The New York Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDOR SEARET®, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE H. W. COUNED OF FULTON AND HAS8A0 UT+ ‘edtvamce. Money send by mati will bo as ie EOP TE tdet” Poaage sinnce’ nat received as aubacription | ae Y Yr 4 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST ll, 1859. ‘one hundred horses and mules, Fifty were reco. vered on pursuit, and @ party of soldiers had left Port Buchanan on the trail of the thieves. One of the superintendents of the Overland Mail Campany had absconded with $15,000 worth of the company’s proper'y > ? Under our Quarantine head, in another column, will be founda brief but interesting letter from one “Tile pam BPE AED, poset per eaes Ot mee | of the head nurses employed at Norfolk and Ports- ray oe coon ‘the Puropaan Edition tredakay mouth, Va., during the prevalence in those cities of tals cnt per ry pe mttnent SIME trchude postage: te yellow fever. The writer of the letter, who was Galfornta ition om the th und WMD of sack oterowt | ouly one of three nurses who did not die or ow ann. es rartiy Y' HERALD. on Wednesday, at fowr cents ner °MoLvv tame CORRESPOND RICH, comctning wid ven be wows, solicited from any A: EsPONDEITS ARB Sra Fonsi Conessron WGerally pot er a onBGy OOnerans amb PAGE v8. NOTICE taken of anonymous corremonaence. We do nat [SEMI renew » advertisements in SJ TS ed every and European Kditi Ooty PuINTING ‘executed with neainess, cheapness and de desert their post, thinks we shall have yellow fever here this summer, but the same opiuion is enter tained by but few others. Yesterday the work of furnishing the second floating hospits! was com- menced, and it will probably be moored to-day in the stream, ready for duty and equipped with the necessary complement of physicians and nurses, There are only nine vessels lying at the lower —————— | Quarantine anchorage, and but seven cases of yel- Volume XXIV .. see cone Qs O21 — AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBSLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.~La Fars Caauratae— Lovua—Jocne. BOWERY THEATER. Bowery.—Revorgrionist—Vou av- Vawr—Brox Bor—Haspy Anvr. WALLACW’S TABATRE. Sroadway.—Inisa Moxuox— Laws 00mm. NATIONAL THEATER, Chasbam street.—Eustacus Bav- in—Woman—Dop Juan. AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Afer Per Or BUAKON, Bventng— Matp or Oxorsser— Bose or Saszon. INSTREL BUILDING, 661 and 668 Broadway— amuoras foros. Daxons, 40 —Dauox axp Prraias. y Hat, 472 Broadway— "ANT'S MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ penseves, ‘Songs, Dances, £0.—Casw Boast Busy, PALAOR GARDEN AND Hall, Fourteenth street.— Vooat amp Lxsraummntsl Joos. New York, Thursday, August 11, 185% ——_—_—_—_—_—_—————————MM The News. By the arrival of the steamship Arabia at Halifax we have three days later intelligence from Europe, The news is interesting. It is officially announced in the French papers that the Emperor has decided that the army and navy shall be restored to a peace footing with the least possible delay. These mea- sures were regarded in London as presaging a return to a condition of security and peace, and were received with much satisfaction. low fever on the floating hospital Florence Night- ingale. The Emigration Commissioners met yesterday at Castle Garden. A communication was received from Dr.Gunn stating that he had applied to the Health Commissioners of New York, and also to the Quarantine Commissioners, for a steamboat to communicate with the vessels in Quarantine and the floating hospitals, and informing them that both bodies had declined to assume the responsi- bility, on the grounds previously stated in the Henanp, and calling the attention of the Board to the matter. He also enclosed in the communication a copy of his application to the Quarantine Commissioners and their reply. The whole subject was referred to the President and Counsel of the Board. Commissioner Kennedy submitted a report in reference to the alleged ticket swindling practised by the cashier at the emigrant depot, and stated that he felt satisfied there were no grounds for the complaint. Commissioner Jel- linghous stated warmly that affidavits in his posses- sion proved that extortion has been practised by the cashier, and that Mr. Kennedy is in alliance with the railroad companies; after whicn the subject dropped, the report being laid on the table. The number of emigrants arrived during the week was 923, making the number since December 47,901. The balance of the commutation fund is now $14,170 81, The Health Commissioners received a communi- cation from the Comptroller yesterday, enclosing a Important projects of reform are entertained by | bij] amounting to $24,094 19 charged against them the Emperor of Austria in the administration of the internal affairs of his empire. All the provia- cial Councils are to be convoked, and their views had as to what would best ameliorate the internal government of the States. They will have com- plete liberty in their deliberations, and are ex pected to truly make known the wants and wishes of the people. The abdication of the Grand Duke of Tuscany in favor of his son is officially confirmed. The result of the deliberations on annexing Tascany with Piedmont has been made known from 141 places, including Leghorn and Florence. There were 809 affirmative votes and 15 negative. Modena has been withdrawn from the Sardinian