The New York Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 8TS. oney sent by maid wil? he at the ps nat received as subscription TERMS, cash in advance. eth of the sender. Postage HERAL. Y HER. $7 per annum. j, OF $B po tls conte por copy, or $5 to any par California Bali ¥ CORRESPONDENC J from any quarter of the Jfur, BQ OUR FoReiGx Co Requmrap TO Seal alt Li AGES SENT US. NO NOTICE taken of a! unieation nymous corresponilence “AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—EquesTRiaN Pexvors- Anos. FR GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond atreet.— FOUR Lon nis OL-AU-ViNT-—GMACEYUL GROUPINGS. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Toopies—Zovaves. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, 64 Broadway.—Oux Amenican Cousin, NEW BOWERY, Bowery.—Aptizax oF Lroxs—(Goup Pisy—Gnost or Tas Lxx. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSRUM, Broadway.—Day and .—Krmiorian Sones, Dances, Burcesques, Livia Contos: tims, £6. NATIONAL VARIET! 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Minor, will leave this port to-morrow, at noon, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parta of the Pacific wilt close at balf-past ten o'clock tomorrow morning. The New Yous Wxexy Hunato—California edition— containing the latest intelligence from all parts of the ‘world, with a large quantity of local and miscellaneous matter, will be published at half-past nine o'clock im the morning. Single copies, In wrappers, ready for mailing, #\x cente. Agents will please send im their orders as carly as pos- sibie The News. The news from Europe by the Bohemian, which arrived at Quebec, and the Saxonia, which reached this port last night, is to the 19th inst. Accounts from Syria confirm the frightfal num- ber of victims who had fallen. The number mur- dered at Damascus was not known, and more mas- sacrea were apprehended. The fears of the Chris- tians were, if possible, increasing. Austria had despatched a war steamer there to co-operate with vessels of the other Powers. In Sicily affairs were not materially changed. Farini and two others had been expelled by Gari- baldi, and he had formed a new ministry. Sangui- nary conflicts had taken place near Messina. In the British Parliament there had been a de- bate on the expenses of the Chinese war, and Mr. Gladstone had made a statement of the amount that would be required and the manner by which it was to be provided. The estimate is no less than £54,000,000. Lord Brongham called attention to the fact of a colored woman having been refused a passage in a Cunard steamer. The fourteenth session of the International Sta- tistical Congress opened in London on the 16th. We have received files of Jamaica papers to the 9th inst. The Kingston ¢ Standard of that date says:—The weather has been exceedingly sul- try on this side of the island, and rain is much wanted. Native provisions are scarce, dear, and nothing commensurate with the demand; and were it not for the large importing houses, in keeping up constant supplies of foreign food, the sufferings of the people would be great-—we might almost say famine would overspread the land. We announce the fact as a convincing proof that the industry of the island is not equal by any means to the physi cal ability of the I@~oring population. The royal sqnadron convoying the Prince of Wales arrived at Halifax yesterday morning, and about noon the Prince and suite landed, amidst the booming of cannon and the most enthusiastic de monstrations on the part of the people. Our special despatch from Halifax, in another colamn, gives a graphic description of the scenes at the landing. The monster stea her promised trip noon, and the event o ireat Eastern went on Cape May yesterday after- casioned an excitement as unexpected as it was intense. At the dock, foot of Hammond street, about ten thousand ; le were assembled te witness the departure of the “big and the enthusiasm displayed was such as ship, has rarely been witnessed in this city of never-end- ing wonders. The th river was filled with excursion boats, and the whole space along West street, between Hammond was in a perfect jam f people rushing to be hold the splendid spectacle. The Battery was covered with one living mass of human beings. About half-past four o'clock the Great Eastern fair- ly started on her voyage, and was accompanied down the bay by some thirty steamboats, crammed with excursionists, We give a full and graphic description of the affair in another portion of this paper. At about a quarter past ten o'clock last night a fire burst out of the fourth story windows of the six story building, No. 100 Nassau street, known as the Fuller buildings. The alarm was at once given, and the firemen got to work quickly, Steam Fire | Engine 38 kept a powerful stream on the upper part of the burning building, and at times w the Heracp buildings, thus doing effective serv on both sides. The flames extended to the roof o' 100, and spread to 98, and then to 102, cor- | ner of Ann street. The upper stories of these buildings are nearly destroyed. The loss and da mage by fire and water is estimated at between $25,000 and 830,000. We give a full account of the affair