The New York Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1858, Page 4

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We do not 1 cOmmuntioutio return ¢ ations ADVERTISEMENTS renewed every day ; advertisements in- terted in the Weexty Henxatn, Pawtcy Hemaun, and tn the \ in Bchtions, executed with neatness, cheapness and dew Cabforwia and Bury JOB PRINTIN Patch, mirteeuth atrma—MAx MARET JAY AND NYESING PERYORM RNANI—LINDA DI CHAMOUSIN~BALLAT DIVERTS MENT—SonGs, Duets, &o. AKAWELL BENE! NIBLO'S GARDEN, Kroatway.—Pau eRerTR, KOWERY THEATRE, sowery.—Paaxtom—Raovi—Tus PRIVATEER OF "76. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Nornixe Vestune, Noruing Worn—Nerress's Dereat—Win, Nor Wow. LAURA KEENB'S THKATRE, 624 Mroadway.—Tar Bivats—Fra Diavo1o, BARNUM’S AMKRIOAN MUS reulng wat way.—Aftervon: ¥ M, Broad —Tiopon's Minie Worto— Dx. VALENTINE, &C, WOOD'S MINSTREL BULLI Srmortas Bonds, Dances, £0. 561 and 963 Hroadway- ep Bais. MEUAANTO'S HALL, 472 rowaway.—isy awes! MineTKRLs —Neako Sonat anv BUKLESQUES—HoswouTH FiRLD. CAMPBELL BacTe cies. 8 way. —Krworian Ons GROUND Katunoan, ny, October 10, 1858. The News. Eleven days’ later intelligence from California ached St. Louis last evening by the overland tail, which left San Francisco on the 16th of feptember. On the arrival of the mail Mr. lutterfield immediately telegraphed the fact to he President, at Washington. This first trip ~as been made in twenty-three days and four hours, and is an instance of what may be ac complished by active and energetic mail contract- ors. Six passengers came through with the mail. The mail westward was making satisfactory Progress at Jast accounts, being then 814 miles from St. Louis, and twenty-seven hours ahead of the time table. Only one detention of consequence had been experienced up to that time, although the mail had been somewhat delayed by the refrac- tory nature of the mules. The news from Califor- nia should reach here to-night, and we hope to be able to spread it before our readers in to-morrow’s issue. Our European files by the Canada, dated in Paris on the 24th, and in London on the 25th ult., reached this city from Boston last evening. The full tele- graphic summary from Halifax, which appeared in the Heratp on Friday last, embraced the main features of the news, with the latest financial and commercial reports. Advices from Cadiz state that the Boston ship Cashangar, from Sunderland, laden with coal, was burned to the water's edge on the night of the 23d of September. No lives were lost. The new movewent of the exhibitors at their Meetings yesterday are given in detail in another part of to-day's issue. The committee are in strong hopes of success. Mr. Charlick’s offer of the Eighth Avenue depot for the use of the inventors con- tinuing the Fair, has been accepted. On Monday evening they contemplate holding @ public meeting of all interested in the success of the artist, the in- ventor, the mechanic and the agriculturist, and making an organization for the continuation of the Fair. According to the statement of the commit- lee, they are greatly encouraged by promises of co-opcration. Their vision extends beyond the present Fair, as will be seen by the report else- where, and the breach between them and the Insti tute is hourly widening—their contidence is gone— as the managers thought it “inexpedient” to make the eflort they thonght now necessary to save them. The freight steamer Hercules burst her boiler yes terday, cighteen miles below Ogdensburg. All the crew were missing except two, who were badly burned. According to the report of the City Inspector there were 420 deaths in the city during the past week—a decrease of 15 as compared with the mor- tality of the week previous, and 33 less than occur- red daring the corresponding period of last year. Diseases of the stumach aud bowels, including that scourge of infants, cholera infantam, are rapidly on the decrease, while dropsy iu the head and conges tion of the brain are again prevalent. Compiaints of the lungs and throat show a slight decrease in fatality, as do also fevers generally. No cases of yellow fever,and bat three each of typhoid and typhay fever have occurred during the past week. The following table shows the number of deaths for the past two weeks among adults and children, Gistinguishing the sexes:— Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total Ld cd 2 %. 136186 i Week ending Cet. Week ending ct. 433 an Among the principal causes of death were the following :— ——Week enting—— On. 2. Oct. 9. 6 6 3 st Convuisions (infantiic)...... 2 Pry Cholera infantum...... a2 uv rr Ww 19 15 8 au & 6 19 at 10 5 Maracwus (alantiie) . Scarlet fever. 