The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GonD ae eae a ETr, OFFICE N. W: CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS rice Money sent by rnait will be at the Postage samp not recetved us aubsordstion TERMS. 00 wishes the vender Tile DAILY HERALD tio cen " LY HERALD annum; the B any quarter of paid fin OC Foneran Gen : CUVAYLY MEQUPSTED TO SEAL ALL LEIIR«S AND PAOK> » Wedonot HT Uh, ONCE ous corresp : " 1 every dog; advertisements tn YawiLy Menato, and inthe Volume XXIV > 290 AMUSEMENTS THUS EVENING, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.~ Davip Corrsmrtg.o, BOWERY TeEATRE, Bowery—Exxust MatRavens— Wanoreine Bors. WatLAck’S THEATRE, Broadway. —Laus Roorn— Tnism Lion. NATIONAL THEATRE. Chatham stroet—Lowsuy Maw a Tus CopaX—Dmap Boren said OF MUNSTER LIMERICK ry. BABNUMS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Afer- noon ead Kvening—Wruax tas Wizaep, WOODS BINSTRWL RUTLDING, 561 and 563 Brosdway— Erworus Bones, Dances, 4c.—Danxins ox tus Leven, ‘ APD HALL, Fourteenth street— PALACE Gar ope Concert, ‘Vooat aap Paow Rew York, Thursday, July 21, 1859. The News. The steamship Africa had not made her appear- ance off this port up to eleven o'clock last night. She left Liverpool on the 9th inst., and is therefore fully due. By the overland mail we have one week's later advices from California. More prisoners had es- caped from the California penitentiary. The Ital. ians of San Francisco had raised $5,000 for Victor Emanvel The weather was exceedingly hot. The county of Santa Barbara had been visited by a ter- rible sirocco. Captain Pendleton, of the bark Sarah Park, had been sentenced. The news by this mail from Oregon gives us details of the excessive foods which have visited that Territory, doing vast damage to property. From Washington Territory we learn that Goy- Stevens and Col. Wallace were on the stump for Congress. Stevens had, it was thought, the best chance for election. The Indians were slightly troublesome. The accounts from Fraser river continue discon- raging, and it was estimated that not more than 1,000 miners remained in British Columbia. Our Buenos Ayres correspondent, writing on the 27th and 25th of May, furnishes some very accurate Getails of the late news concerning the prepara tions which were being made in that republic in order to resist the attack of President Urquiza, of the Argentine Confederation, with some notes of ihe military and naval progress and general war energy of the latter. Urquiza had purchased three English trading steamers for war purposes, and it was thought that Brazil furnished him with the money. It was expected that Derqué, Minister at war of the Confederation, would order an assault on Buenos Ayres, at Rosario. Buenos Ayres had offered $800,000 to Governor Lopez of Santa Fé for his aid, but he declined it. One hundred Spanish dollars were given as bounty to recruits for one year's service. The Buenos Ayrean fleet will con- sist of five vessel. An army of six thousand men had been paraded in the city, and looked well. Monteviveo iding Urauiza. although acount, to be neutral, Ten thousand pupils of the public schools in Buenos Ayres had attended the laying of the corr ‘tone of a building for public educa- tional purposes in that city, which will be the finest edifice of the sort ever put up in South America, Late advices from Dominica state that great hopes were enter’ d of a peacefal solution o the difficulties e ing between the government o the republic and that of Denmark—the latter having .recei ve ed the Dominican plenipotentiary The issue of irredeemable paper tration had led to con- vith the representatives of oreign governments residing at San Domingo. We publish to-day an interesting report of the passage of the new Russian frigate General Admi- 1 from New York to Cherbourg. The actual run- time, deducting difference of time, was eleven ight hours; and the greatest distance made in one day three hundred and seven miles, the test being one hundred and fifty-three miles: Admiral was greatly a ed in port amongst the Russian and Freach war ships. She was to Jeave for Cronstadt soon after the 29th ult, The Board of Education met last evening, but only twenty-one members were present fifteen favo sell liquor in connection with lager bier, Commis- sioner Kerr moved that a resolution be passed pro- viding that no more suits be commenced until the approval of the Board and the Supervisors be ob- tained; but a motion for adjournment being pending atthe time, it was ruled out of order, and the Poard adjourned till the first Tuesday in September. William Hill has been found guilty by the jury | in Galveston, Texas, of the murder of W. W. Lyon. ‘The receipts of beef cattle were again heavy last week, und we note a further decline on all kinds of ha!f a cent a pound, and a very limited demand at that. The receipts at all the yards were:—3,254 head beef cattle, 195 cows and calves, 838 veal calves, 11,555 sheep and lambs, and 3,500 swine. All stock except beef cattle remain dull, without noticeable chayge in price. The cotton market was firmer yesterday, with sales of 1,800 bales, closing quite suiifon the basis of the quota- tions given in another column, The total receipts at tho porte since the Ist of September Aast have reached 8,648,000 bales, against 8,030,000 in 1858, 2,887,000 in 1857, and 8,456,000 in 1856, The exports amount to 2, 878,000 bales, against 2,482,000 in 1858, 2,192,000 in 1857, and 