The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1860, Page 4

4 ~— NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, OFFICE K. W. CORNKE OF NASSAU AND FULTON BTS. TERMS, cach tn acwunce Money cont by madt wht! be at wiah of the sender. Postage Mamps wot recewad Ge subseript mu part of Oe Combiner ns cach enanih a vos conta Dy WERALD on Wednesday, at four cents per RY CORRES! ‘1 tant ¥ CORRESPONDENCE, containing imrorian! a Ho (AGES SENT US. FO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, Wedonot return vejocied communications ees VERTISEM. wet cha Wercer Tena Wisnaud, and im the Cao IN TING oavcuted with neatniss, cheapness and de- NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Equesrzuus Prarore- z8. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, op Tout Rors Feats—Le Disnix « Qcaze Bond ac Pras. WALLACK’S THRATRE. Broadway.—Pavorex O'Ray- gatr—Tomice Manuimo—M i Two Fatancs. LAURA EEENF'S THEATRE, No. @4 Broadway.—Ovn Amsnicas Cousin. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rossrce—Aurine Maw-F. Hypen BAENUD’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Rron¢way.—Day and Breaing—Ermorian, Soxcs, Dances, Bortesques, Living Cumiosites, ac. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanies’ Mall, 472 Brosdway.— Buriesaces, S0xG8, Daxens, &c.—Stam Ficut. NATIONAL VARIETIES, Chatham steget.—Jeway Twit- Oura—M. DecnaLvmessx—Toow PALACF GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Vocat axo Ix- grxcwestas Concunt. CANTERBURY CONCERT HALL, 6 Brosdway.— Soncs, Danone, BuuLESOURA AC. New York, Tucsdny, August 7, 1860. MAILS FOR EUROPE. @mo New York Herald—Edition for Kurope. ‘The Cunard mai! steamship Canada, Capt. Lang, will feave Boston, on Wednesday, for Liverpool. ‘The maiis for Rurepe will close in this city this after- noon at a quarter past one o'clock to go by railroad, and fat a quarter to four o'clock to go by steamboat, ‘The Evrorass Kormos ov vis Hxestp wil! be published et ten o'clock im the morning, Single copies, in wrap- pers, 8!x cents, ‘The contents of the Evrorman Korriow ov was Hamatp will comb ‘ne the news recetved by mail and telegraph a: the office during the previous woek, and up to the hour of The News, Elections took place yesterday in Kentucky, i, Arkansas and Texas. We have no re- turns from the two last mentioned States. The om Kentucky indicate the election of eslic Combs, the candidate of the Bell party for Clerk of the Court of Appeals, over his two democratic competitors, by a large majority. ‘The returns from Missouri afford no indication as to the result. The New York Breckinridge State Convention, for the nomination of candidates for State officers and Presidential electors, will mect at Syracuse to- day. Iast evening there was reason to believe that every Assembly district will be represented in the Convention, and several of the leaders of the party were alroady on the ground. A report pre- vailed in Syracuse last night that a large number of fighting men from this city would reach there to-day, to take part in the outside proceedings of the Convention. By the arrival of the overland pony express we have advices from China to May 26, Japan to June 26, and from San Francisco t® July 25. A tele- * graphic summary of the nows is given in another column. At San Francisco business was greatly depressed. The democratic politicians throughout California were quite undecided as to their Presi- dential preferences, and were awaiting news of movements in the Atlantic States. The news from Japa: resting. The war in China had caused great ivity in all branches of trade, but the enhanced prices of commodities in consequence had created considerable prejudice towards for- eigners among certain classes. From China we learn that the rebels have been very successful re- cently. It was reported that the Chinese ap the Peiho were preparing to defend themselves against the invasion of the French and English. By #0 arrival at New Orleans we have news from Vera Croz. The city was healthy. The liberals were preparing to attack the capital, and the Mira- mon party threaten to attack VeraCruz, Miramon was at Lagos at last accounts. The steamship Arago, from Flavre and Souath- ampton 25th ult., with 153 passengers, the mails nnd a full cargo of merchandise, arrived at this port last evening. She brings no news. Amongst the passengers by the Arago wo notice Lewis Cass, Jr., Baq., ex-Minister to Rome; Colonel Axel Gi dolin, of the Rassian army, and Monsicur R. de la Sance, Vice Consul for France at Richmond. The steamship Vigo, which left this port on Saturday last for Liverpool, will arrive off Cape Trace te day or to-morrow, and communicate with the shore for the latest despatches from this city. A large portion of our space to-day is devoted to the accounts given by our special correspon- dents of the first landing of the Prince of Wales at St. Joins, N. F., his re there, and the cele- bration upon his arrival Halifax. Everywhere the people turned out en masse to do honor to the heir apparent, and at Halifax o large number of Indians participated in the demonstration. A meeting of the British residents of New York took place