The New York Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1859, Page 6

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NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Vou Av-vant—Conrna, BANDIST—MazuLM, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Cossack Suave—Muai- ngeus—Tom Crna. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street— Dor. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ruuina Passion— Tickuusn Tues, Pain KKENE'S THEATRE, 6% Broudway.—Sua or iz. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—G aninatpi—Tunee GuanremEn. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—After: noom—bkves CLenxs—Hunrep Houss. Kveving—Mysre- RIOUS PTRANGER. ‘WOOD'S MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Erurorias Soncs, Dances, 40.—Liack Swan. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, #72 Broadway.— Bouurxsquss, Sones, Da: yep Ur. 806 Broadway.—AGnes Lormer- MENTAL New York, Thursday, September 29, 1859. DODWORTH’S ROOY tanv's Vocal axp Lys TRIPLE Owing to the great increase of our advertising business, ‘we are compelled to ask our advertising friends to come oour aid and help us to get our papertopress This they can accomplish by sending in their advertisements stasearly an hour inthe day and evening ag possible AL advertisements should be handed in before nine o'clock at wight. Those handed in after that hour will haw to take The News. In another column will be found a batch of inte. resting communications from China, written before the defeat of the British at Taku. They give a complete view of the state of affairs there previous to that event, and show the anxiety of the Chinese authorities to impress the Americans with a favora- ble idea of their friendly disposition towards them. The account of the reception of Minister Ward by the Imperial Commissioners at Shanghse will be read with interest, both as an evidence of this feel- ing and asa characteristic description of Chinese ‘usages and ceremonials. Our correspondent in Nicaragua, dating at Mana- gua on the 27th of August, states that Congress had adjourned, after transacting some very important business. The Lamar-Zeledon treaty had been rati- fied to meet the wishes of our government, the anti-filibuster clause, in the sixteenth article, being suppressed. The British treaty was not acted on, as Sir W. Gore Ouseley was in the interior of Costa Rica, and could not come to Realejo until the dry season set in. Nicaragua wished to see the Mos- quito question settled. The French treaty had been modified and ratified. A postal convention with the United States was needed. Honduras had obtained a beneficial colonization grant. The im- portation of Chinamen had been ordered by the Nicaraguan government. The news of the revolu- tion in Costa Rica did not produce much sensation. The Vandyke Transit Company had informed gov- ernment that they would open the route during September or October. Our Rio Janeiro correspondent, writing on the 12th ult., states that the United States ship John Adams had been seized and condemned in that port. He gives also an interesting report of the progress of the work on the Don Pedro Segundo Railroad. We have news from Jamaica dated at Kingston on the 10th inst. Trade was exceedingly depressed, with little prospect of a revival soon. The sugar crop of the year would not exceed twenty-three thousand hogsheads, which, with the proportionate decrease inrum, would show a decline in the ex- ports amounting to $1,000,000 inthe year. The Governor had left Kingston ona visit to the ex- cited district. The weather was good, and the public health report is favorable. The local press was indignant at the efforts of the Anti-Slavery Society of England to prevent immigration from the East, and the papers assert that Jamaica has fallen in her material prosperity since emancipa- tion. So that instead of exporting 70,000 hogs- heads of sugar as in 1838 she will send out only 23,000 hogsheads in 1859. ‘The Granada arrived from Havana yesterday with advices to the 23dinst. Sugars were very heavy, with one hundred and eighty thousand boxes on hand. Nothing doing in freights. Exchange on New York was at from four and a half to five anda half per cent. Havana was very healthy for the season of the year. In wwelve years from 1847 the coolie trade employed one hundred and sixteen vessels, which took away over fifty thousand, of whom forty-two thousand five hundred and one were landed alive in Cuba, seven thousand six hun- ‘dred and twenty-two unfortunates died, giving an average rate of mortality of 15.20 per cent. The condition of the Bank of Havana atill excited atten- tion. A female artist of the Spanish opera troupe had died in Havana. The Emigration Commissioners met yesterday, ‘but no business came up. The number of emigrants arrived during the week was 2,886, making the number for the present year so far 58,544. The balance of the commutation fund is now $26,185 63. There was no quorum at the meeting of the Ex- cise Board yesterday. A convention of lay