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

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1859. _ NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDVUNS BENSETT, EDIDOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS TERMS, cash in advance. Money sent by mail will be at the risk of the sender Postage stamps not recewved as auhserijtion mon THE DAILY HERALD. two conta per copy, $1 per annum THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday’ ut’ six cents copy. or $3 ver annum; the European Kiticion every Wednes ‘af nize cente per copy, $4 per anniun to any part of Great Britasn, or $8 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage: the California ‘dition Om the Bth and Bith of each month at wi cenda ak or Bt Oper annum, igen FAMILY HERALD, on Wednesday, at four conts per ony. or $2 per anm F VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, conte important news, roticited used, will be DENTS ARE "war LY BEQDEATED TO BeAL ALL Ler! taki amp Pack: of anonymous correspondence. We do not cuti< renewed every dag; advertisements ine Kamit Hitatd, and in serud in the ae ING cxecuded with neatness, cheapness and de patch. ———————— -No. 203 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, PALACE GARDEN AND HALL, Feurteenth street.— BAORED CORCERY, AMUSEMENTS TO MORROW EVENING, NIBLO'S CARDEN, Broadway.—Forty Winks—Boaron’s New \oux Divzorouy. BOWEREY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hippex Hawo—Wiurvt Monvex. WALLACK’S Lava Koons, NATIONAL TEEATEE, Chatham street—Daeam Srec- ‘TRE—Maci¢ Pris. THEATRE, Broadway.—Teartation— BARNUM'S AMFRICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After nove and Bventng— WYMAN, TEE WizanD. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— Ernsortey soxus, Dances, ko —BEDOUIN AmaBs. N AND GALL, Fourteenth street— anSan Te PALACE GARDE! Conckkr axp cOuKER ————————————————— New York, Sunday, Jaty 24, 1859, The News. A shocking tragedy was enacted at the Brandreth House, corner of Broadway and Canal street, yes- terday afternoon. A merchant from Mobile, Ala., named Robert C. McDonald, having cause to doubt the fidelity of his mistress, Virginia Stewart, deter- mined on killing her out of revenge. It was about five o'clock P.M. when he quarrelled with her in the street and shot her through the head as she was attempting to seek refuge in the Brandreth House. The murderer then made an effort to kill himeelf with the pistol, a Colt’s revolver, but was arrestgd and xestrained by several citizens before he had time to accomplish his object. McDonald and his mistress had been at Taylor's saloon a few minutes previous to the occurrence, and it was while theys were on their way towards Canal street that the altercation and deadly assault took place. The injured woman was conveyed to the New York Hospital, where the doctor in attend- ance pronounced the wound a mortal one, and gave it as his opinion that she could not live more than twenty four hours. The prisoner was taken to the Eighth precinct station house, where he made a full confession of his guilt, and regretted nothing save the fuct of his being prevented from committing suicide, as he intended. McDonald is about thirty years of age, and is a native of Georgia. The Quaker City arrived from Havana yesterday with news to the 19th instant. Some financial failures had occurred, but the default was not so general as reported. Our correspondent says that in f@Mfity only two brokers had gone down, with one planter—the latter owing $500,000. Sugars were heavy, but prices had not fallen. Freights were dull. Exchange on New York was firm, one- half to three per cent. It was said that Spain ob- tains many advantages by her late treaty with Honduras, giving no benefit in exchange. The Captain General has proved himself an able diplo- mat, and it was hoped that power would be given him to “arrange all difficulties with the United States without reference to Madrid.” Several store- houses had been destroyed by fire at Cienfuegos, and six thousand hogsheads of muscovadoes lost. The Arago sailed from this port yesterday for Southampton and Havre, with 125 passengers and $758,140 in specie; the Vigo left for Liverpool, with 110 passengers and 0,000 in specie; and the Weser sailed for Southampton and Bremen, with 72 passengers and $63,000. The total of passengers is 297, and of specie $1,391,140. By the arrival of the schooner Trident, Captain Bradbury, we have received advices from Ponce, Porto Rico,to the 10th inst. On the 10th, about four o'clock in the morning, a fire broke out in the store of Messrs. Bysant & Co., the English Consu- late, but as the Trident sajled about two hours after the conflagration commenced the extent of damage done is not known. Captain Bradbury, however, supposes the loss sustained to be very heavy, as there were several explosions. There were not far from five thousand people in the Central Park yesterday afternoon, listening to Dodworth’s band ang enjoying the beautiful wea- ther. An account of the scene is given in another column. A meeting of the members of the New York bar was held yesterday, to express their sense of the loss the legal profession has sustained by the death of Rufus Choate, of Massachusetts. Judge Clerke presided, assisted by Judges Daly and Slosson as Vice Presidents, and Messrs. Dwight and Brown as Secretaries. Eulogies upon the life and character of the departed advocate and orator were delivered by Judge Clerke, Hiram Ketchum and ex-Judge Peabody, and a series of appropriate resolutions was adopted, and a copy of them ordered to be sent to the family of the