The New York Herald Newspaper, June 24, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GOKvVOSs SLUNESE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR YIOB M. W. COMNES OF ecrUTON AND NASSAU CFE wilt be at the ses Se Money con by muh Pomage mampe mot received as nce cone per copy, HI per anemsin e ‘Dwrepeon Blatun " “Wales ees oa od ee Onetinres nh Vr tackade pos s'5 te * stad the Onetinen 4 Sabina Bl ae Ree ted nah = coe CUE VAMILY GERALD. on Wocinswtay, a fowr env per oF annum, “Polomtane wunesroxvence ewe etiented fron paid ney quarter of he j< Ken Contras Conmenronbent sericrLaks? Reocesras to Tear aut “arrens ane “eo worwe anes af srmymane correrpimiloncs, We da not return vgn ted comm VERTISEMENTS renewed every day; advertisements én Ao ENT etait Hens, Fiaiee’ nnaus, and tn the ‘and Mp PRIDTLNG snorted tolih meatness, cheapnow and de 00 ov) he wy Tes Reid world; ¥f weed, eee AMUBSMENTS THIS EVENING. FIPLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Wrersem Tet—Tas- Leack ov Tax Keucss Taovre—Betsr 28. wrery.—LANDON ASSURANCE — 7 oF Vanicw—Sicwasp LT. ca METROPONITSN THEATSE (Late Burton's) —Poor Gus reman—Box app Cox. WALLACK’S THEATBE, Brosdway.—iuisa AssuRANCE— Wounue tae Vasc. LAURA KREW®'S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway—Laores Bew Ake O18 MME THEATRE FKANCAIS, 685 Sroadway.—L’Arrame DE pee re Liverkimecie Fasan a0z’ Gere pOs-Le Tunaten ves Zovav es BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broaaway.—after noon—Tux Lost BON—Limeaick Kor. ikvenmg—1ue Macio Wa WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 581 and Broadway— Erniorias Songs, Dances, &0.—Rannoad daasa UP. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS. MECH 48109’ HALL, 427 Broad- way.—NzGkO Songs anv BuRieseues—Hor or Fasuion. EOOLRY’S MINSTRELS, No. 444 Brosdway.—Ermioriax Boras, Dances, &e.—KatLnoap ExeLosion PALACE GARDEN ABD H Peomexade CoNCRET OF THE corer LL, Fourteenth street — ETHOPOLITAN MUSICAL 50. New York, Friday, June 24, 1850. fhe News. An interesting letter from Judge Douglas with reference to the Presidency may be found among our telegraphic despatches from Washington. The Judge says that if the democratic party stand by their declarations, as announced from time to time from 1850 down to Mr. Buchanan's letter accepting the nomination of the Cincinnati Convention, he will accept a nomination for the Presidency if ten- dered by the Charleston Convention; but if the Convention adopt the party platform of the Southern fire-eaters respecting slavery in the Ter- ritories, he declines being considered as a candi- date for nomination. Our Washington despatch states that the Secre- tary of the Treasury has nearly completed a list of the New York Custom House officers whose servi- ces will shortly be dispensed with, in accordance with the plan of reducing the expenses of the de- partment. Some two hundred office holders will be invited to walk the plank. The steamer William H."Webb has arrived at New Orleans from Minatitlan, with mails and pa sengers which left San Francisco on the 6th inst. The Golden Age left San Francisco on the 6th for Panama, with one thousand passengers and $2, 000 in gold dust, bound for New York. Captain Clark, of the schooner Julia M. Hallock, at this port from St. Jago de Cuba, reports St. Jago as very healthy, there being no sickness among the shipping or on shore, and no case of yellow fever heard of. i The bids for the State loan of $350,000, at five per cent, for the deficiency in the General Fund debt of the Sinking Fund, were opened at Albany yesterday. The bids were very limited, being in all only $650,000, exclusive of one bid for the whole sum at par, by Rufus H. King & Co. The loan was awarded as follows:—'To Thompson Brothers, New York, $50,000 at 101.27 per cent; $100,000 at LOL.LL; $100,000 at 101.01, and $25,000 at 100.86. To Wil- liamsburg City Bank 000 at 101.06, and $25,000 at 100.91; to John Sill $25,000 at 100.96. Thompson Brothers were the odly bidders from this city. The bids for supplying the Navy Department with coal are under consideration at Washington. All the bids are unusually low, within four dollars per ton, while some of them are as low as $3 14 per ton. A meeting of the German Society of this city was held last evening, at St. Matthew's church, to con- sult upon the best means by which fature German emigrants may be protected and assisted. The meeting adopted resolutions condemning the exist- ing arrangements at Castle Garden, and calling upon the Commissioners of Emigration to take some action in the matter. A special convention of the Board of Aldermen was called to meet yesterday for the purpose of appointing clerks for the Ward and District Civil Courts, but at the hour appointed for the meeting there was no one on hand but the Mayor and one Alderman, and of course no business was trans- acted. The Excise Commissioners held a meeting yes- terday. the usual condition: that many ¢ aints ar tiality exerc by the reports of the names of put selling liquor without 3 to state that all those against whom judgments are procured are not eligible to be bailed out of prison, the law being peculiar and explicit on this point. The cricket match between the St. George's club of this city, and the Boston club was conela- ded about six o'clock yesterday afternoon, the first