The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1859, Page 4

4 r EW YORK JAMES GORDON BENNETT, OR AND PROPRIETOR, OF FULTON AND NaRSAT STs, eat hy mai? wilt b received as subse advance, Monty Postage stumps wot TERM dt wick OF Ove vender. Tb NATLY HERAT D, the conte per coy ALD, every Satur the European Btition van 10 any part of Creat Bi ent, Hoth to Sartiute ost ie Sah and uth of each moutl THE WEEKLY every di Fawr in aad inde ta and Brcvopy CT UMINTING exerted with neutness, cheapness and de- pated Wolume XXIV 0. B53 AMUSI AGADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Irauan OreKa—Pourto, NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘TiGut Rove—Bu.r oF ‘ondway.—EVOLUTIONS ON Tuk |ADRID—HELENE. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Cuamrion or Faenpox— Greer Moxsten—Pappy Caney, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Geratpixe. LAURA KEENF’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Worun 4nb Stace. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Boy Manryrs or New Youa—Gowven Axe—si RARNUM'S AMMRICAN MUSEUM, a ated Durcuman, ? Broadway.—After Evening—Fiying Durcumas— WOOD'S MINSTRE 444 Broadway.—Erurortan Sons, Dances, &c—Damoy Pytnas. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, 472 Broadway.— Bunvesgors, Sonus, Dances, &¢.—Disies’ Lanp. 1. GARDEN AND HALL, Fourteenth street — ‘Vocal axp INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. New York, Monday, September 12, 1859. The News. By the arrival of the steamer Ocean Queen off Cape Race on Satarday morning about five o'clock, we bave news from Europe to the Ist instant, four Gays Inter than the advices brought by the Europa. Our despatch states that the intelligence pre Bents no features of unusual interest. Nothing of importance had transpired respecting the de- Lberations of the Zurich Conference. The American ship Ben Bolt, from Havana bound for Falmouth, | ‘was wrecked at Brendoz on the 25th ult. The Russian loan of £12,000,000 sterling had all been subscribed for in London, and exchange on St. | Petersbarg had declined three per cent. The Ba- ‘varian government was in the market for a loan at 984 per cent. Consols were steady, and closed on the 3ist at 9540 95g. Cotton was firm, with an | upward tendency in prices, while breadstutts con- { tinued very dull and provisions weak. Mr. McLane, our Minister to Mexico, arrived in Washington yesterday from Mobile. The accounts | recently published with reference to the treaty recently negotiated with the constitutional govern- ment of Mexico are confirmed. The points of this treaty have already been given in the Huraxp, but | they are reproduced iu the despatch of our Wash- ington correspondent, puablisbed in another columu. Advices froth Rio Janeiro to the 25th of July re- port the markets dull and no freight offering. Private advices from Buenos Ayres, brought by | the 0. J. Hayes, communicated to us, states that | | { | HERALD. | R KNIrE. ‘ gency a State, 4 NEW YORK: HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1859. and in good demant; the ed about 4,1 bags of Rio, ranging from Me. a 1180. a 1134. Freights Wore steady, while engagements were light; cotton to Liverpool was at $-10d a 7-024, aif 1,000 bbis. rosin were chgaged at 28. -—_ The Conspiracy against Wise—The Demo- cratic Convention of New York, The Democratic Convention of this to nominate candidates for the ensuing election, will take place on Wednesday t the 14th inst. The eyes of the South are turned towards it, and the eyes of the whole country, to see whether the vile conspiracy concocted by the Albany Regency against a distinguished democrat of Virginia, to cheat him out of the nomination for the Presidency at Charleston, will be endorsed by the representatives of the New York democracy at Syracuse. As the day approaches for holding that Con- vention, therefore, it assumes greater and greater importance. The Convention, ind pendent of that aspect of it, is highly im- portant, for on the manner in which its proceedings are conducted the success or failure of the fall elections in a great measure depends, and on those elections hangs the Pre- sidential election to a far greater extent than is realized at present. But what gives its pecu- iar and special importance to this Convention is the pendency of the question, whether the representatives of the New York democracy at Syracuse assembled will uphold or repudiate wry of the organ of the Albany Re- iinst the Governor of a sovereign oust him from his fair and legitimate the treach chances of the nomination, and whether poli- tie! to further their own designs on the succession, and thus disgrace the Empire State in the eyes of the South, and cause its disfranchisement at in this State will take advantage of it the National Convention. Whether by fair means or foul the Confi- dence man of the Albany Regency obtained possession of a private letter of Henry A. Wise, whether of malice prepense he was entrapped into writing the letter, and whether Bernard Donnelly was a tool in the hands of the Re- gency, or whether of his own