The New York Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1859, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. DEFOR 8. &. CONNER OF FULTON AND washal BTS arvance Money smuafh wll Oo at the SESS" Sia That ronedoed as guna ptionn “THE DAiLl MEKALD, noo eigen © Tented TOE WERKE) UPKALD. (0+ $8 pr annum, Watneahey nts mt uri $i per amma (0 amy mp parton eee ianut I a Ie a Dalisomntes Pra yaar a WeTeaEDS om Watneadoy, a8 fowr conte per be ye RY ow TwitKESPo) IDENER, conuintng unporvans area witled from nny gustan of the teorble O wont wll Tow Totes CogREaranvEnts 483 Skercer atx’ Reogerees ro Amat aia Larraee snp Pace: “ONO ROTTER taken akon of wnonymona eorreepondence fe do net return vefertad remnen Minna and in he eA BVERTIREMERTS reeves sory Warxiy Hanan, Santi baited eet os meatness, cheapness and to Polume XIV AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Manuyao Lies—Srir vine. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—My Aunr—Our Mesi— Rosere's Wire. Pa GARDEN, Broadaray, opposite Bond street — WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway.—Sas Stoors to Coxquer—Love AND MURDER. LAURA KREENE'S TURATRE. 624 Broadway.—Sas or to NkKW BOWKRY THRATRE, Bowery.—Paaxtom—Cross- ing THe Line—ScHooutastEE, BARNUM'S AMERIOAN MUSEUM, Brondway.—After. noou-My Ne guson's Wim Swing Gortage. Kveuinge eee. Gor of tue Davas—Baiier Vivanrtisn! RUUD'S MLE ME w Dare: s/s (Rocss so Formarion of Gow ix Cau wounta. DOPB CHAPEL, 720 Brosdway.—Wavou’s trata Bow York, Friday, October 7, 1859. ‘The News. The long talked of prize fight between Australian Kelly and Ned Price, two noted professors of the manly art of seltdefence, took place yesterday af- ternoon, according to pre-arrangement, at Point Abino, on the Canada side of Lake Erie. Price won the first fall, the first blood, and the battle, and came out of the contest with scarcely a scratch, while Kelty was severely injured, having had two ribs bruken in the tenth round. The tight occupied eleven rounds, aud was decided in thirty-two mi- nutes. The affair was witnessed by an immense crowd of spectators, and we publish a full and graphic account of it from our special reporter in another column. The New York Board of Currency held their usual monthly meeting on Wednesday eveniog last. Menars. George Opdyke, Hon. John Cochrane and Peter Cooper addressed the meeting, advocating the objects of the organization. The Tammany General Committee met last night and made arrangements for the primaries to be held next week for the Judiciary, Senatorial and Assembly Nominating Conventions. They also in- ‘structed the chairman of the New York delegation to Byracuse to prepare a statement showing that Tammany had nothing to do with the rowdy- ism at the State Convention. The conduct of Su- pervisor Conner in failing to insist on all the regis- tzars being democrats, was brought up, but no sction was taken thereon. The American Bible Union closed its tenth an- nual session yesterday. Addresses were made by Rev. Dra. Osgood, Hackett, Eaton, Achii, and the Rev. Messrs. Chalion, of Philadelphia, and T. L. Breckinridge, of Indiana. Dr. Conant's revision of the first five chapters of Matthew were an- nounced as completed. The proceedings in the case of Lane, the alleged Fulton Bank defaulter, were continued yesterday before Justice Osborn. At the conclusion of the reading of the sffidavits for the prosecation, coun- sel for the defendant moved, on technical grounds, to dismise the complaiat. Judge Osborn will ren- der his decision in the course of two or three days. The regular meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce was held yesterday, and the proceedings, a report of which may be found in another column, were unusually interesting. Among the subjects brought up for discussion were the laws relating to Collisions at sea, the establishment of light-houses on the British side of the Bahama banks and on the north coast of South America, and the practice of depositing mud on Oyster Island in the harbor. ‘The steamship Canada arrived at Halifax yester- day with Earopean advices to the 24th ult., but regards operas and charges of admission, for the beason at the Tacon, The recent election in Georgia haa resulted in the re-election of Gov. Brown by fully fifteen thou. rand majority. The delegation to Cougress will stand as before-—all democrats except the repre- sentatives from the Third and Seventh districts. Partial returns of the election in Mississippi indi- cate increased majorities for the democratic candi dates. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester day a communication was received from the Mayor urging the necessity of completing the Battery oa, largement, and the erection of a auitable sea wall to prevent the obstruation of pavigation by the washing of earth from the Battery into the channel of the river at Governor's Island. The Mayor also sent in a veto on the resolution authorizing the City Inspector to advertise for bids for removing butch- ers’ offal, &c., to Barren Island for a period of five years, He objects to the namiog of a speviui locali- ty, and suggests an amendment accordingly. We have received Mr. La Mountain's account of his recent perilous aerial voyage and sufferings in the great Canada wilderness; but as all the main facts of the narrative were meationed by Mr. Had- dock in his account, which we published yesterday, and as our columns are occupied with other inte- resting matter, we are compelled to hold it over. There was a spirited meeting of the New York Sanitary Association last evening at the Cooper Institute. A resolution calling upon the Legisla- ture to adopt stringent sanitary laws was discussed by Dr. Griscom, Dr. Francis, Rev. Dr. Bellows, Kew Dr, Hagne aud others. A large number of physi- cians and some twenty clergymen attended the meeting, snd the public may reasonably expect, when the doctors of physic and theology pull together in a cause, that something will be accom- The Last Gasp of of Mr. Buch: 's Policy. The impotency of the last effort of the filibus- ters, and the general reprobation with which its announcement has been received throughout the country, is a conclusive proof of the decay and dissolution of the Walker school of adven- turers. Much of this result is owing to Walker him- self. No man among the filibuster leaders had a better opportunity than he to run the career of a statesman and a general among the dis- tracted States of Central America, and to eatab- lish the nucleus of order and good government there; yet in every respect his course has been a complete failure. When he first appeared in Nicaragua as the supporter of the liberal party in their civil war, he was hailed as the genius of peace and order, and attracted to himself many warm friends. These he soon lost through his own insatiate ambition, his utter inability to comprehend the circumstances that surrounded him, and his ignorance of the true principles of society and government. Instead of endeavoring to weld a divided State, to moderate the passion of parties, and to bind all to the support of the common weal, his attention was directed to se- curing his own exclusive power, to satisfying the demands of the adventurers that flocked around him, and to the putting in practice the Utopian schemes of worn-out politicians. The result Was that he united men of all classes and opinions in Nicaragua against him, and gained the opprobrium instead of the applause of the world. Twice driven out of Nicaragua, and saved only by his surrender to American officers, he has constantly persisted in his intention to re- urn to that republic, not asa pacificator, but as a conqueror. But in this he has encountered the consistent and energetic watchfulness of Mr. Buchanan’s administration. The President has at all times and on all occasions discounte- nanced and denounced the lawles proceedings of the Walker school, and the plans of Walker himself, Lockridge and their compeers, have in every case been de- feated. Each new attempt has received less and less public support, till now we find the last expedition, starting with a small number of men from New Orleans, stopped at the mouth of the Mississippi, without provisions and with- out the means of putting to sea, and orders have been sent there to arrest all who have owing to the prevalence of a severe wind and rain storm the express with the news was detained. The intelligence will reach the city thia forenoon, and will be published in our afternoon edition. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday the only case disposed of was that of Barney Heron, who was charged with receiving stolen goods, con- sisting of copper and lead, to the value of $25. After much deliberation the jary returned a ver- dict of guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy. Considering all the circumstances con- nected with the case, the Coart concluded to im- pose @ fine of $25, which was paid by the prisoner, awho was then discharged. Our reporter paid a visit to the Tombs yesterday, and had interviews with four of the murderers there incarcerated. His account thereof, which ‘we give elsewhere in to-day’s paper, will be found interesting. A meeting of the Aldermanic Committee on Rail- ronds took place yesterday. Several parties were present, all of whom were in favor of granting permission to the Westchester County Railroad Company to build a railroad from the lower part of the city along its western side to Kingsbridge, or some point in that vicinity, where it would cross the Harlem river and be extended throngh West- chester county. The Board of Councilmen met last night, a bare quorum being present. A resolution was adopted calling upon the Street Commissioner to state why he does not proceed with the rebuilding of the Fif- teenth ward station house, as directed by the Com- mon Council. Reports were laid over in favor of repairing Washington Market, and to reprint the Jaws aod regulations of the Fire Department, and