The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1859, Page 4

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Bowery —La Tove ve Nesie— eevorn Twat Nevex Saw 4 Wouan—Focr Lovexs— Ropger Macaina, WALLACK'S Lats Booaa, NATIONAL THEATBE, Chatham street —Ortver Twist— Tom axD JumaY—sxetcers ix Invia. THEATRE, Broadway.—Texrtation— BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- noon and Evoning—Wruan, Wizanp. ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— ‘Rrmorian 6oxas, Dancas, 40 —Bevocuy Axass. PALACE GARDEN ASD ALG, Fourteenth street— Vocat axp IxernumestaL Joxceer. Mow York, Satu:day, July 30, 1855, ————————————————————————————— ‘The News. By the arrival of the Ocean Queen off Cape Race yesterday morning, and the Anglo-Saxon at Farther Point last evening. we have news from Europe to the 20th inst., four days later than the advices brought by the Europa. The uews is interesting. Napoleon arrived at Paris on the 17th, but nothing had transpired as to the definitive terms of the peace. One account states that the representatives of France, Austria and Sardinia are to meet at Zurich to perfect the treaty, while another says that a conference to set” tle the affairs of Italy has been arranged at St. Cloud. The early part of next month is mentioned as the time of the meeting of this conference, but no place is named. It is evident, however, that the peace is everywhere regarded with disfavor, save, perhaps, in Austria. A new ministry had been formed in Sardinia with Gen. La Marmora at its head. This cannot but prove disadvantageous to Garibaldi and his special partisans. The English budget had Ween submitted to Par- liament. The estimated deficiency Ts placed at nearly £5,000,000, and the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer recommends an additioa to the income tax to make up the deficit. The subscribers to the Austrian loan had been released from their obligations, and the Austrian funds were very buoyant. In London consols were lower: 95} 2954, for both money and account, are the latest quotations. In the Liverpool market all qualities of cotton had declined one-eighth to one-fourth of a penny, but holders evinced no disposition to press sales. The advices from Manchester are regarded as hot so favorable. The breadstuffs and provision mar- kets were dull, with a decided tendency to a further decline in prices. It is particularly interesting to see the effect the treaty of peace between France and Austria has upon the tone of the Catholic press in France, in England and in Ireland. The leading Catholic jour- nals of the three countries take different views onthe subject. Thus, the Univers regards it as a grand triumph of the Church, and is most enthusiastic in its rejoicings, while the London Zablet ana Weekly Register see in the treaty nothing but cause for the most serious apprehensions of an invasion from France. The two last mentioned papers are the lead- ing Catholic journals of England. The Dublin Catho- lic Telegraph speaks of a coalition against England, composed of France, Austria and Russia, as full of the worst forebodings. The transiatious and ox tracts which will be found in another part of to- day's Hrratp give the spirit by which all of these journals are animated, and the opinions therein expressed may be taken as a pretty correct indi- cation of Catholic feeling in the three countries We also give some translations from the French and German press of this city with reference to the peace, which will be found interesting, as showing the opinions of our foreign population apon this question. A despatch from St. Louis states that the Kansas Constitutional Convention, having completed its labors, finally adjourned. A constitution was adopted, but the democratic delegates to a man refused to vote for it. The constitution is said to be radically anti-slavery, but not so much so as the one framed at Leayen- worth, as it does not extend the right of suf- frage to negroes. The seat of government is to be located temporarily at Topeka. It is believed that the democrats will strongly oppose the constitution when it is submitted to the people for ratification, have been defeated in the Convention in ieir efforts to include the gold region and the Platte district within the State boundaries, and also in the exclusion of free negroes and the prohibition of bank iss We published yesterday, in our editorial columns, + an account of the formal cession by Guatemala of the establishments andterritory known as British Honduras to Great Britain. As the subject is one of considerable interest in many points of view, we have prepared and print in today’s Heranp an ar- ticle shewing the successive steps taken by Great Britain in acquiring this territory, and giving also @ pretty clear idea of the history and character of the country, which is undoubtedly destined to form a new British colony of great importance. We learn from our correspondent at Minatitlan that the labors of the Tehuantepec Company on that Isthmus have been seriously interrupted by judicial proceedings against them by parties there, and the levying of executions on large amounts of materials for local debts. Mr. Sidell, the chief en- gineer of the route, has sent to our Minister at Vera Cruz a long protest against the proceedings, and solicited his intervention in the matter. The Commencement exercises at Yale College terminated