mere motion he wrote the letter to which Mr. Wise’s communi- cation was a reply, we will not undertake to determine. But however this may be, the let- ter was written in unsuspecting confidence to Donnelly, and was handed by him in the same confidence (as {ar as we know) to the editor of the Atlas-Argus, on the express condition that it was not to be made public or used dishonor- ably. In foet, the Confidence man of the Regency persuaded Donnelly that he was a fast friend of Wise, and thus obtained posses- sion of his letter. No sooner did the Regency get hold of the prize than they issued copies of it, which they circulated around, but took good care to suppress the letter of Donnelly which called it forth. They put these copi¢s in such train that they knew they would find their way into the New York papers. Use has been made of this violation of private confidence, and this trampling under foot of every principle of honor, to damage Wise in this State and to build up the interests of his rivals. Will these the steamer General Pintos, one of the best of the Buenos Ayrean war vessels, had deserted and gone | over to the side of General Urquiza, her marines | having mutinied and shot the captain. As tue General Pintos was one of the best of the Buenvus | Ayrean war flotilla, and as many may be iufluenced | in their actions uccording to the chances of success | of one or the other of the coutending parties, we | think it well to publish the statemeat, which, we believe, Captain Shiverick, of the Hayes, contirms. We have vews from Japan dated on the 5th of June. The Emperor had ordered that the cides of Seddo, Nagasaki, Simoda and Hakodadi -hould be united by telegraph, and a line was being built from Jeddo to his summer residence. All the zes- sels in the imperial fleet were to be turned into steam propellers, aud one of them, the Niphon, | had already iefton 4 voyage of discovery, manned | by a native crew and native engineers. An Ameri- can having discovered a copper mive, was permit- ted to work it ov promising to divide the proceeds with the government. Additional advices from Bermuda are to the 3d inst., but there was no local news. There isa decided mania for committing suicides jost now prevailing J. H, Kearney poisoned him- self yesterday at Freuch’s Hotel, Henry F. Wood put an end to his life by taking laudanum yes- terday at No. 152 Bast Twenty-fourth street. Edward Cussenbrock, keeper of a dancehouse at No. 81 James street, committed suicide early yes- terday morning by shooting himself with a heavily loaded pistol. Pyrticulars of these tragedies will be found in another column. The lecture on the history and philosophy of Sanday laws, announced to haye been delivered last evening by the Rev. S. L. Hatch, was deferred in consequence of some prior arrangement with the authorities of the church where it was to take place, and a Welsh congregation worshipping there. A number of persons who weut up to parti- cipate in the discussion arter the lecture had to re- turn. Itis probable that Mr. Hatch will lecture on Bunday next Rev. Charles E. Harris, pastor of the Carlton avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, preached @ vigorous sermon last evening to the young men aod women of his congregation on “The Moral Influence of the Opera,” in which that amusement was unsparingly denounced. The Reverend gentleman objected to the Opera be- cause: first, much of the music of the Opera is vicious; second, it isan amusement withowt an iin- provement; third, the associations of the Opera house are generally bad and fearfully cootamiaat- ing. The church was densely crowded, a large share of the andience being ladies. The auroral phenomena which illuminated the skies in this latitude u few weeks since, seem to have extended over a very wide area. They were seen from Montreal to New Orleans, and from St. Louis to Cuba and Bermuda. We give elsewhere varied and interesting descriptions of them from different points of the earth’s surface. The dwelling house of Herman )ahl, adjoining No. 277 East Twenty first street, caught fire oa Saturday night, causing the death of a man named Patrick Gallagher and injuring a boy of Mr. Dahl's 80 severely that be was not expected to survive. | The particulars are given in another column. The cottou market displayed increased activity on Satur- day, and the gates embraced about 2,000 bales, closing on the basis of about J1%c. for middling uplanda, though some brokers reported small sales at 114gc. The Hour market was less buoyant and active, and some grades of State and Western exhibited more firmness, though without change of moment in quotations. Southern floar ‘Was lese active, while prices were unchanged. Wheat was ip fair request, though qnotatiaas were somewhat Grrogular, Prime tochoice new red Kentucky sold at 29, white do. do. ut $140 a $1 45; new white at $1 49, and amber colored Southern at $1 2%, and Milwankes uew club aud Chicago spring do. at p.t. Corn wa firm, with sales of new Western mixed at 8c. 0 88.5 the jatto California barley sold at 68c. for old. Ry, ws dal, at 'B2c. a B3c. Pork