The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1859, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDOF SENAETS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. DFFION XK. W. CORNED OF PULTON 4D NASSAU GTO the present time stocks are light, and many dealers are ash tn advance come rats wotll be os the SUE aS Rae Se Tees © Tb DAL? ABRALD. 00 conte 8 per annum. THE WEEKLY ED eoory at etx conte or $3 por ; the Buropean exery Wr Feces oy brace on cieee poe % %, the cd Mh ofeach mows et ba oonle per copy, or $1 60 per annum. Tokame EAT oo... eee se eeee cece eres NOs B18 AMUSEMENTS THI8 EVENING NISLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Foun Lovans—Evou0- T10Ns On THB TiguT BorE—OonsoRirT. BOWEEY THSATER sowory.—Bomno AND Jour Bwiss Swains—Pappy Caner, : WALLAGK’S THEATER. Srosdway.—Inisn Moamon— Laws Sonn. RATIONAL THEATER (vasham strect.—Euti—OsRran- res or Rovgr—Suian O'Linw UM, Groaaway.— Aner . Bveaing— WOOD'S MINSTREL SUTLDING, 661 and 663 Broadway— a@rmortss Songs, Dances. £0 —Dawon amp Prtuias, BEY asT’s MINOTRELS. 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Hauscna. . De Caaposvronge & Co. ‘Tne contents of the European editioe of the HexaLp will sombine the news received by mail and telegraph at the wifice curmg tre previous week and up to the hour ef the publication ahe News. We have interesting news from Europe, received by the Nova Scotian at Quebec. The Liverpool advices are to the morning of the 27th ult., four days later than previous accounts. Except a despatch from Berne, stating that the representatives of France, Austria and Sardinia were expected to meet at the end of July, nothing positive had transpired respecting the Peace Con- ference. With regard to the proposed Italian Coufedera- tion, one report from Paris states that although the scheme may not have been formally abandoned by Napoleon, yet little more will be heard of it, while another gives the plan drawn up by Count Walewski for the union of the Italian States, which had already been submitted confidentially to the Cabinet. The substance of this plan is given in our summary of the news in another column. Garibaldi was still in the field, and contemplating, it was said, a movement from the Alpsto the Apen- nines, with an army capable of securing Italian in- dependence, at least against Roman and Neapoli- ten forces. In this movement he counted upon the cc-operation, to some extent, of the King of Sar- dinia. The English and French governments and press were busily engaged in endeavoring to restore the entente cordiate of the two countries. England offered to send a representative to the Zurich Con ference if France would disarm, and France agreed to a general disarming by land and ‘sea. England was satisfied, and the happy accord had apparently been re-established. Consols are quoted at 943 a 95 for money, and 95a 95} for account—an im- provement; but an article in the Moniteur on the question of disarming had created considerable ex- citement in London, and affected the funds un- favorably. At Liverpool cotton had advanced one-eighth of a penny, and a better feeling prevuiled in the mar- ket. Breadstuffs had also slightly improved. be From ate papers from Buenos Ayres—for which we are indebted to Captain Chase, of the bark Darien—we learn that President Lopez had is- sued a protocol declaring that no deserters from the army or navy ofthe Argentine Confederation would be protected or permitted to shelter them- selves in Paraguay; while the government of the Confederation makes a similar declaration in re- gard to all persons in the service of Paraguay. Both nations have also come toa definite agree- ment to arrest and send back to their respective governments all absconding sailors and soldiers, who are threatened with serious punishment if fonnd wanting in loyalty. The exciting question of ‘war was as prominent as ever, and Buenos Ayres appears determined to show her teeth to her bel ligerent neighbor. ‘ We have accounts from Puerto Cabello, Vene- zuela, to the 18th ult. The greatest disorder pre- vailed throughout the republic, and assassinations, robberies and other high crimes were of frequent occurrence, while bands of rebels and outlaws ravaged the country. The peaceable inhabitants had eolicited the government to put a stop to these , to which the government had responded tog pardons to criminals and offering indem- nity to others still at large. Venezuela appears to be in as lamentable @ condition as Mexico, and the return of Monagas to power would no doubt afford much satisfiction to her suffering people. Our currespondent on board the United States frigate Mississippi, dating at Nagasaki, Japan, on the 14th of April, gives another interesting account of a vun of that vessel from Simoda to the first mentioned port. A very heavy storm which visited the ship on the second day out was compensated for by a full view of the volcano situated on’ Volcano Island, then in blast. Hon. Mr. Harris was on ‘board the Mississippi, and experienced, as usual, a moet friendly greeting from the Dutch Governor and popwace. Trade had improved greatly at Nagasaki, about fifty vessels lying at date in the durbor. Business was, however, at the moment depreciated in consequence of the inability of the government mint to issue a sufficient supply of gold and silver ¢ Some unscrupulons foreigners had put a quantity of connterfeit Spanish dollars in circulation, en act which is justly denounced