The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1859, Page 7

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GOGDOY BHAAETE, EDITOR AND PROPRIELOB. FON AND NASSAU 818 GPF104 N. W. CO ‘Advances Money sent ty marie wih de as the Pontage sanace ao veceived as auhecription THR DAILY HERALD, too cents per copy, $1 per avers. THE WEEKLY HERALD, fat ie conte or 8S. per annum; the Burosean Edition every Welnestae Se cena ry Pa en at ied pana he q inchude powtage’ Galo ein tha 8 on ‘of cod wronh at 4 annum. ru baat: Y HERALD, om Wednesday, af four cents per . ‘annum. WOLUNPARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing mportans mses, rom any quarter of the orld |W ued wh ‘paid for gar Ovum Fouricx OopREsronDENts ARR Pormiovcas.y Bagtaeran ro Saat 4. Verrsas 4no Pao Adve sper va. Seay ‘NO NOTICE taken of anonymous corresponaencs. We “JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, chaspness and de- opaich. ——————————— Volume KKILV ........ cess eeeenceee eens NOs BIT TAAMS, cash in wlak of the sender. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. PALACE GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth street.— Baced Concer. AMUSEMENTS TO MORROW EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadwav.—Four Lovers—Evouv- ‘TIONS ON TAS Ticut Borz—Oopscnirt. BOWFRY THEATERS. Bowery.—Romeo amp Juiier— ‘Swiss Swains—Pappr Carey. WALLAGK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Inisa Moamox— Lata Boom, NATIONAL THEA’ Chatham street, —Eers—Osnren- ER or Rovax—Bauan ra BARNUM'S ICAN MUSEUM, Brostway.—After Rooe—-Osrtatn’s Not 4 Mrss— Ross or SHARON. ‘Maw oF Cuowser—Hose oF ENAROM. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 563 Broadway— ‘Mraior!ax bones, Daxoms, &0.—Daaon ann Prtuias. BRYANT’S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway— ‘Bon.esquas, Gongs, Dances, 40.—Cuaw Rosst Bea. PALACE GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth street.— Oonozer amp Boinze DansantE. Hew York, Sunday, August 7, 1858. The News. The steamship Hammonia, which left Southamp- ton onthe 26th ult., is due at this port with three days later European news. The Nova Scotian is also due at Quebec, from Liverpool, with advices to the 27th ult. The Galway steamer Circassian reached this port Jast evening from St. Johns, N. F. She brings no news. The steamer Jura sailed from this port yesterday for Liverpool with $450,000 in specie. She took no passengers, The New York also sailed yesterday for Bremen. She carried out sixty-two passengers. We have files from Bermuda dated on the 26th ult. The Bermudian says:--The export of pota- toes for 1859 shows the handsome increase of some 9,000 barrels. The exportation of onions hasreached for the season just closed the quantity of 822,130 pounds. Tomatoes for the same season (all to the United States) amounted to 4,592 boxes. It is an interesting fact connected with these statistics that more than 60 vessels were engaged in carrying the above mentioned produce. From Demerara we learn that the agent in India has been instructed to ship 5,400 coolies during the season, and applications for 2,200 Chinese laborers have been made to the Secretary of State. The journeymen bakers held a meeting last eve. ning to deliberate upon the condition of their trade. ‘They adopted a resolution to solicit the boss bakers of the city to reduce their hours of daily labor from twenty to twelve hours, and to stop the delivery pidvamage Suntey. sttoseer aoe of ie A deplorable accident happened in Spruce streei, near Gold, yesterday. As policeman Dobke, of the Second ward, was in the act of cocking his pistol, in order te shoot a horse which had received such injury that it could not live, the weapon ex- ploded, and the ball etered the brain of a by- stander named Jacob Ottenger, a respectable Ger- man, residing in Orchard street, causing his death in a very short time. The Court Martial of Major Cross was continued yesterday, and the testimony of Major General Jesup, the Quartermaster General, taken. A re- port of the proceedings will be found in another column. The Grand Jury indicted Robert C. Macdonald yesterday, for the murder of Virginia Stewart, and in the afternoon the prisoner was arraigned in the Court of Sessions. He pleaded not guilty, and was remanded for trial. The indictment, on mo- tion of the Assistant District Attorney, was re- moved to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which meets on the first Monday in October.. The report of the City Inspector, which is given in another column, shows that the deaths last week comprised 94 men, 64 women, 262 boys and 205 girls, a total of 625; being nine more than the week previous, and 54 less than occurred during the corresponding week of last year. Ofthe whole number of deaths last week 457 were of ten years of age and under, and of this number 136 died of cholera infantum. There were 124 deaths of dis- eases of the brain and nerves, 3 of the generative organs, 11 of the heart and blood vessels, 110 of the lungs and throat, 5 of old age, 27 of eruptive fever and skin diseases, 32 stillborn and premature births, 284 of diseases of the stomach and other digestive organs, 27 of uncertain complaints, and 17 from violent causes. The nativity table shows that 518 were natives of the United States, 75 of Ire- land, 16 of Germany, 3 of England, 3 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries. 