elsewhere. No further developement of importance has transpired with regard to the Baxter street mys: tery, noticed in the Henrann yesterday morning. Bavendam, the person accused of the murder, is still confined in the Tombs. The body of the Spaniard, Juan Gustarino, will be disinterred to- day. The Excise Commissioners held their last meet- ing for the year in the City Hall, between three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The num- ber of licenses granted exceeds 1,750. They aitered their previous programme for the delivery attery, activity, and at steady prices. with sales of new mess at $18 80 a $19, and new prime at rates, but quiet, and the sales were under 200 bhhds. Coffee continued firm, aud e sale of 600 bags of Rio was made from second hands, at 14%c. a 18Xc., while Java of licenses by dividing it over eleven days, viz. — August 1, AB; 2d, CD; 34, EF; 6th, GH; 7th, IJ; 8th, KL; oth, MN; 10th, OP; Lith, QB; 13th, ST; Mth, U to Z, inclusive. They also al- lowed applicants whose papers were defective tea days to rectify the ercor, Judge Boaney, of the Supreme Court, bas given a decision in the matter of the petition of St. chureh, allowing them to sell their real estate, situated at the corner of Broadway aad Houston street. In conclusion he says: —An order may be entered authorizing St. Thomas’ church to sell the said real estate for an amount not less than three hundred thousand dollars, subject to the rights of the vault holders, for the protection of which the order must contain proper provisions; and it must also contain directions in relation to the application that shal! be made of the moneys as - — | arising from the sale. Our Salt Lake City correspondent furnishes us with an interesting description of the celebration of the Fourth of July by the Mormons, Quite a display of patriotism and enthusiasm was made. The main street of the city was decorated with evergreens and flags, and the various occupants of buildings vied with each other in these manifesta- tions of honor to the nation's birthday, Salutes were fired at sunrise and sunset at different points in the city, In the forenoon a procession formed’ at the County Court House, and marched thence to Temple Block, where the people were’entertained by speeches from Governor Cumming and others, the reading of the Declaration of Independence and the delivery of a patriotic poem. In the evening there was a ball, attended by the most dis- tinguished personages of the Territory. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 604 deaths in the city during the past week, anincrease of 8 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 112 less than occurred during the corresponding{week last year. The reca- pitalation table gives 86 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 1 of the generative organs, 10 of the heart and! blood vessels, 87 of the lungs, throat, &c., 5 of old age, 36 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 3 premature births, 227 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 45 of general fevers, 2 of diseases of the urinary organs, 2 unknown, and 20 from violent causes. The nativity table gives 374 natives of the United States, 77 of Ireland, 31 of Germany, 7 of Scotland, 8 of England, and the balance of various foreign countries. The cotton market continued to rule quite firm yester day, with sales of about 400 a 500 bales, in lots,’ closing stiff ow the basis of quotations given in another column. Fiour was without change of momeut for most descrip tions, while sales were to a fair extent. Southern dour was in fair demand, but closed at easier rates forjeommon brands, while the better qualities were unaltered. Wheat was without change of moment, and eales were leas active. Corn opeued dull, but closed with more Pork was steady, $14. Sugars were steady at Saturday's was held at (6c. in mats, and at 18%<c. for govern- ment, in bags, and 200 bags Maracaibo were sold at 15c. Tt was stated that the gales of coffee in this market, in 1858, from July 27 to August 31, embraced about 64,600 bage, and for the same period in 1850, 68,000 bags. Freights were firm and not very active. To Liver- pool some 35,000 or 40,000 bushels of wheat were taken io bulk aud bags, chiedy in bulk, at 10d, and in bags at 10d. . The Overwhelming Moral Issue of This ” Presidential Contest=The Slavery Ques- tion, The political elements of the country op- posed to the republican party are in a state of chaos. In the North they are divided upon men and secondary abstractions into clashing factions, as hostile against each other as against the common enemy; in the South, where the exigency demands a united people, acting under a common impulse, that of self-preservation, the same factious discords prevail. Nor is this all. The South, like a strong man struck sense- less by a heavy blow, seems to have lost the consciousness of its position, with the disrup- tion of the democratic party. There is a gene ral apatby existing in the South, a confusion of ideas, a relaxation of the moral energies of her people, an imbecility of purpose, which may be likened to the despairing condition of a ship's crew adrift upon the fragments of their broken