The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFck dS. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 6T8. TERMS, oveh in adeance. Money sent dy mati will be at the rish of Ue sender. Postage star.ps nol received us subscription THR DAILY HERALD too cenie wer copy, $1 per anwim. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Equestaiay Penrona- ancue——Cinpaanuica WINTER GARDEN, Broatway.—Tiour Rors Fears—At o1De— Bianco. WALLACK’® THEATRE. Brosdway.—To soLes—How To Gat Vor oF Ir LAURA KFENE’S THEATRE, No, 6% Broadway.—Oum Aumaican Coustx pennant NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Howery.—Steavarm—Sarya- P08 Kosa—!kis MORMON . S_ AMERICAN Brondway.—Doy —Brmortas Sonas, Dances, Buatasacns,—Liv- sma, ae, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanies’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Bounuksgons, Songs, Dawoms, &6.—Go ‘War, Bows. HOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S OPERA HOUSE, 585 Broad way —Ermorram Soves, Bunursares, Daxcrs,' ke.—Scunn- mei nouns Bor. NATIONAL VARIETIES. Chatham sireet.—Ieisu Far Gaamt—Fous Lovaxs—Vincinsy Mummy. PALAME GARDEN, Fe CELANEOUS CONCERT nth street.—Sacken axp Mrs- CANTERBURY CONCEK 665 Broadway. —3oNGs, Dancus, Bonimsguas, dc. st 14, 1850. New York, Tacsday, Au ", MAILS FOR EURUPE. Herald---Edition for Europe. The Cusard mail steamship Asia, Capt. Lott, will leave this port to morrow, for Liverpool. The European mails will close in this city to-morrow morning at balf-past ten o'clock. The Furoveas Fprriow or TH® Hxmatn will be published at ten o'clock im the morning. Single copics, in wrap- pera, six cents. The contents of the Evrorsan Eprrion or tue Hrraty ‘will combine the news recoived by mail and telegraph at the office during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication, The New York The News, The steamship Anglo Saxon arrived at Farther Point last evening; but, inconsequence of the tele graph w g badly, ber news was not received in this city up to the hour of going to press, The Gal steamer Parana had not arrived at St. John's last evening. A week's later intelligence from Mexico has been received, but no important change in the aition of affairs has occurred. Miramon has len back from Lagos to Leon, till lately a very town, a few miles from Guanajuato. lists in the capital endeavored toget up nent, for which the absence of Miramon ent of the garrison presented a fine op- nity; but their courage failed them, and they were talking the police pounced on pout thirty of the leaders were impri- is Said to be besiewing Guadala- jara. Thirty thousand dollars have been offered as a ransom for the Bishop ¢ hat city, now a prisoner in the hands of the liberals, The feel at Gene- d is $200,000, ral Co said to be growing stronger every day e weakness of the Juarez admin- istration ves daily more apparent Mexi ws to the 2d instant, received at Havan es that Miramon’s army had been de- eated by the liberals while attempting to escape rom Lage Miramon was at Leon, surrounded by the lib Jalapa had been abandoned by Robi The bombardment of Vera Cruz was thre by the Spanish Minister. Havana news to the &th inst. represents that city as healthy. Sugar was active. ndent writing from Rio Hacha, a ost outrageous in 1 flag by the li The flag was ase of the Consul bro- dito fly on board an ve his life. The letter ther columa. stant. snciseo at that date for Panama, with $876,000 in treasure and 202 passengers. The express, with St. Louis dates of the 17th ult., reach- ed San cisco on the 30th, and that of the 18th was telegraphed. There was a little more anima- tion in business, with a prospect of incr@ased trans- actions at the current rates, The California Demo- cratic State Committee had met, with a view of forming one electoral ticket. A split, however, occurred in the committee, twenty-six declaring for Breckinridge and ten for Donglas. A movement was on foot to call a Bell and Everett State Con- vention A fight between the wagon road party of Colonel Lander, numbering seventy-three men, and some three bundred Indians, took place on the 23d of June, in which the savages were defeated. One of Lander’s men, named Painter, was killed. Severs ne Indians were killed and one made Late advices from Santa Fe represent that coan- try as still in an unsettled and excited condition from Indian depredations, which were continually taking p! . Skirmishes had taken place between the government troops and the savages, who had become very bold. It was feared the mail would pot if get safely throngh in future. of so violent a character occurred at ns on Saturday as to cause great damage to property. At Proctorville the entire place was submerged and every house carricd away. Some forty lives were lost. The Prince of Wales and suite left Charlottetown on Saturday for Gaspe. It will be seen from the despatch, published else- where, of the Duke of Newcastle to his Excellency Governor Murray, of Bermuda, that the Prince