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 3 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M. 94. M. SP. M. Al afternoon and night, clear. A son aant shower. ; rain during evening, with thunder. Saturday—Morning, clear. The cotton market yesterday was quiet, the sales being confined to some 300 bales in lots. The market was heavy at 1234c. per Ib. for middiing uplands. Oaly about twenty-three to twenty-four days of the cotton year re. main. This is the dullest month during the season. At the present time stocks aro light, and many dealers are absent from the city, some of whom have gone to Eu. Tope. The sales making are chiefly to supply the wants of spinners, while moderate shipments continue to be moade abroad. The flour market wag heavy and lower Yor common and medium grades. Wheat was heavy and lower, owing to increased receipts. Southern mew red fold at $1 258 $1 35, and white do. a$1 45 & $1 66, and inferior mixed Kontucky at $1 30, Corn was frm, with sales of Western mixed at 770, a 780. and Of round yellow at 790. = 800. Pork was heavy and lower, with gales of mess at $14 560 © $14 70, and of primo at $10 75.8 10 8734. Sugars wore in fair demand, with sales of about 1,300 hhds. and 660 boxes; included tn the tales of hhds. were 600 Cuba muscovado for export | Bb p.t Prices were without change of momont, Coltyg was quiet. Freigtts to ioglish porte wore decidedly Crmer, owing to ecarcity of room. offerivg tor aaipuae ots ithaT sad, eoenged for London * 2 Liverpool cotton was exgaged oll avd dead woghi wae at 208 to Antwerp was taken Mazztnt ox the Peace of Vitiafranca and (he Villafranca and the Italisa Confeéeration. chasacteristic of that poetical and impracticable | genius which baa minglod in Ttulian pifuirs for {so ywapy years without apy beneficial results. We do not deny that this paragon of couspira- tora has done some gocd in Italy by keepiag alive the embers of liberty in the darkest hour of her oppression. But there his mission ended. His talents are for destruction and pulling down—not for construction aud building up. The one is comparatively easy; the other is the most diflicult task which can engage the powers of the human mind. Mazzini is eloquent in stir- ring the passions of the multitude against exist- ing goveraments. But when be attempts to substitute anything in place of these govern- ments, there he miserably fails; and instead of Italian Confeder, ton, In snotber poge we publish an address fom ito the people of Italy on the peace of Ibis tomething practicable—something that is possi- ble to be done—he holds out before the dazzled gaze a beautiful vision, which never had and never can have any real existence in the world. For several years his followers have abandoned bim as Utopian in his ideas, and the practioal re- volutionists and reformers in Italy who embarked in the late straggle under Louis Napoleon nnd Victor Emanuel have long regarded Mazzini as standing in the way of Italian freedom and inde- pendence. His influence, however, has been re- duced to small dimensions of late, and his power to do mischief is by no means commensurate with his inclination. His inflammatory appeal embraces, among other objects, the fomenting of jealousy between the King of Sardinia and the Emperor of the French, the kindling of the hatred of his sub- jects against Victor Emanuel and the subverting of his throne, the undoing of all that has been done, the overthrow of the peace of Villafranca and the proposed Italian Confederation, the re- commencement of 1848 by a general insurrec- tion “on a broader basis,’ and a universal war in Europe, including France, Sardinia, Austria, England and Germany. To any sane, sober mind, these propositions must appear to be ema- nations from a fanatic or a fiend rather than the deliberate judgment of a patriot or a statesman. ‘The late struggle in Italy was not commenced under the auspices or direction of Mazzini; he was not even consulted in the enterprise, and now it is his congenial part to condemn the peace and disparage the results. No matter what might be the event, he was equally pre- pared to censure. Had the Pope and the King of Naples been dethroned, and had Austria been driven out of Venetia, as well as from Lombardy, and had all Italy been constructed into one re- public, Mazzini would not be satisfied unless on one condition, and that is, that himself should be made first President, President for life, dictator, autocrat. His sanguinary manifesto breathes the epirit of a Cataline or a Robespierre, and his aim is evidently to revive the “reign of terror,” and swim in seasofhuman blood. Were he not de- mented he might know that a religious, Catholic population, like the Italians, could never be led by an avowed infidel like him. To expose thi e4ite demoniac Mauuan + is only necessary to shuply stato his idcas, He says the King of Sardinia ought to have rejected the peace and Louis Napoleon together, and called for 200,000 Italians, instead of the 200,000 French troops, to continue the war. Easier sail than done. Austria would have Sardinia devoured before the 200,000 re- cruits were forthcoming, and it would just be the performance over again of the same tragedy that was acted in 1848 and 1849. But if Victor Emanuel could not conjure up an army of 200,000 men like spirits from the vasty deep, he “ought to die on the field of battle.” Very valiant, truly. We do not find