The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON BTS. TERMS, cash in advance, M: hel the vender, Postage sta WEEKLY HERALD. BB per annven: important from any que ised. weil be tiberaily paid Jor. eam OUR F Pawrioviancy Requested 10 AGES SENT US, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway. —FavestaiaN Pxarone- ANonsS—CuvpensLia. Afternoon and Evening, WINTER GARDEN, Broadwny.—PRoresson ANDERSON. sroadway.— KNIGuT OF ARYA— WALLACK’S THEATR: Youre Aornnss. LAURA &EENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Ovx AMERICAN COUSIN. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lavy or Lroxs— Mesrekiks OF PARs—STaTE SECKETS, BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Evening -NinGin@ aad DanoinG—Jennxy Jones—Living Cu- BIOSITIES, NTC. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, ™ Woo Breve Buty Parreks: HOOLRY & CAMPRELL’S OPERA HOUSE, 685 Brond way —Ruack Brarox. Chatham — street.—Ronper's OOLM ASTER, ath street.—PRromenapg Con- CANTERBURY CONCERT SALOON, No. 683 Broadway.— Boras, Danoms, BURLESQUE, de New York, Wednesda The News. The Breckinridge State Committee met yesterday at Saratoga. Nothing of importance took place. No overtures for fasion were received from any quarter, and none made to the Bell and Everett men, for whose defeat the committee say they will labor as strenuously as for the defeat of Lincoln. The Prince of Wales took up his official residence at the Parliament House, Quebec, yesterday, where he held a levee, which was numerously attended. Addresses and presentations were the order of the day. Although the weather was somewhat disa- greeable, the Prince paid a visit to Montmorency Falls in the afternoon. The steamship Arabia, from Liverpool, reached Haiifax at an early hour yesterday morning, and left for Boston at eight o'clock, where she will pro- bably arrive this afternoon. A telegraphic sum- mary of her news was given yesterday. The news from Mexico, received by the Poca- hontas, arrived at New Orleans, is important. Dates from the capital are to the 6th and Vera Cruz to the 9th inst. The most important item of news is the demands of the Spanish Minister upon the Seward and Yancey, the siamese Twins of Sectionalism—The Daty of Metropoll~ team New York. There are two representative demagogues in this country, who, although apparently radi- cally opposed to each other, are really Siamese twins in politics, and working to the same nefarious ead-—the breakiag up of those great political foundations laid by our fathers in the compact of Usion, and on which the entire existing order of things among us is based. These are Yancey and Seward. The first is now stumping the South, proclaiming his regret that even the people of Alabama frowned down in 1858 his Southern league, wishing that every man in the South was a member of it, that its object was to make the self-conceived rights of a section paramount to the safety of the fede- ral government, and that when an admi- nistration shall be elected that does not square with his self-conceived notion of his own rights, his allegiance will be due to something else, by which he “will live or die.’’ Poor, simple innocent Mr. Yan- cey. He does not see, or will not acknowledge, that this is the very essence of the “higher law” of his co-agitator and co-sectionalist, William H. Seward; of the doctrines of “the Mussachu- setts school,’ and of Wilson, Garrison, Wen- dell Phillips, Sumner, Lincola and the whole batch of Northern demagogues, who aim to make the self-conceived rights of the North paramount to the safety of the federal go- vernment. Like him, Seward wishes that every Northern man would embrace the revolution- ary and destructive notions ofthe black re- publican school, exaggerating Northern rights, and swearing, Yancey-like, to live or die by their recognition by everybody else. Now, with such leaders as Yancey in the South, and Seward in the North, neither of these sections is the best judge of its own righta, either in the Union or out of it; and the clear common sense of the South has shown its recognition of this great truth by the re- jection of the fire-eating idea in 1850, of Yan- cey’s Southern league in 1868, and more recently in the local elections of the present year, where the exaggerated Southern ideas of the leaders who have put Breckinridge in nomina- tion have received a condign rejection at the hands of the people. Herein lies the weakness of Breckinridge’s candidacy. He is put for- ward, and strenuously supported, by men like Yancey, of the most exaggerated idea of their own righta, who do not see, or will not acknow- ledge, the revolution to which an excessive sec- tional self-appreciation must lead. Breckin- ridge himself has never, by word or deed, sanc- tioned this preposterous estimate of sectional rights, and he owes to himself, and to his own future career as a statesman, to disavow it and government at Vera Cruz in regard to one of the captured vessels of the Marin expedition, now dis- mantled and lying high and dry on the beach near