1 1 There were also 1 ses of congestion of the brain, ¥ of croup, 16 of hooping cough, 2 of «mall- pox, 2 of palsy, 3 of puerperal fever, 1 of insanity, 1 of delirium tremens, 1) of diseases of the heart, L rupture of the liver, 5 premature births, 30 still- born, and 16 deaths from violent causes, The an pexed table shows what portions of the human sy+ tem have Ween must affected: — ae NEW YORK HFRALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1858, he Political Ficld@—The Dead Tasues of the Past end the Living Issues for Fatw: ji is a most remarkable and suggestive fact in referenee to our political affairs, that while— tonebing our lite and approaching State elec- tions—the stump speakers and newspaper organs” on all sides have been, and are, most assiduoasly lnLoring to get up a popular excitement—they have failed to shake off the general apathy which bas fallen upon the publie mind, The reason is, that between the dead issues of the part and the living issues for the future, we are just at that poiat of dead low water which pre- ccdes the tarning of the tide. The three lat: overshadowiug subjects of political agitatiou— Kansas, Mormondom and the filibustering ques- tion—are practically settled, dead and done for, and hence the failures and the folly of our stupid party politicians in their attempts to galvanize these defunct issues into life again, Poor Pierce was elected as the especial cham- pion of the great peace measures of 1 But be violated them, and, in ction with Doug- jas, he re-opened the slave tation, and in a shape so disastrous to the democracy that, but for the saving popularity of Mr. Buchauaa, it would have utterly destroyed the party 'n 1856 Narrowly himself escaping a dete: found among the ministration the settlement of the ugly le; passed over to him from the imbecile administra- tions of Pierce and Fillmore, including Kansas, with all its insurrectionary complications, the Mormon nuisance, ripened into open rebellion, and the Nicaragua filibustering imbroglio. He has, however, not only reduced these embar- rasements to a practical solution; but, as far as practicable, he has settled the British question of the right of search, and has utterly extinguished the late movement of the Southern fire-eaters for the revival of the African slave trade. With the practical disposition of these issues, therefore, they have fallen, like the question of a national hank, among the “obsolete ideas” of the day. What, then, have we for the future? The most abundant materials for a complete dissolution and reconstruction of our existing political par- Perhaps, too, in view of the “manifest des- of Cuba, and of the manifest necessities of co, the President in his next annual mes- sage to Congress may throw out son.» important suggestions which will quickly bring these ques- tions into the foreground. In any event, they cannot remain much longer in the back ground. We should not be surprised, for instance, ifa proposition were to come up in this Congress, at an early day, comprehending, in reference to Cuba, a board of commissioners to meet a similar board on the part of Spain upon the question of the sale of Cuba and Porto Rico to the United States for a round equivalent in cash. The advantages of such a trans fer to Spain are daily becoming more and more apparent; while on our part, both sections of the Union would largely profit from these im- portant acquisitions—the North commercially, and the South politically—trom the balance of power which this accession of two or three new slave States would involve. Mexico is our “sick man” of Turkey, and we connot much longer avoid the duty ofinterposing to rescue that wretched mockery of a re- public from its present rapid, downward course to utter anarchy and barbarism. There should be rome propositions for Congressional ac- tion thrown out in the President's message of December upon this subject, contemplating, for example, a special embassy of three or five com- petent men to Mexico, in view of the absolute re- construction of her government upon a basis which will secure her for the future against all revolutionary conspirators from within or with- out. We are aware, meanwhile, that the President has not been disregardful of the claims of Mexico upon our bumanity, nor of our policy in the premises; and we shall, therefore, antici- pate in his annual message some suggestions cal- culated to initiate a pesceful, radical and whole- some revolution in that quarter of our continent. And thus, upon this issue, as upon Cuba, we may even now be standing upon the threshold of a great public discussion, which, in Congress and ibroughout the country, will leave our political issues of 1856-7-"8 as far out of sight as the issues of Captain Tyler's administration. Jn the next place, the financial revulsion of 1957 has disclosed the utter inefficiency of our existing financial systems, State and national, for the practical purposes of steady, honest busi- ness, in apy of the departments of agriculture, commerce, or manufactures or corporations, Our banks, bankruptcies, tariffs, currency, &c., must be remodelled from top to bottom upon the basis of a uniform federal system of checks and balances, or these disastrous periodical revul- sions will recur as surely as the causes which produce them. Under our existing laws, federal and local, excessive paper money issues, exces sive importations, unscrupulous speculations, frauds, forgerics and embezzlements, and the gencral extravagance and dishonesty which they create will, in due time, precipitete another gene- ral collapse and all its ruinous consequences, In this view, the federal legislation demanded by the necessities of the country, though evaded at the last session of Congress, cannot much longer be evaded. We hope that the President, in Trecember, will re-enforce the whole subject upon the attention of both houses, in conacetion with the exigencies of the federal treasury, and from this point we may anticipate a general agita- tion, in all ite bearings, of the money question, which, at least for a Presidential campaign or two, will cast the negro question entirely in the ehade. Entertaining these views of the dead issues of the past and of the living issues which are loom- ing wp in the future, we regard all the late and ab, ponsibi ties. | existing electioneering twaddle upon Lecompton, _ the slave oligarchy, Southern rights, popular Drweases Oct. 2 Oct. 9. Bones, joimte, MO... ccc eee o 8 a 70 53 2 7 6 16 126 122 POTTS eee oe 3 3 Bkin, &c., and eruptive fevers . 