The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1859, Page 4

4. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. DPvick Se Wy COBNEK OF FULTON AND WABSAU Sts: nce, Money sent by matt volt he we th Postaye stampa not received as subscription vis Roney. Tit DAILY AERALD, fre conta per copy, 87pm THE Weer LD, eomry Saturday, ate sie ons per Rusropean. Batition overy Weilnee bay niein. to umy part of Great Britt, stor the Continent, both to tnau ve iti he Sth and 2th of each mon! per rumiin " HERALD on Wednesday, % four ernts per mS? “Ho PRINTING mescuint with neuiness, Aempness and de- gpatoh. Fourteenth alreet.—Tranan —Lucts pt Lama gkMoon— OF SEVILLE. ‘ay.—Maaic Truuret—Kvouv- VIBLO’S GARDEN, th ous BELLE OY Maven, wiONS ON THE TiGus li BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ksmewspa—Decuaty- wxsu—Murte Sry WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond astreet— Or. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ruina Passion— ‘Tick. su Tuwes, LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 624 Broadway.—Wortn ANo STAGE. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ganisauoi—Wire FOR AN Hour. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Afeer. noov and Eyening—Mystenious Steaxgen—Mx. Np Mes Wie woop Dances, MINSTRELS, 444 Broadway. —Eruiortan Sonas, RDOUIN ARABS, f chanics Hatl, 472 Rroadway.— cs, &¢.—Hicu, Low, Jack, New Vork, Saturday, September % IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS, Owing to the great increase of our advertising business, we are compelled to ask our advertising friends to come fo our aid and help us to get our paper to press. This ‘they can accomplish by sending in their advertisements ‘tas early an hour in the day aud evening as possible. All advertisements should be handed in before ninz o'clock at Right. Those handed in after that hour will have to take their chance as regards classification. The New: Plsewhere is given av interesting letter from San Francisco in relation to the San Juan Island diffi- | culty, which is understood to have originated in | consequence of the British Commissioner not having | plenary powers to determine the boundary line at once. Whilst the subject was being arranged by | the Commissioners, the British authorities at Van- couver undertook to decide the question them- selves, and endeavored to seize an American citizen for an alleged violation of British law at San Juan and take him to Victoria for trial. Witha view of protecting the inhabitants of San Juan from further aggression General Harney then took military pos- session of the island, upon which he has thrown several hundred troops and is strongly fortifying. No immediate fear of collision, however, is enter- tained, as the commander of the British naval force NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1859. shiv DeWitt Clinton on Ler last voyage from Liverp»! to this port. at the ecting of the Excise Board yesterday Mr. Kerr called up his resolution in reference to the suits againat liquor deaters, but action on it was postponed until there is a full meeting of the Board. The match that is to take place in this city be- tween the English and American cricketers has been postponed until the 3d of Octuber; that to be played at Philadelphia will come off on the 10th. Owing to the storm they did not play at Montreal yesterday, but will do so to-day, None of the yachts in the regatta yeaterday suc- cecded in reaching the Lightship. When last seen they were becalmed near the point of Sandy Hook. Scme were endeavoring to return. * ‘The cotton market was inactive ami sales conflued to seme 800 a 400 bates, closing rather dull on the basis of quotations given in another column. Flour’ was easier for extra grades of State and Western, while other qualities we (ly, and in some cases rather firmor; Southera brands were in good request, with sales to a fair extent, without change of moment in prices. Wheat was firmer or good to prime lots of new, and especially for winter grown. Corn was firmer, with sales of Western mixed at 9c. a Oe., and of round yellow at 9c. Rye was sale- able in small lots at 81¢, a $c, Pork was firm and more active; the sales embraced mess at $16 75a $15 87; thin moss was at $14 25, clear at $17 £5, and primo at $10 75a $10 874%. Sugars were active and sales quite large, including 8,000 hhds. , 800 boxes and 6,500 bags, on terms given in another place. Coffee was quiet, the firmness of holders checking sales, Freight engagements were quite imited; the enhanced views of shipowners were above those of shippers, and hence tended to check transactions. Popular Sovereignty and the Delegations to the Charleston Convention, The Republican Convention of this State, with great sagacity and at the same time with a proper respect for the sovereign will of the people, confined their proceedings to a bold announcement of political principles and to the selection of a State ticket. The question of the selection of candidates to a National Convention they