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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES COKRDOF #KHAAKT®, ND PKOPRIE COR, by, muah wld be cok 5, exis oe actoance Money sons the sender Powiage stammns not reomtved ae a war phok of F BT per crema, nsry Sumodiny, al tz vente for in Eitision every Wednewtay So any mnurt of fread Pritarn both to include poserge; che ‘on the 8th rwd BMD of sach eonth at mr conte per cwnnuan. VHERALD, on Woneeday at fur conte oer pet uy ven, t AK) OCRRESPONDENOR, cow seins solinited Mrem any quarter of the world trom Porwor ur Cente Per per coy, oF $ THE RAM? eonporkant will be advertesements t2 fenaro, and dm the i overy day » Fowuar sd neatnens, cheapness and de UOB PRINTING enacted sosth wpa Volume XXIV + No. 210 AMUREMENTS THIF SVENING, NTBLO’S GAKDEN Brosoeey.~ EVOLUTIONS ON THR TIGEE Bore Lovise—£401 inom BOWABY THSATHER fowery —Dav Arree tas Wep- puc—Vor au-Vant—hosser's Wire—Jomso Jum, WALLACK’S THBATRE, Srosdway.—Inwa Moxmox— Las Bonan. RATIONAL THEATRES, Chatham steet.—Eu1a—King James Vi—vow Juss. 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A committee of the Legislative Chambers had waited on President Geffrard, and proposed that he should assume the title and office of Dictator of Hayti, on the ground that by such an extension of authority he would be able to render more effectual service to the country in his work of social reorganization. The President declined the honor. La Republique advocates the dic- tatorsbip, and although Geffrard’s conduct in refusing the increased powers offered him is recorded in his praise, it was thought that the republic would yet pass into a dictator- ship. Our Port-au-Prince correspondent, writing on the 24th ult., states that the deliveries of coffee from all parts of the republic were very light, ow- ing to the wretched condition of the roads after heavy rains. The new crop promised well. A copy of the recent law for the abolition of the “govern- ment fifth”—a very important measure—is given. The old monopoly storage building for coffee at Port au Prince was burned to the ground on the 5th of July, President Geflrard being a witness of the fire. By the arrival of the schooner Susan Orlean at this port we have files of Nassau (Bahainas) paper, to the 27th ult. The only item of interest in them is the announcement that President Buchanan has presented a splendid chronometer to Capt. Stewart, of the lighthouse yacht J. J. Finlayson, for his zea- lous aid to the bark George Thomas, otf New York, recently stranded on the Bahama Banks. The pre- sentation was made through the Governor of the islands. Late accounts from Turks Islands state that 130,000 bushels of salt had been shipped from thence since the Ist ult., and that a considerable quantity remained on hand, with the price ranging from seven to eight cents. The Spiritualist Convention which was held in Plymouth, Mass., terminated ts three days’ session Sunday evening. Although it had been announced as a National Spiritualist Convention, it turns out that it was not entitled to assume that character, and that the announcement was erroneous. None of the distinguished luminaries of spiritualism out- side of Boston and suburbs were present; but a committee was appointed to take measures to call at no distant day such a National Spiritualist Con- vention. A platform or declaration of sentiments was adopted, which will be found in our special report. The proceedings of the first two days Jacked in interest, but those of the closing sessions made up for all the rest. Among other things there was a spiritualistic marriaze solemnized. Dr. Gardner, who presided on Sunday, made a closing speech, in which he declared that Louis Napoleon was under the influence of his uncle's spirit, and had been saved from the bullet of the assassin by information given him throngh amedium. He also gave avery curious relation of how the spirits of Washington and Lafayette went through a Masonic rehearsal in his presence, in Springfield. There was much ability and intelli- gence represented among the leaders of the Con- vention, but there were also very low grades of in- telligence represented. On the whole the pro- ceedings, if not very exciting, were conducted with perfect order and decorum. The Board of C men transacted a large amount of busiucss last evening, as will be seen by our report. The Mayor vetoed a resolution adopt ed by both branches of the Common Council, giv- ing the contract for the erection of gate houses for the new reservoir to Fairchild, Walker&Co. After the adoption of about fifty papers on the calendar of general orders, the Board adjourned till the 18th instant. At the meeting of the Health Co yesterday, the Health Officer reported the arrival at Quarantine of the British bark J. N. Phurston in distress, from Havana. When there her captain and mate died of yellow fever, and since leaving fix men of her crew have been prostrated by the same malady, two of whom died, and the remaining four are now in the floating hospital. The arrivals of several other vessels from a number of infected ports were also announced, and the detention of all in Quarantine wus ordered by the Board. We publish in this day's Henao letters from Mr. Judson, and Mr. Dickerson, one of his lawyers, ex- plaining the extent to which the decision of Judge Giles in the india rubber controversy goes, and claiming that while Mr. Day is the licensee of Mr. Goodyear for the manufacture of ‘shirred or