The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1859, Page 4

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We dono return communications, TISEMENTS renewed every day; advertisements in~ ane a eee Log onal Famity ALD, and in the ia BE mn ie TON PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and de- patch. Volume XXIV.........+.+ seeeeeeseeeeeses NOs B30 oS AMUSEMENMS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GABDEN, Brosdway.—Tua Coorens—Fisure man’s Dazan—Jooxo. WEBY THEATRE, Bowory.—Venetian Bucoannen— wis Eaous. THEATRE, Brosdway.—Nax—Larta ‘WALLAOCK’S Books. THEATRE, Ohatham street—Menonanr oF vinicwodack Ennrrang’Maio or Onowier-Sutca 46D Bnows. BABNUM’S AMERIOAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—After- noon and Evening—Faruse ano Sox—VoLace ARTISANS, ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 561 and 565 Broadway-~ Ermsoriax Sones, Dances, £0.—Danon any Prruiss. BRYANT’S MINSTRELS, Meohanice’ Hall, 472 Broadway— Buxixeques, Soncs, Dances, 40 —Sawoust Ackosars. Fourteenth street, PALAOE GARDEN AND H. Vooss amp LystkumENTAL Jone! New York, Saturday, August 20, 1859. TAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. New York Herald—Caltfornta Edition, ‘The United States mail steamship Star of the West, Capt. Gray, will leave this port this afternoon, at two o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parte of the Pacific ‘will close at one o’clock this afternoon. The New Youn Wemnty Heratp—Californis edition— dontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the ‘world, will be published at eleven o'clock in the morning. ‘Bingle copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, #ix canta, Agents will please send in their orders as carly as pcv- Bible. The News. The steamship Hungarian, from Liverpool, is fully due at Farther Point, but had not reached there when the telegraph offices closed last night. Bhe left Liverpool on the 10th inst., and conse- quently will bring four days’ later news, including, probably, some account of the opening of the Peace Conference at Zurich. Some very interesting additional details of news from South America are given in to-day’s paper. Our Venezuelan correspondent fully bears out the local journals in the lameutable picture they draw of the progress of anarchy and confusion in that country. From Buenos Ayres, the Argentine Con- federation, Brazil, Chile and the Oriental republic the advices are interesting. The first collision be- taveen the belligerent forces of Buenos Ayres and the Confederation was daily expected to occur. From the Sandwich Islands we have news dated tothe 30th of June. The volcano at Mount Loa was still in motion. There was nota single vessel in Honolulu harbor under a foreign flag on the 30th of June. The whiskey duties engaged the attention of the government. Several American ship captains were engaged in a contest relative to the taking possession of some new guano islands. ‘The late tariff on imported puvd> would mot, it wae said, be enforced until 1860. The Freemasons made a grand display in Honolulu on St. John’s Day, the 24th of June. The ship Vistula, which arrived at this port yes. terday from Manila, reports that the shi» Kineo, o! Bath, while off the Cape of Good Hope, picked up a longboat containing ten men who had abandoned an English ship. No particulars are given. We publish to-day details of news from San Fran cisco to the 25th ult., five days later than the ac- counts received by way of the Isthmus. The ad- vices contain but little of general interest. The political excitement was growing very hot, and the campaign seems to be marked by unusual viru- lence even for the region of California. Senators Gwin and Broderick are both likely to come out of the fight with damaged repntations if what they relate of each other be near the truth. Elsewhere will be found several interesting let- ters from the watering places and other summer resorts of our citizens. The fashionable season is now at its height, and pleasure seeking is the order of the day. Our correspondents graphically detail the pleasantries with which they while away their time, and which they appear greatly toenjoy. The gay season willsoon close. The first frost will coo} the ardent temperaments of many of the visiters, and with a speedy return to the cares of life they will soon forget the pleasures of the watering places. The proposals for repairing the City Hall and for the erection of a building for the Infants’ Home were scrutinized by the Street Commissioner at his office yesterday. We give in another column the names of the bidders and their sureties and the sums named ineach proposal. The lowest bidder for the City Hall work was Edward Gridley, who engages to make the necessary repairs for $11,500. ‘The lowest bidder for the Infants’ Home contract was William Coulter. His bid was $23,900. These contracts must receive the sanction of the Mayor and Common Council, and it is understood that the Common Council will take action on the subject without unnecessary delay, so that the work may be commenced forthwith. Further proceedings took place yesterday in the Supreme Court in reference to the Haggerty and Cummings case, of which we give a full report elsewhere. All the witnesses stated that in their opinion Mrs. Haggerty is crazy. At the meeting of the Health Commissioners yes- terday Dr. Gunn reported the arrival of the ship Hannah Crooker, from Havana. While there one of the crew died of yellow fever