The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1859, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1859. NEW YORK HERALD. ——————— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR 4ND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE X. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, HRMS, cash tn acteance, Money sent by malt wilt be at the EERE Sider. Postage siamps not received as subscription ons HERALD, 0 conta, j, ¥T per annum. THE CAE HERALD, coory Saturday, ees ‘conte eer or 83 per annus the European Eatin every Ween nex cents per op Wa.ver anu to any part of eat Britain, br Sei any gare 9 Continent, both 40 include postage; the ition onthe th and Hoh. f cach month a bs cede PpnE rAMILy HERALD om Wedneaday, at four cents per for, Ba-OUn FONEIGN CORRBSPONDENTS ARE pained PARTICULARLY REQUESTED gat Lanrrens axp Pac: return comm ISEMENTS renewed every ; advertisemen's in aa eke Wanker Honaco, Fantoy Hxnalo, and in the CONT PRINTING cxecuied with neatnest, cheapness ad dee —e———oOO AMUSEMENMS THIS EVENING. PALACE GARDEN ABD HAL, Fourteenth street— Bucnsp Comcear. AMUSEMENTS TO MOBZOW EVENING. * NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Sos00umasten—Tidut Bors PsxronMarcs—Branco. BOWERY THEATRE, Sowery.—Bisck Kwcar—Caw AND ADaL—Pine’s Peak’ WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ganitpnrs. LAUBA ERENA’S THEATBE, 62 Broadway.—=ovse xp Homz—Ovur Cierxs. WaTIONAL THEATRB Chatham ctreet.—-Hunrer’s Bawa—Margisp Buny—Wanvexing Bors. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Afier moon and Bvening—MuLarsen OF TOLEDO— VILAGE UITIZENS, D8 MINSTREL BUILDING, 661 and 863 Broad Pi Ten ‘Danoxs, £0 —Damon anv Prraias. INSTRELS, Mechapics’ Hall, 472 Broadway— sunuusavas, soncn, Denon, 40-JousY’ Govt. PALAOS GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth sircet,— Vocal aND LNSTRUMENTAL ONCRAE. New York, Sunday, August 28, 1859, The News. We have a brief despatch from St. Johns, N. F., containing news from Europe to the 18th inst., brought by the City of Washington, which was boarded off Cape Race on Wednesday last. The Zurich Conference was still in progress. Cotton was dull, breadstuffs quiet, and provisions inactive: Consols are quoted at 953. The despatch in yesterday morning’s journals respecting the City of Washington’s news should have read—‘ Was boarded off Cape Race yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon,” instead of Thursday, &c. The City of Washington will probably arrive at this port this evening. The Indian is also due at Farther Point, with European news to the 17th inst. The European mails to the 13th inst., brought by the America, reached this city yesterday afternoon from Boston, enabling us to lay before our readers additional interesting details of news to that date. We erroneously stated on Friday that the Cunard screw steamship Etna, at Boston, brought no filesof English journals, but yesterday morning we received through the Post Office the regular files of our European papers from the Liverpool agent of the press; we have yet to learn, however, why the purser of the Etna did not deliver the news bag to our Boston agent,to whom it was addressed, in- stead of sending it to New York through the Post Office, thereby unnecessarily delaying the delivery of our files here some fifteen hours. The Etna made an excellent run from Liverpool, having beaten the America into Boston about thirty hours, and yet left Liverpool twelve hours later than the latter. By the arrival of the Moses Taylor and Northern Light, from Aspinwall, we have news from Califor- nia, New Granada and the Central and South Ame- rican republics, The advices from San Francisco are to the 5th inst. The semi-monthly shipment of gold amounted to $2,126,333. Business generally was very dull, with a continued downward tendency in prices of merchandise. The political canvass absorbed pub- lic attention, and the vulgarity and coarseness which marked the opening of the campaign had rather increased than diminished. The letter of our correspondent, published elsewhere, contains the details of the news. The dates from New Granada are to the 20th inst. The excitement caused by the gold discove- ries at Chirigui continued unabated on the Isthmus, and a large number of persons were hastening to the new El Dorado. The propeller Guatemala, intended for the Central American trade, had arrived at Panama from New York. We learn from Bogota that Mr. Jones, our Minister, had not yet pre- serited his credentials, and would not, in the present state of the relations between New Granada and the United States. There were three United States vessels of war at Panama and three at Aspinwall, and the pageence of this large naval force had given rise to the supposition that our government was about to take