Mazzini dying after this fashion himself. Why did he not die when he was a triumvir of Rome, at the time of its reconquest by the French, ten years ago! Instead of that, he has managed to take good care of himself ever since, like some other patriot “literati, who talk much and do little.” “But the country, what is its duty now ?” His answer to this question gives a truc idea of the man: “Resist, with or without a chance of victory, even though defeat were certain.” Nay, to resist, though Austria and France should fight on the same side; and it was even the duty of the King of Sardinia, he says, to “compel Louis Napoleon to unmaek himself and fight by the side of Austria!” In that case, we ask, what would become of Sardinia and the rest of unfor- tunate Italy?” “Oh,” replies mad Mazzini, “better die than be contaminated !”” His chief hostility is levelled against the Pope. He is a true blue no-popery man, of the Exeter Hal) and Irish Orange school. He would not accept liberty or independence for Italy if the Pope is any longer to have a local habita- and with some more | tion and a name in Rome. He says, “neither from a King nor from a Pope.can Italy hope for salva- tion.” He wants to be both King and Pope himself, He denounces the idea of the Confederation and the Presidency of the Pope. What would he have? Italy to spring at a bound from extreme political slavery to the highest forms of human liberty—to be ushered suddenly as 8 complete and perfect republic upon the stage of Europe, like Minerva, full grown and in complete armor, from the laboring brain of Jove? Such an idea ie as fabulous as the heathen mythology. Or, as he rejects salvation through a King, does he want the Italian people to be consolidated under a single government in the hands of one man—a democracy like that of France, with an Emperor at itshead? The two countries are entirely dif- ferent. Even if Italy were accustomed to be ruled by a single central government like France, whereis the man? What Italian could unite upon himself the affections and loyalty of the whole people? Or what Italian has the intellect and the nerve to assume the task? Perhaps Mazzini is inflated with some such vain thought; but he would be like presumptuous Phaeton driving the chariot of the sun— he would soon set Italy in a blaze, and, like him, be hurdled with a thunderbolt into the Po. Napoleon IIL. gained his present position at the head of the French by the influence of the name of his great uncle, and he has maintained it by his own ability in carry. ing out the Napoleonic idea of combining a democratic government with an empire, which is exactly suited to the national mind and temper of the French. The elder Napoleon won his throne in the hearts of the people by his sword, by his Code Napoleon, by his justice and his magnanimity, as he proudly said to the Em- peror of Austria, who wanted to trace Bona- Parte’s family to royal, or atleast to noble blood, wheu be gave bim ble daughter is ma: 4 “The patent of my 1olillfy daccs from ~ Montenotte.” I le has fallen on Napoi¢or fii, who is + Olof the nation. But where is the won er ean we | | tio | people? There is no such wan. \ | not be forgotten thut since the fall of the Romau { ] atrearages that bave eecroed since whe car poict to such s maa ia the last genera acd claim to be his legitimate successor, avd the representative of the whole Italian Theo it mus, re, more than a thousand years ago, the ao people have not been united under one 70 ut. During that iaterval -there bace been covfiderations, both of republics and of | kings, which were attended with great success. Tbe Ewmperor of the French has therefore con- | sulted the pages of history and national tra- dition, and hss done the beat aud wisest thing | he cuuld for Italy under ali the circumstances | which surrounded both himself and that country. | If the Italians are capable of self-government the | game is now in their own hands. The first step, | even to a confederation of republics like that of | the United States, is taken im their behalf at the cost of 70,000 French braves; the last rem- | nant of German sway in Italy is driven out, and the contest between the Guelps and the Ghibelins is settled for ever. The Italians can do the rest for themselves if they have the will and the capacity; if not, not; and it is beyond the power of even so great a mind as that of Napo- leon UL to construct a republic or an empire out of the materials he found in Italy, as the sculptor would model a statue out of the plastic clay. Every people’s form of government must grow naturally out of its history and the ele- ments of its national life. Tue Sumer Cruise or me Yacur Cuvs— Tur New Commoporz anp His Programus.