The New York Herald Newspaper, August 24, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR 4ND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNEB OF FULTON AND NASSAU GTS, TERMS cash inaden co Money aertdy matt will be at tha Wisk of the sender. Postoge stampa not received as subscription mon THE DAILY AFPALD t10 cente per copy, 61 per arusem THE WEEKLY HERALD. every Saturday, at siz cesta per or Sper num; the Europea Edition every Wed es fax ceuta per vv der annum to avy part af Great B OF BS toany part of the Continent. hath to iwelude postage; the Galyfornia Fittion ov the Bth and Mh of each month at bx cents | Br copy, or $1 60 per annum Vetume XXIV. AMUSEMES US THIS EVENING. — ON THE LO’S GABDBN, Grosdway.—SVOLUTIONS ‘Ticur Bora—Pama Dorsa—Biuaxco a jorta Pescival—Itau- WERY THEATRE Gowerv Pog yt ‘Vunerian Bocca! WALLAUX’S THEATER, Srosdway.—GzzaLpise—Bor any Cox NATIONAL CHEAT My Two Faruxxs—Qu) BARNUM’s aMERIOAN MUSKUM. Broadway.—after noon and Bvening—Farver ann Son—Foun Lovens ODS MINSTREL BUILDING, 661 aud 665 Brosaway— weer tanen, Dawoxs, £0.—Dau0w awn Prius Thatnam srect.—Riomanp ITT.— ows, BRYANT’S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad way— Ee Songs, Laces, &0.—1 Ain't GOT TIME TO ABRY, PALAO® GARDEN aND BALL, Fourteenth street, Goxcest ap Bornes Dansants New York, Wednesday, August 24, 1859. The News, The New York State Council, the “ Great Body,” as it is termed, of the Know Nothing party, met at Geneva yesterday, to appointa day for holding a Conventien for the nomination of candida‘es tor State officers, and for the transaction of other busi- ness. One bundred ond forty delegates were preseut, and according to our report their proceedings at the outset were not of the most harmonious character. After the usual preliminaries G. A. Scroggs, of Erie was chosen President; Amos H. Prescott, of Herki mer, Vice President, and James W. Husted, of West chester, Secretary of the State Council. It wasre. solved that a nominating Convention be held at Utica on the 2ist of September next. The republican Convention will be held ut Syracuse on the 7th of September, so that there will be ample time for the wire pullers to work in the interval between the two meetings. The Council appointed Erastus Brooks and Lorenzo Burrows delegates at large to the National American Convention, and after seve- ral speeches adjourned. Schenectady was selected asthe place for the next meeting of the State Council. The European mails to the 10th inst., brought by the Hungarian, at Quebec, reached this city yester- day, and we publish in to-day’s Hakatp a number of extracts from our foreign files that will be found interesting. The Canada, due at Halifax with European ad- vices to the 13th inst., had not arrived at that port up to eleven o'clock last evening. By an arrival at this port we have have accounts from Port au Prince, Hayti, to the 6th inst. The local news is unimportant. The republic was per- fectly tranquil. President Geffard has been chosen «Grand Protector” of the Order of Freemasons. The Kansas border ruffians are in arms again, after a brief season of inaction. Late accounts State that considerable uneasiness was felt in the Territory,and a renewal of the old disturbances ‘Was anticipated. The diggers in the Kansas gold region, acting up ‘to the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, have adopt- €da State constitution, a portion of which has just been published. The nigger question has in this instrument been ignored entirely, while the right of suffrage is restricted to the whites. The latest ac- Counts from this gold region speak of new and very productive discoveries of the precious metal. A telegraphic despatch announces the death of Bon. John A. Davis, of Indiana, formerly Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The case of John A. Underwood and others, against the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, to which allusion was made in our edito rial columns a few days since, came up inthe Su preme Court, special term, before Judge Ingraham, yesterday. A temporary injunction restraining the Board of Directors and Treasurer of the New Ha ven Railroad Company from paying the semi. annual dividend until they should show cause, had been granted on the 15th inst., at the solicitation of plaintiffs. Defendants’ counsel yesterday moved to dissolve this injunction, and the case was argued at Bome length on both sides, during which a great Portion of the celebrated Schuyler frauds were again dragged ‘vio light. Counsel for the plaintiffs contended that the payment of the semi-annual dividend should be restrained until a correct and reliable separation of the genuine from the spurious Stock could be obtained, which he alleged had never as yet been effected. In any case the Board of Directors, who are themselves stockholders, at whose instigation the former examination of the accountant, Mr. Wilson, respecting the over issue ofthe stock, had been made, were not competent to decide as to who were the holders of genuine stock and who of the spurious. No decision has been rendered on the motion. A race for a “premium” of $1,000 took place at Boston yesterday between the celebrated trotters Princess and Flora Temple. It is estimated that twenty thousand persons, ai least a tenth of whom were ladies, witnessed the contest, and urged on the gallant steeds with cheers and the waving of handkerchiefs. It is very evident that these trot” ting mares have created quite as great a sensation in the modern Athens as was produced by the pirouettes of Fanny Elssler or the warblings of Jenny Lind. The race was a spirited affair, though not equal to the exhibition of speed on the Eclipse Course recently, Flora won the race in three Straight heats. The time was—first heat, cond, 2:26}; third, 2:3 Elsewhere we publish in full the will of the late Colonel Herman Thorn, to which reference was made in yesterday's paper. Its provisions dispose of over $1,000,000 in real and personal estate. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, but transacted little business of importance. The bill of Dr. Doremus, for chemical analysis of the Btephens and Fourteenth street poisoning cases, ‘Was passed. The Washington Grays of this city arrived at New Bedford yesterday morning, where they were cordially received and entertained by the civic and qoilitary authorities and the citizens generally. The American Telegraphic Company have ob- tained permission from the Secretary of War to open a marine telegraph station at Fort Lafayette, in the Narrows, and they will proceed immediately to layacable from that point to Fort Hamilton, where it will connect with the Brooklyn line, which Btretches to New York. This line will give the company unequalled facilities for reporting marine News, night and day, as it will also connect with the line already constructed from Sandy Hook. ‘The rales of cotton yesterday embraced about 700 bales, Cloring quietly at the quotations given in another column. ‘The receipte at the ports since the Ist of September inst Bmounted to 3,702,000 bales, against 3,075,000 in 1858, 2,906,000 in 1857, and 3,489,000 in 1866. The exports have Feached 2,975,000 bales, against 2,573,000 iif 1868, 2,240,- 000 in 1867, and 2,945,000 in 1856, The stock om hand amounts to 116,000 baies, againet 96,000 in 1858, 72,000 in 1857, 51,000 in 1856, and 112,000 in 1485. Flour was again %n good demand yesterday, ani cloned at an advance of fully Sc. @ 10c, per barrel. Good to prime new wheat was beld at 20. w 20. per bushel higher, which tended to check sales. Corn was scarce and firm, with moderates sales at fuil prices. Port was more active, ith some transactions on speculation. Sales of now mess were made at $14 76 & $15, and of prime at $10 25 a $10 60. Sugars were steady, with vals of about 1,200 bhds. and 80 boxes at rates given in another place, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1859. Coffee was firm and Java per, The stork m this market emnraced 68,006 bags Rio, and a tote! of 122 800 Packages of all kinda, including 42,175 mos, aad 2,675 government tage Java, Freight engagements to Englieh ports were light, but rates were firm, A fair busioss was doing for some ports on the Continent at sisady rates, Ibe American Eagle was chartered to loud with naval stores for Londoa on terms stated elgowbere. Mr. Douglas and Hits Position on the Slavery Question, According to a Washington letter to one of our city cotemporaries, from a “Native Soutberner,”” which we bave transferred to this paper, there is ap exceedingly narrow margin between the pre- sent views of Mr. Douglas on the slavery ques- tion and the general principles of the republican Penne Dlinois Senator declares that slavery is the paramount issue, and that the battle upon it “must be fought, and fought now to the ead.” In other words, he concurs in the “irrepressible conflict” of Mr. Seward’s Rochester maaifesto. He also dentes that the Dred Scott decision ae tles anythiog or does anything in bebalf of sla- very in the Territories, and declares that slavery is the creature of the local law, State or Territorial. This, too, is the ground occupied by the republi- can party. And thus, with Mr. Douglas tread ing so closely upon their heels ia the North, this party is not, acd willsotbe, in a condition to wake any concessions to the opposition elements of tbe Sonth. The Rochester manifesto will thus, in all probability, have to be adopted as the platform of the republican party ia order to keep its original Var Buren democratic elements from going over to the camp of Mr. Douglas. We assume as the basis of these remarks that these disclosures of a “Native Southerner” coveerving the views and opinions of Me. Doug tas are true, aod we have every reasoa to believe them so. His late public letters, his recent frank und open conversations, here and elsewhere, ou ‘he subjects discussed, leave no doubt upon the matter, We dare say, too, that in the elaborate constituti¢nal argnment, which will be published to-day or to-morrow, from the pen of Mr. Douglas, on the slavery question in the Territories, his position as a decidedly Northera candidate for the Charleston nomiuation will be conclusively established. Mr. Douglas has en- ‘ered into this campaign of “popular sovereign y,”’ as much resolved upon the subjugation of the southern “fire-eaters” as was Louis Napoleon two sonthsago to make Italy free “from the Alps vo the Adriatic.” And if there should be no Villafrauca to the democracy, we may depend ipon it that between Douglas and the fire- vaters there will be a war of extermination. When Governor Wise issued his Stamford let- ‘er of forty vewepaper columns on Congressional sovereignty over the Territories, with an illustra- tive map of the United States, he threatened, like the Austrians when they invaded Sardinia, to carry everything before him. But the Ber- aard Donnelly letter was to Wise the battle of Magenta, acd he is now in full retreat for his line of the Mincio—chat is, the south side of Mason and Dixou’s line. But his case seems to be hopeles, for he has no defensive square in which to take shelter. Indeed, from all that we cau jearn, Mr. Douglas now considers his late formi: dable Virginia rival ‘a dead cock