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4 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST: 27, 1859. SS tates tte ene NEW YORK HERA LD. | are given in another column, Genera] Harney had i. taken possession of the island of San Juan, or JAMES GORDON BENNETT, Bellevue, asthe British call it, which lies in Puget's EDITOR AND PROPRISTOR. Sound, and is claimed by both nations. The island an pis is important, as it commands the entrance of Fra- a nie ah Sea ser river. It is believed this act of Gen, Harney will lead to a speedy settlement of the boundary ques- DYFICE N. W. 001 8, cash inadvancs. Money sent by mail wilt Be at the wae ‘sender. Postage stampa not received aa aubecription Y HERALD, two conte ), $1 per annua KLY HERALD, eoery Saturday, tena conte sop or Ber wonun the Buropetn Bilton évery “Wed Shoe cred cand W tbe timotoonts AG cose eating OS olany part of the Continent, in : or Sornia Kdution on the Bth andl 30h @f ach month’ as ae conte pertopy or 81.50 per annum. SEB PAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per anim, Ory T ONTARY. CORRESPONDENCE, containing important news, soticited from any quarter of the world; 7 used, roll be Yiberaily paid’ for OUR FOREIGN UORRESPONDENTS ARB jon. A meeting of the stockholders of the old Atlan- tic and Pacific Ship Canal Company was held yes- terday for the purpose of confirming the late con- tract made between John E. Body and Gen. Jerez: the Nicaraguan Minister. We give in another column a report of the proceedings. The offal contractor sent in a complaint to the Health Commissioners yesterday to the effect that $12,000 a year, the sum now paid him for removing offal from the city, is not a sufficient remuneration: and asking an increased compensation. The matter was referred to the City Inspector and Commis- sioners McSpedon and Cornell. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,50¢ bales, closing with the turn of the market in favor of pur- chasers, or on about the basis of quotations given in aa: other column, Flour wes active and firmer, and especially for common and medium grades, closing af an advance in some [oases of 6c. a 160. per barrel. Wheat of prim: Quality was scarce and firm; sales of Kentucky white were made at $1 50, new red Southern at $1 25 a $130, and white Southern at $1 300$142. Corn was in fair de mand, but less buoyant; old mixed in store sold at 77c. a ‘780.; new do., in store and afloat, at 800. a 820., Western yollow at 84c., and prime whi'e Southern at 89c. a 920. Pork was beavy and lower, with sales of moss at $1425, hin mess at $13, clear at $17, and prime at $10 a $10 30. Sogars were active and firmer, with sales in the neignbor- hood of about 2,000 hhds., with 336 boxes at rates given in another place. Coffee was firm, while sales wore mode. rate. Freightsato English ports were firm, and among the engagements were 2,300 bales of cotton to Liverpool at 3-16d. a 34d, There was a fair amount offering tor Hamburg and Antwerp. British Calumnies and French fhreats—Will PARTICULARLY KEQUESIED TO AGES SENT US. Volume XXIV.......:::ssesereeeresee sees Oe B3T AMUSEMENUS THIS EVENING, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Nicosexvs—Ticat Borz—B1sxoo. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Biscx Ktgur—Irantax Buicanpe— War KAGLe. 4 . WALLaCK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Guxitvirs, NATIONAL THEATER, Obatham mrect.—Macsstu— ‘Banpsoms Jack. ARNUM'S AMERICAN noon and Bvening—MULSTERE D'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 661 and 563 aymoris Sones, Danons, 40 —Dawon anv Prrutas. SYANT’S MINSTRELS, Mechanice’ Halt, 472 Broadway— penienaran Sones, Daxoms, &¢.—I aunt Gor Timm to ARRY, PALACES GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth street,— Gonceat. Broadway.— After. Tovmpo—Four Lovers, New York, Saturday, August 27, 1859, ‘The News. By the arrival of the America and Etna at Bos. ton we have details of European news to the 13th inst., a brief telegraphic summary of which ap- peared in yesterday’s Heraxp. Nothing respecting the discussions at the Zurich Conference had been permitted to transpise pub- licly, The representatives were entertained with a banquet on the 12th, and the French Commissioner had invited the diplomatic corps to a dinner on the oth inst. Italy was ina ferment. Parma had almost unani- mously declared in favor of adherence to Sardinia, while Modena seemed resolved upon a similar course, and the Tuscans were determined to effect thé removal of the present dynasty. At Bologna Several agents of Mazzini had been arrested and expelled. From Germany we learn that collisions between the Prussian and Austrian soldiers at Mayence had occurred, followed by others of a more serious na- ture at Frankfort. In Austria there was a ministe rial crisis, brought about by the Emperor's rejection of certain proposed reforms. Tt was reported that Napoleon intended to pub- lish a political amnesty on the 15thinst., which was to include the names of Gen. Changarnier, Col. Charras, Louis Blane and Ledru Rollin and others Prominent in the events of 1848. The British Parliament was prorogued on the 18th. We give the substance of the Queen’sspeech, which contained little of importance. A meeting was held at Liverpool on the 10th to Sustain the project of the Atlantic Telegraph Com- pany, at which subscriptions for a number of shares Were guaranteed. The stock is quoted at £208. The