The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OrricE N. W TERMS, cash in a risk of Wie sender. Pi frat six cents un cents per NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1859. was firm boxes, part at p. t. and part at 8)gc. wees, sotictted Uberally paid) Pawncuianry 14. Lactrens anv Pack We do not or nents in wicy Hemacn, and in dhe nese, cheapness and de- No, 252 AMUSEMENTS TUT H PALAC GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth streel.— Backer C ERT. tO MORROW EVENING AMUSEM ACADEMY OF teenth street. Trans Orrns—Porvro. MUSIC, Fi NIBLO'S. GARDEN, Troadw Tent Rore—briue or Mapaip— FOLUTIONS ON THR ENE BOWERY THEATRE, P —Cuamrion or Faxkvoa— Greex Monsten—Panpy KE, Broadway. —Geratpise, WALLACK'S THEA . 624 Broadway, —Wortp NEW BOWERY THT New Youn—tiowen Axe —Hor Manrrrs or M. Hroadway.—Aftor: BARNUM'S AMMRI 3 Firing Durcuman— N noou—FivinG Dyteusss Oo. WOOD'S MINSTRELS Dances, &¢ —Damon anv 444 Broadway.—Erinortay Songs, ies Hall, 472 Broadway.— Dixies’ LANnp. ARDEN AND L, Fourteenth street— NSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. New York, Sunday, September 11, 1859, The News. By the arrival of the steamer Ocean Queen off Cape Race yesterday morning about five o'clock, we have news from Europe to the lst instant, four | days later than the advices brought by the Europa. | Our despatch states that the intelligence pre | Sents ne features of unusual interest. Nothing of importance had transpired respecting the de- liberations of the Zurich Conference. Consols were | unchanged. Cotton was firm, with an upward ten. dency ia prices, while breadstuffs continned very dull and provisions weak. We give elsewhere additional extracts from our European files by the Europa, embracing an inte- resting Jetter from Garibaldi to a friend on the af- fairs of Italy, and a speech of King Victor Emanuel ea the same subject. The English Australian mail contract, by way of Panama, had not been decided. ‘The great annual provision contract for the British government is to be made up of Irish and English produce exclusively, the furnishing of American pork being strictly prohibited in the form of tender | supplied. A report of the performances of the | American horses on the Ainstree Course is also and in good demand; the sales aggre) about 4,482 of Rio, rang He, # 114e. a1. Freights nents were light; cotton to 4, and 1,000 bbls, rosin were Affairs in Central America—Intrigues of the British—Diplomatic Know No- things. In the year 1852, two years after the official promulgation of the Clayton Bulwer treaty, Grvat Britain, ia fagrant violation of its provi- tions, proceeded to seize, occupy and organize as a colony, the group of islands lying in the Bay of Honduras and belonging to the Central American republic of that name. The Queen’s warrant establishiug the new colony bears date March 20, 1852; the Clayton-Buiwer treaty was proclaimed July 5, 1850. These proceedings of the British government were chronicled in the order of their occurrence, and made the subject of constant comment by the newepapers of this country and of Eagland up to Ist of February, 1853, when a resolution of inquiry was adopted by the Senate asking the President and Secretary of State for information on the subject. Me. Fill more responded curtly, enclosing a let- ter from Mr. Everett, Secretary of State, saying that “this department is in possession of no offi- cial information as to the alleged seizure of the islands referred to, uor as regards their organiza- Yon as a colony of the British crown.” Nearly a year had elapsed siuce the issue of the Queen’s warrant, the circumstances of the seizure were well known toevery man who read the news. papers, we had Ministers in Central America and in London, and yet the government had no official information on the subject. A solema treaty had been openiy and flayrantly violated, and yet the smooth-tongued old lady who was then in the State Department, and the portly non- entity then in the White House, knew nothing of it. Mr. Lawrence, Minister in London, and Mr. Kerr, in Central America—neither one nor the other knew anything of it. Efficient Minis- ters of a vigilant government! They were worthy of nobody except each other; and so Great Britain consolidated her usurpations in the Bay Islands, and there she remains to this day. Lately another violation of the Clayton- Bulwer Convention has been made by Great Britain, in the assumption of authority and abso- lute dominion over the territory of Belize, au integral part of Central America. We an- nounced the fact months ago. We have eince published all the circumstances connected with the act, and the terms in whioh it has been consummated. The Englieh agent, Wyke, given, together with letters from our correspon- dents at Paris and Berlin. \ has been home to receive through whore instrumentality it was effected the reward $1.29, white do do. at $140 a $1 45; new white Michigan at $1 40, aud amber colored Southern at $1 and Milwaukee new club and Chicago spring do. at p.t Corn was firm, with salos of | now W mixed at 3 the latter in lots. Catiforn ny sold at 68 Rye was dull, at 82 was in good demand and firmer, with sof new mest at $1495 a $15, (closing at the latter