knew did not belong to them, but to the people, for whose decision they kept itin reserve; and even if the duty of sending delegates to a Presidential Convention devolved on them it would be the part of wisdom to keep back an element so likely to produce di- viston. The regular and legitimate Democratic Convention followed their example. But the irregular rowdy Democratic Convention, filled with a due sense of their own importance, se- lected a delegation to the National Democratic Convention which is to meet at Charleston next | summer to select a candidate for the Presiden- tial election in the ensuing fall. The proper object of the State Convention was to select a ticket of candidates for the State elections this fall; but instead of applying all their energies in’ doing this well and efficiently, they strained every nerve for accomplishing a dis- tant object, for which there was no need of haste, buton the contrary, every need of delay and de- liberation. In their rabid greed for the spoils of 1861 they neglect the best means ot securing the State election, which would be the stepping stone to victory in the Presidential election in this State, without which the battle and the in those waters does not appear disposed to involve | his government in difficulty to gratify the bellige- | rent propensities of the Governor of Victoria. { From the statement of Mr. Collins, consular | gent at Amoor river, in Asiatic Russia, it appears that American commerce at the Amoor is steadily | increasing. Five American built steamers are now | plying on its waters, which are navigable for steam- oats twenty-five hundred miles. The commercial products of that region at present consist princi- pally of furs and minerals, but it is thought that ; when navigation chau nave aeveloped the internal resources of the country, trade will be propor. | tionably increased. From Moscow to the head of the Amoor are upwards cf five hundred cities, towns and villages. | We have news from the Sandwich Islands dated | ‘at Honolulu on the 7th of August. Every passen- | ger arriving there from a foreign port is taxed two | dollars for the benefit of a native marine hospital. | European coins were difficalt of circulation, but } American (gold or silver) was in good demand. Mr. | Pratt, United States Consul at Honolulu, had gone | to San Francisco for the benefit of his health. The | flow of lava from the volcano had only slightly di- | minished. There was no news from the northern whaling fleet. Some interesting reports from the | Patific guano islands bad been received at Honolu- | lu. A number of vessels were loading at the diffe- rentislands with guano for the United States, and fresh discoveries of this fertilizer were of frequent occurrence. Independence island had been laid claim to by a company calling themselves the United States Guano Company. The island is about seven miles long and five wide. Our advices from Tahiti are dated to the 21st of July. The French Governor of the Marquesas had gone to New Caledonia in order to distribute pub, lic lands to military men. The French authorities had departed from Nuuhiva, leaving the Catholic missionaries nearly alone there. A desolating war ‘was carried on on the island of Fatubiva, between the Ewaewans and the Oomoans. The civil distur- bances had subsided in Raiatea, in the Society Islands. The divorce law of Tahiti had been amended so as to allow the man to marry imme- diately—the female at the expiration of ten months, The customs regulations at Tahiti had been altered Bo as to allow duty trettyoods to be landed without ‘being entered at the Custom House provided their value had been entered on the manifest. The dis- tillation of rum and sugar on plantations was per- mitted under certain restrictions. The domestic animals taken to the Marquesas within the past two years were doing well. Late advices from Pike's Peak state that the pro- position for organizing a State government had been defeated. The mines were yielding abundant- ‘ly. A considerable quantity of dust bad reached Leavenworth. A vigilance committee had been organized for the better protection of property. Accounts from Monterey to the 13th state that General Zuazua was in that city, and that Guana- juato wag held by General Velez. Miramon was organizing a strong force for Northern Mexico. ‘The recent heavy rains have caused high freshets in the Lehigh, Delaware, and Schuytkill rivers, ac- companied with corresponding damage. Mauch Chunk, on the Lehigh, has been nearly submerged, and forty feet of the embankment of the Delaware canal carsied away. The damage to the railroads has been repaired, and trainsrun regularly. Nayi- gation on the canals has been suspended on account of the overflow. spoils must be lost to the democracy in the Union at large, and of course to the spoilsmen of New York. Nor is this all—not only do the rowdy Convention neglect the duty for which they were sent by their constituents, but they mar the whole business by riotous and disorderly proceedings, calculated