monster steamship Great Eastern is officially ‘announced to leave for Portland early in the month of September. Constantinople papers announce the total de- struction of the city of Erzeroum by earthquakes, Erzeroum was the principal city of Armenia, in Asiatic Turkey, capital of a pashalic of the same name, in a plain on the Kara Soo, or west branch of the Euphrates, 120 miles southeast of Trebizond, and 155 miles west of Mount Ararat. The popula- tion, before the Russian invasion in 1830, was esti- mated at 100,000, but in 1844 it was only 40,000; it was, however, regularly increasing. It was partly enclosed bya wall thirty feet high, and had an extensive citadel. The streets were narrow, filthy, and infested with dogs; the houses were mostly of mud, timber, or sun-dried bricks. The principal buildings were the Armenian and Greek churches and schools, about forty mosques, a large custom house, and numerous khans or caravansaries. Erzeroum had an extensive trade with all the adja- cent countries, and wasa chief halting station for caravans going from Teheran and Mecca. The imports comprised shawls, silk, eotton, tobacco, rice, digo, madder and rhubarb from the east, and broadcloths, chintzes, shawls and cutlery from the west, by way of the Black Sea. Its vicinity ‘was extremely fertile, and near it many cattle, horses, mules and sheep were reared, which, with furs, galls, &c., formed the principal exports. Erzeronm was founded about 415, near the site of the ancient Arze, under the name of Theodosiopolis, and it was the bulwark of Armenia under the By- zantines, as it was under the Turks, its position rendering it an important military post. The steamship City of Washington, which left Liverpool on the 17th and Cork on the 18th inst., was boarded off Cape Race on Thursday last. Her news, which is five days later than that alluded to above, will probably reach this city in time for publication in to-day’s evening edition of the HeERa.p. By the arrival of the steamer Pajaro del Oceano at this port yesterday, we have advices from Ha- vana to the 2lst instant. The letters of our cor- respondents, which may be found elsewhere, con- tain full details of the news. The slave trade was going on briskly, several cargoes having recently been landed. A cargo of four hundred was landed at Havana on the 18th inst. According to our cor- respondent 42,063 coolies have been delivered alive at Havana since the commencement of the traffic, out of 49,304 shipped, 7,241 having perished on the voyage. Notwithstanding this large addition to the labor of Cuba, the value of coolies is steadily on the increase, and latterly sales have been made at $400 per head. Business at Havana was very dull, and the suspension of the Spanish mercantile house of Mazurra & Co. is reported. The health of the city and port had improved slightly. We have news from Buenos Ayres to the 28th of June. No collision had occurred between the Buenos Ayreans and the troops of the Argentine Confederation, and it is reported that Urquiza’s Boldiers at Rosario were discontented and deserting daily. The Argentine Congress had issued a mani- festo, recapitulating the causes of the present quarrel. The Buenos Ayreans, however, expect and desire to settle the controversy on the battle field, where they believe they will prove signally victorious. Our correspondent at Bridgetown, Barbadoes, writing on the 8th inst., says:—Since the 4th inst. the weather has continued showery, which is most favorable for the cultivation of plantations. The young canes look remarkably fine, and everything promises well for the next crop. There is very little sugar for sale, and prices range at 4jc. a 4$c., mo- lasses 17c. a 18c.,and rum 60c., duty paid. The markets are well supplied. American produce plenty, with moderate sales, and stock increasing. The Court of Assize is in session; the calendar ig light—presenting no crime beyond assault and bat- tery, petty larceny and afew cases of divorce. The Assize sermon and the toadyism of the Grand Jury have been ably criticised and loudly censured by the press. We have received accounts from Port an Prince, Hayti, to the 7th inst. Business was at a standstill. Efforts were being made to improve the quality of the cotton produced on the island. A lottery for the benefit of an insurance company had been authorized, By the arrival of the overland mail we have news from San Francisco to the Ist inst., and intelli- gence from other points onthe Pacific. The details France invade England t The war which the British press has so long been carrying on against Louis Napoleon has produced its natural result, and the Paris jour- nals are beginning to unlimber against “ the per- fidious Albion.” The Constitutionnel, in a recent article on the French army, announces that as soon as certaio Jabors on which the maritime transports of France are now engaged are finished, they will be able to throw a sudden and unexpected corps @armée on an enemy's shore, and then the ene- mies of France will think twice before provoking ber. This means: brought back the army from Italy, the fleet of transports can be sent round to Cherbourg, and then, as we can easily throw an army into Eug- land, the British journals will be more careful how they abuse France.” “When our ships have This is a resuscitation of the old conflict of continued insult through the press ou one side, vasion on the other, carried on between the English tories