deceased. The remains of Mr. Choate were interred at Mount Auburn yester- day. The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer and thermometer, the variation of wind currents and the state of the weather at three periods during each day, viz: at 3A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M. SP. M. REMARKS. ict Fday—Overcast and heavy; rain all day and evens Dg. 3 Sunday—Morning, clear; afternoom, overcast; night, . Mondsy—Morning, clear; afternoon, overcast. ; Tuesoay—Morning and afternoon, overcast; night, clear. Wednesday —\for: ; shower.) Morning, clear; afternoon, overcast; night, Thursday—Morning, clear; attorn: recast. Friday—Morning and atvernoon, cleat night, shower. The Post Office Department announces that the postal administration of the Thurn and Taxis, in Frankfort-on-the-Main, has recently reduced the German postage upon letters for or from the United States, sent via Bremen or Hamburg, to the uniform rate of five cents, and, Consequently, the single rate of half an ounce or under, for letters between the United States and Frankfort-on-the. Main, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningin, Saxe. Weimar, Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, Lippe. Detmold, and Lippe-Buckeburg, will hereafter he fifteen instead of twenty-two cents—pre-payment optional. The reduced rate of fifteen cents, via Bremen or Hamburg, is now extended to all the States belonging to the German-Austrian posta; union, except the Grand Dachies of Baden and Luxemburg. The postage to Baden and Luxem- burg is twenty-two cents the single rate—pre- payment optional. The report of the City Inspector, which is given in another column, shows that the deaths last w «ke comprised 80 men, 80 women, 253 boys, and 201 girls, a total of 614, being 17 more than the week previous, and seven more than occurred during the corresponding week of |.st year. Of the whole number of deaths last w ek 447 were of ten years of age and under, and f ths number 130 died of cholera infantum. Th re were 152 deaths of diseases of the brain and nerves, 8 of the gene- rative organs, 17 of the heart and blood vessels, 83 of the lungs and throat, 5 of old age, 23 of eruptive fever and skin diseases, 35 stillborn and premature births, 269 of diseases of the stomach and other digestive organs, 32 of uncertain complaints, 7 ofthe urinary organs, and 19 from violent causes. The nativity table shows that 498 were natives of the United States, 79 of Ireland, 18 of Germany, 7 of England, and the balance of various foreign countries, The cotton market yesterday continued firm, with sales of about 2,000 bales, closing on the basia of 12 ceuts for middling uplands. The flour market displayed increaned activity, while most descriptions, however, were heavier apd eusier, Wheat was heavy and lower, but rather more active at the decline, Among tte transactions were ordinary to prime red Southern at $1 16 « $1 30, white do. at $1 30, new white Kentucky at $1 40 0 81 60, mew red Long Island at $181, and old Michigan at $1 25, and Obi- cxgo spring at 70. Corn was heavy aud cheaper, with mo¢orate sales, Pork was heavy and lower, but with more doing, in part to fill contracts. Sales of new mess were made at $15 50 a $16 6234, thin mess at $14 70, and prime at $11. Beef and lard were also heavy, with raode- ra’e trapeactions. Sugars wore steady, with sales of 722 bhds., cbiefly grocery goods of Cuba, and 500 boxes for export, Coffe was quiet, and prices unchanged. Freight epgsgemonts were moderate, while rates exhibited no material alteration, The Sunday Question. The question of the Sunday laws has become the great question of the day. It is agitating the public mind in the chief cities of the Unioa, and the greatest excitement prevails. To New York, Philadelphia and Chicago is now add- ed Baltimore, as a battle ground of civil and religious liberty. The question has broken out in this last named city in consequence of the arrest and fining of a man who had been found engaged in some worldly employment on Sunday. The Jaw under which he was fined is an “Act to Pan- ish Blasphemers and Sabbath Breakers,” aud among other things is a penalty of boring through the tongue and branding the fore- head for denying the Holy Trinity, and for a repetition of the offence the penalty of death. For violating the Sabbath the fine is two hun- dred pounds of tobacco. This absurd law has been so long disregarded, in consequence of a change of public opinion, that it was considered obeolete. It is now galvanized by some fanatics who will ; robably attempt to enforce the other law against Unitarians, involving the penalty of death. And such is the sad spectacle witnessed in the chief city of that State from which the day star of civil and religious liberty first shone upon this continent—the State (or, rather, colony, then) in which religious toleration was firat proclaimed to all; and that at a time when the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England were burning witches and persecuting to the death every other Protestant sect who would vot conform to their narrow creed. Alas, how changed for the worse has Maryland since become! It has moved backward and down- ward, while the rest of the world is moving on- ward and upward. In Philadelphia, too, the chief city of the State founded by William Penn, who so well under- stood religious liberty, we have the miserable exhibition of the Courts being occupied for four or five days listening to legal arguments on the question whether a man quietly driving a railroad car through the city on Sunday last was guilty of a breach of the