The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1859, Page 4

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BOWRRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wam Kaarr—Macio Tavarer— Pus’s Chae Walcak’s THLATRE, Sroedway.—IRsLanp 45 17 — Laus Boone WAL THEATER, Thagam srect.—Evstatue Bav ox Juyx- Harre Consizr, BARNUM'S AMKRIOAN MUSEUM, Brosdway.—atir rO0c- Swiss Cottecr \Viriscre Aurizans, Mveuing~Pa- SEB any BoN~VELAGE AuTISANS WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILUVING, 561 and $83 Brosdway— Exuioriay Songs, Daxors, £0 —Damom thy Py TBA, BREANT'S MINSTRELS, Meotsnios’ Hall, 472 Broetway— Buvissgues, Soncs, Lancts, 49 —Lawpust 2omouats, AND HalL, Fourteenth sirest,— Palace GaRDIN Voor. in TAL JONCEMT. @nureday, august 18, 2959, ‘The News. ‘The Saxonia arrived at. this port yesterday with files from Enrope dated in London on the evening of the 4th instant. The Paris Constitutionnel con- tains a very important article on the position of the Emperor Napol wards the people of Italy, Austria, the revolutionists, and Europe in general on his conclusion of ihe ce at Villafranca. In it the Italians are plainly told that they are now “free from Austrian rule” if they have sense enough to understand so, and if not so mach the worse for themselves, for if Napoleon withdraws his protect ing hand nothiog can save them from Austrian do Mination from “Turin to Messina.” Active pre- Pparations were being made for the Confereace at Zurich. The disarmament of the French navy was in operation. The Asia is due at this port, with two days’ European news. We have news from Puerto Cabello, Venezne! tothe Ist inst. One of the revolutiona hi Gen. Falcon, assisted by Gen. Guevara, was abou. to attack Puerto Cabello, aided, it is reported, by the government officials in the city. At the meeting of the Academy of Medicine tas; evening, Dr. Henry Smith, of Cincinnati, read an interesting paper on the subject o the present condition of the Croton water. We give this paper in our report of the proceedings of the Acade: The telegraph infor i hood of Bo-ton, on ter marked as low In New York at present the weather is remarkably fine, with com 40 degrees, fortably cool nights. Western and Southern mer. chants in large numbers have already arrived in town to purchase their fall and winter supplies of goods, of which the retail shop windows display an attractive variety. The wholesale establishments exhibit great activity in all branches of trade, The merchants state asa gratifying fact that this general rush of business this season is sey weeks earlier than usual. The Young Men’s Central Republican Comwit. tee met last evening at their headquarters. a little business of importance was transacted. ie resolution offered at the previons meeting censur ing ihe Police Commissioners for their course ia not allowing the merbers of the department to be long to political jations was called up, bat after some debate was finally laid on the table. A resolution was offered to app a committee o: ten to wait on the Governor of the State and to have the Twelfth regiment reinstated, but on a vote of 19 to 15 it was laid over until the next meeting. The friends of Lieut. Stanford, late of the United States revenue cu'ter Harriet Lane, whese death Was reported in Monday’s Herarp, eharge that his Cecease w ing to the culpability of a dea- tist in M@ling a tooth with some arsenical prepara. tion to kill the nerv A full investigation of the matter, it ia said, will be made. The remains are ‘al still deposited in thy receiving vault at Greenwood, t thei si removal to Washincton al interment and such ag the latter sec fit to t: ‘led from t with 149° pa neon fi Four of hey Now fever at Havana, port, and the other on crew » of whor the voyoge to thi ined at th Lower Qnara: and makes four ve sel n infected ports. A third cllow fever patients al Florence Ni; gale. There have been fever in this hospital, of w board, The Comm yesterday prob except those li also passed a resol mors arriv: ing from infected ports to come to the city and un Toad after they have spent a term, The co’ cated in anew M , hear Macdougal, was 1. % ith the usaal ce. sence of a large concour Janes presiled, and Dr. McClintock address. The church is for the congregation of Methodists now worsipping in Sullivan street. The Emigration Commissioners met yesterday at Castle Garden, but did no business of any conse- quence. They determined to send to Ward's Island all the blankets not in use at tne Marine Hospital. ‘The number of emigrants arrived, during the last week was only 831, making the number for the year so far 48,732. The balance of the commuta- tion fund is now $15,904 81. The Auditing Com- mittee reported to the Board that their whole in- debtedness to the county at present is $55,090, which they hope to diminish in the course of the present season, unless the expenses at Quarantine are greater than is anticipated. ‘The varions cattle yards were well stocked with beef curing the past week, but the suppty was ofan average quality, and prices generally vuled low, thongh for prime quality previous rates were fully maintained. Prices ranged from 6c. a Oe. for inferior to good and 10c. a 10}c. for prime. Cows and at Sc. a 6c. a 6} fambs were abunda ' data 44.0 $6 per head. Swine were Plenty and very dull of vale at a decline of half a cent per pound. The cotton market was jnuctive Desterday, and rales @oriined to 200 a 300 bales, mainiy on ton Yasls of 