The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1859, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1859.-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS- fs Me it il will be at the TERMS, cash én advance, Money sent by mal willbe of th risk of Che sender. Postage amps not r money. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth stroct—IrauiaN Orena—Punitast NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. —EVOWTIONS ON THE TIGHT Rore—Nicopemus—Macic Puss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ovuk Mess—More Srr— Gueen Monsten. WINTER GARDEN, Broadavay, opposite Bond street.— or. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rutina Passion— "S$ THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Woru AnD Stace. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tureg Guarps- men—Faisky Copaixx—Tai.ox’ ov Tamworta. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After- oon—MULETRER oF TaLKDO—Rose or ‘Suakon. Evening— Mystexious StRaNGER—Mu. axp Mus. Waits. WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway.—Fru1or1an Soncs, Dances, &¢.—Brpoun ARans. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanica Hall, 472 Broadway.— Borresquxs, Sones, Dances, &c.—Hicu, Low, Jack. TRIPLE SHEET. York, Thursday, September 22, 1859. IMPORTANT TO AD' VERTISERS. Owing to the great increase of our advertising business, | we are compelled to ask our advertising friends to come { This they can accomplish by sending in their advertisements | toour aid and help us to get our paper to press. ft 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 ticir chance as regards classification, The steamship New York reached this port last night, bringing files of papers to the 6th inst., the day on which she left Southampton. Her news is three days later than that brought by the Persia, but not so late as the telegraphic news by the Ara- bia at Halifax, which is to the 10th inst. We have also advices from Liverpool to the 7th by the Nova Scotian, which passed Farther Point yesterday. The Political news is of some importance. The confe- rences at Zurich had been suspended, and Parma and Modena had passed resolutions in favor of annexation to Piedmont. We give the speech of Victor Emanuel, in which he declines to accept the united crown of Tuscany and Modena until after the assembling of a general congress, with some other interesting extracts on Italian and French politics. Miss Jesie Mereton White (Madame Mario) had been released from prison in Bologna. A petition for the restoration of Prince Napoleon to the head of affairs in Algeria had been signed by the principal proprietors in that colony. The principal local item of interest in Great Britain was the splendid trial performance of the Great Eastern, she having run fifteen miles in two minutes less than an hour, with a strong tide against her, and with an expenditure of only two- thirds of her power. The Warwick cup had been won by the American horse Stark. The London money market was well supplied, and rates un- changed. Consols closed on the 9th at 95} 953 for money and 95j a 95} for account. Cotton un- altered in price, but rather easier. Flour was quiet, and corn dull of sale, with a somewhat im- proved tone in wheat. San Francisco advices to the 5th inst. state that five hundred American troops were on the Island of San Juan, had erected earthworks, and so dis- posed the field pieces as to command the harbor of Victoria. The British Admiral had refused to obey the orders of Governor Douglas to bring on a colli sion, and preferred waiting orders from home. Friendly relations existed between the British and American officers. The reported massacre of troops in Oregon by the Indians was discredited in San Francisco. The steamship Washington had been libelled before the Brazilian Consul. Advices from Mexico to the 16th inst. state that Miramon was holding a council in reference to an expedition against Vera Cruz. in obtaining a large sum of money on government bonds. At Havana, on the 18th, the money market was tight, and the Bank was preparing to issue new bills. Sugar was dull and nominal. The American State Convention met yesterday at Utica, and made their nominations for State ofli- cers. The ticket is precisely the same as that adopted by the republicans, with the exception of Canal Commissioner and State Prison Inspector, who have been selected from the democratic nomi- nees. Below we give the several tickets, so that the various nominations may be readily ascertained and compared :— Office. Secretary State. MOZART HALL. ALBANY REGEN! -D. R. Floyd Jones. .D. R. ndf'd F. Chore vman Tremain. Canal Com State Pri Judge C. App Clerk C. Appeals. r. Johnson. . John L, Lewis, Jr. ‘Treasurer. Canal Com SI Hias been called to the claims of American citizens on that government, many of which are of long standing. Peru has recently expressed a willing- ness to settle, in one or two instances, but the State Department is anxious that all may be incladed, and has directed our Minister to insist on the settle. ment of a number of other similar