and the First Napoleon half a century ago. It is now known that a large portion of the state- ments of the British press at that time were and a constant threat of in- that was so long pure inventions; and grave doubts exist at the present day whether Napoleon ever really intended to invade England. It was a terrible threat, for few persons existed who did not en- tertain the conviction that if Napoleon’s trained legions were once landed on Britain’s shore, the British Court would have to flee from London, and perhaps from the island itself. The masses of undisciplined clodhoppers that would have been called out to defend the soil would have been more certain of defeat ia proportion to the greatness of their numbers. But the Firat Napo- leon knew that though he might overrun Eng- land, he could not hold it, and if he should have once succeeded in getting into it, the next ques- tion would have been how to get out of it. The same state of things exists now. Through the miserable policy that the English aristocracy pursue in their home government, the English people are a set of untrained cockneys and clod- hoppers, who know no more of the use of arms, and the common elements of military tac- tice, than a cow knows about music. If Louis Napoleon should once get into England with his Zouaves and his powder begrimed veterans from Algeria, the Crimea, and the plains of Lombardy, he might, ia one or two battles, scat- ter the English armies like flocks of sheep. But John Bull would never give up; and, through the virtue of continued beating, he would at last learn to bite a cartridge and fire from the shoul- der. The aristocracy would fly at the first smell of the villainous saltpetre, but the yeomen of England would burst forth in a blaze of patriot- ism. Then would come the scenes of heroic re- sistance presented not long since in India, doubly intensified by the love of home, and the con- templation of the desolated hearthstones; and Louis Napoleon might verify the saying that has been attributed to him long since, that his des- tiny was to die fighting in the atreets of Lon- don. But this war of journalism and these menaces of invasion are probably nothing more than po- litical ruses to cover some other interest Menace is a part of the Napoleonic pol- icy, but Louis Napoleon is very guarded in the execution of his threats, and knows how to stop short therein. Itis not long since the whole of Europe trembled at his announcement that Italy must be free from the Alps to the Adriatic; and later still he has threatened the murmuring Italians with the withdrawal of his protecting hand, and then Austria would rule from Turin to Messina. Yet he stopped short in his victorious career, and the peace of Villafranca shocked Ea- | rope with his moderation; and no man believes that he could ever contemplate the rule of the Austrian eagle from the Carpathian Alps to the blue waves of the Sea of Tarentum. The present contest of words is an old contest revived for a new purpose. Fifty years ago the tories ruled England, and were able to raise the national feeling in defence of their old despotism and feudal theories, To-day a more enlightened school rules there. But the Coburgs and the tories are carrying on their machinations against Napoleon with every court in Europe; and he hasraised the old cry of invasion in order to awaken the common sense of Eagland to a con- templation of the possible results of the intrigues of the Court and the Coburgs, aad thus carry his war with the latter into their owa lo calities, The result is very likely to be just what he anticipates, for Louis Napoleon knows the English people far better than the English aristocracy know them. The idea of an inva- sion necessitates new armies, new taxes, and new burthens upon commerce. The apprehension of these will bring the Coburgs and the tories to their senses,and relieve Palmerston, in part at least, of the promises he was lately obliged to make to them in order to obtain office. If the trath could ever be ascertained we have no doubt it would be found that the present British calumnies and French menaces compose a scheme combined be- tween this sly old fox and Louis Napoleon to keep Palmerston in office, and to relleve him of some of the court incumbrances to which he is committed. Tux Ivatiay Cavsu anp THe Rep Repus.i- cans.—The news by the America, touching Italy which we published yesterday, by telegraph, is of a character to Fake the judicious in that coun- try grieve, and cause deep regret in the minds of all in every otber country who take an interest in the cause of Italian independence, We do no not allude to the exclusion of the Sardinian representatives from some of the sit- tings of the Zurich Conference, for it may well be conceived that they volunteered their absence from these sessions from motives of delicacy, when perbaps matters too personal to their King were under discussion, Thisis of no importance, nor indeed would it be, in @ practical point of view, were Sardinia entirely excluded; for after all, whatever good is effected by Italy is just what the sagacity and the iron will of Napoleon conquer for it. But the news about the proceed: ings at Parma is of a different complexion, and the conduct of the red republicans in that Ducby, if the report be true, is just of a piece with all the acts of that party, and of their leader, Mazzini. They are completely impracticable, and are the greatest