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The contents of the European edition of the Hrrarp will combine the news recoired by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour of the publication, In additition to the news from Cuba brought by the Karnak, given inthe Heraip on Sunday, we publish an interesting letter from our Havana cor- respondent to-day. He details the result of a visit to the Hospital of San Juan de Dios, and describes institution and its management. Yellow fever there placed side by side with those other diseases. The sugar and 's, With the latest rates of exchange, vernment difficulties with foreign Con- to the redemption of the Baez paper money tives of Ey land bi and Hol- tates flag t for Euro one then at ttle entertained but that all our claims on nment wonld be speedily adjnsted if ted soon, and also th lendid naval coal . with little trou- was th ttion of reports on in Europe to the 25th ult., ex- n and English fil ing. The progress i iced, as of the rin the federal A very clear description ical strength of the Austrians posi- nthe line of the Mincio: a topographical count of the Lake of Garda and the towns on its a fall history of the organization, exploits anders of the Frencp Zouave regiments; of the extent and prospects of the new form part of the résumé. The proy of an an monk with respect to Garihaldi and his future success in Wberating Italy given. Supreme Court on Saturday last Judge Roosevelt delivered an elaborate de nm in the case of the W et property. We give the decis "s payer, by h it will be « unt the prev’ judgments e case have been vacated, and an injunction d prohibiting the lessees of the property, nd Brennan, or their receiver, from money from the occupants of the id of sfrom paying any- order Court. up: ti The new Police Superintendent, Mr. Pillsbur, did not issue any new order on Saturday, as i S e would, regardin enforcement o' himself per- ich the so-called ¢ determined to canvass own personal m his du H ty With the to enlighten hims d_yester- day afternoon upon his tour of inspection, looking through the Central Park,the Conrad lager bier arden and Jones’ Wood e and general ¢ nessed ¥ tohim. 1 ok a peep into the Wil Nam street lager bi ons, with somewhat similar result. The previous order as to the sale of liqnor y was very gencrally regarded in the city a aloons, however, kept usual Sunday musical en- open, and at several t tainments were given. The solemn ceremony of ordaining a missionary for China, and admitting him to the Holy Order of Deacons, was performed hy the Rt. Rey. Bishop of China, W. J. Boone, D. D., yesterday morning, at the Church of the Ascen: An interesting argument heard by Judge Russell on Saturday, in the General Sessions—a re- port of which will be found elsewhere—-on motion to quash an indictment for the larceny of a dog. The Judge reserved his decision. The Bro street Baptist church was crowded to excess yesterday afternoon by members of the congregation and other s the obsequies of the late Rev. Ab ‘ott, formerly pastor of the h by drowning, while bathing nea on Tharsday last, has been heretofore reported. ve in to-day’s paper a full account of the ¢ which were uvusualiy impressive. The sales of cotton on Saturday embraced about 500 to 600 bales, closing without quotable change in prices, bat with rather more steadinese. lower, with moderate salos at and Western grades. § ands wer qneat, but prices were irregntar. Whoat wi with sales of red Weetern at $1 60, amoer $1 58, white Kentucky at $) 70a $1 78 and Mi at $1 10a$1 12%. Corn advanced about two ce bushel. Sales of round yellow were made at ‘0 choice Western mixed at @c , and a tm to wil Moar was again heavy an ttled prices fc Southern yeliow was mado at ic. Rye was firm at 880. 88%. Pork wag firmer, with salee Of now meas at $26 182 4 $16 %5, thir mess ab $16, clear at $18 25, and prime at $12.50. Sugars were firm, but leas active, Tae sales embraced about 400 bhds., chiefly Cubas, 160 do. Moindo, anc 450 boxes at full prices, Coffee was steady and quiet, Freight engagements were moderate and rates unchanged. Influences of the War on Trade—Staguation of Conimercial Operations Everywhere. The depressing effect of the present war in Italy on the commerce of the wor!d has dis- pelled the golden dreams of those who, for a time, supposed that it was gvuing to produce great activity here, and rapid fortunes for our merchants and shipowners. Every mail that arrives from Europe brings to our bankers and commercial men letters from their correspondents there, all painting the same stagnation and continued distrust in trade. It is not only in A and Germany tha‘ this fee!ing prevails; but in those countries which will strive and still hope to remain neatral the same state of things exists. Merchants refuse to enter upon those enterprises which require time for tveir de- velopement snd maturity, aod which constitute the life of the trade of nations. Capitalists de- cline to loan their money except to the most