0 . Stuiborn and premature births 32 6 mach, bowels and other digest ve organs 139 iM tai newt and general fevers. .... 66.6 a 2 t owe ° seenees _ i Crinary organs 8 é Total ren 420 | The number of ded@hs, compared with the cor- Tesponding weeks in 1866 and 185%, were as fol dows: Week ending Oct. 11, 1856 Week det. 10, 1867 Week & p Ook 2, TRGB Week « Ook 9, 1856 The nativity table gives 1 natives of the United Btate«, 54 of Ireland, 21 of Germany, 9 of England 2 of France, 6 of Scotland, and the balance of va ious foreign countries. The sa ies of cotton yesterday were moderate, being com Bed t shout 700.0 800 bales, at steady prices. Flour oont! rule dull, with @ drooping tendency in prices, @epec fo inferior and common grades, while sales Wore to. oir extent, Wheat was heavy and sales limited, fweluc yarcels of Tennessee and Southern, at prices Given |) other columa. Corn was less bueyant, wiuie Dew whraced Western mixed at 704 750., with « GChotee «.1¢o by a etoam canal boat at T4c. Pork was dui! with » of mene at $16 60 for old, and old prime at ue ‘new do. at 9146 76. Sugars were firm, with Bales of «b00' 1,500 boxes, and about 1,000 hhds. at full Prices. Cote wax quiet and prices unchanged. Freight Sugagements continued to be light, and rates without Giange of momeut | sovereignty, Dred Scott, the Cincinnati plat- form, the white Douglas, the black Douglass and Morgan, as but the feeble expiring flickerings from the embers of our Crystal Palace and its magazine of curiosities. ‘The political iseuce of 1856 are consumed—the issues and parties for 1860 have yet to appear. ConernssionaL Nowisationa.—In the ‘West- chester district the democrats have put in nomi- nation the Hon. Governeur Kemble who has for- merly represented them in Congress, Haskins will be his opponent, but the chances are very much in favor of the former and against the latter. Mr. Kemble is a gentieman of high character, integrity and intellect. Mr. Haeking is just what he was at the last session — not much to brag of. Haskins’ principal stock in trade for the run arises from the fact that Greeley, at the cost of eixpence for zine, has galvanized him into «complete nigger worshipper without the cue. Kemble can beat such an article out and out. General Walbridge is also in the field in the Third district, aud seems to be carrying every- , thing before him hy the eloquent speeches he \s the making all round the district, His chances seem | to be positive. Demoraization on Boarp Emigrant Suirs.— In another column will be found a report of the Conference of the German Societies tor the promotion of the interests of emigrants It will be seen that the charges preferred against the captains and officers of emigrant ships of the sys- | tematic seduction and demoralization of their female passengers have been made the subject ofa substantive resolution for the sep uation of | the two sexes, Whilst we cordially approve of this regulation, we wish to be understool as dis- | senting trom the sweeping argaments ou which it is founded. Although we are ready to admit that there may be instances in which the officers of emigrant ships forget their duties and respou- sibilities in this connection, we caanot assent to the general sondemuation passed by Mr, Jelling- haus and others on the conduct of our mercan- tile marine. It is difficult to believe that men who add to their obligations to their employers the feelings and sentiments of husbands and fa- thers can be guilty of the conduct imputed to them, There may be exceptions, butas a rule we should judge that the officers of emigrant ships are not worse, if they are not better, than the generality of persons occupying similar positions of trust. Ifwe are correct in this opinion the question arises, to what causes are to be traced the com- plaints prefer: | against this useful class of men? One would 5: \ose that the evidence on which they are founded would prima facie be suilicient to disprove all such charges. It is the custom, for instance, when female emigrants arrive here exceinte for them to attribute their condition to the loose discipline prevailing on board the ves- sel in which they have come. A moments re- flection would show that this statement is physi- cally impossible, but it nevertheless obtains credence with persons like Mr. Jellinghaus, who are accustomed to accept their facts without ex- amination, and to take upon trust whatever may chime in with their prejudices, The truth of the matter is that a large majority of the female emigrants who are sent to us from the Eurepean continent, are persons who have lost their moral status at home, and who are compelled to seek a new and wider field for their