in the pit.”” But let not the “Little Giant” of Ilinois pre- sume too much upon his Northern ba- tance of power. The platform will be the first thing in order at Charleston, and the ultimatum of squatter or popular sove- reignty may be too much for the Convention Supposing that a Northern majority may be found competent to pass the “popular sovereiga- ty” doctrines of Mr. Douglas, the startling ques- ion recurs, will not this proceeding be the sig nal for a revolt of the Southern fire-eaters? No doubt of it can be entertained, considering the fact that a large portion of the fire-eaters really desire, and are actively plotting for, the dissolu- tion of the democratic party, as the shortest cut to a regular secession organization and a South- ern confederacy. North and South, however, the active masses of the democracy desire a treaty of peace, and they are bopeful of another victory, like that of 1856, between the divisions of the opposition. The leaders and managers of the party, sharing in these anticipations, will leave no stone ua- turned to reunite their party. And thus, in the long interval to the meeting of the Charleston Convention, a compromise may be patched up that will do for the Presidential campaign. And as the first eseential to such a compromise will be the dropping of both Wise and Douglas, and their extreme sectional doctrines, it is quite possible that we may fiud them both laid up in lavender in good season for democratic harmony. Governor Wise, it is universally conceded, has already taken bis “hasty plate of soup,” and we tear that the “popular sovereigaty” pro- nuncianientoes of Mr. Douglas will be as fatal to him as were the letters of those thirteen demo- cratic candidates of 1852 to those thirteen men who were drawn into a preparatory correspond- ence on the slavery question by Captain Scott. Shall Mr. Douglas rale the Convention, or shall the Convention rule or rule out Mr. Douglas? This is the exact question which he has raised, and from which he cannot now retreat. The democratic party, therefore, must dispose of Mr. Douglas before the meeting of their National Convention, or he will break np the party in the Convention. In 1854 he tried a Southern exposure on the Kansas-Nebraska bili; but he thinks that in 1856 the South betrayed him at Cincinnati in order to secure a more available Northern man. Mr. Douglas, therefore, has resolved to coerce the South with his Northern balance of power, and threatens them with the vengeance of Van Buren of 1848, should they flinch from his de- mands, The issue is @ bold one; but there is a margin of time allowed in which the democracy may yet round it by quietly getting Mr. Douglas out of the way. This thing, we suspect, they will contrive to do, and we should not be sur- prised if they were to do it in the organization of the new Congress, Can Gov. Wise or Mr. Douglas, or any other man, be permitted to stand in the way of de- mocratic harmony when their party game in- volves the epoils and plunder of one hundred mil lions a year? No. ——_——__, Leiter or Hox in. MATHER ON THE WISE Corresroxpencue—Tue Lerren Wnrrrens or New York.—On another page we publish a letter of the Hon. Jobn C. Mather in reply to a ridicu lous correspondence from thie city in the Rich- mond Whig, in which the writer endeavors to mix up that gentleman with the publication of the letter of Governor Wise, whereas he had nothing whatever to do with the matter further than that tae Hon. Mr. Dickinson, of Bingham. ton, sent to him at Albany a copy of the Wise letter which he had received from a confederate of Confidence Cassidy. This was in fact only one of numerous copies taken, for the letter was copied ia manifold, and distributed ll round among tbe politicians by the confederates of treacherous Cassidy, who ea deavors to throw tbe responsibility of ite publi- cation on others. False to bis own engagewents, the Confidence man of the Albany Regency re- sorts to every artifice to divert attention from himself and the tlaughter house, and fasten it. pou other men. One of the drunken vage- vond New York letter writers who flood tbe country papers with their uamitigated trash appears to be the tool of the butcher boy, bought for less than the price of calf, and writes the silly ep'stle toa Virginia paper which we inserted yesterday as a specimen of that class of compositions which ovly require to be published in New York to show their falsehood and absurdity. Of thee loafing letter-writers who hail from New York, but have no residence unless that they eleep for the most part in the station houses, tbere are about a dozen in all, and every story they pick up about the low groggeries, or the purlieus of Tammany Hall, or any other disre- putable den, is grist for their mill; and no mat- ter bow lying, how utterly improbable on its very face, it is sent as news to the country papers, and swallowed as gospel by their enlightened readers. Wherever a New Yorker happens to lignt on any of these letters he enjoys a laugh at the expense of the paper which gives a place to such atupid fabrications, invented either by the igvorant writer, or by some politician who wishes to set a story afloat at a distance which he knows could not for a moment gain credence bere. The shameless effrontery of these scribes is only equalled by their mendacity, and one- half the time they are so drunk that they know vot what they write, and perpetrate balderdasb on a par with the famous’ “quadrilateral” article of a city contemporary who “discovered name rous elbows in the Mincio formed by the sympa- thies of youth.” Louts Napoleon’s Knack of Minding His Own