as tending to create a very bad feeling in the minds of the peopie. The health of the men and officers on board the Mississippi was good. An abundant harvest was promised in the country around Nagasaki, We publish in another column an interesting account of the recent gold discoveries in the Indian cemeteries of New Granada. The statament re cently given of these discoveries has created quite & fever of oxcitement, and one of ovr correspond- ents states that a vessel is now fitting out at this port to convey a party of fifty to the new El Do- rado. In another part of to-day’s Hurat.n may be found reports of the proceedings of ihe American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, the No. ‘tional Convention of Spiritualists, and the Dutchess County Woman’s Rights Convention. From tiese reports our reader: may gather some information respecting the progress of science in our republic, | her preductions are admirably adapted to this ‘The cotton market on Saturday was quiet, the sales being Confined to some 300 bales in lots. The warket was Deavy at 123¢0. per Ib. for middling uplands. Oaly about twenty-three to twenty-four days of the cotton year ro. main, This is the dullest month during the season, At absent from the city, some of whom have gone to Ea- rope. The sales making are chiefly to supply the waute of spinners, while moderate shipments coatiaue to be made abroad. The flour market was heavy and lower for common and medium grades. Waoeat was heavy aud lower, owing to increased receipts. Southern now red told at $1 25a $1 35, and white do, at $1 45 a $1 59, and inferior mixed Kentucky at $1 30, Corn was firm, with sales of Western mixed at 77c. a 78c., and of round yellow at 79. a 8c. Pork was beavy and lower, with sales of mess at $14 50 a $14 70, and of prime at $10 75.810 87}. Sugars were io feir demand, with séles of about 1,800 bhds, and 560 boxes; included tm the aales of hhds. were 500 Cuba muscovade for export atp.t. Prices were without change of miment. Coffee was quiet. Freights to English ports wore decidedly firmer, owing to scarcity of room, and with some more offering for shipment, To Liverpool cotton was ongaged at S.16d, a7 32d, and ol! at 20a, and dead weight was engaged for London at 208. Coffie to Aatwerp was taken 1 3.16c., and sugar at 200, Zhe Late Southern Elections and their Significant Results. The general results of the late elections in Kentucky, Tenneesee, Missouri, North Caroliaa and Texas, though not unexpected, are exceed- ingly interesting, significant and instractive- From the scanty returos received we are still unable to enumerate the definite losses and gains of the contesting parties; but so far as oscertained, the opposition in Kentucky have suffered an inglorious defeat; the emancipa- ionists in Miseouri hold their ground; in Ten- veseee the opposition have gained handeomely upon their State and Congressional candidates, io North Caroliva they have advanced a little, while from Texas it bas been reported that, onder the lead of General Sam Houston, the coalition opposed to the regular democracy have probably cerried the day. How are we to account for these curious re- sults? The eolution of the mystery, we appre- tend, is exceedingly simple. It may be ex- plained upon the basis of a good and healthy public sentiment, as contradistinguished from the sectional ultraisms and revolutionary ab- stractions of the day. In that sound old con- servative whig State of Kentucky, the oppo- sition in this late canvass were led off into that toolish experiment of Congressional interven- tion for the protection ef slavery in the Terri tories, Thus, while they disgusted many of their old supporters with their folly, they failed to deceive the ultra supporters of slavery to any appreciable extent. And so, in default of any honest principles or practical line of public policy, the Kentucky op- position party have permitted this election to zo by default. Besides, the sober, reflecting eleccors of the State recognized in Mr. Buchanan’s administration a substantial footing, and this recognition, boldly made by the democracy, has contributed eseentially to their succets. In Tennessee, the opposition, wisely refusing to be caught with that flimsy Southern abstrac- tion of a slave code for the Territories, or any other will-o’-the-wisp of that sort, but plantiag themselver, like sensible men, upon practical issues, State and federal, detached from the ala- very agitation, have vindicated the wisdom of their course. Had they been eustained by a similar programme on the part of their brethren in Virginia in May last, and in Kentucky, where the election came off threo deys ia advance of their own, the opposition party of Tennessee, in view of a great conservative national organiza. tion for 1860, opposed alike to Northern and Scuthbern ultra heresies on slavery, would pro- bably on Thursday last have achieved a com plete political revolution. As it ie, in connection with the results in Virginia, Kentucky and North Caroliva, enough has been done ia this Ten- neseee election to show that at least in those im- portant central States of the Union, which con stitute the northern division of the slaveholdiag eection, the prevailing sentiment of the people issound, wholesome, and true to those broad na tional principles which look to the peace and harmony of the confederacy, and to the sinking the slavery agitation. v With regard to Texas, should the report