The New York Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1860, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. OFFICE N. W. COKNEK OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. Money went by mailer Postage stamps not received as DAITY HERALD tro conte per cory. FT per canunr WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at , num; the Huropean Baicion eer ner annum to any part of Gre Continents. both to inchade nn HERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per ner dienvan ARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing imp the world; if AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—P0.CA MON-TAS—Piaa- GANT Neiganon. WINTER GARDEN, Browway.—Cou.zen Bawm, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Great Easrern— Limkaick Boy—Yaxxes HOUSEKERPER, LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, No. @4 Broadway.—T¥- oocs—My Young Wire axp Otn' Umnaeiis. RAPNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway.—Day and Breving—CiINDeReLLa—TAvinG Coxiositins, 4c. BRYANTS! MINSTRELS, Mechenics’ Hall, 47? Bron dway — BouLesquas, Boras, Danone, Ao. Rcmwes at Paaxuogov . NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Gno, Cuntsry’s Mra @rnnss in Boras, Dances, Buxtssares, £0.—Status Lores. NATIONAL CONCERY SALOON, National Theatre— Dances, Bunirsaum, ac. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteeoth street.—Vocar axp La- Ormcmentar Concaxt. CARTRRBURY CONCERT SALOON, 9&3 Broatway.— Bonae, Dances, Bunixsaes, Ao. “New York, Thursds The News. Quite an illumination took place last night be- tween ten and eleven o'clock, caused by a confa- gration amongst the frame shantics known as West Washington Market. About one half of them were destroyed, together with a cous - ble quautity of produce. It is calculawd that about one hundred and fifty market stands were burnt ont. The total loss is estimated at about fifty thousand dollars, a portion is supposed to be covered by insurance. origin of the fire is at present unknown. At the special meeting of the Board of Alde men, held last evening, « communication was re- ceived from the Mayur stating that, in con > of serious disagreements and insuber had removed Alfred W. Craven from the Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct Boa: Thomas 8. Tappan from the office of Ass missioner of the same Board. Considerable dis- cussion ensued on the reading of the communica- tion, some meinbers being in favor of referring the subject to a com ee for investig: while others were in favor of immediate action. Finally, the motion to refer to a committee was lost by o vote of twelve to five. A motion fora division of the question was then made, pending which the Board adjourned. Previous to the adjournment a communication from the Street Commissioner, ask- ing for an additional appropriation of $66,000 for the construction and repair of public buildings, was referred to the Finance Committee. A communi- cation from the Croton Board, announcing the sus- pension of the High Bridge ihprovement, owing to @ question ha risen as to the legslity of doing the job by day's work, was referred to the Croton Aqueduct Committee. At the meeting of the Board of Education last evening, the report of the Finance Committee on the subject of paying the newly appointed teachers was presented, butgo action was takea upon it before the Board adjourned. We give this report in our record of the proceedings, together with a gynopais of another report drawn up by the special committce appointed to investigate the reasons for dismissing the teachers of the Fourth ward, and which is intended for presentation at the first op- portunity. The Commissioners of Emigration refused to ad vance an additional $2,000 on the Seguine’a Point property prospective mortgage yesterday, for the present. They approved 4 response, drawn up by their counsel to the complaint filed in the Supreme Court by Dr. Jerome that they had refused to pay f-year's salary. y of the City Hall was the scene of nt yesterday, about one o'clock, owing to an attempt being made to take the life of Alderman Genet by ex-Councilman Ker- i Full particulars of the affair are published lsewhere in our columns. The Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachnsetts, de- livered a campaign speech at the Cooper Tastitute laat night before thousands of republicans, The ex uthusiasm were int and cheers were given for the prospective President of the Afull report appears in another part of ims of the Man- t ected with the affair. mony elicited was mach the same as that taken on the previous inquest, and upon its conclusion the jury decided that deceased came to her death from inju- ries received at the hands of Franz Ho’! The prisoner, after the usual preliminaries, was re- manded to the Tombs to await his trial. The Excise Commissioners held their forty-ninth session yesterday afternoon and passed over ono bo licenses, and were compelled to adjourn their next and last meeting to the 30th of July. The punber of applicants were so large that the Clerk of the Roard will require several days to enter the ‘The Board resolved toask the Supert ‘sors for extra clerical force to make the entries and pre- pare the papers. There are four hundred applica- tions to be examin most of which were received by Commissioner Haskett yesterday. names. We ba ccounta from Mayaguez, Porto Rico, to the 2 ulf. Onr correspondent says:—The old crop is nearly exhausted, but the new will be shortly in market and will prove an average yiel. The weather has been very favorable, except for s