and clerical delegates of the Episcopal church of New York commenced its ses- sion in this city yesterday. No business, however, beyond the usual preliminary proceedings, was transacted. A report will be found elsewhere. The Canal Convention met at Utica yesterday. Our report of the proceedings will inform our readers of what is proposed to be done respecting ‘the canals. Nothing has yet been heard of Messrs. La Moun- tain and Haddock, the miesing balloonists. With increased receipts prices of beef cattle during the past week have further declined half a cent ® pound—the range being from 5c. to 9fc., in- cluding all kinds. Cows and calves were quiet and gnchanged. Veals were in moderate Tequest, and without noticeable change in prices. Sheep and iambs were plenty at quotations given elsewhere. Swine were in moderate supply, and prices ranged from 5jc. to 6jc., as to quality. On sale—1217 heeves, 147 cows, 850 veals, 14,318 sheep and lambs and 2,933 swine. The turn of the cotton market yesterday was in favor of the purchaser, and closed at a decline of about 3, per fb. We quote middling uplands at 116{¢. The sales em. RENT OB | ‘NO NOTICE taken uf anonymous corresponitecice, We do not ted com stems. wpother column. The reooipts atthe ports since the st of September have reached 100,000 bales, against &.,000 for the same period last year; 21,000 in 1857; £4,000 in 1866 and 28,000 in 1865. The exports have pted to 46,000 bales, against 23,000 in 1858; 9,000 in 47; 19,000 in 858, and 66,000 in 1855, The stock on © amounts to 162,000 bales, against 90,000 in 1858; ts,000 in 1867; 77,000 in 1856, and 179,000 in 1:66. Flour continued to be in active demand, free sales while the market closed at vance of from 100. to 20c. per bbl. Wheat wos also firmer, and in better request from the trade, Core was heavy and lower, with sales of Western mixed ate. and round yellow at 8c, Pork was heavy and i easter, bet tolerably active, with salos of mess at $16 85 4 $15 80, thin mess at $14 75, and prime at $10 50 a $10 "5. Beef was dull and sales limited. Sugars were in fair demand, with sales of 1,000 hhds. at rates given in another place. Coffee was steady, with sales of about 1,80 bags Rio at 10%c. a 11Xe., with somo 300 skimmings at p. t. There was a good demand for vessels on charter to Continental and other ports. Four were taken up yesterday, particulars of which are re- ferred to in another place. Cotton was taken for Liver- | pool at 44d., and cheese at 268.; spirits turpentine to Lon- don at 68, 3d., and rosin at 8s, per 280 lbs. The public tea sale held yesterday , being the first since the receipt of China news, drew a large company. The catalogue con- tained desirable lots of both groens and blacks, giving rited competition among bidders. All the greens were sold at an average advance of 2c. per lb., and about all the blacks were also sold at an advance of Je. a 2c. per Ib, Some desirable and rather fancy lots Were sold at an advance of about 10 per cent above the current rates of previous sales. The Northwestern Boundary Difficulty with England—Who Owns the Arroo Islands ? The difficulty with the English government officials in British Columbia relative to the boundary line of our territory through the Gulf of Georgia and the Fuca Straits, and the right of possession to the Arroo group of islands lying between Washington Territory and Vancouver's Island, unless General Scott succeeds in keeping the peace, may prove somewhat difficult of solution. In the present aspect of affairs in that region—with both na- tions having established a military occu- pancy of San Juan island, the most im- portant of the group, and the hostile atti- tudes assumed by the British Governor Douglass and General Harney—the question has already become highly interesting and im- portant. In order that the public may forman intelligent opinion on the disputed claims of the two governments, we give to-day an accurate map of that district of country, expressly drawn and engraved for the Heratp. On this map we show the Northwestern boundary line be- tween our own territory and the British Ame- rican possessions, as agreed to by the treaty of June 15, 1846, along the forty-ninth parallel North latitude, and the water boundaries claimed by the two nations respectively, and now in dispute. The treaty of 1846 settled that the boundary shall run along the forty-ninth parallel of lati- tude to “the middle of the channel separating the continent from Vancouver's Island, thence southerly through said channel and the Straits of Fuca to the Pacific Ocean.” The question involved is, as to what is meant by “the channel,” for there may be said to be two channels, one running between the islands and the American Territory of Washington, the other running between them and the British possession of Vancouver's Island. The English claim that the former was the channel indicated in the treaty, which would give the group to Vancouver's Island; while we claim that the latter was clearly intended as the boundary, which, of course, would give