some action with reference to the question in dispute between the two countries. The anniversary of the 20th of July and of the indepen- dence of the Granadian Confederation was celebrat- ed at Bogota in the most hearty and enthusiastic manner, by balls, parties, cannonading, and all sorts of sports. We learn from Nicaragua of the ratification of the convention negotiated by General Lamar by the Congress. It is said the French treaty will be ma- terially modified, and that the Ouseley British treaty will not be accepted. The government of Guatemala has issued its re- gulations concerning the new gold and silver cur. rency of the country. Every piece of money shall bear on the obverse the image of the President— the gold coins bearing the shield of the republic in the midst of palms, the inscription and value thereof; and the silver coins bearing the shield surrounded by banners, with the same inscription as the gold coin—the quarter real excepted—this latter ‘hav’ ing on the obverse a crowned lion, and on the re- verse “} real,” encircled by palms, A penalty is proclaimed against any person refusing to receive the new coinage, There is nothing of importance from San Salva- dor or Honduras. Guatemala had sent an agent to Hondaras to reconcile the differences between that republic and Salvador. We have received files of West India papers eon- taining news from Demarara, Antigua, Barbadoes, Granada, Jamaica, Trinidad, St. Vincent and Domi- nica. Copious extracts are given in another part of to-day’s paper. The steamship Vanderbilt sailed from this port yesterday for Southampton and Havre. She took out 183 passengers, seven horses for the Emperor Napoleon, and $891,879 in specie. The City of Baltimore, which sailed yesterday for Liverpool, took out 212 passengers and $505,000 in specie. The receipt and export of treasure at this port Yesterday stand thus:— Received from California per Shipped per Vanderbilt... per City of Baltimor: Balance romatning tn the city. $720,454 From the South Pacific we learn that Bolivia was tranquil and prosperous; Peru, as usual, in a revo- lutionary state, while Ecuador was still blockaded by the Peruvians. Robles’ revolutionary attempt had been completely suppressed. The President of Chile"has recommended to Congress a redaction of the tariff from a maximum of thirty per cent to twenty-five, to be assessed on the valuation instead of measure, as heretofore. dull. By the arrival of the schooner J. w. Captain Lewis, from Bonaire, we ha’ advices to the 6*)) instant. The liberals ha Business was rather . Lindsey, Laguayra on the morning of the 1st instant without meeting with any opposition. The bark Gertrude, Captain Goodburn, arrived yesterday morning from West Caicos, Turks Islands, with advices to the 13th instant. The Belle Isle Company, of Philadelphia, are building a railroad at West Caicos to a salt pond in the interior, which will be of great interest to vessels calling at the island for salt, as it will occasion but little delay in obtaining a cargo. The Gertrude brings home fourteen men as passengers, who were employed on the road and whese contract had expired. The City Guard, of Baltimore, arrived in this city yesterday morning from New Hampshire, where they have been ruralizing for the past week. They were received on landing by two companies of the Seventh regiment. They leave for Baltimore this evening. Company B, Washington Grays, also arrived yesterday morning from New Bedford. Accounts of the receptions of both corps are given elsewhere. A great camp meeting was held by the Methodists last week at Sing Sing, which was brought to a close yesterday. On Friday there were over twelve thousand persons on the ground, and the proceedings were very interesting. A graphic account of the affair will be found in another part of to-day’s paper. Fire Marshal Baker is investigating a curious case ofarson. It seems that early yesterday morning a German giving the name of John Wilson was de- tected in his endeavor to escape from the hardware store of James Anderson & Co., Nos. 23 and 25 Dey street. The police took the prisoner to the station house, and soon after the hardware store was dis” covered to be on fire. The presumption is that the prisoner fired the store for the purpose of aiding his escape. The weekly mortality of the City Inspector, which we publish in another column, shows that the deaths for the week ending on Saturday last numbered 632, a decrease of 78 as compared with the mortality of the week previous. Of the deaths last week 83 were men, 80 women, 259 boys and 210 girls. As compared with the corresponding week last year, there is a decrease in the number of deaths of 25. Of the whole number of deaths last week, 430 were of ten years of age and under, while the week before the deaths of children