week or ten days past, which has been dry aud sultry. The island is very healthy. Most of the beef cattle in market yesterday were in the hands of speculators, who forced prices up halfa cent per pound, ranging from 6}c. to Ye. a Spe. aceording to quality. Milch cows were steady. Sheep and Lambs plenty and ed inpride. Swine were plenty and lower, varying from 6c. tole. The total receipts (in- cluding 694 beef cattle at Bergen Hill) were 4,038 head beef cattle, 191 cows, 1,118 veals and 12,080 sheep and lambs. ‘There wor rather more doing In cotton yesterday, while prices were unchanged. The sales footed up about 1,600 y to spinners. Flour was heavy, and com. moa and medium grades of State and Western were chief demand was from the home trade, the firmness of freight tended to check salea for export. Wheat was in fair demand, while sales were tolerably free and prices without change of importance. Corn waa rather cheaper, with fair sales at prices given in another piace. Pork whe active and firmer, with sales of new mes at $19 12); a $19 25, and new prime at $14 O64 $14 GH. Sogars wero quite active, and about we. bigher for refining grades, while all qualities were firm; the Anlos embraced about 9,700.8 4,600 hhds., 2,700 borre, end 120 bhda, meiado, at rates given in another 0 Cote was firmly bold, while the market was viet, 400 bags Maracaibo brought 13540. 8 Ide. Freight » wan ecarce, and rates Arm for Liverpool and Loa- © th sa upward tendency, among the engagements to the former port were 1,000 bbls. Sour at 38. Grain, ia # taken at @¥e., and for wheat, in ebip’s bags, was detpan ded, The Course of Our Pollticnt Revolution— The End of Cliques, Kegenctes and Juntas. ‘The politicians and public men seem to be incapable of comprehending the vast political changes now golpg on in eur midst, and in which they themselves are actors as well as participators. The morn of Sunday, the 24th of June, ushered in # revolution in the politics of this country. to which we had long been tending and for which the elements had long been pre- paring. Between sunset and midnight of the preceding day the old democratic party organi- zation, that for thirty years had held the prin- cipal control of our political affairs, breathed its last at Baltimore, and with the rising sun of the succeeding morn the press from Eastport to New Orleans, and from New York to the frontier of civilization, announced to thirty millions of citizens the death of their old re- gime. Not « wail was heard in all this broad land. Not a single heartfelt regret went up from the millions whose future interests were involved. As in France, with the fall of the old dynasty before the rising power of the National Assembly, a uni- versal feeling of relief and joy pervaded all hearts. Men looked back upon the past, and turned to hail the coming change, be it what it might Behind them they saw the shattered frag- ments of a worn out and corrupt organization. Years ago it had accomplished the great ends for which it had been erected. The mighty fallacies it had fought and conquered had be- come obsolete ideas. The Unived States Bank had been already forgotten; merchants were no longer advocates for a restrictive tariff; vast expenditures of public money for the be- tefit of a swarm of contractors only was no more held to be the true path of national de- velopement. The machinery of popular orga- nization bad passed from the hands of the statesmen who created it into the hands of politicians by profession, in which it had be- come the incubus of the country, and the de- testation of even the men who still re- eognized the binding ties of old party affiliation. It had filled every depart- ment of the government with profes- sional spoilsmen, whose rule of action had become the disgrace and the loathing of the people, All this was remembered by men, when they looked back on the morning of the 24th of June, and the act of division which re- leased all from party allegiance—for it operates on all parties—was hailed as an act of univer- sal relief. Since that time the process of dissolution and revolution has been rapid and violent. The Geath of the old party orgauization, whose cor- ruptions and iniquities had urged so many to opposition, hus loosened the bonds of all oppos- ing organizations. The foe has ceased to exist, and the campaign can be carried on no loager according to the old plan. Olid and purblind leaders, believing that their voices could, as of yore, marshal the people, have continued to play their antics and shout to their imaginary followers, but it is of no avail, The masses only look on and laugh, but do not follow. The Lincoln men are astonished at the want of popular enthusiasm: the Bell men could gather only a few hundreds around the statue of Washington in Union square; the Douglas men weep that they cannot half fill the once overflowing hall of Tammany; the Houstoa men despair of raising an echo to his nomina- tion on the field of San Jacinto, and the Breckinridge men are hastening fo the blasting of their hopes of an enthusiastic ratification meeting here in the coming week. Distracted by the disastrous signs of the times the party leaders and party organs look to the future with doubt and fear. The Rich- mond Faguirer hopes that there will be no “stubborn adherence to Breckinridge in New York and Douglas in Virginia;” the Albany Argus weeps at the idea of the election passing into the House of Representatives, because that body “has ceased to command the confi- dence of the people;” and the Albany Journal regards such an event as ‘a left handed bless- ing” to