The New York Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1859, Page 4

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An- other great battle was expected in Italy soon, as | holds this ground as a Presidential candidate, two hundred thousand Austrians were reported to | and demands that the Charleston Convention be in line on the Adige, with the outposts in near | shall, in its platform, recognise the power and proximity to the French. Gartbaldi had defeated | the duty of Congress to interpose, if required, the Austrians near one of the passes of the Tyrol, after a sharp fight. Austria was about to march her Tyrol contingent to the seat of war, ané had called on Germany to r- tle mountain passes. There was still ten: in his address to the Sacred Consistory, cated all persons whom he ‘volutionists and conspirators.” neral,in his report of the affair evidently well pleased with the action The speech of Lord Lyndhurst, in the English House of Lords, on the subject of England’s defences and the chanc a French invasion, is of great importance, while the remarks of the other peers (reported elsewhere) are very interesting. Prussia was still encouraging the German mili- ement to the Rhine, but affirms that she pose the bases of a peace. The fan4s were dull in Londen on the 7th of July, <d at a reduction of one-eighth. T! a good demand for money on that day, and the ess at the Bank was modera‘ Good bills vere done at 2} per cent. Consols 9: Cotton was quiet on the 7th, at the advance of the 6th inst. We have news from Havana to the Mth inst., but it is of very litile interest. The sugarm dull and a decline in prices looked for. were also dall. By way of New Orleans we have additional news from Vera Cruz and later intelligence from the Northern departments of Mexico. It may be found among our telegraphic despatches. President Buchanan left Washington yesterday afternoon ona visit to Bedford Springs. His de parture has been the signal fora general evacua- tion of the capital. She meeting of the New York bar to express their feelings on the death of the Hon. Rufus Choate will be called by the committee for Satur- day next, at 12 o'clock. The Commissioners of Health hada meeting yes at which the City Inspector reported the of putrified meat in large quantities at Washington Market, and its removal from the city. The} “lth Officer reported the arrival at Quaran- tine bri sels from Matanzas and two from cach of the ports hav- Bt. ce a, OLE ing ome sickness on board wii and on the it was believed te be a light r, and all the vessels were at Quarantine in Aldermen in ¢ Rai and Transportation Commany to run a ferry. m the foot of Desbrosses street to Jersey City i uddition to the present ferry accommoda- tions. A committee wf conference was appointed to confer with the Aldermer, jy relation tg the gon: tioversy about the W Washington Market pro- perty, the Mayor | in¢ vetoed a resolution adopt ed by the Alder men appropriating $6,000 to defend the suit, Mie Mayor vetoed an or of pavit_» Forty-eighth street, between Broa O° Pighth avenue, with Belgian pavement, fi g that the street has not yet been paved, aud the Owners therefore not being subj assessment for paving it, He also returned without his approval a resolution directing Hudson street to be paved from &ighth, avenue to Canal street with Belgian pavement, the h Avenue Rail- road Company to defray a portion of the expense. He recommends that the resolution be amended by passing an ordinance to c the resolution into effect, and by requiring the railroad company and the owners of property to Le each assessed one third of the expenses. A number of “general orders” devoid of public interest were adopted, The particulars of an interesting case of suicide by arsenic, which occurred on Wednesday evening at the boarding house of Mrs. Charlotte Whitte more, No. 110 West Twenty-fourth street, will bo found in another column, Through the instrumen- tality of Captain Carpenter, of the Sixteenth pre. cinct, and Coroner Schirmer, the case was sup- pressed, and it was not until yesterday that the nance in f facta were made public and the whole story leaked | its rebellious leaders to the common platform of | the came packa out. The cause assigned for the suppression of tue facts ta gald ig be disinterested fricudship on tan . " © excitement in the Papal States, | Who have followed his fortunes upon this issue, the part of the police captain, who was fearful that an exposé in the newspapers might annoy Madam’s boarders. The annual prize speaking of the Free Academy took place last evening at the Cooper Institute Nine of the students competed for the prizes, which will be awarded by a committee appointed for the purpose. The cotton market was quiet yesterday, Tne sales were confined t 200 a 300 bales on the basis of quota tions given in another column. Flour was again heavy and lower, especially for common and medium grades of State and Western. The market cloged with some better demand from the trade at the concession. Southern flour was comparatively quiet, while prices were without change of importance, especially for the highor class of brands, Wheat was heavy, with rathor more doing: cam- mon to good Southern white sold at $1 60 a $1 60; red do, at $1 40 a*$150, and common Missouri at $1 50- Corp was cas buoyant, with eaics of unsound Western mixed at 860., sound do, old and new, at 880. a 92i¥c., and Western end Southern yellow at 923(c, m0uc. Pork was heavy and lower, with ales