cor- rugated india rubber goods,” Mr. Judson and the Naskawannack Company are the sole licensees for ‘woven elastic rubber goods. Having published the opinion of Judge Giles, we mew give place to the explanation on the part of Mr. Judson, which no doubt will be extensively read by the dealers in India rubber goods throughout the United States. An interesting scientific communication on the eubject of the modern defences of New York, with some general observations on the vulnerability of our seacoast in general from th naval at) cas ol o foreign enemy, is given in our paper to-day. The New Yo k yacht squadron left Glen Cove on Sunday morning last—the smail yaclts at five o'clock and the first class yachts at gix—+nd all of them arrived at New London be ween 6:57 and 7:20 P.M. of the same evening, the Zinga beating leet, the Rebecca second, th» Seul thir: and the | ihe Maria fourth. The time m de by the respective yachts is given in our account o! tue trip, pub- lished among our telegraphic desap itches, om day ar took place around Plum Island be- rween the Zings and Gipsy, which resulted in the latter winning a purse of one huntred dollars. A grand ball in honor of the Yacht Ciub was given ut the Pequot House, New London, last evening. ihe fleet were to leave for Newport at seven o'clock this morning. The corton murket was quiet yesterday, as dealers ap- peared dirpored to await thy private advices by the Nova Scotian or ister intelligence by tho steamer oue at Hall. fax. The transactions were contined to about 20) or 300 bales, We quote middling uplands dull as about 12440. a A2\eC., whue boiders were bot pressing seles, The heavy receipty of flour had a depressing influence upon prices which closed at a deciine of 6c. a 10c. per obl., whilesslos Were moderate, Southern flour was easier but with fal eales, Among the trapssctions were some lots of ship- cing brands made for export. Wheat was heavy and iower, with ealee of red Southern at $1 208 $1 25, white so. $1 80. $1 25, and white Kentucky at $1 43.4 $1 45. ‘orn wae firmer, with wales of old Weatern mixed from store at 7éc., pew do. at 780, a 79c., and round yellow at 7%. a 8lc. Pork was comparatively quiet, with sales of new mess at $14 264 $i4 60, and prime at $10 62368 $10 75. Beet was dull, and lard steady. Sugars were in air Cemand, with sales of about 1,600 Lhds. and 160 boxes at rates given in another column, Coffee was quiet. Frejgbte were firm, with limited room for Eoglish ports, and expecially for Liverpool, Among the engagoments to the latter port were 800 bales of cotton at 3-164, a 7 32d., aud 600 bbls, Hour at 14, 73gd., with 10,000 bhd. staves to {oodon at p.t, and 200 bbis. rosin at 28. 6d.,and 100 \oug oil cake ai 40s, Engagements to Antwerp, Hamburg snd Bremen will be found noticed in another place, — Vv The Lave Southern Elections and the Presi- dercy—Gen, Som Houston Lvoming Up. The Jate Southern elections finally dispose of at least two prominent Presidential candidates n the opposition side—John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, and John Bell, of Teanessee. On the otber hand, from the extreme back ground of the retired list, the late splendid campaign of General Sam Houston in Texas brings him for- ward into the front rank of the conservative aud available democratic statesmen of the day. We say that these late results in Kentucky and Tennessee have disposed of Mr. Crittenden and Bell, and our reasons for this opinion will sug- geet themeelves to every intelligent reader. In- deed, the general results before us appear to sink the new opposition movements in the South into hopeless bavkruptey. Excepting, perhaps, the State of Maryland, we may thus reasonably assume, from these late Southern elections, that in 1860, as in 1856, the solid vote of the South will be democratic. We per- ceive, however, that this failure of the op- position in the South to establish the nucleus of a great conservative third party is accepted a8 @ powerful advantage to the republican par- iy, inasmuch as the floating elements of the North are thus reduced toa choice between the republicans as a Northern and the democracy as a Southern organization—no slavery or pro- slavery—a eectional fight. But here it is that Gen. Houston presents him- selfas the champion, better qualified, perhaps, than any other to recover to the democracy their lost balance of power in the North without losing anything in the South. Excepting a harmleas escapade as a local candidate of the exploded American party, the whole political career of Gen, Houston has been that of a regular old fashioned Jacksonian democrat. He is one of the very few remaining of the intimate political and pereonal associates and supporters of Old Hickory. His life has been a life of romantic and heroic adventures, more remarkable than these which contributed so much in 1856 to the po, ularity of Fremont. Bet’er than all, Gen. Houston has always been an inflexible champion of the Union and the peace of the Union. Thus, in 1854, upon the Kangas-Nebraska bill, he prefer- red the abandonment of his party to the support of an experiment which he believed to be fraught with ail the mischievous elements of a violent sectional quarrel? Experience has vindicated bis sagacity upon this point, and his course upon the Missouri com- promise repeal would commend him to thousands of Northern men, who would shrink from any other Southern candidate. In the late Texas campaign, General Houston, as an