con- cerning the clection of Gen. Houston as Governor prove to be well founded, we shall have had in that extreme Southern State the accomplishment of a most important political triumph. Houston wag the candidate of all the elements of the opposition and of the democracy opposed to the revival of the African slave trade, or the agita tion of that question as a Southern measure; while, on the other hand, the regular democratic candidate and party had somewhat committed themselves to the extreme vagaries of the Southern fire-eaters. In addition to this sharply defined issue, Gen. Houston emphatically, on the stump, proclaimed himself a cordial support- er of Mr. Bucbanan’s administration, as repre- senting that comprehensive national policy best adapted to harmonize ali sections of the country Accordingly, we await a definite report from Texas with some degree of interest, and with some confidence that the results, even if they do not embrace Houston’s election, will substantial- ly indicate the intelligence of the Texas people and their loyalty to the Union. We bave said tbat the emancipationists of Mis- souri hold their ground. This fact, however, dces not prove the existence in that quarter of a party devoted to the disunion programme of W. Hi. Seward. Missouri, excepting the sparsely in- habited wilds of Arkaneas on the South, is now surrounded by a cordon of free States, She is also the focus of an immense overland and up-the- river free white immigration. Her climate and sort of labor, and with its increase within her borders the value of her lands and products stea- Gily increases, and the local value of the institu- tion of slavery as steadily diminishes. The emancipation issue, therefore, in Miseouri, is purely a local issue, and must not be con- tounded, for it cannot be blended with that ge- neral “irrepressible conflict” of the Rochester manifesto upon the Presidential question. To sum up the philosophy of these Southern elections of this year, irom Virginia to Texas, they reaffirm the contianed asceudancy in the South of the principles of law and order, of the constitution and the Union, against ull the vio- lent and disorganizing ultra pro-#lavery abstcac- tions aod follies of the day. Aud asitisin the South, #0 we believe in the North, the solid mv jority of the people are opposed to thofr sectional agitators, disorganizera and disunioniste. We are sure that not less distasteful to the balk of onr Northern people are tie destructive abvtition heresies of Seward, than are the pro-slavery ex cesses of the firc-eaters to the great body of ovr Senthern brethren. In this view, 28 these late Scuthern elections bear testimony {a favor of our othe state of affairs among the disembodied spirits, } calm and honest national administration, we dare 23 well as those in the flesh, and the aspirations f the strong minded women. say that our approaching Northern alections wiii icate a sinuilar healthy popular reaction, NEW YORK ‘The News Lat Night foom Buropes The news from Europe which reached here last night by the Nova Scotian from Farther Point would intimate that the future procecdiags to follow the preliminaries of peace arranged at Villafranca ere stiila sealed book. It appears to be still doubtfal whether Sardinia is to par- ticipate in the Congress of Zurich or vot, and io some quarters it is doubted whether the proposed Confederation of Italy will be carried out at all, or abandoned as something, under the circum stances, impracticable, One thing, however, we conceive is established by the general tenor of this news—that the ruling Powers of Europe are one aud all alarmed at the prospect of a continuance of war, acd are anxious to patch up a settlement of the difficulties by some means. Heavy debts are pressing on them all, the pon-belligerent as well as the bel- ligerent Powers, and they are trembling lest their debis sbould accumulate. Again the spirit of revolution evoked by the late war presented more formidable proportions than it was expect- ed to aseume. Louis Napoleon broke through the slumbering lava of revolution in Southera, Europe, and he found the fire raging beneath more fiercely than was anticipated—so fiercely that it seemed difficult to control it, 5! The late war has evidently placed all the crowned heads of Europe in a quandary. At this moment they know not where they stand, nor what the future has in reserve for them, and they are naturally anxious to make any kiad of concession to each other in order to obtain breathing time to extricate themselves from the chaotic condition in which they have been sud- den)y plunged by the vigorous and unexpected action of the French Emperor. Thus we fiod by our Quebec des; atch of last night the Eog- lish jourvals giving assurance of the fidelity of Louis Napoleon to his pledges of friendship to wards England, and the Freach journals reiterat- ing the necessity of the Anglo-French alliance to the maintenance of the prosperity of both countries. Europe is still in a fog as to the meaning ot the war in Italy and the peace which followed ir 80 abruptly. The sovereigns are baffl;d and bewildered. A monster has evidently been raised up whose dimensions, like the giant of Frapkevetein, have startled the constructors, and they seem to be in a state of doubt ani ingrie. tude as to the result. Louis Napoleon, perha;s, alove of atl the rulers in Europe, has the fore- sight to perceive the path which leads out of the labyrinth. Governor Wisk Amonc Our New York Po. LiTIcIans.