The New York Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1859, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1859. nearly half an hour elapsed before the bodies were all removed. Dr. Charbert was present and used every effort to resuscitate the bodies, but without success, a Judge Russell aatheeng FP ap oe v1 , in the Gene! jons, on @ motion to OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. anes eaf be sasibat Dedale: Griapbell for the alleged larceny of a valuable Newfoundland dog. He discussed the various statutes on larceny in an able manner, and concludes that dogs are per- soral property, and therefore that the stealing of them ia av indictable offence. The decision will be found in our report of the proceedings. The cotton market yesterday was quiet, and sales con- NEW YORK HERALD. MES GORDON BENNETT, bi EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. mail twill be at the in advance, Money sent TERMS, cok in ey oot risk of the sender. not mony, " AILEY HERALD, two cents per copy, $1 per annum. TUE WHERLY UEMALD, every Saturday. at ete cents copy, or Sper annum; the Buropean Bitition cvery Weduesdsy at siz cents per copy, x per annum (0 any part of Great Britatn, or $5 (o any part of the Continent, Loth to medals. pouieys, os California tien on the Gih and 2h of each month ud wa ceo Per annum. PT HE AMILE HERALD on Wednewlay, at four cenls per WT UNEARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing importa | fined to small lots, on tho basis of quotations given in lee Pe LE ee sont wtlte | another column. There seemed to bo a disposition to Pannevcany’ BaooerrsD im FOREIGN LatTEnS 45D PACK- | qweit (he receipt of the Europa’s mails befure doing much, +o NOTICE correspondence, We donot | The receipts of flour wero light, and the market for somo Pete por mle Khe agg brands of Stato and Weatern ranged about & cents per return rejected communications ease mienbaata " » oth TR ences Gale i Sinerttonneele | asrel bighbr, while the demabd was falr..Gouihern BSar ‘and Kuropein Bastions, d scith neniness, continued in good request, while prices were unchanged. executed ey 5 Wheat was without alteration of moment, though prime = tots were held with more firmness. Corn was scarce and Ne. 251 | firmer, with sales of old Western mixed from store at == | 82iye. Rye was held at 830, a Ste. Pork was firm and in good demand, with sales of mess at $14 874; a $15, in cluding 400 bbls, uninspected do. at $15, and prime at $19 25. Beef was heavy and unchanged. Lard was firm. The sales of sugar embraced about 500 bhds. at prices given in another place, Coffoo was stoady and in fair de- mand, with sales of 1,882 bags Rio (half of the cargo of the Dic Schivalbo) at 11c., and 600 do. por bark Brothers, at T1dge., with other email lots referred to in another LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, 6% Broadway.—House | place. Freight engagements were moderate, while rates anp Home—Nuxk Pourts ov tux Law. were firm, uy tok ports. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bex. tux Boatswain—Frixy Cor cheapness and de Catfornia JOB PRINTIN patch. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Scnoo.masree—Evour ‘TIONS ON TUE TiGutT Rorr——AsruoDEL. BOWERY THRATRE, Rowery.—Cuaurion ov Faezoou— Frauiar Briganps—Brace Kxtuar, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Genatpine. Bowery.—Sitvar Kxire— BBLER. Our November Election—Shall Wm. H. Seward be Endorsed by New York for the Presidency ? The republican party, from their late Con- vention at Syracuse, have put before the peo- ple of New York a State ticket selected from their most available politicians of different stripes, and a string of Buncombe resolutions which, like “ the three polar stars” of the Hon. Tittlebat Titmouse, promise “everything to everybody;” and thus marshalled and harness- The News. ed for the fight, they appear to be confident of ‘The European mails to the 27th ult. reached this | an easy victory. They say that their forces city last night from Boston. Our files contain | are united; they are flattering themselves that some intelligence of interest that was not em-| the wrangling democracy are hopelessly di- beaqed ta onr telegraphio ‘snramary. of the inbws vided, and that the rump of the late American — eA Mr. Heraey Stowell, Jr., of | Patty is too contemptible to be noticed. But the firm of Slocum, Stowell & Co., insportara, of | 'pon the main issue of the canvass, which they No. 35 Park place, New York, committed suicide | have carefully disguised from the public eye, at Manchester on the 22d ult., byhanging himself, | the managers of our republican camp ought to With regard to the-voyage of the steamer Great | be, can be, and may be, defeated in their calctt- Eastern, it is said that Mr. Lever had made a final | lations. offer for the ship. He proposed to give £20,000, rt ‘ s pes be eet reared eciresn aan Batre thay cht Hagerty very ; 10 bes on the part of the company Saepeattne aid choose as between the republicans and the de- proposition. mocracy. On both sides the candidates for the By the bark 0. J. Hayes, Captain