of the age mentioned numbered 511. The report in forms us that there were 264 deaths of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive or- gans, 118 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 111 of disease of the lungs and throat, 29 of skin and erup- tive diseases, 30 stillborn and premature births: 29 of general fevers, 4 of old age, 10 of diseases of the generative and urinary organs, and 4 of the bones, joints, &c. Fifteen deaths arose from violent causes. The nativity table shows that 508 were natives of the United States, 77 of Ireland: 26 of Germany, 8 of England, 3 of Scotland, 3 of France, I of British America, and the balance of different foreign countries. The officer of the City Inspector’s Department who prepares the mortali- ty list has in the report of deaths separated those not depending upon climate or season from the number caused by absolute disease, thus making a correct exhibit of the mortality of the city. This arrangement will doubtless be duly appreciated by all who make vital statistics a study. The cotton market was quiet yesterday, as merchants were disposed to awalt the receipt of private letters due by the America before doing much. The transactions were limited to 200 « 800 bales, at prises given in another column. The receipts of flour were some larger, and the market was some less buoyant and active, while quote- tions were rather easier at the close for some desorip- tions. Southern flour was in fair demand, while common grades closed at aslight concession in rates. Wheat was unchanged; new, of prime quality, was firmly held, with moderate sales, among which were Kentucky white at $1 48 & $1 50; fair to good white Southern at $136 a 81 42, and new red do. at $1 26. Corn was less active, with sales of old Western mixed at 780., new do. instore and afloat at 80c. a 82c., and Jersey yellow wsese Pork was firmer, with moderate sales, including new mess at $14 873 & $14 60, and of prime at $10 25. Sugars were steady, and the advance on the week’s sales reached about c. per lb. over those current the previous week. The sales embraced about 700 hhds., at rates given in an- other place, Coffee was firm, but quiet. There was quite ‘& movement in potashes, and the sales embraced no less than 760 bbls. at 634¢., for export. The market was nearly awept of supplies, and the stock remainiog on hand was held at a further advance of 30. = 30. per Ib, Freight engagements were moderate, while rates were firm. Stephen A. Douglas and William H. Seward on the Slavery Question. Mr. Douglas, in his late copyrighted manifesto on “popular sovereignty,” in order to clear his ekirts of the odor of black republicanism, sets out with a bold denunciation of “the irrepressi- ble conflict” of W. H. Seward as the platform of the republican party. It will beseen, however, from the indignant reply of the Chevalier Webb, which we have transferred to these columns, that the “Little Giant” will not be allowed the privi- lege of using either Mr. Seward or his party as the scape goat in this matter of the sins of Mr. Douglas and his confederates. The Chevalier Webb will not permit any such presumptuous Jiberties with his idolized champion for the Presi- dency; and £0, in the commentary before us, we find a pretty strong case made out against Mr. Douglas, and an ingenious but very superf- cial defence of Mr. Seward. We are thus told, for example, that while Mr. Seward has declared that there is “an irrepres- sible conflict” going on between free labor and slave labor, or between the North and South, which must go on until all the States shall have become “ free States or slave States,” he also de- clares that in behalf of freedom he does not ex- pect the work to be done “otherwise than through the action of the several States, co- operating with the federal government, and all acting in strict conformity to their respective constitutions.” In other words, so far is Mr Seward from concurring in the revolutionary abolition policy of William Lloyd Garrison, that he does not contemplate moving a single step in the matter except under the sanction of law. Still, his object is the same—the abolition of slavery throughout the United States; and the only prac- tical difference between the plan of Garrison and the plan of Seward is the difference between the short work of bloody revolution and the pro- longed torture of ‘an irrepressible” sectional agi- tation. Garrizon proposes the extinction of slavery by the simple exercise of a superior brute force against the “slave power.” ‘Seward proposes the incessant pressure of the anti-slavery sentiment upon all our political affairs, in the shaping of laws and constitutions, in their interpretation and in their execution, until even South Carolina shall become too hot to hold the “slave