The New York Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORLOH BENTEVY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, FICS 8, W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MABSAU OTN FRRNS, cash te advances Mi Mak of the onder THE DAILY HERALD, to cows per cony. FT Penton. tend by mat wih Postage siampe not received as aute * AMUSEMENTS VHIS RVENING. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Joisvs Cason BOWERY THEATRE Rowery.—Oxe Even Saoi—Ovr Gsi—Canrencsn or Rove. METROPOLITAN THRaTEE (Laie Surion’s.—Poor GENtLEMaN. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—O'FLANNIGAN AND rng Fatites—MISCHieVOUS ANNIE, LAUSA KEEN®’B THEATRE, No, 534 Broadway.— Cinpkekita—A Favouits Farce ABNUM'S AMERIUAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—4 far. Boon hors OF The Bxrvaiie—Tanon or Tawwoxrs. Evening—Time TRigs ALi—akNEY THE Bakon, WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 56) aud B63 Broadway— Ermoriax Bones, Dawoms, &6.—Rawnoap Sussa Ur. SRYANTS MINSTRELS, MEOH ANIOS’ HALL, 477 Broad- way.—Naoao Bonas, &c.—Usen Ur. _ HOOLEY'S MINUTRELS, 444 Broa¢way.—Disarrointep Lovexs, DODWORTH’S ROOMS, Broadway.—Srerin SETT's EONG AND Cust Cuat OF TRaveL IX Maw 3 | Wew York, Thursday, June 16, 1859. | The News. The City of Manchester, from Liverpool on the 2d inst., and Queenstown, Ireland, on the 3d, arrived at this port yesterday forenoon. The Europa arrived at Boston yesterday after- noon, from Liverpool, which she left on the 4th in- stant. Her mails reached this city at the usual hour | last night. ‘The arrival of the Europa and the City of Mau- chester puts us in possession of our files of foreign | courts, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1859.-TRIPLE SHEET. | owing to the prosecutions of violators of the ise law which are now progressing in the | The New York Light Guard yesterday gave a ndid entertainment at their Armory to the Mil- ikee Light Guard, now on a visit to this city. A at many invited guests were present. The Mil- ard will leave for home this morn- ted to the boat by the right wing first regiment. The trial of James Glass forthe murder of a man named Owens, in Eln street, last winter, by shooting him on the sidewalk, was concluded yesterday, and the case g'ven to the jury, who rendered a verdict of mauslaughter in the first degree against the pri- soner, The cattle market yesterday was very inactive, and sales effected with much difficulty at a decline of about one cent per pound on last week's prices. The general quality of the cattle offered was some- what inferior to those on the market last week. Some very superior lots, however, brought some- thing more than the current rates. The number of catde offered during the week was 3,342 head, against 3,457 last week. The market for cows and calves was dull, and prices tended downwards. | | There was a plentiful supply of veal, which has ex- | } | through the Welland canal, have been made. The TRIPLE SHEET. | perienced a slight decline. The receipts of sheep and lambs were enormous, the market inactive, | and rates declined. There has been a moderate de- | mand for swine at lower prices, The quotations | for all kinds are given elsewhere. Material reductions in the rates of toll for mor chandise, wheat, flour, corn and staves, passing new tariff went into effect yesterday. Tbe cotton market was firmer yesterday, with an im- proved demand, closing at an advance of one-quarter cent perlb. The gales embraced about 2,700 a 8,000 bales, 1,400 of which were in transitu. We now quote mid- ding uplands firm at lise, per Ib, During the greatest depression within a few weeks past, when tee war panic was at its height, middling uplands touched 1050, from the previous highest point of the season, of about 125{c,, which was a de cline equal to about 2c. per Ib. or $9 per bale. The reaction within a week or two bas been equal to le. pet ib. or $4 50 per bale, which, on an estimated amount o' about 8(0,000 bales in Liverpool and in this country, will make a difference to its holders in the United States and in Evrope of about $3,600,000. The stocks on hand, both papers, and enables us to give full and interesting | details of the operations at the seat of war in Italy. | Our European files by the North Briton reached | this city from Quebec yesterday afternoon. The | papers are dated to June 1. | The views of the administration as to the rights | of naturalized citizens who may return to Europe, | and showing how far they are entitled to the pro- tection of this government, were yesterday pro- mulgated by General Cass in a letter from the State Department. The Secretary states that this government will not interfere in cases where in. dividuals voluntarily return to countries to which they owed military service at the period of their departure for the United States. The State Department has received advices from our Minister at Chile giving all the facts rejatine | cil to the seizure of the brig Townsend Jones. administration has sent instructions to our Min: to demand reparation for revoking the exequ: of the American Consul at Valparaiso, and a of-war has been ordered to that port to look af American interests. Two large cases of silks were received by the State Department yesterday as presents from the Emperor of Japan, accompanied by a letter from the Emperor. The casos