The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1860, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, KUITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ORNS OF NASSAU AND FULTON 87S. suk cSTHD TO DIAL {LD on Wed Sour cents per . Wedonot a : tay: advertisements in- vexiy Hawatp, Pamioy Heganp, and in the Fiitions cheapness and de NG executed with Volume XXV.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Sacamp Concent. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVESING. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, ances. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Proresson ANDERI0N. Broadway.—Eqvestaian l’eRrorm- WALLACE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Wire's Sxcaer, LAUBA KEENE’S THEATRE, No, 624 Broadway.—Our Avmaicax Cousin. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rac Picken or Panis—Foor Lovers—Hasay Bisxe, BARNUMS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day ant eng -anore ax> Daxcing—Bex Bour—Living Cuniositias, £0. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Bowuxsquns, Songs, Dances, do. —Dixies’ Lan, NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway. —Hooury & Caxverte’s Muy 1ortaN SonGs, Benunsquns, Dances, &0.— uNTAN. Beronven ©. NATIONAL VARIET powmy—Macie Pris—aM 8 ee street. —Vistt to Ho- bur. PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth etreet.—Musioat Eytee- TALNMENT CANTERBURY CONCERT HALL, 663 Broadway.—Soxas, Dances, RUkLRsanen, £9. New York, Sunday, August 26, The News. The Prince of Wales has arrived at Montreal, e occasion was made one of the grandest nown in Canada. Over sixty thousand peo- tnessed the ceremonies, and the reception appears to have been marked by unbounded en- hh m. The pageant was of the most magnifi cent ch: er, andextended over two miles in length. lags, banners and arches decorated the streets along the route. After the procession the Prince inaugurated the exhibition of Crystal Pa- lace, and later in the da: mplished one of the objects of his visit to th America, namely, laid the corner stone w completes the Victoria Bridge over the St. La We give a full re- port of the proceedings elsewhere. Intelligence has been received from Monterey, Mexico, to the 1ith inst. The rebellion against the authority of Vidaurri, Governor of the States of Coahuila and New Leon, has been completely crushed by his own energy and valor. During his short campaign he had the misfortune to lose his confide friend and right hand man, Gen. Zua- vua, wh urdered ina most cowardly man- ner on the night of Ju i, while ina small fa house, by eight assassins, who fired on him. Vi- riwas with himand escaped by a miracle. here was a rumor that Miramon was preparing to attack San Luis Potosi The steamship Vanderbilt, which left South- ampton on the 15th inst. for New York, had not made he ce off this port up to alate Her news. vever, has been an- he City of the arrival of off Cape Race was reported in the erday morning. atic, which nce, more sailed from this | . | | ing a total k, arrived held Sing Sing last week, ttoa close yea- cription of the af r page of to-day’s erome, the Health Officer of the port, ssed a formal demand to the Commis- sioners for the Removal of Quarantine, requiring them to surrender to him the absolute and sole of the hospita! hulk known as the “ Falcon, aod intimates that in case nder the necessity of esort to the courts, market was steady yesterday, while the about 1,250 bales, closing om the basis of for fair grades of middling uplands. The market was Grmer for shipping grades of State and tern, white extra brands were unchanged. Suthers floar waa in moderate supply, and prises for mixed and medium grades were firmer, but svles moderate. Wheat was less active, prime qualities were firm, while common contr or Fioating of a sef baving grades of ep: ke, were heavy and dull. Corn was, dull asd lower, while sales were less a Pork was it moderate request, while prices were out important change sales of new mess were made at $10 12% & 4 $14 1240 $14 25. Sugars 1 prices without chaage of moment, while praced about 900 bhds. In coffve there was some more fidence manifested, while sales were limited to email! lots. Freights continued frm, and wheat was pain taken for Liverpool at 12! , in ship's bags, and 2,000 bbls. flour at Ss. 34. To London rates were firm, and amoog the engagements were 1,200 bbis. four at Se. Of now prime at New York Coming Into the Ficld=The Proposed Nationni Conservative Meet- ing. The uprising of the national conservative men to put down L and the fanatic fol- lowers of the treasonable Massachusetts school, gocs bravely on, and from every side we re ceive cheering evidences that the great masses ot the people are opposed to all sectional doc- trine in whatever shape or from whatever quar- ter it may come On Friday a meeting of conservative men, without reference to party affiliations, was held at the Metropolitan Hotel in this city, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best manner of arranging for a meeting of the con- servative national men of all parties, and giving danger of the national conservative men lies. Every ones sees that the popular beart is with tho pure no faction conservatives, and every effort, plan, scheme and intrigue will be plied to bias their action favorably to this, that or the other candidate. They must carefully avoid being made tools of in this way. This they can do by recognizing the true position in which all the old political organizations stand. The Al- bany Regency is dead, aud only seeks by deceptive bargains and cheating plans now to produce such galvavic action in its mass as ball prevent cor- ruption for a time. Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall are equally dead, and fast passing into their original dirt. The followers of the first of these have endeavored to exhibit some life in the old carcase by publishing an impudent re- solution, asserting that all the electors on the Union ticket should vote for Douglas, just as though a few paint faced and degenerate sa- chems had the right to dispose of the hearts and wills of men all over the State. Mozart, divided and without vitality, is equally worthless, and the action of the Syracuse Convention proves that even among their own corrupt fellows neither of them is looked upon as being any- thing more than a small faction, and a fraction of the once strong democratic party. Of all these let the conservative national men beware, and so guide their councils and their action as not to imbibe the poisonous virus of any of the dead carcases that are laid around them. If they conduct their movement rightly they will have thousands of sup- porters from all sides, whose first and only wish is to save the country from the danger and disgrace of electing a fa- natic President by a minority of the people, through the division of the conservative vote among several candidates. There is no need of saying to-day that the vote of New York shall be cast for Breckinridge, Bell or Douglas; but let the electoral ticket be fairly and equally divided amoag them all, with an understanding that if the vote of New York will elect either of those three that it shall be cast for him; and if it widl not, then let each set of voters give their votes to their several preferences. Such an arrangement will bring out the latent con- servative vote in immense numbers, and make its triumph in New York safe beyond a perad- venture. The proceedings for a union meeting of all the conservative parties in New York, on such a basis, are the first step of the uprising of the Northern national conservative element. It will produce an immense effect everywhere, in’ calling out the latent national senti- ment, which now lurks in despair, in view of the senseless quarrels of the conser- vative remnants of old conservative par- ties. The commercial and industrial States of the centre are abounding in it, and even mabufacturing and maritime New England is beginning to waken to a sense of the destruc tive evils which the teachings of “the Massa- cbusetts school” of fanatic politicians would bring upon them. The conservative national men of New York have every reason to be of good cheer, and to act up to their national im- pulses and to their national duty. They have the intellect, the wealth, the enterprise and the energy of the country with them, and they can form one of the most powerful political organi- zations for good that the country has ever wit- nessed, if they go rightly to work. Let the meeting be a national one in sentiment, national in its presiding officers and speakers, national in its action and views, and metropolitan in its numbers. By such a course it will soon be seen that the hearts of the people on all sides are with them, and that the North is as bitterly op- posed to sectionalism as is the South. Panty Ivcratirvpp—Tuk Reason Wuy.—The retirement of Governor Banks from political life has naturally given rise to a good deal of comment and speculation. That a statesman in the prime of his mental and physical powers should voluntarily renounce the brilliant chances that lie before him in the career that he bas hitherto so successfully followed is a circum- stance of the times that is of course variously viewed. Some look upon it asa necessity of the policy of republican iustitutions, which, af- ter profiting by the talent and capacity of pub- lic men, opposes limits to their ambition, and sends them back to private life to make way for other and more youthful aspirants. In this way, it is argued, the spirit of republicanism is maintained unimpaired, and the thirst of office on the part of individuals kept in subserviency to the public interests. That the compulsory acceptance of a position such as that which has led to Governor Banks’ withdrawal from public life reflects discredit on the Common- wealth which he has served so long and efficiently is, according to this line of reasoning, not a fair conclusion. Ours is not a government of pensions and sine- cures, and Massachusetts has shown her grati- tude to Mr. Banks in the only way she can con- stitutionally manifest it, by bestowing upon him the highest honors in her power to confer. As to the acceptance of an inferior office being in itself a degradation to the individual, the idea is merely conventional, and ought to find no place in a republican mind. Cincinnatus was a greater man when he laid down his dicta- torship and took again to his plough than when he swayed the full powers of the State, and John Quincy Adams and John Tyler did not descend a peg in public estimation when, after occupying the Presidential chair, the one as- sumed the duties of a simple member of Con- grese,and the other those of a Virginia road- master. The black republican organs, but more espe- cially the Hvening Post and Times, take a dif- ferent, and, for them, a singularly inconsistent view of this event. They regard the fact of a man of Mr. Banks’ eminent ability being compelled to withdraw from public life, to seek in other pursuits the means of pro- expression to the national impulses of the com- mercial, industrial, financial and intellectual metropolis of the Union. There were present Bell men, Breckinridge men, Douglas