The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1858, Page 4

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The steamship Canada arrived at Halifax early yesterday morning, from Liverpool, which port she left on the 25th ult. She sailed again at 4 P.M. for Boston. The steamship North Star arrived at Liv- erpool on the morning the Canada sailed. The Atlantic cable war was still raging. Shares were quoted at £500 to £330. A new cable between England and Holland had been successfully laid. Advices from Spain declare there is no truth in the report that a concession for a submarine tele- graph from Cuba to our shores had been granted to an AngloSpanish company. The Queen had re- turned to Madrid. The Anglo-Chinese treaty had not been published in Great Britain; the indemnity to France is fifteen million francs. The crew of the ahip Golden State mutinied at Penang on the 19th of July. They beat the first officer 60 badly that he died the same evening. Money was abundant in London. The bullion in the Bank of England had increased £485,000, Con- sola closed at 97] a 97} for money, and 973 3 97} for account. The market for breadstnffs and provisions was dull; corn had declined and flour was drooping. All qualities of cotton had slightly advanced on the week, but the rise was scarcely maintained at the close. The sales for the week had been 58,200 bales; stock in port, 508,500 bales. The investigation into the alleged charge of arson preferred against Mr. Ray Tompkins and Mr. J.C. Thompson, was resumed yesterday morning before Judge Metcalfe, at Stapleton, Staten Island. After a few witnesses were examined to prove that Dr. Thompson was the first Health Officer who pre- vented the stevedores from leaving the grounds whilst on duty, Mr. Anthon summed up the case on the part of the defence in an able and eloquent ad- dress. Ex-Judge Dean followed in a masterly speech. Mr. Peckham, for the prosecution, replied in s temperate but forcible manner, when the Judge took the papers and reserved his decision. Preasure on our space prevents a full report of the arguments. The inquest into the canses of the late Yorkville riot, which led to the death of Michael Collam and the severely wounding several others, was termi- nated yesterday. The jury rendered a verdict that Collum came to his death by a stab with a knife in the hands of Giatano Martingali,and that ho was aided and abetted by Piantini and Guisti. The jury flso brought in a number of Ttalians as participants in the riot. They were all committed to prison in Gefanlt of bail. ‘The committee of the exhibitors at the Fair of the American Institute appointed to seck for a proper building in the city in which to continue the Fair were yesterday very industriously engaged in carrying out the object of their appointment, and learned that they could procure a large new building on the corner of Canal and Elm streets for that purpose. They met in the afternoon with the Committee of the Board of Management and reported; but nothing was determined on, either respecting the engaging of that building or on continuing the Pair. A further meeting was ap- pointed for thi: afternoon, which will probably de- cide both questions. The Board of Managers held a meeting at 6 P.M., at which resolutions were passed sympathizing with the exhibitors in their losses, in response to the resolutions of sympathy they had passed on Wednesday to the officers of the Institute. The monthly meeting of the In stitute was Leld likewise last evening, at half-past Beven o'clock, at which it was agreed that a re- ward of $3,000 be immediately offered for the de- tection of the incendiary, whose labors have de stroyed the industrial palace. A report of the whole proceedings is given today's insue. The Board of Aldermen met yeste Comptroller sent in his semi-annual finances of the city, an abstract of whi) y found elsewhere. The Central Park Con ni sent in a communication to the Board, «tating there were now only $41,278 in their hands, and askiag for a» farther sum of $300,000 for the purposes of the Central Park Improvement Fund. A large amount of routine business was transacted by the Board, which adjourned over until Monday next The Board of Councilmen adjourned last evening till Monday, a quorum not being present at the call of the roll. The Police Commissioners met yesterday, but their session was s private one. Thirty policemen ‘wert appointed; the property clerk's salary was Taised from $400 to $1,200 a year, and the city was Givided into two, instead of three inspection dis- trict. «The first embraces the fifteen lower wards, and Captain Leonard is the inspector of it, and the other consists of the seven remaining wards, in ‘Which Captain Coulter will act as inspector. Of the vert of the business transacted by the Board, if » wae any, we have no information. first of a series of lectures on the soil, cli jporraphy, geology, people and history of - Africa was delivered Inst evening by Rev. ywen, in the lecture hail of the Mercantile ry. This lecture embraced a description of oateral featares of this part of the continent, -ne details of which were presented at much length, ‘The next lectare will be on the