cases. No re- dress has yet been obtained from Chile for the nu- merous outrages perpetrated on persons and pro- perty of American citizens in that country. Despatches received at the State Department from Mr. Yancey, our Minister to the Argentine Confederation, confirm the published accounts of affairs in Buenos Ayres and the Confederation. The firing into an American steamer by one of the bel- igerents is believed by Mr. Yancey to have arisen from error, and was not intended as an insult. Mr. Yancey had strong hopes of being able to bring about a reconciliation between the two countries. Our correspondent in Barbadoes, writing on the ‘2d of September, sends the following commercial Teport:—Our market is in quite an unsettled state at this moment, owing to the excessive arrivals hat have taken place from the United States, and sales are difficult to be made even at the reduced rates which are submitted to, as native corn and Potatoes are coming to market and will soon be plentiful. The plantings this year have been larger ‘than ever known before, chiefly on account of free coolle labor. Codfish is in supply, and selling at $4. Good mackerel would be saleable. Herrings and alewives are plentiful and dull. Lumber and shingles in fair supply. The growing cropa are suffering for wanfof rain. The weather is intensely hot. No sugar for sale. Molasses 17c. per gallon. Rum 60c., duty paid. A reduction in the force of the Custom House in He had succeeded | Cobb, The reduction will be principally in the Naval Office and Surveyor’s Department. Conside- rable reduction will also be consequent on the new contract system, The Board of Education met last evening, but } the business transacted was of no great importance. ‘The question of * marking” in the public schools had been intended for the discussion of the Board, but was withdrawn for a future meeting. This question will excite great attention when it comes up. Several grants to Ward Schools were made, and after the routine business of the Board was transacted, an adjournment was moved and carried. * There was no meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration yesterday, a quorum not being in at- tendance. The number of emigrants arrived up to September 21, for the present year, was 55,658, showing a decrease of 6,507 when compared with the arrivals up to the same period in 1858. The amount of the commutation fund now in bank is $21,217 63, A meeting of the Anti-State Prison Labor Asso- ciation was held at Convention Hall, 179 Wooster street, last night. There was but a slim attend- ance, owing to the inclemency of the weather, and nothing but the ordinary routine business was transacted. The suit against a Hudson vigilance committee for tarring and feathering a negro barber of that city was continued in the Supreme Court yester- day. The case was adjourned over until this morn- ing, after several witnesses for the defence had been examined. The autumn regatta of the New York Yacht Club will take place to-day. The course is from a buoy off Owl's Head, L. I.,to the Light ship and back. | five minutes afterwards between each class. The | prize in each class is a piece of plate valued at $50. ' tended with. Among the prizes, a full list of which | prime. The sloops of the third class will get under way at half-past ten o’clock, and the others at intervals of The entries are given elsewhere. The horticultural and agricultural display and American Institute cattle show opened yesterday at Hamilton Park. The horticultural display is un- usually fine, considering the difficulties to be con- we publish, five are awarded to various products from the establishment of Mr. James Gordon Ben- nett, who exhibited three pumpkins weighing from 150 to 170 pounds each. The Young Men’s Republican Committee held a public ratification meeting last night to endorse the republican State ticket. It was expected that. some of the nominees would be present on the force, agrees with the statement to the like effect made by Lord John Russell some time since in Parliament, and shows that France and England hold the same position on that portion of the Italian question, A deputation from the Duchies had offered the united cvown to Victor Emanuel, who replied that he would give tiema reply after the conclusion of the new negotiations that were about to com- mence, Russia also was pressing the propo- sition of a general Congress of Powers. From these points of the news it seems clear that Louis Napoleon has determined that Italy shall cease to be a mere “geographical expres- sion,” and that under a satisfied nationality she shall take her place among the great Powers. To the carrying out of this determination he was likely to encounter as much difficulty from the inconsiderate and exigent demands of the Italians as from the obstinacy of Austria. He had, therefore, taken the course of showing to the parties most interested, and to the rest of Europe, that persistence in their demands was bringing them all to the verge of a general war, in which France has no interest. That is, in fact, the position in which