on Thursday evening last. The gradu- ates delivered orations, and honorary degrees were conferred upon a few individuals by President Woolsey. Our report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. We also give an account of the Commencement exercises at Union College. Ata meeting of the Police Commissioners yester day, a communication was received from Police Surgeon Ives, admitting that he was a member of the Twenty-second Ward Republican Association ‘The Board thereupon, by a vote of four to three dismissed Dr. Ives from the department. As the rules of the department strictly forbid members Joining political organizations, honest people wil perhaps wonder at the difference of opinion in the Board as to the propriety of dismissing the Doctor: Atthe meeting of the Health Commissioners yes- terday a complaint was received from the trustees of Bethlehem French and German church in Tenth avenue, complaining of the filthy condition of vacant lots adjoining the church, and it was referred tothe City Inspector. The other business was of no great interest. Virginia Stewart was im such ® condition last night as to render it impossible to form an opinion as to how near she was to death. Her case is pra: nounced to be the moat extraordinary one that ever challenged the experience of the physicians at- tached to the City Hospital, as it was never known before that when a ball entered the human brain the victim lived so long pr manifested such a tena- city of life. Macdonald spent yesterday in silence and quiet in his cell. He was visited by no. one, and did not speak a word during the day. A fire broke out in the cellar of the store 107 Wa- ter street yesterday, and before it could be subdued the entire contents of the concern were destroyed. The cellar was used by James Murphy for a bottling establishmeut. His loss is about $1,500. The re- mainder of the building was «ccupied by Andre & Brothers, dealers in tobacco and segars. Their loss will probably exceed $25,000. The entire loss of the building and contents, together with damage to adjoining property, is estimated at $50,000, The cotton market was quite firm yesterday, and more active. The transactions footed up about 8,500 bales, closing etiff on the basis ef the quotations given in another column, In comparing the distribution of the crop of 1858-69 to date, with that of 1855-56, three years since, we eball find the following results :— 1858-59, 1855-56. Bale. Bales. Receipts at ports of the United States.8,661,000 3,467,000 Exp from do. oe 2,896, 2,902,000 Stock on band, 171,600 78,000 Aweriean in Liverpoo! C00 © 609,000 Ail kinds in Liverpool 689,000 776,000 It will be perceived that we have up to this time re- ceived in the ports more cotton than was grown in 1855-56 by nearly 200,(CO bales, yot we bave exported less than hen; while the stock of ali kinds in Liverpool on tho 16th ipat, combined with the present stock in the United Stator, shows ofly about 6,000 bales more than it was in 1866, or at this timo three years ago. The flour market was botter yesterday, and closed at an advance of from fc. al0c. per barrel, while sales displayed more activity. Wheat was firmer, and closed at an advance of about 2c. a 3c, per bushel. Corn was nective, while prices were without change of moment. Pork was beavy and lower; mees sold at $15 25 a $16 37, apd prime at $1076, Beef sod lard were dull, Sugars were steacy, with sales of about 1,800 a 1,400 bhds. and €CO boxes at rates given im another column, The chief sale of coffee comprised 900 bags Maracaibo at llc. a 11%e. Freight engagewenits were moderate and rates tteady; about 150 square bales cotton were ongaged for Liverpool at 3 16d. The Peace Interval im Europe—Will Loute Nepoieon Take Up the Mexioan and Central American Queationa? Mexico avd Central America both require seme positive action on the part of foreign governments, to enable them to re-establish peace and order in their territories, and to fill the mission to which they ars called by their geographical positions and their relations with the rest of the civilized world. Now that the war in Europe has been brought to a close, we should not be at all surprised if Louis Napoleon were to direct his attention to some plan for patching up the broken china of the New World. The interval of peace that is likely to occur between the preeent and the time when it will be convenient to him to take England or Germany in hand, and to undertake to give one of them the next dressing, will afford him leisure for the enterprise; and the affair itself would be to him a relaxation or amusement while rest- ing from his greater wars. Reasons for ua- dertaking this he can find in abundance. In Mexico he has Mons. Gabriac, who is ano active intriguer, and is said to understand the manner of making intrigues profitable as well as perplexing. Is Central America Mons. Belly is endeavoring to swallow the Transit route whole, and to involve the unsophisticated gov- ernment of Nicaragua in numberless little diffi- culties which will hereafter produce fruit. In order to show that he is acting under the cogni- zance of the French government, he has recently published a letter from the French Admiral in the Pacific tendering him assistance and co-ope- ration in his enterprise. These two active agents will easily cut out work in Mexico and Central America if he should feel disposed to under- take