the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa. The Spanish naval commander, under instructions from the Minister, threatened to bombard the heroic city unless the vessel was restored in twenty-four hours. It is supposed to be a mere pretext for Spanish in- terference. Miramon, at latest accounts, had fallen back, and was at Guagajuato with a force of only 1,500 men, the remainder having deserted; yet he keeps his numerous adversaries at bay. Guadalajara, the scene of Uraga’s defeat, was being besieged by Ogazon, his successor. Doblado, said to be a strong partisan for Comon- “ort, had joined his forces to those of Degoilado, ¥bo was following up Miramon. A conducta left he capital on the 3d inst. for Vera Cruz, escorted Yy chorch forces as far as Plan del Rio, in the tate of Vera Cruz, and then to be handed over to he constitutionalist ost of the money belongs ounted, at the time 600,000, upon which a © pital, to §: duty of eight per cent had been exacted. It was thought it might reach $4,000,000, before reaching | Vera Cry The Pocahontas’ mail inclu Btate a yd Puebla sfor the il bags from avannah and S were on its way through Jala; Navy Department pop of. wa Amoug Spau her \ army, bearer of » Spanish Minis- th racheco to i six An an seamen from apt. P. E. Lefevre, , ®, to Havre via South- yassed Hurst Castle on her arrival ont at st three A. M. Aug Time, nine days this being the best passage of the sea ten he fon by several how re nkment of the ntral Railroad, Monroe county, were swept away The extent of the damage has d, nor what delay it will cause ion. to travel and ni A ste f terrific violence yesterday visited the n part of the State, submerging the village of onville to the second story of the houses, Jn Fonda the water was from one to two feet deep. A bridge on the Central Railroad, between Fonda and the Paladine bridge, was carried away, and the train of cars westward compelled to return to Fonda. A prize fight took place yesterday in the neigh- borbood of Island Pond, between two pugilists named Kelly and Kerrigan. They fought twenty- five rounds, when Kerrigan, having received a foul blow, was declared the victor. Neither party re- ceived much punishment. The Police Commissioners yesterday received the resignation of patrolman Carl, of the Fifteenth precinct, and transferred to patrol duty officer Reed, late detailed at Jefferson market. Our police returns give an interesting account of the capture of two burglars, who had been commit- ting extensive depredations in Fifth avenue. Much of the stolen property was recovered, and is at the | police office for identification. A back room at the residence of one of the burglars was filled with stolen goods. A strong fire was also burning, and rucibles in readiness to melt up the silver plate. The examination into the case of the alleged glaver Achorn was resumed yesterday afternoon by Commissioner Morre!. One witness for the go- wernment was examined, but, owing to the ab- pence of another, the farther consideration of the case was postponed until this morning. ‘The cotton market continued firm yesterday, with sales Of about 1,500 bales, The advance previously noticed was pustalned. The Sour market was more buoyant for State ‘and Western common and mediumjgrades, with «fair in- quiry for both domestic consumption and for export, while extra grades were firm, Soutbern flour was in good export demand, while prices continued firm and Without change of moment. Wheat was firm fer good inter grown red and white, while inferior, including (Chicago spring, was heavy and dull. Corn was active, with large sales, including Western mixed at 600. a 6lc., Chiefly at GO\;c , Western yellow at 610.0 6TKe., and @hite Western st 100. 72. Pork was less buoyant for ees, while prime was firm. New meas sold at $19 250 $19 BTM, and new prime at $14 « $14 124%. Sugars were pteady, with sales of between 1,400 « 1,500 hhds., at quo- Gations given in another place. Coffee was firmly held, ut sales were confined to small lots from second bands, €00 bags of which consisted of common to choles Rio, at Bie. a16Ke. The stock of Rio waa reduced to 6,607 fags and only 95,618 packages of all kinds. Freights con- @inued Grm at the advance previously noticed, with « fair amount of engagements, at rates given im another piace to expunge it from his record. Yancey’s twin agitator and disunionist, Sew- ard, has, on the other hand, a candidate to sup- port who perfectly agrees with him in his de- sire to impose a sectional policy upon the government, and to make even the federal ad- ministration itself subservient to the policy of paramount sectional ideas and interests. Lin- | coln is as revolutionary and destructive as Seward himself, as “the Massachusetts school” of Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Wilson, Sumner, and as bigoted a soldier in the brutal and bloody “irrepressible conflict” as the most fa- natic among them. This doctrine of a “higher law” leads to the same result, whether it pursues the path pointed out by its Northern or its Southern | phase—by Seward or by Yancey. It aims at the upheaval of that solid and equal stratum o! fraternity which underlies every creation, so cial, moral or political, in these States. Upon it every interest is based, into it every oac strikes its roots, and from it all draw the sap that feeds the spreading branches, nurtures the umbrageous foliage and gives their brilliant hues to the flowers of our material prosperity, our moral and intellectual developement, and our social progress and happiness. It is this mighty forest of individual interests that must be preserved. The twin agitators may disclaim that they would fell one noble oak, or harm one tender plant, or crash one beautiful flower, of this mighty growth of eighty years of um- exampled peace and happiness. But to run the burning ploughshare of paramount sec- tionalism through the substratum of fraternity and equality that underlies it all would ia- volve sturdy oak, tender plant and brilliant flower alike in one common ruin and desola- tion. This neither Seward nor Yancey shall do. They may proclaim their exaggerated self-ap- preciations, their violent political theories, and call upon the utterly selfish sentiment of their respective sections to assist them in their de- structive efforts. But this very selfishness is against them. Every man who will look into the structure of his own interests, and of those of his family, must perceive that they are based upon the very elements which the twin agita- tors call upon them to destroy. This is turning the hearts of the people toa great political re- volution, to the utter overthrow of the section- | alists in the North and in the South. It is time for New York, the metro polis of this fraternal Union, the heart of all these vast interests, the soul of their intercourse, trade, industry and thought to move in the common behalf, and to give ex- | pression to the common idea and desire. If it would worthily wear the metropolitan crown— if it would merit the leadership which is con- | ceded to it in commerce, industry, intelligence, | wealth and every element of social power—it must speak in this crisis of national develope- | ment. We call, therefore, upon the conserva- tive leaders of every national interest here cen- | | tred—Breckinridge men, Bell men, Douglas | men and national men, without reference to party—to unite and call a public meeting early } in September for a unanimous, enthusiastic and overwhelming expression of the national senti- | ment and the national feeling. We call upon | every man to put his hand to the work—upon you who are now closing the perusal of the words we have written——to go at once and per- form your duty to the metropolis of which you are a citizen, and to the country to which you owe allegiance. Tur Vorr or New Yorx.—We have said that New York would elect the Union anti-Lincoln electoral ticket by at least fifty thousand ma- jority, and we thought we were within the bounds of reason in so saying; but we have now to correct our estimate. We did not know, when we made it, that the black republican leaders, wirepullere and managers were going to expose the corruption and rascality of each other to the public, and not only call each other thieves, but prove it and rub it {n, as they are | now doing. Set down New York as good for one bundred thousand majority now for the Union electoral ticket European Complication—The Neapoli- tan and Syrian Questions. The last accounts from Sicily contradict the report of Garibaldi’s having landed in Calabria, and represent him as still busily occupied in waking preparations for the descent. His dis- cretion in not risking himself amongst the royal cruisers and the large masses of troops concen: trated on the mainland, until he is in a position to cope with them, is to be commended. He is in a different position at present from that which he occupied when he set out from Genoa to effect a landing in Sicily. Then he hazarded merely his own safety and that of the handful of gallant men who accompanied him. To ex- hibit the same temerity now would be to im- peril the political future of an entire people, bonnd up, as it is, with his personal fortunes. Were he to be taken prisoner, or placed in such straits as to be compelled to capitulate to the royalists, all that he has accomplished by his heroism and disinterestedness would be endangered, if not entirely lost. ‘fhe delay that has taken place in the landing of the expedition is therefore to be regarded as of good augury for its euecess, Not only does it give time for the manufacture of the matériel of war and the formatton of a naval force, in both of which the Sicilian government is deficient, but it weakens the little strength which the Bourbon party possesses, by affording the spirit of disaffection « further opportunity of thinning its ranks. No- thing, in fact, can be more fatal to the King’s cause than the uncertainty in which it is at pre- sent placed. It cannot, by the most energetic efforts, counteract the influence which the for: midable character of Guribaldi’s preparations