The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1859, Page 4

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Lansing, Baldwin & Oo., 2i Rue Corneille, Bauucea, . De Chapeauronge & Co. ‘The contents of tho European edition of the Heaatp wil) gombine the news received by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week and up to the hour ef the publication. The News. ‘The City of Washington arrived at this port last night, bringing details of European news to the 17th inst., and telegraphic advices from London and Liverpool to the 18th, The intelligence is inte- resting. It is reported that the Zurich Conference had made no progress in the business for which it met, and a London journal states that the representa” tives had come to a dead lock. The entry of the victorious Army of Italy into Paris took place on Sunday, the 14th. The specta. cle is deacribed as being grand, gorgeous and bril- liant. A graphic description of the scene is given in today’s Heratp. The féfes were imitated at Milan and Zurich. The Emperor Napoleon had Bignalized the occasion by granting a full aud com- plete amnesty to all political offenders against his government, and by restoring to freedom some twelve hundred persons confined in prison for various offences. Italy was tranquil. The reported red republican Movement in Parma is not confirmed, and it is probable the story was fabricated by Austrian jour- nals to serve some ulterior design. An advance in the funds on the London Stock Exchange is reported. There had been no change in Ainerican securities. At Liverpool cotton was dull and breadstufls quiet. In another part of to-day's paper will be found some interesting intelligence from Venezuela. Pre- sident Castro had been seized and compelled to surrender the Presidency by the constitutional party, after which he was thrown into pri- Bon, and a close guard of one hundred men set over him to watch his movements. Some severe fighting had occurred, resulting almost altogetler in favor of the constitu. Hionalists. The utmost alarm prevailed in the vountry, and the general expectation was that very fanguinary engagements were about to occur: ‘Three thousand men were under arms at Caracas, resolved to deliver their country from the federalists or to die in the attempt. ‘The Empire City arrived at this port yesterday from Havana with news to the 24th inst. It is, however, of little general interest. The markets continued very dull, and freights had declined a trifle. The Empire City brought $776,031 in specie. Our intelligence from the island of Jamaica is i portant. Rioting, lawlessness and bloodshed seem to have become the normal condition of the people. The anniversary of emancipation was celebrated by a scene of turbulence and riot, in the course of which several persons met their death. Quiet had been temporarily restored, but no one could say how long it would last. The Gov r of the island, like most of his predecessors, was rapidly growing unpopular. Former Governors have had to contend with the planters; the present one, Mr. Darling, has to fight his battles with the modi- eal fraternity. Dr. Alexander Fiddes, of Edinbu one of the most efficient surgeons of the day Just been put in the Crown Office by his Exoel- Jency. ‘The body of a German ragpicker,name unknown, was found dead in the hallway of the tenement house No. 41 Baxter street, yesterday morning, under circumstances which lead to the belief that deceased had been murdered. There were several marks of violence about'‘the head and face, and a post mortem examination of the body showed that several of the ribs had been fractured, causing a Tupture of the spleen. Death had been caused by the lost mentioned injury. The Sixth precinct police are aiding Coroner Schirmer in the investi- gation of the mysterious case, but so far no Uevelopements have come to light which can inany Way explain the matter. The inquest was post. poned until eight o’clock this morning, when it is hoped deceased will be identified, and some clue Afforded to the perpetrator of the murder. The members of the family of Mr. Hewlett Peters, of 230 Clinton street, consisting of five Adults and four children, were all poisoned yester- Gay evening, while partaking of tea. The prompt fained that areenit pag a babel gst} sugar used in theta, but by whom it vd beh ould not be conjecturea, baa A special secret session of the pol Bloners was held yesterday sheds erie upwards of eighty complaints against members o; the police force, which have been accumulating @aring the past month. Seven patrolmen were dismissed, including the two who permittea the murderer Macdonald to visit a house of it} repute while in their custody. Four resignations were ac- Copted, among them that of Capt. Samuel Carpen- ter, of the Sixteenth ward, who was recently par- tially tried for undue familiarity with the proprie- tress of a house of uessignation. Many