and three others were taken ill, one of whom died on the pacsage afterwards. She was ordered fifteen days qua- rantine. Wilson Small has been appointed Deputy Col- lector of Assessments by the Street Commissioner. On Tuesday night last, at Cincinnati, happened one of those terrible tragedies in real life which, or fearfulness of intensity, surpasses the concep- tions of the dramatist, and reveals the earnestness which often exists beneath an exterior ordinarily placid. ‘Bhe particulars are given in another column. . Tho cotion market was more active yesterday, and closed with a firmer feeling. The sales footed up about 3,900 bales, including kome parcels on speculation and some for export. We quote middling uplands at 113(3. a 11%¢. Flour wea more activeand firmer, with some sales for export, The market for some descriptions was from Se. to 100, per barrel higher. Southern four wae also more aotive, with sales for export to tropical ports. Old and inferior grades of wheat were dul! and heavy, while primo Dew qualities were quite steady. Among the aaice Kentucky ‘white brought $1 408 $145. Corn was firm, with «fair ‘amount of sales. Pork was more active, with sales of meoes and prime at figures given elsewhere. Sugars wore steady, with sales of about 1,800 bhds., 880 borce acd 8,750 bags Pernambuco, all at terms given ia another column, Bales of coffee comprised 3,200 bags Maracaibo, 1,600 do. Jamaica and 1,000 Lajuayra, on terms given ia another place. Freight engagemonts were modorato, among which were 1,700 bales of cotton at 7-32d. a 3<¢., nd nome flour at 1s. 64. NEW YORK HERALO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1859." —— — aor a te iS Uhre ox, Wour Parties for the Preetdency— Policy of te National Cons.rvatives. The Presidential question, within a month or 80, in all its complications, has assumed a very interesting shape. The encouraging results of the late Southern elections will unquestionably culminate in a new conservative Presidential mov ment; wh'le, ucon the other ha:d, b:tweea the Wise and Douglas contest for the Charleston Convention, and the revolutionary policy of the Southern slavery agitators, our apprehensions are strengthened from day to day of a fatal divi- sion of the democratic party into two hostile sec tional camps. Thus, including the overshadowing Northera antislavery republican organization, we ehall have four parties in the field in 1860, and there can be very little doubt that from such a contest the three highest candidates will be carried up to the House of Representatives for an election. In view of this contingency, and considering the balance of power which the conservative opposi- tion party of the South have already secured in the House, it is their policy at once to proceed to a national organization. They can, if they desire it, carry the election into the House, in ang event; and they may possibly, amidst the “noise and confusion” of the canvass, be able to win the election in the electoral colleges. Mr. Buchanan has positively, again and again declared that he is not a candidate for a re-elec tion. Nor has he any favorite upon whom to cast bis mantle. We doubt not that his influence at Charleston will be exerted in favor of concilia- iiov, peace and harmony; but from the implaca- ble hostility of the Southern malcontents to his administration, and from the deadly treachery of the managers of the Northern Douglas move- ments, including Tammany Tall and the Albany Regency, we have every reason to fear that all the efforts of Mr. Buchanan to save the party from shipwreck will be “love’s labor lost.” The controlling engineers of the Southern de- mocracy in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, to go no farther, are of that secession school of fire-eaters who carried off the varty in said States into those insolent but im- potent disunion movements of 1851. These same Cemocratic revolutionists have now mounted the Southern hobbies of the African slave trade and @ slave code for the Territories, or its equivalent, asthe proper creed for the Charleston Conven- tion. With the leaders of theee reckleas agitators the paramount object is, first, the dissolution of the national democratic party, as the nearest road to the inauguration of a Southern confederacy. They are looking ahead to the unlimited schedule of spoils and plunder which a Southern con- federacy would throw into their hands. To this end, though baffled in 1851, they have been in- dustriously working and scheming ever since. Thus, these Southern disorganizers commenced their aseaults upon Mr. Buchanan’s administration with the proclamation of his Cabinet and inaugu- ral address; thus, they have contributed their full share to the present disordered condition of the democratic party, North and South; and thus they are preparing to enter the Charleston Con- vention to control it or to destroy it upon their impracticable demands. Believing in the power of these Southern disorganizers, Gov. Wise has thrown himself forward as their special cham- pion upon the test queetion of slavery in the Ter- titories; but opposed to him, face to face, is Mr, Douglas, with his Northern hobby and humbug of squatter sovereignty. Douglas cannot give way. He must stand his ground, or be degraded ty me ranks, He must make his “one idea” hi, ultimatum at Ckarleston. It will be rejected It cannot be recognized. What then’ Why, then he will be compelled to appeal from the Convention to the Northern democracy, or else his followers