The New York Herald Newspaper, August 1, 1860, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON STS. TERMS, each in actwance. Money sent by mail sill be at the risk of the sender. Postage stamps not received as subscription THe DAILY HERALD two cents per copy, $1 per annum. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at six cents * the European Bdition every Wednesday, per annum to any part of Great Britain, Sakari BA tonthe thd 300 af each mondh tb cent PORE Gacy EIA LD’ on Wednesday, at four cents per MY CORRESPONDENCE, containing neice, solicited from any quar he aggre el! be BA SENT US. 4OY0 NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We do nat rn rejected commun ications. ” AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, LO"S GARDEN, Broadway.—Afiernoon and Even- oe eetaratan Punroun oes FR GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— «BAN WETTE AND JRANNOT—COOPERS, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tooptxs—ZOvaves. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, €24 Broadway.—Ovn Amenican Cousin. NEW BOWERY, Bowery.—Aagtizan or J.vons—Devi's ‘Osx—Guost or tum Len. —— |AN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and AMERIC. Pron ahah rare ‘Boncs, Dances, Buxiesques, Livine Ovuioei erm, £0. ON. VARIETIES, Chatham astreet.—Swiss Cot- ease Burcia aio Dancine—Souoow 1 4x Uraoau—Law- wricx Bor. PALACK GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Vocat axp In- @ravmEntar CONCERT. CANTERBURY CONCERT SALOON, 663 Broadway.— Bowcs, Dances, Buxisseurs, New York, Wednesday, Augast 1, 1560. MAILS FOR EUROPE. Whe Kew Work Herald—Editien for Europe. The Cunard mai! steamship Africa, Captain Shannon, will leavo this port to-day for Liverpool. ‘The European mails will clove in this city thix afernoou, at half-past twelve o'clock. ‘The Evrorsas Eprson or Tus Hexatp will be published at eleven o'clock ta the morning. Single copies, in wrap- pers, six cents, The contents of the Evrorgay Enriow ov rum Herat will combine the news received by mail and telegraph a: tho office during the previous week, and up to the hour of pablicatioa. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. Sew Work Herald—California Edition, ‘The mail steamship Arisl, Capt. Miner, will leave this port to-day, at noon, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacifico will close at halftpast ten o'clock this morning. ‘The New Yora Werxtr Hexatp—California edition— sontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the ‘world, with a large quantity of local and miscellancous matter, will be published at balf-past vine o'clock im the morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents, Agenta will please send tn their orders as carly as pos aible. The News. The steamship Prince Albert, from Galway 24th ult., arrived at St. Johns yesterday morning, put- tipg us in possession of five days later European intelligence. The news is not very important. The contract transferring the Galway steamers to the Canadian line had been cancelled. The proceed- ings of the British Parliament were unimportant. Affairs in Syria were unchanged. France was preparing to make powerful intervention in the affairs of that distracted country, and had given notice of her intentions to the other European Powers. The King of Naples had taken measures to secure the adherence of his troops to the recently granted constitution, and various reforms had been ordered in his kingdom. There is nothing of importance from Sicily. A conference was to take place in a few days between the Emperor of Austria and the Prince Regent of Prussia. On the 24th ult. the Liverpool coon market closed dull. Flour and wheat had an advancing tendency. Consols, on the 2ith ult., at the close, were quoted at 934 a 93). The Police Commissioners yesterday appointed John R. Flinn, late telegraph operator at the City Hall, a patrolman. The various ward detectives have been called in and ordered to report for pa- trol duty. We are informed that the steamship City of Washington, which arriged yesterday, was of Cape Race from four A. M. ( nine A. M. of Friday last. It will be remembered that the newsboat was lost fn the fog on Thursday night, after boarding the Prince of Wales squadron, and did not reach the Cape till after nine A. M. of Friday. The canister containing the news for the Tress was thrown overboard some eight miles south of the Cape, ina dense fog, upon the clearing up of which Captain Jeffrey stood in for the Cape, passing very near it, and several guns were dd. The absence of the boat prevented the ship being boarded, and a pack- age of news was made up and sent ashore, with the latest papers, bya fishing boat. The courteous and friendly spirit shown to the press by the off- cers of the of Washington is worthy of special acknowledgment at t! hands, We have some intelligence in addition to that published in the Heratp yesterday morning, brought from California by the pony express. The news of the double di ratic nominations at Bal- timore, when first received in San Francisco, caused some