last evening at the Astor House, to make Ty arrangements for the reception of the Wales in New York. A committee was appointed for that purpose, who will report pro- ceedings at a future meeting. The injunction sued out to prohibit the munici- pal aathorities from paying the $105,000 expenses for the entertainment of the Japanese was to have been taken up in the Sapreme Court yesterday, but owing to the large number of cases before it on the calendar, the case was not reached. A large number of people attended the meeting of the board of Supervisors yesterday, to hear the report of the special committee on the appoint- ment of canvassers and inspectors for the coming election. These officials number 1,300, and the chairman of the committee said they had been se- lected from all political parties, and were worthy of confidence. Whereupon the ballotting com- meaced, and doubtless the entire list was confirm: ed A meeting of citizens opposed to the exten: sion of Chambers street to the East river was hold yesterday ‘at Tammany Hall, After some conversation, & committee was appointed to ob- tain legal advice in regard to the subject, and also to cali another meeting of the remonstrants if necessary. ‘The funeral of Major Morton Fairchild, 9 distin. guished soldier of the war with Mexico, took place yesterday from the City Hall. A description of the obsequies is given in another column. A regular meeting of the Tammany Socicty was held last evening at the Wigwam. Issac Dali, Jr., one of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction, was elected to fill a vacancy in the James Conner to the office of Grand Sachem of the Order. According to the City Inspector's report there were 497 deaths ia the city during the past week, a decrease of 7 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 126 less than cocurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitalstion table gives 1 death of disease of the bones, joints, &c., 95 of the brain and nerves. 6 of the generative organs, 12 of the heart and blood vessels, 99 of the lungs, throat, &., 6 of old age, 24 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 197 of diseasea of the stomach, bowels and cther di- gestive organs, 66 of general fevers, 2 premature births, lof disease of the urinary organs, 1 an- known, and 32 from viclent causes. The na- tivity table gives 258 natives of the United States, 104 of Ireland, 89 of Germany, 6 of England, 4 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign coun- tries. The report contains the gratifying informa- tion that the bills of mortality of the month of July, 1860, when compared with those of 1858 and 1869, show 787 leas deaths than in 1853, and $27 less than in 1869, Infsntile mortality has largely diminished, and when compared with the month of July, 1858, the bills show a decrease of 630, and $70 less than in 1859, The cotton market at present is moro ivfuenced by in- ‘telligence from the South regarding the injury inflicted on the crop by the drought than by the news from Liver- poo!, At last accounts, except here and there, where oc casional showers bad fallen, {t was without mitigation. ‘The crops ou the highlands, which comprise the clicf dis- trict of ita culture, hnd suffered severely, and led to the opinion that, come what might hereafter, the yield there would bea third less. On low lands and river bottoms the crops were, in the main, considered to be equal to what they were last year. The corn had suffered groat- ly, and in many sections of the country it was considered a failuro. Owing to the advices from the South, the market assumed increased firmness and ac tivity yesterday, with sales of 2,000 bales, closing on the basis of 10°¢. @ LO%c. for midd!ing uplands. Flour was in better demanc, and under the influence of the foreign mews closed at an advance of about 6c. per barrel. ‘Wheat was also in good demand, and firmer, and closed about 1c, per bushel higher. Corn was in good demand, and closed firm. Pork was somewhat irregular. Sales of ew mess were made at $19123¢, cld prime at $15 25 (check on the day), end new do., in smal! lots, at $14. A time sale of mess for September delivery was made, seller’s option, at $19 25. Sugars were steady, with sales of 600 hhds., at rates given in another colamn. Coffee war quiet, awaiting the advent of the public sale, Freighte were firm, with moderate engagements to Liverpceo! and London at full rates. Our Financial Prospect. It is o rather fortunate thing that the census of the United States is to be taken this year, for Providence has so favored us that we shall be able to make e show that will astonish the world. The figures which indicate the produc- tive capacity of the country, as revealed in the census of 1860, will probably astonish even the most sanguine of our own people. It is now admitted that the figures of the cen- sus of 1850 are unserviceable for the purposes of commercial ealculation. They were in many instances defective when they were first collected ; and the country has grown so much since then that the most ludicrous errors are made by those wha use them as the basis of es- timates. A few of the States take an