11s ‘Ke. for middiing upianss. Too « alnce the Ist of September last ans egaingt 3,068,000 in 1863, 2,904,000 ia 48,448,000 in 1958. Tho export: baco reached 2,07) Wi bates, agwagt 2,656,060 ip 1868, 2,235,000 in 1887, 95 1 2,983 000 in 1854, The stock ou baud embraces 136,000 | ules, agains 1 OCC in 4868, 76,000 Iu 1867, 61,000, 54, aud 12 am 3855. The exports are tho largest, both Io qre RS SEE SRS I SE : NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY,- AUGUST 18, 1859. | end valce, ever ‘efors shione” rm th United Staton ‘They have sow reiche1 $950,100 b ‘cs, and wilt, by the | €@ of the cotton year (om th» Jet of SHotember), proba | Dly not fats ff anything short of 8,006,000 of dates. At an average value of $60 per bale, tae 2,960,000 baics already abipped will amount to the su of $148,000,000, If the exports reach 3,600,000, of which there is a | Proepect, the vaue will be $160,000,000, against | $:31,000,000 for the Muancial yoar ending June 30, 1858. ‘The flour market was in som» bo'ter drmant, with ‘air sales, | ough without furthes ccapge in prices of im porten ©, Wheat wae firm for new and choice lots, wt! 6 old end iverior quatities were neglected. Among the trapeactiong were Keotucky nw white at $145, Co was lese plenty and firmer; sales of vid and now mixed Wore ade Bi 770, & 783¢°., round yeilow at 85¢>. aS2o., and prime white Soutnern at 880. a 0c, Pork was de preeved, with sales of mets at #13 50 a B15 G2i4, an’ prime at $9 6244. Sugars were stersy, wih ealen of about 600 bhds. and 480 boxes at rates given in another Place, Sales of 1,000 baze Rio coflue were made at sieaty prices, Freight engagem nts were moderaia, while races were eteady; 10 Liverpool coitou was taken at 7 821.0 e4., and flour at 1s. 6d. The Reault of the Recent Elections—Ity Beartyg upon Faction and a Nationa Poy. The results of the recent elections in the Southwestern and Southern States will redound o the good of the country, by proving to the factions that have so long sought to rule, if not to ruin, the administration, how utterly they have mistaken the tone and temper of the country, No sooner was Mr. Buchanan elected to the Presidency, than the office begging politicians made their onslaught, for the purpose of raling and bending bim to their wishes. They made up cabinets for him to accept, they marked out poli- cics for him to pursue, and they allotted offites tor bim to bestow upon themselves. But he bad been elected President, and he determined to be President. He selected a cabinet of his owo shocsing, without regard to the wirhes of the office beggars, and when he got ready he allotted he appoiotments to office as well as he could among the motley crowd of hungry beggars who toraged upon the Washington hotel. keeper* wd besieged the White House. But there were ofices for only one out of every ten of the claim. ants, and nine of them were necessarily digap- pointed is their hopes. These at once set up their howl that thoy, and be party, and the couutry, were all incontinently vnined by Mr. Buchanan’s black ingratitude, and each began at once, in his own section of the ountry, @ course of factious opposition to the edminietration, Then came the memorable ses- ions of the last Congress. With au abdsolnte majority in the House of Representatives they eted the Speaker and appointed the commit- tees, aud then began their war against the mea- cures of the government. The sagacity, skill and experience of the President were set at naught Every measure that his wisdom could suggest was violently opposed. The recommendations of bis first annual message were completely ig aored. Those of his second annual and sabse quent special mesaages were allowed to fail brougb, and the government was }oftawith i's uands tied and its feet chained to the barren pin- nacle of office, withont power to move in any way. The Cuba bill was talked over into next eseion; the recommendations of the President in regard to the countrics couth of us were entirely patsed over; and so far did the anger cf the fac- tions po that even the Post Office was left with- out the appropriations necessary to carry on its ‘abors. In this state of feeling Congress closed its sittinge, Then came the efforts of all the office beggar to divide the peopte, each striving to lead a por tion of them off after his own false idole. The result bas been the stguat @ereat of the mesons So completely have they divided and spiit ap the party that no one of them can carry any measure without the assistance of the admiuis tration. Quarrelling bitterly with each othe they bave no point of union or common action except in support of the policy and measures of tbe administration, and on this they must and will unite. Having lost all hope of ruling the party, their only resource is to cling to the party- OF this tbere can be no other represeutative than the af ministration, and to it they must cling as their orly chance for the future. Tu thus defeating themselves the fastious iceders and the bungry office beggars have done & great good to the country. They leave it the hope that the Preeident’s voice will be lietened ‘0; that the wise measures he has suggeeted will be adopted, and that under his gnidance the acverbment will be permitted to initiate that sa- eacious public policy which Mr. Buchanan has recommended and the good sense of the people tas so strongly approved. If they do not do is; if they again carry their factions spirit iato Congress, and loze the orgnuization of the House , their chance will be gone for the e years tocome. Not that the coun Gy would Ices apj thing by their being buried in oblivion, but it would lose in not having a great aod united party, under the leadership of a clear end ragacious mind. We congratulate it upon the eplits among aud the defeat of the factions, ar on the dawning hope that their own follice wilt bring them under the necessity of abandon- ing their gelSsh aims, and of uniting in the sup- portof a truly national policy aa their only plank of safety. Inpierep Orrrcrats—Invormation Wanten.