surprise among th emocracy; but salutes were fired for both Breckinridge and Doug- las, by the partisans of each, in all the principal towns of California. Many persons were leaving Visalia for the newly discovered silver mine near Owen's Lake. A company of United States troops, ander Captain Smith, had been attacked near Honey Lake by over three hundred Indians, when @ fight, lasting nearly two hours, took place, re- sulting in the death of several of the Indians, A package of documents from the Emperor of Japan for the Japanese Embassy at W rived at San Francisco. The pony the route between Carson Valley and § being now well stocked and clear of By the Pike's Peak expre Joseph yesterday, we have in ver City to July 23. erence t despatches, under our telegraphic head, it will be seen that rather a lawless state of society seems to exist at Denver. Shooting aflrays seem to be the order of the day there. The steamship Great Eastern arrived at Cape May at seven o'clock yesterday morning. Great dissatisfaction prevailed among the excursionists on board of her, owing to the many discomforts they had to endure. There seems to have been but very insufficient pfovisions made for the comfort of the passengers. The Great Eastern was to leave on her return to New York at six o'clock Iast evening, and will probably arrive here at about six o'clock this morning. Our news from Halifax is yory interesting. The Prince of Wales continues to receive the undivided attention of the people. Yesterday he reviewed the troops in the morning, and after partaking of a funch at the Government House, he and his snit went to view the rustic sports that had been got up in his honor. He appeared to enjoy them very much, and laughed most heartily at some of the games. In the evening he went to the ball that wes given at the Province Building, and wag ad ports ke as NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, x mired and observed by ali. There bas been a | that the “one idea” of this party is the extirpa General holiday in Halifax for the last two days. The Board of Aldermen met last evouiag. The semi-annual report of the Fire Marshal was pre- sented and ordered on file. The greater part of the session was occupied by the dermen in @ discussion of the proposed appropriation of $105,000 to defray the expenses atteadant on entertaining the Japanese Embassy. A motion by Alderman Cornell, that the $105,000 be ia liew of the $30,000 originally voted, was finally carried, A report was made by the Committee on Ferries in relation to the proposed ferry from the foot of Chambers street. A full report of the proceedings of the Board wil! be found in another column. A large meeting took place last eveuing at the State Guard armory, 481 Broadway, for the pur pose of organizing a Zouave corps. A letter from General Townsend was read. A resolution that the organization be an independent one was car- ried unanimously. Company E of the Ninth regi- ment will also drill a fa Zouave. A full report of the meeting will be found elsewhere in our columns. The cotton market was steady yesterday, while the sales were confined to about 400 a 600 bales, on tho basis of quotations given in another columm Flour opened dull and heavy, but became more active, with a firme tone in prices at the close, in consequence of the favor. able character of the foreign news. Wheat also closed with more show of firmness, while gales were to a fair extent, including some parcels taken for export. Cora was firmer and more active, with free sales at full prices. Pork was without change of importance: sales of new mess werey mad $18 90 a $19 12%, and of old mess at $18 25, asd new prime at $14. Sugars were in light demand, while the sales embraced 450 a $00 bhds., algjrates given in another column. Comprises 87,997" bhds. "against 85,16 at tae Me last, "year; 110,538 [bags "against 56,A35 qiast r; 24,718 boxes, agninst 24,508, year, and 8,250 hhds. melado, against 2,998 last year. Coffee was {firm and sales light. The stock of Rio was freduced to 4,500 bags, to 12,284 mats Java, 1,350 bags government do , with a total of packages of all kinds of $4,995. The stock of Rio in Baltimors was reduced to 200,000, and that of New Orleans to 4,000 bags. Freights were steady, and jucluded in the shipments were $8,000 bushels wheat to and bags, at 104. a 10%4., and flour at “part tol up. sae thal poses The) Irrepressible Conflict’—Important Semi-Official Decrees in Behalf of “Old Abe Lincoln.”