named club being declared the winner. An account of the playing and the scores of both sides may be found in another column. The great trotting match between Flora Temple and Princess attracted an immense throng of peo" ple to the Eclipse Course yesterday. The match was for $5,000, two mile heats, in harness, and was won by Princess in two straight heats. Time, 5:02—5:05. An account of the race in detail is given in another column of to-day’s paper. ‘The pases of cotton yesterday were oonfined to about 500 bales in lots, The market closed steaty, mainly on the basis of quotations given in another column. Flour ‘was steady for fresh ground State and Western, while old brands were heavy snd lower. The sales were moAcrate ‘and confined chieily to the domestic trade. Southern flour was lees buoyant and prices barely sustained, while ales were toa moderate extent. Wheat was dull and lower, while enles wore limited. Primo red Southern sold ‘St $1 68, white Southern at $1 78, and prime white Ken ‘tucky a $1 64. Corn was hoavy and lower; sales of old and new Western mixed were made at 7c. a 80c., and Jersey, Southern and round yellow at 88c,a 84c, The market for pork was heavy and lower, owing proba bly in eome degree to one or two suspensions ia the trade ‘New mees sold on the spot and at sellers’ option 30 days for $16 3734, and 300 bbls. new mess sold afor ranted thirteen licenses on Com er Holmes stated "Change at $16 25, cash on the day. Primo was gold at $13 50 a | $13 62}4. Beef was heavy, while lard was rather firmor. Sugars were firm and active, with sales of about 2,000 hhds, and 700 boxes at rates given in another piace, Cof- feo was comparatively quiet, while sules wero light, at steady and unchanged prices. There was rather more freignt offering for English ports, ana, comparatively speaking, there was rather more doing. Among the ship. ments were 600 bales of cotton to Liverpool at ¢4., and 600 boxes cheeso by steamer at 268. Engagements for the Continent wore light and rates unchanged ‘The Opposition and the Presidency—Coafasion ‘Wore Confounded. Between the existing demoralizations of the democracy and the divisions of the opposition forces there is not much to choose. If the chances of a reunion of the democratic factions are exceedingly slim, the prospect of a fusion of the opposition elements is equally gloowy. Ia- deed, while the democracy may possibly be brought togetber again by “the cohesive power of the spoils,” the divisions of the opposition, be- ing upon principles, abstractions and conflicting questions of public policy, seem to defy sll the agencies of a compromise. And 80, while ‘be Obarleston Conveation way possibly hit upon the wan and the platform competent to reunite the broken fragments’of the demoeratic party, the separation of the opposition into two or three Presidential camps appears to be fixed and inevi table. Let us see bow they stand at present, iv reference to a grand coalition movement for 1860. * In Marsachusetts Know Nothingism has be- some a ruling element of the republican party, as expressed in the lately adopted two years ex- ira naturalization luw of that State. In Rhode wJuud the republican party proper bas just been eaten ip a Congressional contest by the Ameri- an republican organization, In New York re publicanism pure and simple—that is, the aaa dulterated Seward platform of the party ules the roast, and the American party 8 thus left at perfect liberty to take its ourse, They will probubly consent to sup- port Seward when he and Fillmore, like Botts wd Tyler, shall bave been found comfortanly asleep under the same blanket, but not before. in a word, our New York Kaoow Nothings have got the idea into their wise heads that bere is a Jesuitical understanding between Sew- wd and Archbishop Hughes, which would open a “side door” te the Irish in the way of political preferments, and thus defeat the great priaciple bat “Americans sball rate America.” In New Jersey the temporary union of Ameri- sans and republicans of last fall has expired, sod each faction is preparing tor a separate State Convention. In Peunsylvania the repub- ‘icans have met the Kaow Notbings half way, io consenting to sink their party name in the fleet ‘ng expedient of “the people’s party.” In Ohio he Republican State Convention, with an eye upon the powerful German vote of that State and all the Northwest, having flatly repudiated the Massachusetts naturalization law, have driven the indignant Americans to a revolt They will not submit to “this pandering to the foreign clement,” and accordiogly, at a mass meeting in Cincinnati they have pronounced in favor of the American party reassuming “its proper and legitimate position of independence.” (bus, it appears that the old sores of 1856 be- tween the republicans and American or Know Nothing faction of the North are being reopened, upon the sharply defined issues of Seward aud his peculiar principles on the one hand, and Americanism and American-republicanism, with the Massachusetts naturalization law, on the other, These difficulties will form a delicate job im the way of a compromise in the Republican National Convention of 1860; and it is not improbable that upon tbat Massachusetts naturalization act the said Convention, for the sake of the indispen- sable German vote of the Northwest, may be driven to the