steadfast houses, and then only tor short periods. The natural result of this state of things is an abundance of money and a scarcity of tafe em- ployment for it, In fact, the credit system is in astate of collapse, and its contraction is pinch- lng cowmerce severely. Another cause is combining with the one just cited to produce like effects. The currency of the world is experiencing the same pressure of contraction with the credit system. The war has awakened the spirit of hoarding to such an extent that Sardinia, Austria, and even Russia, have been compelled to resort to the doubttul ex- pedient of a suspension of specie paymen' Conflicting as are the views of the opposing schools of political economists as to the efivcts of such a measure on the internal trade of any country, they all agree that it must be disastrous tothe foreign trade, because there can be no Such thing as a suspension of specie payments in the foreign trade of any country. Exchanges between nations must always be reduced to their equivalent in the precious metals; and when- ever the spirit of hoarding creates a scarcity and increases the relative value of these, it must have a restrictive effect on finance and trade. A third cause which is producing a disastrous influence on commerce is the fact that war can- not be carried on, either at home or abroad, without large sums of specie for its uses and pay- ments. Thus, England bas been under the ne- cessity of sending large sums of silver to India ; Austria has been compelled to resort to the sys- tem of forced loans in order to supply her army chests; and Prussia had to resort to trick and deception to secure public subscriptions to her loan of thirty mil- lions of thalers, Bavaria bad not even the power to do that, and all the arts of the Court bave not sufficed to draw from their hoards more than three hundred thousand florins for subscrip- tion to the proposed Bavarian loan of four mil- lions. But, though the power and the arts of governments succeed in finding specie for their armies, this does not return it to the channels of trade. It merely changes its hiding place, for the spirit of hoarding absorbs it as rapidly as the perched and thirsting earth absorbs the rain. All of theee causes combine to produce the present stagnation in commerce and the future disasters that will attend it. Credit and cur- rency are the great pillars of the fabric of trade, and when these are attacked the entire edifice is menaced. Tho present war has shaken them severely, and they have not fallen only because the great commercial nations are not involved n it. Should the conflict become gencral in Europe, we shall have a revulsion in the financial and commercial world such as this generation has never seen, for it has not known a general European war except through the pages of } the C history, and history records little more than the glory of the soldier. The thousands of mer- chants that it carries bankrupt to the grave, and the pinching want and misery of the industrial classes, through the impossi- bility of exchanging with other nations their productions, are only glanced at incidentully, or entirely ignored. During the great struggle of England with the first Napoleon her people were reduced to a state of beggary, and her merchants were nearly all destroyed, though sbe had the entire command of the ocean. Few or none of the merchant princes that now constitute her boast and her power can trace their fortunes back beyond the peace of Vienna. Army con- tractors and the desperate followers of the camp then constituted her wealthy class. ‘The scope, the appliances and the multitudes of trade, are far greater now than they ever were at any former period; and, as a natural conse- quence, the stagnation of war must be more widely felt. The extent of the commercial en- terprises that have hitherto quickened commerce, and which must now be curtailed, if not alto-, gether stopped, constitutes a much larger pro- portion of the movements of mankind than at any former epoch. The crops that will find a diminished market for their surplus, the fleets of ehips that must lie idle at their wharves, aud even the vast amounts of capital that must cease to bring returns to its owners or to stimulate the exchanges of trade. form an immense ele- ment in the scheme of industry, and its distur- bance by the operations and influences of war cannot be replaced by anything that war can create, nor can it be restored suddenly to its normal state. In this way the present fears that the war may become general in Europe are almost as disastrous as war itself would be. Our commercial community should be prepared for the worst. A stagnant year will be nearly as disastrous as a revulsion would be; and with the single exception that the surplus fabrics of Europe, cut off from other markets, may seek ours in unwonted shoals, there is no sign in the circles of trade of an active and prosperous era. Tuk New York Desocracy axp Ovr Next Fast Exxerton.