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

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1858. ni a, NEW YORK HERALD. eee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, sender. Ra ad ee Se See ey pep Yom Ticntinend, both wt) a every Walneaday, af four cents per Ot UNbaRT Ook CORRESPONDENCE, containing inportant ole vead: the world ; Uo ‘quarter of the ah My ane Si “agen mot goat ats LETTERS asp Pace- watrons ADVERTISEMENTS renewed dvertisementa in- sorted in the Weexty He fama, and én the ‘at ond Bs "PRINTING execuied with mentness, chaapuees and dee every Famiy AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BURTON'S THEATRE, Broadway, opposite Bond street— on MacuRD CoNcaRT-Omatomto Ov wrabat Mau. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUBIC, Fourteenth street.—Irartas Ormma muam Tei. wae GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae = Paaxtow—Tue WERY THEATRE, Bowery. —Gurrpowrr, On Nowe rg Hoven —Jesie Brows—Two GREGORIES. " RATRE, Broadway.—Iracuax Orena BURTON'S Seynce at Two, oOtock IL Tuo aTone. Fecolng_Vasicg PRaSEMVRD—1kISH TUTOR LAURA pees ae 62 Broadway.—Tus Roap to Row—Jensy Lint BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- noon and Evening—Tmiopon’s THEATRE OF Axt, o& Ant- waren WouL>—CURiositins, AC. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and a Beoedeny— Ermiortas 80xes, Dances, —THE O1p CL00 TE Broadway.—Brvanrs’ MiNstRELs MECHANIC'S HALL, SURLESQUES—Ricuaky Tu THIRD. —Nxcno Sones ano I CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, “ Broadway.—Ermioriax Caa- BacreRistics, Songs, &c. MouLIN MaGiguE. h street and Sixth avenue.— PALACE GARDEN, Pourt i Zvening—CONCERI—LAN TERN Afternoon—MAGiCc CARNIVAL, Ferre. yUM, Atlantic street—Lecroge ox s BROOKLYN ATHEN Grower nr Dx. Bo! New York, Sunday, September 26, 1858. ‘The News. We have some brief additional particulars rela- tive to the burning steamship passed on the 15th inst. by the ship Rosenheath. They come from Hali- fax, at which port the bark Arabian the vessel spoken by the Rosenheath on the same day she saw the burning steamer, arrived on’ Friday last. From the description of the wreck given by the captain of the Arabian, it is supposed that the unfortunate vessel was the steamship Austria, which left Hamburg on the Ist and Southampton on the 4th inst., bound for New York. From the cir- cumstance that the captain of the Arabian reports seeing a veasel some distance from the wreck, and also that the Austria was well provided with boats and life saving apparatus, and moreover, that no human being was to be seen on the burning ship or in its vie , there is every reason for believing that the entire ship's company were taken off. Mr. De Sauty, the electrician of the Atlantic tele- graph, yesterday sent word to the directors of the company that he will henceforth transmit to them a duily report of the proceedings at Trinity Bay in regard to the condition of the cable. He adds:— “We are not working to-day (Saturday), but re. ceiving occasionally from Valentia some weak re- versals of the current, which, when received, are unintelligible.” The case of Townsend, the reputed captain of the slave brig Putnam, was resumed yesterday at Boston, before a United States Commissioner. The commender and other officers of the Dolphin, the vessel which captared the slaver, were examined. Lieut. Bradford, the officer who boarded the Put- nam, could not identify Townsend as her captain it being dark at the time he went on board. Town- rend claims to have been simply a passenger. The question of jurisdiction, however, is the main one involved in the exnitination, the prisoner claim- omg that he should have been tried at Key West in- stead of Boston. General Scott has so far recovered from the ef- fects of bis recent fall that he is able to move about and transact his ordinary offi and private business. Reports from Cozzens’ Hotel, West Point, where he is stopping, state that he suffered intense pain from the bruises be received, bat his constitution is yet so good that he recovered ina turprisingly short time, considering his advanced age and the severity of the accident to a man of his large frame. The old General has evidently stamina enough left to be President one term at least before he dice. He is expected in town on Monday next. ‘The Grand Jury of the Court of Generai Sessions, baving finished their business, were discharged yesterday, and a large number of prisoners were sentenced by Judge Russell, it being the last day of the term. Ww. Mulligan, who pleaded guilty to sesaulting Capt. Webb at the Metropolitan Hotel, was fined $250. A fall report of the proceedings is given elsewhere There were 441 deaths in the city last week. we learn from the report of the City Inspector, showing » decrease of 77 as compared with the mortality of the week previous. The following table shows the of deaths during the past two weeks among adults and children, distinguish ing the sexes: Men Women. Bowe Girls, Taal Week ending Sept. 18... 8 78 16y 186 OBIS Week ending Sept. 25... 