others, found guilty of comparatively light offences, were Punished by fining them from one day's to one NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1859. month's pay. The Board passed a resolution to lease the Yorkville schoolhouse for the Twenty- third precinct, the Common Council having neg- lected to make suitable provision. ‘The City Inspector complained of the disgusting manner in which tripe is manufactured in this city, yesterday, at the meeting of the Health Commis. sioners. He also called attention to the condition of an offal boiling house and slaughter house in Thirty-ninth street, near Tenth avenue, which ho said are dangerous to the health of the city. A number of arrivals from sickly ports were an- nounced, and among them that of the Spanish steamer Ocean Bird, which came here for repairs to the amount of $80,000 or upwards. We have been favored these past few days with the moat delightful weather, which has caused quite an impulse to be given tothe city trade. Should the cool nights continue, the city would be more desirable than the watering places, and the pleasure seekers would soon turn their steps hitherward. Yesterday Broadway presented quite a cheering scene by the large number of fashionably dreased promenaders from among our own inhabitants and those from abroad. The hotels are quite full of strangers, so that in some of our fashionable hotels they are obliged to resort to the “packing” system. On inquiry, itappears that both in the mercantile and mechanical branches of busi ness things never looked brighter, and, from the present aspect, we shall have @ busy fall trade. The cotton market was inactive yesterday, and the sales confined to about 200 a 800 bales, closing duli on the basis of quotations given in another column. The receipts o flour were Jarger,and the market was less buoyant and active, while prices closed at a decline in some cases of 10c, to 20c, per barrel. Wheat was in fair demand, and prime lots firm, The goneral tone of the market, how" evor was lees bueyant at the close. Corn was in fair request, and rather easier for eome descriptions. Old mixad Western in store, sold at 77c.; old and new do., afloat, at 80c. 8 82c., closing at about 813¢c.; Jersey and Southern yellow were nominal, Pork was firmer and in good demand» with sales of mees at $14 60 a $14 623¢ (afterwards held at $14 75), and prime at $10 258 $1040. Beef was dully while lard was steady ond the demand fair. The sales of sugar embraced about 759 hhds, at prices given in avother place. Coffee was buoyant, while sales were moderate. Freights were steady, while engagements ‘were light. Some cotton for Liverpool was taken at 3<c., and some oil to London at 208. The Mode of Choosing Delegates to the Charleston Convention. It is high time, as the elections for delegates to the State Convention at Syracuse are pro- gresaing, for the maszes of democrats in the State of New York to tuke serious thought how far they are willing to alienate from themselves, virtually, the right of suffrage, aud of being heard through their representatives in the im- portant matter of choosing a candidate for President of the United States, The gang of political miscreanta constituting the Albany Regency have so demoralized the democratic party by their treachery and misdeeds that this State has become nearly as black repnblican as Maseachusette, and they have determiacd that no alternative shali be presented to the people between voting for some miserable creature of their own or of appearing to support the in- fauscus doctrines of William H. Seward, as ex- pounded at Rochester. The Convention which is to mneet at Syracuse on the Lith of September has been called for the nominal purpose of nomi- nating certain State officers, in place of thos: whose term of office will expire on the lst of January next. The Regency, however, are se- lecting their candidates to that Convention without the slightest regard to this object, and with a cole eye to their subserviency in the mat- ter of appointing a packed delegation to the National Convention at Charleston. The fact is that Cassidy, Richmond, and that combination of ex-baruburner and rail- toad interest which has been co-operating for twenty years with the swindling system of Sewardiem in finance, inaugurated in 1838, do not care a rush for ihe principles that are in- volved in the coming State election. Tacy are bot only willing—thoy would i¢jeice tw ave the endorsement of New York given in November to the atrocious programme of Seward, and they would care liitle if this were to become perma- nently an ultra-abolition State. They know that their coalition with Weed will secure the success of their private schemes at home, how- ever disastrous a defeat may be suffered by the party. Butin the Presidential game thcy fore- see a danger. If Seward becomes President, they will, of course, retain the upper hand ; but the