of now moss at $15 87 and prime at $12, The market was more active at the cunces- sion, especially for prime. Beef was heavy and lard un- changed. Coffee was quiet and wales limited, while prices were steady. Freight engagements were quite light and cotton for Liverpool at ¥d. Yhe Territorial Siavery Question and the Democratic Platform—What Shall be the Platform? The result of the Kansas experiment of squat- ter sovereignty, the loss of Kansas to the South, the consequent chagrin of Southern politicians, the prostrate condition of the Northern demo- cracy, the impatient ambition of rival demo- cratic candidates for the succession, and other causes, have all operated to make in 1859 the slavery in the Territories the issue upon which the national democratic party in 1860 is to be harmonized for one more general battle or finally broken to pieces. Heretofore the party platform has been a mere matter of routine, a string of high-sounding ab- stractions and “ glittering generalities,” adapted ingeniously to a Northern and a Southern inter- pretation upon all dangerous sectional issues ; but the significant consequences of the Cincin- nati platform of “popular sovereignty” have at last brought the Northern Douglas democracy and the Southern democracy face to face, The Southern democracy cry out—‘“ Your popular soverelgnty has made fools of us in our useless contest for Kansas against your Northern emi- grant aid societies, Under the same organic jaw there is no chance for usin any other Ter- ritory, for we cannot hope to compete with your swarming hordes of adventurers. Our coloniz- ing movements in behalf of slavery must be slow, as we have but few slaves to spare in this way ; and we therefore demand our rights under the Dred Scott decision, including, when neces- tection of our slave property in the Territories against the ‘unfriendly local legislation’ of your Northern squatters.” Governor Wise, as the representative of the Virginia and Southern democracy genera}ly, for the protection of slave property in the Terri- tories, against any “unfriendly” legislative or municipal acts of the local authorities. But Mr. Douglas, in behalf of the Northern democracy says, “No, no, never! Popular sovereignty, or squatter sovereignty, if you please, is our ulti- matum. The Northern democracy, all but destroyed even upon this doctrine, can go no further. The Charleston Convention: must con- cede to the people of a Territory, aa to the peo- ple of a State, ‘the right to regulate their do- mestic institutions in their own way,’ or there will be an end to the party as a national organi- zation. Do you hear us?” Of course there can be no satisfactory decision upon either born of thisdittemma. Let: the Con- vention adopt the platform of Governor Wise, and the Northern Dougles democracy will secede from the Convention, aa will the Southera de- mocre2y shonld the platierm of Dougias prevail. But is there “no half way diplomatit house of rest?’ We answer, there is this way of escape: The intermediate poliey of the administration covers the ground, and the only avauable ground, of a satisfactory compromise. The platform of Mr. Buchanan, as wo-understand it, is non-interveation on the part of Con gress and the Territories in reference to slavery. liands off until the Convention shall meet charged with the duty of framing a State coa- stitution; but such convention shall have sove- reign jurisdiction ovor the question, either for or against tho establiahment of slavery. In the meantime, should any complaints arise from the slaveholding settlers in reference to their slave property, and against the proceedings of the local anthorities, the issue shall be left to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the decision thus invoked shall be binding and conclusive. And why not? The whole trouble upon this matter is the question of jurisdiction. .Mr. Dou- gias contends that the Dred Scott decision does not and cannot reach the sovereignty of the ter- ritorial people over their domestic affairs, in- cluding their municipal regulations, taxes, &c., of all sorts of property, lands, houses, horsea, cattle, groceries, liquors, niggers and ail, Thue if the Territorial Legislature chooses to put a tax of fifty or five hundred dollars a year npon a slave thereis no “higher law” to prevent it, On the other hand, Southern men say that the Dred ottdecision not only freely admits the slave- bolder and his slaves into the Territories, but re- quires the local aythoritics to protect this pec liar property, and requires Congress to protect it, when the Territorial authorities may prove re- mise, The question of jurisdiction thus remains _ | unsettled, and why not leave the matter toa definite decision of the Supreme C. first pertinent case that may arize | In any event, between Wise and Douglas there ‘ourt upon the 2 ted to any | is no other basis of accommodation upon this | mining campaigner) | § abject than that comprebended in this platform | of the administration. Mr. Buchanan is aot a esndidate fora second term, The family jars of the democracy upon niggers, the spoils, and everything else, have rendered him rather anx- ious to get out of the White House than to be elected to another term of four years of the tor- tures of that inguisition. But still, the peace of the Union being involved in the preservation of the democracy as & national party, we are confl- dent that the interposition of the administration will be felt at Charleston against the extreme