81 60 166 146 44h Among the principal causes of death were the fot lowing ——Week cwting— Sept 18 ! = } (infantile) ae 5 } oo 5 Po t Dropay i tive head ” 2 Inflammation or uh . Pi ” 12 od al ” a There were also 6 death= of congestion of the brain, § of cramp, 5 of disease of the heart, 12 of hooping cough, 5 of inflammation of the stomach, 6 of teething, 3 of smallpox, ® premature births ‘24 stillborn, and 14 deaths from violent causes, in- cluding 3 suicides, 1 murder, and 5 drowned The following is a classification of the diseases and the number of deaths in each class of disease during the week Sept 18. Soe. 2 oy] . 16 ! 10 ® a J ee sad Ww Uncertain seat and general fevers 0 8 Unknowr 1 bd Urinary orga: i 3 Total “1 ‘The number of deaths, compared with the cor responding week in 1856 and 1857, were ax fol lows: Week ending Sept 27, 1866 431 Week ending Sept. 26, 1867 ee Week ending Sept. 18 1868 O18 Week ending Sept. 25, 1868 “nn The nativity table gives 329 natives of the United Btates, 70 of Ireland, 29 of Germany, 5 of ingland and 1 each of China, Denmark, France, Mexico Prussia, Sweden, Wales and the West Indies The Commissioners of Health held » lengthened semion yesterday. The Mayor laid before the Roard a letter which he had received from Mayor Powell, of Brooklyn, referring to the resolutions passed by the Brooklyn Board of Health, fully en dorsing the course aud the position token by the Commissioners of Emigration in relation to the im- mediate reconstruction of the Hospital buildings at Quarantine. The Coroner's investigation of the Stephens case was continued yesterday at Bellevue Hospital. Miss Sophia and Miss Fanny Bell testified as to the circumstances attending the illness and death of Mrs. Stephens. A full report of the evidence is given elsewhere. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 2,000 Dales. The market closed firm on the basis of about 19440. Per pound for middling uplands. Flour was firmly held and better prices domanded; but transactions were some less active, while sales were made at full prices. Wheat ‘was more active and prices firmer, especially for good winter red. The sales included red Southern at $1 15 « $1 26; white do., $1 50; amd Kentucky white at $1 50 a $1 55, and white Michigan, in store, at $1 35. Corn con- tinued firm and in good demand, including purchases for export, Western mixed ranged from Tle. a Téc., and some two years’ old sold at 78c.; Southern and Jersey Yellow were at 96c. « 98c,, and white Southern at 86c. a 88c. Pork continued heavy, while sales of mess were made at $16 85 9 $16 90, chiefly at the tater igure; new mess was at $16 87a $17, and primo was at $14 90 a $14 95. Other provisions were steady. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 500 2 600 hhds. Cuba, Coftee was firm and active. The sales embraced about 4,500 bags Rio, 1,800 do Bahia, and some other parcels, includ ing Java and Si. Domingo, all at full prices, Freights wore steady, while engagements continued to be mode. rate. Proofs that the Cable 1s not Broken. The various conflicting reports which have been published in regard to the condition of the Atlantic telegraph are certainly not calculated to allay the fears of the public about its condi- tion; but we still adhere to the belief, after a calm consideration of all the circumstances, that if the cable’ is not altogether perfect, the defect— which the electricians are of the opinion is within three or four miles of Valentia station—can be easily remedied. In fact itis our opinion that amid all the confusion among electricians and directors, the only part of the whole aMfuir that is right is the cable ilself. Let us look into the particulars so far as they have been made known to us since the Ist of September. On that day Mr. Field received a message through the line from England, which he read during the celebration at the Crystal Palace. That fact satisfactorily establishes another-—that the cable was not only perfect but was in working order at that time. The next important circum- stance which bears upon the matter and which comes up in the regular order of time is contained inv the officiat despatch of Mr. Saward, the Secretary of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. This despatch is dated Valentia bay, September 4, and says that there had been “no intelligible signals” received from Newfouudtand since the 3d inst.; that is, from the day previous. Dr. Whitehouse, who was formerly electrician of the company, states in a letter to the London Times, dated the 6th inst.. that “there is little real cause for anxiety,” and that the fanlt was apparently no more than a repetition of what bad before occurred, from continued exposure of the light and fragile deep sea cable to the action of the tides and currents near the shore. A defect from such exposure and from the consequent abrasion of the cable on the rocks was, he in- forms us in the same communication, detected and remedied by him before, and also that the difficulty arose from the want, at this point, of the heavy shore cable, the weight and great strength of which would protect it from the in- jury to which the much lighter deep see line was Hable. The next statement which we have bad was that published in the Heratp of Friday morning last, and which was dated from Trinity Bay the day before. In this the public were informed that “the Atlantic cable is again in complete working order,” that “good electrical currents have been passing through the cable for the last three doys;” and finally “ that the sig- nals received at Valentia are as perfect as ever On