The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1859. NEW YORK HERALD. Tawa Se RE ease OFFIC N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND YABBAU STS gash in advance, Money sent wooney, " ) DAILY HERALD, two conte , $1 per annum, EH PL rd Mes chet 1 $8 per annwm; the Bi recat oF Ce eo cope, $4 per annum t0 any part of Great iri, nagar the ne Graivornda batition om the Sth and BMA of each month ub ste conte 0 $1 BO per annum. Ps aiR eatin ata on Wedneslay, at four cents per nM UNL aAKY CORKESPONDENCB, containing tinportin ioLyn day any quarter of the world; if uset, will be ally pid for. fa- bun FoRBION CORRESPONDENTS ARK Panncoccuce Raquesrey To Skat ald, LETTERS aXD PAdk “xO ‘Norice taken of anonymous correapondence. We do not Teferted commu ations [SEMENTS wed every day; advertisements in- Ae Werxty HenatD, Fai Hsmaip, and ta the Ye PRINTING enccuted eith neatnese, cheapness and de watch. md whl be cl the as jo. 957 Volume XXIV. 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New York, Friday, September 16, 1859, IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS, Owing to the great increase of our advertising business, we are compelled to ask our advertising friends to come fo our aid and help us to get our paper to press. ‘This they can accomplish by sending in their advertisements St as carly an hour in the day and evening as possible. All advertisements should be handed in before nine o'clock at Might. Those handed in after that hour will have to take their chance as regards classification. The New: The Democratic State Convention at Syracuse concluded its business yesterday, after a session of favo days duration. The particulars of the conflict on Wednesday between the Mozart Hall and Al- bany Regency factions—the secession of the first bamed, the nomination of a ticket for State officers hy them, and their programme for choosing dele- gates to the Charleston Convention upon the dis- trict system—have already been laid before our Teaders; as also the fact that the Albany Regency Party decided that the State Convention should ap- point the delegates to the Charleston Convention. ‘The most important question before the State Con- vention—the selection of delegates to Charleston— having been decided, the Convention made upa List of candidates for State officers without any Berious difficulty. Annexed we give the tickets now before the people:— MOZART HALL, DEMOCRATIC. Secretary of Stale—D. R. Floyd Jones, of Queens. Comptroller—Sandford E. Church, of Orleans. Attorney General—Lyman Tremain, of Albany. State Engineer—Van R. Richmond, of Wayne. Treasurer—Isaac Vanderpoel, of Eric. Canal Commissioner—Wm. J. Skinner, of Herkimer. State Prizon Inspector—Noble 8. Elderkin, of St. Law- dence. Judge of Court of Appeals—Alex. 8. Johnson, of Albany Clerk & Court of Appeals—Eaward Simpson, of New York. ALBANY REGENCY, DEMOCRATIC. Scorctary of State—D. R. Floyd Jones, of Queens. Comptrolier—Sandford E. Church, of Orleans. Attorney General—Lyman Tremain, of Albany. State Engineer—Van R. Richmond, of Wayne. Treaswrer—Isanc Vanderpoel of Erie., Canal Commissioner—Win. J. Skinner, of Herkimer. State Prison Inapector—Noble 8. Elderkiu, of St. Law- rence. Judge of Court of Appeals—Alex. 8. Johnson, of Albany. Clerk of Cowrt of Appeale—Jobn L. Lewis, Jr., of Yates. REPUBLICAN. Scordary of State—Elias W. Leavenworth, of Onondaga, Comptroller—Robert Denniston, of Orange. Attorney General—Charles G. Meyers, of St. Lawrence. Stale Engineer—Orville W. Storr, of Allegany. Treaswrer—Philip Dorsheimer, of Erie. Canal Commissioner—Ogden N. Chapin, of Albany. State Prison Inspector—David P. Forest, of Schenectaty. Judge of Oourt of Appeals—Henry E. Davies, of Now York. Clerk of Court of Appeats—Charlea Hughes, of Wash- ington. The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention waa held yesterday. Benjamin F. Butler wasnomi- nated for Governor, together with a full comple- ment of candidates for other State officers, and Caleb Cushing and other Douglas men were chosen to the Charleston Convention. Our Chilean correspondents, writing from Val- paraiso on the 15th of August, give a very in- feresting résumé of the progress of events in that republic. There was a lull in the political world, and trade had improved in consequence. Several of the conspirators in the revolutionary movement of February last had had their death sentence Commuted to that of exile, and some of them had | that of Ireland. already left the country. Owing to internal dissen- wions in the different States there was a very poor yesterday € | clearly that tho Central Americans could vot be in the atmosphere most suited for them, and manage their own flair. In Nicaragua transit | the country would be vastly benefitted by thelr diyplomacy M, Belly was still ahead, bat it was thought ke would never carry out his treaty stipa- lations. Onur letters and files from Central and South America by the North Star were detained for over thirty six hours on the steamer before being sent to ihe Post Office; thes they did not reach a4 uatil ning—a very serious iaconveniouce. The bark Roebuck, Captain Chase, reached this port from Rio Janiero yesterday moruing. She left Htio on the 14th