous, and consisted merely of & collection of mud hats such as grace the banka of the Nile. Sofar from the in NEW YORK H#RALD, WEDNESDAY, ‘The War in China, v~ ORATION OF THE PRCEO BIVER—NBARING ) BKIN— DIPLOMACY OF THE BMPEROR—SOMN 49 LS “ESN-GIN O1TY—BUBOPBAN TRADE—THE ALLIGU ‘BIS ON THE WaTBRS OF THE INTERIOR —H JHE ENVOYS WERE LODGED—THE ENGLISH AN) FRESNOM IN A PALACE IN TIEN BIN—THE UNITKD STATRS AND RUBSIAN MINISTERS IN YAMUN-—AD RIVAL OF TUE CHINKSE PLENIPOTENTIARIE {Calf of Pechel (June 3) genreepuetance of thé Lor 8 My burried letter on the morrow of what our Frond friends are pleased to dignity wish the name of the‘-oombat ot no a you in poseeeaton of certain affairs opto that day. I believe 1 iorgot to explain wo yo: that the beket throvghout the dost is that alter a movth's per. vugion and threats of — Eao-land, Lord El.in suc Serica tna eeneae sees! te whe yield, if was ‘ sould not bind themselves to do more batteries of Taku, and conyoy the Ambassadors “teu miles above the entrarce,” because they seemed to feel convinced that these desperate Chinamen would fight 5 every inch of ae way up to Tien-stn. However, the forts fell, and, a! enly one solitary berrier of jupks existed bet Taku col Tien sin, we ween were coe week going up from ore to the other, and in that anon thing rises ba as the crow vy never Ee with any resem! opposition, ard our 80! - Cul iny in getting along toe allied admirals nd the Freack gunboats. [be former would keep Laing to rceonnettre to thelr front, and ciear away junka from their rear, apd the lavier succeeded in grounding, as usual, at every turn wn the stream, ‘We at last got up to the heart of Tien.sin, and the boats of the Furious and the Pique bad the honor of being the firet European craft in the northern enirance of the great caval. Beyond Tientsin the first division (Staunch, Sus tard avd Kestrel) explored the Pei-ho for about ten miles farther towerds the town of “ Yang swan,’ Gncing the water te diminish eo much ap to render ary bat the smailest sized gunboats unavailable for an advance on Tuvgchow, aud they only by being lightened to four feet by teking out the beavy archors, cables, storee, &e., which ye into them for deep sea cruis- ing, but wh'ch Capt. Ball will not let them dispense with in there efit] waters. However, it wil! be time enough to tak of gto Tcng-chow whea the Admirals caa be brought to ace apy pecessity for going there—s fact which bas by Do means dawoed upen their faculties up to the preeecttime. They perfectly astonished at their own bardibood in getting up this far. you sak wha! we sailors think, we are ail of ope opinion. We declare that the superfiuous ‘oO exercised in the advacce on Get siz, the move in which we have located ourselves on ‘te waters, without marching throrgh the city, hoiving Cor colors on its walis,or otherwise showing cureeives mas*ere of it, all tend to show the Chinese thatthere isa Canteen in tho olen cay, our seamen and maricés in the vesse tLe Gulf of Pecheli, turnicg the guuboats Brack Bal! line, and allowing the Chinese to go cors in broaccloth, who have no quarrel! with the Fm- peror, but a series of locsl quarrels, ou day with Yeh at Cavton, aud on snother with Taxg a! Taku. Unless we have a casus lelli we had no right to touch ku or attempt to fcrce a way witbin Chinese fortidca- and if we bad one we are distinctly wrong aud in- tent iv quitting a warhke attitude untti redress bad been gained. Taku {8 just twenty four hours per post from Pekia (we are certain of that), and vot, although Taku fell fourteen cays ago and we have been one week balfwsy between Taku and Pekin, !t bas taken the lim- peror until todsy tosend us @ Minister to treat. Doss that show they are much alarmed, or dces it argue they are either in a haste to grant redress or be rid of our presence at & place eupposed to be the throat of tae capital’ No, led we pushed co a light division against Tung chow, beld Tien-sin as @ base, sent despatch yeenels to beat up the whole coast cf Chile and Shangtung, worked and kneaded these elow thinking Tar tars vatil they only saw one way of cecapefrom us and our gunboats, we should bave atreaty such as would repay Enalend forall her delsy and experse, instead of OW baying to ask much and take little, and the amouot . sf little purely dependent upon the ability of Lord Elgin. He (Lord Figin) tells everybody,a. hear, that he shall wait bere until dcomsday rather than concace suy of his just demands; but we believe in our hearts that he fiads ‘the Acmira’s ro fail him in grenting eurport to bis de- mands that be will have to be very moderate in prossing the Imperial Commissioner. Jnéced, there is azother corsideration to be kept in mind. The Frenchmen can go no further in their veerels; they maintaia it is now alone ‘by military operations that Turg chow and Pekin are to bs. taken or threatened, and have accordingly ordered up the - loads of marino