Shiverick, at | State offices and the Legislature will be second tais port from Buenos Ayres, we have advices from { or third rate politicians, as usual; and as we Bouth America dated on the 12th of July. The first | can recognize no material difference between hostile shots had been exchanged between the au- | the practical State policy of the one party and thorities of the Argentine Confederation and the | that of the other, the struggle, as a local affair, officers of the pee Buenos Ayres. Two Buenos will be nothing more than an ignoble pedro hatter mH aera eg ah pad ead contest between the “outs” and the “ins” for dainéa litle damage. After passing, ono “ae the ves. | the spoils and plunder. The republicans make pels seized an Argentine war schooner, and tookfrom | # teat show of candidates and professions con- hers lot of war material. The American steamer | Ccrning the canals; but we dare say’ that, Ascuncion, having Hon. Mr. Yancey, United States i whether Mr. Leavenworth and his associates are Minister, Captain Steadman, U. 8. N., and some | successful or defeated, the canals, as hereto- American ladies on board, was also fired on, when | fore, will continue an expensive legacy to the steering direct for Rosario from Buenos Ayres. In | State,,and a source of fat pickings and perqui- reply to Mr. Yancey's demand for explanation, he | Sites to the financiers, jobbers and politicians was told that the Ascuncion was mistaken for 9 | charged with their management. Buenos Ayres steamer, although Colonel Santa aS Crnz, who gave the order to fire, shonld have known | In reference, then, to our State affairs, we re- her. Gen. Urquiza arrived at Parana on the 26th of | gard with comparative indifference the clamor June, with twelve hundred troops, but he was in | 0D each side against the other. It is “all bad health. Rosario city was being put ina state | sound and fury,signifying nothing.” But upon of defence. Trade was exceedingly dull in Buenos | the great underlying ana overshadowing Issue, Ayres, and rates of produce entirely spoculative. | which has been so carefully put in the back- The government contract with Messrs. Hopkinsand | ground by the republican scene shifters, this Ocampo for the making of a railroad to San Fer- approaching November election of ours may peer et faite’ bane yaks is | be more momentous in its consequences than mae Feel bg jit correspondent, rata i any other of the last fifty years. This great latest date, states that General Urquiza had ac- i issue to which we refer is the question of the cepted the mediation of the United States Minister | ¢dorsement or rejection by New York of W. asa means of arranging the difficulty with Buenos | H. Seward for the next Presidency. Ayres, but the last named Power did not care to His name is not mentioned in the republican treat diplomatically unless our government, orsome | Syracuse resolutions, nor can we find the re- other of equal power and character, could assure | motest allusion to him in them or in the debates —— farther aggression from the Confedera- | of the Convention; but his portrait adorned . _ the hall of the Convention, as the image of the go Se ee aa isd cae presiding genius of the party, and we may rest rains continued to fall. The island was healthy, assured, in the event of a republican triumph, and the young canes were recovering from the ef. | that the result will be claimed as equivalent to fects of the long drought. -Great complaints were | the deliberate vote of New York for W. H. being made, especially in the leeward districts, of | Seward for the Presidential succession, Roches- want of labor. ter platform and all. oe pba capes fe cela eee, And here is the rub. The endorsement of writing on the 2ist ult., says:—The market for | the infamous, treasonable and revolutionary demand being very light and sales small, while the | °" pee et, Ph tare pee receipts have been to a very fair extent and stocks | North and the South, which must go on until daily augmenting, our dealers purchasing only for | #1! the States shall have become free States or their daily wants, in anticipation of a decline from | Slave States, will have a prodigious effect upon present quotations. The weather continues show- | all the oth thern States. The result will ery, and generally favorable for the cultivation of | most proba) »e the nomination of this most oe a eaten meee a i: pects at dangerous man as the republican candidate in p is at present everythin, 860, i i “4 ‘ ict’? and the exports, notwithstanding the gloomy anti- 8 2 will rapidly Cipations uuavoidably engendered atan early period ee us among the rocks and breakers of dis- of the year, have come up to 36,450 hhds. sugar, | "10" and anarchy. 