it. : That ke may undertake it there are good reasons for believing. A recent European writer on the French navy, who shows an inti- mate knowledge of its organization and effective force, and who seems to speak by the card, states that the recent great increase and activity dis- played in the French marine is intended for dis- tant operations, rather than for contemplated movements nearer home. In connection with this fact we have another. The Northern Bee, the official organ of the War Office at St. Peteraburg, stated some months since, in an article on the questions which the year 1859 must see settled, those of “the conflict between Spain and Mexico,” and “the condilion of Central America.” In that list of questions were aleo etatcd the question of the Schleswig Holstein duchies, which is being pacifically ar- ranged between Denmark and the Germanic Confederation; the affairs of India, which have been in many respects settled by England; and tke Italian question, which has just been ven- tilated amid the emoke and roar of cannon by France. Of the Ruseian list of questions, those of Mexico and Central America alone remain for adjustment. Late events have shown the inti- mate understanding which exists between Louis Napoleon and the Court of Russia, and signiti- cant indications point to a coming French inter- vention in Central American and Mexican affairs. In Mexico the clergy and the reactionists in power at the capital have for some time been en- deavoring to bring about a French or Spanish intervention in their favor, and the recent decree confiscating the church property, issued by the liberal government, will urge them to farther effort. Louis Napoleon may take this question upas a sop for the Pope, to set off the bitter doecs in preparation for him by the Italian Con- federation. Spain’s quarrel, too, with Mexico is still unsettled, and he may take that up, and ar- Tange the entire policy of the Spanish govern- ment in relation to American affairs in such a way as to block us out for many years from Cuba Tebuantepec and the Central American transit route. In regard to the latter, President Mora, of Costa Rica, evincesno good will to this country. In his last message to the Costa Rican Congrees | he states that the United States are pressing great and unjust claims opon him, but that he shall resist them to the last, and that he has re- ecived the unanimous assurances of the maritime Powers, in reply to his cry for justice and pro- tection, that the lacerated rights of Costa Rica shall not be again violated. It is not an impro bable thing that Louis Napoleon may become the champion and regulator of the Latin family of nations in America. For such a course the imbecility and inaction of Congress bas left him ample room and verge enough. The President, with a statesman’s fore- eight, saw the danger, and urged upon Congress the neceseity of immediate action. But that body, composed of ignorant and impudent poli- ticians, will take cognizance of nothing beyond their own petty squabbles over local elections; and its members have no more reach and grasp of the foreign questions that are vitally affecting our national interests than pigs have of the wind. With their continual bickerings on petty issues and partisan candidates for the Presidency, they have reduced this Union to an aggregation of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JULY 30, quarreleome sections, with no more unity of pur- Pose than that presented by the petty States forming the “geographical expression” culled Italy. The policy and power of France, on the contrary, is a perfeot unit, wielded by a skilful and segacious intellect; and it may be that be- fore it exercises its strength on Germany or England we shall find it conflicting with come of our highest interests in the States south of us and lying across the most feasible route be- tween our Atlantic an» our Pacific empires, palatial. ieee Wiltem H. Seward, the Great Rumselier, avd our November State Election. The paramount issue in our November State election will be W. H. Seward, the eminent Auburn rumeeller, who is determined to be the exclusive Presidential candidate of the black republicans, The republican party will enter into this local contest with his name in full view as their candidate for the Pre- sid: ntial succession. Their victory. last year, aad ‘be dissensions aud divisions among the de- mocracy, have inspired the republican managers with the prospect of an easy triumph this fall; and thus, with the vote of New York reiterated iu favor of Seward, the rumeeller, they expect, under the power and prestige of the Empire State, to hold the game of the republican Presi- dex tial Convention of 1860 in their hands, But all these nice calculations may be spoiled with the defeat ofthe republicans in this fa!l chetfop; and they may b: defeated, and very decisively, too, in a general co-operation against them of all the political elements of the State opposed to Seward, the great Auburn rum. seller, his principles and his pretensions. According to the results of our last year’s State election, while the vote for Morgan (re- publican) was 30,000 leas than that given to Frenont, the vote for Parker (dem.) was 30,000 greater than that for Buchanan, notwithstanding all the drawbacks of the democracy from their Lecompton and anti-Lecompton divisions and detcate in every direction, aud their Tammany