ils party. We pause bere to ask why these old revellers in corruption tremble so at the thought of an election of President by the Houre of Representatives? Is not that body as high in its standard of public morality, and as pure in its public virtue as the vile party conventions, composed of men sent reeking from the pools of corruption, by jes and shoulder hitters, gathered in s to perforin the farce of primary No man can hesitate for a reply. isnot their reason. Their reason ts that they feel that the day of cliques, and re- gencies. and juntas, bas passed away, and they yeern for the fleshpots of Egypt B they will know no more. tion no leaders nor c the inies of parties or nutions. to the old order of things is as impossible as urn of the monarchy in France, after of its abolition by the National As As when that event gave recognition to the revolution that was at work in France, hemselves into new viements, lacobins, Girondins and Chonans fought, zed and melted away with the progress 0, here, the decree of death passed Tn times was the re the deer sembly. at Baltimore on the old democratic party. gives recognition to the revolution that is passing in our midst, and renders imposible all reference to the things of the old regime. These belong to the dead pest. Varties have dissolved and melted into feetions, none of which can obtain any hold upon the heart of the people, throngh reasons drawn from bygone times. New issues are coming up, new elements are in existence, and the impossibility of ranging these so that the people may elect the coming President throws the election into that condition provided for by the constitution, in stipulating an election by the House of Representatives. Execerioy or Ticks—Tie Preate’s Own Boor Reviven.—On to-morrow the pirate and murderer, Hicks, will suffer (he last penalty of the law. The criminal! maintains his air of des- perate bravado, and seems to glory in the aw- ful position in which his crimes have placed him. We are informed by some of the papers that he has dictated to an attache of the United States Marshal’s office a history of his life, and that he confesses to having been implicated in many horrible crimes. A publisher of “yellow covered” literature has bought the copyright of this work, and it is expected that the book will have an extensive aale. We deem it to be our duty to warn the public ngninst being Loaxed by any euch NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY JULY 12, 1860. catchpenny publication as this pretended “confession.” Ever since Hicks has been in jail he has told all sorts of improb- able stories, and has been more than once detected. As to the murders on board the sloop, the circumstances, so far as we shull ever ascertain them, have already been laid be- fore the public in the daily journals. For the rest Hicks has undoubtedly hashed up a mess of forecastle yarns, and made himself the hero of all of them, in order that he may go out of the world with the reputation of having been one of the greatest scoundrels that ever cursed it with their presence. Therefore he gives to a facile scribbler the crude material for a new edition of the “Pirate’s Own Book.” It does not look well for offcers of the federal govern- ment to be concerned in the preparation of snch villanous stuff, which cannot fail to have the worst effect upon the ignorant or half taught persons, young or old, into whose hands it will full. Of late years the morbid taste for euch stuff as Hicks’ narrative has sensibly de- clined, and any attempt to revive it should be pipped in the bud. The book should be sup- pressed, or, if published, indicted as a common nuisance and treated accordingly. Visit of the Prince of Wales to New York. Itis now certain, from the reply of Lord John Russell to the invitation conveyed to the Prince of Wales, through Mr. Dallas, from the munici- pality of New York, that his Royal Highness will visit this city towards the latter end of September. It, therefore, only remains for us to render the Prince's reception such as befits a re- fined metropolitan community, and to see that the arrangements connected with it are kept in strict accordance with the views expressed in the letter of acceptance. In considering the manner in which these ob- jects are to be beat consulted we have to bear two facts in mind. In the first place, the invita- tion, of which Mr. Dallas was made the medium, was suggested by a number of our leading mer- chants, and did not originate with the Common Council, although the compliment formally emanates from it. If, therefore, anything like a public demonstration were to be at- tempted, the gentlemen eat whose recom- mendation the invitation was sent could fairly ciaim a share in the preliminary arrangements. Were this to be conceded the apprehensions with which a public recep- tion by the Common Council is viewed would be in a measure dispelled. The members of that body are not to be ‘rusted either with the disbursement of the public money on such an occasion, or with the task of dispensing worthily the hospitalities of the city. Their con- duct in connection with the visit of the Ja- panese, as well as on former occasions, shows them not only to be devoid of all self-respect, but indifferent to what strangers may think or say of the community which they are supposed to represent. Happily, all pretext for their assuming the duties of hosts on the present occasion has been done away with by the prudent decision at which the Prince, or his advisers for him, have arrived. Coming emongst us merely as a pri- vate gentleman, and