2,888,000 in 1856. The stock on hand amounts to 142,000 bales, against 165,000 in 1858, 128,000 in 1857, 87,000 in 1856, and 178,000 in 1855, Estimating the crop of 1868-59 mi 8,700,000 bales, there remains to be re- ceived between now and the Ist of Septomber next 62,000 bales to bring it up to that amount. ihere were received last year within that period 61,000 bales. It is believed that they will fall below that amount the presomt year, but it is supposed that by including overland ship. ments to the North from poinis above New Orleaas, ths total yield of the crop will slightly exceed rather than fall below it, As largo as the crop was it would all have been wanted for consump- tion, and at higher prices than now prevail, had it not been for the war in Europe. Tho present grow- ing crop is said to be quite promising; yet if it reach even four millions of bales, should peace be restored in Europe and industry resume its channels, it will all b> wanted at remunerative prices, One or two future de- cades of peace will prove the fact, of which evidence has already appeared, that the consumption of tropical pro- ducts, such as cotton, coffee and sugar, has overtaken pro. duction, Flour was again heavy and lower, the depres. sion affecting nearly ali clazses of brands, while sales were fair, Wheat was lower and irregular, with limited gales. Corn was in fair demand, with moderate sales at pricee given in another column. Pork was duli and lower. Now mcs sold at $15 75 a $15 50, and prime at $11 75, . The sales of sugars embraced about 1,200 hhds. at rates given im another place. Coffee was steady but quiet. Freight opgegemonts wore moderate and rates without chauge of importance. The Republican Party and Its Presidential Candidates, The republican politicians are sanguine of the success of their Presidential ticket in 1860, and when, at this preliminary stage of the campaiga, we find Southern democratic conventions pass- ing resolutions in anticipation of “a black re- publican triumph,” there must be some good reasons for this confidence on the one side and this despondency on the other. But if the demo- cracy, between Wise and Douglas, are threatened with a sectional dissolution of the party at Charleston, the diverse materials of the republi- Can comp hang so loosely together, that it will re- quire the greatest skill, and some of the hardest conceseions among the various cliques and lead- ers, to insure their euceces. The Chatleston platform will be the point of danger to the democracy; but the candidate will be the great trouble with the republicans, The most conspicuous aspirants for this distinction are ex-Governor Seward, of New York; Gover- nor Banks, of Massachusetts; ard Governor Chase, of Obio. Seward expects the nomina- tion—his friends demand it in his behalf a3 his, from every consideration of right, justice and expediency. They are also working systemati- cally to gain the Convention which is to decide Mme question; and they may be able thus to ex- tort bis nomination. Let them do it, and the republicam party will soon be reduced to a mise- rable minority in every Stale west of Vermont; for the name of Seward as the republican candi- date will carry over to the democracy the bulk of the free trade Van Buren democrats who sup- ported Fremont, the bulk of the Fillmore Ame- ticans, and ali the old line whiga, from Massachu- setis to Minnesota. But, if governed by the wise considerations of expediency, the Seward pariy in the republican Convention consent to drop him, upon whom will their choice fall, Banks or Chase? Banks is an able man, a populer man, and a statesman possessed of a very high order of administrative talents and qualiti He would, perhaps, asthe republican candidate, attract to his support a larger proportion of the floating democratic, American and old lice whig ele- ments, from Boston “to Pittsburg, than any other man within reach of the republicaa party. But ifthe American antecedents of Banks would be most apt to conciliate the American balance of power in New England, New York, New Jer- minutes after the time appointed for the meeting, when the roll was called and an adjournment pro- nounced by the President. Immediately after” wards two other Commissioners entered, which, with those present, constituted a quorum, and Com- Inissioner Waterbury and some others made an ef- fort to rally the meeting; but as this course would he contrary to the by-laws, Commissioner Cushing and others objected to it, Nothing was done, and a grniual separation of the members followed. The Board, 2ccording to the bylaws, now stands ad- journed naw. the first Wednesday in September, consequently no jeeting will take place till then, unles. here be one spc called. Meantime, the by-lo -ecently adopted ré¢arding the reading of the le goes into operation on the Ist of next mo g of the Commissioners of Em! ce yesterday. A communi- cati dy, Superinten- de. be Emigrant depot, stating that of the cig) » rifles and pistols sent to Quarantine for the } tion of the buildings there last Septem- ber. are now nineteen on hand and seven missi the remainder having been distributed mon, ‘ue police sent down to protect the build- ings. Ur. Jerome sent in a communication, an- nouncing that he was notified by the Commissioners of Quarentine on the 27th of last month that such patients as have heretofore been sent to the Marine Hospital will in future be sent to the Floating Hos- pital or the hospital