Busincss—A Lesson to the Statesmen of Eu- rope. General Jackson once interrupted some sug- gestions from Mr. Livingston by suddenly ask- ing bim if be ever heard of the man who made his fortune by minding his owa business. This is what Louis Napoleon shows that he possesses in an eminent degree, and also that of not per- mitting himself to be thwarted by lending him- seli to the aims and purposes of others. This he exhibited in the entente cordiale with England, which redounded to his great advan- tage and lasted as long as it could be of any service to him. He showed it also in the Cri- mean war, which he made to suit himself, and which he stopped when his owa pur- poses were gained. But it has been more appa- rent than ever in the recent war in Italy, both ia its inception and ian the peace of Villatranca. When he entered upon this war nearly every Power hoped to derive great advantages from his course of action. Sardinia was to become the great Power of Italy; Prussia hoped to sce Austria shorn of rich territories and mnch power, and thus reduced in her German iaflu- ence; England thought that a collision between the two great military Powers of the Continent would leave her predominant in Western Europe through their exhaustion; the revolationista thought that Louis Napoleon was to become their tool, and contribute to the overthrow of the Pope and King Bomba, the liberation of Italy and Hungary, the revolution of Germany, aad finally of the overthrow of imperialism in Frauce itself, : But Louis Napoleon saw where his interests and the interests of France lay, and when he got there he stopped. While still on his course the selfish diplomatists and the puny statesmen of other Powers hovered around him, poured in- sinuations through the telegraph into his ear, and each tried to swerve him into the further- ance of his own puny designs, He listened to all, nodded to all, and still minded his own business, without troubling himself about that of others. And this has made his fortune as a statesman in Europe. There are so few who do it that he stands out among them in bold relief; and by the same rule that holds good in private affairs, the advice of she man who seeks none in managing his own business is sought by everybody else. Thus he fas become the arbiter of Europe. While the war in Italy raged all feared that it would extend and become general in Europe, and many laid plans for stoppiag it or confining its course. Each tried to make the peace he wished to bring about to serve his own in- tereste, and consequently, when the peace of Vil- lafranca was made by Louis Napoleon himself, without any one knowing anything about it, and purely on account of its beariag on France, all were dissatisfied with it. Sardinia grumbleé because she had not got all she wanted. Prussia is angry that Austria was not completely humbled, and is almost ready to go to war with her for having made peace without her inter- vention. The revolutionary elements are dis satisfied because Louis Napoleon managed his own business instead of theire. But the most ridiculous figure is cut by the Coburgs in England, with their allies, the tories and the semi-tories. The speech of Lord John Russell, which we published yester- day, on the motion of Lord Elcho that England should decline to go into a con- gress to settle the details of the peace of Villa- franca, shows this in the most perfect manner. The British Minister of Foreign Affairs shows what fools the Cabinet had made of themselves by their propinquity to mind other people’s busi- nese, and permitting themselves thus to be made to act as go-betweens, It is time that Eagland’s | statesmen should learn the value of minding one’s own business, She has nothing to do with the quarrels of the selfish rulers of the European Continent, and the more she keeps out of them the greater will her influence be. The convic- tion of this fact is fast coming home to the peo- ple of England, and the sooner her statesmen learn it the greater will be their fame and the longer their tenure of power. Tne Commnc Exxctioys 1x rae Centrat Sratrs.—The elections in the Southwest have generally taken place, and they have, for the most part, gone agaist the democracy. These contests have furnished unmistakable symptoms of revolt against it, owing partly to the insane conduct of some of its leaders, the corruption and selfishness of others, producing splits and divisions, and the generally demoralized condi- tion of a party so long in power. Great interest, however, is excited about the State elections yet tobe held in the Central States, for the demo- cracy look forward to them ia the hope that they will restore their lost prestige, and the opposi- tion in the hope that they will complete ‘us over- throw of the democracy. On a)l hands there elections are reparded as indleative of the way the wind blows in refe- repee to the Presidential election of 1860. In October and November State elections are to be beld in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Dlinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wis copein and Minnesota, which last is especially important, as no one knows anything about it, or bas any data on which to predict the result. Besides these there are State elections to be held ip California in September, and highly im- portant ones in Mississippi in October, and in Lovisiana and Georgia in November. * There is one policy, and only one, by which the democracy may retrieve its lost ground. It is that of union against disunion. When California was admitted as a State, there was a strong feel- ing against it which threatened to split the