election to the national chict magistracy oi an honest, upright, clear-headed democrat would keep the federal plunder out of their hands until 1864, This is what they are scheming to prevent. Previous to the meeting of the Democratic State Committee at Albany on the 3d inst, the Regency wirepullers had been industriously la- boring in two directions—firatly,[with the friends of Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson and the hards, to persuade them that they would support him for the Presidency; and, second, with the personal friends of Seymour, to show these latter the ad- vantages that would accrue from cheating Dick- inson. The pledge was substantially given to the harda, by Caseidy’s colleagues, that they would use every effort to have an equally divided delegation, half hards and half softs, sent to Charleston, provided the district system of electing delegates were tacitly abandoned and no disturbance was created on this point. On the other hand, a hint to Mr. Seymour’s agents waa unambiguously enough given that this under- standing would fall through of itself when the State Convention met, and that “want of power” to contest it would be abundant excuse for any apparent breach of faith, In this manner the Regency carried their point, and the perfidious disclosure by Cassidy, at the critical moment, of the Wise Donnelly letter, created & panic which served his purpose for the moment, and induced many who abhorred the iniquity of a packed delegation to Charleston to prefer it to the snare which seemed to have been prepared on the other side, The Regency have made up their slate of names of delegates to Syracuse in such a manner that, if their candidates are elected, they will be enabled to send the greatest pack of rascals to Charleaton that ever diegraced councils on na- tional interests with their presence. The bar- gain with the hards will be ignored, and the un- derstanding with Seymour will bs paid equally little attention to. It will be an out-and-ou butcher boy delegation, whose sole errand will be to sell the vote of the State tothe highest bid- der for the Presidential nomination, and tho one they can best rely on to carry out the Regency couepiraoy for robbing the treasury of the coun. try, as they have already done that of the State. Every promise or agreement which in. terferes with this object will be broken, aad every individual will be betrayed who has been foolih enough to place confideace in them. The Principal leaders of the Regency clique are said to be already positively pledged to halfa dozen Presidential aspirants, and as the period ap- proaches for the Charleston Gonyention they will be secretly committed to as many more, in order to evade the fate they most fear, namely— that of cot being permitted to participate in ita | The Confessions of Confidence Casdy— | The New Ohange in Central American Dipic- councils on the ground that they are unfit asso- ciates for gentlemen. We believe it was Lord Byron who spoke of a republic as “an aristocracy of blackguards.” The character of the emall, privileged class which pulls the wires, and jerks into mere me- chanical movement the demooratic party in this State, would appear to give justice to this harsh epithet. For what better word can designate the little Regency faction which, for nearly twen- ty years, has imposed upen the State trickerles, plunderings, cheatings and villanies that beggar all description? Itis the duty of the democratic masses to throw off this incubus, and the timo for doing so should be the approaching Syracuse Convention. Delegates should be chosen every- where, in each district in the State, with instrao- tions to repel peremptorily every attempt to have the delegation to Charleston appointed at that time. Andas the Regenoy party will practise every conceivable fraud to accomplish their ne- farious object, delegates should be instructed to leave the Convention in case they find them- eelves put down by 6 factitious majority force, and to appeal to the people to exercise their inalienable right of choosing the delegates to Charleston themselves, In this way only can ‘New York hope to be fairly represented at Charleston, and to defeat the conspiracy of @ handful of plethoric man- egers, desirous of either sacrificing the country to Seward, or else elevating to the Presidency some democrat who would prove but little better suited to that high position. Good citizens chould «leo remember that they are individuaily responsible for the part they may take in this important matter, and that they have no right to put the power of choosing delegates to a Con- vention which shall nominate a ruler of the country for four years out of their hands, Paeswentta, Canpipates—Hovstoy np Dicxisson.