The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNET®, EDITOR AND PROPRIEROR. OPFTICE HM. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 878. TERMS, cash in adoance. cuba Utenden Postage DAILY HERALD t100 conte |. $7 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD, cvory Saterday, of 1s conte ar $3 per annum; the Bwropean Biltion every We a Serre Boerne “sett Eels vocages Os mi 7 ernie con the Sch and B0¢h af each movi at wes conte 6 OPER PLuILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four conte per Money sont by matt will be at the damnpa Wat recebocd cs subscription ‘solicited from any quarter of the world; éf week, will be paid for. ae Our Fi mrwominar Nequesra> 0 Lari AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. — NTBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Atappin O8 tuz Won- oraeu Laur. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— Conscaier—Kia-k4—GROUPINGS, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Doxsny axo Sox— ‘Miscuvavous ANNiE. — LAURA KRENE’S Broadway.—Ovm 1 THEATRE, No. €4 way, NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Iamcst—Lisr ‘Lect—Minxtcut Consrimators. Zaperoies AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broudway.—Dny and ances, Bonissgues, Livixe Comiostizs, £c. 2 NATIONAL CONCERT SALOON, National Theatre.— Bones, Dances, Buntasqurs, dc. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street. —Vocat amp In- sraumextaL Concent. CANTERBURY CON! Pat SALOON, No. 663 Broadway.— Dancrs, Burtasge New York, Friday, July #7, 1860, The News. The town of Occaquan, Virginia, has been the écene of considerable excitement for some“days, in consequence of an attempt on the part of certain parties to demolish a liberty pole erected by the black republicans, from which floats a flag bearing | the names of the republican Presidential nominees. The'republicans of Occaquan determined to pre- vent the threatened demolition of their flagstaff or die in the effort, and accordingly despatched mes- Bengers to neighboring towns for arms and ammunition. They also notified Governor Letcher of the state of affairs, and he assured them that they should be pro- tected. The Governor ordered General Hatton to call out his command, but it is said the General resigned rather than obey the order. At last ac- counts the military of Alexandria were expecting to be called out to preserve the peace. Occaquan, the scene of the disturbance, contains some three hundred republicans. It was the residence of Underwood, who was ostracised by his fellow citizens some years ago because of his fanaticism. Underwood was a delegate to the Chicago Conven- tien, and has recently written a letter to Miss Barbour, a lady of Virginia, who contemplates emancipating her slaves, which could hardly fail fo reawaken the indignation of his political Opponents. The California pony express has racommenced operations, after a snspension of several weeks, caused by the hostilitics of the Indians on the Plains. The express which left San Francisco on the 1ith instant reached St. Louis yesterday. The ews is four days loter, aud a summary of it may be found under the appropriate head. The Sonora sailed from San Francisco for Panama on the 1th instant, with 229 passengers and $983,000 in trea- sare for New York. No mails were taken by the Sonora, but letters and newspapers were des- patched by express. Quite a number of vessels were loading with produce at San Francisco for foreign ports. The Vistula had cleared for New York with a cargo of wheat, pork, hams, hides, &e., valued at $100,000. By the bark Pyrmont, arrived at Baltimore, we have received files of papers from Montevideo to June 9. Dr. Velez, the Buenos Ayrean Commission- er to the President of the Argentine Confederation, had arrived at Rosario. Gen. Lopez, ex-Governor of Santa Fe, wasin prison at Rosario for an at- tempted revolution. His nephew and a few per- sonal friends attempted a rescue, but failed, and were themselves locked up. In the melee, the for. mer, who is an ex-Mayor of the city, was wounded. ‘There is no other news. Additional files of Vera Cruz papers to the 11th inst. have come to hand. Miramon had sueceeded in getting back to Guadalajara, where he was at latest dates, with a little over four thousand men, with whom he was keeping at bay at least three times that number, under Ogadon and others. The Prince of Wales embarked on board the steamer Hero, at St. Johns, yesterday foreno and at eleven o'clock sailed for Halifax. an account of the Prince's movements in anotaer We give column. The steamer New York, with the United States astronomical party sent to Labrador to observe the recent eclipse of the sun, arrived at St. Johus, N. F., yesterday, The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. Among the petitions presented was one from members of the New York Local Preaching Association, asking permission to expound the Gospel in the open air, and also to erect a tent in Jackson square, wherein te hold religious exercises. A long and animated discussion ensued on the pre peti tion, a report of which is given in anot lumn, tion and finally the paper