The New York Herald Newspaper, September 5, 1858, Page 4

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CORNERS GF FULTON AND NASSAU 6rd | g cS, crak ty atour Fan pai Y HERALD. too conta par eon, $1 Per THA WEAGLY L. ory Rater city ropean Edition, Bt per annvm, 10 | wep, oF Pie any part of the Conkinen, ey Por 35 to any part of * 1096 rue anil y HERALD, every Wednesday, at four ents per annum. ants per | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1858. ‘The en'es of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,60 bales, closing firmly on the bas's of 12K0. 0 127%. fortair toetiet widoling uplands, Flour wes firm for rejected and oom: mon brands of State and Western, while the higher graies were unchanged, Whos! was firm, but sales were light, | Corn was in fatr ectivity, while prices for inferior to ronnd Weetern mixed were heavy and easier, and prime | lots of white and yellow were scarce aud unchaaged, Pork continued to be beld with irmness; rales of mess were made at $17 50 & $17 75, and of prime at $15 50. Sugare were quiet but firm. Coffee was quiet, bat prices wore sustained. Freight engagements were moderate, tnd cisfly confined to Liverpool, while rates contioued to rule dull, Small engegements were made for London and to the contizent, but om terms which were not made pad. FOR Or ee NOL: RESPONDENCE, containing important wr pad oy pete NEN CE ey used wl be ibe rally paid for, B-OC » CORKS ONDERTS ARR FAR, icAnty REQUESEED 7 tux Larrene xD Pacmadi yo NOTICE taken of anonynons communications We do : y : advertisements fn- ath y Famtur Hixnaio, and in the ¢ ING borcuted with meatness, cheapness and des | pei anima eee aera eS AMUSEMENTS 10 MORBOW EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUBIO, Fourteenth stree\—ItaLiaw Orrma —L Bansieke. 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Dalifornia and other parte of the Pacific ¢ at one o'clock to-morrow aftersoon, The New York Weenty Arrap—Oaitfornta edition~« gontain’ng the latest inteltigence from ai! parte of the world, will bo pudliched at ten o'clock in the moroing, Eixglo copies, is wrappers, soady for mailing. «'x cents, Ageota will ploare sud in their orders as eariy as pos: Bidio. THE CABLE CARNIVAL. fhe Weekly Mevald, with Full Desertptions of (be Groat Cotte Carnival and Banquets, in order tu supply the great demand,a second edi. tion of the Wasiiy Hieracp will be publishéd ataiae o'clock this moraiug. It will contain the fullest de- ecription of the great cable carnival of Wednesday, end also the fullest report of the sayings and doings at the cable banquet given by the Corporation on Thursday night, at the Metropolitan Hotel, to Mr. Field and the officers of the Gorgon and Niagara. It wil! also contain a fa! report of the proceedings at the reception and nor to Capt. Hudson and officers of the Niegare by the authorities of Jersey City on Friday ever .g. Single copies in wrappers, ready for muiliag, can be ‘wad at the publication ‘of- fice at that hour. Price six cents, di Tne News. have decided upon the course to be pursued wit gard to the Africans captured on board the } tnam by the United States brig of war Dolphin. The steam frigate Niagara has been ordered to be got in readiness to proceed to Charles ton to convey the negroes from thence to the coast of Africs. She will be commanded by Commodore Channee Everyt was quiet at Staten Island yesterday. The breaches in the walls surrounding the Quaran- tine groouds have been boarded up, and preparutioas The authoriti made for erecting temporary buildings for the ac. commodation of the si The patients have been removed to a burn a ing Dr. Thompson's late residence, and every attention is paid to their wants by Drs. Biwell and Welser. The police, armed with rifles, patrol inside and outside the grounds, but no further outbreak is expected. The frigate Sabine bas taken up a position off the Quarantine so as to afford protection ty the shipping in case of necessity. Five persons, samely: Ray Tompkins, Jobn C. Thompson, Charles Deforest, William Muller aud Mathew Carroll, have been arrested upon complaint. charging ther with complicity in the destruction of the hospitals and other buildings. They wore brought to the city, and held to bail to await the action of the Grand Jury. It is stated that warrants for the apprehension of eighty others have been iseued. According to the City Luspector’s report, the total number of dea'hs in the city during the past week Was 592, a decrease 0 compared with the mor, tality of the week pre 8, and 83 less than oc. carred duri be corresponding week Jast year. The mortality among hildren continues te be heavy, but is gradually on the decline. Altogether, the state of the public he considering the season of the year, may be + 1 as very satisfactory. Two fatal cases of yellow fever are reported. The de. ceased, David Hart, aged 37, and John Powers, aged 39, natives of Ireland, and by occupation ship car- peuters, contracted the disease while employed on the ship or, now at Quarantine, The following table shows the number of deaths during the past two weeks sauong adults and children, distinguishing the sexes Men. Women Boys. Girls. Total. Week ending Aug 28... 