of August, thus making the run irom port to port in the unusually short time of bisty-two days, Captain Chase reports ‘there is but titde coflee arriving from Rio Janeiro, ia conse- quence of its being beld very high at that place, and consigness whe sell do so at a logs,” Late accounts from Yucatan etate that the country was tranquil, although in some districts ‘he Indians continued to commit depredations, burning and sacking ranches, and murdering the persons residing thereon. By the arrival of the overland mail we have news from Ban Francisco to the 22d ull., two days later than the advices brought via the Isthmus. Busi ness continued dull, and he prices of merchandise unaltered. Favorable reports contiaued te be re- ceived trom the minivg districts. No arrivals from Atlantic ports are reported. The Mobave Indians were still very troublesome, and nothing but se- vere chastikement would reduce them to subjec- a riot of rather formidablo proportions took place at Manchester, N. H.,on Wednesday evening Jast, between the firemen, who were holding a tournament at that place, and a gang of gamblers, Some trouble baving occurred between them, the firemen assembled at night, attacked the premises occupied by the gamblers, and, after hard fighting, took possession, ransacked the premises, aid smashed the furniture; two other houses, supposed to be occupied by gamblers, were also demolished. The mob then attacked the American Hotel, the windows of which were broken and other damage done. Hee they were addressed by several fire- men, who begged them to desist from their work of destruction, which they were finally induced to do. An account of the riot will be found among our deapatches this morning. Ex-United States Senator James Cooper, of Pennsylvania, has recently adddressed a letter to his friends and the public on the questions of cheap postage and protection for the iron interest. He is in favor of reducing our rate of postage to cor- respond with that of Great Britain, and the esta- blishment of a national factory for the more eco. nomical supp!y of stamps and stamped envelopes. Asregards the iron interest, he is of opinion that should Congress afford it adequate protection against foreign competition it will outstrip in magnitude every other interest in the country. No one will venture to dispute the logic of Mr. Cooper on this point, we apprehend, although many will hesitate to afford the “adequate protection” de- sired by the Pennsylvania iron masters, The New York Sanitary Association, although an advertisement appeared in nearly all the daily papers that a special meeting would be held yesterday evening in room No. 19 Cooper Instituto, at eight o'clock, did not meet. No organization was formed, owing to some cause or other. About six gentlemen only were present. After waiting three- quarters of an hour no additions were made to their number, and the few present adjourned, with- out appointing a chairman or calling the meeting to order in any manner whatever. Portions of the northern part of the State of New York were visited by a hard frost, and snow and hail storms, on Wednesday night. The cold was extremely rigorous, considering the saason of the year, and potatoes and other roots and vines suffered severely. In this city at sunrise yesterday morning the thermometer stood at 48, while in Boston at the same period of the day it marked as low as 38, The father of “Little Ella Burns,” the precocious dramatic reader, has procured from Judge Davies, of the Supreme Court, a writ of habeas corpus for the recovery of the custody of hie daughtor. The hearing on the writ is to take place this forenoon. The father’s name is Francis 8. Witten. and ha ia a potice officer of Cincinnati. There being only nine Councilmen present at the call of the roll last evening, the Board adjourn- ed till Monday next. ‘The cotton market was firmer yesterday, and closed at about ic. better than it was at the beginning of the week. The sales embraced about 1,200 a 1,900 bales, on the basis of our revised quotations in another column. ‘The receipts of flour were large and the market was heavy, while prices closed at 10c. a 15c. per barrel lower, especially for State and Western brands, Southorn flour was in steady demand and prices less affected, while salos were made toafair extent. Wheat was in larger sup- plies, and, under the pressure to realize, prices gave way from 6c. to 7c. per bushel, with a fair amount of sales. Corn was rather scarce and firmer, while sales were toler. ably freo at 82c. a 83e. for mixed Western, chiefly at the latter figure. sold at 79¢., while barley was nomi- nal. Pork firmer, with sales of mess at $15 ® $15 1243, and small lots were reported at $15 25, and prime at $10 43 a $10 59. Beef was in somo better request at unchanged prices, while lard waa steady. We learn that the British govern ment contracts only exclude American pork and not beef. Some papers have stated that both have been excluded, which is not the fact. It is said that this discrimination in favor of home fed pork has not grown out of any undue prejudice against the American article, but because hogs in this country are not fed upon nutritious food from the start or until they are