aud enti-Tammany squabbles. The American vote of the State last year was only 60,000, or lees than half the vote for Fillmore in 1856; but what became of it? Assuming that all the miss- ing Fremont republicans abstained from votiog ast November, we can only account for this ad- dition of 30,000 to the democratic vote by as- euming that it was drawn over from the Ame- rican party. ‘We have no doubt that this is the true expla- nation. The attempted coalition of the républi- cans and Americans at Syracuse failed becauce W. H. Seward, the rumseller, his impracticable anti-slavery programme, and his good man Fri- day, Thurlow Weed, stood in the way. Seward, the rumeeller, was the iceue which defeated this projected coalition—Seward, the rumeeller, was the provocation that carried those thirty thousand Americans over to the democratic side. Upon the direct question of the Presidency we dare say that three-fourths of the whole Filimore vote, and a considerable portion of the Fremont (criginal democrats), could be combined upon any respectable conservative democratic candi- date against Seward, the celebrated Auburn rum- eeller. Why, then, should not the democracy prepare for some such coalition in November, and pre- pare to conduct the canvass upon the paramount iseue whetber Seward, the rumseller, is or is not the choice of the people of New York for the next Presidency? The success of the republicans, though they may not mention the name of Seward, the rumseller, will surely be construed as the vote of New York in his behalf; but in making his name and pretensions the con- trolling issue there can be no misconception of the result. We believe, too, that euch are the antipathics, prejudices and grudges of democratic repub- licans, old line whigs and Know Nothings—Fre- mont men, Webster men, Van Buren men and Fillmore men—agaiust Seward, the rumeeller, that the democracy may secure the services of these men to an extent which will give them a de- cisive mojority in November if they want it. And all that will be required to obtain it will be, first, a union among the democracy themselves, apd, eecordly, a generous welcome to all volun- teers from the opposition camps who are anxious to secure a decizive expression of the voice of New York upon Mr. Seward’s Rochester procla- mation of “an irrepreseible conflict” with slavery until all the States shall have become free States or slave States, or of his famous advertisement that he was engaged in the rum trade in Auburn to the extent of $4,000 capital. Let the democracy act vigorously upon these suggestions, and they may reconquer tho State of New York in November. This achievement will at orce give them the controlling voice in the Charleston Convention, and will so materially damage the republican party, and so essentially revivify the democracy of the whole Union, as to render their euccess in 1860 the most probable re- sult. We believe that there is a popular majority in this State of at least fifty thousand against W. H. Seward, the rumecller, and his revolutionary abolition doctrines, He has never been @ man of the people. His successes thus far have been thoge of the echeming, managing, caucus politi- cian. Bring bim and his principles and claims as a Presidential candidate fairly and squarely before the people of this commonwealth in No- vember, 1859, and we shall hear nothing of him in 1860. In this view, would it not be well for the two committees, which meet at Albany on the 3d of August, to prepare, first, for the reunion of their party, and secondly, for the defeat of the republicans, in compelling them to fight the bat- tle of November upon Seward, the rumseller, and his Rochester manifesto as the embodi- ment of their principles? The proceedings of the aforesaid committee on the 3d of August, at Albany, will probably settle the question whether Wm. H. Seward, the far-famed rum- seller of Auburn, will be the great candidate for the Presidency of the black republicans in 1860. Tue Tap or Aveust.—This will be a day big with the fate of the democratic party. It is the day appointed for the meeting of the State Central Committee, at Albany—Dean Richmond, President; Peter Cagger, Secretary. The busi- nersof the committee will be to appoint the time and place and to designate the objects of the annual party State Convention... The legiti- mate business of the Convention will be the nomination of a State ticket, and the adoption of a platform for our November election; but it is suspected that the State Central Committee will attempt at this meeting, on the 3d of August, to make an opening in the Convention for the appointment of the New York delegation to Charleston. And this is the point of danger. Let the Astor House committee be early on the ground with a strong force on the 3d—say, from one to two hundred prominent men—and perbaps they may seve the party and the State, Trade=Megnificent Speculations Ahead. A few weeks since we published a letter from Washington, stating that come fifty or sixty slave chips bad landed, or were about to land, cargoes of Africans at certain unfrequented ports upon our Southern seaboard. This extraordi- nary etatement created the greatest excitement all over the country, North and South. It was at once endorsed, fully and unhesitatingly, by the chief organ of the great rum selling Seward faction, Thurlow Weed’s Albany Evening Journal. So much discussion