48 70 «26226187 Week ending Sep. 4... ™ an me 592 Among the priucipal causes of death were the fol- | lowing:— —~ Week ending — Disrases. Ang. B. Sept. 4 BrOmORMR 6 6 oe eee eee ee ee eee oe 8 5 Cour inpion 61 Convulsions (in 44, Cholera mfauism . 103 wrens 4 a ob 6 nh 0 Marsamer (infantil 68 Menalos 4 Seuriet fever, There were also 1 death of cholera, 8 of conges tion of the lungs, & of typhus fover, 7 of disease of the heart, 2% of hooping cough, 4 of palsy, 5 of emallpox, 12 premature births, 26 stillborn, and 10 deaths from violent causes. The following isa classification of the diseases, and the number of deaths in eavh class of disease during the week Drssaers Bones, joints, ae Brain aud worves ... Generative orgaoe Stliborn and premature birto« 33 Plomarh, bowels and ther ligestive orgens Unser iain poet and general fevers...... Unknowe...... ove Uroary organs. “we ‘The oamber of deaths, compared e9, ponding weeks in 1866 and 1857, was as follows Woes Sept. 6, 1856... Weer cnding Sept. 6, 1567 Week coding Aug. 9, 1°68 Week enaing Sept. 4, 1865. ‘The nativity table gives 459 natives of the United ‘Shaves, 78 of leplaud, 28 of Germany, 11 of Boglaad, 805 lie, The Morale of the Staten Island Outrages. The destraction of the Quarantine establish rent ot Staten Island has furnished # fruitful | theme to politica) theorists and moralists. Ab- | stractedly considered, the proceeding is a law- less and an unjustifiable one; but to judge it properly, the provocation which led to it mus* be taken into account, Had the Staten Island- ers thus compromised themselves without hav- ing exhausted every other means of redress, there would not be found a single voice to pal- liate their conduct. But, haviog appealed in vain to the Legislature, through a long succce- sion of years having had their efforts defeated through corrupt political influences, and baving ty of the governing powers—they have done that which most other communities would have done in their place: taken the law into their own bands, and abated the nuisance. This is precisely what the people did in San Francisco, and what our citizens will always do, when they find that through the dishonesty of their representatives the institutions of the country are powerless to redress their wrongs, That inability of the constitution to vindicate its own powers, which in monarchical c un'ries leads to revolution and the overthrow o’ cyna-ties aad aristocracies, with usis speedily remedied, by some vigorous local outburet such as that which has just taken place on Staten island. The blame, therefore, of sach acts should be measured out with extreme caution. Betore condemning them we should weigh care- ft @ provocation and the necessity which ve to them. Where the people are sove- reign, it becomes a nice question at what pre- cise point they are justified in resuming the powers which they have delegated. When they Jud that the macbiuery of government will not work, or will only work for the benefit of the corrupt snd upprine‘pled, then it seems to us that they only exercice their natural and inhe- renc right in foreiog the redress that is denied them through the regular channels, This is the case put forwaré by the Staten Island people. It cannot be denied that there ts a great deal of justice In it. Had our State go- vernment worked paternally and impartially for al, their complaints would have long since! cen attended to. The retention of a marine laza- retto ina populous locality, forming at once the summer residence and the pleasure haunt of large numbers of our citizens, was obviously a crying and pressing grievance. Not only did it tend to keep down the value of property in one of the most delightful epots in the neigh- borbood of New York, tut it became a fruitful source of danger to all residing on that and the opposite shores of the bay. Could a neces- sity have been shown for a continuance of the evil it might have been borne patiently; but it hae been long since apparent that («8 main- | tenance at this point has been due only to the | corruption and dishonesty which have marked our State legislation for the last dozen years. Instead, therefore, of censuring the Staten Islanders for the excetses into which they have been betrayed, let us blame the misgovernment | Which bas driven them to such extremes. We know not how soon we may ourselves have ov- casion for the indulgent jadgment of others. At the rate at which similar corruption aud ras- cality in our muuicipal, as well as State government, are heaping us with burthens and multiplying our eufferings, it is ini) ossible to say how soon we shall be compelled to take into our own hands the reformation of these abuses and the punishment of the offenders. The necessity will be a hard one, but it will aesuredly Le forced upon us, unless the inde pendent voters and taxpayers of the city form such an organization as will be powerfal enough