clear moss at $17, and $10 25a $10 3715 for py Naas Were Sold to @ fair extent, without © of moment in prices, The transactions footed up about 1,000 hdds, Cuba muscovades, and 60 )do, molasses, and We have news from Salt Lake City to the 1th | Of his labors—has been made Companion of ult. It is reported that W. H. Hooper Morgan had | the Bath, and raised from paltry Consul to the Deen chosen delegate to Congress. Lieut. Gray | dignity of Eavoy Extraordinary in Central Ame- and a party of forty dragoons had had a battle with | rica, in place of the less-eflicient Ouseley, whose a party of Indians numbering one hundred and fifty | leanings towards the United States and general and killed twenty of them. Lieut. Gray anticipated | integrity unfit him for the kind of work which an attack from the combined forces of the savages, | and Gen. Johnston had sent him reinforcements. | ‘These Indians were concerned in the late massacre of emigrants on the California road. We have files from Bermuda dated on the 30th of | August, but the papers do not contain any news. | The legislature was in session but the proceedings Were quite uninteresting. The City of Washington sailed from this port yeste:day for Liverpool, with 267 passengers and $630,000 in specie, and the Ariel, which sailed for Southampton, took out 133 passengers and $434,667 in specie. We publish to-day the concluding part of the evidence and inquiries taken in the case of the late | melancholy affairin Hoboken. The statement of the daughter of Mr. Baese is clear, connected and distinct. The origin of the fire is still a mystery. The jury, with their able Coroner, did their best for the elucidation of the case and the elicitation of facts. The verdict was in accordance with the evi- dence—that the parties died by suffocation, the cause of the fire being unknown. The funeral takes place in Hoboken to-day. The weekly mortality report of the City Inspector exhibits a highly satisfactory condition of the pub- lic health. It shows that the deaths tor the week ending on Saturday last numbered 476, a decrease of 101 as compared with the mortality of the week previous. Of the deaths last week 107 were men, 84 women, 189 boys and 178 girls. As compared with the corresponding week last year there is a decrease in the number of deaths of 112. Of the whole number of deaths last week 219 were of ten years of age and under, while the week before the deaths of children of the age mentioned numbered 403. The report in- forms us that there were 191 deaths of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 91 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 125 of disease ofthe lungs and throat, 25 of skin and eruptive diseases, 37 stillborn and premature births, 48 of general fevers, 6 of old age, 12 of diseases of the generative and urinary organs, and 3 of the bones, joints, &c. Twenty-eight deaths aroge from violent causes. The nativity table shows that 394 were natives of the United States, 99 of Ireland, 28 of Germany, 12 of England, 4 of Scotland, 2 of Italy, 7 of British America, and the balance of different foreign countries. The annexed table shows the temperature of the atmosphere in this city during the past week, the range of the barometer and thermometer, the variation of wind currents and the state of the weather at three periods during each day, viz: at 9 A. M., and 3 and 9 o'clock P. M.:— 9AM. | 3PM. qrone oy) fo oho Great Britain requires to be done in thatcountry, And now, asin 1853, in face of all this noto- | riety of the facts in the case, owing to the ineffi- ciency of its agente, the government has no offl- cial information on the subject! Everybody knows all about it except the government. “Nothing,” says the general newspaper despatch from Washington, “nothing concerning the late convention between Guatemala and Great Bri- tain—the former ceding a large extent of territory to the latter—has reached this government in an official form; but it is known that the administra- tion is not an indifferent observer of events in that quarter.” In the face of such aa announcement the pub- lic may well ask, “What has the gentleman who is supposed to represent the United States in London been about, that he has not learned something ‘official’ concerning this transaction?” Mr. Wyke has been knighted aod promoted un- der his very nose for doing this very thiag, and yet Mr. Dallas has seen no occasion to inquire into the fact. We have also a Minister in Guate- mala, whose name is Clark, and whose sirname is Beverly; the convention which constitates the point at issue was negotiated in the city where he resides, with the government to which he is accredited, and yet the vigilant Beverly will probably first learn of its existence through the columns of the New York Heratp. What with filibusters, Kilkenny commodores, and dranken and inefficient representatives, it is no won- der that Americans and the American name are overshadowed with disgrace and con- tempt in Central America. Can we hope to exjoy the respect or confidence of the petty governments of that ‘country when our Ministers alternate between the boosy bullies of one day and the poor pusilanimities of the next? Can we expect that they will