The New York Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1860, Page 4

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WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—[aisn ASSURANCE np YAsKexX Mopesrx—Workine tur Oxace. LAURA KEENR’S THEATRE, No. @4 Broadway.—Ocr Amnsicax Covs:x. NEW ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hennew Son—Rar 3. AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brondway.—Day and Frening—Sincing axp Dascinc—Jesxy Joves—Living Co- wiosimizs, Br BRYAN Wao Brav HOOLEY & CAMPBELL’S OPERA HOUSE, 535 Proad- way.—Biack STATUE. NATIONAL VARIETIES, Wur—Magic Pinis—Ieisn Sow ' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— cx BuLy ParTErsox? i] tham sireet.—Roaven’s ASTER. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Paomenave Con cERT. CANTERBURY CONCERT SALOON, No. 663 Broadway.— Sones, Dances, BURLESQUES, il HOPE Onarer.. Mexken’s SWARSPEREA: x READIN Peadwey.—Ssan Tsaacs New York, 8 y, August 19, 1860, The News. The steamship Glasgow was intercepted off Cape Race on Friday night. Sha brings two days later news from Europe, and a full cargo of merchan- ise for this city. The political news is unimpor- tant. The French troops had left for Syria. All was tranguil at Naples, and the government making preparations to resist an attack on that city by Garibaldi, who was hourly expected, and whose forces were then investing Fort Scylla, op- posite Messina. Napoleon was at the camp at Chalons, and Queen Victoria in Scotland, where she had reviewed a large rifle force. The Whit- worth rifle had been condemned by the Ordnance Committee of the House of Commons. Advices from Manchester as to the condition of trade are unfavorable. The Liverpool cotton market is re- ported firm, while more unpropitious weather for the growing crops of breadstuffa prevailed. Con- sols, 934 a 99]—for September account, 93] a 934. The steamship Parana arrived at Boston yester- day morning from Galway, via St. Johns,N. FP. She teft Galway on the 7th. Her mails reached this city last evening. The Prince of Wales reached Quebec yesterday afternoon, and landed amid great enthusiasm, ander salutes from the batteries and ships of war. He was received by the Mayor, civic dignitaries and members of the Canadian Cabinet. The cteam fhigateo Niagara, which left this port ‘on the 30th of June, with the Japanese Embassy on board, arrived at Porto Grande, St. Vincent, her | first stopping place, on the 16th ult. All on board were well. Advices from Tangier to July 24 report that cholera had made its appearance there, and many of the foreign residents were leaving. In another column will be found very interesting reports of the commencements of several of our Northern colleges, together with a description of the order of exercises and sketches of the ad- dresses delivered. The commencement of Wil- liems College, Mass., was marked by a large influx of visiters. The Baccalaureate sermon was delivered by the President, and was heard with profound attention. The address to the alumni was also asplendid success. The fifty-sixth annual com- mencement of the University at Burlington, Ver- mont, was a most pleasing event. The number of visiters was very large, and the exercises were con- ducted with much interest and discrimination. The Rev. Calvin Pease delivered the Baccalaureate ser- mon. The biennial celebration of the alamni went off with éelat. Tho poems and addresses were of the first order, and the whole affair terminated to the evident satisfaction of all who witnessed it. The proceedings at Middlebury College, Vermont, will also be read with interest. The anniversary of the literary societies was the occasion for a grand display of learning and eloquence. The Baccalaureate sermon was a complete success, and throughout the whole of the exercises there was one continual ‘‘feast of reason and flow of soul.” The Virginia Douglas Convention adjourned last evening, after a session of three days and the for- mation of an electoral ticket. The electors were instructed to vote for Dongias if their vote would elec President; but, if not, then to vote so as to defeat the republican candidate. The United§ States mail steamer Arago sailed from this port yesterday afternoon for Southamp- tonand Havre. She had eighty-seven first class | passengers and $699,150 in specie on freight. The British steamer Kangaroo left abont the same time the Arago did. She had twenty-six cabin passen- gers and $728,510 in specie on freight. The eaies of cotton yesterday embraced 15,000 bales, the market closing firm. The run was chiefly on middling to | strict middling; middling fair grades, low middling and { under tliat grade down to ordinary were irregular, while the higher qualities, including fair, wore rather scarce | and nominal, as there was little offering. The accounts coming to hand from the South represent no decided im. provements in the prospects of the crop