—The intelligent reader who kuows avything of the mean and dirty underhanded schemes and tricks of our managing politicians, of any party, especially at Albany, bas doubtless ‘been amused at the sanctimonious hypocrisy of our city colemporaries—democratic, republican and Know Notbing—in reference to the late sim- ple and straightforward bill of instrictions of Governor Wise for the management of the New York democracy so as to eerve his purposes as a Presidential candidate. Thus these pious Ami- nadabs of the editorial Sleek family of politicians roll up their eyes in holy horror at the cdvice given by Governor Wise to his New York friend. to whip the enemy (the democratic softs) in their State Convention, or send « contesting set of hard delegates down to Charleston. ‘These instructions are pronouncd uaworthy an honest man, and a death blow to their author as a Presidential aspirant. “Who could have thought it?”—“The man must be crazy”—“ Yet the letter is evidently genuine ’—*« Well, it only shows to what base uses am bition wiJl drive a man”—and such like silly expressions greet us on every side, and from political organs and managers steeped to the lips in the very dregs of party trickery and raecality. There is really nothiog wonderful or startling, or new, in this dreadful letter of Governor Wise. It involves no new trick, or plot, or double dealing game in politics. For .the laet twenty years we have hardly had a party convention, State or national, or a caucus movement, that has not been subjected more or less to the same tactics, or worse, Indeed, the great error of Governor Wise, in this late letter,” has been his ignorance of the dirty siaks and slonghs of our New York electioneering system For example, while our smooth-faced New York party thimble-riggers are too cunaing to put their plans to paper, they will not hesitate at any treachery by which a confiding rival may be injured, or by which even a friend may be destroyed, when the end, which is the spoils, will jastify the means. There are men at this day in the Sing Sing State prison, who, on the score of “ honor among thieves,” are more trust- worthy than some of our high and mighty New York politicians. Tbe material error of Governor Wise in this matter was in the trusting his confidential views to any New York managing politician in writing Talking is their rule of action, so that what they say today they can deny to morrow if necessary. As for tbe moral effect among our Presidential politicians everywhere of the disclosure of this letter of Governor Wiee, ii will be at best but a nine days’ wonder. Indeed, after the explanation which we published yesterday of the manner in whi¢h said letter was made public through the treach- ery of the Albany variety shop, the odium cot- nected with this matter must attach to that in- stitution. His rivals for the Charleston nomink tion will discover that Wise is not thus to be Killed off. He will doubticss write anotier let- ter, and that very soon, in which he will make the fur fly in every direction. We have had oc= casion heretofore to speak out iv very plain terms of the vulyar and eelf-degradiag personal slang in which Gov. Wise sometimes indulges in his stump epeeches; but really, as a man of ho- nesty and integrity, as a man of bis word, and as' ® man who would scorn a mean trick, exsept on the stump or in the dirty puddle of Nev York politics, Gov. Wise will compare favorably with any Presidential candidate of the day. _ There is @ great deal of good stuff in him, and he is pluck to the backboue. He will not give up the contest for the grand prize of the Presi- depey on acconnt of this little slip of writing such things as should only be talked over to New York politician. He will know beter how todo it next time; and if the Albany Regency have cheated him out of the vote of New York at Charleston, our New York engineers will doubtless find Wise an fmprssable obetacle fn the South. He is on the course, aad will most pro bably remain there, nomination or no nomina- tion from Cherieston. Tur Panty Pratrorys ov tue Last Paesi- DENTIAL CamPaiGn—In another page we pab- liah the party plattorms of 1856—-the democratic, the American and the black republican—tn order that the public may compare them and judge of their respective mertia by tag light of eventa | in the London parks on Sunday to listen to the HERALD, MONDAY AUGUST 8, 1859. ct LES GLa Oe DLN oe Ye Ra, oe ea eae ee ee dptelicctual reficement, and amusic is, perhaps, | the most refining associate one can introduce during the Inst three years, and ia order thas \ the platform makers may be able to examine the timber of cach aud test ig soundaces, bo as to determy xd time what to reject acd what to adopt for L We shall be curious to ksow how wany of the old planks will be retained— rome of thee: as worn out and as rotten as 4 rail- way bridge—and bow muny new ones wili be | intgedeced. To the last three or four Presi- | dential cauwpaigus great poverty of invention bas been exdibiccd. This is an age of progress | in everyt Let us see whether the poli- | ticlans are the only class in the community wo cannot intcat a new idea or make aay luprove- went op tke past. The muuwfacture of plat- forms is behind the age. The August Etections for Our Oty OMivers New Fork in the Hands of the Philistlacs, The citizens of New York are under a very general belief that next December they will elect a