The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, D PROYRUETOR. DEVICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS TERMS, cash tm adtoanoe, risk oo the gender ye money. THE DAILY HERALD, to conte THE WEEAL) HERALD, every 8 copy, 0 8 per annum; he Europes a six cents per copy, $1 per annum to any or $i) touny part af the Continent, bawh Ealvirnéa trom om the Sah and Sih of ach me omy or $1 A) per anni. ss POTHE FAMILY UELALD om Wonewhoy, at fiver conte p woke aith Sinuesnon cogrtng (sorta tee, solicited fromm any Quel Meas COMMESTONORNTS ARS Werally puid jor. Bae Ove FoRmex Cow Panrictiinty Kkaeesten To SkAL ald LETTEMS any Pacw AGES Se US. Money vent hy anil wilt be ot he Te Bes nnd cas whee ad Ha OOM NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1859. | ings marked with eothuciasm. We give a sketch of the speeches, Ac., eleewhere, Ac on of Socialists met last evening at the Steuben House, to celebrate the anniversary of the Preneh republic of 1792, and discuss the merits of the late amnesty of Louis Napoleon, which, to- | gether with the Emperor, was strongly denounced hy the speakers. The attendance was very limited. The testimony in the case of Mowers, the colored man, against the Vigilance Committee of Hudson, Columbia county, was concluded yesterday, and counsel will sum up this morning. Very great in- terest has been excited by this trial, the court being crowded every day. It is probable that the result will be known this evening. Several committees of ‘he Common Council were advertived ts meet yesterday, bat they did not, vew "NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. Wedowt | doubtless because of the stormy weather, return rejerted comme ations : pie SIR Z PUENIS reneivad every day: advertisements Aen wavwiy Unnatd, PaMiht Minnato, and in the oper biti Pee eT ak cctenn, agus cabe azecute . No, 264 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtecnth street —Itauax Oreka—La TRAVIATA NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Soupies rom Lovs—La Syurmue—Macic Puss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Oun Mess—Decwary” meau—Mots Srv. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street — Dor, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ruuina Passion— ‘Tickuisu Tuas. LAURA KEE AND STAGE. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.—loy Mantyrs o7 New York—Macic Trvurst—Rovext Macaine, eS THEAT! 62 Broadway.—Woa BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After oon—MuLErERK oF TeLRDO—Rose ov ‘Saaxox, Eveaiag— Mystrxiocs Stxancxk—Mx, any Mus, Ware, NSTREL'S, 444 Broadway.—Exm0riax Songs, Bepovin ARARS. lechanica Hall, 472 Rroadway.— c.—Hiau, Low, Jack. HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway.—Wavou's Irauia. METROPOLITAN HALL, Jersey City.—Gro. Cunrsry's MINSTRELS IN SONGS, Dances, BuRLesgues, &c.—Dixins’ Lan. New York, Friday, September 23, 1859, = IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS, Owing to the great increase of our advertising business, ‘we ure compelled to ask our advertising friends to come toour aid and help us to get our paper to press. This they can accomplish by sending in their advertisements at as carly an hour inthe day and evening as possible. AU advertisements should be handed in before nine o'clock at | wight, Those handed in after that hour will have to take | their chance as regards classification. The News. Our European files by the Arabia were delivered in this city yesterday evening. We publish to-day, in addition to our ample telegraphic summary of yesterday, an important article from the London Post (organ of the English government) on our new boundary difficulty with that Power at San Juan Island. A very interesting report of the sail- ing of the Great Eastern on her trial trip is also given. The prospects of a general European Con- gress on the Italian question were growing stronger. Upwards of two million dollars and twelve hun- dred passengers are stated to be on board the Files from Kingston, Jamaica, dated to the 31st of August, have reached us by way of Baltimore, but the papers de not contain any news. The inclemency of the weather yesterday tended to check business in some branches of meres. The alos of often were confined to about 900.0 400 bales, on the basis of quotations given in another place, Tho flour market Was al8o Some less active. Common and medium grades of State and Western were without imports! change, while extra brands were rather firmer, Souther flour was steady and the demand fair, without alters: in quotations. Good now wheat was steady and in fair request, While other grades were unchanged, Sales were moderate. The firmness of holders checked transactions in corn, which were quite moderate, at 9c. for old and 92ec. for new Westera mixe! was firm, with a fair amount of sales, at prices given in another column. Sugars were steady, but the bad weather tended to check sales, which fined to about 600 hhds., at prices given elsewhere, € sadly but quiet, Freight engagements were limited, while rates were more firm. The Success of the Great Eastern—A Revolution in Trade and War. On the 7th of September the Great Eastern steamship started on her first ocean voyage—a voyage which is to inaugurate a revolution in navigation, trade and intercourse between the world-seattered members of the human family. Her passage down the Thames and her first breasting of the ocean wave have demon- strated the truth of the principles involved in her construction, and, whether her career be cut off by accident er not, have dissipated every lingering doubt that may hung around the idea of navigating