independent candidate for Governor, boldly confronted the regular local democracy on the issue of the re- vival of the African slave trade, and in opposi- tion to the reopening of this infamous traffic. He also planted himself firmly upon the broad Union platform of Mr. Buchanan’s administra- tion, Thus, though the regular party organiza- tion under the control of the fire-eaters was againet him, “Old San Jacinto” was the true democratic candidate. Thus, too, if from the co-operaticn in his behalf of the opposition ele- ments he has beaten the regular democratic or- ganization, he will have done more to restore the Southern democracy to reason and common eense than all the other great guns of the South put together. Upon another point General Houston would be, above all other men, the man for the Charles- ton Convention. The party is threatened in that Convention with a destructive split upon the platform. But with Houston as their candi- date, the party could dispense with a platform. The public services, public acts, principles and policy of Generel] Houston, military and civil, through a public life of forty yeurs, would be a sufficient platform for him aud ihe party eup- porting bim. As a true Southern man, the South would stand by him, and as a good | Union man, the scattered fragmenta of the | Northern democracy would unite in his support. Even if Gen. Houston bas not carried the State | of Texas, the platform upon which he fought the | late batile mutt command the approbation of | every couservative democrat, North and South; but if be bas, at a single blow, put down the | disorgauizing tire-eaters in Texas, he will have achieved a vic‘ory ouly eecond in its importance to the election of Sir. Buchanan. And thus “the stone which the builders had rejected” may “be- come the chief of the corner.” Some of our echeming Alvany politicians might be astonished at the nomination of General Houston at Charles ton; but, if nominated, his election would pro- bably be as decitive as that of 1852, Tae Camenostans IN PeNNsyLvanta.— The movements of General Cameron in Pennsylvania seem to excite particular attention just now, and it is evident that the politicians are a little fright ened for fear be will control events in that State, and perhaps in the whole Union. A letter from Weehington, given elsewhere, indicates this feel- ing in the desire to fasten on Mr. Cameron all sorts of Seward echemes, NEW YORK HERALD, TURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1859, ase of the Peace of Villafranoa~ tie Re. Velutionary Spectre of Eu ope. The spectacle that Europe presents now to the American observer is exceedingly interestiog and the reflections to which it gives riao in the Awerican m'nd vaturally offer from those of the European, as the view point differs und the rela- tive values of things and men stand forth in di mini+bed or increased proportions, A few months since we saw three of the States of Europe plunging into a war which seemed destined to involve all the others. Suddenly the Emperors of the two great military monarchies meet, and are closeted in uninterrupted conference for eight hours, and the world is startled when they come forth from the cabinet at Villafranca with the announcement that Louis Napoleom and Francis Joseph bud made peace with each other, What are the terme of that peace is known only to those two men, What reasons tmpelied thei to make it, they, too, only know. One says it was because the war was about to assume gigantic proportions,.and the other that be made peace because Austria bad pot received from ber allics the help she expected. What really passed in tbat long, secret conference, no one but the two Emperors yet knows, I¢ was observed when they came forth that both wore a silent and 60 lemn air; that Louis Napoleon's eye was more cold than ever, while the tace of Francis Joseph had more than its usual pallid bue, Contemplating the conference at Villafranca, ard the events that led to it, from this side of the Atlantic, the veil that ehrouded it from the im mediate obeervers seems lifted, aad we can sce what it was that made the Emperors pule and so suddenly stopped the war in Ituly. As they eat there, those two alone, contemplating the mighty events in which they were the actors, that con- stant fear that haunts every crowned head—the spirit of revolution—rose before them in all ite bloody and terrific aspect, and overshadowed each and all of their echemes. On going into the wer Louis Napoleon had appealed to the dissatix fied nationalities of Italy. They responded to his call as if by magic, and toan extent of which even he, perhaps, little dreamed. Piedmont was roused at once to a furor of patriotiem; Lom- bardy blazed with the fires of revolution; Tus cany, Parma and Modena drove forth their rulers; the Roman States were on the verze of rebellion; the throne of Naples trembled; from every city, town, village and hamlet Italy poured forth her volunteers to drive out the sbirri of Austrian despotiem; Cavour and the National Committee proclaimed Louis Napoleon as the saviour of Italy; Garibaldi and his fiery legion took service under him; Kossuth, Klapka and many other popular leaders roused them- eelves at bis call. Louis Napoleon had broken the hardened sur- face that smothered the lava fires of revolution beneath, and he saw that the torrent was about to bresk forth, probably to consume every throne in Europe. So, too, with Austria, Francis Joecph already felt the soil of