oligar chy.” Thus, while the South cannot hear of the abolition plan of Garrison without a shudder, they cannot think of the more stealthy pro- gramme of Seward without fecling that it is in reality the eame thing, and only the more dan- gerous in being covered up in the convenient dis- guises of law. It is not surprising, therefore, that Mr. Doug: las should, of all things, be most anxious to clear himeelf of any suspicion of sympathy with the abominable doctrines of Mr. Seward’s Rochester speech, And yet, who can undertake to show that the course of Douglas on the slavery question has been less mischievous than the course of Seward? We very much fear that, during the last five years, Mr. Douglas has done more to build up the anti-slavery move- ment of the North, and feession movement in the South, more to exasperate the two se0- tions against each other, more to throw all our political parties into the confusion of sectional apimosities, more to disturb the peace of the country, and more to undermine that basis of sectional good fellowship upon which alone the Union can stand, than Seward and all the Massa- chusetts abolitionists put together, and including all their abolition labors of # quarter of a cen- tary. The compromise measures of 1850 had given peace to the whole Union; the odious slavery sgitation principles of Seward had prostrated in the dust the proud old whig party, and the de- mocracy thus held undisputed occupation of the country, North and South, when a mischievous hint thrown out by Mr. Senator Dixon, of Ken- tucky, started Douglas, Pierce and the demo- cratic party on the downward road to ruin. We refer to that Kansas-Nebraska bill, and the re- peal of the Missouri Compromise, which was in- troduced from that mischievous o! of Mr. Dixon, “Why don’t you try it?” That Presiden- tial experiment created the Northern republican party; and from the partiean border troubles, kept alive by the politicians on both aides from that day to this, in Kansas and out of Kansas, the republican party has grown to its present dimensions, Had Mr. Douglas and his followers cordially supported the Kansas policy of Mr. Buchanan, the republican party by this time would have been reduced to a paltry faction, and the demo- cratic party would have been a unit, North and South. But, in rebelling against the administra- tion, Mr. Douglas made the opening which has re- sulted in an opposition House of Representatives, and in so strengthening the republican party, and in so distracting and dividing the democracy, as almost to render certain the defeat of the latter in 1860. Their only hope lies in the nomination of Seward or in the adoption of his platform by the republicans, and in the nomination of some more available man than Douglas, and a more satisfactory platform than his “popular sove- reignty,’’ by the Charleston Convention. Septenary Inatitutions=What is the “Sab- bath" The advantages of a day of relaxation and rest once a week are numerous and undeniable. The duty of society is to make that relaxation of a kind to promote the physical health of the people, inspire the mind with cheerfulness, and by pleasing sights and sounds encourage and foster elevated tastes and gentle habits of thought and action. We want a rational Sunday, not a Puri- tanical Sabbath, and we are bound to have it sooner or later. In most parts of Europe the people have already attained it, and while the churches open wide their doors to worshippers— with none of the aristocratic and unchristian in- troduction of pews and hired seats to keep out the poor and the wayfaring—both law and custom tolerate also the opening of God’s own temples of the open air, the fields and the forests, to glad- den the eyes and make joyful the hearts of all who choose to use them. But in England and the United States bigotry and asceticism still as- sert the special holiness of a certain day of the week in the sense and spirit of the old and ex- pleded Jewish ritual—not in the beneficent, cheering and liberal sense of Christ’s teachings. and example. Parsons expounding on salaries vf six thousand.a year, in cushioned pulpits and over Bibles neavuy ynava, sul avnounte the terrors of punishment here and hereafter on those who presume to doubt the divine origin of the seventh-day Sabbath, and to choose to use it as their reason and conscience allow. Well, no one objects to their denunciations; it is part of their system, and they are paid for it Perhaps they believe all they preach? So much the worse for their intelligence. Perhaps they are earnest in the anathemas which they utter? So much the worse for the spirit which prevails in their hearts. But neither they nor those who follow them have the right to dictate to their neighbors and to the people at large what they shall think and