—The political events of the last month or two have brought forward foremost in the front rank of available candidates for the Preai$ency two men who have been extensively regarded for several years past as dead politi- cians—dead ard doomed evermore to the shades of private life. We refer to General Sam Hous- ton, of Texas, and ex-Governor Daniel S, Dick- neon, of New York. The former, defeated in Texas two years ago as the American candidate for Governor, by nine thousand majority for Runnels, and super- seded in the Senate by a more submissive demo- crat, gracefully retired from the political arena to spend the evening of his days in his log cabin. But the fire-eating managers of the democratic Texas regency a few months ago took the field in behalf of the revival of the African slave trade; whereupon, the American party having diebanded, General Houston was called out as the independent people’s candidate for Gover- vor in opposition to Runnels and the regency. What do we see? A victory which has elected Houston Governor by 8,000, and which will Goubtless restore him next winter to his old place in the Senate from a Houston majority of the State Legislature, Thus, from a supposed permanent banishment from political life, Gereral Houston, in a single bound, comes forward asthe most available of all Southern Presidential candidates, for the de- mocracy or the opposition. He has, in the most striking manner, proved his strength in the ex- treme South, and we know that there is not an- other Southern man whose public history and an- tecedents cover the extensive popularity which General Houston can command in the North. Mr. Dickinson for a long time, until within the Jast month or 20, bus been regarded by the Alba- py Regency aa an old fogy, or old granuy, hard- ly tutitled tn » moment’s serious consideration. But the Alas-Argus now classifies him among “our beloved statesmen,” and finds him a won- derfally proper example of a sound and reliable democrat. The Wise-Donnelly correspondence and the squatter sovereignty manifestocs of Douglas, and the intestine troubles in the party camp generally, have thus operated to bring for- ward Mr. Dickinson asthe proper man for the New York democracy. Upon his principles and in his bebalt the party may now be reunited. The Albany Regency have seized upon him for this purpose ; but let his real friends see to it that he is not betrayed. No Northern democra- tic candidate for the succession is so popular in the South as Dickinson; and the time is at hand when his conservative character will be rightly appreciated even in New York. Let his true friends keep a vigilant eye upon the clique of Desn Richmond, Cagger, Corning, Cassidy &Co., and the name of Daniel S, Dickinson may give the New York Gemocracy the control of the Charleston Convention. Let not this thing be overlooked in the elec- tions now going on of the delegates to the Demo- cratic State Convention, which a fortnight hence will meet at Syracuse. Poor Prerce’s Boston Srexcu,—Mr. Bucha- nan’s predecessor in the Presidential chair, poor Pierce, returned from his European tour last Saturday, and wae welcomed at Boston by a serenade and address, To this manifestation on the part of a few broken down politicians Pierce responded in a speech, which we publish to-day. It is full of the usual patriotic phrases about the free institutions of this great country, and ex- pressing gratification at finding himself once more on the soil of New England. He also pays a tribute to the memory of Rufus Choate. Bat he has not a word tosay, nor « tear to let fall, in memory of the great democratic party, which was 80 hale and vigorous in 1853, when he enter- ed the White House, and which is now, owing to his administration, in the last stages of dissolu- tion, We think that a sense of remorse might have suggested a few in memoriam sentences to poor Pierce on his return to his native land. Such is, however, the gratitude of politicians, New Wacon Roan Tarover Sart Lake Vat- rey.—We publish in another column a letter of instructions for General Harney, commandiag the Military Department of Oregon, directing the opening of a new wagon road from the Dalles, a point a little to the south of Colambia river, to Great Salt Lake Valley, connecting with t through the Western, by South Pads, al- ready constructed. ite will open a di- rect communication between the Pacific coast and the heart of Utah Territory, and will greatly facilitate the transport of troops and militery stores to that point; thus saving an immene expense in the transmission of armies snd supplies through the vast deserts traversed by General Johnston last year in the Utah ex- pedition. Besides, it will open up another great artery of travel through the Mormon domain, pow comparatively impassable. This road will doubtless prove a useful national work, and we hope it will be pushed through as speedily as possible, Werse aud Worse, In another page we publish two articles from the Albany Argus, in one of which the Con- fidence man of the Regency is udmitted to have Commenced life