The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1858, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, nnn OFFICN K. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. fn adoance, Money sent by mail wilt be at the r Piecery Refer. ‘in cents por Sint Parcas Weta oF We og part of the Continent, Bah, ws ed Wednesday, at four cents per "CORRESPOND: contataing important ge ee eg : ‘to Sear ala Lerrans and Pack- taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not i dvertisemeonts in- and in the renewal every Ly Hegaip, Fame AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth etreet.—Iratian Oren a —Wnuas Te. Broadway.—Tux Paaxtou—Tae a Nowrn Ban Rove ducmn Buows—Two Gi ‘TRE, Broa ITALIAN OPERA Hrenng Vance is LAGRA KEENES THEATRE, 64 Brosdway.—Taa Roap fo Ruw—Jennr Lixo. ARNUM'S 2AN MUSEOM, Broadway.—After- won and eae Tarcoow's TEAATRS or ‘ART, On ANI- marten Woaup—Cuniositiss, &¢. MINSTREL BUILDING, 861 and 663 Broadway— puionas Benen Danton, Ao—THE OLD CLOOK. , MECHA! HALL, 472 Broadway.—Brv ans’ MIxstREts: —Neowo ‘Somes aso Bonixsaves— p Tux Tum, CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Eraroriax OnA- BActeuisrios, Songs, &c.—Lx Movi Maciaue. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.— Afternoon—MaGic Cauiival. Kvening—CoNcKuT—LANTERN Pers. BROOKLYN ATHEN ZUM, Atlantic street—Lecrtre on Geovoor sr Da. Borxtos New York, Monday, September 27, 1858. The News. The steamship Moses Taylor, from Aspinwall, is now due at this port, with the mails from all parts of the Pacific coast and the semi-monthly shipment of treasure from California. The steamship Prince Albert is fully due at Halifax, from Galway, with European news to the Mth instant, three days later than the advices received by the Niagara. Two brothers, Morris and Michael Taomey, and John Hayes and John Kehoe, got into a fight yes- terday morning, corner of First avenue and Tenth street. During the melee the Tuomeys were de- feated, and Morris wes knocked down by a severe blow on the head. He remained insensible a short time, and then expired. Hayes and Kehoe were ar- rested by the police and committed to prison to fwait the result of the Coroner's investigation of the circumstances. A very large and fashionable congregation assem- bled at Christ church, in Fifth avenue, corner of Thirty-fifth street, yesterday morning, to witness the opening services of the Protestant Episcopal church, under the pastoral care of the Rev. F. 8. Wiley, rector of the parish. The building, which has hitherto been a Baptist conventicle, has been recently purchased by the Episcopal body; and it was 60 crowded yesterday that temporary seats had to be erected in the aisles during divine service for the accommodation of the people al this arrangement proved insufficient ‘the doors had to be closed. The services were highly inte- resting. The rector read the morning prayers,and assisted at the communion; and the F Dr. of St. George's church, Stuyvesant square, pre: an impressive sermon from the text, “Go ve into all the world and preach the Gospel to every cvea- hen ture.” There were two other services—in the after- Doon aud eveniyg—which were also very well at tended. The aanexed table shows the temperature of the Stmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer, the variation of wind cur- rents, and the state of the weather at three periods uring each day: viz., at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P.M sprog rn Td Pe. Saturday —Clear ali day and night Sunday—Ciear all day and night Monday—Ciear ali day and night. Tuesday—Morning. clear, sflerneen. cles' ant warm wight, clear. Wedvesday—Morning, clear and blowing fresh, afer noon, clear; , Clear aud coid. Thursday—Clear all day; night, clear and cold Friday—Morning, overcast, with tight rain; alvernoon Overcast; night, cloar Saturday —Morning, clear The sales of cotton on Sarurdey embraced about 2,000 Dales The market closed firm on the basis of about 134¢¢ Flonr was firmly beld transactions were some * full Wheat especially for good at $l ibe 4; but i re made prices © and y The sales included red South Oruer $1 26, white do, $1 50; and Kentucky wh a $1 Oa) $1 55. and white Michigan, in $1 35. Corn con fiucd frm and in good demand, including \ export. Western mixed ranged from Tle. a fome two years’ old sold st T8.; Soathern aud Jersey | yellow were ot 060, « 98¢., and white Southern at 86c. a B88. Pork continued heavy, while sales of mess were Roade at $16 85 0 $16 90. chiefly at the latter figure; new news was at $16 87.0 $17, and prime was at $14 90 0 Bi4 0%. Other provisions were steady. Sagers were Bready, with sales of about 500 a 600 bhds. Cuba. Coffee wee Grm and active The sales embraced about 4,500 Daga Pio,1,800 do Balus, and soue other parcels, includ fing JavR and &. Domingo, ol! at full prices. Freights wore steady, while engegrments comtwocd to be mode rate The Troubles of the Democracy—The Douglas Conspiracy Against the