of a proper size for slaughtering. They are supposed to run at large in a condition until within two or three months before their slanghter, during which they are fed to excess with corn and other forcing food, which imparts fulness and fatness without solidity, and hence the product becomes less va- Yable and durable than the home made, including No country can supply bet than the Western States, and especially (1 and Chicago, when the proper selections of cattle are prospect of the formation of the grand “Sonth | mde and necessary care taken in packing it Chicigo American Union,” spoken of by some persons lately. The news of United States war vessels being sent out in order to support the claims of American citizens for redress of grievances and Compensation for actual outrages, had created quite ® sensation. Government was, unwisely it was thought, about to substitute a paper currency for that of hard specie. M. John Bello, Secre- tary of the Chilean legation in France, had teen appointed Charge d’Affuires to Washington. M. Bello is a literary man, but of no great diplomatic acquirements. Manuel Carvallo was appointed Minister to France, with a special mission to King Leopold of Belgium as referee in the claim case of the American ship Franklin. The claims of Albert Suess, the owner and master of the American brig Townsend Jones, and that of extra prime mess beef hae both American and European reputation, We understand that the Africa on Wednesday night last carried out proposals to the British Admiralty for supplying beef under the late advertisemont for tenders. Sugars were quite active yesterday, and tho sales embraced about 2,000 hhds. and in the neighborhood of 4,000 boxes, on terms stated in another column. Freights were firmer. The enhanced views of ehip- owners, however, tended to restrict engagements, Some vyeasels which have been laid up have been removed to the businese docks preparatory to loading. Several ehipe have also been engaged, have left or are preparing to go, to Southern ports to load with cotton. To Etverpool cotton was engaged yesterday at 7-32d. a 34d, and cheese at 262. The Democratic Convention and its Re- sults, The sum and substance of the proceedings of the family of the late Horatio Gates Jones, were all | the Democratic State Convention at Syracuse ‘warmly pressed by the United States Minister. Tho family of Mr. Jones demand $70,000 for his being murdered by the military of the State. An Ameri- wan line of mail steamers from Panama to Valps- also is again loudly called for, owing to the official Giscourtesy of the commanders of the English ves- Gels to the persons in charge of United States postal ‘gnatter at the former place. England has, however. @ very strong hold on Chile by moans of her hold- amounts to this: the two or three factions nto which the party is split have nominated he same State ticket, but divided about the manner of sending delegates to Charleston, and had a fight worthy of the antecedents of Tammany Hall and the Albany Regency. What first strikes every pereon on reading an account of the proceedings is the vulgar ng government bonds for the loan of fifteen | insolence and brutal rowdyism which charac- ‘Ywnillions of dollars contracted in London. terized the Convention. It is disgraceful to the Our correspondent on board the United States | democratic party and to a civilized commu- ship Oyane, dating from the harbor of Realejo, Costa Rica, on the Slst of August, furnishes some in- teresting details concerning the late revolution in that State and the expulsion of President Mora. He met the Bishop with a number of priests at that nity. It is a reproach to our free institutions, and gives occasion to their enemies to blas- pheme the principles of human freedom. It is a stumbling block in the way of democracy point returning home by invitation of the now | Sdvaniciig elther among ihe nauons da this overnment. The revolationary movomont in Ban continent or Europe, and the fellows who play vador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, | these rowdy parts, and those who from behind @rould, he thought, prove very destructive to the the scenes set them on, are only fit to be galley MAlsTEM OF tho poopie, and tend to Prove still more laves, and if they were allin Siberia they would | absenge, It would have been a lucky thing if at the riot at Wieting Hall they had disposed of cach other as effectually and as completely as did the famous Kilkenny cats, This brutality is worthy of Confidence Cassidy and bis mas- ters, It is of a piece with their base treachery in the case of the Wise-Donnelly letter, aud of their political history and conduct for many years. The violence grew out of the fraud, and both are characteristic of the Alba- ny slaughter house and the coal hole of Tam- many Hall, But what was it all about? Was there any principleinvolved, or were thore any moasures or even any men in question, to induce the shoulder-hitters and bullies to res vt ti ir peculiar knock-~lown arguments: Was | an honest, though a vulgar and disropy able fight? Nothing of the id. The whole and sole bone of contention was, which of the factions should have the delegates to Charles- ton in order to control the