Friday night, however, another despatch, of a somewhat different character, was received, and published in yesterday's Hexanp. It was from Mr. De Sauty, who has, up to this time, preserved the most reprehensible silence on the subject, and exhibited a feeling of indifference towards the claims of the American public de- serving of the severest censure. Mr. De Sauty says:— We have received nothing intelligible from Valentia since the Ist of September, ex- cepting feeling a few signals yesterday (the 23d instant). J cannot send anything to Valentia,” he adds, and then concludes thus: “There has been very little variation in the electrical mani- festation Again, last evening, two more despatches came from Mr. De Sauty, showing clearly that whatever difficulty there is on the line must be a very slight one at Valentia. Now ifall these statements, official and unof- ficial, mean anything at all, they are very decidedly in favor of the belief that the cable, with the exception of some slight defect—as already stated—near the terminus at Valentia Bay, is perfect; and that after this defect shall have been removed, it will be in working order. That the continuity ix not broken is evident from the fact that even “ a few signals” have been eent through the conductor, which could not be the case if the insulation were destroyed. We strongly suspect that those electricians who have charge of the line at both ends are ignorant of the more important part of the work with which they have been entrusted, and that when the whole difficulty shall be ex- plained we will find it was owing, not to the cable, but to those whose miserable bungling and incompetency have so long interrupied the communication between the two worlds. So long, however, a4 signals— weak or strong —con- » to be received we shall have fuith in the As it is we see no reason for apprehen- and at present have no doubt that as soon as Mr. Hughes pate his instroments on the line he will work it successfully. ‘Toe Ovrntaxn Rovrr To San Frascisco. We publish this morning an unusually inte- resting letter from our special correspondent, who accompanies the expedition which left St. Louis on the 16th inst., with the first overland mail to San Francisco. In this he gives a history of the contract ond the preparations for its fal- filment, a» deseription of the competing routes, and the arguments presented in favor of each. with a large amonnt of other information neces sary to a perfvet understamling of the whol enbject. The expedition is one of the most important which has been organized for many years past, and if snccessful will lead to the opening up of direet communication with our possessions on the Pacific coast. The establishment of a telegraph line and « railroad mast eventoally follow, and when these are once constructed and in opera- tion, it will not be many years before villages and towns are built slong the route, and the whole line of communication is settled with a thriving and industrions popalation ‘The Modern Gladiator—What Shall we do With Him? The superior civilization of the nineteenth century is a favorite subject with journalists of the ornate school and post-prandial orators, full of dinner and distempered draughts. It is plea- sant for us to be told that we are wiser in our day and generation than our fathers, even if we do not altogether believe it. We are like noto- rious liars, who, by constant repetition of a canard come finally to have a thorough and abidiag faith in it. In culture and learning we exceed the golden days of Greece; in martial prowess and national glory we rival the Roman empire when her eagles soared to their highest flight; in the fine arts and the exact sciences, we have reached a pitch of excellence heretofore con- sidered as far beyond the limits of the finite mind a the Atlantic cable is superior to the mail coach of the last century. We regard our- relves with the complacent self esteem of a boy in his first trowsers, or a Fifth avenue belle in a new autumn bonnet. We are, in our own opin- jon, but a little lower than the angels. It isa great pity that these chateau en Espagne which we are at 80 much trouble to erect, should some- times fade away like the dews before the morn- ing sun; that we should be rudely awakened to the fact that we are only omerging from a state of semi-barbarism, and constantly falling back into the brutalities which we are fond of heliev- ing are confined to the savage. Thus we have lately united in a shout of exultation over a great scientific triumph in the laying of the At- lantic cable, while at the same time we are supposed to be deeply — interested in a prize fight. A very large num- ber of our fellow citizens—many of them persons of wealth and respectability—are con- cerned pecuniarily and otherwise in an event which will take place during the coming month. The event is no less than a fight between John Morrissey and one Heenan, who rejoices in the affectionate sobriquet of the “Benicia Boy.” It appears that the mutual friends of these par- ties having a difference of opinion as to which of them could pummel the other the hardest and the longest, a meeting has been arranged, when the matter will be settled by a resort to the argunentum ad hominem. The successful bruiser will have the satisfaction of wearing the laurels of a conquering hero, and