of Wales intends visiting those islands prior to his departure for Europe. . The He “reception festival’ at Jones’ Wood took place yesterday. The attendance was large, and the ceremonies in accordance with the programme. A report of this unique affair will be found eewhere. The Great Eastern, on her return from Chesa- peake bay, left Annapolis at seven A. M. on Satur Gay, the 11th inst., and arrived off Cape Honry at ten minutes past four P, M., where she stopped ten minutes to land the pilot, and arrived off the Hook at noon on the 12th. The distance ran from Annapolis to Cape Henry is 160 nautica miles; time occupied, nine hours and ten minutes, Or about 17.4 nautical miles an hour. The distance . run from Cape Henry to her position off the Hook at noon is 253 nautical miles; time occupied, nine- teen hours and forty minutes, or sbont 12.9 nautical miles an hour. Allowing one knot an hour for a southerly current from Cape Henry up to the Hook, it will give the ship's speed as nearly 13.8 nantical miles an hour. She had head winds all the way. Ia the Board of Aldermen last evening Alderman Btarr, on a question of privilege, made an expla- Bation of his action, as a member of the Joint Com- mittee of the Japanese Entertainment, and denied the justress of the editorial comments on his con- doct. Adorman Starr soya be will not rote for ame, | The steamer John L. Ste- | | any bilis that are exorbitant: but if the charges be fair and reasonable, he will vote for them, even if they should exceed the $105,000. . The Board of Councilmen held @ short session last evening, when a resolution was adopted direct- ing the Comptroller not to pay any money on the work of connecting the receiving and distributing reservoirs with a line pipe autil action is had by the Common Council legally authorizing the work. The Croton Aqueduct Board was requested to in- form the Common Council whether the work of connecting the reservoirs has been commenced, | and ifso, how for it bas progressed. A resolution | was concurred im increasing the salary of the Su- perintendent of Btreet Improvements from $2,000 to $5,000. An appropriation of $500 was passed for the funeral expenses of Brevet Major Morton Fair- child. They concurred with the Aldermen to ad- vertise for a suitable location for Engine Company No. 30, Several unimportant reports pertaining to routine matters were adopted, after which the Board adjourned till the first Monday in © t A meeting for the purpose of syn pathizi) = with the Christians of Syria in the’ nt dep. rable condition, and of devising the uc>t means for their relief, was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the Tract Society, in Nassau street. A commit- tee was appointed to consider the subject, who will report on Thursday afternoon, The Board of Delegates of American Israelites held a meeting last evening at the Cooper Insti- | tute, This Board at present represents thirty dif- | forent congregations of Israelites, and will in turn | bold annual meetings in August in the various | cities of the Union. The committee appointed to receive contributions for the suffering Jews of Mo- rocco reported that the amount collected for their | relief in this country was $20,000. The repart also stated that $55,000 had been collected in Great = | Britain for the same purpose. The Board will con- tinue its session to-day. The tenth anniversary of the Turnverein Associa- tion of this city was suitably celebrated yesterdsy at Elm Park. The society turned out in great numbers, and the procession of Turners was one of the largest that ever took place in this vicinity on a similar occasion. The visit of the Chicago Zouave Cadets to this city has not been without its effect. A short time ago a number of young men organized a corps of New York Zonaves, and last evening the initiatory ken towards forming another com- of Frenchmen, to be added as a company to the Fifty-fifth (French) regiment. We have thus two Zouave organizations under way in New York at the present time. A meeting was held yesterday evening for the purpose o* having a discussion on the subject of the Bible in our common schools. Owing to the very inclement state of the weather, there was scarcely any one present, and after some little noisy debate they adjourned until next Sunday evening. ‘The porter of the Greenwich Savings Bank was roWed yesterday morning in the strect, while on his way to another bank, of a roll of bills amount- ing in va'ue to $5,000. Jobn Douglass, a seaman on board the Ameri- can ship William Tell, was arrested yesterday, and committed for examination, on a charge of stab- bing a fellow sailor, named Mortimer. The Coroner's inquest on the body of James Lynch, a fireman on the Long Island Railroad, has concluded its investigation into the cause of his death. The jury rendered a verdict that deceased | came to his death in consequence of the engine | being thrown from the track by running over a | cow. They recommend the railroad company