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The New Yorx Weexry Herxarp—California edition— containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the World, will be published at eleven o’clock in the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents, Agents will please send in their orders as carly as pos- sible. The News. The steamship Persia, from Liverpool for this port, for the safety of which serious apprehensions were entertained, arrived this morning about three o'clock. The Borussia arrived at this port early yesterday morning from Hamburg and Southampton. She left the last named barbor on the 4th inst., so that her advices are four days later than the news by the Ocean Queen. Consols closed in London on the evening of the 3d inst. at 95$ a 95f—a slight decline from the quotations of the previous day: The bullion in the Bank of England had decreased during the week $1,684,005, half the amount withdrawn being sent to Chile. Cotton was well maintamed in Liverpool on the 2d, and some descriptions advanced one-sixteenth of penny per pound. Flour continued very dull. ‘The political news by the Borussia is not very important. Nothing definite was known about the proceedings in the Zurich Diplomatic Conference. ‘The latest reports state that the new boundary of the Lombardo-Sardinian kingdom was under dis- cussion, and that it was likely the proceedings would drag on to the end of the present month. A Prussian enyoy had arrived at the acene of council. In the meantime Italy remained in a very troubled and excited state; all parties anxiously expecting the result of the deliberations of France, Austria and Sardinia, no one seemed willing to take any decided action. The deputation which was about to proceed to Turin, in order to offer the united crown of Tuscany and Modena to Victor Emanuel, had been countermanded, and many persons thought that in the end the Emperor Napoleon would so arrange it that the throne of Central Italy would be bestowed on the Princess Clothilde, daughter of the Sardinian King, her husband, Prince Napoleon, enjoying the title of “Prince Consort.” The troops of the Pope were preparing to en- gage the soldiery of the Provisional government of the Legations at Rimini, and a battle was daily ex- pected. Should His Hol be victorious, the Grand Duke of Modena w sbe restored, but if the Pope is beaten his chances are gone forever. Pius the Ninth was very ill, and confined to the palace from erysipelas. Doctor Smethurst, who was convicted of poison- ing Miss Bankes, near London, and sentenced to be hanged, had been respited by the Queen. Captain Halpin, of the Galway steamer Argo, had been suspeneded by the Naval Investigating Board for his conduct in connection with the loss of that vessel off Newfoundland. Spain was actively pre to chastise the Moors for their late saeseaeatie Queen's people. The trade strikes still continued in London, the mon receiving large supplies of maney and very able and popular support from many leading men. An “anti-strike’ party had been formea amongst ‘the great capitalists and employers having Mr. Calitt at ite head. The steamship De Soto arrived here from Havana yesterday morning, with advices dated on the 13th instant, There was nothing doing in either sugar or molasses for a week, and n0 reliable quotations gre given, Exchange was very dull. On New ‘SN ork it was at from three to five per cent premiam. Freighta had not improved, The Captain Genera NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1859. having appointed a shipping master for the port of Havana of hie own choosing, eatirely overlooking ‘the nominations made by the Consuls of the United States and England, it was thought that some ofli- cial trouble wou'd enaue in that department, re was still a good deal of excitement in finan: cial and commercial circles refative t> the position and action of the Bank of Havana and the money market in general. A serious fire had ocourred at Goanubacoa. The city of Havana was more healthy, but not perfectly free from fever. An Opera company had opened at the Tacou theatre. It was hoped that the duty on American flour would be much reduced, and an agitation for the importa- tion of frame houses free of duty was 10 progress. Advices from Mexico, dated in Mexico City on the Sist of August and in Vera Cruz on the 4th inst. have been recewed. Miramon was still pro- paring for the campaign to be opened when the rainy season ended, from which he expected great results. General Garza was at Tamaulipas and General Degollado at San Luis, collecting war ma- terial Letters from Saint Domingo City of the 20th of Avgust inform us that in the official @aceta there is a decree from the Vice President of the republic, who is charged with the executive power, granting an amnesty to all potleal offenders and allowing them to return to their country. We have received advices from Kingston, Ja- maica, to the 27th of August, giving full details of the recent negro riots on the north side of the island. Althouch the outbreaks had been sup- pressed, there was great fear entertained that there would be a recurrence of the