Administration. Mr. Senator Douglas, in a late speech in [lli- bois, has, “emphatically” delivered the opinion | that the people of a Territory, in the face of the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court, “can by lawful means, exclude slavery” from said Territory, “before it comes in as a State.” From | 0 article which we transfer to this paper from | the Washington Union, it will be seen that that | Belf constituted censor of democratic principle | Fepudistes this opinion of Mr. Donglas as an aw- | ful heresy, “preqnant of a new crop of divisions } Strife and agitation.” But, per contra, from gnother article, trom the Richmond Enquirer — @hich we append to that from the Union—the fender will discover that our Virginia expounde Of democracy comes travely up io the rescue of Dongias, declaring that the Unon, “in ite on- wenomed malice against Judge Douglas. actually Brilitates against the Cincinnati platform:* ana Ghat in this “vindictive persecution of » great Header of the party,” this Washington organ jx fblinded by malice, or instigated by personal baterest,” Who shall decide upon the case of the patient Whea such democratic doctors disagree? Which is right upon this Dred Scott techaicality ?—the Wosbington or the Richmond expounder of the | of the administration will stand in the way of | extraordinary | nistration and its supporters in reference to the law and the prophets? We anawer that we care not to inquire—that our present purpose is neither fine-spun abstractions nor debatable technicali- ties; but the exposure of an extensive conspiracy in the democratic camp against the administration of Mr, Buchanan—of which conspiracy Mr. Doug- las has become the recognized head and froat, West, East, North and South. We shall not attempt to refute the suspicion of onr Richmond cotemporary, that the Washington Union is“ blinded by malice or instigated by personal interest” against Mr, Dougtas; for we are aware that with Mr. Cornelius Wendell the absorbing question is the plunder of the govern- ment printing, and that upon this important sub- ject, between Wendell and Douglas there is an impassable chasm. Nor shall we undertake to deny that upon this new issue concerning alave- ry in the Territories, Mr. Douglas has sprung a question “pregnant of a new crop of divisions, ttrife and ngitation;” because, from the insufti- ciency of the Dred Scott decision we see that he Richmond Enguirer and some other Southern democratic organs do now insist that it has be- come the duty of Congress to provide a special code of glavery-protecting pains and penalties or the government of all the Territories of the Union, from #he frozen wastes of Nebraska to the eun-burnt deserts of Arizona. ‘This ‘new question”? may or may not be a part of the Douglas programme for the fature. We leave it for the present for the inquiring reader, while we turn our attention to this Northern Douglas and Southern fire-eating conspiracy against the administration. Neither the Richmond Enquirer nor the Washington Union has touched the pith of this matter. “Popular sovereignty,” the Dred Scott decision, the Cincinnati platform, and all the nice pettifogging technicalities discussed be- tween these organs are shallow evasions of the real question at issue. In the correspondence between Mr. Douglas and the President, in the summer of 1857, on the subject of a paltry office at Washington, and the share of the federal spoils accruing to Minis, “the Little Giant” pretty broadly foreshadowed a deliberate pur- pose to pickup a quarrel with Mr. Buchanan. The Lecompton question afforded the pretext, and Mr. Douglas did not lose a moment in making it a casus belli. He had discovered that he could not rale, and had deliberately resolved to ruin the administration. Upon the same issue, and upon other issues, Mr. Toombs and other South- ern fire-eating malcontents, operated at the late session of Congress to demoralise the adminis- tration and the democratic party. The adminis- tration was too strong for them; but the party, North and South, and these would-be leaders of the party have suffered somewhat disastrously from their folly. But of all the rebellious leaders of the late session, Douglas and his Kansas clique alone have had the temerity to take, and the boldness to keep, the field, in open rebellion against the administration. Many of the other disaffected spirits of Congress, however, in various dis- guises, are actively co-operating with Douglas. Tle is thns the nucleus of an extensive conspi- racy, whose objects are the overthrow of the ad- ministration. and the absolute coutrol of the Charleston Convention, The conspirators in one place are preaching the supremacy of “ popular sovereignty;” in another, the violation by the President of the dogmas of the Cincinnati plat- form; and in another, while they are exalting the President to the skies, and living upon the fattest gifts of his patronage, they do not hesi- tate at @ complimentary