do. They have no right to stop the people’s mails, nor the people’s cars, nor the People’s arms, feet and tongues on one day more than on another. Let us know how we stand. You have your churches, and we protect you in using and enjoying them as you like. We pun- ish the blackguard who disturbs you, or in any way interferes with your observance of the day in your own fashion. We claim the same privi- leges at your hands. We want to enjoy it after our fashion. In England the prejudices which so long existed on this point are fast giving way to more rational ideas and practices. Sir Benjamin Hal), just elevated to the peerage, succeeded, two years ago, in introducing Sunday music in the public parks. The doors of the Crystal Palace and of the British Museum are fast opening before the pressure of public opinion, 80 a8 to admit the working public to the sources of enjoyments and instruction from which they are now excluded on the only day when they could avail themselves of them. Nor is this amelioration of the rigors of a Puritanicat Sab- bath confined to London alone; it is‘going on all over the British islands, Much of this result is due to the manner in which the question of popular rights and Sun- day restrictions was taken up and discussed by | the apostles of liberal ideas. Atthe outset there were many opposed to them under the honest be- lief that the seventh day of the week was spe- cially set apart by the Creator at the beginning and universally accepted, and that the Sabbath was a divine institution. The honest ignorance and prejudices of this class of Sabbatarians were put right by proving that God never set apart such a day in the sense understood by them; that ita exclusive sanctity was only maintained in the decadence and impurity of Judaism, which Christ so earnestly denounced as fall of soul-killing and unmeaning formulas and exactions. They showed, too, that as origi- nally observed by the Jews, it was. day of en- joyments, of “songs and dances,” as well as of cacrifices and prayers. They showed that Christ, and the reformed religion which he taught, neither practised nor enjoined the Puritanioal or exclusive Sabbath. The Westminster Review was among the first to take up and discuss the question in this calm spirit, and by the light of argument and reason. Tts powerful analysis of the whole subject, his. torically and Scripturally, produced a profound impression, and razed the Sebastopol of false pretences and superstitious dedactions which priestcraft and asceticism had built up around the seventh day of the week to its very founda- tions. Neither its learning, its facta, nor its logic could be impeached or ¢ontroverted. It stands to day unanswered and unanswerable, except we may regard the reform going on in Engiand, as the happy response to its truth. Trout, Rors Waxsrs, Lion Tamers, Bat- Loowists, Poirricrana anp Ornur MonstRosi- tres.—Performances on the tight rope are most decidedly the rage just now. Since that ventureeome Frenchman, Monsieur Blon- din, stretched his rope across the yawning abyes of Nisgara, Imitators have sprung up on all hands. De Lave, who perhaps ap- proaches nearest him in professional dexterity, has been astonishing the folks of Rochester wth his daring feate on the tight rope over the Genesee Falls, Two other geniuses, not French- men, but native—though not “to the manner born”—have got up @ rival imitation on a small scale, and have been showing their steadiness of foot and unsteadiness of mind, by walking across a rope stretched over the Erie canal at one of the small towns along its line. Another chap calling himself a professor (dancing masters, barbers and tight rope performers are all professors) {s travelling about through the Northern portion of the State offering to display his talents in the Blondin line wherever a State fair or any other cause draws together a crowd of people; while those imitators of the great Ni- agara original, whose ground and lofty tumblings are done on clothes lines, are beyond computation. In fact, tight rope walking is the particular and special mania of the hour; and it will be a miracle if something disastrous does not happen to young America in the pursuit of this new phantasy. The last variety of Mons. Blondin’s per- formances of which we have any account con- eisted in crossing the rope with his hands and feet manacled, and subsequently returning in the réle of a French cook, carrying his own stove and fuel and culinary utensils with him, and cooking omelets, which he lowered to an unman- nerly crowd on board the little steamer Maid of the Mist. So morbidly desirous are people of seeing him precipitated into the whirlpool of waters over which his rope is suspended, that the same crowd witness his exhibitions day after day; and some fiends, in their eagerness