will pocket the snug sum of five thousand dollars. The forthcoming fight isa prominent topic of the day, and no little attention has been given to it by the journals. Called from the civil ser- vice of his country to the gladiatorial arena, the Benician hero has been enjoying rural felicity and those rugged sports which invigorate the sources of health, harden the muscles, quicken the resources of the physical man, brighten the eye and sharpen the faculties for defence and attack. Tlis antagonist has deprived the me- tropolis of his agreeable society during several weeks, and has followed a course of treatment similar to that of the adolescent youth from the Golden Gate. They rise with the lark; they walk, run and jump—their diet is severely regn- lar and highly nutricious—their in-goings and out-comings are dictated by # course of hygeine which is eminently calenlated to bring them into the field in the highest physical condition which the human frame can reach. More than that, an eminent English bruiser has been imported ex- pressly for the purpose of superintending the training of the boy. This British trainer is a scion of the prolific Jones family. He allows himself to be knocked wbout by the Boy without the slightest hesitation, In fact, the harder Heenan hits Jones the beiter Jones is pleased. Shonld Heenan conquer Morrissey, Jones will feel all the exultation of a victorious general. Ambition is common to all great captains— In gods ‘tis glory; and when men aspire, “Tis but a spark too touch of heavenly fire Why should not Jones aspire? In the Olym- pian days of Greece, Jones would have had a laurel crown, while an Aristides would have re- ceived his passports; under Caligula he might have been elevated to the Roman Consulate, or have led a rebellion of the gladiators. Here we may make him an Alderman or send him to Con- gress. To the Morrissey, the Joneses and the Heenane republics are not ungrateful. Just now these worthies are at the height of their popularity, and to keep up the ex- citement and improve the betting they will be duly exhibited some evening next week at Mozart Hall before all the critics and connoisseurs of the ring. The real rulers of the city—the terror of peacable voters, the autocrats of the polls, the pretorian guards of all the pot house politicians, the knights of the grog shop, the pharo table, the slung shot, the bowie knife and the revolver; the outcasts of society, the outlaws from decency, the thieves, scoundrels, bullies and swindlers who delight in insulting weak women and beating unoffendiog men—all will come together in a mass con- vention, affording in its ensemble a most charming picture of the refinement and the pro- gress of the age. And as a pendant to this fasci- nating daguerreotype, we see that in the staid city of New Haven « man lies in his grave, eaten to death according to the rules of the prize ring, undoubtedly the latest London edi- tion. Who shall dare to say that the meeting be- tween Morrissey and THeenan will not result in the same way as that between Lily and M’Coy, or Mercer and Houston ¢ But even this picture has « bright side: There is nothing totally bad, and the elaborate training of these men may direct attention to the bene- ficial effects of severe exercise in promoting a sound mind in a sound body. The splendid con- dition to which they have been brought shows that it is not our climate, as has been charged, but our habits, which make our youth so miserably unhealthy, and brings on premature decay of the mental and physical powers. “Not existence,” says the Latin poet, “bat health is life.” We have horse shows, where the animal is treated and trained with more care than we give to our children; grand trials of strength and speed, which are patronized by Governors and judges and great orators and magnates of the land; where the oceupant of Cotton Mather’s pul pit holds the watch to time the coursers, and where the good, the wise, the fair, the simple and the gentle meet on common ground. Now, why is not the improvement of the breed of men of as much consequence ag elevation of the physical condition of the horse? Why should we not have a great show of men with areproduction of the Isthmian games, and let the stypngest and finest biped carry off the prizes? Premiums might be awarded in the same way that they are given to horses, and there would be all the excitement of a prize fight without its brutality. An estimable clerical gentleman attempted some time since to reform the stage: but, judging by the fruits, his labors have not heen eminently blessed. However, such phi- lanthropists ebould oot faint by the wayside, Tf the actors and actresses are incorrigible, why not try the gladiators? If the law is not compe- tent to prevent bullies from hammering each other to death, why not bring religion to bear upon them? Why not intermix some pecuniary considerations with the teachings of the Gospel, and thus produce a certain effect? We have spent millions of money for the enlightenment of the barbarians abroad; why not try the effect of & few thousands for the reformation of the savages at home? As a pecuniary speculation, a show of great men under clerical patron- age would pay splendidly. The ladies would feel far more interest in it than in a horse or a baby show. And when in this day of