— The New York Yacht Club squadron made its annual summer rendezvous at Whitestone yes- terday. Before the cruise has been concluded some thirty or forty vessels of all classes will be mustered under the pennant of the new Commo- dore, Edwin P. Stevens, Esq. Mr. Stevens is the brother of the late lamented John C. Stevens, Esq, the founder of the Club, and the Commo- dore of its equadron for many years. No more energetic patron of gentle sports ever existed than the Jate Mr. Stevens, and his successor, at present commanding the spleadid fleet that sailed on yesterday from Whitestone, bids fair to rival his predeceseor who carried off the royal plate at Cowes, gaining a victory over the cream of the British yachts. Tt is the intention of the new Commodore to enforce the strictest discipline in the squadron under his command. The captains of the yachts will receive their orders every day from the flag officer. The course to be sailed over extends from the entrance of the Sound to Edgartown, which port, it is expected, the yachts will reach next Saturday. In the meantime the squadron wit] call at New London, New Haven, Newport (for a “hop”), and any other places that may be designated by the Commodore. The yachts will be separated, so as to sail ia two divisions— odd numbers in one, and even numbers in the other. The Commodore will sail them man-of- war fashion, in line of battle, and manceuvre them as if before the enemy. Match races will be gotten up between two or more yachts, and at convenient times the whole squadron will have a trial of speed for the fun of the thing. change vintta and aa aa chtamen will wie panied by his friends to the number of five or six, the decks of the yachts will display a gather- ing of the élite of the metropolis, such as is rarely seen together on shore. The terminus of the official cruise is, as we have remarked above, at Edgartown, but it is proposed to extend it to Boston, where there is the greatest anxiety to receive and entertain the New York yachts. The gentlemen who have their summer residences at Nahant have held a meeting, and through their eecretary—C. Levi Woodbury, Ezq.—invited the Ciub to visit that harbor and engage in an ocean race, the prizes to be made up by general sub- scription among the /Jabitués of Nahant. It is yet to be decided whether or not this proposition shall be accepted; but if not, there may be a race at Newport or New Bedford. The extension of the cruise to Edgartown looks well fora run around Cape Cod and a peaceful invasion of the modern Athens. This programme seems like real yachting, and we may expect to hear of some eharp contests, which will be duly chronicled in the Henaup of each day after their occurrence, We have rea: son to believe that our yachtsmen are beginning to wake up to the real epirit of nautical adven- ture, and that they intend now to imitate their English consins, who dash boldly out of smooth water into the Channel, the Northern Ocean or the Mediterranean. Our yachts are good enough, and their owners have pluck enough, if they could once overcome that dolce Sar niente feeling which has kept their trim craft at anchor in smooth water, while the captains were sighing at the fect of fashionable Delilahs. Under t!.c new Commo- dore there is to be strict discipline and courts martial for rebels, and a different order of things may be expected. Among other pleasant fea- tures of the cruise, a band of mutxic will accom- pany the fleet; and as each yacht will have mu- sical amateurs on board, very agreeable soirées musicale nay be expected. And finally, as every one recognizes the fact that the contests between these fine vessels are not only interesting as matters of sport, but of high practical importance in developing’ the genius of our ship builders and promoting our supremacy on the seas, the accounts of this cruise will be looked for with much anxiety. Every yachteman must do his best. Tue Forrest Case.—This celebrated cause, which has e0 long occupied the attention of tke courts and the public, is at last on the eve of a final settlement. By the decision of Judge Wood- ruff the question of alimony has been sent before a referee—Mr. Bradley—whose award, it is ex- pected, will be made in the course of the ensuing week. Pending his arbitration, an interlocutory decision of the Court gives to Mra. Forrest an allowance of $200 a month and $1,500 law fees out of the defendant’s estate. The counsel for the lady are Charles O'Conor, Nelson Chase and Benjamin Galbraith, and for Mr. Vorrest, John Van Buren and James T. Brady. A curious Piece of evidence was given before the referze in the couree of these proccedings. In his exami- nation Mr. Forrest admitted (hat nefther pre- vious to his marriage nor subecquent to his di- vorce had he kept any account of his professional earnings and Income. Ie had nevertheless made his wife keep a strict account of every item expended for domestic purposes, or for her own use. Itis probable, from the genoral character of the evidance, that the referee will allow Mra. Forrest from $3,000 to $5,000 % year out of the defendant's estate, former be ing the sum awarded by she verdict of th rhich tried the case, Poettea this, sho wil) t chy ql aon 7 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1859. Jaw costs will aiso form soother formidable itym—the sum of $1,500-allowed by the Court | for the present proceedings representiog but 8 | sme} portion of the aggregute, By the laws of this State Mrs, Forrest | wili be at liberty to marry sgain after | this decision, but it is @oubtful whether | Ler late partner will be entitled to do so. There is nothing, however, to prevent him going to another State and contracting a marriage that will be binding. Thas terminate the legal difti- culties of a couple who, under otber circum- stances, might have lived together contented, re- spected ard honored. The Sundsy Biue Laws—Popular Candl- dates and the Vote of the People, From all classes in our city, and from every part of the country, we are gratified to receive the most cordial proofs of approbation at the stand we have taken