The New York Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. O7FIOB N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON &TB, Wolmme EXV..........cccccceeee ees sees No. 33% | AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. An ons—CivDa RMLs, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Equgstaiax Pxaronm | PRoresson ANDERSON. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Liroatway.—Toow vax Owacix. Working LAURA KEENK'S THEATRE, No, 64 Brosdway.—OOR Ameaicas Covsix. NEW ROWERY THEATRE, Bowers Paeiie—Hencues. RICAN MUSKUM, Brosdway.—Day and pBARNUMS AMERICA cise JeshY Jones Lavina CU BiositiKs —Hesxew Son—Rar- MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Busy Parrenson! HOOLEY & CAMPBELL'S OPERA HOUSE, 535, Broad- way —Biack STATOR. NATIONAL VARIETIKS, Chatham atreet.—Rosare’s wie Blaoit Pula “Iain Scuootaastea, —- PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth strect.—Promenaps Con- at. CANTERBURY CONCERT SALOON, No, 668 Brogdway.— Boxes, Dances, Buatasquas, Ae. ¥“ m New York, Tuceday, August 21, 1560.. MAILS FOR EUROPE. @he New York Herald---Edition for Europe. The Cunard mail steamship FE » Capt. Leiteh, will Keave Boston, oa Wednesday, for L ‘pool, Tne mais for Burope will close in this city this Bftornoon at a quarter past one o'clock to go by railroad, fand at a quarter to four o'clock to go by steamboat, The Errorzan Eprrion ov Tas Hematp will be published at cleveno’clock in the moraing. Single copies, in wrap- pers, six cents. a MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. Hew York Herald—California Edition. ‘The mail steamship North Star, Capt. Joues, will leave this port to-day, at noon, for Aspinwall ‘The mails for California and other parts of the Pacific ‘will close at half-past teu o'clock this morning. Single copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six cents, Agents will please ssnd in their orders as early as pos- sidie. Later advices from Europe by the North Ame- tican and Arabia have been received. The North American, which passed Farther Point yesterday morning, brings intelligence from Londonderry to the 11th; and the Arabia, which passed Cape Race on Sunday afternoon, brings news from Liverpool to the 11th and Queenstown to the 12th inst. The weather for growing crops in Great Britain was still unfavorable, and the market for bread- stuffs closed steady and firm. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on the llth were ten thousand bales, with a steady demand and firm prices. The provi- sion market wa ll, with light transactions, Consols closed at a 93jfor money. There had been a speculative movement in American railroad securities. Garibaldi was still at Messina tions for an attack on the writtea a letter to Victor E 1, declaring his in tention of conquering Venetia. Negotiations were in progress between the Austrian and Papal authoritics relative toa concert of action for the purpose of repelling Garibaldi should he attempt to land in the Papal territory. Damascus had become tran: ad the autho sity of the Sultan was again becoming paramcunt. Summary measures had been taken against persons wmplicated in the massacres. Four hundred arrests fad been made, the culprits tried, and speedy ustice me out to those found guilty. Thirty thousand Christian women are reported to have been sold at 25 piastres apiece. Advices from Ruatan Island to the 9th inst. in- form us that General Walker had landed at and captured Truxillo. He experience but little re sistance. The Prince of Wales paid a visit yesterday to | the beautiful Falls of Chaudie d to-day will | take up his official residence at the Parliament House. The weather at Quebec was rainy and Gisagrecable during the day, but as the Prince was | accustomed to such weather at home he seemed | to be very little inconvenienced by it. On Sunday he attended divine service at the English Cathedral, where he attracted more attention than the preach- er, whose sermon was scarcely listened to by the thousands who crowded the interior of the sacred edifice. A delegation from Rhode Island has ex- tended to him an invitation to visit that State, but the programme of his journey through the United States not being yet arranged, he was unable to give them a definitive answer. The Prince intends to spend as much time in the United States and to fee as much of it as possible, before his return to Europe. By the arrival of the pony express we are in possession of news from the Pacific to the 8th inst. Business at San Francisco exhibited no improve- ment. The California news is chiefly political. Silver mining appeared prosperous. Since the Ist of June two hundred and sixty tons of Washoe silver ore had been sent to San Francisco. Oregon dates to July 31 represent the harvest as abundant. Major Stein's command had had another skirmish with the Snake Indians, and taken afew prisoners. News from British Col ia to the Ist inst. had reached San Francisco. Several steamers were at Victoria for interior navigation. o mining news of importance. The