annual account of stock, which is probably in the main pretty trustworthy ; but as this is not general, it is useless for national computations. No one can tell within 60,000,000 bushels how much wheat is produced in the United States, or within 200,000,000 bushels how much corn. The actual amount of rice, tobacco, hay, pork, beef, butter, rye, potatoes, &c., raised in the country is equally a matter of doubt. People talk of a maximum crop of 200,000,000 bushels wheat, and 700,000,Q90 bushels corn ; but these are mere rough guesses. There is only one great staple whose production is reliably ascertained from year to year, and that is cotton. It is, however, pretty certain by this time that the crops of 1860, whatever may be the aggregate amount of each, will without excep- tion be the largest ever raised in the country. The only crop failure this year is the wheat and corn crops of some of the Southern States where they have had but little rain; but these States have never been great pro- ducers of food, though their wheat has gene- rally been very fine in quality. Throughout the great wheat growing States of the Union— New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Ili- nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Towa—the crop is universally pronounced by the farmers to be the beat ever harvested. Corn promises equally well; unless some unusual disaster should occur the corn crop likewise will be largely in excess of the average. Lands which in 1858 yielded five bushels wheat to the acre, will this year yield twenty; and lands which in the same year gave fifteen to twenty bushels corn, will this year give forty-five to sixty. We believe that, as a general rule, pota- toes, hay and rye will be a full average; the beef and pork crop will be considerably above an average. In the South, both the tobacco and the rice planters are in good spirits; the sugar crop of Louisiana will be short, we are told, as also will the corn crop in the Gulf States, With regard to cotton, opinions differ somewhat. In the beginning of July the favorite estimate, based on the area planted, and the fair spring weather, was 5,000,000 bales; but since then the drought bas affected the uplands, and some re- duction must be made. Some authorities look, under favorable circumstances, for a crop of 4,800,000; others think it will not exceed the crop of 1859, say 4,600,000; while others doubt whether it will reach 4,500,000 bales. But no one seems to doubt, unless the fall season should prove very unfavorable, that it will be 40 9 45 per cent in excess of the average crop five years ago. Bere, then, is a clear prospect of an aggregate increase of wealth, by actual production, which can hardly be figured in dollars. Turn- ing, on the other hand, te the manu- facturing business of the country, we find that it never was 80 prosperous as it is at present. The report from every part of New England is, that the mills are in con- stant operation; thet the manufacturers cannot fill their orders; that labor is in constant de- mand, and that new milis are being built on every side. The amount of raw material con- sumed in the New England factories thie year is fully one-third in excess of the old average. New England is competing successfully with Old England for the Asiatic trade. Greet Britain ‘will find, after she has spent a few ecore of mfi- lions in subjugating the Hindoos and beating the Chinese, that she has merely opened a mar- ket for Lowell and Lawrence. So in hardware. Our native manufactures are driving the foreign goods ont of the market; if the present duties were abolished, in a few years our manufac. turers would have the whole home field to them- selves. Mesawhile, for the first time in our history, our consumption has not kept pace with our production. It seems & monstrous thing to say, Couved of Sachemg caused by the clection of ' but we ate really saying money, The importa: tions of foreign goods at year to date are only $142,599.715 against this port for the $156,450,994 to the corresponding date lust year; while our exports of domestic produce are $46,- 281,575, against $53,573,647 for the same period of 1859. Generally speaking, the American people not oaly spead all the money they make, but borrow as much as they can besides. Now we are spending comparatively little, earning a great deal more than usual, and borrowing nothirg. We are bullding no railroads, excepta few necessary extensions of our present railway system into the Western wilderness. No new issues of railway bonds or stock are seeking purchasers in Wall street; no financiers are go- ing to Europe with faming prospectuses to try to wheedle Jobn Bul! out of bis money. Until within a few weeks, even the merchants have not been borrowing as much as the banks want- edto lend. Universal caution and conserva: tiem seem to have overtaken the financial and commercial community. This is most gratifying picture—it is one which can be drawn of no nation in the world but this. Of course it need hardly be added that the present isa transitory stage: that the vast increase of wealth proceeding from the ‘enormously increased: yield of the earth and of