will be swallowed up in the repub- lican camp. But the division of parties in the House, in- cluding the anti-Lecompton democrats, will ia- vite him to take the field, And thus, between the sharply defined position of Mr. Douglas and the Charleston programme of the Southern fire- eaters, the prospect of a dissolution of the Con- vention before any nomination is made becomes somewhat alarming. We may be sure, too, that when once relieved of their Northern brethren, and of the last hope of the Northern balance of power, the Southern democracy will take the ferm of an intensely sectional party, and that between them and the Northern republicans both sides will be supplied with all the combustibles necessary to keep up a raging fire. In anticipation of this state of things, we call upon all conservative and peace and Union loving mcn, of all parties and all sections, to hold them- selves in readiness for that final charge which decides the issue of the battle. With the popular name of Gen. Sam Houston as their standard bearer, anew and independent national party may be called into action, abundantly compe- tent, between the sectional parties of the contest, to cut in and carry off the honors of the field. No Lesson Like Humitration—Ovt or De- Comes Strenctu.—We publish elsewhere gnificant asticle from the Austrian Gazetfe, on the preaent relations of that government towards Europe. Taken in conjunction with the tone of tbe French journals towards their late adversary, it establishes the fact that the entente cordiale be- tween Austria and France is as complete as pledges can make it. So much the better for the Italians, 20 much the worse for the govern- mente which are indirectly menaced in this ar- ticle. The culoginms lavished on the Emperor of the French, the determination expressed on the part of Austria to fulfil faithfully her engage- ments with him, augur well for a satisfactory settlement of the Italian question. It is evident that Francis Joseph will not allow such trifling points of difficulty as the restoration of the petty italian sovereigns to interfere with the new bonds of amity into which he has been forced, but which he seems to wear so kindly. He is determined, he eeye, to find in the reform of old abuses aud the developement of the internal resources of his empire the strength that was wanting to him jin the late straggle, For the future the governments of Europe will bave to rely on themselves alone, and op the forces which they can create out of their own administrative abilities. This promises well for the prospects of Venice. If good goy- ernment is to be recognized by Austria as the rock of strength which other nations have found it, we do not see why that discontented member of the new Italian Confederation should not en. joy equal beppiness and prosperity with the con- stitutional States, Thus the much abused treaty of Villafranca seems likely to work out the ob- jects of the campaign as effectually as if the war had been carried into Germany and Hungary, and Europe plunged again into the horrors of a general convulsion. It remains to be seen whether the embittered feelings which Francis Joseph seems to indulge towards his former allies will oe him long in the new and creditable path which be has chalked out for himself, as Sem Houston’s Great Speech at @acogdoches— A Trumpet Biast for the Presidency. General Sam Houston, of Texas, the gallant, honest, bluat, plain-epoken, fun-loving hero of San Jacinto, is well known to the whole people of the United States. His name is familiar asa household word. Having served Texas long and faitbfu'ly in the field, in the chair of State, and in the Senate of the United States, he at length, by bis course in voting against the Kansas-Ne- braska bill, forfeited for a time the good will of the people of his State, and they, through their Legislature, superseded him in his Senatorial position, At the close of last seasion he pro- nounced his valedictory before the Senate, de- claring that thenceforth he abandoned public life, determined to spend the reat of his days in peaceful pastoral occupations. But either his own resolution was too weak, or the influence of the people of Texas too strong, to permit him long to enjoy his dignified leisure. An election was at hand for the Governorship of the State. The present incumbent, Governor Runnels, was renominated by the regalar Democratic Conven- tion, which assembled at Houston, and which Convention, it appears, was composed princi- pally of extreme disunionists, pledged to the revival of the slave trade. The conserva- tive men of the State, who were opposed to such a measure, prevailed on Gen. Houston to place himself in the lists as an independent candidate. He consented, and his success in the election is a gratifying proof that even in Texas congervatism is stronger than faction. During the canvass General Houston, on the 9th instant, delivered himself of a great speech at Nacogdoches, and as the sentiments expressed by him on that oecasion are important, not only as bearing on that election, but as possibly bear- ing on the next Presidential contest, we are in- duced to give to his speech the benefit of our cir- culation. We print it in the Heraxp of to-day, dedicating it not alone to the politicians and wirepullers of conventions, but to the people of the United States at large, as being an able statesmanlike, honest and patriotic declaration of political sentiments. General Houston declared himself at the out- set a