* More than one of the travelling newspaper correspondents of the republican"faith, having fulfilled the pious pilgrimage to the residence of Mr. Lincoln, have invited the unbeliever in his superior qualifications for the White House to “come out here and see Old Abe at home, and talk with hisyneighbors, if_ you would learn What he is.” ~ Adopting this idea that his imme- diate neighbors and colaborers know him , best, and that when they assume to speak authorita- tively they speak by the book, our readers will appreciate the importance’which we attach" to a brace of editorial articles transferred to these columns from the Chicago Democrat, a paper possessing more largely the confidence of “Oid Abe” than any other newspaper in Illinois. “The editor of said paper is his Honor Joha ‘Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago, familiarly called “Long John,” from his altitude, which is six feet six, or two inches more than that of the original rail splitter himself. A man of such proportions and of the official position of Went- worth, and of his skill, activity, zeal and power as a political editor, cannot be doubted as a man who speaks by authority, when he undertakes to proclaim the principles and pur- poses “of his Presidential candidate and the party supporting him. We have no doubt, should Lincoln be quietly established in the White House, on the 4th March next, that Went- worth will be duly installed as lord of the kitchen and the kitchen cabinet, much to the disgust of the Blairs, the Greeleys and the For- neys; for we dare say that much more than to all these men put together is Lincoln indebted to Wentworth for his nomination. Having thus established the semi-official cha racter of the aforesaid leading editorials of our Chicago cotemporary, let us see what they are. Taking the “irrepressible conflict” as proclaimed by “Old Abe” in 1858 as his plat- form, Mr. Wentworth, in a review of a late edi- torial of this journal on the subject of disunion, proceeds to show that the “game of scaring and bullying the North” is ‘but the old game which has been used time and time again to scare the North into submission to Southern demands and Southern tyranny;” that “we might as well make up our minds to fight the battle now as atany other time;” that “if we do not place slavery in the process of extinction by hemming it in where it is, and not suffering it to expand, it will extinguish us and our liberties;” and that against this work of “hemming them in,” the Southern States will not dare the ruinous experiment of seceding from the Union; for that “the only thing that can prevent a complete and bloody slave insurrection throughout the Southern States is the preser- vation of the Union.” Thus satisfied that the Northern mission of extinguishing slavery in the South may be safe- ly undertaken, Mr. Wentworth tells us that “a scheme may be devised and carried out which will result in the peaceful, honorable and equi- table emancipation of all the slaves; that “the States must be made all free;” that “the work will be one of time and patience, but it must ve done.” We are next assured that it is only their fear of the general government which pre- venis, at this moment, “a general insurrection among the slaves in the border States; from which it follows that, with the removal of this fear, there will be an insurrection which will the peaceful emancipation of all the slaves” an easy task. With the outlines of the republican programme for the abolition of slavery thus presented by an editor fully, possessing the confidence of Mr. Lincoln, is it any wonder that the alter native of secession and a Southern confederacy d be agitated in the South? What means this peaceable extinguishment of slavery? We | f me it means its exclusion from the Terri tories, and its removal from the District of Co. lumbia, navyryards, dock yards, &¢., by act of Con, next, the suppression of the inter State slave trade, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law: and next, the habeas cor cesses of Lysander Spooner in regard | In brief, with a Congress, an Executive and a Fs Liverpool, in 25, 6d. a de, 7 make same mind, it would not be a difficult matter, under an abolition interpretation of the consti tution, so to cripple this vital Southern institu tion of slavery as soon to render even a faithful dollars, utterly worthless to his master. And such, we doubt not, is this peaceful re publican programme for the conversion of all the States into free States. Are not Southern men aware of this? Do they not know that within the Union they have fallen completely under the overshadowing power of the North, and that this antislavery repub lican party have taken possession of the North? Is it aot patent t all the world Supreme Court all of the same model and the | Virginia field hand, now worth over a thousand | tion of slavery; and, to say nothing of the hazards of a servile revolt, is there not some- thing iu this item of two thousand millions of dollars involved in slave property calculated to rouse the resistance of Southern men to the point of war, against a deliberate mora! and political crusade, whose object is the destruc- tion of this property? There may be reason to apprehend, as indi- cated by Mr. Weatworth, that, with the election of Lincoln, the fear being removed from the minds of Southern slaves in regard to the general government, they may rise in a bloody insurrection against their masters. Should this terrible calamity occur, or anything in the form of a servile conspiracy, upon the heel of Lin- coln’s election, unquestionably the next thing will be a general movement in the Southern Btates towards eecession and a Southern con- federacy. At all events, it is abundantly mani- fest that this Presidential contest is between Lincoln and Breckinridge; that the chances are all in favor of Lincoln, and that his success will be regarded in the South as a declaration of no quarter to slavery. All this is plainly visible. The only question remaining is the submission or resistance of the South to the victorious aati- slavery power of the North. The greatest dau- ger is that we have had this cry of “wolf.” “wolf,” so often we may refuse to credit it, even with the wolf at the door. Tue Ocean TeLeGripas or Tar Worrp.