at the South, so materially aifected by the late drought on bigh lands, and on which is usually grown the heaviest portion of the ag gregnte yield, Flour opened heavy, and fell off about 6¢. per barrel for some grades of State | and Western, at which the market became more | active, Wheat was beavy, and fell off about Ic. per ‘bushel for many descriptions. Corn was also lc. to 1ige. per bushel lower, but it was quite active. Pork was enblor and les active; sales of mess were made at $19 31 8 G19 96, and of mew prime at $14. Sagars were steaty, and prices closed, on the sales of the woek, at an ad: vance of ic. per pound, especially for refining goods. Coffee was firm but quiet. Freights continued to rale firm, eepecially for English ports. Among the engage ‘menta were wheat to Liverpool, in bulk and bags, at Lid. @ 1144. and Gour at 3s. 34. Oxo Vom Gove Oven.—The Douglas de- | mocracy of Virginie having put up a complete | electoral ticket of their own against the Breck- inrldge democracy, we may authoritatively an- nounce that the vote of Virginia in November és certain and sure for Bell and Everett. And ‘Virginia will carry the bulk of the Southern @tates along with her. Are we not in the midst of » Union revolution? The Syracuse Union Electoral Ticket— Alarm in the Republican Camp. The comments of our republican orgags on the Union electoral ticket adopted at Syracuse betray a serious alas ' ihe Lincoln camp. From the dey, many weeks ago, when the pro- position was first broached for a coalition in this State among the elements opposed to the republican party, down to this day, the Hon, Massa Greeley has kept up a continuoua fire of shot and shells, and hand grenaded, agalabt “Hunt, Duer and Brooks,” on account of their sale of the Bell-Everett party to the Douglas squatter sovereignty democracy. Now we un derstand the meaning of these inceasant missiles against “Hunt, Duer and Brooks.” The event which Greeley has been 60 much afraid of has come to pass—a cordial coalition between the Bell-Everett party and the Douglas democracy upon a common electoral ticket—and the pros- pects of Mr. Lincoln are somewhat suddenly clouded. Thurlow Weed is facetious on the subject. He says that “the democracy opened its doors, and federalists, bank men, silver grays and Know Nothings walked in;” that “the Douglas democracy, after a night of protracted labor and severe pains, bas gone through the perils of parturition; that the “patient taxed all the skill of Doctors Richmond and Hunt, neither of whom left the bedside for a moment, or closed their eyes during the night,” and that the offspring (twins), who will require tender nursing, were immediately christened, one “Squatter Sovereignty,” and the other, “Have you seen Sam?” Master Weed also names this union ticket “The Hybrid ticket” and “The Suc- cotash ticket,” but he will become a little more serious before many days are over. Our more sagacious philosophers of the Tri- bume are already convinced that this anti-Lin- coln coalition is no joke, but that there is danger init to the republican cause. To break the force of it, they charge that the ten Bell and Everett men on said electoral ticket are in reality Doug- las men, and intend, if they have the chance, to cast their votes for Douglas—that, in fact, nota single Bell and Everett electoral candidate for this State has yet been appointed. The design of this is, of course, to create distrust among the supporters of Bell and Everett and in the Breckinridge camp. But it is one of those weak inventions of the enemy which will only excite the contempt of the parties directly con- cerned. Our opinion, that this late coalition at Syra- cuse will open the way toa concentration of all the Union elements in this State on a common electoral ticket against Lincoln, is in a fair way to a speedy confirmation. We understand that there isto bea joint conference at Saratoga Springs, on Tuesday next, of the committee of the Douglas party, the Bell party and the Breck- inridge party respectively, charged with this business of a joint electoral ticket; that the ob- ject of this meeting is to rearrange the Syracuse ticket, so as to include the Breckiaridge party, and that, upon the basis of ten electors, there is no doubt of this party joining the coalition. If thus adopted, this joint stock electoral ticket will stand— las electors: Breckinridge ol Bell electors... But any division of the Pore: that will be satisfactory to the several parties concerned will answer the great purpose in view, the defeat of Lincoln by the concentration upon a common electoral ticket against him of | the anti-black republican popular majority of the Empire State. In 1856, under the full pres- sure of the Kansas excitement, and the astound- ing popularity of Fremont, his vote in this State fell between forty and fifty thousand be- hind the united vote of Buchanan and Fillmore. Now, with this latter vote united against Lin- coln—an unpopular man in the New York re- publican camp, for obvious reasons—what is there to prevent his defeat,-by the triumph of the union electoral ticket in this State to the tune of fifty thousand majority ? Tar Cottece Commencements and Ustver- sity Epvcation.