vessel, with neither land nor sail in sight. At this moment the anti-slavery republican party of the North, representing hardly one-third of the popular vote of the country, is morally certain of electing its candidates for President and Vice President, by a majority of the elec- toral vote of the Union. The only party in the field limited to one section, in being rigidly ex- cluded from the other, it is the only existing party which exhibits any thing of positive strength, unity, efficiency and confidence in its movements. This is a very extraordinary state of things, and is utterly beyond a satisfactory solution upon the ephemeral party organiza- tions and party platforms of the day. We can reach an explanation only upon the basis of that great overwhelming moral issue of slavery, as an institution of good or evil, of right or wrong. And this is the exact issue, which, though un- recognized or evaded by oue parties, factions and politicians, has produced this formidable anti-slavery coalition in the North, and this im- potent division of the political elements of both sections opposed to it. This underlying fanda- mental Northern ides, that the institution of Southern slavery is a sin; that it is founded in error and against right; that its fruits are poi- sonons: that its pre'ensions are false and incom. patible with our free institutions, and that it must be hunted out of the country, will account tor this solid front of the republican party; so, too, the conflicting opinions of democrats and Union party men, North and South, upon this broad question of good or evil, of right or a mere usurpation of right, in reference to slave- ry, will account for the incurable divisions of the forces opposed to the republican party. Before the invention of the cotton gin, slavery North and South was almost universally con- sidered an evil. Its advocates rested their de- fence upon the plea that it wasa necessary evil, under the circumstances which surrounded them, but that time would provide a remedy. Soon after the invention of the cotton gin slavery began to assume, not only the features of @ permanent establishment, but the form of a controlling agency in our political affairs. This was strikingly made manifest in the Mis souri agitation of 1819-20. Some eight or ten years later the first of our Northern abolition societies were set in motion, including a news- paper organ in Boston. and another in this city, a daily paper, called the Journal of Commerce, | started under the auspices of Arthur Tappan, David Hale and Gerard Hallock; that paper with all its varfations of thirty years. has stood fast to that primary idea to which it owes its origin, that slavery is an evil, and that emanci- pation is a duty. It was not, however, until 1444, that these Northern gatislavery movements entered ac NEW YORK HERALD. TUESDAY, JULY 31, i860. tively and decisively into the work of our Presi- dential elections, as a Northern political balance of power, In that year Mr. Clay, although in sentiment an anti-slavery mae, was regarded by the abolitionists as Southern apolo- gist of slavery, and upon this teat some fifteen thousand whig votes in th's State were thrown for Birney, the anti-slavery candidate for President, whereby the election was decided in favor of Polk, the pro-slavery democratic nominee. But upon the same general issue the tables were turned in 1848 against the demo- cratic party by the independent free soi! Buffalo organization, with Martin Van Buren as their Presidential champion. Thus, by the division of the democratic vote of this State, Genera! Cass was defeated, and General Taylor was elected President. And it is not the least singular fea- ture of that election that the line which was then drawn by Van Buren through the centre of the democratic party of New York has never been obliterated, but will account for the line drawn through the democratic party of the Union at the late Charleston and Baltimore Conventions. In 1852, upon the platform of Mr. Clay’s com- promise measures of 1850, there waa an over- whelming reaction, North and South, in favor of peace upon the slavery question. Under this conservative reaction the old whig party was prostrated and dissolved, and the anti- slavery agitators, it was hoped, were ren- dered powerless for at least twenty years to come. But in 1854, Messrs. Mason, Jef: ferson Davis, Atchison and Douglas, of the United States Senate, and poor Pierce, hit upon that desperate Presidential and new slave State experiment, the Kansas-Nebraska bill; and from that day to this hour, the aroused and five times multiplied anti-slavery legions of the North have been steadily advancing towards the White House, until their occupation of it on the 4th of March next appears to be aa inevita- ble event. The simple truth is, that this contest is be- tween the anti-slavery sentiment of the North and the pro-slavery sentiment of the South. It is the “irrepressible conflict” proclaimed by W. . Seward; but it will not result, as he has proclaimed it, in making all the States free States or slave States. Far otherwise. The most probable result will be the withdrawal of the bulk of the slave States from the Union, sooner or later, peace or