The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1859, Page 4

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Bvenl g—HUm Taeand-~-81iGe BTEvOK Bssn AMSKIOAN MUSBUM, orcad nie end Bventig—DEagt foxex—Ma. anv Mus. WOOD'S MINSTREL BUILDING, 661 and 665 Brosdway— sorte Sones, Dawoms, ko —BLack Swan. MINSTRELS, Mechanioy’ Hall, 672 Broadway-~ Boncs, Danoss. 40. —Jounxy Govier. PALAU GasDER aND BALL, Fourwenth tires Musical Bore AND MuitaBy OororRt. Thelnam aren. —aflernoon— Dumuut-Lrant = Furaeasp 4 TuRme—Waits Sors or PKeE-SuITE axD BROWN, = a rr SREANTS STRLBEQTES, lew Work, Saturday, September 3, 1850. NOTICE TO THE ADVERTISING PUBLIC. Owing to tho great increase of trade in the city st th Prosent time, ant the conaequent lacreasing accumulation of our advertizing busineer, we are compelled to vak our advertising friends to come to our aid and help us to got our paper to press. This they can accomoltsh by sending in their advertisements at oe early an bour in the day and evening ax possidle, All advertisements should be handed in before nine o’olock at night. We would thus be on- abled to get to press at a reasonable time, and of coures togend out the paper at an earlior hour, which would Bot only be a reliof to us, but a service wo the advortisera the importance of which must be apparent. The News. By the arrival of the Quaker City we have news from Havana to the 29th ult. The health of the city was improving. Sugars were declining and the rates nomipal. Freights had advanced a little. Ex change on New York was at from two to five.anda half per cent for sixty days. The main ports of the island had been opened for the introduction of fish free of duty. A very important order of the Post- master General, which revives the law of 1848 relative to the introduction of letters and sealed parcels by shipmasters, was issued and is given in our paper. A good deal of agitation prevailed on die subject of the position of the Bank of Havana toward traders and the money market in general. The Cahawha artived here from Havana yester- day evening. She left on the evening of the 29th ultimo, making the passage in four days and one hour. She brought one hundred and sixty thousand Mexican dollars on freight from New Orleans to New York. By the arrival of the bark Virginia, Captain Hill, we have files from Turks Islands to the 2st ult, The Standard remarks: The weather continues fine and there is every prospect of a general salt raking in a few days. The quantity on hand, com- pared with the corresponding period last year, is much the same. There is no alteration in price. A terrible catastrophe happened yesterday after- noon at No. 106 Goerck street. At about four o'clock a steam boiler, Jocated on the premises al- luded to, which were occupied by John Roach as an iron foundry, exploded, completely demolishing the building, and burying all hauds employed in it, some fourteen in number, in the ruins, By some fortunate circumstance, however, but one man, named James Shaw, was killed, while five others were more or less injured. The names of the wounded men are Edward Roach, Edward Pe- trie, William Bernard, James Taffel and John Stew- art. The concussion caused by the explosion was felt for a considerable distance, and the people in the vicinity of the building were fearfully excited. We give full particulars in another column. ‘The Supervisors not having passed the tax levy, the Comptroller cannot pay the salaries of the county officers nor the police for their services for the jiast month. The county is also in default $350,000 to the State for taxes, of which $100,000 was to have been paid on Thursday last. The Comptroller has informed the State Treasnrer that he cannot pay until the tax levy shall have been passed. Tke annual book trade sale which was com- menced on Tuesday is progressing rapidly, About two hundred pages of a catalogue containing over four hundred pages have been exhausted, and it is likely that the sale will be brought to a close early next week, Thursday was devoted to disposing of the works of Appleton & Co., which brought very fair prices. The sale was opened yesterday morn- ing by disposing of the works of Whittemore & Co., of Boston,* and in the forenoon the new edition of Webster's Dictionary, published by G. & C. Mer- riam, of Springfield, was sold at the rate of $487} . A large number of the purchasers are South and West. The regul ting of the Police Commissioners took place y day. A communication was re m the General Superintendent stating what las already been published in Deputy Super intendents Carpenter and Folks’ report as to the present condition of the police force. Nothing was eaid as to his efforts in suppressing the Sunday Liquor Jaw; there is therefore no doubt but he has coneluded to discontinue his former actions in the matter, Considerable time was devoted in talking over the appointment of Captain of the Eleventh precinct; but as they could not come to any agree- ment upon any one candidate, the matter was laid over. Serjeant Dickson, of the detective force, was strongly recommended_for the appointment, Rozs McMahon, of the Third precinct; Henry Par- jin, Twenty-second precinct, and Wm. Nostring, of the Sixth precinct, were dismissed from the depart- ment. Geo. W. Seaman, of the Sixth precinct, and James H. Wheeler, of the Twenty-second precinct, tendered their resignations, which were received, after which the Board adjourned. The examination into the alleged coining case took place yesterday in the United States Commis sioner’s office, hefore Mr. Stillwell. Officers Colfax and Horton, and the proprietor of the hotel in which es lodged at the time of their ar- ined by Mr. Palmer, Assistant