sanguinary and sedi- tiopary scenes in other parts of the island, The Haptist parsons were on all sides preaching up re- sistance to the authorities, and calling upon their followers to avenge the blood_of their fallen com- patriots. The colonists were anxious to have more troops, even if they have to support them, The advices we elsewhere publish from Bene- guela to the 25th of August, are interesting. The tables were being turned upon the rebels in every direction, and in more than ten engagements they were defeated by the government troops. The utmost enthusiasm prevailed throughout the coun- try, and it was confidently hoped that in another month a great part, if not the whole of the repub- lic, would be pacified. The United States steam vessel Governor Floyd, built for the government to ply between the fortifi- cations at Sandy Hook and New York, was on Sa- turday forcibly taken possession of by one of her builders and towed to Williamsburg, on the plea that she was not paid for. Marshal Rynders, ac- cording to instructions, replevined the vessel, and had her conveyed to the United States barge office. It seems that the builder was rather fast in his pro- ceedings, having demanded payment before it was due, as the vessel is still in an unfinished state. The riot of the men employed on the Bergen tunnel was brought to a close yesterday. The military, under the command of Genera) Hatfield, marched to the place where the ‘obstructions were placed on the Brie Railroad, and under their pro- tection a detailed force removed the obstructions, after some resistance by the rioters. Some sixty or seventy of the most prominent among the riot- ers were arrested and lodged in Hudson county jail. Areport of the proceedings is gtven else- where. We give elsewhere further details of the damage done by the equinoctial storm of Saturday. On Long Island great damage was done by the unroof- ing of houses, injury of barns, and the ruin of their contents. The Potomac river is represented as very high, and the water still rising. The wharves at George- town are overflowed, and fears are entertained of serious damage. The lecture announced to have been delivered | last Sunday by the Rev. J. H. Hatch, on the “Philo- sophy and Progress of Sunday Laws,” bat which was unavoidably postponed, was delivered to a large and attentive auditory yesterday morning at Hope Chapel, Broadway. The discourse was brief, but pungent aud argumcatadve. The tevturer very ably reviewed the history of the Sunday laws and the causes that had brought them into operation, showing most conclusively that they were founded upon the Mosaic code and the necessities of the Church of Rome. The views so plainly held ia the Hexap, as well as those taken by the late mam- moth meeting, were fully sustained by the re- searches of the lecturer. At the conclusion of the discourse a rather animated discussion took place on the subject of the lecture, and it was pretty plainly to be seen from the general scope of the discussion that-men’s minds are being fully awa- kened tothe common sense view of the subject, while the musty ideas of the Puritanical sects are being rapidly dispersed. Agreeably to advertisement in the daily papers, the Rev. Charles E. Harris, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, preached inthe morn- ing to the text “Search the Scriptures,” John, chap. v., verse 39, very ably, andfin the evening to a very crowded house, or rather church, on the sub- ject “A plea for the Sabbath in America.” His de- nunciations of Volks Gardens, &c., were very em- phatic. A largely attended meeting took place last even- ing at No. 195 Bowery, at which the Sunday ques- tion was freely and fully discussed. The meeting was lively and interesting, but our report of it has to give place to other important matter, The cquinoctial blow, with the heavy fall of rain expe- rienced on Saturday, tended to interfere with outdoor busi- ness and to check transactions in some branches of com- merce. Fears were expressed that suould the recent cold weather and the storm of Saturday have extended over the cotton regions of the South that their effects would prove quite unfavorable. The autumn weather of last year was remarkably fine and late, and no such con- tion of it as the present was experienced here so carly in the season. Not only the yield of cotton, but also that of tobacco, are liable to be affected by carly frost and storms, and a good deal of anxiety exists with persons in the trade to learn the effects of the late change of tempo- rature and of the storm of yesterday upon the growing crops, which, owing to a late spring, are said in many sections to be quile backward. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 2,000 balez, 1,600 of which consisted of New Orleans strict middling at12ic. We, however, have no change to notice in our regular quotations, at which the market closed firm. Owing to the storm the sales of flour were limited, and common grades of State and Western were easicr, while extra brands were unchanged. Southern flour was with. out alteration in price, while sales were moderate. Wheat ‘was inactive and prices without change of moment. Corn was scarce and held above the views of buyers. Pork was steady, with sales of mess at $16 122;, and prime at $10 66 a $10 6237. The prevailing storm interrupted transactions in sugars. The market was firm, however, While gales were confined to about 150 hhds. Cuba musco- vado and seven bhds, Porto Rico, Coffee was quiet; no sales of moment transpired. Freights were firm, while engagements were light. Tue Rome or Kxow Normoism.—Having failed to secure a bid from either the republi- cans or the democracy, the managers of the rump of the Know Nothing faction of this State have hit upon a notable expedient for carrying our November election. Their plan is to adopt a part of the republican State ticket and @ part of the democratic, and thus show that both those parties are at the mercy of the Americans. Very well. The Ame- rican State Convention, whigh will be required to cut out this work, will meet at Utica on Wednesday (the day after to-morrow), and wo hope that the brethren will have a good time. We fear, however, that the dark lantern is snuffed out, and that the last remains of the late great American party of this State will be frittered away in November under the pressure of Seward’s “irrepressible conflict” on the one hand, and the raffianism which, on the other hand, controls the movements of the democracy, And 80, with regard to Know Nothingism, we expect to get on Wednesday the funeral proceedings from Utiea, including a moving eulogy from Booby Brooks or Gene- ral Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs. Wise and Douglas—Probable Overthrow of the Convention System of President Making. The impression is gaining ground that Mr. Douglas must inevitably be an independent or stump candidate for the next Presidency. He has laid down bis ultimatum to the Charleston Convention. He will not accept the nomina- tion of that body without bis platform, nor can it be supposed that he will consent to sup- port any other nomination upon any other platform, He has taken his ground. He has committed his friends. He cannot recede. He cannot surrender, The issue is thus reduced to the submission or resistance of the Conven- tion. Nor do wo think that it requires any gift of prophecy to predict the result. The South will be inflexibly opposed to both tHe man and bis hobby; and the Convention will be compelled to repudiate both in order to pre- serve a semblance of the nationality of the party. ‘Thus we may safely assume that Mr. Douglas and his platform will be thrown out of the Charleston Convention. And what then? He cannot submit without falling back from the position of a leader to a private in the ranks. He will not do this. It is no part of his pro- gramme. He will become an independent Northern democratic candidate. We believe that all his magazine essays, pamphlets and stump speeches of the Jast six or eight months, have been directed to this end, and in view of the chances on his part of carrying the Presidential election into Congress as one of the three highest candidates from the Electoral Colleges. It is impossible to give any other rational construction than this to the extensive and expensive electioneering system in which Mr. Douglas is now so actively engaged. He is mustering, recruiting and organizing his forces—first, for a vigorous fight in the Con- vention, and secondly, for an active campaign against the Convention. And so, after the fashion of Martin Van Buren’s rebellion of 1848, we may set down Mr. Douglas as an inde- pendent Northern democratic candidate for the next Presidency. Gov. Wise, as a Southern aspirant, upon an impracticable Southern ultra platform, is in a similar position. He, too, has forewarned the Charleston Convention that bis peculiar plat- form, tantamount to a Congressional slave code for the Territories, must be adopted, or that there will be a Southern rebellion against the “time-honored usages of the party.” Butasthe Convention can no more venture to submit to the dictation of Wise than to the instructions of Douglas, the former will be left in the same condition as the latter. We apprehend, too, from the dashing intrepidity and fearless inde- pendence of the Virginia Governor, that he would like nothing better than a plausible ex- euse to take the stump as an independent Southern democrat against Douglas and his Northern supporters of squatter sovereignty, and in the teeth of any half-way or two-faced contrivances of the Charleston Convention. Thus, apprehending that the labors of the Convention to reunite and harmonize and control the democratic party, and the spoils and plunder of the federal government, will result in a dissolution of the party and a scrub race for the next Presidency, we may begin to congratulate the country upon the fact that we are in reality upon the threshold of a great and glorious revolution. We see that this Convention system of President-making has had its day—is falling to pieces, and must come to the ground. Granted that the motives of Wise and Douglas in this connection are en- tirely selfish, they are yet entitled to the credit of revealing the rottenness