confide in our policy or rely on our protection when they see Great Britain coolly trampling on all the treaty obligations which we have made with her, ostensibly and with great flourish of trumpets in their favor? Mr. Buchanan eeems to have been conscious of the inefficiency of the class of representatives which we have been in the habit of sending there, and has made a popular and commend- able move in substituting a man of brains, like Dimitry, for broken-down and pot-house poli- ticians. This is the only thing he cando. If Congress had done its duty last winter, and given the requisite power, asked for, to the President, we should now probably occupy quite & different position in Central America than ‘RI Saturday—Clear all day; bight, rainy. Sunday—Clear all day; night, overcast and cool. Monday—Overcast all day; light showers during the ig mre en all day; night, bright moonlight. Wednesday—Morning, overcast; afternoon, cloudy; Piet aye Olear all day; night, bright moonlight Friday—Olear all day; night, bright moonlight. Saturday—Morning, cloudy. ‘The cotton market displayed increased activity yoster- @ay, and the sales embraced about 2,000 bales, closing pn the basis of about 11%c, for middling uplands, though some brokers reported small sales at 1134c,_ The flour market was less buoyant and active, and some gradeg Df State and Western exhibited more firmness, though ‘Without change of moment in quotations. Southern flour ‘was less active, while prices were unchanged. Wheat ‘Was in fair request, though quotations were somewhat Kecegular, Primg jo guoice new red Kemtucky gold at these details represent us as occupying. Con- grees, by its refusal to act, compelled the Presi- dent to persevere in the policy of his prede- cessors. —_—_—____ Wantep—A number of gentlemen to act as correspondents in Syracuse during the ensuing political Convention. They must be thoroughly acquainted with the affairs of the State, the po- liticians and the Albany Regencies, and be able to inform us upon all that transpires rela- tive to the State election and the election for the Presidency in 1860. All persons qualified to fill such a position can apply at this office, either by letter or in person, Tue Great EasterN.—Advices by the steamer state that Mr. Lever’s last offer to the owners of the Great Eastern was equivalent to $200,000 cash, und it was believed it would be agcepted, Britzh and American Journallem—Progress of the Free P:est—Great Otyculatiun of we Lendon ‘tim nad the New York Herald. The growing importance of the newspaper in Great Britain aod te Uvited States, the ouly countries where men age tree to write whut they think of political affaire, has called forth a com- parison, made, we believe, with ewiuent fairness, between the principal jouraale of both countries, In a period of nearly half a century the London Times has reached a daily circulation of fifly thousand sheets per day, while in the United States the New Youx Heraxp, in leas than a quarter of a century, has risen nearly to ninety thousand sheets per day, and is sometimes over that number. The London Zimes, the leadiug jouraai in Eng- land, thus eiroulates more than all the other daily papers added together, while in New York the Herat occupies the same position, and issues a daily impression equal nearly to the aggregate of all its daily contemporaries, including 7ri- bune, Times, Courier, Journal of Commerce, &c., &6, We have already devoted eome attention to the subject, and we continuo it to-day, by transferring to our columns two well written articles—one rom the Avengelist upon the religious preta of England, and the other from the Svottish-American Journal upon the general subject. The conduc- ors of both these hebdomadals are well acquaint- ed with the matter upon which they have em- ployed their pena: it isone of the must interest- ing of the day. In theee United States, and we may say in Great Britain, the newspaper press is the domi- pant power either for good or evil. Here the prees has taken a stand in a acore of years which would have been astounding had it not been reached by gradual ascents, the fruit of earnest, well directed, sagacious labor. Adopting the theory of one of the arti- cles we quote today, the New York Heratp was the first real newspaper in the country. If our younger readers desire to satisfy themselves upon this point, let them overhaul the files of any of the newspapers printed before 1835, and compare them with the leading metropolitan journals of the present day. The newapaper, twenty-five years ago, was a mild form of the Wali street biauket aneet. It was always con- trolled by a clique, which, in its turn, was owned, body and soul, by one of the political parties of the day. Thus the paper became the lackey of that especial party to which the controlling clique was attached. The news of the day was but little attended to. Certain important, indeed indispen- sable, departments of the Herat were altogether unknown. The single editorial was usualiy a pull for a partisan or an attack upon an opponent, The foreign intelligence was meager, and budiy made up. In short, the journalist’s world was bounded by his pet friends and patrons. Their affairs received the only