—We publish to-day the con- cluding reports of the numerous college com- mencements which have been held throughout the country during the summer. Not long ago colleges in this country were “like angels’ vi- sits—few and far between.” Now they are scat- tered all over the land, as thick as blackberries. Formerly a college education was enjoyed by very few—now it is quite common. As wealth increases and civilization advances, education is increased and multiplied. In all new coun- tries education, literature and the arts and sci- ences are kept in the background by the strug- gle for food and raiment and lodging, and by the prime necessity of developing the physical resources. With the acquisition of material wealth come the treasures of art and knowledge and skill of every kind, institutions of the higher branches of learning. The influence of this progress will, of course, be felt every day more and more. But the value of a col- legiate education must not be overrated. To almost all itis of more or less service, and would be of very great and essential ser- vice were its instruction followed up in after years. But too many rush rapidly through a college course, with a mere smattering of the subjects on which they have been tangbt, and in after life do not turn their information to any account. In numerous instances they for- get nearly all that they have learned. Educa- tional books are mere tools, which are of no value unless they are used. A collegiate edu cation is lost upon numbers of young men be- cause they do not use it In after life, and almost the only advantage they derive from itis the discipline which is established over the mind. To men engaged in the active business of com- merce a classical and college education is not of a value commensurate with the time lost. But chemistry and the mechanical laws are often made available by men who engage in mechanical pursuits. The most useful schools would be schools of art and schools of design. To professional men, such as lawyers, and doctors and the clergy, a college education is of great importance, though no educational training can make able men out of those whom nature has not endowed with talents. How few of our clergy in this large city and its suburbs are distinguished for ability. It is im- possible to make a silk purse out of a swine’s ear. ‘A college education is necessarily superficial, and its design is not so much to communicate knowledge as to teach a man how he is to acquire it. Whether he ever does acquire it depends on himeelf. The heads and professors of our colleges are _NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 19, 1860. not paid a sufficient remuneration, and hence, like our judges, they are rarely quulifed for the high and important posts which they fill So long a8 man can make more money at any other profession or in trade, he will not devote his life to the business of education, which, when properly carried on, is the most important of alt other professions to the general com- ‘munity. ‘The Binck Slave Trade @ Bleve Trade. In another page ‘we publish, from the London Times; & summary of official correspondence Asid before the British Parliament, showing the abominable nature of the trade carried on in white men at Canton and Whampoa, who are purchased from kidnappers at thirty dollars a head and sold at Havana at four hundred dol- lars per head, having been first compelled, by torture of the most refined and excruciating kind, and the terror of death itself, to consent to “a contract,” which, though void in law, as being signed under coercion, is, nevertheless, carried out against them in Cuba as fully as if it were an act of their own deliberate chbice. The correspondence closes with an important official deapatch from Lord John Russell to Earl Cowley, Lord Lyons, Sir A. Magenis and Mr. Edwards, requesting them to appeal, in the name of humanity and religion, to the respect- ive governments to which they are accredited, to “efface, by a final effort, the stain which the slave trade inflicts on the Christian name.” The despatch is published at length in our columns, and it concludes with two principal propositions to “ the nations of Christendom”— one is to take the moat effectual means of cutting off the black slave trade, and the other is to encourage and regulate the white slave trade. The first of these propositions is in the follow- ing words:—“A systematic plan of cmising on the coast of Cuba by the vessels of Great Britain, Spain and the United States.” Thisidea has been borrowed from Mr. Buchanan, whose message to Congress is quoted by Lord John Russell. Vast amounts of blood and treasure