for smallpox patients on Blackwell's Island, and informing the Board that this regulation has already been complied with by lth authorities of New York. Dr. Jerome A the appointment of O. D. Robinson as an ‘ton, whom he would require to in the @-aiing hospital. The op ‘pointment of an assistant was refused, and the ¢7iy. munication placed on file. he number of emi_ grants arrived during the week was 1,992, swelling she number for the year to 44,670. The overdraft has risen to $20,849 77. The five vessels which were detained at Quaran- tine lately arrived from Matanzas and St. Jago de Caba. Owing to cnly light cases of yellow fever taking place on board two of them during their homeward passage, they were yesterday permitted to come up to the city and discharge their cargoes by the Commissioners of Health. Two proposals for removing offaland dead animals from the city- one offering to do it for $25 a day,and the other for $10,000 a year—were roccived, and the whole subject was referred to a committee to report po. The Exctse Commissioners met yesterday and Granted eight licenses on the usual terms. Com missioner Haskett stated that Gencral Superinten- e4as Pillsbury had reported a list of all those who sey and Pennsylvania, the record of Chase, as an opponent of Native American restrictions, would take the precedence, in view of that heavy Ger- men republican clement upon which the vote of Obio, Michigan, &c., depends. The late two years’ Massachusetts naturalization act, in this connection, will, perhaps, be remembered against Banks by the Western delegates in the republi- can Convention; and so, in the way of a compro- mise between Seward, Banks and Chase, the Con- vention may be driven to that democratic expe" dient of a candidate whose very obscurity will be his highest recommendation. Upon one point we are entirely convinced. Let Seward be put forth asa republican candidate for 1860, and that party will come ont of the battle frittered away to a mere abolition faction. His “irrepressible conflict” with elayery ia the slave States will reduce him at once to the narrow margin of an _ abolition can- didate. Seward was the heavy burden upon the back of General Scott that broke him down, and Seward was the shadovy bebind the cbair that frightened the opposit?.on Fillmore conserva- tives from the support of Fremont. But still, from the active engineering of the numerous caucus and convention, managers of the republi- can party in the interest of Seward, they may contrive to pack the Convention ao as to secarc their man. They appear to be so confident of success, fromthe weakness and demoralizations of the democracy, as to think that the republican nomination will cuuivalent to an election, Ge that the floating vote of the North can eek no other refuge than the republican party. We apprehend, however, that, in the courge of the important interval to the republican nomi- nating Convention of 1860, the managing politi- clans of that party will discover that they wil! not be allowed to walk over the course; that Seward is not their man, but that the floating opposition vote of the North opposed to Seward holds the balance of power. In the meautime, i the very name of Seward is as much of an ob- struction to the consolidation of the Northern Opposition forces as are the conflicting nigger doctrines of Wise and Douglas to the harmony of the democratic party, Nay, more. While the name of Seward is the great drawback | which prevenis @ fusion of the opposition fomees, t is the great hobgoblin which keeps the North- ern and Southern democracy within hailing dis- tance of each other. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 21, The Great Qv Oypporiuen te the Sueday Laws. The question ot the day, which is deatised fon to overshadow all other questions, is that of the Sunday Jawe. It ig a bravcb of the great cause of civil avd religious Mberty which has agitated the world for ages, alternating betweea victory and defeat. The decisive batd- ap- peared to bave been won by the triumph of the American Revolution. Bat it seems it must be now fought over again, We have a Matropoli- tan Inquisition established fn the heart of this free city—an imperium in imperio—reviviog old musty bluc Jaws, and we must either overthrow it by the weapona which the constitution places in our bands, or quietly cubuoit to our chaius, A meeting ought at once to be called of the Germans, Trish, aod other natioualities which constitute our foreign born population, together with our native citizens, te denounce this iniquity, and take such measures as will lay the usurpers low. It is the common cause of all against religious intolerance, and every man ought to rally around the banner of freedom, re- solved to battle to the death against that eccle- siastioal despotism which seeks to entural the bodies as well as the souls of men. The Germans have made @ movement in the right direction. Believing in the maxim that “when bad men combine good men ought to unite,” they have formed an association to offer resistance to the despotism that works its wan- tonness in form of law; and their first act is to iseue ap admirable address, which will be found in another column. Their positions are im- pregnable, and their arguments cannot be answered. They are resolved to contest their rights inch by inch by law, and if that struggle fuils the next battle will be in the Legislature to sweep away all Sunday laws. And to this end there