sacrifice of the American balance of power in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, to say nothing of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and lilinois, According to this exhibit of the dis- cords among the opposition forces of the North, those organs of the republican church who ques- tion its absolute safety, and are fearful of im- pending danger, baye some show of reason for their misgivings, Meantime the new departure taken by the Southern opposition elements in Virginia, Ken- tmeky, Tennessee, Georgia and other Southern States, as a strong and decided pro-slavery party, settles the question in regard to their position in 1860. They will enter the contest as aseparate party, in opposition to the, republi- cans and the democracy. More than this, in this new Southern opposition movement they may find it impossible to fuse with their Ameri can brethren of the North upon the negro ques- tion, and thus we may have three opposition parties or factions in the contest for the suc- cession—two in the North and one in the South. If we should also have two sectional democratic parties thrown into the arena, a Northern and a Soutbern one, we shall certainly have a most interesting and inexplicable sectional scrub race. As matters now stand on all sides, we may surely count upon two opposition partics in 1560, while there is a chance that, in view of the spoils, and under the moral power of Mr. Bu- chanan’s administration, the demoralized demo- eracy may be brought together again. If it should meet to-morrow, the Charleston Conven- tion, we believe, would result in a democratic explosion and in the final dissolution of the party; but in the long interval to May next this disaster may be averted. 1a brief, with the re- turn «f the rebellious leaders and cliques to the of the administration, the party may cull ivecome strong enough to slip into power | once im tween the divisions of the oppo | sition, us a i844 and 1836. We perceive, too, from the reported movements of Walker, Doug- Jas and otbers, that, “as the mountain will not go to Mahomet, Mahomet will come to the mountain.” Facts anp Facies axp Poetry Avovr mr War. We have collected anf printed in another place a piquant olla podria of all sorts of events in and about the seat of war. A good portion of our account might be summed up under the cap- tion of the “Fun of the War,” The account of the /?tes at Yiorence, the intermingling of the French troops with the Tuscan population of al! grades, the theatrical exhibitions at Turin, and the popular expression of hatred to the Ans trians at the Dillan Opera House, together with bumerous little incidents, show how deeply set- tled iv the Italian feeling. The poetry of the war will also be found interesting. We give the Hately verse of Croley and the stirring rhymes of Tennyson, in English; the chant of the bold Zouaves and a lavdatory address to the French Emperor in the Gallic vernacular. Religion, too, has its share. We find the same 7 Jiewm for victory pealing through the cathedrals of Paris and Vienna. In the one, the Pope's repre- sentative prays for the Emperor's apordy return to France; and in the other Noncio implores sucecss for the Austrian arms, Both petitions may mean the same thing, or something witicly diferent. Without im- pugning the piciy of such distinguished sons of the Church as Francis Joseph and Louis Napo- leon, we still believe that they will adhere tg the the faith of the Little Corporal, that “Heaven is on the side of the hoaviest artillery.” Among other matters in our budget there will tb be found some account of the new filibuster corps of tbe French army—tbhe Turcos, The Austrians can’t uiderstaud the Turcos end the Zouaves. It is a new order of fightiog—hand-to-hand—cold steel work—and exceedingly divagreeable, The Zounves, it will be seen, have, out of admiration for Victor Emauuel’s courage, chosen him a cor- poral in their mgoment—probably the greatest honor that a soldier could receive, The Old Guaid, it will be recollected, recognized the young General Bonaparte’s valor io the same way—bence his soubriguet, of which he was very prout!—le petit corporal, The poetry, plays, romance and chivalry of the war bave their interest as well as the leading events, One Day’s Imports at New York—Curious Details of Commerce, The aggregate amount of the foreign aud constwise trade of this city is many millious pec appum, but we are little aware how much of this is made up io small items, or bow strange some of them ap pear. Rarely do those not directly engaged iu commerce examine its peculiarities, though they are really interesting, tor they show us what is the business we transact with distant communi- ties, or what are the various curious wants of life, and the ingenious metoods by which men bope to realize a profit from their wit or their industry. Taking up the Custom Iouse returns the other day, by accident, we glanced at the importe of twelve bours only, and they interested us greatly by their singularity. For example, we observed that the steamer Africa brought over from Liverpool several boxes of specie, at a tim: when it is going by millions ia that very direc tion. It would seem a more mercantile opera tion, under these circumstances, to have left it behind, and drawn against it, both for a profit and for security. No