tufaniry rived mt org Kong, all that thes gay or with is our Admirals ‘aw, and it would be en awkward thing for us if, when Tung chow was taken or, may be, Pekin, the Freuchmea played frat fiddle and we the secon’. However, we can ouly hops for the beat; and I must say! bave considerable faita in Lord Ei carryirg us eventually through allthe errors and culties which surround the question, end he bas risen fifty fold in all our estimation by Perseverance ehown in bringing the Admirals to act atal!in support of bis views, sgewet a certain Kong policy of their own. motel they aro pleased to siate ia that of Great Britain and ance, From the politics of th's question, which | raereiy toach | upen to put you in poaseasivn of the true state ot aifatra, let me turn to@ more grateful eabject-—the river Pel ho and Tien tiv city. We Gud that the ber of bard mrd at the entrance is the only impediment to navigation that exiets in the bo, and it, I fancy, could easily be deepened by meena of a dredgirg machine eels of eleven feet draught may ercet; the bar is above 1,200 yards lorg, and toen eighteen cr twenty feot is to & point Gre miles above Taku ; may always be counted h bere and there shore is less a} a ween the sea and Tien sin preserves an al moet equal to the Thames st Putwey’, the our- ut is Bot at thik eesson more than 1); knotea per hour, but it holes « great deal of flae mud in solution. The river is remarkably winding, and tho turning points very acute, but that it iseary of asceat the best proof I can BIVe Ie tint see Coromandel, 200 odd feet long, ia ‘hep ‘The banks of the stream: pa beeasaee t 7 kept, apd the track are con- tinucms on either elite, ndition, as | upon, for tbey well peed to be 0 do the work of the thousands , of Shangtes acd Shanteng juoks we foand and unloading thre Taku to Tica sin, loadiog | nowt the whole distaccs from river im no case up to the | | great cousl requires artificial embankments ; indecd, | the level of the river waa considera>ly below that of the | | adjacent piaits, aud when at its highest only ovorflowsthe | marsb¢s and galines below Taku. Its bed is gencraily a | otiff, tevacicus clay, and netiber rock nor stone has been pt nnn is w great ¢ on the ee or, | aud the river, is oply one mile on each face—a coliect'on of miseracle collection of mud hove's' only relieved bere and there by some wealthy ya mun, There is, notwithetacdirg th's equalor apd povor- ty. uncovbdted profs of an immense busicess beiug done a here in grein and merchandize for the intertor, fancy Tien ein i like many pinoes lo Russie by once & year merchents meet “7 to buy, sel exchange, and les be 200 (00 tous of rice now drawn can import far cheaper and betlor from Akyaber Siam. It is nol from choice that wo ace tena of t nda of emaciated ovolies sitting on the baaks cf the Pei-bo ready to drag oor boats apy where fore hand fat of Shacturg brane, Ot only for onitle, or black rise which ha» fermented in ibe b water of a Soaoghae junk’s hold; ana if Chilo & bat syeee silvor ain! ‘copper coin'to give in return for our grain and pulse, so ward for tees shevid be able t> extiast it here for some thing e'se than opi In the Szaits of Miaton our large ve pve lorchar, or, betior mu, { secure anchornge may yet be foond im the Shoa’s, close t> the i’ei bo, where unloading may go om incessantly The navigation from the latitude of the Yaug tee Kiang to bere is the simplest a ship- fad. East of the ie of Sui with a lead |ine and 10 At present only ves: | it. The city itecif, situ | ] nich regiment, @ batt | tue atrong body of men entrarce of the Pei lio, aud: in good time, whea the bydrographer of the pivy eba! deem it worth while | eacriticing the survey of home ports to these, which are | tees Keo Wheace come the swarma of Joaks | cover daily the sear bot worn the Sliantung promou Corea abd the head of the Gull of Leoteng ? The imports here at first will mainly cymaiat of rice wheat, off cake avd flour, cottons of a course description and cheap, Uke American drillt; woollen cloth and flannel me, pe mel bp namend aruc'es of LG 1 whethor for eating, wearicg or domestic parposes—the ex- porte, metals, wool, hides. "lax, tallow. aod wood At for spars or building. ‘The avidity with which any Faropesn articles are sought for in most amusing. I have been offered fabvious quantic: of cash for a half worn pair of Hong Kong boots row on toy feet. Tune wh pture ofthe forts of Tang r 0 forts 00, | At the mouth of the Pe! ho river, deseribed in my last let ter, wae occupied by the allied paval commanders in chief in demoliahivg the forte getting off the }, and se. curing cor Foeition, A line of junke moored ‘seteus the Fiver at tho ¥ [lage of Tekoo, absnt three miles from Tung. koo, served #dmirabiy as & barricade against fire rafts, should he Cbinees remert to that favorite mote of altack bebind these our advanced gutbosts were eaohored, It hod been intimated to the ( p.newe cuthorities that the oap- tore of tho forte by force, in the event of their not bein, peaceably earrendored, wan not intended by. the allied to imp'y @ hostile altitade om their part Imperial goversment, p. was te be measure, rer dered ne the Ambatendors, ¥ 0, ia cosaequence the Cabinet of Pekin to treat with distance, bad determined to to ‘with the view of putting themselves more im- mediately into communication with the favetionaries | of the empire. Indeed, the position of Ticn sim, at the anetien of the Grand Cana) and j’e) ho river, ite proximi- ty to Vekin, and ite Importance to the capital in a mercan point of view, ail combived to induce the belief that ate oty ja the empire, with the exception, , of (teelft, Can negotiations be carried on under more faycrable conditions. ‘The firet duty of the neva! authorities, therefore, after the taking of the forte, was to proceed ‘on the explora- tion of the river for the purpose of opening the way and securing « safe trannit for the allied missions to Tien sin. Aa they acticipated covery description of natural and of the refusal of them As river, winding through flat, alla- ards, with itants attempting to oppose wd some eecure harbors, pot onty | leet acre nay “thy ecloded ta crow uper the banks, : gents with thelr or. beads oe pores, ‘ne first gun boats p wed toceret peculiar ts the Fans, ta wisioe far mash sess apathy ‘s combined with the extreme of wonder and «we. wes lined with these ourious spec | | FEE bt cattle and ard 4 — The honenr ‘of Buropeat® civilation in ‘oboe fur he acted on the principle of times the ani Bust warce foongceraw, the of Pekin, and distant only tea miles from ity. larger gupboats were brought to a stencetili vory shortly attor leaving Tien sin, but the Kestrel, of fees Rae ‘with the ships’ boats tn power, tow, succeeded in reaching village about eight miles above this town. Meantims other gunboats were em ployed clearing the jonks out of the river between Tien sin and the mouth, so as to render It impossible for the Cal- nose to bar our e; 8 by sink!ng junks. ‘The crowd of making their excape in obedience to Orders was scmetimes 80 great as to cause as hopelers a jam ee may cccasicoally be seen inside Temple bar. ‘Thus was scoomplished ina few deys,eud without the eUghtest difficulty, an operativn which tae Frerch Admi ra! bad ceclared impossible unlces supported by a land force of 4,000 men, and which might have been as suc. caerfully undertakea a month sooner had not obstaclor existed of a far graver Character than any which the Ob! nese bave it in their power te izterpese. At this time of year tho Jcas of thas month, the finest in the year, is moat deeply to be regretted. Already we bave most disagres. able evicence cf ibs proximity and probabie temperature of @ Pekin summer. Ag acon es the ambareadors were made aware of the complete aucceas of the Admirals they determined to fol. Jow them to Tier ein, in pursuance of thor original inten tica, and resched that city oa the morning of the 30ca of May. A spacious temple, occasionally used as a residence by a former Emperor, commanding a view of the river at its junction with the Grend Canal, and oppoitte the city, 2s a: iated for the accommedation of the French and Kag- lash ambassadors. Numbors of Chinees servacta were in atendance; many of the rooms hat been newly papered, sod the work of furbishiog up was go'vg oa briskly, Baron Gres id Lord Kgia occupy two light and ny Be ‘yitieos on the summit of a mount, ascended by a nxth- way cfornamental rockwork. Thoir respociive staffy are scattered in mundry fragile tings of quaict ¢ antroc- tion, with paper walls, or have mace their bedrooms in a joss bovee, in which goda and goddesses are the pricci- articles of furniiure. A spacious garcen, encissed y Swall, surrounce the whole. Hogtish and French gvarcs occupy the outhouses and stand seatry at the prin cipal evtrances. The national fags float proutiy over sit, and a line of gupboats are moored withia twenty yards of the windows. There couaist at present of the Coromu cel, Cormorant, Slazey, and Oooseum (fnglish), the Av anche, Fusee, ard Dragonae (French). The Stauoch, Bar- terd, avd Kestrel wre anchored a mile above the town, ard the Leven, Woodcock, and Firm are romowhere be- tercen this apd the fleet. The Woodcock aud Kestrei, both | forty horse power, arrived a fow deys after tbe capture of Turekco a carty, of ergineers bave also artived from Hong Kong in the Sarmyscn, axd are oogeged in blow'ng up toe forts, alter which it is expected they willcome here Numerous yamups afford abundant barrack accommodation. Not- ‘Withstanding the grea! variations in the temperature (tre thermometer ranges from 65 degrees to 86 de. grees in the twenty-four hours), the heakh of the men ccntinues excellent; avpplies are abundant, al- thovgh some little reluctance bas beeu apoarsnt on the part of the country people lately in