dinner to Col. Forney, upon the heel of the most violent and malignant speech from Forney against the President that the most reckless and vindictive cnemies of the administration could desire. The principal federal office holders here, ex- cepting the Collector, and perhaps one or two others, are thus found cheek by jowl with For- ney: and singularly enough, too, Mr. Auguste Belmont, a candidate for diplomatic honors and Profits, is also reported as actively fraternizing over the wine of these Douglas conspirators. Yet among such treacherous sunnartors we may discover the very men who are attempting to de- ceive the President with the idea that he, and he aloue, is their candidate for the succession. Such are the elements and the tactics of the Douglas conspirators in this debatable locality. In the South the conspiracy assumes a diffe- rent phase. The Richmond nquirer—the organ of Governor Wise—has alone, in that section, been # consistent and unequivocal supporter of Douglas from the beginning; because, from the beginning, Governor Wise had identified himself with the Douglas-Lecompton quarrel. and must, therefore, rise or fall with the success or the de- coalition, the only hope to the demooracy must be a cordial union upon the common basis of part of this morning’s Hagan, it will be seen that of the large number of steamers which have run, a6 well as the still larger namber that are now running, between Europe and America, eleven altogether have been lost at sea during a period of twenty years. Instead of a steamer once a fortnight between the two continents, we have them running almost daily, and between a dozen different ports. In addition to the several Liverpool and New York lines, there are the Havre and Southampton, the Glasgow, the or Portland steamers, making altogether a fleet of about fifty steamers. * = When, however, we consider that of the large number of steamers which have plied between the two continents since the Sirius made her first voyage across the Atlantic, and-when we also consider that that same Atlantic is the stormicst ocean in the world, and particularly that that part of it which is daily traversed by steamers is the most tempestuous, we only wonder that the accidents are not more frequent and the destruc- tion of life is not still more terrible. Then there are the gales which, during part of the year, rage with fearful violence over the whole North Atlantic, and for weeks at a time; the huge ice- bergs with which the ocean is sometimes covered for miles, and which are as fatal to the ship that | strikes upon them as the rocks on an iron-bound coast; and lastly, there are the fogs, which make collisions not only possible, but terribly disas- trous—these are the perils which all who ven- ture across the ocean have to encounter. When we further consider that the risks of travel on this class of vessels is increased by those disas- trous accidents to which they are more particu- larly liable—to the danger of fire, to boiler ex- plosions and damage to machinery—we should rather congratulate ourselves that the accidents are so few and that the per centage of mortality to the number of passengers is so comparatively limited. This per centage, however, might be greatly diminished by the «adoption of all those precautionary measures which should never be neglected where there is the least liability to casualty or the slightest dan- ger to human life. Too many of the disasters at sea may be attributed to a reckless indifference to all those important de- tails which are so absolutely necessary to the safe conduct of passenger steamers as well as other ships. In fact, there is no reason why a passenger steamer should not be governed by rules similar to those of a man-of-war, on which the discipline is so strict and the vigilance so active that accidents are almost impossible. At the first tones of the fire-bell on one of our na- tional ships—let it even be in the darkness of midnight—every man is by his post, ready with all his disciplined energy and the ample facilities at his command to meet and turn aside the threatened danger. Now, why can we not have the same disci- pline, the same vigilance, the same facilities on board of our passenger steamers? Is the neces- sity for them not as urgent, or is human life on © man-ofwar more precious than human life on an ocean steamship? If the fearful ex- perience which the case of the Austria and the other wrecked and missing vessels teaches is worth anything, we should lose no time in pro- fiting thereby. If there is no such law already, one should be passed and rigidly enforced. pre viding that each chip otvura carry a sufficient number of life boats for her passengers and | crew, and also that a system of discipline, as | similar as the difference in the character of the | merchant and naval service will admit, shall be established on all our ocean steamers. Tae Ariantic Tezorapu Casie—The de- spatch from Mr. De Sauty, the