— In the Henan of the 23d of November last we find among the Jaw reporta the following: — Before Judge Rusectt, at Chambers. Porsnant to an arrengement made on =i coureel for Charice Deviip, Charles Tarno urday by nd others, who have been ro indicted by the last Grand Jary for ap alleged conspiracy (o obtain motey from the city treasu. Ty ,@he de‘encante appeared before tho City Judze at noon rdny to enter into the neccesary bonds for thair ap- ince at the December ierm of the Generat Sessions, be Judge’a office was crowded by c!tizens chrougbout the cay, The following individuals were preset, accompa- = by whe geatiemen who offered to become ball for mi Charier Devlin (one indictment) was charged with ob- taining worey under {alee pretences from the city tre2su. Ty. James Sexton became his bali ia the sum of $1,600. Char‘es Terver wsa indicted for alleged conspiracy and 8D attemp! to obtain mozey under falee pretences. Wm. R, Michenis became hi orb Di rety in $1,500 on each charge. was cbarged with obtaining money under fare ae . Joan F. Broderick became bie bail in the era of $ Peer Hi Dryor wee indicted for a elmilar offence. Fuph MeJabe became bis aurety. Jaco> F Oakley, Charies McNeil and Wm. A. Dooley rere ORR char 0 with cont ciracy, and admitted to out! sum of Win. Howe went bail for Oatley Win, B. Rocxwei) for Dooley. and J.B. Smith, who have also been indicted, were not presen*, but itis probable that thoy Will give bail to-day, Be‘ore Hon. Jacge Gould, Nov. 22 —In the Malter of the Peopla vs, Jaz. R. Tay: Urthe Daitiok Atzoreoy ustounced that thig cause Hand over ua’ll Teesday morning, in consequence Cf the vnavoidavle ateenco of Me, Jas. f. Braay, one of the c uncel for the cefence, We have vo recollection of any of these cases having been tricd, although we rememoer veiy made acquainted, through Alcerman Franklin's report, with the fraudulent and flagitions opera- tione that bad been carried on by our corrupt officials and contractors for city work. Will the District Attorney, or bis deputy, or anybody, in- jorm us whether any or all of these offictals have Sern put on drial for the tr aete; and if not, why ot We (wat a categorical answer {mme- well the inéigpation of the community on belag | The Be cher Boy of the Albany Staughter House 6Uli tn Torrer of the Rope. C nfgence Cassidy is still in mortal fear of ban .ng. Indeed, his terror is on the increase, and, jods‘ng from his latest utterance about that Wise letter, he seems to feel as it the noose were already pressing on bis windpipe, that the fatal koot was adjusted under his ear, and that at any moment he might be jerked up to dance in tne air, Thus does conscience make a coward of the poor buteber boy. On another page we publish the lest speech and dying declaration of the criminal, with the rope around bis neck. Ande sad affair he makes ot it, as men in bis situstion alwayedo. Far beter for him to bave remained silent thaa to be con- demned out of bia own mouth. In giving up bis early profession for higher game, unfortanate Cassidy committed a great mistake. He is still the batcher, and bis idesa have never been able to coar above the shambles, The profession of a newepaper editor was altogether beyond his ca pscity, and instead of ruling the politicians, and creating a public opinion, or directing its course, he is made to serve as a slave to the bead butch- ers of the Albany Regency, who control the de- mocratic politics of this State; and instead of a brook of pure living water issuing from he Atlas- Argus, it is a bloody, offensive, putrid stream from @ slaughter-houee. Unlike the men who mavage him, he is unable to cover his tracks, and be has to bear the burden of their rascality He bas to do their dirty work, while they lie ensconced from public view and pocket the profits of the business Like the pickpocket, who at the top of bis voive ehou's “stop thief!” or the pickpocket’s confede- rate, who throws a baudful of dust in the eyes of the spectators to blind them, while his com panion effects bis escape, Cassidy tries to direct attention from himeelf aad bis frieads towaras us; butin the clumsy way be does it be shows that he has not the talent even of a emart pick pocket. Just think of bim pretending to exult that we make a full confession that we were the first to publish Wise’s letter. As well might we con- fess that the sun shines while we write, or that the Henaxp office is situated on the oorth west corner of Nassau avd Fulton streets The thing is selfevident, and needs vo confession. We said so from the first, aud took some credit for onr enterprise io the way of news, While the other New York journals only cbtalned a mutilated copy, we were esuccersful, as usual, in laying a full copy before our readers, The agent of the Associated Press had access to the same source, but was too lezy to copy the letter complete, or too dull to sce its importance and