to an- ticipate the ordinary course of events, have even cut the guys by which firmness is given to the rope, hoping to see him stagger and fall. The seme villanous act was perpetrated on De Lave at Rochester, and the rope oscillated a0 much in consequence that the peril of the enterprise was greatly augmented; but when some one told the rope walker that Blondin was on the ground, and had promieed to walk over with his boots on if the other did not cross, there was no longer any hesitation on his part. He set out, and did not give the spectators the satisfaction of wit- nessing a rehearsal of the tragedy of Sam Patch. Blondin’s next feat is to be performed at night, and by torch light; and, of course, the risk being #0 much the greater, the spectators will be the more numerous. We hope that their charitable expectations will be again disappointed. Some years ago Herr Rininger, a predecessor of Blondin’s, made a tour through the South and West, which was abruptly terminated at Natchez by falling from his rope into the Mississippi, One of the principal attractions in the exhi- bitions of Van Amburgh was the expectation that some day, when he put his head in the lion’s mouth, the lion might take it into his head to keep it there. One eccentric individual followed the lion tamer from city to city, never missing one of his exhibitions, in the hope of being in at the death. He was never gratified, however, although one of Van Am- hnrgh’e imitators closed his exhibitions one day in that manner. Having put nis head in the nun’. mouth, and feeling that he could not get it out again, he asked the audience whether the animal wagged bistail. The answer was in the affirma- tive. “Then it is all up with me,” said he; and so it was. Herr Driesbach, another celebrity in that line, used to take all sorts of freedoms with ferocious animals, but occasionally, with all his power over them, their natural ferocity broke out. People always go to see these exhibitions in the expectation of witnessing a tragedy. Tt was so, also, with that distinguished American—just mentioned—Sam Patch. People flocked to see him taking his airy leaps into the seething waters of the Niagara and Genesee, expecting that each leap would be his last; and that expectation was finally realized. Imitators of Sam jump periodically off the High Bridge at Harlem and from other eminences; and the pro- bability is that each will, like him, some day fail to come up totime. Strange to say, the genius that walked over the Niagara river, above Goat Island, on stilte, leet fall, has not yet had any imitator; and it is now a mooted question whether the feat was ever performed at all. Lately, we have seen in Virginia the fatal re- sult of a fancy to domesticate rattlesnakes. One of these reptiles, a pet, sunk his fangs in the arm of the experimenter, and the poison did its work, Acrostation, or the navigation of the air in balloons, is also one of the modes much in vogue at the present day for scquiring notoriety and shortening existence. La Mountain and Wise having made that wonderful voyage from St. Louis to Lake Ontario, and escaped by a miracle, professors of that science are inflating their gas bags all over the country, and threat- ening te take transatlantic voyages, regardless of the tragical ends of so many aeronauts, from Icarus down to Thurston, who was carried up by the heels, and whose body was found some months afterwards on one of the Western prairies, One of the Godards used to ascend on the back of a horse suspended from the car, and stand on his head and perform other feats in his ascent. In this, too, he has had several imitators both here and in Europe. With all: these professors of the sciences of tightrope walking, precipicejumping, lion- taming and air-navigating, the great incentive to action is regard for their professional reputa- tion. If they fail in achipving what rival pro- fesaors achieve, their occupation is gone. Hence we see such daring exhibitions in circus-riding, throwing somersets, walking on a large ball up and down inclined planes, and other equally hazardous and equally ridiculous performances Now, if politicians would only have such regard for their professional reputations as these people have, it would be a public blessing; for whether they achieved what they performed, or failing therein broke their necks, it would be alike a gain to the community. Cannot we get up some euch rivalry among the politicians? They give exhibitions of ground and lofty tumbliug—throw somersets and turn their coats—every now and again, while riding in the political circus; but still they have no sort of regard for their profes- sional or even social reputation. They never think of performing half of what they promise, and most usually they reverse the entire pro- gramme. Just