desiring to be left as much ag possible to the examination of those features of interest which constitute the chief motive of his visit to this country, no excuse can be devised for contraven- ing his wishes, and for bringing discredit on our community by the display of the peculiar social amenities for which our city fathers are distinguished. It is not at all necessary to show our appreciation of the compliment which has been paid to us that the Prince should be brought in contact with the municipal Chester- fields, Messrs. Bagley and Boole. There is a mode simpler and more congenial to a gentle- man occupying the Prince's exalted position of evincing at once our sense of the honor which he has conferred upon us, and of con- sulting the wishes to which he has given ex- pression through Lord John Russell. It is a fortunate circumstance that just at present the incumbent of the Mayoralty should be a gen- tleman inevery way qualified to offer to the ' Prince such hospitalities as it will be consistent with his incognito tonccept. Mayor Wood is in talent, manners and bearing a fur more fitting representative of an intelligent and refined community like ours than any of the men to whom the arrangements for these receptions are usually confided. Dignified, self possessed, elo- quent and full of tact, be cannot fail to contrast favorably in the eyes of our aristocratic visiters with most of the city authorities with whom they will have been bronght in con- tact during their visit to Canada, To Mayor Wood, therefore, may safely be en- trusted the task of sustaining the credit of the city for hospitality on this interesting occasion. It, in fact, properly belongs to his office, if we are to be guided by the precedents set us abroad. It is not the municipalities, but the chief magistrates who usually tender these conrtesies to distinguished strangers; for in Europe, as here, it is found advisable to guard against the vulgarity and misconduct to | which the management of such affairs by city boards must lewd. Of course the salaries of the Mayors are made sufficiently large to enable them to fulfil, properly, the duties expected of them. The discretion which they are thus ena- bled to exercise renders the compliments that they are called upon to pay not only regal in their costliness, but remarkable for the array of rank and intellect which they assemble at their boards. Although it is probable that Mayor Wood will not be sustained financially by the corpora-’ tion in the duties which will devolve upon him, as head of the city, on the present occasion, he may rest assured that he will be supported by | our leading merchants in any plans for the en- tertainment of the Prince which, in his judg- ment, are likely to prove most acceptable to him. In any event, let there be no public re- ception or procession, and in all other matters let his Royal Highness’ wishes be consulted. ‘This is the true spirit of hospitality, and we cannot go far wrong in adhering to it. Amongst the things, however, which are foast- ble; aud which will serve in a measure to satis- fy the interest excited by our young visi- ter, is a grand banqnet to be given either by or under the exclusive control of the Mayor. We object to committees of any sort, because of the numerous influences to which they are open, and of the abuses to which they must inevitably lead. If the re- eponsibility of the whole affair is thrown upon the Mayor, we may rest satisfied that the enter- tainment will be one which will reflect credit upon the city, and leave a most agreeable im- pression on the mind of our young guest. With this should terminate any further effort to draw the Prince from the privacy which he covets. Individuals will, of course, offer him the hospi- talities of their houses, but these will not carry with them any obligation of acceptance, as in the case of a public compliment. The above programme is, we believe, the only proper one to be observed on an occasion which involves more than ordinary delicacy and diffi- culty, We trust that in any arrangements that may be made due attention will be paid to the considerations that have dictated it, and that there shall be an utter avoidance of all those vulgar and disgusting features which have cha- racterized our receptions of distinguished stran- gers when the Common Council have had tho exclusive management of them. Sumner om the Stump—The Panic in the Republican Camp. Last evening Senator Sumner, of Maasa- chusetts, delivered at the Cooper Institute a stump campaign epeech on the “Repub- lican Party, Its Origin, Necessity and Per- manence.” It is a rehash of his late violent oration in the United States Senate, spiced with personal abuse of the Chief Magistrate of the Union, in which be paints him as “fur magnus (a great thief), maximus latromum (the greatest of bighwaymen), the exposed corruptor, the tyrant enslaver, and the robber of human free- dom.” The lame and impotent conclusions of the Covode Committee are laid under contribution, and heaven and earth and the regions below are ransacked for weapons against the Presi- dent and the slaveholders. ‘The selection of this ultra and extreme leader of the revolutionary school of republicanism to deliver a campaign speech in a conservative city like this, while William H. Seward, a chief of more moderate views and less offensive dic- tion, takes the background, is clearly indicative of the alarm awong the republican managera which prompted Thurlow Weed to write the gloomy article foreboding defeat, which we published two or three days ago, and which inspired another