them tous. We think that the American claim holds good for many reasons: first, the channel which we maintain is the boundary is the widest and most direct from the Gulf of Georgia to the Straits of Fuca, and is most free from the ob- structions of small islands; next, the soundings made by the coast surveyors show that it is the deepest channel of the two, as will be observed by the table of figures which we append to our map; and lastly, it is a known rule that islands are always held to belong to the nearest mainland rather than to any other adjacent island. We hope, therefore, that the government will resist any attempt to wrest from us these islands, which, since the execution of the treaty, have been considered American territory, not- withstanding that the right of property in them has been the subject of discussion at various times. Since the discovery of gold in the Fra- ser river region these islands have attracted more attention, commanding as they do the entrance to Frazer river, and it is important that our possession of them should be main- tained at all hazard. The aggressive spirit of the British government, always encroaching where it can find a pretext, must be re- sisted, and now is the opportune time to do so effectively. In defining the boundary of 1846 we gave more td England than she was entitled to, because of right the forty-ninth parallel would leave near- ly three-fourths of Vancouver’s Island to Ame- rican territory; butin order to give her the whole island, we ceded our rights in that par- ticular. England has had all that she claimed, and more than she was fairly entitled to at that time. We had a perfect right to claim up to the fifty-four-forty line, and itis a fact worth mentioning, that at the time when Mr. Polk made the compromise of the forty-ninth paral- lel boundary, Mr. Buchanan, then Secretary of State, and Robert J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury, stood out to the last in favor of the fifty-four-forty line, and never yielded our claim to it, though they were outweighed in the Cabinet. It is not likely, then, that the present administration will make any conces- sions in the present controversy. The British journals are clamorous in favor of the English interpretation of this boundary line, and, in the usual grasping spirit of their nation, insist upon securing the island of San Juan for themselves; but the fact is, that they neither know nor care what the lawful boun- dary is; if they can acquire an additional piece of territory by bamboozling or bullying us, that is all they care. As an instance of how little British journalists know of the boundaries of the United States, the London Post, the Premier’s own organand mouthpiece, the other day had the cool assurance to assert that by the Ashburton capitulation in 1842 England had ceded to the United States the whole State of Maine, including the fine harbor of Portland, to which she was now about to send her great triumph of marine architecture, the Great Eastern. Now, the fact is that, instead of England ceding any territory to us, we gaye up that portion of Maine known as the Aroog- took country to England, to settle the boundary difficulty, and she had no more claim to Port- land than she had to the port of New York. So much for the impudent, encroaching disposi- tion of England. She must be watched and tory upon some pretext or other. Hence the necessity of meeting her claims to the Arroo islands boldly, and upholding our right to every inch of ground on the Northwestern frontier to which the treaty stipulations entitle us, There must be no compromising or yield- ing, though we should be compelled to bring Le controversy to a bitter end, The Chevalier Wikof in China—A Ro- ving Diplomat at His Work. The latest news that has reached us from the Central Flowery Kingdom is of the most extraordinary nature. It is not too much to say that there are two sides to this Chinese question as well as to any other, although the English journals seem to ignore the fact. The first news we received was thrcugh English channels. It recounted the fact that the British and French Commissioncrs, having arrived at Shanghae, and intending to proceed to Pekin for the purpose of exchang- ing ratifications of the treaty of Tien-sin, were met by Chinese of*cials who suggested to them a new route to Pekin. Believing that the Man- darins intended to deceive them, the British attempted to force a passage at the mouth of the Peiho river, and sustained at the hands of the Chinese, who, it is said, were aided by Rus- sians and some roving Yankees, a great defeat. This would show a prima facie intention on the part of the Chinese to violate the treaty; but our ample correspondence received by the Vanderbilt is not only a full, clear and reliable account of the affair, but it puts another face upon it altogether. In its main facts, as to the hostile proceedings of Admiral Hope, it is corro- borated by the English despatches and by pri- vate correspondence which we have received from the best