against the fanatical, tyran- nical and inquisitorial system of Sunday laws and Sunday observance that prevails among us. The common sense of the people is roused against it, and will inevitably sweep it away. It is not alone the toiling classea who sorely feel the weight of its oppression, nor is it only the scoffer at what is good and holy that longs for the abolishment of our present unconstitutional Sunday laws and the artificial and false public opinion that has hitherto suffered them to exist. Right thinking men on all sides condemn them. Generous natures of all creeds of belief abhor them. Rational, pbilosopbical and sincere Chris- tians censure them. Thousands upon thousands of pious and true Christians lament the error of their enactment, and look hopefully forward to the time when they can freely and frankly ex- press their opinions on this subject without being upbraided by their co-professing religtonists. If they would all speak out as frankly in public as they do tous in private, vast numbers would find that instead of being exceptions to the general opinion, they are really in accordance with it, in condemning the present Sunday restrictions upon every one who has not enough of the world’s goods to make that day one of private recreation in his own house and garden. Our present Sunday laws are, in fact, class le- gislation of the worst kind. They weigh heavily upon the poor, while on the rich they are but as chains of gossamer. Little by little they have been artfully and skilfully woven, in defiance of public opinion, and now they have to be broken by an uprising of the masses, Besides this, the entire system is one of foreign birth, and has nothing native to New York in it. It was brought here in the invasion of the city by the Puritanical Yankees, and by them has been fas- tened upon us. They got it from the British Puritans, who alone, of all the Christian sects, make of Sunday a day of sadness and gloom. The Catholics everywhere reject it; the Calvin- ists of Switzerland have never followed it; the German Lutherans do not believe in it; and all the Protestant nations of Northern Europe have ever rejected it. As class legislation it is doomed to be swept away, and this must be done by the masses themselves. In the ballot box they have the power to do it, and they should doit. Our State and munici- aa clegtions are approaching, and every man entith © NT canteens Se woke nn his mind to cast it only for such men as are dis- tinctly pledged in opposition to the present in- quisitorial and tyrannical Sunday laws. An appreciated correspondent reminds us of astrong expression of public opinion on this subject which occurred in this city nearly forty yearsago. Sundry of the high-strung Presbyte- tian divines, among whom were the late Dr. Ro- maine, Dr. Paschal N. Strong and others of the trne New England stamp, in the summer of 1820 or 1821, issued a call for a public meeting in the City Hall on the Sabbath question. There was great hostility in the public mind to the movement, and a large meeting gathered. A few sagacious, prudent and right-mind- ed men, led by the late Robert Bogar- dus, saw the temper of the people, and, apprehending that the meeting might be con- verted into a riot, and that the black coats might get rolled into the mud, if nothing worse, contrived by an adroit piece of parliamentary tactics to quash the affair at the outset. They nominated their own chairman and secretary, who were at once voted in by acclamation, and then instantly proposed and carried a couple of short reaolutions—one declaring it inexpedient to discuss the Sabbath question at any public meet. ing, and the other adjourning the meeting sine die. After the adjournment an array of the black coats gathered about Mr. Bogardus and com- plained bitterly of the proceedings, to which he replicd, that if he and his friends had not taken the course they did, and acted with promptness and decision, the excitement against the minis- ters was so great and so general that a mob would bave been the inevitable consequence, and he had no doubt that the ministers who got up the meeting and attended it would have had their clothes torn from their backs, and would have found it difficult to escape with their lives. Many of our old New Yorkers will re- member this meeting, among whom we may cite the following gentlemen:—Myndert Van Schaick, William C. Rhinelander, Joseph Kenna- chan, William Bradford, Michael Ulshoeffer, Murray Hoffman, Hiram Ketchum, William and John Niblo, and General Robert F. Manly, of Brooklyn, They no doubt will remember the meeting, and some of them perhaps took part in the sound common sense proceedings thereat. We have abundant reason to know that New York is at heart to-day what it was at that time. Public opinion is strongly op- posed to the Sabbatarian restrictions, and so it will be found to exprezs itself when the time comes. We counsel the people to remember their votes and the pledges of those who solicit them. Tae Stickies Cars.