was referred te e Commit. tee on Streets. The Finance Comm 1 in favor of an issue of $3,000,000 fand stock, and the report was s lation was adopted directing the Ninth Avenue Railroad Company to ran cars to the Central Park. The communication from the Comptroiler calling for additional appropriations was taken and $55,000 for printing and binding documents and $20,000 for fire escapes were added to the esti tates. A motion to strike out the sum of $105,000 for the Japanese entertainment was lost, and ths subject was finally laid on the table by a vote of nine to s* ren. Ata meeting of the Board of Supervisors held yesterday, a communication wasyeceived from the Comptroller asking for an additional appropriation Of $23,630, which was referred to the Committee on Taxes. The County Treasurer's report for the | week ending July 19 shows a balance of $222,735 A large sumber of bills wore then ordered to be paid, a full report of which will be found else. | where. The Board adjourned anti] Thursday next at three o'clock. The Committee on Finance of the Board of Al dermen met yesterday at the City Hall, for the transaction of business. Mr. Williams, Treasurer Of the Children’s Aid Society, appeared on behalf of that association, in relation to an appropriation Of $3,000 which was paseed upon by the Board of Councilmen. The committee promised to feport favorably on the petition at the next meeting. Mr. Bmith, the Street Conmissioner, appeared in re- lation to a communication of the Comptroller, ask ing for an extra appropriation of $46,000 for the ose of the Street Department. Mr. Smith stated that he had seen the Comptroller, and that they had arranged to reduce the amount $50,000. After attending to some minor business, the committee edjourned. In the Sapreme Court yesterday morning Levi S Chatéeld served a notice of motion for an injune tion to restrain the Common Council from paying any of the bills for the Japanese reception, and particularly that of the Messrs. Leland. The plaia Gf alleges, Va iafoimation and belief, that meu bees of the Commou Council disposed of tickets for the ball at prices ranging from $10 to $100, and that the whole expense of the Leiands did aot ex ceed $10,000, for which it was agreed they should Present a bill of $91,000, one-third of the latter amount to be given to the Common Council. The Chicago Zouaves returned to this city yes- terday morning from Boston, ia the steamer Connecticut, of the Norwich and Worcester line, and were received on their arrival by the Second company, National Guard, Capt. Alexander Shaler, accompanied by the full National Guard band. As the steamer approached the dock a national solute was fired from two brass ficld s on the steamboat dock. The two companies | su nently embarked on board the steamer Taminend, specially chartered for the occasion, and proceeded to West Point, where they visited the Military Academy, and subsequently gave ex- hibition drills on the lawn in front of Cozsens’ Ho- tel, in the presence of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Governor Banks, of Massachusetts, and Colonel Hardee, the military instructor at West Point. The Second company, National Guard, followed the performers, by giving a specimen of their metal, and were warmly applauded. They returned to town last night, reaching this city at eleven o'clock. To-day the Zouaves depart for Philadet- phia. The Police Commissioners appointed at their meeting yesterday Asa Mills patrolman. No other business of importance transpired. The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 1,600 Dales, closing ou the basis of quotations given in another columa, Of the stock on band, the propogiious of cottons above the grades of good middlings wore light, Flour wi heavy ond lower, closing at a Curther decline, for common and medium grades of State and rp, mbile the higher qualities were irregular, ern flour was some Cheaper for common and medium Srades, while choice family qualities were about the fame. The sales were fair. Wheat was again lower, but active at the concession, with the chief demand for ex port. Corn was without change of moment, while the market was tolerably active. Pork was easier, with sales of new mess at $1920 a $19 25, and of new prime at $14 25. Sugars coutinued ia good demand. Grocery goods were Sustained, while refining grades were about one-eighth cent lower, The sales embraced about 1,500 hogahead= and 800 boxes, at prices given in another column. Coifve was firm, while Bales were light. A cargo of Rio, which arrived in Philadelphia yesterday by the Leighton, was sold at 154¢c., ex chip. Froights bad another decided ad- vance yesterday, especially for Liverpool, for which some 46,000 bushels wheat were engaged in bulk at.9%d., and in ship'sfhags at 10d., 104/d. a 103¢4., and flour at 2s. 64. To London, the ship Esmeralda was taken up to load with wheat at 104., in bags; for flour, 8s, was asked. To Giasgow, 5,000 bushels wheat were engaged, in ship's bags, at 104., and 2.000 barrels 23.91. The impending Crisis—The Disunion Party at the North. We have already taken occasion to direct the attention of the conservative voters