article of Horace Greeley to the same effect in yesterday’s Tribune. They are frightened at the prospect of the democracy uniting upon one ticket in this State, and the danger of their own party being split by two ticketa. Therefore they call in Sumner to their aid. A short time ago even Seward was too ex- treme to represent the party; now he is not suf- ficiently so; and Sumner, whose speech in the Senate all the republican journals, including the Tribune, condemned for its violence, is chosen to be the oracle and expounder of republican- ism. The explanation is that since the nomina- tion of Lincoln, Wendell Phillips came out in a strong speech against him as not black enough for his school—not dyed in the wool. The effect of this speech and other manifestations of disap- probation on the part of the John Brown sev- tion of republicans, was the nomination of Ger- rit Smith on the most extreme principles—the ultima thule of abolition. ‘Fearing that this ticket may take away vast numbers of votes from Lincoln, and knowing that they have not one to spare, the republican leaders are using every effort to obviate the danger. Hence they select Sumner to stump for the rail splitter, in the belief that his revolutionary views and tru- culent language may prevent a secession and keep together the abolition birds of the same feather as himself. He is the decoy duck to rally the vagrant flock. He enlogizes Lincoln to the skies. He denounces the Southern slaveholders as “a corrupt oli- garchy,” worse than the devils in hell, in proof of which he cites the German poet, Goethe. He raves about “Biuebeard’s Chamber” and the “Five points of slavery,” “Bleeding Kansas,” the “Lecompton swindle,” and “the crime of compelling slaves to work without wages,” the fact being that they are better remunerated for their labor than any white man on the face of the globe. Another discovery made by this fanatic is, that “out of the slender cotton fibre have been formed the manacles of the slave;”’ and bence he concludes that Eli Whitney, the discoverer of the cotton gin, is, next to Christo- pher Columbus, “the chief agent of the bond- age of the African race on the North American continent.” It is useless to argue with a man of morbid mind like this—a man who, in the face of the plain words of the instrument itself, denies that the constitution of the United States contains a single clause giving protection to slave proper- ty, and claims George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both slaveholders to the day of their death, as rank abolitionists of the Sumner sect. Yet this is the stuff that will go down with that class of fanatical voters MWkely to flock lo the standard of Gerrit Smith, Phillips and Garrison. But the sword which Sumner wields is two- edged and cuts both ways, and whilst he may draw recruits to Lincola or keep his soldiers from deserting him, he will be sure to repel many conservative republicans and drive them into the ranks of the democracy or the Union columns of Bell and Everett. Pray, Messieurs Greeley and Weed, consider this peril and shape your course accordingly, before too much damage is done, Tre Cactvorsta Mars ano Senator Gwiy.— We publish in another column a letter from Commodore Vanderbilt to the Postmaster Gen- eral accepting the proposition of the President for a tri-monthly mail service to Cali‘ornia, and anether from Senator Gwin to the l'redident on the subject of the overland mail service. The merit of Senator Gwin's letter lies in its closing paragraph. He foresees that he will be charged at home with not urging “an amend- ment to the sanual Post Office Appropriation bill, making it mandatory on the Postmaster General to establish” the overland service ; and he fears this charge will defeat his re-election. Very likely. His excuse is the old servant's excuse—he thought somebody else was going to attend to it—and it will neither do him ser- vice por honor. Had not the Senator been so busy, helping to make paper platforms for broken down politicians, he would have found time to attend more to his constituents’ inter- este. In this he has placed himself in the came boat with a large number of his fellow-Con- gressmen of both the old parties, who, in their zeal to serve old and worn out political organizations, have neglected the interests of the country, and secured their election, by the people, t stay at home hereafter. ‘The fact about the Post Office business, as well as that of nearly all the other executive depart- ments, is that there is an utter want of adminis- trative ability in its head. The Postmaster General has no more idea of the duties he should peform than a child baa. Everything is referred to the clerks, and what they do is done by routine, end according to precedent in red tape. Accident reveals an enormous defalca- tion, the Postmaster General is horrified, looks into the matter, and in a few hours discovers that the swindling has been going on for five years. Among the thirty thousand Post Office employés distributed over the country, Mr. Holt might find a good many such cases, but he will not find them as long as he waits for his clerks to hunt them up through the operation of offi- cial routine. It is morally impossible, in the way Postmasters are appointed, that many of them should not be defaulters. They are ex- pected to get up and control expensive and corrupt political organizations, which in- evitably make great demands upon their time and means. The whole system is rotten to the core. In this matter of the California mails the blame lies between the Postmaster General and Congress. Each waited for the other to act, and all were busy at President making so of course there was no action. If any of the ex- ecutive departments—Post Office, Treasury, War or Navy—had an efficient head who knew his work and how to do it, and did it with ener- gy and public spirit, he would find abundant support in Congress and out of it. Our people have an intense liking for a man capable of giv- ing orders, and who gives them in the right spirit, irrespective of the petty considerations of party. Senator Gwin and Mr. Holt, in their mutual accusations, show only a want of self- reliance in the performance of their public du- ties, which evinces weak minds and executive incapacity. The country wants another kind of men in administration and public place. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, The Fate of the Douglas OMcehoiders—Pro- gress of the Census—The Pacific Mall Ser- viee— More Trouble Abont the Utah Indians, heey ken ae. Our Special Washington Despatch. Wasmyoroy, July 11, 1360. THE SLAUGHTER OF THR DOUGLAS OFFICK HOLDERS. ‘The guillotine is being sharpened for the heads of Doug- lag’ adherents. Rumor points to that of Mr. Comstock, Postmaster at Albany, a8 likely to be one of the first vie- tims. Sanders, Rynders and Herrick are also under con- sideration. Much may depend upon the reeult of the pro- sent efforta at co operation of the two wings of the party in New York, In accordance with the suggestion of Mayor Wood, the administration will forego much now for the sake of carrying New York against Lincoln, and thus securing his defeat before the people. This accom- plished, either the clection of Breckinridge in the House or Lane in the Senate is deemed certain. THE KIGHTH CENSUS. Advices from all parts of the country are favorable to early returns of the eighth census. The Superintendent expects to be in receipt of large numbers by the Ist of August, when he will put the full force of the office to work at their collection and arrangement. TROUBLE WITH THR UTAH LYDLANS. Serious troubles are feared with the Utab Indians, growing out of the conflicting intereats of different parties of whites who are trading withthem. Dr. Forney, the late Superintendent, is expected here daily to shed some light on this subject. Meanwhile, his successor, Mr. Davis, wit! delay his departure for possible variation in his instructions. + ‘TUE MAIL FROM SACRAMENTO TO PORTLAND, OREGON. The new mail route from Sacramento to Portland, Oregon, ordered by Congress, will not be put in operation until the Attorney General decides upon the constraction of certain points inthe law in which the Postmaster General disagrees with the views of the contractors and Congressmen interested. Thus far our overland Pacific service remains without change, causing much dissatis- faction and ill feeling between the administration and Senators and representatives from the Pacific States. THN BOSTON PORT OFFICK BITR. ‘The real estate owners of State street, Boston, have made a great effort to prevent Postmaster Capen from ro- moving the Post Office to Sammer street, where it legally belongs, They held a so-called citizens’ meeting in the Exchange. The Real state Owners’ Committee seat a complaint here to Postmaster General Holt, that Senator Yulce’s recent report aguinst the State street speculators ‘was unfair, and asserting that the report of Postmaster Genera! Holt to the Senate Post Office Committee was ez parte. Mr. Holt has replied, showing the State street parties that they misrepresent the facta. They appealed to Congress, by unfair means, and having been beaten there, now ask the government to break faith with the Postmaster of Boston, and as an inducement offer asa bribe the rent of the State street building, where the office now is, from October 1, 1860, to April 1, 1861. At the meeting referred to Mr. Lunt said that Postmaster Capen threatened to move from State to Summer street upon autbority issued to him by late Postmaster General King. The statemeng is not true. Mr. King ordered Capen not to remore. ‘THE PYRCHABE OF ARMS FOR TTR ARMY AND NAVT. ‘Thore is a report in the city that the recent snap judg- ment law of Senator Davis, forbidding the purchase by the War or Navy Departments of any kind of patented arms, does not apply to Colt’s pistol. This is a mistake. It applies to every patented article, of whatever name or description, required or likely to be required by either of the departments, from a horseshoe nail to an Armstrong gw or Ericsson propeller. The idea of collecting twlis at the Patent Office from inventors, and then making a law forbidding the purchase of their inventions, especially when tney are declared to be the moet valuable created, is not only ridiculous but severely unjust. This law of Senator Davis’ may bave grown out of the fact that when be was Secretary of War be purchased Maynard's primer, ‘at a cost to the government of seventy-five thousand dol- lare, whieh has proveo a total failure. An improvement to thig invention has been euggested by Secretary Mord, which, if successful, may save the government from lors. ‘TUE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THK NEXT RENATR. ‘The complexion of the new Seoate, commencing March 4, 1361, will be opposed to the present administration, and in the hands of the opposition, and within two votes of a majority in eupport of Lincoin. This calculation is made upon the bants that of the outgoing Senators, one- third, a sufficient number of republicans will be returned to give the balance of power to Douglas. This embraces the idea that