was in good demsad and firmer, with Bales of new mess at $14 95 a $15, (closing at tho iatter figure); clear moss at $17, and $10 %a gio 87% for prime. Sugars wero sold to a fair extent, without change Of inomept in prices. The transactions footed up abont 1,000 hdds. Cuba muscovadoe, and 60 do. molasses, and 0 boxes, part at p. t qud part at 8%¢c, Coffee was firm } ers. men consent to reap the profits of the dishonor- uble act, and thus identify themselves with the foul conspiracy? Horatio Seymour, a candidate for the Presi- dency; Daniel S. Dickinson, a candidate for the Presidency; Dean Richmond and Erastus | Corning, have all subscribed their money to the Aflas-Argus concern, and are its real own- By the act of its editor, and by the course of the paper, these gentlemen are compro- | mised. They are men of station and charac- ter, and their names give a factitious importance to the Allas-Argus which otherwise it would not possess, By their silence or acquiescence they endorse the base treachery of their miser- able agent; still more do they identify them- selves with it if they will consent to reap the fruits of the rascality at which they connive. The object of the Regency in this conspira- cy was to create a prejudice against Wise, and under its influence to pack the Syracuse Con- vention, and thence to pack the delegation to the Charleston Conveution—to prevent the selection of delegates by districts so as to prevent the people having any voice in the matter, to hurry up the ap- pointment of delegates at once, without giving the democracy any time for deliberation or ac- tion, and thus to secure their own creatures to do their dirty work at Charleston. Such is the infamous plot that has been hatched at the Atlas-Argus office. Now, we ask, will Daniel S. Dickinson suffer himself to be identified with it? ill he dis- avow the Alias-Argus und its editor, or will he silently profit by the treachery practised against a distinguished democrat of a Southern State in‘ouder to get him out of his way? Will Ho- ratio Seymour, who is so anxious for the nomi- nation for the Presidency or the Yi Vice-Presi- dency, render himself obnoxious to the South by g under the imputation of being mixed up with the Confidence man or his organ in this shameless trick? Will the other two gen- tlemen, who have something to lose, lend their names and influence to the consummation of a policy proceeding from so base an origin? Will the Convention at Syracuse suffer itself to be identified with the conspiracy by adopting the policy which it was concocted to promote? A few days will tell whether the democracy of New York will follow the leading of an Albany mooncalf, or what is called in Cassidy’s verna- enjar an omadhaun, to the imminent risk of having the delegation from the Empire State ignominiously turned out of the Charleston nvention, and to the almost inevitable cer- y of defeat in the Presidential election in 1860. The black republicans are now looking to Syracuse with intense solicitude, and loud and long will be their jubilations if tie demo- ry commit the fatai step of following the yers of confidence by appointing dele- gates to the National Convention at Charles- ton, Over Democratic Stare Conv N.—The New York democracy will meet in State Con- vention at Syracuse on Wednesday (day after to-morrow), and we may expect a terrible time among them. The masses of the party, town and country, are desirous of a hearty reunion for the overthrow of W. ll. Seward and the re- publican par ty in November, upon the broad issue of his “irrepressible conflict” between the North and the South. But the Albany Re- gency—Richmond, Cagger, Confidence Cassidy & Co—are evidently resolved to play into Seward’s hands by distracting and dividing the democracy upon the question of the New York delegates to the Charleston Convention. Le! every delegate to Syracuse who wishes to avoid this trouble be early on the grouad, | increas mg Importance of the Daily Press—Cosmopolitan Character of the Herald, At no previous season did the fall trade open so early as the present. Business of all kinds in this city seems to have received a prema- ture, though not an unhealthy stimulus; and as a concomitant, as well as an indication of the immense increase of trade, the advertising business of the Heraup bas grown to be such that the ordinary space allotted to our daily issue cannot compass it. We shall, there- fore, be compelled during this week to publish triple sheets two or three days, in order to furnish our readers with the news of the day in the full and comprehensive form which we find necessary for the wants of the public, and at the same time to meet the demands of our advertisers. At this season the advertisements of dry goods and opening fall fashions alone occupy from four to five columns daily, In all probability we shall in future have to continue the issue of triple sheets two or three times a week regularly during the active business seasons; and this in- novation may be but precursory to a daily issue of the same dimensions. And as time goeson, and the vast