of the Middle States and elsewhere to the vigorous way in which the extreme Southern party is preparing for the dissolution of the Union in the event of the election of Mr. Lincoln. We perceive now that the black republican press generally, in commenting upon the Keitt and Yancey manifestoes, take the grouni that the cry of disunion commenced at the South, and claim that the party which supports Mr. Lin- coln is the only real national, Union organi- zation. To show how absurd is this doctrine, we give this morning a speech by the notori- ous abolition leader, William Lloyd Garrison, delivered at a meeting held at Framingham, Massachueetts, on the 4th of this month, and participated in by the Hon. Henry Wilson, a republican Senator of the United States. Mr. Garrison does not hesitate to awow that dis- union has been his lifelong platform. For thirty years the cry of his faction has been “No union with slaveholders; down with this slaveholding government. Let this ‘covenant with death and agreement with hell’ be annulled. Let there be a free, in- | dependent Northern republic, and the speedy | abolition of slavery will inevitably follow.” So Mr. Garrison and his republican friends are “working to dissolve this blood-stained Union | as a matter of paramount importance.” “Para- | mount” is the word. “Paramount”—that is, | the thing to be considered over and above all other things. The Garrisonian platform being taken and accepted at the South as the only true black republican declaration of principles, the owners of slave property are forced into an antago- nistic position in self-defence, and thus the ex- tremists on either side of Mason’s and Dixon's line lie upon their arms, awaiting the signal for } 5 77 quite trne that the spoils-seekiag section of the abolition party repudiate, by word of mouth, the Garrisonian doctrines. They say, in effect, keep quiet until we get into power, and then we can bully the South with impunity. So Garrison, to keep well with the very black republicans, abuses Lincoln and affects to be opposed to him. All this is done to spur up the purely political republicans to Garri- son’s immediate and unconditional abolition platform. It is a curions fact, also, that the Journal of Commerce, which was established by Arthor Tappan at about the time when the anti-slavery agitation commenced, is also doing Lincoln's work in an indirect manner. The | Journal of Cononerce, although it bas turned many colors and assumed many shades, is still | true to its original instincts. The little nigger | has never got out from that fence. It is on ac- | count of this leaning to abolitioniem that the Journal of Commerce now proposes that the con- | servative vote of the State shall be cut and | carved up between two or more electoral tick- | ets, when it should be consolidated upon one, | and that one the candidate who will have the best chance of beating Garrison's candidate, | Abraham Lincoln. The Sleeks of the Journal of Commerce are as well aware of this as any one | else; but their game is to help Lincoln by scat- tering the conservative vote. On the other hand, we have the repub- party inclining to the Garrisonian | platform, but too timid, as Garrison says, | to proclaim themselves in favor of it. Their real position cannot be concealed by sophistical abstractions. They are so far com- | mitted to radical anti slavery doctrines—in fact, | bey have no other party capital—that if they | should obtain power they would be obliged to continue the agitation, which would thea go on until the South would be compelled to with. draw from associations which could no longer be maintained with honor. The election of Lincoln would be the firet step—and it is the first step that costs towards the dissolution of the Union. The proposition is a perfectly plain one. Itis sustained by the facta in the oase and the simple logic of common sense. We have published the Keitt manifesto on one side, and the Garrison pronwneiamiento on the other. in order to show the real state of feeling that exists between the extremists of both sec- tions. We have endeavored also toshow that, should Lincola be elected, the Northern aggres- sioniste would reeeive an important accession to their moral and material power, aad | lican NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1860. that, im all probability, upon the Grst ex: ercise of that power, the South would secede from the Union, Now we know that the oon- servative, order and peace loving citizens of the Middle States love the Union of the States, aad are prepared for anything but dissolution. All our material interests, too, are bound up ‘« the maintenance of the solidarity of the nation. The only question is, how can Lincoln be de- feated! We answer that by saying that he may be beaten by consolidating the conservative vote upon Mr. Breckinridge, who represents a party which has more or leas of electoral votes at its back, while the others, except the repub- caa, have none whatever. Every true lover of his country, every profes- sional man, merchant, banker or mechanic, who has anything at atake in the republic, should for- get his personal preferences, for whomsoever— Douglas, Bell or Houston—they may be, and give his vote and imfluence where it will tefl against Lincoln. If this is done all may yet be well. If aot, we have before us the picture of ‘a once glorious Union, of “States dissevered, dis- cordant, belligerent, of a land rent with civil euds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood... Who will not work to avert such a terribiMienouement? The way is aimple, and we charge all good men to walk therein. Tue Srrrca or tax Privor or Wates.