United States District Attorney, but no evidence tending to show that the prisoners were actually engaged in th usiness of coining counterfeit money was addr beyond the simple fact of several spurious qua lar pieces having been found on their pe In the absence of any more positive tes- tim well discharged two of the prison- ers d and Burns, and held the other two to an y farther facts respecting their coms y should tarn up. The Heath CG ners received two bids— one fc 0 and the other for $12,000 a year— ae ¢ the offal from the city; and also a »n from the present contractor, ask- ase of $3,000 a year to his present com. - ‘The whole subject was referred to the T, with power to enter into a contract With any oue to dy the work for $12,000 a year, A NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 3, 1859. report on the condition of the Croton water, on the causesof its recent pecullar taste, &c., was sent in by a German society. i ‘Tue pales of cotton yesterdny embraced about 600.n 600 Dales, on sbout the basis of quotations gi¢ée in anoibor column, Fiour was lower for State and Wostern brands, with more rotivity at the deotine. Southern flour was in fair request, white quotations were without change of momevi, Wheat was beavy, and rather casior for most deecriptions, Corn exhibited rather more firmness, with a good demand, including new Western mixed, tn store pnd adoat, wt Sc, a S2c., and Southern yellow at 83}<0° Pore wes without change of importance, while sales wore fair, including pew mess at $14 75 a $14 69, and prime at $10 6233. Sugars were steady, with « fair demand from the trado, The sales embraced 1,200 1,400 bhds, ta- ciuded in which were 70 bhds. melado, and the remain- der consisted of Cubs muscovados and Porto Ricos, at retes given in avother place. Coffee was firm, witha fur, ther speculative movement in Java, and sales of 15,000 mats were reported sold on private terms, and 1,500 bags Rio were sold at 11340, a 113¢0, Freight engagements were moderate, while rales wore steady, Mr. Dougias and the Presidency—Conficting Opposition Views. ‘The republican journala seem to be as much perplexed and divided in opinion concerniog the chances acd purposes of Mr. Douglas ia the Charleston Conveation as are the various factions of the democratic party. Take, fur ex- ample, the conflicting views of the Chevalier Webb, of the Courier, and of the philosophers of the Tribune, as published yesterday, upon this subject. The Chevalier Webb, adopting for his text a late article in the Henatp adverse to the Charles- ton aspirations of Mr. Douglas, branches off into an interminable rigmarole on “the slave power,” and its “bullying” policy with the cringiag “dougbfaced democracy of the North.” Thus, we are told that for the last forty years a South- eru minority, impotent in itself, has “bullied” our compliant “Northern doughfaces” to its pur- poses, But with all this bullying, which is now in full operation against the Illinois Senator, we are assured by the Chevalier Webb that the South, if brought to the pinch in the Charleston Convention, “will unite as readily in the sup- port of Mr. Douglas as upon either of the South- ern candidater.” “And why not,” we are asked; “for,” says our Wail street worshipper of W H. Seward, “iv not Mr. Douglas the autbor of the repeal of the Miseourl compromise? Aud is be not the very mau of all others who has labored moat zealous- ly to extend the institution of slavery iato free territory by that repeal? And will he not, if elected, following in the footsteps of Mr. Bucha nan, wink at the introduction of imported Afri- caus into the Southern States in defiance of the Jaws of the land against piracy? Most assuredly he will; and co will any President elected by the slave power and the doughfaced democracy of the North in 1860.” Such are the views of the Chevalier Webb. With bis one idea of Seward, be is evidently afiaid of the ingenious Northern anti-slavery programme of Douglas as a democratic candi- date. It is possible, too, if the Republican National Convention should meet in advance of that of the democracy, and nominate Seward, that the “slave power” might consent to the nomination of Douglas. But the Charleston Convention will have to lead off; and it will, therefore, be called upon to consider the ex- pediency of saving the Seuth, os well as the Policy of stealing into the Northern anti-slavery camp. In this aspect of the question the Tribune philosophers come to the rescue. They think that the democratic nominee in 1860 “ will probably be taken from the South;” and that i the party be driven to a Northern candidate Douglas will not and cannot be the happy man They think so because the South will rule the Convention, and as Mr. Douglas hus betrayed the “slave power,” “he is out of favor with both factions of the Southern democracy.” “The fire-eating presses and leaders are intensely hos- tile to him. Davis, Slidell, Brown, Toombs, and the men of that school, openly repudiate him,” while the Southern conservatives “of the type of Hunter and Guthrie dislike and distrust him.” But even in the North, it next appears, the strength of Mr. Douglas has been very much overrated. Finally, our Fourierite philosophers, after can- vaasing the whole field, come to these conclu- sions: that Mr. Douglas “is too shrewd a man to desire” the democratic nomination in 1860; that “if he really intended to run he would talk lees and write less; but that after getting the party into a position ia which they will be beaten by the republicans, he expects to be adopted aa the only available basis of democratic harmony. The difference, then, between our tivo wise and sagacious repub- lican organs in question, is