the ocean in ships sufficiently large to be impassive to the ocean’s roll. While descendiug the Thames the mighty mass was as perfectly under con- trol, and as docile to command, as the steed that knows his rider; and when the fair course of ocean was opened to her, she gave at once proof that in speed she surpassed everything that is afloat. We are not surprised at these results, for we had confidently anticipated them. Whoever has watched the developement of the power of man over matter during the last quarter of a century—and all who are in active life can scan that period in their memory—knows that every enterprise that characterizes our age has been received with doubt, and that many of the things now most common among us were not long since looked upon as dreams of crack- brained enthusiasts. A river steamer was mocked by every one steamers which left San Francisco on the 5th inst. ‘The overland mail has reached St. Louis, but the news is not so late as that received by the Ha- banero. Should affairs at San Juan Island assume such @ character as to render early intelligence of the | facts at Washington imperative, General Harney, it is said, can put the government in possession of them in fifteen days, by express from Vancouver to Salt Lake City, and from thence to Leavenworth. Mr. Buchanan has declined the invitation of the Portland Committee to assist in celebrating the arrival of the steamer Great Eastern at that port, | as have also the Cabinet, on account of pressing | business engagements. We publish in another page the concluding por- tion of the proceedings of the American State Convention at Utica. There was a grand row be- tween the minority, who demanded an American ticket, pure and simple, and the majority, who, knowing the weakness of the party, deemed it more prudent to claim only the possession of a balance of power by selecting men from the tickets of the republicans and democrats. The minority charged the leaders of the majority with a bargain and sale, and one speaker went minutely into de- tails. In the arrangement of the ticket the canals ‘were given to the republicans, and the Contracting Board and State prison to the democrats. The Post Office Department so far has been able to transact its business without serious difficulty. Contractors, however, who have claims against the Department will be compelled to wait until the meeting of Congress in December before they can get the entire amounts due them. According to but Fulton and Livingston since the present | century began. Twenty miles an houron a | railroad was scouted as rushing breathless to utter destruction at a still later period. The building of the Great Western, to inaugurate ocean steam navigation, was looked upon as creating an instrument utterly beyond the ca- pacity of the world to employ remuneratively, and even the possibility of ocean steam navi- gation was doubted. For urging the construc- tion of an electric telegraph Morse was held to be a visionary theorist. The Atlantic cable is still looked upon by many as an unattain- able project, and until yesterday millions believed that the Great Eastern would never leave the Thames. Capitalsits re- fused to advance money on her, self-con- fident men of science laughed at her, underwriters refused to insure on her, and the world generally are inclined to believe that men and goods enough to fill her will not be found as yet. But there are men of larger grasp of mind than the self-satisfied multitude, and these persevered in putting a steamboat on the Hudson, in running a railear twenty miles an hour, in getting the Great Western out of the dock at Bristol,in running a wire from Washington to Baltimore, in laying a cable from Europe to America, and in sending the Great Eastern to sea. Most of these are al- ready looked upon as “old fogies,” as “men behind the times,” and as “slow coaches” for the contracts the payment for service on the se- cond quarter becomes due in November and that for the third in February next. The Board of Aldermen met last evening. A communication was received from the Croton Aqueduct Department transmitting the Comp- troller’s views relative to the extension of Beekman Btreet across the Park, which was referred. A communication was also received from the City In- Spector on the up town piggeries. A resolution ‘was adopted amending the ordinance to divide the city mto election districts, 0 as to make certain alterations in the Fourth and Sixth wards. A reso- lution for the be'ter protection of the city against incendiarism was referred for future considera- tion. A resolution for the appointment of clerks for the several district courts on the 10th of October ‘Was adopted. ‘The Board of Councilmen transacted a large amount of routine business last evening. Among the reports of committees which were laid over for fature action, wasa report of a special com- mittee submitting an ordinance for the reorganiza- tion of the City Inspector's Department. The or- dinance proposes to give the City Inspector more control over the markets, and more power than he ow possesses to abate nuisances. Mr. Darrow pre- sented a petition signed by residents in the Ninth and other wards for the erection of a market on the site of the Fort Gansevoort property. The Board concurred with the Aldermen in giving permission to Mr. Lowe to use Reservoir square for the pur- the present fast age. Yet each of them, in the midst of disheartening doubt and opposition, inaugurated a material revolution in the minds of men, which is already so complete that the present generation wonders how those old fools, our fathers, got along without