the factories must beget @ corresponding in- crease of commercial activity and speculative enterprise, spreading new life and strength throughout every fibre of the national body, and affording lucrative employment to all classes of the people. Were it not for the un- certainties of the Presidential election, and the doubts which overhang the future conduct of the desperate politicians who bavé no thought beyond the division of the epoils, there would not be a cloud or a epeck on the horizon. The Prospeet of Lincoln's Election—The Duty of the Opposing Candidates. The election of Abraham Lincoln as our next President is now generally conceded to be in- evitable. To be sure, the republican party, which cannot command an electoral vote in the Southern States, is a minority party in the Northern States, and with the concentration of the forces opposed to it, this party could easily be driven from the field. But while it is united like a Macedonian phalanx, the superior num- bers of the opposition are divided into several hostile camps, apparently more intent upon the destruction of each other than upon the defeat of the common enemy. The Dongias organs and orators, right and left, are denouncing the Breckinridge ticket as the disunion ticket, the party supporting it as the Southern disunion party, and Mr. Buchanan is charged with being a mere instrument of mis- chief in the hands of the Southern fire-eaters. On the other hand, the organs and ora- tors of the Breckinridge faction repudiate Douglas os a trickster and a traitor, and a semi-abolitionist, playing away his hopes, his fortunes and his followers, into the receiving basket of the republican church. Mr. Douglas, meantime, is on his travels, here speak- ing to # boisterous company of serenadere, there to the’curious population of a country village, and next at a Yankee clambake, and every- where, on all occasions, and for all diseases of the body politic, advertising and recommend- ing his patent medicine of popular or squatter sovereignty to the people. Next, there is the Bell-Everett, or “ihe old gentlemen’s party,” a very conservative party, cutting in and cutting out, combining with or opposing Douglas, or Breckinridge, or both, as the occasion may seem to demand, in this place, that place, and the other. They would be thankful, too, for the support of the republi- cans, where such support would be useful~-that is, in the border slave States—and they doubt- less expect to get it here and there, in default of a republican electoral ticket. Now, with these three parties or factions in the field, dividing the forces opposed to the republicans into three separate armies, ex- hausting their ammunition against euch other, or foolishly negotiating impossible combina- tions, there is nothing in the world to prevent the republicans cutting them all to pieces, as the first Napoleon cut up the divided forces of the Austrians at Rivoli. It is sheer nonsense to talk of any other result with the present di- visions and dispositions of the anti-republi- can forces. We cannot believe that there are ten men in a hundred thousand who can read a newspaper who, under the circumstances and party movements of the day, anticipate any other result than Lincoln’s election. With the union or co-operation of the popu- lar elements opposed to him, be could be de feated; and in view of this union or co-opera- tion, we have thrown cut the suggestion of a National Conven..on in New York of the in- dependent conservative people, without dis- tinction of party. But such large bodies move slowly. This Convention would take time, even if undertaken at all, and time is precious. There is a shorter and more practical method for accomplishing the end in view. It is the withdrawal of the three tickets of Breckinridge and Lane, Douglas and Johnson, aud Bell and Everett, from the field, and the adoption of a single ticket upon which these three parties may unite. But bow is th’s to be done? Not by party caucuses or conferences, No! If left to the respective “friends” of Breckinridge, Douglas and Bell, no arrangement of this kind would be made, if the election, for their accom- modation, were postponed for ten years. But there isa way whereby this scheme of fusion may be consummated, and it is very simple. Let Messrs. Breckinridge and Lane, Douglas and Johnson, Bell and Everett, meet together in a little convention of six, or, if they would rather have it, seven; let them take in General Houstoa, and let them agree among themselves to withdraw from this canvass, and recommend a joint stock ticket to the people, including a candidate from each of the two great sections of the Union, and Lincoln may be defeated. We assume that with each of the seven men aforesaid party is nothing; personal dis- appointments, prejudices and sacrifices are nothing; and the empty husks of party ab- stractions are nothing, weighed in the balance against the Union. We take it for granted that they are patriotic men, and have sense enough to see and to know that the election of Lincoln will put the Union in jeopardy at once, and may speedily destroy it. They all know that the fixed purpose, the “one idea,” of the