simply this: the one believes that Douglas may secure the Charleston nomination with the full consent of the “slave power;” the other believes that consent is im: possible, and that the gentleman himself is so well convinced of it that his only purpose now is euch a defeat to the Southern managers of the party in 1860 as will compel them to capitulate to Mr. Douglas in 1864, “popular sovereignty” and all, Who sball decide when such doctors disagree? Between them we can find no reason for aban- doning our own opinions of the present aspi- rations and prospects of Mr. Douglas. On the other hand, we have every reason to believe that he expects to coerce the South into his nomina- tion at Charleston by the preseure of a Northern majority. But we apprehend that he fs counting without his host; that he will not in any event be strong enough to command the two-thirds vote required for the democratic nomination; and that, should he be able, through a Northern majority, to enforce his platform, its adoption will be the signal for the secession of the South- ern wing of the party from the Convention. ‘Thus we can only regard the movements of Mr. Douglas and his supporters in reference to the Charleston nomination as delusive and mis- chievous—delusive in reference to Mr. Douglas himself, and full of mischief to the party. Nor can we imagine, should we have a repetition in 1860 of the Van Buren defection of 1848, how any other fate than that of Martin Van Buren will be the fate of Mr. Douglas, Wuar 1s THe Marrer in Canava?—Not very long ago the Canadian papers united in extend- ing the warmest and most cordial invitations to Queen Victoria to visit her faithful subjects in America, Her Majesty found it impossible to come in person, but it was stated that in all pro- bability the young Prince of Wales, her son, would come instead. The intelligence had searcely got wind before one of the Canadian pa- pers, totally devoid of all decency or propric- ty, plainly asserts that the Prince’s visit is not desirable—that his Royal Highness might come if be co pleases, but that the Osnadians can never support a throne for one of the Queen’s nume- rous progeny. We must protest against such conduct es being too bed after such warm and apparently sinccre invitations, @ General ‘The Invalide Russe, received by the Africa, con- tslos a elgnificant article pressing the necessity Of a genéral Congress for thé settlement of Kuro: pean affairs, but more especially for the winding up of those of “the sick man.” ‘Phe existence of Turkey in its actual form in the bosom of Christianity it contends is impossible, inasmach ae it will prove periodically an apple of discord amongst the European Powers, There is no mistaking the meaning of thts in- timation. At a moment when all Europe is wait- ing with anxious suspense the results of the Zurich Conference, and when almost every one bas errived at the conclusion that ita action in tegard to Italy cannot be final, this tenacious urginy of the proposition originally made by Russia, and its avowed conaection with the future of Turkey, prove that a change of sove- reigne bas made no alteration in the tra- di'fonal policy of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. In its concurrence in the schemes of Louis Na- poleon, in the unqualified sympathy which it expreeced for the cause of Italy, in its equally arqualified denunciations of Austrian misrule, it ie now evident that it had less in view the merits of the questions to which it lent its counte- bance than the advancement of its own partica- lar interests, which it hoped to promote through the political arrangemeuts which the expulsion of the Austrians from Italy might be expected to lead to. In taking a retrospective glance at the events of the last half dozen years, one is strack with the fixedners of purpose and steady determina- tion with which, ia despite of all discouragement and repulses, Russia has been advancing towards the realization of the cherished policy of Cathe- tive II, The conversations of the Emperor Nicholas with Sir Hamilton Seymour, if they did not disclose the full extent to which the designs of the Czar were pushed, at least eatablished the fact that no obstacles could divert the attention of Rassian rulers from the accomplishment of that policy. After forty years of peace, with resources and energies renewed and multiplied, all that Nicholas felt that he required was the consent of England to ensureit, When the English govern- ment, jealously watchful of its own interesis in the future, refused to listen to the persuasions of the Czar, it did not the less prevent him from moking an energetic movement towards the exe- cution of his projects. He required but a pre- text to enable him to act independently of Eng- land, and that was afforded by the qu‘stion raised in reference to the custody of the Holy Places, The Eastern war is, therefore, to be re- garded rather as one of a long series of consis- tent steps towards the fulfilment of an ancient and well considered policy, than as a plan ori- ginating with Nicholas and destined to die out with him. When, after the death of the Czar, a ter- mination was euddenly put to the war by France, greatly to the annoyance aud mortification of England, the world was puzzled as to the motives by which the French Emperor was influenced in act- ing thus independently of his ally. The in- terview at Stuttgard between Louis Napoleon and Alexander contributed to mystify men’s minds atill more as to the nature of the under- standing which had sprung up between the two monarchs. From the fact that since that time they have acted cordially together on all ques- tions of European policy, and that in regard to the