Atlantic Tele- graph Company's chief electrician at the Trinity Bay terminus, which was published in yester- day's Henan, in connection with the facts sct forth in our editorial on the cable, proves con- clusively that the deep sea line is not broken and that the continuity is not destroyed. The feat of Dong in Mlinois, But in the present | Board of Directors, who were about to hold a sympathy th Dongles of those Southern mecting on the day the Niagara left Liverpool, democratic organs and leaders, who were the the 11th inst., are doubtless aware of these facts, most clamorous for the head of Gov. Walker, | and have, we hope, made preparations for the and the enforcement of the Lecompton bill, we have @ mystery which lies deeper than the ab- stract question of State rights or the Dred Scott decision. ‘These Southern Lecompton fire-eaters have an eye upon the Charleston Convention. laying of the shore end, without which it is to be feared the deep sea cable will be liable to still greater injury than that to which it bas already been subjected, but which, it is worthy of parti- cular note, has not as yet wholly interrupted the They heve tried, and bave failed to rule the | electrical communication. poliey ond the measures of the President. He, In regard to the weakness of the currents, therefore, and his administration, must be broken | however, we think there are other and more | down; for otherwise the conservative influences reasonable ways of accounting for the seeming defect by which such weakness is produced. The public are already aware that Dr. Whitehouse, the chief electrician at the Valentia Bay these ambitions. unscrupulous, but second and third rate politicians at Charleston. And thus, with ll these diverse elements of rebellion con- ie terminus, has been removed, but we spiring upon various pretences, in behalf} have not been informed that any other has of Douglas, we may account for the | heen placed in the important office thus made va- desperation which he exhibits in his present Nlinois contest, inasmuch as his success in this election will be accepted by the conspirators as a decisive victory over the admi- cant, and as Mr. Hughes has not yet had an op- portunity of trying his instraments on the sub- merged line, it would seem that the electrical de- partment is without any direction whatever. In this view of the case it is easy to account for the seemingly strange freaks of the cable, and the weakness of the currents may be very easily | caused by « want of sufficient battery power. Last year a very similar oceurrence took place, | owing to the incompetency of the person left in | charge of the station. The battery had not been properly charged nor the instruments adjusted | the effects of whieh neglect were soon made evi | dent in the sapid diminution of the strength o! Charleston Convention. With these views of the present satus of Mr. Douglas and bis sympathizers in the democratic camp. we regerd the discussion of the Dred Scott decision and the Cincinnati platform as sheer Party platforms, practically, are supertiaons upholstery. The people are governed by the practical results of the adminis- tration in power. favorably or adversely: and as nonsense. | it was in 1856 so in 1860—the democracy wil! | the current and the apparent interruption of the have to fight for the snecession pon the mortts continuity. Here we are presented with almost | or demerits of the existing administration. We | similar cireumstances—there ix no head, no direc | know, too, that as the candidate of the party in 1856 was indicated by the independent press and by the popular sentiment of the party, in advance of the Cincinnati Convention, that that gathering of gamblers—old party hacks, «poils men and lobby jobbers was a superfluoas con- cern: and we believe that the uncorrupted de- mocratic sentiment of the country will snper- sede the disorganizers who are now conspiring to break down the administration, in view of the full control of the Charleston nomination. From all the signs of the times it is manifest that upon some snob nationally popular name as that of Gen. Seott, the opposition will unite in 1860, and that in opder to mect this formidable tion, the persons left in charge seem to be in- | competent—and we feel certain that when the | line is placed under the control of able and ex- perienced electricians, all the difficulties which now beset the enterprise and stand in the way of its successful completion will be removed. The next steamer will doubtless bring us more satisfactory intelligence of the movements of the | directors, who, by the last accounts appear to have been in a state of uncertainty and confa- sion that was anything but favorable to an imme- diate clearing up of their troubles. We trast their meeting has resulted in some definite action, and that no unnecessary time will he lost in the resumption of business on the linc, Hamburg, the Bremen, the Galway, the Quebee |- International