to bring the democracy into contempt with that large class of citizens who belong to no party, but who sometimes wield the balance of power for or against the partics of the day—proceedings calculated, moreover, to disgust the honest por- tion of the democrats themselves, and either drive them to the other side or keep them away from the polls. The crowning act of irregularity and disor- der was the selection of delegates to the Charleston Convention under any circum- stances, for itwas an “apple of discord” thrown into the party to distract and divide at the \ | worst possible moment—the very time when harmony was most needed for victory in the important State election of this fall. But | the packing of the delegation in opposition to Governor Wise, under the influence of the pre- judice excited against him by the foul treachery of Cassidy & Co., was an aggravation of the poli- tical blunder or crime; for it is all the same. The choice they made in selecting themselves— three-fourths of the delegation to Charleston consisting of members of the rowdy Conven- tion—cannot fail to impress the public mind with the belief that the bumps of self-esteem must be very highly developed on the skulls of the pugilists and bullies, probably from the sundry knocks they have received in that part of their pericraniums. This outrage against popular rights, in selecting themselves, without any reference to the people, caps the climax of their rascality. The theory of our government is that it is one in which the people are sovereign, and that the chief attribute of that sovereignty is their right to select their own representatives, They choose the Governors of States and the Presi- dents of the Union. The democratic party has always given a more distinct and emphatic enunciation to that principle than any other party in the country. Hence they have con- tended for State rights, in opposition to the doctrine of centralization of power in the federal executive or in Congress, and municipal rights in opposition to the doctrine of centralization of power, in the State executive or State Legisla- ture. The democratic party has always shown great jealousy against usurpation of the rights of the people in any shape or foym. Their primary elections are intended to guard against all such encroachments on popular sovereignty. Of late years these organizations are rendered null and void by the rowdies and the conspi- rators behind the scenes who hire them, and the people have no choice left but to vote for the corrupt men placed on the ticket, or to vote against their own principles, or to keep away from the polls, The proceedings of the Captain Williamson, who was in command of the steamship Fulton when she was wrecked near Pen- sacola, it is reported, will be ordered home, and an inquiry instituted as to the loss of that vessel. The Fulton had been ordered to Cuba. In the General Sessions yesterday James Mc Alpine, alias Mack, alias Brace, and alias Lieuten- ‘ant Marmaduke Reeves, was taied for swindling ‘Miss Clara Woodbine, a governess, out of a gold ring. The statement of the complainant is very ‘interesting, as will be seen by our report. Judge ‘Russell will charge the jury this morning. Ih the case of the colored man, Mowers, against the Vigilance Committee, the testimony wag closed. Counsel summed up, and the charge of the jury was 4eferred until Monday next. ‘The Arabia passed the Asia bound in to Liver- ool at 9.45 P. M. of the 10th inst. Mr. Bridgham, the United States Commissioner, yesterday decided to commit John Cowan to take Gig Weial for mapalanghter gomumitted 9p beard the Rowdy Convention at Syracuse present the most audacious example of the ntter disregard and contempt of the will of the people. These fellows say to each other, “Do you vote for me and my friends and I will vote for you and your friends, and thas we will keep the sovereign power in our own hands, according to the ancient and approved usage of Rob Roy, and langh at the fools who call themselves the sovereign people.” Thug do the mutual-admiration politicians share he- tween them the dominion of the people, ana snap their fingers in their face. The American system of government is the best and the most free on earth. But it is turned by the rowdies into a mockery, a delu- sion and a snare, If this be longer per- mitteg, the country will be ruled hereafter with a red qs Hou by aq oligarchy, the greatest of all tyrannies known, and worse than any monarchy. We pity Europeans who are left no choice, but must accept hereditary kings to rule over them, who may be tyrants or idiots. But how are they in a worse predicament than Americans who permit a regency at Albany and the coal hole dynasty of Tammany Hall to rule this great Empire State, aad usurp its representation ata national convention, without even going through the formality ef consulting the people? Thus, by degrees, are our free institutions sapped, till our elections have become farces, and « laugh- ing stock to all Europe. This is one