was excited by the statement of our correspon- dent that a thorough ventilation of the whole subject was had, and it appears now that although the information sent to us was in the main correct, there was an error in its details. Going to the fountain head from which our cor- respondent gained bis information, it appeare that the facts simply are, that during this year 1859-60, there is to bean effort made to fit out in New York and New England ports some forty or fifty ves- sels for the slew trade, and that these ships, or some them, will attempt to land their cargoes on the soil of the Southern States, making a virtual reopening of the slave trade. We are induced to place some confidence in these statements for various good and suffizient reasons, A beginning has been made. A short time since an alleged slaver was seized at New London, in Connecticut, avd still more recently the federal authorities arrested, aud at this moment detain in the harbor of New Bedford, a ehip which it is claimed has been fitted cut for the negro trade. More than a year ago we were at the same trou- ble to collect the statistics of the slave trade carried on by vessels fitted out in New York and New England, and trading between Africa, Cuba and the Brozils, and the number was very considerable, scmething like twenty or more. In no instance that we remember was aay one of these veesels fitted out at a Southern port. New York avd New England, which are claimed as preserves by the friends of the “almighty nigger,” furnished the vessels, the capital wherewith to fit them out, the officers to command them, and the men to sail them. The profits went into Northern pockets; perhaps some found their way to the till of the wool seller of Albany or the rum Seller of Auburn. It is fair, then, to presume from past expe- rience that the forty slave ships some of which are to arrive in our Southern ports within the year are alleent eut by Northern capitalists, and that brings us to the question of the identity of the traders, The question suggests itself: Who fits out the ships for the slave trade? Not the Southern planter; surely his interests, pecuniarily and po- litically, are opposed to the revival of the traffic. How much more probable is it that the Northern traders, aided and abetted by the lobby men of Mareachusetts and New York—those who have already corrupted the State Legislatures and the federal Congress—ehould engage in a traffic which not only pays enormously asa commercial speculation, but makes a political basis on which they may elect a black republican President and divide the spoils of the general government among themselves. ‘The antecedents of the leaders of this corrupt lobby point to the conclusion we have suggested. We have already seen Weed pocketing five thou- sand dollars as a douceur for services in the free wool cauze, while he ostensibly defended the ir- terests of the North. We have seen Seward leading the temperance party while engaged in the wholesale and retail trade in brandy, rum, gin, whiskey, and other fiery beverages. We have seen Matteson organizing a gang of pub- lic plunderers after the thorough Hassarac model. We have seen the immaculate Greeley himeelf the custodian of a draft for a thousand dol- lars, part of a pecuniary consideration given to some politician or other to help a mining or navi- gation company in its schemes upon the public funds. Now we find the financier of the 7ri- bune up to his eyes in Pike’s Peak speculations— whether the victim, or the victimized, no one seems to have ascertained. All thee indications go to show that there is nothing at which such people as Greeley, Weed, Seward & Co. wonld stop, provided it pays, The slave trade pays both ways. If they caa turn it against the South—and by ingenuity that may be done—they will have a question for the next election. Just now they have no topic for the people. They invested $150,000 in Kansas; but that iseue is done up. An investment of half a million in the African trade would net as much more in cash, and make a grand chance for a new excitement on the nigger question, and help to elect the rum seller Seward President of theee United States. Weed & Co. will bear a great deal of watch- ing, and we hope that Captain Ryndew will keep asharp lookout for them. Perhaps the Captaia could make some strange revelations if he saw fit to tell all he knows concerning this very mat- ter. And while he is at work upon the New Bedford case, ke should overhaul the ship’s pa- pers carefully, and see if Weed’s name or that of some of his cronies cannot be found among them. Of course they will endeavor to cover up their tracks, but such chaps are always like the ostrich, who hides his head in the sand and flatters himself that his whole body is secure from observation. Let the Captain be vigilant, and he may do the country a great service. Meanwhile, we intend to keep a sharp eye on Master Weed and his comrades, Gov. Wisk on Mormonpom.