people, and is to be delivered on Tuesday evening next. ‘The Tammany (ieneral Committee met leet night and decided to call the primary elections for Conventions to nominate city, State and Congres sional candidates for next Monday evening. The Inapectors for these elections were chosen by the several ward representatives. A bombsbell was thrown into the committee by the introduction of & serie of fF ns condemning the course of Judge Donglas and endorsing the policy of Presi @ent Buchanan, which resolutions, strange to say, sioners in another part of | committee to report upon, while a ; reat desire Was shown to stifle them on their ince tion, meeting at Clinton Hall, Astor plac», ‘ast evenin«. ‘There was a very fair attendance of » embers, The business dispose i of was the report of a Committee on Quarantine charges, a letter on the Reciprocity | Treaty with Canad:, and a letter from Mayor Tiemann on Quarantine improvements. Elsewhere w Il be found a full report. An extraordinary case of counterfeiting the bills of the Turkish Bonk is detailed in our columns this morning. A Mrs. Sevesti arrived at Syra a short time since, on her way from Liverpool to Con- stantinople. Upon the examination of her trunks by the officer of the customs, it was ascertained they bad false bottoms, between which were concealed spurious notes on the Turkish Bank to an immenso value. Steps were then taken to find out where the bills were printed, and the investigation finally re- sulted in tracing their manufacture to this city. Yesterday the injunction returnable before the Supreme Court some days hence, restraining the Corporation from repealing the ordinance restrict- ing the use of steam on the Fourth avenue to the limit of Forty-second street, was, on motion of the Corporation Counsel, taken up for argument. Judge Sutherland intimated that in his opinion, without going into the case, it was so similar to the one decided by Judge Brady that it was res adjudicate. After some observations from Messrs. Field and Bronson the Judge coucinded to hear the argument, ‘which occupied the Court up to the hour of adjournment. Philip Purcell was found guilty of grand larceny yesterday, in the General Sessions, and remanded to prison for sentence. George Shafter and Philip Ulcrick were convicted of stealing $50 worth of jewelry and a number of promissory notes, the property of Isaac N. Lacey, Wyoming county, Pa. The Recorder sent Shafter to the State prison for three years and his confederate to the penitentiary for two years and six months. George Lawrence was acquitted of a charge of rape preferred against him by Mary Wall. Adolph De Vries, having been indieted for forging a check for $273 on the Me- chanics’ Bank, pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree, and was sent to Blackwell's Island for one year, We have translated from the Hispano Americano, a European journal devoted to the interests of the republics of Central America, an important article on the subject of the Belly canal project in Nica- ragu M. Belly had an interview with Prince Na- nin Paris on the 31st of August, when he was complimented on the results of his mission, and he hoped for a similar reception from the Em- peror on his retura from Biarritz. The French po- liticians and savans have ranked M. Belly with Saiad Pasha and M. F. Lesseps, as a great projector of canal civilization. They assert that he will soon return under cover of the naval flag of France, in order to commence work in Nicaragua under the Martinez and Mora charters; but the writer adds the important proviso of, “if the United States do not prevent it,” which consideration makes a seri- ous slteration in the aspect of the affair. Woe have news from the French West Indies, dated at Martinique and Gaudaloupe on the 28th of August. The commercial situation of the two countries was satisfactory, though specie was so acarce that 10 or 11 per cent was paid for it. In the course of a fortnight Gandaloupe had received 1500 immigrants—half coolics, the other half Afri- cans. “ The Atlantic, the pioneer steamship of the Col- lina line, was sold yesterday to the California, New York and European Steamship Company, and will be put on the line immediately for San Francisco and Fraser river direct, via Nicaragua. This com- pang have already purchased the Hermann and Washington, lately of the Bremen line. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 2,300 bales, all of which was in transitu, ond at fall prices. The #tock in this market is now very light. Flour was again heavy, and inferior and common grades, with somo descriptions of low and medium extras, were from Sc. a 0c. per barre] lower, with a fair amount of sales. Wheat was heavy, with moderate sales at quotations given clse- where. Corn was heavy, with a fair amount of sales at Tic. a T4e. for Western mixed. Pork was lower, with sales of mess at $16 50.0 $1675, and prime at $1425a $1475. Sugars were firm, with sales of 400 9 500 hhds and 900 boxes at rates given in another column. Cotfoo wae steady, with little doing in Rio, while 2,590 bags Ma- nila were fold at private terms, and 200 bags Java at 16e. a 15i;c. Freight»—Engagements were modorate, while rates