to carry out their views. As to trustiag any longer to the promises of politicians, we have had enough of that to convince us of {ts folly. All parties—demoeratic, republican and Ameri- can—have ehown themselves alike unable to withstand the tempta.ion of the public plunder. Whitet, therefore, the near approach of the State and charter elections affords us 9 chance of & constitutional means of redress, those in- terested in keeping down the public burthens | should make a vigorous effort to clect candi- | datee who will be devoted to their interests, and who will be proof against party inflaences. | If the political theorists and moralists who are so severe in their strictures on the Staten | Islanders, will unite in this movement, they | will help to preserve New York from the neces- | dty of imitating their example. Tae Cexrrat Park.—The work on the Cen- | tral Park, from the nature of the grounde, is | cssentially slow and tedious, and with the force | now employed on it, will require several years | to complete it. There are, we believe, not more | than fifteen hundred men employed there. This | is not enough ; the Commissioners should put on five or ten thousand together and hasien on the work. The cost will be the same fn the | end, but we will have the advaniage of a | finished park in a year atld a half, or two years at farthest, instesd of ia ten or twelve. Men wight be put ou all detcriptiens of work at the e time—biasting, excavating, filling in and grading the roads, and transplanting full growa trees. In this way the Park would soon be available. This was the system adopted by Louis Napoleon, in converting the wild Bois de Boulagne into the beautiful park which it is now. Why not our Commissioners follow his example? The idea euggested by a minority of he Commissioners, of giving out the work in teparate costracie, may facilitate it to a great extent, and as @ time saving measure, is worthy of more consideration than it appears to have received ; but ao regards economy. we think ibat it is not of so much moment, becauve if the parties managing affairs there are honest, it makes very little difference whether the work is done by contract or not; and if they are dis Lonost, it is pretty mach the same thing, for we know by sad experience that there is no more fruitfal germ of fraud than a contract for a public work. However, we hope the Com:nis- siouers will put on a stronger force of labor at once, and give the public a good park as soon ae porsible. ‘What Is to be Donet The mismanagement of our railways, with, very few exceptions, has become notorious. he operations of the managers seem to be chiefly conducted with reference to the money and steck markets. If there is a rise ofa few per cent now and then, and if bonds can be dis ,pored of at any price, it is all that is deemed im- portant. The stockholders begin to see that their investments are worthless, and if they get a dividend once in a while, they have good rea- von to believe it is paid with borrowed money, and is but an increase of debt. Every now and then a pitched battle is got up between the champions of rival routes, doubtless to turn the attention of the public from the real to the ap- parent difficulties of management, and while the tookers on are clearing away the dust which has been cast in their eyes, the contestants de- comp with their followers, shake hands to- gether, avd go on their way rejoicing. In this manner the leaks are kept open 4s wide as ever, the stockholders are told to wait ‘or better times, and when there is no further ruinous competition, when the faresand freights are equalized, when the free ticket system is abolished, and when the sky falis, their pro- perty will become valuable, and they will catch larks. Now, the fact is, all this financiering, stockjobbing and humbug arise from causes public,” an Ab “Yinte?- Who’ “the great managers may be at the head of our railways, and no matter how great their financial services may be, there isno prospect whatever of an iw- proved slate of things in our railway manage- ment until the real leaks are stopped and a new policy is adopted. We have fallen into a ri- diculous error of supposing that financial talent is all that is required to operate a railway suc- cessfully; and thuswe see it has usurped and still usurps the functions of scientific and practical minds, A president 0 a railway becomes by his office not a whit more aa engineer than a director of the Albany Observatory ipso fucto be- comes an astronomer; and the consequence is, that our system is really broken down for want of scientific knowledge and the enormous cost of maintaining and working the lines. The railways of the United States are operated, says an unqueetionable authority, at an annual out- lay of $120,000,000—the English a* about $80,000,000. The expense of the maintenance of way of the American lines is from thirty-one to thirty-five millions per annum, while for similar mileage in England it is but twelve millions and a balf. The cost of fuel with us is eighteen millions