steam, railroads, telegraphs and big ships. It is not difficult to see in the aggregate, al- though the details are hidden to us, the revolu- tion that the Great Eastern is to achieve. Her ultimate destination is to run from England to the Antipodes. This of itself will bring the two hundred millions of civilized men who live on one corner of the shore of the Atlantic into intimate contact with the six hundred millions of barbarians who reside on the shores of the Indian and Pacific oceans. Commerce will soon attain such gigantic proportions un- der this new developement that the Great East- ern, as with the Great Western, will be put aside before her life is ended, on some out of the way route, as too small and slow for the wants of trade and travel. Cities that are now looked upon as monsters will grow in like proportion. If Sandy Hook is too shallow for the entrance of the world’s new carriers, New York will turn round and sit itself down on the other end of Manhattan Island, paring away the headlands of the Sound and the rocky pass of Hell Gate. pose of exhibiting his aerial ship City of New York, | The apprenticeship of ocean steam navigation, ‘previous to starting on his transatlantic voyage. which has just ended on the Atlantic, will ‘They concurred to distribute and sell the edition of | bloom into maturity on the Pacific. Empires the ordinances revised by Mr. Valentine, also to | will grow up on its shores, and the cry that is direct the Street Commissioner to make 8 contract for the repairing of the Fifteenth ward station house at an expense not exceeding $5,580, not- ‘withstanding the objections of the Mayor. The re- ‘port of the Fire Commissioners recommending the vexpulsion of several members of Hose Company No. 18 and Engine Company No. 20, and the disso- ution of the latter company, was returned to that body. The Board concurred with the Aldermen in already beginning to be heard in a few places will resound throughout the earth—-men, more men, to till the soil, to delve the mine, to plough the deep, to build empires, Nations will be moved to and fro, the races mingled, and the power of the earth rest where man is most free and his energies most untramelled. In war, a8 in commerce, the revolution will passing the ordinance submitted by the City In- | be equally great. The ocean will cease to be «spector prohibiting the keeping of swine within the 4imits of the city without permission, and the boil- ing of offal or house swill. The communication and the ordinance on the subject were published in the Hxnatp on Tuesday last. ‘The three delegates sent to this country by the Presbyterian General Assembly of Ireland, to solicit funds’ for the work of evangelizing Ireland a safeguard. A fleet of steamships, each of which can oarry ten thousand men, with river steamers hung at their davits, and able to cross the ocean in five or seven days, can invade any country and overthrow any empire. They can choose their point of attack with impunity, lie off at sea and send their light steamers into any that very change that is now going on around us, It has already been announced that as soon as the success ef the Great Eastern is demon- strated, the proprietors of the Cunard line will build a still larger ship, to run betwen New York and England, and we may soon expect to see a regular line in full operation, Whoever does it, New York must be the greatest gainer, for bere is the great centre,where the big ships will find the first trade and travel to employ them. The Parties and Principles of the Next House of Representatives—How Will the Election of Speaker be Decided ? The next House of Representatives will be, in the light of party politics, constituted in a very remarkable manner. There will be, first in point of numerical strength, the black re- publican or abolitionist party, which will lack some half-dozen votes to give it a majority. Next comes the national democratic party, weaker than the republicans by a full soore of The balance of power will be held by the Southern opposition members, with their | owenty-one votes, and by the anti-Lecompton or Douglas democrats, with their eleven votes. Unless some members of one or both of these last mentioned factions fuse with one of the two great parties, either directly, by voting for its candidate, or indirectly, by absenting them- selves from the House, or voting in favor of an election by the plurality rule, the organization of the next House may be indefinitely postponed. It is important, therefore, to understand pre- cisely the political principles held and con- tended for by each of the four, in order to see what the prospects are for the organization of the House. Well, in the first place, we all know what the republican party represents. It represents sectionalism in its most repugnant and danger- ous form. Opposition to slavery is its guiding star, and the control of the federal government its aim. It is arrayed against the vital interests of one section of the Union, and would, if it could, reduce the prosperous cotton and sugar growing States ef the South to the degraded and impoverished condition of Jamaica and Hayti. The English and the French governments have realized the irreparable blunder of negro emancipation, but our Northern and Western abolitionists are too intensely stupid to under- stand the matter in its true social and political aspects, and would, for the sake of power and plunder, bring our Southern States into a simi- | lar condition of poverty and demoralization with the British and French West India Islands, In a word, the black republican party repre- sents the “irrepressible conflict” doctrines