—The anti-Tammany demo cracy of city have issued « declaration of war against their Tammany brethren, from which we may anticipate in December next a split of the party of this island similar to that of last year. and « similar result, only, perhaps, upon a larger ecale as an opposition victory. Thus much for the cause of democratic harmony in the city. But the trouble in the camp doe not stop here. The great bone of contention is arleston Convention. The organ of the ti-Tammavy party insists upon it that Dean Richmond and the keeper of the Albany curiosity ave their list of dele- dy recorded on “the processes of the State Con- on the subject, and the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY Il, 1859. adoption of their report, will be all mere matiers | from ) aying anything until further order of the States, the idea is perfectly absurd, and could of form. Thus forestalled by the despotic ma- chinery of the Albouy Regenes, the opposing wing of the party are resolved upoa « vigorous rebellion. Of course we may thus safely pre- judge the State as lost to the democracy in No- vember, by an increased republican majority, und two democratic delegations at Charleston from the Empire State, which will make the “noise and confusion” of the rational party con- vention worse confounded than ever before, Thus, the glory of Old Tammany and the im- perial role of the Albuny variety shop ure fading away. Grand Display of Southern Fireworks—Bal- derdash of the Demagogues. Mr. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, and Mr. R. Barnwell Rhett, of South Carolina, have been entertaining their respective constituents with grand displays of rhetorical fireworks, which throw into the shade all the achievements of the fire kings north of Mason and Dixon’s line, The cecasion of Mr. Stephens’ display was his surrendering into the hands of his constitu- ents the trusts so long reposed in him, and so ably and faithfully discharged by him as their representative in Congress. ‘That of Mr. Rhett’s was the delivery of 1 Fourth of July oration be fore the assembled chivalry and beauty of Gra- hamville, in the Palmetio State. Both speeches we trapefer to our columns to-day. Mr. Stephens has always bad the reputation of being one of the most advanced of Southern fire- eaters; but his last effort in that line is tame, spiritless and insignilicant, before the mighty rush of Rhett’s pyrotechnic eloquence. Mr. Stephens tells his constituents what he did for the slavery cause in Congress, and what great progress the pro-slavery sentiment has made since he first opened his lips in the Mouse of Representatives. He tells them that he now leaves that arena because the fight is over and the battle won by the South, and because he finds, as his great namesake of Macedon did be- fore, that there are no more worlds to conquer. In other words, all the great questions in which the South was interested are now, he says, settled, and that settlement is aflirmed by the judiciary as well as by the exe- cutive. But the South Carolina fire-eater is of a different opinion. According to him the equality of State and section, for which Calhoun and McDuffie and Mayne and the other Southern champions of the past contended, and which they disdained to surrender, bad, in the hands of their unworthy descendants, practically fallen to the earth. The daughters of Zion could not have sung amore melancholy chant by the waters of Babylon than poor Rhett recites to the sympa- thizing bosoms of the people of Grahamville over the decay and fallen condition of the South “The fire bell,” be says, “is ringing and, will ring on till it tolls the death kuell of the Uniow.” And then, in his desperation against these who have been pro- ducing such a catastrophe, he calls the people of the North all sorts of hard names, stigmutizing them, rather inconsistently, as “proud robbers,” and in the next breath as “a vulgar crew of plunderers and fanatics.” And then, in an oat- burst of indignant patriotism, he asks the South when will she “cast off the incubus of igno- rance and error and fear, which now like a foul toad sits upon her bosom, to rise up and com- mand the liberation and independence of the South?” We, think really, ihat after such a mani- festation Mr. Rhett’s friends should be called upon to take care of him. The Georgian tire-eater is as cool as a cucum- ber beside him of South Carolina. Mr. Stephens tells his constituents quietly and calmly what he thinks. He tells them, for instance, that there is no prospect of any more slave States besides those to becarved out of Texas, unless the stock of slaves be increased. The policy of that is a matter which he does not discuss. He leaves it an open question. He thinks, however, that the country is too emall in extent, and he is therefore in favor of acquiring Cuba and absorbing Sonora, Chi- buahua and other territory “ lying around loose.” He would not consent, however, to give more than « million or two for Cuba; and if Spain did not like to accept that he would