our latest advices eave the Continent of Europe. Se Northwestern Boundary Dispute with England. We received by telegraph last night later news from the island of San Juan relative to the movements of the American and British troops there; and by the arrival of the Arabia at Halifax, from England, we learn of the effect produced in that country by the news of Gen. Harney’s occupation of the island in question. ‘The news from the island of San Juan indi- cates that there will be no collision between the forces of the two governments; for, al- though Governor Douglass seemed determined to provoke an encounter with the Americans, the British Admiral on that station has proved a man of cooler temperament, having refused to obey the orders of the Governor, and deter- mined to await orders from the Home Govern- ment before taking any decided action. Mean- while General Harney had notified Governor Douglass that his object in taking possession of the island was solely to protect the Americans The occasion, but letters were received from some ex- cusing their attendance. The meeting was ad- dressed by W. H. Fry, Franklin Tuttle and Harbor Master Burleigh. The trial of Rev. Jacob S. Harden, for the mur- der of his wife py poison in March last, was to have taken place at Belvidere, N. J., this week, but owing to the illness of Dr. Chilton, of this city, the chemist employed to make the analysis, the case was yesterday postponed until Monday next. We give elsewhere a history of the case, with a report of the proceedings in court on Tuesday and Wed- nesday. The trial excites great interest in Warren county, N. J.,and elsewhere among the Methodists, to which denomination the parties belonged. Continued heavy receipts have produced a dull cat- tle market, and prices of the poorer grades are half a cent lower. Cows and calves are dull but unchang- ed. Veal calves are in moderate supply and de- mand at 3c. a 64c. as to quality. Sheep and lambs are plenty, and lower except for prime, which are firm at previous rates. Swine very plenty and 4c. lower. On salo 3,575 head of cattle, 135 cows, 540 veals, 16,145 sheep and lambs, and 7,000 swine. The cotton market was quict yesterday. The sales were confiacd to about 200 a 300 bales, at quotations given in another place. The chief inquiry was from spinners. There seemed to be a disposition to await the receipt of the Arabia's mails before doing much. The re- cepts at the ports since the 1st of September amount to 46,000 bales, against 34,000 in 1858, 8,000 in 1857, 30,000 in 1856, and 71,000 in 1855. Tne exports amount to 27,000 bales, against 17,000 in 1858, 5,000 in 1857, 10,000 in 1866, and 35,000 in 1855. The stock on hand amounts to 182,000 bales, against 88,000 in 1858, 34,000 in 1867, 60,000 in 1856, and 142,000 in 1855. Flour exhibited rather more firmness for some grades of State and West- ern, while sales were less active. Southern flour was in fair demand, while prices were without change of mo- ment. Wheat was in some better request, and rather firmer for primefnew lots, while other kinds were un- changed. Corn was scarce and again firmer, with sales of new Western mixed at 90c., Southern white at 92c., and prime yellow do. at 93c. Rye sold at 80c. a Sle., and valifornia barley at 60c. Pork was rather firmer, while were fair at $15 6224 for mess, and $10 75 for Sugars were steady and active, with sales of about 1,400 a 1,500 hhds., 2,000 boxes and 2,400 bags ‘nambuco on terms given in another column. The sale notwithstanding the weather, was un- drew a good company. The catalogue, with eption of afew lots, was generally sold through, en cks wore sustained at previous prices, Freight engagements were limited, while rates quite firm. The chief shipment consisted of 2,500 tlour for Liverpool in the clipper ship Dreadnaught, terms, supposed to have been at a tritle under The News by the Arabia—Is Europe on the Verge of a General Wart The news from Europe, received last night by the Nova Scotian and Arabia, is the most important that has occurred since the peace of Villafranca. The Italian question has suddenly assumed a new phase, and the Conference at Zurich has been suspended, after having agreed upon the boundaries of Lombardy. A rumor existed that another meeting of the Emperors of France and Austria would soon take place; and it had been stated that England has proposed to France that a European Congress to settle Italian affairs should be called on the preli- minary basis that the Dukes should not be re- stored by force of arms. The Moniteur has published a significant article on the treaty of Villafranca and the Italian complication, which has been the subjeetof generally adverse comment by the British press, and had caused a very perceptible decline in public securities, both in London and Paris. From the synopsis of the article in the Moniteur which has come by the telegraph, we do not feel at all assured that the British press have read it rightly. It opens with the admission that, in compen- sation for certain ameliorations in Venetia, Austria had exacted at Villafranca the condi- tion