inese emigration still continued. The ship Mary Caroline Stevens, from Liberia, exchanged signals onthe 2lst ult. witha large American steam frigate steering south, conjectured fo be the Niagara, which was to have left Porto fande on the 18th inst. A correspondent on board the United States fteamer Water Witch complains of that vessel's lack of success in capturing slavers, having in peveral instances been just in time to be too late. Oug correspondent relates that so well conc erted are tig plans of those engaged in that legal traf: fic on the island of Cubs, that it is almost imposst ble to effect the capture of a slaver, to whom, ‘when off the coast, telegraphic or other signals are made, 60 a8 to warn them of danger. Two car- goes of slaves are state’, to have been recently landed at Cienfuegos and Trinidad, with the know ledge of the autherities. The New Grenadian government has decreed the Closing of "49 ports of Carthagena, Savanilla and Zapote, on account of internal disturbances. The Ge“ ree was to have gone into effect on the Sd inst, An examination into the charge against the ad Achorn of being implicated in the slave trade took place yesterday before the United States Commissioner. After one or two wita part of the government had been exa Sher hearing of the gase was postponed until this afternoon. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 472 deaths in the city during the past week, a eorease of 152 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 299 leas than occurred Garing the corresponding week last year. The re- eapitulation table gives 5 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c., 51 of the brain and nerves, 7 of the generative organs, 1d of the heart and blood ‘vessels, 85 of the lungs, throat, &c., 5 of old age, 92 of diseases of the gin and eruptive fevers, 139 making prepara. inland. He had stomach, t gestive organs, 53 of general fevers births, 4 of disease of the arinary orgee . from violent causes. ‘The aativity table gives 959 natives of the United States, 80 of Leland, 35 of Germany, 5 of England, % of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign countries, The foreign news had a favorable influence on the cot- ton marks yesterday, which was firmer and more active. The tales reached between 2,000 and 3,000 bales, closing at a full advance of (( centpertb, The saleton Saturday, ared im yesterday's edition, should have reat 1,600 bales and not 16 000," which error was no doubt apperent to persons in the trade, The flour market was Leavy and easier for some grades of State and Western Southern four was in fair demand for export to tro- pical climates, and prices unchanged. Wheat was frm for prime qualities white and winter g&wa red, and spring and other common qualities were heavy, while sales were active and large. Corn was unusually active, but at a concession of about lc, to.144c. per bushel, Pork was steady, with sales of bew mess at $1930 a $19 37}¢, vew prime at $14, aud clear mess at $20 50. Sugar was steady, and the prices of Saturday were sustained, while the gales embraced \.vout 600 bhds. and 400 boxes, Coffee was firm and quiet. Freights were again higher for Liverpool, and wheat was epgeged jn ship's bags atid. a 11Xd., dlosing at the latter figure, with flour at 38, 8d.; to London 12,00+ busbels wheat, tn ehip’s-bags, were eagaged at 124, aad some flour at Os. Od. fa ‘The Presidential Contest—New and Im- Portant Phases. As we draw closer and:closer to the itnpor- tant day when the issues of the Presidential cantest are to be decided, and with them the destiny, perhaps, of the nation, the positions of the contending forces are being more and more clearly defined. The fight, which up to this time appeared to be a quadrangular one be- tween the forces of Lincoln, Bell, Douglas and Breckinridge, with old Sam Houston perform- ing a little guerilla work on his own account, is now becoming narrowed down to a hand-to- hand conflict between the legions of black re publicanism, headed by Lincoln, and the patri- otic, practical, conservative masses of the peo- ple, headed by Bell. The insignificant and dis- organized hordes of plunderers and freebooters that trained under Douglas and Breckinridge respectively, have either dwindled away through insubordination and desertion, or else are seen filing over, in disregard of their leaders, and swelling the ranks of the main army under Bell and Everett. And we expect to see. before the eventful day of conflict comes, that the true and loyal masses of the people. who are averse to all sectional agitation, will combine together, North, South, East and West, and present an impenetrable front to the abolition enemy. There is no reason why it should not be so: The democratic party is now a thing of the past. The last and fatal attacks to which it was sub- jected at Charleston and Baltimore broke up the little remains of strength it had left. It never rallied. It was evidently beyond the aid of all political quacks. Breckinridge and Doug- las, the two rival resurrectionists, made