sources. But it presents some new features as to the causes of the imbroglio which commenced at Shanghae. It appears that the Chinese authorities directed the atten- | tion of the Plenipotentiaries to a point of the river called the North Bend, nine miles from the point where the barricade was erected which the British attempted to force. There they were told they would find ambassadors to escort them to Pekin. It does not appear that the British and French Ministers made any attempts to ascertain whether or not this state- ment was true, but that they really caused the violation of the treaty by bringing about the affair at Peiho. Subsequently it appeared that there was such a route to Pekin as the Chinese had pointed out, and it seems very probable that they acted in good faith. The American Minister, Mr. Ward, not being instructed to go to war, did not join in the attack upon the forts. He was treated with remarkable civility by the Chinese officials, and it is very probable that before this time he has reached Pekin by the North Bend route. So far as the negotiations between the English and French Commission- ers and the Chinese at Shanghae and Peiho are concerned, it would seem that there was no special desire for the ratification of the treaty on the part of the former, who were told dis- tinctly that if they attempted to force the bar- ricade they would be fired into. How the Chi- nese kept their promise about the firing every one knows. When our correspondence closed, all hands on board the Powhattan were on the qui vive for the pilot that was to take the ship to the North Bend, while the British and French Plenipotentiaries had returned to Shanghae. So it seems that the English and French were completely upset in their negotiations by some secret influence, and the Americans and Rus- sians remained masters of the field. Who did this? Had the Chevalier Wikoff any hand in it? We know that the Chevalier left here some time ago as a bearer of the ratified treaty. We suppose he had arrived in China, and that he was on the spot while all the circumstances above detailed took place. We have heard nothing more of him, but every one knows that he is not the sort of person to remain idle in such a splendid diplomatic field as that which China offers just now. He has a powerful motive to thwart the English plans in his affair with Lord Palmerston, in which the Chevalier thinks him- self shabbily treated. The odious souvenirs of the detestable Brown at Genoa are not forgot- ten by the Chevalier. He, it is stated, though born in Pennsylvania, is a Russian by descent, and has an hereditary fondness for intrigue. Wherever he goes there is sure to be some kind of a blow-up; and itis very likely that, through his great regard for the English, he has attempted to arrange their affairs in China to suit his own ideas, and the result is certainly very agreeable—to the other party. We all know that before the Chevalier left this coun- try on his celebrated Russian expedition, he attempted to harmonize the democratic party by giving the rival chieftians a grand dinner. But with the soups came discontent. Jealousy spoiled the finished, mutterings followed the en- trees, there were quarrels over the roast, and war was declared before the coffee was served. Ever since then the party here has been in a more irreconcilable, inharmonious and demo- ralized condition than before. Who knows that the gallant Chevalier has not been trying his peculiar talents in China, and so stirred up this pretty little row, a quarrel sufficiently involved to suit even an Irish duelist or a Virginia editor? We shall wait for news of Wikoff and further developements of his Chinese opera- tions with anxiety. He is certainly clever enough to outwit the French, English and Chinese, all of whom seem to have been trying to fool each other; and we confidently expect to hear that he has put up the Mandarins to some new scheme, (he may be at this moment dining on birds’ nests pudding at Pekin), and that his operations will put an entirely new phase on the external and internal relations of the Central Flowery Kingdom. State or THE ARMY ON THE FrontrER.—Our Tubac correspondent gives us some information as to the state of the troops in garrison on the frontier which should command the immediate attention of the government. It seems that the dragoons have something like one horse to two men, and even of those one half are old and useless; the arms are of the most motley description, and the officers away on leave in the Atlantic States. Company G, First Dra- goons, has had but one commissioned officer for over a year; Company D, of same regiment, has been commanded by a second lieutenant for the same period. We suspect there are many other things in our frontier service that will bear looking into, and we hope Colonel Joe Johnson, the acting Inspector General, will do it thoroughly. He is an efficient officer, and it would do the frontier service no harm if he would bring the officers up to his own standard. We recommend Colonel Johnson to fernced about 1,000 bales, at the revised quotations given checked, or she will filch her neighbor’s terri, yond our correspondent’s letter from Tubac. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1859.--TRIPLE SHEET. Ths Cau Ge weihion and ignite { gress, we soe that the republicans have entered | and some buts, he expended 700,000 francs—all Crime and Crinoline in Broadway. The report of the recent riot and shoot- ing affray in Broadway, at the corner of Canal street, is suggestive of an extraor- dinary revolution which is taking place in two of Our great streets. Our principal and most fashionable thoroughfare, Broadway, is gradually changing its character, and, from being the most orderly, peaceful street in the city, is becoming rather unsettled and rowdy in its reputation; while the Bowery, whose repu- tation for rows and riots, murders and violence of every kind, was once so notorious, has un- dergone a change for the better, and is now, perhaps, one of the safest of all our streets for men or women after dark. In tho day time, in fine weather, Brondway presents the gayest appearance of any street in any city on this continent. The display of crinoline in the windows of the dry goods stores is dazzling; but more brilliant still are the bright clouds of moving crinoline on the sidewalk, like a numerous fleet of splendid yachts in full sail. In the midst of all this gayety and fashion, crime and disorder, emboldened by impunity, rear their hideous heads almost in the broad light of day, so that a person walking quietly through this grand thoroughfare does not know the moment that a pistol bullet, fired at another person, may pass through his head. Still more dangerous is it at night. The appearance of the street, as it is lighted up, is very grand; toa stranger from the country it is almost en- chanting. But the festering vice and crime which lurk beneath the glitter, like a serpent beneath a bed of flowers ready to sting you to death, destroy the charm, and induce the cau- tious pedestrian, at late hours especially, to seek some other route to his home. The following are a few of the cases of homi- cide in Broadway in recent years, to say no- thing of the numerous disturbances for which the street has become famous:— Dr. Lutener, shot dead in his office about ten o’clock in the morning, and no conviction for the crime. A porter named Burke, killed at night in the store of Joyce, corner of White street. William T. Tompkins, beaten. to death in the Art Union Saloon, Broadway, in 1859. Joseph H. Wagstaff (lawyer,) shot dead by Theodore S. Nims, in saloon 480 Broadway, in 1857. Young Ballard was nearly killed on the Astor House steps by Amelia Nor- man. John McLindon, corner of Thirty-ninth street, stabbed with a pitchfork. A shoemaker, killed in daylight in a basement under the Howard House. A negro woman’s throat cut by her husband in the open day. A negro named James Roberts, stabbed at the corner of Ann street. Corlies, shot by a woman at the Carleton House. Virginia Stewart, shot by Macdonald, in the present year, at the Bran- dreth House. Colonel Loring, shot by Dr. Graham at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Adams, murdered by Colt at the corner of Chambers street. William Poole, shot in an affray at Stanwix Hall. Casey, alias Wilson, was shot on Saturday morning at the corner of Canal street, by mistake for another person, as stated by the wounded man himself, but, according to the statement of others, as one of a gang of rowdies who had assaulted a party of young men when passing quietly through the strect. What is the cause of this great accumulation of crime and disorder in Broadway? It arises from the fact that the street has become the centre of fashion, theatres, billiard’ saloons, bowling alleys, music halls, hotels, ice cream saloons, drinking palaces and gambling resorts, where the fashionable gentlemen of the modern type congregate, and are ever ready for mis- chief, while the inefficiency of our police gives impunity and license for outrage. The at- tractive places, fitted up in the most costly and gorgeous style, extend from Fulton street to Union square. They draw the curious and the idle from all parts of the city and country. In the midst of the crowds that congregate there, such scenes as were exhibited at Syracuse and Stanwix Hall, in our present loose police sys- tem, may be expected. To such an extent, however, has the evil grown, and such is the lawlessness that prevails under the eyes of the well paid guardians of the peace, that great numbers go armed with dag- gers and revolvers to protect themselves and inflict that summary punishment which the law as administered fails to dispense. Violent dis- eases are only cured by violent remedies; hence coroners’ juries and other juries are slow to give verdicts for any kind of offence against those who kill rowdies, such persons being regarded by the better part of the community as so many noxious wolves who ought to be exterminated. The verdict rendered in the ante-mortem examination