to print 2,500 additional copies of the proceedings of the Sanitary Convention. The sum of $250 was ordered to be appropriated for the repairs and re- touching of the pictures in the Governor's room of the City Hall. The Comptroller transmitted a sum- mary of expenditures in his department from Janu- Sry, 1869, to September last, amounting in the aggre- ate to $13,741,435 62. Ordered on file. A debate vensued on a motion to print 10,000 or 5,000 or 1,000 copies of the lists of registrars and inspectors of election from the minutes of the Board of Sa- pervisors, All, the motions and amendmenta were ‘Jost by an equal yote. On Wednesday evening Mr. Charles M. Leupp, 9 deading and wealthy leather merchant, of this city, <ommitted suicide while ina state of insanity, by :¢' ooting himself through the heart, at his resi- we ¢ce im Madison avenue. He was, man univer. sy esteemed, and his death will be widely In avevted. We give a fall account of the sad event, ~t. gether with the proceedings at the Coroner's in. «cucot and a sketch of the deceased. ovr Havana letters, dated on the 30th ult., state Ghat two Americans—Robert Langdon and William Werplanck—died on the Sist and 24th of Beptem- Hor: Marotack had ined a spirited programme a9 not escaped. It is to be hoped that this is the last expir- ing effort of Walker and his kind. If we are to extend any assistance to the efforts of the Spanish-American republics to establish peace and order among themselves, it must be through a very different class of men from Walker, and by very different measures than those he has used. Mr. Buchanan has directed his attention to the diplomatic arrangement of the subject, and the good sense of the commu- nity everywhere sustains the course he has pursued. Adventurers of all kinds are set aside and put down, instead of being listened to and half encouraged, as they were by poor Pierce, and the policy and good faith of the present administration, if it is met by the same spirit on the part of the Central American governments, will destroy the last remnants of filibusterism. Wars axp Rumors or Wars.—It seems be- yond peradventure that there is to be a war be- tween China, France and England ; Governor Douglass and General Harney have done their best to get up a row between the United States and Great Britain upon the San Juan Island question ; there are several wars going on in Mexico, trouble in Venezuela, the Argentine Confederation and Costa Rica, and various other difficulties of greater or less importance in va- rious parts of the world; but they all pale their ineffectual fires before the threatened war between this State and New Jersey, better known as the kingdom of Camden and Amboy. It seems that the Jerseymen complain of de- posits of refuse matter which are emptied into the harbor, and which collect upon an island claimed by them and covered with water athigh ide. The Governor of New Jersey has issued his solemn proclamation warning the State of New York on its peril to refrain from offending the olfagtories.of the State of New Jersey in this manner any more. The Chamber of Com- merce have had the matter under consideration, and it was announced at a meeting of theCham- ber yesterday that the island in question be- longs to New York instead of New Jersey, as the latter claims. Here is a double difficulty, the boundary question being added to the nui- sance matter. We advise the filibusters to stay here if they want to bluster alittle. We look for some sharp correspondence on this unsavo- ry subject, but firmly believe that New Jersey will be magnanimous, and New York generous, that no blood will be spilled, and that the Union is safe for a few years longer. NEW YORK l#alt 4 SRS a GONE GS SIRE SS NT as GEN Tie amtceee aces aloe ee eae SSR SS SS Die ES Ae Taxation iy Tus Crry.-—It is no new thing for our readers to learn that (he taxes in this city and county have been growing to vast proportions year after year, until at length they have become au enormous burden upon pro- perty owners, If the increased rate of taxa- tion could be accepted as an indication of the progress of the city commercialiy, there might be some consolation in knowing that taxable property had grown 60 largely io value; but as it happens that the aggregate of taxation has increased in a. larger ratio than the property itself, it only shows that the city is cruelly mis- governed, and the taxes equandered by plun- derivg politicians, Ten years ago, in 1849, the taxes were only three millions, while the pro- perty was valued at two hundred and fifty-six millions; this year the taxes amount to uine millions eight hundred and sixty thousand, while property is valued at five hundred and fifty millions. That is to say, the value of pro- perty has not quite doubled in that time, but the taxes have been more than trebled in amount. The following tabular statement exhibits the amount of property valued for taxation, the total annual taxes, and the average rate, with- out fractions, on every