The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GoRnpDOoN BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. @FFLOR K. W. CORNER OF NASSAT AND FULTON 618, TERMS, cash tn advance. Money sent dy matl wit! be at the eube Ut onion ‘Postage stamps wot received as gubscription @ DAILY HERALD two conte 5 armum. THe WHERE IB. coors Raver a tis ont comm ‘any party Great , any Sam pare, 1. Continent, both ola ma ition onthe Sah and SM of OTHE PAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at four conte per per annum. —% or $2 per annwin. 4 ‘OLUN PT RY CORRESPONDENCE, contetning weit te vs Britain, | 5 the | 1,200 bhda. and 800 boxes, at prices given in another column, Colfee was quiet and sales ‘riding, Freights were b Wheat, in bulk and bags, was en- pesto mac at Lid. a 1144.,and to London, in ships’ bags, at 124, The amount of grain and other arti- cles awaiting shipment is large and in excess of available ship room. While a good deal of produce has been bought for shipment, on falfiment of foreign orders, a considers- ble portion of the wheat going forward is on owners’ ‘account or on speculation, It is believed that many orders in the market remain to be filled, and which are im abeyance on account of the scarcity of vossels. ‘The expanded condition of the banks, rendering money abundant and cheap, stimulates speculation, not alone in stocks, but also in breadstuffs. It is seldom that parties ehip largely of grain to Ragland on speculation that they come out of the business in entirey a solvent condition, news, solicited from any quarter of the sword: i a ‘OUK FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARB Pate a iitane ona armas a Pat Acme sent Us. Woke AXV.... cc ccccceceerre et eeee eee No. 221 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NISLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Equestatas /zaronu- ances ‘TER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— gies Bore Paats——Euprawunt-Macie Pia. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Inisu Baxon— Tasice Manaup—Harrr Man. LAURA KEENP’S THEATRE, No, @4 Broadway.—Ove Aupnican Cousin. NEW_ BOWERY varon Rosa—lnist BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Day and yi ‘Bons, Dances, Buacesques, Livind res, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Buniesaves, Songs, Dances, d0.—duam Figur. ATRR, Bowery.—Buzream—Sat- NATIONAL VARIETIES, Chatham atreet.—Roneet caire—Necuo | Bucxpens—M. Dectavommacx—Siu Porssa PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Necxomaucr— InsraumentaL Concert. CANTERBURY CONCERT HALL, 663 Broadway.—Songs, Dawoes, Boaiesuoes, do. New York, Friday, August 10, 1860, MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. Hew York Heraid—California Edition. ‘The mail steamship Northern Light, Capt. Tinklepangh, will leave this port to-morrow, at noon, for Aspinwall ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific ‘will close at balf-past ten o’clock to morrow morning. The New Yorx Wesaty Hexatn—California edition @ontaining the latest iwtelligence from al! parts of the world, witb a large quantity of local and misceiiancous matier, will be published at half-past nine o’clowk im the morning Singie copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents, Agents wii! please send in their orders as early as pos Bible The News. The Europa arrived at Boston last evening, and we publish elsewhere a telegraphic summary of that portion of her news which failed to reach us from Hoelifax. The battle between the Sicilians and Neapolitans before Melazzo, took place on the 16th and 17th ultimo. Both sides are reported to have suffered severely, but the royal forces were compelled to withdraw to the citadel, Garibaldi having attacked them fiercely with the bayonet. It is said that Garjbaldi was wounded in the heel during the com- bat. The report of the evacuation of Sicily by the Neapolitans was premature. The citadel of Mes- sina wae still in possession of the king's troops. The mails by the Europa will arrive in the city this evening. By the arrival of the overland pony express we have advices from San Erancisco to the 28th ult., and later accounts from Japan, the Amoor River country, Oregon and British Columbia. A tele- graphic synopsis of the news may be found in an- other part of to-day’s paper. By an arrival at New Orleans we have advices from Vera Cruz to the 20th alt., but they contain no news of importance. Miramon was still at Lagos at last accounts, unable to effect his escape from the country. The brig Elle, Capt. Warren, from Port-au- Prince, with our files and correspondence to July 25, arrived at this port yesterday. President Geff- rard had returned to the capital from his provin- cial tour. He was met by enthusiastic crowds everywhere. | Messrs, Arduin and Dupuy, Haytien Ministers to France and England, had been well received. The coming crop of coffee promises to be good. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention met yesterday, and was largely attended. The two factions of the party agreed to form an electoral ticket, headed with the names of Breckinridge or Douglas, as the electors at large, and that in the event of the success of the said ticket, the vote of the State shall be cast for Breckinridge and Lane, or for Douglas and Johnson, accordingly as the re- sult shall show which of the two tick all have received a majority of the votes cast for both. A State Convention of the Maryland democracy was held at Baltimore yesterday, to fill vacancies in the Presidential electoral ticket. A report was presented that all the electors nominated, save two, had declared for Breckinridge and Lane. A mecting of the Douglas Central Campaign Club was held last evening. There were very few persons present. Ex-(ioy. Foote was announced as a speaker on the occasion, but he did not at- tend. Some formal business was transacted, aad the meeting adjourned. We devote a considerable portion of our space this morning to the publication of reports of the proceedings of the American Scientific Association, which body has been holding its fourteenth annual meeting at Newport during the past fortnight. The papers presented for the consideration of this body of savants embrace a variety of interesting subjects, ivclading mathematics, geology, physic, natural history and the recent meteoric phenome- na. The proseedings of the Association were con- cluded on Wednesday. The next annual meeting will be held at Nashville, Tenn., in April next. The Long Branch mystery is a mystery no long- er. The affair tarns out to be simply a hoax, con- cocted by the servents of one of the hotels, who procured some blood and a quantity of hair from & barber's shop, and, mixing them t her, smear- ed the mixture over a clab and a boat's sail, and thas caused a belief that an atrocious murder had been committed. The Excise Commissioners have delivered over 1,000 licenses up to yesterday, and the names of the persons who have neglected to take up their licenses have been handed over to the police for imme ée criminal suit. Next Monday is the last day for the delivery of the licenses. The Com- missioners will not commence any more civil suits, bat throw the whole responsibility of enforcing the aw upon the police department. In Brooklyn the Excise Commissioners have granted 450 licenses. A piize fight for 8100 took place at Weehawken, N.J., yesterday, between a couple of pugitists A brief account of the nomed Fox and Doneily, affair is given in another cojama. The cotton market yesterday war steady, with more doing, ebielly in the lower grades, The transactions foot especially if dependent upon bank discounts to conduct their operations. It is believed that if the Great Eastern could load at our wharves she could at this time obtain a considerable, if not a full cargo of produce, for her return voyage, but this is impracticable. Neither can she be loaded by lighters outside of Sandy Hook, except at an expense she could not afford to bear. The impending Political Revolution in the Southern States. The reckleas Southern radical disorganizers of the democratic party at Charleston have achieved more than they bargained for in the revolutionary dissolution of their national or- ganization. They have not only prostrated the Northern democracy, but they have precipitated a political reaction in the South, which promises, even during this extraordinary campaign, to work out a great political revolution in that section. From the divisions among the democracy in Virginia, apparently beyond remedy, from the astonishing forward movement of the new con- stitutional Union party in Nosth Carolina, from the crushing defeat of the Breckinridge demo- cracy in the late Kentucky election. from the irreparable split in the democratic camp in Missouri, it is now bighly probable, if not mo- rally certain, that Bell and Everett, in Novem- ber, will carry Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Mis- souri, a string of conservative Southern States representing sixty-nine electoral votes, or 4 ma- jority of eighteen of the whole electoral vote of the South. This will be equivalent to a great political revolution in the South: for, unless “ the cotton States” are prepared to stand aloof and act here- after as a section to themselves, they must submit to the counsels of their more powerful sister slave States aforesaid, whose great staples are not cotton, sugar and rice, but wheat, Indian corn, hemp and tobacco. That the democratic leaders of “the cotton States” are prepared to make their northern boundary the northern line of the cotton zone is manifest from their proceed- ings at the Charleston Convention; but that the great and important slave States north of said cotton zone are more devoted-to the solid ad- vantages of the Union than to, the speculative millenium of a Southern confederacy, is equally evident from their refusal to secede at Charles- ton. Had Mr. Yancey ang his radical Southern associates at Charleston remained in the Con- vention, they could not only have prevented the nomination of Mr. Douglas, but