two Senators will be admitted from Kaasas, and a republican apd anti-Lecompton democrat wili be elected from Oregon. TW CALIPORNTA MAILA. ‘The #tenmebips will carry the mails until next Con- gre, but there is no prospect of the overland service being employed. A denial of the quarrel between Senator Gwin and the President is useless. Two United Staves Senators witnessed it, and Mr. Gwin docs not deny it. ‘TUR TRIAL OF RX CURRE CUTLOM. The solemn farce of trying Gen. Cullom for performing the service of Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Thirty fourth Congress commenced here yesterday, and resulted to-day in discharging him on the firat cout, and peetponing the ether until December. This has been looked upoo all along as « piece of petiy party perseou- tion. THR PURUC PRINTING. ‘There ie no truth in the report that the House Printer bas fuspended operations, a8 the Attorney General has not yet rendered an opinion as to the construction of the Jaw reducing the prices to be paid for the printing. Congress, nt the Inte seseion, ordered printing involving an Cxpenae Of at least $800,000. THER WET POINT COMMISmIOY. John Cochrane and Hi. Winter Davis are the mewbera of the Commission on the part of the House to visit West Paint, instead of those mentions in my despatch of Inst bight. It is a enbdject of remark that Speaker Ponzington failed to place a republican on this Commission THR PARAGTAT COMMTSEION. ‘Tho Commission to settle the claims under the Mara. gray treaty wild probably be in seasion two weeks longor. ‘The testimony for the American claimants i# set yet all taken. It includes much valuable information relative to the batoral advantages and productions of that country. ‘The repudlic of Paraguay is represented by J. M. Carlisle, Peq., Of thie City, a2 Ite atiorney. THE PATENT OFICE REPORT. ‘The Senate Printer on Monday deiivere! t the vind ten thousand of the tree huadret Hiovaand copies of the argicultural part of the Patent Office Report ordered by tho , House. Twenty thousand copies additional will be ready in the course of «few days, Tho printing of this docu- ment was delayed by the action of the House in post- pouing the order until the close of the session, The Senate edition of the work has already been printed, bound and delivered. THE RAPORT OF THK COVODE COMMITTEE. The report of the Covode Committee maices eight hundred and forty printed pages. Of the one hundred thougand copies ordered by the House thirty thousand will be ready for delivery in the course of a few days. REMOVAL OF THR NAVAL MONUMENT. Workmen commenced this morning the removal of tha Naval Monument from the Fish Pond on the western side of the Capitol, It isto be transferred to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, in pursuance of the recent order of Congress. DESPATCHMS FROM ST. PRTERSRORG—TELEGRAPIIO COMMUZE- CATION BETWEEN RUSSLA AND THK UNITED BTATKA. P. Me. D. Coline, United States Consul to the Amoor, came passenger in the Fulton, and arrived here &-day with deapatches from St. Petersburg for our government. Mr. Collins’ recent mission to St. Petersburg was to pro- eure the sanction and co-operation of the imperial gov- ernment in the construction of telegraphic communication between Russia aud tho United States, via Asiatic Russia, crossing to America by or near Behring Straits, to or by the Alintian Islands, The Russian government baa already authorized upon this line the construction af © seven thousand miles of telegraph, from Kazenthe, the eastern termination of telegraphic communication in Eur: - pean Russia, to their military and naval establishmenta at the mouth of the Amoor river. The government could not agree to construct a line of telegraph beyond the point named at present, but have authorized ° Mr. Collins to survey a route from the mouth of the Amoor, over the Russian possessions in Asia and America, @ distance of about thirty-five hundred miles, on the proposed route to Sam Francisco, the whole distance being about five thousand miles. Count Moravieff, Governor General of Fastern Siberia, had left St. Petersburg a few days before Mr. Collins, and will visit the Amoor country during the summer, the Rassiag government having acquiesced in his project for the commercial developement of that country. ‘The Emperor has ordered the opening of the Amoor country, in 1862, to the free search for minerals, which bas heretofore been reserved tothe government. Foreign emigration will be encouraged by further legislation of the imperial government. A liberal policy in commerce and intercourse upon the Amoor will probably be car- ried out. ‘MISCKLLANROUS. The United States Agricultural Exhibition wiil be bot at Cincinnati from September 12 to the 20th. The pre. mium list amounts to $20,000. No catile will be re- ceived, on account of pleuro pneumonia, but large pre- miums will be offered for Lorses, machinery, steam fire engines, &c. General Cullom, a former Clerk of the House of Ropre- sentatives, charged with embezzlement in office, wa tried by the criminal court to-day, and acquitted. ‘Theophilus Fisk, well known in the editorial worid, hag been appointed to a clerkship in the Post Office Depart meat. The Visit of the Prince of Wales. INTERESTING COKRESPONDENCE BETWEEN BUCHANAN AND QUEEN VICTORIA. Wasmarox, July 11, 1960. The following is the correspondence between the Presi- dent and Queen Victoria, relative to the visit of tis Prince of Wales:— LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THR QUEEN. To Hxx Masxsty Qcexx Victonia:— I have learned from the pubiic journals that the Prince