yearly, and in England bui seven millions and a half. It is + ven worse thau this, for the-cost of transporting pagsen- gers and freight is constantly increasing. Be- tween 1849 and 1858 there has been an advance of fifty per cent in these expenses. Against such a downward tendency alithe stockjobbing in Wall street is unava'ling. Now, then, what is the remedy? In what way can onr railway system be placed on a safer footing? How are the stockholders to be saved from the total loss of their property? It is only by placing their roads in the hands of thoroughly educated, scientific and practical engineers. Let the financial part of the busi- nees remain in the hands ofethe Morans and the Cernings of the day, but let the road and its earthways, its drains ond its ballasting, its rails and its care, and its engines, its facl and ite drivers and stokers be under the actual control of those who understand the vital importance of these interests, and how they make or Cestroy a railway enterprise. Let us take a single instance: that of ballast- ing. This is placing on the road-bed broken stone or gravel, burned clay, cinders, or some such material, for the purposes “ of distributing the bearing of the track as equally as possibly over the earthwork, confining the track to its place, securing the drainsge of the surface and giving a certain elasticity to the road,” so that it shall not react too rigidly on the machinery of the engines and working gear of the trains, A road that is not properly ballasted is danger- ous and expensive. Dangerous because it is cot firm or eecure in its superstructure, and ex- pensive because its tles get displaced and alter every foot of the grade by rising up or falling down. These carry the rails with them, by which a great and injurious resistance to the motion of the train is created, and more power is requisite to overcome the resistance. It is just as bad in a practical and flaancial potat of view for @ train continually to run up a heavy grade, as to be overcoming the constant de- pressions and elevations of the rail. Now the New York and Erie Raflroad, with abundance of material for the purpose, has, as we learn from the statement of one of its engi- neers, one hundred and sixty-nine miler of un- ballasted road, two hundred and three miles half ballasted, and also one miliion six hun- dred ‘thousand yards of ballast are required to put the road in good order. The increasca wear and depreciation in valu> of the locomo- tives frem this cause alone, in two years, end- ing in 1857, amounted to a sum enufficient to pay two-thirds of the whole ballasting. The repairs of the cars were one hundred and forty thousand dollars in a single year more than they would have been if the ballasting had been properly attended to. Here is one of the leak holes of the Erie, lying at the bottom, above which are found others equally enormeus. Is it any wonder ‘hat it now requires 180 miles of new iron, acd new ties or sleepers for 200 miles! The New York Centra) farnishes similar weil known difficulties. If we bad time, we could illustrate our views by minute references to the other points alluded to. Awet road or a dusty one, good iron or bad, fuel that will burn or will not burn well, also determines 9 large amount of expenditure and swallows receipts. The maintenance of our best lines is one hundred and fifty per cent greater per mile than on the best Eaglish rail- ways. No one can have travelled on some of ours without having observed the joltiag, jamping and jerking motion of the trains. They may safely conclade that the working of those lines is expensive esd dangerous, and thatthe wear and tear of the superstructure, the straining of the fastenings, the displacing of the rails and their besrings, the extra consumption of fuel and the rapid destruction of the machi- nery are using up not only the receipts but all the money for which the roade can be mortgaged. Now, we defy any one but a scientific and prac- tical engineer to detect these errors as they arise, or to correct them ina skilful and econo- mical manner. But there is still another leak, and that te in the use of fuel. The amount it costs ix so large as seriously to affect receipts, and yet we have ample supplies of coal perfectly adapted to our purpose. In nine States there are 62,700 square niles of bituminous and semi-vituminous coe) Indis. | fields. But as yet few railway companics have spplicd themselvee to the consideration of the cheapness and advantage of mineral fires. The Baltimore and Obio, the Read- ing and some other of its Pennsylvania associates, use it; the Tudson River is ex- perimenting with it successfully, and it is found om the latter that by the change $00, 000 a year may be saved to the company. This will pay the interest on a million of its debt. There is a gain also fn the distance run, besides the absolute saving in cost, as a ton of bituminous coal, if prices were equal, will carry a locometive much farther thun its equl- valent in wood. The use of this materiat bes come into universal uge at