—The speech of the Prince of Wales, in reply to the addresses presented to him at St. Johns, is re- markable for two things which it would be well speakers in general were more careful to keep in mind—one is brevity, and the other good sense. It is short and to the point, and his allu- sion to freedom and patriotism augurs well for his future reign. From this specimen we may expect a good speech here from his Royal High- ness, and if he thinks England “a great and free country,” what will he think and say of this when he sees it? If loyalty toa sovereign be “patriotism,” what is loyalty to a republic, in which perfect equality is the basis of the laws, and no privileged meses cr castes exist? The difference between loyalty to a man or woman, as in England, and to a principle, as in this country, is this: that the person may change, as sovereigns have done in Eng- land, and paid the penalty; but a principle never changes, and loyalty to that is always patriotism, whereas resistance to kings is sometimes the highest duty of a pa- triot. Patriotism, therefore, and loyalty to a sovereign are two distinct things. In the present temper, however, of the British nation, and in the practical exposition of their unwritten constitution, which is adopt- ed by Parliaments, administrations and mo- narchs, there is little room left for praise or blame to the sovereign. The theory that “the King or Queen can do no wrong” is 4 happy invention for maintaining the duration of dy- nasties; but on the other hand it takes away all merit, as it does all responsibility, from the monarch. In our government the chief magistrate is held responsible for all his official acts, and his ministers are not removable by a vote of Congress, but his party suffers in the eyes of the country from any errors «f which he may be guilty. In modern times in England itis the administration, and not the scvereign, that rules. The sovereign merely signs docu- ments as be or she is advised, and the uinisters alone are held to be responsible to thecountry. If they commit an error they are driven out of office by a vote of the House of Commons; and if the House of Commons were elected by universal suffrage and vote by ballot, iastead of its members being for the most part the nomi- nees of the nobility of the upper house, and often younger sons of the Peers, the people would really be the rulers. Practically, England is not a monarchy, for the monarch is a mere cypher, which aly gives value to other figures when placai before them; but it is an oligarchy, in whith the de- scendants of the Norman conquerors [rule over the Saxon population, imposing very heavy burthens on them and grievous to be borne, but in other respects giving them an amount of per- sonal liberty which is not to be met with else- where in Europe. Hence revolutions in Eng- land are few and far between. Portico Heaura, tae Crors ayo ArMospue- nic Purxomena.—During no summer, probebly, within the memory of the living generation has this country enjoyed more uninterrupted good health than the present. In the metropolis the mortality returns show a most gratifying dimi- nution of deaths each week from the teturns of last year and the previous years; whils throngh- out the entire country, from North to South, not a single case of epidemic disease of any kind has occurred. _ This is certainly very re- markable, and is something to feel grate ful for, In like manner the crop: were never before so good all over the ¢ontinent ; and in connection with these circamstances it is a curious fact that we never before had presented to us so many atmospheric phe- nomena as this year. The air seems heavily charged with eleotricity; the northern lights have been frequently illuminating the skies with singular brilliancy in various quarters; terrific tornadoes have swept over the face of the land: thunder storms have been frequent and violent; 8 comet is at present visible in California; we have had an eclipse of the sun, visible nearly all over the country; and. to crown all, the great- est meteor that was ever seen has visited us. In short, we have this year the best health, the finest crops, the heaviest tornadoes and the big- gest meteor ever known. What connection these natural phenomena may have with the health and the crops of the country we leave to the learned pundits to dis- cover, and it is a very interesting subject for investigation. How tue Law ts Apwixisteren i Canon. Ma.