2,715 tierces and 5,615 bbls. do., and of molasses | _ Already, by various public meetings in the 11,450 puncheons, 332 hhds., 663 bbls., and of ram | South, resolutions in view of the possibility of 434 puncheons and 306 hhds. Coolie labor is farsu- | Seward’s election to the White House have Perior to free negro labor, but both speak most | been adopted in favor of the secession of the Sey, eater blacagie labor. During the | Southern States from the Union. His nomina- prevalence of the latter the produce of the island | 43, ii amounted to 26,000 hhds. sugar per annnm, and the te enn: heres a mie bee Imports of breadstufs,c., from the United States, | the result world titel ee omy ae only $300,000; while free labor prodiisla, on a8 e result wou inevitably be a sectional con- average 45,000 hhds. sugar, and the imports from test of the most disastrous character. But let the United States $1,250,000 or £250,000 sterling. | the democracy insist upon a decision from the ‘The health of the island is very good. people of New York in November, whether this Senator Douglas delivered a speech at Cincinnati | mischievous agitator shall or shall not rule fast evening. As this last effort of Mr. Douglas was | over us, and they may put him down at once merely a Taprodaction of his Harper's Magazine | and forever. “squatter sovereignty” article—a sort of newly | The prosperity of the North is immensely warmed up dish of broken victuals, of which the | ane to our union with the South. 0 public stomach has had quite enough recently—we | ¢. fi : ah hd do not publish it, but occupy our columns with ‘armers, Manufacturers, merchants, operatives, corporations, banks, shipping interests, &c., more interesting matter. The Health Commissioners rescinded the resol. | “*¢ Well aware of this. Disunion and a South- tion yesterday directing pilots to bring vessels to in | 12 confederacy, even if peaceably accom- the Lower Bay, thereby permitting all craft tocome | Plished, would entail bankruptey upon thon- to the Upper Bay. They did little else. sands of our wealthiest men, and ruin upon A shocking catastrophe happened at Hoboken | tens of thousands of our industrial Northern yesterday morning, between two and three e’clock. people. But an « irrepressible conflict” like At that hour a fire was discovered in the Harmonia that to which Seward js pledged could not Hotel, in Hudson street, between First and Second, long be continued without al ing th bite ae in the loss of four lives by suffoca- | coctions in revolutionary jth S: "i pk Coprietann were seven Persons in the hotel—the tions even worse than those of Mexico, : Proprietors, Messrs. Boise and Knapp, and also Mr. Boise's wife and four daughters op fire broke | _ This is the entertainment to which the peo- out in the basement kitchen, and is supposed to | Ple of New York are invited in the matter of have been burning for some time, as the heat | our November election. Seward is kept out of throughout the building was intense. Mr. Knapp | sight, but the success of the republican party was the first one to discover the fire, having been | this year, as it was last year, will be claimed kept awake by a sore hand. Mr. Boise and the | as the ratification by New York of that Roches. noxt to the eldest daughter, sixteen years of a ; * ‘ 3, attempted to escape from the thira say and ticks ter manifesto and its author for the Presidency. bodies were found on the landing outride, ir Let this be kept before the people, and let us two younger daughters were found suffocated in have a defeat of the republican State ticket their bed. Mrs, Boise escaped on to the roof of | UPON this paramount issue of W. H. Seward the piazza and from thence was rescuod by the | “"d his fearful programme of agitation, disuin- firemen. The oldest daughter jamped to the | ion and revolution. for the sooner he is dis- ground, spraining her ankle and receiving other posed of the better will it be for New York, Piuies In coaseqnencs of the heat and smoke | the North; the South and the Union. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- Boon and Evening—Rosina MEADOWS. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ermortas Soncs, Dances, &c.—Kar.z0ap Suasa Ur BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, 472 Broadway.— Buxcesques, Sones, Dances, 4c.—Cuaw Roast Beer. PALACE GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth street— Vooan ann InstacMentat Concert. —— Now York, Saturday, September 10, 1859, ‘The Hotel System of the United States—Is there a Hotel Keeper Outside of New York? The carnival of trade has begun, and travel- lers are pouring into the city from every side. Our places of amusement are all open and crowded with the throng; the excursion steamers and the yachts plough the busy waters of tho lower bay, the harbor, the noble Hudson and the Sound; the railroad trains and hotels are filled to overflowing, and “down town” re- sounds all day with the busy hum of trade; while up town is as merry as a lark with Opera, theatres and innumerable places of evening entertainment. It is in the hotel system and the great variety of amusement that New York surpasses every other city of the New World, and in respect to the first named those of the older continent also. So far as regards order, arrangement, comfort and luxury, the hotels of New York are unequalled in the world. In Great Britain the hotels, as a general thing, are dirty, dark, dreary and dear, the most gleanly, strange to