Italian campaign they entered into an agree- ment amounting almoat to en offensive and defensive alliance, we must conclude that Alexander has been guaranteed a guid pro guo for the countenance which he lent to French projects in Italy. What the exact nature of the compensation is we can of course only infer. It will be recollected that when the proposition of a Congress for the settlement of the Italian question was first made by Russia, we stated that the Court of St. Petersburg made that sug- gestion leas in the interest of the Italians than of its own. It was evident that the revision of the treaties of 1815 must lead to the recon- sideration of thoge subsequently made, and this in iteelf was sufficient to account for the eager- ness which Russia manifested to have another Congress convened. The unexpected termina- tion of ihe war, without the interference of the neutral Powers, caused her, if we may judge from the tone of her organs, the greatest disap- pointment and chagrin. The treaty of Villa- franca seerned for the moment to be a death blow to her hopes, and the effect was immediately visi- ble in a sudden coldness towards France and a disposition toe renew with England the old ties of friendship that had formerly existed be- tween them. The obstacles that have since presented them- selves to the satisfactory eettlement of the Italian question, in the position taken by the populations of the Dachies, have imparted fresh vitality to the Russian project of a Congress, and we ac- cordingly find the St. Petersburg organs urging it with an earnestness and vehemency that prove the deep stake they have in it, It is plain that, pacifically dispozed as he is, Alexander is bent upon carrying out the traditional policy of his predeceseors through the aid of thia body. What his father failed to effect by argu- ment with Sir Hamilton Seymour, he him- self hopes to carry by discussion with the combined representatives of his brother sove- reigns. To make Constantinople the southera commercial capital of his empire, and to in- | crease the already vast arca of his domin- fons by the European territories of Turkey, appear to him, no doubt, to be within the possi- bilities of a ckilful diplomacy, fortified by the concurrence of France. He would do well, how- ever, to recollect the prudent advice of Prince Metiernich, who used to say that the acquisition | of Constantinople would add a fresh thorn to the crown of Russia by arraying against the throne all the o'd Muscovite nobles, who would look with displeasure on the transference of the capital to the south. Russia, however, would not probably attempt this; she would strive to make it a great commercial emporium. There is but one disposition of Constantinople which, in our opinion, would defeat the ambitious de- signs of Ruseia and at the same time reconcile the various interests that claim a share in it and that is by guaranteeing its independence and mok‘og it a free city, like the Tange towns. Mestre mw tue Parks To-Day.—The usual Saturday concerts at Central Park, and at Car. roll Park, ia Brooklyn, will be given this after- noon. If the weather continues fine large and fashionable attendances may be expected. These premenade concerts eupply a desideratum in the life of @ great city, and will doubtless continue to grow in’popular favor, not only here but in the other cities and towns of the Union. Nothing like public amusements to counteract the bad effect of party politigs and to instil in the com: Whe “Sick Man” Again-Russia Pressing tor | munity a taste for better things. We wonder Congress. at the Tack of let shown in regard 9 Dl es ter by residents in John’s park, Washington parade ground, a square, Madison equcte, Stuyvesant square ai few dol- Gramercy park. A cons, ution of he (ame Jara from the head of each famby - season of diate vicinity would pay fora whole - ""™ weekly promenade concerte, Liberality and public spirit canhardly find a cheaper or ploa- santer outlet. Jefferton Davison the Caba Question—Could Cuba be Annexed to as Southern Conted- eracy? In his recent speech to the State Convention of Mississippi, Mr. Jefferson Davis took up, among other questions, that of the annexation of Quba, The matter had formed the subject of one resolutions of the Convention, and that endorsed the policy of the President in ;Tating the question on the ground of commercial and political necessity, which, in the event of an at- tempt to transfer the island to any other foreign Power, would become absolute. This policy, as Mr, Davis himself acknowl- edges, is “as broad ‘as the Union, and as free froth sectional or partisan taint as the spirit in which the constitution was ordained and e3- tabliahed.” Bat he prefers to look at the ques tion in its sectional rather than its national light, and to descant upon “the importance of the island of Cuba to the Southern States if formed into a separate confederacy.” Itis precisely on this point that the Southern demagogues, of which Mr. Davis is so versatile a leader, commit the grossest error. They are continually con- templating the importance of Cuba toa Southern confederacy, but it never enters their heads to con. sider the greater fact, that a Southern confederacy would not be of the slightest importance to Cuba. If it were possible for these men to sever the union of the States and to attempt the establishment of a Southern Confederacy, Cuba would cease to gravitate toward the Continent. She is attracted now by the centripetal force of the Union; but the moment that should evercease to exist the confederative power would cease to act upon her, jast as it would cease to act upon all the Southern States; and instead of witnessing the annexation