of William H. Seward and his abominable Roches- ter programme. ‘The democratic party is not without its faults. Under our political system no party can be. Its adherents are, no less than their adversaries, kept together more by “the cohesive power of the public plunder” than by their attachment to principle. But still, it must be admitted that if republicanism is sectional, democracy is emi- nently national. It has nothing to do with an irrepressible conflict, but regards the sovereign rights of every State as indefeasible, and has some general notions of its own about that new political monstrosity designated squatter sove- reignty. It has just enough of weak points to ensure always the existence of a powerful op- position, and enough of great national, pro- gressive principles to draw to it the support of the patriotic masses of the country. So there is no difficulty whatever in sketch- ing an outline of the two great parties who are now contending for mastery in the Union—of which contest the first prize will be the Speaker- ship and organization of the next House of Representatives, It is not 80 easy, however, to fix the features of the two hobbledehoy factions. It would be hard to say what the Southern op- position members propose to accomplish. They only know that they are the fossil remains cither of the old and respectable whig party, which died with Clay and Webster, or of the political fun- gus that sprung up at its grave, and brought Live Oak George into ephemeral notoriety. With a very prudish and ridiculous regard for consistency, they do not like to support the administration or the democratic party, but they cannot possibly co-operate with the black republicans. With the former they have many principles in common, with the latter none at all. The democracy is national in all its lead- ing ideas and tendencies. So are they. Black republicanism, sectional in its character, has for its primary motive hostility to Southern institutions. In those institutions they have the deepest interest. While, therefore, the distinctions between these Southern opposi- tionists and the democracy are but imaginary, those between them and the republicans are real andirreconcilable. It is between them, in fact, that the “irrepressible conflict” exists, if at all. With which party, then, will they side in the organization of the next House? That is more than we can say. We only know with which party they ought, on every principle of reason and common sense, to side. What remains to be disposed of? Another ridiculously small faction, denominated anti- Lecomptonites or Douglas democrats, and whose whole numerical force does not amount to a baker’s dozen. On all political subjects save support of the administration, and except- ing some crotchets on the past-and-gone ques- tion of Kansas, they entertain notions coincid- ing exactly with those of the national demo- crats. There is, to be sure, some curious meta- physical abstractian in regard to the extent of squatter sovereignty, about which the Douglas democrats are supposed to hold opinions con- trary to those of the democratic party proper; but really, the whole thing is in such a precious muddle and is such a mighty small affair after all, that it ix of no consequence what | votes anybody thinks about it. Like the new Catholic dogma of the immaculate conception, people may believe just as much of it as they please. Squatter sovereignty was in itself a humbug; but this new Douglas dogma sought to be engrafted on it is only the ghost of a hum- bug. And so there is really a# little diverg- ency between the anti-Lecomptonites and the national democrats as there is between the latter and the Southern opposition members. ‘The views which the one set may have in regard to the point where the rights of squatter sove- reignty commence and the point where they end, are no more common to them than is hoe tility to the opening of the African slave trade Common to the Southern opposition members. Neither one nor the other is a necessary article of faith; but both are open questions, on which the most diverse views may be and are enter- to make up the ensemble of the next House of Representatives, our readers will be as competent as we are ourselves to judge of the chances of an organization. The republicans lack six of a majority in the House. Their principles ought to preclude the porsibility of their gaining a single deserter from either of the neutral camps. These inde- pendent parties of freebooters have, on the other hand, natural sympathies and affiliations with the national democracy, Like Garibaldi’s Cacciatori, they should fight rather for the French than for the Austrians. If they side with the black eagle, typical of the black re- publicans, they prove traitors to their country. Tf they absent themselves from the fight, or de- cline to vote for or support the adoption of the plurality rule, they will be as recreant to their high trusts as if they had boldly deserted to the enémy’s camp; for, in the one case,as in the other, victory would be assured to the black republicans. The country will watch the struggle with the most nervous anxiety, as on it may depend the political complexion of the next national administration. Tue Latest Bank Devatcation.