is certain to exercise on the Neapolitan mind. Before he advances half way to the capital, it is more than probable that the royal forces, like the host of Sennacherib, will have melted en- tirely away, and that he will be left nothing to contend against but the frantic excesses of the population, eager to wreak vengeance on their oppressors. There is another advantage which has been gained by the postponement of the departure of the expedition. It has helped to define the position of the great Powers in regard to it. It is now certain that France, the only Power whose interference was dreaded by the liberals, will not seek to check the progress of the revolution which she herself may be said to have inaugurated. Louis Napoleon has, in fact, nothing to gain by doing so. He has initiated no movement in European politics of which he has not calculated beforehand all the consequences. When he sent troops to occupy Rome he foresaw the results to which it must lead as well as the value of the precedent which it established. When he sent an army to the Crimea he had in view the future pretexts for intervention in the affairs of the East which that step would afford him. In entering upon the campaign of Lombardy he weighed against the hostilities that it would provoke the aid that France would derive in the future from the union of the Italian States into one great con- stitutional Power. In taking prompt measures for the protection of the Syrian Christians he is but following out to their legitimate conclu- sions the principles of policy by which he has been actuated ever since he became the ruler of France. He aids the cause of human pro- gress wherever it does not war with his per- sonal interests and those of his empire, and he seeks only their common aggrandisement where it can be accomplished without bringing him in- to collision with the advanced ideas of the age. It is fortunate that the Syrian question should have turned up just as that of Naples culmi- nated to a crisis. The vast field opened to the Emperor's ambition by the former will remove any temptation he might feel to modify or mar the great enterprise which Garibaldi has in hand. Turkey, for some years to come, will afford him as much occupation as he can attend to; for there, if we mistake not, will centre the aspirations, the intrigues and the diplomatic struggles of the three great Powers that take the lead in European politics. Syria, as Lord Stratford de Redcliffe remarked the other day, is the key to Egypt, and that fact alone, with- out reference to the inheritance of the “sick man,” imparts to their intervention an import- ance which cannot be exaggerated. France, once placed in military occupation of Syria. will not abandon her hold of it, and the jealousy of the other Powers will not permit her to deal with it as she has done with Rome. Thus it promises to become the theatre of events which will cast continental questions into the shade, and which will concentrate upon it for some years to come the attention and specul ations of politicians. Tar Weep anv Gresixy Lossy Devetore- ments.—Some rich lobby developements are being gradually brought to light in the contro- versy between Thurlow Weed and Horace Greeley, the Orestes aud Pylades of the repub- lican party. The Albany Evening Journal, the exponent of Weed, has come to the rescue, and endeavors to meet the serious charges made against Thurlow, and thus to extricate him from his difficulty. But thus far the effort is a failure. The charges against Weed are pretty numerous, but he shirks the most important, and only endeavors to deal with secondary matters. He tells us a good deal about the Brooklyn Ferry articles, but he does not deign to say one word about the offers made on the other side, nor why he refused those of Mr. Dayton. He is as silent as the grave on free wool matters, and he keeps equally dark ¢on- cerning the gridiron railroad schemes of Gearge Law. In fact, he gives George Law the goby altogether. Weed cannot justify himself before the public in this way. A responsibility must be met, not dodged. As one of the leaden of the republican party, and the leading journalist among the black republicans, it is his duty to ventilate each and every one of these questions, and to place himself rectus in curia. There is no time to be lost. Tax Rerveticay Jovrwats ty Treciarion.— The republican journals are in great tribulation and distress about the Union ticket in this State. Some say its design is to favor Douglas, some say it is to help Bell, some say it is to ald neither; some say one thing and some another, and they all appear to be in a quandary on the subject. But there is one thing quite certain of which we can inform them, and that is that the Union ticket is not in favor of Lincoln. For our own part, we care not who it is for, provided it defeats the republican candidate and his revolutionary party. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1860, SR inn al ss The Jenkins Family of the Fifth Avenue Preparing to Receive the Prince of Wales. We bave already alluded to the wonderful feats of the Jenkinses, official and newspaporial, who have welcomed, after their own fashion, the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his first visit to North America. The ecatacies of the chief of the adulatory tribe, Henry Jenkins Raymond (it should read Henry Raymond Jen- kins), are exceedingly entertaining; but the laurels with which that distinguished personage bas been crowned wilt and fade before the mag- nificent crops which the Jenkinses of the Fifth avenue expect to reap when the Prince places his sacred patent leathers upon the shores of Manhattan Island. The fact is that the Jenkinses of fashionable society are in a state of unparalleled excite- ment over the fact that the Prince of Wales, who will, if he lives long enough, be King of Englund, is really and positively coming to New York. Visions of royal dinners and break- asts and suppers float before the bewildered gaze of the Chevalier Jenkins, Madame and the Mademoiselles, and they all think that if the Baron Renfrew will deign to hang up his sanc- tified bat on their premises, they may, when they next go abroad, be re- quested to accept hospitality at the hands of royalty itself. How all the small ba- rons, counts, and so on, sink into insignifi- cance before the real Prince who is to dawn upon Jenkins within the next six weeks! We are not at all surprised, therefore, to see that the Jenkinsonian preparations for the reception of the Prince have already commenced. Several “palatial mansions” have been of- fered to him, and various schemes for his enter- tainment have been devised. The most re- markable demonstration of all has been made by the Principal of the Spingler Institute for the education of young ladies. The letter of this learned pundit surpasses all previous pro- ductions in the same line. The English lan- guage is quite exhausted in the effort to show that because H.R. H. has a mother he should be lodged under the same roof beneath which the daughters of the republic drink from the Pierian spring; and it is also good to know that during the time of the Prince's occupancy of the academic halls, the “exercises” are to be transferred to Union equare; and, furthermore, it is suggested that the “royal visit to our shores may be made suggestive to a world of parents of the importance of giving to the im- mortal mind of woman the privileges and cul- ture which her mission and influence on earth and her future destiny demand’’—which is a very neat, if not particularly clear, way of put- ting the case. : We were aware, previous to the publication of this letter, that the Spingler Institute was a famous place. The house offered, “in the name and behalf of the ladies of New York, as their guest chamber for Victoria’s son,” is a goodly edifice, reared upon a euperstructure of drugs and medicines. After various mutations it has become an educational nursery, where young ladies of the Japonica school receive that mental training which is presumed to fit them for the duties of mature life. It occurs to us, however, that even in this sanctuary of crinoline the tempter has already insinuated himself. A little while ago a Chevalier from Tennessee—not a Prince, but a militia gene- ral—audaciously assaulted the Spingler Mala- koff, and bore off to the hymeneal altar one of the specimen pupils, the whole affair affording materials for balf a dozen sensation novels and two or three comedies. Suppose, now, that the Prince should happen to fall in love with one of the Institute pupils and run away with her, what a terrible time there would be! Albert Edward would give the dramatists and novel writers a greater amount of material than has been af- forded by the adventures of all the Princes of Wales for the last eight or ten centuries put to- gether. What the effect would be upon Lord Palmerston and the rest of our foreign rela- tions it is impossible to say. We fear, however, that all the Jenkinses have taken their pains for nothing. The Duke of Newcastle, who is a sensible man, will bring the Prince and his suite to New York as ordi- nary tourists, taking lodgings at a hotel, and paying their own way, like Brown, Jones or Robinson. The Prince will first go to see the Queen’s “good friend,” the President, and will likewise meet the Mayor; but the official recep- tion will proceed no further. Nothing is kaown yet in relation to the Prince's intentions as to private entertainments, and it seems very pro- bable that all of his time will be employed in sightseeing, to the exclusion of any other occu- pation. That is very bad for Jenkins, but we do not see how it can be helped. for the famishing Christians of Syria. Will the Protestants allow the Catholics to go ahead of them? The Paraguay Claim—Justice of the Commissioners’ Award. Efforts are being made by the parties inte- rested in the Paraguay claim to create impres- sions unfavorable to the impartiality of the award which has just been rendered under the convention between the two countries, It is especially sought to influence the