simply repeal the neutrality laws and let us help ourselves. Mr. Rhett here, too, far transcends Mr, Stephens in the scope of bis ideas. In his eyes “ the broad expanse of the tropics on this continent lies stretching for thirty degrees on both sides of the equator for our civil conquest and posses- sion;” and then he asks, “Shall we not occupy it? Sball not Japhet and Ham (the Southern planter and his slave) go out together and take their portion of the inheritance of the earth?” Ob! by all means, Lei them go. There are quite a number of enterprising Japhets of Mr. Rhett’s stripe whom the South could very well afford to see departing on this mission, and the sooner they go the better. Let Mr. Rhett be en- couroged in his conquering and possessory ideas, and we may all have the sweet satisfaction of knowing that the South has got rid of a number of its balderdash demagogues, bound to the tropics on both sides of the equator, there to conquer and possess that portion of their inheri- tance. All aboard for the tropics! Tak Wesv Wasuineron Marker Proverty.— We publish in another column an elaborate deci- sion of Judge Roosevelt in the West Washington Market litigation, delivered in the Supreme Court, special term, on Saturday. The history of this case is familiar to the public. It will be remembered that the Land Commissioners, ip the name of the State, leased to Messrs. Taylor & Brennan that portion of land lying west of Wash- ington Market, occupied by stalls and sheds, the tenants whereof paid rent to the city to the amount of between $50,000 and $70,000 a year. The consideration agreed to be paid by Taylor & Brennan was only $5,000 a year. This Jand covers a space of about 460 feet equare, and has been filled in from the North river at the expense of the city, and the above sheds as well as picrs and bulkheads constructed thereon, Thus it was clearly the property of the city. The ground upon which the State claimed the right to lease it, and de- prive the city treasury of a handsome revenue, was that the lands under waters of navigable rivers were State property. Upon the execution of the lease Taylor & Brennan iseued an ejectment against the city to recover possession of the property, and also gave new leases to sub-tenants in their own name as etors, As in all cases where the city trea- sury isaa apparent patty to a cause, a series of complications ensued, which it is not neces- ary to follow uphere. The judgment of the Supreme Court on Saturday set the diviculty at rest for atime, by declaring the previons judg- ments vacated, and granting an in) :action re- > quasi lessees or their receiver from money from the vec ton Morket, and the saig Conrk ‘This decision, we apprehend, will be esteemed a jut coe by the people, Avnornen Asoirrion Movemunt.—That vener- able edifice, the Dutch Reformed church in Mucket street, will soon be defunct, thatis—if the Kev. Dr, Cayler can succeed in abolishing it. Atolition is the reverend doctor's hobby, as all the world knows; and if the world does not know it, then certainly it is not his fault. Failing to abolish negro slavery at the South, he would fain try his hand at something more sacred nearer home, The Rev. Dr. Cheever, who for some years past has been engaged in a battle with slavery abroad and his congregation at home, hada hard fight, but reaped a glerious notoriety in his endeavor to get rid of one-half of bis congregation; but the ambitious Dr. Cuyler, spurning to do things by halves, wants to make short work of it by kicking out his whole congregation at once. Excessive bold- ness, like excessive impudence, is pretty sure to command success, and sometimes admiration. Now, be it understood that the Dutch Reformed church in Market street is no languishing, sickly concern;. on the contrary, it is im full life nd spiritual vigor. Had the sents been empty instead of regularly filled with worshippers, had the church been in debt izstead of free from it and in easy circumstances, there would have been something commonplace and vulgar in the reverend doctor’s movement; but, taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, this ecclesiastical coup d’éat may be pronounced origi- nal, brilliant, disinterested, and void of ambition. We bave often heard of clergymen desiring to get rid of sickly congregations; but here is one who tells a thriving nd prosperous people, in a well populated locality, to go to the dogs, so fur as their spiritual interests are concerned, to sell their noble church and grounds, and place the proceeds thercof at his disposition, in order that he may build another edifice, in « distant part of the city, probably in some gentecler loca'ity, where the Gospel is more needed thaa »mong the residents of the Seventh ward. About the year 1820 the Market strect church was built on ground donated for the purpose by Colonel Henry Rutgers. It was upon the thea outskirts of New, York. The principal land- owners of the vicinity, such as the Croshys, Remsens, Beekmans, Benens and