operations, Women of this class never hesitate to saddle with their responsibilities the unwary and unsuspecting, and the frank and generous nature of the sailor renders him an easy victim to thei’ seductions. Hence it is that this sweep- ing charge against the officers of emigraat vessels has obtained such easy credence. The number of vicious persons cast upon our shores by the activity of the European police has, within late years, inereased to such an ex- tent that it has been found necessary to endeavor to impose limits to it. During the last session of Congress piles of affidavits were forwarded to Washington to show the expediency of opposing some legislative check to this growiag evil, but, unfortunately, no action was taken in the matter. In the meanwhile, however, the attention of our local authorities has been directed to the means of preventing European communities from shift- ing upon our shoulders burdens which they find it inconvenient to carry. It is only a short time since they sent back a ship full of lunatics and paupers, who were generously forwarded to us from England to provide for. It is enough for us, one would suppose, to tind work for their su- perabundant working population, without being compelled to supply food and shelter to the super- annuated and idle whom they find it onerous to support. Already the poorhouses of our city are sufficiently overcharged with the redundancy of pauper helplessness which has been trans- ferred to our care by the paternal tenderness of the European governments. We have at the pre- sent moment at our charge in New York a num- ber of foreign poor equivalent to the population of eight New England villages. It is to be hoped that Congress, during its next session, will fiud means to arrest this growing evil. It is enough to have our shores deluged with foreign thieves and bandits, without having our female population by an Tnfuslon of the Po mi oper pe walkers of the European capitals. Ane tur American Prorie Becomtna Pryst- CALLY Decrxenateé ?—It has become the habit of late, with some of our public lecturers, to re- present the American people as a nation who are rapidly losing that vitality and physical energy which are the distinguishing features of the Anglo-Saxon race, Taking the mere unsupport- ed assertion as a fact, they indulge in long and sickly Jeremiads over our supposed degeneracy, and with a melancholy spirit, that takes a sad pleasure in evil forchodings, predict the near ap- proach of the day when we shallbe a nation of helpless imbeciles—when we shall have lost our manhood, our strength and our vigor, and be come an effete and wornont race, We are disparagingly compared to the English people, and told that we have lost that stamina and backbone which have made them the con- querors of territories unequalled ia extent by those of any other nation. If this is really the case, we have good cause for alarm; but let us look into the evidence, and see if there is any truth in the assertion. Where are the proofs by which such #tatements are sustained? Are they to he found in the gymnasiums which are daily springing up around us; in those great volunteer military organizations which pervade the country to its utmost extent; in the yacht and rowing clubs which have been es tablished in all our seaboard cities; in our fire companies, which are noted for the physical en- ergy of their members; in our base ball and racket clubs; in the private gymnasiums, which those who have the means have erocted in their dwellings? Where are we to find the proofs? we again ask. Is it among the men of our frontier States and Territories, who have sufficient vitali- ty and manhood to infuse life and vigor into a whole continent? Are we to look for them among those vast armies of laborers whose arm clears away the forest, levels the mountains and builds up cities—not only in a lifetime, but within a brief period of three or four years? Does all this look like degeneracy, or is it possi- ble that a people who give so much time and at- tention to the production of the best breeds of horses are Hikely to be indifferent to their own physical training? How many schools have been established recently for the education of our young men in the manly art of self-defence ?— an art which, it is to be regretted, is too often abused by being made subordinate to the brutal amusement of the prize ring. Our youth are as athletic and as fond of manly sports as those of England or any part of Europe, and need not fear to enter the lists with avy competitors which the Old World can produce. Horae racing and horse fairs have become common all over the country, and the use of the horse by both men and women for equestrian purposes is rapidly in- creasing in popularity. Ample opportunities will be presented for the indulgence of this healthful exercise by the opening of the exten- sive drives through the Central Park next spring, and we have no doubt that it will even- tually rival the greatest of the Loudan parks as a place of resort for the people, Is it not time that all this nonsense about the physical degeneracy of our people were dove | away with, and that we heard no more of those Jeremiads' which our lecturers have been wont to inflict upon their audiences? If the history of our past has any significance, it proves that we have done more in the same space of time than any other nation on the face of the earth, and we need only look at the wonderful develope- ment which we are now making of our great re- sources, and the rapid progress of our country in material and physical greatuess, to prove that we are not the ignoble sons of worthy sires, which these lecturers would have the world be- ieve. oe eee Tux Amentcan InsirrvTs at WaR with THE Exuinirors.