—It will be interesting to all the friends of science in this country to know that the American Scientific Association begins its annual conven- tion to-day, when many interesting facts in re- gard to the progress of science in America will be brought up for the discussion of its mem- bers. Last month the British Association—a society formed upon very similar principles— held their sessions at Oxford, when some very important papers were submitted to them. Among these was one presented by Col. T. P. Shaffner, an American citizen, on the practicability of laying down an At- lantic telegraph to connect Europe with America by the Faroe islands, Iceland and Greenland, the line to traverse Labrador and Canada to Quebec. Two expeditions have already set forth to make investigations in the ice-ribbed waters of the frozen seas, and the re- ports of the distinguished navigators who have accompanied them will prove whether the Newfoundland route or that by Iceland ‘and Labrador is the better. It is an interesting fact to know that there are at present no less than five proposed means of connecting the Old and New Worlds, and the unanimous action of all the civilized nations of the earth would show that such an intimate con- nection between the two continents is “a con- summation devoutly to be wished.” We have, first of all, the old Atlantic telegraph, from Ire- land to Newfoundland, which was almost brought to complete perfection, and which. though silent for many a day, may yet be madé to speak again. Then there is the line proposed by Col. Shaffuer; the line by way of the Azores; the line by the Amoor river, Behring’s Straits, San Francisco, and across to our seaboard; and last, though not least, the means of communica- tion proposed by the Emperor of the French, and which, from his known sagacity, we may presume has some good features to recommend it. Thus, by the consent of Christendom, the prophecy of Pack will at length be realized, anda girdle be put about the earth in forty minutes. Danoers or THe Staten Istaxp Ferny.— Is there no law, ordinance or regulation to prevent the Staten Island ferry boats from taking a load of passengers which renders frightful loss of life at any moment imminent? This is one of the most frequented ferries run- ning from the city; and, we believe, with the exception of one boat, none of them employed there are considered safe or fit for their busi- ness. On the occasion of the sailing of the Great Eastern, on Monday, the boats were wded down to the water's edge, and it was same on the Fourth of July. If the slight- est panic had occurred—even from the most trivial cause—the results must have been fear- ful to think of, among such a dense mass of people crushed into so small a space. There is bardly a Sunday that hundreds of human lives are not placed in jeopardy on these boats. One can readily fancy what the consequence would be should a collision occur or an excitement of any kind arise on one of these boats, with a thousand people on board, and absolutely no means of saving a single life, except a few life preservers, stowed away no one knows where. There are no small boats kept on board, and life preservers, we need bardly say, afford a poor chance of escape when a thousand or even five hundred people are cast upon the waters in a heap. Should a on any Sunday, not the strongest nor the calm- est passenger on board could escape drowning. This is something terrible to contemplate, | and yet it is liable to occur at any time during the summer season. The proprietors of this | ferry should be indicted for this reckless ex- | posure of buman life if the law can reach them; and if not, the Common Council should see to it that the number of passengers on the boats be limited to an amount which will afford some guarantee of safety. Tur Cexsvs—Tue Growrn or New York.