—The bankers and bankers’ clerks are never weary of giving work for the police reporters. Rose-colored romances, which begin with a fast horse, nights spent over the gambling table, or in feasts where Venus and Bacchus alternately reign, palatial mansions in aristocratic quarters of the city, heavy purchases on account of Madame at Tiffany's, Black’s and Stewart's; and, in the end, a bit of paper addressed to the keeper of the City Prison, and a snug apartment in the Tombs. These are what Wall street insists upon giving us two or three timesa year. Not that bank defalcations occur so seldom. On the con- trary, the subalterns in the banks being as a rule, the relatives or protégés of the chief oficers, half their robberies are hushed up. Some one pays the shot, and the prodigal clerk is permitted to journey, “with the best of refe- rences,” to Australia, California, or some other benighted country where the banks do a specie business entirely, and where the facilities for “speculations” are comparatively moagre. The story of the latest banking operation presents no original features. It is, in fact, the old narrative over again. A young man is placed ina responsible situation in a city bank, at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum. Not yet thirty years old, this man has succeeded in robbing the bank of over sixty thousand dollars, and that in the most clumsy way. The chief victim is the father of the defaulter. The latter, it appears, kept two establishments— one a legal domicil, and the other a gilded cage. He owns fast horses, gambled, bought lottery tickets, and indulged largely in dia- monds and other costly jewelry. There are several causes which bring about such occurrences as that above mentioned. The chiefest of these is temptation. A young man in a bank has every inducement to go wrong. The manner of conducting the business is so loose that a defaulter may cover up his tracks for years. Bank officers are proverbially ‘tupid as to what takes place directly under their noses, and they are as obstinate as they are thick-headed. A short time since a detec- tive police officer informed the President of a city bank that one of his tellers was losing nightly a great deal of money at the gambling table. The officer wag twice snubbed,and told that the bank understood its own business, Finally it was agcertained that the gambling teller was a defaulter to the tune of fifty thou- sand dollars and over. The astute officers were so thoroughly ashamed of themselves that they would not employ in working up the case the detective who had given the first information, but gave the job to another person. We can recall as many as half-a-dozen recent cases where it has appeared that bank clerks, having salaries of less than fifteen hundred per annum, have for long periods lived at the rate of ten times that amount, without exciting the slight- est suspicion on the part of their employers, who have been blind to what every one else could see very plainly. It is not unnatural that young men, thrown into the society of wealthy spendthrifts, and anxious to compete with them, should succumb to this temptation; and it is not at all remarkable that cunning women should select such men as their special victims. It is strange, however, that the defaulter should not reflect before the futal first step that costs all, and remember that detection, however slow in coming, is almost inevitable, and that stolen pleasures are always dear at the price which one must pay for them one day or another. And, as we write, there comes from St. Louis a hard fact to point our moral. One George O. Atherton, teller in the Southern Bank of Missouri, has been convicted of embezzling the funds of the bank to the extent of forty-seven thousand dollars, and sentenced to five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. That is worth a dozen homilies to the fast young men of Wall street. Tammany Hatt—Gorne! Gore! Goxe!—We are informed by a democratic daily paper, pub- lished within bow-shot of the old wigwam, that the lease for Tammany Hall “has been in the market for sale for a twelvemonth without find- ing an offer,” that a Mozart Hall politician was offered it upon his own terms last week, but de- clined to be “saddled with the worthless bur- den;” that, “as a hotel, its character is ruined;” that “the infamy attached to its political conductors destroys its usefulness for any purpose where the good opinion of the people is requisite,” &c. It further appears that “the Mozart Hall democracy understand all this well,” and have accordingly resolved to repudiate every political candidate afflicted with “the taint of Tammany Hall.” From all this, and including the rowdies at Syracuse and the subsequent roffanism of the Tammany gang in this city, we may congratulate the pub- lie in view of the early abatement of that mon- strous political nuisance known as Tammany Hall. It received a staggering blow last De- cember; but in December next it will be brought to the ground, never to rise again. Amen, Mx. Dickixsoy SoLv—The Abbé McMasters, of the Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register, who was an eye-witness of the dreadful doings of the rowdies at the late Democratic Syra- cuse Convention, and who professes to know all about it, says that “of the seventy delegates to Charlestun a decided majority hold Judge Douglas as their first choice;” that, “from every part of the State, from every county, the same report was brought, that no one was thought of means of missions and spreading the Bible, had | river, and emery their armies to any distant Bs reception at the Cooper Institute last evening. point at wil. All this must change the nature The attendance was very large, and the proceed. gf war and gowmerce, or rather it will hasten tained. With this analysis of the political tenets of | for President except Douglas;” and that the the two partics and two factions thet go speclutions “were worded with ou intention of fully endorsing Douglas and the Cincinnati platform, but so as not to offend the squeamish appetite for harmony.” Thus we have another inside witness testifying to the facts that Mr. Dickinson has “been taken in and done for,” and that the Regency delegation to Okarleston have no more idea of supporting his claims for the succession than the man in the moon. ‘Tue Last Kick or Tae Lare Great AMERICAN Parry.