war. But it is possi- ble that this conflict may be prolonged until there shall appear a party strong enough to maintain slavery within the Union, not only as recognized by the compacts of the constitution, but upon that high moral ground that, as exist- ing in the United States, negro slavery is right, is good and proper, a divinely ordained insti- tution. Upon this fundamental issue the republican party now have all the advantages on their side. Hence the solidity of their columns, and hence the distractions and divisions among the conservative and pro-slavery forces opposed to them. But under a popular government like ours, such a Southern institution as this of slavery can never be safe until public opinion in the North shall have been trained at least so far to recognise it right and good as to let it alone. Will that day ever come? We know not; but we know, for we see, that this Presi- dential contest, for good or evil, is the begin- ning of the end. Conrirmation ov Tur Heray’s News.—Some twelve months ago we published a number of articles on the slave trade and the fitting out of slavers in the port of New York and numerous other ports of the North. Our statements were contradicted at the time by all the newspapers, which is always their cue when they find they are beaten in the publication of interesting in- telligence. The capture of several slavers shortly after showed that we were right, and now the Evening Post and other journals are publishing a list of more than eighty slavers, fitted out during the last eighteen months, and giving not only the names of the vessels, but the names of the captains, &c., thus confirming all that we had stated. We do not publish these names, lest the accusations against them all may not be borne out. But we have no doubt that the list is nearly correct. Thus do these journals unconsciously bear testimony to the reliability of our news, on which they at- tempt to throw discredit when it first appears, calling it “one of the Henaiv’s lies,” or apply- ing some such other epithet to the facts which they had got the industry or the skill to collect themselves. It was in this way they treated our disclosures of the Post Office defalcations. Nearly all the journals asserted that there was no truth in the intelligence. The news they have since published themselves shows that we were right, and that the defulcations already amount to $300,000, to say nothing of what are yet to be brought to light. These cases are only samples of the general course of New York journals towards the Henao, They envy us because we publish news and opinions ahead of them, and because we are always nearer to the truth than they are. American Crtvzexs Gorse to Ecrors.—The numbers of American citizens going to Europe this year are unprecedented. Already ten thou- sand must have left in steamers, and the season is not yet over. It is estimated that each tra- veller spends on an average $5,000. The total amount spent by ten thousand persons would thus be $50,000,000—fifty millions! American travel must therefore benefit Europein a very great degree. Since the Atlantic has been bridged by steam, and America has been brought nearer to Europe than many parts of Europe are to each other, the intercourse be- tween the United States andthe Old World has increased in a wonderful degree. The effect of this intercourse upon the political institutions of Europe will soon be felt. It will gradually revolutionize them, and elevate the masses to self government. On the other hand, the American people will be enriched by the treasures of art and science and ture to be found in the countries where the: journ, Thus the “dividing ocean” really unites and brings together the most distant nations. But while American travel to Europe is useful to both Worlds, we think that many would do well to first visit the fairest portions of their own country, if it were for no other pur- pose than that they may be qualified to give an opinion upon its scenery to those whom they will meet with in their foreign travels, and that they may be able to compare it with the most celebrated spots in Europe—for instance. the Hudson with the Rhine, and the bay of New York with that of Naples. It is not creditable for Americans to seek the beauties of dathre under foreign skies, while th treat with beglect hose which ile beneath their own. lite Politics ard Trade in Europe—Prepara- tions for a Contest. The growth of the times is eminently propi- tious to the preparations of the opposing dy- nasties in Europe and Asia, and all of them are exhibiting great energy in preparing for an- other conflict between the old and the new, which is steadily approaching. Never were the arsenals of Europe in a more active state than at present. England is pre- paring hundreds of the Armstrong guns, calcu- lated to throw shot of a hundred pounds weight, to say nothing of minor material. France is pushing her steel-clad ships to a state of com- pletion, in order to bring anew instrument to the contest for the supremacy of the seas. Austria is pouring hundreds of thousands of men, and immense quantities. of war material, into Venice and the quadrilateral, in the hope to preserve there a barrier