sea—why not on our rails? i To assure, however, the general adoption of coal upon our railways we must have furnaces aad boilers adapted to ita combustion. The igno- rant attempts of patent seekers must be failures of course, while the maa of science, who knows how to mix tho gases of the furnace with their ue proportion of oxygen and what shouid be the form of the fire chamber—who kuows whet to do with the smoke and howto coonomize and regulate the heat produced —will sloue uader- stand what kind of apparatus is necessary for the purpose, This nyo > O08 heen solved successfully, "co gland and the United 3 e learn from a neW ani quasterl Stilication on “Permanent Way und Goad Burning Locomotive Boilers’’—a work which will do more to save our railway interests from destruction than any other scientific effort that has yet been made. Tf, then, those who have invested their money in railways wish to save something out of the wreck, they must demand an entire change in the management of their companies, Let bankers and money jobbers do the financiering if they will, but let none but men who are thorough and practical engincers manage the roads themsclves. Let attorneys and connsel be employed when their services are really ne ceseary, but let them keep their hands out of ibe treasury and their opinions off the track. Tn one company, which has floundered in Wail street for many a year, a sudden change in the principle of management, suggested by the Heeavo ia this and previous srticles, is steadily effecting a saving of from twenty to twenty-five thousand dvilars a month, without lessening its efficiency or accommodations for the public. The leaks we have thus in part pointed out are ouly to be discovered and guarded against by educated and practical engireers, and who are not to be blinded by the tricks aud davop- tions of those employds and sub-ageats who thrive on the misfortunes and mishaps of rail way companies. To them 4 breakdown is like a wreck to the wreckers: they grow rich, while the stockholders grow poor. There is nothing eo profitable or so desirable to a certain class of men connected with railway manage- ment as the mishaps, «mashes, crashes and deaths on a railway. A smooth and permanent road, well ballasted, well laid, well drained, well watched, with en- gines clean and in order, well trucked curs, good coal farnaces and boilers, with first rate mechanica in the machin: shops, a sclentliic economy of time and money, and entire frge- dom from the importunilies of contracting and speculating directors, are indispensable to the production of that almost obsolete fast—a rail- way dividend. Tar Conco Question ww Tax Sovri.—We pub lish to-day another interesting letter from our Charleston correspondent, and the correspon- dence between the local and United States authorities in regard to the disposition to be made of the negroes captured on board the slaver Putnam; also an important despatch frem Washington. Tt will be seen that an effort was made by the Sheriff of Charleston to get possession of the negroes, under the plea that they had been brought into the State in contravention of its laws, and that under these laws it was hie duty to seize and ecll them. It seems that several of the nigger-loving Chivalry of South Carolina were ready to make the necessary complaint to the Sheriff of the infraction of the law, and that he found legal advisers who informed bim that it was bis*duty to take the negroes into cus- tody. The United States authorities got wind of the movement, and, under orders from Wash- ington, prevented it, by promptly removing the negroes from Castle Pinckney to Fort Sampter. Tiere they are several miles from Charlestou, and vigilantly guarded. It is not alone in Charleston that a disposition is manifested to prevent the eendiag back of these Africans. The Richmond Zaquirer, in an article which we also reprint in another column, is decidedly op- pored to the return to Africa of the three hun- dred fine, fat, healthy Congo negroes. It comes out bluntly and sjuare footed with the pro- posal that “upright aud highhanded men be selected for their masters, and by their reports let the mirsions to Africa be fully tested.” We do not see how the setting of Quashee at work in the rice fields of South Carolina is going to test the question of the miesion to Africa, or how it will try “ the capycity of the wild African,” unless it be his capacity to grow rice. This, we doubt not, would be fully de- monetrated if he were set to work under the skilled intelligence of the white man, and obliged, by rome social or personal law, to per- form the labor. Dut of all things in this world that do not require demonstration the plainost are, that Qnashee can produce rice, sagar, cotton, coffee and tobacco, if he will work, and that Quashee won't work unless he be compelled to. The true question to be demonstrated in the disposal of this cargo of fine, fat, healthy Oyngo niggers was, whether the fire-caters of the Soath or the fanatical abolitionists of the Nort! could impel the government