press, in the hope that the President may be induced to ex- ercise his constitutional prerogative of setting aside the award, on the ground that the Com- missioners have, exceeded their powers. We observe that some of our contemporaries have been duped, by the exparte statements sent to them, into taking sides with the disappointed claimants. Without giving themselves the trou- ble to investigate its conclusions, or the evi- dence on which it is founded, they have de- nounced, in the most unmeasured terms, the re- port of the American Commissioner, than which, we must be permitted to say, no abler or more convincing analysis of the points of a legal dis- pute has ever emanated from a referee. When the claim of the Rhode Island Company was first brought under the notice of the State Department, it will be recollected that the Herstp took strong ground against it. The facts furnished to us by our correspondents in Paraguay led us to suspect that out of very small grievances, and those principally of the claimants’ own creation, a case had been trumped up which was intended to reunite all connected with it, even at the risk of embroiling the two countries. Unfortunately, the subsequent mis- takes committed by President Lopez, in his man- ner of dealing with the reclamations of our government, brought matters to such a pass as to leave it no option but to send down a naval force there, and, under the convention extorted from him, the commission has been held, whose award has so signally confirmed the doubts that we have always expressed regarding the justice of this claim. The first specification of items sent in to the department by the claimants amounted in the aggregate to $935,000. Out of this $500,000 was set down as the value of the real estate in Asuncion and San Antonio, with the mills, ma- chinery and tools thereupon, alleged to have been confiscated and rendered worthless by President Lopez; $100,000 for two river steam- ers, a schooner, a saw mill and other property at the mouth of the river, rendered useless by the acts of the government; $35,000 for interest from stoppage up to time of claim on the cash liabilities of the company, and $300,000 for damages for interruption of business. We cannot afford space to enter into an ex- amination of each item set down in the com- pany’s bill of particulars. It will be sufficient to show the unscrupulous character of the claim to state that $214,000 are charged for the cost of the steamer El Paraguay and schooner E. T. Blodgett, and their cargoes. The first of these vessels was cleared “for Montevideo and a market,” was damaged by storms, condemned as unseaworthy and sold, with a part of her damaged cargo, before reaching Montevideo. The remainder, which was shipped to Asuncion in the Fanny, amounted to only $15,300, and out of this there was reshipped from Paraguay nearly four thousand dollars worth of goods. It is stated in the report that it does not appear from the evidence that President Lopez had any connection with the company, or knew any- thing of the proposed enterprise. until the arri- val of the Fanny in October, 1855, with the re- mainder of the damaged cargo of this steamer. The schooner E. T. Blodgett was wrecked above Buenos Ayres, at the Tigre river, and was uninsured to that point. The portion of the cargo that was saved was taken to other countries, and disposed of in other markets by the company. We cannot understand under what principle of law or commercial morality it has been sought to render Paraguay any more responsible for these loases than the governments of the terri- tories where the vessels were actually wrecked. Neither, as the report very properly observes, can it be reconciled with any legal or other precedent, that the deficiency accruing from the fact of the bonds of the company being issued for $100,000, with interest, and sold to the stockholders at a loss of over $57,000, should be charged to the account of Paraguay. For the land at Asuncion, where the segar factory was established, the company only paid the sum of $2,500, and it appears from their books that during the whole period of its existence, it produced a little over 500,000 segars, the total sales of which amounted to only $5,382. The land at San Antonio, on which the saw mill stood, was purchased from differ- ent individuals for $237 50, and the barrack upon it was gratuitously loaned to the com- pany by the government. So much for the actual money value of the real estate owned by it in Paraguay. We will not enter upon the question as to how far the conduct of President Lopez to- wards the company was “tyrannical and op- pressive,” further than to observe that the re- port of the American Commissioner fully ex- onerates him frem this charge. At first Lopez was kindly disposed towards the enterprise, as was shown by his advance to the company of a loan of $10,000, as well as his decrees com- pelling the peons to work for it; and the incon- veniences and obstructions which its agents sub- sequently met with are proved to have been owing entirely