were sent to the Patent Office. A suitable letter of acknowledgment will be sent to the Emperor, and presented by Mr. Har- ris, our Minister to that empire. The Japanese | flour was also lees buoyant,iand closed with the turn | } Caarleston Convention, involves nothing more Commissioners are expected shortly to arrive. Captain Norgrave, of the bark Ann Elizabeth, which arrived yesterday from Rosario, reports that on May 1, when he passed Buenos Ayres, there was a constant firing of guns. The firing he sup- posed to proceed from the forces under Urquiza and the Buenos Ayreans, and that a battle was then raging between them. An intimation to that effect Lad been given to Captain Norgrave at Rosario, as he was about leaving that port. Advices, however, direct from Buenos Ayres on the 29th April, by the Parana, state that war had not yet commenced, and that active hostilities would be postponed for a season. The firing mentioned by Captain Norgrave probably proceeded from the Na- tional Guard, who were to have had a field day at the time the firing was heard. The prevalent opinion at Buenos Ayres was that the season for hostile operations had passed for the pre- sent, and that Urquiza was collecting his forces more with a view of intimidating the national Con- gress at Parana than to invade Buenos Ayres. Ur- quiza's appeals to Paraguay and Montevideo for assistance were unsuccessful. The Legislature of Buenos Ayres was to meet the first week in May. Mr. Yancey, our Minister to the Argentine Confe deration, was anxious to return home, and had ten- dered his resignation to the State Department. We have six days later advices from Utah. The Mormons are represented as collecting in the moun- tains, arming themselves, and leagueing with the Indians. John Wartnett, Secretary of State, had assumed the editorship of the Valley Tan, the antiMormon paper. The survivors of the Moun- tain Meadow massacre were to be brought East by the kindness of Russell, Major aud Waddell, the army contractors. The Mormons had sent East to purchase a cotton mill. The overland California mail, with dates to the 23dalt., reached St. Louis yesterday, but brought no news of importunce, The election for choosing delegates to the Democratic State Convention had been heid. Fourteen convicts had made their escape from the State prison. The new City Inspector, Daniel E. Delavan, was yesterday sworn into office by Mayor Tiemann. He gave bonds in $10,000 for the faithful perform- ance of his duties. At the meeting of the Health Commissioners yes- terday the Health Officer reported the arrival of the hark Yankee Blade at Quarantine, from Montevideo and Rio Janeiro, with a cargo of hides and hair. She was free from sickness in both ports, and has been since she left them. The Commissioners or- dered her to discharge cargo at Quarantine, after which she will have a permit to come up wnder the Supervision of the Health Officer. No other busi- ness came before them, and they adjourned till Friday. The police captains report the condition of the streets much improved and the work of cleansing still in progress. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Emigra- tion yesterday a communication was received from the Quarantine Comwissioners asking them to pro- vide the new floating yellow fever hospital with | supplies of medicine, bedding, &c., and + a staff of physicians, nurses and other a*t to it, at their expe This communication, wii we publish in our report of their proceedi: not acted upon, the Board considering it advisable to consult their counsel ia reference to it. The | number of emigrants arrived during the week was 2,270. The Bible question was at length finally set at rest last evening in the Board of Education. The Board adopted the resolution of the Committee on By-Laws, after much disewssion, by a vote of twe ty-five ayes to sixteen nays. We refer our readers to the report of the proceedings as they appear in another column. Elsewhere will be found full details of the seizure of the alleged bark Orion, off the coast of eceived twe ye all | @t prices given in another column. Pork was heavy and in Liverpool and in the United States, are below those at the same period Iast year. Flour was dull apd easier, especially for State and Weat- ern brands, while sales were moderate, Southern of the market in favor of purchasers. Wheat was heavy, and sales limited. Corn was heavy, with moderate sales, prices easier; new mess old at $17, and new prime at$15, Svgars were in good demand for refining; the sales em- braced 1,800 a 1,000 hhds, Cuba, mostly refining goods, end chiefly within the range of 5c. a 55¢c., with a small lot of New Orleens at 63;c. Coffee was quiet for Rio and for most other descriptions, while sales of 1,400 bags La- gvayra were made at 113ge. a 113¢¢. Freights were un- changed and engagements moderate. The Prealdential Cliques of the Democracy di the Cnarleston Convention. {is a great mistake to suppose that the pre- ent conizoversy between our so-called hard and soft dexnocracy of New York, in reference to the than a pitiful squabble for the public plunder, The spoils of the succession may be the para- mount and exclusive idea with both these fac- tions; but there are other issues, causes and questions at work on all sides, which threaten the precipitate dissolution at Charleston of the democratic party into