democrat of the old school, an old fogy in politics, clinging devotedly to those primitive principles on which our government was found- ed, and as having no modern improvements to make on the principles of our fathers, He ad- mitted that he stood in the face of and opposed to a democratic organization, but he boasted that he himeelf was older than platforms, and was a stateeman before the birth of conventions. That is the sort of high-toned manly independence which we wish to see established and practised in our politics, both local and national. The people of Texas admired it and sustained it. General Houston had one great difficulty to contend against in a State where foreigners con- stitute a large proportion of the population. He had been a member of the proscriptive Know Nothing party. But his opposition to the reopening of the slave trade compensated for that political heresy—for which, besides, he had done penance—and won for him the German vote. He regarded the Know Nothing party as dead, knew of no attempt to resuscitate it, and would, if euch attempt were made, oppose it, be- cause no good result could be attained by it, and there was no necessity for it. This re- cantation, this political auto da fe, was considered satisfactory, and the penitent was received back into the fold of democravy tn Dexnc, and clovated ty Ito Liglest pinnacle of honor. After that the democratic church throughout the Union cannot refuse to open its doors to him, on the good Christian principle that there is more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety-nine just men who need no repentance. It has been claimed that the success of General Houston was a defeat of Mr. Buchanan’s admi- nistration. Quite the contrary. While the de- mocratic convention that nominated Mr. Runnels declined to endorse the policy of the administra- tion, General Houston gave the highest testimo- ny in its favor. He declared that Mr. Buchanan had been honest and faithful, that he had acted wisely and as a patriot, and that it would be found when the clouds were dispersed that the difficulties which surrounded his administration were not of his own making, but were produced by those who were the first to desert him. As to General Houston’s own political priaci- | ples, he sums them up thus:—Opposition to | banks, opposition to internal improvements by the general government, opposition to the distri- bution of the public lands among the States, opposition to special monopolies, opposition to a protective tariff, opposition to a latitudinous con- struction of the constitution, and opposition to slavery egitation and disunion. So much for the negative side of his policy. On the positive side we find that he is in favor of acquiring Cuba, of establishing a protectorate over Mexico, of build- ing the Pacific Railroad, and of saying soft things to the fair sex. We think that on the whole General Houston’s Nacogdoches speech will find favor with a large proportion of the people of the United States, and prove to be one of the highest bids yet made for the Presidency in 1860. Mesic my THe Centra Park—We are glad to see that the music in the Central Park on | Saturday cvenings is to be kept up. This | afternoon there will be an excellent band | and no doubt a numerous attendance. Why | not have it on Sunday evening? It would | be one of the most innocent and delight- | ful recreations for our citizens on Sunday. | Good music within doors is fine for those who’ | can pay for it; but music for the miilion, music | in the open sir for all who have ears to hear or | souls to appreciate, is something better still. | The Opera is a civilizing, intellectual amuse- | ment; but it cannot be compared for its bene- | ficial effects with the music of the open air on | the minds of the magees of our population. If it be true that “music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,” its great mission as a civilizer is among the.comparatively uneducated and rough population. What isit that refines | the French workman with the blouse and makes him the equal, in politeness, intelligence and re- fineraent, to what are called the upper classes? It is his free access to the fine arte, music, paint ing and eculpture. This great social quality in which the French exceed us, with all our liberty, isthe result of a high civilization. In this we are making rapid strides, and will soon be equal tothem. Already we are far in advance of the English. ‘Twenty-five years ago not a full band of music conld be obtained to play at the head of a regi- ment in thie city. The musicians were not tobe hed. Now every regiment, almost every company, has its band; and no matter how long the public procession is, every civil and military. body has its own music, and that of an excellent kind. The choicest gems of the operas are per- formed in the most artistlo manner. This must have a very decided influence on the musical taste of our citizens, for even the little boys in the streets may now be heard whistling the airs from the latest opera. And what house is now without a plano? Twenty years ago such an ar- ticle of furniture in any house, except that of a millionaire, was regarded aa a curiosity, and a good performer was still mere rare than a piano. Now musical cultivation has attained high per- fection among the ladies of New York. What has produced this change which has taken place within the last ten years? We are indebted for much of it to the revolu- tions ef 1848, which have sent among us a