hundred dollars, for the last nineteen years:— STATKMENT SHOWING THE RATES, BTC., OF TAXES, FROM er TO 1859, Amount of taw Rate of taw lps Hn COMME MCOSCS SEELERELETLERSEVES 8,066,566 52 8,621,001 31 860,926 09 This is an interesting table in many respects, not alone as an exhibit of the wonderful growth of property in the city of New York, but as something for the taxpayers to ponder over. It would be curious to know the rates of in- crease in the value of property and taxation in other large cities; and as the Comptroller is en- deavoring to collect such statistical statements for the purpose of enlightening the public on this subject in his next annual report, we hope the authorities of the financial departments ot other cities throughout the country will furnish him witb such facts as may be useful for that purpose; and while they are preparing these important facts for him, let them do us a favor by sending a duplicate copy of the same to the HERALD. - = 3 Tre Cases oF Srepaxns, SHEPHERD AND Oturr Conpemnep Crruinats.—Tho dilatori- ness of the law, in this country particularly, is proverbial. It has been exemplified very fully by our court of last rosort in the cases of Stephens, Shepherd, Mrs. Hartung, and others. It will be recollected that after very considerable delay the two first named were sentenced in this city to the death penalty early in June last—Stephens for the murder of his wife by poison, and Shepherd for setting fire to his own dwelling house, his wife perish- ing in the flames. Mrs. Hartung was convicted in Albany last winter for the murder of her husband by poisoning him with doses of phos- phorus. The three cases were taken before the Court of Appeals on application for new trials. Arguments were had in June or July, and ince then that Court has been sleeping over the matter. They have at length awakened, and have announced their decision that the sentence of Stephens is to be carried into exe- eution, but that Shepherd is to have a new trial, because the fact of the burned house having been his own property is supposed to have a bearing on the law of arson. As to Mrs. Hartung’s case, the Conrt has not made up its mind yet. In the cases of Feliz Sanchez and Quimbo Appo, stays of execution have been also granted, and their fate is still in the balance. Criminals have by far too many chances to escape in the loose manner of conducting busi- ness in our inferior criminal courts, where in nine cases out of ten they succeed in eluding justice ; but certainly there is no excuse for unnecessary delay on the part of the Supreme Court or on the part of the Court of Appeals. The questions in these three cases were simple, and might have been decided within an hour after argument; but yet the Court of Appeals took some three months to sleep overthem. If the whole system of criming! jurisprudence is not to be abandoned as utterly worthless, it will be absolutely necessary to have the practice of our courts altered, so.as to admit of the punish ment of a criminal within some reasonable period of time. Tue New Conoress—Tue Srois o- tur Hovse Orcanwation.—The scramble for the fat offices of the House organization has ac- tively commenced. Various candidates are already’ named for Speaker, but the two most prominent appear te be Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, republican, and Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, who is put forward asthe most available man for an opposition coalition. His principal capital isthe resolu- tion which he introduced into a former Con- gress denouncing, in good round terms, the Southern agitation for the revival of the Afri- can slave trade. But as the real basis of any coalition for the control of the House will be the division of the spoils, we cannot calculate upon the Speaker without including the Clerk and the Printer in the arrangement. In this view, it appears that the Chevalier Forney has resolved to abandon Mr. Douglas, and put in zealously for a fusion of the anti- Lecompton democrats with the republicans, upon the basis of Forney as the coalition can- didate for Clerk. With an arrangement of this sort, the Southern opposition faction could be dispensed with; and, under this idea, we are informed, Wendell is “bobbing around” here, there, and everywhere, taking soundings as the great lobby man for House Printer. He bought up the two little democratic lobby men, Stead- man and Banks, who secured the printing of the last House; but as he had to pay them each some $30,000 for their lobby title, they really sold him in the transaction, and left him the bag to hold. Now, by repeating his clever game, under which Mr. Banks was elected Speaker for the Congress immediately preced- ing the last, Master Wendell doubtless expects to make up his late losses. But he will have a hungry legion of competi- lors te contend with, including all the lobby gange of the starving journals at Washington, and, perhaps, Thurlow Weed, the Chevalier at Webb, and a host o? candidates of tre country newspapers. The tinal arrangement is exceed- ingly doubtful, as it must comprehend the Speaker, the Clerk und the Printer, and a coa- lition competent to carry them all. We fear, however, that Wendell, and Heiss, and Rives, and the new lobby newspaper firm of Bowman and Brown, are outof the question; and we are not very sanguine concerning poor Forney. Tur Bore mw tux Common Scnoors— Action or THE Boarp ov Epvearton.