—The American State Convention at Utica having become disgusted with the old game of setting up their ninepins merely for other parties to knock them down, have hit upon a notable expedient of success this time. They have adopted an “ ‘arf-an-'arf”’ republi- can and democratic State ticket, se that the three party State tickets stand as follows:— COURT OF APYRALA. ican. Hi. E. Davies. SKCRETARY OF STATR. A Demecratic. merican . A. 8. Johnson, HH. EB. Davies, D. BR. F, Jones, E. W. Leavenworth. D, R. F. Jones. 8. E. Church. R. Denniston. L. Vanderpoel. P. Dorsheimer, 1. ‘Tremaine. ©. G. Myers. V. R. Richmond. V. R. Richmond, W. I. Skinner, W. I. Skinner. N.S. Eiderkin. " P. N. 8. Eiderkin. Thus the late great American party of New York has given its last kick; for, whatever the results of our November election, we think it may be safely predicted that after it is over the curious fact will be discovered that the remnants of Know Nothingism have been ab- sorbed between the republican and democratic camps. The Know Nothing rump has adjourn- ed sine die, and each man of it who has been awaiting the issue of the Utica Convention is now at liberty to take his own course. The two or three American newspaper organs still existing in the State will probably keep up a show of Americanism till November; but, in the meantime, we believe we are doing them a kindness in announcing that they are in the market, and can be bought very cheap for cash. INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. News from San Juan The President Declines to Assist in Cele- brating the Arrival of the Great East- ern at Portland, é&c., &. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. , WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 1859. In the oyent of collisidv between the United States and Great Britain, growing out of the San Juan affair, General Harney can put the government in possession of the fact in fifteen days, by an express from Vancouver to Salt Lake City, and from thence to Leavenworth. This time may seem incredible, but there is no doubt it can and will be accomplighed in case of collision. ‘The committee from Portland, Maine, arrived here yes- terday for the purpose of inviting the President and Cabi- net to attend the celebration of the arrival of the steam- ship Great Fastern. ‘The President informed the committee that it would be impossible for him to accept their invitation. ‘The press- ing engagements of the Cabinet also render it impossible for them to accept. Letters received here this morning from Governor Floyd state that since his arrival at Old Point sea air and bathing have great)y benefited him, and that his health is improving. Jefferson Davis arrived here this morning; his health much improved. Collector Schell arrived this morning and is stopping at ‘Willard’s. THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. ‘Wasnincton, Sept. 22, 1859. Notwithstanding the failure of Congress to make an appropriation for the service of the Post Office Department, the latter has, so far, been enabled to transact its busi- ness without serious difficulty. However, the balances due to contractors up to the first of July, will be paid, after deducting their usual collections from Post Offices, and from and after that time the entire amount of their pay must be suspended until Congress shall provide the necessary relief. The first quarterly service of contractors, for the year commencing on the first of July last, will not have Deen performed so as to entitle them to pay until the first of October, and by the terms of their contracts sixty days more must elapse before their accounts can be finally settled, which will postpone the day of paymenttill the first of December, within Jess than a week from the regular meeting of Congress. According to the contracts, pay- ments are due in November for the quarter ending on the thirteenth of September, and in February for the quarter ending the thirty-first of December. The President will next week resume his residence at the White House. All the documents ordered by the last Congress, with the exception of the mechanical part of the Patent Office Report, have been printed. Senator Bigler’s recent visit here was with reference to the affairs of his brother, who is Minister to Chile. ‘The Spanish Minister will soon leave Washington for New York; to remain a month. The Overland California Mail. St. Louis, Sept. 22, 1859, The overland mail has arrived here, with San Fran- cisco dates of the 29th ult., but the news is anticipated by the steamship Habana at New Orleans. Business generally was more active, with more liberal remittances from the interior. Bacon in improved de- mand, with sales at 14c, Lard, 18c. a 16c. Whiskey, ‘39¢. a 400, Horace Greeley was to leave San Francisco by the steamer of the 6th inst. From Santos, Brazil. Haapron Roaps, Sept. 22, 1859. The bark Jamos L. Davis, thirty-five days from Santos, has arrived in the Roads. She reports that there were no American yeasels in port. The markets were ad- vancing, and the crops were short. Damage by Freshets, dic. Eastox, Pa., Sept. 22, 1869, ‘The freshet in the Lehigh river is subsiding. No damage has been done to our canals, a8 far as ascertained up to this hour, but considerable injury has befallen the rail- roads. Travel on the Lehigh Valley road is obstructed in consequence of several slides. The tressle work at Allen- town is also injured so badly that trains cannot pass. ‘The Fast Pennaylvania road is also considerably injured, and the embankment at Millerston washed away. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22, 1859. There are heavy freshets in the Delaware and Schuyl- kill rivers. Two men were drowned thie morning by being washed over the dam at Fairmount. No serious damago has been done in this direction by the freshets, ag far a8 hus been ascertained. Death of Mr. Fairbanks at Paris—Return of Professor Agassiz, Boston, Sept. 22, 1859. A letter by the Arabia announces the death of Charles B. Fairbanks, in Paris. Mr. F. was a writer of merit, and widely known as “Aguecheek.”” Professor Agassiz and wife arrived in the Arabia. Injunction Granted. Prmapeirma, Sept. 22, 1859. In the United States Circuit Court to-day, Judgo Grier granted an injunction in favor of tho New York Wiro Railing Company against Walker & Sons, of Philadel. deiphia, restraining the latter from selling ‘patent wiro railing fence”? beyond the limits of Eastern Pennsyl- vania. Congressional Nomination. Permrsnura, Va, Sept. 22, 1869. Roger A. Pryor was yesterday nominated by acclama- tion as the democratic candidate for Congress in the Fourth district. —____ The Arago Outward Bound. St. Jonna, N. F., Sept. 22, 1859. ‘Tho steamship Arago, from Now York, passed Capo Bage, bring coat, wh Wipes g’glock on Tyureday afternoon Two Million Dollars Eu Route to New York, d&e., dic. New Onuxans, Sept. 22, 1859, ‘The steamship Habana, whic arrived here yesterday, reports that the steamers which left San Francisco on the 5th inst. had over $2,000,000 in treasure and 1,200'pas- sengers for Now York. The Ohio River. Lovisviiix, Sept. 22, 1858. ‘The river bas risen ten fect at the foot of tho falls within the Inst twenty-four hours. Navigation southwar@ in the largest boats is fully resumed. Balloen Ascension. Warsrtown, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1860. Prof. John La Mountain made his second ascension from Watertown to-day, at 5.30 P. M., in his celebrated balloom Atlantic, He was accompanied by John A. Haddock, of the New York Reformer. Prof. La Mountain’s courso was northward. —_—____. Southern Ocean Stcamer Movements. Savannan, Sept. 21, 1859. ‘Tho United States mail steamship Augusta arrived at half-past six o’clock on Wednesday evening. All well, Markets. PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. Pmtapetria, Sept. 22, 1850, Stocks inactive. Pennsylvania State fives, 92%; Read- ing Railroad, 2283; Morris Canal, 603; Long Island Railroad, 114¢; Pemnsylvania Railroad, 40, Naw ORIxANS, Sept. 22, 1660. Cotton—Sales to-day, 4,000 bales at unchanged prices. Sugar buoyaut, and advanced \c.; sales fair, at 640. a OMe. Gxcisxan, Sept. 22, 1859. Whiskey firm at %e, Provisions firm’and active: bacom shoulders 73¢c., sides 94¢c., Western mess pork $14 50. Lard, in barrels, 10%¢, # 10%e. Cancaga, Sept. 22—6 P. M. Flour quiot. Wheat firm: sales 62,000 bushels at 760. « Téc. for spring from store. Corn firm at Tle. Oats firm. Recoipts—6,600 bbis. tlour, 66,000 bushels corn, 8,000 bushels oats. Shipments—4,800 bbls. flour, 71,000 Bushela corn, 14,000 bushels oats. LADELPHTA, Sept, 22, 1859. Flour Weg Wheat dull: white, $1 25 a $1 30; rod, $1 16 o $1 18. Corn ad 2 sales 3000 a 80. Oats steady at 870. Burvato, Sept. 22—1 P.M. Flour—Stock meager; receipts light; demand fair; mar- ket firmer. Wheat—New spring in better demand; No. 2 advanced 2e.; red and white winter quiet; all descriptions Scarce: sales 15,000 bushels No. 2 Chicago spring, to ar- rive, at 86e.; 1,600 bushels Canada club at 87c.; 4,008 bushels red Ohio, to arrive, at $1. Corn scarce. Barley steady. Ryo steady’: sales 4,000 bushels at 70c.. Whiskey quict. Lake imports to-day—3,000 bbls. flour, 3,000 bus fels wheat. Canal exports—2,000 bbls. flour, 9,400 bushela wheat, 8,000 bushels corn, 20,000 bushels oats, Burrazo, Sept. 22—6 P, M. Flour steady and in fair demand; holders firm: sales 14,000 bbls. at $4 25 for extra State from spring wheat; $4 50 for extra Wisconsin from do. ; $4 75 a $5 for good to choice extra Canadian, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana; and $5 26 a $5 50 for double extras—the latter figuré for very choice. Wheat in fair demand; market for spring better: sales 15,000 bushels No. 2 Chicago, to arrive, at 85c. ;1,600 bushels Canadian club at $7c.;; 8,000 bushels Racine spring At 85¢. ; 6,000 bushels red Ohio at $1, afloat; 4,500 bushels white Michigan, on private terms; 1,600 bushels white In- diana at $114; and four car loads white Canadian at $1 10. Corn scarce andgirm: sales 9,000 bushels at 800. Barley steady at 65c. Rye scarce and firm: sales 400 1 70¢. Oats in good demand, scarce, and firme; . Whiskey quiet at 25c. Canal freights unchanged. Oswxao, Sept. 22—6 P. M. The unfavorable winds of the last few days have de- tained a fleet of vessels which are now supposed to be om this lake; the market, in consequence, continues poorly supplied with breadstuffs. Wheat is in’ good milling de- mand, but the advanced views of holders restricts trans- actions; Chicago spring is held at 89c. a 90c., with buyers at 873¢c.; sales of small lots red winter at $1 03. rn wanted, but none on the spot, and little, comparatively, to arrive soon. Oats continue ‘scarce. Barley advanced, and in good demand; an offer of 80c. was made for Cana- dian to arrive, but refused. Canal freights unchanged. Canal exports’ to-day—400 bis. flour, 10,500 bushels wheat, Atnany, Sept. 22—6 P, M. Flour—Business moderate at yesterday's ‘Wheat is in improved demand for milling, with bushels at $1 06 a $1 08 for Mediterranean, white Michigan. Corn scarce and firmer, with good de- mand; sales 3,600 bushels Western mixed at 88c. Whis- key firm, with fair demand; sales 260 bbls. at 2630. eee YacrmG.