must be outposts taken and preliminary skirmishes at the primiry elections and the lega) aud the other foreign population, whom it is attempted to op- press, fight their battle on tae right plau, they Let them resolve to yote for no man who will not pledge himself to overthrow every Sunday law. If the question be thus made an issue in the election it needs no ghost to foretell the result, We admire the spirit of the Germans, who will not trust to any of the rotten political organizations to do them justice. Will Tammany or Mozart Hall No. The Germans have faith in elections, If the Germans have the game in their own hacds, redress them? the doctrine of the poet— Who would be free themselves must strike the blow, The Germans deserve the support of every good ciiizen in their gallant action. While these operations are going forward iu New York, another movement is on fuot in Philadelphia, There the directors of the city railroads are determined to test the authority of the Mayor and the police to prevent the runuing of thelr cars on Sunday. They offerod the Mayor 8 very liberal compromise, going much further than they had right todo in view of the pub- lic good. They proposed not to run their cara till one o'clock, when service would be over in the several churches. This was going further, we cay, than they ought, for churches ought not to be built in the thoroughfares where rail- road cars run, and if those concerned do build them there for ostentation and display, they ought to be compelled to accept the conse- quences, and the public convenience ought not tn hha forecd te give way to apy particular church. One of the uses of city railroad cars on Sunday is to bring people to and from church who cannot afford the expense of keeping or hiring a carriage. The proposition of the diree- tors, however, was not accepted; the cars were stopped, and the drivers arrested. The case was heard, and, as will be seen by a report in another column, the magistrate decided on committing the defendant, who, by the advice of his counsel, declined to give bail. The case is to be brought immediately before the Supreme Court. If the final decision should be adverse to frccdom, we trust that the case will be brought before the higher tribunal of public opinion in such a way as that all obnoxious Sunday laws suall be erased from the statute book, where they ought never to have been. We shall look forward with interest to the contest in both cities for the re-establishment of civil and religious liberty on the broad basis of the constitution. As for New York, we trust tis citizens of all classes, without distinction, will do their duty in a manner worthy of this Empire City. Let them not wait for any of the eorrupt political organizations to take the initiative. But let them come forward promptly and pronounce against the Metropolitan Holy Inquisition, with its pious Pillsbury and its pious squads of spies, AvyorneR Quiet CALL ox THe CHEVALIER Wens.—The Chevalier Webb is, wo presume, so busily engaged in prepariag for the reception of the gold snuff box which he expects from the Emperor of the French, with the title of Duke of Rigmarole, or fifty-two thousand dollars from the Credit Mobilier, that he has not yot-found time to correct the stupid bluader which he made in placing us among the tzaducers and maligners of Louis Napoleon. Tho Chevalier, in placing us in the same category with the zed republican and socialist philosophers of the Zribune, made what he must know to have been a wmisstate- ment of fact, and ene which ke should immedi- ately correct. He has his chsice between being considered a calamniator or a gentleman, and he will please make the selection as soon as pos sible, Poricemen any Porsties.—Our blessed Police Commissioners have cut up many strange vaga- ries since the period when they first entered on their official existence. The last and not the least strange of their acta has been the promal- gation of an edict forbidding any member of the force from identifying himself with political as sociations. Thero is no denying the morality of this new commandment, whether as applied to policemen or laymen; but we should very much kt 40 know who made the Commissioners spiri- tnal advisers to their eubordinates, What more tight have they: to tcll the men under thair gon- trol that they shall not belong to a political as- sociation than they have to forbid them to be members of a religious denomination? If they have the power to do the one they must also have the power todo tbe other, In fact, we have already had an instance of their turn of inind toward godliness in their famous resolu- tions respecting the “paramount religion” of New York, and we find them fast lapsing into & latter day edition of the Council of Trent, a con- vocation of saints or a consistory for the propa gation of the faith. It is time that there pious blockheads should be made aware that they are entirely mistaking their miseion. It is not for the propagation of religious or political dogmas that ‘hey are paid their cight dollars a day, but for the ¢stablish- won of the Day—Mreautsrd I veut vod direction of a proper system of police to thir Metropolitam distriot, Will pious Pills- bury make a pote of this aud bring it to the at- tention of the Board? The Free Blocks in the United States=Proba. Die Keren nctrent of the Stavery Laws in the Northern States, The question of the probable future condition of the tree hacks im this