had been expended in vain in guarding the shores of Africa, which are very extensive and very sickly. The United States and the British governments have a treaty to maintain eighty guns each on the African coast to pre- vent the traffic. They have not only altogether failed in doing this, but with the best intentions in the world they have increased the amount of deaths and sufferings. Had the trade been let alone and no crufsers sent to interfere with it, the competition in it would have been 80 great and the profits so small, that the traders could not afford to make losses on the voyage from inhuman treatment of their cargo. They would have carried the slaves in large and commo- dious ships. The closestowing and the enor- mous loss of life are occasioned by the necessity of concealment and of speed, and this necessity iscaused by the cruisers. “ We must admit,” says the London Times, in a recent article, “that nothwithstanding all our sacrifices, our negotiations, and our coercion of other Powers, the slave trade exists, and the same horrors are inflicted as: Mr. Buxton’s ancestors so long ago denounced. Miserable human beings are still packed together like herrings in a barrel, and the beautifully shaped bull of many a swift clipper is but a shell to horrors more dreadful than even those which have been dis- covered at Palermo or at Naples.’ Mr. Bucha- nan had the sagacity to’see that it was use- levs to rely upon the squadron on the African coast, losing money and sacrificing white men by thousands, which only resulted in the in- creased sufferings and deaths of black men—to prevent which was the object of all the expen- diture of treasure and of blood. Ie saw that Cuba was the only place with which the traffic ‘was carried on, and that its coast was compa- ratively small and easy towatch. He therefore stationed two or three gunboats around the island, and the result is that during his admi- nistration more captures have been made in the same space of time than by the combined efforts of the British and American squadrons on the coast of Africa. The British govern- ment now propose to follow up the idea by in- creasing the number of cruisers around Cuba. But the absurdity of taking Spain into the part- nership is palpable, If, instead of Spain, Lord Jobn Russell had substituted France, there would be some sense in the proposition. White the «| Spain could abolish the negro slave trade in one month if she pleased, herself alone, with- out any aid from the United States or Great Britain. The British government foolishly paid her two millions of dollars in 1835 to abolish the traffic. But she found it was for her inte- rests and the interests of her colony to continue it, and while she pocketed John Bull's money, the connived at the trade, and connives at it now. Lord John Russell states that the offictals in Cuba are bribed bythe traders—a statement in which he is confirmed by the authority of the journals in this city, which lately pub- lished a statement that in a single instance this year the Governor of Trinidad re- ceived $30,000 as a douceur, But it is evident that the Spanish government do not want to stop the traffic, beeause their colony needs a supply of labor which it cannot get in any other way. It is, therefore, the height of absurdity to ask Spain to aasist, by a contribution of her naval force, in suppressing what she has an interest in secretly encourag- ing; and equally idle is it to ask her to make internal regulations in the island auxiliary to the vigilance of the police of the seas outside. Lord John Russell, indeed, suggests that the Congress of the United States ought also to im- prove our internal laws against the fitting out of slavers. But it is hard to believe the British government sincere in this business. Yield- ing to a deep laid commercial policy and the tide of fanaticism, the Parliament abo- lished negro slavery in the colonies. They have since found out their mistake. The colo nies have gone to destruction, and to restore them to prosperity they must resort to slave labor agein. They are ashamed, after all they have said aguinst the United States, to carry off negroes from Africa to supply the want; but they have already been carrying off coolies from China, and-making slaves ef them in vast numbers, and inflicting tortures on them equalling in atrocity the horrors of “the mid- dle passsge.” Lord Jobn Russell sdmits this. The unfortunate men have braved death, leap ing overboard to escape, and they have been harpooned like so many fishes by their en- slavers. They have mutinied, and even com- mitted suicide. A great noise has been made about these atrocities, and does the British go- vernment propose to pnt an end to this traffic? Not at all, but to incgease it, only that it ehall be brought under proper regulations. Why not try the game plan with the Africans? The words of Lord John Russell's proposi- tion—the second branch of