—In the last Presi- dential manifesto of Gov. Wise, the following in- cidental remarks may be found in regard to equatter sovereignty vs. federal sovereignty amopg the Mormons:— Whcever drew the Kansas-Nebraeka bill put into it epe- cial and diecriminating provisions by in favor of slavery. Less amount of slave property than of any other. property can, for example, take a case up to the Sa- preme Court of the United States by its provisions; nad, whilst tbe canvass was going on in Iitinois, anarmy of the ‘United States, under a !aw for which the non-interven- tionist voted in the Senate and House of Representatives, ‘was marching to Utah to protect, it was thought, all par- sons and property in that Territory, and to put cown the Satyr of Lust there, which would estsbligh polygamy and the prostitution of woman, and destroy the sscredncen of Christian marriage, 80 to identify offspring in a republic founded on private virtue and the holy famiiy re lations and tier. By what code wasall this donc? By the code of food morals T would drive these beasts of Bacchus from a ian land! It seems now the whole expense of the Mormon war was to protect fedoral protéais in thelr «flees, We presume, notwithstanding the confusion of ideas embodied in this extract, that the Governor intended to say that it was thought that the mis- sion of the army despatched to Utah by Mr. Buchanan was the euppreseion of Mormon po- lygamy. But we were all mistaken upon that. point; for we now perccive that the whole object of this Utah campaign was to protect fedoral protégés in their offices, Very true, there is no epecific constitutional authority under which the federal government could undertake the forcible suppression of Mormonism; but under “the code of good morals I would drive these beasts of Bacchus from a Christian land.” Believing this to be a fair interpretation of the 1859, i ae Ths Probable Enormous Increase of the 8) | confused remarks of Gov. Wise, aa publixhed, the reader will perceive that they involve a com tencotible slur upon the administration, But the Governor knows, or ought to know, that the military expedition to Utah was not undertaken to suppress Sformon polygamy, but a Mormon rebellion againet the government of the United States. The Governor knows, too, that the army in Utah has effected some‘bing more than “the pro tection of federal prolégés in their offices”—that it has enforced the submission of the Mormons to the supreme authority of the federal government As for the “code of good morals,” under which Governor Wiee would forcibly putdown Mormon polygamy, let such a code be adopted in this case, and there will be a precedent under which an anti-slavery administration at Washington may undertake the suppression of slavery in Vir- ginia. Governor Wise must write another letter to explain his views on Mormonism, or all his long harrangues on the territorial question will go for nothing. In writing this explanation we hope the Governor will be a little more precise in his epecifications against the administration than he has been, from “a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.” Tae Green Frurrs oy THE War—Tue Hon. Jerrerson Bricx's Acumvemnars.—While the journals of Europe and the United States are busily engaged in discussing how much oue par- ty or the other has gained or lost by the war— how far Austria is humbled, Surdiaia enriched, the Kossuth party disappointed, the Freach ar. my glorified, and Napoleon’s popularity extend- ed—nobody seems to think about what the news- papers have gained by the war. Fifty years ago, when the first Napoleon fought over the came ground as that where his nephew has just won his firat victories, the world was obliged to wait a long time for accounts of warlike operations. The conveyance of intelligence then required wecke; now, for the same dis‘aace, it is a matter of minutes. An army has now its staff of jonr- nalists, sometimes with and sometimes withont the consent of the commander of the forces. Dar- ing the Crimean war the London Times enhance its great reputation all over the world by admi- rable descriptions of the actions at Alma, Inker manp, the Redan and the Malakoff. Lutterly the events of the Indian and [tulian wars have been ebronicled in the same maaner aud by the same pen. While the London Zines was doing all this, it is not to be wondered at that Mr. Jefferson Brick, of the United States of America, a journalist who bas more than once made the Prime Minister of England shake in bis shoes, terrified Austria, soubbed Prussia, annihilated the German diplo- mats, saved Louis Napoleon, and made the Czar of Russia “tremble in his marble palace at St. Petersburg”—we say, is is remarkable that Mr. Brick should put his finger in the pie? Not at all. And he has done it. And if avy one desires to cee what @ nice mess he has made of it, let him read the extracts from Mr. Brick’s works, which we print elsewhere. They include his famous article on the Mincio’s elbows, his gallant con- duct on the field of Solferino, described by him- self, bis remarkably lucid account of that action, and his famous retreat from Castiglione to Bres- cia. Mr. Brick has made a grand coup and gained a reputation as the first blundcrer of the day—in fact a quadrilateral blunderer, from four sides of the question. He tried to saut up the Austrians in the strategic square, and he is now condemned to perpetual imprisonment within its boundaries. He may be convinced that he will never hear the last of his quadrilateral article. It will stick to him, as the judges say, during the whole term of his natural life. a The Hon. Jefferson Brick, and his distinguished colleagues in Wall street and elsewhere, eatab- lished their paper for the purpose of beating all creation, and we are magnanimous enough to acknowledge that they have “been and gone and done