country is bogiuning to force itself upow our black republican nigger- worshippers, and causes theme little trouble We reprint in another column, from the Philadel- phis North American, an article om this sahject which looks the question in the face and ec- knowledges the duemma, It is found that the free negroes are both im- provident and lazy; that in the Atlantic States they are being groduxlly but steadily driven from thoze class employmente, such us coach- men, servants, barbers, eto., which were once coptidered as belonging peculiarly to them; that in the slave States they have come to be looked upon as a danger, through the continued efforts of the abolitiovists; and that in the new States of the West, even in those where the most diverse political sentiments rule, there is so greut reluc- tance on the part of the people to have them set- tle, that it has become a rule, in framing a con stitution to probibit their residence iu the State Through the operation of these influences the tree negroes, as a clase, are becoming daily morc helpless amongst us, aud in view of the impossi- bility of their counteracting them, and ma- king headway for themselves, they musi eventually Lecome a burden upon the resources of society. The efforts of the humaaitarians bave failed to improve their condition by the avolition of domestic slavery, and have demon- strated the fact that something more than the removal of political and social disabilities is ne- seceary to improve the condition of the negro Theee results flow from natural causes. Creat- ed to reside beneath the burning evn of the tropics, through a bountiful provision of nature the negro has not been endowed with the active aud fever-subject brain of the white man. In his native clime the earth produces spontaneously, und in some instances, as in the case of the plav- (sin and bavana, without rotation of seasons, thy truits neceseary for his sustenavce. His major wants being thus provided for, he bas no need of, and does not possess the provident faculty. The diffusion of races over the earth, through the growth of commerce and the multiplication of the wants of civilized society, has carried ‘im to other regions aud climes than these of his uative Africa. In some of these, as in Hayti and others of the West India islands, having eequired the control of the social organization through ihe preponderance of numbers, he bas relapsed from the cultivation which the supervision of a superior intellect had given him, to very nearly, * not quite, ¢he natural state of African barbar- ism. Where he bears sway the white element of society has dwindled er died out, and his in- dustry has linited itself to gathering the natu- ral productions of a congenial clime. When the causes above cited have carricd him to other than tropical climates, as in this country, where forethought and a provident watchfulness are necessary to guard from want during the rotation of the seasons, the condi- tion of domestic slavery gave him to the provi dence of a more active intellect. a the North- erm States we have deprived him of thie by abolishing slavery. At firsi, this act seemed to be a beom to the BegTo. sparse, and he found employment in domestic rervice and several of the minor occupations which were within the range of his intellectual capacity. But as population has become more dense, he has been crowded out of most of these by the competition of the superior race. The natural result of a steady descent in the social scale has attended him, and when our popu- lation doubles and trebles, as it will in a few generations, the condition of the free negro among us must become degraded in the extreme. Deprived by the far-sighted legisla- tion of the new States of the possibility of mi- grating to the thinly ecttled regions, he can only resign himself to his fate, and become a pauper in our midst, Our population was In the Southern States, where slavery still ex- iste, the contrary result attends the future of the negro race. There we find it not only increas- ing in numbers; with strides equel to those of the white race, but becoming every day a more valuable element of the sociat organizetion. ‘The intimate association with the superior race, to which it is sdmitted through fomily servitude, not only improves its moral tone, but incraases ite social capacity through enforocd educetion. So true is this, that the negro communities of Liberia and Hayti, in seeking emigrants in this country, give a marked preferenec to slaves that have been manumitted after reaching the age of maturity. And itis not alone the free negro communities that confess the advantages that accrue to the negro in servitude. Both here, and in tho Spanish-American countries where slavery existe, the negro slaves claim a supe- riority over the free Wlacks, and constantly exhibit in their social intereourse a contempt for them. Under the operation of these influences the statesman and the sociai economist can con- template without doublings of the four millions of negro slaves now existing in our Southern States; while those of a few hundred thousands of free blacks in alarm the progressive the Northern States awaken a feeling of alarm. ‘The logical dcduction from these facts is, that the Northern States will retura to the enact. ment of the laws establishing nogro slavery, and sell all the free negroes into family servitude. Humanity will demand this, to preserve them from being reduced to a state of degradation terrible to contemplate, by the increasing com- petition of the white race. Policy will require it to save the community from the burden of hundreds of thousands of able-bodied paupers which can make no headway of themselves. The negro himself will ask it, in order that he may be restored to that consideration in society to which he is entitled asa man. They will then be absorbed into our families again as ser- yanta, mechanics and husbandmen, and will be relieved from that social ban which now attends them in consequence of their doubtful position and increasing degradation. Tin Waterinc Piaces.