Con- federacy into two halves, But the rallying ory of Union in 1850 and 1851 carried everything before it. Poor Pierce floated into power on this popular tide, without any merit of his, with his very name hitherto unknown. The rallying cry now ought to be the same as then, for it ap- peals to the heart of the country, and is some- thing beyond mere party politica, It is not yet too late for the democracy to re- deem their position, if, laying aside their minor differences, they unite against the rum-selling author of the Rochester speech, in which the policy of dividing the United States into two sec- tions is distinctly proclaimed. “The Union and the Constitution” ought to be inscribed on every banner in the coming State elections, and the common enemy, against whom the hosts of the people ought to be led, is William H. Seward. By tbis course they will be united for the struggle in 1860, and the democratic candidate may be borne on the top of the popular wave like Franklin Pierce in 1852. Meera or Exrremes—Horace Gresrey and Bricuam Youna.—When fanatic meets fapatic, and both are in the opposite extremes, sometbing ludicrous may be expected from the collision. Horace Greeley, after writing home fabulous gold stories from a modern Ophir, which deceived thousands to their ruin, visit® Brigham Young, in Utah, and writes an account of that pereonage and his harem which is equally reliable. His letter will be found in an- other column, The idea of such a man as ing submitting tamely, like a child, to be put through his catechism by such a man as Greeley, is a story that will do to “tell the horse ma- tines.” Horace reports his questions and the auswers of Brigham; but he takes good care not to report Brigham’s questions and bis own answers. He says that “in the two hours con- vereation much was said incidentally that would not be worth reporting,” and as some of the con- vereation “assumed somewhat the character of a disputation, he could hardly give it im- partially.” Now, the parts left out are just those in which Young floored Greeley with his posers. Brigham Young is a fanatic in religion, but in other respects he is no fool. He is a far shrewder man than Greeley, who deplores the darkness of the ism by which the Mormons are deluded, but seems unconscious of being himself the victim of numerous isms equally dark and fanatical, in- cluding abolitionism and teetotalism—of being led about by every wind of doctrine and deluded by every humbug, from “Slievegammon” to Pike’s Peak. At one time the ignis fatuus of Fourierism leads him on a fool’s dance through quagmires and sloughs, and we find him delivering lectures to the pattern phalanxes after which the whole population of the United States were to be modelled. In these communities in some re- spects all things were in common, while in others the order of nature and of common sense, of philosophy and history, was equally reversed, and the man with least intellect and the most igno- rant, who did the dirtiest and coarsest work, re- ceived most remuneration, while the artist and the man of genius (if art or genius could be found in such an atmosphere) were put on the lowest pittance. This was by way of honoring labor, and exalting the man who had most affiuity with the brute above the man who most resem- bled the divinity. These Utopian concerns, with their “social and industrial reform,” have long since gone to limbo, while “the false condi- tion of society in which we are placed by a mis taken and vicious civilization” still continues, to the disgust of Greeley and the Tribune phi- losophers. As long as this delusion lasted it was a sort of religion with him to wear a dirty old white coat, threadbare and riddled with holes, his face and hands filthy, his shirt black, and his boots the reverse. His exterior has since become somewhat improved. For another period Greeley was sorely exer. cised about Graham bread, avd during the time he was under the spell ot that infatuation there was nothing fit for human food but brown coarse wheaten bread with the bran init. Those who indulged in the luxury of beef and mutton were no bétter than cannibals, and were violating the physical laws of the constitution of man. Eat- ing flesh meat was the cause of all the ills that human flesh iss heir to, There is none who has @ greater appetite for fat pork now than Horace Greeley. i The doctrines of Free Love and Women’s Rights and Spiritualiam, with all its “ affinities,” found special favor with Greeley, and the marriage tie was pronounced to be of no more force than a cobweb, It is hard to say how long Greeley continues of the same mind. But judging from | bis letter from Mormondom, he is still a stickler for “woman’s sphere and destiny,” and “the genius of the nineteenth century,” whoever he may be. Now it is singular how extremes meet, Horace Geeeley, the pot, calls Brigham Young, the kettle, black. The one, by his polygamy, degrades woman below her sphere; and the other, by his woman’s rights, degrades man and unsexes woman, throwing her out of her sphere and sending her among the clouds or to the moon. Greeley pronouncing on Young and his Mormonism is like a lunatic in one ward of an asylum pronouncing a different kind o lunatic in another ward mad. As for the Mor- mon chief, he has rather more method in his madnees. than the champion of Woman's Rights. He bas realized $250,000, which is above the capacity of Greeley. And to have fifteen wives together, some of them “old ladies,” and to love and cherish them all, is not half so immoral or 80 injurious to society as to change wives fifteen times, the husband getting rid of