bringiog them in, throvgh fear of incurring the dispieasure of tus aathori tier. Ice ie mluxcry fu which the Cainese upper classes freely indulge during the summer moths; boats and | cookies carryiag large blocks of are corstaully seea yaesirg to and fro, and the berbarlana bavo nt been riow to avail theweelves of ao refrcebiny a0 article of cousump- toa. The interior of the city baz bean explore!, but offers fow attractions to the stranger. The stroets aro broater than Lucee iu Southern citi the houses poorer, aud the curtosity shops net to be ciscovered at ail. The city is pearly a , S tuated on the avgte formed by the junction of the Grand canal with the Fei-bo river each face is ebzut a mile long, tho wall, which would coffer no great obstacle elther from is height or solidity to an atiacking force, is eaid to mount ouly eighty oavaon. Formerly a large floating population icbabited boats oa the river and canal, and an extensive water trafic radiated in all directions frem this point Since, however, the toatrnc- tien of a large portion of the (rand crus! by the ccceniric courre recently taken by the Yellow river. the trefiic the emelier cnanaels, which depended upsa ibis main artery for their supply, bas very muco decroas- edin extent and ce. Thi cover a great extent of ground, but ihe houses are gone- val'y mere mud huts, surrounded by mud walls, between wbion wind rarrow dirty lanes, Beyond the suburbs ara kitchen gardens and fruit treea, and then a plain, uo- broken by anything higher (han brickkilns, extends tothe hor!’ Feur rivera mearder throvgh this plain, their ccurse marked by groves of trees, apd ‘ar as eye can reach stretches @ vast expanse of bearcod wheat, und vided by fence or hedgerow. Mos! of the road: = raised ubmerg- e their evening rides alorg the roait> Pekin. ‘Tho bends of the Calcutta and Nemesis p'ay morning and evening, and collect large crowde of adwirtog Coi weet. The wholesome effect which this mov f veseo aod bas proved most satiofsct: polley purtued by the representatives of the four Power#, which bas been to concict negotiations at as vear the capital as posible, 20 as to by ‘that ture to bear upen the Imperia! government w! at it's hopeless to expect opmpitatce with the demands of the outer barbarians, aaa reasonable aad mode. rate those me, ‘Tbe dsy before Fenny two aew Imperial Commis sicners§ arrived with great ceremony from Pekit were, a by wlarge mounted retiave a ‘Theze functionaries, by came Kweiliang acd sre maodarins of the highest rank in the empire. They beve announced themee!ves as specialiy om- powed to treat m all the points specified by us as subjects negotiation, by virtue of an Imperia} cccree, similar to that which was con. feried upon Keyiwg on the occasion of the lest treaty: as a farther proof of which they style themselves by our mavutactured word, ‘' plon'potentia’y ,"" a term uukvown in thelr own cilic’'al vocabulary. A prelinitpsry interview bes been arranged with the Bi itiah atudassxcor for to day, ne dulliing Be’ apart for the purpose. Lord fiin will be accompanied by a guard of 160 marices and the baad | of the Osicatta Meantime it bas been arranged that the Fary shall pro ceed to morrow to Horg Kovg ter tho parpoee of weading up by the troopehizs Adventure and Assisiavce the Fifty- A of marines, and some artillery which ibe arrival of the native regimects from lodia and the expected atvent of the Seven'y seventh from Austra Vie epable General Straube zoe t) spare from (he garrigon of Canton Tho French admiral ts Caily expecting a force of (CO reurlves who bave jnet come ont from Francs, eo that within #x weeks we may calealale upon be erlected here a military ferce of 3,000 mei sides & yory strong paval brace. In the event of tho obs HOW About if be commenced terminating ly, there will be na ¢ seul: ver, with avd, experience may cent. we can bardly brave the werious ‘optioue to resist ped beneath the walls eoforce them Md appear that the reeuit of the Hed poveromen's hes b to tuprece itto be Ae conse. nences which our cematdn, with an of their capital prepared From there facia t wor policy parened by the a piace them in tude Which gives them @ ete military command over the Imperial government w shout toterropting the trade at any of the porte Count Putiati he Russian and Ameri con Min yarn which they hace rent al wpon Important yin Texees, We learn from the Sa exas) Herald that at Inat an expediticn ie to be organized to pperase against ihe Ipciaps on their noribern frontier. ‘9 euppoge thet thie ovement is ip conte vence of orders lately received (row the department at Washington, based apen the dierretion jven to the President by the jast Congress, ‘wigs it #aid to bave for some time contemplated svc} move, but circumstances beve hitherto preventod making the order. (ur citizens will be glad —— that the great majority of these troops are t> be cavalry, with afar admixture of infantry avd