—The destruction of the Crystal Pa- lace by fire last Tuesday evening, and the con- flagration of all the valuable articles there on exhibition , has precipitated a collision between the managers of the American Lustitute aud the th'rty-nine hundred exhibitors. It required but an incident like this to develope the sentiments of hostility which a long course of mismanage- ment on the part of the Institute had very gene- rally awakened among exhibitors and with the public, And now we see a practical direction given to that feeling. The exhibitors and the managers are arrayed against cach other, as if they represented not the same but totally diverse and opposing interests. The managers held a mecting on Friday, in which they came to the determination not to renew the exhibition this year. This proved to be at variance entirely with the wishes of the exhibitors themsclves. They, too, have been holding meetings, in which they have expressed emphatically their disapprobation of the whole course of the American Institute. They had many grievances to complain of. A committee which they had previously appointed complain- ed that it had been shabbily treated by the Institute in this, that it had been invited to attend the meeting of the latter body, and when it presented itself, in compliance with the invi- tation, had been refused admittance. One ex- hibitor remarked that the Institute had disre- garded the wishes of the exhibitors, and treated them with neglect, not to say contempt. Ano- ther remarked that the courage and devo- tion of the American Institute had all leaked out—or, in other words, that it was un- faithful to its trusts. Another observed that the exhibitors had been cast off by the Institute, and that they should now look out for themselves. And, in fine, the sense of the meeting found ex- pression in a set of resolutions, which were una- nimously adopted, reciting that every fair and honorable proposition that could be suggested for the purpose of continuing the present Fair under the auspices of the American Institute had been rejected by its managers, and resolving that as inventors and exhibitors they would continue the Fair under their own management and direc- tion, and would apply to the Legislature of the State for a charter. This is a bold declaration of war made by the inventors and exhibitors of the couniry against the miserable corporation which has existed for thirty years under the title of the American In- stitute, The imbecility, ignorance aud care- lessness perseveringly manifested by the In- stitute must eventually have ended in such a coup d'état on the part of long-suffering exhi- bitors. We ned not point to the conflagration of the Crystal Palace as evidence of the inat- tention of the managers to the interests of the exhibitors and of the public. Property variously estimated at from a quarter of a million to a mil- lion of dollars was placed in their charge, and for the want of the commonest care and atten- tion on their part was suffered to be consumed, with a rapidity only equalled by the course of a prairie fire. What cao be said in favor of that sort of management which would leave unguard- ed a store room abutting on the street and ex- posed to the brand of the incendiary, piled up with all sorts of inflammable materials, such as seasoned wooden patterns dry as tinder, empty oil barrels and paint barrels, and the odds and ends of such @ place? But not only did the managers of the American Institute fail to observe the slightest precaution against the villanous designs of incendiaries or the mischiev- ous pranks of idle boys, but they did not even see that in the event of fire from that or any other quarter of the building, there was a supply of water at hand to extinguish it. They did see that there were hydrants in the building, and hose attached thereto, but they had not the curiosity to examine whether the hydrants were supplicd with a sufficient volume of water; and when the necessity for the water came, there was not, as one Witness expresses it, head of water sufficient to readily expand the hose to its full extent. That was a specimen of the management of the Tastitute, which may be now regarded as defunct. The burning of the Crystal Palace will be long regretted by the citizens of New York, aud of the whole country; but there will be few, we imagine, who will expend any amount of sympa- thy on the American Institute. It has long failed to give satisfaction either to exhibitors or the pub- lic. It was full time that its existence should cease. It is only to be regretted that, to accomplish such a end, the destruction of the Crystal Palace was found requisite. As the French verb runs, “ The game was not worth the 0.” Qvanners Axoxe Cuurcumen.