peace! And by telegraphic des- patch we learn that the very sapient Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided the question in the affirmative. We have at the same time an account of citizens, at the instigation of the clergy, holding a public meeting and passing resolutions against Sunday travelling in the Quaker City. The effect of that meeting is completely coun- teracted by a little tract which was handed about, and afterwards published in the Philadelphia pa- pers. We insert itin another column, and from it the reader will see by what bright names is sustained the position we long since assumed io this journal, that Sunday was not of divine obli- gation, but a purely human institut‘on, and that the mode of observing it by the vast majority of the Protestants and Catholics of Christendom as a day of recreation and innocent pastime as well asof religion. It is only in Scotland and by a few of the descendants of the Puritans in this country that Sunday is kept like a Jewish Sabbath. The posterity of the Puritans in England have long since ceased to follow the ir- rational and gloomy observance of their ances- tors. Nowhere in the Christian world is thereso much crime as in the chief cities of Scotland and in the cities of the United States, where the Puritanical custom is enforced, in vio- lation of the laws of nature, of reason, of the con- stitution, and of God. Such names as those of Luther, Calvin, Milton, Bunyan, Paley, Mac- knight, Jeremy Taylor and Whately will have due weight with the majority of Protestants, This tract, therefore, circulated at the Philadelphia meeting, will serve to enlighten the darkness of that benighted city. Another benefit has arisen from the agitation in Philadelphia, and that is, the lawyers engaged in the case have produced some very able argu- ments against this new exercise of religious des- potism on the part of the Mayor of the city ; and notwithstanding the decision of the Court, we feel confident that the Sunday tyranny is doomed both there and throughout the whole country at no distant day. As for New York, it has been gradually throw- ing off the religious fetters placed on its limbs by its Dutch founders, and afterwards strength- ened by the Puritanical element added to the population. The city had cast off its chains in 1854, and, according to the Sabbath Committee, | the great fire followed in the next year! The old obsolete act, to be found in the Revised Statutes, which we publish in another column, was a dead letter, when lo! the black republicane, with the assistance of Oakey Hall, their District Attorney, rake up the blue moulded tyranny and try to give it life. To assist its operation a city ordinance is added, and a section is inserted in the Metropolitan Police act, all of which the reader will find in this day’s Heratp, It appears, however, according to the Sabbath Committee, that the Metropolitan Inqui- sition had little room to boast of the success of their first Superintendent and their mentor, Oakey Hall. Nor has their pious Pillsbury as yet accomplished much by his opera- tions. It in as clear as day that the public sentiment is against them, and that they cannot cary out theie blue laws here. We publish today a number of interesting let- ters which give expression to the general opinion; and from one of them we are glad to perceive that in the neighboring “City of Charches” a public meeting is about to be held in defence of civil and religious liberty. We trust that a similar meeting will soon be held in the Empire City, the centre of light and civi- lization to the reat of the Union. The motto of eur State is “Excelsior,” and though in its legislation the State is not always true to the word inscribed on its banner, we hive firm faith in the progress of the people o* tts great commercial metropolis, and we are co 1\'- dent that they will always keep ahead of every other city in their enlightened principles, au that they will not rest satisfied while one link of the chain of ecclesiastical despotism rema'ns. ‘The Losses at SolferinoWho are the Hardest Fighters in the World? If the nuntber of killed and wounded left upon the field of battle be any test of the desperate nature of the fighting done, and it we are to be- lieve the official returns both of the Austrians avd French of those put hors de combat at Sol- ferino, they would lead us to suppose that it was not of 60 very terrible a character as that which has marked other engagements in history. With the exception of perhaps two or thrae des perate charges, the battles of Magenta and Sol- ferino have been rather an encounter of tactics and a question of mancuvrigg than a measure of courage and strength. The aim of the com- manders on both sides has been to concentrate superior on inferior masses—two battalions on the enemy’s one; failing in this, to draw off, and march, and countermarch, for a new combination. Taking the rival bulletins, we find both sides reporting themselves met by “superior numbers.” The Austrians retreat because the French have superior numbers, and the French do not follow because of the superior numbers of the Austrians. By and by, there will rise up some utterly unsci- entific, and, from the strategic point of view, utterly thick-headed officer, who won’t stop to think of combinations and superior numbers, but, in Bowery phrase, will “go in and win,” after the marner of the Great Napoleon. ‘Then, and not till then, will a reputation for hard fighting be made out of this war. Up to this time, we repeat, the war has been a grand parade of masses of troops, and its re sults have been msinly reached by