a feint of galvanizing the old carcase of demo- cracy, but hardly succeeded in getting the smallest evidence of vitality; and now it is consigned to the potters field of defunct parties. To be sure, this very precious pair of politicians persist in representing that the old defunct is not dead; and each of them claims that he personifies the real Simon Pure, unadulterated article. They do succeed in making the people laugh at them, but they are far from convineing any one that there is a kick left in the thing that was democracy. No one regrets that it is out of the way. It had outlived its respectability, and decent people had begun to feel thoroughly ashamed of it. It only needed the kind offices of those miserable politicians who assembled in Charles- ton and Baltimore, at the beginning of the summer, to give it the coup de grace—the finishing blow. By its fall the conservative maases of the South have been liberated from the allegiance they owed it, and are left free to follow the patriotic dictates of their own consciences, while hundreds of thousands in the North and Northwest who, when forced to choose between democracy and republicanism, threw themselves | into the arms of the abolitionists, will now come back and enrol themselves in the ranks of that powerful organization about to be in- augurated, which is destined to break all the idols of abolition, squatter sovereignty, slave- ry extension and disunion. . The many false issues that had been raised by the politicians for the purpose of confound- ing the popular judgment are now being swept away as the mists before the beams of the morning sun, and the contest is being narrow- ed down to the one single, well defined issue of abolitionism. On the one side are ranged those whose avowed design and object is to get possession of the government for the pur- pose of enabling them to carry on the “irre- pressible conflict” between free labor and slave labor; on the other side must be ranged those who deprecate auy interference by the federal government with the question of lavery in the States, and who believe that such interference would be not only in derogation of the constitu- tion sud compact of Union, but would expose the very existence of the nation to fearful s. This is the single issue on which the idential conflict is to be fought. Let not the people, therefore, be misled by shallow journalists or tricky politicians into minor and iniclevant questions about squatter sovereignty, freedom of the Territories, slavery exteasion, or kindred absurdities. These matters do not enter into the present canvass. They are the imaginary creations of ranting demagogues. Kansas, about which so mugh hubyub was kigke’ tp four years ago, is a free Territory, and will be a free State; and there never was the slightest probability of its being aught else In no Territory of the United States will the principle of slave labor succeed over that of free labor, except, perhaps, in the case of New Mexico—a miserable region, where Ameri- can freemen will not be particularly anxious to locate. All this fuss and nonsense therefore, got up by the Lincolns, the Sewards, the Sumners and the Lovejoys of the North, and the Yanceys, the Rhetts, the Keitts, the Orrs and the Boyces of the South, about slavery restriction and slavery extension, ought not really to deceive any one. The people of the Scuth have been just making the discovery of how egregiously they have been humbugged in this matter by their ranting demagogues, and the people of the North should not be bebind- hand in making a similar discovery for them- selves. We believe that the public mind in both sec tions has been undergoing a complete revolu- tion within the last few months. The South begins to realize that the masses at the North are neither opposed to slavery where it exists nor inclined to meddle with it; while the North is recognizing the fact that it is aeither the ia terest nor the desire of the people of the South to extend slavery into the Territories. Breck- inridge and Douglas are, therefore, behind the age. There isno longer any use for either, if there ever was. ; Having, theu, made these mutual discoveries. what remains to prevent the defeat of section- alism? Nothing but a combined eifort of the patriotic, conservative masses of the couctry. The movement has been auspiciously com- menced in this State by the nomination of eles tors, chosen from among all parties opposed to black republicanism. Ifthe Breckiaridge fac- tion comes into the arrangement, so much the better; if not, they can be done without, for they are of little consequence one way or the other. Similar arrangements will probably be carried out in New Jersey, Pennsy!vania and otber States, and may save all these States from Lincolp, and give them to Bell. There is still time enough left to give unity and strength to the movement. Let that time be well used in the Southern and Middle States;snd Abe Lin- coln’s prospects of sitting in the Presidential cbair will have $ Melted into air—into thin air, and