—It is’ stated that a nu- merous body of Mr. Sickles’ constituents of the Third Congressional district have signed an ad- dress calling upon him to resign. If they desire to make the demaud effective, they had better subscribe from $300 to $1,000 each to enable him to so, After bis return from Washington, Mr. Sickles’ friends raised from $6,000 to $8,000 for kim, which shows that he is not in a position to listen to any inopportune appeals of this kind. Whatever may be the doubts expressed to the contrary, it is pretty certain that the honorable member willbe at his post in December next. His sent will, it is said, be contested by Mr. Williamson, and should the latter prove succcesful, be disposed to poblic life. then Mr. Sickles may retire for a while from fo, with "he other members of , § vatand, abont to iio the eveat Jeman wl, no the soothing influences of a delicious climate, artistic associations, avd the now dispensation proclaimed Wy Louis Napoteou, this unhappy couple may hope to regain some of the peace of mind which marked the first period of their mar- ried life. THe Moras oF Powrrga—Tue Lerrer or Goverwor Wise.—Our special despatch from Albsoy this morning affords a solution of the mystery as to how tue confidential letter of Gov- ernor Wise came to be made public, It appears that the letter was writtea to a gentleman of this city, who, on a recent visit to Albany, permitted Mr. Cassidy, of the Argus, to see it in strict oon- fidence, with a view to relieve certain unfavora- ble impressions about Governor Wise whioh the Albany Regency bad, or affected to have, con- cerning his connections with Fernando Wood. Cassidy obtained permission from the party re- ferred to, who, being a man of honor, suspected no treachery, to show it to his confrere, Dean Richmond, on the promise that it should not ap- pear in print, and the letter, we believe, did not find its way back to the owner, at least until after it was printed. There is no doubt that the letter is genuine, nor is there anything in it that any politician aspiring to the Presidency would not write to a friend; but the Albany Regency fellows thought, no deubt, that its publication would damage Governor Wise, and aid them in their designs to control the New York delega- tion to Charleston, or, failing that, in falling back upon their schemes in support of Seward. ‘The result of the publication may be to create a personal ill feeling between Virginia and New York, and possibly to break up the Charleston Convention altogether. This outrageous breach of confidence on the part of the Albany Re- gency just shows the treachery, the uuscrupa- Jousness and the utter want of principle which govern all their echemes and intrigues. This letter passed into Mr. Cassidy’s hands, and he will be required to clear up the mystery of its publication or to bear the brunt of the infamy attaching to the breach of faith by which a pri- vate communication, confidentially entrusted to him, came to be made public, The whole transaction is a nice comment on the morals of politics generally, and of that of the Albany Regency in particular, who are at- tempting to govern this State by all kinds of contemptible trickeries and treacheries. THE LATEST NEWS. Interesting from Washington. FORTHCOMING LETTER OF SENATOR DOUGLAS ON ‘THE RROPENING OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. OUR SPACIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH, Wasninctoy, August 6, 1859. Judge Dovgias has written a letter to John L. Peyton, of Staunton, Virginia, which will be msde public in a few days. It is in opposition to the reopening of tho African slave trade, principally on the ground that its probibi- tion after a certain date was one of the compromises of the constitution which secured the acceptance of that in- strument, and should therefore be held sacred, This letter is said to be very sbort and pointod. TOR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, ‘Wasnunctoy, August 6, 1859. ‘The receipts into the Treasury for the quarter ending with June, exclusive of trust funds, wore $23,126,452, including $14,281,000 from customs, $442,376 from public Jands, and $8,005,200 from Treasury notes issued under thg apt of Domarann of ier, 1857, expenditures during the same period were $26,212,000, including $10,016,000 in payment of Treasury notes, and $1,684,000 interest on the public debt, in- cluding Treasury notes. An error in a fermer despatch from the reporter of the Associated Press, as printed, renders a correction neces fary. It was stated by bim that the receipts into the ‘Treasury for the three quarters of the year ending with June were within only about $80,000 of the estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Presideat has recognized C. Manuel Trevino as Consul of Mexico at Brownsville, Texas; Fiederick Kuhne a8 Consul of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Strelitz at New York; Jose German Ribon as Vice Consul of the Gra- nadian Confederation at New York; Schuyler Livingston, of New York, as Consul General of the kingdom of the ‘Bawaian Islands for the United States. Attorney General Black lef; here te-day for a stay of two weeks at the Fayette Springs, Pennsylvania. Lieutenant Spottiswood has been ordered to the com- mand ef the United States storeship Supply. The Mystery ofthe Wise Letter—The Albany Regency at the Bottom of it, OUB SPACIAL ALBANY DESPATCH. Atpany, Auguat 6, 1859, It has leaked out here by what means tho famous Iet- ter of Governor Wise came to be published. It appears that the letter was written to a confidential friend of Governor Wise residing in New York. That gentleman, on arecent visit to Albany, while in conversation with somo members of the Regency, found thogo partice hostile to ‘Mr. Wise, on tho grounds of his intimate relations with Fernando