high order of musical talent and cultiva- tion from Italy, Germany and other countries of Europe. Our musical bands are composed al- moet exclusively of those foreigners. Thus docs the tyranny of the Old World rob it of many of its best citizens and sends them to the New, where there is ample scope and verge for talent and genius of every description. : Soon the time will come when such promenade concerts as those which used to be given at Nib- lo’s and the Academy of Music will be paid for by the city and be free to all our citizens in the delightful shades of the new Central Park; and what is more, Sunday will be the principal day for this innocent and elevating recreation. Sunday Laws and Black Republican Popes— The Time for a Rational Sunday Movement. The social tyranny which the Puritanical Pharisees would establish in this country, though constantly reproducing itself in some new phase, is always the same at heart. One of its favorite forms is legislation for the peculiar ob- servance of Sunday, and there it is protean. Sometimes it is the mails that are to be etopped on that day; then the lager bier places must be closed; then, again, the newsboys must not pipe their shrill notes; once ina while a great effort is made to prevent the church mem- bers from sending their ships to sea on that day; and, as in the present rule of our city, some- times they succeed in establishing a Metropolitan Board of Popes, with a pious Pillsbury as their chief inguisitor. At this moment they are strongly and stealthily pushing their policy over our city through the black republican Police Commission, made to order at Albany, and im- bued with all the spirit of the three thou- eand political black coats which that party boasts of possessing. In Brooklyn, not long since, they fought desperately to prevent the cars from running on Sunday, and now they are carrying on the same fight in Phi- ladelphia. Having their own carriages to ride in, they wish by enactment to deprive all those who have not a carriage of their own of the luxury of a ride on the only day when the necessities of labor give them the leisure to do #0. In advocating and supporting this social tyran- ny they do not hesitate to apply the terms of infidel, atheist, scoffer at religion, and a thou- sand other epithets, to all who differ in opinion with them. This epithetical armory has always been a favorite resort of the black coat and white choker tribe. It is not today that they have firet resorted to it to oppose men who entertain- ed the belief that liberal and rational principles were as suitable to the people as they were to their rulers. The great apostle of the right of self goveroment—Jefferson—was for years the {aim of these epithetical missiles. heeanss ho would not believe that one man could govern men bet- ter than men could govern themselves, and because he entertained philosophically Christian views in regard to Sunday. . We have before us now several copies of the Phila- delphia Gazette, published in November, 1802, in which President Jefferson is abused like a pick- pocket, and termed “an infidel,” “an unbe- liever,” “an opposer of the Gospel,” and all Christian people are called upon to oppose him and his measures to the bitter end if they have any hope to get into Heaven. Now, this is just what the black republican “Board of Popes and the pious Pillsbury call upon their followers to do. Every Sunday he goes around, claiming to hold the keys of Heaven, when they are nothing more than the keys of the Broome street lock-up; and should any poor fellow dare to look glad that he had one day in the week of freedom from toil, forthwith he is ordered to the station house, and pious Pillsbury and his Puritan Popes take a solemn joy for having saved a fellow creature from the sin of gladness on the Sabbath day. This proceeding is part of a system of tyranny which these black-coated ecclesiastics wish to establish in all things, Jefferson saw the evil, and fought with it as long as he lived; and if the citizens of New York wieh to preserve their rights, they must continue the battle against this fanatical despotism. And to continue it success- fally they must organize their battalions and be prepared to march in solid phalanx to the polis at the next State and city elections, Bring out your banners, oh! ye men of rational and truly Christian Sunday observance, and assert, with the Great Founder of our belief, that “the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.’ Tae WarTerinc PLaces—APrroacuine Termi- NATION OF THE SEASON.—It will be seen, from the letters of our watering place correspondents, that life in those latitudes is becoming rather prosaic- If their effusions reflect at all faithfully the en joyments to be met with there, we must say that dulness seems to be the prevailing influence. With the exception of the fillip given to the Newport people by the visit of the New York Yacht Club, the routine life of that once gay spot has been unbroken by a single stirring inci- dent. At Saratoga, Cape May, Sharon, and others of the fashionable summer resorts, the general complaint is that their vitality has de- parted from them. Extravagance in dress has produced its concomitant evile—exclusiveness and pretension. The snobbishness that walks on stilts cannot, of course, descend to hearty and innocent enjoyment. With a0 few attractions to keep people at the watering places, we may expect that our absen- tees will soon be glad to return home. New York, with its pleasant