authority and a municipal government established. The King of Sardinia was expected at Milan, and preparations were being made for a grand illa- mination in honor of the event. The date for the Zurich Conference had not been fixed, The Austrian representative to the Con- ference reached Marseilles on the 27th,and pro- ceeded direct to Zurich. The Sardinian plenipo- tentiary reached Paris on the 29th. The English Parliament was chiefly occupied with debates on the treaty of Villafranca and the national defences. Accounts fram the Cape of Good Hope state that several shipwrecks, attended with loss of life, had occurred on the South African coast, but no Ame- rican vessels are mentioned. It was stated at Sin- gapore thatthe inhabitants of Bangernissan had risen, and murdered nearly every European. Num- bers of Chinese, who had refused to pay the resi- dents’ tax, were arrested at Melbourne. The affair India, China and Australia arrived at Marseilles on the 29th. The dates are, Calcutta, June 17; Hong Kong, June 4; and Melbourne, May 19. The race in Great Britain for the Goodwood stakes was won by the American horse Starke. Prioress ran for the Goodwood cup, and came out third in the race—the cup being won by Promised Land. nounced, and she was ordered to remain at Quaran- tine five days. The court martial on Major Cross held a short session yesterday, and adjourned till next Monday cumentury evidence necessary for his defence. The efforts of the City Inspector to abate the hog and offal boiling nuisances up town continue unrelaxed, and the probability is that in a few days there will be nothing further to complain of from that section of the city on the score of noisome pig- geries and bone boiling establishments. The American Association for the Advancement of Science held its final meeting of the present Con- Springfield. of farewell complimentary addresses, &c. pound—ranging from 6c. a 9c. 10c., as to quality without change. Veal calves in moderate demand at previous prices. are 3,522 cattle, 216 cows, 249 veals, 12,595 sheep and lambs and 3,600 swine. The cotton market was steady yesterday, with sales of about 700 « 800 bales, closing with few sellers under the basis of 124. for middling uplands. Holders were not preesing sales, feeling disposed to await the receipt of the The London money market had become slightly | Private advices by the arabia’s mails before doing much. more stringent, with an increased demand. The bullion in the Bank of England exhibited a decrease of £236,000. Consols on the 2%th were at 94; a 953 for money and account. There was an improved demand for railway bonds, Panama being eagerly sought for by speculators. Transactions in State stocks were limited. Sales of New York Central shares were reported at 68. The Liverpool cotton market closed on the 29th with a good demand. No disposition was evinced Flour was again heavy and lower, with sales ata decline of from 10c. to 20c, per bbl. Prime new white and red wheat was bela’ with more firmness, and moderate gales mace of Southern and Kentucky at full prices. Corn was steady, with sales of round yollow at 80c., and old Weatern mixed at 762. Pork was dull acd lower atthe opening, but closed with more buoyancy, The sales were at $13 87 « $14 for cow mess, and at $10 1234 a$10 50 for prime. Beef was also beavy, while lard was steady, with moderate transactions. Sugars were in fair demand and prices steady, with sales of about 1,000 hhds, to press sales by holders, although they offered | Cuba muscovado and 5¢0 boxes for export on terms etated freely, and the market closed quiet and steady at quotations which are given elsewhere. The sales of the week footed up 63,000 bales, with a very trifling advance on the finer descriptions. Prices of yarns and goods had advanced at Manchester, with an active market. The market for breadstuffs was dull in view of a fine prospect for a favorable harvest; wheat had slightly advanced, but the quo tations were barely maintained. There was more tions nominal. Lard was steady. We have to chronicle another railroad disaster this morning, which occurred on the Alexandrias Hampshire and Loudon Railroad yesterday, by which two persons were killed and twelve wound- ed. Three of the wounded are supposed to be fa gives a somewhat unsatisfactory account of the disaster. Our advices from the Sandwich Islands are to the 20th of June. It was uncertain when the new tariff would go into operation. Under it the duty on spirits will be reduced to $3 a gallon, and the duty on merchandise raised to from five to ten per cent. The rates at which foreign gold and silver coins are to be received is also fixed. The Hawaiian king- dom has no coin of its own, but has adopted the American silver dollar as the standard of value. The Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu has at- tempted to encourage the introduction of American dimes and half dimes by making them current at their actual value. The anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill was duly celebrated by the Americans in Honolulu. The volcano was quiet. Some of the local papers are of opinion that Honolula is making much ma terial progress. We have overland mails from California to the 15th ult., details of which, including commercial, Political and other news, will be found elsewhere. Our advices from Oregon are to July 7. It was apa Logan, the republican candidate for » Was elected