repub- lican party is to root out slavery, not only from the Territories, but from the United States. The seven distinguished candidates aforesaid know that Mr. Lincoln is pledged to this programme; that be believes in it; that he is an honest man, anda resolate man, and will not be diverted from what he believes to be his duty, until the backward step may be too late to eave us from dissolution. All this is plain as daylight. Fartbermore, Lincol’s election, with bis new programme, will inaugurete a new epoch and a pew order of things, under which all these eut- side candidates, leaders and parties of this day will be submerged. Consequently, if Breckin- ridge and Lane, Dougles and Johason, Bell and Everett and Houston, would be heard of efter this election, they will move now, as we have indi- cated, to turn it in the right direction to save the day. Tur Japanese SwuvrLe—Tue New Yors Cor- poration Ary Pupris.—The papers say that in the Corporation of New York there is what is called “a ring,” or inner circle of members, who are known to each other by a secret or mystic tie—that they conspire together to rob the taxpayers in various ways—that they divide the spoils between them, and mever admit those outside the ring to any participation in the plunder, and that the Japanese swindle belongs to that category. We believe there is a great deal of truth in that statement. But the New York Corporation is not the only public body in which there are “rings.” Who does not know of the famous Matteson circle in Congress? It waa sworn by Reverdy Jobnson, in his evidence in the Des Moines Improvement case, that come of the initiated admitted to him that the circle consisted of thirty or forty members, of all par- ties, who held the balance of power, and would let no bill pass which did not pay toll. The New York Corporation, who are apt scholars in this kind of erudition, have followed the re- epectable example set them in Congress, and they have committed a great many acts of rascality; but the climax is capped by the Japanese bill, which for downright bare- faced robbery is without a parallel in the history of corporations. The taxpayers ought to call a public indignation meeting im- mediately to denounce all who have any complicity in the matter, and not let the matter die away like a nine days’ wonder. Here is a list of those who voted for the pay- ment of the bill in the face of the facts set forth in the application of Mr. Chatfield for an injunction:— Wwington 183 Washingtot st. Broom dealer, 612 Third avenue... Rumeeller, The taxes in this city have been accumu- lated to such an extent by a succession of frauds, that every man who has real es- tate in New York is frightened at the pros- pect of the destruction of his property by excessive burthens; for where will men stop who are capable of concocting so outrageous a robbery as that involved in the Japanese bill? The most wealthy citizens will flee to other cities to avoid the imposition, and those who remain will have to share among them the in- tolerable load. This is a fearful state of things, and it ought to be brought to a speedy end. We hope the citizens of New York will do their uty to themselves and the city, by assembling in ® great demonstration to demand for the past and security for the future. AsoTurr Great Merror.—It will be seen, by and newspaper extracts which we publish @lsewhere in to day's Henatn, that another great meteor has been witnessed in the southwest, equal to, if not surpassing, the won- derful meteoric phenomenon which occurred on the 20th of July. We have accounts of the ap- pearance of this last meteor from Knoxville and Nashville, in Tennessee; Caroline county, Vir- ginia; Buncombe county, North Carolina; Cin- cinnati, Warren county, Chillicothe and Yellow Springs, in Ohio, and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It appeared on Thursday evening last, the 2d instant, and was visible for but an instant; from half a second to ten seconds {fs the range of ee- timates. Our Knoxville correspondent de- ecribes it as being about fifty timés as large and more brilliant than a skyrocket, with a tail of apparently three hundred yards in length, and throwing off the brightest scintillations. He thinks it must have been much more dazzling than the meteor of the 20th of Jnly, of whieh he had read descriptions in the Henatn. Singn- larly enough, both he and our Virginia corres pondent witnessed the memorable dieplay of shooting stars in 1932, and they agree that that did not compare in splendor with this pheno- menon. The latter correspondent is disposed to think that this was the same “pale wanderer of the skies” that flew across the heavens a fort- night before, and that baffled the science of all our astronomers; but one obstacle to this sup- position is that, whereas the former travelled from west to east, the latter pursued a directly opposite course—from southeast to northwest. It is somewhat remarkable that both appeared at about the same hour in the evening—between half-past nine and half-past ten. These meteoric displays, while they attract general attention, will engage the serious studies of our savante in regard toa matter of which absolutely no- thing is known. Vistt or tur Parce or Waters to New Yors—Tur Prorosep Demonstration py THE Barris Restoets.