of that island to a Southern confederacy, we should witness the utter fmpossibility of establishing a Southern union. Free the Southern States from the cen- tripetal force that now holds them in a harmo- nious system, and each State would fly off ata tangent, impelled by the centrifugal force ef its own interests. In such an event Cuba would undoubtedly lean towards the Northern States. Demagogucs may talk about political necessities, but politi- cal necessities are born of and nurtured by ma- terial interests. The moment that political necessities cease to be in harmony with those interests, from that moment they cease to exist. The material interests of Cuba attract her to this Union, but the moment it shall ceage to be Union then her interests will draw her nearer to the Northern States. Maine sends her lum- ber, fish, cooperage stock, boxes for her sugar, ice for her wines, and thousands of tons of ship- ping to convey her products to market. Mas- sachusetts sends her a few domestic goods—and might send a hundred times more but for a hos- tile tariff—soap, candles, chairs, and Yankee no- tions by ehip loads. Rhode Island and Coanec- ticut send her potatoes, onions, cheese, hoops, end oceans of “garden sarae.” New York ex- ports to Cuba machinery, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, paints, oils, drugs, and every article of hand fabric. Pennsylvania sends her coal and iron, with the patent leather, eaddlery, carriages, &¢., of New Jersey, and all the knick-knacks of Philadelphia skill. Ohio sends her lard and a limited quantity of bacon. An ingenious tariff excludes the flour of the West and the domestics of the East, But when we come to the South, what do we find sent from there? A few cargoes of pitch pine from Wilmington, Savannah and Pensacola, and a little rice from Charleston. That ia all. And the return commerce shows the same propor- tions as the outgoing. The sugar, molasses, to- bacco, honey and segars of Cuba come to the North in by far the largest quantities. It is evident, therefore, that a Southern confederacy presents no attractions for Cuba, and should such @ thing ever be established it could never induce the people of that island to unite with them in the consequent conflict of interests that it would create betsveen the North and the South. We advise Mr. Jefferson Davis to think, before he says anything more about annexing Cuba toa Southern confederacy, whether such a thing could present any attractions to Cuba. We seo very clearly that it cannot, and that if the Union were diseolved Cuba would in all probability prefer to be independent of both Northern and Southern demagogues, Senpay Mcsic iw Toe Centra Park—Canr For A Pousitc Meerive.—In another column we publish two documents relating to Sunday laws and Sunday recreations. One is an application to the Commissioners of the Central Park, from the Secretary of the “American Society for the Promotion of Civil and Religious Liberty,” ask- ing permission for the musical band which per- forms in the Park on Saturday afternoon to give a performance on Sunday afternoon, in order to afford a refining and elevating recreation to the thousands who frequent the Park on that day. The music on Saturday has been well received, and is calculated to be productive of great good even on that day. But how much more on Sunday, when everybody is at leisure to go to the Park, and when this innocent and pure amusement would divert men from the grog- shop and from other degrading and debasing pursuits. It is, therefore, with extreme regret that we learn that the application to the Commissioners of the Central Park was treated with contempt by that body. They did not condescend a reply to the letter, but simply ordered it to be latd on the table. We think this conduct is entirely un wortby of any public body in a free country like this. It is an assumption of superiority over other men which the spirit of our laws does not authorize or sanction. Under our democratic institutions all men are equal, and the fact of two or three commissioners being “dressed in a little brief authority” docs not warrant them to treat any respectful application with disdain. But the remedy for this conduct is to over- throw the whole Sabbath code, so that the people may enjoy Sunday music, not merely as @ boon, but as aright. We are glad to ses, from another document which we publish, that there fs a call fora public meeting in opposition to the tyranni- cal Sunday laws on the 13th inst. This is just what was wanted. Let the ball be kept in motion. The more the question is agitated so much the better for truth and liberty. Itis like the snow- pall, it will gather volume as it rolla—crescit eundo—till it becomes the great question of the day; and all who seek office from the people will have to declare either for or against the freedom of Sunday as well as of the other aix days of the week, Wuere 15 Tat Gueat Eastern to Come To?