obstacles in Europe to-day in the way of rational freedom. Just when the Emperor of the French had de- Clared that he would not employ force to restore the fugitive princes to the Duchies, when the King of Sardinia had refused to use even moral influence for that purpose, and when there was a fair prospect of the Italians being left to go- vern themselves, the outbreak of the red re- publicans at Parma spoils everything. It isa hurling of defiance at the sovereigns in confer- ence at Zurich, and is calculated to put them on their mettle, and force them to insist on the Italian princes being restored. And what would the red republicans, and what would even all Italy, in its present condition, avail against the power of Austria and France combined? The movement of the red republicans will give an excuse to the despotic sovereigns to check the progress of popular liberty, and it will scare those of them who are friendly to Italian inde- pendence. If, therefore, the problem of the regeneration of Italy be not worked out by Louis Napoleon, that unhappy country may thank red republican- ism. If the Italians in any considerable number make such fools of themselves, after all they have euffered and experienced, as to follow such Jeaders as Mazzini in this crisis of their fate, their case is hopeless, they are beyond cure, and are not yet fit to be trusted with self-government. They are only chil- dren in leading strings, who require to be guided and guarded by other minds and other hands than theirown. But we trust that the re- port is either wholly false or greatly exaggerated; and from another item of intelligence by the same arrival, we conclude that the revolt against Piedmont, whatever it amounts to, is wholly con- fined to the city of Parma, for we learn that “in the provinces of Parma twenty-six out of the whole twenty-nine communes have declared their adhesion to the Sardinian government.” It is therefore to be hoped that the general good sense of the Parmese will put down thie foolish or wicked attempt, which may well be suspected of being fomented by Austria or the exiled princes. It is barely possible that it may have originated with some well meaning men, who thus hoped to operate favorably on the Zurich Conference, But nothing could be more unlikely to do good. Whatever may have been the origin of the movement, it is calculated to produce great mis- chief for Italy, and undoubtedly will, unless the strong intellect of Napoleon triumph over every obstacle. But if the Italians are bent on self-de- struction, it is not in the power of the Emperor of the French, or of all the Emperors on earth, to rave them. Tue Mam Contract ror CatirorNia—WILL ir BE Futrmrep?—Our readers are already aware that the Postmaster General advertised for a contract for carrying the mails from New York to California, commencing on the Ist of October; also that Mr. Johnston obtained the contract as the lowest bidder. But, strange to say, up to the present time there is no sign of any preparation on his part for the conveyance of the mails—no ships built or pur- chased, as far as we can learn—nothing, in fact, done towards the fulfilment of the contract. It was stated some time ago that the Hermann was purchased, or about to be purchased, for this ser- vice; but that turns out to be a report without foundation. Now, as the old contract will expire with the ensuing month, it is important that the govern ment should distinctly know in time what Mr. Jobnston’s intentions are. Is he going to fulfil his contract, or is he not? If he is not, let him plainly say so, The government and the country are en- titled at least to ascertain,what he means to do, If it should only be known for certain, at the jast moment, that he will not fulfil the contract, it would put the Postmaster General and the mercantile world to the most serious inconve- nience. There is no provision for carrying the mails after the end of September, and it will be neces- sary for the government either to charter a ves- sel or make some temporary arrangements with the California steamship companies, or with the express companies, or with the Overland Mail Company. It is possible thatin the course of a week arrangements might be made in New York. But how are they to be made on such short no- tice at San Francisco? To make arrangements in time there, it will be necessary to send out advices by the steamer which leaves this port on the Sth of September. If this is not done there will be a failure of the mails, to the great incon- venience, loss and injury of the commercial community, both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, to eay nothing of the immense mass of correspondence of a more private and domestic nature which would thus be detained, causing great anxiety to thousands of families through- out the Union. It is to be hoped, therefore, that some satisfac- tory explanation will be promptly made, and that Mr. Johnston will either declare at once his inability to perform his contract or satisfy the government and the public that he intends to carry it out in good faith, Itis high time to come to the point, ReMovat or Orrat, rroM THe Crry—At the meeting of the Health Commissioners yesterday, the contractor for the removal of offal applied for higher compensation for the performance of his duties, not considering $12,000 year sufi. cient for dumping the offal of the city into the East river, under our very noses. If the Health Commissioners do their duty they will refuse to pay anything for this service unless the offal be conveyed clear out of the city, and not deposited where every returning tide drifts it back upon us again, to create disease all along the line of the river. If it is to be disposed of in this way, it might as well be left where it is found, and the city be spared the expense of removing it Avyorner Tic or Y# Viramra CurvaLhy— Novovy Kiitep—Evervsopy Sarispriep.