and the weakness of the party despotism of these National Con- yentions. It is to their experience, and their knowledge of the despicable jugglery and trickery of these Conventions, that we are in- debted for the stand which each has taken in regard to the succession. Jn this view, between Douglas and Wise, this Convention system at Charleston will probably suffer the same fate as that of the old Congres- sional caucus nominating system of 1824. In that year Crawford was the regular caucus no- minee, and Jackson, Adams and Clay, were in- dependent candidates. Thus the election was thrown into the House, Crawford being the lowest of the three candidates carried up, Jackson the highest, and Adams the second. But the outside, or fourth candidate, Mr. Clay, decided the election through the coalition of his party in the House with the party of Adams, From that day and against that coalition we may date the practical organization of the present democratic party. The National Convention system of President making, however, was first brought into requi- sition for the benefit of Van Buren for Vice President, against Calhoun, in 1832, and the first damaging blow against this system was Jrom the same Van Buren against the Baltimore Convention of '48. The effect of that blow was very suggestive; but it was too early to be fol- lowed up. But the democratic nomination of 1852 resulted in an administration which would have put an end to the Convention system but for the saving interposition of Mr. Buchanan. Now we perceive, with the retirement of Mr. Buchanan from the arena, that the Charleston Convention will most probably be the last of the democratic party, and the last effort of this sort to forestall a free eleetion by the people. We count upon a serub race in 1860, with four candidates in the field, a3 in 1824, and an election by the House of Representatives, And we are gratified at this prospect, for between a National Convention of irresponsible political gamesters, vagabonds and loafers, and the re- sponsible representatives of the people in Con- gress, who would not prefer the latter as the agents to decide the election of the President of the United States? Tue Zcricu ConveReNce.—From the news re- ceived by the Borussia from Europe, and which will be found elsewhere in our columns, we learn that a representative from Prussia had arrived at Zurich, in order to take a part in the Conference. If Prussia sends a representa- tive there, perhaps England and Russia and other nations will consent to do so, and the consequence will be that the Conference will gradually therge into a Congress, the very con- summation which Russia desires. A Congress will perhaps be more successful, and make fome settloment of the question, good or had, Ovr Presipentian Lisr—Gexerat Scorr Amoxa THe Smaut. Fry.—In connection with the appointment of General Scott for the deli- cate duty of maintaining our territorial rights on the Pacific coast, and our present relations of peace with England at the same time, we have spoken of him as the gréat pacificator. Nor can we recur to his important services in this character, running through a period of half a century, nor can we roflect a moment upon the sound patriotic national principles which have always governed him as a public man, without being impressed with the superiority of his claims to the Presidency over those of all the little mousing politicians and mischief- making sectional Presidential aspirants of the ay. ‘3 Thus, taking General Scott as the standard of our judgment, Seward dwindles down to the pitiful proportions of a sectional demagogue. and Wise, Davis and Senator Brown, in the South, and Douglas on the stump in the West, may all be properly stowed away in the sane basket. Nor do our democratic Presideutial aspirants of New York stand in a much better position; for, while we find Horatio Seymour offering incense at the shrine of Buncombe in the Northwest, we find Daniel S. Dickinson at Syracuse consenting to play the ignoble part of whitewasher to the unscrupulous Regency gamesters for the Charleston Convention, Among all such mere peddling and drivelling politicians, whose claims, hopes and purposes are limited to their party caucuses and the trickery of their party managers, General Scott towers aloft like a giant among the pigmies. We still believe, too, that if his name were actively started for the Presidency, in behalf of the great independent conservative body of the people, he would still be found young enough and strong enough torun all our little politicians and demagogues off the track. Itis only upon some such man of mark, whose patriotism is as broad as the Union, and whose history is his best platform, that the independent patriotic men of the North and South can unite in 1860; but, with such a man, they can surely contro) the result of the campaign. The democracy have such a man in Mr. Buchanan; but he has withdrawn from the fight. Where have they another competent to fill his place, and where have the opposition another qualified to stand as a substitute for General Scott? The Peace Mission for General Scott—Con- flicting