they could have secured the nomination of a ticket compe- tent to reunite the broken fragments of the party and to carry the election. But Mr. Yan- cey and his radical associates were frightened by the vote of New York for the Douglas plat- form, when the fact is that, until pushed into a corner by the terrible events at Baltimore, the New York delegation were ready for almost anything whereby they might secure the demo- cratic right armof the South to help them to another share of the federal spoils and plunder. How stands the matter now? The Southern States which refused to follow the seceders out of the Convention at Charleston refuse to follow either of the two clashing factions of the party in the work of this campaign. The conservative majorities of the people of those States are turning over their suffrages to this new constitutional Union party. Thus, while the rival Breckinridge and Douglas factions devouring each other, in view of the fit control of the reunited democracy, it is very probable that they neve may come together again, but that they will disappear after this election, “like the fragments of the old whig party after the election of 1852, in a new orga- nization of parties. This new constitutional Union party bas al- ready achieved a formidable lodgment in the South—a lodgment which makes it a powerful party for the future, whatever may be the re- sult of the Presidential election. As this im- portant fact will more and more impress itself upon the independent conservative classes of the North, financial, commercial and manufuc- turing, the more these Inte Southera elections are investigated, there is still a prospect of a Northern conservative reaction which may spoil the calculations of the republican party. The fact is established that the South is not, at all hazards, a unit against the North, but that she is still ready to join hands with the North upon great nation: Union ideas. This should, and perhaps operate in our conservative Nortbern commercial and manufacturing States to bring about a powerful reaction against the republican candidate upon the broad national basis of the Bell and Everett movement. Last spring the republican candidate for Governor in the republican State of Rhode Island was handsomely defeated. And where- fore’ Because he was a radical “irrepressible conflict” and abolition Lincoln republican. The conservative people of Rhode Island, of all par- ties, republicans included, looking to the sub- stantial interests of their bread and butter, in conneciion with the South, found it their inter- est to rebuke the anti-slavery radicalism pre- sented to the people by the republicans in said election. Why should not thie hint be followed up by the Bell-Everett party now, in all the Northern States, under the new impulse of these | late Southern elections? Let them push forward } their electoral tickets, their principles, their | late achievements; for thus, with the grand ar- | gument of the Union, which has broken down the sectional democracy in the South, this new Union party may still be in time so to invade and demoralize this sectional republican party €4 up about 1,500 bales, closing op the basis of quotations | Of the North as to render its defeat a visible event given in muother column, Flour opened with steadiness, | in season for the November election. food request; but Western and State brands closed nd in some cages at casior rates. Southern flour ull, wae more active and firmer Tur Coytrstep Stat or Mn. Stexurs tx Con- Sales were pretty freely | Gress,—It appears that the contested seat of made, chiefly for export. Wheat opened witha fair de] yp Sickles is not yet disposed of, and that mand for export, bot cloeed heavy, with aulee in some canes at lower rates. The receipts of corn were large, baring reaching about 110,000 bushels. The market was firm, with free sales at quotations given in another poe Pork exhibited more buoyancy, and the market closed with rather more firmness. Sales of new meme were made at #19 8 $19 12%, clear do, $20 12); 2 $2025, and new prime at $id. So gare exhibited rathermore booyancy aud activity, while prices were wnchatged. The sales comprieed 1,100 from the evidence produced before Judge Ulshoeffer it ia songht to be proved that Wil- liamson did not reside in the State at the time of his election. The case is thus more compli- cated than ever, and the shortest and fairest way of disposing of it is to let both candidates run again in November, and let the people of the district give their decision. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1860. The African Sisve Trade—Its Profits aad Prosperity. ‘The Evening Post, the New York Tridine, and other anti-slavery journals in thia city, are discharging themselves of such a mass ef special and minute information about the movements of slavers, and the activity of the slave trade in New York, New London, New Bedford acd Boston, that it stems highly probable they are stockholders or eecret agents in the busines. These ports, in which the slavers are fitted out, belong to the most rabid anti-slavery States, and there can be no doubt that the vessels are the property of the republicans in those several places. The profits of the trade are so great that they can well afford to contribute a hun- dred thoueand dollars or more towards the election of an anti-slavi President. From lists published a short time ago in the Post and Tribune, it appeared that eighty-six slavers had sailed from this port and the other ports we have mentioned, and from fi wer cases since reported, the number cannot be now far short of one hundred sail. The net proceeds on a cargo of five hundred slaves are at the lowest estimate $100,000, which is only an average profit of $200 per head. The sum total of the profits of the “blackbird fleet” ot one bua- dred vessels would therefore amount to tea mil- lions of dollars, and this estimate makes an al- lewance of five millions for expenses and losses. From there facts and figures it is evident that it is a most profitable, prosperous business, and accordingly we are informed by the Post that steamships are about to give new activity to the traffic, and that they will be packed with some 3,000 negroes, whose aggregate prices would sum up about a million of dollars. One instance is mentioned by both our aati- slavery contemporaries, of 450 negroes being landed,on the 30th of June from an American bark, and sold publicly in the streets of Trini- dad at an average of $650 each. The gross proceeds of this cargo would be $292,500, which, for one hundred “blackbirds,” would amount to upwards of twenty-nine mil- lions of dollars, leaving a clear profit of from twenty to twenty-five millions. It is added, in the Post, that the Governor of Trinidad re- ceived in this transaction $30,000 hush money. Now, it may be fairly asked, how those who are not implicated or in- terested in the trade themselves can be 50 well posted in this matter of bribery, or make up the lists of slavers which have appeared in their journals? How can they be so minutely informed of the names of the vessels, their cap- tains, the ports from which they have sailed, the number of slaves they land, the prices re- ceived for them, and the “hush money” to cor- rupt Governors, unless they are secret partners in the trade’? If they are possessed of all this information, they must have known of the fitting out of every vessel before she sailed. Why did they not give information to the authorities before the bird had flown, unless they had an interest in concealing ber flight till it was too late. Once these ships have made their voyages and landed their cargoes, and the owners have realized fortunes, they or their agents may then inform the public that such operations were made, the legal evidence against those concerned being no longer in ex- istence. They can thus afford to be severe in their denunciations of the slave traffic, and call it “infernal,” having the prices of the Africans in their pockets, or snugly deposited to their credit in banks, and they can also afford to bleed copiously for the purchase of cam- paign documents to secure the election of Old Abe Lincoln. Like sleek Joseph Sur- face, in the “Scheol for Scandal,” who zea- lously preached up sentiments of morality to his wild brother Charles at the very moment that he had Sir Peter Teazle’s wite concealed for a criminal purpose in his room, the anti-slavery leaders are most enthusiastic against the slave traffic at the very time that they are enjoying its profits and doing a thriving business in human flesh. Groaxs or Tue Recency.—The Albany Re- gency is in direful tribulation over the doings of the Breckinridge State Convention at Syra- cuse, and its organ—the Aflas and Argus— groansin a manner which, if not ludicrous, would be touching. It seems that Dean Rich- mond and his confederates of the Regency made some clumsy arrangement with pretended Breckinridge men, by which they calculated on winning over the whole democratic vote of this State for Douglas, and now they find that they have been regularly swindled, and that the last chance for a union of the two factions has gone glimmering. Hence these tears. The Argus and Atlas seems at a loss for expressions strong enough to wreak its temper on the leaders of the Convention. It does the best it can in that way—-calls them “disorganizers,” “violent and vindictive men,” and again, “vio- lent and revengeful.” It is even carried away so far by its passion as to venture on the asser- tion that they have run counter to the wishes of the administration. Deluded Regency! We could not have believed that there was any po- liticion in the country ignorant of the fact that the administration was never more committed to any measure or policy than it is committed to the support of Breckinridge. Let Dean Richmond & Co. still their throb- bing breasts, calm their agitated minds, and await in calm resignation and with a Christian spirit the result of the election. It is a fore- gone conclusion. So far as this State is con- cerned, Mr. Douglas, their candidate, may pos- sibly get from 120,000 to 140,008 of its 600,000 votes, and Breckinridge about an equal num- ber. It is, therefore, all np with them. The Regency must only work the harder for State spoils, because, as to federal spoils, they have not got the ghost of a chance of participating inthem. Sic tronsit. Thus passes away the glory of the Regency. Sur Fever at Wann's Istanp.