--We are constantly receiving accounts iu the South- ern papers of challenges and duels between editors, occupying, with the statements of all the pariies concerned, whole pages of those journals, To us in the North this seems somewhat siagular, for we do not settle our differences in this way; apd it is a little strange that after the many ri- diculous affairs of this kind which have termi- nated ina miserable fiasco, Southern gentlemen should continue to re-enact them almost every week. An editor writes something which another editor deems a slight upon bik honor and inte- grity, and he forthwith demands to know if the aforesaid editor is the author of the article, and if he is, he asks for explanation and satiefaction, which is peremptorily refused, and a challenge to mortal combat ensues, The parties “ go oat” and make three or four attempts to kill each other, sometimes with effect, but oftener not. In the latter case the seconds then step in, the prin. cipals shake hands, and they both take back everything that has been published, and rush off to the newspaper office to bore the public with endless columns of “statements” alike childish and absurd. This is curious and silly withal; bat t is nevertheless quite common in the chivalry at the South. By reference to an account from the Richmond Enquirer, which we publish in another column, it will be seen that another affair of this character has just come off between two Virginia edi- tors, Mesers. Wise and Old, both of whom, one would think, might be wise enough, and old enough, to know better. Mr. Wise pub- Nishes an article which Mr. Old considers insult- ing to himself. He acknowledges the authorship, but refuses to take it back or explain. Mr. Old sends a friend, and the friend conveys a chal- jenge to the field. They fire at each other two or three times at an uncomfortably short dis- tance, and, neither having succeeded in killing the other, they commence to parley for half an hour, like schoolboys, each complaining that he is the aggrieved party, and the affair ends by everybody taking back everything. Mr. Wise did bite his thumb, but he did not bite his thumb at Mr. Old. Mr. Old did say hard things of Mr. Wiee’s father, and of himself, but they were said in a Pickwickian sense, This is the upshot of the business on the field; “but it is followed by seven columns of “state. ments” in the Richmond Enquirer, feom which we learn that all parties are mutually satisfied. If the offensive statements were true, and if the truth is worth fighting and risking one’s life for, why not fight it out?—or, if they were to be taken back at all, why not do so before the par- ties failed dn the attempt to kill each other, in- stead of afterwards? Either of these modes would have been a consistent way, at least, of settling the business; but Pe Southern mode seems to be to make a charge first, then fight to maintain it, and subsequently acknowledge its author’s folly. Had the Virginia editors acted sensibly, they would have saved the ex- pense of four charges of powder and four ounces of lead, beeides saving the public froma great bore and themselves from a fair share of ridicule. However, such fiascos will have the effect of establishing the absurdity of the duelling code as a plaster to one’s wounded honor. Fearrot Morrauiry Amone Curprey.—Of the large number of 710 deaths in the city of New York during the last week, the alarming proportion of 442 were of children under two years of age, and of that number 145 died of cholera infantum and 43 of diarrhea. What is the cause of this great mortality among the children of New York? There never was a healthier summer in this climate than the present, and the city for fitteen years has not been soclean asitisnow. The City Inspector has won for himself the greatest popularity ever en- joyed by any official of the city government. The energy and vigor of his administration have wrought wonders. It is not, therefore, owing either to an unhealthy season or to filthy streets that 20 many children have been numbered with the dead. Where are we to seek the causes? First, in the unripe and rotten fruit which abound at this time in the city, and which even infants are permitted to eat. Second, in the swill milk on which children live. It is impure and poisonous, and is undoubtedly the cause of the mortality. Cows fed on the swill of the dis- tilleries become diseased, and their milk of course follows the same physical law, and the children iho partake of it are poisoned by slow degrees just with as much certainty as if they swallowed small doses of arsenic from day to day. Now it must be somebody’s business to attend to this matter. Some of the authorities have the power to puta stop to it, and it is their duty to exercise that power. The Board of Health, we think, have full authority to do it, and in view of the frightful mortality a very serious re- sponsibility devolves upon them. There is by far too little