as a butober’s boy in his father’s slaughter-house; and in the other an agent of the Hznscp is impudently charged with stealing & copy of the letter of Mr. Wise, confided to the honorable custody of Chevalier Cassidy. In the first of these articles the butcher boy Contends that to have devoted his early life to slaughtering calves and swine, and cutting up sheep and beeves, is no disgrace to him, but rather an evidence of bis genius and energy, which overcame that obstacle and made him one of the Albany Regency. We admit this to the fullest extent. We never sald that it was disgraceful to have been originally an honest butcher’s boy, with a dirty face and a clean heart; with hands besmeared with blood, but with pure feelings unstained by dishonor. This could certainly be no disgrace. Cassidy claims that he was educated and bred by Profes- sor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, and that he took his degree at college under Dr. Nott. Now, as William Shakapere would say, “there’s the rub.” This is the very rock on which the confidence man splits. Educated, as he admits he was, by gentlemen, and trained in the principles of honor and of gentlemanly con- duct, he turns traitor to those principles, and violates the private confidence of a silly man like Bernard Donnelly, by permittiog copies to be taken of a private letter written to him by the Governor of Virginia. Out of his own mouth Cassidy is cosdcmned, Had he not re- ceived the gentlemanly education of which he boasts, there might be come excuse for his want of appreciation of gentlemanly principles and his insensibility to those fostincts which are a “second nature” to a gentleman. Either there must have been something radically wrong in the code of ethics taught by Professor Henry and Dr. Nott, or Cassidy makes his case ten times worse by confessing that he had the ad- vantage of a liberal education, and yet has so frequently transgressed the line of honor which such a training marks out. Confidence Cassidy, in trying to mend his principles and his manners, makes bad worse, like an unskilful tinker, who in trying to stop one leak inan old kettle produces two or three leaks. He and his associates of the Regency can never get over the charge made against them of consenting to the publication of a private let- ter, in violation of the principles of gentlemen and editors. Cassidy's ridiculous attempt in his other arti- cle to hide his rascality is like that of the os- trich, which when closely pursued thrusts its head under the sand and imagines that nobody sees it. His aseertion that we bribed somebody to obtain a copy of Mr. Wise’s letter surreptitiously is miserable trash. Our agent found it in the open market for sale, and paid $20 for it, which was probably divided among the Regency in pro- portion to their moral standing. In this he vio- lated no confidence, for he promised none, and was not in the secret. The man who violated the confidence was the Judas Iscariot who caused copies of the letter to be exposed for sale, and the person who bought it was as innocent in the transaction as ever was a cook who at Casaldy’s butcher stall bought bad beef for sound. The very day the Confidence man received Wise’s letter he sent # copy of it to Mr. Diokin- son, and permitted other copies to be made, from one of which was taken that which we printed in the Heratp. After all this, and with the ori- ginal letter still in his possession, Cassidy had the UuNusbing audacity to throw out doubts about the genuineness of the letter, and to say that he would wait before copying it into the Argus, to see whether Mr. Wise would disown it or not The force of impudence could no farther go. He thought by this dodge to direct attention from himeelf and put the public onthe wrong scent. But we soon traced the tracks of the fox to his den, though he attempted te carefully cover them up. We brought the possession of the ori- ginal letter home to him, and even named the parties to whom copies had been given. At last Cassidy acknowledges the corn, but in his des- Pperation pretends that we bribed somebody to steal a copy from him. How did we know that he had the letter? How could it be stolen from him if he desired to keep it secret? Does he mean to say that any agent of ours picked his pocket, or committed burglary and rifled his bureau? This would be a little too absurd for the veriest greenhorn to swallow. But supposing, for argument’s sake, that an agent of ours did steal a copy, how does that dispose of the charge against the Con- fidence man of giving a copyto Mr. Dickinson, and of giving other copies to which we have fre- quently referred. The breaeh of confidence was in giving the firet copy. Here was the dishonor- able act. Even upon his own showing, a copy having been once given, Cassidy parted with his control over the publication, and he was there- fore responsible for the letter finding its way