each in succession, on the ground that she has no affinity for him, and seek- ing out some new flame more congenial to bis desires, Brigham Young holds that “no man should ever put away his wife except for adultery.” Horace Greeley holds that he should put her away if she did not, after due trial, hap- pen to be his “affinity.” But when we add that, according to the Woman’s Rights and Free Love system, 4 woman may have fifty husbands in succession, all being still alive—that, in fact, as one of the strong minded adies declared, abe has a right to choose whatever man she pleases to be the father of each ot her children—the reader will agree with us that polygamy is an honest and moral system, compared with this bestial concubinage. aorta The Trme and Tide in Mexican Affain—A Ten Mullion Strike in Wall Street, We publish in another column an interesting article from the London Post, the organ of Lord Palmerston, on the subject of Mexican affairs. ‘Two important points are set forth in this article: One is that the British government has deter- mined to institute an inquiry into the course of its representative in Mexico, Mr. Otway; and the other, that provided the claims of the British bondholders are made eecure, the sooner that Mexico becomes a part of the American con- federacy the more will the British government rejoice. ‘This article, taken in connection with one from the city column of the London Zimes, pub- lished in our yesterday’s issue, shows con- clusively the tendency of public opinion in Eng- jand regarding Mexico. In our city items to- day will be found a notice of a purchase of rifles by an agent of Gov. Vidaurri, of Nuevo Leon; aud the published returns of the exports from New York for the week ending on the 15th inst. contain the following significant items sent to Mexico:—Sixty-three cases of hardware, three kegs of bullets, forty kegs of shot, seventy-five cases of muskets, one hundred packages of car- tridges, two cases of percussion caps, and five boxes of flints. These little items combine to swell the tide of peaceful commerce, and tu show which way the current of public affairs ie setting. Mexico is drifting towards a closer sympatby and connection with the United States; and the public mind, both ia England and this country, fully admits the fact and its consequences. But it is not towards annexation nor a protec- torate, nor yet to become virtually a part of the United States, as the London Post supposes Mexico has much work to do before either ot theee three events can come to pass—work that only Mexico can perform. She must root out the old elements, inherited from the Middle Ages, which yet exist in her social, political and ecclesiastical organizations, before the conserva- tive shield of true freedom can be extended over her. This necessary work would be hateful in the extreme, if performed by a foreign hand, however bleased and holy that hand might be Our goverpment cannot do it, because such a work is not contemplated iu its constituted sphere of action. Private enterprise cannot do it, for tbat would soon degenerate into the most odious filibusterism. It must be done by native sands, to be thoroughly and permanently done. The question then comes: Can native hands do this work, and reorganize the scattered ele ments of peace and public order in Mexico? Without foreign aid it is probable that it cannot be done, or that at least it will take a long time todo it. Butif the sympathy and aid that cao be brought from this country and England, in- stead of being wasted in petty rills, whose occa- sional floods are soon swallowed up in tbe thirsty degert of Mexican revolution, should all be col- lected together and directed, through a native and legitimate government, to the great work at the one right spot, the labor would be soon over and the reward secure. Mexico is an exceedingly rich and fertile couutry. If peace and a stable government were giveo o her, she could meet all her liabilities with ease, and have an abundant surplus. Her Bri- tish debt is her main incumbrance. It amounts to some fifty millions of three per cent bonds, worth to day in the market from eighteen to twenty percent, or say ten millions of dollars The restoration of peace and financial order to her government would double the value of these bonds in two or three years, giving a profit of ten millions of dollars to the bondholders. This ten millions, if it could now be made available to the constitutional government, would secure the social and political reform of Mexico, would establish a firm government, and would secure the repayment of the old debt and the new loan, as well as the lives and properties of tavusands of foreign residents now in imminent danger in that distracted republic. From intimations we have. received in regard to the movements of Senor Lerdo, the Secretary of the Treasury of President Juarez, who was lately here, and is now in Washington, we shall not be at all sur- prised to learn that such a movement has been carried out. A ten million strike is just the thing for our Wall strect capitaliets, and there are plenty of them capable of making it. ———— whetber the officers are faithful or not, Recreant Mar- chals, ag ip the Wenderor’s care, will lose their heads, The echooner Nautilus, the vereel advertised at Now York to euil for the Chiriqui gold graves, was fited out ‘here ostensibly for Australia, but suspicions baviog arisen that abe was going unto the trade, she slipped off wuddenly and turned up ip York, where some of her crew left her and returned bere, satisfied the was in- tended for a slaver. She cost the government about eight | thousand dollars for revenue service, and being incompe- | tent, was so!d for lesa than four thousand. It is believed ber present destination is the Congo coast instead of Chiriqui. The Post Office Department bas arrangei with Judge all, the contractor for carrying the mail from ladepea- | dence to Santa Fe, for weekly tripe—time, fifteen days; } the schedule was former'y twonty days. Instructions from tbe Genera! Iand Office to 8. C. Stam- | baugh, order the collection of the archives of the Sur. | veyor General's office in Utah, and all other government property belovging thereto, and a report of the condition of the same to the Department. Also to enter into @ oriti. | cal examination of all surveys reported to have been made | hal a This looks suspicious, What is wrong THR GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, Wasamatox, Augast 23, 859. ‘The President bas recoguizea Heury Schondortf as Oon ‘ul of the Prince of Reuss of the elder branch and of Prince of Reuss of the junior branch, to reside at Now York, He has aleorecoguized ©. &. Stewart as Consu! for Belgium, at Charleston, 8. C. The President has appointed William T. Wright, Jr., Consul at Santo. A private despatch from Carlisle, Indiana, announres the death of Hon. John A. Davis, of that State, formerly Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Professor Dimitry, Mintster to Central America, wil ieave about the Ist of September, with his family, for Costa Rica. * Phe Race Between -Flora Temple and Prin- cess at Boston. IMMENSE EXCITEMbNT AMONG THE PURITANS—GRAND TURNOUT OF THE LADIKS TO S&E THR FLEET- FOOTED MARES—FLOKA TEMPLE THE WINNEA, 6TC. Bostor, august 23, 1859. According to announcement the great race between the celebrated horses Princess and Fiora Temple took place ‘o-day at the Riding Park. The day, the borses ana the weather could not been more agreeable. A pleasant east wind cooled the atmosphere, and prevented what would otherwise bave been undoubtedly a scorching day Tae ‘imely official announcement that the horses bad arrived » good condition on Sunday morning Jast, in charge of their owners and drivers, aiso added to the genoral desire among people at a distance to be present, for disappomnt- ments too often repeated bave bad a potent influence in restraining people from atiending the Riding Park on many previous occasions, To the weather, the attraction, ‘be steam railroads, the horse care—in fact, everything being right in an eminent degree—the concourse could not ave been expected to be otherwise than immense. At two o’clock P, M. tne doors of the Riding Park were opeved, Giimore’s celebrated brass band commenced playing, and the influx of the multitude began. The ‘stream continued uainterrupted until long after the nour fixed for the announcement of the sport—four o’clocx— when there were upwards of twenty thousand persons present, two shousand of whom were ladies. First Heat—Precisely at four o’clock the horses were brought om the course. When stripped they seemed in prime condition, Thoee who knew them said they never saw them in better trim. Messrs. Thomas Adams, of Rox- bury; Adaigon Gage, of Charlestown, and Joshua Seward, of Boston, were appointed judges. Before the etart the odds were ove hundred to fifty in favor of Flora—betting very shy. Time bets changed from Jast night, and nd- thing cou'd be taken at legs than 2:27 and 2:28, At the firet word the nage got off for the first heat, Prin- cees elightly leading to the first turn, where bota broke, Princess badly, but Flora taking ber foot in an ixsiant, and leading by several lengths before the California mare got to her steady work again. Flora continued to iead Chrough the first balf mite, in 1:(534, Princees fer behind; and 80 0n througb the second haif, crossing the score, leaving Princess almost a distance—if there had been any dietances—in the rear, and making the heat in 2:33, Second Heat—The firet heat waving produced no sensa- ton among the crowd, except that of disappointment, sumething more was expected from the second. Alter Uoree false gtarta they got off well together, Flora leading to the half in 1:1434, and all the way round the second half, and crossing the score in 2:26%. The little bay mare gave great satisfaction in this neet, and the immense crowd expressed their delight by repeated cheers and laudits, the ladies also waving their bandkerchvefs. Princess algo hud her favorites for her steady footing and sallant bearing. Her time in the second heat was 2:30, The heat was not a contest, but an exbibition of go ahead, ocomotive fleetness on the part of Flora, and a sad stern sbase for the Californian. Third Heat.—Both off at the word, Princess leading which she kept to the first turn, flora @pparentiy in @ hobble, from which however she soon recovered, and ‘sped after her antagonist, who had opened a considerable gap. At the quarter Flora lapped, and after a brief but spirited contest passed Princess, and ied to tbe first half in 1:17, leaving Princess struggling handsomely, but bards several lengths in the rear. The second half Fiora had all her own way, and led home easily, making the heat in 2:34. The following is a summary of the contest:— Sovra Exp Rinne Park, Boston, August 23, 1869.