attention paid to the food of the people in this city. There is a reck- | leseness about what they eat and drink fhat savors little of wisdom or commonsense. As for the authorities, they are too busily engaged in Politics to see that only wholesome provisions are exhibited for sale. In every diréction may be met bad and unsound meat, stale fish, withered vegetables, (almost as poisonous as prussic acid, though not so rapid in their operation,) adulterated bread, tea, sugar, coffee, beer, wine, brandy and whiskey; but no person appears to have any cognizance of such matters, and the people are victimized in thousands, month after month, and year after year. But in no article of diet is there more adulteration than in milk, and there is none in which the adulteration is so per- "nicious, for it nips in the bud the fairest children of promise, who are doomed to pine away and perish by inches before the eyes of their parents. We shall see whether the Board of Health or any of the other city authorities will attend to this highly important matter. Tue American Parry Unper tae Hammen— Wno Brns?—The rump of the late great Ameri- can party of this State has an organ in this city which somewhat ingeniously, and somewhat in- genuously, offers the whole concern to the high- est bidder, as between the republican and €emo- cratic parties. The American State Convention for nominating a State ticket will not be held until a week after the democratic, and two weeks after the republican convention, This arrange- ment will admirably serve the purposes of the plan of operations proposed by the American or- gan aforesaid, which plan is not an independent American State ticket this fall, but a ticket elected from the republican ticket, or ‘rom the democratic, or from both, a8 may be deemed most expedient. Thus, we we told, the Americans “may select one, owo, three, four, or more candidates” of the republican echedule, “and reject all the rest, or they may take axe whole ticket if the whole suits them.” And “so with the democratic ticket— they may take a part, or the whole, or none.” Thus the rump of the American party of New York is fairly under the hammer. Who bids? Let the republican managers think the matter over, and let Dean Richmond, Cagger & Co. see whut can be done on their side to secure those sixty thousand American votes which are thus put up at auction. The first offer must come from the republicans, and they must be very cau- tious in regard to Seward, and somewhat magna- nimous towards Gen. Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, or the democracy may carry off this important American “balance of power.” But whatsoever the Republican Convention may do for the sake of fusion, the democracy will, doubtless, still be left the winning card with the unpurchaseable remnant of the American party, in being left the advantage of a streng declaration against W. H. Seward and his Presidential pretensions. Upon this vital point the Americans complain that they were “deliberately insulted’”’ last year by the republicans at Syracuse, and they may ex- pect a similar “insult” this year. There are certain reminiscences of the Fremont campaign which will never be forgotten by Thurlow Weed while Scroggs, Ullmann and Brooks are in the political market. Pupiic Promenape Concerts—THe Taste Srreapiva.—No such popular movement has been introduced for many day as that of having free open air concerts at least once a week in our public grounds, It has been tried for some months past in the Central Park with signal suc- cess. Each Saturday afternoon sees the crowds increasing. The attendance this afternoon, if the weather is favorable, will be larger than it has yet been. By and bye we expect to see the plan adopted in all our public parks—in Union *quare, Madison square, Tompkins square, the City Hall park and the Battery. The taste is spreading elsewhere. Brooklyn has followed suit, and has arranged for Saturday evening con. certs in Carroll park, on Court street. This is a very handsome square, in a beautiful part of the city, on the line of the Greenwood cars, and we understand that seats are to be placed in it immediately after the next mevting o’ the Common Council. They have the best of music once a week on Boston Common. The factory girls of Lowell beat time to Strauss’ waltzes, the prima donna polka, or the most charming mazourkas, at least one evening in the week. Theresidents and visiters at the fede- ral capital go to listen to the eccentric perform- ances of the marine band every Wednesday even- ing in the grounds of the White House, and every Saturday evening in the charming Capitol grounds, The taste has spread to Charleston, South Carolina, and we see that the brass band of that city give concerts at the Battery. From the latest Washiagton and Charleston papers we clip the following programmes of their last musi- cal entertainments. The Washington programme:— % 1, Col, Harris’ March (new).. 2. | Lombardi alla pri 8. Terzette, Bellisario... 4. Waltz (new)........ 6. Caro l’Amore, from Luisa Milier 6. Mrs. Harris’ Polka (new).... T. Meeting of the Waters, &, &¢ The Charleston programme:. 3. Cavaiina—from 11. Polke Militaire 12. Quickstep... — The Brooklyn programme for this afternoon is— Hail Columbia. Oft in the Stilly Night. . Child of the Regiment. March and Air. Hail to the Chief. Auld Lang Syne. Yankee Doodle. Trovatore. Am . Old Virginia, 9, Prima Donna Waltz. 