his pian for putting an end to slavery—is “ emigration from China, regulated by the agents of Euro- pean nations in conjunction with the Chinese authorities.” The British government may dis- guise this aa they will. but it is nothing else than a proposition to increase, legalize and ays- temalize the white slavery which has grown up to supply the place of negro slavery in the British West Islands. It is a copy of Louls Napoleon’s recent plan to regulate Afri- can emigration to the French West Indies. It is folly to talk of sham contracts. What chance will a poor Chinese apprentice have of fair play in the British West India Islands? What isina mame? Call slavery by the name of ap- prenticeship, and it is just the same. The truth is that the wants of civilization increase the ne- cessity of slave labor, While the English will have sugar and cotton and rice, there must be slave labor to produce these articles; and this is the reason why Buxton’s motion in Parliament, to compel Spain to refund the £400,000 paid her for abolishing the slave trade, and to suspend diplomatic relations with her till the treaties are carried out, bas just been withdrawn. Bri- tish hypocrisy, as the London Times intimates: would be rendered too glaring in the face of | the world. The Turkish Soldtery in the Syrian Mas sacres. The atrocities of the Iste massacres in Syria have, we know, been greatly aggravated by what is termed the Turkish soldiery; and yet, in the very face of these facts, comes the an- nouncement of Fuad Pasha, Qommissioner of the Porte to Syria, “At the risk of my life I shall wash out the stain upon the honor of our army, and that the soldiers will also do their duty.” Such an assurance will doubtless seem some- what Anomalous to our readers in general, and more especially to our cotemporaries, who, in their sagacious disquisitions on the subject, will be puzzled how to interpret the Pasha’s patriotic agseverations. ‘There is indeed no denying that Mohammedans have a strong antipathy towards Christians, not only instigated by the Koran itself, but incul- cated by the peculiar policy of the government towards its rayahs—the subjugated Christian people; but circumstances have combined to modify their fanaticism. In the course of time there grew a ciasa of Mohammedans who, by commerce or agricul- ture, amassed wealth and property, while another class existed who were forced to live either by the sweat of the brow or by chance spoliations. Hence the former, having every incentive to promote peace and good fellow- ship, have always been the conservative party; and the latter, having nothing to. risk, but per- baps much to gain, have constituted the ultra fanatical, ready to avail themselves of any emergency. Many innovations have been introduced into Turkey, calculated to shock the fastidiousaess of the most conservative Mussulmans; yet they never resist the authority of the government, when sanctioned by the Sheikh-ul-Islam, with- out doing violence to their consciences; for a good Mussulman is not only obliged to believe in the Koran, and perform its religious require- ments, but he is to respect the law, as pro- pounded by the judiciary, and to yield implicit obedience to the Sultan, who is the vicegerent of Allah upon earth. So he is impelled to be a good citizen, not only by interest, but by his own moral sense. On the other hand, the rab- ble have no such principles to guide them, their own interests being enhanced in propor- tion as they can exercise their fanaticism and desire of plunder. It is true that the army is drafted from the lower classes of the interior, who are naturally imbued with bigotry and intolerance; but the regular troops, or a standing army, are trained in Constantinople, and in the course of two or three years become so thoroughly metamor- phosed that they not only are made good soldiers, but imbibe the conservative spirit and are assimilated to the policy of the govern- ment. They are known to be 80 well disci- plined that the very name of Nizam—the regu- lars—sends terror to the outlaws of the terri- tories, the border ruffians of Turkey. Bat in emergencies the aid of the fanatical populace becomes necessary, and they come into service under the title of Bashi- Bazooks, or irregulars. So it is plain there is a great difference between the Nizams and the Bashi-Bazooks, thongh both may come under the appellation of Turkish soldiery. The disturbances in other parts of the empire having drawn off the Nizams, the sudden out- break in Syria was met principally by the hire- ling ruffians, the Bashi-Bazooks, who, as usual, caring little for the interests of the government, availed themselves of the opportunity to vent their fanaticism and to enjoy the chance of ra- pine and plunder. Damascus is a holy city to all true believers, and its inhabitants are not only Mussulmans by faith, but socially the créme de la créme; for to be a Damasoene is to be a gentleman. it was the beginning of their empire, and will be its end—ia a word, the Jerusalem of Mussulmans— Evvely-Siam, Akhery-Sham!