—We drew attention a short time ago to the fact that a large number of ship fever patients had been sent to the hospital at Ward's Island, instead of being kept apart from the city, and deprecated the circumstance as a source of danger to the public health. We are glad to per- ceive that the Board of Emigration Commis sioners have taken cognizance of the mat- ter, and notified the Quarantine Commission- ers that cases of ship fever will not be received at Ward's Island in future. This is quite right; ship fever very often assumes # con- tagions character, and fs always lable to spread among a crowded population. Patients sick with this disease should not be located A Word of Warning te the South. We published yesterday a sharp, ringing article from the Charleston Mercury, on the position of South Carolina and tbe South in the great constitutional contest now going on throughout the Union. Our cotemporary touches the great evil of the day to the quick. At a moment when an aggressive and fanatical eectionalism, serried and solid in the prejudices of the North, is marching steadily to seize the powers of the government, with the declared purpose of de- stroying the equality of the States and the so- cial institutions of the South, the professional politicians of the States whose interests are most in danger have given them- selves up to personal quarrels and party strifea to an extent that has never been witnessed in past political contests. That this should be the case in normal times of safety weuld not be surprising; but its exist- ence in the face of the most imminent danger proves a moral and political depravity among party leaders and in the spirit of parties that forebodes the most dire consequences to the South and to the whole country. There is but one contest in which any truly patriotic citizen can to-day engage, and that is the contest with Lincoln and the revolutionary and destructive aims of the black republican purty. Insuch a contest it would be natural to suppose that the South, whose vital interests are at stake, would come to the field of conflict united as one man. Yet what do we behold? Instead of union there is nothing but bickering and doubt among the Southern party leaders and party organizations. Faction reigns. Party greed and lust for the spoila of office are the motive impulses. No matter what principles are sacrificed, no matter what dangers to the public interests and to society are incurred, the last thing that the Southern politicians think of is evidently the necessity of union. With the evidence of such a state of things in the South, with what consistency can a Southern man turn to the national and constitution loving men in the North, asking for help to save the South from the danger in which it stands? We of the North need no counsels from the South as to the path of our duty as patriots and good citizens, nor will Southern abuse of Northern motives avail them in this imminent strait. We want the practical evidence thai the South has the manhood and the patriotism to lay aside its petty and local bickerings, and to unite in de- fence of the equal position of its States in the confederation. Until the South does this, fit need not look to the North for either sympathy or relief in its sufferings. When it does this, then it will find sympathy, fra- ternity and an overpowering sense of justice in all the-Central and commercial States of the North, and a recession of the rising tide of black republicanism in the East and in the West. But the men of the North have no induce- ment to go into battle for the rights of the South, when the South itself, or any large portion of it, is willing (o sacrifice those rights, and the eter- nal princip!es on which they are founded, to an ignoble sentiment of personal spite, or a still more revolting partisan greed for the spoils of public place. Let the men of the South cease, then, to abuse Northern fanatics and lukewarm Northern friends, and look to the beam that isin their owncye. When they can show us a united front, banded together on the great principles of the constitution, the Union and the equality of the States, then, and not till then, may they hope to find allies for their cause in the Central and Northern States. If they will not do this, then they throw away their own battle, and it will not be Northern fanaticism or Northern lukewarmness that will involve Southern rights in ruin, but it will be Southern folly, Southern greed, and Southern disunion and treason to it- self and its own cause that will electa black re- publican President and Congress, put black re- publican Judges upon the benches of the federal courts, and carry abolitionists, with writs of ha- beas corpus for every slave, into every South- ern State. Tuk Jaranese Swrxoie iv tHe Boarp or Covyer_wen.—This evening the test will be put to the Board of Councilmen upon the notorious swindle in connection with the reception of the Japanese Embassy, which the Aldermen have already swallowed without a grin, and we shall see how they will come out of the trial. At their last meeting there was some evidence of quak- ing and shirking the question, as well as a little manifestation on the partof one Councilman of a stricken conscience. The taxpayers will no doubt be on hand in large numbers to-night to witness the denouement. The following are the names of the members of the Corporation who voted for the passage of e appropriation on a former occasion:— ALDERMEN Place of Business .- 212 Grand et “4 ~ «+2 Jeffereon market Botcber. 811 Rivington at. Piacofortes. 135 Washington st. Broom dealer, 612 Third avenue, . Ramseller. We have no personal objection to these indi- viduals. They may perhaps be all very respect- able. They wear nice white hats and yellow kid gloves, and since they became Aldermen and Councilmen many of them make a neat ap- pearance, and look quite decent; but we do ob- ject very seriously to any and every fraud upon the public treasury to which they or any one elee may become parties. Neither do we object to the sum of $105,000 being spent on the entertainment of the Japan- ese Embassy. Their visit was a very important event; it was the first commercial embassy ever sent to any country by the empire of Japan, and laid the foundation of an intercourse with the East, the profitable results of which it is im- possible to calculate. If $200,000 had been ex- pended upon their reception we wonld not com- plain; but the bill of expenses is generally looked upon as a fraud, and we should like to be informed as to how the amount claimed Wag among a large number of people, such at ate | disbursed. If the city hae to pay for the wh't« usually to be found at Ward's island. hats and yellow gioves, we want to know b much they cost, and so with all the other items. That's all. The Grand Jury is now in session, we be- lieve, and if they were to send for persons and papers, as we trust they will do, all the desired information might be obtained. Telegraphic Communication Between Berope, Asia and America. The fafiage of the attempt to raise the eub- merged Atlantic telegraph cable, which we have learned by the last European steamer, muet not discourage public faith in the eventual reali- zation of the project of uniting Europe and Ame- rica by aline of telegraph. We do not suppose that the Atlantic Telegraph Company will abandon all attempts to lay down a new cable from Ireland to Newfoundland; but, even if it should, there are other enterprises on foot having the same object in view, which will not probably be abandoned. There is Mr. Shaff- ner’s plan of a telegraph line by way of Ice- land and Labrador, and there is also a plan of laying a cable from Cape Finisterre, on the northwe-t coast of Spain, by way of the Azore Islands. But, even though none of these three projects should be consummated, there is still another one, which will be, and which will not only unite America to Europe, but also to Asia and the Japanese islands. The plan in question is that proposed by Mr. Perry McD. Collins, formerly United States Commercial Agentat the Amoor. He proposed to build a line from Moscow to San Francisco. The Canadian Parliament granted a charter to him and his associates, under the title of the ‘Transmundane Telegraph Company. That de- signation has since been dropped, because, per- haps, it was suggestive of a telegraph to the moon or other points beyond this globe, and the title of Russian-American Telegraph Com- pany has been substituted. There ought to be, and probably will be, another change in the de- signation, so as to taclude Asia. But, however indistinct or uncertain may be the title of the company, there is no indistinctness or uncer- tainty about its plans, of which a full account is given in another portion of to-day’s Herp. It seems that Mr. Collins.made three several visits to Russia for the purpose of enlisting that government in favor of his plan. To a certain extent he succeeded. He did not, indeed, pro- cure a concession for the building of the line from Moscow through the Russian territories. The Russian government prefers to keep its telegraph lines in its own hands; nor did be succeed in making any specific arrangements for a combination between the Russian lines and the lines of the Russian-American Com. pany, when they would be severally built. But he did succeed in opening the eyes of the Rus- sian government to the importance of the pro- ject, and in stimulating it to active operations to perform its part of the work. Already it has extended a line of telegraph eastwardly from Moscow to Perm, a distance of nearly a thou- sand miles, and is constructing it further east across the Ural mountains