The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIEROR. Oerick N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. FERMS, cash in adeance. Money sent by mail will bat the wick of the ‘Postags stamps not received as subscription THE DAILY HERALD t1°0 con THR WEEKLY HERALD, every Sat ra Ruri ad at ea ‘nla topy, or $3 per the European Edit Mian every Ws ar nts cents per copy, Bd per annum partay Great Britain, Rowing ta trata a enka or $1 yw Pak einer wekaLD on cians at four cents per WoLun any cok CORRESPONDENCE, containing important Eicrally paid or, ‘age Ovx Pan oe Sock asonoaits aan um FORRIGN Cox. Fasrovuinuy Hea 70 Seat aii Levrens aND PACK ‘aces sent "NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondance. We do not PO VERTIREMENTS reccced every diay: advertisements tne wrted in the WeEKLy Viento, Fauity Henatn, and inthe al sropean Edition. oi TOR PRINTING creel with nactnese, cheapnese and de- opaich ponte e __————— Wolume XXV.....----:::00+ seeee cesses Os 106 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Po-ca-40n-Tas—Isia OF Nrarus. WINTER Sonpas, Broadway.—Lire Or aN ActREss— Cougen Baws, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Great Eastarn— ‘Teurtation. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Wo- AN AND tHE ARtIsTE—TrooON. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Macaeta—Saetoues & Lou—State Secures. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Bvening—Baneiea, oy Seaix—M. Ducuateanau—Living Cunrosrtims, NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Geo. Curisty's Min- Ee un Songs, Dances, BuRLES@UES, &c.—Douste BEDDED NATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Soxas, Dances, Bunirsques, &c. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Vocat axp Iw. BreomentaL Concert CANTERBURY CONCERT SALOON, 663 Broadway.— Bones, Dances, BuRLESquEs, &c. New York, “Monday, July 16, 1860. The News. We give this morning full details of the news from Europe brought by the steamship Vanderbilt, B® synopsis of which we published yesterday. In Bicily the ministry originally appointed by Garibal- Gi having rendered itself very unpopular with the people, had been superseded by a new ministry. The names of the perons composing the new body will be found in our despatch this morning. In Na- ples there had been fresh disturbances—the police stations had been pillaged and sacked, and Many persons killed. An ambassadér was ex- pected at Turin with a proposition from the King of Naples for an alliance with Sardinia. In France ® project of law has been laid before the Corps Le- gislatif asking its approval for the establishment of a submarine telegraph between France and the United States. Numerous failures had occurred mong the leather merchants in England, their lia- Dilities amounting to a million and a half pounds Btertiag. In Liverpool the prices for cotton were barely maintained, and the market indicated a downward tendency. Breadstuffs and provisions were dull of sale at depressed prices. In yesterday's Hxraup the announcement was made that Colonel Cipriani, aid-de-camp to Prince Wapoleon, cousin to the Emperor of the French, had arrived in the Vanderbilt, for the purpose of making arrangements for the reception of the Prince on his arrival in his steam yacht the Cassard, which is shortly expected. It turns out, however, that though a Colonel Cipriani has arrived in the Vanderbilt, the gentleman answering to that name Is not the aid-de-camp of the Prince, nor in any respect connected with that important personage, but simply a Colonel in the Sardinian service, and an Italian by birth. The Colonel is, however, B celebrity, for he was virtually the Dictator of the Romagna after the revolution in that place— 8 position he occupied for five or six months. On the annexation of that province to Sardinia, Col. Cipriani was offered a post in the Ministry, but he declined, in consequence of the receival of news of his wife's death in this country. The lady was ® native of Baltimore, whose maiden name was Moolington. The Colonel, who is still a compari- ively young man, and good looking withal, seems Much affected at his loss. He leaves for Baltimore fo-night. Yesterday we announced the arrival of the * Benicia Boy” in the Vanderbilt, and of his land- ing at Staten Island. In to-day’s paper we furnish fan account of his arrival and reception in this city, and the movements of himself and his friends. Mr. Heenan seems desirous to avoid anything like a public demonstration in his favor, and says he would prefer to receive his friends and admirers in a quiet and unobtrusive manner. The Chicago Zouaves did not, as was anticipated, fattend divine service yesterday at Trinity church. During the day many of them visited the Central Park and other points of interest in the city and vicinity. This afternoon, at three o’clock, they will give an exhibition drill in Madison