commercial resources of this metropolis develope themselves, it will per- haps become necessary to increase the triple to a quadruple sheet. There can be no better illustration of the growth and importance of the press than this fact; and yet it is only within the brief period of a few years that the press of this city has assumed the prominent position it now occupies, or has become an indispensable agent in the commercial and general progress of the country. Twentyryears ago the New York papers commanded litffe or no influence. Now, the eight pages of the Heraxp fall so far short of the space required for the news and adver- tisements it is compelled to publish, that, as we have said, its size will before long have to be greatly increased, if not doubled. Already we have been obliged, after the manner of the London Times, to add a supplement oc- casionally to our regular double sheet, and from the appearance of things now it seems likely that we shall eventually have to issue a supplement to our triple sheet also. Not only is the THerab employed as an ad- vertising medium in this city, but its columns have now become the agents of advertising ail kinds of business in other cities in the United States and Canada. The theatres of Philadel- phia, Boston and Montreal, advertise in the Hexaup. The Cunard steamers starting from Boston are also advertised; the sailing days oi the Philadelphia and Liverpool steamships are regularly announced in our business columns; and so with almost every eater- prise throughout the entire continent. in short, the Henaup has grown to be essential asa universal advertising agent since the ramilica- tion of railroads has spread throughout the country, which carry it to the mostdistant parts, besides furnishing ideas and news to our provin- cial cotemporaries in all quarters. And, inci- dentally, as one instance of the fruits of advertising in its columns, we may mention the fact that, during the last week two, sums of money were lost in this city by individuais who could ill afford to lose them, and were ad- yertised in our columns, and before noon of the same day they were returned to the owners, In each case the parties who returned the mo- ney stated that they did so in consequence of the advertisement in the Heraup, and in each case, likewise, the losers called on us to thank us for our agency in the restoration of their pro- perty. Almost every day we have applications at this office concerning large devised estates for which heirs are wanted, advertisements con- cerning them having appeared in our columns. Of course we know nothing of the facts; but the advertisements are their own mouthpieces, and in many instances of which we are cogni- zant individuals have become the recipients of large fortunes through the means of such ad- vertisements. These are substantial facts in our career, and hence the necessity of a healthy expansion in our size. The Henan is no longer a mere metropo- litan organ, the value and influence whereof is limited by the boundaries and interests of New York, but has grown to be a cosmopolitan or- gan, whose opinions influence and contro! in- terests existing far beyond the limits, not alone of the State, but of the republic itself; and our columns have thus become necessary as an ad. vertising medium to all classes in the commu- nity. Such has been the progress of the American metropolitan newspaper within a period short of a quarter of a century. It has helped to build up commerce, and commerce has in tura contri- buted to build up the newspaper, until the in- terests of each have become closely identified. But how shall we measure the value of an in dependent press in its influence upon the na- tional policy, the national dignity, aud the uni- versal welfare of the nation? Trorrixg Horses 1x 4 New Rove—The owners of the two celebrated trotting horses Flora Temple and Princess, are generally un derstood to be making quite a nice thing out of the exhibitions which they are giving this season. The ‘unitiated imagine that these matches are reul contests of speed, and they | make their bets on the respective horses, una- ware thatthe matches, under the cireumstances, | cannot be any other than mere friendly exhi- bitions, and no test of t ative speed of the horses. The thing is protitable to the proprie- s ation of the ani mals attracts large atiendances of sporting men; and it is profitable aisu to the propriciors of | the horses, who, besides hay ng shares proha- bly in the receipts, are able to make up their betting books in «way to realize largely on each mutch, In fact, #0 profitable is this enterprise, that the managers have been induved to repeat their exhibitions in various places. flora Temple and Princess are at present performing a star engagement iu the provinces, and we have fo doubt that very handsome profits are realized therefrom. The plan is asimpic rehearsal of that adopted here, namely, to advertise trot fing imatches between the rival qnadra- peds, and so induce people to go to the course and imake their beis, giving © the managers, who may lave everything nicely