two hostile sectional camps. The primary object of our soft, or Albany Re- gency clique, is the absolute control of the New York vote at Charleston, which they can cer- tainly command through a State Convention under the engineering of Dean Richmond & Co., of the State Central Committee. The object of the harde is that balance of power which they may secure at Charleston by the election of the delegates under the single district system; for under this plan they could probably elect five, eight, ten or twelve delegates of the thirty-five | to which this State is entitled. As the controlling | idea in this matter on both sides, it has been | given out that each of these factions is working | fora special Presidential candidate, Daniel S. | Dickinson being the champion of the hards, and | Horatio Seymour the pet of the softs, But the real issue between these so-called hards and softs lies between Wise and Douglas—Wise | as the champion for 1860, of the Fernando Wood | faction, and Douglas as the anointed favorite of the Albany Regency and Tammany Hall, The game of Ferrando Wood is to carry down the | Northern democracy to the great Southern wing of the party under Wise; while the game of the Albany Regency aad ite affiliations is to dragoon the Southern democracy into the support of | Douglas or his Northern platform on the slavery | question, The results will probably be—first, the elec- tion of a solid Douglas or squatter sovereignty | delegation from New York by a State Conven- tion, under the management of the Albady Re gency; secondly, the election of a Wise pro- | slavery delegation by another State Convention; | thirdly, the acceptance of the Wise delegation | at Charleston, or that half-and-half recognition which drove the Van Buren free soil faction into | open rebellion in 1848. In the next place we may expect a similar rebellion in 1860; and thus it will be seen that the meaning and the drift of | this seemingly childish quarrel among our New York democracy in reference to the Charleston Convention may be reduced to the final dissolu- tion of the democratic party. | In fact, the party which was saved from the very jaws of destruction by Mr. Buchanan in 1856, has since been practically destroyed as a national organization, through the efforts of its unscrupulous leaders to rule or ruiz the adminis- tration, upon which the preservation of the party depended. In thus abandoning the common cita- del of thelr strength, the various cliques and factions of the democraey have been turned over to the mercy of the common enemy; and worse still, to those intestine quarrels which disperse | aregular army into the miserable factions of a guerilla war. Mr. Buchanan, meantime, remaina as “ calm as Asummer morning.” And why not? He has | done his duty. not only to the country, but in be- hulf of the national reunion of his party. He has discovered, too, that where the party may Prove faithless in the essential business of his | administration, he may rely upon that patriotic | balance of power which the opposition have thus | } far volunteered upon various important mea- sures, “Treason has done its worst” against | | him. He has weathered the storm. He stands erect, His way is clear before him, and as, with the expiration of his official term, be will have nothing ign ask of politicians or parties, he | can have nothing more to fear. To be sure, the | democratic party in 1860 may be scattered to | four winds of heaven, and the Presidential | election may inyolre na in all the feyolutionary | past, the symptoms of the final dissolution of the democracy. In the year 1824, the old Jeffer- sonian republican party, baving lived out its day, died a natural death. Thus, although W. H. Crawford was the nominee of the regular Con- greesional republican caucus, (the system of that day,) he was reduced to the trial of a scrub race, from which the electoral vote stood—Jackson, 99; Adams, 84; Crawford, 41; Clay, 37. Mr. Adams was elected by the House; but a popular reaction followed in favor of Jackson, aud a work of reconstruction which created the demo- cratic party, and the bpposition whig party, and the present National Convention in the place of the old Congressional caucus system of nomi- nating Presidential candidates. This order of things, in its turn, has been pass- ing through the ordeal of revolution since 1852, when the whig party were destroyed and dis- solved. And, as the old republican party began to die with the death of the old federal party, so the democratic party of our day actually com- menced falling to pieces with the dissolution of the whig party, and has been crumbling away ever since. We may thus expect a split in the Charlesion Convention—a Southern democratic pro-slavery and a Northern democratic anti- slavery ticket; and Wise, in this way, pitted by | the South against Douglas in the North. Such a shaping of the Northern democra- cy in 1860 will carry back to them that immense Van Buren free soil vote, which did so much to swell the republican majo- tities in New York and other Northern States in 1856, unless some other man than Seward shall be made the republican candidate. The democratic antecedents of Fremont cap- tured these Van Buren free soilers; and, to save them from Douglas, the republicans may yet be compelled to fall back upon Fremont or some other original democrat of