by a decided majority. Lieu tenant Mullen’s party at last encod a at the Dalles, and would winter at Bitter Root Valley. Our dates from British Columbia are to July 12 We give details of proceedings in the House o Assembly. Governor Douglass haa repealed some of his late obnoxious promulgations, From Utah we have papers to July 6. We ate some interesting items concerning the Mountain Meadow survivors and matters at Camp Floyd. One of the counterfeit checks on the Sub-Trea- ury at St. Louis has been received in that city from Utah. The counterfeit is said t be an aq. mirable imitation of the genuine check. The elsewhere. Coffee, with some concession in prices, wae more active yesterday, with sales of three cargoes and part ofa fourth tothe trade and on speculation, making an oggregate of about 12,876 bage, on terms givea in an other place. Freights were sastaired in rates, but en- gagements were moderate. Governor Wise, party. Richmond, Cassidy, Comstock and the other of Cardinal Antonelli at the late shocking butch- eries at Perugia is not more innocently express- ed. But again, groans out the distressed Cassidy, “we copy the ill-omened letter, which we have withheld from our readers only from a sentiment of sorrow that one so honored by the democrats (Governor Wise), in spite of his antecedents, should have had the perversity to pen it.” “A sentiment of sorrow.” Imagine the “sorrow” of a Barnegat wrecker with his false lights, his “sor- row” at the discovery of a good ship stranded on the beach; or the “sorrow” of a prowling house thief in stumbling over a pile of silver plate, and you have this “sentiment” of the Albany Regency. We eay that the letter in question was shown to and accepted by the Regency in confidence; that they fulfilled this condition in their usual way, by handing over the lc‘ter to all comers, by send. ing it off to Mr. Dickinson at Binghamton, and by graciously allowing it to be copied fur the general information of the democracy. The Chevalier Cassidy, however, aftera fit of parties implicated in their manufacture are stated | Weeping, wipes his eyes, and flies off into a tower- to be Mormons of high standing. From Arizona we learn of extensive ravages by the Apaches, who had stolen one drove of nearly * and ing passion, in which he denounoes this sorrowfal letter a8 “an outrage,” «a conspiracy,” “a plot,” © game concocted outside of this State to by the Commissioners of Emigration for rent, re- pairs, &c., of 105 Franklin street. It was referred tothe Mayor and Dr. Rockwell to report upon. The arrival of the steamer Karnak from Havana, with one of her crew sick of yellow fever, was an- at 11 o'clock, to enable the accused to procure do- vention last Tuesday evening, at Hampden Hall, It has been in session for one week, the members having convened last Wednesday, the 3d instant. Many papers have been read, some very interesting and practically useful. The Asso- ciation holds its meeting next year at Newport, Rhode Island; the day has not yet been determined. The meeting at Hampden Hall was for the purpose The weekly receipts of beef cattle being again very heavy, the market was dull at dec'ining rates. We note an average decline of half a cent a with some sales at 10}c. Cows and calves continue N 5 : Sheep are active and firm, caused considerable excitement. The mails from | while lambs are without inquiry and prices tend downward. Swine are dull and lower—prices are Shc. a 6fe., including all descriptions. The receipts fhe Albany Regency in Hot Pursuit of As the late Napoleonic letter of Governor doing in beef at lower rates. Pork dull and quota- | Wize on the New York democracy is now the nine days’ wonder of our political circles, and as the world is indebted to the skulking treache- ty of the Albany Regency for the disclosure of that letter, we publish to day the opinions of their two principal organs on the subject. Thereader tally injured. The despatch is very meager, and | Will thus perceive that this Albany cabal are ina state of high exultation—that they arc satisfied at the complete success of their trick; that their “regrets” and astonishment are sheer hypocrisy; and that believing they have given their brother Abner a fatal blow under the fifth rib, they are chuckling with delight over the prospect of an undisputed control of the New York democratic Mark the crocodile tears of the tender-hearted Cassidy! He says that “for ourselves (Dean members of the junta) we regret that the letter of Mr. Wise was ever made public.” The gricf tiou in the same humiliating position which ske cccupied ja the last, 60 that politicians of other States way construct the democratic platform aod make the Presideotial nomination without rer cooperation.” But the trath is, aa we be- | lieve it, that Governor Wise obtaiaed his cue ficin sowe New York politician deep in the se- crete of the Albany Regency, aud resolved to tight them with their own weapons. And with | regard to the “humiliating position” of the New York democracy, was it ever more hum iiatiog tban in 1548, when the Regency bolted feom the Baltimore Convention and pet up Martia Vau Burcn for the Presidency ou his abolition Buffalo platform, and the Albany Atlas as the ceatral organ of Seward’s “irrepressible conflict” with slavery and the elave power? And such an organ, with such antecedents, un- dertakes to sucer at the antecedents of Governor Wise, the consistent enemy