doubt there was some pri vate and peculiar reason for this which does not publicly appear. In the ship Devoushire came bundreds of kegs of bi-carbowate of soda, which, though indispensable to cer tain branches of manufacture, is now pro duced in large quantities in this State, and by an improved process is made to surpass the foreign article. So, too, came twenty-three casks of oil, which is here cheap and plentiful. and manufactured to a large extent; and ¢0 also twenty-two casks of prepared paint, when we have abundance of lead, zinc, and oil of our own, and valuable ochres applicable to the pur- pose. These are curious freaks of trade, to say the least of it. On the same day a Bordeaux brig brought in a large quantity of wines and brandies, though the murkvt is glutted and prices are not very remunerative. In s Bremen chip came a large importa tion of dry hides, though we have the South American and domestic markets ulmost under control, and much nearer than Bremen by this circuitous route; glaes bottles and demijohns, though we produce them here; and one thousand boxes of pipes for our smokers—German and Irish—who like the ame}i and the taste of the Dutch clay. From Port au Prince were received, by a brig, four hundred cases of honey and twelve barrels of syrup, thus showipg that our own bees are not very indus: trious, or else that our hives are neglected. In the schooner Caspian, from Jamaica, came four kegs of tamarinds—a venture, probably, of some small proprictor or merchant who had nothing else to send. From Baracoa came, in a schooner, seventeen hundred and sixteen bunches of bananas—cheap enough where they grow, but marvellously dear in New York, where there are thousands of people who are willing to pay for a single green specimen the price of two jJoaves of bread. A Bermudian brig came in also with a large quantity of its red skin pota- toes, not to be compared to our mercers or peach blows; onions in countless strings and toma- toes in hundreds of barrels—the last competing successfully with our Southern products of the same kind, which are quite as geod and pay no duties. The sugar, molasees and rum, the se- gars, pineapples and old copper are large items in the account—the importation of the latter, chieily from the West Indies, showing plainly that there are no workshops at home to use it in new fabrics. Our coastwise imports are equally significant. From Lavacea we receive—as in this instance, by tbe bark Cavallo—wool, hides, and pecan puts, a favorite with our little folks, and occa- sionally found with the dessert upon our dinner tables, In the ship Pacific, from New Orleans, arrived several cases of vanilla, just in time for our ice cream; packages of gum, for medical use: hemp, for our riggers and rope makers; goat skins, which are not one of our sta- ples, and bearing a high price since the fathion of leather trimmings for chairs and carriages is coming in again; moss, to stuff our cushions; rope cuttings, two hundred and fifty-seven bales, showing very plainly that shipbuilding and caulking in New York are in advance of the same business in New Orleans; and ten casks of claret, strange enough, when we have oceans of it here. Possibly it may have come out of some old cellar, the owner of which burst up during the late panic, or it may be a remarkably fine article which the people of the Crescent City do not know how to appreciate. Large quantities of lead, a cash article, taken down the Mississippi from the Western mines, weré on board the same ship, to be sold in this city, where thousands of miles of lead pipe are already laid, and more are laying, and plumbers grow rich in a single season. We observed that a little beeswax came from Apalachicola, thus showing the cxistence of apiarics in that quarter; cedar logs in considerable quantity, as well as those of juniper, which in some northern parts of vur State grows in great abundance, but only as a shrab of beautifal form, and not with trank enough to be of any use. The kind imported is probably that known as the Juniperus Americanus, and is used for its fragrance in the manufacture of fane, and boxes for the preservation of deli- cate woollen fabrics. In the Kate Merrill, from the same place, were imported eight boxes of steel, a commodity, one would think, not well shipped from thence to this port, where iron is so plentiful and #0 cheap. This must have been eowuse there was no use for it in quict Apala- chicola. From Key West, the shipments on tho same day were characteristic—sponges and old metal. ‘The former, if fine and well cleaned, brings enor- mans prices, as any one may ascertain by in- quiring at our fashionable druggist shops; the latter are the speculations of the wreckers and the spoils of the “admiralty court” down among the keys of the Gulf.e From Savannah, we found among the small items of trade, pink root, of vermicular antipathies, feathers for our beds, vegetables in their season, and even “domestics;”” not those who are the subject of #0 many “dis- solving views” amoug our mountebank political NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1859. ebowmen, but the manufactures of Sonther logms, brought to New York to be sold, instend of finding a market at home. Probably after some dealer in sheetiags or sbirtings bere hs purchased them at a profit, be will dead thon