Railroad to the Pacific. When the citizens of Saint Paul called the at- tention of the country to the advantages of a route | to the Fraser river gold mines and the Pacifi :_ ; Coast, through Minnesota and the valleys of the Réd River of the North and the Saskatchewan, we republished their proceedings from a convic- tion that England was suddenly about to become” a rival for a great continental communication with the Pacific. All later developements point the same way. The organization of British Co- lumbia—the withdrawal of the Hudson Bay Com- pany to the districta north of latitude 55—the abundant evidence that there isa region north- west of Minnesota to the Pacific as large as twelve Ohios, and equally capable to support settlemente—the rising power of Russia in Asia, now brought by the annexation of the Amoor within cannon shot of Pekin—the arrangements made both by Russia and England to cover the North Pacific with war and postal steamers—the British scheme ofa naval station—another Liver- pool at Victoria or Vancouver Island—a similar echeme of Russian aggrandizement in a city. of Nicholajeffsk at the mouth of the Amoor—a pro- ject believed eminently practicable for telegra- phic and perhaps railway. extension ovor Russian: territory from Moscow to Japan, and a telegraph. thence by the Alentian Islands across the North Pacific to Sitka, where a line from St. Paul over British territory can be readily connected—these important events crowding in rapid succession through an interval of sixty days, have confirmed the correctness of our first impressions when we called attention to the important facts and statis- tics elicited at the outbreak of the Fraser river excitement. We then said, in reference to the reports and speeches at the St. Paul meetings, that a most extraordinary ventilation of the Pa- cific railroad question at the next session of Con- gress was inevitable, and late intelligence from St. Paul, as well as from other points of the Mis- sissippi frontier, confirms the prediction. The St. Paul discussion resulted in an over- land party of exploration, composed of expe- rienced and intelligent men. Their first reports are published in the St. Paul Pioneer, and are ex- tremely valuable. They made the distance from St. Paul to Pembina, ascertained by odometer to be 466.14 miles, in eighteen days, although a part of the company descended the Red river of the North in a batteau. This stream was found navigable by steamboats for a distance of 575 miles, to Lake Winnepeg. The cattle of the land party arrived in admirable order at Pem- bina, the country traversed being a beautiful undulating plain, diversified with water and timber, and extremely fertile. The Red river valley is pronounced the garden of the North- west. From Pembina, on the 22d of August, the party were to strike northwestwardly on the line of the Hudson Bay Company's posts, along the North Saskatchewan to the pass between Mounts Hooker and Brown, and thence into the gold district. A more direct route to Puget’s Sound is suggested, namely: “from Pembina by the head of the Assineboin to the head of the South Fork of the Saskatchewan,” described as a “ high pla- teau, with plenty of timber. grass and water, and they divide between the waters of the Mis- souri and the waters emptying into Hudson's Bay from the west aud south.” But the more northern route is preferred by the present party, because trading posts occur at convenient inter- vals, (not less than seven between Pembina and the mountains,) and supplies and aid for any purpose are accessible, besides perfect security from Indian molestation. On this route, also, not more than five days of foot travel separate the Saskatchewan plains from the centre of the gold district. In fact, these Minnesota adven- turers—some of them returned Californians— will prospect upon the eastern valleys of the Rocky Mountains—the sources of the Saskatche- wan—and may develope a new gold district ; the features of the country are not wnfavorubic 0 such an anticipation. We have noticed further the arrival at St. Paul of Sir George Simpson, Governor of Hud- son’s Bay Company ; Hon. Edward Ellice M. P. for Coventry, and Dr. Rae, the Arctic ex- plorer, to consult upon the best method of com- munication with the posts of the Hudson's Bay territory. A correspondent informs us that per- manent arrangements have been effected for direct importations to St. Paul, for distribution thence by the route of the Red river valley to the Saskatchewan district. In view of these facts, what have our leading statesmen and politicans to say? There is every reason to believe that before another Presidential election, Great Britain will have organized the Province of Saskatchewan, with the seat of go- vernment at Selkirk on Lake Winnipeg; retired | the Hudson Bay Company beyond the latitade 55 degrees; introduced land surveys and fand bounties to settlers; turned her whole emigration system from Australia