indicated no materia! change. ‘The Mission of the Four Living Powers—What we Should do, and do at Once. A tingle glance at the map of the world shows that there are but four great living and advancing nations now in existence. These are the United States, Russie, England and France. All the Test present a secondary and imitative ratio of increase, or unmistakeable evidences of decay and disruption. The policy that animates and guides the ad- vance of these progressive nations is identical in all, and is, in fact, one‘of the laws of their na- tional life. From the time of Peter the Great Russia has gone on extending her possessions in every direction. Sweden yielded to her the chores of the Gulf of Bothnia; Poland fell before her policy; Turkey has lost a large portion of her European, and no small slice of her Asiatic dominions; the trans-Caucassian countries have been subdued nearly to the western boundaries of China, and Siberia and Mantchovria have been absorbed to the very shores of the Pacific ocean. At this very moment she is building up a settle- ment on the Amoor river, under a system that | tecke to and is eminently calculated for exten. eouthward. Military and trading settle- ate eve formed at the mouth of every river, and fortresses are built on every strategical point. New harbors and routes are opened to commerce, foundries are established, ma- chine shops set up, telegraphs constructed, and every element of the mechanical civilization that is revolutionizing the world is brought into ac- | tive play. A like policy animates the living progress of | Frence. Hemmed in by the dynaetic divisions of Europe, she has sought extension in Northern | Africa, and contemplates the building up of an empire there that shall rival the ancient African empires of Carthage and Rome. She is daily ex- tending her boundaries there, subduing alike the Arab and the desert by her mechanical ingenui- ty. One single example will suffice to show how enceessfal our mechanical civilization is in effecting thie subjugation. By constructing artesian wells France converts the desert into a fruitful land, and the wandering Arab into the settled inhabitant of a community. With England the like policy ho Ide She is annexing all over the world, everything that the waves wash. Islands in every sea briatle with her arms and afford harbors of call or re fuge to her commerce. Peninsulas, stretching from every continent, acknowledge her sway, and afford a base for the exercise of ler policy. Newrly all of Southern Asia is now ' ld by her, and the extension of ber boundaries i going on rapid], A like law of existence holds with the United States. They must yrow, and the Union must extend. There is no help for it. We shall in due process of time absorb all of Mexico, Central, America, Cuba, St. Domtago, Porto Rico and all the other islands of the Caribbean ! The Chamber of Commerce held t ¢'r quarterly: | i OTOO vA ‘ 0 CTANETE OO Y% fi NEW YoRK EPRALD, adel ‘OOTOBER § 1858. tiny is continnally decreasing. The Kiying | iia ices cemantamnpenmentiienionmmaeeatieba nips oc ae ten ee es instead of passing unanimously, were referred to & | Sea. Envropean reristance to this manifast des- | Powers there see that this result must follow } from the very laws which they and we obey, and that its consequences will be of great and practical advantages to them. The stagnant and decaying communities that pow exist there must be brought, through us, under the active influence of the civilization of mechanics, and become 2 part of the great fellowship of the four living Powers, This fellowship exists through the bonds of mutual interest and sympathy; aud while it is rapidly destroying on one side the | old system of mutual recrimination between the leading Powers of the earth, it is banding them in co-operation together on another. These four | living Powers have appeared together before the oldest, the most populous and the most ex- chusive nation in the world, and have forced it to open itsclf to the new order of things. But while the living and progressive na- tions are thus really acting in concert in changing the face of the carth, each must work out the details of its progress with- out reference to the others, Thus Russia, in Siberia and trans-Caucassia, France in Algeria, and England in her insular possessions and in India, takes little heed of the progress of, and secks no co-operation from, the other Powers. So we must proceed in working out our destiny on this continent. The time has come for us to enter upon a policy of action; and it is because our government has not obeyed this necessity that the people have moved under its impulses, and we have witnessed the unwise filibustering expe- ditions from our shores that have characterized the last ten years of our history. We have urged upon the President to take action in the matter, and to bring the subject before Congress and the nation as it should be brought, in his coming message. The representative body of the nation should not ouly authorize the purchase of Cuba, and appropriate money at once for contingent pur- poses, but it should also autborize and provide for the appointment of commissioners to meet others on the part of Spain, in case she should consent to appoint such, or those from Mexico, St. Domingo, or any other country that is ripe to move in the matter. The Cuba question must now be brought to an early solution, With Mexico something must be done. The routes of transit across the American Isthmus must be put in a state of security that shall command the confidence of the whole world. Every thinking man in the country recognizes the urgency of these necessities, yet the govern- ment is not prepared to meet them, nor is the President in any way authorized to act. Such authority can only be given by Congress, and it should be given at an early day. ASSAULTS ON THE Seviciary—Tue MULLIGAN Cask.