Col. Willct, joined in the effort, and erected what was then considered one of the finest and most sub- stantial edifices in the city. The Rev. Dr. William McMurray wa: the first pastor, and continued so for over fifteen years, till his death, leaving a venerated me- mory and a large and prosperous con- gregation to his successor, the Rev. Dr. Ferris. About four years ago the Rev. Dr. Cuyler became pastor of the congregation. The history of the church, from the time of its found- ing to the present moment, has been one of con- tinued success, and at no period have its pros- pects been fairer than at the present moment. It is true that from year to year there have been outgoings as well as incomings. The people of the Seventh ward, and of the surrounding neigh- bvorhood, once they get well to do in the world, and have marriageable daughters to dispose of, after spending the first half of their lives in that respectable locatity, fragally and sensibly, not unfrequently set up in the Fifth avenue for fasbionables, and so oftén make fools of them- selves. Dr. Cuyler being a progressive man, is in this instance somewhat ahead of his people, inasmuch as he forgets that if he takes the church away the larger portion of lis congregation may not be in a position to follow. There are, in fact, a considerable number who say that the church shall not go, and among them is the venerable Colonel Crosby, from whose family the church property was obtained by deed of gift. Colonel Crosby has never been seduced by the blandish- ments of the Fifth avenue, being of opinion that the Seventh ward is respectable enough for him and his family. Having worshipped in the Market street church for nearly forty years, it is said that he does not concur in the propriety of Dr. Cuyler’s abolishing it, and consequently in- tends to put a legal veto upon the procedure. Tremenpo.s Ervort to Gatyvanize Bosvox Trs ‘The Boston papers are full of accounts of the preparations for the New England trade eale, which is to commence in the Modern Athens on next Wednesday, and to be continued oste: bly until the next Saturday evening, but really, we presume, as long as there is anything to sell or anybody to buy it. It is called an “ Exten- sive Sale of Domestic Manufactures,” and the advertisements state that no less than “ fifty thousand packages of cotton and woollen fabrics, boots and shoes, carpetings, glassware, and other desirable goods,” are to be sold at auction, *“ nnder the direction of the New England Soctety for the Promotion of Manufactures and the Me- ebanie Arts.” All the goods we have enumera- ted above are said to be from New England man- ufactories; but we see the names of dealers of New York as among the consignors, and we presume that the sale will not be so ex- clusive as the Boston papers would seem to inti- mate. Among the carriages to be sold on Wednesday are many from New York and Phila- delphia makers, But at any rate it appears quite evident that mercantile Boston is coming out very strong for theeales. The City Council will take official notice of them by an excursion in the bay, the public institutions will be open to visiters, and several of the literary and scientific cocicties will join in the general endeavor to muke the stay of West- ern and Southern merchants, who, it is said, have already arrived in large numbers, as pleasant as possible. Well, there are worse goods than those they make in New England, and worse places to spend a week in the summer scason than the staid and respectable city of Boston. We hope the sales will be all that their projectors can hope for, snd that Boston trade will receive a healthy impetus from them. The magnitude of the effort certainly deserves a corresponding re- turn. For many years the trade of Boston has not wonderfully increased. The old and wealthy houses have their branches in New York, and it ig here that they transact the greater part of their businese. They must follow the immutable law which concentrates commerce at a cortain point, and that point is New York. [i ix hardly necessary to ray that the Boston people, natu- rally slow, and withal blessed with no small opinion of themselves. were a long time in finding this out. Some of them, as it appears by this trade sale, have not yet fully awakened to its ity. They tay make a temporary bustle in a smail city, bot as for any permancot restoration of the thet has long since departed from Nes rd. and is now wi clded by the great central + puy never have originated out of State street, which always was about fifty years behind the age. TeansaTianti¢c Sream Navicarton—SaLe or tae Corns Sruamers.