arranged, the opportunity of putting Wo ney in their purse if they choose to do so Such conduet is enough to bring horse racing into odium in chis country, and it is therefore right that the system should be exposed. If the managers ef Plora Temple and Princess choose to give exhibitions of their hor fet that be distinctly stated in the bills, ‘The trots gp Long island were something to boast of, but the trots at Boston, Saratoga and elsewhere, ought not to be counted in anywhere. sade ate Reet + 1a The Rising Servile War in Jamaica— Seward’s “Irrepressible Conflict” theve and in Venezuela, Recent advices from Jamaica state that the government there had been obliged to ask for more troops from England for the protection of the northern part of the island against the recurrence of the negro riots. We have some time since called attention to the spirit of insubordination to the law that has established itself among the black popula- tion of al of the counties of Jamaica, and have pointed out the progress which that island is making towards revolution and an- archy. Events are bearing out the views we have formerly expressed. Seward’s “ irrepres- sible conflict” is going on there as well as here, and is producing its natural result on the less numerous race. In the Northern States of this Union it has trodden down: and driven out the blacks; in Jamaica it is treading down and driving out the whites. Among us the blacks have not been able to make any resistance; in Jamaica the whites may attempt to resist, and, us we now see, have asked for assistance from the home government. This may be sent; but the conflict in Jamaica has precisely the same character, and must have the same results, that marked the identical “irrepressible confiict” in Hayti at the close of the last century. ‘The doctrines that Exeter Hall and Wm. H. Seward have so sedulously inculcated for years are taught continuously by the black preach- ers in Jamaica, and they are fast rousing the negroes there into open rebellion. Some time ago we gave accounts of the resistance to the local magistrates in the county of Westmore- land; two weeks since we published the news of the bloody riots on the anniversary of eman- cipation; and now comes the intelligence that the government asks for more troops. A part if not all the British forces now in Jamaica are biack regiments with white officers. These, when the conflict comes in earnest, will unite with the rest of the blacks, for their military education, small as it is, will entitle those who are now privates to rank as captains, colonels and generals, among their more ignorant fel- lows. In such a war as is preparing in Jamai- ca the white British troops may have the ad- vantage of skill, arms and equipment; but they will encounter on the other side a greater abi- lity of endurance under the burning sun and in the pathless wilds of the tropics, and climate will add its fevers to the continuous struggles of the rebellious blacks. The result will be, that if Jamaica is worth preserving by England she will have to retain it by carrying out the “irrepressible conflict” of Exeter Hall to the ution of three hundred thousand blacks sland. Precisely the same struggle bas sprung up in Venezuela. Monagas obtained power there, and held it for eleven yexrs, by pampering the blacks and using them to keep the whites down. These tired of his tyranny at last, and drove him ont; but the «ireful ambition of his successor, Castro, induced the latter to follow the Monagas policy, and the result is that to- day the negroes are roaming through that re- public in every direction, burning the villages, laying the fields waste, aud menacing the towns where the whites still hold sway. Thus Seward’s “irrepressible conflict” is presenting its Southern phase in blood and devastation in Venezuela and Jamaica, while he and his fol- lowers are laboring to introduce it into our Southern States. It little matters to the dema- gogue—Monagas, Seward, Soulouque, or the negro corporal in the British black regiments— what fate attends a disordered and dismembered community, so long as they attain rank and rule. In the bloody scenes of Venezuela now, and the fiery cloud that hangs over the near future of Jamaica, may be seen the results of the black republican “irrepressible conflict.” Its import is the destruction of one or the other of the races. anni Tue Pusiic MEETING AGAINST SaBBATARIAN Desporism.