of “the Little Magi- cian’ from first to last. This is cool; but the impudence of the Chevalier Cassidy in deploring the “humiliating” position of New York is posi- tively sublime. Still, he gives us a hint with re- gard to the construction of the “democratic plat- form” which is very suggestive. The Regency desire a solid delegation at Charleston, so that New York may have a voice upon the “plat- form.” And wherefore? Whatare the Regency driving at? We will undertake to answer. The democratic Regency at Albany is a close money making and lobby jobbiog corpo- ration, under the general management of our Central Railroad clique. This clique } has kindly undertaken to govern the Sta‘e of New York after the fashion of the Camden and Amboy courtooe New York in the next Na*ional Couvea. | tems cf continentel Europe. Spain trembles oa u democratic volcano, which menaces @ popular cotpouring for the recovery of the fueros and muvicipal rights, Russia only, as yet, seems to have learned wisdom and to study to combiac the interests of the crown with those of the peo- ple, setting aside entirely the proud claims of the nobles, It is because the aristocratic and governing classes sce and feel this danger, that every nerve is strained to prevent, if possible, a European war, u8 we learn by the arrival of the Arabia at Halifax yesterday. For this they alternately distrust apd lean upon Louis Napoleon. This leads them to rejoice that the French army aud navy are to be put on a peace footing with the least possible delay. This sends the Bourse into ecstacies, and gives the Stock Exchange delight. This brings out from Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell important apeeches on European affairs. This leads them apxionsly to watch the candition of Italy, and to bail with joy every indication of a peaceful character. They strive to hasten each other's disarmament, and to put on an appearance of copfidence, when the three millions of bayonets still remain fixed and the paid watchers of the popular tone are present on all sides. Such a state of things is a fulse one, and can- not Jast. The monarchs of Europe must prepare to meet their people face to face, and to grant their just demands, The political echoolmaster is among them, and far better will it be for all that bis teachings be performed in the open day, and Lot in secret. The spirit of the age de- mands concessions, which, if not granted now, will ere long be seized amid the fires of revolu- despotism of New Jersey and the Central Rai!- road land jobbing company of Illinois. To this exd our Central railway concern ha; formed a lobby coalition at Albaoy, compreiendiag the Seward clique of Thurlow Weed and their cen- tral organ, the Journal, ani the democratic Re- gency and their organ, the Allas-Argus, And it so happens, while the political antecedents’ and proclivities cf this Regency ave with Seward, tbat their lobby and financial schemes are most intimately dependent upon the sucess of the Seward party. We conclude, therefore, that the real object of the Regency in their endeavors to havea voice in the construction of the Charleston platform is simply to divide and defeat the party, by the in- troduction of some of the anti-slavery, free soll, free labor, free land and “free wool” pcixciples of the good old Buffalo platform. And why not? when the defeat of the democracy, as in 1848, and the success of Seward, as in 1858, will best subeerve the financ’al jobs and lobby schemes of Richmond, Cagger, Thurlow Weed and all con- cerned? Is th's corrup', “sins streaked) and striped” Albany coalition of fiaan:/ers specula- tors and lobb; jobbers in our political elections any better to-day than it was yesterday, or last year, or ten or twenty years ago? Would this Regency hesitate now to betray Mr. Dickinson, or justify the means, considering their treachery against General Cass and Mr. Dickinson and Governor Wise, and their double dealing game The whole game of the Regency is power and plunder, and to ruin their party wien they can- not rale it. Away back from the palmy days of Van Buren- fem, we dare say, down to the preeent time, Governor Wise is well posted up with the inside history, plots, conspiracies and rascalities of this Albany Regency; and with all this ammunition at his command he can rake them clean to the decks. That he will do so, and cary the war into Africa, we have had eome intimations. The let- ter, in Which he explains the Donnelly epistle, published in another column of this morning's papea, is merely an entering wedge. We hope that he will not disappoint us and stop at this short explanatory note, for we believe pouring into the rotten hulk of this Albany Re- gency would drive the honest democracy away from it, as rats are driven from a sinking ship. Rotten Thrones and Revolutionary Fears in Kurope=The Peace News by the Arabia, sick man” to the Ottoman Empire, it has been customary to look upon Turkey as the only country in Europe requiring an active politico- convulsions, of a universal revolution. Stimulated by tae call to the conflict, and believing that their opportu- ary fire had caught and enwrapped one of the and felt its influence, and the of Villafranca is ths beginning of the combined effort to calm the dissatisfied nationalities. All the other strange things that are part and parcel of the same design. The alternate recriminations and soothing assurances between England