men, Houston men, and men who refuse to affiliate with any purely political party, and who may be called the representatives of the million of eclec- tic voters who rarely ro to the polls, but who, in November next, are determined to vote for the ticket that will beat Lincoln. The proposi- téom for united action was received with univer- eal favor, and a committee of five gentlemen was appointed for the purpose of making pre- liminary arrangements. The political cliques and factions were also represented in the meet- ing, and efforta were made to bias its action, but the attempts were all put down at once. It is in these clique efforts that the greatest viding for his family, as an evidence of the retrogressive tendency of republican imstitu- tions. This assumption is a curious one, com- ing from @ party which has done all in its power to bring about the very result which it condemns. In how many instances, we would ask, has it preferred the claims of the more eminent of the men whose talents have imparted reepectability and strength to its organization? How can it venture, after giving the go-by to such candidates as Seward, Banks, Cameron and Chase, to take up sucha man as Lincoln, who has neither political capacity nor any very marked antecedent services to recommend him, to attribute to our political system the evils which are due mainly to party ingratitude and corruption. Were it not for our conviction of this fact we NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, might unite with our black republican contem porasies in their lamentations over the effect which the elevation of inferior men to impor tant public oflices is likely to exercise over the fortunes ofthe country. As it is, we see in it only the gradual withdrawal from the ranks of their party ofall men of decent conduct and ability; for, as in the caee of Governor Banks, they must prefer an honest obscurity to the un- grateful and demoralizing associations to which they are at present condemned. Mr. Breckinridge in Trouble—The Presi- dential Dimiculty and Its Solution. In another columf we publish a letter from a friend of Mr. Breckinridge, written from the town in which he lives, vindicating that gentle- man “in regard to rumors and statements now in circulation of a most injurious character.” ‘The writer states that “he is authorized by the Vice President to say that he will himself short- ly reply to all these base charges and false as- sertions.”” We shall be very glad to hear from Mr. Breckinridge. Our columns are open to him, and we hope he will do himself justice. He is a very good man personally, and an able man; but he is identified and associated with a great many meu at the South who areas dan- gerous to the existence of the Union as are the rankest abolitionists of the North. Let bim cut the connection as soon as possible. Some of these men have played a part in Congress just as factious as the partisans of Douglas, and Mr. Breckinridge’s identification with them cannot fail to do him injury with all who are devoted to the Union and are determined to maintain its in- tegrity. The political nigger drivers at the South and the rabid nigger worshippers at the North are equally revolutionary and equally ob- noxious to the conservative masses of the coun- try, who do not belong to either category. For our own part we do not care for any of the candidates. We have no prejudice against them nor feeling in their favor. What we want is to put down the republican party and pre- vent it getting into the White House—an event which would be fraught with danger to the country, the forerunner of revolution, and the breaking up of the federal compact, the shatter- ing of the mighty empire of the West, now felt as a great tower on the earth, into contemptible fragments of no account, the consequent inter- necine feuds and horrible border wars, the de- struction of the trade and commerce ot the country, and the wide-wasting ruin of every in- terest of man. This peril we want to obviate and prevent. There is another thing we want to prevent, and that is the throwing of the election into the House of Representatives by the failure of the college of electors to elect the President. Dud- ley Field made a great speech the other day at Philadelphia on the danger of letting the clec- tion go to the House, and the republican press have made a great fuss aboutit. But if the electors are impressed with a due sense of the weighty responsibility which devolves upon them, they will effectually prevent this danger by deliberately proceeding to elect a President in defiance of all the corrupt party conventions, which ought to have no weight with any honest citizen. They will select the best man, without reference to any candidates nominated by con- ventions or fragments of conventions, and, if necessary, go outside of these depraved and rot- ten organizations to seek for a statesman who is wortby of the honor and fit to be entrusted with the destinies of the nation. The constitu- tion never contemplated party conventions, organized for the purpore of forestalling the free choice of the electors. For many years after the foundation of the government, and in the brightest and purest days of its history, there was no such unconstitutional machi- nery to anticipate the action of the eleo- tors and secure the succession to one of two or three individuals, who, either in their own persons or through their friends and agents, had intrigued for months and years against the fair chances of better men than themselves. The convention system is unknown to the constitution, and the electors ought not tobe bound