temperature, its magnifi- cent bay, its charming suburbs, and its noble Park, offers attractions which are nowhere else to be met with. Add to these its summer thea- tres and gardens, its musical festivals, its rural concerts and its picnic excursions, and we have an aggregate of seasonable amusements which renders a viait here during the summer one of the most delightful trips that a stranger can make, aud that certainly ought to render the city tolerable to ite habitual residents, If the latter prefer being bored to death at the watering places, we can only pity them and set the fact down to the necessity which they deem themselves placed under of being out of town at a particular pe- riod of the year. In a week or two, however, the inexorable law which is supposed to govern these matters will have run out its term, and thea we may expect a rush homeward of our would-be fashionables, who, we have no doubt, will be glad enough to ecape the peine forte dure of country landlords and narrow hotel accommodations. With them will come flocks of strangers, attracted by the Opera and the other enjoyments of New York life, s0 that, by the beginning of September, we may ex- pect to see our city resume Its wonted bustle and animation. Enquish AND AMERICAN JOURNALISM.— We copy from a religious paper—the New York Hvan- gelist—a cleverly penned comparison between the English and American newspaper press. Writ- ten without prejudice, and conceding to English journaliem all the credit which is due to it, it shows that there are some qualities which dis- tinguish the American press that might be in- troduced with advantage into its management. ‘Those are the superior enterprise, the variety and the vivacity that characterize the matter con- tained in our journals, and which, combined with their greater cheapness, have been the main ele- ments of their popalarity. As our contemporary correctly observes, but little exertion is made by the English newspapers to curtail the time occu- pied in the transmission of news. Of the advan- tages of the electric telegraph it makes but little use, and where the theatres of important occur- rences lie out of the reach of the telegraphs and railways, no efforts are made to anticipate the ordinary means of communication. Practi- cally, eo far as the improved facilities for the transmission of intelligence are concerned, all such localities are situated as disadvantageously as they were half a century ago. Even where, by full telegraphic reports, the people in the English provinces might be kept promptly au courant of what is passing in the metropolis, English en- terprise has not as yet learned to accomplish so practicable a result, The Parliamentary debates are never transmitted at any length in this way, and such an exertion as the daily despatch of detailed telegraphic reports of remarkable crimi- nal trials, like the Sickles and Webster cases, has not as yet been made by the English news- papers. The only money, in fact, which they have expended on telegraphs has been in the tranemission of brief paragraphs of news by the continental lines, and occasionally a speech for a London jourual. If the scene of the late war in Italy had been as near New York as it was to London, the New York Heraip would have had the fullest particulars of the battles trans- mitted by the wires, regardless of the cost. It would not have been satisfied with the brief despatches, of a dozen lines each, sent by Napo- leon to the Empress. In regard to general attractiveness the Eag- lish dailies are undoubtedly far behind the American newspapers. Being for the most part journals addressed to the educated classes, the former are conducted on the principle that their subscribers must necessarily be posted up on the history and conditions of every question that turns up. They forget that the memory has limits, and that scholars, as well as the imperfectly educated, require to have their minds refreshed as to facts. To the one the American newspaper serves in lieu of book references, to the other it stands in place of books themeelves, By assuming that all classes of readers alike require information, Amerivan editors succeed in putting together matter which possesees an interest and value that are not to be found in the routine compilations of their Eng- lish confréres. But it is not in these respects, mainly, that the American press distances its contemporaries at the other side of the Atlantic. Its superior organization enables it to receive news to a later period of the night, and at the same time to get to press earlier. The greater part of a Londoa daily, except during the sessions of Parliament, s eet up before six o’clock in the evening, whilst, as our contemporary correctly states, the matter which goes into the New York Herp is for the most part set up after that hour. The editorials of the London Zimes are generally penned a day in advance. Those which appear in our columns are written on the spur of the moment, and are made use of in the next morping’s issue. The result of these arrangements is greater freshness, vigor and com- pactnees; for, when there is time to elaborate, the writer generally loses in force what he gains ia style. When Mr. Cobden was in this country he ex- preesed himeelf unreservedly on the superior ad- vantages of the American system of journalism He had no doubt, he said, that penny dailies weuld succeed in England as well as they have done here, if they were conducted under similar conditions. In order to take hold of the public favor, however, their editorial articles should be short, piquant and fresh in their application, which could never be the case if the present sys tem of elaboration were persevered ia. The Lon- don Times has long held the position of the prin- cipal organ of public opinion there, but we are satisfied that it could easily be affected by a penny paper that would exhibit more business energy and editorial tact, and that would adopt the system of short articles which, as the Dvange- list observes, the Jimes has never learned to write. To arrive at this, however, English newspaper proprietors will have to import a few smart Yankee editors. Englishmen cannot help spread: ing themselves when they take the pen in hand. APPOINTMENT BY THE StReET CommissionER.