Wood aud the control the ex Mayor was sup- posed to have over him, The gentleman, who is highly honorable man, and, perhaps, not smart enough for the intrigues of the Regency, incidentally stated, in » spirit friendly to Gov. Wise, that he knew (ao imputations against bim to be unfounded. But he would not be credited unless he produced the proof; where- upon, I am informed, ho showed the letter to Mr. Cassidy, of the Argus, in strict confidence, who asked permission to lay {t before Dean Richmond. This was demurred to, except upon the solemn assurance that it should not ap- pear in print, It is now known that several copies of it were made. It may seem strange that the Albany Affas and Argus—Mr, Cassidy's paper—should decline to publish the letter on the assumption that it was a forgery, while jt manifestiy was made public by seme members of the Albany Regency, and probably with the knowledge of Mr. Cassidy bimseif. The Kentucky Election, Lovisyinie, August 6, 1369, In the First Congressional district Burnett, dem serat, is elected. In the Secoud Congressional district Peyton, democrat, is elected. In the Third Congreesional district Bristow, opposition, is elected. ‘The Fourth Congressional district ia stil! in doubt. In the Fifth Congressional district Cheosman, democrat, is elected. In the Sixth Congressional district Adams, opposition, is elected. Inthe Seventh Congressional district Mallory, opposi tion, is elected. In the Eighth Congressional district Simms, democrat, is elected. In the Ninth Congressional district Moore, opposition, is elected. In the Tenth Congressional district Stevenson, demecrat, ‘selected. ‘The Legisiature on joint ballot have about thirty demo. cratic majority. The democratic Governor and State officers are elected by probally from 7,000 to 10,000, The North Carolina Electton. Purresnunc, August 6, 1859, Tn the Hirst Congresstonal district Smith’s (opposition) majority over Shaw (democrat) is £86—an opposition goin, In the Fourth Congressional district the majority of Branch over Sanders \g 679. Both are democrats. In the Fifth Congreasional district Gilmer (opposition) is re elected by an increased majority. In the Sixth Congressional district it is thought Scales (democrat) has been beaten by Louch (independent de- oorat), min ‘the Seventh Congressional district Crago (democrat) re-elected. ‘There are no roturme as yet from the Secood, Third and Highth Congressional districts, ‘The Tennerree Blecitoc. Nasnvtiim, August 6, 1860 ain 2,200, ae Coagroesman, —— ee Nen-A"rival of the Nova Scotiun. Faarar Poor, August 6~10 P. Mf. ‘There are ax yet co signs of the steamship Nova See- tian, now fully due off is point, with Liverpool dates of the 27th ult, Weather a.rudy. Important fiom Mexico. New O8uxans, Auguat 6, 1860. By the steamer Habana, we have advices from Vera Cruz tothe 28th aud from Mexicoto the 19th ultimo, ‘Miramon had issued @ manifesto, ia whieh he proposes to protect the clergy in the'r power and wealth, favers the plan of a dictatorial government, and dotlares it to be the traditional policy of Mexico to guard aguiast the em- croachments of the United States. Mr. McLane had sent only the skeleton of » treaty 40 ‘Washington, and that was not signed. ‘The Tehuantepec Company continued to be annoyed by ‘the authorities, in consequonee of which the mail would probably be suspended goon. General Zaazua was approaching Sam Luiz Potost witis 5,000 men, and Miramon’s troops wore concentrating a Regerator. Is was reported that some grand movemsus ‘was afoot, Arrival of the California Mall at New Orleans. New Ontuans, August 6, 1860. ‘Tho Habana has arrived up to the city with the Califer- nia malls of the 20th ult. Tne papers contain no further general news of importance. The money market at San Francieco was tight. Flour was quoted at $9, Arrival of the Overland Mall at Jefferson City. ; Sr, Loves, August 6, 1860, The overland mail has reached Jefferson City, with California advices of the 15th ult. Incomplete returns of the Congressional election in Oregom indicate the success, by a small majority, of Stout, the democratic candidate. Homicide at Niagara Falls. NiAGaRa Farts, August 6, 1850. Last night, in this village, a German, named Heary Hammer, shot en Irishman, by the namo of Bartlett By- rou, killing him instantly. The Excursion of the Washington Grays. Rovse’s Point, August 6, 1859. "he Washington Grays leave Boston for Now York on the nine o'clock train on Monday, arriving at Twoaty- seventh street at 4:40 P. M. The North Briton Outward Bound. Monrrgat, August 6, 1869, ‘The North Briton sailed fro n Quebec for Liverpool at | 9:40 this morning. She takes out thirty-one cabia and twenty-two steerage passengers, Wind west, Weather Clear. Detructive Fire. ‘TuoroLp, C. W., August 6, 1860. Two flouring mills were burned in this village last night, together with the Niagara and Thorold Hotels seven dwelling houses, soveral stables, &c. The t logs is about $40,000. The mills were partialiy insured. Markets. PHILADELPHIA BTOCK BOARD, PuILapetPuia, August 6, 1369, Pennsylvania State fives, 0035; Canal, 523;; Long island uaneadt Railroad, 38 4. New Oxceans, August 5, 1869. Cotton easier, but not quotably lower; middling, 11%¢. Sales to. aay, 150 betes; sales of the week, 2,600 bales. Receipts of the woek 246 bales, against 2,260 for the oor- responding week last year. Inst year, 99,000 bales; do. at all in al A . Goltee hrm at 119,615 stock 17,000 bags, the same number last year. Frights and exchange cnohanged. 