sutagonietic positions of Wise and Douglas. Perhaps the good courisels of the administra j ton thus interposed may be overruled by the elements of faction, discord and revolution; but still the party may be saved by the retura of the adr inistratior lsue is doubtful; but, iz any event, the adm’ stration is secure. The Wur in Italy—Another Great Battle Expected on tne Adige, The news from tbe war in Italy bronght by the City of Washington, which arrived here yes- terday, would indicate tbat anotber action in the open field, like the decisive one of Solfurino, was immivent. Private letters from the head- quarters of Prince Napoleon—which must be in close proximity to those of the Emperor at Val- legio—state that the Austrians were believed to bave two hundred thousand men in line on the Adige, awaiting the advance of the Allies From this fact it would seem that Fraocis Joseph is determined to rink another conicat be fore he ‘alls back upon his four great fortceases, probably in the hope that the exemy may meet with a reverse within the quadranyie which would have the effect of saving, for a time at least, his strongholds from asiege. Choosiny bis own tine of battle, and in a strong position, be doalrtess has an advantage, which, if it be not lost, as it was at Solferino, may eveotuaté in a success, which would probably change considerably the aepect of the war. The position of Germany has become more complicated by the intelligence that Garibaldi’s troops bad violated the Sousberu Tyrol by ea- tering the Tonale pass, upon receipt of which news at Vienna Prince Windishgratz was at once despatched to Berlin to acquaint the Prussian government with the circumstance, and no doubt to invoke its interference in behalf of German interests, menaced by the invasion of German territory. In view of this action of Garibaldi, as well as the fact that Austria has been com- Pelled by the defeat at Solferino to advance the troops which protected the Tyrol to the theatre of war, the Austrian government is about to Propose to the Diet of Frankfort to send a Ger- wan army to the Tyrol, in compliance with the treaties binding the Germanic confederation to the mutual protection of German territory. We may expect by the next steamer intelli- gence of a very important battle within the strategic quadrangle; for it hardly seems possi- ble that the Allies can evade the challenge which the enemy extends by the position he has taken up on the right bank of the Adige. To press an assault upon the fortified towns, with this force of 200,000 men in his rear, would be to hazard more than we are prepared to expect, judging from the previous strategy of Louis Napoleon during the present campaign. Tue Car Ovr or THe Bac.—It waa stated in this journal one week ago that since May, 1858, between sixty and seventy cargoes of Africans hed been landed on the coast of Florida and other eeaboard States of the South, and had been transported thence into the interior of the coun- try, and that the slave population had been in- creased by these importations to an extent of upwards of 15,000 negroes. This statement has been contradicted by an organ of the govern- ment at Washington, no doubt in good faith, be- cause the government is ignorant of the facts and is not aware of the trap that is laid for it. A far better authority than the Washiagton journal—one who ought to know, and who is in the very heart of the secret—sustains the Hr- RALD, and says “its statement is unquestionably well founded.” This authority is Thurlow Weed, in his Albany Evening Journal. He knows the facts because he has been behind the scenes. He is probably a partner in the business, and can therefore tell all about it. There is a depth of meaning in his words which outsiders do not perceive, and, ike “the veiled prophet of Kho- rasean,”’ who emblazoned On the white flag Mokanna’s host unfurl’d Those words of sunshine, “Freedom to the world,”” he- chuckles over the gullibility of bis dupes, to-whom he is ever denouncing slavery, and ever unfurling the white banner of freedom. The fonatics who swear by his beard believe him all fair and luminous within, and would almost die for his sake. He thinks, perhaps, that we arc not aware of his participation in the slave traffic; but he is mistaken, as he will find out before he ‘as concluded the reading of this short article. The facts are these : A number of anti-slavery and black republican leaders in the North eca- tered into a secret confederacy to embark in the slave trade, the object being two-fold: first, a mercantile speculation, by which plenty of money might be realized, while at the same time it would injure the hated slaveholders of the South by glutting the market, and thus reducing the price of negroes; second, a political scheme to overthrow the demo. cratic party in the next Presidential election by bringing the slave trafic to light, and charging our government with connivance at it, while the conspirators took good care to cover up their own tracks. The plan of opera- tions is this: Tbe managers buy up fast-sailing, beautiful yachts in New York, which, from their small size, their snow-white sails, theirrig and appearance as pleasure boats, are never suspect ed. These can go into the shallowest waters, where they cannot be pursued by ships of war, even if they do become objects of suspicion, and should one of them be caught, the value is com- paratively small, aud the escape of so many oth- ers will amply compensate for the loss, Thus