to Ekatarineburg, with the design of extending it tothe Amoor river. It has granted to Mr. Collins the initia- tory surveys from the Amoor river eastwardly, so far as the Russian possessions are concerned, so that if it do not see proper to continue the line to the mouth of the Amoor river, he may be prepared to fill up that gap. It is proposed to extend the line from the Amoor either by the western coast of the Sea of Ochotsk to Kamschatka, and. thence by Behring’s Straits into Russian America, stretching down along the coast to San Francis- co, or else by and down the island of Saghalien across the Strait of La Perouse into the Japan- ese islands, with a branch line to Hong Kong, and up north by the Kurile and Alentian islands to Ruseian America. The details of the various plans are given at length in the article to which we refer. Mr. Collins intends to apply to the American Congress for aid in this great project, so far as to have the necessary surveys made by our go- vernment in the seas and on the consts and islands of the North Pacific; and it is also ex- pected that the Russian, English and American governments, al! so deeply interested in the suc- cess of the enterprise, will at least mutually guarantee a fair interest on the cost of con- struction. The distance from San Francisco to the Amoor river will be about six thousand miles— just half way to Moscow—and it is ex- pected that the line can be built for a million and a half or two millions of dollars. Interest on the latter sum, at the rate of seven per cent, would be $140,000, which would leave only the small sum of abont $47,000 to be annually guaranteed by each. There can hardly be a doubt as to the willingness of the three govern- ments to aid in so inconsiderable a manner a project of such vastimportance. If they do so promptly, the work will be pushed on, and we may thus, a few years hence, realize the wonderful idea of communicating by telegraph from this metropolis with Europe, Asia and the islands of the East. if not with Australia and Africa likewise. Mr. Collins’ project is a prac- ticable one, and we hope to see it consum- mated. Tut Axenicas Semytiric Convewrtox.—The American Scientific Convention has just closed its fourteenth annual session, at Newport, afier several day's deliberation, during which a varie- ty of interesting subjects were treated upon. But it happens that scientific societies of thiskind never effect any practical result. The papers read and discussed are no doubt very interest- ing to the professors themselves, who read, hear | and discuss them, and who, after all, are but an | assembled conclave of E. Meriams, whose phi- losophical disquisitions upon natural phenomena and scientific observations are in most cases no- thing more than a rebash of the contents of aci- entific books, and very often have not the nega- tive merit of presenting facts as they really occur, or with the accuracy and intelligence with which they are given to us in the news- papers, The Sclentific Association had before them at the late session four subjects of vnusual interest—namely, the Donati comet, the recent meteors which visited us, the extraordinary display of the aurora bo realis, and the result of the Coast Survey expe dition to Labrador to make observations of the | solar eclipse. Yet what practical conclusions | did they come to with regard to any of them? As an evidence of how little these philosophers really know, with all their stu@y and observa- tion, they cannot tell us whata meteor is, nor can they fathom the mystery of the aurora bo- realis, further-than to assume that it is a mant- festation of electricity proceeding from the | magnetic pole, which any one who ever saw | * summer lightning can assume with equal cor. ! nen | Wales, There ore, it appears, on the Prince’s oldest colleges in the country, stating that it fell into the sea a few miles southeast of Nantucket, further publisbed in the papers, the same professor de- clared it as his opinion that it had gone entire- ly beyond the influence of the earth’s atmos- phere, and probably returned within the ia- fluence of the sphere from whence it emanated. A very eminent scientific man also once assert- ed that ocean mavigation by steam was an im- possibility, and that, too, twenty years after a steamship bad actually crossed the Atlantic from America to Europe. Let us not be understood ,as depreciating the pursuit of scientific knowledge, or setting too low a value on learned associations. There ia bo doubt that the gathering of scientific mem together in annual meetings greatly facilitates the individual research of each, and that asso- ciations of this character in America, and in France, England, Prussia and other countries, serve to contribute their mite to the store of | information; but it is only a mite, for it seema ordained that there are many things which bu- man knowledge cannot Teach; but at the same time, it will not do for the mass of the people— the men who carry bricks on their shoulders, who build houses, make railroads, dig canala and construct ships—to think that because a man is a professor he knows . After all our research and observation, it appears that we know very little about even the moat common phenomena of the atmosphere; and aa for scientific associations, their practical resulta are almost nil. Tue Price ov Wates axp rae Press.