bac! Savannah with the New York stamp sud make another profit by the shipment. Such an instavce as this speaks volames for the tre sistible supremacy of our mart, with # ceatrife gal and a centripetal power io harmony; the one scattering far und wide what it wivles to Gikpose of, and the other drawing to it us with 4 magnet all it desires to posers. From the Carolinas we noticed the great im: portation of naval stores, rosin and spirits of turpentine—the one in quantities to varnish o- roughen the strings of all the bows of all the fiddlers that ever fiddled since the days of Kiog David, or make all the plasters for all the went backs of all our weakest politicians, The tur- pentine and pine shingles of these Caroliaas also come to us by their little schooners, aad dad the Union worth sometbing to their barrens, not- withstanding we misbehave ourselves on the uig- ger question. Baltimore aud Philadelphia send us fleets of emall steamers with characteristic cargoes, The steamer Potomac, oa the occasion we refer to, was reported as bringing bops for our brewers and rags for our paper makers, pork for our provision dealers, tobacco ia large quantitirs for local manufacture and export; boiler fron plates and seas of whiskey, to be fusiled into all possible liquors. From the latter iron in various forms comes by tous ready for our steam engine works, and very good tobacco is also raised in the interiof, and along the line of its Central Railroad. From Down East come seudding in wt all times of day and night the busy propellers, the tall masted schooners and vhe more etetely brigs. In the returns already quoted were reported, on board the schooner Tom Jefferson, niuety-four cases of copal, some of the overplus probably of 4 cargo trom the East Lodies, possibly doctored alittle by the Salem shippers before it was for- worded to this city; Brazil nuts, the return for dried codfish perbaps, and quintals of that and smuckerel in barrels of perpetual roll. The Isa- vella, from Boston, brought oakam, ship build- ing not being very flourishing in the modern Athens, its learned citizens preferring libations to the gods, and wreaths of laurel with which they crown each other; saltpetre, shellacs, jute and coir yarn; all these last the fragmentary ga: therings of Asiatic ventures. In another schooner from Boston, we noticed, came vitriol in consi- derable quantities, a few bales of bops, the pro- guet of some well to do farmer, neighbor proba- tly to the autocrat; bay water from the Antilles, to cool our feverish brows; chickory from down East, to give our coffee a higher flavor and the grocers @ larger profit, and beans, about which the Down Easters know so much. But it is useless to extend our comments; any one on consulting the Custom Hou-e returns may find other items still more curious than any of those we have mentioned. The African, Ita- tian and Asiatic trade can at any time furnish a museum of curiosities. Thus “all the world and the rest of mankind” are toiling to swell the commerce of New York: everywhere labor aud intellect are busy to get something from our plethoric pocketa; and, looking somewhat poeti- cally at these ceaseless efforts of men at home and abroad, who work for us so constantly, we may eay even of their animals in the famous lines of Virgit:— Sic voe nom vobis ara'ra boves; Si¢ Vos non vobis meliificatia apes; Sic Vow non vobis veliera fortis ves; Sic vos non vobis aidideatis aves, * Tue Ricuts or Natcrauizep Crrizexs.—On the question of how far a nataralized American citizen is under political obligations to bis native land on returning thereto, we have published two letters from Mr. Case aod one from Mr. Botts. ‘We now publish another letter from Mr. Botts, and one from General Cushing, who sustains Mr. Cass in his views. The question resolves itself ultimately into one of debt; and if a man, at the time of leaving his country, owes any debt, civil or military, he is liable for it on his return, no matter how long the period muy be which bas elapsed since he quitted his native land? If he did not owea military debt at that time, and becomes a citizen of the United States, he cannot afterwards be made a military debtor by any constructive law, and could not be legally arrested on returning to bis native country. If he owed military service by the laws under which he was born, the fact of his forswearing allegiance to his government on coming here does not absolve him from the obli- gation any more than it would from the payment of money which he had borrowed from some friend. But his government cannot touch him here, nor touch him in any other country but his own—not ifhe was only one foot outside of its boundary. It cannot touch him if captured n war. Dut if he goes back voluntarily to his na- tive land that alters the case, and he is then lable, and our goverfment cannot interpose, Now, under these circumstances, we do not see why people, knowing that they have incurred the obligation of military service for seven yeura in their own country, should be anxious to re- turn in time of war, unless they want to fight. If they are very desirous of secing their native land before they die, or if business calls them, they ought to wait till the war is over, when there will not be so great a demand for soldiers, and when emigrants will not be required. But it is