—To-morrow is the day fixed for the public meeting against the yoke of Sunday des- potism placed on the necks of a free people by Puritanical laws, which have no foundation in the doctrines or precepts of the Christian re- ligion, nor in the common law of England, from which we have borrowed our principles of law, nor in the constitution of the United States, which is decidedly hostile to any such trammels on the human mind, nor in the con- stitution of the State of New York, which is still more explicit against any meddling with religious institutions. Not only i no particular sect prohibited froin being even recognized as a State religion, but Christianity itself, in its broadest significa- tion, is not recognized; and the religion of the Mormons, or of the Jews, or of the Mahomedans, or of John Chinaman (notwithstanding the in- tolerant rowdyism of California, which over- threw his idols by brute violence), is as much the religion of the United States, in any legal or constitutional sense, as the religion of Jesus Christ. The only difference is that the majo- rity of the people are Christians, but of very different sects of the same religion; and the constitution has wisely provided that no reli- gion nor uny form of Christianity itself should prevail over the others in the eye of the law. The Sabbatarians are no new sect. They existed in the time of the author of Christian- ity, who may be fairly presumed to know his own religion best, but yet was denounced by the Pharisees and hypocrites of his time as a violator of the Sabbath himself, and as teach- ing other men to violate it—as “a wine bibber and a gluiton, a friend of publicans and sin- ners.” He saw that the religion of these men consisted in forms and shadows, while they neglected the substance. Therefore did he de- nounce them in these memorable words: — ‘Woe unto you whited sepulehres, for out- wardly ye look beautiful, but within ye are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleannesst” How immutable is truth, and how little do the characters of men change in the progress of ag One would think that Christ had in his inind’s eye the Sabbatarians of New York when he uttered the denunciati have quoted. The same Sabbatarian hypocrisy exists now as then, and the greatest zealots for Sunday laws, and for coercing the minds and bodies of men ia matters of religion, are those who do most lying and cheating and all manner of wickedness on the other six days of the week, thinking that by first going to church and then taying at home on Sunday and wearing a loag ave face, and at the same time doing all in r power to prevent other men from enjoy ing that rational reeveution which Nature Peowpis miaekind to lake, hey cam Gaus com ub pound with God for all their villany, and turn up the whites of their eyes to Heaven with holy horror at “the thousands of Sabbath- breaking, unevangelized souls,” around them. We trust the attendance at the meoting, to be he!d to-morrow at the Volks Garden, in the Bowery, will be worthy ef the cause of civil and religious liberty involved in the question, and that the modern Pharisees will receive such a rebuke as their spiritual pride and inso- lent dictation merit at the hands of all liberal- minded citizens who understand and appreci- ate the genius of our free institutions. The Presidential Movements of the Day— Strong Symptoms of a Scrub Race. The flaming letter which we publish in these columns from Gen, Ogilvie Byron Young, of Missouri, to Hon, Stephen A. Douglas, of Illi- nois, may be regarded as one of those terrible meteors which are sent streaming athwart the midnight sky to warn us of some approaching physical or political convulsion. And the late and present movements of Mr. Douglas, as @ Presidential aspirant, justify the conclusion that he has deliberately made up his mind, in the event of his rejection by the Charleston Convention, to follow the advice of General Ogilvie Byron Young, “never to bow to the magnificent humbug, or acknowledge the au- thority of any such tribunal to disappoint” his destiny. There can be no other rational construction of the present position of Mr. Douglas and the extensive system of electioneering appliances which he has put into operation. Either he or his platform must be adopted at Charleston, or he will take the field as an independent candi- date. We may, therefore, consider him now asacting in anticipation of the action of the Convention ; for it mugt be as manifest to him as to every other intelligent man, that neither Mr. Douglas nor his hobby can be adopted by the Convention. He is thus substantially al- ready in the field for the Presidency as an in- dependent democratic condidate, as much so as Fernando Wood is an independent demo- cratic candidate for Mayor of New York against the anticipated adverse action of Tam- many Hall. We have thus one inevitable democratic stump candidate for 1860; and Governor Wise, of Virginia, may probably be another. He has made his Southern pro-slavery dogma as em- phatically a sine qua non with the Charleston Convention as Douglas has made his Northern anti-slavery humbug. But as the premeditated independent movement of Mr. Douglas will be quite sufficient to demolish the Charleston ticket, it is hardly nec 'y to enter at present into any conjectures in reference to Governor Wise. Assuming that in 1860 Mr. Douglas and his devoted Northern partisans will re-enact the Van Buren rebellion of 1848, we may rest our democratic calculations upon the conclu- sion that the result will be the same—the de- feat of the party. ? The result, however, may be widely different in regard to the opposition. General Taylor was elected in 1848 by a cordial fusion of the opposition, North and South, excepting the ex- treme Northern