Hungary tremb- ling beneath the feet of his armed legions. Ga- licia was discontented, the Croats and Bohemi- ans desired change, and nearly every portion of bis motley empire felt the shock of the revola- tiopary idea. As the two Emperors contem- plated this state of things they saw to what it was tending. Louis Napoleon felt that in let- ting revolution loose he himself was becomiag its plaything, and a creature in the hands of Ca- vonr, Garibaldi, Kossuth, and the other leaders cf the people. Francia Joseph eaw that instead of crowning with triumph the obsolete ideas of the Middle Ages, he was plunging them iuto the revolutionary abyss, there to sink forever. It was to the verge of thia abyss that Louis Napoleon conducted the young Em- peror, and together they contemplated the ter- rific spectre which hovered over its unseen and darkeome depths, Drawing back from the fearful sight, they clasped hands, the peace of Villafranca was made, and the two Emperors went forth with blanched checks to announce it to the world. It is this vision which still haunts every Court in Europe, and fills them all with dread. The ruling classes well know the fierce popular fires that dwell beneath their feet, and tremble at the slightest prospect of their breaking forth. Heace the fears of the stability of peace, and of the coming Congress at Zurich. Hence the diplo- matic assurances from Court to Court. Hence the soothing royal words, and specious palaver- ings of the classsupported journalism of Europe. The spirit of revolution that has beep roused to such an unexpected degree in Italy must not only be prevented from spreading, but it must be allayed there. The crowned kiogs ure willing to make any sacrifice to each other, so that they shall not have to bow down before the sovereign people. Here, then, is the crisis that now attends on Europe. But the diseatisfied nationalities must not be cheated now. Louis Napoleon claims to be the man who, with the Napoleonic ideas, can bridge the revolutionary abyes, and conduct both peo- ples and kings in safety across to the great highway of future progress. He, the engineer, muet not draw back from the verge, and fail in his promises, The people of Europe look for alone that this longing exists, It beats in every pulsation of the German heart; France burns for ors for popular representation; Spain is a demo- cratic volcano from the pillars of Hercules to the Pyrenees. In all Europe the only government that yet shows that it really comprehends the spirit of the epoch is Russia, Alexander IL has defied the nobles, and unshackled the serfs. He has initiated popular reforms and begun the work of elevating the people with a wisdom that renders Russia fearlees of the revolutionary fires of the rest of Europe. Francis Joseph and Louis Napoleon must enter on the same path. The intellect of Germany and France is rapidly eating away its bonds, as did that of the latter country thoee that held it in the time of Louis XV. A like result will come now if monarchs do not learn wisdom and take counsel from the errors of the past and the abundant indications of the present. Jaco Lirtte is tie Boarp Agaw—Mr. Jacob Little was yesterday unanimously re elected a member of the Board of Brokers, hav ing satisfied all hie creditors, This is the third or fourth admission of Mr. Little to the Stock Exchange. His boldnees and adventurous char- acter have thus often led him out of his depth; but be always pays in full, principal and inter- est, and such is the general confidence in his honor aud integrity that he is always gladly welcomed back to his old seat, Mr. Little returns to the Board at a good time. The war in Italy has ceased to attract attentiou; it is about time that "Vall street, which bas beep & very stupid place for many months, should ‘re- sume some of ite wonted Bvcliness, Mr, Little greater freedom. It {is notin Italy and Austria | the unshackling of her intellect; Eugland clam- | —$——~ ie just the men to sir up the sleepy Urokers and jobbers, ard to infure a little vitality into busi- Ondy let bim be moderate in bis oper tious, and all will go well with bim, Whether be be bull or bear he ts generally ov the right side; eee, Dot det bim remember that it is better t eongner | a Villafisuea peace than a St. Helora exile, | Lie, 00, is ao Napoleoo in bis way, Let bin ratber imitate the third Emperor than tho first, Governor Wisy anp THe ALBANY Reaency.— Ie our telegraphic despatches from Wasniogtoa sid Alvauy, this tauraivg, we receive some fre ther enlighbtentnent op the question of Governor Wise’s late Jetter, abont which so muod excite ment exists, Mr, Wise, we are informed, is now engaged on a twenty or thirty column manifesto, which will let the light in upou the dark deeds of the Albany politicians and tricksters who compose the Regepcy, and who so flageaotly vio- inted the covfidence repoved iu them by publish- ing private letter. This will doubtless bs an interesting document, regardless of its length, sud may have the effect of changing the whole aiate of affvirs wt the Charleston Convention, It will at least open the eyes of the South as to the cberacter of the politicel intriguers who are en- deavering to control the delegation from this State; and the exposure arising out of this whole affair will give an insight into the morals of New York politics that may be instructive to Soutbern men. " It may do more than this: it may suggest to the Sonth that nelther New York nor any otber Northern