the northern abolitionists have been doing a thriving business, and when it is broken up at last, it will be turned to excellent account for the Presiden- tial campaign. The democratic government will be denounced through all the moods and tenses for winking at “the inhuman traflic in flesh and blood,” and the foremost and fiercest among the denouncers will be Thurlow Weed. The cat, how- ever, is now out of tbe bag, and we trust the gov- ernment cruisers will keep a sharp loolout for his slavers, both on the African coast and among the reefs of Florida, and that the “whited sepul- chres” will be turned insife out, and the prophet of Albany, who delivers his oracular responses in the Journal, be stripped of his veil, and his icue lineaments exhibited to his followers and the whole community. Horace Greenny at Puxe’s Peax.—From the testimony of Captein L. holls (an old published in the Kansas tic City J#erald, July 9, it will be seen that the Captain givesitas bis opinion that “tue statement of Horace Greeley and others (ronch- ing for the richness of the Piko’s Peak gold mines) was greatly exaggerated, in consequence of the impositions practised upon these gentle- men by interested parties;” and that the real troth is that ho more than one man in five hun- dred of the Pike’s Peak miners is making his bread and ealt. We have no doubt that this is the true state of the case, and that Greeley and his associate signers of that golden colored proclamation were egregiously humbugged. in fact, while upon the nigger question Greeley is a perfect Aristotle, a Demosthenes, a Friar Bacon, “a Locke oo the understanding,” a Malthus and an Adam Smith, all rolled up in ge, be is upon most other sub. jects a8 credulous as the greenest greeahorn from the country. Victimized over and over __ NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1859. again by designing sharpers, speculators aod mock retormers and philanthropists, he is still ready to be victimized again wod again, THe fancies that he is a great farmer, for iastance, and yet he would perbaps starve upon a tract from which, more skilfully applied, the labor of a lazy pigger would extract a good living. Greeley ought to come home before he gets iuto tbe clutebes of Brigham Young; but as our phi- losopber is travelling iu that direction, we fear that we shall nex learm that ne has been per- suaded to turn Mormon. The Washington Tragedy in Its Latest Phase. We bave collected and reprinted in our im- pression of today a number of articles comment- ing upon the Tastact of a tragedy the details of which are fs yet too fresh in the pnblic mind to ced 4 more particu’ar reference in this place. tn sowe sapeets, however, the cuse is a remarka- tle ene, A member of the federal House of Representatives having ascertained beyond doubt the tact of the infidelity ot his wife and the iden. tity of her paramour, kills him. The injured husband is tried for murder. In his hour of peril he receives ‘he strongest expressions of affection from his triends, the warmest sympathy of a ma Jority of the public, aud the almost uaanimous sup- port of the press throughout the country. He is, of course, uequitted, and a few montos afterward receives the erring and repentant wife to bis for- viving wrme. Whereupon, as is generally re- ported, the hero of the tragedy is dropped by the friends who supported him during his aiiliction, and, as may be seen by the copious extracts we print elsewhere, receives the disapnrobation of the very journalists who took his side while the trial was in progress, and who are presumed to represent, at least in a degree, the present drift of public opinion about the matter. Some of them, it is said, represent the views of his spe- cial political and personal friends. Such is the present phase of one of the most curious events of a singular epoch. It is a po- sition of affairs which was not altogether unex- pected, so far as we were concerned. We be- lieved and predicted at the outset that the face of public sympathy would result in an acquittal of the outraged husband. It was also our impression that the parties would eventually resume marital relations. Such was the opinion of all who are familiar with the secret history of political and social life in this country. By the initiated no other result was looked for; and this impression was not founded altogether, or per- haps in any part, upon the personal character or mental idiosynucracies of either or both the par- ties involved. They are just now representa tives of a bad state of society, wherein political success and power are to be had at any sacrifice of personal honor and private morality. They are the types, net the founders, of the school; and in the whole history of the affuir, from ¢he first to the last, there may be read a most mournful and dangerous indication of the cor- ruptioa, the demoralization, the dishonor and the debauchery that seem to be insepavable from the political history of the country in these latter days, We are quite conscious that the politician by profession claims to have one code of morality for hia private life and another for his public career; but this is false, logically and practically. Here and there one muy find an exeeption, but, as a rule, the corruption, the thieving, the lying and general immorality which obtain in political eircles are carried into private life, staining alike the senatorial robes, the gen- tleman’s honor and the woran’s chastity. The legal maxim, false in one