—Damaseus first, Damascus last! Yet these rufflans, with thesem- blance of religious zeal, were not even deterred by these sacred associations, and assisted to carry rapine and devastation into this tradition- ary shrine! ‘The propensities of these irregulars ply displayed during the Crimean war, for to their charge have justly been laid all the atrocl- ties committed against the poor and peaceable Bulgarians, and the cowardice of the troops during that campsign. Besides, these Basbi- Bazooks became so turb«lent that some of their leaders had to be shot, and their soldiery dis- banded. Thue we may be enabled to understand the ebullition of Fuad Pysha’s patriotism, ex- prewed in the ardent desire to wipe cut the stain upon the Ottoman army. But how his Exceflency will account for the un- weual conduct of the few regulars found in Syria during the outbreak is a question. By what impulse were they induced either to look on with seeming indifference, or to mingle in the affray! That the army, hitherto so loyal, should thus dishonor itself seems like the fulfil mont of the prophecy in the famons and ancient book Jaffer. It is therein written that “the days will come when the Koran will be lifted up to Heaven, and the people will be abandon- ed by Allah, on account of their indifference and ipiquities, The meleb-diasfar, or the pale were am eanpire, will cause their destruction and overrun the Mussulman territories; the Christians will rule over them, and the last Sultan will be named Abd-ul-Mgdjl va Goubt that the destination of Walker is Nicara- gua, And he has shown, in the secrecy with which he has managed this expedition, that he has learned something from past failures, Be- fore long we eball no doubt have further news Dog Days in Town. Everybody ia out of town. The palatial man- sions in Fifth, Second and Madison sve: nuer, and the “demesnes that thereunto adja- cent lie,” are left to desolation and the lead- pipe thieves. The festive brocatelle is shroud- ed from the vulgar touch ef Bridget'’s friends, who hold of a Sunday high revel in the sacred precincts where the belle of the season flirted between the figures of the German with Charles Augustus, “just from Paria, and so wicked.’ The whole world, we are told, has shut up its house, closed ita blinds, packed its trunks, and tailed off to Newport, Sharon, Saratoga, the Vir- ginia Springs, Long Branch of Cape May. To be seen in Broadway in these piping times ia equivalent to social ostracism. Accord- ing to the religious belief of the fashionable world, the whole duty of man and woman, in the dog days, is comprised in knocking about from one watering place to another; being swindled right and left by all sorts of people, from tavern keepers down to deputy boot biacks; drinking nasty water by the gal- lon, flirting atthe rate of sixty miles an hour, | Setvlang ove Gusty roads, eating bad dinners, | dreseing within an inch of your life, bathing for the:bene@t of your heirs, sleeping on mise- rable beds in badly ventilated rooms, and geti#ralfy allowing yourself to be made as un- comfortable as possible. And all for the sake of saying that you can’t bear New York in August; that nobody stops in New York in August; that New York is slow in August, and that, in point of fact, exist- ence in New York during the dog days, is no more nor less than a mild form of purgatorial punishment. While there are so many respectable people who hold to the above belief with far more tena- city than to those good, old-fashioned, hopefully pious and never-to be-for-a-moment-doubted truths which, during the fashionable season, the Rey. Cream Cheese—he is in Europe just now, and finds the air of Chamounix, to say nothing of the claret, quite the thing for his bronchitis—poums forth from the luxurious pulpit down into the still more sump- tuous pews of Saint Asaph’s, it would be, per- haps, impertinent for us to put in more than a general demurrer, and, while acknowledging that such a vast number of people could hardly go wrong, to point to the several sensations in which the Can’t-Get-Away Club have lately par- ticipated. We may allude, for a moment, to the grand Heenan fele at Jones’ Wood on Monday. It would be hard for Saratoga or Newport, with all their pretension, to match that scene. Such an assemblage of the bone and muscle and sinew of the metropolis has never been witnessed before, and we have yet to hear of any disorder, thieving or other of the usual disgraceful incidents almost inevitable upon the gathering together of great bodies of people representing all classes of society, from the highest to the lewest stratum. Then there was the departure of the Great Eastern, that gigantic humbug, with the ewarm of angry creditors upon the heels of the well beloved steward and his scullions, who seem to have