the old Van Buren free soil type. Such are the tremendous contingencies on all sides involved in this apparently contemptible New York democratic feud concerning the Charleston Convention. We are rapidly driftiag to the completion of that revolution and recon- struction of parties which was commenced in 1852, when the whig party went down. The democratic party, according to the laws of na- | ture, should have been removed from the stage in 1856, It was sayed by Mr. Buchanan, only, perhaps, in deserting him, to die a more igao- minious death in 1860. Such are the signs of the times. Corruption in she Government Offices—The Postmaster General and the Delinquents, The extent to which corruption has pervaded the entire fabric of the government calls for some herculean effort to purge the Augean sta. Dles, into which the offices of every branch of the public service have been converted. For seventy years the system adopted in 1789, with the first presidency of Washington, has gone on developing with the growth of the coun- try, till it has now come to the time for passing from the hands of the third to those of the fourth generation from its founders, During this period the times have changed and men have grown old in office. It is true, that with each successive election of President partial re- movals have taken place, but these do not aye- rage more than ten per cent of the officeholders, The others remain, and grow old in the service: The times have changed around them, luxury has become highly developed, and they have found it necessary to increase their expenditures or to decline in social position. At the same time they have been forced to become politicians, if they were not so on coming into office, and to do a great deal of party dirty work. These influences have produced their natural result. ‘Every department of the government is fall of corruption. In this respect our own government does not differ at all from the older ones in Eu- rope. Itis only that the fact is more apparent with us than with them, because through our system of responsibility to public opinion we are obliged to wash our dirty linen in public. These truths are amply borne out by the re- port of Postmaster General Holt on the case of Postmaster Westcott, of Philadelphia, and cer- tain remarks of a Washington journal on our re- cent developements of frauds in the matter of postage stamps, which we publish elsewhere. We are sorry to be compelled to add that in both of these documents there seems to be a disposi- tion to shield the evil doers, rather than to ferret them out and to punish them. The report of the Postmaster General proves that there were thieves in the Philadelphia Post Office, Mr. Westcott, the Postmaster, found it out. In the cash receipts alone the tillfwas short in one quarter $1,525 05, being at the rate of over six thousand dollars a year. More than a hundred persons | had access to the money, so that there was no possibility of finding out who were the thieves. In this dilemma the Postmaster proceeded in the public business as any one | would have done in his own. He assessed the logs on all the parties, thus making them a sort | of mutual guarantee of, and watch over, each other. In thus proceeding Mr. Westcott no doubt committed an indiscretion. He was complained of, and, on the report of Postmaster General Holt; he was discharged. The first aspect in which this transaction arrests attention is, that of pro- tecting the thieves. The report itself is a series of special pleadings in their behalf, and Mr. Holt, in citing and administering the law, holds to its letter and takes no cognizance of its apirit. Its letter condemns Mr. Westcott, and he is con- demned and discharged. Its epiritis to prevent stealing of the public moneys, and yet the thieves are shielded from punishment because their position enables them to contouad them. selves with honest men, and even the incentive to find them out is removed from the latter. All thie may be, and perhaps is, in accordance with the laws that rule the Post Office Department, but we fear that Mr. Holt will find, be 2 Te tires from office, that his views of the proper manner of conducting the public service, as de- | veloped in his report on this case, will have a very bad moral effect on our Post Oftices all over the country. i As for the matter of the recently discovered frauds in the postage stamps, it matters little what a sniffing Washington journal may say. Even if it made a direct and logical denial of our statement, it would carry no weight with the community. But the drivelling sheet makes a guarded depial, which, without impairing the fact we brought out, has the same tendency with the report above commented on—that fs, to shield the corruption and the plunderers in public place. Tts denia) is directed against the amount of the frauds stated by us, and not against the fact excitements af sectional scrub race: but Mr. | itself; it admits the use of the rewashed stamps chanan, reading the futare from the lessons of 1, may still feel easy from his confidence ond thought of vie people.’ to some extent, and then argues that no “con- siderable nomir of theee stamps could be coun ing suspicion, ercrpt it eA ey fellow in this admits the fact that dishonest offi- cialscould do it “without exciting suspicion;” and that is just our conclusion too, The public well knows that there are dishonest officials enough, and Mr. Holt’s report to that effect was not at all necessary. As for the necessity that the frauds should be carried on through the postmasters, we are not so certain, We thought at first that such was the case; but our examination of the subject since the fact of the frauds in postage stamps was brought to our knowledge has led us to believe that even if there were not a single dishonest or corrupt postmaster or Post Office clerk, the business could easily be, and perhaps is, carried on on a large scale without such avail- able assistants, The postage stamp is largely used as a means for remittance of small sums. There are establishments here, and no doubt in all the large cities, that receive hundreds of dol- lars monthly in them. .They cannot use them in their business, the Post Office will not redeom them i cash, and their enly resource is to sell them. This can be done in quantity only, at a discount, and they have no resource but to sub- mit toit. We think if the Postmaster General will investigate this branch of the subject he will find that considerable trade is done in it by others than bis employés, Let us suppose that come one purporting to have received large quantities of postage stamps ip the way of business remittances presents him- self to a stationer and offers to sell them, be- cause he is pressed for money, at twenty per cent discount. The stamps have the real lock, the Post Office passes them, a snif- fling Washington journal or two declare there are no fictitious oncs—why~ should not the stationer, or any one else using large quantities of postage stamps, purchase them on such advantageous terms? This matter requires to be looked into. The Post Office Department is in need of investigation, and every other branch of the public service demands a thorough overhauling. Corruption sits enthroned in them, aud it is quite time that the Augean stables should be cleansed by those in charge of them; and not that the thieves and plunderera should be protected by pettifogging constructions of the law, or be slovenly whitewashed by imbecile journals, Commercial Depression and Financial Buoy- ancy In Europe=—Present Hopes of the Nou-Combatants. The news from Europe presents two appa- rently contradictory and conflicting aspects in ite financial and commercial character. While among the merchants distrust of future posé bilities is increasing, and causing a glut of money through a scarcity of safe employment for it, the stock markets on the contrary exhibit quite a rebound from the panic caused by the declaration of war, and all the government secu- Tities have an upward tendency, In the English funds the advance is fully five per cent, in thoee of France it is more than three per ceut, and in Vienna the stock exchange is reported as being exceedingly buoyant, stocks and shares having been lately largely bought. This conirast of feeling between the mer- chants and stock-jobbers no doubt arises from the greater intimacy of the latter with the diplo- matic circles, and their participation in the hopes entertained by these of successful efforts being made to end the war. We have on several occasions referred to the anticipations in regard to the probable course of events held by'the diplomatists of the non-combatting Powers in Europe. They hope for some early success attending the allied arms, and that immediately afterwards some means may be found for bringing about an ar- rangement between the parties. ‘These hopes are supported by many circum- stances which scem to have a logical connection. It is remembered that immediately after the fall of Sebastopol Louis Napoleon exhibited a spirit of moderation, and even against the wishes of England brought about the peace of Paris. In the present war, he is certainly in the position of having been forced into it by the tenacity of Austria in maintaining her despotism in Italy, and thus keeping the whole of Europe on the verge of revolution. No one forgets that it was agitation in Italy against Austrian domination that led to the revolutions of 1848. Then, we have the recent expressions of the Empress of France calling on the country to have confidence in the moderation of the Emperor when the pro- per time should arrive; the favorable disposition entertained by nearly the whole of Europe for a modification of the treaties of Vienna in accord- ance with present circumstances; the declaration of the Russian official journals, as far back as February last, that war was inevitable, but that after the first great battle those treaties must be revised and remodelled ; and the frequently recurring assertion in diplomatic circles that the Cabinets of the neutral powers express a confi- dence in the limitation of the war to Italy, and of its early cessation, evidently founded on some- thing stronger than mere expectation. To these reagons may be added the fact that the highest interests of every dynasty on the Con- tinent require, not only that the war shall not be- come general, but that Austria shall abandon that despotic and irritating system she has so long held in Italy, and which threatens to in- volve France and the whole of Europe in a bloody revolution. In this point ef view, Louis Napoleon is fighting the cause of all the Euro- pean dynasties, and saving them from the con- tagion of