to | reduce the rate of speed within the city limits and | to keep the track in good running order, They | also recommend to the authorities of Brooklyn a | rigid enforcement of the ordinance against cattle running at large. According to the City Inspector's report, there | were 654 deaths in the city during the past week, | anincrease of 157 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 7 less than occurred | during the corresponding week last year. The re- | capitulation table gives 3 deaths of diseases of the | bones, jointa, &c., 144 of the brain and nerves, Sof the generative organs, 10 of the heart and | blood vessels, 136 of the Jungs, throat, &c.,7 of steps were | old age, 50 of diseases of the skin and eruptive | fevers, 10 prematare births, 241 of diseases of the | stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 46 of | general fevers, 2 of diseases of the urinary organs, 2 unknown, and 29 from violent causes. The | nativity table gives 469 natives of the United States, 114 of Ireland, 37 of Germany, 3 of Scotland, 11 of England, and the balance of various foreign countries. The cotton market was steady yesterday, while the tales reached about 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of quotations given im another column. Flour was heavy and dull, with moderate sales, and the market closed for common and medium grades of State acd Western ala decline of five cents per barrel. Sales of Southern were moderate, while prices were unchanged. Wheat was in fair demand and irregular for most descriptions, except prime red and amber colored. Corn opened active, witb a good demand and at firm prices; but the market closed dull, with « tendency to lower rates. Pork was moderately dull, and was without change from Saturday" es; new mest sold at $19 25, and new prime at $14.0 $14 26. Sugars were quiet, while Prices were without change of momect, sales were con- fined to 5€0 a 400 hdds. Coffee was quiet aud fic nly held. The late news from Rio was of a nature to strengthen the market. Froight engagements wore moderate. The chicf business consisted in the shipments of wheat to Liver- pool, at 10.4. @ 105¢4., im ship's bags. Tae Late Drownives at turn Warerine Praces.—Witbin the past few days it has been our painful duty to record the death of four of our citizens by drowning in the surf at some of our favorite watering places—two at Long Branch and two at Shrewsbury. It is very well known that the whole New Jersey coast, from Sandy Hook to Cape May, is the most dangerous watering place on the continent; | the ground is continually shifting there, and where at one time bathers found a safe foot- hold, at another they are liable to plunge into a hole over their heads. Then there is always a strong and treacherous undertow, which ren- | ders the beach always unsafe, especially for | ladies. And yet, although these facts are pa- | tent to every one, the hotel keepers in that region are too parsimonious to provide any | | means to avert danger, or to afford a chance of Teacue in case of accident, for which they de- serve to be severely denounced. The safest bathing place in the vicinity of | New York is Coney Island. There the ground | is firm and even, the slope gradual, and there | is little or no undertow; yet here the hotel | keepers have ropes and buoys provided for the | protection of bathers, while on the dangerous Jersey coast there is nothing of the sort. New- port is also a very safe bathing place, having | very little undercurrent, becanse the beach is protected by an outlying point, which ‘breake | the force of the sea. Rockaway, too, is com- paratively secure, but not as much #0 as New- port or Coney Island. But all the watering places from Sandy Hook to Cape May are ex- | ceedingly dangerous and ill provided with ap- pliances for saving life, as the late terrible calamities attest. The owners of public houses in that vicinity should be visited with the heaviest censure for their carelessness and nig- gardlinces in failing to eupply some preven- tives egainst euch aad catastrophes as those of last week. The Presidential Eleetion—The Question Before the Country. Ever since the holding of the National Con- ventions to nominate candidates for the Presi- dency and Vice Presidency, the people of the United States have manifested the most re- Mmarkable apathy in regard to the issue of the contest. Such indifference can only be ascribed to that thorough disgust with which the whole batch of petty politicians, North, South, East and West, have impressed the community. The fight, therefore, eeems to have been entirely abandoned to the politicians, the people stand- ing by with folded arms watching the contest, without taking part in it, and apparently caring very little which of the five Presidential aspi- rants should eventuatly find his way to the shite House. The professional politicians, Lowever, are making up by their activity for the apathy of the general public, and are biting, scratching