thing, false in all, ap- plies equally, and perhaps with greater force, to this fancied distinction which is bypocriticaliy eet up between a man’s private and public character. The thief in the lobby, the liar in the forum, the elanderer in the Capitol, must be the same in private life ia 2 common sense view of the matter. For our own part we have had but one opin- ion upon the general merite of this particular case from its inception to the present, and upon it, therefore, we have no new views to advance, no novel comments to make, no violent change Our suggestion of sentiment to apologize for. in the beginning to the chief actor in the tragdy wes that he should withdraw himself, at least for a time, from this neighborhood; that he should seek in eome of the border States, or upon the Pacific, an asylum wherein he might commence a new career. We believe that time will show that this was the wisest course that could have been adopted. Already it appears that the men who supported him in bis trying hour—and it is probable that nearly all of them were actuated in their zeal for bim by interested motives— have Leen struck with the same sudden change of opinion which is apparent in the journals. It is said, however, that the last phase of the affatr was brought about through ihe advice of his lawyers. This may be readily imagined from the remarkable views of private morality and public duty brought forward by the distinguished coureel during the trial; and if we are not mis- taken, one of the chief authorities quoted by.the defence, the Bible, would be found equally use- ful in advocating the tura which the ihatter has lately taken. However this may be, the circumstances of the whole affair, the porition of the parties, the pub- licity given to their condnct, both here and abroad, make the subject one of the gravest and most serious import. The cage is quoted in Ru- rope 4s « picture of society in the capital of the mode} republic, as a type of the morality of the nation, as an example of the effect of democra tic institutions upon the morals of the people in high places. And it seems to us, in justice to the people so represented, and out of ordinary respect to the memory of the founders of our government, the sacred names of our Revolution- ary fathers, of whose probity, chastity and strict honor, public and privale, Washington was the type and the exemplar, that the Con- ress of the United States should in some way officially notice the dangerous tendencies, evil examples and final consequences of such cases a8 that of which we write. If we are eventually to melapee into barbarism, let us at least make an effort to put off the evil day ae long as pos sible. We have no private views in such mat- ters; we Jook at them in a broad, comprehensive, public aspect, and as such we do not hesitate to say they should be taken, accepted and acted upon by uo less a body than Congress itself. Such action is due to the dignity of the body and the individual reputation of its members, Tur Curvarmer Wes axp Naroreos IL— The Chevalier Webb, in the course of a long tirade yesterday, proves himself to be as great a blunderer in the matter of local facts as our quadrilateral cotemporary in Itwlian topography and geography. The Chevalier places us in the same category with some of our vulgar cotem- poraries who, at the time of the coup d'éiat, and for several years subsequently, denounced the Emperor of the Freoch a: a traitor, perjarer, pirate, scoucdrel and whet ape Now, tire face is, that the Heranp wad the onTy journal, sud ite editor the only editor} that supporied the Napoleonic idea and the Em,eror’s measures over and above the Kossuth, Mazzini aud Ledra Rollin vagaries at the time of the coup d'état in 1852. The Chevalier Webb will be kind euough to refresh bis memory with these facts. And our course in that aspect of French atlaira was dictated by a personal knowledge of Louis Napo- leon gained in 1846-7, just previous to the stir- ring events of 1848, which paved his road to power. We had, at that time, several free conferences and extended conversations with him, and formed our opinion of him at that time. That he was a man of talent and sagacity, and thoroughly a man of the time, we be- lieved then. We said so then, have said so since, and repeat it now. Wedid this con amore, and without auy expectation of receiving a gold snuff box from the Chamberlain or the Emperor, or $52,000 from his banker. We don’t want to be so impolite as to say publicly that the Cheva- lier Webb is a liar; but if he does not wish to be considered a calumniator and a nincompoop he will take back his statement which connects us with the ignorant, short-sighted and vulgar de- nouncers of the Emperor of the French. AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. Departure of the President tor Bedford Springs—The New York Public Stores Question, &e. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasuincton, July 18, 1869. Mr. Mather is again bere, making efforts to have tho New York public stores placed in charge of private indi viduals; but the President is determined it shall not be dore. A large number of office seekers and others left this morning for Bedford Springs to head the President off. The excessively hot weather 1s clearing Washington of all who can leave. The President loft this afternoon, cecorted to the cars by a flock of pertinacious claim aud contract agents, of some of whom he took angry leave. Mr. Wendel) etill declares he has letters from the Pre- sident, notwithstanding the denial of the Constitution. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasuncron, July 18, 1859, General Cullom, under indictment for alleged malfen. sance while Clerk of the House of Representatives, wo-day demanded @ trial in the Criminai Court, but this was post- poned until the next term, owing to the absence of ma. terial witnesses for the United States. Additional from Mexico. New Orueans, July 18, 1859. ‘The steamship Tennessee, from: Vera Cruz on the 13th¢ inet. hag arrived up, and we have the following addi- tions! intelligence:— Mr. McLane’s demand-for the surrender of the five mil- lions conducta alone saved it. A few hours tater Robles received peremptory orders from Miramon, seconded by Ministers Otway and Gabriac, not to allow the conducta to enter Vera Cruz. Robles had captured Placiliulan from the liberals. General Marquez had pronounced in favor of himself at Guadaaijara. NEWS FROM THE NORTHERN DEPARTMENTS. Wasuincron, July 18, 1859, Advices from Tampico to the 2d of July, specially tele graphed to the Charleston Courier from New Orleans, say that the organization of the liberal forces in Northern Mexico is broken up. Miramonists are acting with re newed vigor, and are not only threatening San Luis de Potosi, but an expedition of 5,060 strong against Tampic? is being organized under General Moreno, Artillery, men and smmunition bad arrived at Tampico from Vora Cruz, anda large quantity of powder bad also been received there from New Orleans. ARRIVAL OF SENOF LERDO AT NEW ORLEANS 10 THE EDITO: OF TE HRKALD. New Yor, July 18, 1850, I notice in your excellent paper of thie day that the Miniater of Finance of the Juarez government was among the paesengers by the steamer Tennessee, which arrived at New Orleans on the 16th inst. The news is truco; it is confirmed by a telegraphic despatch which I baye just received; and if yeu will recall to momory the name of that Minister, you will conceive of how great impor- tance it is. Senor Miguel Lerdo de Tejada is the man called upon by his genius, patriotiam, energy, loyalty, and his weii-tried probity, t0 reform and regenerate his country; he is not ouly the first statistician anu tue first fiuancier of Mexico, but he is the man of the situation, the man of the present, the man of the future. Promoter of the celebrated law for tho redeeming of the property of vorporations—civil and ecclesiastical— which bad in view the subdivision of the immoveabie es- tates in Mexico, ii was he who took the first step which wes made under the Comonfort administration in the way of reform—social, political and administrative—in that country; he is also the promoter of the law of the 13th inet., which nationalizes that game property, iuas much ag it war in the hauds of the clergy; and this new law, being a complement to the first, is one of the basis upon which Senor Lerdo has initiated and combined bis great plan, and, wacoubtedly, once in a fair way of exe- cution, will put'the seal to that same reform. Tae motives of Senor Lerdo de Tejada’s journey to the United States aro grave and of the highest importance; if they are fulfilled, it wil! mark, without doubt, the era of a new phase for Mexico. If Senor Lerdo is eficacious- ly seconded by the government and the citizens of this country, it he meets here an active co operation, Mexico will soon be transformed, and wi!l become, ere’ long, a great, rich and mighty nation—a worthy ally to the Con- federation of the North, Your obedient servant, . A. B. 0. News from Havana, Barnuorg, July 18, 1869. The steamship Baltimore bas arrived here, with Ha- vena dates of the 14th inst. The demand for sugar was slight, and 9 decline in prices wee anticipated. Muscovadoes were seven to eight rials for common, Molagecs was dull at three and a quarter to three and a balf rials for clayed, und four and a quarter to four and three-quarter risis for muscovadoes, Freights were dull. Sterling exchange was at 13 a/14 per cent premium, and on New York, Boston, &., at sixty.days, 1 a3 per cont, The brigs Jobn Baich, Republic, and J. M. Morales, all from and for New York, were in port. A Slave Case at Plymouth, Mass. Bosro, July 18, 1859. Mr. Wm, Bolmoe and wife, of New Orleans, now stop- Ping in Plymouth, were served with a writ of habeas corpus today, requiring them to deliver up a femule sinve named Maria Gaskins, who, it is alleged in the writ, was restrained of her liberty. The writ was returned to Judge Metcalf of tho Eupremo Vourt, aad a hearing is aesigned for tomorrow, Maria was brought to thie city. mint is thet eho har enjoyed legs liberty in New Ortoans, ond wtating this to fends at church yecterday, sexns to hayo erent legal proceedings Respect to the Memory of Mv. Choate, ee Boston, Joly 18, 1869. At tho Board! of Al¢ermen this evening tho death of Mr. Choato wae appropriately rofernod to by Mayor Lincola and others. Acommittee was appointed to confor with the fomtly and membors of the bar on the eubject of fur-. ther testimonials to the decoased by the city goveramont Tho Young Men’s Democrat!o ‘lub passed resolutions this evoning of respect to the memory of Mr. Choate, ‘Tho committee of the Suffolk bar choven in reference to the donth of Mr. Choate will report resolutions to morrow. It is understood there will bow public funeral and # ea logy. Mr. Calep Cashing will deliver the eulogy. At the meeting of the Mssex County Bar, held in Salem to-day, aseries of resnintiong ia regard to the death