federal spoils from 1861 to 1865. Tho faction of Confidence Cas- sidy & Co, take timo by the forelock, and pack the delegation to Charleston on the spot. Delay might prove dangerous; thoy want to make a sure thing of it, and to arrange their plans beforehand for selling the democracy of this State to the highest bidder. The policy of the other faction is to have the representation of the State at Charleston emanate from the popular vote by Congressional districts. This is true popular sovereignty, and will be a ques- tion for settlement at Charleston, where Wise and the men of the South will have something to say on the subject. In what way it may be dis- posed of we have no interest and do not care. The fight as to who shall have the delegates at the National Convention, and who shall have the federal spoils in 1861, and for four years thereafter, is adjourned to Charleston. But not so the battle for the spoils in New York State, which must be fought this fall. All the demo- cratic factions agree upon a single ticket, and in that contest will unite against the republi- cans. As far as the interests of the State are concerned, it is of no sort of consequence whether the democratic ticket or the repnb- lican ticket draw the prize. The leaders of both factions are alike, as much so as any two packs of hungry wolves or any two flocks of greedy cormorants. The design of both is to plunder the public as soon as they can get a chance. It is merely a race between them to see who shall get hold of the canals, which they will sell to themselves the first moment they can. The railroad interest predominates in the councils of both, and the canals, which have been so many years a source of common plunder for the two Albany Regencies, will be devoured wholesale at last by the railroad in- terest, no matter which Regency rules the roast. It is, therefore, a matter of indifference to the people of the State, as far as its special inte- reats are concerned, which of the two party tickets may turn out successful. Butina na- tional point of view, and to the country at large, it makes a vast difference. For the re- publican ticket represents the ideas and inter- ests of William H. Seward, and if that ticket should prove victorious it will be the harbin- ger of a disastrous result in 1860. Then may we expect the commencement of that “ir- repressible conflict” which Mr. Seward has threatened between “the antagonistic and enduring forces”’ of the North and the South, and which must end in dividing the Union into two nations, with all the attendant conse- quences. Although, therefore, as far at regerda the municipal and iocal interests of the State, it is of no importance which of the two parties, the democracy or the republicans, win the fall elections, the solid interests of the country—its trade and commerce, its greatness and com- manding position as regards foreign nations, and that general prosperity which has hitherto marked its career in despite of the corruption and plunder of political parties—all these con- siderations are involved in the coming contest, and every conservative man, every man who desires to see the integrity of the Union main- tained, and to prevent the train of disasters which must follow its dissolution as certainly as night follows day, ought to vote for the democratic ticket on national and patriotic grounds. It is possible that treason may triumph, and that the treachery and brutal violence ex- hibited by the leaders of the democratic party may have demoralizing effect, and drive many disgusted democrats into the ranks of the re- publicans and keep others away from the polls, so as to place the ominous star of W. H. Seward in the ascendant. And then what the Regency have sown they shall also reap, and even- handed justice’commend the ingredients of their poisoned chalice to their own lips. But notwithstanding the treachery and ras- cality of Judas Iscariot Cassidy, who sold Gov- erner Wise to be crucified between two thieves, and notwithstanding the frauds and corruption of the whole gang of political Peter Funks in the Albany Regency, we hope fora happier and better reeult than the triumph of the principles and policy announced in the Rochester mani- + festo of William Hi, Seward. The Herald and the Sanday Question— Another Quadrilateral Blunder, An obscure journal in this city, chiefly re- markable for the manner in which its conduo- tors, the Honorable Jefferson Brick Raymond nod the Reverend Caleb Beelzebub-Melchisedek Hurlbut, manage to muddle and mix up every question of the day, from the famous Italian quadrilateral down to the most petty local affair, has committed one of its characteristic blunders in discussing the views of the Herat on the Sunday question, Whether running away from Solferino, hat in hand, ten miles across a dusty country, or at home, enlightening the public with his lucid views upon the questions of the day, the Honor- able Jefferson Brick Raymond and his quadri- lateral coadjutor, the Reverend Calcb Melchi- sedek Hurlbut, betray a refreshing disregard of the facts in the case. They are as crooked as the elbows of the Mincio themselves; and although {t would be a moral imposel- bility to correct their blundering, which