to the overbearing and insolent conduct of Consul Hopkins and Mr. Morales towards the authorities, and their refusal to comply with the prescriptions of the laws of Paraguay, regulating the manner in which foreigners are permitted to carry on industrial establishments in that country. The evidence of Captain Page is, we think, conclusive as to the fact that the hostility of President Lopez was to these individuals, and not to the com- pany of which they were the employés. We are glad that the facts of this iniquitous claim have been thoroughly sifted and exposed. Whilst the award rejecting it will be a lesson to such of our citizens and commercial agents abroad as seek to make the State Department the instrument of their dishonest speculations, its moral effect upon the South American go- vernments cannot fail to be beneficial to our in- terests, The fact of an American commissioner deciding not only against the pecuniary claims and gtievances of his own coun- trymen, but doing full justice to the conduct and motives of a ruler whom we had humiliated and forced to submit to this inquiry, will go farther to convince them of the honesty and fairness of our disposition towards them than gil the aegurances that can be conreyed throug’ Protestant axp Catuouic Free-wm. Or- rentvGs.—We publish this morning a full and detailed account of the voluntary offerings made by the various Catholic churches of the Dioceses of New York in behalf of the Pope; and it will surprise many of our Protestant friends to know that these free-will donations have reached the large sum of $53,000 in this city alone. This isa matter for self-congratu- lation to the Catholics, inasmuch as it is well known that the members of that religious con- fraternity are, on the whole, rather poor in worldly goods. In the meantime, there are two other funds being raised in this city under the most favorable auspices—the one being in aid of the heroic efforts of Garibaldi, and the other for the relief of the survivors of Islamitic barbarity in Syria. Now, if sympathy for the Pope’s failing cause has had the effect of rais- ing a subscription of $53,000, the cause of hu- man liberty and the right of conscience, of which Garibaldi is the Italian impersonation, ought at least to command $100,000. We should, therefore, like to hear how the Garibaldian committees are getting along. The movement should not be allowed to hang fire in the face of the united example of poor Catholics, The Protestants, too, will have to look to their reputation for charity and benevolence. Their co-operation for the relief of the Syrian Chris tians has not as yet produced any very remarkable fruit. Fully informed as they are of the frightful atrocities committed on the unarmed Christians of Zahleh and Damascus, and of the reported sale of 30,000 Christian women at twenty-five piastres each, to be held as the degraded inhabitants of Turkish se raglios, their united efforts up to the present time have not produced more than one thou- sand seven hundred dollars. However much the facts may be exaggerated, the main story of the massacres and of the outrages on Chris- tian women is substantially true, and it will require a more united demonstration in this Country, if it ix meant to send practical relief 4 diplomatic medium. Acts are always more convincing than professions, and such an award as that which has just been rendered by us in favor of a weaker Power cannot but inspire con- fidence in the integrity and good faith of a go- vernment which, while it manifested its deter- mination to protect its citizens against injury, took equal care thet impartial Jontice shoei be done between them and their alleged oppres- sors. Mr. Bocwanan’s Poticy Exporsep sy Tae,— After the Democratic Convention at Baltimore bad committed felo de se, and the democratie party was ebattered into pieces by {ts leaders, Mr. Buchanan made a speech at Washington, in which he counselled moderation, and indicated that union policy which is now being adopted to wave the country. The Douglas men abused the Breckinridge party, and the Breckinridge men abused the Douglas faction, and both abused Mr. Buchanan. The tendency of this was, of course, to elect Lincoln. Mr. Buchanan was the only statesman who had the sagacity to see the true policy for the country, or the pluck to recommend it. He said that neither of the no- tminations at Baltimore was regular, and that the people were, therefore, absolved from all allegiance to them, and could vote as ‘they pleased. He recognized the disorganization and destruction of the democratic party as a fixed fact which could not be ignored. For this he was grossly assailed, though now it is recog- nized as the only safety from destructive revo- lutionary republicanism, for it is only by carry- ing out Mr. Buchanan’s idea that Lincoln can be defeated and a conservative President elect- ed. While Douglas is making a fool of himself in Jetting off speeches about squatter sovereign- ty and other nonsense, and while Yancey and the rest of the South are making fools of