it now.”” While J. Brick, Eeq., has been winning immortal, and we may say quadrilateral, honors at home, the Hon. Jefferson Brick, the first, has pushed boldly to the tented field. He has crossed the Alps, rode in a diligence, becn hungry and thirsty, elept upon boards, suffered from fleas, and all to give an ungrateful world an account of a battle which is not appreciated. It has been urged that Mr. Brick’s account of the affair is not a bit like what it turned out to be, that he could cee nothing but smoke, and bear nothing but what he calls “visible” capnonading; yet there is his letter, sent from the field. His readers should be duly grate- fol, and ray, with Sir Lucius O'Trigger, that “when affection guides the pen, he’d be a brute that would quarre! witb the style.” Then, again, who cen read of Mr. Brick’s per- sonal adventures without a thrill of admiration? Whether we behold bim scanning the field of carnage from the hill which his and Chevalier Webb’s friend, the Emperor of the French, had just left; or aeleep at the café in Castiglione, like the soldier tired, in the popular song; or, hat in band, tearing along the road to Brescia, in mo- mentary expectation of the thrust of an Austrian bayonet in his hinder parts; or calmly sitting down to still further mystify his readers with his great geographical knowledge, so profound as to include not only the roads, fortresses, water courses, &c., but the natural inclinations and sympathics (whatever they are) of the rivers themselves, Jefferson Brick is the same grand, gloomy and peculiar individual. He is to the strategy, the geography and the military operations of the war what the Chevalier Webb is to its secret diplomatic history—history which is only known to the Chevalier, Palmerston and Louis Napoleon. We are glad that the Chevalier Webb was restrained from rushing to the field of Mars, and proud that the Honorable Jefferson Brick is still spared for the enlighten- ment of this glorious country. Let him give us more of his sympathetic elbows, and farther par ticulars of the Min¢io’s youthful training. And let the Chevalier Webb look sharp, or Jefferson Brick will get that gold snufftox from the Em- peror of the French. A Virainta Eprrorta, Dve.—Te Corres PonpENcE, &c.—We publish to-day the remarka ble correspondence connected with the late very remarkable editorial duel in Virginia, between two of her sonsof chivalry. Our readers in these cool northern latitudes will diecover from this correspondence that the diplomacy of “the code” admits of the sharpest practice inthe matter of hair splitting, and that the “honor” involved in acall of “coffee and pistols for two” was very properly appreciated by old Jack Falstaff. In the next place, as the most conspicuous of the parties concerned in this affair, the son of the Governor of Virginia, brought the meeting in the ficld to a somewhat indecisive termination, we must leave it to those versed in “the code” to determine whether there ought, or ought not, to he another shootiog match upon tie cubject, We tbink the helligerents have euffisiently made fools of themeclves to agree that they have had enongh of it. Tue Birsx Brr,—The framers of the black republican Metropolitan Police law introduced = clanse to prevent pclicemen belongiag to politi- cal orgapiz»tions, The first victim was a mem- ber of the Republican Central Committee, Dr. Iver, of the Twenty-second ward, who was ycs- terday dismissed from the force, although the three repubtican Commissioners voted sgaiust the dismiseal. Mayors Tiemann and Powell, and Mesera. Bailey and Ulshoffer, who insisted on enforcing the rate in this instance, would do well to persevere. Perhaps there would be dis- miseals enough to make room for the old force illegally decapitateé, Enforce the rule by all means, Tue Broap Cuvrcu.—The etyle and title of “the Broad Church,” which it is purposed to give to the new Catholic church, without a Pope, as projected by Dr. Bellows & Co., it is suggested is “an unfortunate name,” aod that it would be “unwise to give the scoffer sueb a handle as the name suggests,” But as we have already « “bigh church” and a “low chureb,” why not a “broad church?” The name, perheps, would be strengthened by changing, it to “the Broad Gauge Church.” “Broad” is & good word, and “long” is a good word; but we commend the “bread gauge” to Dr. Bellows, In spite of Shakepere, there is much in a name, THE LATEST NEWS. Affairs in Washington. Wasunoton, July 20, 1860. Advioes received here from Nicaragua give assurances of & fair prospect of satisfactory setilemant of the Traseis difficulties, end speak in confident terms of the ability or General Jerez to secure the rejection by Cougreas of the article in the Lamar-Zoladon treaty objected to by oar ge- vernment. ‘There seems to be no doubt that the mission to Centray Amer'ca will be tendered to Judge Bowlin, whose visit te Bedford Springs is on that business, by invitation of the President, The balance in the Treasury on the 26th inst. was near- ly five millions, The reoeipis for the weck ending om that day wore $2,252,00°. The drafts paid amounied te $1,616,000, and the drafts issued to $2,114,000. A letter from Superiutendent Johoson has besn recelved. at tho Indian Bureau, in which, speaking of the difficulty between t’e Pawnee Indians and the citizens of Nebraska, he aays:—'‘No white person qas killed, but tho whites have killed