that the Italian Dukes should be returned. This, it is directly stated, will not be done by force; and as the people refuse to admit them by persuasion, this portion of the treaty must fall to the ground, and Austria be free to do as she likes with the Venetians. The opinion pre- vails that a rash and immoderate course on the part of the Italian league would lead to hope- Jess insurrection, the result of which might be a general war. The article then goes on to warn the Italians that concessions are not to be expected from the great Powers without equi- table compensation, and that they must remem- ber that France only makes war for an idea, and that she has fulfilled her mission. It would seem from this that the Italians are warned not to persist’ in exaggerated demands, and that the boon of peace to Europe is the “equitable compensation” that is to be given to the great Powers in return for the newly created nation- ality of Italy. The official announcement that, notwith- standing the stipulations at Villafranca, Gis district is said to be in contemplation byMr | he Dukes would not be returned by there from the insults of the British authorities of Vancouver Island and of the Hudson Bay Company—the head of the last named being none other than Governor Douglass himself The discreet decision of the British Admiral will prevent hostilities, and the arrival on the ground of General Scott will secure peace until the two governments can come to an under- standing. The news from England is that the organ of Lord Palmerston, the London Post, had taken the view which we had reason to expect it would assume. It asserts, with Palmerstonian indignation, that the British government cannot tamely submit to the occupation of the island by the Americans, and that they will see that justice is done to British subjects. This is simply carrying out the established policy of the British government ‘to make extensive claims in cases of dispute, in order to secure even a small share in the end. But the matter is one for diplomacy, and can be settled easily between the two govéegnments, if England is sincere in her protestations of a desire for peace with the United States, and will consent to be guided by common sense and equity. We have already surrendered a large portion of territory on our Northwestern boundary for the sake of peace. Our govern- ment will not give up this island of San Juan, which is clearly ours, and should by all means remain in our possession. Tue Grats Crop Tuts Year.—Some of the organs of the late whig party are just now grievously troubled because the country is ex- porting no breadstuffs to Europe, a circum- stance wh’ch, with singular logic, they ascribe to the want of protection to native manufac- tures. Their argument appears to be, that if our tariff were higher, Europe would consume more American breadstuffs. About enough nonsense has been uttered on this breadstuffs question; it is time that it were properly understood. It is positively pitiable to hear people talking, at the present day, of tariffs regulating the price of American wheat, or of American farmers being ruined because Europe needs little or none of their wheat. It is high time that every one should understand that the real customers of the American wheat grower are the people of this country, and that, one year with another, when a sufii- cient quantity has been set aside for seed and reserve stock, and a few million bushels supplied to the West Indies, South Amenjica, and other countries which rely on the United States for food, this country does not grow a great deal more than its people con- sume. In prosperous times the people of the United States will consume in a year one hundred and fifty millions of bushels of wheat: add to this the quantity which must: be retained for seed, for surplus in case of a crop failure next year, and what will be left, even out of a crop of 200,000,000 bushels, for export to Europe? Time has been, it is true, when this country has exported to England in a season over 15,000,000 bushels of wheat; but what was the consequence? The price, in con- Sequence of the speculative impulse given to the market, rose here to over $2 a bushel, and for the sake of getting from the British that price for fifteen millions of bushels, the Ameri- can consumers of all the rest of the crop had to pay double price for their flour. This season there is very little prospect of a large breadstuffs export to Europe, for two reasons. First, the crops of last year were largely above an average, and the stocks on hand at all the great commercial centres are large enough to supply the demand till next spring. And secondly, our crop last year was so small that the whole country is very bare of grain and flour. New England and the Middle States will require, be- tween this and winter time, a very large quantity of wheat. We may mention, in illustration of this, that though Chicago is send- could be shipped to Europe. grain export, there is none whatever. highest protectionist tariff that could be de- vised would not make the English give as much this