superior stra- tegy on one side and bad combinations on the other. There has been no real measure of strength. The battle of Solferino, in which 400,000 men, in round numbers, were engaged, and which lasted fourteen hours, shows, after all, a relatively smal number of killed and wounded—and the number of these, after all, would seem to be the best test of the valor and fighting capabilities of belligerents. According to the official returns, the loss of the Austrians in this fight was 2,095 killed, and 9,035 wound- ed; of the French and Sardinians, 18,245 killed and wounded; a total loss on both sides of 29,375, or only about seven per cent of the num- bers engaged. Now let us see bow this compares with the style of fighting dove over here. At Bunker Hill there were engaged a total of 3,500 men-— English regulars and Yankee farmers—of which 1,503, or 43 per cent, were left on the field. At Chippewa there were 1,900 Americans and 2,100 English; the killed and wounded were 848, or 21 per cent. At Buena Vista the Ameri- can force was 4,425, the Mexican 253,000; the American killed and wounded was 746, or 17 per cent; the Mexican, upwards of 2,000, or about 10 per cent, and the fighting lasted two days. At Molino del Rey the American force was 3,447 regulars, the Mexican about 10,000 men. The combat lasted an hour, and the American loss was 787 killed and wounded, or upwards of 23 per cent. The Mexican logs in killed, wounded and prisoners was something over 3,000, or about 33 percent. The American army éntered the valley of Mexico about 6,800 strong, and in the two actions of Molino del Rey and Chaputepec it lost 1,652 men, or 24 per cent out of its entire numbers. There is no0 more common cant than that about the pusillanimity of the Mexican soldiers, their cowardice, &c., &c. In point of fact, however, they are good soldiers; better far than the aye- rage of the French and Austrian armics, if the valor with which they contest the field is to be meaeured by the standard of the loss they inflict and suffer. Soldiers who run away don’t gener- ally figure among the killed and wounded. Everything of this kind is, of course, relative; yet a great parade of hundreds of thousands of men, with rifled cannon and what not, new, and therefore startling, but not necesearily danger- ous, inventions, do not make a great battle. Had the two armies at Solferino fought with the valor and obstinacy of the English and Ameri- cans at Chippewa, their aggregate losses would have been more than four times as great as re- ported, or 84,000 men, instead of 29,000. Had they fought as did our regulars at Molino del Rey, it would have been 92,000, or nearly five times as great as it was. In this view, then, either the Americans, Mexicans and English are better soldiers than the French, Austrians and Sardinians, or elee the official bulletins of the latter are grossly inaccurate and deceptive. The fact is, the macs of both the Austrian and French coldiery are in no sensible degree better than the Mexican soldiers, except, perhaps, in be- ing better armed and officered. The Zouaves, Turcos and Imperial Guard on the one side, and the Tyrolean Jagers on the other, have done pretty much all the real bloody work and fight- ing in this campaign, and they are the only corps which could be depended on, with any chance of success, in a contest with an"equal number of American regulars. We conld safely leave the general rank and file to the volunteers and fire companies, It is true that Lombardy bas been pretty nearly cleared of the Austrians, and in @ very short time; but the latter have not suffered apy material loss in their numerical strength nor in their ability to continue the con- test under a leader capable of inspiring them with confidence. The French have succeeded rather by the lack of unity of command and pur- pore among their opponents and the strategy o Louis Napoleon, than by the superior valor of their troops. This is obvious enough to distant and disinterested observers, and it may well be that in concluding an armistice Louis Napoleon pre- fers not to risk the chances of continuous blander- ing on the part of the Austrians, nor the chances of constant success in his own combinations. The absolute strength of the combatants, apart from generalship and strategy, remains to be tested; and when such a struggle does take place, we shall better know to which side to award the Iaurel. And when it does take place, we shall look for a different aggregate of dead and dis- abled than we have received from Solferino and Magenta. W. H. Seward and the Presidency—Imp» - tant Democratic Movement tn the R bt Quarter. A very general belief prevails among sll parties that W. H. Seward, throagh the inze- nious appliances of his Albany caucus engineers, against all the drawbacks of his unpopular nome and principles, will be able to extort hia nomination from the Republican National Con- vention as the candidate «f that party for the next Presidency. It is believed that our ap- proaching November State election will turn upon this iseue, and that a republican victory this fall will thus be held as equivalent to the powerful voice of New York in favor of Seward for the White House. Indeed, as our last fall election was thus construed, and boldly pro- claimed by come of our leading Seward organs, we may safely predict that asimilar result this year will be pronounced by them as making “assurance doubly sure.” Seizing upon this idea, and fully aware of the real weakness of Seward among the conserva- tive people of this commonwealth, some of the leaders of the democracy, we understand, have recently