— ‘The operation of the bylaw of the Board of Education, ordering the Bible to be read in all the common schools of tho city, wili be tested to-day, when the Board meet to sign the pay rolls for the month of September. This is pay- dny, and as in three of the wards the order has not been complied with, it remains to be seen what action the Board will take in the pre- mises. The by-law in question runs :—“ All the pub- ‘ie schools of this city under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education ehall be opened by the reading of a portion of the Holy Scriptures, without note or comment.” Another by-law says, “the situation of a teacher shall be for- feited by a wilful violation of any rule or regu- lation of this Board,” anda third by-law de- clares that “no payment shall be made to a teacher in whose case the provisions of this by-law bave not been complied with.” The returns from the Fourth, the Sixth and the Fourteenth wards show that the order has been dicregurdedin those wards, the teachers baving seted under the direction of the Joca) trustees, who appointed them and have the pewer to dismiss. Now, as there are some two hundred teachers in the schools of these three wards, the cutting off of their salaries, besides the forfeiture of their situations, would create some public indignation against the Board, and to avoid the difficulty we under- stand they intend to dismiss the sixteen princi- pals. This, however, is equally absurd and un- warrantable. The order, does not direct the principals to open the schools by the reading of the Bible, nor is tliere any general rule which makes it obligatory on them to open the schools at all. Many of the schools are opened by the trustees, and some of them by the assist- ant teachers. The principal has no control over the trustees, nor any over the assistant teach- ews eontrary to the express direction of the trustees. To punish the principal, therefore, for acts over which he has no control, would be cowardly in the extreme, and still more unjust than the puni t of the assistant teachers. The reading of the Bible in schools is not cal- culated to inspire reverence for the sacred vo- lume, but the contrary; and it can serve no good purpose. To enforce it under the color and pretence of law is atyranny of a piece with the despotism of the Sunday statutes. But the Board of Education have not evenan unconsti- tutional law nor the shadow of legal authority to support them in their outrageous usurpa- tion. We await their action to-day. A Frsg Cancer ror Tax Porrrictans.—It is well known that the politicians, like blacklegs and pickpockets, cake sellers and venders of root beer, are always ready to take advantage of acrowd. Thus, a political can- vases, a militm muster, a balloon ascension, a horse race, but especially an agricultural county or State fair, is very often embellished with some political ratification meeting, like that, for instance, of the democracy the other day at Albany, to the “masses of the people” attracted by our annual State fair. Now, the Episcopal church National Convention at Rich- mond, Virginia, furnishes an opportunity for the politicians of all parties and sections to do » good deal of work in a different way. Among the lay delegates, for example, at Richmond, there will be a considerable proportion of ac- tive engineering politicians, Let us take, by way of illustration, Gov. Wise and Horatio Sey- mour. They will meet in the twofold charac- ter of religious and political brethren, barring the difference between the Albany Regency and the Wise and Wood faction of the New York democracy. But in spite of this disagreement, we hold that a treaty of peace, an alliance of- fensive and defensive, is clearly within the reach of two such old campaigners, religious and political, as Wise and Seymour, over a so- ciable dish of Virginia oysters. Let the Albany Regency, therefore, look well to their anointed candidate, or they may find him on his return wearing the colors of Gov. Wise. Secuine Ovr a Frvancrgr.