fall for American wheat as it can be sold for here, simply because they don’t want it and ing forward an average of 100,000 bushels of wheat per day, nots bushel of it reaches this city; it is all caught up by the millers and con- sumers on the way. On the whole, it is fair to infer that the home demand will afford the farmer a fair market! for his produce, and will prevent prices falling to a point at which it As to connection between the tariff and the The his country does. And if ever this country is again called upon to feed Europe with wheat, which seems to be the great dream of some economists, it will be the greatest misfortune imaginable for the United States, for it will oblige every consumer of bread throughout the country to give double price for his food. Mr. Douglas as a Stump Candidate for the Presidency. Mr. Douglas, as a stump candidate for the Presidency, is just now cutting a large figure before the public eye. On his tight-rope of squatter sovereignty he has undertaken the feat of crossing the Niagara, which divides him and his Northern followers from the Southern de- mocracy. But with all the temerity he lacks the caution, coolness and self-possession of Monsieur Blondin. He exhibits rather the recklessness ofSam Patch, and we fear that the same fate awaits him. Tt appears that in a late speech at Wooster, Ohio, in a rejoinder to Judge Black’s dissection of that copyright manifesto on squatter sove- reignty, Mr. Douglas employed these graceful expressions, to wit:—‘Infamous falsehoods,” “the author knew well that it was an infamous falsehood,” “the man who wrote that could not look him in the eye,” &c.; “I am sorry of the necessity of alluding to the article (Judge Blacks) and the infamous falsehoods it con- tains.” It further appears that not satisfied with these violent denunciations from the stump in Ohio of Judge Black’s calm and re- spectful argument, Mr. Douglas has retnrned to Washington, and has been freely repeating these aforesaid elegant expressions in the streets of that city. Thus, in abandoning the dignity of the Senator for the swager and the bullying style of the stump politician, we see that Mr. Douglas is literally in the field asa stump candidate for the Presidency. But we would remind him that between the task of stumping Illinois for the Senate, and the responsibility of a stumping tour for the White House, there isa considerable difference. We are gratified at the prospects of two or three stump candidates, including Douglas and Wise for the succession, but there is no reason. why the one or the other, or apy other stump?candidate, should not bear himself as proudly, and conduct himself with as much dignity and decency as if nominated by the Charleston Convention. We all know that but- ter will hardly melt in the mouth of a regular convention candidate, he stands so perpendicu- larly upon his good behavior. He holds him- self as representing the elite of his party, and not as the ensign of its grog shop politicians. But if Mr. Douglas is in the field as the cham- pion of “the roughs,” and if he has resolved to set aside the rules of the Senate and adopt the free and easy vocabulary of the Five Points, the Pewter Mug, and the coal hole of Tammany Hall, let the fact be made known. It is due to all parties that the exact position of every Presidential candidate, whether for rowdyism, or for law and order, should be well understood. The Ohio stump speech of Mr. Douglas against Judge Black reacts against its author. It proves nothing except the fact that “the Lit- tle Giant” is losing his temper, which is very apt to be considered as a proof that he has lost the argument. And _ thus, for the present, we dismiss this foolish experiment of Mr. Douglas to upset the reason- ing of his adversary in the discussion by the use of hard names and vulgar epithets. In order, however, to show to our readers the working of this squatter sovereignty doctrine in the South, we refer them to the chapter of newspaper extracts on the subject which we publish to-day. It will thus be seen that Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, (who alone of all the Southern democratic leaders has dared at this day to stand out for Douglas) is fairly roasted on the gridiron of the Charleston Mercury. And yet there is much in the argument of Mr. Toombs that all the great issues upon slavery between the two sections have been and are practically settled. In_ this view of the subject, let Mr. Douglas, as a stump candidate, look well to it, or he may find that his crippled horse of squatter sovereignty will be ruled off the course by more important and more practical issues. Indeed, from present appearances, neither Mr. Douglas, nor Mr. Seward, nor Mr. Senator Brown, of Mississippi, nor any other sectional agitator of the solitary question of slavery, will be able to touch bottom in 1860. In the meantime, at his present rate of speed, Mr. Douglas will run himself out of wind a month or two before the meeting of Congress. He must haul up, or he will surely have to be hauled off the track. Tue Orenine or Bi (AN StREET—ACcTION or THE ComprroLLER.