iuterest, while our detec- tive, sharp a3 @ needle, perceived that he could make a point for himself and the Heraup by copying it accurately and entire from one of tbe copies which emanated from Cassidy. There were some efrore fn the pointing, which were afterwards corrected by Mr. Wise, and which were occasioned by the illiterate persov who made the firet copy from the origi- nal in Cassidy’s possession, Hud the origi nal been in our control, or had a copy of it been sent to us by Mr. Wise, as Cassidy stupidly insinuates, the pointing would have been 88 correct as the reat. The whole case lies ia a vutehell—thus: Cassidy confesses that Donnelly confided the letter to bim, and Donnelly has Geclared over bis signature that he gave no copy of the letter to a buman being, and he is corrobo. rated by the fact that uobody ever heard of copies being in circulation till Confidence Cassidy cothold of the origieal. Oaccldy does aut deny that be gave a copy or copies. Is he not, there- fore, responsible for the letter finding ite way to the press? It isin giving the first copy of this coufidential letter that the treachery and thé breach of confidence lie. For, once a copy was allowed to be made, there was no guarantee what use would be made of it, or how many copies would be taken from the first copy. But Cassidy knew very well what would be the re- Bolt. His object was to keep the letter in cirea- iation privately, to kill off Wise as regards the repretentation in the State Convention by dis- tricte. He knew that the letter would inevitably be made public, but be calculated that it would not eee the light cosoon. He desired to have Wiee eecretly cut up into little pieces before be or his friends could take the alarm, and that being accomplished, he cared little when the | letter was made public. Our premature publi- cation of it somewhat defeated his purpose, and | enabled the bungling butcher to wia only a doubtiul victory—one that uses himself up as effectually as Wise. Havivg despatched the Virginian bull, Cas- sidy next trots out Dickioson to show his fine pointe. He will continue fatteotng him op the most nourishing fodder, and will give him refreshing driak, and curry bim emooth and sleek ard shining like » movee’s ear, and pat him on the back till he is a splendid fat prize ox, | in as five condition as a “bull of Buasban,” ready for a brain blow of the treacherous hatchet and astab of the cut-throat kuife, Theo will some means be found to entrap and tie him up to the stall where he fed so luxnriously, and despatch him like Mr. Wise, and cut him up in steaks and romps acd roasting pieces, acd sell him all | round for the benefit of the Regency. No doubt | Cassidy will be found hawking his carcass about, and erying out, “Who will buy fine porter houze | steaks from the great prize ox of Neer York?” Then will come the turn of Horatio Seymour. | He has been long a tool of the Albany Regency and the political butchers of New York. They want to get bim into the White House, that they may have the cutting and carving of the choicest places throughout the Union. I¢ they cannot get hold, through him, of the fat offices they are longing after, they will fied no tronble | in slaughtering him at any time ; and then they will take up William H. Seward, and rell to bim wholessle the entire democratic party ia the | State of New York, which, after being neatly | butchered, its head broken and ita throat cat in | due form, its ekin taken off, and its entrails taken out, will smoke on the blazing ultar a holccaust to the Moloch of abolition. Covxting Tux Cost.—Philoeophers and phi- lenthropist« are costly members of society. They rarcly mensure the results of theie echemes with thelr expense, and believing in the divine charscter of their miesion, they never trouble themeclyes as to the eource from whence the cach is tocome, The Zribuxe philosopher has cost the country more money in his time than Karas bua bug, which cost at least $150,000; ond lastly, ta the Pike’s Peek humbug, the cont of wbich bas yet to be determined, Who will soy after thie that Grecley’s reputation is not deer to the country ? Pustianical Legisiation=lis Reactive Ten- * depcive. It fs curfous bow apt people are to confound principles aud to cheat their consciences when’ it euite them to abandon old ideas and habits, Many, for netance, who think it highly immoral to gamble at a faro table or in a lottery, deem it bo sin to riak their money in equally hazardous #peculations on the Stock Exchange. That which constitutes with them the moral offence is merely the cinfsvor with which it ty viewed by publie opinion, But what is called public opinion, as gleaned from puritanical sources, bas in reality po caim to thet title. Ludepeodent thinkers, who reflect the views of the multitude, refuse to draw distinctions which are founded on the forms and not on the ersence of things, Let us just examine one phase of the phari- saical terdency which creates such a seeming difference between the ideas of ene generation and those of another, but which in reality ouly reproduces under apother name thé passions and failings whicb make up the eum of the human character. At the present duy the lottery sys- tem is almost universally cried down as being a fruitful source of immorality andcrime. Abroad it has been made pretty generally an object of hostile legislation, although some governments— Fravee, for instance—refuse to recognise the va- lidity of the arguments on which this hostility ig tounded. In this country, with the exception of toree States—MuryJand, Georgia and Dela- ware—lotteries are strictly probibited. Tais dees bot prevent on immense business being done by the lotteries of those States thronghout the Union. The men who bave purchased the fow remaining lottery privileges are amongst the riebest and most influential of our citizens, aad seitber morally, socially nor politically ia aay | .