square, and in the evening will be entertained at the La- farge House by Company H, of the Sixth regiment. Our reporter ‘furnishes this morning a graphic find interesting description of the sights and scenes in the vicinity of the Great Eastern yesterday. The majority of the persons who visited the neighbor- hood yesterday were those whose avocations keep them closely engaged during the week, and who Could ill afford to lose a day to satisfy their curi- Dasity. The Central Park was again crowded yesterday with an orderly and well behaved multitude. The Park steadily céntinues to improve in appearance, fand each week shows an increase in the pamber of wisiters, who evidently enjoy a stroll through its winding paths and appreciate its varied beauties. A notice from the Archbishop of New York, published in another column, warns the public fgainst unknown persons who are going around policiting contributions for the Pope. He says those who contribute aid for the Pope do it voluntarily, ‘fBnd suggests that persons to whom these imposters Bpply should have them arrested and punished. A correspondent at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, under date of March 10, confirms the loss of the “‘ship Sea Ranger, of Boston, from Liverpool Bound to California, She was run on shore to save ber from sinking, on one of the Falkland Islands. Crew all saved.” We have advices from Georgetown, Demarara, Ro the 19th alt. The papers contain no news. ‘The sales of cotton on Saturday were confined to a few Hundred bales, closing on the basis of 10%. for middling @plands, 10%. for Florida and Mobile middling, and 1c. for New Orieans and Texas do. Flour was in fair demand, th gales for domestic use and for export at unchanged Southern four was in good request and prices @rore Girm, with fair sales, part for export to tropical ports. Wheat was active and without change of impor- Rance in prices, while the sales reached about the neigh- [oortood of 90,000 bushels, Corn was steady and in active stocnamA, with free sales at fall prices. Pork was firm, but ba aatioe, Gales of new mess were made at $19 25 <\qear grime at $14 25. Sugars were quite firm and toot +: Ge sales footed up about 3,300 bhds., 100 boxes, @ § 100 tihda. melado. Coffee was firmer, with small fm) © Of Rio at Ido. a 143¢0., and of Java, in mats, at 160. Yfrehts opened with steadiness, and at the close de- poMediy higher rates were demanded for Liverpool, to fe ich port 2,200 « 8,000 bushels wheat were engaged, ta pig's bags, at 81¢4.; afterwards O41. was asked in bulk; Bloor wae taken at 2. 94, a Oe id, and cheese and fovttor, by steamer, at Gs. Flour was engaged to London pe The Ups and Dewns of Our Political Par- | The News from E: ties om the Slavery Question. The present revolutionary condition of our political parties is but the natural result of a series of sectional agitations of the slavery question, all tending to a sectional construction of parties, each more violent than the last pre- ceding it, until at length we find the hitherto national democratic party cut in twain by Ma- son and Dixon’s line. The Missouri compromise agitation of 1819- 20 was followed by the Presidential scrub race of 1824, of the four personal parties of Jack- son, Adams, Crawford and Clay. The old fede- ral party had gradually died out under Mon- roe’s first term, eo thatin his election for ase- cond term, out of 232 there was only one elec- toral vote cast against him. Thus by the year 1824 the old federalists and republicans were 80 intimately intermixed that the politi- cians at that day were described as “all federalists and all republicans.” But from the election of Mr. Adams as President by the House a popular reaction followed, which, in 1828, brought General Jackson triumphantly into power, and finally inaugurated the late great democratic party and the late whig party. Very little appears upom the surface indicating the pressure of the slavery question in those days; but it is only necessary to look a little into the details to discover that slavery was the underlying element which controlled the elec- tion of '24 and that of ’28. The Missouri agi- tation had raised the issue, and the Missouri compromise only removed it from the front into the back ground, where it still exercised its power. Plications in Sou Italy. The interest of the news from Europe centres round the Italian question, which is beginning to exhibit the diplomatic complications which were naturally expected to attend it. From the initiation of the movement for Ita- lian unity in 1859, up to the present time, the Sardinians, the Lombards, and the peoples of the Duchies and the Roman Legations, have pur- sued the object of their hopes with a modera- tion and temperance which do them honor and have crowned them witha deserved success. The events of the past eighteen months have shown that they are capable of constitutional