—The Collins steamers have at last been sold, and all hopes of the re- vivol of that line are now at cm end. For the future, the Cunard and’ other foreign companies will have the monopoly of the transatlantic steam lives, for the competition opposed to them by Commodore Vanderbilt cau, without government aid, be only partial The de- cision arrived at by Congress, in reference to a line which it was admitted had been mapaged with the greatest energy and spirit, of course +huts out the hope of assistance being granted to any similar enterprise started at this side. Unless it be made a political or party question, it is evident that a government subsidy in aid of an American mail line is not amongst the things that can be again pressed upon the attention of Congress. The unprecedented activity of transatlan- tic steam navigation this season, and the fact of the profits arising therefrom passing almost entirely into the hands of foreigners, have led many people to inquire, What has become of Mr. Collins? ‘That he is not idle, those who are ac- queinted with his energetic habits are, of course, well aware; but driven from the clement on which he has hitherto distinguished himself, they are vaturally anxious to ascertain in what new pur- suits his busy genius finds occupation. We can satisfy the inquiries that have been addressed to us on this point. Mr. Collins is at present in Col- linwood, Jefferson county, Ohio, where he is about to engege in extensive undertakings, having, io put for object the developement of the rich mineral rsources of that State. However much we may regret to see qualities such »s Mv. Colins posvesses diverted from pur- saita in which he would have rendered important services to the: ountry, the feeling is subordinate to the mortification with which we witness the results of the policy that has driven him from them. Out of the number of European steam linea which now connect the American and jean ports, the whole, with one or two exceptions, are in the hands of foreign com- panies. Of the steamers arriving nearly every other day from Liverpool, Galway, Cork, Glas- gow, Southampton, Havre, Hamburg and Bremen, more than three-fourths belong to the latter; so that the profits on the freights of our import and export trade go almost entircly to enrich the shipping ,interests of Europe. In the case of a great maritime nation such results can only be owing to causes out of the usual course of things ; they can certainly be attributed to none which commercial energy and enterprise can contro’. To the corrupt indifference of our Congressional legislators can they alone he ascribed. It being admitted that without an adequate mail appropriation it was impossible for the Collins line to compete with the English lines thus supported, it was the duty of Congress to make such a provision for the former as would place it in a fair condition of rivalry with them. Were the appropriation even larger than what was asked, it would still have been good policy to have granted it as an encourage- ment to our own shipping interests, Unfortunate- ly, however, the grant stood upon its own merits, and, like every other thus presented, it fuiled. There can be no doubt that if it had been associated with some political question, or been made a party issue bearing on the Presi- dential election, it would have had a fair ehauce of being carried through. Thus are our best in- terests sacrificed to miserable considerations of political expediency, and national enterprises suftered to go to the wall for the went of the sup- port which would be willingly accorded to cor- rupt schemes having the influence of a strong lobby to back them. If this policy be persevered in it is evident that we will have to abandon our pretensions as a maritime nation. The loss of our steam freight and passenger traflic will soon be followed by that of the prestige at- taching to our commercial and naval marine. Tus Warerwe Praces.—Elsewhere will be found a few watering place letters, which as yet do not hold out a very enlivening pros- pect to pleasure seckers. The great rush has, how- ever, hardly ect in, the unusual coolness of the weather having kept many in town who hy this time are usually on their round of summer pere- gtinations, If the temperature continues thus pleasant the hotcls at the watering places will not reap the rich harvest on which they have been counting. New York, witha cool atmosphere and its many facilities fof enjoyment, will be much preferable to Saratoga, Newport and Cape May, with their crowds of frivolous idlers aad extortionate hotel charges. There are hundreds of places in the immediate vicinity of the city where refreshing sen breezes and good bathing can be had, without people being obliged to leave their homes for more than « few hours at a time. Unless fairly driven from the city hy the heat, which thus far does not promise to be the case, we believe that numbers of those who have hitherto been carricd away by the watering place mania will prefer the quiet comforts of their own dwellings to the noise, confusion and dissipation of crowded summer hotels. Morr Niccers.