\igma suppored to attach to them. If lotteries be morally wrong, it follows that public sentiment in regard to the position of these persone cauuot be right. Let it be clearly uu derstocd that we do pot defend the priociple of lotteries any more than we defend the faro table or gambling in apy other shape or fora. We in- sist, however, upon baving things called by their right bames, and upon havivg the specious pre- fences which are made the cloak for so many worse offences against society strip ped from the sias which they cover. In order to do this we need only investigate the uses made of lotteries in times that were purer and more primitive than our ows, and then com pare them with tbe purposes to which gambling of an equally hazardous and indefensible charac- ter is at present applied. The founders of the republic evidently did not regard the lottery rystem as £0 pernicious to the public morals as modern reformers do, for one of their eurliest acts sfter the Declaration of Independence was to charter a lottery to enable the Revolutionary Congress to supply the sinews of war. Those to whose care it devolved to train the youthful minds that were to sustain the honor aod in- terests of the nation thus called iuto beiog could uct have viewed the lottery system as so preg bapt with danger, for to it we owe @ large pro- portion of the great educationul estublisomente of tbe country. Neither do the clergy appear to have been at all eusceptible to its perils, fur we find that at least two-thicde of the obarches that were erected in the United Stutes prior to the year 1805 were indebted to lotteries for their completion Episcopalians, Methodists, Preebyteriane aud Baptists, were all, in fact, equally glad to avail themselves of the aid which this invention of the arch-enemy of mapkisd afforded them. It ts worthy of note that when the hue andcry was raised against lotteries, avd the Legislatures were driven to pass severe penal enactments sgainst them, banks and railroads suddenly eprapg into favor. An explanation of this coincidence is to be found in the fact that the lottery speculators and gamblers, compelled to change the form of their operations, rnahed eagerly into these new schemes, To them, it is pow weil aecertained, we owe most of the rotten backing and railroad enterprises which have | subjected the country to so many terrible crises: What are, then, the actual reeults of all the cru | sades apd severe enactments directed against | lotterfes in this country? In the first place, the taste for gamblivg bas been diffused over a wider sertace, whilst the lottery system itvelf is ia nearly as great activity asever. By limiting ita legal existence to three States we have given a | monopoly toa few individuals who are makiag enormous revenues out of it, aud we bave taereoy imported to it a unity and force which render it | Infinitely more powerful for mischief than it was | when it was exposed to general competition. From the two other evils which our endeavors to supprers Jotreries have created have sprung ro- sults infinitely more dieastrous thau auy to which the Jatter could have led. The railway system of this country, which might have been made ove of great nations! benefit and of legitimate profic to individuals, has been converted into a | Vatt and uncontrollable engine of mischief. Tae whole system, conceived ay it was in a wild apirit of epeculation, and carried cut in bad faish and disbonesty, bas exploded and destroyed all fatare | confidence in its results. Our bapks have not as yet arrived at this pass, but toey are on the high road to it. Tbe men who are at their head are doing all they can to insure their ruin, and it | requires but another revuieion like that of 57 to bring the whole structure of our banking system toppling to the ground. So much for the mo- Tality that secks to impoxe legal limits to ten- dencies which require but the restraints of a sound public opinion for their guidance and cor- rection, As in the cage of Sabbath legislation, | the only effect of such tyraunical restrictions is to drive the masses into other and more danger OU CXCCEBES, Yacutixe on Sunpay—Tue Fac Exp or SANcTIMONtOUSNESS.—Iu a communication to the Pious Journal ¢f Commerce, which the religions pa pers taunt as being a pro-slavery organ, some loug-faced, etraight-laced pharisee of the strict- est sect deplores the prevalance of the ungodly practice of yachting on Sundays, We snomit that that is the ultima thule, the extrem fag end cf cant and hypocrisy. It goes abend even of the provisions of the famous Sabbatarian bill propored many years ago in the British Parlia- eny dozen other Utopists, Beginning life aa the editor of a lottery office journal, he abandoticd thet reepectable vocation to plunge into a sea of wild projects. First, he embarked in the Irish revolutionary humbug, which cost $60,000; then fa the Fourieri‘c and Phalanx bumbug, which may be set down at $500,000; then in the spiritcalist humbug, iu which but little capital ond Toor Draine were invested; thon im thy ment by Sir Andrew Agnew, which was at the fime the subject of ridicule all over the British islands, atd is commemorated in ba!lits and Lam- goons. Nothing less would eatisfy tbe writer of this communication thun that, during the twenty. four bovrs of the sombre Sabbath, the wheals of vcean steamers thould cease to revolve, the sails of our white-winged meseongers of commerce shonld be furled, all locomotion on land, 808 Bay air euepended, snd the ordinary »,"€rations of eocial und phyei al life topped. There 14a point where sanctimoniourness becomes eimply .