say, being found in Scotlapd. Those of Paris are some- what better than the English hotels; but they are kept jn old honses, itl adapted to modern wants, and wjthout any of the modern conve- niences, As for the rest of the continent, the true hotel system is as yet athing unknown. Many of the cheerless palaces of the decayed nobility have been turned into places of rest for travel- lers, and though the houses and rooms are poor, a good meal can always be obtained at all times and at all places. In this respect we are sadly behind hand in this country. The land everywhere abounds with the best articles of food, but nearly every- where they are served on the table in the most unwholesome and wasteful style. Outside of New England and the State of New York, with the exception of a few of our larger cities on the Atlantic board and in the West, a good Our fine wheat is made into an abominable compound, like putty and lead, chickens swim in hog’s fat, meats are baked or fried into leather, bacon floating in grease, and dirt everywhere abounds. It waa this fact that induced a witty French- man to describe the United States as “the country of many religions and one gravy.” The same disregard of cleanliness and comfort meal of victuals cannot be had. is shown in the apartments and beds of the so- called hotels that is shown on the table. The consequence of this is that travellers on arriv- ing in New York at once award it the palm of excellence for comfort as well as for amuse- ment and trade. There is throughout the West, Southwestand South, a great need of improvement in this respect. Landlords who will receive their guests with courteous attention rather than with the air of men conferring a favor on the traveller, and houses where something else than the universal sloppy coffee, greasy chick- en ‘fixins,” hog and hominy, and musty beds, two or four ina room, are much wanted by the travelling public. The root of the evil lies in the utter ignorance on the part of the female portion of the community of the simplest rudiments of the culinary art. The wives and daughters of the hotel keepers are taught to strum every varicty of air on the piano, but if they condescend to look after affairs in the kitchen they possess a knowledge of only one way of treating food, and that is to serve it upin the universal greasy style. The schoolmaster und the music teacher have visit ed every town and village of the country, and it is now high time that the cook and the housewife should set out on their mission Normal schools are doing their work ‘for the mind and banishing ignorance, and we now want that indigestion, dyspepsia and bad health, shall likewise disappear before the en- lightened efforts of good cooks, clean hotels and courteons landlords. TELEGRAPH TO THE Pactric.—Every day the progress of the telegraph system in this coun- try is becoming more apparent. By the ar- rangements made in this city on Thursday by the Western Union Telegraph Company with other Western lines, we shall soon have direct communication with Utah and California by the different routes. The lines are already being extended from St. Louis 500 miles—300 of which is now in operation—westward to Fort Smith, in Arkansas, from whence they will be continued southward and westward to Los Angeles, in California, where another line runs down from San Francisco to meet it, and is now advanced as far as Gilroy. Lines aro also laid from St. Louis to Atchison, with a view to extend them to Salt Lake City. Of these lines 400 miles are now in working or- der. By the southern telegraph route, through Fort Smith, we will receive the California news here three or four days in advance of its ar- rival at St. Louis by the overland mail. The importance of this, in a financial and commer- cial point of view, will be considerable. In- formation three or four days earlier, as to the amount of gold the next steamer is to bring, may work some revolutions in the money mar- ket. So, too, early intelligénce from Utah may be very desirable to the government, and would have been of great value during the Utah campaign. Upon the whole, we look upon this exten- sion of the telegraph to the Pacific as a great event. The time seems rapidly approaching when our correspondents will receive instruc- tions to drop their letters in the telegraph office instead of the Post office. —_—————_.. QUADRILATERAL Exterprise.