to ignore the low iv the present instance. The South looked upon it sot only as a good opportunity to test the prac’ al issue of the re-opening of the slave trade, tnt to stimulate its partizans with the view of S00 as good niggers as ever grew rice, cotton sugar, all in one lot, and to be had perhaps (1 $500 cach. The fanatics of the North found { an occasion to resuscitate the old nigger ag tion, over the dying out of which they wore av their wite end with despair. There wae but me course for the President to pursue, namely :—To fulfil poe law as ft stands; and we are glad to see by @Pepecial telegraphic despatch from Waehing' at he hae deter. mined to adopt this course. The crew shonld be tried at once, and have justice meted out to them. The act of Congress directs that the 1 groes sholl be returned to Africa, and appru priates $100,000 for that purpose. The Niagara is ordered to Charleston to carry out this pro- vision. If this had not been done there would have been @ sectional agitation in this whole Union that would heve changed every political relation aud thrown matters into contasion for a dozen years to come, If the South finds in ihis course on the part of the President reflection upon, or a condemnation of, their soctal institutions, they must Isy euch a result upon the act of Congres of March 3, 1819, dud pot upon the President Bis duty is clearly defined by the law, avd he must perform it. The prompt decision of the government will stifle the sectional agitation rapidly being en- gendered by the affair, and thus prevent its de- plorable effects over the whole country. The Torrytown Farce. On Thureday there was a meeting in the vil- lage of Tarrytown for the purpose of bolstering up Mr. John B. Haskin, who is anxious to be re- turned as the representative of the Westchester district in Congress. Considering the poeuliar position that Mr. Haskin holds with the purty that first sent him to Washington, the eelection of Tarrytown, the scene oi the exposé of Arnold’s treachery, was eminently appropriate. But itie rather with the meeting than Mr. Haskin that we are to deal. He is not of sufficient conse- quence, in a political point of view, to merit more than a passing remark, The meeting, as has been slready seen by the scoounte of the reporters, was a failure in point of numbers. The people of Westchester were ear- woquooted 10 come with a tremendous rush; but kard!y two hundred friends, countrymen and lovers of the candidate responded to the appoul. It was likewise a terrible break down in its ora- torical display. The grand high bugler and trumpeter on the occasion was John W. Forney, of Pennsylvania, who apparentiy came to Tar- tytown to tell the people how much he used to love Mr. Buchanan; how Mf. Buchansn treated him, and what an ill-used man he (Forney) was. He was pathetic and lachrymose over his early reistions with the President, enlarged at length upon his services at several nominating conventions, and claimed the honor of haying fought at Cincinnati the battle which resulted in the nomination of Mr- Buchanan. It certainly wa: a great scheme that this King-maker, this modera Warwick, should not bave his own way about everything; aud herce ibie Tarrytown tirade. Mr. Forney’s speeok ig all cgotisnr end trash, He tatks like a boothiocs whe has been discharged from ser- vice, and who collects together a number 6f sympathizin g boorolach: ve icil thei how badly he has been used because bis master preferred his boots blacked after Lis own taste. The whole specch is only a tirade of personalities, which none but the veriest nincompoop fi the world could utter. Mr. Forney simply seys—“ 1 was a waiter, an attendant, a humble follower of the President, now I am a cervant out of a siteation, and without « character irom my last place—pity me, good peop!c, aud detest my orucl employer.” Mr. Voraey’s furmer career is familiar to all who are scqoainted with political affairs, In the days of Pierce ‘\c wae attached as a hanger- on at the White House. He had the run of the kitchen, and fattened in it for two years and more. He turned from the flech pots of Pierce because he hoped for better sops in the pan from Mr. Buchanan. Finding nothing butacold shonlder, he has now turned against the Presi- dent, and consorts with broken dowa poll- ticiane, who have no more real influence with this people than with thoee of Timbuctvo. Dieappointed at bis own defeat, he rails like a @isoar ied scullion at the man whose shoe strings he would be proud to unloose, Singular enough, in ali this Tarrytown meet- ing there is very little eaid cbout the candidate for whom it was called. The speeches abound in abuse of the administration, which ‘as not been under the control of Forney & Co.; but, hey oud that, there is nothing. The questions of the day are only incidentally alluded to, and the affair seems to have been gotten up in order to give Mr. Forney an opportunity to air his private griefs, It was altogether a terrible eso, and will act asa warning to the opposi- tion in Westchester. If they hope to win, they must unite upon come respectable man. In poiat of capability the Chevalier Webb is worth ten of Forney and Haskin put together. ‘The mizerable fatinre at the Thnreday meet- ing must convince every one that hybrid poli- ticlans of the Torney stamp, rusty renegades aud discarded servants have no strength in Weetchester. They are sunk so far in the sea of political oblivion that no submarine appa- ratue will ever raise them. Tur Fire Eaters av Loagerieais—We pub- lich clsewhere @ letter from the Hoa. Wa. L. Yancey, of Alabama, to Mr. Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia, editor of the Richmond South. It ive defence of the character and objects of a new secessionist organization at the South, formed by the writer and a few other associates of the some echool, and called the Montgomery Learae of United Southerners. The professed object of the League is that which has formed tho staple theme for Southern fire-eaters for years past— secession. The Richmond South, in a series of articles, tried to explode the concera as beiag but « last move of a few defunct Kuow Nothing» and miserable humbugs to get themselyos into political notoriety again, and also charged that the idea of the League had been stolen from another Southerner, and appropriated without credit. It is to repel these insinuations that Mr. Yancey addresses his letter to Chevalier Pryor, and demands ita insertion In the South; but as the Chevalier has not thought proper to comply with the demand, we suppose he is pre- pared for the alternative of coffee and pistols for two. Gurious chaps, these Southern fire- caters, A Sort Move or Serruivg mie Quanay- TiINe Qvestion.—It seems to us that there has been a great deal more difficulty made about the location of the new Quarantine than there wae any occasion for. In view of the obstacles raised by the New Jersoymen to tho appro- priation of Sandy Ilook, the corrupt influences which sought to remove it to Seguine’s Point, | And the improbability of any honest decision of | the question hy the Legislature, an appeal might have been made to the general govern- vent to take the matter into its hands. Constt- tutionally it has the power to appropriate any spot within the confederation which it may re- quire for military or commercial purposes, giving, of course, a fair compensation to the property holders, Now, whea we consider the valuable commercial interests involved in this quarantine dispute, wo know no question In which this constitutional right of the general government can be exercised with more pro- priety, It would be porfeotly justified in taking pose sion of Sandy Hook and appropriating it at once to the exigencies of the s'ck acriviag in infected veesele, We will even go farther, and say that if Governor King and the municipal SSS ssicns=ssnsslssrsssslll Ns snenssienenessemesitsesse-estssennescnssnestesmsnsenesfs sn authorities had any of the pluck aud vigor which sre locked for in persons in their posi- tion, in great emergencies, they would antici- pate this action of the general government, and at once proceed to occupy the Hook for hospi- tal purposes There are moments of peril when it becomes necessary to supersede the slow operation of the regulariy constituted powers, and even of the law itself. If ever there wae an occasion of this kind the present is one of them, for with the ‘facilities of con- tagion afforded by the late unfortunate occar- rences at Staten Island aud ihe present peculiar condition of the atmosphere, there is no know ing but that the yellow fever may be widely disseminated amongst us. In such a case the authorities should act at once, and consider afterwards. It will be time enough to seiile the ewnership question with the Jerseymen when we shall have averted from be‘ our shores the dangers of infection. Crry Taxarion.—Now that the celebrations are over, and that we have adjusted the ma- chinery of onr external relations, it is time for us to occupy ourselves with matters connected with the internal economy of our city. This year we have patd in taxation for manicipal pur- poses eight millions and a haif, and noxt year we shall have to pay nine, or perhaps ten. Yeu for this enormous expenditure we have neither K00d government, proper pavements, nor clean streets. But in addition to the natural indigna- tion that we should feel at paying so dear for a bad‘article, there is the mortifying consideration that at least half the amount has passed into the pockets of peculators and jobbers. We may fancy to pay like princes, but it is not pleasant to be fleeced like simpletons. Why a community having such a reputation for ehrewdness as ours should have so long to'erated such a state of things is past comprehension It requires but a slight effort on the part of taxpayers to relieve the city from the stigma of such mismanage- ment, and themselves from a heavy burthen, Will they not make this effort in time to bring their exertions to bear successfully on the next charter elections? If the thirty thousand tax- payers were only to subscribe five dollars a piece, they would raise a fund of $150,000, which would be sufficient to crush ent all the corrupt party organizations that might he brought into the field, and to carry out all the reforms called for in the administration of the city revenues. A saving of five millions annually, at an expen- diture of $150,000, or five dollars a head, ia, we should think, a sufficient inducement to rouse up the slumbering energies of our tax-payers. One hearty, united and effective effort, and the vul- tures that have so long preyed on the public vitals will be ecattered to the winds. THE LATEST NEWS. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. The Congo Negroes—The Steam Frigate Magara Ordered to Charleston te Convey them to Africa, Re, Ker ke. Wasaineron, Sept. 4, 1858. The Novy Department has issued orders for the splendid steam frigate Niagara, now at New York, under the command of Com. Chauncey, to proceed immediately to Charleston to carry back the Afri- cans taken in the elaver Echo by the brig-of-war Dolphin, The administration will thus signify its resolution to fulfil all treaties and laws relating to the slave trade. The President has been earnestly attentive all laws, treaties and authorities on the subject of our obligations with regard to the slave trade, with a view to a decision in the case of the capture of the slayer Echo. * The Attoruey General has fur- nished a mass of valuable information, from which it appears we have not at present an agent on the coast of Africa for receiving returned Africans cap- tured on board slavers, and that there had been great expense and abuses in the system. In ten years two hundred returned slaves had cost over ty» hundred thousand dollars. On on vecasion, in 1845, government had tarned over three hundred, captured by the Yorktown, on board the bark Pons, to the Colonization Society. This Society presented an enormous claim, the settlement of which was aa- thorized in 1851, by act of Five out of eight steamships of light éranght, re- quired by the Navy department for the demonstra- tion against Paraguay, have been secured. The President has appointed Charles Bedarn, of Ohio, Consul to Carlsruhe ; Samuel Jones, Collector of Custome in the district of Paso del Norte, Texas, vice Caleb Sherman; Wn. G. Routhac, Surveyor of Customs of the port of Richmond, Ky., vice C. Bailey Thorubury; David S. Raddrek, Surveyor of Customs of New London, re-appointed. General Jerez has not presented to (.¢ State De partment, up to this time, any powers from the gov- ernment of Nicaragua, to negotiate or accept aay modification of the Cass-Yrisarri treaty, as returned to Washington. In its present shape it will not be accepted by our government, and General Jerez does not seem to be empowered to make it acceptable. The administration may wel! be disgusted in its di- plomatic latercourse with the Central American States. New Granada, which we have looked upon as the best among them, has been guilty of decep- tion in the matter of the Cass-IMerran convention, It appears that the proceeds of New Granada from the Panama Railroad, pledged for the indemnifica- tion of the sufferers at the Panama riot, had pre- viously been pledged to British bondholders, and that therefore there is really no security offered for American claims. General Harney, now in thie city, has been re- quested to take command of the forces against the Indians in Washington and Oregon Territories. Ho expects to sail on the 20th of Seygember. THA GENERAL NEWA@PAPER DRSPATOR, Wastrscrow, Sopt. 4, 1858, Solone! Rector bas boen instructed by the Secretary of the Interior to proceed to Florida, and as e00n as the sea fon will permit to take measures for the removal of the Seminoles, who aro now in the Fvergiadcs. The Secre- tary of War ia desirous that this shall be dos under the fupsrinteudenee of Coiowol [tector alone, without the la- torference of the authoritics or citizeus of Florida White flage will bo distributed throug the swamps, for the pur- pore of calling them to a council. No military force wilt be employed. Tho Indians will be removed to Arkensae, whither Dilly Bowiege aad his bacd wore transferred, should the negotiations be saccessfal. In the ono of the disputed title to the Rancho Dio de Loa Amoricanos, in Oalifornia, the Secretary of the Inte- rior baa rejected the survey of the Surveyor General of that Stete, and ordered a new one to be mado. New York State Politics, Syaacter, N. ¥,, Sept, 4, 1858, Jatien Carter (bard) was to-day elected delegate from the Second dintrict of Oswego county wo tae Democrauc Convention, Hoo. Wm. Bosch tod Win. Wyman here been oloctad delegates to the Republican Couvention from the Firs. district of Cayuga county, and the Hon. T. M. Pomeroy and N, T. Stephens, delegates from the Second district, Tho conventions which olected them proved strong reso- Jolione against Ray Coalition on the State ticket. The Siavery Tournament between Passon Browniow and Rev. A, Pryne, Paraperma, September 4, 1868, ‘Tao great giarory tournament between Pargou Brown”