und gouging each other with that brutality which is characteristic of their clase. The Breckinridge and Douglas phalanxes are slashing at eac) other in the most desperate manner, The black republicans, too, are almost divided into hostile camps, through the antagonism of Seward and Greeley. The con- stitutional Union party are doing battle in an old fachioned, respectable, but weak style, agaipat their disunited adversaries; and, finally, the redoubtable Sam Houston has announced his determination, like an old brave as he is, not to leave the war path, but to try his strength, too, in this great Presidential free fight. But while this disreputable five sided fight is going on between the politicians, the people ought not, in their disgust at the spectacle, to close their eyes to the vitally important ques- tion involved in the result. That question is one of no less magnitude than the continuance of this government, or the disruption and disso- Jution of the federal Union. No matter how indifferently we may choose to treat the sub- ject, there are few thoughtful men who do not realize and admit that we are drifting, fast drifting, to a point where we will be startled by that dread question, “To be or not to be?” There ig not the slightest doubt in the world that nineteen-twentieths of the people of the United States are thoroughly devoted to the Union, and would maintain the existing iastitu- tions of the land, f#ithfully and to tha last ex- tremity. But, unfortunately, the control of public affairs has been long abandoned to the graceless politicians of all parties and all sec- tions, and the people may, before they are aware of the danger, find (uemselves struggling in the throes of a civil revolution, into which they will have been plunged by the selfish, des- perate and unprincipled men who make poli- tics a profession. “ It is consolutory, however, to perceive indi- cations of a determination on the part of the people not to let the evil spread too far. The elections in Connecticut and Rhode Island last spring were hailed by us at the time as a rebuke to the black repub- lican party for their abolition principles; and in like manner the recent elections in Ken- tucky and North Carolina show that the people of the South have no favor to show to the seces- sionists of that section. Thus the people, North and South, rebuke abolitionism and dis- unionism, and proclaim their devotion to the Union and their respect for the eqnal rights of all the States. But yet, how stands the question of the next Presidency? From present appearances, the black republican candidate will, beyond all peradventure, be chosen in November, and that, too, by a minority of votes. With his election the principle of inveterate hostility to Southern institutions will be installed in the highest office, and will soon assume an active shape. We know that Mr. Lincoln disclaims any intention to interfere with slavery where it exists; but all such protestations are vain in the face of his own solemn enunciation of an irre- pressible conflict b» which all the States of the Union shall be made free. Were he, therefore, ever so much iaclined to administer the govern- ment with strict regard to the constitution, he would not be allowed to do so while he stands pledged to that article of political faith, and while be would be open to the promptings of the Sewards, the Sumners, the Lovejoys and the John Browns of the black republican army. And yet, in spite of the imminent peril into which the election of Mr. Lin- coln will plunge the country, there is little doubt that the united electoral vote of the North will be cast for him. It cannot be otherwise, when the opponents of abolitionism are divided up into four hostile camps. It matters little how many Southern States may give their votes to Breckinridge— whether he get all or none—or how many may be given to Bell and Everett. The result will not be affected by it; and Lincoln, with all his hostility to the South intensified by the recollec- tion that his ticket was not even’run in that sec- tion, will be chosen to preside over the confede- racy of sovereign States, Who doubts that the consequences of such a result will be deplorable? Who believes or af- fects to believe that the Sonth will willingly submit to the sway of a man the vital principle of whose policy will be unwavering hostility to them and their cherished institutions? Will not the inauguration of Lincoln be, at least, a token of alarm, a sign of danger, to the republic ? Even ifit do not be the forerunner of dissolution, it will be fraught with many minor evils, in the way of interfering with the trade and intercourse be- tween the North and South. There is still time to guard against these risks. There is still time for the people, irre- spective of parties, to meet in mass conventions in the several cities, towns and counties, to in- terchange opinions in regard to the critical con- dition of affairs, and to adopt such measures as will at once defeat the abolitionists of the North and the secessionists of the South. The pros perity of the country, if not the safety of the Union itself, depends upon the adoption of prompt and decisive measures. Let onr sug- gestion be followed, let a man of national repu- tation be put forward by the people themselves, and the candidates opposed to Lincoln will be abandoned by all but the few professional poll- ticians. In that course alone does safety lie. “Or Are” axp Hts Kentecky Leverattos.