—Some short time ago two sets of law breakers and peace disturbers who had made of San Francisco a second Alsatia, got into colli- sion, and the one roughly handled and finally ex- pelled the other. Of these two parties, a certain Captain Webb and the well known Billy Mulli- gan were prominent members, and in his quality of a conquered champion, the latier issued from the conflict with some evidences of hard usage. Treasuring up his grievances, Mulligan came on to New York, determined to pay off the score on the persons of any of the members of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee whom chance might throw in his way. The police reports soon bore testimony to the activity of his vengeance, in charges of assault preferred against him by parties who had acted as, or who were supposed to have acted as, members of that body. At length Captain Webb, the principal agent of his alleged wrongs, crossed his path, and upon bint Mulligan forthwith acquitted, with principal and interest, the debt of vengeance which he had accumulated against his San Francisco enemies. When Mr. Mulligan was brought before Judge Russell for sentence—he having pleaded guilty to the assault—it was confidently expected by his friends that the fine inflicted upon him would be a light one. The affidavits in extenuation would in ordinary cases have justified this expectation, for Mulligan had un- doubtedly suffered severely at the hands of Webb. To the surprise, however, of the Mulli- | gan party, the Judge took a different view of his duty, and imposed upon the defendant a tine of $250. One would imagine that this decision —founded as it was upon broad principles of public policy, and intended to convince the lawless and reck- less of other States that they need not expect to find protection and sympathy in this-would have elicited a general expression of approval from our city press, This was the more to be expected from the fact that previous to Mulli- gan'’s eentence insinuations had been thrown out that influences would be brought to bear upon the Judge which would insure the entire immunity of the defendant. To the astonish- ment of all right thinking and law abidiag men, Judge Russell's well timed and discriminating severity has rendered him as obnoxious to the censure of certain journals opposed to him as the fulfilment of their anticipations of a cor- rupt leniency on his part would have done. Strike high, strike low, strike where he will, it is clear that, 1 ‘he drammer, the Judge will never be able to give eatixfuetion to the friends and advocates of the criminals and peace disturbers who are daily brought before him to be dealt with. Of the fairness with which this able Judge is treated by his enemies we have had another marked instance within the last few days. By the decision of the Court of Appeals the sentence pronounced by him upon James Rodgers, the murderer of Mr. Swanson, and which had been overruled by the Supreme Court, has been fully sustained and confirmed. Of this vindication of the view taken of the case by Judge Russell not a word has been eaid by the journals which have dieplayed such bitter hostility towards him, and which, from the unreasoning and inconsistent character of their enmity, it is to be inferred aro paid for maligning and misrepresentiag all his judicial acts. Conduct like this towards a magistrate whose whole course has been one of unswerving upright ness and energy, and who has done more to redeem the administration of justice in our city from the reproaches cast upon it than any man who has preceded him on the bench, should not be al- lowed to pass uncensured. The public have a deep interest in the reputation of the Judiciary, and when they find systematic war waged against its members by journals known to be the organs of the depraved and corrupt, thay are bound to stigmatize all euch efforts by withering marks of their disapprobation. It is only in this way that the insidious influence of a viciously disposed press can be neutralized and honest magistrates sustained in the fearless discharge of their duties, or ‘Tue Cavit asp Tae Exxorricians,—By eX?Ty mail from England we are presented with the n> rults of the experiments and tests which have | Lech nade, or are stil] making, on the Adantic , Telegraph cable by the different electricians whose assistance and advice have been asked by the com- pany. One of these gravely informs the Board of Directors that there is a serious defect existing | in the line at a