rather too much of a good thing that they should go back with their eyes open, and then ask our government to take them out of the trap into which they have voluntarily walked. In such cases our government very properly will not interfere, and ought not to do so. Many foreigners come here witbout a dollar, and after they have amassed fortunes they desire to return to spend the moncy in their own conn- try, and to live there with all the consequence of the aristocratic positio® which wealth gives them there, but would not confer upon them here. They would gladly get rid of all obli- gations in both countries, and live like Prus- sians or Austrians or Frenchmen, till the ques- tion arises whether they do not owe duties in return for the political rights and pro- tection which they enjoy for themselves and thdir property. Then tbey are immediately transformed into American citizens, and call on our government to interpose for their delive rance. This is neither reasonable nor fair, and there can be very little sympathy here for those who place themselves in such a predicament, Let them live here, spending their money in the country where they made it, and fulfil the obligations which they owe our government and there will be no danger of their arrest. The couatry is good enough for us—it ought to be good enough for them. If they don’t think #0, then let them take their own course, and with it the responsibility. The Post yore Preserved. Two articles, which we reprint in another column, oo the position of Geemway in regard vo tow present war in Italy, give usw pretty clear insight of the views of Pravsia aud Rugsta as to the proper policy for the Germanic Couteders- tion t pursue, by of Germungy Towards the Bei- ny Her Neutruitty Shouts be The Prossien journal takes the clear sod uo equivecal grouud that Prassia has ueither rea son por obKgation to assist Austria in her pre seot war with France and Sardinia, aad accuses the Austrian government of coutioual treacher- ous efforts to injure the fofluence aud power of Prussia, and to involve the Germanic Contedera tion in a quarrel with which it has bo concern With these views the jourzal claims that Prussia shall pursue @ course of strict neutrality while the war is covfived to Italy and the question of Iteliap Iberation from Austrian despotism, and is argument is sustained with a great weight of facte, That such will be the course of Prussia there is now little room to doubt, All her iu- tercets incline her in that directiou, aud tbe recent change in the polivy of the British goverament will sustain her ia pureulag it. The lute debate and vote in the Euglish Par liament show unmistakably that Euglaud does not mean to be involved ia a continental wae if ‘she can belp it, and that wll her influence will be tbrown to prevent the present war id Italy from extending to the restof Europe. This must have a great effect in encouragiug Prussia aud the other anti-Austrian States in Germany in their neutral policy, and in calming the foolish ardor of Bavaria and some others ot the Roman Catho tic States of the Confederation to assist Francis Joseph. § On the otber hand, the Ruesian writer gives us an equally clear aud unequivocal expression o/ ‘be Rustian view of the cunduct of Bavaria, in opening her territory and railroads to the pas sage of Austrian troops to the scene of military operations. He proves beyond a doubt that io so doing she bas violated ber duty as a neutral Power and her compact as a member of the Ger- wanic Confederation. He even goes farther taav this; for be shows, with a great appearance of reason, tbat the animus exhibited by the King of Bavaria, in opening his territories to Austria, and in the feastings aud honors he showered upon its forces during their paseage through his do- maine, makes him gmenable to France for the consequences ef his acts, and relieves the Germanic Confederation from the obligation of defending him from any future retribution that Louis Napoleon may demand of him, These truths, with the circular which the Russian go vernment is said to have sent to its envoys ai the several courts of Germany, instructing them to make known to the governments to whom they are accredited its opinion that if Germany oes to the aid of Austria the political equili- German Confederation is constituted will be destroyed, are very likely to hold the pro- Austrian States in check, and to condace greatly to the preservation of German neutrality. There is yet another cause which will tend to the eame end. Whatever may be the declara- tions of the petty sovereigns and their represen- tatives who now rule divided Germany, the feel- ing of the people is decidedly in favor of Ger- man unity. The whole of Germany is nearly as ripe for a movement to carry out this idea as is Italy to rise against the despotism of Austria ; and if it were effected it would sweep away the thirty odd petty kings, landgraves, dukes and counte, with their mock regal courts and op- pressive armies, that now rest like a nightmare on the liberties and progrees of the German peo- ple. Louis Napoleon has but to will it, and a revolutionary spirit would spring up in Germany that would shake every one of its petty thrones to its foundations, and bring upon their occu- pants, as it has in the present instance on the Emperor of Austria, a protest from the united Powers of Europe against their continuance in a course of policy which may involve the entire Continent in the flames of revolution. France will no doubt for the present overlook the re- cent acts of Bavaria, but she will remember them againet her, and when a favorable oppor- tunity offers they will be brought up to her dis- advantage. Woway’s Riaurts iy Tue Covrssses.