all the evils of a sectional strife will have been avoided. Truly, the Presidential contest is becoming interesting and exciting. The Chevalier Jenkins After H. R. H By all accounts the heir apparent to the “Bri- tish throne is having rather a tough time of it in the Canadas. He has been pelted with “ai- dresses” till the copious supply of adjectives contained in the well of English undetiled has been quite exhausted; he has been paraded in processions without number: has danced with awkward partners, and has had his vice regal tympanum shocked with the shrieks of several thousand children executing the National An- them ail at once and all out of tune. More than this, he has been annoyed with bad weather (the rain will fall on princes), and disgusted with the Canadian salmon, who rebelliously re- fused to nibble at the hook ofa prince whose ancestors have caught many a big fish io their day. More than all, the members of the illus- trious cortege have been the subjects of the ado- ration of the Chevalier Jenkins—not one Jen- kins, but half a million or more, whose example reacts upon the gentlemen “representing the metropolitan and London press,” and making a great deal of fuss about the matter, too. The Chevalier Jenkins has surpassed all his former efforts in bis minute and elaborate de- tails as to the Prince of Wales and the noble- men and gentlemen in his suite. We believe that each separate sneeze indulged in by H. R. H. since he landed at Newfoundland has been duly chronicled by the ever faithful Jenkinses. If H.R. H. winked his eye, or took of his hat, or changed his trowsers, or said a sweet thing to a Governor's wife (much envied of women), Jenkins had the full particu- lars. H.R. H. bathed; Jenkins put it down. H.R. H. paddled his own birch bark canoe; Jenkins put it down. I. R. H. took a constitu- tional after-breakfast walk; Jenkins surveyed the princely pedestrian and put him down. At Quebec the Ckevalier was in his element. The government had fitted up some nicely furnished apartments for H. R. H., and Jenkins describes them minutely, even down to the “stone china set for the Prince’s ablutions, costing £13 10s.” Then we are told that the royal mattresses are of the “finest hair;” that the Prince's bathing tub is “six feet long and three feet wide,” but that the room “contains nothing to indicate the unusual cleanliness or dirtiness’ of H. R. H. There isa minute description of the Prince's “washstand,”’ und a statement which muat be taken with some degree of caution, to the effect that H. R. HH. will hold his levees in the recep- tion room arranged for that purpose. Jenkins further proceeds to give the scenery about the Government House—the sky, earth, air and water—a first rate notice, piously adding that such things are not reserved altogether for the rich and great—a remark which is more noticea- ble for its veracity than its originality. Nor is Jenkins satisfied with praising the Prince. His euite comes in fora share of the bon bons. Lord Lyons is a “tall, well formed person” (Hear that! H. B. M.'s Minister Pleni- potentiary and Envoy Extraordinary is called a “person”’), with “singularly good manners.” Colonel Napier is a “rosy, good liver” (it'sa way they have in that family). Sir Allan McNab is a “stout, hale, healthy, grayhaired gentleman;” Admiral-ofthe-Blue Milne “is a tall, hearty gentleman,” and General Sir Fen- wick Williams, of Kars, “half shuts bis eyes when talking”’—highly improper conduct on the part of the commander of the forces. He may shut his eyes to a responsibility one of these days. All this, however, though exceedingly amus- ing, is nothing to what we may expect when the Prince arrives in these parts, when all the Jenkinses, literary and otherwise, will come out in double distilled glory and shine like so many records of a good man’s life. If it should hap- pen, however—and we make the remark with all due knowledge of its awful importance—if it should happen that H. R. H. declined the dinner, declined the ball, declined everything but private hospitality, what would become of Jenkins? The contingency is a horrible one, but not at all improbable, and in case it should happen, the desolation of Jenkins and all his tribe. male and female, may, to use an entirely original figure of speech, “be better imagined than de- scribed.” Tammany Hatt ty Disrarss.