them- selves by preaching up disnnion doc- trines, the policy inaugurated by Mr. Bu- chanan has taken hold of the public mind as practical, sensible and sound, and it is at this moment being carried into ope- ration, to the dismay of the republican party, whose organs abuse the President in proportion as they feel that his ideas are dangerous to them, and that they will at last result in their overthrow. We are aware the Washington Constitution is helping the republicans by advocating dis- union; but it ia not the organ of Mr. Buchanaa— itis under the control of the Cabinet—and if he would get rid of those who compose his ad- ministration at one fell swoop, he would doa good thing, which the whole country would ap- prove. But their time is short, and they are hardly worth the trouble of decapitation’ In- deed, they are fast killing themselves, and only want a little more time and opportunity to finish the job. Like swine swimming down stream, and at every stroke cutting their throats with their fore feet, the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan are committing political suicide, while from the darkness, which is greatest be- fore the dawn, his statesmanship is shining out, brighter and brighter, uuto the perfect day. Tue ALDERMEN tv A DremMa.—We are shock- ed to hear that the Aldermen and Councilmen, who have, as they believe, a patent right to the reception business, are in deep distress of mind about the Prince of Wales. They are a good deal bothered, in the first place, about the cir- cumstance that the heir apparent to the British throne comes here as a private gentleman— something quite beyond their appreciation. Then they are much exercised about the con- duct of the Mayor, who was requested by reso- lution to invite H. R. H. to visit this city, and become the guest of the Corporation. The Mayor has sent his Secretary to ascertain the views of the vice regal party, and intends evi- dently to manage the affair without consulting the Aldermen at all. They are so terribly cut up about the matter that we should not be eur- prised to hear that they had passed another batoh of resolutions, and made themselves in- tensely ridiculous. It is good to know that, however absurd the Al may make them- selves (and they are cleve? in that way if in no other), the Prince will be protected from the very doubtful compliment of an ovation at their hands. Lovts Narokoy anp THe Frevca Parss.—M. Edmund About, the imperial pamphleteer, who so frequently wears the cap and bells to ac- commodate the humor of his master, has been writing letters in his usual tone of peraiflage to one of the Paris journals, hinting at the posai- bility of the government relaxing the censor- ship of the press. We see nothing inconsistent or improbable in this. The Emperor has no longer anything to fear from the journalists. He has crushed out the revolutionary spirit by aiding it to attain all reasonable objects, and has satisfied at once the ambition and industrial aspirations of his people by elevating France to a position of political influence and pros perity such as she has never before enjoyed. Now that his power is placed on a secure basis, he can well afford to relax the restrictions which in the beginning he deemed necessary to its consolidation. Tar Privciries or Tae Rerveican Party. — Where are we to find the principles of the black republicans? In their “Campaign Documents,” as announced in the New York Tribune, the leading organ of the party. Among these do- cuments we find “Slavery in History, by Count Guroweki,” whose object is to put a speedy end to slavery; Lincoln's speeches against slavery; Seward’s [rrepressible Conflict speech at Rochester: speech of Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts. and the Barbarities of Slavery, by Senator Sumner, of the same State. Alt these speeches and documents are directed to the abolition of slavery and to the destruction of the South, This is the fundamental priaci- ple of the republican party which lies at the bottom of the whole superstructure. It is therefore essentially revolutionary in its wa- dency and design. Manasee Vixcent WALtack, a9 artiste most favorably known to the Amerisan pubic, bas takeo up her rem dence in this city, aud purposes to resume the practice of ber profession as a performer upon, and teacher of, the pianoforte, during the coming season. Madame Wallsce is ome of thowe rare virtuori who are net only acquainted with both the classical and popular compositions, tat who are /ikewise capable of imparting that knowledge to their puplia. She made @ most favorabic impression bere feveral years ago in the classical concerts given by Mr. Eisfeid: and as those soireee are to be resumed during the coming winter, the public will again have the pleasure to welcome Madamo Wallace in her appropriate artistic sphere The steam onep Desstae Dane for the Faat tn~ dice, arrived at Madeira on the 20th alt , having been Oal7 eteven ‘iays ou her passage from Norfolk. Tue sioop of war Jou Adama, Com. Mason, was at Foo- chew em the 2° of Jaae,