—It appears that the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, has surren- dered to the idea of the South, that unless they have a larger supply of Africans than they can command at present it will be useless for South- ern men to attempt to occupy any of the Terri- tories and make slave States of them. Mr. [d- mund Raflin, a distinguished ecientific farmer and political writer of Virginia, also inclines very strongly to the policy of reviving the Afri- can slave trade, in order to prevent old Virginia from becoming a free State from the shipment of her niggers to the cotton fields of Georgia, Mis- sissippi, Alabama and Louisiana. But against all theee arguments in favor of a renewal of the African trafic and more niggers we would simply ask a little question or two. If, with the niggers already in the country, the two sections are kept continually in hot water, what would be our condition ten years hence, with the Afri- can slave trade in full blast, comprehending the importation of wild Africans to the extent of two or three hundred thowsand a year? |i is high time for the slaveholders of the South to be looking into this business, when such men as A, Wd. Stephens, of Georgia, and Ndmand Ruilia, of Virginia, begin to joiu in this suicidal Southern cry tor the reopening the African slave trade, Tun Cor ov Crry Orviers.s—Loox to Your Tax Rucuirts---A taxpayer, whose com- munication we print elsewhere, complains of a gtievance in connection with assessments on property to which we have had occasion repeat. «Uy to sHude, nam ® eccond demand tor woof an assesanent which be had pald to Gy the Deputy Collector before. Ia this inatamoe, however, the individual waa lucky euough te have in his possession the Collector's receipt, and he wishes to be iatormed if he had lost it whether bis property would not be sold for the taxes? It is extremely probable that it would, unless he paid the demand over again; and we advise every one having money transactions with our city officials to take good care and preserve documentary evidence of the same in the form of receipta. ‘The gross carelessness which characterizes the conduct of all official businees in this city-not to say anything of the frauds, collusious aod plunder—is such that no one is positively aeoure in his dealings with our public departmenta. Our correspondent’s account of the character of our small politicians and hangers-on of the public offices around the City Hall is not au ex- aggerated one, and we commend it to the notice of taxpayers and others interested in the mode @ have the high privilege to be fleeced. AFFAIRS IN WASHENGTON. Our Relations with Central America—Breeoh- Loading Kifles—Judge Dougine Preparing for the Charleston Corlvention—The Mou- tral Rights Policy of the Admmlstratioa. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATOR. Wasemncrox, July 10, 1859. General Lamar, our Minister to Nicaragua, informed our government by the last steamer that he intended to re turn home in the next steamer. The return of Jerez to Nicaragua may delay his return, in the hope of accom- plisbing something. Jerez left here fully impresecd with the belief that he could unrave! the Central American im- Drogiio. Despatches from Nicaragua are joked for by the administration with much interest. The Board of Nava! Officers appointed by the Secretary of the Navy to examine the various breech loading riiies Dest adapted for naval purpores, haye completed thetr © labors and made their report. Toe Secretary will cis pose of the matter during the coming week. The appro- priation is one hundred thousand dollars, and tho contest is very animated. Judge Douglas is here and intends to remain a month or 80, He, with a few of his friende, arejquietly arracg- ipg a picgramme for the Charleston Convention. His friends lock upon his nomination as a foregone couc's- sion. J. C. Hamilton is here, making researches in relation ta the great questions of neutrality and commercial free dom, and, it is underetcod, is possessed of very impor- tant materials, showing that the policy of tho xdministra. tion is fully in consonance with that finally adopted by Washington, to be ombraced tn.his history of the United States. Lynch Law at Sandford, Kentucky. Lovisvitem, Juty 9, 1359. A mob at Sand/ord, in this State, recentiy hung James Rongey for killing James Olaham in May Inet. Markets, New Ontgana, July 8, 1359. Cotton—Sales to day 700 bales, the market’ ciaiug ua- changed. The sales of the weok add up 5,500 bales, aud tho recetpts 1,400, against 3,900 for the correspon tig week last year. The exports of the week foot up 10,000 bales, and the total exports to date 1,727,000. Stock 45,500 baics. Flour closed with a declining tendency ; sales euperSne at $5 80. Mixed corn $1 1234 per bushel Coffee closed firm at 113. for prime. — Stock 00,000 oes ee 28,500 last year. Freights—Cotton io Liver- 7-16d, New Onxeays, July 9, 1869. Cotton—The Hungarisn’s acvices had no ei! ct upou the cotton market: the eales to-cay amount to 800 dales at ua changed prices. Coflee steady. Sugar rm at 6)4c. for fair. Ciscrynati, July 9, 185% Flour dull and generally unchanged, Wheat—Eed #1 19 & $1.15; white $1 204 $125. Cornsteady, Wuiskey ad- ‘vanced 1c ; sales 800 bbls. at 25c. Provisions unchanges, ———_——— Music in the Central Park. A NEW ATTRACTION ¥OR THE KaMBLE. ‘Through the forethought of a number of public spirited gentlemen, the first of a series of public concerts wax given on Saturday afternoon in thet portion of the Central Park known as “tho Ramble,” by the performance of the following programme:— PART 1. 