The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIEROR. PPI KH. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON OTs. TERMA, cash in advance. Me pont by mai! will be at Te cng Us ctor” “Pouags singlet recived ts naecription OTM DAILY HERALD two emis |. 51 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD, Pasardoy, é r® conte Rt pe bey per copy, ar or $5 to the Continent. both to include Salvornta Blur o each Wednewkay, reat Hresainy postage; the ‘a ae cond TISEMENTS. °s én {ed rcropean Editions, —. ert (JOB PRINTING excuted with weatness, cheapness and de- @paich. Wolmme EXV......--ccceseeeee AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Atanoiw ex tux Wos- ‘Ouasv. Laur. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street — Kim-ka—Guourincs—Vou-av-Vaxt. Wartsce’s THEATRE, Broadway.—Dousey ano Sox— Younc Actasss. LAURA KBENE'S THEA’ Axmrnican Covsty. NEW BOWERY THKATRE, Bowery.—Werxer—Dice, ux Newssoy—Mipmignt Comsrikatoxs. No. 624 Broadway.—Ocr BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSKUM, Broadway.—Day and ing—Frutorras Soxas, Dances, Buniesques, Living Cuniosirins, ac NATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Boras, Dances, Vuriasques, dc PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Vocat axp Ix- OrRoMEKTAL CONCERT. CANTERBURY CONCERT SALOON, No. 663 Broadway. — 6oxGs, Dances, Buetesqums, Ac. 43, 1860. New Yor, Monday, July MAILS FOR EUROPE. York Herald—Kdition fer Europe. The Cunard steamship Arabia, Captain Stone, will leave Boston on Wednesday for Liverpool. ‘The mails for Europe will close in this city to. morrow af- @eoruoon at a quarter past one o'clock tw go by railroad, @ad at a quarter to four o'clock to go by steamboat, The Eunorsas Eprmos ov Tus Hazatp will be published ‘at ten o'clock ta the morning, Single copies, in wrappers, etx conte. ‘The contents of the Evrorsam Eprom oy rus Humarp ‘qi! combine the news received by mail and telegraph a (the office during the previous week, and up to the hour of @udlication. which both corn and cotton were suffering, Flour wasdull, with @ tendency towards lower prices. The chief sales were for home use, with light purchases for emport, Wheat was beavy, with 6 fair amount of Gales, at prices given in another place, Corn was lets active, and the marcet less buoyant, while sales were moderate, Pork was steady, with sales of new mess at $19 25a $19 50, thio meas at $18 60 a $18 6254, and mew prime at $14 25s $14 $8; sales were also made for future delivery at full prices. Sugars were firm and active: the sales embraced about 2,600 hhds., 600 boxes and 2,600 bags Bahia, closing at a turther advance of i¢¢. per lb. Coffee was firm aud held above the views of purchascrs: gales of 600 bags Mara caibo and 200 bags Java were reported at private terms. Freights to English ports were rather @rmer, while the chief shipments were confined to grain and flour. Gerrit Smith on the Presi tion—The “ Irrepressible Comfitct.” A characteristic letter from Gerrit Smith (white man) to Frederick Douglass (black man), on the Presidential question, we submit this morning to the careful consideration of our political readers. Emanating from one of the great lights of radical temperance and radical abolitionism, this epistle presents a gloomy picture of the prospects of both total abstinence and universal emancipation. Mr. Smith de- clares that the “ cayse of temperance is pros- trate;”’ that it has been betrayed by its frienda, and that a “like treachery explains the like low condition of the anti-slavery cause.” But notwithstanding all this, the veteran abo- lition sage of Peterboro tells us “that the parties of the day vastly overrate the import- ance of the petty issues between them;” that “ the battle is to be fought between the slave- holders and the abolitionists, and will be fought just as soon as these parties that block the way get out of the way;” and that “the result will be not this or that condition, that liability of slavery, in a Territory. but a nation all overspread with slavery or all emptied of it.” This is the “irrepressible con- flict” prociaimed by Mr. Seward and by Mr. Lincoln, and yet Lincoln is no more satisfactory to Mr. Smith than Breckinridge, Bell, Douglas or Houston. They all stop short at some re- cognitions of slavery, while Smith, “constitu- tion or no constitution. would have the North vote slavery to death,” or ask permission of the South peaceably to leave the Union. These pointe of the letter in question are very suggestive of matter for a wide range of reflection. Granted that the battle is to be fought between the slaveholders and the aboli- tionists for the indefinite extension or absolute suppression of slavery, “as soon as these par- ties that block the way get out of the way,” we this or must still submit that our present interests and attention are all directed to the immediate con- test between these parties now in the field. Out of the revolutionary condition and conflict The News. The steamship Ariel arrived at this port yester- @ay from Aspinwall, bringing news, via the Pana- qa railroad, from San Francisco of the 30th ult., @nd the