government, and this fact will do more to ¢on- solidate that rule than could a million of bayo- nets. In Sicily, the South of Italy, and even in Rome, recent events lead to the doubt if a similar capacity exists there. As for Sicily, it bids fair to perpetuate the for fickleness and faithleasness which the his- tory of ages has stamped upon its peo- ple, and Garibaldi has not the qualities necessary to cope withe ;ble popular elements. The in- pulsive soldier, having lifted the rH ty: ranny from the Sicilians, finds them dis contented with the men who compose hig tem- porarily organized Cabinet, and Piso: jig that and other circumstances to po- licy, and seek for an immediate, and, as itseems to us,an immature union of the island to the crown of Sardinia. If the liberation of Sicily were an established and recognized thing, such an event would be a feasible thing; but its at- tempt now can only result in s war between From 1828 to 1844, through the two terms of | Sardinia and Naples, involving, perhaps, other General Jackson, the one term of Van Buren, and the one term made up by Harrison and Ty. ler, the money question ruled the roast. But in 1844 the slavery question again raised its horrid front, with the issue of the annexation of Texas. Upon this issue the democratic party again came into power, though it had been nearly annihilated upon the money question in 1840. But its success in 1844 was the result of a radical anti-slavery diversion from the whig camp, whereby some fifteen thousand opposi- tion votes in New York were thrown away upon Birney, the abolition candidate, thus giving this State to Polk by a plurality of five thousand, and thus deciding the election in his favor. From this point the poison of this abolition element began actively to work in both the whig party and the democratic party. In 1848 Martin Van Buren, upon his independent Buf- falo anti-slavery platform, carried off the New York balance of power from General Cass, the regular democratic nominee, and thus elected the whig candidate, General Taylor. But in 1852, upon the compromise measures of Henry Clay, who was the embodiment of the whig party, the democracy laid that party in the dust. It was the result of a conservative re- action among the people against the insidious and mischievous anti-slavery programme of W. H. Seward, who, it was feared, would be “the power behind the throne greater than the throne itself,” in the event of the election of General Scott. The repeal of the Missouri compromise, in 1854, came very near overwhelming the demo- cratic party in 1856, under the Northern anti- slavery revolution thus excited. The party in question would have been destroyed but for the lucky intervention of the Know Nothing sectari- an organization—a party which, in saving the de- mocracy, was itself ground to powder under the wheels of this anti-slavery crusade. A terribly fatal engine to nearly all concerned has been that Kansas-Nebraska bill. Recovering from the shock under a candidate who could plead an alibi in 1856, the democracy have been broken to pieces in being compelled to face the music in 1860. Before the late Convention at Charleston, they had always contrived to “whip the devil around the stump,” to “ keep the word of prom- ise to the ear” of the North and the South; but the loss of Kansas to the South under that squat- ter sovereignty, which had promised them a slave State, broke up the whole concern in bringing Douglas and Davis face to face. Thus the Almighty Nigger has built up and pulled down all our political parties of the last forty years,except that it has not pulled down this new anti-slavery republican party. But this party has not yet secured a lodgment in the White House. Should it find its way opened to that treacherous domicile through this contest, it will not be long before the historian will be called to write the decline and fall of the black republicans, from the corrupting and demoraliz- ing influences of the spoils. Powerful as has been the Almighty Nigger in calling up and put- ting down our political parties, he could have done nothing without the spoils. But with the spoils he can create and destroy. And asthe outside pressure is as ten to one against the holders of the spoils, we may henceforth look for anew party in power at Washington from every Presigential election, until the nigger and the spoils shall have been reduced to something like a permanent settlement. Ovr Cottece Commencements.