appears to be chronic, we may still endeavor to straighten them a little with regard to the Sunday question, upon which they have turned and twisted and shuffled and blundered about in the most entertaining way. Jt is sesumed in the quadrilateral criticism of our position upon the question referred to, that the Heraup has habitually argued that the State laws compel a religious observance of the first day of the week—that we have argued in favor of repealing all lawa which pro- hibit gambling, drunkenness, disorderly con- duct and general debauchery, which society should prevent and punish as severely upon one day as another. This is not true; neither have we ever favored the opening of theatres, shows or exhibitions on Sunday. We have believed in trying the expe- riment of free music in the Central Park on Sunday evening. Such concertsare given in the London parks, and are listened to by immense audiences, always orderly, quiet and decorous. “We have urged to the best of our ability still another system, which prevails in London, where the Sabbath is even more rigorously ob- served thon in New York. We refer to the cheap railway excursion trains, which carry passengers to all points within fifly miles of the metropolis, returning the same day. Tere the riyer steamboats run on Sundays. Tho city railways reap on that day their greatest har- vest; but these are not sufficient to accommo- date the over worked masses, who sigh for a little country air to refresh themselvea, their pale wives and wan children, pent up in pes- tilent city lanes, and crowded into ill venti- lated tenement houses. We have argued in fa- vor of some innocent recreations for this class, in order to keep them from being led away to the grogshops, the gambling hell, and other vile resorts. As yet the police of this city, even with pious Pillsbury at their head, have not exterminated any of these dens from the metropolis. They are as accessible on Sunday as on any other day of the week, and are, of course, more dangerous on that day. Our position is, therefore, diametri- cally opposed to that which our quadrilateral cotemporary has manufactured and assumed for us. Plainly, we are for equal rights in the matter of enjoymenta for rich and poor. If Mr. Coupon in the Fifth avenue has his Sun- day drive in his own carriage, his luxurious and sensuous music by hired artists in a splen- did church, why shall not his fellow citizen of the Five Points have his railway ride, his din- ner in the green fields, and his music in the Central Park? Quite as humanizing, quite as religious, the latter, we dare say, as the for- mer—perhaps more s0. As to the legal aspect of the question, wa believe that what is good law on Monday is good law on Sunday, and vice versa. It has been assumed, however, that the statutes re- cognized the Sabbath from a religious point of view—an absurdity we have scouted. There is no warrant of law for the observance of the Sabbath after the Jewish fashion, nor is it authorized by the New Testament. That is the error of certain fanatics, which we have labored to dispel. And our position resis upon the bases that, there being no color of law, divine or human, to compel people to observe the Sabbath after the manner laid down by a self-constituted committee, or according to the dictates of exploded Puritanical prejudices, the assumption of such power is impudent and absurd in the highest degree. That is the plain, common-sense view of the matter. And if the Hon. Jefferson Brick Ray- mond had not been frightened out of his wits at Selferino, and the Rev. Caleb Beelzebub Melchisedek Hurlbut had not been utterly and hopelessly muddled in the elbows of the Min- cio, they could understand it, as we fancy our readers do. Let us hope that in time they may recover their wits sufficiently to read understandingly, however feebly and muddily they may write. The New Treaty With Mexico—Necessity for its Early Conclusion. We learn from Washington that Mr. McLane is likely to use the whole of the two months’ laav it ern- ment, and that the new treaty” with Atoxteo will lie in the pigeon holes of the State De- partment during that time, unless Senor Mata, the Mexican Minister, has received instructions to continue the negotiations at Washington. It is to be hoped that he has received such instructions, and that the treaty will be at once concluded, and made ready to send to the Senate on the first day of the opening of Con- gress. If that is not done, all experience as- sures us that when the next President-making Congress once enters on the discussion of the qualifications of candidates and the dovetail- ing of platforms, it will find no time to take up the questions bearing on the highest interests of the country. This question of the new treaty with Mexico is one of the highest practical importance to every section of the Union. It secures to us the opening of the trans-Isthmus route across Tehuantepec, and a right of way to the Gulf of California, on conditions that Mexico has never before been willing to concede, and which, being now the result of exceptional cir- cumstances, may be again withdrawn. The opening of these routes is of {yr more impor- tance to the commercial interésts of