Central America and South Pacific mails. Whe Ariel brings $673,290 in specie. The revolution in New Granada till con- finues, the State of Bolivar having formally declared itself independent of the federal government. Three of the eight States—Magda- tena, Bolivar and Causa—were in open hostility to the government. Santander and Magdalena were expected to separate from the Confederacy on the @ame day that Bolivar seceded, and the progress of @ffairs indicate a total disraption of the republic. From Salvador, C. A., we learn that the Presi- Gent of that republic has issued a de sree prohibit- ing the importation of foreign spirits into that re- public after the Sist ult. The decree is considered unconstitutional. The government has conceded to Sidney Oaksmith, of New York, the privilege of establishing a bank in the republi>, There news from Nicaragua is of no interest. The United States steamer Wyoming was at Callao June 29, and would remain there until Mr. Olay, the United States Minister, is advised as to the final determination of the Peruvian govern- ment as respects the demands of the United States, Mr. Clay is doing all he can to obtain a peaceful nd satisfactory adjustment of the American Claims; and it is rumored that the Peruvian Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs is more favorable disposed Dow towards a peaceful solution of the questions @t issue than he has been during any previous stage of the controversy. Itis thought if Mr. Clay had © little stronger naval force to back him up, or a Little more backbone in making his demands, there would be no doubt of his success. The news from California is unimportant. Quiet prevailed at Pyramid Lake, most of the hostile Indians having left that locality. A vala- able silver vein had been discovered about forty- Give miles from Mound Lake in Carson Valley.) Advices from Oregon indicate that Shiel is Olected to Congress. The members of the Legis- ture elected sum up as follows:—Anti-Lane demo crats, 21; whig, 1; Lane democtats, 10; republi-- ans, 12, . Our military visiters, the Savannah Blues, spent most of the time yesterday forenoon in their quar- ers at the Lafarge House, where they were visi- ted by 8 large number of the members of the City Guard. The Blues appear to be much gratified with their reception, and between them and the City Guard a strong attachment has been formed. In the afternoon they visited the residence of Lieut. Col. Ferris at Manhattanville, where they were most hospitably entertained. To-night a dinner Will be given to them at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Emmet Guard of New Haven, Coan., will visit this city on the Sist inst., and will be received and entertained by the Irish Fusileers, The Chicago Zovaves will return to this city on Wednesday morning. Accompanied by the Second company of the National Guard they will pay a visit to West Point, and it is expected will give an exhibition Grill in front of Cozzens’ Hotel. Further particulars in regard to the remarkable meteor which made its appearance on Friday night Last, with observations on its great velocity through the air, will be tound in our columns this morning. We publish this morning a letter from Gerrit mith to Frederick Douglass, giving his views on the Presidential question. Mr. 5. says that he can neither vote for Lincoln, Breckinridge, Bell, Doog- fas nor Houston, aud denominates temperance, Geedom and the “irrepressible conflict’ as his platform. In conclusion, Mr. Smith entertains but Little hope for temperance or freedom in our day. Comments on the letter are given in our editorial Columns. ‘The speeches of Senator Douglas on Bunker Hil ‘On the 19th, and at Albany oa the 2Uth inst., are given among our political iutelligence to-day. Joseph Gales, the veteran editor of the National Inteltigencer, died in Washington on Saturday cight, of paralysis. Mr. Gales was in the seveuty- Gith year of his age. In 1809 he parchased the Jn- teigencer establishment, and from that time to hi Geath has been its principal editor. ‘The dwelling house of the Hon, A. B. Conger, oa bis farm in Rockland county, was yesterday morn (og totally destroyed by fire. Of fifwen persons, Garm hands, in the house at the time of the fire, but Gon escaped, the remaining five having perished in @he flames before they could be aroused and res- cued. Several outhouses were alae destroyed, The total loss is about $18,000. A fall account, farnished by Capt. Storm, of the Seizure of the brig Virginian at St, Georges, Ber- Qroda, on suspicion that she might be engaged io fhe slave trade, is given in our paper to-day. The sales of cotton embraced aboat 600 bales Saturday, W jota, The market closed without change in quotations EF'qase letters from phe Red river gad oper porte of the .that the Southern democratic or Breckinridge of these parties, the events and the order of things which are to govern the future must be shaped. We therefore propose, from the elements laid down by Mr. Smith, to ccnsider the main question, which he bas overlooked—the nature of the present con- flict between our existing political parties and the probable