had very liberal ideas upon the subjeet of credit and the currency. Any one would imagine that two or three hundred per cent profit upon everything sold aboard the ship would have paid pretty well. It appears, however, that our English friends were not sa- tisfied with that, but demanded the whole. The idea is comical in the extreme—tbe ninth wonder of the world being held, like Gulliver, by Lillipatian debts, in all amounting to less than a thousand dollars. The murder calendar has been quiet, and the criminal record of the week is declared by those sanguinary fellows, the police reporters, to be distressingly meagre. Some malicious people ascribe this paucity of crime to the ab- sence of the iawyers and the clergy; but that is a slander, of course. Nevertheless, if we are a little short of murders and robberies, rapes and arson, we have splendid weather, ripe fruit, and such nice large houses all to ourselves, How we pity the poor misguided victims of custom, cooped up in their little seven by nine rooms at some third rate hotel, in a fashion- able watering place! How we enjoy the fresh, open, ruddy countenances of Rusticus, and Mrs. Rusticus, and all the little’ Rusticuses, as they wander about Broadway, continvally on the wrong side of the walk, and always getting into a stage which takes them in « direction precisely opposite to that where they desire to go! How we thank Heaven that we are not as other people sre—Newporters or Saratogians, Long Branchers or Sharon Shakers! How we stay-at-home people—there are more than seven hundred thousand of us—rejoice that we are not obliged to go through #0 much annoy- ance to gain eo little real pleasure! After all there is aome fun left in town, even in the dog days. So let the stay-at-home people take heart of grace, and enjoy the comforts of the metropolis, with the rural and seaside attrac- tions which may be had within a couple of hours’ distance by steamboat cr rail Tue Wueneanouts or Watxen—We have from time to time received intelligence of the presence of Gen. Wm. Walker and a small fili- bustering expedition at different places in the Caribbean Sea, but no positive information of his designs has been publisbed. A condensed view of his movements will not be without iaterest at the present time, when we may hear at any moment of bis having effected a landing in Cea- tral America. He left New Orleaos on the 6th of June last, on board the schooner Jobn Taylor for the Island of Ruatan. Previously to bis arrival there several squads of supposed emigrants had been carried to that island by the fruit traders ran- ning to New Orleans, and on the 20th of June Walker himeclf reached there. On the Ifth of July the schooner Clifton, bound frem New Orleana for Ruatan, with twenty-four men and an assorted cargo, waa seized at Belize by the British authorities, and twenty-two cases of cartridges, belts, Xc., ware taken out of ber. The abandoned his vessel, bet at once chartered anotber and sent his passengers to Ruatan. Walker is reported to have left that island on the 29th of June, and the next we hear of @im is at the island of Coaumel, off the coast of Yucatan, where his expedition, said to con: dat of five schooners and five hundred men, was at anchor, and there remained, communi- ‘onting with the mainiand and completing its preparations, until the 20th of July, whea it set @ail for parta unknown. There can be little of his proceedings. Avrairs iy Mexioo.—The monthly arrival of the British ateamer from Vera Oruz at Havana brings us regularly the news that Miramon ip pent up in some tight place from which he can- not possibly escape, and that the civil war in Mexico is about to be brought to an end by his immediate annihilation. By the last sccounte he is reported to be somewhere between Lagos and Leon, surrounded by overpowering consti- tutional forces, while other bands of liberals were gathering in immense numbers round the city of Mexico. Taking the wheat without the chaff in the late news, it amounts to this, that Miramon, having saved the important city of Guadalajara from Uraga and Ogazon, is now on his way back to the capital to drive from there the forces that have gathered around it. This has been the precise character of the struggle in Mexico for the last two years. Mira- mon iis the live lion of the field, and whenever he bas come to blows with his antagonists he has always triumphed, and whenever he haa turned his back on any place he bas lost His cause is the unpopular one; but he has the remains of the veteran army in or imperilled his Conquesta. Mexico with him, and more pluck than all the reat of the leaders of both parties together. He cannot triumph, for the people are not with him ; nor can Juarez conquer him, for he isnei- ther a soldier nor an energetic statesman. What Mexico now wanta is a leader equally at home in the saddle and the cabinet, and as ready with the sword as with the pen. The Mexicans are beginning to look again to Comonfort, who is still reposing in this city; and if his cause is well managed he may soon become again their President. He has a good defence for all the past accusations against him, antecedents that might compel respect,.and ability euch as none now in power in Mexico possess. His friends commit the error of letting these lie fallow, and the republic is meanwhile becoming more and more disintegrated. As for Miramon being near the end of his career, we should not be surprised if Juarez were equally near his, and some third name about to come into view in the kaleidoscope of Mexican affairs. Prorms axp Evis or tax Ory Ram Roans.