—Those who have an interest in knowing how the watering places are flourishing this season can satisfy their curiosity on that head by a perusal of the correspondence which we publish today from Saratoga, Cape May and New Rochelle. The correspondent from Saratoga says that the number of visiters 80 far exceeds by one-third the number up to the same time last year. Still, thatis not saying very much, for last season’s business was almost ruin- ous to the hotel keepers. The fact is, that for years past the sensible portion of the publig have evinged their Osguat at the mode ia which watering place hetels ure mavaged by keeping away from them altogether, ad it is tine thet the managers should come to understand that their tene interest lies in cou- euliing in some slight degree the ta+tes avd com- fort of their guests, When they arrive at that ttage of common eense, and begin to act upon it, then, and not before, may they look for a reeur- rence of the flush times which they enjoyed some four or five year ago. As an appropriate tail to our watering place correspondence, we publisa from an Eaglish paper a paragraph in regard to the levauting from Cheltenbaw, the Saratoga of Eogland, of a shining light of the church in company with a frail, though experienced matron, the wife of one of his principal oreditors, As the fugitive pair wil!, io all likelihood, be dieporting themselves at Sarstogs, in blessed forgetfulness of their four- teen responsibilities at home, this little piece of rcandal concerning them will, of course, prove highly interesting to the fasbiouable visiters at the Springs. Yacurs any Yacurinc—Tae Avaust Crvise or mus New York Cxvp.—Seasovable is the talk just now about yachts and yachting. With the thermometer always rising eighty, and still having “Exeeleior” for its device, it is pleasant to think about blue water and ocean breezes, of trim craft and white sails, of the moving race and the evening jollity. And such are the chief amusement of New York yachtsmen. Onr people, like the English, are maritime in their tastes, and even tho ladies incline towards ocean eports. The Yacht Club of the metropolis, and the only one worth bear- ing the name of a Yacht Club, is still young. Since the inception of this, the New York Yacht Club, a pumber of small associations have sprung into existence. They are composed chiefly of owners of sail boats; aud though they cannot be said to be Yacht Clubs any more than sail boats are yachts, they exert a healiby in fluence and promote the most manly and vigorous of sports. The New York Yacht Cinb owes its existence to the late John C. Stevens, who gave the firet great impulse to yachtiog in this country by sending the America to England, where she won the royal cup “open to all na- tions.” Since that time many beautifal vessels have been added to the equadron; and, although our yachtsmen seem to be more inclined to- wards emooth water sailing and louvging in smooth barbors under favor of the fair, than to dash, like their English cousins, out into blue water, where stiff breezes bring sometimes un- easy diaphragms aod wet jackets, yet there is still here apd there some real excitement about yachting here, though far bebind the eport offered by the British clubs Last year we had a great excitement about the ocean race around Long Island, and another af- fair of a similar character was arranged for the present summer; but whether the yacht owners were frightened, or too indolent to undertake proper preparations, we cannot say. Atany rate the ecean race will not take place. In lieu, however, of the ocean race, we hear of a grand rendezvous of all the yachts at White- stone on the 6th of August. Here the fleet will come together under the orders of the Commo- dore, and immodiately get under way for a sum- mer cruise down the Sound as far as Martha’s Vineyard, calling at Newport and suoh other Points en route a8 the Commodore may direct. Evory morning tho pulut of destination to be made during the day is indicated, and the yachts are then left to make the best of their way to it, carrying what sail they please, sailing what course they choose, and really sniling a race without being hampered by the tecbuical rules of a sailing committee. At night the yachts ren. dezyous after their friendly contest of the day, exchange visita between commanders and friends a¢companying them, and have, as they say, a good time generally. This order of amusement is kept up every day and night during the cruise, wind and weather permitting. As this cruise is nothing more nor less than a series of scrub races, and as it is full of interest to all classes of the community, we shall endeavor to give a correet account of it, and a summary of each day’s race by telegraph, to be printed in the Heraxp of the next moraing. And, in view of the attention which we shall give to the matter, we expect all the yachts and their commanders to be in their best trim and on their good beba- viour, As an association of gentlemen coming together for the enjoyment of a moat gendemanly amusement, and one whivh has ite practical bene- fits a8 well as its pleasurable excitements, the New York Yacht Club is- worthy the best efforts of the journals and the admiration of the public. Tos Stave Trarric or THE Nortu.