against the tide of dissatisfied nationalities which menaces her heterogeneous empire with dissolution. Sar- dinia is gathering and organizing hundreds of thousands of Italians and Sicilians under the ban¥ers of Italian unity. Naples and the Papacy stand on the brink of a conflict with the new elements of national life. Turkey is presenting the spectacle of a dissolution of the Mohammedan temporal power, after a thousand years of exclusiveism, and the crescent is evidently waning in a flood of Christian blood. Russia is preparing for a religious cru- sade, which will sweep southward with all the energy and ten times the vigor and enlighten- ment that characterized the overrunning of the old Byzantian empire. And France and Eng- land jointly are preparing for another conflict at the antipodes with the oldest of the semi- barbarian Powers in the East. The central point of observation at this time, in all these signs of war, is Sicily. There the name_and presence of Garibaldi have given life and vigor to the revolutionary efforts of the new ideas that now animate the world. Unfor- tunately the heroic Garibaldi is not so able in organizing the new ashe is in animating men to sweep away the evils of the old. Twice has; his government in Palermo been broken up by internal dissensions. and he finds his march upon Messina, although there has been some splendid fighting, to complete the liberation of the island, re- tarded by these causes—by the indisposition of the Sicilians to make a steady and united effort to fiee their country, and by the heat of the summer season. These delays are giving the old Powers breathing time, in which to seek safety through new complications. Young Bomba tenders his people a constitution, the Pope seeks a new combination with France, and Austria prepares to resist Sardinia with an overwhelming force at a moment's warning. From these causes, no doubt, emanates the eva- sive reply of Garibaldi to the Neapolitans, dic- tated no doubt by Louis Napoleon, who wishes to carry out the idea of Italian unity, but with- out producing grave and imminent complica- tions. To the immense expenditure necessary in all these preparations the state of the financial world bas been eminently favorable. Com- merce has been prosperous everywhere, the crops have been abundant, and capital has ac- cumulated in vast sums at all the great money centres, seeking employment. That employ- ment has not been forthcoming. The great enterprises of public utility, which require long continued expenditure in construction, have not yet recovered from the effects of the panic and revulsion of 1857. Neither in this country, England, France nor Germany are any great public works being energetically prosecuted. Spain and Russia are alone engaged in the active construction of great systems of railroads and public works. The easy money market and the prosperity of the general revenue therefore enable both the old and the new dynasties to continue their system of enormous expenditure. The result of this state of things isevident. The dynasties are preparing for a general and sweeping war, and the elements of material prosperity are gathering for another period of activity and ex- pansion. Which will first obtain control of the course of affairs is not yet evident. The mer- chant’s ledger, which is now the great school and guide of statesmanship, is undoubtedly on the side of the new order of things, and will strive to prevent a general war. But the old feudal order of the aristocratic and theocratic classes will not give up without a contest, which they hope to make simultaneous and uni- versal, but which the Napoleonic idea is to pass through piecemeal, thereby securing a perma- nent triumph for the new. Tue Exxction tx Norte Canonisa—Tae First Skmmvisa iv tue Camraton.—The first State election which comes off between this time and the Presidential election will take place in North Carolina on Thursday, and promises to involve some test questions touch- ing that great event. Though the issue is toa certain extent a local one, relating to the mode of taxation upon slaves, yet we find that the contest for Governor is between a democrat and an opposition candidate—the democrat, Gov. Ellis, the present incumbent, being a Breckinridge man, and the oppositionist, Mr. Pool, going for Bell. The State elections in Arkansas and Missouri will take place on the 6th of August—the can- didates for Governor in the first State being a democrat and an independent democrat (which probably means a Douglas man); while in Mis- souri there are four candidates--namely, a democrat, an irregular democrat, an American and a black republican—thus representing all the Presidential tickets. It will thus be seen that skirmishing is beginning at the South. A little outpost fighting will be done there during the coming month, which may foreshadow something touching the great battle of Novem- ber next. Noxsenst oF Tae Porsrictans.