State, with their rotien and corrupt political systems, can control the Convention. Instead of the publication of this letter killivg off Governor Wise, as some people anticipate, and as no doubt was intended to be the result, it is just possible that it may give him higber hitch at Charleston by and bye, greatly io ite estonishment and confusion of his euemies The appearance of this mysterious letter was like a bombebell in Righmond, The papers are alldumb. They seem to be astounded into si lence. The Wasbington papers also have no- tbing to say about it, with the exception of the Constitution, which is edited by an old woman ic breeches, from Wall street, who ia as fond of a good dinner as Jack Falstaff was of sack, but who knows no more about politics than Jack did of the qualities of a gin cocktail. Tae com mente of the Constitution are sheer nonsense and balderdash. We are not done with the effects of the Wise letter yet. Trifling, and not without example as it is, ihe fruits of it may yet acquire large growth; apd the Albany tricketers, who are chuckling over the damage they fancy they have done to Governor Wiee’s Presidential prospects, may look blue enough when they fiud their plans thwarted, as they probably will be, by the: very circumstance of its publication. Their scliemes are plain enough. They intend todo afCharles- ton now what they did at Baltimore in 1848, when their treachery defeated Cass; and if they cannot succeed in that, to full back in eupport of Ww. H. Seward avd the interests of the Central Railroad. Meantime we awalt the thirty column manifesto from Virginia, and we shall see where the Albany Regency will be then. Ovr Rervsrican anp Know Noruixa Stare Conventions —AnomHeR Errort ror a Hoy Autunxce.—We see that a proposition is aflost for the meeting of our Know Nothing party State Convention at the same place and time that have been appointed for the republican Convention, viz: Syracuse, and the 7th of September. We learn, too, that some of the Know Nothing organs and leaders, from their long separation from the epoils, hungry and thirety, and ready for a bar- gain, are anxious to bring about the proposed coalition. Very true, the experiment last year proved an ignominious failure; but as the repub- licans succeeded without the support of the Know Nothings, the latter, as they stand, are in a very unfortunate position. With a democratic orarepubiican victory there is an inevitable Know Nothing defeat. But still we would ad- monish the Know Nothing leaders of the folly of capitulating to Seward upon the very eve of a battle in which they may crush him into atoms as a Presidential candidate. Let not the remnant of the American party be sold out to Seward for a mess of pottage. Let the party rather be disbanded and dismissed, leaving every member free to make his election between the abominable principles ot Seward und the chances of the return of the national democratic party to the safe anchorage of Mr. Buchanan’s | pdminietration, The vote of New York, if given in November for the republican party, will be claimed as the endorsement of Seward by the Empire State for the Presidency. Let the Americans who have stood by Fillmore and Webster and Henry Clay, and who despise the principles snd pretensions, and the Albany engineers of Seward, remember this. If there is ny sincerity or consistency in the Know Notaiag party. they will not sacrifice it to Seward for a few little sops in the paltry spoils of our No- vember election. Last year the American State Convention refused to bow dowa to Seward and Thurlow Weed. Have these two men become more trustworthy since that time? Let the American party prepare to answer that question at Syracuee, Tur Warerisa Piaces.—It will be seen from the letters of our correspondents that the water- ing places are at their culminating point of prox perity. Never, we are told, at any former period | have they been so full—never, we believe, have they been leas really enjoyable. At Saratoga and Newport we understand that a fierce war is being waged between the aristocracy of wealta and the aristocracy of art, in which the latter bas obtained some serious advactuges, The equipages of tenors and prima donnas have been throwing into the shade the expensive tarnouts of our fast men and fast women; and to the inex- pressible disgust of those who base their preten- siovs solely on wealth, the latter find themselves outstripped by the greater dash and style of their foreign competitors. As to society, as the jerm is understood amongst cultivated people, it is nowhere to be found. Persons of education and iutellect have become so wearied of the val- garity, the ostentation and the vicious agsocia- ons of these soi disent fashionable summer re- corts, that butiew of them trust themselves with- in the sphere of the offensive inflaences by which their eusceptibilities are sure to be jarred. At Newport a galvanic effort is being made to revive the faded glories of that once delightful place. A sort of local celebration is announced for the 224 and 23d, to which all its absent citi- zens ure convoked, tbe idea being to bring toem for once in presence of the migratory swarms whom they aucually leave their nomes to avoid. There will, of courte, be plenty ot bad oratory, bad music aid bad wine dispensed on the occa- sion. We hope, nevertbeless, thet the good peo- ple ot Newport and their viniters will remain mutually impressed wit the benefits, mozal and inte Mectual, to