and France, the jealousies, distrusts and hopes of Prussia and the German States, the constant promises to disarm without try of the class bound press of Europe, all com- bine to prove that men perceive the danger, but fear to meet it, or even to acknowledge its pro- gence. But there it stands—the conviction of dis- satisfied nationelities—the premonitory shadow of coming revolution, staring every monarch in the face, and admonishing them all with its silent, ghastly presence. France burns furious- ly, but with smothered fires, for the disenthral- ment of its intellect. It has social freedom, re- ligious freedom, freedom of enterprise in art, science and commerce, but it chafes beneath the gall of intellectual tyranny. This must be re- moved, or all the material prosperity the world can give will not bind it to the throne of Louts Napoleon. Germany isin very nearly the same condition. The German mind is shackled like that of France in everything relating to political pro- gress. Its forty tyrants refuse the promised con- stitution to the people, and tremble at the idea of their <levation. Though to a somewhat less extent, England suffers under the same evil. Class government there places its ban upon every effort to ameliorate the condition of the people, and uses every intrigue and every effort to bind them to the support of the despotic sys- Mr. Hunter, or anybody else, if the end should | between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Buchanan? No. | that such a breadside as Wise is capable of | medical treatment. But to-day “the sick man’. | is all over that continent. Every one of itsking. | doms and empires needs an active application of | strong remedies to save it from the impending | ‘The war in Italy was carried to the very verge | nity had come, the Italian people exhibited a | spirit that dismayed alike the belligerent Em- | perors and the neutral sovereigns, and set a vivid | example to the rest of Europe. The revolution- | nationalities, and although five hundred thou- | sand men stood be'ween the blazing portion and | the rest of the continent, it threatened to sweep | through and over them with irresistible fury. | Louis Napoleon and Francis Joseph saw : are being witnessed in the court play of Europe | disarming, and the floundering logic and sophis- tion and carried in triumph with the light of burning thrones. The monarchical systems of Europe cannot go on much longer in the path they have been pursuing in the recent past. Many of them have bankruptcy staring them in the face; others are laden with a staggering lead of debt, and all are rotten in principle to the core. Reform in England, iatellectua! freedom in France and Germany, political disenthral- ment in Italy and Spain, must be granted, or Eu- rope will goon be overrun with the lava torrent of revolution, which distinguishes not between good and evil, and which destroys all things, Expenditure at the Fashionable Wateriog Places. One of the expenses which render living so costly in this country is the annual trip or sum- mer excursion which it has become the habit of poople of all classes to make. If the sums spent in this way were calculated, it would probably be found that they add something like a fourth to the expenditure of families. It is all very well tosay that their limit is fixed by the amount disbursed at the hotels, but every pater familias knows that the hotel bills form but a small pro- portion of them. Going to the country neces- sitates a vast amount of expensive preparation, beginning—curiously enough—with doctors’ pre- ecriptions, it being a common idea that the sum- mer cruise for health requires previous dosing and purification, just as in Catholic discipline we find the renunciation of old sins deemed by some an indispensable preliminary to the obtainment of the privilege to commit new ones. Then come the dressmakers’ and milliners’ bills, which, in the necessities imposed upon people by watering place habits, form truly formidable items. Aimongst fashionable aspirants of doubtful position, it is now an established rule to calculate the number of toilettes which they shall take to such places by the number of days that they intend remaining there. To wear the same dress or coiffure twice would be giving to | their aristocratic rivals an advantage to which no woman of spirit, as spirit is now-a-days mea- sured, would be disposed to submit. When the routine prescribed for the stock of finery on hand expires, the only resource left is the transference of its brilliant effects to some other sphere. Then recommence freeh expenses, and probably fresh | orders to town tradespeople; for gauze and fea- | thers are but perishable materials, and cannot | stand the wear and tear of a long campaign. | It is, of course, impossible to form any near | estimate of the amount which these annual car- | nival extravagances add to the expenditure of Ever since Nicholas applied the epithet of “the | OU’ American families. We have hazarded a Guess at one-fourth of their annual income; but in many instances we have no doubt that {t considerably exceeds that propor- tion. One thing is certain, that in no other country is this folly pushed to such ¢xtremes as with us. On the contrary, in Europe the rule seems to be that when people seck the repose and relaxation that are to be found in ru- ral life they shall discard as far as possible the ostentation and artificial