“idlou- Jous, and the writer of the communication io question has evidently reached it. What next? es Tue Organization oy Tux New Conaress— A PReLnuxaky PRestentiaL Sxreun.—The organization of the new House of Representa- tives, which meets at Washington in December bext, will be tbe firet preliminary skirmish of the approaching Presidential campaign. There will be three parties avd two factions in the fight— tbe republican party, about 114 strong; the de woeratic party, come 90 in number; the Southera opposition party, from 26 to 30; the Anti Le compton democratic faction, about a dozen; and the North Americans, 5. As 119 will be neces sary to elect a Speaker by a majority, and as the republicans will only be able to count 114, or ‘bereabouts, we have the promise of a more ip- terecting, excited and protracted struggle thao that of 1854-5, when Nathaniel P. Banks was elected Speaker, at last, under the plurality rule, The eame rule will probably be adopted again, and probably not. The Speaker may bave it in bis power, perbaps, by a uice enforcement of the rules of the House, to shape or decide the issue of the election of our next President, We may expect, therefore, a tremendous battle tor the Spesker, and oll sorts of negotiations and pro positions of bargain and sale among the inte rested pvrties, cliques and individuals. The vext offce in order is that of the House Clerk, an important and valuable posi for epoile to tbe incumbent, and for clec ‘ioneeripg purposes to bis party. The Clerkship however, may be thrown in for votes for the Spesker, with an understanding concerning the dietribution of his twenty or thirty subordinate offices, But, scarcely second in importance “to the Speaker’s chair will be the spoils and pluuder ot the House printing, in view of the sinews of wer for Presidential purposes. Who will be the printer? Wendell bes been run out, and who wil) take bie place? Forney is the auti-Lecomp on candidate, and is doubtless ready to give his Copsent to the fusion of the anti-Lecomptoa- tes with the republicans for the Speaker, iu ots'deration of his election as Clerk or priuter; but will apy such arrangement hold water? What will Mr. Douglas eay to it, with bis eyes tixed all the time upon the Crarleston Conven- tion? The whole subject is a perplexing puzzle, which we must give up for the present, in the absence of any clue to a solution. We dare say, however, that the pipelayers apd contractors of all the parties concerned in thie businers of the Speaker, Clerk and priater or the popular branch of the new Congress are at tbis moment as busy with their plots, counter- plots, treaties, contracts and negotiations as ever the numberless Nicaragua Transit jubbors have been over that job during the last two years Avd by and bye we sball fiad out bow the wind t+ blowing. The first trip of Thurlow Weed to Philade)pbia or to Wasbington, or his next visit to the Astor House, will probably mark the ac tive opening of the ball. ExronceMent OF THE SapsatH Laws—An Op. PoRTUNITY oF Tgstina Tuer Constirvrrona 11Ty.—The Metropolitan Police, under the direc- tien of their p:ous Cofef and saactimoniousCom- wiesioners, eeem determined to force oar citizens to test the covstitutionality of the Sabbath laws. Compiain’s have been made against some thirty ‘iquor dealers, dolog business principally iu the Seventh, Exghtb aud Ninth avenues, for carrying on their lawful trade last Sunday in disregard of the statute and of the resolutions adopted by the Police Commissioners on the subject of the euramount religion of New York. No man with a mind free from prejudice and fanaticism would attempt to uphoid such statute or such re- solutions in face of the piain provision of the constitution of this State, that “the free exercise ard enjoyment of religious profession and wor- +hip, witbout discrimination or preference, shal) forever be allowed in this State to all mankind.” Now, we would like to know whether the com- pelling cue class of the community to observe as eacred a particular day, to which another class of the community ascribes no peculiar rarctity, is not an unjust “discrimination or preference.” The Jew has no reverence for the Christian Sabbath, the Seventh-duy Bap'tst bas pone, the frecthwker Las none; a majority of profeseing Christians do uot believe in a strict observance of it, Sotbat, in fact, these Sabba- tarjan Jaws are imposed by a minority of the commaity upon a majority. ‘The Larinvess ot the liquor dealer may not be one calculated to have a beneficial inflicnce on cociety; but if it is to be banued on the first day of the week it ought to be equally banned on the other eix. There is a0 escape from that logical conclusion, That experiment was tried some years ago by our rame saptent legisiators, and proved to be 8 most signal fuilore. The only reaton, we imagine, why this Sabbatarian law hae not been wiped off the statute book before ‘bie is, that op to the present time no executive ficera could be got siily enough to attempt to epjorce it. But now the Police Comuiscioners and pious Pillebury come to the rescue. Let the gunge of battle be accepted. Let the question be brought up before the Court of Appeals. That tribunal will doubtless declare the Jaw un- constitutional. If not, there is still a higher court of appeals—the ballot box—and there the question will have to be brought and decided. Tuomas Baxgr’s Beyer at PaLace Ganvev.