10. i Goes the Weasel. 11. Belle Brandon. gs 12, Katydid Polka. 13. Home, Sweet Home. ‘The. programme for the Central Park music his afternoon will be furnished on the grounds. We augur well from this prevalence of musical taste in our large cities, and hope to see it foster- ed and encouraged by the municipal authori- ties. “Music,” says the poet, “hath charms to soothe the savage breast.” We believe that, and recommend particularly to the Mayors and Common Councils of Philadelphia and Balti- more the propriety of getting up public musical promenades as a sort of infallible remedy against the “Blood Tubs” and “Plug Uglies” of those highly favored localities. Let the movement go on. Sresr err Fortune’s Watrs—A Worp To Herrs-at- Law.—We have received several communica- tions from members of the Townley family, resident in this country, in reference to a notice to the heirs of the great Townley estate in Eng- land, which appeared in our columns in Febru- ary last. The writers request us to inform them from what gpurce the notice originated, to whom application is to be made, &e. It is obviously impracticable for us to reply to such inquiries. Were we to undertake to transact the business arising out of the advertisements which appear in our columns we should disburse in clerk hire and other expenses more than the proceeds of the advertisements themselves. There are special offices which occupy themselves with the claims of heirs-at-law, both in this city and in London, and if our correspondents will apply to them we have no doubt that they will at once get the information that they ask for. In the ordinary course of its business, as the principal advertising medium of the country, the Heratp has nevertheless been able to render valuable services to heirs at law. If the amount of personal and real estate were calculated which has through its instrumentality been thus made over to the persons entitled to them, it would surprise our readers. In this country there are to be found numerous cadets of old English or other Earopean families who are constantly coming in for these chances. A brief advertize- ment published in our columns has generally the effect of bringing these lucky individuals prompt ly to New York, either to make of us personally inquiries similar to those put to us in the commu- nications to which we refer, or to seek the lega' agent here by whom the notice is generally in- serted. An interesting incident of this sort occurred @ few years since. The proprietor of one of the finest estates in Scotland died, and the property devolved by right to a young man who had emigrated to this country some three or four years previously. He had received an excellent education, but, like all coming here friendlees strangers, he was glad to take any employment he could get. He was eorving as a fireman on one of the Jake steamers, when ono day heppening to take up the Henan, his eye lighted upon an advertisement announcing his relative’s decease, and requesting him to call upon a legal firm in New York, who would turnish him with funds to enable him to return home, One of the first things that he did when he ar- rived here was to come to our office, in his rough working clothes, to thank us for the service that we had rendered him. A few days afterwards he again came to us draped in the habiliments that befitted his new Condition, and looking as much of the gentleman as if he had all his life owned the estate which he had>just inherited: He was profuse in his expressions of gratitude, pressed all our people to go and dine with him, and exacted from us a promise that whenever we visited that part of Scotland in which he was going to reside, we would visit him. No Oppor- tunity has presented itself for the fulfilment of that promise; but we were gratified to learn that our lucky friend had been Placed without oppo- sition in possession of his inheritance and was making good use of it. As there are plenty of needy scions of the old European families scattered throughout the States, the best advice that we can give them is to read the Henap regularly. Who knows at what moment some lucky individual amongst them may come in for a windfall like that gath- ered by our young Scot chman ? Tue Latest Dovetas Mantresto—A Loup Cau vor Governor Wisz.—A Washington cor- respondent has suggested that the “popular so- vereignty” manifesto of Mr. Douglas, published in Zand copyrighted for Harper's Monthly, will probably bring out Governor Wise, in a learned reply through Bonner’s Leder, on “Con- gressional sovereignty.” Mr. Douglas; from the early times of these States as British colonies, down to the present day, makes out a plausible, consistent and undeviating argument in behalf of “popular sovereignty” over slavery on the part ofthe Territorial as on the part of our local State authorities, and it must be answered by Governor Wise or he must abandon the field. The patriotic ladies of the Mount Vernon As- sociation are still in need of funds to complete their glorious. enterprise. Let the immortal Bonner appropriate this hiat in a liberal offer to Governor Wise for an essay on “ Congressional sovereignty” over the Territories, to be con- tinued in weekly instalments of half a dozen columns each until the meeting of the Charles- ton Convention of 1860, and the experiment may prove a “ten strike” for both Bonner and Wise. The Governor, in this comprehensive argument, should, of course, be allowed “fall swing” in re- gard to the Donnelly letter, the Albany Regency, the Virginia oyster fundum, &.; and with this broad field to work upon, he might eclipse, with his historical facts, the wonderful fictions of Syl- vanus Cobb. uw Tue Presipency—Conservative Opposition Canpmpates.