—Senator Dou- glas, one of the Presidential aspirants, made a speech the other evening, in the capital of Ohio, which was a mere condensation of his magazine article on squatter sovereignty. An abstract of it was telegraphed to the New York Asso- ciated Press, and appeared in the morning journals of Thursday. Our quadrilateral co- temporary inflicted upon its readers the full dose, and plumes itself upon its enterprise in doing s0, representing that the speech was telegraphed from Columbus. As the cost of that would be in the neighborhood of a thou- sand dollars, any goose would readily under- stand the silliness of the boast, and the still greater silliness of the enterprise if the thing were true. The fact is, however, that the manuscript of the speech was forwarded from Washington in advance, and was probably in type before the telegraph announced that the speech was made. Ever since our quadrilateral cotemporary, with “the sympathies of youth,” lost his way among the “multitudinous elbows of the Mincio,” he has been affording evidences of flightiness, His latest hallucination about Douglas’ rpeech show? that bis friends ought numbers and ability, 80 that most productive of advantage to our common cause, the diffusion of truth and consequent destruction of error, o8- pecially that form known to take care of him. As yet his vagaries are of a ludicrous and harmless character, but he certainly ought to be looked after lest they might assume a more dangerous type. —____ Tue Latest FoRM oF THE ConvENTION MA- nta—We have received the following sweet morceau for publication:— CONVENT INFIDEL iON OF 1859, The Central Executive Committee of the Infidel Asso- ciation of the United State: in them by the constitution dels to meet in convention on the first Monday in October next, in the city of Philadelphia. 8, D: that body, They urge on all to use ring to be effective both in proceedings may be very effort to cause the as superstition. The Contral coutive Committee will provide a suitable place of meot- ing, and do all in their power to arrange for the comfort of delegates and friends, By orde RO) der. 'T HAMILTON, President. Ronxat Waly, Secretary. Purtapenraa, August 9, 1859. A convention of infidels strikes us as being thé height of absurdity. Aninfidel, in the full sense of the word, must disbelieve in every thing, and be liable to the reproof administered by the Greek philosopher to a chap that had written a book to show that there was no such thing as truth in the world. “If,” said the critic, “your book is true, then you controver your own proposition, and there ia some truth ‘in the world; and if it is false it should not have been written,” In sober earnestness, we believe that the number of real infidels in this country wotld not be sufficient to make up a political caucus for a village schoolhouse. Men and women— civilized or savage, the worst, the weakest, aswell as the best and the strongest— must have some staff to lean upon, some be- lief to sustain them, some form of religion to which they are attached. It may be inert, they may be far from professing Christians, or de- vout Mussulmans, or strict Hebrews, or funati- cal Hindoos; but they still have a lurking faith in the creed of their fathers, whatever that may have been. They run sometimes after strange gods, and abase themselves to wild and absurd idols in the form of false theories, but they still believe in some manifestation of the Divine Power that created the universe, set the stars in their spheres, and said to the ocean thus far shalt thou go and no farther. But there are always a few fellows who are endeavoring to persuade themselves out of this normal condition of belief, and who affect infidelity in order to obtain some notoriety of a rather questionable character. Every now and then they appear before the people pray- ing for some adherents, and never getting them. They make a little temporary stir in the papers, and then return into the obscurity from which they only temporarily emerged. Such is the cause and such will be the inevit- ble fate of the Philadelphia convention, which, we opine, will not be sufficiently large in num- bers to disturb the sad serenity which reigns in the quiet streeta of the Quaker City. Music iy THE Pusiic Parxs.—This afternoon, as usual, there will be public music in the Cen- tral Park and also in Brooklyn, and we have no doubt there will be as large an at- tendance as on previous occasions. The idea of music in the open air seems to he be- coming general all over the country—a happy omen for our progress in civilization and the fine arts. From the Washington papers we learn that in that city the United States Marine Band performs in the President’s groundssome of the most select airs from the operas. In the Charleston (S.C.) papers we observe a pro- gramme of twelve pieces, to be performed by a subscription band on the Battery in that city, selected from the works of Donizetti, Meyer- beer, Bellini, Mendelssohn, Verdi, and other composers of the loftiest genius. In De- troit, in Portland, (Me.,) in Lowell, in Boston and in Montreal, we perceive that similar per- formances take place in the open air, to the de- light and even the edification of the citizens, Marches, polkas, quadrilles, gallops, ballads and gems from the masters of the art, are among the selections. Thus will the refining influences of music produce their happiest effects on the rising generation, elevating them above the low and debasing habits into which every popu- lation will be sure to fall unless some pains are taken to present to their senses and their minds purer and loftier amusements. Our people have by far too little opportunity of cultivating a taste for the fine arts. In Paris every citizen has access, free of charge, to the great works of the masters in painting and