be derived from their furtber as- sociation, At the Union Hall, Saratoga, on Thurrday last, there was a gravd bop, which ie said to bave been rather a pleasaut affair, The inmates at this house are for the mort part old Aabitués, which will account for the egreenble character of the entertainment. Ae rome of our ‘air readers may like to dip « little into particulars, we give elsewhere a de- scription of the toilettes worn upon the occa- blon, As fusbionable life, whether in its real or sim- ulated phases, would be incomplete without its dirb of scandal, one of our correspondents re- basher, fur the benefit of those who have 4 taste that way, an incident which furnishes a moral to the evils resulting from the taste for indiscrimi- pate associations, which is a characteristic not only of our fathionable watering places, but of our New York society generally. If the conven- tional! precautions which prudeuce and the usages of our forefathers suggest were more rigidly ob- served, it is certain that we should hear less of cecurrences which reflect so little credit upon our present system of educational training, But of what use is it sermonizing upon topics which carry their own lessous with them. The butterflies of society will occasionally have their wings singed, and it is not our province to cur- tail their gyrations, We would remind tase, however, who ure pow revelling in the full en- joyment of the coquetry, the scandal, the gam- bling and the other pleasant vices of our sum- mer Pandemonia, that their time is waxing short, and that they must hurry up their arrangements. The ides of September are approachiag fast, aud then the Opera, the theatres, aud tho various otber places of amusement about towa will re- quire the bevefit of their gay presence. Tu Wasuincron Herents Jos Agary.—The jobbers of this city are as tenacious of taeie pur- pose as leeches, which, when they once take bold, will not let go till they are gorged with blood. Though baffled, they return agaia and again tothe charge. The last scheme ix, that the Board of Supervisors appoint “Commisaion- ers of Washington Heights” to lay out the strects aud roads of all that part of the islane from 155th street to Spuyten Dayvel Creek, and this plan is to come before the Supervisors this evening. The resolutions to be proposed wiil be found in another colunn, It is very doubtful whether the Board bas the legal power to adjudicate upon this matter; it Woks very like a usurpation of the functions of the Legislature, and as if the jobbers, haviny failed in their attempts at Albany to get a bil! passed, would now take the law into their own hands. But whether they have any legal jurisdiction or not, it is very evident that the whole thing is a scheme of public plunder. For there isno ne ceesity whatever for the contemplated job, nor will there be for many years tocome. When the Central Park is finished, and it is determined where the commerce of the city is to be concentrated, on the East or North river; and when the direc- tion of the tide of population is determined from the same centre, and the central region of pri- vate dwellings is ascertained; when, in fact, we know where the new city is to be, and how we all stand, it will be quite time enough to make any arrangements about laying out the grounds in the faubourg of Washington Heights. Now it is entirely premature, and what is done to-day may have to be undone some years hence at double expense, or permit the blunder to remain to the detriment of the property owners and the general injury of the community. We protest, therefore, against the Board of Supervisors meddling with the matter. The owners of the property who have the dvepest in- terest in the matter have not asked them to do #80, and if the attempt is persevered in we must continue to denounce the flagrant job as an act of plunder on the taxpayers for the benefit of a set of eharpers who are ever hovering around the city treasury like flocks of greedy harpies, and also for the interest of two or three of the pro- perty holders who own more land than they can manage, and want to dispose of it in the best way they can. It is there men who are creating all the fuss, and the great majority of the proprietors are en- tirely averse to meddling at present in any shape or form with the region of Washiagton Heights, Tue Scuacuticoxe Massacre.—The shock given to the public mind by the discovery that the recent dreadful railroad disaster was the re- eult of wilful culpability on the part of the di- rectors, has elicited such an expression of indig- nation that it will now be impossible for the com- panies to avert fresh legislation on the subject The only difficulty will be to devise such mea- sures of precaution as will mete out even justice toall Amongst those that suggest themselves to us, the following seem best calculated to se- cure the public againat the dangers created by the neglect and parsimony of railroad directors In the first place, we would have all the line: properly fenced in and guarded by gates, as is the case abroad. This would, of course, increase the cost of construction, but it would be found in the end that it would effect an economy by the avoidance of accidents and of the consequent payment of compensation. Wherever imperfect police arrangements or culpable neglect ou the part of railway employés could be proved, we would make the managers aod servants, as the case might be, crimizally as well as pecuniarily responsible for