friendly lodians. The expedition w te be ander the command of Brevet Major Var! Van Dorm, a wei pA’ intrepid Olver, of large ‘experience on tbe front AVREIAL ¢ Hespyrarrens Deranivest or Tex es, ) Sax Axronio, August 9, 1868. "5 the better protection of the norther With a view ti portion of Texas Xpedition—to A, ¥, Band K, Second cavalry ether, three Gp commissioned oMocers and ty privates frem Companies C and F, First infantry, the whole to be commanded by Brevet Major Parl Van orn, Captain Se, pomef ed pay (be organized, #0 a to move from Fort Belknap on the 16th prosimo, or as soon thereafter ne prnctionb: ebita Moustal epor of pi the depot to march to Octer Greok, wont of the Wit and entablish at tome suitadle point « isions, The infantry will form a guard for (et the oavairs will be divided into acouting | partien, of such sive ae Major Van Torn may deem best for the purpore of thoroughly scouring that portion of the country bewees. Red iver and. the fork of the Canadian river, between the 100th and |04th degrees of jongitade. Theee parties are authorized to follow aay {odian trails that may be discovered, without reference to rtment Iimits. jajor Van Dorn will immediately make out roqisitions for as ample supply of ammunition, ant such entrenchiag tools ae he may require After getting into the field Major Van Dorn wil! make eomi monthly reporte to this offize of the of bis ocmmand, scoompany tng bis reports with sketches of the fare De yd over. Se J Jeutenant Cornelias Van Camp, Sesond Cavairy, is dotailed on Pm duty, to nape aa] ue expe. dition, and will Major an Dorn accordingly, ‘With the co) aent of thei 9, ( feaew (rientiy Indtens five from the upper and ten from wwe io ror leservation, will be taken a@ guides (or this Comunand, The Objef Quartermaster will take gioasuros to bave« “SEPTEMBER 1, 1868. i ii f i eT gE EE | ff i 3 5 3 E,Eee i hi i vie t . li i 3 2 : in F f ff j i Hf i 3 3 z i 14 i 32 ; Fs rg z Hy iF ie Pre d i z it eile I f s Pi Hi ' i E i - General. Our New Orleans Correspondence, New Onikans, August 23, 1858. The Yellow Feuer Eacitement—2he Ravages of the Disease— The Doctors’ Harvest—The Undertakers and Grave Dig- gers—The Atlanti+ Cable News, &c., de. ‘The chief topic of interest here at the present timo is the yeliow fever and the business connected with it is the most active. Doctors, grave diggers and undortgxers are reaping @ rich harvest. ‘The business like manner in which they porform thoir gloomy duties would sbock the more delicate sensibilities of those unaccustomed to such scenss. To the credit of oor physicians generally, however, bo it eaid, thet thelr attendance upon the eick is marked by the utmost kind- ness 6nd covaideraiion, It is only among themselves or | outside the sick chambor that their indifference is maui- | fested. Itis only within the last week cr two that the M. D.'shave bad what they call a ‘‘good run’? of fever pa- tients, At first the disease was coniined to the lower part of the city—the Third district and the shipping, the pa- tlents clasing “low to low middling.” Now, however, it has epread ell over the best part of the city, among the “bigher grades,’ acd begins to pay weil. ‘tne doctor's fee for a yellow lever cage is one hundred dojlais, more or } kil or cure. Persons are down with it from fye togeven days. If taken tm season, the docior’s attention ia not required after the fourth Cay. Ove, (wo and three thousand dollars: k is BO uncom mon amount of fees for a good yellow fever physician Such a physician will cure pire out of ten of bis patients, tc, and tee cured patient pase bis hundred dollars joyful’ ly, for he now corriders bimseit safe here, ox sept from the oruivary casualties of life~ea‘e to accumulate bis fortune aud move North, for comparatively few thin’: of remala- tog here after having made their fortune, whls €o many p caganter and more beaithy Iccations may be velected. Men come bere to make money and North to spend and ¢pojoy it. They can bardly ex | ‘pected to ¢€o otherwwe whilo our city fathers pay ao little atiepticn to cleowlng acd dre the city. It ia no ory matter to drain the city, it i# true, but @ sys- tem of underground drainage ae be introduced which would ot least emother the io stench of ome cf our gutters, which ere all open to the hot sun; and the foundation of tbe city beng coly a evel marsh with a very cligbt artificial rize towards the river, the water and filth of the gutters moves very fy me pags towards the lake, which is ome #ix miles from the river. Undertskers are in grest demand, and are obliged to keep relays of horses, in come instances, as some of the Duried aa soo aa poacible afiew@Meath. Tey are seldom kept over night if itis poraible ocurs burial ihe same day. Scme oi the various societies aud military and fire companies, are paasing dally, azd often several times a ¥, fcllowing the remaina of @ member to its last ri place, wih banda of