attention which he paid to mundare matters, About twenty-six years ago the question of cheap newspapers was agitated, and eome half dozen were established under various names, All but one or two were miserable affairs, lived a miserable life, and went down to early graves. The fact that this journal was commenced as a penny paper, joined with its proprietor having been the earliest person to introduce all the im- portant improvements in journalism, has induced a prevalent impression that it was the first of the cheap papers in the country. Such is not the fact. Neither wasit our idea to print a cheap paper, pure and simple. We believed that by energy, enterprise and well directed labor, we could solve the problem of the day, aud print a newspaper which should command success by being good and cheap at the same time. It was our fixed intention, when we projected the Heraxp, to rely entirely upon the masses of the people rather than upon the politicians, whom we had found out previously. We first made ourselves entirely independent of the subsidies which are given to help weak-backed journals out of debt, by adopting the strict cash sys tem, paying as we went along. There never had been a real newspaper in this country, and we went to work to make one. We originated the first general system of home and foveign corres- pondence. We were the first to give full and correct reports of all political and other meet- ings, whether the ideas promulgated by the ora tora agreed with our own or not. The proprie- tor of this journal was the first editor who gave what is called a daily money article—an account of operations in Wall street in stocks, financial, banking and commercial affaira, with their ramifications throughout the world. This de- partment was occupied with articles from our own pen for some time after it was es- tablished. No daily journal to-day can be printed without it, and it is amusing to see some of our cotemporaries boasting over their achieve- ments upon our idea eliminated when they were in their cradles. In shipping news and foreign intelligence we were alwaym ahead of the Wall street journals, and ne underwriter can now do without our marine list. In the days of the sailing packets we spent large sums to secure the latest London pa- pers, and when the Cunard steamers commenced running to Halifax, we originated the system of overland expresses, by which the news was re- ceived here some hours in advance of the mail. During the war with Mexico, through our ex- press riders, we were able to furnish the govern- ment with the first account of all important movements. Ia these enterprises certain kinds of talent that had rarely appeared in this coun- try were developed. Before our day there was little work for short-hand reporters, and it was difficult to find one even in New York. Since that time a generation of verbatim reporters has been educated, and every important paper is obliged to maintain a staff of stenographers or phonographers. Engravers upon wood were also scarce until we opened the illustrative news- paper field by cuts of the chief events of the day. Now there are scores of clever men who live by newspaper work o1 this kind. We gave our best efforts in aid of th electric telegraph during the dark days of its inventor, and first applied it to its present extended use as a news- paper helper. We had previously organized a corps of shorthand writers who gave us ver. batim reports of the proceedings of Con- grees, and were the first to furnieh the public with full reports of important epeeches by telegraph, A speech of Mr. Calhoun, printed by us, was the first thing of the kind ever reported by telegraph. We have given detailed reports of political conven- tions, occupying sometimes four or five columns of the paper per diem, by telegraph. The Na- tional Conventions in 1856 (at Philadelphia and Cincinnati) were all done by us in this lightning way. In the greatest of all telegraphic enter- prises—the laying of the ocean cable—our corres- pondent was the only American journalist who described the work from personal observation. Oar religious cotemporary refere, in a compli- mentary wey, to our having been the frat secwlar journal in the world to give full reports of anni- { Exrnsonpmary Newsrarex Evrenrrist— verearyrand other religious meetings, We did this, at the time, in the fuce of the most violent opposition on the part of the clergy, the religious prese, apd a large body of the religious commu- nity. Now they are influitely obiiged to us for so doing, and our ocotemporaries, who have imi- tated us in almost everything, have not neglected the anniversaries. While all this has been going on, while the bewspaper was making itself for the public, the public was making itself for the newspaper. This metropolis strode steadily on to its proud position. The Great West was populated with miraculous rapidity. New States poured into tbe Unios. On the Pucific shore El Dorado arose, sending an auriferous tide through the country. We had a bustling, active, ner- vous bilious population, which demanded at the bands of the editor all the news of the day, with brief, pithy, pointed and appropriate com- ments—not always grave, heavy and senten- tious, but