—Our en- thusiastic female friends in New England and elsewhere, who attach themselves to the skirts of such reformers as Mistresses Lucy Stone Blackwell, Ernestine L. Rose, Lucretia Mott and Susan B, Anthony, ought to be perfectly de- lighted with the administration of things the- atrical in this metropolis. The sceptre of man- agement eeems to have passed almost entirely into the fair hands of woman. There is evi- dently no Salic law for the green room. The ladies are monarchs before the lamps. So woman has her rights, and occasionally a trifle over, in the coulisses. We have often ‘seen how, at the Opera, the manager is at the mercy of the prima donna, and we find in the regular theatres that the leading actresses are usurping the thrones of the horrid men and managing affairs for themselves. Thus, Laura Keene- has just concluded a brilliant campaign in her own theatre, causing even the veteran Wallack to fall back upon the Zou- aves for support. While she is enjoying the usual congé, ber eceptre is successfully wield ed by the Misses Gougenheim, graceful, hand. vome and popular actresses, fresh from Califor- nian and Australian triumphs, At Wallack’s theatre, the piquant and agreeable artist, Mrs. Florence, bas an equal share in the Management with her husband, and a theatre for the créme d Ja créme is building for one of the most charming actresses thut hus ever visited us—Mrs. Agnes Robertson Bourcicault. The National theatre, which has been going down bill recently, bas been taken by Miss Beli Carr, who comes, like Jeanne d’Are, from the provinces, and full of en- thusiasm. Miss Carr has a good reputation in the South and West, and will commence hor metropolitan career on Saturday night with a determination to conquer. Of a verity ovinoline is ip the ascendant. ‘f women can’t vote, nor practice law nor drive omnikuses, nor do a thou- sand other disagreeably masculine things, they can still control the public amuse- ments of a great city, and they have a most im- portant bearing upon its moral welfare aud ma- terial prosperity. It seems especially appro- priate that clever women should conduct the theatres, and we are glad to see them al the bead of such affairs, We recommend them all to go ahead, and should be glad to congratulate that most excellent actress, Mrs. Hocy, upou her accession to the managerial throne, She has all the qualitics requisite, and is a prime favorite with the public. Finully, we hope the next Womaa’s Rights rium resulting from the treaties by which the’ Convention wil) notier the fact, thatinone ve cation at least women are eopremely successtul, Why can’t the lady manageresses buve & subven- tion? ————— Tak Wearke—Tax Cnors.—Notwithstand- ing the partial misebief effected by the recent frosts, there is reason to believe thas the orops this season will be coasiderably above the average, In the South the wheat had been weil harvested, with a most woundaat yield, whilst ia ihe West the grain craps look more promising tbe they have done wt auy former period. Ia F Northers States the damage cesulting from the frosts aud coutinucd caine is exceedingly slight. Lf we are only favared by a little warm weather the prodactiveness of the yield will fully compensate fur whatever injury has beea done, Is is admitted that the wheat crop never presented a better aspect, with all these draw- backs, whilst of rye, barley and maize the same thing may be said. The fruit crops were at one time thought te hbeve bee mucd injured, but the results of ouc iuquiries are calculated to vet ut rest avy appre- heusions that way exist oa that score. The peach trees have suffered in some places, but ta Delaware aod New Jeesey the crop will, we believe, be found to be considerably above the average. Aewe are at present in the cycle of cold seasons, we have reason tu congratulate our- selves upon this result. There is no fruit more dependent upon’ warm weather for its yield thaw the peach, and if in abusdant grain seasons we succeed in getting a fair average returu from it, we should esteem ourselves fortunate. Of straw- berries there bave uever been fiver crops kaowa than at present. Notouly are the berries larger, sweeter and more juicy thao usual, but they are so abundaut tha! they scarcely pay for the pick- ing. Of apples the yield this year will probably be greater thaa at any former season, From all parts of the country the reports regardiag this fruit lead to tbat couclusion Seciay how im- portant a feature it is of domestic consumption, housekeepers will be glad to learn that theic winter supply of this frait will probably be laid in at a third less than the usual cost. Of the -potato crop it is tvo early to speak. The absence of any disquietiog reports respecting it up to the preseat time may, however, be looked upon as an encouraging indication. Of late years this esculent has been so uncertaia in ita resulis that people have ceased to count upon it. The farmer who plants potatoes does