—Comptroller Haws has put his foot upon the neck of one great scheme of plunder by refusing to be a party to open- ing Beekman street, and we hope he will suc- ceed in strangling it. The position he has assumed is a proper one, and the boldness, promptitude and rationale of his course does him a great deal of credit. The plan to open Beekman street through the Park is a job got up by a set of notorious real estate speculators doing business there—the same fellows who wanted to widen Nassau street—Nassau street, which is relieving itself, by the business which once concentrated there moving up town. In five years hence the trade of the city will be done halfa mile away from both Nassau and Beeliman streets, and the idea of widening or opening either has a job on the very face of it. The real object in opening Beekman street is to make money for a few schemers. The first thing we would see if it was accomplished would be the sale of the corner of the Park, and very soon some of the fellows who hang around the City Hall would purchase lots all along the line stealthily from the Corporation, and put them into the market at speculation prices. The whole thing is a mere job, and we commend Mr. Haws for so resolutely opposing it by declining to be present at the opening of any bids for the performance of a work which is not only unnecessary but illegal. What the Corporation should do if they want to improve the city, is to clear off all the build ings now in the Park except the City Hall, and put that structure into decent repair. They should fit it up as a residence for the chief ma- gistrate of the city during his term of office, with handsome reception rooms for ceremortal purposes, a fine library and a splendid picture gallery. This would be a real improvement. Moreover, they should purchase the property now disgraced by the Five Points abomination, clear out all the rookeries chere, and erect thereon a handsome open square of buildings, composed of a meeting piace for the rpora- tion, City and County Court houses, + Court house for the United States Court, and a com- modious Post Office for the federal govern- ment. There is plenty of room between Chat- ham square and Centre street to erect all these buildings, which, if constructed with taste and an eye to architectural beauty and harmony, would give New York one of the most magni- ficent public squares in the world, and would atthe same time rid the city of one of its great- est nuisances. Let the Corporation do this, and let the Beekman street job alone. Tax Printing or THe GENERAL GOVERNMENT.— There are few offices or positions under the fed- eral government more eagerly sought after and pursued with more disgraceful means than the post of public printer. Before and at the commencement of each Congress shoals of penniless and brainless editors are at work, boring members for their votes. The lobby members, too, find in this placer their richest gains. They are hired, with promises of large contingent commissions, to use their efforts for the election of the man who sécures their ser- vices. More disgraceful scenes than those which attended the election of House printer,at the opening of the Thirty-fifth Congress have rarely been witnessed; and certainly, if any- thing could bring thorough discredit on the present system, and break it up completely the corrupt sale and transfer of votes by which Steedman was elected House printer, only to sell out afterwards to Wendell, the rival candi- date, would have had that effect. Similar operations are again at work in re- gard to the printing of the next Congress. As if there were not chances enough for plunder in a single arrangement for the printing of both Houses, each of these immaculate bodies must have its own special printer. The Senate elects one individual, the House another When the one prints a voluminous public docu- ment by the order of one house, the other house orders the printing of the same docu- ment. Of course, by an arrangement between the two printers, the composition work is not duplicated; but it is charged for as if it were, This is the greatest source of the profits. Through this and other means the printer who actually does the work is able to pay large discounts to the noodle who secures the elec- tion and sells out. How many noodles there are at present travelling through the country and drumming up members for a promise of their support for this post in the next Congress it would be hard to say. They certainly are numbered by scores. From the West, and from the South, and from New England, they circulate here and there, affecting to have unlimited political influence at home, while probably they could not control half a dozen votes. They will all concentrate in Washington in the first week of December, and will go around making the best bargains they can for the transfer of the sup- port which they may have been promised. We may expect, therefore, to witness at the open- ing of the next Congress more disgraceful scenes than even those which attended the election of House printer to