byit. The claims of the whole country, the demands of patriotism, are stronger than the dictates of little cliques and cabals of politicians, who would sacrifice all things—risk even the destruction of the country itself—for their own selfish objects. No rash promises made by electors under the mistaken idea of party claims can be binding against the para- mount authority of the constitution, and in the presence of an overmastering danger which threatens the destruction of the political fabric. The evident intention of the constitution is that the members of the different colleges of electors should not have their minds made up for or against individuals beforehand, but, after con sulting together, and aided ia their judgment by the collision of intellect and the appeals of pa triotism, should solemaly render their decision as if they were upon a jury who held ia their hands the issues of life and death of a fellow citizen. Indeed, on the fortheoming occasion, the elec- tors of all the States ought to meet each other at Washington, or some other central city, be- fore the time appointed for returning the votes to the President of the Senate, and then and there select a fit and proper chief magistrate, ogreeing to vote for the eame at the meetings of the electoral colleges in their several States on their return home. Thus would unanimity be preserved, and the election be prevented from going into the House of Representatives. The simplicity of the constitution has been set aside by the machinations and devices of party machinery, and the only safety in this emergency is to return to first principles, and overthrow the whole system of conventions. We trust the conservatives of every section of the Union will help us in this great work, and give a deathblow to the political schemers and scoundrels who for so many years have fattened n corruption and disgraced the country. The people and the electors have the game in their own hands. As for Mr. Breckinridge, if he repudiates aesociation with the revolutionary fire-eaters at the South, there can be no objection to him, and he may make as good a President as any other the electoral colleges can select. Watcn Taew.—Henry McFadden has been nominated for the Assembly by the republicans in Clinton county. Mr. McFadden was a mem- ber of the last corrupt Legislature of this State, but his record is comparatively clear. He voted against the City Railroad scheme, against the West Washington Market bill, agaiast the Commissioners of Records’ Fee bill, but he came to the restue of the combination in killing the One Cent Ferriage law. Fatlure of Abo dies—The Abolitionists in Council. The recurrence of the anniversary of West India emancipation, on the Ist of August last, was the occasion for the assembling of a small crowd of fanatical abolitionists at Abingdon, in the State of "Massachusetta. The promi- nent political agitators of the day, who have so much verbal sympathy for the happy negroes of the South, failed to report them- Poor Cudjoe had to be satisfied with the rather unsa- tisfactory assurance that, though “absent in body, they would be present in spirit.” Of course, it is not usual to hand round the hat to such impalpable objects as “spirits.” Even the “apostolic countemance” of William Lloyd Garrison, we are told, waa absent from the selves in person at the “island grove.” meeting, and he only sent his friends a long rig- must have had a dull day of it. We will not ruffle the commenting on their vapid decla- by mations. But we purpose, saying a few words in regard to the unfounded statements contained in some of the letters which were read at the Convention. And, first of all, to pass over a little theological flourish of Charles Sumner, we find him saying that “all testimony, whether from official documents or from travel- fers, shows beyond question that in all the Bri- tish West India islands the condition of the negro has been improved by emancipation.” Now, this isa statement that is utterly false and unfounded. If we take the island of Ja- maica, to which Mr. Sumner specially refers, and which was in the days of British colonial slavery the wealthiest and richest of them all, there is scarcely a single vestige of prosperity to be discovered. The sugar estates are for the most part dismantled ; their boilers and coppers have been sold to the more fortunate Cuban planter, and the estates themselves turned into pastures for sheep and cattle. Magnificent coffee properties, which for- merly produced from two to three hundred thousand pounds of coffee annually, are now totally deserted and overgrown with tropical vegetation—their once elegant houses tumbled into ruins—their mills and other expensive works decayed and gone—while the outlying lands, once yielding bountifully to the stroke of the hoe and plough, are now uncultivated deserts, occupied by half-naked negro squatters and their unfortunate progeny. These are startling facts, which can be enlarged upon but may not truthfully be denied. There are undoubtedly some ex- ceptions to the rule, but they are rare in- deed. But we are told by another of these abolition correspondents—the Hon. C. F. Adams—that the failure of emancipation is only accounted for in the absence of coffee and eugar. This is cervainly the funda- mental objection, but any man can see that it involves the whole question of emancipation. Sugar and coffee are the staple products of the West Indies, and when these fail then all prosperity ceases. To the very fact that the production of these arficles has not yet become quite extinct must be attributed the continuance of constitutional