anti-slavery elements, which were carried off by Van Buren. But in 1852 this powerful national opposition party which elected Taylor was destroyed from its affilia- tions with the anti-slavery heresies of W. H. Seward. In 1854, on the other hand, the Northern democracy were broken to pieces from the disastrous pro-slavery Presidential movement of Pierce and Douglas with that Kansas-Nebraska bill. And thus, while the remains of the old whig party South have beca reduced to the doubtful occupation of one or two States, we find in the North a great over- shadowing anti-slavery party built up from the broken fragments of the oid whig and de- mocratic organizations. But in this “one idea” of hostility to the “slave power” we have the seeret of the weakness of the republican party as a national organization. It is sectional party, but so widely separated from the opposition elements of the South that it will be compelled to cut them off in 1860. Our late Republican State Convention at Syracuse, in its resolutions, has given us a foretaste of the general drift of the party. It will make no concessions of any utility to the opposition South; and thus we may surely count upon at least two opposition tickets for the next Presidency. From these divisions of sections and parties, democratic and opposition—the Douglas move- ment in the North, and the conservative oppo- sition ticket in the South, and in New Jersey and Pennsylvania—we should say that the elec- tion must inevitably be thrown into the House of Representatives. And what, then? Why, then, as neither the anti-slavery republicans nor the pro-slavery democracy will be able to command a majority of the States in the House, there will have to be & compromise upon the third candidate for President, or the election will fail in the House, in which event the republicans will have to accept as President the candidate elected as Vice President by the Senate, who will unquestionably be the regular democratic nominee. In anticipation of this state of things, let the conservative opposition men of the North and South prepare to take up General Houston as their candidate, and they can certainly carry him into the House and elect , there if they do not secure his election directly froin the people. The grand immediate, but still grand- er prospective results of such a triumph to the party indicated and to the country, are surely worth an effort to win this prize. The field, toc, is open and the coast cle —The regular fall and win- ter season for metropolitan gayeties may be said to hay rly commenced after this evening, when the Academy of Music opens its doors for a preliminary operatic campaign. In addition to the Opera, we have eight or ten theatres, reg- ular and irregular, in full blast, besides the colored Native American opera, cafés chantants lager bier gardens, concert rooms, shows, pic- ture galle and a thousand aud one places of public resort, By next Monday all the theatres, including the new Metropolitan, will be ip working order for the winter; and as the competition will be unusually livel ag public will not have to compli k of. novelty, sich as 3 ames Ciry Aus mau the pla, offal and variety of the public grea! metropolis atira seckers (0 our gates, fills up th hotels, helps trade, and gives to Uh hiv of Broadway that peculiarly wnique, animated and piciuresqae appearance which it wears these tine afternoons, aud which will be heightened during the six or eight weeks to cumg. Puring that time the he vumber ments of this housunds of pleasure aay olty will be crowded with the wealth, intetioct, beauty and fashion of the country from all points of the compass. Let the managers and the shopkeepers and hotel men keep a sharp lookout, The best horse will win the purse.| The Schaghticoke Rallway Massacre Manslaughter Goes Unpunished. The terrible railway slaughter at the Schagh- ticoke bridge, on the Albany, Vermont and Canada Railroad, on the 2d of August last, is not likely to be soon forgotten, although it seems, according to articles in the Troy papers which we transfer td our columns today, that the parties responsible for it are to escape punishment. By the criminal negligence and recklessness of the company, in running trains over a bridge known to be rotten and di- lapidated, eight persons lost their liwes, and twenty or thirty more were cut, bruised and mutilated. A coroner’s inquest was held’ over the body of one of the victims. We all know how inquests now-a-days are so as to screen guilty parties as much as pos sible; but even this jury brought in a verdict highly censuring those in charge of the road, and denouncing the bridge as being in a rottes and unsafe condition. But that was not going far enough in the in- terest of public justice. It was no satisfaction to those who were injured, or to the relatives of those who were killed, that the guilty parties shquld be censured by a coroner’s jury. The severest punishment which the law provides would be far too light for their crime; but, such as it was, it should at least be inflicted. How? By the Grand Jury of the county finding an