distance of something over two hundred miles from its eastern terminus; another that the fault is five hundred miles off from that point; another, tat it is within three or four miles of the shore; end still another, who insists that there are two defects, but at what particular point the eccond fault is to be found he cannot or will uot tell. The lost electrician, Mr. Varley, whose report appearcd in yesterdoy’s IeRALp, gives thoso who put faith in his statement no hope of the ultimate suecersful working of the cable, whatever conso- lation they may derive from his opinion that “it is not altogether impossible that some intelligible signals may yet be received through it.” The theory of this gentleinaa, who is the “electrician of the Electric aad Inter- national Telagraph Company,” is that the part of the cable where the defect is supposed to be bas been made still more defective by the use of too strong an electric current—that the current has in fact literally burned the faulty portion of the gutta percha insulator. Now ibis may be ull very well in theory, and it may be also very well to attribute such defect to the suspension of the eable from some submarine mountain peak and its gradual wearing away at the point of suspension; but a few facts with which we are conversant will serve to clear away a part of the mystery which these gentlemen have thrown around the affair. During the six months the cable lay coiled in the government dockyard at Plymouth, the electrician of the company, Dr. Whitehouse, found it impossible, for weeks at a time, to get an intelligible current through it; and when he attempted on one occasion, while Professor Hughes was present, to telegraph a single letter, the attempt resulted in a most signal failure. The incompe- tency of Dr. Whitehouse was apparent at this time, and those who knew the man felt certain that he could never work the cable after it should have been submerged. If he failed to send mes- sages through it reliably when the cable was within reach, why should we be astonished that he has not succeeded now, when it lies in the depths of the ocean? At last that incompetency which was so patent to those who knew the Doctor and who had watched his operations closely, became evident to the Board of Directors, and they did, about five or six weeks since, what they should have done at least a year ago—they dismissed him. But in dismissing him they have not, it seems, exercised much judgment in their selection of others to fill his place; for of all those by whom he has been succeeded not one has yet given a satisfactory explanation of the seeming difficulty. All this time—that is, from the 5th of August up to tbe departure from England of the last mail—nothing definite has been done towards securing the services of Professor Hughes, whose experiments on the cable before it was laid showed the great superiority of his system over all others. We have been informed from private sources that his proposition has been before the directors for several weeks, and that it yet remains unanswer- ed; and it would now appear aa if they would rather not work the cable than have it said that an American had to be employed in the electri- cal department, as they were obliged to enlist the skill and ingenuity of an American in the engineering department, before they could suc- ceed. As to the cable, we believe now, as we have always believed, that it is all right, and that as soon as the proper instruments are used, whe- ther they be Hughes’ or some other, they will work it, and work it successfully, In his reply to Dr. Whitehouse’s last statement, Mr. Saward, the Secretary of the company, makes use of the following expression, which furnishes a key to the difficulty:—“But as Mr. Whitehouse has es- tablished no means of concerted action between the Valentia and Newfoundland stations in case of difficulty, it is not altogether possible to say whether the entire embarrassment arises from the fault referred to.” Our opinion is, that the embar- rasament arises from the incompetency of those who have had charge of the cable, and that the embarrassment is still further increased by the want of proper judgment, energy and a epirit of fairness and impartiality on the part of the directors themselves, What is the reason, we ask, that Professor Hughes’ proposition has not been answered? Are all the English electricians to have a trial before his turn comes? Is the fear that a Yankee may succeed in working the cable to prevent the realization of the full success of the great enterprise? Quarantixe Extortions.