of 2M. Choate were adopted, Dhe Steamship Canada. Bostox, July 18, 1859, ‘The steamship Canada, which was in collision with an Iconerg on her last passage from Liverpool, was to-day taken into the dry dook at the Navy Yard for exaniva- toa, ‘American Qatward Bound. gardai Morr July 18, 1850. ‘The steamship North American, for Liverpool, passe! partber Point eva quarter past ton o'clock on Saturday Granitg. All despatches for hor were pat on board. Fatal Railroed Accident. Bostos, July 18, 1859. A wirplaced switch ab South Middieboro’, on the Old Colony Railroad, cavied & collision on Saturday afternoon between two trains. Eleon, the brakeman, wae killed, and John Brown, conductor, was badly ipjnred. Several paeoogers reosived bruises, The (wo enginos were bro- go Up had poveyal gare daroaged, ° wt New York Deancevats ta Cometh at *aratugus Sanst0Ga, July 18, 1859. Fernando Wood was bere last woes im consultation witD the lexding berda, aud assured them 12% QaeRor & Co. had become frightened into acqueeconce ot Sp demande of he hards to choove deiegeier to the Natouds Convention to he bild at Charleston by single dist iow, Mr, Wood is now oxgeged iu the orgauization of the bards for the fall campaign. Whe Southern: Pacific Railway, New Oxtaany, July 18, 1860. Advices from Marsball, Texas, of the 6:b inst, say thas the District Attorney had officially notified the Pace Rasiway Company that ho would dismiss the State ei upon the payment of the frat instalment of $50,000, ag Provided in the compromise with the new company, Manslaughter and Newark, Nuwanx, N. J., July 18, 1859, Henry Haug died this morulng from injuries inflicted oa Che 6th Instant by his employor, Mr. Jobn Lits, a gardener in the Fifth ward, Havg claimed ftiy cents more due him than Litz would allow, when tho latter kigked Baug from bis premiger, which resulted in death. Litz is under arrest, . Four attempts at incendiarism wero made in the Sixth ward on Saturday, one proving successful, destroying a barn. The authors are yet undiscovered. Another Suicide at Worcester, Mass. Worcester, July 18, 1859, John Smith, of Barre, in this county, one of our moat extensive manufacturers and weslthiest citizens, commit- ted suicide this morning by hanging himscif tothe bativet- ors of the stairs in his own house. No causo is assigned for tho deed. ‘The Montgomery at Savannah. Savannan, July 18, 1659, The sorew steamship Montgomery, of Cromweil’s lime, from New York, arrived at her wharf yeeterday, the 17th instant. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK ®0ARD. DELPHIA, July 18, 1869. Stocks steady. Pennsylvania State fives, 90; Reading Railroad, 225; Morris Canal, 5434; Long Island Raiiroad, 1034; Pennsylvania Railroad, 881% Barrmore, July 18, 1859. Fiour dull, at $6 76 for Boward street. Wheat buoyant at the opening, but closed dull at a decline of 6c.; #bite $1 80 a $1 36; red $1 282133 Corp duil: yellow 800, 8 8lc.; white 82c. a 83c. Mees pork $1625. Bacon sides 93gc. Whiskey dull; Ohio 270. Pricapeiraia. July 78, 1869. Flour unchanged. Wheat dull Corr wantod, at 86%{0. for yellow. Oats dull, at 39c. a 40c. Whiskey unchanged. Alnany, July 18, 1859, Flour dull: transactions confined torctailwade Wheat— Sales 400 bushels white (xnadian on private terms, aad & small lot of handsome white at $1 60 Corn selis in. saall Jot at 20c, a 1c. fo; prime Weatern mixed and round yel- low. Oats considerably depressed wid ic, a 2c tower. Nothing doing in rye or barley, Whiskey in fair request: sales 220 bbls. prison at 26340. a 263¢0. BurvAto, July 18—1 P. M. Flour dull; prices rapidly declining: sales of 1,400 bois. at $2 76a $3 for sour; $4 $4 60 for State ava ex*ra Lili pois, from Chicago spring whest; $4 50 a $5 for oxira Wisconsin, from clu wheat: $5 504 $5 for extra Misht- pan, Indiana avd Ohio; $6 26a $6 76 for doubie extras. Wheat dui and nomipaily 5c. a 10c lower: sales of 3,700 busbels red winter Illinois at 90c.; 790 bushels new white Kentucky at $168. Corn lower: sales of 15,009 busnals Illinois ut 76c.; other grains quiet. Capai freiguts steady. Whitkey—Sales of 181 bbls. at 25c, Lake tmp orts—4 000 bbis. flour, 36,000 Dusbela wheat, 43,000 bushels corn, Canal exports—300 bbls. flour, 13,000 bushels wh 15,000 bushels corn. yal sis Burvaro, July 18-6 P.M Flour inactive and tending dowavurd: sales of 600 bbia., at $3 for sour; $4 @ $4 50 for Stale and extra Dh- nois, from Chicago spring wheat; $4 50 435 for exira Wisconsin; $5 50a $6 for extra Mtchigan, Iadiana and Obio; $6 25. $6 75 for double extras. Whcat dull aad lowor: sales of 600 bushels red Onio, bagged, a! $1 08 = $1 10; 500 bushels new and old Kentucky at $1 45; old at $1 40; new amber at $2; 200 bushela white Ohio at $110. Corn closed dull: sales of 18.000 busneis Illinote ‘st 76c. No sales of other grains. Whiskey steady: sales of 200 bbls. at 250. Cans! freighis unchsagei. Lake im- Ube) Re had Hoe, bushels wheat, 44,000 ‘corn. expo1 @ bis. flour, 14, bushels wheat, 6,000 bushels con cai WEGO, July 18—6 P, M. Flour dull. Wheat dull, with a declining tendency. Corn withont materia} change: salcs 6,0C0 buchels [tinoia at 80c. Canal freights steady: 25c on flour, 63c, on whest, 6c. on corm to New York, Take imports—13,400}bushola wheat, exports—9,000 buehels corn, —_—_—_— Police Intelluge Ficet sy Jones’ Woop.