—These exhi- bitions are now in full blast, and have been since the end of May—the summer months be- ing the favorite time to instal the graduates of the different colleges, and send them out upon the world, full fledged. Many of the colleges have already held their commencements; but the most ancient ones— Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth—will hold theirs during this month or next. There are at present in this country one hun- dred and twenty-four collegiate institutions, in- cluding the regular colleges—of which almost every religious denomination has one—and pro- fessional schools of different kinds. These in- stitutions turn out every year not less than two thousand young men from their graduating classes, to seek their fortunes in the different professions; and hence every branch of profes- sional life is overcrowded. The pulpits are swarming with ambitious preachers; lawyers are about as numerous as clients, and doctors are as thick as blackberries. Out of this annu- al outpouring of educated young men—this ar- my, two thousand strong, of well crammed collegians—not more than two or three, per- haps, of any year’s exodus make their mark in the world. But this may be accounted for by the fact that many of them. finding the learned professions all full, turn their attention to more practical and lucrative pursuits. Some become farmers, some mechanics, and some turn mer- chants; and in these departments they put their education. perhaps, to the best advantage for the country; because, by infusing an educated ele- ment into them, they serve to elevate those classes which, more than any other, contribute to the progress and preaperity of the republic, Powers. To increase these cemplicstions, the King of Naples has proclaimed a constitution for his kingdom, which threatens to change the whole aspect of the conflict in Southern Italy from a war of liberation to ore of conquest and do- minion. In order to prevent this untoward re- sult, the conspirators in Rome and Naples are endeavoring to hasten the revolution on the main land. Naples has been for some weeks in a state of ferment. and outrages have been com- mitted there of the most serious character. The brutal attack on the French Ambassador is attributed by the Sardinian journals to the lazzaroni, acting under the direction of the re- actionary court and church party. Judging from the tone of public morality, and the policy of the priestly and court party, which have characterized the people of Southern Italy, we are not without a suspicion that these outrages may spring from the instigations of the revplu- tionists themselves, under the impulsive bope that the complications they will producsyaay redound to the benefit of their cause. | The spirit of insurrection which is Fife in Naples has extended to Rome, and an outbreak there is said to be saith General Lamoriciere, who had been iin- specting the forces in the provintes, had hastened back to the imperial city to sive the Pope from overthrow, and in this work he will, no doubt, have the hearty co-operation of the French garrison. This vacillating polit in Sicily, and the indiscreet proceedings of - volutionists in Naples and Rome, conttast strongly with the course of the people of the Duchies and of Milan last year, and bode no good to the cause of revolution and a confederate constitution for the southern portion of the /ta- lian peninsula. A sudden outbreak in the Nea- politan kingdom might have driven the Beur- bons from that throne, and this event world have received the early recognition of the aati- Bourbon dynasties; but any cowardly aad tricky schemes to produce complications wth other Powers, in the hope that they may ve- dound to the benefit of the liberal cause, mist destroy even its hopes of success. Ixcrrasmma Factuitms ror Travel ixp Communication wx tHe West.—In our or- respondence from Fort Randall, Nebraika Territory, published on Saturday, alluson was made to a “mountain fleet” of pad- dle-wheel steamers, now started to run on the upper Missouri river, the first of which had pe- netrated fifteen miles above El Paso—the high- est point previously reached by a steamer— thus establishing the fact that a distance of three thousand four hundred miles from New Orleans can be navigated by steamers. The travelling facilities of the West are being developed with extraordinary energy and ra- pidity, to such an extent that in a few years it will be as easy and as comfortable to maxe a journey through the distant West and Northwest as it was some years ago by stage coaches through New England. Steamboats, both of side-wheel and stern-wheel construction, are gradually penetrating inland on the Western rivers ; stage coaches—the avant couriers of the locomotive—are running into the heart of the wilderness over hastily improvised mud rosds, or more substantial plank roads; while the prairies are every day being spanned by steam cars and wind cars, and every mode of convey- ance which can transmit the comforts and civi- lization of the Atlantic States to the removest regions, wherever a settlement of white men lifts up its head in the forests and solitude: of the Far West. Telegraph lines, too, are spread- ing their mysterious locomotives of thought and knowledge into the desert. The lines connect- ing the Atlantic and Pacific