a judicious admixture of the lively with the severe, And that is the American newepaper of to-day. And the journal that ap- proximates to a greater degree the ideal we have sketched out, and to attain which has been our aim ever since we establiahed the HeRatp, is the perfect newspapér. If imitation is, as they say, the sincerest torm of flattery, we ehould be delighted, for our cotemporari¢s have not only reproduced all of our ideas with pre- Raphaelite exactnese, but have in some instances claimed them as their own. It is not in the nature of a free press to stand still, even in such a phlegmatic country as Eng- land, and if we look across the Atlantic we shall find progress quite as remarkable in proportion as that of our own journals, The English paper of twenty-five years ago was better than ours, but it was very heavy, very grave, very learned and very dear. It was good for the nobility, the gentry, the learned professions and the re- tired merchant. No one else had time to read it. Now, to see an Englishman attack the Times makes one think of eternity, For- merly the artisan, the small tradesman, the agricultural laborer, rarely saw a newspaper. But when the liberal or radical party grew to bea power in the realm, it became faxhion- able to ameliorate the physical and improve the meatal condition of the lower orders, Model schools, free libraries, popular lectures, made @ newspaper audience which no existing jour- nal addressed in its own way and at its own price. When we were in London some four or five years ago, the question of cheap daily news- peprrs was agitated among such men as Cobden, Briytt and Milner Gibson. The idea proceeded manifestly from the American newspaper, of which the New York Heraip was taken as the type. The proprietor of this journal was consulted upon the subject, and gave the results of his experience. There are now two daily papers in London—the Star and Telegraph—both large and handsome eheets, well conducted, and sold at a penny each. Their circulation is immense, and has encouraged the establishment of similar enterprises in various parts of the United Kingdom. The success of this new movement is accomplished, and only one thing is needed to place the cheap press in a position equally as influential as the older journals. Mr. Cobden saw what this desi- deratum was, and said when he was in this country that the English dailies should have short, pointed articles, like those of the American journals. The English papers, including the new lights, atill adhere to the old elaborate sys- tem—three solid eseays per day—while we give sometimes fifteen or twenty articles in one im- pression of the Heratp, each treating upon some fresh topic. Everybody reads them be- cause they are to the point. The most illiterate of our readers can thus be thoroughly posted on the events of the day, and can interchange them with his fellows. This makes a circle of influ- ence among the masses which the old English journal never reached, and which the London Star and Telegraph only affect, at present, in part. The Oxonian tendency to elaboration of style which prevails in English journalism totally neutral- izes the intended effect of ever so clever an arti- cle upon the common mind. We can claim, toa certain extent, the new English journals as the children of the independ- ent press of America. We believe that there is still room fer improvement on both sides of the water. For our own part, our work has only just begun. We hail with much satisfaction the progress of the cheap pressin England, and be- lieve that it will do much to strengthen the hap- py accord which now prevails between the two countries. Stump Canpipates For THE PrestpeNcy.—The preparations for the next Presidential campaign have commenced earlier than at any other elec- tion for many years, and there are more stump candidates in the field. There are three or four candidates looking for nominations from each of the different conventions to be held by the various parties—candidates for the nomination of the Democratic Convention to be held at Charleston; candidates for the Black Republi- can Convention to be held somewhere on Salt river, the precise locality not yet designated; and then there is a third party, called the oppo- sition, down South, which we suppose is to have another convention somewhere else. For nominations by all these conventions there may be some twenty-five or thirty poli- ticians on the lookout—more than we ever had since 1824. But the stump candi- daics par excellence are Wise and Douglas. They are both playing for the nomination of the Democratic Convention at Charleston; but we do not quite see how either of them can get it, Wise being too ultra in his Southern views and Douglas in his Northern procliv: they are both stumping for the prize vigorons- ly; Wise, by publishing a letter of interminable length every now and then, and Douglas by copyrighting a rehash of his old speeches, de- livering lectures in the West, and having them telegraphed all through the country. They both rely for success upon the agitation of the nigger question, just as Seward does. Wise wants anew code for the slave States, and Douglas hangs on to squatter sovereignty in