refinement, civilization and progress, tele- graphic cables, steam fire engines and watch spring petticoats, we find preparations for prize fights made openly and in defiance of the law—when there are people with a sufficient amount of impudence to apply for the Academy of Music as an arena for the exhibition which is to take place at Mozart Hall—may we not hope fora return of the dear old days when the patrician ladies of Rome enjoyed the agonies of the dying gladiators or gazed with complacent miles upon the dejeuner of a tiger with a cold: Christian for the principal course? At any rate, may we not have our show of great men as well as of fat cattle or fast horses? It is a splendid iden, and we give it gratis. Remember the Ci- ceronian maxim: “In nothing do men more nearly «pproach the gods than in giving health to men,” and let us have our show of great men. Erratic Conventioxs.—The convention mania seems upon the increase. When some half-wit- ted philosoper, male or female, gets worked up to the convention point, there appears a “call” in some of the free love or spiritual organs—such as the Times and Tridune—directing all the other philosophers whose heads are screwed on the wrong way, to appear at some respectable rural village, and spend a couple of days in eating, drinking and talking nonsense. We have been especially favored in this way lately; and during the last few weeks there were in this State no lees than three queer conventions—Harmonial or Spiritualist. Free Love, and Sabbatarian. We have already published the first two days’ proceedings of the Free Love Convention at Utica, and to-day complete the record by the publication of the third and last day’s proceed- ings. The report is exceedingly interesting, in- asmuch as the closing sessions of the free lovers were attended with much excitement. A colored philosopher, rejoicing in the name of Randolph, and boasting the blood of the Randolph of Roanoke, opened fire upon the abolitionists, the infidels and the free lovers. This attack was fol- lowed by a similar movement on the part of a Brooklynite, who had been paying much attention to the whole proceedings; and even voices from the spirit world were heard in con- demnation of the disgusting doctrines propound- ed by male and female libertines. The reform- ers, therefore, actually retired from the field de- feated and despised—the spiritualists to hold an exclusive convention of their own sect in Chautauque county, and the physiologists to put in practice their abominable theories. Close upon the Free Love Convention at Wtica followed a Sabbatarian Convention at Syracuse. If this latter assembly were to be taken as a fair representative of the prevalence of Sabbatarian doctrines throughout the State, there need be little fear entertained of the apsing back of the community into those illi- beral and utterly ridiculous ideas in regard to the mode of observing the Sabbath which distinguished the puritans of Great Bri- tain and New England. There were but some fifty or sixty persons present, and most of those were clerymen from the vicinity. The object proposed to the Convention was sim- ply to procure the passage of a law closing the locks on the Erie and lateral canals on Sunday— thereby playing into the hands and advancing the interests of the shareholders of the Central and Erie Railroads, to which much of the freight of the canals would, as a consequence of such a law, be diverted. To give the Sabbatarians equally fair play with the free lovers, we give also a report of the proceedings of their Conven- tion, eo that both exhibitions of ill directed phi- lanthropy may be studied side by side. Between the two there is an excellent supply of Sunday reading, and food for meditation for the whole week. Tur Bersino Sreamsnr.—Our despatches from Halifax announce the arrival there of the bark Arabian, which vessel fell in with the burn- ing steamer at sea. The details of the wreck, as given in another column, leave no doubt that it is the screw steamer Austria, Capt. Heydtmann, which left Hamburg on the Ist and Southampton on the 4th instant for our port, with sixty-eight cabin and four hundred and twenty steerage pas- sengers. A list of the cabin passeogers is pab- lished elsewhere. We learn that the consignees are in some doubt about the number of sicerage passengers, as one of their letters from Hamburg states the number at only two hundred and twenty. The Austria had eight life boats, which could not contain anything like the number of passen- gers she had on board; but as the Arabian re- ports that she had the appearance of baving been burning for only about forty-cight hours, and after sailing round her and making a close ex- amination of the wreck, no signs of life were dis- covered, or boats, bodies, spars or remnants of rafts, there is every reason to hope that every- body on board had been taken off the wreck. If such had not been the case there would have been some evidences about the wreck, for we have had abundant instances of the support of life at sea for much longer periods than forty- eight hours. Every vestige of five hundred or six hundred people straggling for life, with boats, spars and materials to build rafts, could not otherwise have disappeared in two days, nor even in a week. The spar or remnant of a raft seen by the ship America, being some five han dred miles to the westward of the scene of the wreck, was too far distant to bave had any con- nection with the burning Austria. The brig seen by the Arabian some four miles to the lee- ward may have the passengers on board, or they may have been taken off by some other vessel some eastward bound steamship, in whore direct track the wreck of the Austria was found. ‘Tae Taxpayers’ Parry ano 11s Orroxnnts.