—The manner in which Judge Terry has been tried and acquitted in California for kill- ing Mr. Broderick in a duel is a remarkable Illustration of the law in that State. In the first instance the venue was changed to another county, on the ground that no man who reads a newspaper account of any public ocourrence and has sufficient intellect to > an opinion there- on is capable of sitting jury. And now, when the venue is changed toa place distant from all the witnesses, the case is sent to the jury without any testimony, as thove who had been summoned to give it did not arrive, owing to detention in a boat, or some convenient ex- cuse of that kind. If the feeling of the com- munity is ia favor of duelling, then abolish the statute which makes it a penal offence; but while the law is retained on the statute book, to evade it in the way in which it has been evaded ia the case of Judge Tercy is diggence ful to all concerned The City Ratiroad Grants. Judge Ingraham having graated an injunc- tion restraining the corporators of the Seventh Avenue, cr Broadway Parallel Railroad, from doing anything under the charter which was procured by them from our State Legislature at Its laat seseion, the said corporators are now required to appear by their counsel and show cause why such injunction should not be made permanent. We rather think it will puzzle even a Philadelphia lawyer to advance any argu- ments that will avail in behalf of this great echeme of public robbery. The corporators named in the bifl are twelve, six representing the interests of George Law, three representing the modest share of Thurlow Weed, and the other three being the compensa- tion paid by the black republicans for the votes of democratic Assemblymen and Senators from this city. It had been the original programme of the city railroad mqp to keep Mr. Law out in the cold; and they had, as they thought, all their plans arranged for this object. But sud- denly the Senate slipped away from under their feet, and passed, without a moment's warning, the monstrous Law Gridiron, which covered at one fell swoop every street of any traffic in the city. This forced the original lobby of the city railroads to come to terms, and to just such terms as Old Law saw fit to offer. Believing that half a loaf is better than no bread, and being in terror lest Law should ateal the Assem- bly from them, as an Irishman steals pigs, and as he bad already stolen the Senate, they sub- mitted with whatever grace could be assumed, and the Live Oak interest was recognized as being entitled to one-half of all the new roads passed, together with a confirmation of the Ninth Avenue Railroad—then already, as it now is, in illegal operation. Weed and the democratic corporators held the House, while Live Oak George showed himself in possession of arguments available with the Senate. The compromise was therefore the best thing that could be done, though Law had the best of the bargain. For, in addition to one full half of all the city railroads, he was given the Ninth Ave- nue, pure and simple, “ to his own cheek,” and pitting his large capital against the small capi- tal of his fellow corporators in the other roads, it will go hard with him if he cannot force them to sell out their stock to him on his own terms, either by indefinitely postponing the actual commencement of work under the various charters, or by placing the expenses at so high a figure that they cannot pay their shares. But all such speculations are probably pre- mature and useless, as this litigation must last until the next session of the Legislature, when strong efforts will be made to repeal all the in- famous and corrupt schemes which were passed last winter by the unholy combination between the black republicans and the railroad demo- crats of this city. It will be found, we think, that as the Senate and Assembly last fall were selected for nomination with special reference fo their availability for such outrages, so the Assembly of next winter will be chosen by all political parties on specific pledges to vote for the repeal of all the obnoxious acts placed on the statute books of our State by its predecessor. As to Thurlow Weed, even then he will have no reason to complain, for he re- ceived democratic aid to confirm Governor Mor- gan’s Harbormasters; the same to abolish the Board of Ten Governors; and, in fact, the city railroad democracy, headed by “that oily Se- nator,” were always the most reliable forces under Thurlow’s command for any republican emergency—their allegiance being secured to him by his power to insert the names of their next friends in city railroad charters, and so forth. Both Weed and Law, therefore, may be reck- oned safe, no matter what happens; but the democratic Senators and Assemblymen, we fear, will be reduced to great pecuniary straits by the failure of their hopes, and whenever they next come before the people they will find the proud title of “railroad democrat” the very reverse of a recommendation. One of the honorable Assemblymen, we see, has been already so reduced that he is said to have com- mitted a forgery on one of the corporators whose name he had procured to be inserted in the Broadway Parallel. Should this cause ever come to trial—which it will not-—the disclosures would be disastrous. The Presidential fight being regarded asa foregone conclusion, it