— The deatina'‘ion of the Great Eastern ig mani- featv. we think. hy no means g settled thing a sue yet.” Tf tho compacy have acceded to MS. Le: ver’s offer to start her fru: Galway, she will us, doubtedly come to New You. but if she sails from any other port in Great Bri."i2 the chances are in favor of Portland. Let us loo.’ at all the evidence we have for and against the probability that Mr. Lever has secured her, and we will find that the probability is rather on his side, A letter from Mr. Yeates, the Secretary of the compasy, dated the 17th ult., announced that Lever’s offer had been declined, but it does not say whether it was the $50,000 or the $100,000 offer, for he has made both. The Africa’s news, which left Liverpool on the 20th, reiterates the statement. But the news by the Jason, from Galway, which left six hours later than the Africa, confirms the report fur nished us by private despatches, that the offer has been accepted; and the same intel- ligence reached the sgents of the Galway line at Boston. Again, our London correspondent, in a private letter received by the Africa, and dated the 19th, says: “there is now a prospect that Lever gets the ship.” We learn since that, in addition to the $100,000 offered by Mr. Lever, he bas made a further proposition to coal the veasel at his own expense. Might not that have in- creased the “prospect that Lever gets the ship?” We established beyond doubt in our columns esterday the possibility of the Great Eastera entering this harbor through Long Island Sound, and we have since been assured by two skilful New York pilots that if she only draws twenty six feet of water they can bring her through Gedney’s channel and the Narrows right up to the Battery, at high tide. Her minimum draught is said to be twenty-six feet, and it is presuma- ble that she will arrive, if she comes at all, with a very light cargo and a small quantity of coal, go that she may be able to enter by this channel afier all. Moreover, both cargo and passengers could be taken off in lighters and steamtugs be low the bar, thus reducing her to her minimum draught, when, by waiting for the top of the tide, she might easily be brought up. So that, in spite of rumors and croakings in all quarters, it is still probable that we muy yet see her float- ing in the waters of our barbor. Tue Gay Season Comaencrnc.—Just at the present moment this great metropolis presents a scene of bustle, business activity, gayety, fashion and frivolity of sll kinds, It is a great city io its bueiest and most entertaining aspect. Down town the wholesale traders and importers are overrun with buyers from all sections of the country, and the steamers and ro{lways are loaded down with freight and crowded with passengers The Broadway bazaars are doing an unprece- dented retail trade, finding their best customers among our Southern brethren, who have turned the fashionable hotels into colonies for them- selves, As for the hotel keepers, they arc ina state of sublime beatitude. They say there never was euch a season before, their houses having been crowded since the beginning of August. The new Fifth Avenue Hotel has been such a success that another house, still further up town, is talked about already. The theatres and other places of public awusement are crowded every night, and not altogether with strangers, The pyramids of big trunks which one sees any day at the railway stations prove that even Miss Flora McFlimeey and her suite have been tempt- ed back to town by the fine cool weather we are now enjoying. Doubtless there will be a fair muster of the fashionable world at the Opera, which commences next week. Our eplendid thoroughfare, Broadway, with palaces springing up on every side, has returned to its old life. Here upon the crowded trottoir may be geen all ranks and conditions of men and women, representatives of almost every nation on the face of theearch. As cosmopolitan in its aspect as the Boulevards of Paris or the Strand of London, it is even, from the individuality of our people, more entertaining than either of them. It may be said with truth that just now Broadway is New York and New York is the United Siates with a fair sprinkling of the rest of mankind. While we congratulate our merchants upon the early revival of trade, (a fact which is impressed very forcibly upon us by the pressure upon our’ advertising columns), we trust that they will not go too far and too fast. Like the French army, their impetuosity is the only thing to be dread- ed. Let them make hay while the sun ehines, but keep a sharp lookou’ ahead fo prevent a repetition of the revulsion of two years ago. We have goiten out of it 60 quickly that almost everybody seems to have forgotten that it ever occurred. Toe Artantic Cante—Cuance For Ixvent- ors.—When the Atlantic cable failed to work last year, we were inundated with communica- tions suggesting all kinds of improvements in the manufacture of cables, the construction of ma- chinery for paying out, and so forth; but they all came a little too late to affect the success of the experiment at that time. Another attempt to lay a cable under the Atlantic is now about to be made, and we perceive that the company have advertised for specimens and plans of sub- marine cables, inviting inventors and manufac- turers everywhere to send the game to the office of the company in London, for the purpose of testing and experimenting on them. Thus the inventive genius and manufacturing capacity of the whole world may enter the lista, and com- pete for the honor and glory of establishing a successful Atlantic cable; and we advise all those parties who addressed us on the subject to for- ward communications to the officers of the Com- pany, 22 Old Broad street, E.C. London. Now is the time—and what a time the company will have in their examinations of the specimens, if hey do justice to all! Naval Intelligence. Tho following is a list of officers attached to the United States eteamer Myst'c, bound for the coast of Africa :— . oA Lieutenant Commanding; D. Mo. N. Fair- fax, Milton Haxtun, H. M. Garland, Lieutenants; N. M. Green, Sailing Master; Wm. D. Harrison, Surgeon; Chas. A. Baker, First Assistant Engineer; James Piunket, Isaac 8. Finney, Horace McMurtrie, Third Assistant Englnoors; Chas. J. Bwott, a Clerk; John W. Jones, Parser’s Clerk; Martin . Wandell, Olver B. Warren, Master's ‘The United States sloop of. war Cumberland, Commander Jobn 8. Missroon, late flag ship of tho African