— The census is not yet completed, but probably will be by the 20th inst, though the law ex- | tends the time to the Ist of September. Enough | is now ascertained to show that the population | of this city has increased thirty-three per cent, and that it is now about 900,000, to which, if | the population of the suburbs of the city be added—as we have a right to do—there will be @ total of a million and a quarter, from which it appears that, outside China and Japan, New York is in population the third city in the world; and if its growth only continues in the same ratio—as there is every reason to believe | it will—this metropolis will soon be the first city in the world. Its growth is the measure of the growth of the country: while the United | States grow, it will necessarily grow in the same proportion, and that growth is unprece- dented in the history of the world. It is only the breaking up of the Union by fanaticism that can check the growth of this great Empire City, or retard the rapid increase of the population of the States, or prevent the speedy develope- ment of gigantic resources without a parallel. New York is the mighty brain of this body politic, communicating by nerves with its most remote extremities, and exercising more or leas of a controlling influence on every part catastrophe happen on the Staten Island boats | The Politicians at Fault and Guarling at Each Other. One of the most curious and remarkable phases of the present political contest, and which demonstrates its thoroughly revolution- ary character, is the letter writing warfare that is being carried on among the professional poli- ticians. Owing, in a great measure, to the popular sup- position that the divisions among the party leaders of the conservative interests will result in an election by default of the candidates of the radical republican minority, no political ex- citement can be got up among the people. The politicians are, therefore, endeavoring to bring their private merits forward, and are writing letters attacking each other, explaining where each stood three, six and twelve years ago—who they opposed, what faction they supported, what they got for it, and what they did not get; who was cheated, and how it was done; and, in fact, turning the whole system of political party management for the last dozen or twenty years inside out, so that its corruption stands in full view and smells in the nostrils of the people. Of this order we had several letters yester- day in the minor journals of this metropolis. The Tribune gives usa three column letter of Washington Hunt, and a four column reply of Horace Greeley; the News has a three columa letter from ex-State Engineer Seymour, who is after Greeley too; and the Times, for want of a better correspondent, publishes ex-Navy Agent Sanders’ scolding tirade at the President for bav- ing at last done him justice. The only grain of wheat in all this chaff is the following admis- sion of Greeley and his black republican coad- jutors:— Believing slavery to be a flagrant violation of the ina Kienable rights of man, burning reproach to our coun- u an enemy to her prosperity and pio, iw art, intelligence and cfvtization, I mean to labor for its eradi- cation from our own and all other couatries 80 long as 1 live, The same style of quarrel is going on among the professional politicians all over the coun- try. Wise and Hunter are ready to let™ out their pent up wrath against each other, and ae only restrained by the salutary suspicion that the people in the South will laugh at them, ju-t as the people in the North are laughing at Gree- ley, Hunt, Seymour, Sanders and the like. In Kentucky the same bitter feeling exists among .the professional spoilsmen, and the Guthrie men, the Combs men and the Douglas men are all accusing the Breckinridge men™uf having stolen from them the hear's of the peo- ple, none'of them being aware of the§ simp!e fact that the hearts of the people were never with them in their juggling and chea‘ing politi- cal operations. This wrangling aad mutually accusing "phase of the political revoluticn amounts to_pothing more than a verification of the Spanish proverb:—“When cronies fall out truths come to light.” But what does the country care whether Greeley was cheated out of the nomination for Governor or not, whether Hunt was estimated at his full value or not in the old whig party, | ozqhy Silos Seymour lost Bis gflice, or what Wise and Hunter th'nk of each other, or why the foolish Forsyth lost his mission ‘o Mexico, or whether the blackguard Pryor opines this or that, or what course the official léech Sanders pursues to get another ap- pointment? All of these and their fellow bickerings among the professional politicians only prove that an immense change has taken place in public opinion, and that these quar- rellers find themselves high and dry on the shoals and quicksands of partisan jugglery, while others bid fair to float into the fat places and snug harbors of political appointment. For all this the country does not care a fig, There is a great constitutional issue at stake, in which the safety aad happiness of all are in- volved; and before November the people will find this out, and come up from every side to vote fairly and squarely on it, and save the con- stitution and the Union from the insidious de- signs of black republicanism. Progress or THE Prixce or Wates,—The Prince of Wales is rapidly progressing in his journey towards the United States. He has left Newfoundland, and is now in Halifax, Nova Scotia; in a short time he will have visited Que- bec and Montreal, and will arrive at Niagara Falls, when he will enter the territory of the United States. He seems, from all the reports, to