— Some of the political journals, getting fright- ened at the prospect of an independent taxpay- ers’ party, are opposing the idea with might and main, as might be expected. The name of the seems to be the basis of opposition with some of them, on the ground that every one who is not a pauper isa taxpayer. A very shallow and silly argument. What we mean by a “ tax- peyers’ party” is nn organization composed of men who pay direct taxes on property. Thee] THE ATLANTIC CABLE. are the men who furnish the money for the muin- tenance of the municipal government, and who are the direct sufferers by the dishonest system which now prevails, They are the men also, it must be remembered, who trouble themselves least about elections, and it is mainly to their apathy that we owe the scandalous condition of things now existing. This class numbers thirty thousand, and it is not too much to say that many thousands more in this city who do aot pay taxes directly, though they feel the abuses under which they suffer indirectly, would join them in any movement for a radical reform. The pro- perty owners generally are men of intelligence and practical business habits, and it is amongst such that the leaders of a movement of this kind are best to be found. Therefore it is eminently proper that they should combine im self-defence, and take the initiative. There may not be time between this and the election to prepare ticket, and in this case per- haps the best plan to adopt would be to select good men from all the other tickets, of which there will be three at least, if not four; but no man should be selected whose name does not stand on the tax list as a contributor to the sup- port of the city government. In such a candi- date we will have some assurance of responsibili- ty—some guarantee that he has an interest in an honest and economical distribution of the public moneys. Tus Case or Wa. Mounuicay.—The case of Wm. Mulligan, who pleaded guilty to an indict- ment for assault and battery on Capt. Webb, at the Metropolitan Hotel, was finally disposed of yesterday by Judge Russell, who, notwithstand- ing affidavits justifying great leniency, imposed a fine of $250, This case has created considera- ble interest in consequence of the position of the complainant, and the defendant, Mr. Mulligan, be- ing @ public officer in California when the cele- brated Vigilance Committee was established, of which Captain Webb was a leader, whose treat- ment of Mr. Mulligan, it would seem from the affidavits, was brutal and inhuman. ‘The case of Mr. Mulligan furnishes a good il- lustration of the efforts to which certain city journals are compelled to resort in order, if possible, to prejudice our efficient and able City Judge in the eyes of the community, whom the records of the court abundantly show to be the most laborious, prompt and impartial pre- siding ofticer ever elevated to the criminal bench of this city. The journals alluded to have so misrepresented the proceedings of the General Sessions from time to time as to give the im- pression that Judge Russell was influenced by motives other than those which guide a faithful administrator of the law in disposing of the cases presented for his adjudication. It has been insidiously intimated that outside influences would be brought to bear upon his Honor in the passage of sentence on Mr. Mulli- gan ; but his decision is a sufficient refutation of that slanderous implication, for, taking all the extenuating circumstances of the case into ac- count, he would have been perfectly justified ia suspending judgment. S=S—— THE LATEST NEWS. Our Special Washington he OFFICERS APPOINTED TO THE PARAGUAY EXPEDI- "ANT DECISION REGARDING LAND WAR- Wasunncron, Sept. 25, 1858. ‘With regard to the laraguay expedition, in addition to the despatch in yesterday's Heratp announcing the ap. pointment of officers, it is announced that Commander J. J. Page is captain of the fleet; Commander P. Drayton, aid; W. H. Murdaugh, feet surgeon; James M. Greene, fleet surgeon; Licutepant C. A. R. Jones, ordnance officer. Commander Samuel Swartwout has been ordered to wy. lieve Commander A. T. Taylor in the command of the New York rendezvous on the 26th of October. Commander W. Bradford has been appointed Light House Inspector of the Third district, vice Bell, detached at his own request. Lieut. Boudinot, has been ordered to the Navy Yard at Norfolk, and Lieutenant Sinclair ordered to ordnance duty at the same place The follow ing, who passed examination as third assistant engineers, have been warranted for service: Winfield J. Thompson, Edward B. Latch, George D. Lining, Edward L. Diek, Charles E. Devalin, Robert A. Copeland and Wm. H. Gladding. ‘The Government has under consideration an interesting question on the construction of the Bounty Land act of June 3, 1867. This act makes warrants personal estate, and dirccts, in case of the death of the claimant prior to the issue