—Churchmen teem to have as great a penchant for getting into difficulties as ordinary mortals bave; and unfortunately for themselves they do not always follow the good advice given by Napoleon to one of his family—not to expose their dirty linen in the view of their nei On the contrary, they are very proue to let their squab- bles and bickerings get into print, to the great scandal of holy mother church. It is only some few years ago since the religiouscommunity was much exercised by a series of charges made against a Protestant bishop of a neighboring diocesa, and supported by several of that bishop's peers, but from which he was absolved by an Episcopal convention composed of the clergy of his own diocess, That same reverend father has again got his name mixed up ina dis- pute with one of his clergy on a point of church discipline; and, scandalous to relate, some of the religious newspapers of the city seize the opportunity to revive the old charges and to say some very uncharitable things anent the good Bishop. Tt seems that the cause of this war among the churchmen was the somewhat curious and note- worthy fact that a clergymaa of the Drotestaat tg 7 ‘den, of Phila- kpt copal Chureh—Rev. Mr. Car,’ CRI delphia—permitted a heterodox m™°™ iat belonging to the Methodist persuasion—w' = him in administering the communion in the Qv~ cese of New Jersey, This was a rare instance of toleration and liberal-mindeducss, somewhat akin to that related of @ famous Irish priest, who gave the loan of his congregation to a Protes- tant minister, on the occasion of a visitation from the bishop. But Bishop Doane, in whose province this infraction of discipline took place, was not inclined to regard it in that sense. He addressed to the offending minister an admoni- tion, in which he characterized the act as an “aet of misbchaviour;” und Mr, Carden was re- commended in the most affectionate terms never to do such a naughty thing again. Mr. Carden appcars to receive the admonition of the bishop with all due humility, At least he does not essay a justification of his conduct in any of the Philadelphia newspapers, religious or profane. But the Prtoestant Churchman, of New York, takes up the cudgels for him, or allows him to make use of its columns, This paper, which is edited by the Rev. Dr. Tyng, the Rev. Dr. Anthon and the Rev. Dr. Canfield—three eminent divines of the Episcopal church—mocks at what it calls a ridiculous and empty interdict; insinuates that the source and character of that interdiet preclude its having any moral force; recommends Mr. Carden to treat the affair with the disrespect it so richly merits, and taunts the Bishop with bringing a stigma on his order by the desperate wriggling with which he escaped an investigation upon serious charges once pre- sented against himself. This is the present condition of the quarrel. Whether Bishop Doane, who is a spirited shep- herd of the church militant, will be couteat to smile at the attack of the Churchman upon him, and to let its taunts pass in that silence which so well becomes the saints, we cannot say. If, however, he should not be disposed to follow that course, but should come out with a rejoinder to the attacks of this trinity of clerical editors, we may expect to see them most exquisitely lacerated, for the Bishop is hardly behind his Catholic bro- ther of New York in the powers of sarcasm. It is a mighty pretty quarrel as it stands. Pucnper or THE Crry Finances—Rerort or tux Jom? Commrrrex or Accounts.—It will be nothing new to our readers to learn that the communication from the Joint Committee on Ac- counts of the Common Council, which we pub- lish to-day, contains along category of frauds; for every document which has issued from that source since the committee was organized has becn a history of theft and plunder by officials of the Corporation—contractors and others en- gaged in the business of what is called the city government. The communication referred to is a statement of the affairs of the Department of Collector of Assessments from 1853 to 1856, during the stew- ardship of Isaac Edwards. We have before al- luded to the fraudulent system carried on in this depariment, whereby the unfortunate property owners were fleeced—first, in the unjust amount of assessments levied on them, and again in the deputy collectors not paying the money into the treasury, but leaving the liens stand on the re- cord against the property, thus creating gua oly stacle to its transfer. In examining the accounts for the period above specified the committee state that they found the following descriptions of errors to exist:— 1. Errors in footing assessment livts, 2. Assessment paid in the treasury, but not discharged of record. 3. sessmicnts discharged of record, but not paid into the treasury 4. Assessments paid to collector not paid in treasury and not discharged of record. b. Assesaments not discharged of record and not re- turned to Bureau of Arrears. 