results. Mr. Smith deplores the present low condition of the anti-slavery cause. He weeps over that demoralization which has carried the great body of the abolitionists from a heroic fight for principles into a mere scramble for the spoils. Butare not kings and politicians always ready to profess anything and promise anything to ob- tain power? With us, too, where power is de- rived from the popular vote, are not our politi- cal parties compelled to court the popular sentiment, and even the popular prejudices, of this or that section, in order to ride into power? And will not these facts sufficiently explain the existence of the several political parties of the day, and the conflict among them for the con- trol of the government ! We have four parties in the field—the repub- lican party, a Northern and a Southern demo- cratic party, and a so-called constitutional Union party. The republican party was or- ganized, exists and holds ite ground upon that prevailing sentiment, and those prevailing inherent prejudices, of the North opposed to the Southern institution of slavery; the late national democratic party has been broken into two hostile sectional camps upon this sectional question, and the constitutional Union party vainly undertakes to ignore this sectional con- flict as « conservative national party. It is easy to discover, from glance over the field, party will probably command the suffrages of all the Southern States, and that the republican party will sweep the Northern States, or that they can pnly be defeated by the co operation of the conservatives in Pencsylvania and other central States with the Breckinridge party. And wherefore is this Breckinridge monopoly of the Southern, and this republican occupation of the Northern States, so strongly foresha- dowed! It is because the overshadowing idea in the North is hostility to slavery, while the vital question in the South is the maintenance of slavery; and it is because the republican party upon this issue is the accepted Northern party, against the Breckinridge democracy, the accepted Southern party. Thus between these two parties, the “ irre- pressible conflict,” suggested by Mr. Smith, really exists, and the only party which “blocks the way” is the Bell-Everett party, which is powerless to prevent the success of the repub- lican antilavery party, except as a Northern balance of power in co-operation with the South- ern pro-tlavery party. Believing, too, as we do, that the North, with an overwhelming aod ra- pidly increasing majority {x both houses of Con- grese, is perfectly safe against any aggressions from the South, amd that the South, depending entirely upon the justice and moderation of the North, has good cause of alarm, we also believe that the true policy of the conservative Union men of the North in this contest is the policy of co-operating with the South to defeat the re- publican party. It is folly to talk of Mr. Douglas. He is practically a Northern candidate, ut: terly powerless ia his own behalf. It is folly to talk of electing Mr. Bell. The contest is between Lincola and Breckin- ridge—the one standing as the aggressive cham- pion of the all-powerful North, the other as the defensive champion of the South, which can do nothing within the Union, even to protect itself, without the help of the North. The “irrepressible conflict” ison. Mr. Gerrit Smith may be a good philosopher, but be iss poor politician. Having an abundance of this world’s goods, he has never been able to cow preignd the necessities which compel politi- gians ¢ oink their principles for a season in ordet to secure she spoils and power. This ix the gate of the repubiag 4, and the South and the North ey understand it NEWYORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1860. South speak of continued anf severe drought, from | A New Wlew of the Presidential Cani~ paige. We publish in another part of thie morning's Hgrarp o carefully written and well reasoned artcile from the oldest democratic journal 10 Connecticut—the Hartford Times. The theory of this article is strikingly similar to that which has been put forward in theee columns, and 1+ one’which cannot fail to recommend itself to every man of common sense. In the first place it is assumed that the elve- tion lies between the democracy and the repub- licans, Mr. Houston and Mr. Bell are very good men, and would be capital Presidents, no doubt, but they bave no party, and their numi- uation bas failed to new with any response from the popular heart“ The democratic party bas been rent in twain by causes which ure of no significance in this connection, Whether the one platform or the other ie the proper one for the democracy to stand upon, mutters very little, The difference is only an abstract one, apd platforms are at the best very trashy things, which few people understand and no one cares a snap of his finger about. And, above all, we are not just new addressing the democracy only, We upeuk to the conservative masses in the Centra! “States, eight or niue hundred thousand voters who hold the balance of power in their hands. and who always throw their votes on the side of law, order, peace, tranquillity and equal rights for all the States. Many of these men bave personal preferences for Mr. Douglas, others for Mr. Bell. They all agree in opposing Mr. Lincoln. There is no- thing to be said against Mr. Douglas; ou the contrary, there is much to be advanced in his favor. But he bas made a fatal error, und hus been thrown overboard by his own party in all the States where it is predominant, and is only supported by a minority in the republican or doubtful States. Even the State of Liliuois is not by any means certain for its favorite sou; and that being the case, his affairs are ws des- perate as these of the First Nupoleun wheo be ran away from Russia. Mr. Bell is in quite us bad a way. As to the position of the dewocra- tic masses, we believe that the firm attitude of the Breckinridge men in the South, the tabling away of the few prominent men in that section who adhered to Douglas up to the last moment, togetber with the vigorous manner ia which the Breckiuridge campaign opened in New York city, bave created a reaction in the Northera aad Central Statee, the effect of which will be to leave Mr. Douglas far behind in the race, aud help Mr. Breckinridge in a degree correspond- ing to the injary inflicted upon his oppouent. So fur as the democratic purty organization is concerned, the centre of power is in the Southern States, because there the party is sure of a certain number of electoral votes, while in the North they are liable to be beaten in every State. The democracy gravi- tates naturally towards the centre of power, and the Northern section of the party, after waiting a short time to eee if the mountain would come to Mahomet, have concluded, from all appearances, that if anything isto be done Mahomet must go to the mountuin; so they are preparing to go over, horse, foot and dragoons, to the Breckinridge wing of the party. This being the actual state ot the case, the choice of the people is narrowed down to Liu- coln and Breckinridge, the only candidates who represent electoral votes. One or the other must be elected, if there is any choice by the people, and the conservative voters of the North should refrain from throwing away their votes and shirking the responsibility which the present position of political affeirs places upon their shoulders. They have to choose between the Vice President, whose political record is fa- miliar to every one, and the representative of the doctrines which brought old John Brown to a richly deserved gallows. If the merchants and mechanics and working men of the Cen- tral States wish to endorse Seward’s “irrepressi- ble conflict,” Sumner’s “sacred animosity,” and Wendell Phillips’ constitutional “compact with hell” doctrine, they will vote for Lincoln, or throw away their ballots in favor of some of the merely personal nominations for the Presi- dency. But,on the contrary, men of all par- ties, old whigs, Americans or democrats, who desire to set the seal of popular disapprobation upon such agitators as John Brown and Charles Sumner, will take the only way to beat old Abe, and vote for Breckinridge, who may be | elected by a vigorous effort in the Cvntral_ States, Pennsylvania and New Jersey particu- larly. Tue Lanvvorp’s Sipe or THe Horet Qves- Tion.—In accordance with our usual rule to give & full hearing to all sides of every important question, we print in another column a letter from the keeper of Congress Hall Hotel, Al- bany, upon the subject of a bill recently ren- dered to a correspondent of this journal, and commented upon as excessive in its charges. Mr. Mitchell admits the facts us stated by our correspondent, but demurs to ihe conclusions, on the ground that the charges were no higher than those which he usually makes ; and for the further reason, that he has received, during the session of the Legislature, more mo- ney for the hire of the parlor used by our cor- respondynt than was paid by him. This is all very well at first sight, but it does not follow that because Mr. Mitchell gets lebby ptices from the politicians who centre at his howl in the winter, he is justified in keeping up the same tariff for respectable travellers during the sum- mer season. Congress Hall is an old and very reputable hotel. For many years it bas been the resort of the politicians of all parties, and it is more especially the headquarters of the clique which is beaded by Weed, abd which rune all the jobs through the Legislatare. The Jobby chiefs always have plenty of money, and spend it liberally in entertalaing the country members. The bills aré not too strictly audited, and the lobby haf to pay roundly for its accommodations. To this we enter no objection. The professional politician e almost invariably a colossal nuisance, and should be charged accordingly. We appear in behalf of the great travelling public, just now crowding all the steamboats and hotels in the Jand, and we demand that they shall be well fed, comfortably lodged, and ressonably charged. Many of the provincial landlords impose upon the good nature and presume upon the liberality of New Yorkers and South- erners, and charge them more than the regular rates, which are invariably too high. The only way, as we said before, to bring the hotel keepers to anything like reason, is to print their bills in some widely circulated newspa- ver. Even this may not be altogether effect ive, bus it will wt least put the travelling pub , large ee Hic on its guard, an@ every one wil! know éx- setly what he bas to pay, and govern hicwelf Sccordingly. Send along the bills. Democracy or New Yor, Bewarx !—In the Albuny Atlas-Argus of Saturday lust we find @ long editorial article copied from the Journal of Commerce, of this city, recommending a sin- gle combined electoral ticket for this State, and, what is equally curious, a leader in the Albauy paper endorsing the proposition as sound and seusible, and worthy of adoption, Thia politi- cal phenomenon is as wonderful as the meteor which startled all who beheld it on Friday eve- uing; but fortunately we have a better expla- uation of it than has yet been given of the fery, mysterious wass which shot across the sky. One of the editors and proprietors of the Af- las-Argus is Comstock, the Albany Postmaster. Now, his brother is editor of the Journal of Com- merce. By this beautiful arrangement they can play into each other's hands, as the two papers did ut the time of the last election for Mayor of New York, when the Journal of Commerce, true to its instincts and antecedents, sustained the free soil ticket of Havemeyer, the choice ofa ‘on of republicans, and championed appropriately by the New York Times. Ami- nidub Sleek now professes to be in. the interest of Breckinridge. That is all gammon, for it is the original anti-slavery or- gan of the abolitionists of thie city, and is merely playing a part in subordination to the Albeny Regency, who want to get Breckinridge into their clutches, that they may cheat him as they cheated Wise and cheated Dickinson. In the Convention at Charleston and at Baltimore they voted first and last and all the time for Douglas, They could have bad Breckinridge Lominated regularly and in due form by a two thirds vote of the undivided Convention. They held the balance of power. Why did they not cast their vote for Breckinridge, then? Had they dop® so the preeent proposed patvhing up of a compromise ticket would be wholly unnecessary. Lf these political swindlers take any step now that seems to favor Breckinridge, it is only to betray him into the bunds of bis enemies. They have tound out that Douglas has not the ghost of a chance—that he caauot get the electoral vote of a single State; and their object now is to ruin the chances of Breckinridge, as far as they can do it, in the State of New York. His only safety is to keep clear of them. The true course of his friends is to have nothing to do with the Regency, and to make no compromises or bargains of any kind. Let them go straight to the work. The Regency would cheat them by the electors whom they would contrive to put on the ticket, or in some way or other. Do not trust these Greeks, even when they offer Javors. There is always treachery at the bot- tom. The united South is with Breckinridge now; the whole democracy of this State will be with bim long before November. His only danger is in having anything to do with the Re- gency. Let them be kept continually at arm’s length, as if they were so many pickpockets, and all will come right in the end. Orrortexttr FoR Goop FerL.owsarr.—The Boston people are always talking about the ab- sence of friendly communication between the North and the South, and that they cannot have the pleasure of meeting their Southern brethren. We have not heard of any attempt on their part to go upon a friendly excursion to the South; the last expedition we heard of going in that direction was of a very different kind—tbe John Brown raid. But the Southrons do not wait for us to go South; they come North in a friendly spirit. A splendid military com- pany from Savannah is now on a visit to this city, and we would suggest to the Bostonians that they have now an opportunity of enjoying the society of a fine set of Southern fellows, worthy descendants of the troops from Georgia, whose uniform was so beautiful, and who fought 80 bravely for the common country in New England at the time of the Revolution. Let the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Compa- ny, or the Boston Light Infantry (the “Tigers”), or some of the other crack military com- panies of which Boston can justly boast, extend to the Savannah Republican Blues an invita- tion to their city, thus proving, not only by words, but by deeds, that they desire to culti- vate the same friendship with the chivalry of the South that prevailed during the great strug. gle for the independence of .the Colonies, and for a long time since, bul unbappily has been superseded to.a.great extent by a very different spirit in recent years. The Boston military companies have now the opportunity of setting a noble example in courtesy and brotherly love. We wait to see what action they will take, and whether in their opinion the Union which binds North and South, East and West, in one great confederacy, is a reality or only a parchment Union, no better thai “A rope ‘of sand. The Zouaves from a Northwestern city have been in- vited to the capital of Massachusetts. Surely Jess cannot be done in the case of the Savannah Republican Blues. Persovat vs. Party Nomtvations ror THE Prestpency.—Of the candidates in the field tor the next Presidency, only two represent living party organizations. Mr. Douglas stands at the head of a ragged and broken column; Mr. Bell was nominated by a convention of fossil whigs and broken down Know Nothing politicians; Sam Houston's army is of the Falstaffian order, and so on through the list, up to Breckinridge and Lincoln, both of whom are backed by powerful party organizations, and have a certain amount of definite support. That Lincotn will carry the bulk of the electoral vote North is beyond peradventure. That Breckinridge will be equally strong in the South admits of no reasona- ble doubt, The other candidates are all per- sonal representatives of cliques, and have no strength beyond the support of their imme- diate friends. Choose, then, between Breckin- ridge and Lincoln. Tue Great Eastern To Retoen wren a Canco or Corrox.— We understand that arrangements ure on the tapis with the directors of the Great Eastern to take her to Norfolk, Va., previons to her return to England, and there load her with thirty thousand bules of cotton for the British market, It is not stated where this cotton is to come from, The freight on cotton being a farth- ing, British money, per pound, or about half a cent, this cargo would amount to little more than sixty thousand doliars freight money. This is no doubt a movement on the part of the votaries of direct Southern trade with Eu- rope, that the South is always threatening to inaugurate, of which the Great Eastern is to be the entering wedge, and it must be admitted that they have selected a pretty big wedge on this egeagion. ts tee Great Easrery a Fanvns!—Gaeat Suirs any Griat Newsrarers Compankp.—We are continually asked what we think will be- come of the Great Eastern steamship, and if such large vessels can ever be profitably em- ployed in commerce or the transportation of ere. Porno two questions have no relation to each other. The Great Eastern is the result of an individual enterprise, which may succeed or fail from causes within itself, while the employ- ment of vessels of twenty-five thousand tons burthen isa natural result, which will arrive, sooner or later, with the growth of trade. This will be evident to any one who will look back upon the developement of naval architecture. Thirty years ago achip of one thousand tons burthen was considered to be a monster which no merchant cculd fill with cargo for one voy- ege, no trade could continuously employ; and it was even considered doubtful by the public mind whether wood and iron could be put together in so large a mass as to float wafely on the ocean. To-day the Adriatic and the Persia, measuring more than three times that burthen, are looked upon as small for the work required ‘of them. The Cunard company are already building a much larger ship than the Persia, for the route hence to England, and in the general acceptance by merchants, a ship of from eight hundred to one thousand tons, once looked upon as a monster, is now classified as a medium sized vessel. The particular enterprise of the Great Eastern may be in advance of the times; but if it were part of the general growth of any particular line of business, instead of it being, as it is, the isolated effort of science and capital, it would not be found to be such an unwieldy monster as she now is. It merely requires adequate con- comitants to handle such an immense instru- ment. Her present owners are puzzled what to do with her, because they have none of the con- nections necessary to use her ; but it would not be more difficult for the Cunard company to employ her profitably now between Liverpool and New York than it would have been for them ten years ago to employ the Persia, or the greater steamer they are now building. The mistake of the Great Eastern Company does not lie in the fact that their ship is so much too large for the present capacity of trade, as in the fact that something else besides science and art are required for the success of all great enter- rises. “4 This truth is practically demonstrated in the daily achievement of the Hrxap establishment. It would be a very easy thing for skill and ca- pital to combine and print one hundred thou- sand copies of 8 morning newspaper, and yet ekill and capital would fail in the practical re- sult of their effort, and their pile of newspapers would stand, like the Great Eastern, a wonder anda doubt. Yet we print and distribute a hundred thousand papers every morning, and our only trouble is the demand upon us for more, which the mechanical appliances availa- ble for the purpose do not enable us to supply. Any similar achievement by some great news- paper company would bankrupt the concern, just asthe Great Eustern has bankrapted the company which built her. The great ship is a failure as a business enterprise, merely because it is not a part of a natural growth; and while it will return to England to rust in idleness, long before it has dropped to pieces ships of equal capacity will be actively employed by the growing needs of trade. Tue Last or Tae Atvany Recency.