the Territories, while Seward takes his stand with the “irrepressible conflict” between the North and South, which he opened by his bloody manifesto at Rochester. Wise and Douglas are decidedly the as well as the most conspicuous ca the field. They are marshalling their troops for a grand move on Charleston—the one in the South, the other in the Middle States; but whether either of them gets the nomination, it is certain that they have made a great revolu- tion in the mode of conducting a Presidential campaign and bringing candidates for the Presidency hefore the people. A short time ago Mr. Douglas, one of the stump candidates for the Presidency, put forth a docu- ment upon the novel, fresh and entertaining subject of squatter sovereignty, and other cog- nate topics of an equally exhilarating character. This brochure was contributed to the periodical literature of the current month, and duly copy- righted to keep off newspaper and other squat- ters. The contributor, however, reserved the privilege of using the article in stump speeches about the country and in Washington, and im- mediately started upon a tour with his docu- ment in his pocket, after the manaer of Park Benjamin or any other itinerant lecturer or poet of the day, who repeats the same thing from Maine to Georgia. No sooner had he left the city, the people of which had become mo- derately well acquainted with his views on the entertaining subject, the journals having fully discussed them and it, than our quadrilateral cotemporary was seized with an attack of en- terprise which could only have occurred to the Honorable Jefferson Brick or the Reverend Caleb-Beelzebub Melchisedek, This wonderful coup was no less than the transmission by tele- graph from Columbus, Ohio, of as much of Mr. Douglas’ magazine article as it was deemed proper to give to the honest foresters of the Buckeye State at one time. Four close columns, fourteen thousand words, at eight cents per word, making altogether an expense of over eleven hundred dollars! To be sure, it might have been had in full by mail from Washing- ton for twelve cents, or less; but that would not be so enterprising as the telegraph move. That was a grand stroke; but more re- mains behind. The Honorable Jefferson Brick and the Reverend Caleb-Beelzebub Melchisedek are not half done yet. They intend to make the grandest use of the telegraph that has ever been known. After repeating the copyright speech from va- rious distant points, they will despatch a spe- cial agent to St. Louis, Missouri, with orders to send from thence the first five chapters of the works of the Baron Munchausen, twenty thou- sand words, at ten cents a word—two thousand dollars. The importance of the publication by our quadrilateral cotemporary of the Baron Munchausen’s highly esteemed works can hard- ly be over-estimated. Two thousand dollars could not be more appropriately invested. In like manner, agreeable selections from the Arabian Nights Entertainments will be flashed over the wires from New Orleans, say thirty thousand words, at fourteen cents a words— over four thousand dollars. This will bea fresh, agreeable and altogether novel enter- prise. From Toronto a condensed sum- mary of Robinson Crusoe, twenty thousand words, at twelve cents a word—two thousand four hundred dollars; it will be entirely new to the youthful sympathies of our quadrilateral cotemporary An epitome of debates on the constitution of the United States will be expressed from St. Paul, Minnesota, and telegraphed from the furthest station west of New York, say ten thousand words, at twenty cents a word—two thousand dollars ; and cheap enough considering the cost of the copyright speech. An account of the Hon, Mr. Brick’s travels in Italy, his hairbreadth escape, and famous retreat to Brescia, with the famous quadrilateral article, and an elaborate topographical description of all the Mincio’s elbows and their sympathies, one way or the other, will, by a magnificent effort of enterprise, be transmitted to Toronto, and from thence telegraphed back to the United States. This will make at least five thousand words, and be dog, we may say dirt cheap, at a thousand dollars. This 1s the beginning of a new era in journal- ism; and now let us know, as Mr. Mantilini would say, what is the “demnition total.” Here it is, in a birdseye view and tabular form :— Hoy. Jerreraoy Brick AND Reveresp Caren-Bentzencn MELCHISEDEK IN ACCOUNT WITH TIT TELEGRAPH COMPANIES, DR.