will be hard to get out the full conservative vote of the State, except on some such live local issne as the repeal of the ontrageous legislation of last winter. Let the conservatives in every district unite on honest men, willing to pledge their entire influ- ence, if elected, to the repeal of those fraudu- lent grants, and all other frauds of the same kind emanating from the same source, and we doubt greatly if the waning power of Thurlow con suffice to prevent the republican district organizations from adopting similar platforms and nominating men pledged to the same course in this respect, though differing on other points. This is the programme for the year, and on it a better class of men can be sent to Albany than have been in the habit of going there for many years. America’ Sturer Rauways iy Exatann.— Although Englatia has been very active in con- structing steam railroads everywhere through- out.the empire, the system of running horse railroads through the streets of the principal cities, which has worked so well in this couti- try, has never been adopted by the English people. John Bull is proverbially attached to his own customs and notions, however clumsy or inconvenient they may be, and is very much averse to innovations, particularly those of foreign origin. But in respect to street rail- ways his doggedness has at length given way, and rails are now being laid in Birkenhead, upon which city cars are to be ran for the first time in Eogland, in about a month or six weeks from this time. 4 Our English friends are indebted for the in- troduction of this great auxiliary to case and comfort to the perseverance and energy of an American, Mr. Geo. F. Train, of Boston, who succeeded in getting the sanction of the autho- rities of Birkenhead for his enterprise, We perceive by the English papers that Mr. Train delivered a lecture recently before the British Association at Oxford, upon the subject of street railways and his project at Birkenhead, from which it appears taat there is a prospect of horse railways being adopted very generally in many Britieh cities. Liverpool has reported favorably of them through her engineer. Seve- ral members of the Corporations of Manchester and Glasgow have examined Mr. Train's models and recommended a trial in their seve. ral cities, Forma! applications bave been made to Birmingham and Dublia for permission to lay down rails in those cities, aad a company in London has expressed a wish to give the Pegicome trial. us, before long, we may expect to see the American city railroads in full operation through the leading cities of Great Britain, un- mee the guiding hand of an enterprising Yan- _—_—_——_—_—___ Tue Turse New Jersey Stare Conventiovs— Tur Prosrecr.—The copious reports which we published yesterday of the three political State Conventions held at Trenton the day before will have enabled our readers to form some opinion touching the clumces of carrying New Jersey against “Old Abe Lincoln.” Our own opinion is that this thing can, and most pro- bably will, be done. The proceedings of the Bell-Everett Convention show that that party are ready to co-operate heartily with the de- mocracy in any way best calculated to defeat the republican ticket. The only existing cause for a doubt as to the result of the campaign in the State is the stand-off, no compromise position of the Douglas faction. They have refused the oyer- tures from the Breckinridge Convention, and have set up an independent out and out Doug- las electoral ticket. They have followed up this movement with the appointment of the Doug- las State Committee, and have declared by resolution that they can “form no alliances with any sectional faction like the Lincoln party,” “nor with the Southern sectional faction, headed by Mr. Breckinridge, which declares the rights of property superior to any personal rights of free men, and which avows its purpose to be to pre- cipitate-upon us all the evils of disunion unless @ Southern faction is permitted to rule the whole Union.” It is thus very evident that the battle of the confidential managers of the cause of Mr. Douglas is not against Lincoln, but against the Breckin- ridge wing of the democratic camp; not for a victory over the republicans in 1860, but for the whip hand over the Southern democracy in 1864, at the expense of a present general demo- cratic defeat. But the question arises, will the masses of the Douglas democracy consent to play this suicidal game of a few desperate dis- appointed politicians, when a great and deci- sive victory may be at once achieved over this Northern sectional republican party? We have shown how Pennsylvania may be carried by a very handsome majority against Lincoln; but now New Jersey can hardly be turned over to Lincoln, even by the democratic assistance promised by this Trenton Douglas Convention. In 1856 the Presidential vote of New Jersey was— |. Fremont For Mr. Fillmore... ois From these figures it will be seen that if only four or five thousand of the American party of 1856 are now ready to co-operate with the democracy, the State of New Jersey will be lost to Lincoln. But should the Bell-Everett party bring up to the rescue a force of twenty thousand men, as they probably will New Jer- sey will be against Lincoln, even if twenty thousand democratic votes should be thrown away upon Mr. Douglas. We are thus of the opinion that New Jersey may be set down as one of the Northern States whose electoral vote will not be given to Lincoln. Tar AcapemMy or Mepicrse on THE Porson Law.