of the warrant, it shall vest in his widow, if there be one, and if not in his heirs or legatees. The con- struction given to this law by the Land Office is, that it is not controlled by former acta directing the mode of suc cession, but repeals such acts so far as is inconsistent therewith. This would seem to be the proper construc tion. It is understood a different view has been expressed by the Pension Office. A circular will shortly be iswaed, however, determining the question, and to tudicate the course of the Laterior Department. Interesting from Mexico, W wanveron, Sept. 25, 1858. Sun Luis dates of September 5, received at New Orleans, represent that a battle was soon expected to take place between the & of Vidaurri and Miramon. The latter has: about 4,000 and the army of the North counts upon 6,000, which, anited to 1,000 more ander Coronodo. from Chibuabua, will force Miramon to accept battle be tween San Lois and ibe capital. Upon this battle depends the fate of Mexico. It is hardly thought that Miramon will show fight. The Governor of Zacatecas was in the course of a week to send $50,000 for the army of Vidaurri, and with that sam it would commence ite mai Lockront, Sept. 25. 1858. Mr. ©. A. Wesson completed bis great feat of walking a thovsand mites ina thonsand hours at eight o'clock this morning ‘The Yellow Fever at New Orleans, New OntRANS, Sept 24, 1458. ‘The deaths from yeilow fever yesterday were 76 ‘The North American Outward Bound. Mowrnnar,, Sept. 25, 1858 ‘The steamer North American sailed from Quebec for Liverpool at ten o'clock this morning. She took ont one bundred and fifty one passengers Markets. New Onekane, Sept. 24, 1858 Corton active: anles to-day 4,000 bales; low middling, Iie. « 11%e.; middling, 120. 8 12%. ‘good middling, sales of 90,000 bales; receipts £28,560 bales: stock nt this port, 71 360 bales: receipts abead of last year, 37,490 bales. Freights—Cotton to Havre Ug, ! Sagar «uli at 73%¢. for fair. Molasses— New quoted at ‘sales unimportant, Flour dull at $6 26 for superfine. Corn dull at @5e. Provisions declining and quotations nominal. Lard declined. Rio coffee, 1020. a }io.: sales of the week, 5,000 bags; stock at this port, 2,400 bags, against 117,000 last year. Bacttwonn, Sept. 26, 1858. Flour ror 4 Pa at dull: sales white at $1 40a 81 & and red at $1 90. Corn dull: sales at ‘ri, and Boe. a Bane for yellow. Provisions dall and un: changed. Lard, 1 igo. ‘Dh, 1868. Pamtapeurma, Sept. 26, Flour firm. Wheat—Little offering born dull’ at 9c. a Me. Whiskey firm. Burrato, Sept. 25—1 P.M. Demand for floor this morni Yer market be. a 10e. better : malee 3,100 bik. ot good superfine Wis consin and TMinois, mm at to choice eu yap Mich , Ohio and ‘sdowtian, $8 37 3 Sn we good to © extra do; $6 a double extras, Wheat in fair demand, and Qe. Vetter: sales 20,000 bushels at $1 02 club; $1 04 for extra do.; $1 15 for red Ohio, $1 18 for —— Todiana and bn ge $1 32 for 3 a Whiskey nominal at 22, Ly Oe a in the last twenty-four hours—13, bbls. flour, 45 § buehels wheat, 60,287 bashels corn. nal—6,444 bole flour, 19,446 bushels wheat, 39,671 el core, i BF THE VERY LATEST FROM TRTY BAY. DESPATCHES FROM MR. mB SAUTY. Electrical Currents Continue te be Received, &e., &., &e. The following despatches were received yeater- day (Saturday) afternoon, by the parties to whem they are addressed: — MR. DE SAUTY TO THX DIRECTORS IN NEW YORK. Tarmrry Bar, N. F., Sept. 25, 1868. Prrer Cooren, C. W. Frecp, W. G. Hunt ano E. ML Axcuma.p, New York:— Thave not the least wish to withhold particulars as to the working of the cable, and until I have communicated with headquarters and ascertained the directions of the Manager of the Company, I will send a daily report of proceedings. We were not working to-day, but receiving occasionally from Valentia some weak reversals of the current, whiok when received are unintelligible. C. V. Ds Saurr. MX. DE SAUTY TO MR FIKLD, Trautry Bay, N. F., Sept. 25, 1868. C. W. Frevp, New York:-- Your message received. The day before yeater- day commenced receiving current from Valentia, and was in hopes that I should be at work again soon after. So linformed Mr. Mackay. Then the current failed. This will explain the discrepancy between his and my messages. C. V. De Saurr. The Case of the Captured Slaver. Bosron, Sept. 25, 1868. The case of Townsend, the alleged captain of the slave brig Echo, was called up again to-day before Commission er Loring, and the following witnesses were examined:— Lieutenant Maffitt, Commander; Lieutenant J. E. Brad- ford, Lieutenant Charles C. Carpenter; Dr. J. M. Brown, Surgeon; Leonard G. Gunnell, Captain’s Clerk; Kdward G. ‘Williams, Second Lieutenant, and Alexander ¥. Crossman, Sailing Master—all of the Dolphin. The testimony was mainly a description of the capture of the Echo on the coast of Cuba, which has already been published, Lieut, Bradford, who first boarded the alleged slaver, could not identify Townsend as the captain, it being dark at the time. The morning after he claimed to be simply a pas- senger, which character be has since continued to as- sume. The further hearing was then postponed until Tuesday. The question of jurisdiction is the main one involved in the present examination. ‘ongressional Nomination. Boston, Sept. 25, 1868. The republicans in the Tenth Congressional district, im