dissatisfied nationalities. Moreover, the expectation that he will not push matters to an extreme point is suetained by the views ex- pressed in his essay on the Napvleonic Ideas, published twenty years ago, when he was looked upon as a mere adventurer, and which views he has carried ont thus far in his career with ein- gular pertinacity. In that essay he recognises and acknowledges as the cause of the fall of the first Napoleon, that he completed his work too hastily, and desired to accomplish in ten years that which required seve- ral generations, Inspired with these views, he then gave utterance to this remarkable pro- phecy:—‘There is no longer any necessity to reconstruct the system of the Emperor; it will reconstruct iteelf. Sovereigns and nations will concur in re-establishing {t, because each one will see in it a guarantee of order, of peace and of prosperity.” aWe doubt not that these are the grounds of the hopes that inspire the statesmen and diplo- matists of Europe, aad which, extending from them to their affinities among the stock jobbers, give rise to the expectations of a speedy close of the war, and the buoyancy that is exhibited on every Stock Exchange in Burope. We may see before the summer is out, not a diplomatic Congrees, but a Congress of Sovereigns, after the old Napoleonic style, congregated to enforce upon Austria a recoguition of the impossibility of welding the dead ideas of the Mid Ages to *aiblg e@ot the uinetecath Gea’ Such a consummation is the only thing that can save them from a general war or a general re- volution, Theee hopes are based on the expectation of early reverses falling upon Austria, and assisting to bring her to reason, But what if, instead of reverses, victory should at first attend her armies; that from there, the hopes of the Hapsburgs and the Coburgs of Europe should revive, and lead them to another effort to orush out the Napoleonic ideas and the Na- polconic dynasty; that, instead of Lombardy being freed, Sardinia should be enslaved; that Louis Napoleon be driven back beyond the Alps, and not only into France, but into desperation? What then shall we see? Will the third Na- poleon passively accept the fate of the first of his house? Or will he display the flag of Euro- pean revolution, and call upon the dissatisfied netionalities to rise and avenge themselves? The world well knows how France would answer. Pasting events tell us what Italy would do, A recent significant occurrence in Bavaria, when the Austrian troops on their passage to Italy were 60 ostentatiously feasted and féted at Munigh, proclaims how Germany would reply. Notwithstanding the much vaunted desire of Bavaria to embrace at once the cause of Austria in the present war, not more than five hundred dollars could be raised by voluntary subscrip- tion in all the kingdom towards defraying the expense of these Austrian feastings. In more senges than one the fate of Europe hangs on the issue of the battle now gathering around Milan; and well may kings, princes, ministers, peoples and stockjobbers pray for the triumph of Louis Napoleon and the allied armies in the contest. Rights of Our Naturalized Citizens—A Point for the Presidential Campaign. In another part of to-day’s paper will be found a document of some interest, from the effect which it is designed to produce in the next Presidential contest. It is a reply from the Hon. John Minor Botts to a communication re- questing his opinion on the doctrine propounded in General Cass’ letter of the 17th ult., in refe- rence to the rights of foreign governments over adopted citizens of this republic who may chooze to voluntarily place themselves within the juris- diction of the Powers to whom it is claimed they owe military allegiance. Mr. Botis, it will be seen, takes the extreme view on this ques- tion which is so popular with the large class of naturalized foreigners whom it affects. He con- tends that when a man once places himself under the protection of the American eagle, and swears to support and defend the constitution and Jaws of the United States, he is free to go wherever the winds and waves may carry him, always provided that be does not offend against the criminal or penal codes of the countries that he may visit, It follows from this that the government under which he has been born loses all rights over him, and that the United States is bound to fol- low him with its protection, and to employ force, if necessary, to shield him from the consequences of his indiscretion in venturing within the territories of the Power to whom he has renounced allegiance. This doctrine is a good one for electjoneering purposes, and may make a strong point in the opposition platform in the Presidential cam- paign. It will no doubt find numerous support- ers amongst that portion of our naturalized citi- zens who take purely selfish view of the rela- tions that exist between them and their adopted country. The extent to which the duties of the latter towards them may be pushed in ai) such controversies with foreign governzicnts has, how- ever, long since been settled by the good sense and wisdom of our statesmen. It is true that we are bound to protect our adopted citizens as far as the sphere of our power and influence ex- tends, and when their rights are invaded on American soil or in the territories of a neutral Power,we never hesitate te use