— To Copyright 8c Speech from Columbus, 14,000 words, at $1;120 Works of Baron Munchausen, from St. Lou words at 10c.... Arabian Nights Ent 30,000 words, at 1 Condensed Summa Toronto, Canada pr 10,000 words, at 20¢, Italian Travels of Hon. ci Brick, Battie of Solf Retre Quadrilateral Article, Si th to be hoped that this vast outlay for such exclusively new and vastly important matter will be duly appreciated, and that the Hon. Jefferson Brick and the Rey. Caleb-Beel- zebub Melchisedek will find that they have not appealed to an ungrateful or indifferent public. Such enterprise should be duly rewarded. Mapame ANNA Bisnor’s Cow was greeted at the Palace Garden Hall last night by a very large and appreciative audience. The musical elo- ment of the metropolis was out in full force, and the audi- ence was popular as well as critical. Twelve years b elapsed since Madame Bishop first came to the United States, and since that time she has literally “been around he world.” Here, however, she has not been forgotten, ta8 was shown by the cordial way in which she was re ceived last night. She was welcomed in a manner which must have convinced her that her hold upon the public is as strong asever., 7 The concert itself was above the usual grade of such affairs in this Hail, which is ag yet but little known for hing but instrumental concerts. It is, however, very well suited for vocal music, is spacious and exceedingly —This admirable artist pleasant. Last night there was a good, though small or- chestra, conducted by Mr. Anschutz, Arthur Napoleon, the youthful and clever pianist, and Signor Taffinelli, in addi tion to Madame Bishop, who sung two ballads, a grand aria of Guglicimi, and with Taffanelli, the sparkling duet from “I/Elisir d’Amore.”” The fair prima donna looked exceedingly well, and sung as charmingly ag ever. Her voice has lost none of its purity, sweetness and flexibility , while, as a matter of course, her execution, always bril liant, bas been improved. Madame Bis hop was encored in both of her ballads and in the Elisir duet, and th honor was well deserved. ‘The concert was altogether a very agreeable one, and we have rarely scen an audie ence 80 well satistie On this evening, Bishop will sing in been edue’ ly au fait. he Palace jen Hall, Madam a sacred concert, to which, having din the best English school, she is thorough Supreme Court. Before Hon. Judge Davies. : Serr. 10.—In the Matter of Opening Bighty-ninth, Nine- tieth and Ninety first streets, from Third avenue to Harlem River.—The motion to confirm the award of the Commis sioners of Assessments in the matter of opening the above strects was called on, but in consequence of the + of gon d to the 26th inst. interested parties the ease was post Joyce. —In this case a writ of hi pus wi ‘ ant to produce the body o aged eleven years, who arrived from England, and who, it appoa by Mrs. Joyce without any a 1 on giving her up to uithoriged by her mother to take care of ber uy{il hyr rglurn Crom Ne. braska. i NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Minister McLane and the Mexican Treaty Another Abuse of the Franking Privi- leye Abolished—Philadelphia Officials in Rot Water, &., &, OD.R SPECIAL WASIIINGTON DESPATCH, Wasuinton, Sept. 10, 1869. The family of Mfaister McLane arrived at Willard’s last night, and he will reach Washington to-morrow. It ia thought in well-informed circles that ho will bring ne treaty with him, It id understood that Senor Acampos the Juarez Minister of Foreign Affairs, has gone out of office, which, if true, will in all probability retard nege- tiations. A new phase in the franking privilege has appearod to-day. The custom has been to send packages of documents to members of Congress under one ad- dress, with a single frank, so that thoy could addrees single documents under their own frank to such persons as they deemed fit. Postmaster Jones has informed the Secretary of the Republican Association to-day that thig will no longer be allowed where packages of documents weigh over two ounces. This is a correction of another abuse, and hereafter members must frank cack document. This decision again stops many Minnesota re- | publican documents. No doubt this decision is techni- cally correct, aud if enforced on all parties alike, should be sustained, President Buchanan is determined to have nothing te do with political squabbles, but to administer all branches of the government impartially. postmasters or mem- bers of the Cabinet follow this line of conduct they will | De sustained; but if they are found pandering to partisan interests they will be turned out. ‘Tho republicans are keeping close watch of Postmaster Jones and accumulating evidence against him. Collector Buker, of Philadelphia, is in a tight place. Theo- philus Fiske of that city, wanted a situation in the Custom House, and was promised it if he could find some one there who would resign in his fayor and take a place im the Post Office Department here, vacated by the death of Judge Allen, of Maine. The man-was found, and tho whole thing arranged to take place on the Ist of Septem- ber. On that date Collector Baker objected to give Fiske the place on account of religious belief. He is a Univer- salist. The President is highly indignant. He, like Mr. Baker, is a Presbyterian, but is anti-Know Nothing and opposed to proscription for religious opinions. Fiske is said to be an estimable man, formerly editor of the Phila- delphia Argus, and well fitted to perform the duties of the office to which he was designated. Mr. Baker will proba- bly have to follow Westcott if this act is proven upon him to the satisfaction of the President. News from Utah Territory. ELECTION OF A DELEGATE TO CONGRESS—BLOODY FIGHT BRTWEEN UNITED STATES TROOPS AND IN- DIANS, ETC. Sr. Louis, Sept. 10, 1859. A special despatch to the Republican says that dates from Salt Lake City of the 19th ult. reached Atchison yes - terday. W. H. Hooper Morgan had been elected delegate to Congress. Lieutenant