this coun- try than all the abstractions that party non- sence ever contemplated, and Mr. Buchanan has given a strong proof of his practical saga- city and wisdom in negotiating for them. The accusations against the President, that he is seeking to protect the interest of any par- ticular company, which our correspondent tells us are circulated in Washington, are pure non- sense. Mr. Buchanan comprchends too well the great merits of the subject to peril them in any effort to advance private interests. He has been liberal with Mexico because he knows that the best way to seoure the safety of the Tehuantepec transit is to place the Mexican government in such a position that it can make it safe without the necessity of foreign aid. The object is to make the route so secure that capital shall feel confidence enough to construct the works necessary for the transit, This point cannot be obtained by simply stipulating that the United States government shall have the right to protect it in case of emergency. Our government is one of discussion, and not one of action, and twenty emergencies might rise and pass away before Congress would authorise the sending of a body of troops there. The President knows this, and he therefore seeks so to strengthen the government of Mexico as to enable it to act with energy, and to pre- vent the occurrence of agy emergency such a4 is in question. If he were to insist on any de- mand that would lessen the moral power of the Mexican governmont in its domestic adminis- tration, hé would defeat the very object ho has in viow, by giving a stimulus to the revolu- tionary clement in Mexico, instead of enabling the constitutional government to subdue it. Capitalists would not find half the reason to feel confidence in the assurance that our go- vernment possessed the unrestricted right to protect them, that they would in the knowledge fat Mexico had stipulated to protect thom, and that its government had the assurance of assistance from ours in 80 doing, If the conclusion of the treaty is delayed by any adherence of the constitutional govern- ment to abstract notions merely, we hope that the practical good sense of Senor Mata, the Mexican Minister at Washington, and Senor Lerdo, the Mexican Secretary of the Treasury, who is now in this country, will be able to re- move them. Let the negotiation, therefore, be at once brought to an end, This can be as well done at Washington as at Vera Cruz, and the presence of Mr. McLane here will be of advantage in such a course. We are confident that Mr. Buchanan has no wish to impose any conditions that would weaken, instead of strengthening, the constitutional government of Mexico, and that he will waive anything that might have that practical effect. What is wanted is early action on both sides before circumstances arise that may render useless what has already been accomplished by Mr. McLane. The treaty should by all means bo ready for the action of the Senate before the Presidential question comes up there. Let us therefore have immediate action on it. Journalism Which Pays—The Herald and its Contemporaries. The progress of the newspaper press in the United States is without a precedent in the his- tory of journalism. Its only parallel is that of the country itself. The first real impulse that it received was in the establishment of the penny papers, some five-and-twenty years ago, the Heraup being amongst the number. The penny press, if it did not satisfy all the intel- lectual requirements of the public, at least gave them some idea of what newspaper enter- prise might accomplish. They became dis- gusted with the old drowsy Wall street blanket sheets, and saw in the revolution that had taken place a promise of better things. The price charged, however, was too small to enable the new papérs to keep pace with their ex- pectations. In literary, as well as in commer- cial wares, a good article can only be supplied at a remunerative rate. To satisfy the public, to do justice to our interests, and to secure our personal independence, we raised the price of our journal to two cents. The community at once appreciated the wisdom of the step, and an immediate increase of patronage was the result. Since then the Heratp has continued to prosper rapidly, and has distanced all its competitors. The penny papers which had not the courage to follow its example have nearly all died out, with the exception of a few in Baltimore and Philadelphia, which owe a starveling existence leas to their own merits than to the absence in those cities of any independent and enter- prising journal to compete with them. In New York, we believe, there is one penny daily still left, an obscure sheet called the New York Sun. It was recently offered to a Wall street broker for the modest little sum of one hun- dred thousand dollars, but he prudently re- solved to await a further decline in the price. He showed his sagacity in this, for its real value is not more than a quarter of the amount. Whatever it may have been worth some ten or fifteen years ago, the falling off in its receipts, caused by its obstinate adhesion to the old standard of prices, has brought it down to this estimate. Whilst thus, one after the other, our old