be improving, as he goes, in good looks and graceful manners, and to be growing rapidly into the good graces ofthe people of her Majes- ty’s colonies. We bave no doubt that when he arrives here he will win quite as much popular favor as in the British provinces. It is trne that we will not have the same opportunity for a public display of enthusiasm, because the Prince will lay down his state on the frontiers of the: republic, and come among us in the simple ca- pacity of a private gentleman, en route to the federal capital to pay a friendly visit to Presi- dent Buchanan; but such reception as he does meet with will be of the most cordial, respect- ful and genial kind—something that he will appreciate and remember. He will not be in- flicted with a formal welcome by our corporate officials, with all its attendant vulgarity and ob- trusiveness, nor will the pious folks of Trinity church, we sincerely hope, carry out their con- templated design of making a show of him, or canonizing him as a saint. He is a very intelligent, well conducted young gentleman, desirous of improvement, and, we should judge, rather fond of pleasure; but we hardly think that he aspires to a place in the calendar of saints; nor do we know whether he is even a member of any churcly so we trust that the pareons will not bore him, but will let him enjoy himself in his own way. He will thus take back to his own country a far more pleasing remembrance of the American republic, where he naturally expects to find an entire absence of flunkeyism and snobbery, and, no doubt, hopes to meet with his fellow men clothed only with the simple dignity of nature, as becomes a people who unite in their own persons the governors and the governed. Hattrax axdD New York—Tue Privce or Wares axp THe Great Eastery.—Two of the most splendid harbors on this continent were witnesses of a grand celebration on Monday. While the Prince of Wales, the heir to the throne of Great Britain, was landing at Halifax, the finest harbor in British America, amid the firing of cannon and the shouts of assem- bled thousands, the Great Eastern, another British institution, was steaming down the bay of New York, the finest harbor in the United States, greeted by tens of thousands of jubilant spectators, surrounded by a fleet of crowded steamers, yachts and boats of all dimensions — a parting eslnte thundering ont from all points os the monster moved along. Tt is 360. , * Question whether the eothusiagm in Malifax on ' that day was greater than along the bay of New York, and it may be very Gattering to the vanity of Joba Bull to know that in both places it wae British celebrity that evoked it. It is scurious Oincidence, however, that the two finest harbo, ¥ in America should have been the ecene of a gra 74 sensation on the same day. Sream Vexsow HLiwo Fins Evouns.—The fre in Nassau street on h'onday evening last bas demonstrated the supe tiority of steam over mere manual labor, when epplied to the] extin- guishing of great conflagrations It has also But in the face of all these facts, and of many engines, though worked by the most courageous, athletic. and devoted men, can never hold out or compete with the tremendous force and uncessing action of the steam fire king. As steam has already demonstrated its utility and power in every branch of art and human labor, it must also come to be exclusively applied to the extinction of fires. When this grand im- provement has been fully achieved, we shall hear of but few extensive conflagrations. To the prevence of one of these powerful engines we must, in a great measure, attribute the ex- emption of our own and other establishments from a very severe scorching on Monday night. Three or four large steam fire engines, bring- ing their full power of ejecting water to bear on a burning building, must very soon sub- due the flames, be they ever so fierce; and the consequence will be that, when these engines are in universal use, only one building can burn ata time, and life and property will be more securely guarded. Many of our firemen might look on the on- ward progress of steam fire engines a: an inno- vation in their profession, and as calculated to detract from the importance of their exemplary organization. But they greatly err if they be- lieve eo. The steam fire engines have to be at- tended to as carefully, if not more so, than the hand engines. They require as many men to take them to the post of danger, and. in cases of great fires, the mep of the Department would always find moré than enough to do without wearing out their strength by the fatiguing la- bors which the hand engines demand, and with- out which they are entirely useless. The improvement is, therefore, an advan- tage to all parties—to the public as well as to the members of the Fire Depart- ment themselves. As human muscle cannot compete with steam in working against fires, let steam be altogether brought into use. And we are glad to know that this desideratum is being slowly but certainly accomplished. There are now in this city four of these new and powerful regular district steam engines, besides two large exempt engines, which are only brought into requisition on the occasion of very large conflagrations. Measures are now, we learn, being taken by the Corporation for constructing others of the same class ; and if our city fathers really desire to protect the property of the public, they will relax no ef- fort to the city with a full complement of these superior engines. Tae Sire ror tux Post Orrice—Tux Derca Cuvrcu Turown Oversoarv.