aquadron, arrived at Portamouth on Wednesday evening from Ma. deira, ‘Ihe Cumberland brings home Commander Thomas A. Conover, the late fisg officer of the squadron, who is nicoeeded by William Inman, who went ont in the sloop Constellation, which takes the ae of the Cumberland as the flag ship. The officers of the Cumberland are as fol- r, John 8. Misaroon; Lieutenants, Rood N. B, Harrison, Somerville Nicholson, John S. Wexden, Barrand’ Jobu Hl. Upshur (fing), Ubarios -H. Groen and Richard W, Meade, Jr.; Fleet Surgeon, Goorgo Biacknalt; Pasned Assistant Surgeon, W. F. gion; Assistant gor. eon, Jumes Laws; Purser, William G, Marcy; First ant Marines, Mathew k. Kintzing, INTERISTING FROM WASH(RCTON a Our Relations with Orvtral Amerloe—fhe Arrangements of the Nicaragus Mati Ooae tractors —Bercney’s Desperate Situation Soule and the Aaminttration, dic. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATON, Wasuisarom, Sept. 2, 1869. Professor Alex, Dimitry, our new Mialeter to Coatral America, left Washington Is't evening for New York, aad ‘will gail tm tho steamer of the 61m for Central Amorios. Amorioa, #0 fer an tho rail She napneh eF Attainn 9a Oneirel Ameren ce uatacker’ Seoteaes, “of * nverneG, 5 mae, Ss bn, tenye tothe administration, ‘the, 7% ROworer, which Mari dor * Dez’a decree - free foams ne y eaten cos git teneeg b didoultice. Time, wo trust, will solve them in an ''Y satisfactory manner. The instructions havo been a" Pared by the Seoretary of State with great care, They are firm and deolded, and breathe the right Kind of « The administration have learned that the for the mail line via Nicaragua to Catrhinger ton an far complo:ed that the mails will undoubtedly leave New York and San Francisco on the 6th of October. This se. cures the opening of that favorite route for passengers, Tt {g rumored that General Walker, at the {nstigetion of the opponents of this line, is about organizing another expe. dition, with a view to interrupt the arrangoments of the company. His enterprise will fail, xa the government ia fully prepared to counteract his movements. The ed- ministration wil! use all ite power to protect the rights @f the mail carriers over tho Transit route, Mr. Forney is just now in the most pitiabie eltustios. ‘With nothing to hope for from the demooratio party, after having been thrown overboard by the President om ac- count of bis exorbitant demands; with no valid or reasoa- able excuse for deserting Judge Dougias, now that hia prospects are brightening, heis totally at loss for au occasion to desert to the republican ranks. His case isan urgent one, #8 he deeires to be received into full commu- pion in the republican church previous to the orgauizs- tion of the next House, eo that he may become a legitl- mato candidate for Clerk. He sees that the controlling influence im the democratic party must bo in the South, and that, whoever of that party may be President, Southern politicians will never again suffer hias to come into the kitchen. As nothing short of chief cook will suit him, be muat eck new quarters. What shali he do? Mr. Soulé ts on bis way to New York. He is vory bitter against the administration, and says it cannot be defended and sustained in the South, It is welt known, however, that he fs in favor of Douglas. Mr. Guthrie, Agent of the Treasury, has been despatched to investigate the affairs of the Collector’s office at Detroit. Strong cfforts are being made by those eccretly in favor of Douglas, but who affect to be friends of the adminia- tration, to oust several Western postmanters and collec- tors, and replace them by personas who will use all their influence in favor of the Ilinois Senator. This accounts for the persecution of Cook, at Chicego; Shoemaker, at Detroit; Dickie, at Buffalo, &c. As yet there is but iittie probability of the removal of any of them. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasprvcrow, Som! 1, 1850, Senator Douglas and the Reopening of the Slave Trade~ Refutation of the Stories Concerning the Trafic in “Savages!’—Mr. Douglas Either Deceived or Deceiving— The Terms of Agreement Between Wendell, Banks and Douglas—~The New Public Store Arrangement, éc., éc, Previous to the appearance in Harper's Maguewme of the article on ‘“fervitorial Sovereignty,” by Senator Douglas, that redoubtable champion of squatter rights and anti federal rights bad perambulated most of the Northern and nearly all of the Southern States, incul - cating to his friends that the real issue between tho ultra parties of the Union was now In respect to the re-opening of the slave trade, and not of apy mere local character. Mr. Dovglss bas stated in Philadelphis, New York, Wash- ington and Baltiqore, within two or three months, that seventy vessels, with over fifteen thousand slaves, had been Janded within a year and a half upon tho coast of Florida, and that twelve vesvels would dischargé their swartby living freight between the ports of Pensacola and Key Weet during the ninety days from the Ist of June to the ist of September of the current year. This latter ag- seriion Mr. Douglas bas profested to make upon the authority of an interested Southern Sonator, whose name he has not felt at iberty to disclose, but whose veracity he has deemed undoubted. Moreover, the Illinois giant ‘bas declared, over and over again, that he himself had visited depots of savages at Charleston, Columbus and Memphis; baz named the proprietora of those mart, and has expreated the conviction that the planters and slave proprietors of the Southern States were perturbed and in- dignant at the confusion they foresaw from the novel African invasion, and were prepared to resist it to the. bitter end. He bas gone co far as to declare that states- men of the school of Davis, Toombs and Mallory wera modifying their tactics in consequence of the universal unpopularity of the traffic, and that Senator Brown, whe favored it, would stand alone in the Senate of the United States as {ts advocate. dhe convictions of your correspondent from this city im July and Avgvst were derived from the unwavering - declarations of Mr. Dovgles. 