—Palace Garden will be open this (Thureday) evening, for the 4 benefit of Mr. Thowrs Baker. His many friends and the pub'ic generally wili Od the orchestra in greatly aug- merted force, giving » variety of classical and miscelia- becvs music, including an operatic selection from the “Huguenots,” and sorhe of the movements of Besthoven’s Symphonies, The ‘Battle Symphony” and “Italy and Austria,” by Unger, will alao be performed to, wo doubt bot, a crowded audiences, Poittical Inteiligence. Tas Tix iv Kexrvcry.—The Fourth Coogresstonal dis- trict of Kentucky, where a tio was reported, has retarned Wi. P. Anderson, the opposition candidate, by & small majority. Thia is one acooant; but the latest from the Lovisville Democrat of tho 1¢'h inst. gays:—Wo bave in- formation trom the Fourth district that there is an error in tbe poll books of one of the Cumberland couaty pra einets, which wil) give James S. Chrieman, dom., a ma jority of seven votes. UP yor Dicxmvsom.—The Alamota Gueetie, @ paper Printed in San Leandro, Celifornia, bas hoisted the name ‘of Daniel 8. Dickinson, of this State, for President. Borrs Mrxrinc.—A great mase mooting will be he'd in the Africsn church, Richmond, Va., next Monday evon- ing, to respond to the effort pew makiag im variogs pares of the copnty to nominate Mr. Botis tor President, Maxv7.aypv Pourtics. tho Democratic Coavengion of tho Firet Congressional distriot met at Dentoa oa tise Tivo inst, and nomipated, on the thirieenth ballot, Ha, Janes A. Stewart, of Dorcbeswr, a8 @ candidate for ye eleviioa , Congress from that district, Henry Ravenel, Preeidont of the Uniya Bank ef Charles. tem, BO, dled Inet week tt the Virginia Sprays, J 3s SeoeeatmEnanmnnmemmenemmnemnemmenmenne ee) IBTEBESTING FROM WASHINGTOS. Movements of Distinguished Pollticinns— Messrs, Cobb, Thuriew W-ed, Waal, &e. ad ine State of Pilarimege—The President Senator Dougies—the Tehuantepes Lean Sevators Bright, Cameron and BJamla— Governor Seymour and Krastas Covalag= Guthate, of Kentucky. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPaTOn. Wamunarow, August 11, 1880, Governor Cobb was expected t» return here from Georgia thie morning. He wil ceriainiy be back defere the end of the wook, He is ta high glee a the state of things in bis native State, and deolares that there will be 29 opposition there whatever to hie Presidential aspira- Moos. Neither Toombe nor Stephens will aotively canvass ‘gainst bim,end the revelations which have rosenlg been mado in relation to the re-opening of the slave trade, bave materially alded in giving him strength among piant- ere.and those who contro! popular fosting. The epprsl- Sion which be feared rome weeks ago, ho thinks he will ne longer have to encounter, and thet the Charleston Doaves- ‘ton will find hip: the moet available of Southern onadl- dates. John B. Guthrie, Mr, Cobb's factotum, left here yeater- day for New York. Letters from Yexas show that Governor Houston entor- tains couleur de rose anticipations respecting himself, fully equal to those of the Seoretary of the Treasury, and thore {8 po question that the victory be has iately achieved #@t give him great prestige with tho friends of the proseat wdmipistrasicn. ‘Senator Dongias appears to be utterly disgusted at the Drogrecs of the developements which aro gradually boieg mae fn relation to the Wise Donuelly lsiter. Thore ie ‘no doubt that, in common with Dickinson, of New York, apd Wise, of Virgina, be bad considerea Fernando Weed. ea fully pledged to bis own taterests. Mr. Wood had brow. inthe habit of visitiog and consulting with him im the moet confidential manner during his frequent visite to the nations! capital, and, even =hile visiting at tho house of {he tete Postmaster General Brown, apoat more time at ‘tae mansion of the “Little Giant” than with his osteasi- bie howt. Mr, Doug'as’ friends cry out loudly that he is one of a betrayed trio, and thus another imbrogiie wholly: ‘“panitopated is produced by the famous letier whiok Wr. Cassidy gave to the public ut Albany, while pretead- ing to coubt its genu'veness, Banks, of Virginia, formerly of the South Side Democrat, out now editing the Cincinnati Kaquirer, te here, ravidiy olextioncering for Doug! and for printiog jodbery ia gevera), under the vext siministration. He is aa ascora- piahed button hole bargalner for government prokings, a veteran lobbyer, though bui & boy in appearause, aud de tives some Consideration from his sssocia\ion with Siead- man te ourt Wen-tell during the last session of Cougrosn. Mr. Ashe, M.C. from North Carolina, is moving tho subterranean firmaaonts in your city in bebsil of Mucter, Governor Willard, of Tadiana, is also in New York, working for Governor Joe Lane, o” Oregon, not of Kansas. The ex Governor of Kansas is anxious that this distiaction shou}d, at all times, he carefully made, Since Willard, by the way, haseplit with Senator Bright, the Weighs infla- enoe in Indiana, which goes for Dougias, has been uppor- most, Bright, however, has