Claims to the San Juan Island. The administration has become apprehensive that the conflicting claims of the American and British governments to the island of San Juan in the Straits of Fuca, may possibly lead to a collision which might involve both governments in hostilities. General Harney has given proof of his resolve to hold the island against all op- posing claims, while on the other hand Goy- ernor Douglas, of British Columbia, appears to be equally resolved to make the claim of his government prevail. Harney is impetuous, and Douglas is obstinate, and hence the danger of collision is imminent. The island is held by a detachment of our troops, but several British armed vessels are cruising around it, not only prepared to land an armed force there but to resist the landing of any more American troops. Such a condition of things is, to say the least, dangerous; and it is an eminently wise measure on the part of our government to despatch Lieutenant General Scott to the scene of difficulty. It is not the first time that General Scott's talents as a pacificator have been brought into play in the service of the country. In 1832 he was selected by General Jackson to go to South Carolina to put down the nullification movement, which threatened to involve the peace and perpetuity of the Union. In this service everything depended upon his pru- dence and discretion. His difficult and deli- cate mission was executed with the utmost suc- cess, Six years afterwards, when the move- ment of the Canadian patriots was causing so much excitement, General Scott was sent to the Niagara frontier, with instructions to defendour own territory, if necessary, against invasion, or to maintain peace throughout the borders. Perhaps it is not too much to say that it was’ chiefly owing to his influence and exertions that open hostilities did not break out between England and the United States. In the summer of the same year (1838) he was sent to the Southwest to direct the removal of the Cherokee Indians to the far West, and when he returned from the successful discharge of that mission he found that his services as a pacificator were re- quired by the government on the northeastern frontier. The difficulty in regard to that fron- tier had become so great and menacing that President Van Buren announced in his message the peace of the to Congress that two nations was daily and imminently endangered. On this service he was brought into contact with Sir John Harvey, an English officer, whose ac- quaintance he had made years before, in the war of 1812, and who was the Governor of New Brunswick. Their mutual friendship, and the wise and conciliatory course which General Scott pursued, dispelled the danger, and the Aroostook difficulty was settled without resort to arms. President Buchanan, therefore, in despatch- ing General Scott toSan Juan, gives to the English government the highest evidence of his desire to avoid the danger of drifting into hos- tilities. It is an assurance of the pacific inten- tions of our government in the matter. Gover- nor Douglas has, on acyeral occasions, mani- fested a strong dislike to Americans. When, for instance, the Fraser river gold fever wos raging, a year since, he resorted to every means to throw impediments in the way of our countrymen, unmindful of the full liberty which had been extended to British subjects in the California mines, It will not be his fault if a collision does not take place; but we hope that General Scott will be there in time to prevent any such unpleasant occurrence. We believe that our claim is a just and inde- feasible one; but at the same time we are aware that the terms of the treaty of 1846 ore 80 far from being specific that neither govern- ment can clearly establish its legal claim to the sovereignty of fhe island. It is a matter which should be amicably discussed and arranged ‘between the two governments; and if that of Great Britain is as desirous of closing all open questions between us as it expresses itself, this question of the Washington boundary line will soon be set at rest for ever. In the mean time our government is acting most prudently in placing the matter in the hands of General Scott. The General sets out to-morrow in the steamship North Star. His readiness to depart at a few days’ notice on this long journcy of six or seven thousand wiles, arriving at bis place of destination after the rigorous winter of that region has set in, shows that, politicians to the contrary notwith- standing, the General is not yet too-old for the Presidency. The Bergen Tunnel Riots—The Evil and its Remedy. The recent proceedings at the Bergen tun- nel, on the line of the Erie Railroad, are emi- nently worthy of deep consideration by every goed citizen, and the remedy for the existing evil should be at once sought. We do not allude alone to the high-handed proceedings of the workmen when we speak of the existing evil. They are wrong, and cannot produce good to the sufferers. But they do not Constitute the whole of the evil. There is much antecedent to these proceedings, which are in fact results only, that is as much a part of the avil as the