—Among the recent contributions to the ephemeral literature of the day we have catalogues Nos. 3,517 and 3,518, issued by Leeds & Co., the auctioneers. No. 3517's title, in part, is “Catalogue of horses, carriages, sleighs, harness, fancy blankets, robes, furniture, &., to be sold at auction, by order of the President and Directors of the Ful- ton Bank.” No. 3,518, is a pamphlet of four- teen pages, entitled “Catalogue of elegant housebold furniture, mirrors, bronzes, &., to be sold at auction by order of the President and Directors of the Fulton Bank.” Terms cash, city funds, for both sales, the bank having lost confidence lately, and being in a hurry to realise on all its fancy property. We hope that no one will suppose for a moment that a solid, respectable, old fogy concern like the Fulton Bank made these investments on its own account. No, they s1e ostensibly the fruite of the savings of one of the bank’s clerks, who has managed, by an arithmetical feat which beats Daboll out of sight, to save in five years, out of a salary of a thousand dollars per annum, a suflicient sum to buy all these fine things which have been sold at auction for somewhere about ten times the young gentleman’s annual salary. His other investments, one way and another, foot up to the snug sum of seventy thou- sand dollars. The bank directors cannot see how this grand mathematical problem could have been worked out, and have adopt- ed @ very common and ordinary method of olving the matter. They have assumed that the bank has been robbed; they have locked the financier up in the Tombs, and sold undor the hammer all his fast horses, their hay, oate, shorts, wagons, caleche, sleighs, harness, cloth- ing— including “three plaid Kerry dreseeseach for Selim, Boston and Cobb,” and “two white flannel dresses, blankets and hoods, trimmed with blue silk,” probably the evening costume of the dainty quadrupeds; likewise the muff wherewith the financier’s toes were kept warm, and his fur overcoat, which latter will hereaf- ter envelope the aristocratic person of a distin- guished politician. Remorselessly the bank directors caused the red flag to be displayed from their fast clerk’s “other house,” which ates. teh arin — eee mysterious term we cannot define. But there were two hundred and fifty lots of all sorts of things, three pianos, fifteen or twenty dozen of wine glasses, Bobemian decanters, tich carpet- ings, rosewood furniture (four or five sets), French plate mirrors, carved oak and morocoo dining chairs, and no end of works of art in bronze, marble and china, all of which were sold, much to the delight of Mrs. Toodles and the second hg@nd furniture dealers about town, Their amusement, however, is not especially agreeable to the directors of the Fulton Bank, or the innocent young man who purchased all these fine things with the bank money (so the directors allege), and against whom no crimi- nal charge can be sustained (so his lawyers say). We do not sympathise with the bank nor pity the disgraced financier—both partiesshould have bad their eyes open—but we allude to the sale as one of the peculiarities of fast life in the metropelis. We can recal! several similarcases, of which that of Huntington very nearly re- vembles this of Lane; but Wall street does not seem to take warning by them, and the banks carry on their business in the same loose way, offering every temptation to the thief. If all be banks should square accounts simulfaneous- ly to-day, where would theiremployés be? How many young men are going the same pace as that of Lane and Huntington? How many clerks keep fancy establishments on salaries which do not meet their wine and segar bills? These are queries which we refer to the bank parlors, to go thence to the Courts, from which the public occasionally has a glimpse of bank management. No exclusion of reporters there. A New Featurs ww Dvusiiine—Parine Tae Apvversary’s Exrenses.—In that very amusing story concerning the duel that did not take place the other day between Captain Mulligan, of our army, and Captain De Riviere, one of Napoleon’s pet Zouaves, we are told of a very liberal offer made by the second of the party of the first part to the gentleman who held the same position in regard to the party of the se- cond part. The locality of the fight was a matter of negotiation. Where should the belligerents meet? Captain Mulligan’s se- cond, not unmindful of the advantages offered by the Clifton House, and the associations connected with it, suggested Ca- nada. The challenging party demurred. It occurred to the person making the suggestion that perbaps a deficiency of pecuniary means was at the bottom of the refusal to go to Canada. Impelled by generosity, and anxious to give the challenger every facility to have a shot at his antagonist, the second of the chal- lenged party intimated in the most delicate manner that so far as fifty or a hundred dol- lars went, that sum was at their disposal. Now this is a stretch of generosity and libe- rality which we would commend to all future duellists, particularly to those Virginia gen- tlemen who inflict on each other and on the entire community such an excruciating amount of bellicose correspondence. Let the Mulligan improvement be engrafted on the code of the duello. The only thing is, that if it were adopted in Virginia, it might often be found impossible for one party to pay the ex- penses of the other, and consequently the little arrangement would have to fall through. Well, that would be fully as creditable a way of put- ting an extinguisher upon warlike proclivities as many of the modes that are now in vogue in the Old Dominion. Let the Mulligan cut-off be adopted by all means. Tux Atpany Recency DsLEGation 10 CHaRLEston.