— “Honest Old Abe Lincoln” has given out the information that a short while ago he was in- vited to go over into Kentucky and talk to that benighted people on the great political ismes of the day. And he frankly says that he de- clined, because be was afraid of Judge Lynch. But this will never do. Was Joba Brown afraid? Ie not “the blood of the martyrs the eced of the charch!” Can it be that “Olid Abe,” the NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1860. rail splitter, was afraid of a ride ona rail?| boon to many of these roads in their treight traffic; but after all that isa slow process of improvement, and would take years to justify such an advance as this. The following is the stock table of the eubjoined roads for the last month :— No, this cannot be. But this will be suspected so long as he refuses to fulfil this aforesaid invita- tion, He must not show the white feather at this stage of the battle. In a trip over into Kentucky he bas a glorious invitation to distin- guisb himself, and he should at once cross the Rubicon and vindicate his faith in the freedom of epeech by his example. We present to our readers in another part of to-day’s Hekaty a chapter of political corres- pondence received from different portions of the country, and giving different views in re- gard to the chances of the various contending parties in this Presidential canvass. These let- ters profess to reveal the state of public opin- ion in Virginia, Illinois, North Carolina, Mis- souri, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New York ; and as they are not written in the exclusive interest of any party, neither from a Breckinridge, Douglas Bell, nor Lincoln point of view, they merit attention, and should be seriously pondered over in the present critical point of our national history, From Virginia we have a series of letters. That of our correspondent at the White Sul- phur Springs gives some remarkable generali- zations of the condition of affairs in that State,» and of the state of public opinion in the South. His deductions are: that the South is deter- mined to take care of and put down its own disorganizers, and leave to the Northern con- servatives a similar duty with their own. Should the North fail to perform its duty to the Union, then, and not till then, will the South resist. Our correspondent gives us a notable declaration of Governor Letcher on this subject. From others we learn that it is proposed or contemplated that the two State conventions, which meet on the 16th inst.—the Douglas one at Staunton and the Breckinridge one at Char- lotteville—should drop both Presidential can- didates and put a new man in nomination, calling upon the democracy throughout the Union to sustain number three and let num- bers one and two go by the board. Of a like character is the suggestion which comes from St. Marys county, Maryland, to let Douglas and Breckinridge slide, and to take up and elect with a furore the venerable Chiet Justice Taney, sttnding on the Dred Scott decision in lieu of a platform. . If it were done, when ‘tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. It would give some life to the contest if such mine as this were sprung upon the black re- publican ranks. Our Virginia correspondent assures us that in no other way can a fusion be brought about, and that, with the poor prospect of such a thing taking place, the Bell and Eve- rett men in that State are in great glee. There are two letters from in one of which “Long John Wentworth,” as the mar is popularly known, is represented as being the only candid and sincere representa- tive of republican principles, inasmuch as he proclaims the most undying hostility to the in- stitution of slavery, while Lincoln, and those who prefer expediency to principle, are pro- fessing conservatism and devotion to the constitution, in obedience to Hamlet's advice, to “assume a virtue, if you have it not.” The other Chicago letter represents Long John as guilty of the basest towards Lincoln, and attributes to his desire to defeat “Honest Abe” the bitterness which he now exhibits to the South. These Western poli- ticians are so difficult to comprehend, and have 80 little honest principle at heart, that no alle- gation of trickery attributed to them is in- credible. Let Long John settle it, however, with “Tlonest Old Abe” in their own way, sub- ject only to the constitution of the United States. From North Carolina we are informed that the prospects of either