—Pre- mium $1,000—aule heats, best in five, to harcess—Half mile course. J. D, McMann named b. m. Flora Temple, of Ne York .. . of Califor 3g —2:34, Notwithstanding the large concourse of spectators, the largest on such an occurrence ever known ‘here, every- thing passed off without accident or disturbance of auy kind. A large number of New Yorkers wore present, ———— Non-Arrival of the Canada at Halifax. Sackviie, August 23, 1859, There were no signs of the steamship Canada at Ha ifax at eight o’clock this evening. She is now fully due there, with three days inter European intelligence. The weather was thick, and it was raining very hard. AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. Reported Recall of W. H. Seward from Abroad—Movements of the Mexican Mints terr—Cthe Recent Difaication=Jubiiee of the Sons of Malta—OMwtal Report Respect- ing the Siave Trade Between the afcican and Florida Coasts—Something About the Schooner Nautilus—An investigauion of the Affairs of the Utah Land Office, dic., &c. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCT. Wasmncrox, August 23, 1859, Tt is reported that W. H. Seward has been written to tbat his immediate presence in tnis country is desirable. Something must be done to force Douglas to take strong Southern democratic ground, or the leading republicans fear he will break up their party in the Northwest. they now see the folly of their union with him againet Lo compton. Douglas gets all the credit for that job, and seems determined to hold a sort of conservative or mid dle ground, which is satisfactory to people of the Bfissis. sippt Valley. Hence Seward is wanted to defeat the machinaticns of the ‘“Littie Giant.” Will he come? Senor Lerdo and suite, with Senor Ma‘a, visited Mount Vernon this morning, and were entertained at dinnor by the Secretary of State this afternoon, Capt. Bowman has telegraphed to contractors furnish ing materials for the Treasury extension tc sond trans Crips of accounts of moneys actualiy received and proper ty delivered. Such is the state of affa'rs that this is the only method of ascertaining the amount of the alleged frauds, Major French was not pay clerk, but confidentia) assistant engineer and clerk for Bowman, who alone ix responsible to the government. If altered or false vouchers are proven against French he will be amenabie to the charge of forgery, Asa defaulter, Bowman is his principal, not the government. They are clasemates and lifelong friends Gen. Bickivy and suite, of K. G. C., are at the National in secret conclave. What can it mean? ‘The Sons of Malta are maxing great preparations for a erand tournament, boat race and bali here during Sop tember. Sons from Baitimore, Philadelphia, Now York and Boston will be invited. Letters received to-day at tho Interior Department from tbe Marsbal of Florida, report that he has made a full examination of all points on the coast, and that he is fully convinced no ‘es have been landed there, Nodoubt Secretary Thompson instructs officers to exercise the ut: most vigilance to prevent the landing of Africans, and tho Department is made Ww believe the Wanderer’s cargo is the only instance in which a landing has been effected Per contra, numerous partics aver they have seen two or ‘three hundred Africans on sale at various points in the South and Southwest. Amonget such pereons are dis tinguished Senators, who unhesitatingly ayow thelr belie that from ten io fifteen thousand have been landed within the year, The President and Secretary Thompson arc doth det wiped to probe all Fumorg and disgover New Jersey Democratic State Conventton. Trenton, N. J., August 23, 1859, The Democratic State Coavention for the nomination of @ candidate for Governor meets to morrow. A large number of delegates arrived here this evening. The Prominent candidates aro Messrs, Wright, of Hudson; Skelton, of Mercer; Wearts, of Hunterdon, and Sykes, 0 Burlington. An exciting time is expected, —_—_—_—_———___ The Douglas Feeling in Pennsylvania, REAvING, Pa., August 23, 1869, The democrats of Berks this day elected four delegates to the State Convention instructed to support from first to iast delegates to the Charleston Convention in fayor of the nomination of S. A. Douglas. —$—$$_$____ The Botts Movement tn Virginta. Riceaonp, Augast 23, 1859, The opposition held a large meeting here last night, and expressed @ preference for John Minor Botts for the Presi- dency, and recommensed him tothe Stato Convention, which will assemble here during the fall. More Troubles in Kansas. Leavenwortn, August 22, 1859, Some corfirmation of the reported outbreak in th south has reached here, on the Jayhawkers being taken into Missouri. Captain Montgomery is reported to be in the fleld, and it is expected he will attempt to recapture them. Considerable uneasiness existed, and a renewal of the old disturbances are anticipated. , ——_____. Interesting from the Kansas Gold Region. Sr. Louis, August 22, 1859, Advices from Denver City @ the 12th reached Loaven- worth to-day. Rich discoveries of gold had been mado at the Medicine Bow Mountains, one hundred and afty miles northwest of Cherry crock. The oxcitemoat io relation to the new diggings at the head waters of the Soutia Piatto Continued unabated. Large numbers were daily leaving, both for the North and South. Seven persons arrived at Atchison to-day with over one hundred ounces of gold, The Omaha Republican says that Charles Lesile, of Marion county, Pennsylvania, arrived there on the 14th inst., with 1,088 ounces of gold dust from Clear Croek. Leslie professes to have discovered the richest diggings yet found and returns to the States for the Purpose of procuring quartz mills to work them, Leavenworti, August 23, 1859. The exproes has arrived here with Denver City dates of the 15th inst,, aix passengors and sixteen thousand dollars in gold dust, A portion of the recently framed State Constitution had been published. N> allusion is mnde to the slavory ques. Hon in the Will of rights, Tho right of Bullrage roptricted,