—Our importers are well aware, to their cost, of the Scandalous sys- tem of extortion practised at Quarantine in the matter of lighterage and stevedore charges. The community at large will have a very good idea of this same evil by a perusal of a statement of stevedores published in another column. It seems that in some instaaces, three or four times as much as would be a reasonable charge for un- lading a vessel has been exacted—the importers having no option but to employ the official ste- vedores of Quarantine. As an instance of ex- tortion we may mention the case of the bark Virginia, which was discharged in May last by non-official stevedores, at a cost of $40 90, and on her subsequent arrival in port in July fell into the bands of the official etevedores, and was discharged at a cost of $162 61—more than quad- ruple the regular charges. Some of our merchants rather than submit to the imposition, have had their cargoes landed at Bristol, in Rhode Island, and reshipped to this port in achooners, and have effected a saving by that operation. Shipping houses in New Orleans and elsewhere have been prevented by this system of extortion from send- ing cargoes to New York; and in. one instance: eight hundred bales of coiton were shipped from the lower bay of New York to Boston, to avoid the quarantine harpies. ence not only are our importers and gonenmers victimized by Quarantine exactions, but the business of our port is seriously affected. This state of things demands ao {immediate and effective remedy.’ The duties of the Health Officer naust be severed from those other duties and authorities which that official now exercise, and everything in the shape of monopolies in lighter- age, and stevedoring must be abolished. Wehave enough of official corruption in the city proper, without being compelled to suffer from it in our harbor facilities. The trade of a great commer- Ovr Crry Dexocracy—Hion Liars Betow Sraims.—Demoeratic harmony is a most excel- jont thing, in view of the spoils and plunder de- yWndert upon a popular election; and yet here, in Wis great metropolis, where the democracy havean undoulited majority of. the poplar vole, and where there are tex millions of Corporation epoils at etake, there is anything but democratic Kurmony. The trouble was commenced a year ago, by a Lolt of some of the Tammany leaders and managers from the regniar democratic ticket for the Mayoralty, The breach thus created has been widening ever siace, until now the unterri- fied democracy of the city are cut up into va- rious cliques and factions, the two most promi- nent being the Tammanyites and the “regulars.” All thee cliques and factions, it is believed, will cordially combine on the Parker State ticket, and thus start it up the river with a splendid majority; but for many of our local offices, and for one or to seats in Congress, we shall most likely have two democratic nominations—a Tammany and an anti-Tammany candidate, Upon an issue of this sort the result will be life or death to the Tammany faction; for if they fall behind the anti-Tammany ticket, the Sa- chems of the Old Wigwam will be compelicd to shut up shop or vacate the premises, according to the democratic law of “popular sovereigaty.” In this view we have not the slightest objection in the world to a direct appeal on the part of these two factions to the “rank and file” of the party upon our November and December local tickets, because the general result, in settling the question either for against the pretensions of Tammany Tall, will be very useful to the admi- nistration at Washington, Meantime, discovering the opening which is made by this fracture in the democratic cable, the two opposition parties of the city—Ameri- cans and republicans—are proceeding to frater- nize, and harmonize, and compromise, and fuse upon our local offices in the most amiable style. Ten millions of Corporation plunder direct, with all the outside advantages, facilities and perqui- sites accruing therefrom, furnish a very broad and strong platform for opposition, union and harmony, against the incurable personal feuds of the distracted democracy, The general result will probably be some very large gains of the spoils and plunder" by the opposition forces, and corresponding losses, right and left, by the squabbling democracy. But whether this party or that party of these old Corporation party spoilsmen, drones, loafers and rogues shall succeed, the consequences to our taxpayers will be all the same. The old routine of Corporation extravagances, embezzle- ments and robberies will be continued at the rate of ten or twelve millions a year. The only alternative for reform is @ .new party—a tax- payers’ party, and a taxpayers’ ticket—covering every case affecting our city government. We are aware that to this end our thirty thousand taxpayers are beginning to put their beads toge- ther; but what they want is organization, and they should proceed at once to call a public meet- ing for the purpose of organizing a local party and a local ticket of their own. The reduction of our city taxation to the extent of three or four millions a year is a matter of some practical value to the pockets of all concerned, as well as in view of the great objects of official honesty, public morality, law and order. Tue Hanuem Rarnoap Disrute.