Breckinridge or Douglas are remarkably slim, and that from present ap- pearances the Bell and Everett ticket will have five thousand majority in the Old North State. Our St. Louis correspondent gives some facts about the Blair and Barrett contest, and modest- ly ventures on the prediction that Missouri will give its electoral vote for Douglas. It is a wise maxim, however, never to count the chickens till they are hatched. We have -wery widely discordant state- ments from Georgia. One correspondent pre- dicts ten thousand majority for Breckinridge, and Lane, and estimates the result of the elec- tion as follows:—Breckinridge, 57,000; Bell, 30,000; Douglas, 18,000. Another gives Breck- inridge a majority over both Donglas and Bell, of betwebn 20,000 and 30,000 ; while still an- other correspondent from the same State as- sumes that Bell will get from ten to twenty thousand votes more than Breckinridge, and that the only Southern State on which the Major can calculate with any degree of cer- tainty is South Carolina. A Pennsylvania correspondent asserts that the old Keystone State is still faithful to demo- cracy, and another declares ina less positive manner that Pennsylvania is not sure for Lin- coln. To this valuable chapter of political corres. pondence we append the address issued by the National Executive Committee of the constitu: tional Union party to the people of the United States. It discusses the dominant question of the day—the question of slavery. It characterizes the repeal of the Missouri compromise as an untoward act, and asserts as main causes of the present disturbed condi- tion of affairs, that measure, the acta of violence committed in Kansas, and the persistent efforts of the federal administration to force that Ter- ritory into the Union. It holds the leaders of the democratic party responsible for that act and its grave consequences, but declares on the other hand that the republican party is respon- sible for continuing the agitation. It declares that the election either of a democrat or repub- lican would be « serious misfortune to the coun- try, and, as a necessary corollary, proclaims that the only safety is in the election of Bell and Everett. RaiRoap Srecunative Maxta.—Two or three years of excellent crops, the experience earned in 1857, and the system of economy which re- sulted from it, bave placed the country to-day in a position of remarkable prosperity; and with prosperity too often comes a spirit of reck- leseness and a temptation to speculate. In the stock list of last week we have an ex- ample of this, Here we find an advance of from five to nine per cent in the stock of five or six railroads within one week, for which there is really no warrant either in the agricultural or commercial world. The abundant grain crop of the West will undoubtedly prove a great ae i ee a ae “ 41% rey rey aT Erie... i si ae 255 Michigan Ceviral. 68" 63 6 61s; 6T Tiinois Central... 66 Tl «=e 85 Galena, er eo 2 13K = 80K ct uy 16! ot 85% 85K OST 30% a? Ree 63% «GT (OTe The character of these roads is very well known. They are nearly all in debt, and some of them have been grossly mismanaged from time to time. There is no doubt that there is a general improvement in perhaps all the rail- roads throughout the country, but not to an ex- tent to warrant the above quotations of the sudden increase of stock. The truth is, that it is the result of speculation simply, and may be etimulated by the banks and some outside specu- lators. We warn people engaged in regular businers to be cautious bow they go into this kind of speculation, or they may find them- selves in thé same fiasco which came upon them ; in 1857. We are glad to perceive that a very respectable member of the Board of Brokers, who was a sufferer by the last panic, Mr. Wes- ley, a member of the church and a member of the press also, having control of an obscure paper in the city, warns the public against fall- ing into the same trap in which he lost his tail in 1857. The New York State Convention of the Douglas Democracy. The Douglas democracy of this Common- wealth hold a State Convention at the city of the salt boilers to-morrow; but, from present appearances, all the salt at Syracuse will not suffice to save their bacon. % The Breckinridge democracy, under the lead of that indomitable bard shell war horse, Da- piel S. Dickinson, have had their Convention, and have thrown out their flag to the South wind, including a ticket for Governor and other State officers, and a Presidential electoral tick- et. The Bell-Everett party have had a Con- vention, and have left their business affairs in the hands of a select committee of thirty-two, under the hope that they may be able to patch up a coalition with the dismembered democra- cy. What the friends of Gen. Houston will do we cannot tell; but itis possible that they do not intend to be counted out by the politicians. This forthcoming Douglas Convention wili be under the control of the unscrapu- lous nd