Mayor, a portion of the Aldermen and Councilmen, and several otter municipal officers, in what ig called a charter election Bui that is pot the case. The citizens of New York are all, with the exception of perhaps fifty or a hundred of them, wrong on that poiat. The charter election does not take place ia December. It is going on actively now, in this present mouth of August, and at the beginning thereof, and in two or three weeks the whole thing will be cut, dried and decided. Tammany Hall is in a ferment, and the Sa. chems are in motion. Mozart Hall is agitated, and the wirepullers are bard at work. ‘The Black Republican General Committee is tremb- ling with fear, wud appealing to Albany for counsel and comfort. The rump of Kuow Notbingiem is filled with anguish at the bar- ren prospect before it for the spoils On every side bargaining and bartering are going on betweea the five or six dozens of intriguing politicians whe compose these little wire-woiking cliques, and the offices of Mayor and other charter officers are up for eale to the highest bidder in promises and contingent contracts. By the first day of Sép- tember the Mayor and otber corporation officers of the city of New York for the next two years will be decided. The people bave nothing more todo with it than to come forward on what is supposed to be election day, and take Hobson's choice fur their rulers—election laws, glass ballot boxes and penal enactments’ to the con trary notwithstanding. Under our present sys- tem the election is not so much decided by the citizens who put the votes into the ballot box as by the officers who count them out of it. Now this syetem is all wrong. We ehall never have good government in New York antil it is broken up, and the choice of their rulers left to the people themselves. If honest men stood a chance to get the nomination from the severaj so-called parties it would be well enough. But though the show of party division is kept up for the public, there is really no such thing among the city politicians. These all combine to keep the honest men out, Taey have no chance of a nomination from any side. Such men as the present Street Commissioner. the City Inspector and the Comptroller, are not only distasteful to the politicians, but are bated by them. As one of the city fathers frankly acknowledged a few days since, in a cau- cus on arecent city nomination, “we want no more such men, and we will not have them.” And e0 the rogues take care of each other with- cut reference to politics, and the taxes of the city are increased one or two millions yearly, outra- geous asses#ments are made for useless improve ments, and wheo paid are pocketed, as they have been in times not long past, and the lien still left upon the property. If this system of com- mittce nomination and election of our ‘municipal officers goes on a few years longer, there will not be a sound title in this city, and no man will be able to leave his estate to his legitimate heira. The only way to break it up is to break up the whole system of committee nomination. We want no more Tammany Halls, nor Mozart Halls, nor general committees, nor ward comumittees, all of which are baed on primary elections, held by a few prize fighters, shoulder hitters and butcher boys. We must recur to the true system of popular government. Every candidate must be self-nominated, and come before the peeple on his own personal merits, and not on party ties. Party has nothing to do with the affairs of this city, and the sooner it is turned out of them the sooner shall we have good government and lighter taxer, and a better ordered city in every respect, while the well saved property of every citizen will be safe from the rapacious attacks of a set of greedy political wire-pujlers. We repeat it to the citjzena of New York: The petty cliques of the political factions are today barteriag away your birthright, and partitioning out your government through bargains and corrapt agree- ments, Luok to it, men of New York, before our affairs are iavolved to a degree beyond all remedy. Music ror THe Mii1i0y.—In all the countries of Europe music citber is, or is fast becoming, a leading element of popular amusement. In Cen: tral and Southern Europe it bas always been one of the most prominent features in the programme of enjoyment for the masses as well as the “bigher orders,” the masses partaking of it in their “ sangerbunds” and singing clubs, at /éees and in public gardens; the aristocratic class ia the opera house, the concert room, and the saloons of fasbion. Even in England—prosaic, dul), practical Eogiand—that “nation of shop keepers,” as Napoleon called it, the people have of late inaugurated sousic as a part of their pab- lic pleasures. Witnees the monster gutherings performance of the military bands, a custom now fairly established by the force of popular des in spite of the clamor of the Pharisces aad {v- natics, who, in that capital as in this, attempted to reserve all enjoyment and case on the Sabbaih for the rich and deay it to the poor. In like manner music for the million ia estab- | lishing itself as an appreciable means of public | amusement in this city. For the past three or | four weeks tie Central Pari has vcen throaged ‘ on Saturday evenings with a delighted audience, listening to the band so generously provided for the public benefit by a few private citizens, The attendance has inereased ia numbers every j suceecding week. On last Saturday the