government in Jamaica. Every year wit- nesses a decrease in the crops—there being only thirty-six thousand hogsheads of eugar produced last year—and, sad as the prospect may be, it does appear very evident that, unless some desperate exertion is made by the British government in favor of this splendid colony, in a few more years she will be blotted out alto- gether from the category of sugar producing countries. “If,” continues Mr. Adams, “by reason of this failure it could be shown that there were misery and famine in the land, that starvation was in a fair way to turn the garden into a wilderness, I should be ready to concede something to the argument.”” Then Mr. Adams must at once concede everything for which we contend, for the deepest misery does prevail among the majority of the emancipated class in Jamaica, and, unfortunately, the once fair land is being rapidly converted into a desolate wilderness. In the cities espe- cially the misery of the enfranchised negroes is tenfold greater, and in many instances they fre- quently starve. That actual starvation does not exist in the mountainous districts is due to the wonderful fertility of the eoil and the illim- itable number of tropical fruits which hang from a thousand boughs, inviting all to a rich and gratuitous feast. And this very plen- teousness of the rich mountains Is the bane of the negro. The genial climate never calls upon him for any expensive cloth- ing. He has no property, and is therefore free from taxes. His wife and children are left to scramble after mangoes and exist as best they can, and thus, freed from every responsibility, he neglects the great gifts that God has given him in a noble country, which falls into ruin and degradation because of his sloth and wretchednesa. The reports of the dissenting missionaries have invariably represented the condition of the negroes as most discouraging. But two or three years ago the Right Rever- end Reginald Courtenay, Bishop of Kings- ton—a most exemplary and worthy pre- late—established an industrial school, at a vast expense, for the benefit of negro children, and, after the most praiseworthy exertions in erecting commodious buildings, laying out large gardens and employing competent teach- ers, had to abandon the philanthropic project be- cause the negroes would not send their children to school except they were paid! They are never at peace among themselves nor with their neigh- bors, and within a few years there have been a number of riots and outbreaks, terminating in loss of life and in assaults upon places of public worship, as well as upon the ministers of religion. Not long since a minister was assaulted and his life threatened. Then, again, the toll-gates were uprooted, a Judge of the Supreme Court driven from the bench, and the effusion of blood was begun, and was only stopped by prompt military action. The outcry of the abolitionists is, therefore, an evidence of ignorance or a gross determina. tion to pervert the truth. Despite of all the fairy tales they may tell of Jamaica, the inoon- trovertible fact stands out in bold relief, that: in as far as it concerns the moral and material welfare of the negro, emancipation has been a failure. In the days of slavery the negro was happy and contented. He had clothing, food, a decent home, medical attendance in tickness, and care and attention in his old age and in the hour of his death. Now al this is changed for the poor negro. His aboli tion friends have made him his own master, AUGUST. 26, 1860, onism fm the West In- marole of a letter which might or might not mean anything. The “ fair goddess of freedom” feathers of a single. black Cicero or Demosthenes ee >_> News from the NAtional Capital, OUR SPECIAL WAgiWo TON DESPATCH. Wasmuxst0n', August 25, 1860. ‘THE AWARD OF THE PARAGUAY COMMISSIONERS, There is a practical difficulty about Cayi* Johnson's deot- Sion. His character for intelligence, integr:*¥ and judg- ment is very high. As @ Cabinet Minister ung‘? Polit, he showed paticut industry and sound sense, ‘These’ <iv9 weight to bis decision, On the other hand, the treaty’ seems to assume that there was fair title to some damages. ‘The Commissioners’ award gives none, Whether the Pre- sident, however, will deem it his duty to interfere is questionable. I think he will not. FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT RELATIVE TO THE NAVY, Purser Belknap, now in London, bas arranged with Jes. McHenry, of Liverpool, for the payment of our Brazitien, East Iodian, African and European squadrons. The con- tractor will make his disbursements at fixed rates of ex- change, and take bills payable in New York. The Bariags heretofore have had this business, which henceforth wit be transferred by Mr. B.'s arrangement from London to New York, thus benelitting our finances. Ale ‘THE PUBLIC STORES ConTRACT. lew York captract, for labor in the public stores, made by Secretary Cobb with Mather, Mclntire & Co, ts before the President for his action, upon an application made to him to break it up, signed by all the members of Congress for the city of New York. This document, which embodies a very strong argument against the sys- tem, was laid before the President last week by Messre. Sickles and Barr, of the House. The President informed Mr. O'Reilly, who was present on behalf of the working men, that be would dispose of the question immediately after his return from Bedford Springs. THE WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT ConTRAcTS. Some three years ago Congress appropriated two hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars for the payment of damages arising out of