now there is considerable ferment among politicians all over the country. Just as there is among the tight rope performers. The only difference is that while the latter perform, even at the risk of their lives, all they promise, the former never do anything of the They need very much a lesson from Blondin and De Lave. ‘Tae Contesr ror Tax Mayoraury—JournaL- Mr. Jam « Gordon Bennett 88 a fit person to fill the place. ‘All corte of kind and complimentary things are sald of Mr. Bennott—his services to the country generally, and the doiaty. So wien oun uakeiealic their minds to find out whether he would accept the office if it was tendered tohim. They are all agreed that a better selection could not be made, At first sight the extremely handsome way in which these philosophers allude to Mr. Ben- case over Mr. Bennett’s shoulders, he being known to the masees aa a journalist, pure eimple—not a politician or a party man in possible point of view. They argue that if journalist could have the public voice it be Mr. Bennett, and that, therefore, to him would be the best possible means of accom- plishing their designs, State last year. Lately the Hon, Massa Gree- ley bas extended his line of country, and is pro- bably ready to receive the nom{nation for the Vice Presidency. In the same category is Me" phistophiles-Goethe-Dana, who wishes to be State Senator, and who would, very likely, be a good one, making speeches long enough and reports sufficiently elaborate to satisfy the most exacting constituency. Then there is Mr. Mozart-Handel- Fry, who was suggested for the Congressional nomination in the Third district, and who would probably keep the House of Representatives up to time, regulate the proceedings according to a proper pitch, and introduce harmony into the uenally discordant element of national politics. Another of our cotemporaries presents the honor- able Jefferson Brick Raymond; he who described the battle of Solferino in such an extraordinary way that no one has yet been able to find out, from his account, what it was all about. Beyond the description of some ambulances with wounded soldiers, the Honor- able Jefferson Brick Raymond’s account was utterly incomprehensible. But it had such an effect upon his nerves that he was frightened almost to distraction by an Austrian hussar. He feared that the French had been beaten, after all, and in his rapid retreat he lost his notes, bis hat and other valuable articles, and never stopped until he was under the shadow of the Louvre. If good run- ning is 8 consideration, the honorable Jeffer- eon Brick Raymond would be a splendid candi- date for the Mayoralty, to which, it is said, he aspires, Another candidate from the same es- tablishment is Mr. Anselm-Rothschild-Wesley, who had an experience of some two years in Wall street—the Juden strasse of the United States—and who succeeded in making a terrific explosion there. He is, therefore, perfectly uc- quulutcd with the mismanagement of financial matters, and is entitled to the nomination for Comptroller. At the extreme end of all these patriots is the reverend Cicero-Demosthenes- Hurlbut, whose remarkable article upon the Ttalian quadrilateral, and the elbows of the Mincio, gives him a claim to be elected either as State Senator or a member of the Assembly at Albany. He would be invaluable at the State éapital, because no one could understand a word of his reports and speeches. It would require something deeper than an Albany politician to find out what he meant. There are several others of our cotemporaries who are burning fora chance to serve their country—the Chevalier Webb for one; but we shall not go into further particulars today. Enongh is as good as a feast; and there is a bare possibility that the country might have too much even of the glorious confraternity we have named. In the meantime, the country, with so many patriots ready to serve it, may consider itself safe, Licensep Swixpiine Suops.—We transfer to our columns to-day an article from the New York Courier and Enquirer in regard to the mode in which the poor and unemployed of our city are swindled by the institutions designated intelli- gence offices and employment offices. For all practical purposes it might be much better for us to have no law at all for the punishment of criminals than a law which either cannot be or will not be enforced. There is not a day on which strangers are not victimized and robbed in mock auction stores, in bogus ticket offices, in so-called hotels that are owned and frequented by thieves, and by emigrant runners and licensed hackmen and cartmen, all in the very teeth of the police authorities, and in utter disregard of the laws and those who administer them. There is not a city in Europe where such things would be tolerated for a day; but here the