so with as much doubt as is felt by aman investing in fancy stocks, They are both risky operatious, aad there is no deciding their success by either expe- rience or skill. Taken altogether, we look upon the agrioultu- tal prospects of the present season as much more favorable than those of any former year. Not only are the grain crops more promising, both in regard to quality and quantity, but the far- mere are certain to find ready markets aod rema- nerative prices for their produve. It is impossi- ble that the drain created by the war on the agricultural population of Europe should not result in a check to farming operations there, and cousequently in a much larger demand thao usual for our own breadstuffs. If the campaign be protracted uutil winter the prices realized by our farmers for their grain will probably reach a figure that they have never before attained. This will produce a corresponding reaction upon all branches of our commercial aod manufacturing industry, as is always the case when our agricul- turists are in a condition to make purchases. ‘Then will set in another spell of flush times, with ite reckless speculations, its extravagances and its criminal expedients. The experience of the past will probably have but little influence im checking this fresh tide of folly. Each epoch of excess must, we fear, be followed by its own dis- tinct sufferings and lessons. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. The Heads of Two Hundred New York Cur tom House Officers in Danger—Prospects of Peace in Europe—Passport Frauds, do, OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasntsctox, June 23, 1859. The Secretary of the Treasury bas nearly comploted the let for the reduction of the number of officers in the New: York Custom House. It is to take effect on the Ist of July. At least two hundred beads will drop into the basket on ‘that memorable morning. Totelligence received here this morning, brought by the Persia, from a reliable source, mentions the prevalent ru- mored proposals of peace, which bave been flying about London since the news of the great battle, and the great confidence entertained that it may yet be brought about. The writer, however, who occupies a high position, and ig well qualified to judge, thinks the prospect of peace very gloomy; that neither the Allies nor the Austrians, in the present posture of affairs, will yield one iota, or listen to overtures of any kind, come from what quarter they may. ‘The repeated frauds perpetrated by notaries public and other officials, by issoing unauthorized paseports, have been brought to the notice of the Secretary of State. The act of 1866 strictly probibits this under a heavy penalty, and a vigorous effort, it is understood, will be made to ea- force its penalties hereafter. ‘Tho Attorney General has approved the title of the Bal timore Presbyterian church property, recently purchased for a Court House site. This is the second time this title has been under consideration by the government. INTERESTING LETTER FROM JUDGE. DOUGLAS—WHAT WILL THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION DO WITH nin? 8H Wastixoto, June 23, 1869. The friends of Judgo Douglas here are in porsession of the following letter explaining his position and the sub- Ject of the Presidency, and of which they have permitted @ copy to be taken for publication:-— ‘Wasuincron, June 22, 189, My Dean Sm—I have received your letter inquicmg whether my friends aro at liborty to present my name to the Charleston Convention for the Presidential nomina- tion. Before the question can be finally determined it will be necessary to understand distinctly upon what issues the canvass is to be conducted. If, as 1 have fall faith they will, the democratic party shall determine in the Presi- dential clection of 1860 to adhere to the principles embodied in the compromise measures of 1860, and ratified by the people in the Presidential election of 1852, and reaffirmed in the Kansas. Nebraska act of 1864, and incorporated into the Cincinnati platform in 1856, 28 expounded by Mr. Buchanan in his letter accepting the nomination, and ap- proved by the people—in that event my friends will be at Uberty to present my name to the Convention if they see proper to do so. If, on the contrary, it shall become the policy of the democratic party, which I cannot anticipate, to repudiate these, their time-honored principlos, on which we bave achioved eo many patriotic triumphs, and in Heu of them the Convention shail interpolate into the creed of the party such new issues as tho revival of the African slave trade, or a Congressional slave code for the Territories, or the doctrine that the constitution of the United States either establishes or prohibits slavory in the Territorier, beyond the power of the people legally to control it, as other property, It is due to candor to say that, in such an event, I dould not accept the nomination if tendered te me, ‘Trusting that this answer will be deemod guffisienly explicit, Iam, very respectfully, your friend, 8. A. DOUGLAS. To J. B, Dork, Iisg., Dubuque, lowa, ‘THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. a Wasmaton, June 23, 1959, ‘The opinion among gentlemen connected with the diplomatic corps is, that although the governments of © Europe not engaged in the present hostilities are desirous