—The fall regatta of the New York Yacht Club, announced to take place yesterday, was postponed until to day, or the first fair day. There were nine en- tries for this race, namely—the schooners Zinga, Favo- rita, Gipsy and Restless; the sloops Rebecca, Mallory, Manersing, Alpha and Narragansett. Of these, all except the Zinga and Alpha appeared at Owl’s Head prompt at the time. The Rebecca and Restless being alone in their reapective classes, were to contest for the plate jointly contributed by the two classes. The Regatta Committee, Messrs. Schuyler, Haswell and Wainwright, with sevoral members of the Club and a press delegation, went to the rendezvous in the steamboat Satellite; but the weather had such ‘a thick, moist and generally disagreeable ap- Pearance—the rain falling in torrents—it was adjudged best to postpone the race. It will probably take place to-day. —<$<___—__. Acapumy or Mvsic.—The “Traviata” will be given this evening with Madame Cortesi—the last performance but wo of the present season. On Saturday there is a very tempting programme for the last grand gala matinée. If there is ever to be. any more fair weathor, and it comes om Saturday, a general crinoline convention may be expected in Irving place. pe rR nse Political Intelligence. Tur Sorr Stare Commrrrex.—The Soft Democratic State Committee met at the Delavan House in Albany on the ‘ist inst., and re-elected Dean Richmond chairman and Peter Cagger secretary. Confidence Cassidy's paper says that they proceeded at once vigorously to the work of or- ganizing the State for an efficient campaign, What par- ticular work the committee performed in so vigorous a manner is not apparent; but it appears that they “adopt- ed such measures as were deemed necessary at this time,’ after which they adjourned to meet again. Clear as mud. ‘Wasmxatoy County.—The Know Nothings of the Second Assembly district of Washington county have nominated John 8. McFarloned for the Assembly. A Conrract or AvTnority.—The acting Governor of Kan- sas has issued a proclamation ordering an election to be held throughout the Territory on the first Tuesday of Oc- tober next, for the purpose of voting for or against the State constitution which was adopted on the 29th of July last, and the acting Governor further informs the boards of county canvassers “ that a certified abstract of the re- turns of the election must be transmitted, within ten days after the canyass of the votes, by the hands of a sworn officer to the Governor of the Territory, at Leavenworth, and not to J. M. Winchell, the President of the Constitu- tional Convention, at Topeka.” Mr. J. M. Winchell, who was the presiding officer of the Kansas Constitutional Convention, also issues a proclamation to the game effect, and directs the boards of county canyassers to transmit. the returns to him. When will political affairs get into shape in Kansas? Tae Know Nommyo Nomixaions.—The American State Convention have placed upon their ticket tho republican nominee for State Treasuer, Mr. Philip Dorsheimer, @ foreign born citizen. What will the forty thousand mem- bers of the Order of United Americans say to this? Will they vote for a man who is disqualified by their laws from becoming a member of their order? The dark lanternites may be able to swallow a camel, but can the 0. U. A.’ support a foreigner ? New York Centrat Rarroap To Bk REPRESENTED IN TR Cuaxteston Convention.—The Contra! Railroad has a good representation at Charleston—no less than five diroctora being delegates, and among these are the President and Vice President of the Board. Tux Tua or WAR.—Hon. John P. Hale, it is announced, will meet Stephen A. Douglas on the stump in Spring Val- ley, Minnesota, on the 28th inst, bushels yellow at 8€c. a 87. key, 27¢. a 2730, Brooklyn City News. Axomimm New PARK Provosey.—The citizens of Brook- lyn.aro agitated upon the subject ot public parks, and several proposals arc now under consideration by the Board of Park Commissioners appointed by the last Le- gislaturo, At a mecting of this body, hold in the Mayor’a office last night, a committee of “The South Brooklyn As- cciation,”” through their chairman, Mr. Roberts, pro- ented the plan of a park to extend along the high ground n the Fighth and Ninth wards, and including the site of Prospect Hill reservoir. ‘The proposed park is to contain 203 acres; has a diversified murface, and is woll libel with wood and water. Good views can obtained of tho city, the Narrows, the coun- try beyond the city limits, and the Atlantic ocean from some of the more prominent. elevations. The boundary is to be Ninth avenue, Vanderbilt avenue, But- lor stroct, Classon avenuc and Ninth stroct, whero it ad. Joins Greenwood Cemetery. It was trged on the part of the committee that this would be tho most central posi- tion that could be selected, and would bo more acceptablo to tho citizens of Brooklyn than any other da that could be procured within the city. "me sul was referred to the Committee of the Western the Commissioners adjourned. i ‘Tux Secon Assemuty Disreicr.—Mayor Powell, to whom ‘was reforred the dispute between Messrs. Charles Kelscy and Charles P. Leslie, who both claimod the democratio nomination for Assemb) of the Second district, has ided in favor of the jor as the onpilidate + Lenlio, therefore, rotires from the