in the case of Casey, shot in the affray on Saturday morning, is an in- stance of this. The strong probabilities seemed to be that one of the assaulted party of young men shot the wounded man as one of the assail- ing rowdies; but the sympathy of the jury was so strongly with the side of order, and their feel- ings so excited against the rowdyism which threatens to turn liberty into anarchy, that they gave the accused the benefit of the slight shadow of doubt that he did not fire the shot which wounded Wilson, perhaps mortally, and they rendered thestrange verdict that “James Wilson came to his wound- ing by a pistol shot fired by some person or persons unknown.” The verdict is not so re- markable for the singular phrase “came to his wounding,” as for the rendition that the per- son or persons who inflicted the wound are unknown. A strong tide of public opinion seems to be setting in against the rowdies, which will make their vocation rather dan- gerous in the future. They may calculate here- after upon frequent doses of lead or cold steel in their stomachs. A Tremenpous Ficut ror Mrynesota.—The Minnesota election will shortly come off, includ- ing two members of Congress. The republi- cans, under the impression that with these two votes they may be able to control the or- ganization of the new House of Repre- sentatives, and the Presidential election itself, if carried up to that body, are making a temen- dous fight to carry the State. Among their regular epenokers on the stump in dif- ferent parts of the State for the campaign, are Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania; Hon. F. P. Blair, Jr, of Missouri; Carl Shurz, of Minnesota, the eloquent German; Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire; Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana; Hon. J. F. Farnsworth, of Minois, and others. From this formidable catalogue of able and experienced stumpers and members of both Houses of Con- = oe into the work of the next Presideugy with a | the money he brought with him—and he called degree of earnestness which Js very signibcant, | and that they are calculating upon the chances of a scrub race in 1860, and am election of our next President by the House of Representa- tives. We apprehend, too, that from the Douglas defection and other demoralizing causes the Minnesota democracy will this time go to the wall. A fortnight or so will settle the question. ——EEE Tnx Trinve anv Jupae RooseveLT AGAIN.— In reply to an article touching the narrow- minded party meanness of the Tribune in op- posing the increase of salary to Judge Roose- velt, that journal mistakes the case, and says that he is trying to get money which he knows the constitution forbids his receiving. Now, the contrary is the fact. It is Mr. Busteed who pretends that the claim is unconstitutional, while Judge Roosevelt maintains that it is in strict accordance with the constitution, and has accordingly, in conjunction with his associates on the bench, prepared a case to be sub- mitted to the courts to test the constitutionality of the law which gives power to the Super- visors to make the increase in question. Now, Mr. Busteed throws difficulties in the way of having the case adjudicated, though he cannot deny the substantial justice of the claim. The Trivune, too, admits that these Judges are poorly paid, and says they ought to have more, yet opposes the only way in which they can legally have more. We repeat, therefore, that on the part both of the Tribune and the imma- culate Busteed, “it is a miserable, picayune, small-potato affair.” There ought to be no party feeling in the case, for the claimants are both democrats and republicans. For instance, Judge Davies is a republican, while Judge Roosevelt is a democrat. Busteed misrepresents the constitution. The meaning of its provision evidently is, that during a Judge’s term of office his salary shall not be increased out of the funds of the State. It does not prohibit his receiving additional compensation from the county. The additional $1,500 voted by the Board of Supervisors does not come out of the State treasury, but the treasury of the city and county of New York, and isa municipal matter, with which the pro- vision in the constitution has nothing to do; and what is more, the Supervisors are empow- ered by a special act of the Legislature to do the very thing in question. The increase they have decreed is extremely paltry, not one- fourth of what it ought to be. Yet such is the meanness of Busteed, who has made so good a thing out of the Corporation for himself, that he objects to an upright and able Judge being fairly paid for his services. He knows how to strain at a knat while he swallows a camel. We hope the decision of Judge Roosevelt in the Lowber case has nothing to do with Bus- teed’s present opposition to his just claim. A First Rate Notice ror THE WEATHER.