swindlers flourish and carry on their busi- ness without disguise. If one of them is now and again brought up before the Mayor ora police justice, the only punishment inflicted upon him is compulsory restitution of what he had gained by fraud in that particular case; and, the reati- tution being made, he is again set at liberty to prey upon the community. In a city where laws are efficiently administered, there would not be a mock auction store, a bogus ticket office, or any other such swindling establishment allowed to exist; and such fellows as conduct them here would be picking oakum, or walking the treadmill, or deing penal servitude, if they attempted to carry on their business in London, or Liverpool, or Paris. Sucha state of things is far from creditable to us asa people. But the Peter Funke, and bogus ticket sellers, and emigrant runners, and swindling hotel keepers, are not the only villains into whose clutches the stranger and friendless in our city may fear to fall. There is another class of ecoundrels who prey upon them in a less open but no less heartless manner. We allude to the fellows who open employment offices or intelli- gence offices, and advertise good situations for clerks, and bookkeepers, and coachmen, and wait- ers, and domestic servants. These advertise. ments are, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, mere devices to lure those who are seeking for employment into theirdens, and when they get there they are induced by false representations to pay their dollars for the high privilege of having their names registered in a book kept in the concern. They are then told that the par- ticular berth for which they applied has just been filled, but that in a day or two good situa- tions will be procured for them. Thus they are not only swindled out of their money, but out and when, in the course of s week THE LATEST NEWS. Non-Arrtval of the Indian, Fanaa Pourt, August 27—6 P.M. very eloquent ‘and telling speech. After alluding to the Syraccss, August 27, Julius Earl and Jobn M. Strong have delegates from the First and Third Assembly districts of this county to the Demooratic State Convention. Whe Deatitute in the Asore Islands. Bostrom, August 27, 1869. A private letter announces the arrival at Fayal July 18 of the bark Azore, Captain Burke, from Boston, with the contributions of our citizens for the destitute of the Azore Islands. The arrival was hailed with ively demonstra. tions of gratitude. ‘Trot Between Flora Temple and Princess at Saratoga. Albany, August 27, 1860. three straight heats. Time—two thirty and « ball, tee thirty: cight, and two thirty-four, er tinetnndacnenemateienisn Death of a Clergy man. Bostow, Avgust 27, 1869. Rev. Dr. Dans, an eminent Presbyterian clergyman of Newburyport, died this morning. His age was eighty nine years, tS Extensive Burglary. Wasuinoros, August 87, 1860, The store of Benjamin Barton, at Alexandria, was robbed last night of watches and jewelry of the estimated value of $7,600. An entrance was effected into the store from an adjoining unoccupied building. ‘catenins egal Important to Persons of Color. Wasumvcrox, August 27, 1850. An announcement is made at New Oricans that from the 1st of September next all free persons of color arriving im that city must immediately be lodged in jail, and there re- main until the departure of the boat or vessel on which they came. Pe ieerivennc OR. hd Death of the French Consul at Savannah.) Savasnan, August 27, 1860, Louis Rarre, French Consul, died to-day of old age. He was an old resident, and bas been Consul for twenty-two years. —___. Salling of the North American. Mowrneat, August 27, 1869, The steamship North American sailed frem Quebeo for Liverpool at half-past nine o’clock this morning, taking out seventy-four passengers, Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK bye an me al ie ere ae 10%; Peasy tyania Railroad? 40,** of , August 27, 1850, Baurmwors, Flour firm. Wheat active and improving; sales ot 12,000 Laced Meth co thet white and $i 100 61 16 tor Coty yellow, 84c. a 860.; white, 80c. a 82c. PHILADELPHLA, AI |, 1869. Flour quiet; superfine $5 a $5 25. juiet; sales of 8, bushels red at $1 18 a $1 20; white $1 no firm; gales of 3,000 bushels yellow at ern. Whiskey scarce # En nf fi ifs iy es Before Hon. Judge Thompeon. Avavar 22,.—Elisha Bloomer vs. J. P. and H. L, Cran ford.—This action is brought to recover $225 for rent of the store No. 804 Broadway. The parties entered into an agreement whereby the defendant contracted to pay $400 for the use and occupation of these premises from the first to the fourth of July, 1 ae eek be foqurres che dl eavetvens cy es te z bg [i 388 = r He ale leit i g i ne Dis badly te lees ‘this injury plaintiff was laid up about two weeks, Judgment for pleintiit for $100 and costs,