—As the poet bas said, “Time at last makes all things even,” and the Albany Regency are now reap- ing the fruits of a long series of political crimes. They are compelled to drink to the dregs the cup they poisoned for others, and a speedy dissolution awaits them. The Regency was brought forth in sin, its whole existence has been one continued lie and fraud, and now it is doomed to perish for the accumulated cor- ruptions of years. These men, pretending to be democrats, broke up the party in 1848 by splitting it into two factions and giving the election to General Taylor. Now, again, in 1860, after a lapse of twelve years, during which they have perpetrated every enormity in the State, they again resolve to break up the party, because they could not control it them- selves, and, by dividing it as before, they have done their utmost to give the election to Lia- coln. To this end they cheatéd in State Convention’ and in caucus, cheated at Charleston and at Bal- timore, cheated everybody with whom they came in contact. But they will never cheat again, for they will never be trusted more. The conservative democracy, which is now being organized throughout the State, has ent loose from these “political gamblers,” as Mr. Dickinson has so well described them, and will have nothing further to do with them. The Re- gency will thus be left without a corporal’s guard, nobody will vote for their ticket, and they may as well shut up shop. This will be the last of them. Their days are numbered, and their rotten remains will soon be consigned to the tomb of all the Capulets, where eternal oblivion awaits them. The “evil that they have done” will probably live after them. But we cannot say that “the good will be interred with their bones,” for their whole career has been one only of evil, and not single bright spot relieves the dark infamy of the picture which their history presents. Whoever after their death writes their annals true will unfold a tale of political iniquity without o parallel in this country, or probably in any other. Staves is New Yorx.—Within the last few days two slaves have arrived in New York, and they are still here, walking about, under no contrel or guardiansbip. What are the aboli- tionists about, and the republicans who nullify the Fugitive Slave law, that they do not induce theese men to assert their right to freedom, espe- cially as they have been brought here by their masters, not merely in trausitu, as was the case with the Lemons, but on a pleasure tour to the free States, We allude to the two musicians who came here with the military company from Savannah during the last week. One attempt was made by the abolitionists to kidaap them; but they ran for their lives, as if something dreadful was to happen them, and never stop- ped till they were under the protection of their masters, who gave them free permission to leave if they desired it. But these young men could not be induced to accept the offer. They prefer the kind of slavery to which they are subject rather than such freedom ae the aboli- tionists would give them.” What a comment this upon the humbug antislavery agitation carried on for #0 many years at the Noreh, and vow carried into the Presideawal evection by the republican party! eu » Tax Patapara Pouce Once Monu.—Tne Philadelphia editors are in great distress 0 mind over our strictures upon the conduct of their police during the time of the Japancee visit to the Quaker City. One of these irate journalists says:— i ‘There was & multitude of spectators in Philadelphia the day when the Japanese were circuitously poe tbrough the city, at the rate of a mile an hour, but o mob, A better behaved multitude we never saw TI daganens wiv, neither crowded upon, nor beset, nor ited here, Our police bad go need t interfere. It w: in New York, not in Philadotphia, that the Japanese wery advertised to be seen in Niblo’s Garden daily at Gft;) cents a head. It was New York Aldermen who gol: tickets of admission for rowdies to the Japance my | the whole municipal appropriation o fa gd in this city was not expended, whereas New York voted $30,000 to entertain the Embassy, and cer tain Aldermen aod Councilmen spent $100,000 in enter taining themselves. Now there is no doubt as to the fact that the mob in Philadelphia did insult and annoy th: Japanese Envoys when they entered that city The testimony in proof of the charge wa gathered from the Japanese themselves, fro the Philadelphia papers, and from reliabl eye witnesses, altogether free from preju dice. So far from the truth is th statement that the New York reporterd colored their accounts so as to mak the matter worse than it really was, the fact i they rather softened it down. We were assure at the time that the behavior of the Philadel phia mob was rude and vulgar in the extreme and that the police never once attempted t teach the people better manners. Here, on th contrary, the police arrangements were all tha could be wished, and the people