the thirty-fifth Congress. The fact is that this whole system of public printing is exercising the most baneful and cor- rupting influences, and is persevered in solely on that account. The fact of the two houses having each its own printer, while the work of both is precisely alike, is pretty conclusive evidence of the object for which the system is maintained. Its Alpha and Omega is plunder The continuance of such a system reflects the utmost discredit on both houses of Congress and on the individual members thereof. If they or any one else should profess to beignorant of the gross impositions and frauds practised upon the government through the channel ofthe pub- lic printing, we would refer them to the report made by an investigatiag committee of the House during the first session of the last Con- gress. They will there find that the per cent- age paid by the actual printer to the fellows who, by clubbing the votes of their respective supporters, managed to have one of their gang elected public printer, amounted to twenty thousand dollars per month for one house alone; that the person who had the contract for binding sub-let it to another for the con- sideration of twenty per cent; and that this other again sub-let it to a third party for the consideration of one half the profits; and that frauds on the same grand scale were perpetrated in matter of en- graving, lithographing and _ elecirotyping. When it is stated that the grand total paid for e printing, binding and engraving of the irty-third Congress, was over three millions of dollars ($3,025,837 92), and of the Thirty- fourth Congress over two millions ($2,131,- 611 59), the enormity of these frauds will be the There is but one practical mode of put- ting a stop to these abuses, and of snufling out and extinguishing for ever the little West- ern and Southern editors who batten on them, and that is, bythe establishment of a printing bureau at Washington, presided over by a com- petent man, and kept free from all political in- fluences. Such a bureau, well organized with its corps of short-hand writers, proof-readers and compositors, would be able to have all the reporting, printing and binding of Congress and of the departments done at fifty per cent less than they now cost. The only apprehen- sion is, with the friends of such a reform, that the bureau would, like all other departments of the general government, become a hospital for political loafers : but that danger might be effectually guarded against in the bill dictating the plan of organization. The next Congress would consult its own self-respect and the public interests by giving its earliest attention to this subject. Tue Great Eastern at Sea.—We learn by the Arabia, at Halifax, that the Great Eastern started from her moorings in due course on the 6th inst., and was out at sea, making for Port- land, England, from which she was to start on her trial trip on Saturday last, the 17th inst She got safely through the intricacies of old father Thames, and worked in a satisfactory mafner in all respects, Read an interesting sketch of her history in another part of this morning’s paper. So far, then, her success is established; and as she is. probably roturning from her trial trip about this time, she will most likely sail for this country, as announced, on the z9th. She will be due in Portland the first week in October, from which point she will come to this city, entering by the Sound. Look out for the monster of the deep! Meantime, we suggest to the New York Yacht Club, whose squadron is to rendezvous off City Island on the 6th of October, that it would be an excel- lent idea to cruise round to Portland and give the Great Eastern a yachtmen’s welcome. Tux Linerry or THe Press wersvs Rowpy- IsM.—The respectable and law-abiding citizens of the metropolis have good reason to be shocked at an outrage committed on Tuesday last upon the person of the editor of the Daily News. It appears that in some comments upom the recent dirgraceful scenes at Syracuse the News had mentioned the names of several per- sons as having been prominent in the muscular displays of which the Democratic Convention was the theatre. Thereupon, one of the indi- viduals alluded to, suddenly, brutally, and in a most cowardly manner assailed one of the editors of that journal in his own office, beating and maiming him in the most savage manner. No terms are too strong for the proper con- demnation of an outrage like the above men- tioned. A short time ago the press throughout the country united in applauding the bold stand taken by the Baltimore Exchange, which singly faced and denounced the rowdies of the Monumental City, and could not be bullied or beaten out of its position. Since that time a combined effort on the part of the Baltimore press has resulted in awakening the citizens to the necessity of some practical action to bring about the rescue of Baltimore from the hands of the scoundrels who have disgraced its name. This action on the part of the citizens has aroused the indignation of the Mayor, who very probably owes his place to the intervention