—The politicians of the mere party press are continually putting forth the rankest nonsense aout the prospects of the different candidates for the Presidency. Take, for example. the silly and ridiculous as- sertion of the Richmond Whig, that Bell and Everett will carry five Northern States—Massa- chusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Istand and California—as well as the entire South. Now every one who knows anything knows that the whole North, except, perhaps, some of the border States, such as Pennsylva- nia, and it may be Mlinois, will go for Lincoln, while the South will unquestionably support the most prominent man who represents South- ern views, and that is John C. Breckinridge. These newspaper politicians, while they are relieving themeelyes of much blatant nonsense, a re dealing only with side issues, The great } business at the State Department, Preliminary to his re ieoues of the contest are shirked altogether— pro-slavery and anti-slavery. Why not stick to them? Tue Poxrrictans Waxina Ur—An Execant Erwrtz.--The politicians and office holders, present and past, are waking up and showing their teeth. They are fighting and abusing each other like fishwomen. George N. Sanders has just published a letter to the President, which may well be handed down as a model of violent abuse and vituperation. The letter af- fects the Junius style, without its dignity, but bristling with its sting; and as we are pretty sure that George N. Sanders has not the capa- city to write it, we conclude, from the continual antithesis, the peculiar verbiage and other idiosyncracies, that it was fashioned by the band and brain of Robt. J. Walker, whose grie- vances are “dwelt upon with a bitterness which bears the stamp of personality. The letter is amusing from its violence and its silliness. Let us give a few choice speci- mens of the” language employed:—“Not only the political but the social atmosphere of Wash- ington is poisoned by the upas of your influ- ence. Such is your pernicious course that the White House is made uncomfortable to visiters by the intrusion of vicious politics into your parlors.” And again: “The Nero-like perfidy to individuals which characterized your admi- nistration,” &c.,’&c. Then, again, allusion is made to the ‘low passions of your nature.” The President is also politely informed that “there is nothing so base that you would not do to prolong your power. Madness seems to possess you. To have no successor, to leave no government behind you, like the miser who clutches his bag of gold in his dying hour, and refuses to will it to another lest it should loosen his hold upon it in his last moments.” This eentence, it strikes us, lacks the perspi- cuity of Junius; the demon of ill temper seems to have vanquished the genius of composition. But with one quotation more we close our com- ments upon this delectable documents“Up- rightness of heart would have saved you, even amid the shadows of a declining intellect, but your moral obliquity deprived you of every stay which the virtuous mind possesses against mental weakness,” We thought when George N. Sanders was ap- pointed to the office of Navy Agent that the President was making a mistake, and it appears he has found it out now. It is no wonder that the public should be disgusted with the whole batch of politicians, when they are perpetually fighting and abusing each other in this manner. The thieves and murderers who are expiating their offences in Sing Sing would use decenter language towards each other than the politicians do when they take to quarrelling. It can hardly be a matter of surprise if the people everywhere become so disgusted with the politicians that they will permit the Presidential election to go by default, and let Mr. Lincoln walk into the Presidential chair, if his fortune carries him there. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL, Gur Spccial Washington Despatch. Wasmxcton, July 30, 1860. THE PUBLIC PRINTING. Governor Ford arrived here to-day, and upon consuita- tion with the Supérintendent of Public Printing, Mr. Pangborn, his authorized agent, and Messrs. Larcomo and English, arrengements have been entered into satisfac- tory to all parties, and the work is to be executed at the office of Messrs. Larcomb & English, under the personal superintendence of Governor Ford or his autborized agent, M-. Pongborn. About forty thousand copies of the Covode repor: are ready to go to the binders, and will be scen ready for delivery. YUROBASE OF LIME POLNT, CALIFORNIA, ‘The repors which has been sent to the country that Lime Point, at San Francisco, California, has been pur- chased by the War Department for a site fora fort, at two bundred thousand dollars, is a mistake. The Presi- dent declines to purchase at that price, and has given orders to have the land condemned un ‘er the laws of the ‘State, which will result in the appointment of a jury of twelye men, who will appraise the land at its present value, and the government will take it at that appraisal. THR CHIRIQUI COMMISSION. Information was received at the Navy Department to. day that the war steamer Brooklyn left Pensacola on the ‘26th instant for Hampton Roads, to take on board the Chiriqui Commission. Sbe will probably arrive at Norfolk about August 2. THE FRANKING PRIVILBOR, THR POLITICIANS AND THE AGRI CULTURISTS. While large clerical forces are employed at the head. quarters respectively of the Breckinridge, the Douglas, tne Bell and the Lincoln