Gray and a party of forty-two dragoons sur- prised a band of one hundred and fifty Indians, who were concerned in the late massacre of emigrants on the Cali- fornia road, and killed twenty. General Johnston had sent him reinforcements, as Gray anticipated another attack from the combined forces of the Indians. The store of Miller, Russell & Co., at Camp Floyd, was burned. Loss $15,000. The Spanish Fort at Tarifa Point Fired on the Bark Armenia. Boston, Sept. 10, 1859. Captain Hamilton, of the bark Armenia, at this port, from Constantinople, reports that while passing out of the Straits of Gibraltar, August 6, the Spanish fort at Tarifa Point fired twice on the Armenia; the first was a blank cartridge, the second a round shot, which passed through the lower maintopzail and port topmast studding sail. New York State Politics. Brycuamton, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1859. George Bartlett, of Binghamton, is elected delegate from Broome county to the Democratic State Convention, and Benjamin N. Loomis, alternate. Genesex, N. Y., September 10, 1859. Randall Reed was this day elected delegate to the De- mocratic State Convention from the Southern district in Allegany county. ‘The seat will probably be contested by M. B. Champlain. SaratoGa, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1869. John W. Crane, instructed to vote against choosing de- legates to the Charleston Convention by a general ticket, was sent to the Democratic State Convention from the Second district of Saratoga to-day. John Lawrence, hard, goes from the First district, Burrato, Sept. 10, 1859. J. R. Babcock was elected delegate to-day to the Demo- cratic State Convention from the First district. H. J. Miner was elected delegate from the Second district. Both are national democrats. ————_—______ Large Fire at St. Louis. Sr. Lovis, Sept. 10, 1859. A fire broke out this morning in the store 101 Fourth street, occupied by J. J. Shore as an artist’s emporium, and Boggs & Leathers, picture frame manufacturers, al- most totally destroying it, with the stock it contained. The china and glass jouse of Gay & Co., on North street, was also seriously damaged. The clothing estab- lishment of Seligman Brothers, on South street, was also considerably injured. The losses, as far as ascertained, are as follows:—J. J. Shore, $13,000; Boggs & Leathers, $27,000; Gay & Co., $10,000 to $15,000. The amount of insurance is not as yet ascertained. Destructive Fire at Concord, N. H. Coxcorn, N. H., Sept. 10, 1859. A destructive fire visited our city this morning, break- ing out in the barn of Morrill & Silsbee, from which it spread to Main and Warren streets. ‘The property de- stroyed on Main strect includes Odd Fellows’ Hall, a block of stores and dwellings owned by A. » the dwelling and store owned by Dr. Moore, a store owned by Mrs. S. Brown, and two dwellings and a store on Warren street. Loss $80,000, of which about one-half is covered by in- surance. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. A Mysterious A: ire PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9, 1859. A citizen was arrested to-night, said to be charged with amurder at Harrisburg, on the strength of a statement by a mulatto girl. ‘The murder is alleged to haye oc- curred in a gambling hell in Harrisburg during a quarrel, and the body was buricd in the garden. The girl says she was paid to keep the secret. ‘The party arrested as- severates his innocence, and professes willingness to tect his accuser. The affair is very mysterious. PuILADELPHnA, Sept. 10, 1859 ‘The party arrested here last night, as implicated in a supposed murder, has left for Harrisburg with an officer, being anxious to have an immediate investigation. It is now reported that the spot indicated by the mulatto girl as the burial place has been examined, but no body was discovered, Loss of the Steamers W. Garvin and Adriatic. Sr. Loris, Sept. 10, 1859. ‘The steamer W. Garvin sunk several miles below here on Thursday night. ‘The steamer Adriatic, which recently sunk near Mem phis, was valued at $15,000. Her cargo of flour, tobacco and grain, was almost entirely lost. ferme tine Aha ‘The New Iron Steamship Champion. PunapeLema, Sept. 10, 1859. ‘The new iron steamship Champion, built at Wilmington or Mr, Vanderbilt, arrived hore this afternoon, remained in the stream a few hours, and was greatly admired, She left for New York this evening. She is two hundred and forty fect long, and the largest iron steamer ever bailt in this vicinity. —_—_—_——__ Southern Occan Steamer Movements. CHARLESTON, Sept, 10, 1859, ‘The United States mali steamship Marion, Capt. Foster, from New York day) morning arrived here at daylight this (Satur- “pt. 10, 1859, wilities and ac $1 47 for for medium qualities; red, $1 08 Corn in quest, at Be, a for both white and yellow. Provisions steady. Whiskey firm at 28 i Pritapeema, Sept, 10, 1859. ved: sales 1,600 bbls. at $5 for superfine Wheat advanced: sales 4,000 bi red at $1 19 a $1 21. Corn active. Delaware oats, 2 36e. Whiskey dull at Be. a Ke Cixciynati, Sept. 9, 1859 Flour st superfine, $450.0 $4.60. | Red wheat, 99°. a 95.5 W $1 06 a $110. Whiskey declined to du. aucing, bacon aides 946. g 4 + 4 aceetet oceans: