The New York Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1860, Page 4

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Reports offfighting near Messina had been circulated, but had not been confirmed. ‘The royalist forces for the defence of Messina num- bered 20,000 men. It was considered certain that all the great European Powers had agreed to the proposed con- ference, and that it would be held in Paris in the month of October. France had notified Turkey that the European Powers would interfere to stop the massacre of Christians in Syria. In London two additional failures in the leather trade were reported. Consols on the Ith were quoted at 93 a 93) for money, and 93} a 954 for ac- count. In the Liverpool markets cotton was active at steady prices, while breadstuffs and provisions were dull. The Connaught brings later advices from India, China, Australia and New Zealand, but they con- tain nothing of importance. By the arrival of the overland mail we have news from San Francisco to the 29th ult., and later ad- vices from Oregon and British Columbia, The news from California is unimportant. St. John's day was celebrated by the Masonic fraternity of San Francisco with appropriate ceremonies. The corner stone of a new Masonic hall, which is to cost $162,000, was laid, and more than ten thousand Masons marched in procession through the streets. The exports from San Fran- cisco for the past six months show an increase of $1,200,000 as compared with the cor- responding period last year, and the statistics of travel show an increase of thirteen thousand to the population during the same period. The trips of the pony express were to be resumed in the first week of July. The mining accounts from Carson Valley continued highly favorable. The advices from Oregon concede the election of the democra- tic candidate to Congress, but represented that the Legislature will be so composed as to prevent the election of United States Senators, unless the democrats compromise their differences. The mining news from British Columbia is encouraging. ‘The war between the Indian tribes rages feriously, and the government did not evince the slightest dis position to interfere in their quarrels, The steamship De Soto, from New Orleans 1th and Havana 16th inst., arrived at this port yester- day. The weather at New Orleans was unusnally hot, bat the city continued healthy, not ‘single case of yellow fever having occurred. Havana was also healthy, much more so than for some years past, Business was dull at Havana, except the sugar market, which was tolerably active, There had been a large number of arrivals, yet freights were active. Our correspondent at Ponce, Porto Rico, writing on the 2d inst., says:—The stock of sugar and molasses of the old crop is nearly ran out, but the new one will be right on its heels, and in this dis- trict the yield will exceed an average. The pros- pects from all parts of the island are most en- couraging, as the whole is under successful culti- vation from the abundance of slave labor, Within the past fifteen months about nine hundred slaves have been imported from Africa, via Caba, whose condition and care attract the particular attention of the masters. The latter give them compara- tively comfortable dwellings, with ground sufficient to raise vegetables and feed poultry, and a mode- rate but encouraging pay for extra labor, which creates peace and contentment. The weather here is rather dry, bat still favorable. The Chicago Zouaves gave an exhibition drill last night at the Academy of Music, before an aa- dience of five thousand people, which crowded that immense edifice from parquette to amphi- theatre. The audience was composed of our first class citizens, among them many military men, The Zouaves acquitted themselves in snoh a man- ner as to elicit the unanimous applause of those present. The affair was well managed, under the direction of the officers of the Twelfth regiment, and proved a perfect success, Accounts from Ruatan state that Gen. Walker left that place on the 27th ult., it was supposed for Central America, Honduras was to take posses sion of the Bay Islands on the 30th ult., and it was said the people would resist the transfer with force of arn. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction yesterday, the Committee of the Whole reported that circulars were issued to seve- ral builders inviting them to estimate on plans and specifications for the erection of a house of recre- ation for the boys on Randall's Island, They also reported in favor of reducing the salaries of the Deputy Resident Physicians in the institutions from $716 to $216, and that in future no refreshments phall be fusmlehed to apy gue Visiieg Was iaaliue tions, The report recommended that hereafter all Persons having friends or acquaintances pearce- rated in the city prisons whom they are* désiroes of visiting must apply at the office of the Com- missioners, to prevent persons from holding promis- cuous intercourse with prisoners. The report was adopted, and the Commissioners adjourned. The humber in the institutions now is 7,321, an increase of 61 for the past week; the namber admitted in that time being 1,958, while those discharged, transferred, or who died, numbered 1,897. The examination of Frederic Hoffman, the al- ledged defaulting Secretary of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, held before Justice Connolly, at the Jefferson Market Police Court, was con- cluded yesterday morning. The prisoner was com- mitted to await trial on four distinct and separate charges—two for illegal issue of stock and two for forgery. The amount of bail was fixed at $22,000, to reduce which an application will be made to the Supreme Court. A report of the final examination will be found in another column. An exciting game of base ball took place yester- day in Brooklyn, between the Excelsior Club, of South Brooklyn, and the Atlantic Club, of Bed- ford, Long Island. The play was witneased by about four thousand spectators. The game termi- nated in favor of the Excelsior Club by twenty- three runs to four, a result altogether unexpected. The contest lasted three hours and twelve minutes. A sweepstakes for four oared boats came off yes- terday afternoon at Quarantine, The entries were the Charles McCay, of New. York; Stranger, of Poughkeepsie, and Judge Voorhees, of Williams- burg. The purse was $300, and was won by the Stranger, the McCay coming in second. Distance rowed about three miles. Time 19 minutes 26 seconds. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,500 bales, a considerable portion of which was taken by spinners, in lots; the prices continued to be quite irregu lar, especially for middling and lower qualities; it is diti- cult to give a reliable range of prices: middling uplands and Florida middlings we quote at 10‘ic. a 1034¢. Flour was heavy and irregular, but more active; the purchases were chiefly on domestic account and for export, Southern flour was heavy, while sales were to a fair extent. New wheat was on the increase, while the market for old was leas buoyant, but with tolerably free sales, at rates given in another column, Corn was in good supply, aud prices Jess buoyant, while sales were preity active. Among the sales was a lot of handsome Southern white at S4c., and of Western yellow at 65c. a @6c., and choice Western mixed at 62c. Pork was firm for mess, with sales of new at $19 372, a $19 60, and new prime at $14 25. Sugars were active and firm, with sales of 5,500 bhds., 1,200 bbis. and 55 bhds. melado, at prices given in another col- umn. Coffee wae quite firm, with sales of government Java at 163¢c., and 400 do. Maracaibo at 14%fc. Freights were heavy and firmer, especially for Liverpool, while engagements were moderate. ‘The First Echo from th The True Opening of the Campaign. The great gathering of the mercantile and industrial classes of New York at the Breckin- ridge and Lane ratification meeting on Wed- nesday night was the first breaking ground— the first spadefull thrown with a will by the people—in the sharp, clear and defined politi- cal contest which is to elect the President and decide the policy of the federal government for the next four years. Two months ago the old regime of the demo- cracy was brought to trial at Charleston by its own partisans. After a long discussion the court adjourned to Baltimore, and there it was formally condemned and executed, with gene- ral consent, on the night of the 23d of June. Everywhere the people rejoiced in their new freedom. The tyranny and corruption of the whole party organization had become un- bearable, and when it was dead the feeling of relief was universal. Only the professional politicians were perplexed and anxious. They saw the system by which they had so long secured for themselves the public spoils broken and shattered to pieces,and in their despair some clung to the larger fragments, claiming that that was the true ark, while others endeavored to patch up the remnants and make a semblance of the old concern. New plans and programmes were also brought forward by hopeful politicians, and during the past month every one has won- dered at the apathy of the people in such a momentous crisis. But it was not apathy that existed. The people saw the hollowness of the Bell move- ment, notwithstanding the hopeful faces of his political managers. They perceived the ab- stractions and fallacies of the Douglas scheme, notwithstanding the confident tone of his ad- herents. Houston's name failed to make an echo, and the Gerrit Smith side movement was comprehended. Instinctively the people felt that in none of these was there the vitality and strength necessary to encounter and defeat the black danger in which Lincoln and his destruc- tive allies and followers threatened to involve the highest and dearest interests of all, And therefore not a hand was lifted, not a sign went forth, to show how the popular beart listed. Yet it thrills before the common danger of a black republican triumph, and is ready and willing for the contest. The Breckinridge and Lane ratification meet- ing has awakened the first echo from the popu- lar heart, and given to the whole country the key note for the national bugles, and the true plan for the opening campaign. The contest is one of conservative resistance to the revolu- tionary and destructive schemes of the black republican fanatics and demagogues, and it is in the central, commercial, manufacturing and mining States that the people can be rallied, and are ready to rally, upon the constitutional principles involved. New York has given the first sign. Our commercial and industrial classes have shown that in Breckinridge and Lane they have found the true representative men of the constitutional principles which form the soul of the coming contest, and that their names have awakened the only real and living enthusiasm which bas shown itself in the popular revolution through which we are now passing. This feeling will find its echo among the same classes and in- terests in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and there the issue lies, The battle of 1856 is to be repeated, but on a grander scale, and in a more distinct and clearly defined form. It is not in New York, but in the central and commercial States on the Southern border, that the thickest of the fight will rage, and the battle be lost or won. These facts will soon be patent to the whole country, and men everywhere will begin to range themselves on the only living principles which enter into the issues of the day. On one side stands Lincoln, proclaiming the social, moral and political superiority of the North over the South, and calling upon men to enter nto an “irrepressible conflict” for the complete and entire destruction of the Southern States. On the other hand we have Breckinridge pro- claiming the equality and brotherhood of the States, the harmony of commerce and industry, the sacred and constitutional right of selfgo- NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1860. vernment, and urging upon the people to unite im their defence, To these the people are te- with unanimity from the South, and Gow with an echo and a will from New York. The battle is now begun, and “it will eoon rage throughout all this Union with a strength and intensity that will proclaim how deeply rooted in the hearts of the people are the Union and the wise precepts of the constitution. Ocr Harsor Devences ann Votunreer SoL- preRY.—One of the most interesting as well as important displays by our volunteer soldiery. that ever took place in New York was the artillery drill of the Gity Guard with the bar- bette guns, at Fort Hamilton, on Wednesday, and great credit is due to Captain Mansfield Lovell, not alone for conceiving and carrying out the idea of familiarizing our citizen soldiers with the use of the guns on the forts in the har- bor, but for the admirable training to which he has brought the company under his com- mand. Captain Lovell was formerly an officer of the United States Army, in the artillery service of which he displayed remarkable efficiency, and it ishighly creditable in him to devote his knowledge and experience to the task of educating our volunteera as artilleriats—a branch of the military profession upon which we would have to rely more than any other ia time of war for the defence of our splendid metropolis. At is unnecessary to say that the regu- lar army is wholly incompetent in point of numbers to man the forts of New York harbor alone. Moreover, it is scattered on the frontier, where its services will be always required more or less, The artillery service is very small, and, such as it is, the men are trained to the use of light batteries, and would have much to un- learn and to learn before they could fight these heavy guns with effect. Our forts, then, must depend for their garrisons upon the militia and volunteers, and hence it becomes a matter of vital importance that they should be properly driiled in the service of casemate and barbette guns. It will be seen by the following table that a force of over five thousand men would be re- quired to garrison the defences of the harbor, as they now stand, and the figures below, we think, present a very low estimate of the num- ber necessary to work the thirteen bhun- dred guns mounted on the different forte. The annexed table shows the number and location of our harbor defences, the num- ber of guns, the men required for their ser- vice, and the estimated cost of the works and armament:— FORTS IN NEW YORK HARBOR, ETC. see prcnumnusy fo op porvmyeg Besides these works, contem: ‘one at Willett’s Point, on the Fast river, to cost about $900,000, and a new battery and earthworks south of Fort Richmond, to cost $650, It will thus be seen that a force of more than six thousand men will be required when all these works are completed, to make the defences of the city effective against an enemy; and where are they to come from except from the ranks of our citizen soldiery? The first drill of Capt. Lovell’s company with the heavy guns was high- ly successful, and we hope to see his example followed by the officers of the militia, and a new era entered upon by the soldiers of the First Division. Tat Democracy or tae Exrine Ciry.—The late powerful demonstration of the conserva- tive democracy of the city of New York in favor of the ticket and platform of the Breckin- ridge wing of the party throws a flood of light upon this Presidential contest. We thus per- ceive that the solid democratic commercial in- terests of New York are true to their sympa- thies with the South; and so, we doubt not, we shall find the same substantial elements of the democratic party in every commercial centre, great and small, of the Northern States. Sus- tained by the unbroken column of the Southern States, backed up by the administration at Washington, and supported by the solid com- mercial and financial classes of the party in the North, the Breckinridge ticket is the only ticket in the field that can make a fight against the black republicans. The supporters of Mr. Douglas make some pre- tensions to strength in the border slave States; but as the campaign goes on their weakness will become more and more apparent, until their last calculation of breaking the unity of the South upon Breckinridge will have vanished. There is good reason to believe, from the prevailing sentiment of the Southern people, that all the supposed doubtfil Southern States will swing round to Breckinridge on election day, and upon this paramount idea, that in this crisis the South must stand as a unit upon the platform of her constitutional rights. Nor is this all. Pennsylvania may possibly still be secured to Breckinridge; for the posi- tion of Hickman and Forney in that State, as the leaders of the Douglas movement against the administration, has turned over the demo- cracy there into the undisputed control of the Breckinridge interest. Nor is this ticket with- out hopes of a powerful assistance from the conservative elements of the old line whig and American parties. Thus there is a hope of positive victory, which will strengthen Breckin- ridge, not only in the Seuth and in the doubt- ful Northern States, but in every Northern State, county, city and town, to the prejudice of Douglas, In this city we have no doubt that the Breckinridge movement is already largely in the ascendancy over the opposing Douglas fac- tion; for in the interest of Breckinridge are all the sinews of war. Old Tammany has been a little too fast in defining her position, It may suit exch free soil counties as St, Lawrence, Herkimer and Oswego, but squatter sovereign- ty is not the democratic panacea for this com- mercial metropolis, Unless Tammany Hall, therefore, is prepared not only to sink or swim with Mr. Douglas for the Presidency, but also to relinquish the rich municipal spoils of this imperial city, the ‘sachems will hawe to tack ship #0 as to catch the prevating southerly winds which blow over “thir tight little island.” ion: Tue Ouamrionsur my Base Bass.—Pursicat TRARANG vy rae Ungren S¥res.=-Base ball has srown in a few years into a aational game in thie country, as cricket has long been in Eng- land, each being suited to the genius of the peo- ple. A grand match of base ball took place yesterday in Brooklya for the champion- ship. The Excelsior Club bas just made the tour of the State from here to Buffalo, and has beaten with ease every club with which it came in con- tact. One of the astonished Buffalo papers ob- served that such ball playing was never wit- nessed in that city before. Now, on their re- turn to Brooklyn, they have contested the belt with the champion club, the Atlantic, who had never yet been beaten in any match, although they had played in hundreds of contests. The Greatest interest was excited. Vast numbers attended. The Excelsior won by very unex- pected odds—nearly six to one—twenty-three to four; showing the effect of training and Practice. This game is only one out of three, and the Excelsior must win another game to win the match. The second game is to be played on the 9th of August, and if the Atlan- tic do not make great improvement in the in- terim, the Excelsior will become the Champion Club, and retain “the Belt” till some other aspiring Nine vindicate their right to it. This excellent manly game ought to be en- couraged, calculated as it is to develope the physical powers of our youth, and to withdraw them in their leisure hours from the seductions of vice. In recent years there is a general ten- dency in this direction which is highly gratify- ing. It is evinced in a great variety of forms— at one time in gymnastic exercises, at another in horseback riding and driving fleet horses; in boat racing, in rowing, in fire companies, in base ball, and in the drill of military compa- nies. Vast sums of money are spent on these things, particularly excursions, which are pe- culiar to this country, where money is easily earned, and lavished as freely. Military companies are constantly in the habit of going on long excursions, sometimes a dis- tance as great as from one end of Europe to the other, and all at their own expense. For instance, a company of Zouaves are here now from Chicago, in the far West, after hav- ing travelled through Canada and various parts of this country, and they carry with them a prize which they offer to any military com- pany who can outdrill them. None, as yet, not even “the crack” company of our Seventh regiment, has been found able to bear away from them the palm of victory. In the same way, a base ball club, the Excelsior, of Brook- lyn, consisting of young gentlemen of means, set out from here at their own expense on a tour to the extreme "Western frontier of the State, and, playing ball in numerous towns, came back victorsin every contest. It was this club who challenged toa friendly game the great cricketers of England—“the eleven”— picked men who made their appearance here last year. This spirit of generous emulation deserves to be cultivated. In the palmy and glorious days of the Grecian republics, the prize which was contended for in the Olympic games was a wreath of the leaves of the bay tree; and to him who saved the life of a citizen was awarded the civic crown, which consisted of ‘oak leaves, It was not the intrinsic value of the prize, but the honor which attached to it, that rendered it an object of ambition. Ina new and prosperous community, abounding with all the material re- sources which can minister to the sustenance of man, and where the natural tendency is to ma- terialism, the spirit of chivalry and honor ought to be encouraged, so as to correct the evil effect produced on the population by excessive devo- tion to the grovelling pursuits of mere money getting. Thus, among the Greeks and Romans the fine arts were encouraged to elevate the Popular taste above the gross indulgences of animal life. The steps in human progress are, first, food, clothing and lodging; then the use- ful arts, recreation for the body and «physical training, Including games of all kinds; and last- ly, adornment of the dwelling and person, with high cultivation of the mind, and the develope- ment of the fine arts. Such is civilization, and itis making rapid headway among us. Excessive Cuarces sy Hore Keerers.— Every year,as soonas the season for pleasure travelling sets in, we receive a large number of letters from persons who have been subject to excessive charges by hotel keepers, either at the watering places or in provincial cities and towns en route. The following communication is a fair sample of the letters referred to:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD, Sin—I send you a do fer you would to make money without paying the slightest at- tention to the comfort of their patrons, or ‘quests,’ as they elegantly call their victims. With a few exceptions, the American hotels out of New York are very bad and very dear, and there is not the slightest excuse for it, as our people are more lavish with their money, when travelling, than any other on the face of the earth. Then, as a rule, the hotel keeper is too grand to attend personally to the comfort of his patrons, and they are compelled to make up for hie neglect by liberal gratuities to the ser- vants, The system is all wrong, and until it is radically reformed such bills as those paid by our correspondent will be more or leas fre- quent. In order to bring about a better state of things, every traveller should demand each item of his bill; andif it is excessive in its charges, send a copy to some prominent jour- gal. Through a waited eftgrt of the tavelling public and the press the hotel keepers may be brought to something like reason. At prescat they are utterly unconscionable. Danret. S. Dicxrmaon anv tae Aisany Re- Gency.—Mr. Dickinson has settled his long out- standing accounts with the Albany Regency. He has peid them off in full, compound inte- rest and all. Little did Dean Richmond, Cag- ger, Confidence Cassidy & Co. expect to be brought to such a reckoning for their treache- rous doings at Syracuse. They foolishly imagined that they had caught the Sage of Bing- hamton in their toile, and that they would clip his wings so that he could do no further mis- chief against their darling echemes of spoils and plunder. But he has turned the tables upon them most effectively. The most telling and terrible exposition of the loathsome rotten- ness of this Regency that has ever been made wae made by Mr. Dickinson at the Cooper In- stitute this last Wednesday evening. The pro- vocations were ample, and the castigation was administered with a will and with a pungency peculiarly refreshing. He paints the Regency delegation to the life as they betrayed themselves at Charleston and at Baltimore. He says that “the ruling faction had snuffed up the scent of four bundred millions of spoils, and that for them the administration of Doug- las was expected to rain milk and honey, snow powdered sugar, and hail vegetable life pills;” that such are the creatures that thrive in the fetid atmosphere of corrupt legislation, “and swell to obese proportions, like vultures upon offal;” that they are “office brokers who crawl and cringe around the footsteps of power, and by false pretences procure themselves or their vile tools places of official trust and emo- lument, that they may pack and control cau- cuses and conventions, at the expense of the people they defraud and betray.” Who can dispute the fidelity of this picture? Who can doubt the conclusion to which Mr. Dickinson is drawn, to wit: that henceforward this Albany Regency gang “will be held and treated as political outlaws, and set at defi- ance;” that “there is no fox so crafty but his hide finally goes to the hatters;” and that this treacherous Albany clique henceforth will only be dangerous to those who trust them? It was abad day for them when they thought they bad taken in the Sage of Binghamton to offer upasa burnt offering to squatter sovereignty at Charleston and at Baltimore. We may ex- pect to hear some dismal howling from the Al- bany curiosity shop before many days are over. Tue Breckrwrmce Oroanizatioy Ww Tats Srare.—The following circular has been issued by Mr. Schell, Collector of this port, and it is evident that a powerful Breckinridge organiza- tion will be established in the State, embracing all the conservative elements. The sinews of war, too, are with this movement, and it will have its effect, not only in this city, but through- out the rural districts of the State, and proba- bly in other States of the Union. It is evident that compromise with Mr. Douglas is out of the question. “The constitution and the equality of the States” is the motto, and war to the knife will be waged for that principle against all opponents. A State Convention, to carry out the programme, is to be held at the earliest practicable moment:— “The constitution and the equality of the States; these are the symbols of evertasting Union.”’ For President JOBN & BRECKINRIDGE, For Vice President, JO3EPH LANE, @f Oregon. New You, July 12, 1860. Deak Sir—It has become to organize —_—__.. Stare Execrioxs to Comz Orr—Taem Sia- ntricancy.—In the next two or three months various State elections come off whose results will be significant, as indicating the strength of parties, fragments of parties, or combinations of gust in North Carolina an election for State offi- cers will take place; and in Arkansas, Texas and Missouri elections will be held on the 6th of the same month for State officers and mem- bers of Congress, In Vermont and Maine simi- lar elections will be held in September; and in Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania these contests will take place in October. As premonitory signs of the result of the Presidential struggle, these preliminary bat- tles are highly important, and will be looked forward to with deep interest. No doubt the division of the democracy which has taken place on the Presidential question will be carried into the State contests, and the relative strength of the Breckinridge and Douglas factions will be tested, as well as the strength of Bell and Lin- coin; and there will be some indication also of the amount and value of political combinations, should any take place. The first skirmish will be fought in North Carolina, where the Douglas party boast of great strength. The 2d of Au- gust, therefore, may tell how that is, and afford a clue to the future. If he has the strength his friends say in the South, his partisans ought to be elected in North Carolina, Tae Watroy-Maturws Mcrpen—Resvnt or THe Inqvest—As our readers are aware, the Coroner's jury, in the case of the murder of Mr. Walton in Eighteenth street, on the night of the 30th of June, have elicited sufficient in- formation out of the testimony to partially un- ravel the mystery, and fasten the crime upon the eldest step-son of the deceased. It is true that the evidence was wholly circumstantial, and that the identification of the accused was by no means clear; yet there wasa chain of circumstances encircling the suspected party strong enough to warrant the finding of the jury. For example: the existence of an ap- parent motive, the threats, and the custom of carrying arms; and perhaps the strongest link in that chain was his refusal, by the advice of counsel, to prove an alibi. Jt is not always, however, that the verdict of a Coroner’s jury is followed by an indictment in mysterious cases of this kind. The story has yet to undergo a careful scrutiny by the Grand Jury, and perbape the prisoner may be able to present a case to that body, as be al- leges he can do, which will relieve him from the charge of murder, and the®penalties which await conviction. The result of the inquest, however, is ao. thing more than wns expected, and we pre- sume is entirely satisfactory to the public. [Reena eaten tener Hon. Massa Gueeuy oDocomextany Du- ‘TREBS.—The Hon. Masse Greeley is out with aa elaborate how! because there is ‘no demand for the campaign documents, whieh are printed ia the Tribune office by the cord, and which, from | present appearances, will be liable to remain oa the publisher's hands till doomsday, or some other distant and indefinite period. In order to sell bis documents, Greeley endeavors to make out that there is an immediate necessity for the | distribution of large numbers of copies of Lia- coln’s Life, in order that the republicans may carry the day, and calls on the local tions to make the “ wealthy and aspiring” bleed freely in payment for the documents. Now, | this may be all very well for H. Greeley & Co., who, like the belated have “got @ stuck” with a lot of pamphlets, and are obliged to cry loudly in order to get rid of them; but the real fact in the case is that there is no need of campaign documents, because there is no campaign. Lincolm is virtually elected. Breckinridge and Douglas have elect- ed him between them, and all that ‘Old Abe has | to do now is to select his Cabinet and get bis | things réady for a journey to Washington. So we warn the “wealthy and aspiring” repubii- cans against Hon. Massa Greeley’s insidious at- tacks upon their bank accounts, They need not give a cent unless they wish to help along Hon. Massa Greeley. Lincoln is all right. As for Greeley, he can sell bis documents to the grocers and bakers, or keep them till 1864, | when, perhaps, they will come in as good as | new. Sreruen D. Drutave anv tHe Prerssure | Forceny Casx.—Mr. Dillaye has issued a pam- | phlet giving an account of his unpleasant con- | nection with the Pittsburg forgery case, and | assailing in unmeasured terms the motives of those who caused charges to be brought against him, which the Judge and jury who tried the case pronounced to be entirely groundless, Mr. Dillaye says the prosecution has its origin in politics, and that he stood high in his official position as Appraiser at Large, both with the late and the present Secretary of the Treasury, “until he came in contact with Daniel E. Sickles and Emanuel B. Hart, by exposing and denounc- ing a plan by which they and their confederates in Tammany Hall attempted. to deprive the democracy of New York, through the scheme of ward organizations, of all representation in Con- vention except such as they might dictate.” This he says led to his dismissal from office by the pre- sent Secretary of the Treasury, when he made — further exposures of official misdeeds in high | places. “A spy” was then put on his track, who followed him up till an opportunity offered of manufacturing false and malicious charges against him in connection with the Bank of. McKeesport. He says the result was that “nearly every paper of consequence in the land published an astounding account of the Pitts- burg forgery, and heralded his name from one extreme of the country to another as a forger, who could not be found, but in pursuit of whom the officers of the law were actively en- gaged.” He was, however, content to wait for ten months till his trial disposed of the case—a trial on an indictment for “forging and uttering the certificates of deposit, knowing them to be forgeries.” Mr. Dillaye, being triumphantly ac- quitted, can now afford to deal terrible retribu- tion to his “enemies, persecutors and slander- ers,” and be does so with a vengeance. : ————__. A Goon Move w tax Rioat Dinectiox.—The Breckinridge and Lane meeting on Wednesday night passed unanimously a resolution “ that a committee of one from each Congressional dis- trict be appointed to call a State Convention to nominate an electoral ticket and candidates for the coming election.” This is a right move in the right direction. It ignores all the dead past, with its bickerings and ite animosities, and will enable all shades of opinion to rally on the one great national issue. The step is in strict har- mony with the revolution through which we are passing, and will make a ticketfar stronger than could any of the old cliques or remnants of cliques. —_______., Pvorism “PLayep Ovt.”—The arrival of the so-called “champion of the world” made only a temporary excitement among the “governing _ classes” of the metropolis. Everybody else re-~ garded the matter with that supreme indiffer- ence which is a peculiar characteristic of New York. The attempt to get up a fight with Mor- rissey has been an ignominious fizzle. That il-. lustrious individual is imbibing large quanti- ties of Congress water, which is not distinctly & fighting drink. Heenan has gone to Troy, and will soon retire into obscurity. The Muscle- men’s carnival, thank Heaven, is at an end. Tur Great Eastern Not to Go to Put.apet- ruta.—The Philadelphians have been making a great deal of outside pressure upon the direc- tors of the Great Eastern, with a view to get- ting the big ship to steam up the Delaware, ‘There is, however, an ugly place in the chan- nel, called Mud Creek, which the directors are afraid of. By way of a compromise, we pre- sume, the ship goes to Cape May, where there is plenty of water. With that our provincial friends ought to be quite satisfied. “Mud Creek” is the Charybdis of the Quaker City. Nimo’s Gaxvey.—A programme of unusual excellence is presented here to-night for the benefit of Mr. Mark Smith, ove of the most popular performers attached to the theatre. The main feature of the evening will be Sheridan's comedy, “The Seboo! for Scandal,” with » dis tribution which embraces many of the best actors in tho city. Lady Teanle will be played by Mies Jane Coombs, an actress of decided ability, who has not appeared ia the metropolis daring the laat two years. —_——_———___. Lavea Kunye’s Tumaree —Mr Jeflergoa’s benefit 1s an nounced for this evening, whea the ‘Tycoon” burlesque will be played for the last time but one, positively, aod the beveficiary will play “Paul Pry.” for the firet time ia New York. Mrs. Jon Wood plays Phoebe in the comedy, « and Persimmons in the burlesque. SM. Jefterson hae shown himself as clever as a manager as he is admirable fg an actor, and the public, without doubt, will turn out nm masse to assist at hie benefit, The Hannity and O'Reilley Case at Pre- videmee. rowel nam ihe Providence Journal, J 10.) Anten was arraigned for . Wrihot conciotingy the Court aitesrsad ei Une tera: fasten a a Tesident of New York. ey, aad wes 8 ‘fh the case of Mrs. Hannity tor of the of Bisbop 0° of New York city, lor the — TELEGRAPHIC Provieves, July 10, 1960 Aston, Chauncey Shafler's witness in the Hannity owe, wae to-day committed for perjury