two Indians and wounded one. The Iadians made no resistance when approached by the citizens, who were more culpable in producing the diiflculty than the Irdiavs. The newspaper accounts are! greatiy exaggo. rated.” Mr. Cushman, rece tly appointed Minister to the Argem tine Confederrtion, received his instructions to day, and Started on bis deatinativn. LETTER FROM THE MEXICAN MINISTER. Wasuixctox, July 28, 1859, TO THE RDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Dear Sm—A telegraphic despatch from this city states that my despatches, addressed to this city, wers sont to New York, and that the eid despatches were delivered with the seals broken. As the fact referred to is of great importance, I think it my duty to make known to you that, although it # true that m; .e8, instead a8 pt i pan Bent to. Meexok wh ae in the teais bave bien broken. The friction which letters are subject to in transit caused the breaking of one of the borders of tne ent but neither were the seals broken nor was therein tne state of the packsge which the despatches form anything that could cause the most remote suspicion that there had been any attempt to open them. I beg you to bave the goodness to publish this manifes- tation, and accept the respect of your Obedient servant, MMT AL The Finate of the Kansas Constitutional Convention. ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION—DOLT OF THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS—THR NEW SBAT OF GOV- ERNMINT, ETO. St. Lovis, July 29, 1869, The Kansas Constitutional Convention adjourned sine die to night. The constitution was adopted by 34 to 18— all the demoora‘s voting against it and refusing to sign it, The constitution is radically aatislavery, but differs from the Leavenworth instrument, inasmuch as it does not extend the right of suffrage to negroca, The State Legislature is to consist of seventy.two ropre- sentatives and twenty-one Senators, ‘The Business Convention disposed of, with tolerable ex- Pedition, the questions of apportionment and temporary capital, being the only measures which offered serious ob- stacies. ‘Topeka is selected temporarily as the capital—Lawrenos being the competitor. © Tne efforts of the partisans of both these places revealed considerable corruption, both inside and outside of the Convention, and one or more members are implicated in charges of bribery. The indications are that the ratification of tho constita- tion will be vigorously opposed by the democracy, as ita strong measures of the annexation of the Platte district, the exclusion of free negroes, the prohibition of vank igaues, the pregervation of the present western boundary, which includes the go!d regions, have ali been dofeated, The Steamer Huntsville on Fire. Caanteroy, 8. C., July 20, 1859. The steamer Huntaville, bound to New York, was dis- covered to be on fire this forenoon, when twenty five of her passengers left her and retarned to the elty in « pilot boat. The steamer subsequently arrived alongside of tha Southern wharf here, when it was found that the cotton in her hold was on fire. The firemen are now pouring streams of water into her. It is impossible as yet to Jearn the extent of the damage. The hold is greatly ua- maged. News from the Kansas Goid Fields. Br, Lovis, July 29, 1859. The Leavenworth Times bas received intoresting private advices by the arrival of the express last night from Dea- ver ity, which place it left on the 20th inst, Th2 mines continued to yield woll, and now leads were constantly developing. A good many miners had been compelled to quit work, owing to scarcity of water. A company had commenced the construction of a flame eleven miles loag, ‘to convey water to the neighborhood of Mountain City. Tunnelling had also commenced. Aspecial deapatch to the Democrat says that three men have arrived at St. Joseph, bringing $12,500 in gold dust. These parties had previously disposed of $8,000 worth at Omaha, making a total of $20,600 from the Kansas mines: News from Havana. New Onteans, July 29, 1869. The steamehip Granada bas arrived with advices from Havana and Key West to the 25th ins}. Sugara were dull ‘and unchanged in price. Excbapge! on London 121; a 13 per cent premium; on New York, sixty days, 2 per cent premium, Bews from Northern Mexico. CHantEston, July 29, 1859, The Courier bas advices from Matamoras to the 1éth instant, etating that Nor‘hern Mexico was quict, and that Gen. Woll bad been suspended. Large Fire at East Boston, &c. Boston, July 29, 1859, A fire this afternoon destroyed the large brick candle factory of M. M. Hawes, on Chelsos street, Kast Boston. ‘Loss $20,000; insured $16,000. It Is eupposed to be the work of an incendiary. The roof of a large four story buliding, which was in Progress cf demolition, fell in this afternoon, burying three children in the ruins, two of whom wero ealoly ex- tricated, but the third survived but a fow minutes, Avna C. Harris was fully committed this afternoon for the poisoning of a child at a house of ill repute in South May street, a few days since. —$<____.. Reported Bank Failure, PHILADRLYMA, July 29, 1859. The brokers throw cut the notes of the Monongahela Valley Bank, of the westorn part of the State, which is re- Ported to bave failed. Daring Burgiery at Baltimore. Barmoxe, July 20, 1859. The residence of John Jones, a milkman on York avo- Due, Was entered last night by burglars and robbed of