—There is great distress in the Old Wigwam on account of the reception the representatives of Tammany met with at the late Union Convention at Syracuse. It appears that Father Kennedy, Elijah F. Purdy, “the War-Dlorse,” whose fighting days are over, Mr. Conner, and the rest, were received by the Union men as respectable old gentlemen with very little in them, Izstead of being content with that, as they ought, they arc im high dudg- eon, and threaten to bring all things w 92 end, to make a universal smash, including the democratic party. Let all whom it may con- cern tremble and weep; but as for the democra- tic party, that is past praying for. It is already smashed. It died at Charleston, was buried at Baltimore, and its remains have been since taken ap and scattered to the four winds of heaven, The best thing the eachems can do is to sell out the contents of the Old Wigwam, all their tomahawks and scalping knives and war clubs, which belong to a barbarous period long alace gone Barnum, probably, would pay & good ro sam for them, as they would exit | ty shop. But let the sachems t them at any price, and move up the march of civilization, and fall e with the general movement of the tow fa at o ge NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1869. New York Sate for the Conservatives by 50,000 Majority—A Lesson to Other Com- mercial States, The Union combination ticket for Presiden tial electors secures the vote of the Empire State from being cast for the candidate of a factions and revolutionary minogity. and saves the conntry fr¢m an agitation which would have been more fearful than any it haa ever yet wit- nessed. This fact will be seen by a glance at the figures of the popular vote cast in this State during the last four years. The following is the table of aggregates in the vote of each year since 1806 :— Know Total Vote. Demecratic. lican, Nothing. 1856—President .. 696,486 195,873 276,004 124,608 186T—Hee. of State. 439,789 195,482 1 66 582 1855*—Governor.. 644,816 235.613 69,830 1859—See. of State 603,728 252,562 - * Abolition vote, 5,470. From this table it will be perceived that on no occasion has the black republican vote come up to anything like what was cast fur Fremont in 1856, while the eteady set of the tide of popular opinion to the eonservatire side s unmistukably evident in the aggregates of the democratic vote. The spring tide of Fre- mont enthusiasm left the democratic vote in 1856 at its lowest expression. In the election of Secretary of State in the subsequeat year, although nearly 100,000 voters abandoned the black republican ticket and 58,000 that of the Know Nothings, the democratic vote fell off only about 350 from that cast during the pre- vious Presidential election. The next campaign was a more important one, as the Goveraor of the State was to be elected. The black repub- licans made the most strenuous exertions to bring out their adherents, and they were assist- ed by the division stil! existing in the conserva- tive ranks, which gave them the contideuce of being the winning party, and they brought their vote up to 248,000—the democratic vote also increasing, under all the disadvantages, to 2° 000, while the Know Nothing fell off 6,000. Last year’s election for Secretary of State presents some remarkable facts. The Kaow Nothing organization presented no ticket, and its 61,000 votes disappeared frem the table; while the black republican aggregate obtained an increase of only 5,000, and the democratic one of 22,000 votes. This steady set of the popular tide gives us a clue to the results that will be obtained in November. There can be no doubt that at least 620,000 votes will be cast in this State at the next Presidential election, and it is equally evident that none of the en- thusiasm which existed for Fremont now exists in the black republican ranks. On the other hand, we witness everywhere a great uprising of the Union and conservative sentiment. In the South it has been overwhelming; in the Middle and Northern States its results have not yet been seen, for no elections have yet taken place. Butno man accustomed to ob- serve the operation of great moral influences upon the masses of the people can for a single moment believe that New York, and all the cen- tral commercial States, will be insensible to the great ruling idea of the day. Both the figures and the teachings of reason, therefore, tend to this one result: that the aggregate popular vote of New York will pro- bably increase 120,000 on the vote of last year, divided, as that vote was, between two electo- ral tickets. Of that increase the conservative voters, who come out only in times of great danger, will comprise at least two-thirds, or 80,000 votes, which will carry the conservative vote up to 330,000, while the black republican vote cannot exceed 290,000. These are logical results, which will bear analysis. No one can believe that, under the peculiar circumstances attending the nomination of Lincoln, the re- action of the John Brown raid on many mode- rate republicans, the recent reiteration by Mr. Seward of the most offensive and revolutionary theories of the black republican school, and the diminished enthusiasm exhibited by its ora- tors and partisans from what it was during the Fremont campaign, Mr. Lincoln can get more than one-half of the natural increase of voters since 1866. This gives him the same result of 290,000 votes exhibited in the pre- vious calculation. On the other hand, we have some very signifi- cant facts. The union of the conservative vote upon one electoral ticket has not been produced by a combination of juggling leaders, buying and selling their adherents. On the contrary, three cliques of selfish and quarrelsome leaders, bitterly hostile to each other, have been forced to lay aside their selfish pretensions by a uni- versal expression of the popular desire and an uprising of the popular sentiment. The con- servative masses have now got the ticket they desire; and not only will they unite on it toa man, but it will call out a popular enthusiasm to put down fanaticism and Northern sectional- ism, and a reserve conservative vote such as has not been cast for many years. Set down New York, therefore, as safe for a popular ma- jority of fifty thousand votes against Lincoln, and let the conservative elements in the other com- mercial States teach their selfish and bickering leaders to do the same thing in behalf of our com- mon interests and the welfare of the country. Fierrriovs Secvrrrms or Ivsvrance Comra- wars.—We see that, under an investigation insti- tuted by the State Comptroller, the assets of the Wall Street Fire Insurance Company have been declared insufficient to justify the further prose- cution of its business, and that Superintendent Barnes has called for the dissolution of the cor- poration. It would appear from the report of this officer that most of the securities which make up the company’s assets consist of mort- gages on wild and uncultivated lands in this State, or of other property, the value of which is greatly over estimated. We believe that if the securities of most of the other fire insurance companies in this city were subjected to a similar strict examination they would be found to be far below the amount fixed by law. There is probably not one out ot .on that is in a condition to meet the risks that it nndertakes, supposing an extensive and widespread comfagration to occur. These fire insurance companies are but in too many in- stances established merely to provide com- fortable places for broken down merchants and others, who have a certain amount of commer- cial influence. All such bogus institutions are a drag upon the operations of a system which has conferred a vast amount of benefit upon so- ciety, and which would contribute still further to its protection if the profits of the legitimately organized corporations were not out up by an unfair opposition of this kind. We trust that the heads of the insurance department will per- severe in their efforts for the reform of this abuse, of which the report of Superiatendeat Barnes is so creditable aa example, Me, Dovoiss Laxones rue Issve.—A Maine paper brings us & report of a speech of Mr Douglas, delivered at Portland on Friday even- ing lost. The whole tissue of bis long oration consists of arguments for squatter sovereignty and the right of the people of a Territory to wake tkeir own laws and to exciude or admit slavery. This is the burtben of his speeches everywhere, He has msde some forty of them during the campaign, and has eaten some dozen clambakes, and on every occasion he has fid- died on the same string. Never does he, even by accident, stumble on the real issue before the country, There are no Territories now that wil! not be free, and there is no possibility of the contrary. This question is long since settled, Squatter sovereignty and questions of the Terri- tories, therefore, are now old topics, flat, stale and unprofitable as sour beer. They are matters of history, dead issues of the past. The only liy- ing issue, the only one now before the people, is the irrepressible conflict proclaimed by Wil- liam H. Seward, Abraham Linceln, Senator Sumner and the, other ‘leaders of the républi- can party—en uncompromising war with the peculiar institution of the South—a war which can never have an end till there is but one sys- tem of labor throughout. the country—either free in every State or slave in every State. In his late speech at Boston, Mr. Seward reiterated the doctrine of his speech at Rochester in language as strong as he uttered nearly two years ago. He said that Mr. Lin- coln’s claim to the Presidency of the United States is, that “he confesses the obligation of the higher law, and that he avows himself, for weal or woe, for life or death, a soldier on the side of freedom in the irrepressible conflict between freedom and slavery;” and this, Mr. Seward adds, is his own “simple confession.” In the same manner Mr. Lincoln, a few days ago, reasserted, ina speech at Springfield, the doc- trine which he had avowed two years before at the same place, and he goes even further than he did before, showing that the republicans are not only an aggressive, but a progressive party. In speaking of the ovation which he received, he says :— It is @ testimony which, four years hence, you will pay to the next man who is the representative of the truth on the questions which now agitate the pudlic mind. It is anevidence that you will fight for this cause then, as you now fight for it, and even strouger than you now iigt, though I may be dead and gone. From these words it appears that the policy of the republicans will be stronger in four years than it is now—that there is an ulterior design in the present agitation which has not yet fully developed itself, but for which the republicans will fight hereafter in a dif- ferent style from what they do now, ond that ulterior design is undoubtedly the abolition of slavery throughout the Union, by fair means or foul. It is thus evident that the great prophet, priest and guide of the party, William H. Seward, and the candidate of the party, Abraham Lincoln, talk of one thing in this campaign, while Mr. Douglas, the candidate of one wing of the democracy, talks of quite another thing. They talk to the point. He beats about the busb, and speaks on every sub- ject but the true issue. It is strange that so shrewd and able a politician should be so en- tirely wide of the mark, and avoid the issue which the republicans have forced upon the country. Like an old fogy, he digs up foesil re- mains, instead of grappling with the living question of the day. Now, considering that Mr. Douglas is one of the Union candidates in this State, in opposition to Lincoln, we think he is not treating the people well, and that he ought to do something for the common cause, seeing that he is to get his share of the electeral votes on the Union ticket. We trust, therefore, that in future he will ad- dress himeelf to the real issue in the election, and that he will employ his eloquence not in building castles in the air, and pulling them down, but in demolishing the substantial strong- holds of the republican party. Tue Heawra or tae Merroroists.—The week ending August 18, 1860, has been one of the most healthy during the dog days, not only this year, but since 1854. The fellowing table of comparison of the most prominent diseases will illustrate this remark:— int Bowel Compla: Aug. 11, 1860, Aug.18, 1860. Decr. 82 a 41 81 @ 10 - u a 34 5 136 8 65 34 un a % ry Congestion of the brain...... 2t ‘4 1 Dropsy in the bead. ; . 22 Ingammation of the 1" - 4 8 3 Fr a 186 70 om % 138 52 % B 3% rr , 188 238 182 From returns received at the City Inapector’s Department from the various cities of the Union, the fact isehown that the city of New York is, during the present summer monihs, the most healthy of all the sisterhood of our great cities. Even the city of Providence, Rhode Island, so often referred to by certain voluntary sanitary associations as a model to be imitated for the excellence of its sanitary police, records a larger quota of deaths during the last month than in any of the preceding months of July since 1855. This record of the health of our vast metropolis is certainly most flattering, and too much credit cannot be accorded to Col. Delavan, the efficient and energetic City Inspector, for his vigilance and industry in enforcing the ordinances and regu- lations for the preservation of the public health. During the present summer the city has been visited by a larger number of strangers from all parts of the coun- try than for years past, and there has been less sicknes® and fewer deaths at our hotels than for many preceding years. The immi- grants arriving here during the last week were, according to the report of the Commissioners of Emigration, 5,687, The general introduction omd use of vaccine matter has proved most effective in preserving the lives of many infants and children—the number of deaths last week from smallpox being but three. The mar- risges and births reported to the City In- epector for registration for the month of July were—marrieges, 308; births, 1.224—the latter being an increase of 600 over the month of July, 1869. From this it will be seen that the City Inspector's circular to minis- ters and déctors is working well; but we learn that there are those of both of these professions ) they. may have the chiefs‘of the insurrection Who oontinue te disregard the laws of tie Stas sud to oppose the ordinance of the city. Ts Reames of delinquents in both cases have bea vices from China, received by way of St Ps. tersburg, represent the internal condition of tie| empire to be most deplorable. The trade wth Russia has been interrupted, if not entirey stopped, by the anarchy which prevails alog the frontiers, as well as in the tea pr-| ducing districts, and it is not improbable tint the Russians will avail themselves of the pe- text afforded by this state of things+to secure for themselves similar commercial advantage! in the interior of Asia to those sought to be ex- torted by the English and French on the If we are to credit these accounts, the rebela| are within fourteen days march of Pekin;eo that unless the allies hufry up their operaticas deal with instead of the imperialists. .