coasts are rapidly hastening on to join each other from both ends. The last accounts represented the westward bound wires as having reached Yellville, Ar- kansas, and a despatch yesterday announced the completion of the line at Van Buren, on the borders of Arkansas and Kansas. From the Pacific side the wires are also creeping east- ward ata steady pace. And these lines are got up by private enterprise alone, without any aid from government. It is thus that the power of this nation crows. Every steamboat that winds its way into the in- terior, upon waters never navigated before— every stage coach that extends its journey toa station a few miles in advance—-every railroad whose first sod is turned upon soil grown fat with inertion—every telegraph pole that rears its head in rivalry with the oaks and sycamores of the forest--is a missionary of civi- lization, and a precursor of wealth, prosperity influence and power, the effects of which will be felt in the furthermost part of the conti nent, and will eventually help to strengthen the claims of this republic to be considered the first among the nations of the earth. “(Great oaks from little acorns grow,” says the poet— vast cities, productive and powerful States will one day spring up on the track of these little Western steamboats and rude coaches, which are now so modestly pushing their way into the almost untrodden regions of the wilderness. The attention of the public has been especial- ly directed, aince the of Congress, to the position of Mr. Vanderbilt in the matter of the California mail contract. The affair was a yery simple one upon ite face; but as it indi- rectly raises the old question as to our steam marine, and its connection with the general government, we purpose to examine the subject a little in detail. And first, let us see what are the facts in the case. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt is a steamship “Commodore” by trade. He has earned his title as fairly as any cocked hat in the service. We doubt whether the sixty-four captains on the navy list have in their consolidated heads a greater amount of hard common sense than Vanderbilt carries under his hat. It is all very well to call such a man a monopolist. If he is so it is through his own energy, shrewdness and determination. He has made his own way in the world, walks in his own road, and needs no defence from any quarter. He represents; how- ever, a vital principle, for which we have al- | ways contended, and always shall contend. Mr. Vanderbilt has a large amount of capital em- ployed in steamers, which ply between New York and Sax Francisco, and is alse interested in the carrying trade to Europe. His ships help to maintain the commercial reputation of New York, and to vindicate the supremacy of our steam marine. The government never helped him to the amount of a dollar. On the contrary, the government has attempted to dic- tate to him the sum which shall be paid to him for services rendered. He refused to submit to such dictation, and left the mails behind. Un- der such circumstances, it is neither logical nor sensible to charge the failure of the mail ser- vice upon Mr. Vanderbilt. The onus lies clearly upon the government, and the whole difficulty arises from the mistaken policy and absurd jealousy of certain official personages at Washington and elsewhere. They hold, in the first place, that notwithstanding the fact that the mail is loaded down with free matter sent under frank, the Postal Department should be self-supporting; and, secondly, that the grant- ing of subsidies by the general government to proprietors of mail steamships does not tend to the public benefit, “and is a matter of strictly private interest. These brilliant philosophers have been aided and abetted by certain mem- bers of Congress who share in the provincial jealousy of the metropolis, and thus they have succeeded in breaking down the Collins line, of which every American ought to have been proud. After destroying Collins, the ignoramuses at Washington, aided by some blockheads who call themselves New’ York journalists, turned upon Mr. Vanderbilt and attempted to force him into compliance with their views. They found, however, that this time they had mistaken theirman. And now we state what we know to be an undeniable fact, when we say that had it not been for the meanness of the government during the last eryuliris should have had to-day the best ocean steam marine in the world. Mr. Collins built the finest and fleetest vessels that ever steamed up the Mersey. For that we have British evidence in proof. When the ships were quietly doing their work, and increasing our fame as a great commercial Power, Con- be is still an able man and a public bene- factor) and Vanderbilt should be persistently ignored, while pothouse politicians, without an idea in their heads beyond a corrupt job, should climb to the highest