into print, and clearly violated the confidence reposed in him. But he is not such a chicken as to have ever given a copy of that letter without the cer- tain knowledge and the deliberate intention that it should appear in the New York papers, and all the water in the Hudson cannot wash out the stain, If the democratic party in this State listen to the advice of an organ directed by such treach- erous hands—if it blindly follows Confidence Cassidy and the rest of the Regency, it is sure to be betrayed and sold like Wise’s letter, and it can never recover its ‘ascendancy in the Empire State. But we have reason to believe that the eyes of the people are already opened, and that preparations are being made which will lay the Regency low. The State Convention will not be controlled by their dictation. It cannot send them as their packed delegates to the Charleston Convention, for they would not be received by that body. Southern men would not mingle with the treacherous violators of private confi- dence, and would deem themselves equally con- taminated by association with their tools. Rosperres oF THE ReGencies.—The canals of New York are irretrievably embarrassed, struggling under a lond of debt which amounts to nearly forty millions of dollars, Both politi- cal parties have introduced and perpetuated a system of plunder which has brought the State finances to this condition. The robberies of the two Albany Regencies during the last twenty- five years have been enormous, and the canals have suffered more than all. Porricar, Reyvrstons Angap.—The recent political revolutions ia the Southern and West- ern élections foreshadow a simflar movement in Pennsylvania and other Northern States, Watoh and prepare for it, Melations with macy—Our Miceragua and ‘The kaleldesoope of Central American diplo- macy presents to us another change in its aspeot, and we hope the present appearance of things will assume permanent shape, as mach for the benefit of those countries as for the permanent establishment of our own interests. Jast now we have a ratification of the Lamar- Zeledon treaty by Micaragua, with the omission of the clause (objected to by our government, and in Guatemala a dissent on the part of a mi- nority of the Council of State to the treaty ne- gotiated by that republic with Great Britain in regard to the extension of the frontiers of Be- lize. A short time since Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley was carrying all Central America against us; and just before his advent there Monsieur Relly was the great man who was to turn cverything {nto gold and stop the advancing tide of North American barbarism. The first of theae movements is a very judicious one on the part of Nicaragua for it indicates on the part of {ts govern- ment a return to the dictates of common sense. It had been led away from these by the repre- eentations of a set of adventurers who had im- pressed it with the idea that there was an “ irre- preesible conflict,” after the style of Seward, between the United States and the Earopean Powers, Now it has comprehended, probably through the explications of General Jerez, its late Minister here, that all i¢can get from Ea- rope will be the barren expression of a moral sympathy, while with us it has to meet the prac- tical exigencies arising from territorial proximi- ty, the growing use of the Transit routes, and the increasing matter-of-fact intercourse between the two countries, There yet remains one point to settle. That is thé Transit route. President Martinez has not alluded to it in his message to Congress, but it must come up. The Nicaragua route cannot re- main closed, and {it is out of the question that any other company than an American one can open it. Monsieur Belly is good on paper. He bailds pretty canals on handsomely verdant mape, founds mighty cities by proclamation, and institutes a number of other great and good things in a protocol. But none of these will ‘carry passengers and mails and goods from San Juan del Norte to San Juan del Sur. This work requires steamers, and men to chop wood in the forest, and agents here and there and all along the line, and store houses, and wharves, and roads and wagons, and a thousand other things that cost much money. Now the European capitalists are not going to put money into a route that Americans only are to use, for they well know that Americans will not travel under European guidance and guard on the Ame- rican continent. Gen. Jerez has seen this and understood it; and therefore he has made an ar- rangement with an American company to open the ronte as e0on as it receives permission to do 0. We doubt not that President Martinez will soon see it in this light too, and thus show a still further return to the dictates of common gense. ‘The new Anglo-Guatemalan treaty is a thing that cannot stand. It is not only opposed to the spirit and the letter