‘The bellion, which has been steadily progressing ‘or| the last seven or eight years, seems now to be| in posseasion of or within close reach of all the| important points of the empire. In the south| Canton would have fallen long since but ‘or the presence of the Engligh and French forces; on the-eastern coast Shanghae only owes ita immunity from attack thus far to the military] posts established by the two nations around ital walls; and now we learn that Pekin itself is| in imminent danger of investiture. Notwithstanding the high tone maintained by| the imperial government towards the allies, we do nct see how it can much longer make head against the difficulties which are accumulating] around it. With the trade of the empire inter-| rupted, its sources of revenue cut off, its adhe-| rents gradually passing over to the insurgents,| and invasion from without calling for the exer. tion of its utmost energies, no resource seems| to be left to it but an accommodation wi! one or other of the hostile elements opposed to] it. A compgomise with the rebels is out of tha question, for it would involve the downfall of the present dynasty and a complete internal re- volution. It is not improbable, therefore, that! by this time overtures have been made to the English and French Commissicners to ascertaia, on what terms an amicable settlement can ba} effected. The position of the supreme govern- ment has become so critical that it will be com- pelled to submit to almost any conditions that they may dictate to it. Although itis not pro- bable that they will depart from the new coda! of European policy, by consenting to afford Emperor military aid against his rebelliou subjects, he will yet be glad enough to secure] their non-interference by larger ¢oncessiona ta foreign commerce than any that have aa yet er- tered within the views of the two nations. Thus events within and without this great empice| seem to combine to bring about the object ac long coveted by European and American states-| men—that of opening up its immense resources! to the industry and enterprise of the world at! large. Ose or tae Late Lossy Fra or Sewaro,| Werp ann Gnesier.—The article which copy into this paper from the New York Tri furnishes some precious revelations of the by tactics and the unscrupulous and remorme- less lobby power of Thurlow Weed at Albaay. And these disclosures are valuable, becau they emanate from a witness turned States evi dence against the lobby firm with which he for many years associated. This firm, dur. ing that time, was known within the charmed| circle under the style and title of Seward, Weed, | Greeley & Co., and did an extensive business, from the manufacture of Presidents and Govee- nors down to the retail business in paints, sperm oil, putty and whiskey. But Greeiey,| becoming disgusted with playing the part of good man Friday to Seward, without aay of Friday's goat’s milk and roast potatoes, retired from the firm, with a warning to Mr. Seward: which he very suddenly remembered with his defeat at the Chicago Convention. This terrible blow to the head of the afore- said lobby firm Greeley very well understands he is to be punished for, if Weed can bring thie punishment about. Poor Greeley is to be choked off in every possible way from the re- publican State ticket this fall, and from any influence in “Old Abe's” Cabinet, by putting Mr. Seward at the head of it. Understanding all this, our old white coated philosopher has taken off bis coat. and is squaring off at Weed, the champion of the lobby, with the pluck of the Bevicia Boy. He exposes the insatiable lobby rapacity of Weed with a refreshiog pun- gency, and calls the republicans of the State to the rescue. We hope the people will ac- swer the cali, and put down the rapacious re- publican lobby leader and his gang at Albaag for once and forever, by the election of an aati- lobby Legislature, and the defeat of “Old Abe Lincoln.” What will Thurlow Weed say? Will he teit us that his lobby receipts of last winter have been expended for the good of the cause, after the fashion of his “free wool statistics’ Speak out, Thurlow, and let us get at the bottom of this lobby busines: and its clear profits. A Great Usroy Demonstration iy New Yors.—What we want now to give an impetus in the North to the powerful popular conserva- tive reaction which has broken out in the South is a grand popular Northern conservative mae meeting in the city of New York. We submit this proposition to the special consideration of our commercial and manufacturing fellow citi- zene. Let them move in the matter, and issue their call for a grand Union Convention in this city early in September, of representatives from all the conservative elements of the whole country opposed to Lincoln’s election aad ia favor of combining to defeat him, and the re- sult will be a meeting which will put the Unioa ball in motion with a force which cannot be checked. Let New York city lead of. Union men of all sections will cheerfully aaswer ber call, Tar Aponess or tat Barcxtyatpor National Executive Covmirres.—We have received @ copy of a pamphlet of sixteen pages, entitled an “Address to the Democracy and the Peopie of the United States, by the National Dem- cratic Executive Committee,” and siga- ed by Isaac J. Stevens, Chairman. the object of which is to show that there was an intolerable amount of audacity treachery, knavery and cheating among the Douglas managers at Chacteston and Baitino ca But what if all this be trae? The democratia crockery bas been refuced to a geoers, amas