broached 4 piaa of operations which, in our November election, may turn the tables upon the Seward engineers, and at a single blow give a new shape to the whole Presidential con- test. To this eod we are informed that negotia- tions are on foot looking to a treaty of peace, or an armistice, till after our November election, between the so-called hards aud softs; and to this end, it appears, the fashionable world are indebted for the recent visit of the long-headed Fernando Wood to Saratoga Springs. ‘On the third day of August the Democratic State Central Committee (soft—Dean Richmond chairman) meet at Albany, to appoint the time and place for the usual State Convention of the party. On the third day of August, also, as we learn, Fernando Wood and the other members of the Astor House hard shell committee will meet in Albany, in view of some compromise with the State Committee which will secure a cordial reunion of the party in November and the elec. tion of their State ticket. The compromise which will thus be advanced from the hards will doubtless be the postponement until after the State election of the question of the Charleston delegation, aud a general rally of both wings of the party for the recovery of the State, and upon the broad and general issue of hostility to Sew- ard and his disunion and revolutionary abolition platform. And why should there not be a reunion of the democracy upon this basis? Let the State Com- mittee refuse it, and the election will again go by default, and the moral power of New York at Charleston will be on a par with that of Massa- chusetts. Worse than thia, let the State Commit- tee arbitrarily push their authority to the elec- tion of the Charleston delegation in the lump, by the reguiar State Convention of this fall, and the result.may be a contesting delegation at Charles- ton, which may reduce the vote of New York, as in 1848, to a cypher; but worst of all will be the moral advantages thus surrendered to the com- mon enemy. On the other hand, an armistice on the subject of the Charleston delegates till after the State election, and then the election of those dele- gates by singe districta, will cover all the require- ments to a hearty reunion upon the State ticket. With some such nnderstanding the State may be redeemed in November. Demoralized as was the party last fall, Judge Parker gained largely upon the vote of Mr. Buchanan, and the reason was that Seward began to be visible in the fore- ground on the other side. He now stands more distinctly in view as the embodiment and cham- pion of the republicans for the Presidency, and thus the old line whigs and Americans, and original democrats, who hesitated in 1858, will be ready to join against Seward in 1859 in order to ehelvé him in 1860. There were some very significant accessions to Parker last year from the Fillmore Americans, and there are sixty thousand of them still in reserve who cannot be dragooned or cajoled into the support of Seward, but who may be induced to join the democracy to get bim out of the way. But to secure the active assistance of these allies, the democracy must first present a united front to the enemy. This they can do through the compromise we have indicated. The sharply defined slavery ireues which distracted and de feated the democracy last year have disappear- ed. The Kansas and Lecompton and anti-Le- compton troubles are among the dead issues of the past; the rank and file of the party appro- ciate the necessity of peace, and there is in reality no serious impcdiment in the way of a treaty. Let herds and softs, Tammany and anti-Tam- many, appear as a united party in September, and they may in November carry the election in conducting the canvass against Seward and his revolutionary doctrines. Having thus recovered the Empire State, the democracy representing it may dictate the candidate at Charleston, or secure the adjournment of the Convention to a later day for the purposes of harmony in other States. Upon this point we would again sug- geet to the National Executive Committee the expediency of transferring the nominating con- vention from Charleston to New York, acd of extending the interval from May to August or September. But in the meantime,ws the ways and means for the recovery of New York are within reach of the Democratic State Central Committee at Albany, the members of the party, of all ehades and stripes, will appreciate the mo- mentous responsibilities which will attach to the decision of that committee in reference to the State and Charleston Convention. Two Great Questions Setti.ep 1 Bostox When the late famous King of Dahomey, in his day, had breakfasted, a trumpeter announced to the four corners of the earth that the great King, having taken his rice and palm oil, all the rest of mankind were at liberty to eat. So now, the wire men of our modern Athens having decided to accept Powers’ statue of Daniel Webster, and having decreed a vote of thanks to George Sum- ner for his Fourth of July abolition harrangue against the Dred Scott decision, we may pro- nounce the country eafe fora week or two. We have not forgotten that the succerses, as a chess player, of Paul Morphy, or Pat Murphy, as a Western cotemporary construed it, were consid- ered in Boston as another bond of our glorious Union; and that that jolly hail fellow well met, Robert Burns, has been exalted te the seventh heaven among the members of the Mutual Ad- miration Society of the city aforesaid, upon the ground that “a man’s a man for a’ that;” and, bearing these things in mind, we should be thankful that the patriotic Bostonians “in the cotton trade and sugar line” have agreed to split the difference on the nigger question by putting up the statue of Daniel Webster on the ne band, and by « vote of thanks on the other for the abolition sentimenta of George Sumner. And why not? Was not the Bunker Hil) monu- ment topped off with the patriotic aod fascinat- ing legs of Fanny Elisier? New Roap Jows on Foor.