behaved i the most gentlemanly way. We have neve denied that the New York Aldermen were tru to their natural instincts, and turned the ba) into a revel for the especial delectatio of their friends from the Five Points an other agreeable localities. What we di! tep—and we desire to keep our Philadel phia friends to the point—was that th conduct of the Philadelphia police, apropo to the Japanese, proved that they did not un derstand their business, that they made no a rangements to protect the Envoys from th rowdies who beset the Ambassadors’ carriage and violated the privacy of their apartmente and that, therefore, the police aforesaid do no deserve any part of the princely gift of the Em bassy. That is our point, and the Philadelphi editors must see, if they are not utterly stupic that it is sustained by common sense and th facts in the case. As the matter of the differ ence between the New York and Philadelphi appropriations, it is quite characteristic. Phile delphia, being a village when compared to Ne’ York, made a small appropriation—we migh call it mean, but we will spare their feeling: and say emall—characteristically small. That all for to-day. ProGRess OF THE Censvs.—As the census ri turas are reported inthe different cities an towns throughout the country, it would appes as if the increase of population will not be s great as was calculated upon. However, unt the work is completed, it will be impossible ¢ make any safe estimate of the result, for th returos show so many unexpected variation and apparent incongruities in several localitie that speculation is somewhat baffled. For ir stance, it would appear that Ohio, instead ¢ increasing her population for the last ten yeart as might be expected of that fruitful and prot perous State, has actually fallen off. Illinois on the contrary, has increased in populatio: nearly a million in the same time, which migh account for the decrease in Ohio, a large emi gration to the younger and more rising Stat probably having been progressing during th last decade. The returns from Maine so far show an in crease of nine per cent in many districts ove the census of 1850; andin Hartford and Nev Haven, Connecticut, and the other manufactur ing towns of that State, the increase is abou eleven per cent. The aggregate population o Connecticut will probably be 470,000. On th other hand, several manufacturing towns it Massachusetts have fallen off, such as Merrimac Pelham, Hudson and others. In New York anc Pennsylvania there is considerable variation it the small towns, the population of some having increased, and that of others diminished, and « it will doubtless prove pretty much in ever; Atlantic State, but in the large cities we loot for « uniform increase. From reports received st Washington upor the progress of the census, it appears that the population of the United States is about thirty two millions; yet we are disposed to think tha it may run « little, though perhaps not mach over that, Tar Exp or Tawwany Havt.—The democracy outside of Tammany Hall (for Tammany isin the hands of the Albany Regency) are now organis ing in this city and throughout the State, and will soon have the whole “conservative elé ments of the Empire State with them. The de mocracy of all the democratic States is alrendy with the Breckinridge ticket, and the democrat of New York are not likely to throw away thei: votes on a ticket that will be repudiated by the seventeen States which have sure majorities for the democracy. Tammany Hall will thus be left in the lurch. Like a sbeep-killing dog, it will be thrown overboard, with the Regency tied to its neck os a dead weight, to sink it tc the depths of perdition; and that will be the end of Tammany and the Regency. In their lives they were twin brothers in corruption and rascality, and in their @eaths they will not be divided. Reaction tw Tax Sarpeviping Trane.—For some time past the complaints of duiness ir the shipbuilding trade bave been frequent and doleful. Business in that line seemed to be totally suspended all the winter; the dockyards had been converted into so many deserts, the sound of the hammer was heard there no more. But there appears to be a sudden reaction, for the shipyards are all alive, again and there are now, we believe, some eight or ten large ves eels on the stocks. This, no doubt, is the result of the growing activity of commerce and trade generally, and the cheering prospect of an abundant harvest, which instils mew life into every branch of business, The shipbuilding and shipping trade of New York are pretty fair indices, as & general rule, of the condition of commerce throughout the whole country. Théy rise and fall, like mercury in the thermometer, fae the country is prosperous or the contrary. Williamabarg City Intelligence, Paownen ov 4 Crmmms.—A child five pears old, the som of Mr. John Baer, rewiding at No, 19 Moore street, & D., war drowneo the early part of last week by rccideatally pte & elatern, avd the bedy was rot found y y. Tt wae euppored that the ebiit had seray 4 officers hat been sent ns fh hing reach of it. The body was found Loating tn tue cletera yectertay morning