104; Barrimors, August 6, 1869. Flour dull but cen. Howard street, $5 50; Ci mills, $525. Wheat dull, "Sales 16,000 bushels: whit, $120 a $140; rod, $115 8$127. Corn firm and un- changed. Provisions unt Whiskey aull a} 27. Purtapeurura, August 6, 1860, Flour quiet, but firm. Whoat active; white $1 30, red $128.0 $130. Corn dull: yellow offered at 78¢. Whiskey dull at 26c. a 2634c, Boreato, At 6—1 P. M. Flour quiet and tending downward. Upper lake ne- Siirituiens non Ohjo, BE Tou 86 for double Guise, Wied sou, = ‘3 8 96 for tra. gcarce—no sales. Cora sete: sales of 8,000 burbels a No. 1 Illinois at 69¢, A good Inquiry for oats, but parties are Barley and ryé are quict. Whiskey nominal. Freights steady: Lake. iaporia 3.000 None flour, 16,006 corn, $2,000 bushels oats. Capal exports—700 bb } xports-—700 bbls, four, 6,000 bushels wheat, 1,000 Rusn 70 raz Cenrrat, Park Yusterpar.—Probably there ‘was never convened in the Central Park go numerous and respectable an asscmblage as flocked to the newly finished Ramble yesterday afternoon. The main walks through hese delicious grounds were absolutely crowdod with People, and in the vicinity of the excellent orchestra, Provided by a few public spirited citizens, the crowd was denge, and the applause which greeted the exhilarating Performances was frequent and prolonged. Never before have there grounds presented 60 brilliant a spectacle, Throughout the latter part of the afternoon and the early evening long lines of carriages whirled through the drives, and the stream of visiters constantly ebbing and flowing comprized large numbers of the wealthier class of our citizens, a8 well ag of the million, and all strictly conforming to the necessary roles for the presorva- tion of the beauty of the Park. Oue of the lower main drives is being rapidly finished, and the Com. mlgsicners are atill pursuing the commendable pian of finigbing sections of the Park as they procesd with the Work, thus affording the public the use of the Park at the earliest possible moment. The polite demeanor of the po- lice is worthy of mention, as ia also the forethougtt of somebody in paying the boys who siand in the maia walks with pails of water, and who are generally honost enough to refuse payment from visiters. These attentions {> the wants of visiters will be fully appreciated. Tar Transm Rovre.—The United States and Centrat American Transit Company, organized under the stea2- ship ‘law of New York, and ownicg the Vandyke Wallace grant from Nicaragua, purchased yesterday of Capt. J. T. Wright, of Cailfornia, the steamship Hermann, nom in San Francisco, for their mail line via Nicaragua, The par- chaso of twe other steamships is to be concluded on Tues- day next, and they will mt once be despatched to San Francisco. The river aud lake boats havo already voce purchased. 5 —<—<———__ The Journeymen Bakers 1x Council, PROTEST AGAINST TWENTY HOUES LABOR—THE CRAFT IN FAVOR OF TWELVE LOURS—FREEDOM ON SUNDAYS, ETc. Pursuant 10 announcement a meeting of journeymen bakers was held at Convention Hall, Wooster street, at eight o'clock last evening, to protest against the extended hours of sabor at present inflicted on the bakers of this city, ttendance wag rather Jarge, and cogtinued to the eyening advanced, ayersging on the whoia bout 300 persons, On motion, Mr. James Parker was unanimously called ‘o the chair, und Patrick Donohoe was elected Secretary. Mr. Jockson, the first speaker, spoke of the necousity for tome union among the journeymen bakers to put an end to tho present system of labor. Twelve hours day ‘was quite enough for them to labor, and he thought is was their right as well as their duty to protest ngainst the twenty hours labor to which they now had to submit, ‘They ovght to understand the importance of their position in this agin all communities, The journeyman baker wag a6 Important an individual as any other citizen, sad if they were to refuse to work and a cry were to be reised ‘or bread, there would be a dreadful revolution, He urged upon every baker the necossit; qtasnon wibwatermined Cardinia ceeded a Mr. Scales followed with a genuine Milesian i antic! riod . ingar e rsh sole oe of bis death—say- . Spidel in a German speech, {i the bakers of the city to unite on an ones on eae nok mportance to themselves, (Me, Jacob Grossarth) fol- Another German gertieman loweet ina aii strain, kers were desperately enthusiastic, and received the exhortation erent speakers cheers anarupee 8 Of the different core wita le Chairman stated that it was now one month since the orgauization was begun, and remin: bers: that thelr fees abauld be pala up. rig pe other speeches were made, all tending to the frame fe ttt protest against twenty hours aday Ia. bor, Carrying of baskets on the shoulder, the other dizadvan' under which the craft now safer, It was eventuaily resolved that a remonstrance ahould be addressed to the boss bakers throwgo the columns of tho New York Hgratp and the Staats Zeting, asking the} to conform to the lawfu! desires of the Jjourneymen dak Arrangements were also made to inform the bosses of the proceedings of the meeting in the neual offlvial manor The portal Tesolution was then pro; by Mr. Se fn due form, and cartied wiih jamonse ved, That the houre of tabar now feapnond msn bh ine otis of Y sy marbling a intaleen