places in the nation, and have the power to impede public and private business, making the country ridiculous in the eyes of the world. And in the matter of Mr. Vanderbilt, he has acted like a thorough busi- ness man—one who knew he had nothing to expect from government except what he forced from it, and therefore treated it like a private individual, driving a sharp bargain, as is cus- tomary with men of his class; and the blame, as we have said before, to the failure of the mails belongs not to him, but to the govern- ment, which seems to have passed into the hands of the veriest noodles that ever dabbled in red tape and sealingwax. We believe that our view of the matter is that which must be taken by every sensible man in the community. The sentiment of dis- gust at the action of the government in the matter of the Collins steamers is general, and grows more profound as the commerce of the port increases, and the number of foreign steam- ships fiying their flags in our harbor augments. Had Mr. Vanderbilt been a man of less deter- mination than he is, he might have been sacri- ficed. Even now there isa dead set made at him by the conductors of a fourth rate news- paper, notorious for the operations of its proprietors in old churches and fancy stocks—a sheet as obscure as it is igno- rant, and the circulation of which, always limit- ed, is now steadily on the decline. All this, how- ever, will avail nothing against the great prin- ciple which Mr. Vanderbilt, as well as Collins and Law, represents. That the man has his fuuilts—that he drives a hard bargain, and keeps a sharp look out for the main chance—may be true. Thatsuch men as he have more to do in the building up of the country, in the exten. sion of its commerce, and in its ma- terial prosperity, than all the brok poli- ticians and small fry editors in the nation, is be- yond peradventure. Mr. Vanderbilt has taught the powers that be a salutary lesson. He has laid the rod on well, and we hope that the punishment by him inflicted will have a good effect on all the parties concerned. Ane tae Patavenrara Potrce to pe Pato ror Dowa Norawe!t—We should be gtad to know whether itis seriously intended to pay to the Philadelpiaia police any portion of the mo- ney sent by the Japanese as an acknowledgment of the arrangements made for their comfort in the cities which they visited. Did the Philadel- phia police make any euch arrangements’? Every one knows that they did not. Even the Phila- delphia editors, who can find apologies for the Philadelphia mob, have not a word toeay in defence of the police, who have not complied with the conditions of the princely gift, and have not, therefore, the slightest claim to any part of it. Rerorw or rae Unvetrep Kyigat or Mvs- cLx.—Heenan has come back without a belt after all. The victor has returned without the spoils of war. The governing classes have been expecting for a long time to welcome back the hero who so valorously maintained the honor of the American eagle against the assaults of the British lion upon the now historic fleld of Farn- borough; but they hoped to greet him encircled with that duplicate champion’s belt—the trophy of a victory so stubbornly woa and so shabbily acknowledged. But they are doomed to disap- pointment, for it appears that the represente- tive of American musele returns without even the counterfeit presentment of the prize to win which he loft home and friends and beeame a temporary exile in the land of the stranger. He comes back to usa chevalier sans peur, sans reproche, and sans a belt. That guerdon of the prize ring, it seems, is unpaid for, and is held as a hostage for the solvency of the sub- scribers. We heard long ago that John Bull would never permit the American eagle to carry off from England either the original belt, or the copy for which the British public so magnani- mously opened a subscription list, which they forgot to close with the sum total necessary to pay for the silver badge of muscular prowess presented to the Benicia infant some half a dozen times with dramatic effect before admir- ing and applauding audiences. This act on the part of John Bull is only in keeping with a great many other little tricks which he is accustomed to play in his dealings with the world; among the rest, with his con- duct at the fight at Farnborough, where he cut the ropes, ran down the American eagle at the ‘very moment when he was about to clap his victorious wings, and prevented a decisive ter- mination of the grand battle. A great deal has been said about the love of fair play which characterizes the British lion; but after jockey- ing the Benicia Boy out of his belt in this shabby fashion, we hope that we shall hear no more of the magnanimity and fair play of that spurious specimen of animal royalty. If the American champion was dis- appointed, however, in not bearing off a belt, he must have been consoled yes- terday