6. A class of errors which cannot be ascertained as yet, consisting of payments paid to co!lectors, (ne mouey Tetained by them, and no entry whatever on the books to show it; eases are found out by parties exhibiting their receipts for said payments. They then proceed to analyze twenty-nine in- dividual accounts of the Collector and his depu- ties, with the names of the parties, in all of which some of the above errors were found to exist. It appears that there are four thousand different liens on real estate in this city and county, amounting in the aggregate to $195,831 52, which have never been returned to the Bureau of Arrears, as the law provides shall be done. “A large portion of this amount,” say the commit- tee, “is known to have becn paid, and the gene- ral opinion is that all, or nearly all, of that amount has been paid, but not credited.” Moreover, this committee are of opinion that nearly the whole of this large sum will bave to be charged to “profit and lose; that is to say, will have to be paid over again by the city. This is the way that collectors and deputies, and all the rest of them, grow rich, and keep fasi horses, yachts, and so forth. The ingenuity die played in the manner of pretending to keep these accounts 60 that no fraud shall appear, is a model in its way. No one knows better how to mysti- fy an account so as to make © orything appear all right, when it is really all wrong, than a New York corporate official; and it is no wonder, for practice, they say, makes perfect. Out of the twenty-nine erroneous accounts here produced, the error in fifteca of them is shown to be # deficiency on the part of the de- puties—amounting in the total to $22,045. It is unnecessary to go further into the details of this document. It is enough to say that, mon- strous as they are, they represent but a very small part of the system by which our citizens have been robbed and plundered for many years AL a this case the committee have very properly not confined themeclver, as heretofore, to generali- ties, or to simply stating the facts of a fraud without pointing to guilty individuals; but they give the name of the party in connection with every case upon whom the crime may be sup- posed to rest. It must be remembered that this communieation only touches the accounts of the Collector of Assessments down to 1856. The committee have a rich placer before them yet, in the three succeeding years; and if we can judge from the recent report of the Street Commissioner on the accounts of Mr. Taylor—which shows a deficit of $227,000-—we may expect an immense developement when they have passed through the searching serutiny of Homer Franklin and bis secountants, Nor are the accounts of this de- partment an exception, by any means: the sys- tem here employed is the rule for all the depart- ments and bureaus of the manicipal government. How long it is to continue is a question which the oppressed taxpayers themselves must an- ewer. As long as the affairs of the city are left in the hands of rogues and rascals, just #0 long will the citizens have to pay the penalty of their apathy in submitting to such rule. ‘The recent action of the Grand Jury, in indict- ing the Collector of Assessments and his deputy, upon whose heads the criminality in this vace is alleged to reat, is a step in the right direction, and we hope it will be followed up rigorously, THE LATEST NEWS. VERY LATE FROM CALIFORNIA, At¥ival of the First Overland Mail, SHORT TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS, &e., &., &e. prea Sx. Lovns, Oct. 9, 1848. Mr. Auex. HoLLanp:— Mr. Buttorficld will be here this evoning with the evar. land mail, twenty-three days from San Francisco, 8S. M. ALLEN. DESPATCH TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Sr. Lours, October 9, 1856. ‘Tho California overland mail by the Southern route will reach hore to-night. It has been twenty-four days owt. ‘The dates from San Francisco are to the 16th of Septem- ber, ten days later than via Panama, DESPATCH FROM MR. BUTTERFIELD TO THE PRESIDENT. ‘Wasuinaron, Oct. 9, 1856. ‘The President has received a telegraphic despatch from John Butterfield, President of the Overland Maa Company, dated St, Louis, Oct. 9, informing him that the great overland mail arrived there to-day from San Fram- cisco in twenty-three days and four hours, and that the ‘stages brought through six passengers. THE PRESIDENTS REPLY. ‘The President replied by telegraph, as folows:— Wasstnaron, Oct. 9, 1868. Jou Burranrmp, President, &e.:— Sm—Your despatch hag been recoived. I cordiatiy congratulate you upon the result. It is a glorious triumph for civilization and the Union, Settlements will sooa follow the course of the road, and the East and the West will be bound together by a chain of living Americans, which can nover be broken. JAMES BUCHANAN, ‘This mail was to have left San Francisco on the 16th of September. Our previous advices wore of the 6th of thas month. Consequently the news from California is clover days later, and it ought to be here to-night. This is the first trip of the overland mail from the Pacific, and its arrival at St. Louis at this carly date shows what can be done. It was not expected to reach Fort Smith till the 18th inst. ‘The progress of the mail westward has thus far been very satisfactory. We received the following despatoh. from our special correspondent yesterday :— 10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Four Butxnar, Texas, 819 Miles from St. Louis, Sept. 23, 1858. The Overland Mail arrived here this morning at twenty minutes to six, having been twelve hours in coming the last 35 miles, owing to the obstinacy of the wild mules which Mr, Pates, the superintendent, is compelled to use. Woe are still, however, about twenty-seven hours ahead of the