proceedings of the barricaders at Bergen. We allude to the infamous system pursued by the corporate companies, of which the Erie is a type, and the contractors who do its work. The Erie Railroad claims to be a work of great public utility, and its managers have proceeded in its construction, coolly sacri- ficing everybody that had anything to do with t. First, the private stockholders, capitalists, widows, orphans, every one that invested a cont in it were despoiled; then the State was sucked in for three millions of dollars; and then a new plan of attack was laid against those who wished to lay by their earnings in some safe investment in the shape of mortgage bonds. By this combined system of fraud, called in Wall street financiering, a work whose market value to-day does not exceed fourteen million of dollars, has cost somebody very nearly forty millions, If the widows and orphans who have been despoiled, the capitalists who have been cheat- ed, and the honest voters who have been taxed and swindled by the Erie Railroad system, could be all at one place, contemplating their own and each other’s wrongs at the same time, as the Bergen tunnel laborers have been, they too would have barricaded the road, and mobbed the managers if they could find them. The case of the laborer is still more hard than that of the capitalist. By their labor they live, and yet, through the store order syatem, they lose half its value in the purchases they are thus compelled to make. Hundreds are gathered together to work nominally at a dollar or a dollar and a half a day. A store is established in the neighborhood, and instead of receiving their wages in money, they must take orders for goods. There they must take, as it is alleged, bacon, bread and boots at prices far above what they can be purchased for anywhere else. Oppressed by poverty the laborers have accepted this unwillingly, but yet without resistance. But when, at the end of the fortnight or the month, pay-day comes and even the contractor's store is closed against them, it is not at all strange that rather than lie down in the ditch and there starve, they should resort to such means as are within their power to obtain the life they have earned by their labor. This statement of the condition of the laborer is, however, emphati- cally denied by the contractor in another column; but we give the two statements in order that there may be no injustice to either party. We do not mean in these remarks to justify the resort to violence by defrauded or starv- ing laborers, but our object is to draw the at tention of the community to the true causes 0 the evil, and to point ont the remedy. It is of little use to preach a moral respect for the law to hundreds of starving or excited men, and still less useful to shoot them down because they are hungry and demand their wages, The remedy to be applied should be applied beforehand by proper legislation to govern corporations and con- tractors, In England they have been obliged to abolish, by act of Parliament, the system o paying wages in store orders; and our laws inf regard to sham corporations are far too loose, Instead, therefore, of calling out the militia to force the laborer to stand and be cheated, it would be well for those who claim to be pub- lic servants, and ask for popular support, to look for the legislative remedy for the true causes of these workmen’s riots. Saino or tHe Great Easterx.—We learn, by the company’s advertisements inthe London Shipping Gazette of the 3d inst., that the dates of sailing of the Great Eastern, both on her trial trip and her first voyage to this country, have been pestponed from the time previously an- nounced. She was to start on her trial trip from Portland, near Weymouth, on Saturday, the 17th, leaving her moorings in the Thames on the 6th, and stopping at the Nore to adjust her compasses. She was announced to remain at Portland from the 9th to the 17th, and after this trip—whieh was intended to last about three days—she returns to Holyhead, where she will remain open to visiters for a week, and will take her @eparture from that port for America on the 29th of the present month. She is advertised to take first class passen- gers only, on the trial trip, at fares of five, eight and ten pounds sterling, according to the cabins selected, including provisions. The fares to this country will be from eighteen to twenty- five pounds, with an extra charge for state cabins; and the passengers, in this instance also, will be confined to those of the first class, Return tickets from Portland, United States, will be furnished at half fare. She is advertised to sail from Portland on her return voyage on the Ist of November, which will give her about three weeks to exhibit herself to the curious in this country, who will doubtless avail themselves of the opportunity by thonsands—that is, pro- vided that she crosses the Atlantic within seven days, as expected. Should she leave on the 29th, she will be fairly due here on the 7th of October, and the announcement of her appearance, sent by tele- graph all over the country, will be the signal for a general movement of