by the homage paid him by the shining lights of pugilism who attended his levee on that “beautiful but exposed island”— as Kossuth called if—where he made a brief so- journ on his way to the city. It was originally intended to give Heenana grand ovation upon his arrival here, but we are glad to learn that it is not probable that any such discreditable exhibition will take place. We deprecated anything of the kind from the beginning, and preferred to leave to the peers, members of Parliament, merchants, clergy and bishops of England the undivided honor of exalting the prize ring into a respec- table institution, and receiving the pugilist as a hero. The intelligent classes in this communi- ty have no sympathy with, and show no coun- tenance to, either the sport or the participants therein. We had hoped that Heenan would not renew his belligerent career on his return to this country; but it appears, from his statements in England with reference to a contest with Morrissey, that he is spoiling for a fight. It appears that he wants to win a belt very badly, and as he has been cheated out of one on the other side of the Atlantic, he is determined if possible to win one on this side. Tax Law's Detay—Horrmay ann Hicxs.— The hanging of the pirate Hicks on Friday last, in less than four months from the commission of his crime, seems to have astonished everybody. Contrasted, indeed, with the delay and uncer- tainty which attend criminal trials in this city, it is well calculated to take the public by sur- prise. A few days ago a case very like that of Hicks occurred in this city—murder for the purpose of robbery—only that the circum- stances are more revolting and atrocious than those which surrounded the case of Hicks. We allude to the wife and child of the industrious poor German, who were murdered last week for the money accumulated by his hard earn- ings. A German named Hoffman has been ar- rested for the crime, under circumstances which leave as little doubt about his guilt as there was about the case of Hicks. The money and property have been found upon him, and, unlike the case of Hicks, the dead bodies have been forthcoming, and the corpus delicti fully proved. Yet who believes that this man will be brought to justice with anytWing like the despatch with which Hicks was convicted and executed. It is an even chance that he will never be hanged at all—like Cancemi. But it is certain that it will not be done this year, and probably not even next year. So that if he is hanged at last, the design of punishment, which is not revenge, but the moral effect of preventing crime by the the penal consequences following with rapidity and certainty upon the heels of the offence, will be entirely lost, and for all the good that is done by it, as far as example is concerned, the wretched culprit might almost as well not be hanged at all. The administration of justice is in a deplorable condition in this enlightened community. A Scpmarme TeLeorarn Between France ano THE Unitep Srates.—It will be seen by the advices from Paris that Louis Napoleon has sent to the Corps Legislatif for approval a con- vention for the laying of a submarine telegraph between France and the United States. No particulars are given in the Moniteur of the 3d inst., which makes this announcement, and as yet nothing is known of the route that will be adopted for the line, or the time when it will be laid. But the fact that Louis Napoleon has matured such a scheme, and formally made the fact public, is a significant one in the progress of France and the growing interest taken in American affairs by the courts of Europe. Our British cousins will find themselves distanced in ocean telegraphic enterprise if they do not take care, and their supremacy in this matter will lie buried with the Atlantic cable at the bottom of the ocean whose waves they have so long claimed to rule. The ‘of the Northwest. In reply to the art, cle which appeared in the Henao of the 29th ui, from the pen of our special reporter, under & Y¢ above heading, we have received several scorn. © Of communications from parties in Dlinois, Io ¥®, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. All the writers c sider the article in the main able and thorough ; but each one takes exception to some part "War statement which affects his peculiar interest. * One or two residents of Southe ™ and Gen. tral Illinois are outraged at the sta ‘ement that ee region. They say that fever and ag. are un- known in their part of the country, bu. t “ sh-eh-shake t-t-t-terri-b-b-bly 0-0 over tht * A correspondent from Southern Iowa . insists upon the Hzratp giving a notice to the «: ttem- sion of the Burlington road through Iowa—s (ow in running order ae far as Ottumwa ; alsoto\ ‘he qaality of the land in Southern Iowa, which h‘¢ says is the finest in the State. The differenci ® between our correspondent and ourselves