music playing mournful melodies as they go, aad more lively, animaitng music as they return. ‘The graved\cgers, with their gangs of negroes, ara busily employed: though, as ie, laborers for that ser rice do aot | command mach exorbitant wages as were paid in 1863, when vegroes received five dollars per hour for tuetr rervices. = Seme of the Pctter’s Fisiis” present an appearance 50. onl ke a newly pianted fleld--the seed there deposiled to spring up in another world rather thaa this. After # rain theee grounds are raped with water. New!y opened graves Bed e Degrees bave to hold dowh one cemeteries aré at some distance from the city. Bodies are | | value, | th.s public Cocument the existin ai exd of acctfin while overs il! ip sod enfficient to kesp it down, when the other end undergoes the samo procerr. At tuch times graves cag only be opeved « few feet below the surface, etd tre vicinity of these grounds is intoiors. bie from the stench arising therefrom. The permarent resideola bere have very litle dread of the lever. In ove bearding house on Lafayette square seven of the boarders were down with it during the past week, five of whom are now cut, and the other two Tho disease, taken io its sudurbs of Tiew-sin | more ¢asily mavaged, our pby say, than mavy other fevers and dciscases ry simple remedics, wiih good careful nursing, is ail that | te required. are the reevlt of ow curse, A(ter tbe fifth ors xth day the patient feels well, if property treated, aad is wol’ned to eat end expose bia nel impradently. ‘An instance of this orourred to-day, The Rey. Dr. Le | cock, « leading Fpiecopa) cergyman, was down with the fuver loge week, Dad recovered sufficiently to go oat, (20k | w ride to the Jake two days since, caught cold, bad @ re- Japee, ard died ibis morni A relapse under suoh cir- | cumaiazces eluays prov I. | The Board of Health bave not as yet pronounced the | fever ap epidemic, ws they wsqueetionsbly might acd | cvght to bave dove two weeks since. When et frig! toned, | upscelimated Northerner exkan physician Wf it bas be- | ecine an epidemic, he doctor gives a eiguidcant shrug of the rhouléer# acd repiies, “the Board cf Healt haye not it”? | The pews of the avccves of the Atlantic telegraph was received here by many with stoical indiferouze or weil assumed dignity. Specalators are “down on it,” and | the wieacres who have besn predicting its iailure bate | to record the proofe of their ignorance and | gees, There are many however, who fully appreciate | the great work and am A atits success. It has | mace the name of Cyrus W, Field a household word—a | Barne honored above that of apy militaryichiettain of the Ay Ie 1800 } he will | age. He wil! doubtices bo wanted by some jor Vice Preeident, st icast, but itis to be rot throw himself away upon any such paliry bouors. His position is bigher than that to whwcb say political howcrs can raise bum. Our Havana Correspondence. Bavana, Aogust 29, 1858. | Ovicial Inspection of Purlic Works—Citation of Aleged | Slave Tradert—The English Growing Cotten on the Iland —Raslway Exiension—A 1ts.t Day~Sunken War Ships | On the 17th inst. bis Excellency the Capinin General, ac- companied by Ger. Manzano, Brigadier Echavarris, tho | political Governor of this city; Major Clark, Chief Fogincer of the Boy of Havena and Matanzas Railway, acd sovera other gentlemen, embarked in ® epecial train of the Ha vone ard Guiness Railway to inspect @ new trou bridge that Las been erected for the purposes of (he railway over tho river Aimordares, ‘The bridge it upwards of seventy feet in length, and a light, yet strong and elegant atrac- tore from Ha ne to Cviceer Bavitg ixepected the bridge, the company again entered | tbit the ra care, and were conveyed to the Laratic Aejlom, distant about twelve miles from this city Previous to the present administration of hia Exco!lon Gos, Concha, the Loustle Ary lam we ustentthy place of enone arising the osforterate insane sufore? very considerably, and exvren the erection of another in a more healthy The prisent property was purchased aud a suitadie build- ng fer the aaylum erected. About two years since the whole of the male luvalios were removed to it There dave wince that period been am many as four boedred jupatics at the asylum. At present there are but two hondred and elgbteem. tbe oyster pursued ibere in mont bumane; no cruel pumshmenta or treatment is pract'sed; the “socthirg eyetem’’ ls fully carried ont there. ‘The lemale department ie cot a¥ yet completed; gar deus, | too, are it the courte of being formed. There Is sige attached lo the Lumetic Asylum, or rather there aon the same property, “m bourte of correction’ or white vagrents, These are all tanght a trace aod in- structed in babite of industry, they are each allowe! a real per diet for their al AD AccOMDt # kept wit each wan, aed when they acquired the moass of exying their bread by horest industry, they ore again sent