the accidents to which they gave rise. Until this be doue it will be impossible to impress upon the minds of railway officials a sense of the grave importance of the duties entrusted to them. In order to provide an additional guarantee against the in- competency or neglect of railway superiatend- ents and track masters, we would render every county throngh which a line passes responsible for the safe condition of all railway viaducts and bridges witbin its limits, giving to it such pow- ers againet the company as would enable the County Surveyor to-compel the repair or recon- struction of euch works as he might deem un- tafe. If some such power had existed previous to the Sebaghticoke accident, it ia certain, from the notoriety of the unsound condition of the bridge there, that measures would have been promptly taken to repair it, It will be objected that the severity of theee measures will tend to discour- age the construction of railroads, aud to render thore that are in existence too expensive and hazardous to carryon. A little reflection will show that this ie a fallacy, for the cloeer the legislative surveillance exercised, the fewer will be the accidents, and the lees, ulti- mately, the expenditure of the lines, If we take into account the constant repairs necvesitated by imperfect aud faulty construction, and the heary amounts of compensation awarded to sufferers —————eeeeeaeee ee, from va) Wey decidente, It will be seea at owes that a pro, "F outlay in the commencement aud eiriet accoun tbitity to the public will ecoueuise vast sus whic." 9re DOW prodiersly squandered, Until thesa cond tioos are secured: it is evrtaia that the railronde of thie country ean never be made remunerastive \ hose who ace iodaved te tovest their mopey in Ota, —— INTERESTING FAN WaySUNGTOR Our Spectel Washington Deaperoldes MORB 480UT GOV. WISK'S LETTER —THE G2\Y#RTOR ASOUT TO PUBLISH A MANI¥ESTO BXYOSIAN FRE ALBANY REGENCY, ETC. WasuiNaron, August 8, 18:19. ‘Tho publication of Gov, Wiss’s lotier ia the HunaLy wa’, Tundorstand, produced @9 much wstonishment ia Kick. moud that not ove of the papers there baa opcand We mouth about it, Tho oniy paper bere woich has ant comments on the subject is the Constitution, whore ro marks you will perceive are somewbat uuintsiligible and absurd. As for Governor Wise himaslt, pow that tho lose bas been made public, be is mot the leas, discoaceried, The fact, however, bus eulighicued bim considerably as te ihe character of the mea who comprise thi cy. Be bus received a letter from the gent the famous communication was sddressed, exoisining the circumstances uader which It was obisieod for publication—circumstances «hich acquit him ot ail biawe im the transaction, as he was mos. treacberously dead with. The party to whom tne letter was writen {a aud to be Mr. Bernard Donneily, who is in the auction ast commiseion business in William street, New York. Hee represented to be atrustworthy democrat anf se cere friend of Governor Wise. I can inform you with confidence that Governor Wise is about te publish « lelter some twenty or thirty columoe long about this business, in which ho will give a history of the Albany Regency for the lust thirty years that he has known them, from Jackeon's day to the preseut. Hy» witt expose all their schemes, treacheries aad backslidioge, and show ths South what kind of men thay ara woe are attempting to control the State of New York and to ad just its deiegation to the Cha>leston Conreation tw euit their own aims. It will be one of the most scathing political documents ever given to the pubiic, end will make the Albany political sohemars wince like galled jades unter the Iash. It will be ready for the press in a fow days, Something startling may come out of Mr. Wise’s lottor be- tween this and the Charles‘on Convention which may ms- terially affect the influence of New York in that body. EXULTATION OF THE DOUGLASITES OVER THE RESULT OF THE AUGUST ELECTIONS—VIEWS OF DOUGLAS AND OTBERS ABOUT REOPENING THE SLAVE TRaDE— PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS—TUK NEW YORK DE- MOORACY, ETO. ‘Wasurxoton, August 8, 1859. The friends of Mr. Douglas in Tennessee, Missouri and Texas write and telegraph to that gentieman that w® Opposition gains in those States are exclusively owing to the sympathy which ie felt for his position, and betoxen a determinat:on on the part of many of the Southerm States to support his claims for the Presideacy at she Charlestes Convention. They reason that the demooratic candidates bave been elected by men who have Douglas Prochiviues, but will not bolt the regular ticke’, while the boiters themselves are Dougias men par excellence. However unreasonable and absurd this kind of logic must appear, it has been sufficient toelate Mr. Douglas beyond measure, and, as he thinks he can count upon North Carolioa, Maryland, and, sincs the publication of the wise letter, upon Virginia, be regards his nomination by the Demo- cratic National Convention as settled nearly beyoad @ question. Politicians, too, from Ubio represent that now divisions are arising in that State, which will make the future question there to be Douglas and anti-Dougias; aad they say that the former are sure of carrying Oato in October by large majorities, and that voth Ohio and Iadi- ana will present Douglas at the Charleston Conventioa. More pruaent calculators remark that, while the gerry- mancering process which the whigs introduced into Kea- tucky and Tennessee must