restraints which the | habits of large cities impose. Fashionable wo- | men generally fix upon this.period of retirement to use up the faded glories of their torn finery. If it be difficult to arrive at an approximative {dea of the amounts squandered by our people in this way, we can at least form some notion of | the profits made each season by the hotel keep- ers in the different watering places. Let us jast take Saratoga as a starting point, and see how the calculation will work out in the aggregate. There are at that fashionable resort at the pre- sent moment, divided between the different hotels and boarding houses, about five thousand visiters. Allotting to the United States Hotel, Congress Hall and Union Hall their relative proportions of this number, we may set down their profite at the end of the season as follows:— eevee $25,000 - 20,000 +» 18,000 — Giving a total of $63,000 between these three establishments, At Newport the number of visiters is probably a thousand less than that of | Saratoga, and at Cape May it does not exceed | three thousand. The profits of the princfpal hotels will, however, be in the same proportion as at Saratoga; and if we estimate the total amount of the gains that will be made by the whole of the hotels at these three places at half a million of dollars, we think thatwe should be within, rather than over the mark. There are certainly not less than two hundred watering places and fashionable summer resorts, large and small, throughout the Union, and if we set down the average gains of their hotels and boarding houses, this season, at $10,000 for each locality, it will be admitted that the calcu- lation is a moderate one. It will nevertheless give a total of $2,000,000 of profits made by the coun- try hotel keepers in the course of a single seazon, When we add to this the large sums spent in dress, travelling expenses, carriage hire, and petty items of expenditure, it will be seen that our summer enjoyments swell enor- mously the general cost of living, and necesai- tate us to provide for it at that overstraining of the mental and bodily faculties which is deterior- ating eo rapidly the physical condition of our people, It will be pleaded that our climate renders change of air necemary to those who are cooped up in large cities the greater part of the year. We admit the force of this excuze in localities where the a'mosphere is unhealthy at particular seasons, as is the case with New Orleans, As re. gards New York, however, and a dozen other cities that we could name, no motive of this sort can be reasonably urged. There is no healthier or more :alubsious spot on any part of the con- tinent than Manhattan Island, and in point of natural beauty and easy accessibility, its envi- rons will stand a comparison with those of any city in the world. Of all seasons within our re- membrance, the present has been one in which the coolness and evenness of the temperature have rendered a residence here peculiarly de- lightful; and yet at no former period have the New Yorkers exhibited greater eagerness to quit their comfortable homes to brave the annoyances and extortions of watering places. We can ouly et down the fact to that perverse tendency in human nature which renders people indifferent to the blessings they enjoy, and dispores them to covet others which are only pictured in their imagination. The Northern Railroad Maseacre—Nothing Done Yet. Some eight days have now elapsed since a hecatomb of victims were offered up to railroad cupidity on the Northern Railroad, near Schagh- ticoke, and what has been done to bring the re- sponsible parties to justice? It is true that investigations have been had, and inquests held, and for once Coroners’ juries have been found to put the blame on the directors of a railroad. But there seems to be a malign influence exercized over all parties in connection with railroad slaughters in this State which tends to shield the criminal partice. The Al- bany newspapers now are filled with apologies for the managers of the road, and there seems to be a disposition generally to whitewash the di- rectors, who are responsible for the homicide, and gloes over the fearful calamity whereby a crowd of human beings were hurled into eter- nity to put money into their pockets. Whence comes this? Perhaps it is not difficult of expla- nation when we consider that the Central Rail- road controls the line on which this wholesale murder was committed. It holds the first bonds and mortgages of the Northern road, and thus may be assumed to govern ite management, more or lees, and the Central Railroad controls the newspapers in Western and Central New York, as well as the juries. Thus we can account for the manifest disposition to screen the directors from blame and punishment exhibited by the smell papers all through those parts of the State, It is the opinion of some of the ablest lawyers that the directors of the Northern Railroad are not only liable to actions for damages on the part of the families bereaved by their avarice, but are open to criminal indictments for homi- cide, which would send them to the State prison. We will never see the end of wholesale slaugh- ters like these until halfa dozen railroad direc- tors are found breaking stone in one of the State prisons, with their hair cropped like other vaga- bonds and swindlers. It has been often proved that it is next to impossible to geta Coroner's