of the dangers to which Mberty is always exposed in a democratic republic, and it requires eternal vigilance to guard againstit. After the French Revolution was accomplished, the men who pretended to rule in the name of the people— Robespierre, Marat and the rest—were the greatest tyrants known to history: men who made the blood of all who differed with them flow in torrents. Even the heads of those who were suspected of differing with them, the moderate men of their own party, rolled from the guillotine into the bloody bas- ket. Their cardinal maxim, that on which they relied, was expressed by Danton when he said all that was wanted for their success was “ au- dacity.” By the aid of this quality they waded in blood till Charlotte Corday stabbed to the heart the greatest intellect of the party, the terrible Marat, who, while he demanded at one fell stroke 280,000 victims, called his journal and himself “ihe friend of the people.” The nation rejoiced at the blow struck by this “an- gel of assassination.” The usurpers in this State, who are known as the Regency, thoroughly understand the maxim of Danton, and itis their first rule of action. Their audacity knows no bounds. How far they will be permitted to carry it remains to be seen. They have not yet taken any lives, but they have come very near it, They have shed blood, and they have inaugurated a reign of terror. Whether they will proceed to greater lengths, depends upon the promptitude of the people in standing up for their rights and vin. dicating their sovereignty, which has been usurped by an impudent and audacious clique. They have no need of resorting to assassination or violence. That belongs to the tyrants. They have only to will the extinction of the despotism which has reared its brazen face in their midst and to give expression to their sov- ereign will by emphatic resolutions in their sey- eral Congressional districts, and at the ballot box, by voting for representatives of their own to Charleston. If they do this, the National Con- vention will be sure to reject the delegates of the rowdy Convention, and that will be a mor- tal blow to the Regency and the usurpation which reigns in Tammany Hall. Thus will true popular sovereignty triumph—not the squatter or mob sovereignty of Stephen A. Douglas, but the will of the people organized under legi- timate government—the true source of all sovereign power. J. G. Beyxett anp THE Mayoratty.—The magnanimous philosophers of the Tribune in- ‘sist upon it that James Gonvon Benner shall be the democratic Tammany nominee for Mayor, and they will take no refusal. They contend that no other man “has rendered such services to the party as he;” that there is no one who “enjoys to such an extent the well grounded confidence of the national head of the party;” that Isaac V. Fowler “is not for a moment to be compared to Mr. Bennett,” who is “the living incarnation of the ideas and the policy by which the democratic party is kept ive.” athe looks like bona fide magnanimity, and yetit is but a one-sided view of the party claims and party services of Mr. Bennett. He has done considerable service in his time to the opposition. He did something to develope and sustain the plan of operations whereby Harri- son and Tyler were elected as by a popular whirlwind in 1840; he did something to secure the nomination of General Taylor, and worked pretty actively for his election. Nor is this all. Returning from Europe at the eleventh hour, in 1856, Mr. Bennett found the opposition all at sea. He immediately took hold of the unor- ganized popular manifestations for Fremont, and thus secured hisnomination by the republi- can party. Had the Zribune and the Seward managers of the cause of Fremont labored as earnestly and faithfully for his election as the Herp, the two thousand votes in the Penn- sylvania October election, which decided the main battle, would most probably have turned the scale against Mr. Buchanan and the demo- cratic party. In spite of the New York Henaxp, Mr. Bu- chanan saved the democratic party in 1856 from immediate shipwreck; but in spite of Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Bennett, the corrupt leaders and cliques of the party have since contrived to send it to the dogs. And so we repudiate the rotten democratic party, and especially the rufian democracy of Tammany Hall. We can- not permit thatcorrupt concern to stand as our political godfather. We denounce it as a pub- lic nuisance. Our Tribune philosophers, there- fore, if they wish to prove their generosity in this matter, will plead the plea of our services to the opposition, and our claims upon them “as the living incarnation of the ideas and the policy” upon which alone they can combine, and march forward to a glorious victory. As for the report that Isaac V. Fowler is to be the Tammany candidate for Mayor, we re- gard itasa humbug. Mr. Fowler is’ in hot pursuit of the fat office now held by Master Busteed, and Mr. Kennedy is the Postmaster’s man for the old shoes of Mayor Tiemann. But if the opposition will set up against the Tam- many candidate such aman, for example, as Simeon Draper, Mr. Bennett will have no com- plaint to make of party ingratitude, so far as his individual claims of thirty years accumulation against the opposition are concerned. Still, if the Tribune would really prove its magnanimity in his behalf, it will urge his political claims upon the united opposition forces in connection with the Mayor’s office. We pause for a reply Tur New York Canats.