and New Zealand to the areas northwest of Mionesota; put steamers on Lake Winnipeg and the Saskatchewan; and lo- cated a railroad from Lake Saperior to Paget Sound, giving the lands, ten miles on each side, to build the road, with a government guaranty of five per cent on the necessary investment—in a word, will have adopted a policy certain in five years to organize and consolidate a series of co- lonies from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as sha- dowed by the Queen's recent speech. This is a magnificent scheme for an international railroad, of which the Canadian, New York, and even Pennsylvania railroads, extended to St. Paul, through Michigan and Wisconsin, and from St. Paul to Pembina, by the aid of « munificent land grant by Congress, will form the Atlantic connections, Such an interoceanic belt of the continent, moving from east to weat in exact ac- cordance with the lines of climate and the laws of human migration and trade, is feasible—nay, inevitable—especially when considered in con- nection with British poliey in the northern hemisphere. Again we ask, what course will our party leaders pursue in regard to this mat- ter? Are we always to be at a deadlock with our sectional squabbles, and lose the great prize | of a railroad to the Pacific, in the zone of St. Petersburg, London and New York? Ove Crry Post Orrick —Vistr or Powrtasrnn Gexenat Brown.—The Postmaster General is in the dity, and the object of his visit ix known to | he an examination of the various sites proposed by interested parties for our city Post Office, with a view to the selection and purchase of a more cligible one than that of the present establish- ment. We have full reliance in the cool disere- tion of General Brown. THe has shown that he thoroughly understands the vast machinery and the business of his department, in all its details, and we are satisfied that in his present object he will be governed by only two considerations: first, the most eligible site for NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1858. sult of the.revulsion of last year. Tn the wotld' of fashion, af in the marts of trade, mattere begin to assume a-lively aspect: All the belles an@ beaux are returning tod town | and preparing for the dissipations and amuse- mente of- the winter. The theatres and operas are allin full blast. Singularly enough, after we have been discussing for so long a time the question whether or not one opera company could be sustained here, we find that three—one English and two Italian troupes—manage to rub along and attract good houses. Without the aid of artists of universal reputation, these com- panies have kept their heads above water. But this is only an entering wedge for that which is yet to come. The fashionable and operatic season will not really commence before the middle of next month, when we shall have a grand excitement over the arrival of the fasci- nating prima doma M’lle Piccolomini, who has been the rage in London during the past three years. Piccolomini is youthful, beautiful and of princely lineage. She is, morcover, a fine vo- calist and a great actress, She will not appear in opera in any city of the United States except New York, but will sing in the provinces in con- certs. Now, Piccolomini is thoroughly a dra- matic artist, and she will appear to much greater advantage on the stage than in the con- cert saloon. We may expect, then, that when Piccolomini comes there will be a great excite- ment, and a tremendous influx of strangers from all parts of the country. Piccolomini, in fact, will make a furore only second to that of Jenny Lind, if it should even fall below that remarka- ble epoch. Since her first appearance in Italy the triumphs of Piccolomini have followed so closely upon each other that her career has been an uninterrupted succession of conquests, As will be seen by our London correspondence to- day, she has won new laurels recently in the provinces of England, and she comes to us flushed with victories. The fashionable world is already in a Piccolomini fever, and no artist has ever visited us under more favorable auspices than those of the pet of Her Majesty’s theatre. When Piccolomini comes we shall have an Opera excitement in downright earnest. In her Im- presario Ullman has a trump card, which he will undoubtedly play at the right time and the right place. Tue Potice Comsmiastovers anp Grsexat Tat- Mapat.