—We see that some of the provincial newspapers are making « great fuss about the exertiona of a few of the London and New York journals in chronicling the movements of the Prince of track. we migbt almost say in bis suite, the re- preseatatives of some half dozen newspapers from both cities, including two of the leading illustrated journals. Whatever credit is to be claimed for enterprise in the matter is, how- ever, due to the New York Heranp, which was | the first to déspatch a corps of special corres- pondents to the places indicated in the pro- gramme of the Prince's route, and which has since continued to distance all its contempora- ties in the fulness and accuracy of its tele- graphic and other reports of progress. In this connection we cannot pass over a pe- cwiarly gratifying feature of the arrange- ments which have been everywhere made to do honor to the British heir apparent. The claima of the press to a prominent place in them have been duly recognized, and not only have the proper facilities been afforded its representa- tives for fulfilling their arduous duties, but they have been made the objects of special civilities and. attentions at all the places they have visited. To this correct appreciation of the important share which the press contri- butes to the eclat of the Prince’s visit, we are igdebted for individual courtesies intended to mark the estimation in which the enterprise and ipfiuence of this journal are held. In the’ acquisition of a couple of the same splendid race of dogs (the Sullivan breed) as that tea which the animal presented to the Priace by the colony of Newfoundland belongs, we hold ourselves amply repaid for whatever trouble and expense we bave incurred in connection with this visit. They are noble creatures, and will form, through themselves and their progeny, appropriate memorials of an event which we trust is destined to exercise a permanentiz beneticial influence on the relations of the two countries. We note especially the manner in which the prets has been provided for by the authorities of the British Provinces, because it forms a marked contrast to the neglect, and even con- tempt, with which its representatives have hith- erto been treated in England. We trust that the respect paid to them in connection with this visit is destived to inaugurate an improved state of things in the Old Country, and that the social status of the members of a highly honor- able and laborious profession will no longer depend on the cbance appreciation of a Cabi; bet Minister, at a loss to assemble men of talent at his board. As the manner of the Prince's reception in the United States is exciting a good deal of dis- cussion, it may be as well to notice here a sug- gestion thrown out by a Boston cotemporary. it is recommended that he be treated precisely asan ex-President of the United States would be treated in England. This snggestion may be construed in two ways, for while Mr. Vin Buren received very great marks of attention and respect from the English court and ars- tocracy, Mr. Fillmore and General Pierce mt with but comparatively few courtesies at thir hands. Asa general thing, our ex-Preside:ts are looked upon abroad pretty much in 2e light of exiled princes. Their glory has e- parted, and there is neither honor nor profi'to be gained by lavishing civilities upon them. It is diferent with the distinguished yong stranger who is about to visit us. He is bir apparent to one of the greatest monarchie in the world. and his friendship and good opiion in the future may be of some value tous. Making dne alowance for our republican fe- judices in regard to royalty, such a viser~ is not to be treated with the same indifferece with which the English regard an ex-incen- bent ofthe White House—the more especialy if his personal abilities or character be notof’ ® nature to recommend him to their favor. The best rule in all such cases is to consider the circumstances under which they present them. selves, without refetence to precedents. In the present instance we have no considerations tc | be guided by save those suggested by the ele vated rank and political importance ot our visiter, and his own expressed wishes as to the manner of bis reception. The Weather Yesterday. Comment is. unnecessary. We are very sure that every one waa able to feel for himeclf, The following table will show a lees degree of heat, however, than the wank m GH, a carman, eu! ireet, was so exhausted Gay acternoou that be became delirious, and rubsequeg: died. Jobn Wiee, a native of years, while fe xh eee) ‘ednessay, a ied. Roger Sullivan, residing im FIR Aveane none Nia ftreet, was also son struck. Coroaer O'Keefe held ag inquest in each cage yesterday. i