is, suspect, slight but decided: he has Towa land to sell ; we have none. Wehope' land is as good as he says it's, and if it will probably be able to re out our ald. As to his promises. y the prosecution of the Ottumwa _ he lic at large will ee. see them though we doubt very much whether any of the Towa roads will be this fall in running order” as far west as the and Missouri. A dozen or more gentlemen owning land in Minnesota insist upon filling three or four of our columns apiece with elaborate essays upon the merits of that thriving young State. They had better plant corn. There is an inex- haustible market at very fair rates for corn, and quite a light demand for puffs of Minnesota. We think, on the whole, that we were quite liberal to that State. We said it was producing a very large quantity—some said 2,000,000 bushels— of fine wheat, and that immigration was flowing thither freely. We said that the crops there looked finely, and that—barring the rust—the people would be rich there nextsummer. True, we added that within the State limits there was a large amount of pretty hard land, and that in winter the thermometer fell to thirty degrees below zero, which can hardly be called a genial temperature for out-door enjoyment. But, af- ter all, this is quite true, as our Minnesota friends know perfectly well; and why get into a rage at the facts being fairly stated? Our most savage correspondents, however, hail from Wisconsin. Of that lovely State we said that it was mainly settled by people who bor- rowed Eastern money and didn’t pay it back; who built fine houses, and grand cities and long railroads with other men’s cash, and then pass- ed laws to declare their debts invalid and of no consequence; who went systematically to work, several years ago, to divert traffic from its natu- ral channel into unnatural ones, and who, in this insane pursuit, had ruined themselves and everybody who he} trusted them, These plain statements of fact appear to have proved un- palatable in the meridian of Milwaukee, and we are visited with several quires of mingled abuse and statistics—the whole calculated to prove Wisconsin agreat State, her people the honestest on the earth, and Milwaukee the hub of the Western universe. We shall reply bya few more plain facts. Milwaukee owes about $2,500,000; mnainty to Eastern people. About $1,600,000 of this was borrowed to build the railways which have made the city what it is. The whole of this debt is practically repudiated. Several cou- pons are overdue on the city bonds, and the bondholders have never been able to obtain the faintest shadow of a promise from the city that the least effort would be made to raise money to pay the interest. Committees of bondholders have gone to Milwaukee over and over again to beg and implore the City Council to take some steps to preserve their credit and fulfil their bargains; they have been met by threats of open repudiation in the courts. No proposition even of compromise has ever been made by the city. Its attitude has been that of the defiant thief, who knows that he cannot be arrested in his sanctuary. When we add that these remarks apply not only to Milwaukee, but to Racine, Kenosha, Beloit, Watertown, and to every city and county in Wisconsin that ever had credit to borrow Eastern money, and that the repudiators enjoy the full confidence and protection of the courts and Legislature of the State, we think we shall have said enough to justify not only the strictures we made, but remarks of infinitely greater severity. The people of Wisconsin had better pay their debts, and not write letters to the papers. Al- ready retribution presses upon them in the shape of lost credit, decaying trade, declining population. In a few years, if the present dis- honest course be persevered in, the cities of Wisconsin will have become deserted villages; immigrants will avoid them as plague spots; no man will trust a Wisconsin trader; no farmer will send his produce to cities which have cheated all who trusted them; and the Wiscon- who work together get up the plan of the meet- ing, and determine who shall be put in the chair, who shall sign the call, and who shalt make speeches. They then proceed to collect money from the party enthusiasts to pay the expenses, get up a leng list of vice presideuts and secretaries to give the thing an air of re- spectability, and announce half a dozen popu~ lar speakers as contracted to appear. ‘When the appointed time comes the manay gers, who have the whole thing ent and dried, put gheir officers in their places, read a letter, or two of regret from the promised speakers, ‘wnd bring forward their Snug, the joiner, and their Bottom. the weaver, to give the assemb’ od raga- muffins an hour's talk and twaddle. ‘The press is beseeched and implored to repo.ct the thing, end the party journals glorify it, na an enthuasi estic ratification meethg, Bat the true a u i