—The Street Commissioner has appointed Wiison “mall Deputy Collec tor of Asscesments. The number of deputy collectors of osseesments allowed by law is four. There has been one vacancy since Daniel E. Delevan was promoted from Deputy Collector to be Collector of Assessments, This vacancy bas now been filled by the appointment of Mr. Small. At the time the vacancy occurred this position was offered to @ prominent democrat by Mr. Edward Cooper, then Street Commissioner. It was declined be cause the amount of fees, at the rate at which collections were belug mado, was insuflicient componaation. Since then the fees have largely increased, and as the work in tbis bureau, untinished by Collector Taylor and bis depu ties, 1s not yet fully closed up, there is an evident propri ety in filling the vacancy, Mr, Small was strongly re- commended by many leading democrats. Itis understood that the Mayor, particularly, urged the claims and quali- fications of the gentleman for this highly responsible and at preeent vory lucrative appointment. Axor Guy Fawkes —Captain Rynders, wo under. stend, ja preparing for the press a work embracing his Ppereooal and political reminiscences. This publication, coming as it does upon the heels of the Wise Dounolly letter, will no doubt awaken @ greatstir among the big fand little politicians of the country. If the Captain will confine himself to the facts contained in the diary which he has kept for years past, recording the exciting scones into which he has been mingled, and co.ne out in priat as he talke, using plain language and erchowing all attempts at literary marks, his book will command a host of read- ers, Ryndors’ history of “bobbing around’? among the political whales, and sharks, and cels, aud floandors, and crab, that awim in the great demooratic sea, will consti. tute one of the most intererting flank episodes upon tho current literary movements of the day. Jt will boa book written with ap unsparirg pen by a man of talent, ana bot witdgut its influeco upou morals as wall aa politics, Our Relations with the Juarez Government of Mexico—A Duel on the Tapis—arrival of Alabuma Douglasites—-Georgla Politics Governor Medary’s Opinion of the Kansas Gold Mines—Tne Inolana Gubernatostal Question, d&o. OUB SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasumnaton, August 19, 1869, General Cass called at the Mexican Legation to dey, and paid his respects to Senors Lerdo and Mata, the former of whom is quite ill, Minister McLano is looked for here early in September, with a treaty between the Juarez government and the United States which will cover all disputed points. The best understanding prevails botween the two govoru- Senor Mata is perfectly satisfied that the President is determined to extend every ald in his power to the Liberal! government of Mexico. The President is much gratified with the bold stand taken by the Heratp in support of his policy teware Mexioo. Mayor Borret has been on the lookout to-day for Mesers. Wise and Ould, of Richmond, who ate believed te be ie Washington with the purpose of s hostile moeting, They had not been arrested at nine o’clock to-night, It is the continuation of Wise’s affair with Aylett. Ex-Minister Forsyth arrived at the National this morn- {pg, mccompanied by Judge Meek and other Alabama Dea- glas men. They dine with Judge Dougias to-morrow. ‘These politicians are somewhat troubled to reconcile thelr support of Douglas’ territorial sovercignty views with thele former opposition of Casa’ Nicholson letter. While claiming independent sovereignty for the Territories, they fall to explain why governors and other offiers are not elected. by the people, instead of being appointed by the federal government. ‘he friends of Dougias are much elated by their apparent strength in Alabama, as indicated by the choice of Forsyth, Meek and Company to the Legislature. Accounts from Georgia indicate the probable loss of a democratic member of Congress in Seward’s district, and perbaps a gain in Trippe’s. The first choice of the Goorgis delegation at Charlestom, it is said, will be for Alexander H. Stephens. Governor Medary gives most cheeriog accounts from tha Kansas gold region, He fully believes in the existence of rich quartz veins, and says crushing machines are boiag sent out in great numbers. The effects of emigration are very beneficial to Kansas Territory in sales of produce. The crops this year are very abundant, aud the prospects for a good demand from the mines flattering. ‘There is a sharp contest in Indiana for the democratis nomination for Governor between Commissioner Heu- dricks, Senator Bright, and Cyrus L, Dunham (Dougias) Mr. Hendricks is at present absent on a visit to that State, Colonel Florence, of Philadelphia, will get out the first number of his Democratic Review about the middle of September. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, Wasuincron, August 19, 1859, One of the assistant engineers ¢mpluyed on the Treasu- ry extension building was to-day held to bail in the sum of $10,000 on a charge of defalcation. The President has recognized Franz August Horsch as Consul at Boston, and Friederich Wilhelm Keutgen aa Con- sul at New York, both for the free city of Bremen. Non-Arrival of the Hungarian. Farrage Port, August 19—Midnight. There are as yet no signs of the steamship dun- garian, row due off this Point, with Liverpool dates of the ‘10th inst. Particulars of the Great Storm in the British Provinces. Bowron, August 19, 1869, ‘The Prince Edwards Island Examiner describes the tor- nado on the Sth inst. az the most terrific evor known iz the island, tearing up strong trees and doing much damage toproperty. A number of boats inthe harbor ware upset, one of which contained Fred. Goodwin, son of Hon. G. R. Goodwin, formerly Collector of Charlottetown, and a Miss Maloney, who were both drowned. Several other oases of drowning are reported, and a vessel is reported tohave gone down with all on board, consisting of seven parsons. The Examiner has fears algo for the safety of the Ashing vessels, of which there were a large number out, A telegraphic despatch was received at Charlottetown from New Brunswick, giving notice of the siorm twonty minutes before it burst upon them, Destructive Fire in Bridgeport, BripGerort, August 19, 1859. A destructive fire occurred in East Bridgoport this morning. A large building, owned by Wm, H. Noble, at the east end of the upper bridge, was burned, Loss about $5,000; no insurance. It was occupied by Messrs. D. M. Phillips & Co. as a sash and blind manufactory and « grist mill—loss about $3,000, no insurance; by a Mr. Ray, veneering manufactory—logs about: $10,000, no insurance; and by Mceers. Pitt & Lyon’s manvfactories of carpet sweepers—loss about $500, uninsured, A blacksmith shop near by, belonging to Barnum’s eetate, was ulso burned. Loss about $1,200; insured for $800. The occu- pant of the shop, Mr. Newton, lost $200; uningured. Fire at Troy. Taor, August 19, 1869, A fire broke out here at five o’clock this evening in the building on the,corner of Fifth and Albany streetar destroying the upper portion of six buildings, three of them fronting on Fifth and three on Albany street. The lows on furniture and buildings is about $15,000, Th® ‘Union House was in great danger at onetime, but esoapod damage. Two Men Drowned at Hingham, Boston, August 19, 1859. Caleb Wilder, of Hingham, anda Mr. Gideon, of Boston» were drowned in Hingham Harbor this afternoon, by the upsetting of a sailboat. J, A. Fietcher, also in the Dont, swan ashore. —— Movements of Fernando Wood. SaRatoGs Srainas, August 19, 1869 Hon. Fernando Wood is horo, with his family, stopping at the United States Hotel, and the Washington despatch saying that he was on bis way to Richmond, was, there” fore, incorrect. En renrnt ew on Remar The American Normul School Convention. Trestoy, N. J., August 19, 1859. The American Normal School Oonvention closed its ses- sion late last night, after very able discussions oa the ar® of teaching. This morning the delegates yisitod Princo ton, as tho guests of Hon. Richard S. Field, ——————$— Whe Balloon Mail. Lancastsr, Pa., August 19, 1859. The special letter bag expressed by the Postmaster of Lafayette, with proof of Wire’s Ceparture, was dropped from the clouds over Crawfordsville, and passed through hore to day en route for New York, in good order, ee Delivery of Richard Wescott to the Marshal in Boston. Bostoy, August 19, 1859. Richard Wescott, charged with the murder of a sailor on board of the ship Mountaineer, on the high aeas, and Sent home from Rotterdam by the United States Consuir ‘was delivered this morning to the United States Marshal for trial. A Mysterious Affair. Frankux, N. H., August 19, 1859. Mrs. Betecy Danforth, who mysteriously disappeared on the 24th of July, was found to-day alive, reduced almost to a skeleton, ina slough hole about a mile from the house where she lived. She says that the only suste- nance sho has had for the last twenty six days was wator. Mrs. D. is seventy-four years old ond partially insane. ‘She was unsuccessfully searched for by large parties tor two weeks after her disappearance. The Nova Scotia Telegraph Company. Bostox, August i9, 859. According to the Halifar Examiner, this company, who are at issue with a large portion of tho press of the United States, have algo got into troubie with the authorities of Halifax. Tho company baving decided to extead their telegraph acroes the cisy nad commenced to crest thaus posts through the stroets, the Superiatenten: of 3 rect interfered, and tho agent of the company was fined fur breaking up the streets witnout a pormit, At Isai ac- counts the posts axectod 1a the daytime were regularly cut down at night, Marine Disasters. Boston, Augast 19, 1859. The ship Adirondack, from Stockiolm, woich arriv od here to day, reports that on Augas! 13, tat 43, loa. $6 @), sho was run into by the ehip Armorial, from New Gori for Liverpool, snd lost her figure head, eutyator, &o ; Yue Armorial’s dawage is not knowa, Spoken Anguat 12, lat. 44, lon, 62, brig Magaot, from Aadrors4n fur New York, leaking badly aod pumping with a windmill; Joly 18, lat. 49, lon, 20, ship Wor. Nelsqp, Unpt, Wood, from