—We understand that the general government has decided not to take the old Dutch church in Nassau street as asite for the new Post Office, and for the reason that no clear title to the property can be had. It appears that there are several bodies lying in the vaults there, and the heirs to the different tombs cannot now be found; and, therefore, without their signatures no title would be secure, unless by some special act of the Legislature. Many of the heirs to these tombe are probably dead, but many may be living. and scattered over the face of the globe. It would be highly impolitic in the government to run the risk of future litigation under these circumstances, as they have no more right to take possession of these men’s tombe than of their houses. We said before, when it was rumored that the purchase of the Dutch church by government was completed, that it was not so; and it now ap- pears that we were correct in our statement, as we usually are. We consider it very fortu- nate for the public that this location cannot be had for a Post Office. It is not the proper place for it, because business is moving up town. and it would be a great hardship to com- pel people to come down to such an out of the way place as the present Post Office will be ten years hence. The fit place for the Post Office, the Custom House, the Mint and the federal courts is the City Hall Park. The title to that property is undisputed. It will be for years to come, if not always, the centre of commerce, and convenient enough to the busi- ness and shipping localities of the city. Let the city buildings be removed to the Five Points, and the oftices of the general govern- ment be erected in the Park, and we will have things as nature and the circumstances of the metropolis intended them to be. A Frayk Conressios.—A Douglas paper in the South says that “all the cause of Mf. Douglas wants to enable him to succeed is the truth.” This is a very grave lacking, for when a cause lacks truth it lacks everything, and we sgree with our contemporary that it is 4 very serious defect in Mr. Douglas’ cause, Williamsburg City News. Drowsen Wine Bare —A young maa, samed Samuel W. Inglec, was drowned at the foot of South Tenth street yesterday morning whilst engaged in bathing. It is supposed that he was seized with cramp and ren- dered hei Resiaeets of the vicimityZbeard bie cries for hetp, but their assistance came too tate. His body ‘was recovered and taken to his late bome, in Division ave. nue, near Fleventh street Assacitep ny Woes —A German, engaged at Schmader badie’ ybrewery, in Remsen street, was attacked ; a amber of females resi fing in the neighborhood, on Moa day evening, and severely beaten. It that he strock a little chiki with a horewhip, whieh, very matu- raliy, raised the indignation of the mother, who collected her friends and pitched inta the off-ader, who wns ay ere. ly drubved before they lot bin up ee | AFFAIRS AT Vi‘ NATIONAL CAPITAL. wn ns. Our Special Washin <tom Despaton. 1 Wasemnc tom, July 31, 1960. TRS OBCTMON MOVEMENTS Af THY BOUTS. It ws stated bere today upog high authority that tae digunion movement foreshadowed by KeXtt ia much more extensive end mature than had beem eupp.'¥d; that coa- certed ection has been taken by several of ie States ia seceding and thet an ageat is to be sent te Europe’ $0 sound the cabinets of 8. Cioud and St. James as te what policy they would feel bound to pursue toward @ Seuthern (ou- federacy tn case of a dissolution. It further stated that tnere is great approtiension ow the part of some of the delegates to the Dougtns Stata Convention which mecte at Staunton, Va., to-morrow, that they will be sold out to @ Breckinridge or fusion movement. It is quite probable Wise is at the head of ‘(he movement siightent regard for the well being of the country. Cooma (GANDEAS' LNTTKe TO TUS PREEZENT. ‘The appearanze of the DRPARTERE OF /UDCR BLACK FOR PRNNSTTV ANA Judge Biack leaves town to morrow for Pomasytvania, where be will remain for afew weeks. [His assistant, Mr. ‘MC Calmont, remains ia charge of the alice during hus absence from Japan. TMPORTANT DOCU MENTS FROM THE EMPRROK TO TUR EMBASSY —INCREASK OF TRADE, ETC. Sas Franceoo, July 19, 1960. Ry the bark Carrie Leland, which arrived here on the 16h of July from Kanagawa, Japan, we have inteligeace from that quarter to the 234 of May. ‘The | land Ur ngs ap agmorted carge of Japapese nvi.oas Aud gearral merchandise A package af docaments from ‘Ube Rinperor ( Japan to the Embassy at Washington wae received by tbis arrival, which will be tresemitted to ite destination by the next steamer