parties in directing and send- ing away campaign documents, the officers of the United States Agricultural Socioty are cqually industriously em- ployed im sending to all parts of the Union the premium lists and circulars of the Great National Exhibition, which is to be held at Cincinnati in September. The po- litical matter ,oes free, under the franks of members, who remain here to use their autographs, but the agri- culturists pay postage. ‘TUR CINCINNAT! NATIONAL FAIR. It is expected that the Cincinnati Fair will eclipse any- thing yet beld in this country. The premium listamounts to $20,000, of which « large shar — n sums of $500, $300, $200 and $10°—is offered for horses. A level track, one mile long and fifty feet in width, will afford a fine oppor- tunity for “trial of epeed.’’ Large cash premiums are Miso offered for portable and for stationary steam engines, steam ploughs and steam fire engines. The grand goid medal of honor is offered for the best threshing machine. PARAGUAN APRAIRG. Although no proclamation bas yet been made a* to the result, there is reason to believe the Joint Commission has come to the conclusion that Paraguay is pot responsi- ble tor indemnity to the United States and the Paraguay Navigatyon Company, which claimed damages to the ex- tent of nearly $1 000,000, exclusive of the alleged viola. Vion of grants of important and very valuable privileges THE AMERICAN MEDITERRANEAN SQCADRON. The Savannah bas been ordered to the Mediterranean, a8 part of 1) @ American squadron, without reference to the maseacre in Syria. The eteamship Ri sbmond—Captain Ingrabam, it is said, bavisg volunteered to take com- mand—would bave been ordered thither if she could have ‘been prepared in time for service in that sea. MUNITIONS FOR THE PONY LPREN, Oficial despatches frem Otah show that one hundred army revolvers and eight thowmmd cartridges were fur- nished by the acting Adjutant General to the agent of Russell's pony express to defend the riders from the Indiaus. THE HOUSE PRINTING ‘The difficulties which bave arisen in rogari to the House printing are amicably adjusted. Governor Ford, the House Printer, returned today, and al! parties to the controversy have agreed upon a settlement. Mr. Pang born, whose authority is recoguized, remains as the legal representative and agent of Mr. Ford to superintend the business, and Laroombe and Raglieh are empioyed to exe ente the printing. The House printing will now be epecdily executed. TUF COVODE INVESTIGATION. Forty thousand copies of the Covode report will be im. mediately distributed. THE COAST SURVEY INVRETIGATIONS. The Coast Survey Office and the Smithsonian Ins‘itution are investigaitng the subject of tornadoes, stimulated by thoee of recent oceurrence in the West. An efficient offer connected with the Coast Survey has bees detailed to visit the scenes of their effects, for the procuring of uch data as to geography, Ke., as will aid the scientific examination. MISCRTLANROUS. W. D. Irvine is in charge of the business of the Britiah Legation, during the absence of Lord Lyons ia Canata Colone, Preston, Minister to Apain, & here, (reasactiag turn to Madrid. General Lane has 18 visit to Nort: arrived from Arrival of the Pony Expresg at 92 Joseph, St. Jouzra, July 38, 186e The pony express, through inten Gaye; has jet reeeuodl bere with a general summary of news from Calfornia tar July 19. Arrived at San Francisco July 12, steamer Goldee Age from Panama; 13th, bark Comet, Honolulu, failed 12th, Vietala, for New York; 13th, bark Louiae, Melbourne. Business has been quiet since the pony of the 11th tof, Nothing occurred in the market worth communicating, Prices generally were without change, and the domaad still limited. Dates from St. Louis, received by telegraph via Spring. field to the morning of the 23d of June, give the nows that the Baltimore Convention broke up ina row. Intense anxiety prevailed to know what followed. ‘The republi- cans regarded this news as 80 encouraging that they caused cannon to be fired. An injunction having been issued restraining the Alte Telegraph Company from using the Morse patent, hae brought about a consolidation between that and the State line, the latter owning the patent. ‘There is no California news of importance. ‘The overland mail leaving for the East yesterday, took over 16,000 letters. ‘The steamer Panama brings Oregon dates to the 18th. General Harney and staff had left for the Atlantio States. The mining expedition from Linn county to the Blue Mountains, bad returned before reaching their point of destination, They had serious fight with Indians, ead killed five of them. They had two men.wounded, and had to abandon $750 worth of property. The Indians are sup- posed to belong to the same gang that have made war oa Washoe, Trouble was also anticipated with the Snake Indians, a portion of whom had recently retarned from the Washoe country, greatly embittered against the whites in consequence of their depot there. ‘The official returns of the election elect Shiel, demo- erat, to Congress, and leave the Legislature as heretofore reported; in all probability securing the election of a re- publican and popular sovereignty democrat United States Senators in