—The following table shows the receipts on all the canals of this State in each year from 1853, from the opening of navigation to the 15th of September:— famous prophecy which was uttered in the halls of Con- gress nearly thirty years ago will be fulfilled? Do not the above figures recall the words, “Our canals A solitude, our lakes a desert waste of yratere?”’ 7 Eect of the Gren.’ Mastern’s farina New >. | There is now very little dow bt that the Great Eastern, after her arrival in Portis "4 Will pay avisit to New York, and most probsb!¥ by way of the Sound. The facility with Which & ; vessel of her dimensions can come through that channel is demonstrable at once by reference to the chart we give below. It has been ascer- tained by the recent trip from the Thames to Portland, Dorsetshire, that the Great Hastern drew at that time twenty-two feet ot water; what she will draw on her arrival on our shores remains yet to be seen; but supposing that she requires a maximum of thirty feet when loaded, as stated, it will be seen that the Sound offers a channel of sufficient depth from Montauk Point to 106th street; so that whatever doubts may exist about the possibility of crossing the bar at Sandy Took, there are none as to the practi- cability of her coming through Long Island Sound. By this chart it will be observed that a channel runs clear down to 106th street, hay- ing a minimum depth of thirty-two feet, which is more than the monster ship will need when fully laden;— LON®O Here, it will be seen, is a channel with an average depth of a hundred feet the entire way at low water. Should the Great Eastern prove a success, as we doubt not she will, her advent here will open a new era in the history of New York. When the Great Western, the first Atlantic steamship, arrived here, the event gave an immense impetus to the commerce of the metropolis, and at once established New York as the great commercial entrepot of the New World. It opened up the whole enterprise of ocean steam navigation all over the globe, and now every steamship which comes to this coun- try takes New York for her destination, so that the number of large steamships in our waters has become equal to that of the ferry boats cross- ing the two rivers. The Great Eastern will effect as great a revolution for New York in the future as the Great Western has done in the past. Not alone will she and the other steam- ers of like dimensions which are sure to follow her, impart immense strength to the growing commercial destinies of the city, but they will revolutionize the face of the city itself. Business will be transferred to the upper end of the town, where no one of this generation expected to see it extend, and the whole island will become one vast commercial mart, with its centre about the line of 106th street. Whata change! The trade created by vessels of the present dimensions entering the harbor by Sandy Hook, will doubtless continue to be transacted down town, as now; but the trade whose growth the new lines of monster ships will create and foster must concentrate in the vicinity of their anchorage. The obstructions presented by Hell Gate and the islands in the East river, it is thought, may prove a drawback to the adaptability of the Sound as a channel to the city; but suppose a line of such steamships as the Great Eastern once established, and how long would these obstructions be allowed to remain? Money enough could be raised by subscription in one day to cut off every angle and root up every rock in the channel. Those for whom patriotism may not prove a stimu- lant, self-interest would prompt to contribute, for the interests of all are involved in every enterprise which enhances the commercial greatness of the metropolis, One per cent on the stated property of this city alone would amount to five millions of dollars; and what would not that sum accomplish in rendering the Sound a splendid, safe and commodiou’ harbor, from the upper end of the city to Mon- tauk Point? Thus, with our magnificent Cen- tral Park, our two noble harbors, the lordly Hudson, navigable for a hundred and fifty miles into the interior, connecting us with a back country all over the West of limitless re- sources, and our fleet of monster steamships riding in the northern harbor, New York might well claim to be indeed the groatest city in the world. Such is the revolution foreshadowed by the success of the Great Eastern, and sooner or later its realization is inevitable. Poor Pierce ix tim Firup,~ According to two very curious letters which