cro va was immense, and, moreover, was no! compricndi alone of the working classes as Leretofure, for 4 i number of carriages, filled with fashionably | | ever in the next 1 dressed persons, were observable on the ground. Before long the Central Park will become the grest popular resort, and music a uec cagary ad dition to its other sources of enjoymeat for the people, Asin the Locdon paris and gardens, | to will the wearied iaboring masees hece repali to it for reet aod recreation, Tats is asi shou'd | be; eth inflacaces are elevating acd eanobling. Low vices canogt exist fa companionsip with into the femily circle of those with whom Lobitual tabor is a uccessity. ‘The beauties of ature put the allurements of mere animal pleasure to the blush. The genius of art sub- ducs the spirit of rowdyiem, Tux Gop Discovertes at Cnrriqui—An- OTHER EXCiEMENT IN Pxosrect.—We publish in another part of today’s issue @ batch of communications rent to'us by parties resident indhis city in relation to the gold discoveries thet ere being made in tbe ancient Indian tuconli of Chiriqai. We give them as they have teen banded to us without curtailment or al- teration, in order to Jeave no ground of com- plaipt against us of a desire to suppress facts. At the sume time we beg it to be distinctly understood that we endorse none of the state- ments contained in these letters. That gold bas been found in copsiderable quantities in the old Icdian tombs in the provinces of Chiriqui apd Veraguas there can be no doubt. The fact of images‘ in this metal being buried in these mounds was long ago known to the Spapiards, who ransacked most of them of their precious contents, and -were only prevented from rifling the whole by the opposition which they met with on the main shore and islands of the Chiriqui lagoon from the Indian tribes, the fierceet and most warlike that they had encoun- tered. ’ But a esmajl portion of this region was neverthelees left unexplored by the Spanish adventurers, and it is probable that by tbis time the tombs that escaped thelr ra- pacity bave been subjected to an eager scru- tioy by the Chiricanos themselves, who, aroused to activity by the recent discoveries, have not awaited the arrival of strangers to divide the spoils with "them, By the time that the fics bateb of gold diggers and emigrants from thie country wil! have arrived out, it is certain that they will find bat little to reward them for the sacrifices tbat they will bave made for the trip. Image seeking is nut sike the exploration of wel! authenticuted gold fields like those of California or Fraser river, wbere the miner can lose bim- selfin vague speculations, and trast to bis luck to realize them. There is a limit, as we hay: shown, to the mortuary effigies and symbols of the Indiau tombs, which will be determined by the research and iudustry of those who happeo to be on the spot; and, unfortunately, there are co well established geological indications which bold out the expectation that fresh advevturers will discover asa compensation, in this immediate region, the ecurces from whence the ore of which they were made was extracted. On the contra- ry, tradition would go to establish the conclu- sion that it was neither from Chiriqui nor Costa Rica, but from the rivers and streams ot Nicara- gus, that it came. We think it but right that these facts should be impressed upon the minds of persons having the desire to try their luck in the remote regions in which these discoveries have been made. If we are correct in our reasoning—and the opinions of ecientific gentlemen intimately acquainted with that portion of the continent bear us out in it—it would be madness for any one to abandon his position or prospects in the States to go out upon such 8 fool’s errand. The reault must in- evitably be bitter disappointment, mental and physical suffering, and the endurance of priva tions of every kind. Ia view of the preparations that are being made here to transport emigrants to the theatre of the uew excitement, it would be crue} in us to withhold our opinion as to the uncertainty, and, in fact, utter hopelessness, of the prospects which it holds out. IrrgGvLariry oF THe SovrueRn Mat.s.—Some of the New Orleans journals are makiug com Plaiats about the-delay of the mails between thai city and Washington—a grievance which they attribite in part to the intrigues of hotel keep- ere and stage drivers to detain passengers ou the Toad at favorite lodging houses. This is nothing new with the New Orleaus mails. The nuisance extends farther North than Washington. The mail from New Orleans to New York is the most irregular in the whole country. The rega- lar time for the mails to travel that route is five days; judeed, we believe by late postal regula tions it is set down at four; yey they rarely reach here under six, and very often not witbia ten. here is sometimes very importeut intelli gence from the South, for which we have often to wait two or three days longer than we necd it the postal arrangements were properly attended to. New Orleans papers reach ‘aere somutimes ten days bebind their dates. In fact, the mails to and from San Francisco by the overland route have never missed since that mode of travel was commenced, while the New Orleans mail, with all the facilities of railroad travel, misses abou: once in three times. This is a great nuisance, and we hope that Postmaster General Holt wii) s| = Bales look to its remedy at once. Decrease or Cana To1.t9.