— We are enjoying in the metropolis the last sighs of summer, which are, as usual in leave- taking, exceedingly ardent. Since the fierce equinoctial and its temporary relapse last week, the weather has been of the very finest order—an article, in fact, never surpassed with- in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The city is still crowded with strangers, and Broad- way presents on these fine, soft afternoons, a cosmopolitan photograph, in which the youth, beauty and gayety of all America, and a fair sprinkling of the rest of mankind, make the principal figures. The theatres are crowded every night, and the Opera, without a special excitement, is very well attended. As for the hotel keepers and the proprietors of the Broad- way bazaars, including the milliners, who have just opened their loves of bonnets for the au- tumn, they are in that comfortable state of mind which flush times always brings about. If they could only have such delicious weather as that of yesterday all the year round, they would acknowledge that the sum of human happiness had been reached. That the fall trade is encouragingly brisk may be readily imagined from tHe crowded condition of our advertising columns; this is an unfailing com- mercial barometer. The country just now is in its most charm- ing mood. The finished portions of the Central Park, and the drives to High Bridge, King’s Bridge and all along the Hudson river, are daily thronged with equipagts of all sorts, from the heavy respectable family carriage down to the fast man’s skeleton wagon. The enyirons of New York, always delightful, are especially so at this season, and the metropolis, up to the end xt month, will be crowded with plea- sure-scckers, who find here all the delights of a first rate watering place without any of its an- noyances. Chevalier Wess Must Try Acarty.—Cheva- lier Webb has made another attempt to get that diamond snuff box; but he must try again. He cannot get it yet. He says the whole of the American press, with the exception of himself, condemned the peace of Villafranca, and taunted Lonis Napoleon with the violation of his pledges and the betrayal of the Italians. This is untrue, for the New York Henatp did not condemn the peace of Villafranca, but, on the contrary, said that the Emperor of the French did the best possible thing,at the best moment—that he did all that it was in his power to do for the Italians without compro- mising the interests of France, and that the Italians would be placed in the position of working out their own regeneration if they were worthy of freedom. Chevalier Webb must, therefore, manufacture something more plausible, if not more truthful than this, as a ground on which to rest his claim for the desired snuff box from the imperial ruler of France. Moystevr Fenix Betny’s Enterprise Burst Ur.—The glittering Frenchman went up .like a rocket and has come down like a stick. From a party recently arrived from Nicaragua we have received an interesting statement of the bursting of the Belly bubble, which confirms an account to the same effect from our own correspondent writing from Managua. Both accounts will be found on another page, from which it will be scen that the enterprise is utterly abandoned, the unpaid workmen dis- persed, and Belly himself, who seven months ago went to France, promising to return, has not only not returned, but never will. Thus ends all his flaming manifestoes, and his notes of vast preparation, and his magnificent maps. He made a grand splash with his ex- Secretary of Legation, his cooks and washer- women, and all his fine retinue with high sound- ing titles. He commenced on an immense scale. On a house alone which be built at San Carlos, the village San Felix, after himself, which led : toa row between him and the Commandant Both the English and American govornmens were kept in a state of constant alarm lest some exclusive advantage should be ob- tained by treaty for France; for it was a part of Belly’s system to give out that he was author. ised in what he did by Louis Napoleon. But how are the mighty fallen! When we recollect the flourish of trampete made by the showy Frenchman, and now contrast with it his lame and impotent concle- sion, we cannot help exclaiming, “Look upom that picture, and on this!” ‘The splendid phan- tom has vanished like the baseless fabric of s vision. Nicaragua seems destined to be the {grave of brilliant hopes and grand enter- prises, both civil and military. Belly’s canal and his engineers, Walker's military republie and his filibusters, have shared the same fate, Exrorrarion or Srecm.—Our Muveran Crops.