we publish to- day, one from Philadelphia and one from Con- cord, Poor Pierce, head and tail up, is begin- ning to prance around for the Charleston nomi- nation. The Chevalier Forney, it seems, having got tired of Douglas, has made a pilgrimage to Concerd to talk over the aubject with the ex- President, under whom poor Forney had such glorious pickings in the kitchen. What the re- sult of this conference will he we cannot under- take to tell. In any event, the chances of ex- President Pierce for the Charleston nomination, without being any better than those of ex-Pre- sident Fillmore, ex-President Tyler, or ex-Pre- sident Van Buren, are quite as good as the chances o, Horatio Seymour, the present pet of the Albany Regeney, or Daniel S. Dickinson, Indeed, Mr. Dickinson at Syracuse was as effec- tually disposed o,° 98 Captain Beott’s coon; and his friend Seymour, oit the way to Charleston, will be put in the same bag. Thus, it will be seen that Poor Pierce, though somewhat in the background as a Presidentia) aspirant, has plenty of company; and by the month of June next the Great Eastern will not hold the disap- pointed expectants and their disciples who are plotting and counterplotting for the Charleston nomination, Reporting Enterprise=The Debates in Congross. Great interest has been excited all over tho country about our project of reporting verba- tim by telegraph the debates in Congress, to the extent of from four to six columns a day. ‘The newspapers are discussing its importance, and on another page the reader will find some extracts on the subject. In reply to one of these (the article from the Tribune) we wish to say a word as regards ourselves, The Tribune is the only journal that as yet has expressed its willingness to enter into this enterprise. It approves of it highly, but says it will be necessary to raise the price of the paper from two to three cents to justify the great additional expenditure. It may be very proper and prudent for the Z’ribune to raise the price to three cents, and we have no objection that it should do so. But as regards the Hexarp, it is not our intention to advance the price; we do not deem it necessary. If to do so should be asked from us as a con- dition by our cotemporary for his joining in the project, we must conclude to go into it alone. Butif the Tribune desires to make its price three cents, that will be no ground of objection on our part. With or without the Tribune, or any other New York journal, or whether they lower or raise their price, or keep it stationary, we are determined to carry out the enterprise. Perhaps newspapers in other cities may participate in it, and they will do so if they want to keep pace with the advancing spirit of the age. But if they will not, that will make no difference to us. We are able and prepared, from our enormous resources, to achieve it single-handed, and that, too, with the price of the Heratp unchanged. This progress is a part of our system—a law of the Heratp’s existence. It has continuedto advance steadily from year to year from its first number. It has carried out all its projects of improvement and progress, with or with- out associates, and often in the face of com- bined opposition. It has advanced like the population of New York, and like the popula- tion and wealth of the country. It has gone on pari passu with American progress, because it is an institution of the country, Strange to say, the politicians who pretend to know most about the Henarp know least of the secret of its popularity and of its continually increasing ciroulation. When It opposed the administra- tion of poor Pierce, Forney and others of his calibre said the Heraup was declining, when the truth was that it had never been so prosperous, and had increased twenty per cent in circulation and in advertise- ments. Now, when the Heratp takes an opposite course, and gives an independent sup- port to the administration of Mr. Buchanan, they pretend that the Heratp has culminated, and is sinking from the zenith of its prosperity. But never before was its success so great as now. Thus, itis still advancing, no matter what course it pursues. And why is this? What is the cause of its increasing circulation and increasing ad- vertising business? It is because the people of all parties and classes read it for its truth. They expect to find in it a full and faithful ac- count of current events, and they are not dis- appointed. People want to know the truth, no matter what their politics are, and they will look for it in vain in their own party papers. We publish the facts about all parties and bodies, and leave the people to form their own judgment. We give them the materials from which they can think for themselves. Hence, therefore, the Heratp increases with the in- creasing population, no matter what party is in the ascendant, and no matter what party it opposes or supports. It is altogether indepen- dent of party, and its opinions cannot be bought by anything that party can give. It is its ever-increasing success, arising from this course, that now enables us to embark in the new enterprise of daguerreotyping for our readers every morning the exact doings and sayings of their representatives in Congress the day before, just as we would if Congress were sitting in New York instead of Washington. And this new feature of the Hrratp will be the most interesting and important of any that has ever distinguished its career. Am NAvIGATION OVER THE AtiLAnric—TuHE AERONAUTS PREPARING.