incompetent Albany Regency, the same cabal that, through its trick- ery and treacherous operations at Syracuse last fall, planted the seeds of all the poisonous fruite which have since been administered to the democracy of the State and the Union. They packed a delegation to Charleston, under the contrc! of Dean Richmond, by making the uninitiated minority of the delegation subordi- nate to the majority under the unit rule. Thus. with the thirty-five votes of New York in their hands, Richmond and his Albany clique, in their desperate game for the lion’s share of the spoils, broke up the Convention at Charleston and broke up the party at Baltimore. From this clique of rule or ruin gamblers little is to be hoped at Syracuse, in the way of common sense. They will, in all probability, put up a geparate Douglas electoral and State ticket, and thus, in their blind revenge, throw everything to the dogs. But the matter-of-fact and practical men of the Douglas democracy should not submit to any such nonsense. On the contrary, they should take the reins out of the hands of the Regency, and chalk out that sort of programme which will be best calcu- lated to bring the rank and file of the Douglas faction, the Breckinridge faction and the Bell faction into “a happy accord” upon a common electoral ticket. Otherwise the popular vote of New York for Lincoln will probably run up to a decided majority of the whole vote of the State, and may exceed the vote for the Douglas ticket as much as two hundred thousand. At our last fall election the united democra- cy and Americans carried the Secretary of State against the republicans by about eighteen hun- dred majority. But with the aggregate vote of Jones divided and subdivided between three or four little factions, the result, so far as Lin- coln is concerned, will be the same as if all the forces opposed to Lincoln should cast their suf frages, some for “ Little Tommy,” some for Al- derman Boole or Simeon Leland, and some for the King of the Cannibal Islands. Should this Regency Convention at Syracuse do anything indicative of common sense and an encouraging opposition to Lincoln in the State, we shall accept the results a8 indicating, too, that this Albany clique have recovered from their debaucheries at Baltimore, where, aceord- ing to Senator Fitch, of Indiana, their potations of whiskey precipitated the ruin of the demo- cratic party Hraum or tue Crry.—The City Inspector's returns for the week ending August 11 show an increase of mortality over the previous week of one hundred and fifty-seven, seven Jess than the week corresponding in 1859, and forty-one leas than the corresponding week of 1858. The number of deaths under one year of age is two hundred and thirty-five, and those under five years three hundred and nine- ty-nine, or about three-fifths of the whole num- ber of deaths. From consumption there are eighty-nine deaths, which is greater by far for the same period than for several years past. The mortality among foreigners is set down as one bundred and eighty-five. The month of August is considered the most uphealthy of any of the months of the year, from the excessive heat which usually prevails, and from a too free indulgence in eating un- ripe and unsound fruit. The foreign immigra- tion for the last week arriving in this city amounts to thirty thousand, many ,of whom were suffering from diseases incidental to long passages, insufficiency and impurity of food, and from their confined condition on ship- board. lt is fair to presume that we have passed through what is understood to be the most fatal of the weeks of the year, and may hereafter count upon a steady decrease in our weekly bills of mortality. We find that Col. Delavan, our efficient City Inspector, is gradually gain- ing the confidence of the more eminent of the medical faculty of the city in his unceasing ef- forts to preserve the public health. We would inquire of the Common Council whether any action has been taken towards any of the numerous sanitary abuses to which their attention has been called by the City Inspector in his annual and subsequent communications to that body; or is the public Te PS rena eresenecnememane arena health of so small a matter in the eyes of these estimable gentlemen that they mt afford to make light of it, and to treat it with their usual indifference’ Perhaps we may hear from them upon this subject when they have settled the difference in dispute among themselves over the $105,000 swindle. “Howvest Ow ABE” ann His Casiver.