—The tolls on the canals of this State are falling off at @ rainous rate. It appears that the receipts from all the canals from the beginning of the present year to the Ist of August have decreased from tose of the same period in 1847 to the amouut of over a million of dollars. The highest recaipts for canal to)is were taken in that year, amounting to $1,790,541 from January to August, while this year thoy only reach the miserable sum of $686,333, which ehows an annual falling off every ycar since 1847. If this contioues the canals will not be worth keeping, and probaniy in the end will have to he sold for haif nothing, -like the cenais in Pennsylvania, It is evident from these fignres that the railroads are super. eeding ibe canals in the carrying trade, for th transit of freight to and from the Weat has im mensely jacreased since the canals were cou structed. This serious falling off in the canai receipts will very probably bring up ihe ques- tion of tolling the railroade with more force hau gislature, An Apcxvant Hanvest—It may now be fairiy calouiated that tae cropa throughout the | entire couniry are safe. The prospecis in every quarter are most aurpicious; an abuadant har- vest has blessed the labor of the hucbandman Tromali parts of Europe, aly, the reports are favorablo, Im England, Ireland aud’ Ssotland the ecasco bas Ween a deiigbtfal one, and au cavly harvest was expected. The crops through- ont there conntrics will be at lenst an average one, despite the fears which arose for the result of the grent drought of the summen With this cheerful intormation before us, an abundant seacon and low prices for provisiogs meoy be anticipated. Tar Suntay Liqvor Trarrie ty Sr. Corte, the clectin on Won doy, a vote was taken oat)45 pr to clone the dram ehons ju St. Louis on Bur gy>, foot up 6,202 in favor ot rolling sade: ‘’ Hunday, Kod 7,148 opposed, INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. | The Manifesto of Seuator Douglas on the Ques ons of Naturalizauion and Reopoatag tae African Slave Trade, OUB SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATOH Wastincrox, Augast 7, 1859. The letter from Judge Dougias to Coil Peyton covers two points—natursiization aud whe African slave trads— substantially as follows:— There can be no difference in the degrees of protection sccorded by goveroment to native aad naturahzed oitl- zens. Our constitution recogaizes no difference ia this respect. If a person can expatriate himself from «foreign government, and ewear ailegiance to this, and stil owe anything to the foreign Power, he is ta the singular aod incredibie predicament of Owing allegiauce to two coun: tries without being entitled to the Protection of either. Ho would accord the fullest protestioa to all our cittzoms, In the Convention the constisution was a creature of compromise, and the African slave trade was the subject, South Carolins and Georgia wished to coutinus it; Virgivia, Pennsylvania, New Joreey and New York wished it ter- minated; New Eogiand was passive inthe matter; South Carolina and Georgia flaally carried their point of contiaa ence till the yoar 1808, with the understanding that tt should then end. It therefore bocame the vital compro. mise of the instrument, and must be heid as eacrod as the Datrument itecif, In this view Judge Dougias declares himself to be irrevocably opposed to the reopening of the African siave trade. This is the only letter—and it is very brjet—or manifer- to, which Judge Douglas bas it in view to make pudits. ‘His leisare is devoted to research uvon those great ques. tions which wil! engage the attention of the Senate cext winter. His position upon Territorial sovercigaty he will maintain to the death THE GENRRAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Wastinarosy, August 7, 1869, Much speculation is indulged as to the action of our go- vernmenton Mr. McLune’s recent despatches; but ag this has been kept profoundly secret, noiniog is known Outside the administration except the fact that inutruo. tions are on the way to our Minister by special moa- sepger. By advices just received here it appears that Juarez d+- clines signing a treaty without the approval of the Mexi. can Copgress, end ope cannot de obtained, and one caa not be called until the liberals obtain porsession of the city of Mexico. This, however, is not the oaly diffloulty Acenspiracy was discovered in tne capital oa the 11(a ult. the plan of whichjwas to assessinate tae G»veruor and take possession of the government. Additional trom California, Oregon and Fira= sex River—Arrival of the Overiand Mail, Br. Louis, August 7, 1859 ‘The overland mail of the 15th ult. reached this city last A fire at Crescent City, California, on the 9th alt., caused & loss of $30,000. New goid and silver mines had been discovered in the ‘Washo Valiey, which promise to pay well. There bad been three arriva's from Vistdria witbin a ‘week, bringing upwards of 6130,000 in gold und throe hundred passengers. The latest] dates are to the 12th, Fraser river bad fallen sufficiently to perm't the resump tion of mining on the bars. The Victoria Gazette says tne yield of the mines within a year bas been three millions. ‘The ship Euphrates bad arrived from Londoa as had the United States steamer Shubrick from Esquimalt. An arival ‘rom Oregon on the morning of tho departure of the mail brought acvices indicating the elec.ion of Logan (republican) to Congress, by twenty to tuirty