—Few people, perhaps, who travel on our city railroads and are compelled to expe- rience the miserable want of accommodation so characteristic of them, have any idea of the immense profits which they accumulate every year. With the smallest possible amount of comfort administered to the passengers, the in- corporators of these roads reap a golden har- vest from the half suffocated, crushed and badly used people who employ them asa means of travel through the streets and ave- nues of the city. ‘The official return of the traffic, outlay, earn- ings and profits of the five principal roads for the year 1859 shows the following a = Burk Kewion. Spictataeaelat “Stas "ie Sigh Avenue. 647099 Bisese loran Jame avenue. 5.383 O11 Sen.ass 180.644 81,623 S}498,A1 261985 150,180 191,808 Total... 92,725,861 $1,790,066 1,037,567 607,980 Here is an annual profit of nearly three- quarters of a million admitted by the mana- gers, and we may be certain that the figures are rather under than over the mark. Out of these immense resources it is very easy for the city railroad interest to contro! the lobby and the Legislature, and the secret of its power there may be found in the sum total here figured up. With such a remunerative business as this have not the public a right to expect some decent accommodation: on the cars? And yet it is notorious that there is ne trouble taken to make city railroad travel even endura- ble. There are not half cars enough on any of the roads te accommodate the passengers, and hence, for a considerable portion of the day and night, the temperature and crowded state of the cars ossimilates to those of the Bincls Hole of Caleutta, of infamous memory. It ie thus with all irresponsible monopolies; and until our city railroads are placed under the control of the city government we will never have a better state of things to boast of The city railroads, as now conducted, are more of & nuisance than a convenience. Powrricau Conresronpenck.—In another page we publish some correspondence bearing on the political revoiution which is now taking new shape. It indicates the tendency to unite the conservative elements against the black re- publican candidate—Bell and Everett beiag the nucleus around which these scattered forces will combine. There is thus a prospect ot a square fight between the only two real living parties in the country—the conservatives. and the revolutionists, consisting of the republicans at the North, and the secessionists at the Seuth. If the Sre-eaters of the South do not fall into the ranks.of the conservatives they will be whipped as thoroughly as the nigger worshippers of the North. ‘The fight will be for the mainteaance- of the Union of the States. The tendency of black republicanism is to break {it up, and the tendency of the secessionists is to the same goal. There was always, as there is now, & majority of the people against the principies and. designs of the black republican party. All that was wante? was to effect a junction Of these armies in order to the total overthrow. of the common enemy. That prospect sceay to be opening upon our view at last. The Regatia | at New Bedforn The error in swardiag the prite to the Maliory ie tae fwat. matance arose From & misprint (a the eJowngow ov tine In the Yacht Clud buek, and She award of (ae cluampion priee to the Mannersing arose fom A misccastrnctwo of ‘the allowance of ticae between vee cirime of the competiag 7 ‘Tho rewutas finally warded is tole jowaom ‘The Mannersing wou the priSe of the acount « ih al ‘The Julia that oF the first clase sloops, ag well ax Oat of ‘the cbampionsh!p ‘Mr. Gaswoll ci@ not mak> the calcu anions aa mentioned yesterday in ove ietter from New Bra¥ord, sot now being sce 6 Ses Brook’yn ony News. A Scuocsmm Stacce et Ligure ano rae Cartain Knish —During the. thunder storm, between five and six o'clcet yesterday aftenoon, the schooner Marion ia, of Faroport, Ma, Capt. George Hutchinson, lying at anchor of (h® fcat of Jorsiemoa street, was struck by lightesog., ‘The mai mast wae shivered from top to bot. tom, and the aiee’ric fluid passed tuto the cabia, where Sone eee tee oa ‘Ths capiatn was struck and almort Instantly kilied, Te ee seep tme, og ab reed some Pi Rad ted wo of to othors aro seriously tiyered bi 4