—The republican journals, believing that “Honest Old Abe Lincoln” is already as good as elected, are casting about for his Cabinet. it is given out that W. H. Seward is to be the Premier, which, as it will break the nose of Greeley at once, is an appointment, no doubt, resolved upon by his enemies. It is not con- sidered admissible to have two Cabinet mem- bers from the same State. But with Seward as Premier, poor Greeley may also give up every aspiration for a secondary place, such as the New York Custom House or Post Office. In short, with Seward in the Cabinet, Greeley will bring his basket of eggs to the same mar- ket as the Chevalier Forney. He will be left out in the cold. For Secretary of War, Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, may turn up. He is entitled to something for giving the one more vote wanted, in addition to that of George Briggs, to elect'» republican Speaker at the last session of Coa- gress. For Attorney General, John Hickman, of Pennsylvania, has the inside, track, in con- sideration of his various invaluable services to the republican cause, and his posi- tion as the republican chairman on law of the House of Representatives, For Secretary of the Navy, Senator Wade, of Obio, “a mighty man of valor,” is spoken of. For Secretary of the Interior we would sug- gest the widely known Abby Kelly Foster—a strong minded woman of the regular free soil, free speech, free nigger, free love sisterhood—a real rail splitter in petticoats, competent, ne doubt, to regulate our Indian tribes and the Mormons on free love principles. For Post- master General, Fred Douglass, of all men, would be the man to take the conceit out of the Southern chivalry. This will do on the subject of the Cabinet for the present. We must not eat all the grapes at a single meal. But we must avail ourselves of this occasion to put in a good word for that military, ecclesiastic and diplomatic chieftain of the church militant, the Chevalier Webb. Under General Taylor’s administration he was appointed Minister to Austria; and, in order to do the thing up in style, he expended the neat little sum of five hundred dollars for a cocked hat, a blue cloth coat embroidered with gold lace, a silk waistcoat trimmed with silver, a ruffed shirt, a pair of leather breeches, small sword, eye glass and gold chain, silk and beautiful slippers ornamented with buckles resplendent with California diamonds. But the Senate blackballed our magnificent cotempo- rary while on bis way to Vienna; and so now the question is. having doubtless carefully pre- served that splendid court dress, shall he not have the opportunity to wear it under Presi- dent Lincoln’? Tot Triexe mw Andornen Frioat.—The Tribune, having recently got over one fright, is now again terribly scared. was the object of his terror of late. Now it is the Bell and Everett ticket. And on this it has good reason for alarm. No other ticket will 80 walk into the affections of the republi- cans in the New England States. We should not be surprised, indeed, if a revolution takes place at the polls down East which will pnt Lincoln hors de combat. The Tribune, however, has one source of consolation in the event of defeat. It assures us that Lincoln is “a man who scarcely went te school, who at twenty-one could hardly read, and was scarcely worth the clothes on his back, coarse as they were.” Now, ignorance of the art of reading and writing plain Koglish may be a very good qualification for an Alderman, as it is often found to be for candidates for a place in Blackwell's Island or Sing Sing; but to claim this as a high qualification for the President of the United States is going a little too far with the joke. By all accounts Lincoln ought to go to school even now to get some lessons in grammar, spelling and penmanship. His epistles are said to be very funny affairs. But while the Tribune boasts of the ignorance of Lincoln, it says Bell and Everett “were born to education and opulence.” This is un- true. Mr. Everett was born poor, and had to work his way up, tid now he is one of the moet elegant scholars in the land, while even the Trivuneadmite that both he and Bell have “talents, experience and integrity, which it would by no means question.” It is the first time, we believe, in the history of the country, that ignorance of reading and writing is held up to the country as s qualification for the Presidential chair, while early training and a good education are disparaged as disqualifice- tions for that high office. What are we coming to when such Fourierite doctrines are boldly proclaimed by a republi- can journalist? It was the doctrine and prac- tice of the phalanxes to decry education and exalt ignorance. Hence they contended that the unlettered laboring man was entitled to the highest remuneration and the greatest ho- bors, because his work was disagreeable; whereas the intellectual man, the man of brains and education, was entitled to least considera- tion, because his employment was pleasant. | The Fourierite phalanxes, so zealously sup- | ported by the Tribune, have disappeared, we believe, from the United States; but if the cam- paign doctrines now preached up by the philo- sopbers of that journal have any effect there will soon be “a revival,” and we may very shortly after have a proposition agitated to tion of the Douglas wing of the democracy in this State, the agents of the Albany Regency have been writing letters to various persons in