—The steadily increasing amounts of specie which are being shipped from this port furnish every now and then occasion for alarmist speculations to the Wallstreet brokers, On Saturday there went out by the Persia $2,683,573, being, with ono exception, the argest shipment ever made in one day from New York. On the 25th of May last, the excep- tion to which we refer, the amount sent out was $3,007,589. We question ifany one of the far- famed argosies of the Spanish galleons ever equalled this aggregate of treasure. Whatever may be thought by others of this progressive increase in the exportation of the precious metals, we see nothing in it to inspire the least apprehension. It is but a feature, and a legitimate one, of the progress and develope- ment cf the country itself, With the multipli- cation of machinery in the mining regions, the continual discovery of unexplored and appa- rently inexhaustible fields of mining enter- prise, and the opening up of new routes and other facilities for getting their producta to the seaboard, the supply of the precious metals must, in the natural course of things, be always on the increase. That there is no limit to this supply would seem to be in- dicated by the enormous results which the Cali- fornian mines still continue to yield. From the Nebraska gold fields accounts have recently reached us which place their richness beyond all further cavil. In another column will be found the report of the special commissioner appointed by the Governor of the Territory to investigate the resources and prospects of the mines. He states that gold exists in paying quantities throughout the whole of Western Nebraska and a portion of Northwestern Kan- sas, and that in most of the diggings he had visited the miners were making, with imper- fect implements, from five to twenty-five dol- lars a day. From these facts some idea may be formed of the wealth that they will yield when the requisite machinery is brought to bear on the auriferous resources of that exten- sive mineral region. Whilst the supply of gold seems to promise results greater than any that have as yet been attained, that of silver is equally likely to in- crease in amount. As soon as a route is open- ed up from Arizona to the Gulf of California, and capital is brought to bear on the rich mine- ral lodes of the Territory, there ts no doubt that immense quantities of the latter will be shipped to this port. In the supply of coal, copper and lead the developement of our mining in- terests will also produce a corresponding aug- mentation. Thus the crops of the precious metals, like our cereals, will be continually adding to the riches and prosperity of the coun- try. A few years ago the shipment of specie was looked upon as a bad sign in the com- merce of the country. Now it has ceased to be a bugbear: gold and silver, like cotton and wheat, forming a portion of the regular products of the country. As a matter of course, the surplus that we do not require will find its way to the markets where it commands the highest premium. To argue that its exportation makes us poorer would be tantamount to saying that what we do not want to use ourselves had better be left idle than be allowed to benefit others, Tue Late American State Convention—FLat REBELLION IN THE Camp.—James W. Husteed, Secretary of the American State Council, James W. Reynolds, editor and proprietor of the Essex County Republican, and some twenty-five other delegates to the late American State Convention at Utica, have joined in a “Protest” against the proceedings of said Convention, addressed “to the independent Americans of the State of New York.” In this protest it is declared that “the American party has at last fallen a victim to the snare of its enemies;’ that the Convention guilty of this treachery to the party—(the half-and-half republican and democratic mixed ticket—has “released the Americans of New York from every obligation to recognize its action.” Accordingly, these protesting delegates further declare that, “choosing to retain our independent position rather than, as Swiss, to be bartered at will, we shall, during the pending canvass, be guided by such rules of political action” as, in short, they may think proper. In this connection the Albany Statesman- the central organ of the American rump, de- nounces said half-and-half ticket as an “act of political suicide,” and says “there is nothing but derision of the attempt to debauch the American party by selling out its votes to the candidates of two parties having no principle in common,” and that “no American can be so wanting in intelligence as to believe that an act so immensnrably and universally cons demned by such presses, (referring to the Heratp and other papers of this city), can have the slightest hope of success.” Thus the hermaphrodite concern set up by General Gustavus Adolphus Scroggs, Daniel Ullmann and Booby Brooks, as the golden calf for the American party to worship, is in danger of being knocked to pieces. And we second he motion in behalf of all these independent Americans who will not consent to be bartered away as Swiss mercenaries to aid in selling off such damaged political dry goods as Scroggs, Ullmann and Brooks, at prices far above their real valuein the market. Let such men sell them- selves if they can, but let the masses of the party stick to their independence, and remem- ber that, individually, they are perfectly free to support and vote for the State ticket which each individual may think proper to select for himself. Under this independent and truly American rule of agtion we believe that some forty thou- and of the sixty thousand American votes