of armed ruf- fians at the polls. The Mayor seeks to throw the blame of all the disturbances in Baltimore upon the press. A more impudent, absurd and atrocious assumption could hardly be imagin- ed. A statement such as this, made while the double murder of policemen and the execution of five murderers on the same day at Balti- more is still fresh in the public mind, affords the strongest proof of the truth of all the charges that the press has made against the ruling powers in Baltimore. In commenting upon the state of things in that city, not long since, we alluded to the existence of a class similar to the Plug-Uglies in this city. The as- sault upon our cotemporary is not only proof positive of the existence of these brutal row- dies, but it shows that their insolence has reached a point where it must be checked by some wholesome punishment. The press should unite in demanding the utmost rigor of the law in the sentence of the offender, and the public should support the press in its de- mand. It is the intellectual power, which makes itself felt always for right amd truth and justice. Its weapons are not those of the rowdy and the assassin, and its strength is just in proportion to the amount of confidence placed in it by the respectable portion of the community. That the governing classes—the rowdies, shoulder-hitters, pimps and gamblers— who now lord it over the political cliques of the metropolis, can be put down at any mo- ment by a combined effort of the people no one doubts. Unless the press, which is the only check to rowdyism—the politicians being bound hand and foot by their dangerous tools— receives the united support of the community in denouncing violence like that at Syracuse and in the office of the News, then we shall see some fine day in the Park a meeting for the purpose of rescuing New York from the hands of men who ought to be picking oakum at Blackwell’s Island or breaking stone at Sing Sing, instead of parading Broadway in purple and fine linen. In the case particularly alluded to we per- ceive that the assaulting party has been arrest- ed and held for trial in the Sessions. There should be no failure about the prosecution, and we have no hesitation in stating our belief that when he comes for sentence before City Judge Russell or Recorder Barnard, he will receive the full messure of the law, in spite of all the political influence that may be brought to bear in his favor. Tue Latest Pouitica Brocuure.—One of our cotemporaries publishes a letter from Phi- ladelphia—a place where a great many wonder- ful things have happened—in which episile it is stated that there will shortly appear an octavo volume of three hundred pages, devoted chiefly to the political history of Pennsylvania during the last thirty or forty years. This bro- chure will contain, it is said, a great deal of the the secret political history drawn from private letters of persons high in office, and it is expected that it will make a great sensation. The correspondent does not fail to state that the affair is expected to pay very handsomely, and that a round sum has already been offered for the copyright, and declined. Among other matters, the “election frauds,” for which Penn- sylvania has always been noted, are to be fully exposed. This work has been heard of here before, and it has been gotten up undoubtedly by the Chevalier Forney, who has furnished the ma- terial to be put in shape by his lieutenants, Doctor Mackenzie and one Parmelee, who was mixed up with the dynasty of Captain Tyler. It will probably be a similar affair to that which Lyon Mackenzie published about twenty years ago, when be obtained possession of and printed the private letters of Van Buren, Jesse Hoyt and other politicians of the day. Sheltie Mackenzie is to do the work now that Lyon Mackenzie did then, and as Forney is on his last legs, the profits arising from the sale of the book are to go towards keeping up the Press and helping along Forney’s election as Printer or Clerk of the House. It is the old farce of “Raising the Wind” with a new cast, that’s sll. New York anp Brooxt.yn—Estmatep Poru- tatioys.—An arithmetical genins, who is proba- bly interested in real estate in the City of Churehes, has sent to the morning papers a communication showing the relative growth of NewYork and Brooklyn for the last forty years, and calculating on the basis thereof their in- crease for the next forty years. According to this calculation the year 1900 will find New York with a population of about five millions (4,966,480) and Brooklyn with a population of six and a half millions (6,568,000.) These figures are obtained by taking the returns of the last census, in 1855, and assuming that New York doubles its population once in fifteen years and Brooklyn once in eight years. Without pausing to reflect on the wonderful picture of a city of eleven or twelve million inhabitants, we cannot subscribe to the reasoning by which the sanguine calculator ar- tives at his results. Brooklyn may have in- cweased for the last forty years at the ratio stated; she may have doubled her population