—It is insisted upon in some quarters of the democratic camp that the Albany Regency delegation to the Charleston Convention will turn up in that body a unit for Mr. Douglas. Mr. Dickinson has been flattered with the idea that a respectable minority of this delegation are his men; but as the Regency have taken care to provide in advance that the majority shall control the entire vote of the State, it will be seen that Mr. Dickinson’s respectable minority amounts to nothing. The Regency, however, will be confronted with a contesting delegation, and as in 1848, and as in 1856, the Convention will be compelled to respect its claims. It must be admitted that Dean Richmond and his shadows, with the full control of the thirty-five votes of New York, would probably hold the balance of power in the matter of the nomination for Pre- sident, and be able also to command the nomi- nation of Horatio Seymour for Vice-President; but Master Richmond is somewhat too greedy. He is asking too much, and he will discover his mistake when they come to count out his chickens at Charleston. First of all, however, the anti-Regency democracy of the State will work faithfully to give Seward his death blow in our November election; but after that they will proceed to settle their accounts with the firm at the Albany Curiosity Shop and their strikers at Syracuse. And the ease will be car- tied down to Charleston. FasntonaBie Winter AMUsKMENTS.—A sharp morning in the middle of Indian summer gives usa gentle warning that winter is not far off. The Broadway shopkeepers and the caterers for the amusement of the fashionable world are quite alive to the entertaining fact, and the former are doing a fine business in advance of the season of balls, parties, operas, theatricals, public and private tableaus vivant, &c., to say nothing of weddings, which have lately come to be considered in the light of public enter- tainments on a large scale. The fashionable world here and elsewhere enters into the Opera with special zest. In fact itis the fashionable amusement of the day. The theatre, if well conducted, as those of the metropolis generally are, is an occasional ree sort; but the Opera is a regular engagement for 80 many nights in the week. Here is a sort of fashionable exchange, where the élite of the city meet on common ground, enjoying most agreeable and refined entertainment, paying and receiving visits, the ladies displaying their clothes, andthe gentlemen airing their stocks of compliments. Then, in addition to this select audience, the taste for the Italian Opera has become go fur extended among the general public, since the building of the Academy, that the audience is as popular as it'ts fashioan- ble-+-that is, when the manager presents any- thing new or exciting to draw the outside public. We have already had a preliminary Opera season, which preeented no special features of interest, The artists have now gone to Boston, where on dit they are creating a great furore omong the solemn denizens of the Puritan me- tropolis. Evidently the ghost of Cotton Mather is laid at last. After this foray upon State street bank notes, | we shall have the regular season at the Acade- ay, of which some particulars are given in another column. It is refreshing to know that there will be at least one new opera, This season will alao introduce to the public seven new artists, including three prime donne, all of whom are said to be young, handsome and clever. The manager has made s charge upon the Italian theatres, and public cuarlosity will be piqued until the value of his capthres shall be ascertained. It was certainly a bold step to take artists directly from Italy befere they had pgesed the ordeal of a London er Paris audience; but the temerity of the mane- ger will only be & further recommendation te the attention of our public, which craves novel- ty in Opera matters os well as everything else. Without doubt the coming Opera season will be rich in interesting artistic events, and the public will be on the tip-toe of excitement ua- til the new artists shall have made their several debuts. Tox Genera. Convention or THe Proras- tant Eptscopar Cavicu—“F rom Pourrios To Rae Ligon.” —T).