—The con- troversy in regard to the city terminus of the Harlem railway is becoming a troublesome one. We are daily overwhelmed with communications advocating both sides of the question. The his tory of the dispute is simply this: The property owners on the Fourth avenue finding the use of steam injurious to their interests, succeeded in getting an ofdinance passed by the city boards forbidding its employment below the entrance of the tunnel in 41ét street. It was shown that the use of horses from that point to the terminus in 27th street was not only more agreeable to the passengers, but was calculated to remove many of the objections raised against the line itself running through the avenue. At best this was but a compromise; for it is only necessary to glance at the map of the city to see that it would be im- poreible long to tolerate such a nuisance as steam engines through this thoroughfare. The Foarth avenue is the natural continuation of Broadway, and therefore the idea of perpetuating the occu- pation of it by the Harlem railroad is out of tho question. The company, which looks only to its present interests and profits, takes of course an- other view of the case. It has accordingly fought a hard battle with the property owners, and through one influence or another has succeeded in getting a resolution passed by one of the Boards restoring the use of steam as far as Thirty-second street. One of the grounds urged in favor of this restitution is that the com- pany is unable to procure stable accommodation at the new steam terminus of the road. This argument iv disposed of by the fact that the company itself owns a large portion of the real estate lying between Forty-firrt and Forty-second streets. Viewing the question impartially, and looking to the prospective character of the Fourth ave- nue as the continuation of one of our great city arteries, we are of opinion that not only should the use of steam be forbidden to the com- pany below Forty-first street, but that it should he compelled to seek a terminus in some other and lees valuable quarter of the city. In Lon- don, Paris, and other European capitals, we see strenuous efforts being made to centralize the termini of the different lines at some converging point. It is found that the existence of inde- pendent stations within the area of large citics interferes too much with the value of property and the economical distribation of space. Be- fore it is too late we should profit by the lesson thus taught us. Let us begin with the Harlem company, by compelling it to diverge from some distant point—say Fiftieth etreet—and to carry its track along the First or Second avenue to Chat- ham square, or, if the union can be effected, to join on to the Hudson River Railroad at the Eleventh avenue, and so have one common ter- minus at Chambers street. If either of these suggestions be carried owt—as some day or other they will have to be-—we shall not only get rid of a troublesome controversy, in which time, temper and money are uselessly wasted, but we shall promote the interest and convenience of the city generally. Tae Great Barxem 1x Portties—Thurlow Weed, the political showman, is trotting out # liv- ing Morgan at the State Fair and exhibiting bim as a Governor that is tobe. Thirty years ago an old drunken Irishman, called Tim Monroe, was picked up in Oak Orchard Creek, and after shay- ing Tim he was exhibited as the real Morgan of cial port is too serious a matter to permit it to be | that day. We advise Weed to add Mattison (q bis gudangered by euch mgans. qacayaa Ug would dyaw. POEM Hoesen Reconper Barwanp on Sovrnious Parnni— ‘The -paragraphs in the Reoorder’s charge to the Grand Jury apply well to such journals as Branch's Alligator, Jobson’s Red Hlag, and Porter's Spirit of the Times. They should take warning, THE LATEST N NEWS. Our Spoctal Washi Tiedpati. ‘THE PARAGUAY ZEXPEDITION—CONDITION OF 7US ‘TREASURY —THE IRON PIPE CONTRAC?, BTU. Wasuincron, Oct. 7, 1868. Judge Bowlin, Commissioner to Paraguay, and Cour- mander Page, Captain of the feet on the Paraguay cxpe- dition, teft this afternoon for New York. Commodore Shubrick will receive his instructions this weck, and it ‘is expected he will sail in the Subine, carrying tho cou- mission, by next Wednesday. Mr. Samuel Ward, of Onit- fornia, formorly of tho firm of Prime, Ward & Co., has been appointed Seeretary to Commissioner Bowlin. ‘Tho weekly statement of the Treasurer of the United States is as follows:— cast iron pipes for tho Washington aqueduct, has beew ‘orfeited, ho not having delivered the pipes within the time ‘specified in the contract. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasurkaton, Oct. 7, 1866. Mir. Reed, Minister to China, say's in his offieial despatet- «8 received to-day, that after he signed the treaty homade # provisional arrangement with the Commissioner for the adjustment of the claims of American citizens arising out of the difficulties at Canton, by which portons of the duties at Shanghae, Fub-Chau and Canton, are to be appropriated to that end, He intended t visit during the summar months such of the ports of Japan as might be accessible, and return to the United States by way of Bombay in No- vember or December next. Commodore Tatnall, in his official despatches to the Secretary of the Navy, dated July 6, after saying that the entire Fast India squadron would soon be shown to the Japanese, remarks that no better opportunity could be selected for a temporary absenco from tho coast of China, ag tho recent treaties and termination of hostilities, to gether with the swarms of English and French ships-of- war in the rivers, must place all the forcign interests of « lawful kind