—A cor- respondent writing to us from one of the upper wards of this city, who is an ardent black republican, and a fast friend of Thurlow Weed and William TH. Seward, expresses bis horror at the idca of Mr. Weed secretly giving his saaction to the slave trade, which he isin the habit of de- bouncing in the Hvening Journal, He is perfectly incredulous on the subject. But we can produce a parallel case in which our correspondent | would be equally iucredulous were. not the proofs too clear to be gainsayed. It is the case of William H. Seward, after his friend | Myron H. Clark, the author of the Maine law in this State, was elected Governor, and Mr. Seward himself was re-elected tothe United States Senate by the Maine law men in the Legislature, in consideration of his friends voting for the Prohibitory act. Two-thirds of the Legis- lature returned were pledged to vote tor Seward and the Probibitory law, and they redeemed their pledge. The law nominally went into effect on the 4th of July, 1855, but was soon de- clared unconstitutional. Mr. Seward went into the liquor business in the following year, as may be econ by the following advertisemont: Notice is horeby given that William B. Rhoades and William H. Seward, who respectively reside in the city of Auburn, Cayuga county, New York, have formed # lvrait ed partuerehip, to coniinuo for the period of three years from the first day of October, 1856, pureuat to tho pro- visions of the Revised Statutes of this State, for the buy- ing and selling of paints and oils, and other articles of ‘wholesale and retail trade, in which all tho partios inte. rested are the said Willlam B. Rhoades, who is the general partner, and the aald William H. Seward, who is the spe- cial pariner; and the said William H. Seward has con- tributed the tum of two thougand dollars as capital to wards the common stock, == WILLIAM B. RHOADES, WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Dated tho lat day of October,.1866. LIQUORS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Cognno brandies, varying inage from 1853 back to 1852; wine, gin, rum, Jon , Scotch ale, cham. pagne of the best brands, among which are tho Charles Heidsick, anchor, star avd other brands. French cordials of almost every flavor; ale in balf bar- re eee expressly for family use, also in barrels for re Persons wishing to purchase anytbfg in this line will find it for their Intorews to call upon ‘the subscriber, for ho buys all his goods for cash, and sells for cash, e) sively—therefore has an advantage over doalers who buy their goods on long crodit. ve me acall before purchasing. Remo lace—first door south of the Post office. mee WILLIAM B, RHOADES, ‘The effect of this Maine law movement, and of Seward’s subeequent desertion of it, and openly gmbarking in the rum trade, was to give the latter ee eth tn ee NE, a tremendous 'mpetus, and toe grog whop Beaver bad co goed atime before, Thurlow Weed bas ‘bus the precedent of his tricod for abandoabyg the principles of ubalition and + ncourazing the dave taode. He is the ackwowindecd leador of the beck republican periy, and with his knowledge and conoivance wealthy mow bers of that party fit out slavers in > ork, 6nd them to Afriea for their livine cargoes, which they laud on the Southern eealoord—the uliimaro design of Weed & Co, being to charge the traflc ig bumaa flea and bluod upoo the South, and make it an isewe in the next Presidential election, as the Keusas exoltersent was got up forthe Presidential eaa- ‘vaas of 1856, and an Emigrant Aid Society sot om foot in the Northern States, whua enbseriptious were raised to the amouut of $150,000, which have never been accouuted for to the preseas day. The money was collected to pay the ex- penses of the emigrants, but their expenses were not paid, and what became of the money nobody knows. Thurlow Weed got $5,000 as secret service money in the case of the projected tariff for free wool Will he tell us how much he has received out of the profits of the African slave trade oar- ried on by Noriberu abolitionists? That he is in their confidesce we very well kuow, for he pronounces with authority, and as it were ex cathedra, that the New York Huravp's statement about these slave operations is “unquestionady well founded.” It is not for nothing that Taur- low Weed keeps such confidences. What matter where the money comes from, provided he puts it in his puree? A rose will amell as sweet by any other name, and five or ten thousand doilara derived from the sale of blacks would not look black in his eyes, On the contrary, for him such eagles would shine as brightly as any that were ever coined, especially as he expects to make large political capital out of the business for the Presidential campaign. The outrages of the ‘free State” worthies who emigrated to Kansas under the auspices of Weed, Seward & Co. were attributed to the border ruffians, who had sias enough of their own to answer for. In the same way, for 1860, pictures of borror will be drawn of the sufferings of the numerous