—From a report ot recent proceedings of the Board of Aldermen, we leara that “a petition of property owners to have aroad made from Harlem river to the lower end of the city, in the east, middle and west side of the city, was referred to the Committee on Roads.” The Committee on Roads have not yet reported. Meantime, upon inquiry, we find that the following is the petition referred to:— We, the undersigned, having occasion to use the roads between Harlem river ‘and the lower part of the city, aud baving many 1d tons to transport over the same annually, as well as to travel over thom frequently, deem it unsafe to do go from the bad condiiion they are now in, ‘and bave been for some two or three years. ‘The city railroads baving monopolized the contro of many of the avenues, and driven the travel on the sides, which are subject to be washed from every rain and to be filed with boles and gullies, we respectfully petition your honorable body to have a road on the east, middie and weat side of tbe island to Harlem river, put in good and snte order, to be used exclusively as a public road and not by apy railrosds. Themas H. Faile, Jr., B, F. Dawson, George S. Fox, Joba B. Murray, ‘Thomas W. Pearsall, James Lee, Joseph Walker, B. C, Lee, Jobn J, Waiker, Winslow, Lanier & Co., D.F Tiemann & Co., Nath. Prime, P. Lorihard,Jr., Jobo Haven, Feketou, Battell & Co., ‘Spolford, Tileaton & Co., Toce. O.'Le Roy & Co., Joseph Foulke & Sons, Tee J.C. Mott, lrou Works, Peter Loritlard, Pbuip Daler, Wm. Agnew & Sons, W. W. De Forest & Co., Jowiah Macy’s Sons, Aug. Whitlock, Cornelius Grinnell, ‘Moeea Taylor, G. Gooddue & £o., Charies M. Connoily, Bail, Biack & Co., Sbeperd Knapp, Henry J. Raymond, D. & A. Kirgerana Sutton, ‘Thomas Richardson, 8G. Doughty & Co., 8. C. Horring & Co., Morris, 8. Leland, FE. V. Hadgdwout, M, Mottat. We question very much whether one-fourth of the persons whose names are appended to this petition knew what they were doing when they signed such a document. Indeed, it is doubtful if some of them ever signed it at all. For in- stance, the petition states that the siguers “have mapy thousand tons to travsport annually over the roads between Harlem river and the lower part of the city.” Now, we should like to know how mavy tons annually Henry J. Raymond trarsports over these roads, or what “property” he owrs in Westchester county, or anywhere in the direction of Harlem river. There is no ne- ceesity whatever for apy new roads in the region indicated, and the movement is another of those jobs which are continually looming up in the corporation, and heaping more taxation upon the already overburthened unfortunate citizens. It is complained that the railroad cars monopolize the centre of the public roads. Now, there are no rails on the Kings- bridge road, nor any railroad on the western side of the city, except the Hudson River road, which follows the line of the North river, and was made and is used exclusively for the railroad cars. Of couree this is not alluded to by the petitioners, for it does not interfere with any of the travel northward. What is wanted is to thoroughly repair the Kingsbridge road, which tuns parallel with the Hudson River Railroad, on the other side of the ridge of Washington Heighta. This road is sadly neglected, though at a very small cost it might be kept in perfectly good order. Here, then, is one road on the west side of the city, and that, with the Tenth avenue, when finished to the extremity of the island, is sufficient for all the travel The Tenth avenue ought to be finished either to Kingsbridge or to & point eastward of it, where a new bridge could be erected. In the last Legislature a bridge was authorized to be built close to the High Bridge, but nothing as yet appears to have been done in the matter. The object of this petition is to manufacture a gi- gantic job by getting one or two new roads through Washington Heights, levelling mountains into valleys at an enormous expense, and at the same time destroying the natural beauty of the place and the value of the property. Before any few roads are made we ought to wait till the Central Park, which is to be the centre of the city, is finished, and then we shall know better what to do. Meantime, let a sharp lookout be kept on this new job, which it is attempted to smuggle through the Corporation. Tux Portry, Romance aNp ANECDOTES OF THE War.—Although the storm which for months past swept over and desolated the bosom of Italy is lulled, though the thunders of the artillery and the red flash of the volleying musketry are beard and seen no more, and the curtain has fallen on the first act of that terrific spectacle of which all the world have been excited specta- tors, still the various features of the campaign, the acts of heroism which illuminated that fear- fal page of history, the incidents of the battle field, the bivouac and the ambulance, all the minor incidents of the great conflict, will never cease to have a charm and interest for maukind so long as Italy herself remains even “a geo- graphical expression.” We publish today a collection of the poetry, romance, fun, epigrams and anecdotes to which the war has given rise, convinced that all of it will prove highly inte- resting to our readers. In this collection the poetry stands out asa principal feature. The Crusades had their trou- badours, the border wars their minstrels, our Mexican campaign its rhymers, and why should not the great epic of the age have its pocts? i French, English, Irish and American bards have tuned their lyres to celebrate the war in Lom- bardy. The Germans, though intensely poetical, are not very quick at that or any other business, and so we have not been able to enrich our col- lection with any of their battle songs. We sup- pose, however, that our readers will not regret their omission, and that they will be quite con- tent with the specimens we have given of the Gallic and Anglo-Saxon poetry of the war. AND THE Sve Mr. Bucway 10N.