—We are glad to see that at the meeting of the British residents held at the Astor House last night to consider the propriety of getting up a separate demonstration to wel- come the Prince of Wales to New York, no de- cision was arrived at. The matter was referred to a committee, probably with a view of shelr- ing it entirely, ns it is well known that o large number of English residents conenr ia the views expressed by us as to the impolicy and bad taste of marting the warm reception which our citizens are disposed to give the Prince by any exclusive proceeding of this kind. The gentle- men whose loyal feelings induced them to sign the call for this meeting may rest assured that both the Prince's sentiments and their own in- terest in him will be best consulted by leaving to Americans the task of receiving worthily the son of a monarch who has so many claims on our friendship and respect. . Tux Jousner or THE Prince ov Waes.— Every account from the whereabouts of the Prince of Wales represents the furor of the people of éhe British Provinces as on the in- crease. ‘Nothing can exceed the amount of en- thusissm and loyalty which everywhere greets bim. In this gountry, too, the interest in the young Prince i: every day becoming more warm. The detailed description of his pro- gress which we pwblish to-day will be read with eagerness by vist numbers of our people, who are looking forward with pleasure to the time when we shall hqwe him amongst us. The reception be receives in New York, the great commercial metropolis of the country, should be marked with a dignity and decorum befitting ourselves, and his position as the heir apparent to that great empire from wiich we originally sprang. We ebould take warning by past experiences, and not overdo it on this occasion. There is such e thing as too much ‘manners es well as too little manners, and that becomes toadyism. The great fault with our people is that, under exciting circumstances of this kind, they are apt. to make themselves 8 little ridiculous sometimes. We have seen nt- merous sensations and receptions here during the last thirty years, and there were very few of them that were not characterized by some ec- centricities. Sometimes the people display their ill manners, as they did the other day in Phile- delphis, on the occasion of the visit of the Japaneso; sometimes the visit of dis- tinguished strangers is made the pretext for plunging into the treasury, and rob- bing it of & goodly sum, ae in the case of the New York Corporation and the Japanese recep- tion; and sometimes enthusiasm runs to the pitch of madness, only to experience o remarkably eudden reaction, as in the case of Kossuth. We tope the reception of the Prince of Wales will be free from all those eccentricities. He does not appeal to any political or other ex- citing feelings. He ccmes here seeking instruc- tion and information which may be useful to him in his future career, as Telemachus, in the days of ancient Greece, travelled with Mentor, before assuming the rank and duties of his pro- genitor. Therefore let him be received with a genial end hearty welcome, neither bored with toadyism nor intruded upon with vulgarity, but with that dignified hospitality which becomes a free and enlightened people. Tox New York Yacut Sqvapron.—The an- nual cruise of the New York Yacht Club com- mences this week, and promises to be an un- usually interesting affair. A large number of boats have already been entered, and it ts not unlikely that the occasion will be the most animated that has ever marked the career of the club. The rendezvous, which is at Whitestone, near Glen Cove, will take place to-day, and to-mor- row the cruise will commence, and extend over the customary ground to New London, New- por$, cr wherever Commodore Stevens may elect. The Commodore, by the way, appears, for the fret time in twe or three years, in his celebrat- ed yacht Maria, which, baving undergone al- terations from s sloop to « schooner, is expect ed to do some sharp things in the way of fast sailing. Several races are on the tapis, and rare sport is anticipated. A band of music will accompany the squad- ron, and between all the pleasures of sense and soul with which both visiters and visited will be blessed, & life will be infused into the event thet will make it one of the epochs in the history of American yachting. The interest in this aquatic amusement is evidently on the increase. New yachts have been and ere about to be added to the squad- ron, new members are continually joining the club, and there is every prospect that before many years have elapsed this healthy and at- tractive sport will have become so popular as to be worthy of being placed first on the List of the national pleasures of our young country. Tos Press axp tae Potrrictans.