1, Overtare (Alensanéro t tradelis) 2. “The Swallow's Farewell” 8 Quick Mareb (Capt. Balleck! fel-ritons from “Robert le wiabie’ 6, Medley of Populer Atrs, 6. Gasop (The minors). ‘This scheme, we are informed, origionted with Mr. J. Wrey Mould, the architect of Ati Soul’s church (Dr. Bol- lows), at present attached to the executive staif'as assistant architect, and engaged with Mesers. Olm2tead and Vaux in the carrying out of their admirable plan. With the ap- Proval of the Commissioners and the Architect in Chief, be bas brought the present scheme to bear by voluntary con- tributions, the immediate nucleus of which has been mainly raised amongst personal friends. It is proposed to give every Saturday afternoon, weather permitting, an * open air concert free to the public, consisting of a proper mixture of an instructive and elevated class of music with what may be also characterizad as popular; and whilo there is no intention of forcing upon the public the! more abstruse and recondite orchestral consbinarions of the leading 'mioda in music of the day, still the sclections will assure @ higher and more refined tone than that of a a mere ordinary programme. Tho concert of Saturday be looked “upon “in every point of view as experi- 1; experimental ag to locality, ag to selection | to combination. The musicians’ stand was placed cm a rcck Loo elevated for the efivctive distripution of the brough the adjacent portions of “the Kamvle;”’ moeroover, it wee located where the people wore induced w cluster around in immobile groups of listeners, in- stead of promenading the contiguous walks whilst the m was playing, as it 1s the wieh of the connoisseurs to induce’ them to do, , the selections performed offer mo grounds for especial remark, Wath the exception of Mendeleshon’s lovely two. part eong, and the inepirmg “ Tannoauscr” march, av Claesical prece of note was given, and the popular portions fell sbort in that etrikingnees and beuliancy wnich 1s a desi- deratum not to be dispensed with on such occasions; giving exception, however, to a charming waltz by Strauss (tne “Sorgenbracher”), in the gecond pert. Furthermore, there was great evidence of insufficient rebeureal en the part of the bund, we presume rather due to the hasty im- proyisation of the wholo scheme, and not to uny ehoricom- ires.on the part of Harvey Dodeworth For thoes thou sands obliged to pags the summer months amid the bes and turmorl of the city, these Saturday aiternoon concert will prove an unexcepronable blessing. If they wer given in the evening, vr on Sunday, however, they wouid be mere acceptable to tue people, for whota they are wad to be intended, Personal Inteliigence. Amongst the arrives at ro Union Place Hotel are the Countese Villaceuya and suit, Don Jose Benirguet, Coulis and Countess do Merlin and /amily, Countess O'Retliy, Dr. Gutierez, Miss M. Gutierez, Miss J. Gutierez, J D. Vilir urentia and servant, all of Havana; ©. V. Joute and family Wr. H, White aad wile, of New Orleans; &. H. Tracy, New York. ‘The degree of A. M., has been conferred on Mies Martha Haines butt, of Norioli city, by the Harrisburg (1’enasyl vania) lemate Coltege. Mat. Ward, the kuler of Butler, the schoolmaster, in | Louisville, bas receutly been received into the Catholic church, ‘The individual taxpayers in Augueta, Maine, paying tho, largest amounts, are Reue! Williams, $544; Geo. W. stan. ley, $422; James W. Bradbury, $4 . North, $325 >) William Hunt, $529; Silas Leonara, ilen Lombard $817, aud Houry K. Smith, $356. ‘ ARRIVALS. From London, tn ship Southarvton—Mrs & F Colburn, ‘ae | 6 Colburn, TM Needon, J 0 Clark, FN Ulark. of 6 Xurk; Lewiston Mra M Hughes, F W rimpson, of London, and 17517 sicerage. From Montevideo, in bark Wdisto—Uapt 3 F Chapmaa, of chr Sea Witon; Chas iis . eed ¥ é te DEPARTURES. ‘or Bremen, enmship Bremen—L © Ih ‘ others, as given yesterday Teme ie For Richmond, &c., in the steanship Jamcstown—Ratpt Detly, a Sern, A M Hnllock. 8 rant t Ven i We niee Sullivan, 0 Graham, 4 W blew, LM Moreh Mies tecdiem, Mian Jane Jdlain, Kone, a Pr Varker, 4 Mayers, 4 ®cFarland’ and Indy. J Daveugort, Guver,'Sira smith and'two ehtliren, Borie and sone a sor, Fis, J V seCusiom, Lieut Symonds, J MBoyson, Mra bearles, Misw Nederi A. Nadermiayer, H Fripp, Mis Asrongh, mra © Nedermay: y Wear, R ) W Murray ane iw ‘ on. eM Gresham, I Wright, 7 Kee Qrenan I rig vain 18 Por Charieston, in the stermahiy Jamon Adver— . a indy, 6 Hunt besioay t oberon 45h Lowe ot, « St. Lewis Zeiten: t. tools veer brews umber of brewerive year 115,04 BIN St. Lovis.—-Th the capital employed im the rly 8460 000,000. T s thirty five fa | y conducting the city government under which we 3 ; fd ~ i