jury on any line of railroad to implicate the ma- nagers of the road in their verdicts. This may seem strange, for one would suppose that these are the very parties most interested ia averting accidents, as either themselves or their families are constantly travelling on them, and therefore always in danger of mutilation or death through the cupidity of the directors; but the influence of railroad companies is so deleterious that even the instinct of self:preservation fades before it. In the late massacre on the Northern Railroad, however, the case was so monstrous that the Coroner's jury, in two instances, put the blame on the shoulders of the directors, Shall they be prosecuted, and made to suffer for the loas of life they have inflicted? It is terrible to think that a giant and infa- mous monopoly like the Central Railroad should be permitted to control all the interests in the State, even to the lives of its citizens. Yet so it is. It has absorbed all the smaller railroads, it is crushing out the canals, and managing nearly all the commercial affairs of the State, and now it is endeavoring to control the Legielature through its political tricksters at Albany. Eve- rywhere its malign influence has been spreading, until at last our very lives and limbs, as well as our political liberties, are under its control. There is clearly but one remedy for the system of railroad murders now so fearfully prevalent, and that is to send a batch of directors to serve the State honestly for once in their lives in striped uniform and cropped hair, within the walls of Sing Sing prison. Avpacity é6r Mopern Murper.—It is a very remarkable fact that those who commit the highest offences against society are most prone now-a-days to put on airs, It seems as if, by the act which consigns them to the hands of the criminal authorities, they consider themselves elevated above their former condition, and suddenly metamorphosed into high public characters, in whore daily life and acts the world is to the last degree interested. Hence it is that thieves and pickpockets, and rowdy ruffians who happen once in a while to get into difficulties, lose no opportunity of publishing cards in the newspapers denying some fact, cor- recting some statement on an insignificant.point of detail, or asking the community to withhold their opinion until their innocent selves shall have had an opportunity of establishing the purity of their character and the rectitude of their daily walk in the eyes of an admiring world. The latest instance of this kind of audacity is furnished by the letter published in Taesday’s Heratp from Macdonald, who is now supposed to be an inmate of the Tombs, awaiting trial for @ most brutal murder committed in broad day- light, in the most crowded thoroughfare of this crowded city. This man, who had no scruples about drawing a pistol upon, and shooting down coolly and deliberately, a poor weak woman who had been his paramour, now affects the ut- most sensitiveness in regard to the newspapers, and is extremely anxious that every turn and twiet of his prison life shall be duly chronicled B having been stated that he was permitted, while in the custody of two police officers, to visit a house of ill fame, and there to lay ina .eupply of wine and segars to cheer his lonely cell, Mr. Macdonald hastens -to indite acard to the press, and therein to inform the public that he purchased a box of segars, not at this houge, but at the hotel where he had been stopping, and that the object of bis visit to the place in Crosby street was to ascertain whether he had paid the landlady for several bottles of wine which he had had there on the occasion of his preceding visit. It would bedifficult to perceive in what reepect the “card” improves the original statement, or justifies the conduct of the officers in allowing bim te go ou pleasure excursions through the city; but that was a matter of mo consequence to him, All that he desirod was the plessure of having bis “card” puolited. That pleasure we have gratified him in, thoux@ we cannot forbear to notice the vanity which dictated the communication, This card of Macdonald is just of a piece with our experieuce of the audacity of modera vp uk der. As we have said before, the act which o: ls for the interposition of the law is that w: iok gives the criminal a higher idea of him elf Shepherd, who is now in the Tombs under : em tence of the death penalty, complained o} a@s being treated with a sufficiently high degree @’ distinction. Stephens, who is also in a similar porition, assumed the religions dodge when the charge of wife murder was first made against him» earctimoniously treated it as a frivolous and groundlees accusation, and instead of defending himself, aseailed the character and motives of his accusers. The murderers of Bill Poole re- garded themselves as elevated public charac ters. The young roffian who suffered for the murder of Swanston a year or two ago, had many friends to interest themselves in him and try to shield him from the gallows, Donnelly, who suffered for the murder of the barkeeper at Nevasink, put on high airs, made of his execution a sort of dramatic representation, and died im- puting his own crime to an innocent man. Ons Corgressman coolly shoots down a waiter for imaginary ineolence, and another shoots dowa a law officer for criminal familiarity with his wife, and both set up pleas of justification and are