time table, having traversed the hardest roads on the route, and making about one-third the entire distance. We have travelled night and day, the relays of horses be- ing ready at most all the stations promptly. We have suffered but one detention of consequence, and that was of five hours, at Colbert's ferry, over the Red river, where I managed to write you while the express waited. I had expected to be able to write in the wagons when we reached the prairies, but Ifound them too uneven, and the creek crossings and routes too frequent to admit of my carrying out my purpose, We are doing fincly, and as- tonish the natives with the facility of our progress. Show ag it has been, compared with what it can bo when the Toute is fully cetablished, and horses put where they should be in the place of the mules, between Sherman and Fort Belknap certainiy, and I do not know but further. We have been favored thus far with excellent weather, though I felt the extreme warm days and cold nights of this country rather uncomfortable. As night comos on I have to keep putting on clothes, and as morning comes og T gradually take them off, to @ certain extent. I have not seen a bed, or time to get comforable meal, since wo teft St. Louis, This place is the regular military station of the Second Regiment Cavalry, Major Thomas, and now has ten companies stationed here. Iwill, a# soon as poss: bie, give you an account of our journey from Fayetteville, Ark., where my last letter loft us. I havo many oxpecta- tions of going through to San Francisco safely and in uma. YELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS. Bulletin from the Howard Association, TO THE KPITOR OF THK HERALD. New Ontxans, Oct. 9, 1858. The Howard Association of New Orleans decm it their duty to inform the country that the prolonged existence of yellow fever and the present great mortality are sviely ‘owing to the influx of strangers who rapidly fall victina. Timely notice will bo issued by this association of the decadence and dissappearance of the epidemic. D. 1. Rucanpo, Secretary. ” ? Naw Oxumans, Oct. 9, 1868. ‘The deaths in this city by yellow fever yesterday word sixty four. Explosion of the Steamer Hereules, de. Oswnco, N Y., Oct. 9, 1858. ‘The freight steamer Hercules, running on the St. Law- rence river from Montreal, a very new and largo boat, blew up this morning while passing up the Du Plate rapids, eighteen miles below Ogdensburg. Ail the crow are missing but two, who are so badly burned that it is doubtful if they will survive. A vessel that arrived ab Ogdensburg this morning reports seeing Moating in the lower end of Lako Outario the uppor works of & steamer. As several freight and other boats are not beard from, fears are entertained for their safety The gale has but slightly subsided. Locman, Ky, Oot 9, 1868. Colonel Preston has accepted the nomination of Munistar to Spain. Our Special Washington THE POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT WITH REFERENCE TO CANTRAL AMEMICA, ETC. Wassivarow, Oct. 0, 1868, ‘Senor Yrisarri, Minister from Nicaragua, is in Waehing ton by invitation, as also Mr. J. 1. White aud Mr. Purroy, of the American and Atlantic Ship Cana! Company, to coa- sult with the government concerning the aifairs of the ‘Transit route, It is understood that while the administra tion will not support any claim that is not based on jus- tice, it regards, with the lights before [t, the Canal Com. Pany ax being entitled to its support, especially as that company has evinced the determimation and ability topes again that most important route. The position of the government is, that the route shall be opened, aol that i¢ believes this company has the right and is ina situation to do it. Here is the matter in a nut shell. Vessels of war have been sent oat to each side of the Isthmus to see theso ‘views carried out, three on this side and twoon the other. It is understood they are subject to the orders of General Lamar, onr minister at Nicaragua, to execute the princi pies laid down in General Case's despatch, as heretofore Published in the Himwaun, Jerez, who hag been received a# Minister, is on a epe- Clal mission only, and is instrveted to act in conjunction With Senor Yrisarri, who is the actual minister resident and plenipotentiary. Jerez can do nothing without Yrisarri, This Tam assured of by a letter from President Martine himeelf. Jerez was reerived as minister oncon- dition that he had authority to deliver the Case Yrianrrt troaty as ratitied by the Constituent Assembly, on hie pledge that he would doe. Moe was informed on his re- ception that if the treaty should not be delivered accord. ing to his pledge his mission should be terminated, an@ the President would apply to Congress for power to wa- force the demands of this government. Burning of an Amertean Ship. Boston, Oot. 9, 1868, A telegraphic despatch received in London, September 24, from Cadiz, states that the ship Cashangar, of Doston, Captain Gardner, from Sunderland, Rngiand, with coal, was burned to the water's edge on the night of (he 93d of September, The crew were saved. The Cashangar waa # fine vessel, and was built in Fast Boston tnst fall by Mesers. ©. F. & H. D. Gardiner. ‘The now Rauk of Mutual Redemption was admitted ax ue of the associated banks Of Boston at a mocting of '