convention at Palmer, yesterday nominated, on the fif- teenth ballot, Chas. Delano, On the first ballot Dr. Chafive, the present member, had fifty-two votes and Delano three. Mr. Delano accepted the nomination. He is a lawyer, thirty-seven years of age, and for several years past has occupied the office of Treasurer of Hampshire county. Geapceierainan Pennsylvania Congressional Nomination. WILKesHARKE, Sept. 25, 1858. ‘The democrats of the Twelth district nominated, after & severe struggle, John McReynolds for Congress. ——— Personal Intelligence. Hon. D. M. Barringer, whose successful exertions, while Minister to Spain, in behalf of the American and Cubam prisoners of the Lopez expedition will be long remembered, is now at the Everett House, with his family. ‘The friends of the late Gen. Quitman will be glad to Jearn thot Mrs. Quitman aad family are now at the Everett House, and will remain several days. We are glad te Jearn that the movement which was started here some months since, to erect a monument to Gen. Quitman, simi Jar to the one erected toGen. Worth, has been most favor- bly received, and will no doubt be carried out, Gen. Quitman was 4 native of Rbivebeck, and bis deeds have redounded to the honor of bis country and native State. G, P. % James and family have arrived in the city, and are stopping at the Union Place Hotel. Tuey will sail fur Europe in the Persia on Wednesday next. Gerrit Smith will speak to the people of New York ‘Weduesday evening, October 6, and of Brooklyn Thurs- day evening, October 7. ‘The Prince Imperial of France bas left aris for Biarrit. Count Walewrk: has left for the same place. We are informed of the arrival at Potsdam of the King and Queen of Prussia. The Prince Regent of Sweden has returned from hie excursion to the northern provinces. His Royal Highness immediately dissolved the l'rovisional government. ae bas arrived at Edinburg from four days at Geneva, anit tg "sentation Ragatz to Villa ‘The Prince of Orange entered on hia majority on Sau. diay 4 ina, an completed his elghiewath year, The denied cabins the arrival of the Grand Duke Michael, of Ruseia, and the Grand Duchess, bis wife, at Kalla, in the Crimea. Massachuset -e. coronation. Emperor was tw be joined hg Empress, and on the 2d inst. their Majesties were to we for Poland w Abedicoss ntia ch Stent bin neha Hhidenaen from France Miss Amy Sedgwick ix slowly recovering from her se vere ines. ‘The Cork (Ireland) Conatitution or ‘4—Whatever differ Dickens, he made After payment of expenses (nay £40) he took about £238 out of Cork, This for six hours was not bad. City Polities. REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLY NOMINATIONS. The intention of the Repubiicwn Central Commitice was to have the Convention for nominating» candidates for the State Assembly to meet on Friday night last. The genius, whoever he was, who got up the call, named Friday, the 25th as the time, a blunder that pazzled every one whe had to do with the Convention. As a consequence, many of the Convention met on Friday night, and the residue last night. Annexed is the result, ae near as we have learned — Finer Dnsrrct.—The First Distriet Republican Convea fion mot last evening at 19 Beekman street, but adjourned without making any nomination. Secon Disrect.—This Convention met at the repabli can headquarters in William street, bul adjourted over without (4 a notaination —This vention met at the Fifth Tier 1 Wara Tiwana “after organizing. adjourned over to next ws the purpose of conferring with the Americans. it the choice of a candirtate = ” Form Drerercr.—Convention met at No. 68 East Broad way. but did nothing beyond appointing a commitioe to confer with the Americans with a view to fusion, Fremm Dienuct.—This Convention met at the Bleecker Buildings, but adjourned without effecting a pomination. Sixmt Diermct.—The Convention of the Sixth Distriet met inst evening in 274 Grand street, but effected no nomination, Sever Direct. —This Convention met at Jeffersom Market. and on the first ballot uominated Mr. Frederick A. Conkling, a merchant, as a member of the Aasombty. = aos, J represented the Fiftecuth ward im ‘semen Dgruct<< ‘thie Oonvention was 10 have mot at Onderdonk Hall, but our reporter could not learu of ite be og Disratct.—This Convention met at No, 618 Broad way, and after electing a committee to confer with the Americans, over to Friday evening next. Prernct.—This Convention met on Friday events for the purpose of nominating a member of As somnty, bat adjourned to Thursday next without effecting Frereeer Demacr.—This Convention also met on Friday: evening, and adjourned over to Wednesday without « nomination. Suxrexer® Dernier. —Adjourned from Friday for wand of ‘a quorum. Court of Common Pleas. Before Judge Brady. STRAM ON FOURTH AVENUR. Barr. 4. — Peter Ten Byck ant Margaret 8. 8. Ten Pyck his Wife vt. The Mayor, Aldermen, de., of the City of New York and the Harlem Railroad Company. —This is a gnit for an injunction against the defendants to prevent the ase of steam on Fourth avenue railroad by the Harlem com pany. The facts of Lage hd already familiar to our rears, and have been recent! oe alee mh he Nelson and See Hilton. David Dod appears for the plaintiffs, commenced hie egunesi yeueraay, ‘The case will oocupy, Uhre or foie days, nud a lore bac MpR ROC om both aides