—Among the acts passed by the last Le- gislature there was one prohibiting the sale, by druggists, of poisons, unless prescribed by a physician. The law, like many others which have been enacted by our sapient legislators, is so vague in its provisions and so loose in its arrangement of detafls, that it has already given rise to a serious difference of opinion as to its proper meaning. Ata recent meeting of the Academy of Medicine, a member made a motion that copies of the law should be furnish- ed to every druggist in the city. Objection be- ing made by another modern Esculapius, on the ground that the law was not sufficiently definite to be effective, the mover of the original propo- sition assailed the objector in true Oongres- sional style, giving him the lie direct. Finally, after “an evening spent in useless discussion” and the interchange of many discourteous re- marks between members, the Academy adopted a resolution requesting the College of Pharma- ey to cause to be forwarded to every apotheca- ry in the city a copy of the act referred to. This is the first time that the doctors in con- gress assembled have taken hold of any matter of direct public interest since the famous pro- bang controversy, when the Academy stultified itself in the most remarkable way. In the present instance, it seems to us that they have given another instance of colossal stupidity. The matter of the sale of poisons belongs strictly to the College of Pharmacy—an institution as useful and quiet as the Academy of Medicine is noisy and ineffective. The Academy of Medi- cine, in some respects, resembles the Chamber of Commerce. Both are old fogy institutions; both have a much larger idea of their import- ance than any one else, and doth are fond of spending a great deal of time in absurd disens- sions. Thus we find the merchants attempting to interfere with the province of the general government, and gravely recommending the abolition of the privateer system; while the doctors attempt to dictate to the apothecaries as to their course in reference to a law made expressly for the guidance of the latter. Then the opinions of the | Chamber of Commerce and the Academy of | Medicine have precisely the same weight with the general public—that is, none whatever. As to the ungentlemanly spirit which characterizes the doctors’ disputes, we have'a right to expect better manners from educated and cultivated men. If the Chamber of Commerce loses its temper we are not surprised, many of the mem- bers having devoted their entire attention to the pursuit of wealth, to the exclusion of the cultivation of the proprieties; but the doctors have no euch excuse. They will do well to hold their sessions in private hereafter, and thus preserve whatever reputation for dignity and self-respect the profession may have with the people generally. Tar Barcxisnrper Gexerar, Coumrree.—The delegates from the Breckinridge ward commit. tees bave organized their General Committee, and elected Captain G. W. Smith, the present upright and efficient Street Commissioner, as chairman, This is a good move in the right direction. Captain Smith belongs to the young and Insty democracy that is today master of the situation, and is not affiliated with the cor- ruptions of Tammany, nor the bickerings of Mozart, halls, His reform and administration of the Street Department entitle him to the | cept those at the Post | twanemission of such letters, aifix to cach a biue (ome Praiso of honest i ; i om med mao in this city; aod if cipality. We want an infusion pep saw a a enthusiasm and perseverance in tics, and Captain Smith, as one pote ead nized leaders of the old Quitman flibusters, to join whom he resigned his commission in the army, is the very man to inspireit. The traders and professional politicians that have got possession of Tammany, and through Tam- many of almost every branch of the city govern- ment, cannot stand before an enthusiastio honest filibuster movement. o Tue Great Eastern axp Her Vistrees.— The Great Eastern will start on her trial trip to Cape May on Monday, and the crowd of visiters is increasing every day as the time for her ten- porary absence from the city approaches, Up to yesterday evening not less than 175,000 pee- ple had visited her since her arrival, and the two days yet to elapse before she there will probably be thirty or forty thousand more rambling over her decks. Out of the twenty thousand visiters yesterday, and the seventeen thousand the day before, upwards of three-fourths were strangers, who came to the city by excursion steamboats and excursion trains, and every possible conveyance. The consequence is that our streets are thronged with people, the hotels, boarding houses, and even private dwellings, are full, and Broadway is literally flooded with