sculpture, and everything is done to put the poor man on a level with the richest in forming a correct judgment in matters of art. This is in what is called a despotism; and it would be a shame if, in the chief city of the great re- public of the New World, fewer advantages for refinement and culture were offered to the masses of the people than under the govern- ment of an empire in the Old World. Let us at least rival Paris and London in our music for the million, music in the open air, music of the best quality, accessible to all and free of ¢ost. One great cause why the Germans are fo orderly, quiet and social a people, is their Jove and’ cultivation of music. It produces melody in the mind and harmony in the public conduct of men. We are persuaded that there is no better cure for low drunkenness and row- dyism than music in the open air. Bemind THe Towe.—One of our rural cotem- poraries, printed in New Haven, is indebted to the Heratp of last Monday for some valuable information about the opening of the fashiona- ble churches in the metropolis. The provin- cial editor does not realize the weight of the obligation, however, and says, “We may next expect to learn that the Herarp has musical critics whose duty it will be to attend fashion- able churches and criticize the performances of the organists and choirs.” Let this philoso- pher make his mind easy. We have already done it. Six months ago thisjournal contained an elaborate account of the music in a dozen or more churches on the same Sabbath. When the sensation preachers follow the London ex- ample—and they are leaning towards it—and are more clever in their advertisements and showbills than the theatres, we shall be obliged to criticise them exactly as we do the exhibi- tions. e criticisms of country editors upon the metropolis are very entertaining, from the fact that they almost always give a sort of Five Points view of us. The rural journalist gene- rally comes to New York on a frolic, imbibes too freely, and winds up by getting into the station house, either for disorderly conduct, or 1o complMn of the larceny of his valuables, committed by some of his new found city friends. He never gets into much better-com- pany, and goes home with q had headaghe; au empty pocket and a general disgust for the metropolis, whickehe does not fail to air in his paper. We can always tell by a country edi- tor’s paper what sort of metropolitan company he keeps. Meanwhile, New York progresses the same as before. The latter circumstance is curious, but nevertheless a fact. Conviwence Cassipy Morr Crazy Tuan Even— His Masters Musr Sx ro His Acts.—One of the country papers, in apologising for the antics of Cassidy, expressed a hope that, as he was recently married, matrimony might sober him down and mollify the ferocity of the butcher boy. But, from his late articles defending him- self against the charge of treachery in reference to the Wise-Donnelly letter, it seems that this happy event bas made him more crazy than ever, His honeymoon is in a complete flasco. He is now beneath contempt. We now leave him in the congenial gutters of Albany, out of which his friends or the policomen may pick him up. We have ‘done with Cassidy; but we have not yet done, nor half done, with his masters. We have only be- gun to deal with their share in the treacherous transaction which has betrayed the confidence of a private letter, and caused it to be publish- ed, in order to pack, the delegation to Charles- ton and cheat the South in the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency. - When the: Argus was purchased and united with the Atlas, Horatio Seymour, now a candi- date for the Presidency or Vice Presidency, or the Cabinet, or anything he can get, subscribed to the funds with which the purchase was made; Dean Richmond subscribed moncy also; Daniel 8. Dickinson, a candidate for the Presi- dency, also subscribed; Erastus Corning, a candidate for every railroad from New York to San Francisco, and who has his eye intently fixed on that huge job by which the canals are to be sold, subscribed to the funds; and lastly, Fernando Wood, who is a candidate for the Vice Presidency, for a seat in the Cabi- net, and for the Mayoralty of New York, sub- scribed to the funds of the Atlas-Argus. These gentlemen are the real owners of that paper, and the masters of Crazy Cassidy’s movements and morals. It is their organ, and we mean to hold them to account for the treachery of their instrument till they disavow his acts. We call on them, and shall continue to call on them till the meeting of the Charleston Convention, to declare whether they approve of the treachery perpetrated by their tool towards such a distinguished fellow democrat and rival candidate as Governor Wise, of Virginia. If they do not clear their skirts of this foul conspiracy to pack the New York delega- tion to the National Convention, the whole concern will be repudiated by that body, and the great Empire State, that used to hold. the balance of power, whose vote swayed the poli- tical destinies of the country, will be unrepre- sented, and be of less account