force when re- quired in their defence. It is avery different thing, however, when they place themselves vo- luntarily within the jurisdiction of the govern- mené which still asserts its rights of fealty over them. They cannot and must not pretend, under such circumstances, to carry the United States with them, and impose upon it the obligation of | forcibly entering the territories of that Power in order to vindicate their citizenship. In rejecting the doctrine that foreign governments have unalienable rights over those bora under their sway, we have never at any time pushed on our theories to the point of asserting that the United States is bound to make war every time that the folly or rashness of our adopted citizens places them within reach of the lion’s paws. These points have been so clearly settied by the language held by ouf government in all cases where disputes of this sort have arisen, that it seems rather a bold experiment to endea- vor to raise a new electioneering issue upon them. One of the causes which led to the war of 1812 was the practice persevered in by British men-of- war of impressing English seamen out of Ameri- can vessels on the high seas, and the carrying off under cover of this pretext of our native born and naturalized citizens. Leaving out of view the general question of the right of search, now we believe definitively settled, our government was clearly entitled to protect from impressment or recapture persons who had availed themselves of the benefits of our naturalization laws, Whilst sailing under our flag, they were, to all intents and purposes, on American soil, “and therefore any infringement of their personal liberties was a clear casus belli. In the case of Koszta, the prin- ciples which guide our government in these questions were in another shape as positively de- fined. In that instance a naturalized American was seized by Austrian marines on Turkish ter- ritory, and forcibly conveyed and imprisoned on board an Austrian man-of-war. The ac- tion of Captain Ingraham in resorting to violent measures to obtain his release was pro- perly approved of by Congress, because, whilst it maintained the right of protection set up by this country for its naturalized citizens, it in- vaded no principle of international law. It would have been very different if, whilst walking in the streets of Trieste, Koszta had been seized by the Austrian authorities and Captain Ingraham bad landed a force from his ship to release him. Having thus briefly noticed the views con- tained in Mr. Botts’ letter, we have a word to add us to its general tone. Virginia in the good old times used to be famous for its courtesy and good breeding, and as it is just now contributing such a large proportion of aspirants for Presi- dential honors we have a right to be fastidious as to their manners. Now, really and truly. \i Botts, thongh severer in his speoches ou \{\ Buchanan than the occasion calls for, see to be a better representation of Viry! than Governor Wise and !.: ’ will agree with us have be« i efforts t Won Dotnet teary es be takon for lypes ofthe ¢ aceite aa Somer Fasmovante Movesiin When the thermometer reaches an altitude of elghty-five degrees of Fahrenheit, people in the country con- gratulate each other upon what they cal! fice growing weather. In the city, however, it is fine perspiring weather, and seasibly accelerates the movements of the fashionable world towrarda the ocean breezes of Newport or Cape May, the rural retreats which nestle in the valleys of the North, the breezy heights upon the Aleghanian or ‘White Mountain slopes, or the numerous medi- cinal springs which send forth health restoring draughts from the Canadian frontter to the west ern and southern borders of Old Virginia. This is the condition of the gay world in the metropolis at our present writing. The summer emigration has set in with aa unprecedented tush. Everybody is busy with the all importan} question where to go for the summer. Even the Opera, the prime fashionable amusement, is neg- lected. Since the departure of Piccolomini Irving place has been comparatively deserted. In music, as well as in everything else, there is such a thing as a surfeit, and the habitués of the Academy seem to have had quite enough of their favorite relaxation, They shonld be allow- ed now to rest for a time, and to prepare for a grand excitement in September or Octo- ber. Experience must teach managers as well as other people, and we have seen that Cortesi, an incontestibly fine artist, has created no furore commensurate with her abilities; or further, that a real Countess—the Countess de Ferussac—singing for the most deli- cate of charities, the Woman’s Hospital, and for- tified by a committee of forty-nine of the first ladies in New York, dames of the most undoubt- ed pedigree, leaders of the haut ton, lights of fashionable scciety—failed to bring together more than a corporal’s guard of auditors. We may well write “ Reldche” over the door of the Academy. Perhaps the first thunder storm which ushered iu the tropical weather may have soured the créme de la créme, or perhaps, which is more likely, the créme de la créme is not charita- bly disposed, but is thinkiog of the follies and flirtations and fripperies of the watering places; of fine drives, dinners and breakfasts & da cam- pagne, yachting, billiards, ten-pins, pistol