achtoved a victory recaaily ‘n Indisnapolis, where aiministcation dologates have been elected to the Stato Convention_in oppogiiion to the Doug- ‘as power. Letters from many parts of Pennsylvania seem to indi- oate that Camoron will be pregentod, with great strougth, ae the Presidentia! candidate of that State, Poter G. Washingtoo is st Rockaway, betting that old James Guthrie, of Keatucky, will be the next Prosideat. Tre ex Secretary of tho Treasury would do wisely t® choose & more ciacreet agent. Tho babblings of his quon- dam subordinate injure him materially. . Lottere trom Albany sate tha Governor Seymour an@ Hon. Erastus Corning have returned from thoir Westerm tour, and have both been called in to give surgical aestet- avce to the Albany Regency in general, Cassidy in par- ticular. acd others who have been woanded in the ex- ploeion causea by tho Wie Dounoliy letter, Senator Benjamin writes from London, that if the rola- tions betweea France and Eaziand coutinao frieadly, be entertains little doubt of aegotiating the Tohuantepec losa Of $1,600,000. The projoot is regarded with favor by forei,n capitalists. Tae President is quietly dori'ctled at tbe Soldiers’ Home attending mainly to foreign aifa:ra, and especially to thusa of South ond Central America. It was currentiy reposted here yesterday that Taur- low Weed had passed throagh Washington, in company with Mr, Fernando Woo, on the wey to Richmond. Tne motives of this visit to the reaideuce of the Govorao: of Virg‘nia were variously attribnied to the re opening of the slave trade, the Wise letter, aud the gonaral maasgo- ment of New York city and State politics, THE GRATRAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH Wasinngron, August 17, 1859, The Fecretary of the Tressury, on appeal, has cooldad that under the tsriffcf 1957, lapping* composed of worsted and flax are liable to a duty of nineteen per cCenium; drop black, used as paint, to fitteen per ceutum, and caraway aceds free. Parties designing to rend articles of small bulk, but of great yaiue, to th UToited States, ase to be under the im- preesion that for greater security they can Property tor- ward them through the wail to the consignment of the Collectors of Customs. This bas led to the issurance of am instruction that such cour'gamente are not sanctioned by law, a8 the officers of the Customs araexorevely prohibited from being engeged in the busines of importation. Saortd cages occur after this warping it will become the daty of the Department to adopt such measures a3 the law may warrent to put sm end . ihe practice, Non-Arrivel of the Asia. Saxpy Hoox, August 17-11 P, M, There are as yet no sigas of the steamsh'p A now about due with Liverpool cates of the 6th instant, Wiad hght and blowing from the East. Wea.ter clear, Movements of the New York Yacht Squadion+ Nawrorr, August 17, 1859, The yactts Favoriia, Ray, sad Robecea arrived hare from Edgartown this afternoon at five o’s ck, They had rough weather at Holmes’ Hole and Kégartowa. They found at Newport the yachts Restleeas, Gertrude, Undine, Vca and Escort, The match race in this harbor by all the yschie is to ba arranged to-morrow, The equadron disperscd at Holmes’ Hole. News from Porto Cabello. PHLADKLPUIA, Avgust 17, 1359, Tho bark Tallett has arrived bere wita Pore Uavello dates of tha Ist Inet. Gen, Falcon, at tue bend of 600 revolutionisie, had land- ed a few miles below orto Cabello, and, being joined by Gen, Guevars, wae posting to attack the city. He hak prepared a plan to eo 5 the oity, but it had been fotied by the arrest of bi: occompiice in the city, Faloon was enabled to make the Iaodirg he did through the com- plicity of tome of the gor:rument officials. Noue of tha government vessels inter(ered until the landing was effct~ ed. Porto Cabello waa defended by 200 government ‘troops and six picccs of artillery. ——$——wnne The American Normal School Convention. Trewrom, August 17, 1850 ‘The American Normal School Convention met here to_ day. A Jarge pumber of delegates were prersut from ya- | rious parts of the Union, including Professor Emorson, of Bos(on; Professor Hart, of Philadelphia; Dr. Mcdiiton, of Baltimore; Governor Boutwol), of Marsechusztts, and other distinguished personr. Professor Pheips, of Nuw Jersey, is the Presider’. An intercsting discussion woic place on the modern of teaching, &c. This evening Go vernor Boutwell addressed & largo audience on the subject of education. ‘The Ontario Wlevator Destroyed by Fire. Pitan, N. ¥., Avgast 17, 1859, A fire was discovered about baif past turee o’e!ook this morning in the steam elevator in th's place, omved by Fred. J, Corrington, Tae flames were ficst seen at the north and water front. Tne immerse dulliing waa en- Urelx Consumed, with tbo exception of the engine depot. The wareboure isfaid to havo conteiped 359,000 bushola of wheat and corn. Tha loss is estimated at $150,000, whic ts Coudtices Insured, moatiy in New Yor’: comps. nies. Tho Canadian rehoooer Mary, which was disshagizg Lor carg® of wheat Inet evevlag, was lying ai tho ward house 944 wos badly burned. Tuo fro exvended 09 Gus ther, A Novel and Picasant Trip. Port Jeavis,N ¥., Auguet 1.6, 1369, Four yourg men of this place’ started at ae gaa o'clok yer § morning from V pier, for ® Tayago to Pall. adcipi.a ‘a @ small row boat, well pyovisioned for % vige wil the good toings pro gjtad by Wheir lady The dock war thronge! BY the citizens of thn oachor avd foam ef nas theg. weighed