than the little States of Rhode Island or Minnesota. This is a highly important matter, and we do not intend to let it rest till it is fully cleared up. Ifthe New York democracy can be ousted from their proper position in the national coun- cils by a dirty mean trick of a confidence man, then is their condition hopeless and beyond cure. This is just the question that remains to be solved. The conspiracy has been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and used by the organ of Seymour & Co. to further their own ends, and it rests with the leaders, whose names we have mentioned, to define their posi- tion as to the dirty business. On that depends the status which New York will be permitted to hold alongside the Southern gentlemen in the Charleston Convention. In THE Marxet.—The New York Express, not having been bought up by the republican party, is still in the market, and is beginning to wink and blink at Tammany Hall. And as the Wigwam is badly in want of an organ, now isthe time for the sachems to buy ata low price. Terms very reasonable. Butchers’ bill seven dollars a month. Important 10 Dog Ownxers—We print in another part of to-day’s paper an important decision, delivered in General Sessions by Mr. City Judge Russell, one of the most able and clear-headed of our criminal jurists. The de- cision settles, so far as this court is concerned, the vexed question as to whether or not dogs, considered and tamed as domestic animals, are personal property in the legal sense of the word, and therefore entitled to the same pro- tection given by the act of 1857 to such pro- perty. The action before the court was the case of a man who had been indicted by the Grand Jury for grand larceny in the felonious taking of a dog valued at fifty dollars. The defence demurred to the indictment, on the ground that, as a dog was not legally personal property, the stealing of one could not be a grand larceny. The Court decided to pass definitely upon this question raised by the défence, and has decided that for all practical purposes a dog is personal property, and the owner is entitled to be protected in the enjoy- ment of this species of property equally with any other. The learned Judge has evidently studied the questions involved in his elaborate decision well and earnestly, and his exposition of the common law, and his citation of cases occurring upon the subject, are equally clear and convincing. We have already alluded to this dog ques- tion, and cannot see it in any other point of view than that taken by Judge Rus- sell. In this city and vicinity a great deal of money is invested in dogs. Some are kept as pets, some for labor, like horses, and many as guardians of property. Under the usual impression that the «stealing of this Species of property is not legally criminal, men make a regular business of dog stealing, so that the definition of a dog fancier has come to be a man who fancies other people’s dogs. To show the absurdity of the old idea, let us sup- pose that a man owns a dog, the market value of which is one hundred dollars, and a horse worth fifty. The thief who steals the horse is sure of a long imprisonment, while a person who carries off the dog, sometimes worth double the value of the horse, escapes unpunished. There is as much care required in the breeding of a good dog as in that of a goodhorse, and both should have equal protection before the law. .The English common law, founded upon the idea that dogs were base animals and entitled to no legal protection, was made before dogs were really property in any practical point of view. The law then represented the usages of society. Now society makes a dog property, the same as any other domestic animal; and it is absurd that the dog owner should not haye the legal protection to which he is’ entitled. We ap- plaud the decision of Judge Russell, and be- lieve it to be good common sense, which ought to be good law. Avromn GLoriEs or THE Merropors.—Very rarely within our ection has this metro- polis been more 1 able than at present. The hotels of all classes, from the democratic inns about’ the Battery and Bowling Green up to the aristocratic Everett or Fifth Avenue, are crowded with customers from all parts of the country: lumbermen of tho East; staid mer- chants from Boston, Hartford or New Haven; go-ahead railroad and steamboat men from the West, always doing everything on the lightning express train principle; facile and polished Southerners, fast and slow; Cubans and other tropical productions in great and entertaining variety. Some of these come here for pleasure, some for the lounge which 8 flaneur always finda best in a great city, but the majority for busi- ness and pleasure combined. This year all classes can be suited, or else they must be amazingly particular. The wea- ther has been perfectly delightful during the past three weeks. The merchants have stocks of goods unsurpassed for richness, novelty and variety, and the heavy importations have kept prices down to a lower point than usual. The retail trade, too, is very active. Several new dry goods palaces adorn Broadway, and allure with their gilt and marbled glories too suseep- tible provincial belles. These cool, bright au- tumn afternoons, Broadway is in its highest glory, and presents a living panorama une- qualled anywhere. Then, we are enjoying the first fruits of the Central Park, with its pleasant Ramble, its fine views and delicious Saturday music. 