of Wales is about to visit your Majesty's North Americam dominions. Should it be the intention of bis Royal High- ness to extend his visit to the United States, I need not po toe A happy I sbould be to give hum a cordial welcome on. You may be well assured that everywhere in this coua- try be will be greotod by the American people in such manner &8 cannot fal. to prove gratifying ba jad Majeaty. In this they will manifest their deep sense of your domes- tic virtuee, as well as their convictions of your merita aa a wise patriot nnd constitutional sove Your ty’s moet obedient servant, u BUCHANAN. Wasurycron, June 4, 1860. — "s peer. " INGHAM PALACE, June 22, 1360. . gee generat a toe pe gratified at tha feelings w prom write to me, inviting the Prince of Wales (o core to Washi He intends to return from Canada through the United States, and it will jive him great pleasure to have an opportunity of testi- ‘ing to you in persou that these feelings are fully recipro- cated by him. He wil! thus be able, at the same timo, to mark the respect whica he entertains for the Chief Magis- trate of a great and friendly State and kindred nation. The Prince of Wales will drop all royal state on leaving my dominions, and travel under the name of Lord Reo- oem, as be has duo when travelling on the Continent of rope. ‘The Prince Consort wishes to be kindly remembored ta you. T remain ever, your good friend, | VICTORIA R. The Very Latest from Europe by the Steamship Glasgow. A letter from Rome, received June 28, says @ battalion of Irish has been organized, It is called the Battailon of ‘St. Patrick. ‘The Vienna letter in the London Times pays a great number hmen continue to thelr way to Trieste and Ancons. "The writer say waaay of them wish to return to their homes, but they are obliged to go on to Italy, as Se which to pay their expense back —— The Wieman Zictung of today says inquiries redat: to the embezziementa of the late General juatten: hare proved that ao charge of dishouesty ean be raised against any other fusctionary in his department. ‘Vimwna, June 28, 1860 Arrival of the Arabia at Boston. Boston, July 11—Midnight. The steamship Arabia, from Tait te ciples’ the be! arrive up to port between one aud two o'clock ia the Douglas Ratification Mecti it Albany. Aunaxy, July 11, 1960. One of the most impressive meetings ever heid aa Albany was witnessed to-night at the ratification meet- ing of the democratic candid ites, Douglas and Johnson The Capitol Park, where the standa for speakers wore erected, was literally filled to overflowing, and certainiy 10,000 people must have been out, the crowd extending iz & solid mass from the steps of the Capitol outside on State and Washingt w streets, and extending down State Street hill, reaching nearly to the Post Office at the foot Of thé street. Not one-tenth of the people present could hear the vers from the platform, and in consequence much lusion prevailed; but the meeting was quite emphatic in tte euthusiaem and earnestness. During the whole gvening State street was a biaze of light from the delegations SSAt Cit not arrive tnt!! a late hour, and who Gould Bot get within reach of the stand. seone waa one unsorpassed and, indeed, unequailed by any demon Ftration ever seen in the city at any polit'eal gathering ‘The meeting wor organized with Mayor Thacher for President. Among the vice idents were Garret Z Lansing, Wm. FE. Bloecker, 7 ome Cark, tate ‘Joriah B. Plumb, Honty H. Martin, ex-Mayor Franklin Townsend layor Ell Per. ry, James Faw Jeremith Osborne, Erastes Corning, Jr’, Recorder agin, and other prominent citizens Tettere were received and read from Amasa J Marder, Hon, Wm. Kelly, Hon. Pornando Weed, Judge Willard, Saratoga. Mayor Wood, while regretting that absence oe account of official dutie’, saye:, at a later period in taa canvass I sball.no doubt, bave’an ity to addrens the citizens of Albany.” 8 wore mate by Petor Cagger, Hon. W. A. Richartgen, of Uliavis; Seater Coll man, of jana, Lyman ) aad ira Shafer, af ‘The demonstration waa admittedly a great auccess Brutal Marder at Brow neville, Minnesota, La Croma, Wie., Jaly 11, Lseo. A brutal murder was committed at Brownsville, MUn- Resota, lastevemiog A tone named Jake Riley mother in-law, sister-indaw, aod attempted tok. law with ® large bowie Knife. The m Cricket Match at Philade! Prmaveurma, Joly 11 ‘The cricket match between the Germantown Ci the St. George's Clu, of New York, commenced th roon, and wi the stomps were drawn the game stood ne follows: —St. George'’s—First innings, one bundre! and three; Fecond inpings, eighty-five. Germantown—F mw innings, fifty-three: secoud fantage, Bixteen—with fra wickets to fall. The play is to be resumed to morrow morning. Virginia State Democratic Convention, Rickmone, July Tl, 1560. ‘The Frecutive Committce have cated the Stas Leae- ratic Convention at Charlottesville, August 16t Arrival of the Frigate Macedonia at veainaite ~* ’ POS, le . ‘The Urited Staten frigate Macedouts arrived et ports: mouth, N. H., thie morning, from the Mediterrancas elation. enteeeenenes The Weather at St. Johns, N. Fr. ‘St, Jonna, 1, 1800. Wind W. S. W., and ehowes 1 - aD wory. Thermometer Lato 3. Yousr ‘ ~—— —- The Baropa Outward Roand. Bowron, July 11, 1860 ‘The eLonmehip Faropa eniled ad noon to day with «ize beers for Liverpooi and fifteen fer Halifar, and 176,000 i epecie Meeting of the ry « ‘Orrawa, ©. W., Joly 11, 1860 ‘The Masonic Grand Lodge of Canada met here today A large number of ites are Rewembied, from al! of Canada. The session wae cooapi«! by porta, and the annual address of the Gragd Masur.