—Every Presidential election brings out some strange developements about the newspaper press. Sometimes a new paper is started—a campaign affair—sometimes the politicians buy a paper already in existence, and sometimes the paper buys them. It was lately announced that 6 pen- ny paper was to be started in this city, and that Robert J. Walker, ex-Governor of Kansas, and George N. Sanders, ex-Governor of Nowhere, bad invested 6 million of dollars in the specula- tion. But it appears thet they have backed out of the business, as one that would not pay, and will probably invest their spare cash in the back settlements of Kansas or Nebraska, or somewhere in that direction. It seems that penny papers, or any other kind of papers devoted te party polities, are far from being profitable concerns just now. Even in Chicago, the headquarters of one of the most prominent of the Presidential candidates, and the very focus of bis popularity and power, the papers in his interest are eating each other up. Rig chief organ now finds itself in the bowels of another journal, though we are assured it had been “conducted from ite first issue, not only with ability, but with s vigor which has eleva- ted it to the position of the leading democratic paper in the Northwest.” The reason assigned for the in of this great oracle is, that “pe- cuniary ties had sprung up between the partners in the concern, which left no alterna- tive but the one adopted.” What are the pecu- niary difficulties of the Chicago jourcal com- pared with the ea of troubles which would-en- compass and swallow up a New York penny pa- per launched under the auspices of Walker, Soaders & Co.! Reronrens Por THE AssociateD Press.—In another column we publish the letter of « re- porter of the Associated Press, vindicating him- self from the charge of partiality in his reports, and of playing into the hands of the Albany Re- gency. We are bound to state, however, that this is not the only instance in which the writer has been accused of this course. His reports of the Convention at Syracuse last year were charged by Mayor Wood with being un- fair, and os misrepresenting the For our own part, we can only repeat what we said a few days ago--that the Associated Press will never retain in its employment any man against whom it is proved that he has ted the proceedings of any convonticn or other public body. We want on all cconsions the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Aperiws Petr at Samatoc 4.—This charming rocalist is fannouneed for a grand concert im Saratoga, on Thursday next, under the direction of Maurice Strakoseh. it will be under the patronage of ali the leading fiwhionsbics, and ag the hotels are more than etually crowded It pro tiger to be quite 4 brill'ngt aad romuperative alfa!r, ~ THE STATE ELECTIONS. ‘The Kentucity Election. DIDATS FOR CLERK OF TH): OUURT OF APrBALs. CmpIsT:, August 6, 1068. Tre returns rébeived from the electien in Kentccky t- dicate the election of Coombs, the opposition candidate for Clerk of the Court of Appenis by a large majority. We bave tHe following returns:— Willtamstown—Coombe 97 m: i" Frankfort—Coombs 147 A ‘ ‘coun! a Bourbon county —Coombs 380'm: Exmpoet county Corns 0 te Covington city Conn mari Loulsville—Coombe 4,275, MoClarty \, Botting 84, The Missouri State Elvetion. Wansiw, Mo., Augmst6, 1600: Ballou, dom., is elected representative certain, an Reld and the regular democrutia State Ueket will get’ from 200 to 400 majority. Hancock Jacitzor, 80 far am Sramcrmezn, Mo., August 6, 1868, Phelps will beat both of bie competitors 2,500. Ham cock Jackson will not receive 1,000 votes it this Com gressional district. Wasarctoy, Mo., August 6, 1968. 00. Wansiw, August 0, 1860. _ C. T, Jackson's majority. together with the Sit ticket, te Benton county, ts from 400 t05,600. Ret, for Congress, received the samo majority as the State ticiet. Judge alloc, democrat, is eleoied to the Legisiatize by 400 ma-_ Jortty. Invwmncon Corr, Augaet 6, 1989. Tuis townsbip, Price 160 majority, and Crr about 168 majority, Liberty township gives Price O2 majority. Miron townzhip gives Price 106 majority. ‘The North Carolina State Election. SUCCESS OF THE DEMOCRACY—LARGE GAINS POR THR. OPPOSITION. Perersucng, Va., August 6, 1960. ‘The Faprecs (neutral) has just received the following from ® retiable source at Naieigh:—Full returns from: forty-five counties show a net gain for Pool of 2,019 over Gtimer's vote in 1856. Theee forty-fve counties constt-* tute two-thirds of the popular vote in the State. Admit. Ung that Pool will gain in the came ratio in the remaindse of the State, Ellis’ majority will be 7,687. The dome- cratic majority in the Legislature will be reduced cca- siderably, but is too large to be overcome. The deme- crate have evidently carried the State. The New York Breckinridge State Com= vention, SPIRITED GATHERING OF THR FRIENDS OF PRECKIK- RIXGE AND LANE-—POSITION OF COLLECTOR SCHELL—APPREHENSIONS OF A ROW—THE CAN DIPATES FOR NOMINATIONS, ETC., ETO. GPSCTAL DESPATCH TO THR EERALD. Sraccsr, August 6, 1860. Tue Breckinridge partisans arc gathering bere in ful strength. It was at Orst supposed that the gathering at the State Convention would be lean and spiritiess, but i6 is now settled that the old line democracy of every As- sembly district will be represented in the Convention to-morrow. The hard shell managers are mostly on the ground, and