—The Clarksville (Tenn.) Chronicle has hoisted the flag of John Bell as the “united opposition” candidate for the Presidency; the Matton (IIL) Gazette and Fort Wayne (Ind.) Times have pronounced in faver of John J. Crit- tenden, and a Texas correspondent of the Rich- mond Whig cries out “Three cheers for Old Sam (General Houston) and the opposition of Texas. Why not hoist his name for the Presidency in 1860?” And we say, why not? Mr. Crittenden and Mr. Bell have fallen somewhat behind the times; but General Houston leads the conserva- tive opposition elements of the day, and in his late great Texas victory has thrown all his com- Ppetitors in the shade, INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. The Douglas Magazine Article=Troubie among His Friends of the Chivairy=W hat did the Harpers Pay for the Contrinuuunt— Its Inconsistency with Mr. Douglas’ Decia- rations to His Southern Friends, &c. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DBSPATOH. Wasmnoton, August 26, 1859. No inoonsiderable perturbation has been crested since early this morning by a succession of telegraphic des- Patches—some of them t> Mr. Douglas and others to bis frlends—on the subject of the note of the Messrs. Aarper tothe preas prohibiting the re publication of his article upon Territorial Sovereignty. I know of turee such des. patches from New York and one from Pailadelpnia, They all urge the importance of an immediate contradic. tion of the implied statement in the Harper caution about copyrighting, that the [linois Senator had received » Pecu- niary compensation for his last politico. literary labor. One despatch urges Mr. Douglas to repadiate, without delay, any Participation in such “contemptible meanness” as such 4 trangaction would appear to involve, Another requests his most devoted adherent in this city to save him from ‘& worse fate than that of Wise. In fact either Mr. Douglas has reduced manifestoism upon controverted political sub- jects to a lower level than it ever reashed botore, or else the Harpers have taken an unwarrantable liberty with ‘the press in causing them to refrain from copying an article for which they gave no consideration, The Heraxp of this morning has justcome in, and con- firms, in every respect, the impression made by the tele- graphic despatches received earlier in the day. It haw left the impression upon the Public mind that Sepator Douglas was really paia for the communication in ques- tion, or else that the Harpers gave him the choice bo- tween having it categoried among the “rejected” articlee ‘hey are constantly receiving, or published on “consider- ation” of the name of the author appearing over the Piece, and of being privileged to use it exclusively. 1 have just learned also, that Mr. Douglas will not venture to reply to the despatches which have boen sent to him, although they annoy him very much, Advance copies of Harper must Ieqwe been received in large numbers by Mr. Douglas yesteflay. The article itsclf was freely canvassed this morning; and the inconsistency was pointed out by his Southern adherents that he as- sumes in it as an undoubted fact, that the judiciary can- not exercise any control over the slavery question, while in private conversation he hay said again and again within two months, that those who hold the ultra pro- slavery view in’ the Territories will always have the United States Courts to appeal to, and that he will be the last man to dissent from their decision. On this Point hinges the entire edifice of Mr. Douglas’ popularity or un. popularity in the Southern States, and it is therefore con- fidently belioved that this article of his in Harpers’ Maga- ine must damage him seriously, THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH, Wasuixato, August 26, 1859. Sixteon candidates have recently passed througn a Satisfactory examination, and will be wagranted as Third Astistant Engineers, The unusually largo number of steamers added to the navy during the past year renders the increase of such officers necessary. No definite action has yet been takeu on the case of Quartermaster Cross, recently investigated by Court Martial. The delay is owing tothe absence from Wash- ington of the Secretary of War, The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Mr. Greenwood, bas received a despatch ancouncing the arrival at Leaven- worth of the children spared at the Mountain Meadow massacro. ‘They will at once be taken to Carrollion, Ar- kansas, pear the point from which the expedition with which they were connected set out, and there restored to their friends, The Assistant Secretary of Stato is absent in Maine. The State Department bas been offi cially advised that a0 order has been received at the Custom House, Para, Brazil, authorizing the reduction of the government ex Port duty to five per cont—a difference of two por cent in favor of the exporter. The order took effect on the 280 of July. The United States Agricultural Soctety’s Fate. Onicado, August 26, 1869. Preparations are now making hore for the fair of the United States Agricuitural Society which is to be heid ia * this city, commencing Sepvember 12, All th ralironds