forth to the world to do so, the smoast then duc t each betng paid them. Atother th.ag which attracted general attention was « hela of growing colin, planted with seed stat out by a society in M ter, Mogiand, under the aur bere called the doubt that cotton can profitably cultivated in the Weat Todies. It was tried acme years since in Jaronica, and only fa'led booanse the replete Comtinvons labor could pot be commanded Sbeuld the above referred to field succeed, as from its appearance it probably will, (bem it is likely that | wterment) where, from minematic inia | ment, | practiced tn this ci devant “commercial em; | time aad tnterral commerce from tho heavy charges mer. | ro | so provovaced it, bul vo yortion of the city Imexempt from | [0* rely on It is intended a double raliway track shall be lad | ituated In a moat | oration, adjoining the Campo Santo (pubic | ™ the newly baried dead, the health of | lorality. | the planters of this inland ‘will turn their atten. ton ‘to the cultivation of cottoa, and Guba may become | the Scutherm States in the cothon markets of | f the 10th instant, | find a citation calling | rrancisoo Deravopa, Mr. George Brown, and | mes, called the Catalen, to appear at the Castle ip this city, within vine ere! of baying fitted out the brig © oust | of Africa for « cargo of Horses. the owner, Brown the captain, aod James the second mate of the brig. The (iret mate ie un to bay. her Unlers they appear Will be subject | ies of the —beny, ‘ a in understood to be con. suburb of this city, bert period this cliy will be entirely mrrounded & railway, commencing at tho wharf, then running along Sen Pedro and the other outside streets of the city, on On Friday, the 15th inst, two sailors beg om | to es brig Nalad, of New York, got into a quarro}, whic in one receiving & wow the other. The wounded man is a German named Oharles Arppe, the ober is a Bel 5 Miettos. ‘The the feast of the tutelar there; a processes and freworks the Preceding re; & an Ly evening: cock fighting and monte playing thr ‘4 the , and & great many dinner and baile in the evening. An immense concourte of pertous went from this city to Guanabacon to partake of the fest vitier, the eteam ferry boats and the trains of the (new) brotic flush of comeumption had |) 7 told, the daughter of the Rev. Jobm Atwoil, of the Method persuasion (atill living, Ang the cotion milis at Valatic, Columbia & riee of previous to the crisis, when they were reduced 26 cent. The propristors refused to accede to thelr demand, cau i Among the more receut deaths is that of Mr, Willt: Grabam, an engineor, from Boston. _—_ ‘The Tenants and the Taxpayers’ ? co 758 Baron OF eee eenate imilatiog the practice of our illustrious schoelmasters of 1776, as epplied to the dynasty of the royal tax-oating family of the Guelpbs, “peaceably if we can, forcibly « we mugt” Supposing it is a great exploit of Poter Cooper, Mr. Ficld and their coliesgues, to Iay the mag. etic cable between the British ocloaies of [roland and Newfoundland, and that these potent citizens oan, to cole. brate that event, place in procession in the streots of Now York ten por cent of its admiring population on the lat of September, that is a fit occasion qjso to enlist the bercic servio@wof these scientific gentlomon to aid and Bealot yOu and us Obscure citizens to emancipate ninety por cent cf this city population from the burdem of city taxes under which they are and have been long Saking into the slough of despond. As have now fi Inying the gaid cabie, we Invite ponies, eee, Peer real tt sat haere move xe8 their well beloved chizens, "You will please observe that this ratio is composed of those phen eats beaee upen an average does not eaca exceed say kag honed to $100, as their compensation for executing all the Cuties of erticnns, beers and all tho manual ger- jou, it ie neceesery to obecrve that their primary requisites consist of nutritious food and proj Olothing, aed that for the preservation of their their earnings shoald tet disbursed for these items, and after thet a reasonable tum Cisburred for good shelter. I; may Ee ae eee colons daily food the ion 8 ave BO hes pee rials, aud that its coat absorbs tl iti ones, te retin hn for if Own une, i by ther own ex labor. dwellirg house, or all . with of the ground upon which it stands, their manual may correcily be said to create it ali: yet they have accees or right to use tt, bat are compelled to pay what cilled bovac rent ($30,000,000 per year), the price which ‘a fixed by s combipalion of andiosds, hi cunnitg enengh to compe: the tenant to pay in such reat all the toxes, by which address the owners of said Gwelirgs bave eacaped the payment of texes upcn ita real, fictitious or speculative now estimated at $300,000,000 capital. ‘The crly other fact we mathematicians know is, the offi- cial decree of the city government, ordering its hired “4 to co'lect the said $8,400,000 