alwaysrender the result of elections doubtful in individual districts, the aggregate democratic majority has beeo quite as great as coud bave been expected, and they see cause for congratulation upon the result on the side of tbe administration, but not of its enemies. They look less at Kentucky and Tennesses than at Texas, where tho real issue has been tested upoa clear and unmistakeable grounds. They say thst tus triumph of Houston—the las: of the back bone Jackeos democracy—is & triumph of the aaministration, watce settles the question between Mr. Buchanan aud the fire eating party of slave traffickers at the South; and they bave no doubt in declaring that Governor Houston stands foremost in the field, from the present hour, ag the cam didate for nomination by the Charleston Convention. The recent letter from Douglas to Colonel Peyton con- treats favorabiy,in many respects, with similer dooa- ments from other quarters. It 1s to tho point, and derivag ‘ts main importance from the open declaration of war which it makes upon every attempt which may be made to reopen the slave trade. No one is better aware, bowever, than Senator Douglas, that the traffic in slaves has been virtually recommenced already. He has more facts in his possession upon this eubdject than avy oae man inthe United States Senate; acd it is fully in bis power to‘diaclose, if be chooses, not only the ames of very many parties who are Interested, pecuniarily as wed Ss politically, in introducing “savages” from Africa, buthe knows the very inlets in waich they are laedsd, and has been tnformed of the namber of slave cargocg that might be expected to arrive within a giventime fue information, with the accompanying evidence, are a por- tion of the arsenai of ammunition which Senator Douglas 18 industriously collecting preparatory to the opsning of next eession of Uongress; and he is said to have initiated correspondence, while at the South in the month of May last, with many persons in various States, who are coo- tinually supplying bis budget with additional facts coc. cerning the varieus depois of “savages,” the mode of supplying them, and to whom they are generally dis- posed, Col. Jefferson Davis, whose health I learn today is slowly improving, has prepared the outitae of a bill for the abrogation of the laws declaring the s'ave trade to be Piracy. While Mr. Davis vehemently opposes the in- troduction of “savages” into Mississippi, as Messrs Toombs and Stephens do their being sold in Georgia, be maintaire that each separate S:ate bas a right to dectaa upon the question of the “‘expedieacy” of reopening ‘as traffic for itself, and that the existing statutes are anti- State righis and unconstitutional. His bill is intended to guard in theory what he and his friends in the old Soata- ern States strenuously oppose in practice. He wants no more slaves, but he will legislate for the right to import them asa “point of honor’? among Southern fire-eaters. With the facts before the country of several thousands of slaves baving been landed ia the country within eighteon months, of slavers being continually seen off the coast of Florida, of depots of “savages” existing notoriously in some of the larger Southern cities, and of vessels fitiog ont at this instant in New York, Salem, Boston and other black republican seaports, for the African coast, such a meagure as that which Coionel Davis proposes is curiously fantastic and whimsical. There never was a romout, Probably, in which its introduction would be, to say vhe loact, in grester violation of goo taste Those who differ from Colonel Davis in relation to the logaliza'ion of the alave trafic do not all contend that tha laws making it piracy should remain unaltered. They think, on the contrary, that the severity of th» exiriiug Statutes defeats its own object, and they are in favor of substituting beavy fines and «sliding scale of tmpricou- ments for all akempts, cisher as principals or agents, to introduce more slaves into the country, Since the suicidal icttor of Gov. Wise the national demo crate here who desire @ Southern candidate for the Prisi_ Gency consider the list of practicables reduced t> Sam Hous- ‘on, Hunter and James Guthrie, Since the determination bam been arrived at to send Breckinridge without Oppo ion to the United States Senate, he haz been considered pres Ucally out of the fleid,and the chances of Side. ane others are thought scarcely worth having. Cobb migns havea show but for the strong opposilion in his rm. State, which itis fearea by his friends may kill bim. Ot Northern men Dickinson is hinted at; and Cane wae fup-. (sed, a few months since, to have some chance; ous ae this depended upon Mr. Buchanan’s alleged suppor. of his claims, it bes diesppeared with the conviction that the: President's tnchoations wero towards another quarter ~ Tane clabs exist in Pennsylvania, but hey are thinly at. tended, The real sentiment must now ba, i think, fory: Governor Houston; and letters nave Already beca +6 ceived here, and been sent from here, which will giv 6 am impetus to the Houston movement throughout tho coun try which will take every one by surprise, Letters from New York represent the domocra’ sy in the most delightful etate of harmony, A leading hv,ra writes that bis section of the party bave, with some, rehictaace, abendoned practically the idea of electir.g deiegaes to ‘Char icaton by districts; that they will be ehosen fairly by ‘De neat Sate Convention; and the, New York may be