shoot- ing, moonlight promenades, or frolics with old ocean. : Apropos to this performance, Mr. Strakoacl has sent us the following statement:— TO THE PULLIC. I regret exceedingly that I am obliged to state that the performance which was given at the Academy of Music on Tuesday, for the benefit of the Woman's Hospital As- eociation, was not only unproductive to the funds of that deservirg charity, but that it algo resulud in a bes of over eight hundred dollars to the manager. I feel called upon to make a brief statement of the facts connected with the management of tl uae he luded to above:— 1, I have now under my manag t one ef tho finest opera companica in the » lea ty two magnificent artists as prime donn (a Mt Asmo Cortest and Madame Colson as my etars, s thioartste juinod with | there, I have given the Opera to go aud paying houses. 2. Iwas requested by revoral iadies occupying high positions in New York society to join them ina benefit performascy {or the Woman's Hoepiial. As the attrachon on their part, tuey wished me to arrange for the debit of & distinguished amateur—a Iady of this city, who was presumed to have strovg claims upon the public curiosity. She had kindly placed bor services at the disposal of the committee for this occasion. 3. I remarked, incidentally, that the public of this city was not to be relied upon for the support of amateurs, however distinguished; and that such being the caso, 1 thought I ought to have some guarantee for my expenses. Whereupon the ladies replied that they would use all their influence in favor of the project, and #o eecure ite pecuniary success. Further, it was suggested that if their names should appear as patronesses of the affair, there would be no doubt that an audience would be ast sembled which would be large enough to leave a hand- Frome sur after the expenses bad been defrayed. 4. It was finally agreed that although the expenses of the Opera under my management amount to $1,600 night- ly, I should receive first but $1,000. ‘The receipts, if any above that sum, were to be divided between the Hospital Association and myself, I tuking the risk of the $500 ex- penses not sccured, while the association, or the lady patronceces, assumed no hazard whatscever, 5, The result was that the gross receipts of Tuesday evening amounted to only $622; leaving me a loser to the extent of $878. Further, that the majority of the ladies whose names asppear- ed in the advertisement not only neglected to exert themselves to bring about a favorable result to my efforts, but did not iend their persoual pregeace to an affair which they nominally patroxized, There facts for the public, to whom I, as every other mauager, must lock for support. To the chsritably dis- posed I would respectfully snggeat a study of the plan purgued in the matter of beneits for tho poor by the aris- tocracy of the European capitals, The patroneeses in tore cities take as muny as twenty, thirty, Afty ard sometimes one hundred tickets, pay for them, and seli them or give them away, thus providing something for the poor, and securing the mana- ger, who is sometimes tn even a worse condition, pecu- niarily speaking, than the special objects of charity. Regrewting exceedingly, both on account of the Asso- ciation and my own treasury, that the affair of Tuesday should have been go unproductive, I remain, the publie’s obedient servant, MAURICE STRAKOSOA. From the abeve it will be seen that it is equally as dangerous to put your trust in cod- fish aristocrats as in princes. However, leaving the manager to settle his erinoline contests by himself, we return to our sugmer subjects. The beau monde is preparing for a great season, and to help along so desirable & consummation, we have given to-day our first instalment of summer literature, in the shape of a description of the principal mineral springs in the United States. Everything indicates that the city will be de- serted at any earlier day this year than hereto- fore. The Opera season will be wound up to- morrow night with a benefit to Mr. Strakosch, when we hope the public will rally in force, and give to the manager one good night. For the credit of the Opera loving people of the metropo- lis, the ‘manager should have a bumper house. Then the artists will scatter themselves in the provinces, giving concerts in Cincinnati, or Cai- cago, or Canada, or Wisconsin, or Kansas, or Pike’s Peak. The managers— Ullman, Mareazek and Strakosch—will have to go to Europe and bring out something new for next year, or follow the Western trail. Who knows but the Opera might do at Pike's Peak? Who will trp it? In the meantime, however, the fashionalwe world ought to rally in force fur the lost night of the Opera, and then away to the watering places. Bn avant! vive la joie! Tur Crors Art. Ricut.—'i¢ will be seen, by the reports froin the West aud South, puldlfadaad ‘n our columns yesterday, that the ramors of damage done to the cropr, have been greatly ex- aggerated, and that our predictions as to the small amount of harm found to be done by the recent frosts prove true, The statements re- ceived from the great grain growing country bordering onthe Claicago and Galena Raflvood ich embravs9g & moni productive and im- porfant corn raising region, represent the da- we very Uifling, and the coodition of the i Trom are ident yiek the reports fuct that we 7 he