—Onz Man Suon—Abont tem o'clock last night several young men created r.disturbance ata dance in Jones’ Wood. The Germans drove then away for a time; however, they returned and renewed tue altercation, which very goon led to a general fight, several were knocked down, pistols wore then resorted to, and several shois werv fired, The alarm brought the police promptly to the scene of disiurbance. On the ap- Proach of the police many of the parties engaged in the melée escaped. Onefyoung man, named Michael McMsam, was found insensidle on the ground, bivediag profusely from a severe wound ou (be bead. The injuren mun was conveyed by the police to the Nineteenth ward atativa house, aad medicai attendance was procured aud tbe wound dressed. It is supposed the wound was inflicted by & ball: diecharged from one of the pistols. Captain Bryan and his men went in search of others concerned in fhe aifray. The injured man was detained in the station ouse, ——<—$—_$__ ‘The Observers of the Weather in the Atlan= Uc and Guif States, At the instance of the Rovn| Society and the British As- sociation for the Advancement of Science, the British gow ernment is just now commencing a series of observations in and around the North Atlantic Ocean for the purpose of investigating the law of storms and other phenomena con- cerning the weather in and about that ocean. The matter has been placed in charge of Admiral Fitz Roy, of the Meteorological Departmeat of the Board of Trade (and Admiraity), London, who calls on ships at sea as well as persons on shore for co-operation, The obser- ‘vations are to commence forthwith sud to continue uatil September, 1860, and they elite principally to winds and weather. Therefore, tough observations with instruments, in addition to thore of theeye, on the direction and forse of the wind and the character of the weather aro also desirable, yot the istance to be ren- dered by those who will keep a journal giving simply the force and direetion of the wind und the characte: of the weather twice a day, thus—June 22,N. W., frean (5), cloudy (with any further remarks that muy’ scem uend: ful)—wil! be highly important and toank‘ully received. The hours of observations being about 9 A M. aud? M. of mean time at Greenwich, will be for fexas about 2:30 A. Mi, aud P. M.; for New Orleane about 8; for Georgia and Florida about 3:30; for Philadelphia about 4; aud for Eastport, bisine, about 4:80 A. M. and PM. It te hoped tout the masters of our cowting vessels will farnis® at least eye observations oa wind and weather; also that the fishermen will do the same, and Iast, thougn Dot least, the farmers, Acmural Fitz Roy has furnished mo with 2 number of clroviars and blank forms, containing tull particulars, and giving coveiled instructions to thoae who wish to observe, copy of which I shall be happy tw furnish to any one who will apply. This isa benedcent undertaking, fraught with aavan- tages alike to ail ou both sides of tho Atiautic, and I hupe my fellow citizens wil! giv» it the encouragement and sup- port it deserves, and tat tho press generally will seeoad this appeal by publishing the above, aud obliga, respect full ‘M. F, MAURY, Onkeevatory, July 16, 1859. Late News from the Pike’s Peak Gold Regiom GREFLEY'S LEVTERS UNRELIABLE. _, [From the Pacitio «ty Heruld extra, July 9.) Capt. L Nuckoile rencbed home yesterday, Ju! left the mines on the 25th ult. Consequently be trip in about thirteen days, and brings the iatert news yok Teoeived 1rom the mines In regard to the gold mineg, Cape, N. lost no opportunt ty cfoptaining ail the reiiable information poseivio, Hie extensive acquaintance with the pioneor gold ecokera, and bis frequent intercourse with them gave him unvau factiities tor acquiring correct information. Being envirelg Cisinterested, we feel xtialed hie statements are noarer the truth than apythiag yet published, ke raya it is eatimatod that twenty thoussnd persone were at tho mines. Of this number not’ more than one ia every five hundred was making goo1 wa The major- ity were not paying expenses. The puinber who making extraorainary wages is limited to a vory few. Ho does not think the entire amount of gold taken out this 2ewon thus far excceds twenty thourand dollacs re and the crowing of tae South Pilati, be passed 00 teams returning home. Mow of the perrons accompanying these traina haa visited the mountain digeingt, but failed (oO meet with suflicient en. couragemont to indace thom to rema) the Otement of iorace Gresey and. was greatly en aggercted, in consequence of imposicions practeed up these gentlemen Ly inverested parties’ Ho thiucs,ia a very fow {antances, $160 to $300 have been taken ut of cerwain claims in a day; but these insiances are exceediugly rar. Fis advice to all who coniemplate emirating wo the mines is to wait further developements. Next be time enough to start if the news favorable. ‘Those who go now will in all probability have cause Wo regret it. Wiliamsburg City News. Recovenen.—The body of John HB. Weimer, who wag drowned on Thursday morning Inst, was recovered yes terday. Tho body was seen floating in the rivor by Char- les W. Sheppard, tuo pilot of the ferry boat Greenpoint, who secured ib abd took it ashore, whore an inquest was held by Coroner Snell. The funeral will take place this afternoon. Foun Drownen.—The body of an unknown man waa found in the water at the foot of South Sixth streat yas terday. It was much decomposed, and appeared. to be that of a ‘longsboreman. Covr vx Souxt.—Mrs Caroline Miller was prontratod by the heatof the sun on Sunday afternoon, and teen to her reaidencs in Union avenue, nomr Marsonllatrost, whe by tho aid of proper comedies ake Boon recoyare