in perfect safety for the present. He would return with the squadron to the coast of China about the last of October. Judge Bowlin and Commander Page left Washington this afternoon for New York, ‘The Navy Department is preparing ordors for Commo- dore Shubrick, and tho frigal she Satine will sail early next week on the Paraguay expedition. Mr. Samuel Ward, of New York, has boon appoinced Be. cretary to Commissioner Bowlin. Indian Troubles, Sr. Lovis, Oct 7, 1858. A gentleman just arrived from Fort Union, says thas the Indian Agent, Redfield, was at Smully River Camp, eighty miles below Fort Randall, on the 24th ult., that the Indians were saucy towards the whitos, and that seri- ous troubles wore apprehended with the Sioux and the Ricaras. Carl Formes closed a brilliant and successful series of concerts here last night. Congressional Nominations. Boston, Oct. 7, 1866. Hon. B. F. Butler, of Lowell, was to-day nominated for Congress by the democracy of the Exghth district. In the Third district the republicans have nominated Hon. Chas. Francis Adams for Congress, AtBany, Oct. 7, 1858. Hon. Clark B. Cochrane was renominated by tho repub- licans of the Kighteenth district for Congress yesterday. ‘is nomination wae ale afegind ayes Seen pa Oct. 7, 1858. This, tho third day of tho Fair, opencd with showers, which continued moro or less all day, but they did not materially interfere with the enjoyment of the Fair. The rain, however, bad an effect on tho receipts, which, al- though execeding yesterday's total, fell short of the third Cay’s receipts last year at Buffalo. New Haven County Fair. Warrxsvry, Conn., Oct. 7, 1868, The New Haven County Fair closed here toduy. The exhibition bag been an unusually fine onc. Mons. Reg- nard made a successful balloon ascension in spite of the rain, at half-past threo this afternoon, and landing some five miles north, reached this city in safety at about half- past six A Murderer Sentenced. Eacts Burnan, Vt. , Oct. 7, 1666, Martin Wallace, an Irishman, was convicted of the mur- der of Barney McIntyre, which was committed about one mile from this place on the evening of tho 16th of Februa- ry last. He received his sontence at the Court Houso im Salem, Washington county, to-day at 2 o'clock P. M., to On Sunday last an Irishman in the employ of Mr. HL Rancroft, Quakers’ Hill, Dutchess county, was shot by the latter's brother. The murdorer is still at ne steps yet having been taken to apprehond hm. New Oncxans, Oct. 7, 1868. ‘The deaths in this city by yellow fever yesterday wore fifty-wix. ‘To Time AGENT oF Te AsocuATEn Pret Please givo circulation to the following admonition — Strangers should k: away from New Orieans une thero is a matkod abatement of the fever, of which they will be duly advised. The ecitonay is Dow suatained Lew comers. G. SEYMOUR, Lad a of the New ocseals meee Press. Fire at Cinctonatl. Cinerxwatn, Oct. 7, 1858. At two o'clock this morning a fire broke out in D. P. Still's liquor store in Columbia street, this city, whiok, with its contents, was destroyed. The fire then comma- nicated to the Miami Oil Works, and to the building ocow- pied by Merars. Lay Bros., manufacturers of printers’ ink, which was also nearly destroyed. Loss $20,000; insur ance bot ascertained. ” Fire, Curveann, Oct. 7, 1868. An extensive barret factory at Akron, Ohio, was de. stroyed by fire Inst night, by which seventy five mon are thrown out of employment. Loss, $10,000; insurances 96,000. Illness of a New York Insurance President. Pwirapeirma, Oct. 7, 1858. James T. Tallman, President of the Empire City Inaw- rance Company, New York, has been attacked with para- lysi#. He has been upon a visit to bis relatives here. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Prmaomrma, Oot, 7, 1968. Stocks steady: Pennsylvania State 5’, Rw) pect, 244%; Morris Canal, en? Long Iriand . 11%; Ve hnsyivania Railroad, sag New Onuraxe, cas % _ = Cotton unchanged; sales to-day Tie. Flour has an even Floor to Boston 660.; 4 See. Storing ig See Sty per cent, Light di on New 114 per cout dissount. CHARLTON, Oct, 6, 1868, For cotton there is little te tnaele7 and prices ‘are weak. ‘The sales to-day sum up 300 oe oAuauera, Ga., Oot. 6, 1860, The heavy Lee a om at ‘terior towne cause a feeling of general depression in the market. BALTIWORR. Oct. 7, ‘ys Flour unchan sales of Ohio at $6 50, m: red, $1 16 a $1 20; white, 3190 91 bs, Corn firm. white, The. a 78.; Yellow, 83c. a 86c. Provisions dull, Coffee’ buoyant: fair Rio, Tie. a 11\e. Picapeurma, Oct. 7, 1868, Flour quiet. Wheat by my Corh—A tendency: rales at 88, a 900. for yellow. Whiskey at Mo, a 24Ke. CrverewaTt, . Flour dull; moro sellers than buyors; Talon u) Mion 04 60 for euporaoe, Bley woe net much: fy w Corn duit at 600. #15'25. Lard, in bbis., 100. a 106. _ La fgg Wha Sonne at 660. ed vanced 20. stead, 1,400 bbis. flour, 31 ¥ 5 x hae, Shipman Seatinese. asa ALO, Oot, 76 P. Me The market for flour continues ach tod’ iow and buyers are only taking f in renin wots Prices waded downward. Sales: 750 bb! “tnt See choles superfine, $6 124% for exten Wiscodain; Bea $5 60 for good to choice extra Indiana, Michigan, Cana diaw aud Yio, $0 16 (or double oxtrm = Whomk dull and dL