com- petitors are getting discouraged and quitting the field, the Herap continues not only to in- crease in favor with the public, but to multiply its resources in a manner which, as we have said, is wholly unexampled in the history of the newspaper press. Keep- ing steadily in viow the principle that adver- tising natronage fs anre ta follow oiroulation, our efforts have been directed to render the Heratp not only the first newspaper in this country, but one of the first in the world. We have spared no expense, we have shrunk from no personal toil, to present to our readers such an amount and such variety of intelligence as we will venture to say have never before been found combined in any daily journal. The re- sult has been what wo anticipated in a busi- ness point of view. Increase of circulation has led to increase of advertising patronage, and both have advanced pari passu with the increase of population, the increase of com- merce, and the increase of New York itself. To show the unprecedented rapidity of this progress, and the splendid resutts to which it is likely to lead, we copy from our books a com- parative view of the amounts received for ad- vertisements during the corresponding periods embraced between the 6th of August and the 11th of September, 1858 and 1859: 858. i Amount for the week ending August 7. $2,769 95 “ “ “ we 3: 3,096 78 3,939 99 287 43 3.916 24 4443 79 Total amount rec 20,754 18 Average per week .. $3,459 03 Amount for the week ending August 6 $4,119 23 “ “ “ NOT 3,787 IL “« “ 43112 16 “« a 3,206 48 “ “ 4,707 71 “ 4:48 76 Total amount received for six weeks $24,881 45 Average per WOK... cececcees 845138 55, It will be seen from the above that the ad- vertisement receipts of the present season ex- hibit on increase of nearly twenty per cent over those of the same period last year. The latter, in their turn, showed an increase of nearly the same amount on the previous year’s returns. In the same proportion our cireula- tion continues year after year to keep pace with the impulse imparted to our advortising patronage, If the present rate of augmenta- tion in both be maintained—and with the un- relaxed vigilance bestowed on all departments of our paper there can be uo doubt that it will— t must be evident to every business man that in the course of avery short time our aggregate annual receipts will amount to a million of dollars, It must not he imagined, however, that wo mean to put all the profits accruing from these large returns into our pockets, It has never been a characteristic of ours to measure with a niggardly hand the obligations that we owed to the public, Where. they have shown, that they have appreciated our exertions we have deult largely and Mberally with them, and paid them back by a heavy expenditure for cach mark of their approbation, Thus the magnificent results which their good will and our own enterprise enable us to ex- hibit will only serve as @ stimulus to redoubled exertions and outlay. We havo a variety of improvements in contemplation, which will render the Hrratp of the future a4 unlike our present issue as that of to-day is like the Herawp of twenty-five years ago. We shall, for instance, soon be compelled to commence — the publication of a triple sheet regularly and of a quadruple sheet occasionally. As a prar minent feature amongst other innovations we purpose, during the next Congress, giving from five to six columns daily of a telegraphic re port of the proceedings ofthe National Legis- lature, thus anticipating the indolent Washing- ton papers trom which the country is obliged to take these reports second-hand. ‘This is enough of our new programme for the present, Tt will, we trust, wake up some of our contem- poraries who are content to go to sleep on the small results which they have achieved. ieeemanstipeasermesenenrnesece: Treasury Estimates and the Facts: It is beginning to be discovered at the Trea- sury Department that the country is recovering from the depression of 1857-8, and that Mr. Secretary Cobb’s estimates are not entitled te as much reliance as might be wished. It seoms that both the receipts from customs and the ex- penditure for the public service are tu: out very differently from his predictions; in « word, that Mr. Cobb’s estimates for the current fiscal year are about as wide of the mark as his estimates for 18568 subsequently proved. The discovery curiously illustrates the rapid rece- very of the country and the singular foresight of the Treasury Department. On the 8th of December, 1857, Mr. Cobb sent to Congress his estimates for the fiscal year 1858, of which five months had then elapsed. In- cluding the balance in the Treasury, whiok amounted to $17,710,114, he estimated the or- dinary receipts of that year from customs, lands and miscellaneous sources, at the sum of $75,389,934. When the accounts of the year were made up, a year afterward, it turned out that ihése receipts had only amounted to $67,983,983, and that the government had only been enabled to pay its way by the issue of Treasury notes. Mr. Cobb had made too little allowance for the economy, forced and yoluntary, which was ghserved by the people at large after the crisis of 1867. The importations, and