—Mr. Lowe, the aero- naut, is now bringing tocompletion, overin Ho- boken, the largest balloon that ever aspired to soar in the empyrean, with which he intends to attempt an serial voyage across the Atlantic. Others are preparing for similar trips. Mr. La Mountain intends to cross the ocean in two days. Previously, however, he will make one or two more experimental ascensions ; the first from Jones’ Woods, on the 4th of October, and the second on the 8th, from Albany. As Mr. La Mountain is to sell by auction four seats for passengers on his trial trip from Jones’ Woods, after the fashion of selling seats for the opera in Jenny Lind’s heyday, we may send a special reporter aloft with him to furnish us with a correct de- scription of the ascension, the speed of travel, the action of the thermometer and barometer, and all the phenomena which may present them- selves to his astonished gaze during the two days which the trip will last, and perhaps fur- nish us with an intelligent criticism on the “music of the spheres.” Accounts of this kind have often been given by aeronauts themselves, but we are going to try now what 2 reporter's account of il will be. Crossing the Atlantic in the air within two days is something of an enterprise; but why cannot it be accomplished? Nothing seems impossible to the scientific genius of this gene- ration—of an age which has compassed almost miracles by the aid of science and art— from the simple yet now indispensable lucifer match, up to the wonderful daguerragtype and photographic process, which can now alike reprerent in a second of time the bomh: — shell as it burste in the ».t 4nd one’s ow face on his coffee cup—an - which bi laid the Atlantic cable, applied p, Hoons military purposes, produced weapons ot « struction that cut off whole squadrons from a a. tance which renders their very position a po of doubt, and last, which has constructed the’ Great Eastern to cross the Atlantic within a week at the speed ofa locomotive. Cananything be deemed impossible to the race which has achieved all these feats? Until the arrival of the Great Eastern the experimental trips of the air navigators will fur- nish interest enough for the public. When the Atlantic cable was laid the enthusiasm of country went off at half-cock, and now Johw Bull is jubilating gloriously over his monster steamship; but when our acronauts have su ceeded in crossing the ocean in an airship what excitement there will be at both sides of the world! The man who succeeds in doing it w pe a wonder for a week. Tue ALBANY REGENCY AND THER TREACHE-: res—More Evivence.—We call the atten: tion of our democratic readers (who are not bound down hand and foot to the freight traim ofthe Albany Regency) to the protest of th Niagara county democratic delegation to Sy- racuse (on the 14th inst.) against the treache- rous conduct of Peter Cagger in that Conven- tion, This protest is a very interesting docu- ment, and forcibly corroborates all that we have said of the unblushing impudence, hypo- crisy and treachery of Confidence Cassidy, Cagger, Richmond, and all the rest of this Al- bany junta. The protesting delegates in tha premises, Robert Dunlap and Elijah Mather, genuine and responsible men, complain not only that they have been basely cheated in reference to the Charleston Convention, bué that “the friends of the President have been ‘in nearly all cases ignored in the delegation,” and that “his bitterest and most uncompro- mising enemies have been selected.” In this view of the subject it might perhaps be worth the trouble on the part of Mr. Buchanan to look into this business, and to see how far the re- cipients at New York, Albany and elsewhere, of the federal loaves and fishes, are among the guilty parties. A few heads dropped into the guillotine basket at this crisis would operate like a charm in favor of democratic harmony, INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON. Warlike Aspect of Affairs in England and France=The New York Congres< sional Delegation—Boundary Line Be= tween Kansas and Nebraska—The Con- duct of Captain Williamson, of the Ful< ton, to be Inquired Into—The Govern- ment Warchouses in New York—Ame< rican Commerce on the Amoor, &, OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH, Wastixcton, Sept. 23, 1859, Letters received here this morning, brought by last aail from both England and France, from high sources, State that the aspect of affairs in those countrics ia any- thing but pacific; that active preparations going on in tha dockyards on both sides of the channel