—One of our black republican contemporaries indulges in a long tirade of abuse and misrepresentation covcerning the expectations, calculations and echemes of Mr. Buchanan as a Presidential can- didate. Ie is thus represented as involved in the Southern ultra programme of “ the epoliation of Mexico,” the “quict revival of the African slave trade,” Me. And this, too, when equally violent denunciations of Mr. Buchanan come from the fire-eating Southern filibusters and slave traders. The Richmond Enquirer, which, as the organ of Governor Wise, demands the Congres- sional protection of slavery in the Territories, denounces the Preeident as identified with the bJack republican free eoil notions of Eli Thayer Thus denounced on each side of the slavery line as bought and.sold by the other, we must come to the conclusion that Mr. Buchanan has not made himeelf the tool of either Northern abolitionists or Southern fire-caters. In fact, in these very denunciations from Northern and Southern ultras we have the clearest proofs of the even-handed justice which has chatwacterized bis administra- tion. And so, in reference to the succession, to whatever extent sectional demagogues -may be befogged, tho administration has only to pureue to the end the cven tenor of its way. And this we bave no doubt is the programme of Mr. Bu- chanan, and the whole of it, THE LATEST NEWS. Non-Arrival of the North Brito, Farmiee Poir, July 23-11 P. ‘The etesmehbip North Briton haa oot yet arrived off this point, though fully due with Liverpool dates of the 13th The steamship Hungarian, from Quebec for Liverpool, Paseod this point at 10 P. M. ‘The Choate Funeral Ceremonies at Boston. Bosroy, July 23, 1859. The fomeral ceremonies over tho body of Mr. Choate, which took place at the Essex street church at, 11 o’olock this morning, were attended by a large crowd of sympa- thizing citizens. Gov. Banks, the Judges of ail our Courts, representatives of the entire Massachusetts bar, the Mayor of the city, and the mombers of the various branches of cur municipal government, together with the family and immediate friends ef the deceased, fliled the church im evory part, #0 that thousands of citizens were unable te gain admittancé. The funeral sermom was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Adams, pastor of the church. At the clese of the services the hearse proceeded toward Cambridge, through Boylaton and Charles street, a iarge procession following the remains to the bridge, So impressive a fa- moral pageant bas seldom, if ever, been witnessed im this city. ‘Mr. Choate’s remains were interred at Mount Aubura. Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Purtapetrusa, July 28, 1869 Stocks heavy. Pennsylvania State fives, 90%; Roading Bailroad, 2234; Morrie Canai, 5214; Long Island Railroad, 1034; Pennsylvania Raitroad, 385, Battrwors, July 23, 1869. Flour quiet: Howard sireet held at $5 50. Wheat irre- gular: white, $1 16 a $1 36; red, $1 20a $1 36 Corn unchanged. ‘Provisions steady, Whiskey dull at 270. Buvrato, July 23—1 P. ML Flour dull apd tending downward: sales 1,100 bois.at $3 26 for unsound Illinois; $3 3734 a $3 75 for low to flae spring extra co ; $4373; a $4 623 for extra Wisconsin; $5 a $5 26 for ex'ra Michigan, Indiana and Obio; $6 75 a $6 50 for double exwaa, Wheat—Distillers pretty nearly cleared the market of standard Chicago spring this morniag, pay- ing 26,000 buebeis at 60c. Last evening 6,000 nushels ia- ferior Milwaukee were sold at 60c. Corn dull; best offere at 70c. ; sales 1,400 busbels No. 2, aflout. Osts aod barley dull. Rye lower: sales at 70c. Whiskey 4c. lower: sales 300 bbis, Lake imports to day—1,000 bbls. flour, 36,000 bushels wheat, 62,000 busheis corn, 14.000 bushels oats, Canal exports—1,300 bushels oats, 10,000 bushels wheat. PHILADELPHIA, July 23, 1858, Flour inactive. Wheat firm: white, 0c. a 36c.; red, ‘20c. a 26, Corn—Yellow, 820. a 830. Oats 8c. Whiskey steady. ——<$—$<$—<—$<— Mustc at Central Park, GREAT CONCOURSE OF CITIZENS—THK PARK FINDING FAVOR. Bodworth’s Band periormed yesterday afternoon ia that part of the Central Park called the “Ramble,” and the weather being delightful the occasion drew togethor 8 very large concourse of people. The crowd immediately about the musicians must have numbered at one time more than three thousand, and it is estimated that there were at least five thourand visiters onthe ground. The musical programme was the following :— PART 1. |. Overture—La Polka—The Rococoo. Quartetie—W here is the German’s . Po!