of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, but it cedes away @ portion of the terri. tory of that republic, without an equivalent, to 8 eet of lazy logwood cutters, who neither build roads, nor found towns, nor clear the forest, England acquires it in name, but Eng. land’s colonies on the coast of Central America are fast dying out. Besides these practical reasons that will destroy the effect of the treaty, the policy which it involves is in opposition to the spirit that new animates the British people, and will at no distant day rule the Britieh government; that iss policy of co- operation between the United States and Eng- land in relation to all American questions. The general aspect of Central American affairs is coming round right, and we have no doubt that this Guatemala question will take the same di- rection, But it would be well for our govern- ment to look after this matter and to naar what our Minister has been about down there. Onganzep Orposrrioy To THE Suxpay Brive Laws.—Public opinion is beginning to assume an expressive character in opposition to the des- petic Sabbatarian restrictions which a Puritani- cal minority are endeavoring to impose upon the masses of the people in this city. We per- ceive that a public meeting is contemplated to be held next month, in response to the joint call of the “ American Society for the Promo- tion of Civil and Religious Liberty” and the “German Protestant Association,” for the pur- pose of protesting against the odious and op- pressive “Sunday blue laws.” Tifis is a move in a right direction, and we trast that the pub. lic voice will make itself heard in unmistaka- ble tones of denunciation, and resistance to the tyranny of the Pharisees, Another excellent move fs also on foot—name- ly, @ enbecription for the purpose of securing a concert every Sunday in Central Park. The Saturday concerts are very good, and so far have proved a wondrous success, attracting, as they do, thousands of people to the charming haunts of nature in and around the Park; but it is manifest that no entertainment of this kind | can be largely shared in by the mechanic and laboring classes between the hours of five and seven on Saturday afternoon. This is*just the time when they are winding up their week’@ la- bors, receiving their pay, and their faz tending to the marketing and other household duties. But if a band were to perform in Central Park on Sundays, we venture to say that twenty or thirty thousand people of there classes would attend, and it is precisely for there people that such recreation is most desira- ble; not for those who can breathe plenty of fresh air at the watering places, and revel in fine music at the Opera or in the concert room. Moreover, the best way to stem the current of Phariseeiem and exclusive piety is to run dead against it with counter movements of this kind. The Paritanical despots of London, like their brethren in New York, attempted to suppress every kind of enjoyment on Sunday ia which the poor workingman might share. They were met by the proposal to have military bands perform in the parks on the Sabbath. ‘The people attend- ed in thousands, and the vor populi ailenced the canting phrases of the hypocrites. So we trust It will be here; and we hope to see before long many thousands of our working- men, with their overtaxed wives and pee aged children, whose lives are passed in the vile stews of the crowded city, enjoying the strains of Dodworth’s band and the natural beauties of the country every Sunday afternoon in the Cen- tral Park. Wao Kniep Cock Romy ?—Who killed the demooratic party, and who killed Cock Robin? Douglas ond Pierce in 1854 got up the Kansas- Nebraska bill between them, and they killed the Gemogratic party—they killed Cock Robin, terday appears a scandalous story, in which am elevated personage, the Captain General of Cuba, is made to play a prominent part. The cor- respondent who makes the statement asserts thaé he was an eye witness of the facta. There is & want of circumstantiality in bis narrative, how- ever, which belies this assertion, and proves its hearsay character. But we are not left to specu- lation for an estimate of the probabilities of the story. Our own correspondent, writing froas Havana under date of the 24th, says:— In our social conditien I have communicate; there have been no transitions or oasual- i : il I HI t ! i a i il aE F Were the story related by our conte: correct in all its details, its publication would still be without an excuse. On moral as well a8on political grounds the circulation of ail euch scandals is indefensible. The good taste and cultivated intelligence of our times condeme the gratification of a prurient curiosity through the medium of the press, and no journal that has the least pretensions to respectability ventures out of its way to indulge it, But scandals of this sort, coupled with the names of the chief magistrates of foreign States, are