are canguine of polling a large vote on a sepa- rate ticket. Mr. Groen is recognized by all the delegates from the rural districts, and the movement of Collector Sebel, of New York, ts openly derided asabsurd, The New York Custom House, it is said, hes oo influence out- Side of New York city, and no delegates have been chosen to Mr. Schell's Convention. . Ttwas aid to-night that Mr. Schell would not be here to-morrow at all. It is reported that he promised Gov. Stevens, c! the National Committee, at Washington, not to interfere with Green's organization of the Conventica. Considerable sensation ts caused by the report thas Douglas fgbting men are to croste a disturbance in Oo- rinthian Hall, where the (Convention meets, to-morrow, It ts said thats large gang have beer sent here on we Centra! Railroad, ticketed through with free passes. Very Little talk is had about candidates for State offices, Mr. Dickiason, Mr. 0’ Conor, Col. Crain, of Herkimor, and, others are urged by their friends. The indications are that the Convention wil. force Mr. Dickinson to tale the place at the head of the ticket. :Mr. Jayoox can berenor inated for Cana! Commistioner, but declines positively. A full electoral ticket will be made ef clear and sound Breckim- ridge men, and all offers of fusion with the Donglas mem will be quietly laid or the table. s Mr. Groen will be reappointed Chairman of the State Committee. Sreaccer, August 6—Midnight. A caucus of about one hundred members of the Oonven- tion has just been held at the Voorhees House. Hon. Henry §. Randall spoke at fength cpon the question of the two calls for « Stave Convention, recognizing John A. Green, Jr., as the leader tn the warfare against the Albany Regency, and claiming that {t was his right to organize the Con- / vention. He eaid that Mr. Schell must acquiesce in this, Mr. Randall's remarks were loudiy cheered. He cloned by inquiring whether there was single delegate present, who declined to recognize Mr. Green's organizaticr. There ‘was no afirmative response. Genera! Chamberiair and other speakers followed, en- dorsing Mr. Randall's views. After a full interchange cf opinion the caucus ad- Jourzed. Mr. Schell arrived to-night, attended by Mr. Mather, Mr. Mclatyre and Mr, Bixby, of the public stores. There ts question now whether he will attempt to organizoa separate Convention, but it is generally believed he will , not. The Convention t# al! at sca or the sulject of nomina- tions. Therentiment fe almost unan!rmous against acy union w ith the Douglacites. x‘ Governor Dickinson is expected here from Binghamton in the morning. . THE GENERAL NEWSPAPER DESPATCH. Srracver, August ¢—6 P.M ‘The attendance of delegates to the Breckinridge and Lane Democratic State Convention at present ts light, but ‘a pumber of delegates will arrive by the next train. It ts expected there will be a full representation to-mer- row. Very fow outsiders muster as yet. Hon. Edwin Cromwell bas remained cver ai Albany, and Will aot be bere in consequence of indifferent health. Ha is sald to favor @ compromise and union. The organimtion of whict. John A. Green tr at the bead appears to be the one generally recoguized ty the dele. gates as regular. Mr. Schell, it is thought, wil! not make. any great opposition te it, as many delegates from New York gave in allegiance to Mr. Green. Tt appeare certain that s straight ticket, both State and electoral, will be made; but there is some effort among @ fow delegates at poatpoacment for the purpose of effecting ‘8 compromise. A Breckinridge aad Lane Ciud was organized to night im the city. ‘The eleve> o'clock train from the Fast brings up some additions to the Gelegates already here, incieding Hon. Augustos Sebel! and o majority of the New York dele. ) gation, Hor. Daniel § inson fs talked of for Covornor by acclamation, but his wishes wil! be consulted. He is cx- pected here to-morrow. If he does not wish to run, pre- badly Hon. Charles ©'Conor wili be the nominee of the, ' Convention. i A caucus te being belé nt the Voorhees House to-night, Sresc +3 Jocans. Orr, August ¢ 1860. The delegates to the Breckinri¢ve and Lane Democratiea: State Convention, which moots bere tomorrow, aro arriving freely, and there is no doubt that every Assem- bly district in the State will be represented. There will Le but one organization, ane the Conven- tion will be calied to order by Hon. John A Green, Jr., Chairman of the National Democratic State Committee, ‘We are assured by those who know that « full State and electoral ticket will be nominated, and that no fusion = + ‘Will tako piace. Resolations are niread> prepares endorsing Breck- inridge and Lane, and the platform adapted by the Deme- cratic National Convention which assembled at the Mary- tand insti:ate, Baltimore. Movements of Gemerni William Walker, » Nee Oazaams, August 6, 1860 Genoral Watcer’s axped:taon, consisting of five vosscie and five bundved mer., loft the Island of Cosegumel on the ‘Mth volt. Cor Niowrag oa. ——————— Non-Arrival of the Canadian. ‘ (Farmane Pour, August 6—10 P.M + There are am yet no eigns of ‘the steamehip Canadian, { now dae off this Boitt with Ope dap’s Inter mows from Farope