visiters from all parts of the United States and Canuda—except of the triumphant Portlanders, who can see the tight at their own doors. leantime we must wait, not without some anxiety, for the report of her trial trip. No mnouncement is made as to what direction that trip is to take; perhaps she will run across to Cherbourg, in order to show Napoleon what “perfidious Albion” can do in the shipbuild- ing line. Oar N Carrespondengs, wi, Madeira, August 20; 1950, } Foncuat, Madcira, August 20, 1969. Since the departure of the Cumberiand on the fh inst., very little of interest has transpired hero to writo, about. -wat Marion, Commander W. Brent, twenty- Porto Grande, arrived yesterday. wilt frst give hor orow lbarty and then proceed to the Const. he Marion will do the same, and follow when fully recruited. She ie short of officers, having sent several homo in charge of prizes, Licutenant Trevott Abbott, und Midshipman W. B. Hall, of the Constellation, have doen transferred to her, the lat: Wer to De agting maater. nine days eae Span ey RT eR a ie rr rc le RL LAMININ” Hyun nsi% sre aeeremoreears rerpeeexe apagemone Pena eemeeca wk Sid B. THE LATEST NEWS, From Washington. INSTRUCTIONS FOR GEN. SOOTT—EX-SENATOR COOPER'S. TRON MzEN’s 1, BAGUB—THE NEW YORK CONVENTION, hata Wasmmsaton, Sept. 18, 1859, A messenger was « 'eépatched this evening with instruc- tlons to Gen. Scott, 0, “F government has left the old here a wide margin for bis fa, ‘ure action, relying upon his good Judgment and wise coum in adjusting and sottling the existing differences between the two governments, Gos, Scott’s willingness in acceptin,? this difficult and arduong task has greatly relieved the adm/vistration, and thoy lool upon # favorable and happy termin.\tion of this at presems embarrassing and troublesome question. Mr. Campbell, Boundary Commissiowr, who has beem engaged for upwards of two years in arranging tise boun- dary in dispute, had before him the full and entire views, of our government upon the subject, and as the adminkstrar tion supposed had nearly arranged the whole matter, when intelligence of Gon, Harnoy’s seizure of the island of San Juan reached Washington. The administration are somewhat at a logs to know what to do, inasmuch ag they have not heard ono word from Mr, Campbell sincosthe difficulty arose, Ex-Senator Cooper's cheap postage and protection mand- esto has produced no little sensation among the President making politicians here from different parta of the country. In an Iron Mon’s League, which he recommends, they recognize a new power in the middlo States; which, if properly organized, iscapable of holding in check the Sectional disorganizing parties of the day, perhaps of dic- tating the nomination and election of the Presidont im 1860. They hope, however, ironmasters will not have the political sagacity to act on the suggestion, Postmaster General Holt will leave bere to-morrow for Kentucky, and will be absent for two wecks. The administration aro congratulating themselves upom the happy termination of the New York Convention. Tho course of Governor Dickinson in pouring oil upon troubied waters is hearjily commended by the President. Dickin- son stock is considerably above pur. Judgo Douglas arrived hero last evening. The European News via Halifax. Boston, Sept. 18, 1869. The Judge before whom a motion was brought for an injunction against the American Tolegraph Company in the matter of the European news, received via Halifax and Sackville yesterday, postponed his final decision unt Tuesday noxt, but his remarks indicated that when mad@ it would be adverse to the plaintiffs, who are endeavouring to force the American Company to delay the press report until after private parties shall haye beon put in ‘poases- sion of the news. ——_—_—______. The Gale at the Eastward. Bostow, Sept. 18, 1889. The Northeast gale during the last night was very se- vere, but we hear of only one marine disaster. The schooner N. L. Wasson of Brockville, Maine, was drives ashore on Nantasket and bilged; the crew wore saved, but the vessel is a total loss. At about noon to-day the woather cleared up. The several steamboat trains from New York Saturday afternoon, arrived in Boston to-day. They were some- what detained by the storm. The steamer Empire State from Fall River last night for New York, was at Newport at twelve o'clock to-day. ————_ Freshet in the Potomac. ‘Wasnrvatoy, Sept. 18, 1859. The Potomac river is very high, and there is much dan- ger from drift. No serious damage has yet occurred, but the water is still rising, and fears are entertained for locks Nos. 4 and 6 of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. The warchouse of the New York Steamship Company is in jeopardy, and the wharves in Georgetown are over- flowed. ——_______. Marine Disasters. AurxanpriA, Va., Sept. 18, 1859, A brig, name unknown, with a cargo of plaster, whick . has been ashore, is towing up; another brig also unknown, in ballast, is ashore twelve miles below here. SES ASS eames Non-Arrival of the Nova Scotian, Fartuxr Porst, Sept. 18—11 P. M. There are yet no signs of tho steamship Nova Scotian, now about