5 In the theatrical and operatic way we have to speak about what we are going todo, rather than what we are doing. Not that we are with- out such amusements, for have we not to-night the first concert of Madame Anna Bishop, a delightful artist, and three theatres already open in Broadway, with the Opera at the Aeademy to commence next Monday, and the new Metropolitan to appear in full floral glory before many days?. These estab- lishments, all in full blast, will keep us lively during the season; and as the competition among the amusement folks will be lively, we may hear of some smashes. However, though the managers may suffer, the public gains by the struggle for its dollars. As matters look now, the season, in its commercial, social and artistic view, will be unusually lively, enter- taining, amusing and brilliant. We-shall have more new artists and new dry goods out from Europe. So both the merchants and the ma- nagers will do well to keep up with the fresh importations. Gymnastic SrorTs—Bask Bann anpD Crroxer. —Cricket is essentially the great athletic game of England, and base ball that of the United States. The game of ball was origi- nally an institution of New England, and was participated in mainly by schoolboys, who made rules for themselves; now it has become almost universal, every State in the Union having its clubs, and the rules of the game are laid down by a regular convention. The growth and popularity which this fine game has attained within a few years is amazing. Young men of all classes and ages indulge iz it, and the matches are witnessed by immense crowds of spectators. As an instance, a match was played at Bedford, Brooklyn, on Thursday, between the Eckford club, of Green- point, and the Atlantic clyb, of Brooklyn—the “Champion” club, as they are called—at which ully ten thousand persons were present, the atter club winning the match. In a short time we shall have eleven picked cricketers here from England, who are to play four games at different points to test the mettle of our Ame- rican cricket players—at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Hamilton, C. W. No doubt some fine sport may be anticipated, and some rare feats of gymnastic exercise will be dis- played to stimulate our young players to ac- tion. The cost of bringing over the English eleven, and the fitting up of the grounds for the four games, will not fall short of from ten to twenty thousand dollars. In short, there is more attention paid now to athletic sports in this country, voluntarily got up by the people, than in any other country in the world. EsrtonaGE At Home anp ABROAD.—A state- ment has been going the circuit of the papers that since Napoleon III. has declared a general amnesty to all political offenders, the system of espionage is as rife as ever in France; in short, that there is a policeman in almost every house; and people here are correspondingly shocked at this fact. Do they not know that a system of espionage just as despotic and per- haps more potent is exercised at our own doors, of which they never think of complain- ing? By means of the mercantile agencies the spy system is ramified throughout the whole country; the most secret actions of men, not alone in mercantile matters, but in the private life of the merchant himself, are recorded: on the books of those agencies, and open to the inspection of whoever pays for the privilege. Ifa merchant in New York is about to sell a bill of goods to a merchant in Skunk Hollow, Arkansas, he goes first to the agency, and says, “I want to sell to John Smith, of Skunk Hol- low, Arkansas: what do you know about him?” The clerk who has charge of that zone of coun- try is called; he refers to his book, and the private life of poor John Smith is laid open to the eyes of the inquirer. He is told when and to whom he was married; how much money he got with his wife; whether they live happily or unhappily together; how many children he has; whether he gives parties, drinks cham- pagne or confines himself to ‘red eye,” and when he played the last game of whist or eucre. Now, how all the information on these subjects came to be known in New York, ex- cept by means of the most rigid espionage, is a problem. Yet the facts are recorded here, and they are generally, if not always, correct. The espionage of the mercantile agencies can blast the prospects of a merchant and ruin his character forever; the espionage of the French Emperor cannot do more. The information ac- quired by the foreign system is communicated to the government alone; the information gath- ered by the agents of the system here can be purchased by the whole country for a price. That is just the difference between them. on exhibition at Sidn made of native gold worth about $600. ju New Routh Wates