ac- quitted. The youthful outragers and murderers of a poor old Swiss woman, in a cellar in Green- wich street, have audacious appeals to public sympathy made in their behalf, and thus escape the doom which they so richly merit. The mar- derer of Colonel Loring, at the St. Nicholas Ho. tel, escapes with a sentence of imprisonment, as a prelude to a complete pardon. And so we go on from bad to worse. Crime frightfully on the increase; punishment proportionately,on the de- crease, and malefactors making their crimes the means for public displays of, vanity, It is time that all this should be put a stop to, that laws ehould be administered with inflexible sternne:s and impartiality, and that those who outrage humanity and violate the law should learn that they must neither expect sympathy from the public, favor from the tribunals nor par- don from the Executive. In no other way cam the deluge of crime be effectually dpked. Provs Pruispvry Axp Pore Pivs.—The Pope of Rome has issued bis manifesto, and so has the Pope of the New York police. These great State papers are both equally clear, Pope Pius complains of the intervention of foreign Powers in his dominions as interfering with the inde pendence of his rovereignty; but he has himself invited the intervention of foreign Powers to protect him; therefore he is not independent. If foreign Powers go a little farther than he de- sires, that is only what might be expected, and he is in the position of the horse in the fable, whioh asked man’s assistance to put down his enemy the horned stag, but man having once got on the horee’s back, kept his seat after the stag wa® subdued, and has kept it ever since in despite of the horse’s complaints, The Roman Pope complains that “a foreiga usurping Power proclaims that God has made man free as regardeth his political and religious opinions, thus denying the authorities established by Ged upon earth, and to whom obedience and erpect are due.” The pious Pope of the New York police holds it to be an equal grievance that, in defiance of Puritanism, a considerable number of the people of New York city prociaim that God has made man free as regards his 1e- ligious observances and the disposal of his time on the first day of the week, as well as on any other day of the seven. Accordingly, sovereign pontiff Pillsbury issues his bull that all places where intoxicating liquor is eold shall be closed on Sunday next, but that, in other respects, “careful regard muat be paid to the rights of our citizens, who, without injury to public order or private immunity, are entitled to observe their respective and accustomed methods of rest, devotion or re- laxation.” This is as clear as mud. The people may in- dulge in their accustomed methods of relaxation; but suppoee that they start something new, something that they were not accustomed to— good music, for instance, in the public parks on Sunday—would an equally careful regard be paid to their rights then? Upon what principle, moreover, is it that aman may go into a lager bier saloon, or a liquor store where Rhenish wine is sold, and there take rest and refreshment, and read the papers on the last six days of the week, but on the first he cannot do so, though that is his “accustomed method of rest and relaxation” on Sunday. By pursuing this method he does not interfere with any other person’s peculiar tmede of Sunday observance. If he conducts himeelf in a disorderly manner that is a different affair, and the police ought to be on hand to take charge of him. A few persons quietly en- joying each other’s society in a lager bier saloon or “garden,” or in amy public house, cannot in- terfere with the devotions of other men at church. Indeed, the noise of the cars passing through the streets is a thousand times more an interruption and an interference, and yet nobody now thinks of stopping them—not even the pious Pillsbury himself. Before quitting his manifesto, we would suggest that when he has occasion again to issue “a general order” he would do well to employ somebody to make his confased ideas clear on paper, if that be possible, or at least to put them into grammatical language, It is very evident that Pope Pillsbury is coming round to our side; but we do not want bim. He has the reputation of possessing a little piety, and by all accounts this is an article of which the police are very much in need. Let him, therefore, stay with them, and try to make them half as pious as himself. This question of freedom on Sunday, as well as on any other day, is extending all over the Union. At Pittsburg and Cincionati it is dis- cussed with much excitement. In one of those cities a Jew has been prosecuted for following his worldly avocation on Sunday, though he kept bis own Sabbath on the previous day. This tyranny compels him to keep two days, instead of one, though the constitution leaves every man free in his religious observances. Now we trust that the citizens of New York and of other cities will make this a test with every candidate who comes forward for office, and insist upon his taking a pledge against the uaur- pation of the inquisitors who are infringing upom the personal liberties of the poople in a way that would not be submitted to under the absolute governments of France and Austria, or any- where clee in Christendom. Thus will the Suo- day despotism be swept off the stage of existence, never to return. It has been well said that