ma- jority. News from Great Salt Lake. 81. Lovig, Augus} 7, 1859. Salt Lake advices are to the 18th ult. A man named B: ewor had been arresied at Camp Floyd for having in his posseesion $80,000 in couaterfeti govern- ment checks on the Sub Treasury ut St. Louis, most of which were ready for issue, excepting the sigoature. Colone! Crossman, an engraver, bad a'so been arrested im Salt Lake City, in whose shop were found all the tmple- ments and materiais used in preparing tho checks, tcgevher with large bundles of unfiiled checks. Horace Greeley had arrived at Salt Lake City. ‘The Indians were committing depredations in Hamboldt county, and the Mormons were implicated. The Tennessee Election. Nasuvitug, August 7, 1860, Harris, democrat, is elected Governor by a majority of about 6,000, The opposition have elected their Congressmen in the Second, Third, Fonrth, Fifth and Fighth disiricte, and Probably in the First, and the demouratic caudida‘es are chosen in the Sixth, Seventh and Lenib; the Ninth dis- trict is still doubtful. The Legislature is democratic, AEE RCD GL oN Whe Keatucky Election. Lovisvitie, August 7, 1859. The officis| returns of the Fourth Congressional district Of this State ehow a tie vote. The New York Yacht Squadron, New Lonpon, august.7, 1859. ‘The New York Yacht Squadron arrived in this harbor at seven o'clock this evening, and anchored off the Pequot House. Affaire in Boston, Boston, August 7, 1869 Herrigon T. Whosler and Geo. W. Marshall wera arrested last night in Chelsea, and several hundred dollare’ worth Of goods recovers, which trey had purchaged from numerous tradesmen with forged checks. Toe names of rr Melee & Co., brokers, were forged on most of the e A Gre on Lovejoy’s lumber wharf, uear Cangs «ay strces, Jast night, destroyed about $iv,000 worth of lumber; 1: —_—_——__. Disaster to the Schooner Sabine, NorFouk, augiist 7, 1289. The schooner Sabine, of and from New York, Doun 4 to Newbern, N.C., bas pur in here with logs 0, Muslamast, As —— Markets, New Ortuans, Avgust 6, 1859. Cotton inactive: gales to-day 600 bales. Sick in port 86,060 bales. Burrato, Avy 1859. Flour closed more active at the prices oft morning. sales 1,400 big. at $2 60 a $3 50 tor sour, $3 75 a $4 for spring State, $5 a $5 26 tor exira Michizan, Ino! Obio, $5 75 a $6 25 for doubie extras. Wheat 9c? no beyond email milling iotr 000 bushels No. 1 Einnois as 60c, later 6,000 busheis dito at 68340. Oats in fair req nies 6,300 Dusheia Milwaukee at 823¢0; otter grstos quiet. Whiekey nominal at 240. Canal froignts—8o on corn, 9s on wheat, anit 85c. on flour to New York. Lake :wparts—400 pis flour, 1,600 bushels wheat, 31.000 burheis corn, 32,000 bushals Oats, Canal expo ts—700 bb's, flour, 6,000 busne's whoat, 11,000 busheis corn. Osweco, Anguet 6—6 P.M. Fiour end grain quiet avd nominal. Cana! freigon a dall at 24c. w 26c. on flour, 64¢6. cn woeat, and éc. on corm to New York. Lake imporis—200 bdia. flour, 1,00 bushels wheat, 1,310 bushels corn. bushels wheat, Canal exp yris—1;200 Comm easior Cutcago, August 6—6 ?. Fiour dull. Wheat dull, ont ungewlen: prices Sala ally 3c. a Be. lower, Corn Orm: sales of 159,000 bushels at 660, Oxts quiet. Reorivte—400 bole. ‘foie, 4,4u0 bushela wheat, 6,060 bushels corn, shipments ‘to Ox wego— 9,500 bothels corn, CINCINNATI. August 6, 1859. Flour dull and drooping: suies at $4 90 a $5 for super. fine Whiskey 280. Provirioas improving. ———— Affairs at the Lower Quarantine. About three miles south of Seguine’e Point, in four and & bait fatboms, toe floating hospital Nightingale ts at an- chor. This verse! was formerly the steamship Falcon, acd bas been aliered for her present uve, She is covered or housed over her entire length, and thoroughly ventilat- ed in every part. Tue upper or spar deck is divided imo @ sick werd, nurses’ rooms, dining hull, kitchen, apothe- aries’ sbop, waching and bailiog rooma, and every other convenience desirable. On ube lower deck Afty pa- tients can be accommodated. and in euso of necessity a mooh larger number couki de carcd for, She is (ound in every reapeot in tho most completo mannur. Yhore are at presen} bui geven paventwe on board, two of whoa wih be disebarged on Cuesday, and from observation it 16 evi dent they require food moze thin medicine; and the mane her to which they speak o° Dr. Harris, the physician in chargs, ia or shouitt bo fying 1 that goutesan. Ov the bouserop is sp'e! promsuade of “5a as, > Tea 00; woenta, which, with the clear, bracing aiz of the bay, mus; inly Wi wine. » Mus; certainly be of great benefit uore are bye cight voaseis at this mtation ut resent, vine The ship 3. + trom. Havaie--all wel Oth poar?, barks Stor Sag Matanana; Lono Sta ap? Hannah Secor, from Hat ana; Orig Isabella Bey ae from Fort-au ?riace—the crews ef which are ah eli ‘Tho Spanish brig Pepe (Sone), from Havana, Being: D beliess, very clean, sud her crew Spauiarca, Agathe meted bo fever, will come up to the cicy on Tin the bs pave M. Therion, from Matanzas Eger Eng ud, wee iORL two men on ns Had Ave Disced ip the hoepiry lof whos Gory well, he Wit probmbie amit thik wel for ‘hor oriioadl y aiier shipping a new crew. W Broniee, from Sisrva Loowe, has bit twa Mev OW YoaTa, She rest baving dled, excopl tae oap'ain, The steam r:veuus ontter Harriet Lan>, Oat. Feanos, in wt this eration, for the purpoee of examining the muni- Feats yad calling the ovew Hists of voaecis arriving, and for Pro'ecviog the reveaue goneraliy, Fal. tte Dpamege, and