sunburnt gentlemen, fresh from their farms and country stores, and village law offices, and with ladies whose cheeks are radiant with the mingled tints of the rose and the sunbeam. Not only are the hotels reaping a golden har- vest from this incursion of ceuatry folks, but the Broadway stores, and all the sight-seeing insti- tutions are gathering in a rich crop of cash. When the monster ship returns from hee summer trip to one of our fashionable wa- tering places, which will be ina few days, we may expect to see the interest in her re- newed, and the excursionists pouring into the city egain. In all probability not less than a quarter of a million of people will have been on board of her before she takes her final de- parture from our waters, and the directors will have taken in the respectable sum of one bun- dred and fifty thousand dollars. Tae Rerorrep Apotrion Conspmact Trxas.—The telegraphic reports which we pub- lished yesterday of the discovery of an exten- sive abolition conspiracy in Northern Texas are of a very startling character, and if they have any substantial foundation in fact we shall soon have a Southern sensation on the slavery question fearful to contemplate. The statement of this alleged conspiracy is to the effect that “ white men, friends of the nboli- tion preachers, Blunt and McKinney, expelled from Texas last year, are instigators of the plot; that the plan was to lay the whole country waste by fire, destroying all the arms and am- munition that the conspirators could lay their hands on, 80 as to get the country into a state of helplessness, and then, on election day ia August, to make a general insurrection, aided by emissaries from the North and parties friendly to the cause in Texas.’ It further ap- pears that “several white men and negroes coa- cerned in the plot had been arrested.” Nume- rous destructive fires occurring simultaneously in different parts of Northern Texas are charged as the work of these confederate incendiaries. This is the story. We cannot believe it to be wholly true. It may be founded upon facts. An abolition incendiary or two, or some horse thieves or marauding Indians, may be respoa- sible for some of these late fires; but if we are not mistaken, the ruinous drought, from which Texas has been suffering for week: and months past, will account for many of said disasters. At all events, it is to be hoped that such will Prove to be the case. With the outbreak of the John Brown foray at Harper's Verry, it was supposed that he had a body of five hundred followers at his back; so, in this instance, the facts are doubtless exaggerated, even if it should turn out that an abolition conspiracy has been at work. While awaiting further in- formation on the subject, we are disposed to at- tribute this startling programme of a revolu- tionary abolition conspiracy in Texas to @ panic brought about by more natural causes than the overt acts of a general combination of vagabond abolitionisis. It is possible, however, that another gang of Joba Brown abolition martyrs may have beea at the bottom of these mysterious and simultae neous fires. Should it so turn out, thea we shall goon have a new excitement thrown iate this Presidential canvass, which will make it the hottest and the most terrible in the histagy: of the country. But, perhaps, to the existing political excitemen's of the day may be charged asmuch of this Texas conspiracy as to aay other cause. We wait for further iaforma- tion. Post Orrice Onper—Isroetanr To Tre Poptic.—To those who are in the habit of de- the Postmaster is of some importance:— Post Orne, New You, July 26, 1860. The Postmaster General has directed that one cant ba charged and ‘on all letters collested tre Street boxes and otherwise, and takoa to the Post be tranemitted ip Al mail. persons letters for the mails ia the post eomor eter bons ‘avided by the United ttateares- , Should, in order to insare the cent) stamp, in addition to We stamp required to pay the mai! postage. ‘The order of the Postmaster General wil! take effect om the Lat of August prox. JOHN A. DIX, Postmaster. This change is made under the provision of the law which requires the payment of a car- rier’s fee, “not exceeding two cents.” on ali letters collected through the street boxes or otherwise. If letters are deposited at the Post Office the one cent stamp is not necessary; nor are letters intended for city delivery uttected by the new arrangement; for these only a single one cent stamp, as before. is require’. The reasoa of the change which the Postmaster Geaeral, using the discretion vested in him by law, now makes, {s that since the feo for the delivery of mail letters has been reduced from two éent™ to one the carrier syrtem cannot sustain itself, and it is found necessary therefore to charge one cent for the carriage of a mail letter to the Post Office, as well as one cent for carrying mail letter from the Post Office to the party to | whom it is addressed. ‘This seems reasonabia enough. But tt is not simple enough, how- ever. It would be better to have 9 voiform rate of postage, say four o@ats of five conta for mail letters, aad ao extra charge foc deli