for the Fast. The package is oblong in shape about eight webes in length by four iw breath, aad four inches thick. It was (orward- ed through the United States Cousu! at Kanagawa ‘The news is meagre. San Francisco vessels had obtained cargoes wihoat trouble, but the prices of goods were said to have ad- vanced very much. American balf dollars are represented to be usciams for the purpose of trade They are recerved at the C. stom. House only at a diseouat of § per cont Newe from the Pact. AFFAIRS IN CALIFORNIA, ORRUON 4¥D BRITINE OO- LUMBLA— MINING INTELLIGENCE, RC. Sr Jowera, July 31, 1860. We have the (vilowing additional sews by the pooy ox- _— ‘Sas France, July 19 5 OOP & The receipts of wheat the past fee days bave bore light, and vessels ar? retarded from Gilling up. Money is plentiful at 1\\ a 2 per cont e month ‘The pony express, with @&. Lows dates of July 1, ar rived at Carson Valley oo the 16th instant, aot oi tee Franc@no on the 16th it also brought (be letters by the previous expres: from & Joseph The delay was ooca- shned by Wailing somewhere ©! of Rall Lake for an eo Cort, and then having to journey two heodred miles company With soldiers, mekug ovly lorty mies per day. Tho route between Carson Valley and Salt Lake 4 now reported well storked and clear of fedvans. 6 tlnat the fa- ture tripe of the express will be regulariy made. ‘The news received by the pony express, which tof @. Touts 0a the Ist inst , of double demovratic mominations at Baltimore, perplexes the democrats more (haa ever. ‘The party organs hesitate to expport either ticket for fear \be ofher may prove tne sironger one The federal officials, wearly all of them, suppert Breckinridge aad lane. Salutes have been dred for Douglas, apd thea for Breck turidge and Lane, by the partisans of each, io overy Principal town in the State. The probabilities favor the nomination of (wo electoral tickets by the two wings of the party. A Donglas ratification meeting is called for th evening at San Francitco, and ex Governor Weller, Archibald ©. Peachey, General McDowall. aud vtier staunch supporters of the administration, are annonn od as the Kpeakore. The San Francisco Herald, the ovly democratic orgaa that came out in support of Dougias after the annoumes- ment of bis nomination, has become oileat for the pre- sent, it having received orders from the Custom House, from whence ita main support i# derived, to fo so. Two companies of overtand emigrants from Michigna bave arrived at Carton Valley within a week. They passed over the Indian infested portion of the route without the loas of one of their company. Accompany, pumbering forty two persons, from Kata- mazoo, bad a fight with the Indians sod whippet them. ‘The company all arrived im excellent bealth on the ish. ‘Three hundred and twenty thousand dollars remaine! i= the State Treasury. The statistics of operations in the San Francisoo Mint for the past year show the total gold coinage at $11,900,000 and over $500,000 sil rer cotmage Many people are leaving \ mala @ Seutheastore border town, for the newly discovered silver imines near Owen's Lake, on the Eastern slope of the moustaie:, 200 mile - south of the Washoe mines. ‘The last accounts state that 900 men had arrived ot these mines, and that rich silver leads of quarty, yielding $1,000 per ton, bod been diseoveret The steamer Pacific has arrived with later Orogea, Washington and British Columbia news Oregon dates to the 13th state that four companies of United States troope were to he despatched to the countey cast of the Cascades, to protect the settlers against the Indians: Captain Smith's company, while marching towards Honey Lake, was attacked by over 300 indians, armed With guns and bows and arrows The fight lasted nearty an hour. Several Indians were killed. General Harney arrived by the Pacific on hie way to Washington, Col. Wright bas been appointed to the command of the Department, tee Oregon gold im Considerable quantities tas Dorn found 00 the tributaries of Des Chates river. The Snake Indians are manifostiag » hostile ¢uposties An election for mem ders of tar Legisiature has beew bet in Washington Territory. Returns are only received from Cowlita county electing two repebtioans by Uhurty mayor> ty. This county bus heretofore gone largely domerste Dates from British Columbia to the 14th state thee new gold mining region has been die overed 9 Okonage and Insuctic counties. This & regarded as unportass a Ding pews. News from the mines os generally xtremety faroeatte. ‘There is no other news. Everything was quiet at Kanagawa, but theiatartor of the country was ins disturbed state, ft wae de Prince Regent who was assastinated by the adbercais Of Prince Metao, The act was committed within te Walle of Une Regent's palace. The assassins bad all BOR Haptorst The Tycoon is represented to be very Where’ towards foreigners, and for this reason be CUCHMBETEF Ce wi wis of Prince Metao. The bark Onward i daily expected t dates from Kanagawa to the beh of Jame surerive cevensseer ce. PM Honstaly Jane & foe Tioag Boog. Moth, Vesta, arrive, ete