due, with Liverpool advices to the 6th inst. Violation of the Virginia Inspection Laws: Norrorx, Va., Sept. 17, 1850. The schooner Alexander, of Rockaway, has Ybeew seized in Northampton county for violation of tho inspec- tion laws, but was released on payment of the penalty of $500, Secretary Floyd at Norfolk. Norroxx, Va., Sept, 17, 1859. Secretary Floyd and lady have arrived here. The Fire at Attleboro, Boston, Sept. 18, 1859. The loss by the Gro in Attleboro was $70,000, and ia covered by insurance to the amount of $50,000, all in New England offices. The Stabbing Affray in Boston. Boston, Sept. 18, 1859. Mr. Fay, who was stabbed yesterday by Dr. Ayor, will probably recover, provided mortification does not super- vene. Sentence of a Defaulter. St. Louis, Sept. 17, 1859. George 0. Atherton, charged with embezzling $53,000 from the Southern Bank of St. Louis, in Aprit last, was convicted to-day, and sentenced to five years in the peni- tentiary. —$_$$____ Markets. Berrato, Sept. 17—6 P. M. Flour _in fair demand ; prices unchanged : sales 1,300 bbis. Wheat in light supply and moderate demand, ex- cept for small milling lots; market tending downward: sales 5,000 bushels white Canada in small lots at $1,92 $1,923,; 850 bushels white winter Illinois at ’ tho same price, 900 bushels red winter Illinois and{Milwaukeo club on private terms. Corn scarce arid in better de- mand; sales 5,000 bushels No. 1 Ilinoia at 74c. Oats steady: sales 2,000 bushels Western at 3234¢c, Barley— Prime Canada in demand at 65c. Rye nominal. Whiskey quict and nominal at 2435. New Orteays, Sept. 17, 1859. The sales of cotton to-day were 2,500 bales at easier, but quotably unchanged prices, Freights w Liverpool 9-16d. a 19-324. Oswedo, Sept. 17—6 P. M. Flour is in good demand and steady’: sales 1,000 bbls, ab $4 25 for State from new Chicago pring wheat: $4 75 for red winter ditto; $5 25 for white ditto, including choice: double extra at ’$6 25a%5 50. Grain of all descriptions niet and quotations nominal. Canal freights.wuchanged. ind unfavorable. Receipts by lake unimportant, (Oanal exports—840 bbis. flour, 8,600 bushels wheat, Toronto, Sept. 17—6 P. M. Flonr steady and Se. advanced. Wheat unsettled. Oate te. n 8c. Barley 65: ——— City Intelligence. Sunpay AT Jones’ Woops—ANorier ASCENT OP CHIARINI—= The announcement of a aacred concert, in conjunction with the daring tight ropo performances of Signor Chiarinly at Jones’ Wood yesterday, attracted a multitude of citizens, numbering three or four theusand. Tho music, for somo unexplained reason, was omitted, so much as the We eas of « hand organ not being heard about the ea ‘uring: the day; but Chiarini came off in his usual brilliant man~ nor. Ont of respect to the day he dispensed vg his Cus- tomary stylish costume, appearaing instead fo a pair of linen pants, in his shirt sleeves, bare-head a2. and with canvass slippers on his feet. The rope ving, been. soaked in last night's rain offorded footing more iL. OF dinarily precarious, and, while walking backwards, Chiarini came near loging his life. Ho tipped. slight~ ly upon a gny rope, siaggered, and. Teeled, aud. 6ne end of his’ balance pole suddenly described. thes are of a largo circle in the vir; but he finally sue< ceeded in regaining bis balance, greatly to the relief of the audience. In order to make amends for thy faux pas, Chiarini put into his after performances sa number ofoxtra foats, not only standing on his head ayy ying down on his back midway of tho rope, but standiy cn one leg while describing a eemi-circle in’ the alr w ith the other; standing on one hand (without his. Line ad ing. ing by his hands and finally descending: from rope down the slack end, hand over hand. There was } ager, &c.,to ba had in abundance, but the @owd was or derly and well bebaved, and everybody seemed to. e1 ramble about the beautiful grounds, The useal Qype tunities were alforded to those who desired to. «of -CRpOt weight,” their muscle or their lungs, for & peany’ ; Putoce extensively availed of There were irae a amber of adies and children enjoying the fine weathy rand the ‘open air recreations with mych vest. The tawn, on both the Second and Third ayonue roads, wore crowded ti] after dark, and several steambe tg took loads of people away from the grounds. ARREST OF A COLORED SrRaeT PRRACHER.~ 4 gantleman of color, ono Rov. Joseph Barnos, was tw con into custody yesterday for the offence of proasby ng, coram publico, withow @ ticket of leave from the 0 iy Fathers. Barnes had attracted a numorous 4 - ers on the dock at the foot of Preside net ear held forts, in the most atbator¥ n manuor on the ovils of uarighteousness in genoral, an’. intomperanco in partictt- Jar, He became highly dy nant at the idea of being molested, and in referexce to the question of Justice Steers if ho had a liconso, he aaid he hhad not one from the olty” autborities, but that he hy ¢ one from Almighty God. asserted, niso, that the ‘city ordinanco roqu! 4 ore to have licenses war, not in oder on high “ wid de fudcy ob all tings.” Justice Steers discharged him on homer Nhat Re would no} again preach without @ cars down Si aaa acl MM i al