cargoes of Africwn slaves landed in the South, and the crime wilt be laid at the door of Southerm men, when Weed, Seward and all the rest of the black republicaa leaders know that this traffic is carried on ex- clusively with Northern money and by Northera mnen of the genuine anti-slavery brand, —_—_—_—_—_—_—_— THE LATEST NEWS. Non-Arrival of the Africa. Saxpy HOoK, July 20—11 P, M, ‘There are yet no signs of the steamship Africa, now in her tweifth day from Liverpool and fully due, Wind northwest, fresh, Weather cloudy, Interesting from Washington, EFFORTS TO HARMONIZE THE MICHIGAN D¥MOORAOY— EX-SENATOR STUART FOR THE VICE PRESIDENCY. OUR SPROIAL WASITINGTON DESPATOH. Wassuwarom, Juiy 20, 2869. Baggs Marehal, of Michigan, and Me. Shoomaker, Ool- lector at Detroit, are both on the gridiron, and will keve to follow Judge O'Flynn, late Postmaster. The charges oro of a etmilar nature, Ex-Senator Stuart is making every effort to harmonize the democratic party im Micki gan, and to that end the removal of theee parties is deem- ed necessary, Ris said Mr. Stuart wants the Michigan delegation at Charleston to insist that he be nominated for Vice President. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wasmmrotox, July 28, 2859, A novel commitment has been made to the District of Columbia Penitontiary in the shape of an Indian, wie has been found guilty of horse stealing. He was immediately Bet at work. The Commissioner of Pensions has iseued a circular’ iow which ho directs the invalid pensioners of the army em® Davy, whoare subjected to bienniat examinations, t# Present with their usual vouchers, ow the 4th ot Sep> tember and Ist of January next, respectively, the corti ficate as to the state of their dissbility. The operation of the act of Congress of the 3d March, 1850, Virtually sus pends the semi-annual payments of invalid Pepsions at the commencement of each biennial period until the certificate of two physicians or surgeons has been preaonted. ‘The Seoretary of the Interior will tranamit by the Paci- ficateamer of the 6th August $264,000 to Oregon and ‘Washington, to satisfy the recently audited claims om ac- count of advences for restoring and maintaining peace- able and more friendly relatione with the Ihding trides. Judge Gillis, of Pennsyivanta, has becn appointed spe. cial agent to the Pawnees, with the view so to: arrange matters as to provent future difficultios, Books and public documents pertaining to tho first see sion of the late Congress are being boxed, to be sont te the varions literary institutions throughout the country, in acpordance withlaw. This is one of the reforms whick bas deprived members from selling such works, a@ was formerly practieed, for waste paper, or at nomiusi game tospeculating book traders. News from Pike’s Peak. Laavenworm, July 19, 1860. An express arrived from Denver City this evening, ana reports everything in the mining region to bo in & fteur- ishing condition. The express brought no Papors, aad hence there are no dotails of the news. Laavenwormn, July 20, 1850.39 Another express from Denver City 14th inst. arrived this afternoon, bringing $2,500 in treasure, Lynch Law in Missvart. THREE NEGROES MUNG BY A MOB, ETC. Sr. Louis, July 20, 1969, A despatch recoived to-day from Marshall, in this State, States that three negroes, who were on trial yesterday at that place for rape and murder, were at night taken-forol - bly from the jail by a mob, and two of them hung and the other burnt at the stako. (ac nas = Ne Important Decision In the Baltimore India Rubber Case. Bautrwore, July 20, 1869. In the cage of Horace H. Day et al. vs. Stellmann otal, | which lately occapied the Qourt here for two wocks, his Honor, Judge Giles, this morning rendered, at the clove of 4 very able opinion, @ decision in favor of Mr. Day on all the pointe presented, holding that under his agreements with Goodyear, Mr. Day has an exclusive monopoly of elastic goods coutaining vulcanized rubber. A perpotaal Injunction was granted. Some fifteen other suits wore depending here upon this decision, in all of which perpe- tual injunctions will issue, Mx. Buchanan Renominated for tho Prest= doncy. Prrranvra, July 19, 1869. Tho Pittsburg Post, the leading democratic organ in Western Ponnsylvania, this morning puta up the namo of James Buchanan for ro election, and ina strong and un- equivocal loader takes the ground that he is the ouly oam- didate who can be nominated by the Charleston Conven- tion to reconcile the differences which oxist in the deme- cratic ranks at the North and South, a The Canadian Seat of Government, d&o. Toronro, July 20, 1859. Tho different dopartmonts of our govoramont are making active preparations for their removal to Quebec, A por- tion bave already gone, and others aro about leaving, Samples of the new wheat are now coming in from various parts of Canada West, indicating an abandasa crop and excollent quality. The weather is very fayoras ble for the growivg crops. ‘The Yacht Rebeooa. : Bostox, July 20, 1859. The yacht Robocca loaves Boston this evening for New York, by the way of Newport, S— Harvard College Commencement. Boston, July 20, 1859. ‘The customary commencement exercises at Harvard College took place to-day. The Governor, Excoviive Council and members of the Board of Overseers proreeded to Cambriage, under escort of the Lancers. ‘Tho collegiate exercises took place in the chy.rch of the First Pazigh, Tho arsombly progeut was Uuusually large,