-pourrt— From L’Btolle da Nord . Mediey—Gentle ‘March—Milancilo - oe RESens op, The music commenced at half past four o'clock, and the Programme was not concluded until abeut seven. The visiters listened attentively, and warmly app'auded some of the pieces, as they deserved. At the close some in the crowd called for “Hail Columbia,’ and the band, good na- turedly complying, gave that patriotic tune with com- mendable vigor. We never met with a more orderly, well behaved crowd than was gathered on this occasion; in fact, not a single disorderly or ill-mannered act came under cur notice during the whole afternoon. The rowdies appeared to be altogether absent. The “‘Rambie’’ is quite extensive, and has been very thorougbly and tastefully miproved, presenting a picture of rural lovell- ness hardly equalled by apy private or public grounds in this vicinity. There are beautiful water courses, tangled thickets, grottoes, arbors, a summer house, rare plants and shrubs, and flower beds, in profusion, and everything kept with scrupulous neatness. The crowd roamed among these natural and artificial beauties, and apparent ly enjoyed them with the greatest zest; but not a flower was plucked nor a shrub broken, and no dispositiog was manifested to mar or deface anything. Pcople ever complied conscientiously with the request posted up sbout the grounds, to avoid “for the present’’ treading on the grass. The confidence of the Park Commusioners in the public has evidentiy not been migplaced. Ladies and children comprised a Jarge proportion of the visiters; the latter, many of them in the care of their mothers or nurecs, were gambolling about in great num- vers, joyous and happy as the birds which wore singing around them. We noticed about a dozen carriages on the ground, and probab!y half a dozen horsemen, destri beactifol steeds; but the major part of the company con- sisted of that bumbler class, who ride only io public con- ps fee and to whom a few hoars evjoyment of ex- cellent music, out in the free air, and in such a lovely spot an this at the close of a week of toil, is one of the greatest of blessings. A ieng row of wooden benches had been erected along the walk fronting the music stand, and tuese, as wellas the adjacent rocky Knolls and billocks, were speedily filled, and the rest of the crowd, except those wao were willing to listen at a distance, wore obliged tostand, No doubt before another Saturday evening the number of seats will be largely increased. A few of tho Centrai Park policemen, conspicuous in their gray uniforms and white caps, Were seen about the grounds, ‘but tbey bad nothing to do but stroll about and listen to the music like common. mortals. On the whole, the experiment of music in the Central Park is a deciced euccess; and when some of the magat- ficent drives shall have been opened—as we understand will goon be the cagze—the attractions of the Park will be veatly enhanced, and it will probably be found adv sable to provide music in several localities to accommodate tae gathering throngs of citizens. Tee MUSICAL Festival IN Joves’ Woop To Day.—This festival, which bag already been announced in our columas, will come off to day, and will be a rare troat for all our citizens who do not belong to the sect of the Pharisees and who love good music, whose charms are heightened by the open air. The festival, we have no doubt, will be at- tended by many thousands. City Inteitgence. ArvorsTMEsTs In THE Tax Comatissionnrs’ OFFicr.—At a meeting of the Tax Commissioners yesterday, bold at tus office in Chambers street, the following removals and ap- pointments were decided upon:— Demuties—David Miller, vice James Andrews, Jr.; Samuel R. Smith, vice Warren Brady: John V. Gridley, vice David W. Allen; Isaac M. Phyte, vice George H. Fropklin, resigned. Clerks—Nathaniel 8. Husted, vice Alfred 3. Dusonberry, Timothy R. Hibbard, vice Thomas O. Davis; John F. Cleaveland, vice Thaddeus B. Glover; John Contrell, vice N.S. Rusted, promoted. James Anderson, E. J. Cadwoll KE. 8. Nye, B.S. Collins, at $700 each to be in lieu of all extra appointments, Tur Drowninc Case at Conry Istanp —With reference to the late case of drowning at Coney Island, Mr. Hon- drickeon, of the Pavilion, on the point, states that he bag kept the Pavilion there cight yours, and that no persom bas ever been drowned at his buthing grounds, and that he keeps forty life preserving jeckots always oa hand for the use of bathers. We think that in view of the molan- choly circumstances attending the case of drown- ing reported in our paper of the 22d instant, it would be well if all the proprietors of botels and bathing houses on the {sland imitated the Iiboral ex- ample of Mr. Hendrickson, and extended the means of saving life in such cazes much more. Fig in Wasnixcton Srrest.—Shortly before 12 o'clock on @aturday morning a fire broke out in the smoke house attached to the packing establishment of Ross & Haight, 513 Washington strect. The firemen soon extinguished the fire. Damage to stock by fire and water about $800. Insured for $2,500 inthe Bowery Insurance Company. The building was damaged about $50, Avremrt st Scicipk,—A eervant girl named Julia Lyom was found at 42 Park street, about ton o'clock Inet night by a gentleman, suffering from the effects of three cents worth of Iaudanum which she had purchased at Dr. Preterre’s, 511 Pearl street. Officer Herbert, of the Sixth ward, got intimation of the circumstance, when be rocecded to the house and conveyed her to the Oty lospital, where Pr. Nolan took bor in charge and used pn nag Dower to recover her, which proved a Assacit IN THE Sixth Wanv.—Oficer Wiley brough® Mary Brenan to the City Hospital last night suffering {rows the effects of a fractured skull, which her husband caused by flinging a large bowl at hor. Tho case isa bad one, and may end fatally: but Dr. Roberts is confident im hia skill in cranium practices, Obituary. Goneonanes ponoiee of the most enrg aol im on Ji E regretted. distinguished Imathewaiical protean ‘a genator and councillor of State.