° assembling of the National Coa- vention of the Protestant Episcopal Church ef the United States, in the city of Richmond, Virginia, has had a wonderful influence upom the fighting editors of the Enquirer. Thus, they inform us that during the Convention they will devote the greater portion of their paper te its proceedings, and they further say that “we hope the temporary change from politics to re- ligion may be of great benefit to our readera.” We hope 60, too, and we hope that our fighting cotemporaries, from this “temporary change,” will experience a permanent change for the better. The duelling escapades of young Wise of the last twelve months or more sug- gest a very proper subject for the pious ea- deavors of the church; and we trust that “the eminent divines and distinguished lay dele- gates from every State in the Union” present at Richmond will not overlook him in their prayers. Perhaps among the lay delegates on band there may be those terrible editorial fighting men in their day, the Chevalier James Watson Webb and Gen. Duff Green, each with his prayer book in his side pocket, instead of pair of “mahogany stocked pistols.” If they should be there, let them wait upon young Wise, give him the benefit of their experi- ence, teach him the folly of shooting at mem and being shot at as a target, and show him the advantages of a life of penitence, piety and good works. This done, they may wait upon the Governor, sound him respecting his “oyster fundum,” and obtain from him, per- haps, a certified copy of the Donnelly letter. Tae “IvrernationaL” Game or CrickeT—A Svccxstion ror 4 Game or Basz Bart.—The late game of cricket between eleven English- men and twenty-two residents of this country, at Hoboken, has been improperly considered by some of the newspapers as an international affair, in which England played against Ameri- cans. Now it so happens that of the twenty- two described as Americans only three were really so, and the rest were Englishmen reai- dent in this country. So that the real state of the case is, that the English professional players, who make a living by it, and never do anything else, beat other Eng- lishmen who only play the game ooea- sionally as amateurs. Such a result might be expected. Eleven professional pugilists, trained for the fight, will very speedily beat twenty-two untrained men who have little skill in “the manly art of self defence,” and whose muscles and sinews have not the necessary practice, and whose wind is short because they are notin proper condition. The best race horse in the world, if not trained and in condi- tion, will be beaten by an inferioranimal. We should like to see any Englishman of the Eleven do what Blondin has done on the tight rope at Niagara Falls, or attempt the feats which the Ravel family achieve with infinite ease. Cricket is not an American, but an English game, and therefore it was not to be expected that Ameri- cans could be found to excel in it. Only Eng- lishmen play it here, and that in the intervals of leisure. How could they play against picked professionals of the game? A correspondent, signing himself “John Bull,” takes exception to our italicising the three American names among the twenty-two whe played against the English Eleven. The Henarp is always at pains to report the truth, and if we represented the whole twenty-two as Americans, when nineteen of them were English, it might be very gratifying to the national pride of Joha Bull, but would be very unlike the uniform course of the Herarp. Our correspondent further asks us to “sug- gest that some of the crack base ball players of this country extend a friendly invitation to the Eleven of all England to play them at their own national game.” Now, the difference be- tween cricket and base ball is so slight that the English Eleven could very speedily learn it— perhaps they already play it well. Their train- ing in rapid running, in batting, in throwing and catching the ball—in a word, their muscular strength and activity and quickness of eye— all the result of training and constant practice, would tell equally well for them in base ball as in cricket. The one is a modification of the other, with this difference, that cricket is the greater and more difficult game, and compre- hends the less, The man who plays cricket well finds no trowble in base ball; but the mere player of base ball, no matter how excellent he is, cannot play cricket. Though base ball is an American game, we have no trained professional players who de- vote their whole time to it. Occasionally our young men in the afternoon play an hour or two at it; butit is not the business of their lives. They have other and different work to do. It ig, therefore, possible that the Eleven English professional men might beat eleven of our best amateur players. But we will ven- ture to say that they would not beat them half. as badly as they beat double the number of their own fellow countrymen. It is - possible that the invitation to a game of base ball may be extended to the Eleven, and perhaps a rather different result might follow than what our Correspondent expects. Ccrtovs ‘Txnovattons w Nowmxonaturs.— A curious indication of the effect of our mo~ dern boarding school education, anst the inaova- tions in nomenclature it has introduced among fur young ladies, sirack us in looking over the marriages und deaths in # single newspaper yesterday, Among the young women who were married, sneh names ocurred as Hattie, Sallie, Fannie, Lizzie, Carrve and Lettie, and 60 forth; while among the old women who died were mostly the good vld Puritan names, De-