consequently the customs receipts, proved much less than he had ex- pected. Presently the tide turns. After two years of inaction and stagnation people begin to revive, Enormous cotton and grain crops restore prog- perity to the South and West, and diffuse life and commerce throughout the country. Busi- ness springs up as rapidly as it had sucoumbed; the importations again begin to be enormous, and people consume more foreign fabrics than they did in 1857. Once more the event falai- fies Mr. Cobb’s predictions. On the 6th of December last the report of the Secretary of the Treasury announced that the estimated revenue for the current fiscal year (1859-60) was $69,063,298, including $56,000,- 000 from customs, and $7,063,298 balance ia hand on July 1, 1859; the estimated expendi- ture, $73,139,147; and the consequent deficit at the end of the year $4,075,848. The year has now begun, and enough of the course of trade is seen to show that both receipts and expendi- tures will vary widely from these estimates, and that the balance at the end of the year will probably be a surplus, and not a deficit. It is estimated that the great crops of the West and South will enable the people te take of foreign goods this fiscal year $390,- 000,000 worth, which, at the average rate of duty, would yield the Treasury a sum of $62,400,000, not $56,000,000, as stated by Mr. Cobb. The expenditures, it now appears, will not exceed $63,300,000, instead of $73,139,147; and, by this showing, there should be a balance of nearly $14,000,000 in the Treasury on lat July, 1860, instead of a deficit of $4,000,000, The prospect is cheering indeed, and should redouble the caution of those whom periods of great inflation and great prosperity so fre- quently lead into danger. Now is the time for prudence, or next year we may have a new re- vulsion growing out of the very prosperity of the country. Now is the time for stockholders in banks, railroads, and corporate institutions of all kinds, to look closely after their mana- gers, and to scrutinize narrowly expenditures and enterprises of all kinds, for that great con- servative agent, poverty, is fast disappearing, and we are on the threshold of a period that will tempt men to indulge in all kinds of specu- lation and all kinds of extravagance. As it ig with farmers, who, as they well know, seldom go toruin except when their farm produce is very high in price, so it is with the people at large—the hour of prosperity is the moment of danger. Let those who saw and those whe suffered by the crisis of 1857, see to it that the unbounded crops of 1859, and the immense results which are being gradually developed throughout the land, prove not the forerunner of another such catastrophe. And, in the meantime, perhaps the Treasury Department at Washington will do well, before making any more estimates like those for 1858 and those for 1860, to consult some discreet and experienced New York merchant, and inquire of him what the prospects of trade may be. It would be very sad to see the public faith per- manently shaken in Mr. Cobb’s figures, —- NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. The New Treaty with MextcomAppre= hended Trouble between the Soldiers and Mormons in Utah<The Publie, Store Contract, &c., &e. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. Wasurxaron, Sept. 15, 1860. Mr. MeTane will probably use the whole of the tvd » monihs absence from his post, which the government ha g conceded to him, and the Brooklyn will go to New Yor to reiit. Tn the meantime tha new treaty with Mexico will jg fallow, unlees Senor Mata has received instructions 9 son. his government to arrango tho remaining points to bt , a4. justed, and which relate more to detail than to gv nepaa principles, ‘Thore ig an impresion here that Mr. Buchant py ig in- sisting upon concessions which Mexico objects ; to, bo- cause he wishes io protect tho interests of the Tor wuantapes Company. ‘this impression is both unjust and orroncous. ‘The Prosidont looks to no onc company, but to the general intoresta of all who may have occasion to w 5» tho route. He wishes that it shall be opon and secup ¢ to the com- meroe of tho whole world, and be compre¥ jends that this security can be best given through the act¥ yn of the gov- ernment of Mexico itsolf, rather than f om any external force, which might weaken {ts induence? and Perhaps en- danger it existence at home, by roust ng opposition from @ spirit of nationality, ‘ Tato advicos havo been received — trom Utah by tho governmént. Tho recent outrages’ committed by bands alloged to be under Morigon inflwe’ ace, and the shooting of # soldier, has. greatly exespery ed the Soldiers, and it is with the utmost diffloulty thet ‘Genoral Johnston can keep the army from attacking the “Mormons. If tho Mormona skowd continue their acts Y. violence it ie difficult to tell where it will end. Generai Scott arrived ‘hero (ats morning, aud has bad frequent interviews W'ith the President aud other func- tioneries of the gor ernment. Tho continued absence of the Secretary OL “War may necessitate his rematuing hore somo time. Tt has tt0"sptred that the Hon. John Cochraan opposes ho cont” iuancg of the contract system im tue public swren