August. the State wan $2,462, aginst U1270 ast years suet O advices from the Sandwich were to the pits from Honolulu, on or about the 2ist ul LATER, will San Francisco, July 19,9 40 P. M. Arrived since the de ire of the last Pony, July 15, ship Jacob Bell, from New York, 17th, bark Garrone’ Kanagawa, Salled 17th, bark Julia and Wilhelm, Cape of Good Hope, with a cargo of flour and wheat. : ™ Trade pas bea ict this weeks with but 1 oq n qui witl it little: the country, and only a emall q a forward. No important transactions have over brandy 43¢. laie at suction (ony offered, but could only be disposed of to the samples. In grain, lhere is but little change to be noted. The New Mexican Mail. News had reached Santa Fe that Manuel Chaves, with fifty Mexicans, had gone in pursuit of a large band of Na- vajoe Indians who bad run off a herd of sheep for the Rio Grande. They overtook the Indians and had a fight with them, in which twenty Mexicans and forty Indians were killed and wounded. A considerable quantity of sheep and other stock was recovered. Business in Santa Fe was recovering. ‘The crops promise a fine yield, but provisions are still scarce, and command very high prices. Major Sedwick’s command are at Bent’s Fort. Captain Stewart, a few days ago, went in pursuit of, and captured the family of the principal chief of the Kiowa tribe of Indians. In the melee two solciers wore wounded. Lieutenant Bayard was also very averely wounded by an arrow being shot in his cheek. At last accounts from bim the point of the arrow was still in the wound, and be would be sent to Pawnee Fork for medical treatment. Two Indians were killed. Mr. Douglas at Burlington, Ve. Burisxoton, July 30, 1860. Hon. 8. A. Dougias arrived at half-past nine A.M. He was greeted by a large and enthusiastic collection of citi- zens, escorted by the Howard Guard and a large proces- sion of carriages and citizens. He passed through the principal streets to the Town Hall, where Mr. Saxe intro- duced Mr. Douglas to the audience, some 5,000 in number, and Mr. Douglas responded in a short speech expressive of bis appreciation of the kind and honorable reception thus far given him in his pative State. Mr. D. received his friends at the American Hotel. Mr. D. left for Moat- pelier on the half-past seven train this evening. Pennsylvania Politics. Putapeiema, July 30, 1860. ‘The Penneylranian has changed proprietors, Dr. E. Mor- witz retiring, succeeded by John H. Bruaner. The Breckinridge and Lane flag has been hoisted. Kentacky Politics. Lovisvniix, May 90-0 P.M. Gen. Leslie Coombs, American candidate for Clerk of the Court of Appeals, is addressing a large and eathusias- tic Bell and Everett meeting. A great uumber of ladies are among the audience. The Zouaves at Philadelphia. Punavarrma, July 30, 1860. The Zouaves visited Independence Hall this morning. ‘This afternoon they drilled at Fairmount Park before ff- teen thousand spectators, among whom were a large number of ladies. As the drill took place oo a hill, aa excellent view was afforded. Their movements were closely scrutinized, and loudly applauded. The corps ia gaining much favor here, where they were fret looked upon as egotists. Attempt to Throw a Train of Cars from the Track, Bostox, July 90, 1860. An unsuccessful attempt was made Satarday nighs to throw the New York express train from the track sear Framingham, by placing sleepers across the raila, The train bad been running at bigh speed, being bohind time, but the engineer had just shut of steam as it was nearing the depot, when the engine struck five sleepers on the track. Three of them were thrown off the rails, but two caught under the cowentcher and were borne along tilt the train stopped. The train rocked fearfully, causing @ panic, but no damage was done, The Funeral Obseq of Mr. Van Rens- selacr. Burusetos, N. J., July 90, 1860. The funeral obsequies of Rey. Cortland Van Rensselaer, D. D., took place today. A very large number of promi- bent clergymen of different denominations were preseat. The funeral discourse was preached in the Presbyteriaa church, by Dr. Hodge, of Princeton, Dra® Plumer, Bowed. man ant Chester participating in the services. The bella of the City Hall and all the various churches wore tolled, and during the passing of the howored remains from tie ate residence to the church and thence to the railre ad Station, the hotels, stores, banks and private 6well’ age were closed. ‘The remains were taken to Albany for family vault intermenty ta the The New Jersey Bridge Cases, Trewton, July 9), 1980. ‘The Chancellor today gave an opinion in te app'ica- tion for injunction made by the proprietors of the bridges over the Hackensack and l'assaic, to restrain the Ho. boken Land Improvement Company from ridgiwg said rivers, on the ground of having exelusiws grants. The motion was denied, and {he bill dismF seed with costs ‘The proprietors bave exclusive right # ¢a@ toll brite, but ® viaduct to carry over a railrood ¥ ag not an iafringe ment of the right Murder in Nor ristown. Nowe own, Pa , July 90, 1800 Filen MeNamee was found ‘yead in her dwelling to day Fler artne and ribs were OF oken aod her skull waa (rae tured, The busband OC ‘Whe vufurtunate woman baa bee