taxes, i ¢., confiecationof the yeerly wages or grogs incomé of the said tenants, compos ing 90 per cent of the population, occupying the—say £0,(CO dwe.lipg bouses and atores preg booms cuy. ‘The existing membere composing this city govermment, with all ther affectation to perform with fi ‘the im- jant Cuties of pub'ic servants, have negieoted to ob- jain end publigh @ listot the number of persons each of the t jy two city wards contains, Ot es tore, and their scurces of income to Pay rents, it was their duty to do, bacauge this word reut end sa cease ee oe ey ee For waat yg auarchy increases daily the firet reenit of which may be that majority the tenants may find ita mater of their part to aesembie in each ward and legge to euepend the payment of all reot until such times as their committees upon the taxes have determined what ra ioc! the capital iavested, Eos specific tax stall bo impceed upon wages, or the of mauual labor for toe item of shelter The communicstion Vw earl ia your ‘of the 18th instant, to illustrate Decersity: of cliy pudic servants asceriaining that the ify population was employed in creating obj esiimaird that for food, clcthes end conenmed mpd destroyed pot less than $200, g = Fy 3 tes fi necestary " will eupply to their own families before trey at liberty to band over apythiog ta the sha) city taxes; i. ¢.,aurples beretofore dispursed, for tificiai and luxurious eupport of the ldustrions tax by trate, composing all the members of the city “Obarity ine at home’ govera. will bs compelled to be ust bi jaatructed ‘to this ony eagacity tm ave ou that bas lest not leee than one Balt of tts most prodtabie ae. chants bave been compelled to make for Ddusi- ers upon Manhattan Island, Since Toanage ba ein vi or cent, and grain and most artic! rebandiee have falien one third ta wore ws (bat a copt'puation of city taxes ard all eee at the old rates, when from an act , OF account sales of rai fo little ret proceeds for its owner asa waroirg b> bim never to ship or 4 merebendise for sale ia New York city, come cther market, where the taxes much Ices for trarsactixg bus‘ness with ' gent speculation—the most benedcis! stimulator of Lc labor—never can again commence its action ae fr = 8 i i : 3 Bg? cl hin | i BS Hil succene, your name will be ‘rgicns and other public benefactors. Nino's Gacnny.—The entertainments are to commence * Question.” | Ocean Telegraph, Powsny Tararer —The dill for to ‘night promines the exciting drama called the “Idict of the Shannon,” that Sresb pieoe ofgvhimstoality eptitied the “ Atiantic Gable,”” the neat little of the “Golden Axe,’ pew play of the “Corsican Maid," Aa" ah Gn Bi kaon’. —The pamerons admirers of Mr, John Collins, the ith comedian and vocallat, will doubtiess assemble n strong force to night, when he ie announced to — | in the “Soldier of Fortune” and “How to Pay the fi Warack’s—Mr. and Mrs. Ohanfrau, whose spirited de. lincacions bave elicited a great desi of applause during the inst two nights, are —_ announced for this evening. ‘The selections embrace the “Swiss Swaias,’”’ “foodies,” Aut ap extravaganza called ““Novelty.”” Laces Kexar's.—The lovers of superior acting who bare not an pot bad an of soving Miss Keone and Mesere. Conldock, J root and Sothern ie the drama of the «Willow Copee,’’ should go this evening, bet oe aN yen = a aoa tame | this 4 evi dlishment will bs crowde persons ‘Wil avail tbemeecives of the ursurpawed view tle nunve- rous widows and balconies wil! aillord cf the grand pro cersion as it moves up Rroadway. Woon's Mineraais have recently created rauch merri ment by their very amusing portraits and skelches of pcuro bile on the Southern planistions. They commence a usval, with songs, «0 Tum Brrants keep up the excitement in the burlesque line, attract about as many re. every night aa their ball will bold, and better still, send everybody away in good humor. Tom Camrnitt ts. —The large audiences thet have thas far ed to weloome the return of this favarite band, render all eulogy unpeceseary. See tneir programme for thin evening. Fo. Ack Ganpew.—The of resort have made arranges toclore the day's festivities very pore to treat them to some exquis play of , &ee. Bronkiys ATnRN#UM. Bitz will entertain bie jnventle friends as well as all others who cerire to witnese bY magica! and ventriloquial feats, and the wonderfat tricks of his learned canaries, this afternoon and evening. roprictors of this popular place » Touts to enable Vaote icapantiy. They uel, gras ia Obituary. it i@ with regret that we learned to day of the death of Mire. B, M. SrerHens, of this city, which ocourred on Fri- , 27th inat., ai the residence of her tuber eo hens Hampden, Me. ) and aly 2, 1829. In early life she 6 84 for Strike at Vacaris.—The operatives employed in pn paid pee Inet week, They demand the prices FMircad, crowded Yo OREE With paMOngers, pli and aud the milis have stopped running ip consequence. = *