80 were thos of the correspondents cf the Zribune and the National Era, and they were partially corroborated by curious tales of landings of slaves in various Florida and Misaissippl! papers. Ihave been, however, at considera- bie paing to investigate the subject, and am tardil; a ing et the conclunion that whos has best wail ae eiuse wholly untrue or bas been very grossly exaggerated. In the first place, the coast of Africa is so Closely watca- ed, and the masses of biacks on that coast dread the ex- portation of natives 6o much, that, in the most prosperous times, not more than from five to six thousand negross. could ae purchased wilbin any eighteen months period, 80 evea though every one obtained were Vocab delivered to American owners, nv! over one- aif of the aggregato mentioned by Douglas wouid be at- toined. At leazt thirty per cent always die, aad this wonld reduce the number of “‘pogsibies’’ to loss than four thousand of blacks who can, within # year anda half, be pdb from ce ica. ius lowever, four urand negroes were shipped on the “A‘rican coast, even tien they could not bo landed in Florida by soy means whatsouver, The line of western coast is so shoal that vos- sels are compelled, in ali but @ few well kuown and well guarded spots and inieta, to discharge cargo at ® considerable distance from shore, and with great dan- ger. And when freight is discharged it can find no re- eee beet the — (she of mare! ils end other federal officers is 80 exemplary ‘savages’ would, it cases out of tev, be deiected and beized, Add to ture noe the charges for transport to places where they could bo advantageously gold are most exorbitant, and you will understand et revenno offizers, naval officers who hava been employed on the coast survey and Others, have Iaughed to tcorn the tales that Mr. Dovgiaa has #0 outon- tatiously given circulation to. Experienced observers who have been consulted by the President and the Seore- tary of the Navy also say that just in to the impracticability of siave trafic in Fiorida are the temp- tations for traders which are held out by the government and by the conformation of the constof Subs. “Savages? are there not only easily and safely landed, with Boarcely any risk to those engaged in the enterprise, but the prices obtained for them averaged at lonst twenty per cont higher than could be got anywhere in the United Staics, Mr. Douglas bas, therefore, been moat sadly imposed upon, or be has mistaken the straggling wanderers from siavers of scveral years ago for @ multiiude, or else he rope the an era Wee bas been given to im in certain localities for tical effect the administration and to benefit Rfouelt, 1. ieee Tt seems understood that the little editor of the Cin- cipnatl Enquirer—Mr. Banke—has had most to do in frightening Wendell into the support of Mr. Douglas for the Presidency. Wendell is fearful of losing printing the pap aitogether, and calculates that Judge D. will have a de- ciding “say” at Charleston, oven though he may himecif not receive the nominasion. Therefore he has considered dt best to go in with bis quondam rivals on the score of snacks, without committing aimzoif to such an extent that fature hedging will be impossibie ‘The Sec of the Treasury has signed the contracts for the transfer of the business of the public stores, No, 12 Broad street, in your city, to Messrs, Wm, M. MoIn- tyre, Jobn ©. Mathor, Francis M Bixby ond James B, Craig. Much opposition has been manifosted tg this change, and therefore tho causes of it are of some explanation. The number of laborera now employed in the public store is betwoon two and three hundred, and they have been heretofore appointed solely from political causes, and occasionally, at tion periods, former Secretaries of tho Treasury hayo increased thor number, to the great detriment of the public interest. It as been notorious that the actual amount of work done in the public stores bas been wholly inadequate to the gums paid for it, and Mr. Cob), afcer earnest consultation some months since, not only with Collector Scuoll, bat with ex-Surveyor Cochrane, Mr. Emanuel B, Hart, the Appraisers, and ovcry onojof the democratic members of Congrces from your city, found that the opinion of these itlemen was unanimous that a change might bo made y which ths goverament would eave abont $100,000 a year, and an increase of facilities be accorded to’ your merchants. rtheless, Mr. Cobb foreauw the oppoel- tlon which & pubitc store system by coutract might arouse on tho ground of patronsge, aud before making any agreemout with tho gontiemen whom I have mon tioned, conditioned that the salaries paid by the Private contructors should be fally equal to thoge given by the government, and also that tho tudl- Viduala employed should be, aa ‘far aa possibio, retained, &nd no removels be made oxcepting for caute. These Conditions were assented to readily, and t hove the beat authority for saying will be strictiy and faithfully oar. vied out. Employés wo do their duty will be in ewe danger of removal} than before, because It wil) bo for the byt barb of the now contractors to retain them if they are efficten The opposition ta the convracts which week is based on tho f {ato the public atoro crew Wore elgood lant Laat the COW radars oh! vat oxof thelr Own, and expol the