are not only indi- cative but warlike, and the commercial interests are @ good deal excited, It was announced some days ago that Gideon Tucker, Secretary of State of New York, had issued certificates of election to the New York city Congressional do- Iegation lected last fall. This is not true, aa I learn from Tucker, He still has the subject under advisement, I learn that while he was in this city a day ortwo since, he consulted distinguished tawyers upon the subject. It is barely possible that he may de- olare the seats vacant, and order a new election, In rogard to running the boundary line between Kansas and Nebraska, which is noy progressing, instructiona bave gone out that returns of sevey shall be accompa nied by astronomical observatiog taken in establishing tho line. * Capt. Williamson, who was in conmand of the Fulton, wrecked near Pensacola, has been orered home and hig conduct inquired into, He was order to the coast of Cuba, and the Navy Department desire ‘9 know what he was doing at Pensacola. A letter bas been received by the Seretary of the Treasury from Hon. John Cochrane, protyting against the recent changes by which the governmentyarehouses in New York have been placed in the hando priyata contractors. Mr. Cochrane considers that the ubtic in- terests will not be promoted by the change, and thi att tho departments of the government might with equal propriety be let out to private individuals, He also denies tha yg, Craig, one of the contractors, is his partner, or thang has in any way countenanced the scheme. Not the sligh. est suspicion has ever attached to Mr. Cochrane that le has ever used his official position to further his pecuniary ends, and ho justly feols sensitive in maintaining hia lig reputation, The newspaper paragraph coun his name, as the alleged partner of one of the c with the transaction, has called forth this expiicit and official denial, Mr. Cochrane arrived here this morning on official business, ‘THE GENERAL NEWTPAPAR DESPATCU. ‘Wasuuxatox, Sept. 23, 1859. Perry McD. Collins, Esq., Consular Agent at Amoor river, Asiatic Russia, lias arrived in this city, and expects to sail in a few days on his return thither, by way of St. Petersburg. . Tt appears from his statements that American commerce at the Amoor is steadily increasing, several ships having sailed from the United States to participate this year im its rich trade. They have taken out assorted cargoes of merchandise, including cotton goods, wines, liquors, ships? stores and chandlery, all kinds of hardware, machinery, Steam engines, &c, There are now on the waters of the Amoor five steamers built in this country. A Russian officer, Captain Davaudoff, at present in New York, is superintending the construction of steam en- gines and machinery, to be placed in gun- boats to bo constructed on the Amoor, which is navigable for steamboats at least twenty-five hundred miles, The climate is similar to Northwest Canada, and the agricultural productions about the same. The prin- cipal value of the country, as yet developed, is for its furs and minerals, but when the steam navigation shall be fully established, the trade will be immeasurably increased in other productions, and will add their treasures to thosa ofthe Amoor country. From Moscow to the head of the Amoor, a distance of four thousand miles, are upward of five hundred cities, towns and villages of industrious in- habitants, The Amoor Company this year sent to tha Amoor river three or four vessels, with full cargoes, to- gether with iron steamers to initiate their project, namely:—To unite the mouth @the Amoor with Siberia by a regular line of steam packets. The present ukase of the Emperor of Russia, permitting Siberian exiles to emigrate to the Amoor, is with a yiew of settling the shores of that river, and doveloping tho resources of the country. The construction of railroads ig contemplated, and also lines of telegraph connecting with ‘Moscow and other distant points, All theso movements of the Russian government are re- garded with great interest, as they cannot fail to open to American commerce a large and valuable market to many of our manufactures. Considering our diversitiod inte- rests, including those of whaling in the North Pacitic and contiguous to Siberia and the Amoor, the opinion prevails that we should have a Consul General instead of a con- Sular officer of comparatively an insignificant grade, with an insufficient salary. ‘Tho receipts of the Treasury last week amounted to $935,000, The drafts issued to $1,158,000. ‘The amount Subject to draft is $4,405,000, A despatch from Old Point Comfort states that tha health of the Secretary of War is improving, Sailing of the Jason from St. Johns St, Jouns, NF, Sopt 22, 1859. ‘The steamship Jason, trom New York 16th inst, ar rived at this port at two o'clock Wadnogday morning, and sailed hence for Galway at six o'clonk the game evenldg: The Europa Outyvard Bound, dco Sutavinne, N. B., Sept. 2: 1880. ‘The royal wall steupsehlp Europa, trom Beeler: *FIVGd