indictment against the president, directors and superintendent, and by their being prosecuted to conviction before a petty jury. The statute makes their offence manslaughter in the fourth degree, pun- ishable by imprisonment for two years, or a fine of a thousand dollars, in the discretion of the Judge; and certainly no one would say thata two years’ incarceration in Sing Sing would be too severe a penalty for those soulless mem- bers of a railroad corporation who sport reck- lessly with life and limb. Among the passengers who escaped from the scene of slaughter, and who was fortunate in getting off with pretty severe cuts and bruises, was a lawyer of this city, named Wm. J. A. Fuller. This gentleman was determined to leave no stone unturned in an effort to bring these railroad officials to justice, and to have the road itself indicted as a nuisance. He attended in Troy last week, appeared and testified before the Grand Jury, and on his re- turn to this city employed counsel to give his at- tention to the matters preliminary to the finding of anindictment. The District Attorney consent- ed to have Mr. Fuller associated with himself as counsel for the prosecution. We understand, however, that no indictment has been found by the Grand Jury, and that, so far as that body concerned, the authors of the Schaghti- coke massacre are at liberty to go om and slaughter ruthlessly the travellers who trust themselves to their tender mer- cies. It is also said that Mr. Fuller has not been able to have a process in a suit for civil damages served on Mr. Wm. White, the Super- intendent of the road, although two personal friends of the complainant, residing in Albany, were entrusted with the service of the writ, and although the defendant is daily in that city. Finally, it is gravely asserted that the politi- cal conspirators of the New York Central Rail- road have had their finger in this pie, and have lent their powerful aid in thwarting the fair ad- ministration of the law in this matter. But we understand that Mr. Fuller is a man who is not to be easily foiled in a thing that he has resolved on He is determined that the authors of the Schaghticoke massacre shall be brought to justice, and he will persist in his efforts to that end. Ifone Grand Jury is weak or ignorant, there may possibly be found another Grand Jury with enough of public spirit in its members to induce them to do their duty. And so, perhaps, in course of time justice may be meted out to these railroad assassins, We understand, too, that it is in contemplation to have urged upon the next State Legislature the passage of a law raising similar offences to the grade of man- slaughter in the first degree, of which the pe- nalty shall be imprisonment for life; and also of a law giving to judgments recovered for personal damages priority over all other mort- gages and liens. Such laws are eminently ne- cessary and proper if the community is to en- joy any degree of salety in failroad travelling. We never expect to see a railroad president or director sent to Sing Sing for life, or fora term of years; but it is at least to be hoped that those who recover judgments in civil ac- tions against insolvent railroad corporations, for injuries to the person, shall have priority for their claims above all others. The laws in these respects require to be altered; but, above all, such laws as we have require to be admi- ered fairly and imp: THe NATION OF THE GREAT FlAasTeRN STILL Unpecin) i Cuances.—The letter of our London correspondent, published to-day, in a measure explains the hesitation and delay on the part of the Great Eastern Company to come to a final settlement regarding the desti- nation of the monster steamship. It appears that the company is composed of no less thin three tHousand shareholders, the directors, however, having the entire manageinent of the vessel; and it appears further that one of the directors is the party who had charge of the blasting of the rocks in the Liverpooi channel, and is therefore naturally interested in the success of that port; while another director ig the representative in Parliament of the Seaport town of Weymouth; and thus between the con- flicting interests of both a difticulty seems to have arisen about the starting point. Mr. Lever has, meantime, offered, the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds cash for the pri- vilege of sailing her from Gatway, besides agreeing to coal and victua! her to Americ, and back, and to put up a thousand new bering in her-—for, strange as it may seem, she is only provided with berths for five hud red passer: ; gers, though she is capable of carcying fous thousand, Shonid Mr, Lever obtain her it wiil cost him fully two hundred thousand dol this one voyage, which w act profit to the three tho veholters, at the very first start, of ut least one hundred thousand, and it is nog probable that they will surren that sum, to further the interests of Liverpool, Weymouth, or aay other port, the commercial sue’ess of the ship being far more important to them, In this state of afiira the company are be- ns to min her