—The investigation into the charges against General Superintendent Tallmadge has established two conclusions very different from those which the Police Commissioners had calculated upon. In the first place, it has proved the inefficiency of the present police organiza- tion in cases of emergency ; and in the second, it has shown the incapacity of the men placed at the head of the department. With regard to the exact measure of blame to be imputed to Mr. Tallmadge, it amounts simply to this: that he kept within the letter of his instructions, when adeparture from it would have been justified by the critical nature of the circumstances which called for his action. To judge properly, how- ever, of the motives which governed his conduct, it should be borne in mind that he was a subor- dinate, having but a limited discretion; that bis superiors were on the spot, or were bound to be 80; that the Board, whose officer he was, partook more of a political than of a strictly executive character; and that any unauthorized step on his part might have been productive of con- sequences involving wousual personal responsi- bility. Were the Police Commissioners men kuown to be actuated by a strict sense of duty, and ready to back up their officer in a liberal construction of his orders, there is no doubt that Superintendent Tallmadge would have pursued a very different course from that which he did. His antecedents, fortunately for bim, are of a character which admit of no speculation on this point. In the Astor place riots, when he filled the office of Recorder, he showed that he had the energy and decision necessary for such an ocen- sion. But what he was called upon to do when discharging the duties of « civil magistrate, and what he was justified in doing when acting as the subordinate of persons placed in that position. are two very different considerations, Had Su- perintendent Tallmadge been acting under the orders of Recorder Tallmadge we are satistied that we should never have heard of the present investigation. There can be no ore withering condemnation of a system of civil government or police than the fact that it makes strong men weak, and renders the exercise of judgment and energy impossible. This is precisely the position to which Mr. Tall- madge was reduced during the recent outbreak on Staten Island. He had to choose between the letter of his instructions or nnanthorized action, with the chance of repudiation by the Commis- sioners in the event of his proceedings exposing them to censure. It is not surprising that, with such « prospect before him, he preferred not to shoulder the responsibilities of his superiors, Whatever deficiencies may be laid to the charge of the ald police system, we do not think that such a concatenation of blunders or such a sbirk- ing of duty could ever have occurred under it. With Fernando Wood at the head of the depart- ment, and a magistrate like Judge Russell to. se- coud his efforts, not an hour would have been lost in arresting the work of destruction, or of bringing the parties engaged in it within the gmep of the law. In view of the turn which this Quarantine question bas takeg, and the forced abandonment of the location by the Health authorities, we cannot see what General Nye and his associates propose to thexnselves by the proseontion of this inquiry. Of one thing they may be certain, and that is, that they will neither have the pablic our Post Office, and second, the most favorable | eympathy nor approval in any measures which erms for the government, In this view, his |! they myy found on it, This being the oase, it See seems to us that thore must be ome political mo- tive at the bottom of their proceedings, Whether we are correct or not im this assumption, the pub- lic generally will agree with us in opinion that if there is to be a dismissal, it should be that-of the Commissioners, and not of the Superintendent. Tae Quarantine Diericuuty—P.an For Naw Hosrrrars.—The intelligence of the report received by the Staten Islanders as 2 message of peace. That report, if accepted by the State authorities, aa it probably will be, will prove virtual recognition of the claims of the inhabi- tants of Richmond county to protection from pestilence, and that is all they require. There is no reason to suppose, if an assurance be given that no permmnent buildings for Qua- rantine purposes shall be constructed on the island, that the residents will oppose the con- struction of brick shanties for the thelter of the sick during the winter. No at-_ tempt has been made to destroy the wooden sheds } now standing, where the sick are accommodated, .. and it is understood that no attempt of the - peration to which the presence of the troops’ there has given rise, He has pursued his unwise and illegal course long enough, and in the pre- sent aspect of affairs perseverance therein can only afford an insuperable obstacle to a peaceful settlement of this unfortunate difficulty. The militia of Richmond county, affronted at the slight put upon them by the employment of foreign military force, have already disbanded themselves, while the citizens and residents gene- rally feel the outrage of this military occupation more keenly every day. We trust, then, that should the Eighth regiment be withdrawn to- day, no other body of military will be sent to take its place. We have before expressed ourselves in favor of the abolition of quarantine, as an unne- cessary institution at this port. It has never protected the city from pestilence, but, on the contrary, has exposed it to danger from the con- stant intercourse between the hospitals and the shores of Long Island, as well as our own wharves. It may take some time to bring about the abandonment of the quarantine system, and in the meantime the plan of establishing floating hospitals within basins of masonry in the lower bay may be a relief, not only to Staten Island, but to this city and Brooklyn; but ultimately a quarantine system such as we have had must be wholly abolished. We would suggest « far better plan than these floating hospitals. What is needed for a good quarantine is not so much hospitals as warehouses for the reception of infected cargoes, Experience has shown that it is not from the sick contagion spreads, but from clothing, bedding and other materials, Instead of floating hospitals—which in course of time would become foul from bilge water and improper ventilation—why not build & commodious warehouse on the West Bank, (where they propose to build basins), for infected cargoes, and if necessary, a small hospital on the same site for dangerous cases of yellow fever. The warehouse might be erected on the edge of the bank, four miles from the southern shore of Staten Island, where the infected vessels now lie, with a breakwater in front to protect it from the sea, and there would be no danger of the spread of pestilence either on Staten Island, Sandy Hook, or Long Island. This could be done for less money than the basins would cost, and would be a better protection against disease. Besides, this plan would do away with all the unnecessary restrictions and detention of vessels now com- plained of. The vessels could be unloaded, fami- gated, and permitted to come up to the city, and the cargoes put in bond in the warehouse until disinfected, and then taken out as any other goods are from the bonded warehouses. No in- fected cargo should be permitted to pass through the Narrows until it is thoroughly ventilated. We repeat, it is in the cargoes, not in the patients, the greatest danger lies. A hospital sufficiently commodious for those who may arrive here sick with contagious diseases is all we require. All the rest of the routine hitherto employed is » Buisance. The arguments of the Commissioners at Albany in favor of their plan, as well as the various com- munications on the subject which we publish to- day, will be found very interesting. _=_—_——— THE LATEST NEWS. Nothing of the Prince Albert. . Boston , Sept. 26, 1898. * The order of the agent of the New York Associated Press for the opening of the line to Halifax this (Sanday) evening, was unfortunately not received here until the Ine bad closed on Saturday evening ‘We are consrqnently not in communication with Halifax to night. end unable to obtain the Prince Albert's news have reached that port f Bangor, Me, do vot open on Sundays unless «pecially instrnoted to do eo, Our Special Washington Despateh. Waemreron, Sept. 26, 1858. ‘The Dongia: sympathizers and fishy politicians who hoid office under the administration at New York had better look ont, for notwithstanding their frequent pit grimages to Washington. and hard swearing by the creed of democracy. they are watched, and some gleams of light begin to radiate their secret views and designs | The views of the HeRaLw as to what should be the po Ney of Congress regarding the admission of Kansas should she apply next session to be admitted, are, lam well informed. making @ deep impression upon demooratic members. They say the proviso of the English bill re quiring # certain popalation ts, like any other act, repeal- able; ond if circumstances change, and it shonid be pro- per to repeal it, why not do sor The news published inthe Meany from Havana and other parts of Cuba of the movemont of the free negrose there, has attracted attention. The government will not be indifferent to any movement tending to the Africani- ization of Cuba. It would be regarded. an a real danger to te Boutheru institutions of this country and as requiring hold and decisive poliey on our part, Information is received that Col. Larens’ party, survey ng the mail rowte seross the continent, via South Pars nl Oregon. hes ceased operations thik season and ts ox jected to arrive In Washingtow, by the lat of November, Yellow Fever at New Orleans. Wasaeweror, Sept. 26, 1868. The True Delta, of the $2, advises citivens visiting the orth and (strangers to postpone coming to New Orleans for the present. ‘The deaths trom yellow fever yoaterday were 4—a lwrge deerenee, #8 compared With, previows days, Markets. New OneANs, Sept 26, 1868, Cotton unchanged, sales today 3,500 bales. Larde~ Sales of 500 bbls. at 100, for , ane 100 tieroes for Havana on private terms. iahta—cow Liverpoot, 9-164. pAlgare, Boot. de a5 ee Market without any materia receipts of fone exoces of the Galen CC Sass, Cemae, weer te 1 3294 0 1 i Celcage spring at Ghe.; 100 haghets w? i arrive, on private terms, at 723g. 0 Tae. Western mixed, a