something more than an infringement of conventional decency—they are violations of international good feeling and courtesy. We may take ex- ceptions to governmental systems, and wage war against them when they prove obnoxious to our interests, but we haye no right to assail the private lives of those who administer them. Was such course to be pursued generally by American journalists, it would become impoa- sible for us to keep up any sort of relations with other governments. Our representatives would be visited with the odium and resentment which such outrages would justly excite, and Ameri- cans would soon come to be regarded as social pariahs and outcasts with whom it would be dangerous to hold communication. Tf, as & general rule, then, these attacks upon the private lives and habits of foreign rulers and stateamen are impolitic, itis obvious that they are doubly so in the case of a man placed ia General Concha’s position. The powers that he wields are so despotic, his motives for watohful- ness and suspicion of Americans so politically well founded, and his irresponsibility so great, that it is foolish in the extreme to exacerbate his prejudices and to provoke against our country- men resident on the island those countless petty vexations and annoyances which Cuban Gov- ernors 80 well know how to inflict. We do not say that General Concha would be likely to re- sort to such pitiful retaliations—we merely point to them as being amongst the possible consequences of the infamous personalities to which the Zzpress has lent its columns. ‘There fs not, we believe, in the whole country, with a single exception, another journal besides the Zxpress that would have consented to become the medium of this shameful attack upon the Captain General of Cuba. That exception is our quaérilateral contemporary, which has signalized iteelf as much by ita systematic calumnies against the personal character and habits of our own chief magistrate as by its accurate strategical descrip- tions and definitions. It is but right that Gane- ral Concha should be told that, although it may nomber amongst its ranks a few Bohemians, the American prees, as 8 general thing, does not wage war against the sanctity of domestic life or the courtesies that should be observed be- tween civilized communities. Tus News From VENEZUELS.—We learn by way of Havana that a new revolution has oo- curred in Venezuela, deposing General Castro, whe recently overthrew Monsgas. General Castro, after driving out the corrupt govern- ment of Monagas, through the assistance of the better classes of people in the country, adopted the policy of the government he had deposed, and pandered systematically to the lowest classes of the population and the negro rave. His error has brought its own judgment, and the good sense of the people of Caracas has turned upon him and carried him from the palace to the prison. It is not improbable that @ conflict of races may be the result of this move- ment, and it will be well for our readers to ua- derstand the names under which the parties are ranged. The negroes have adopted the title of liberals and federalista, and have given to the whites that of oligarchs. There is no liberalism in the uegro idea, for it means only the rule of the chiefs who will pander to their passions, It is probable that this civil war will convalse the whole of Venezuela, and perhaps prove a dea- perate conflict before it is ended. PRESmENTIAL Nomuvations—There are al- ready three great Presidential candidates in the field—Wise, Douglas and Botts. At the last ac- counts Botts was a little ahead. Governor Wise has only Donnelly, Senator Douglas has secured Harper, but Botts is backed by the Ashlanders of Brooklyn—a mighty host in themselves, pede nn uaa Waar o’Crocx Is Ir?—The only Southern stateeman who could command to-day a Presi- dential vote in the North is General Houston, of Texas, and the only Northern statesman who could obtain a vote in the South is Mr. Dickin- son, of New York. A Cap Muwauxc.—The attention of our readers is called to an advertisement injanotherjcolumn offering a reward of $50 for the recovery Of a lost child, about four anda haif years old, pon of James McNair, of Ravenswood, I I. The ‘ttle fellow has been missing since Saturday, Coroner's Inquests. Parat Casvatries.—Coroner O'Keefo held an inquest at the New York Hospital upon the body of «man nameg William Knapp, a native of this city, aged forty-threa years, who died from the effects of injuries accidentally eceived by falling into the hatchway of a t Jersey City. Verdict, “Accidental death.” fame coroner also held an inquest upon the body of Abraham Westervelt, a native of New York, aged = four years, who dled from tne effects of injuries sooldek: tally’ recelved by falling h the hatchway of premises No, 40 Gold street, on 27th of May inst. bo dic & verdict in accordance with the above —_—_——— z 4 5 z 5 Fy o