the non. fulfilment of coatracts made by go- vernment for the construction of the Washington aque- duct, and referred the adjustment of the same to the Se- cretary of the Treasury. Twenty-pine thousand dollars were awarded for damages, and the residue used in the construction of the works. The last session of Congress Passed a law directing and requiring the Secretary of War to adjust and settle tbe claim of W. H. De Groot, for dam- ‘ages arising out of a contract for the supply of bricks for the Washington acqueduct. The whole amouat claimed ‘was some two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars: ‘The Attorney Genera! was Spplied to for the proper Construction of the law, and under his instruc- tions, after a most thorough, minute and tedious investigation, the sum of only ene hundred and nineteen thousand dollars was awarded. This small proportion gave great dissatisfaction to De Groot, but was sufficient to bring down upon his track ali the hungry vultures of the lobby and blackmailers who infest this city. On the Ground of pretended interest in the contract, they have Plied Secretary Cobb with notices of applications for in- Junctions, restraining him from paying Secretary Floyd's requisition, while they have not failed.to intimate to the Claimant that a consideration would remove their opposi- tion. De Groot, being an honorable New York merchant, ‘was disgusted with these propositions, and refused com- Pliance. Secretary Cobb is likewise diagusted with their flimsy pretences, and will pay no more attention to theas than the forms of law require. MILITARY INSPECTIONS. Brevet Lieut, Col. W. H. Emory, acting Assistant In- Spector General, bas been ordered to proceed to the tn- Bpection of the Military Departments of California and Oregon. and the result is that he gavuot take care of himself in health, much less in . sickness. Let the Garrisoniaa abolitionists first purify this Augean stable ere they call upon our Southern brethren to draw down upon their deads the scourge which now settles over the British West Indies. Ova Poxrricat ConresronpeNck AND THE Process or Tae Counter Revo.vrios.—In another part of this day’s paper will be found a mass of correspondence, from every point of the compass, bearing on the Presidential election, and indicating the direction and strength of the popular breeze in the various localities, or the change of the political current, or the upper current and the under current flowing in oppo- site directions at the same time, On the whole, the tendency is to unite the conservative ele- mente, both at the North and at the South, against the anti-slavery disunionists on oneside, and the fire eating disunionists on the other. It will be seen that while here in the State of New York the conservatives are combining against republicanism, the republicans are di- vided among themselves, the Weed faction and the Greeley faction entertaining the most bitter feelings of mutual animosity against each other. The effect of the Union ticket on the party is demoralizing. The leading republican jour- nals feel its effect, and they are out of temper. There is crimination and recrimination, as always happens in disasters on shipboard and elsewhere. Charges of corruption are flung at each other, and are hardly denied by the indi viduals accused. As for the party in the last Legislature, the evidence of its corruption is 80 overwhelming that there is no attempt at denial, but a clumsy attempt to throw an equal share of the responsibility on the shonlders of the democrats, which is too absurd for serious reply, seeing that in the Assembly the republi- cans were ninety-one to thirty-seven democrats, and in the Senate twenty-three republicans to nine democrata. They had the game of plunder entirely in their own hands, and those republi- can leaders who were not petmitted to share in the spoils are fierce in their attacks upon those who led the lobby, alleging that this profligacy is highly prejudicial to the party in the ap- proaching irrepressible conflict; and that if republicanism should be defeated it is not be- cause ita cause is bad, but its champions un- worthy. These bickerings and misgivings argue “the foregone conclusion.” If the leaders felt that they were on the road to victory, they would be in euch good humor that they would forget all past differences in the contemplation of the bright prospect before them. Scared by the onward march of conserva- tism, some try to parry the effect of the com- bination ticket by pretending, like Chevalier Webb, that republicanism is highly conservative and even pro-slavery. Others bring their bat- teries to bear upon the combination of the allies with such fury that they disclose the se- cret that their hopes have grown desperate, and the conviction that the State of New York is lost to them. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey the republican cause is also doomed; and there is every probability that in some of the New England States the counter revolution setting in so strongly against it will result in its overtbrow. In the South conservatism has not yet finally shaped itself for the coming contest; but the tendency is to union, and before long the pub- News from Honduras. New Ontxans, August 25, 1860. Advices from Honduras say that Generals Walker and Cabanas will probably meet at Comayagua, when a gene- ral government wil! be established. Pennsylvania Politics. Hagrsecrs, August 22, 1860. The Constitutional Union State Central Committee met bere to-day, every Congressional district being repre- sented. Cheering accounts from all parts of the State were received, and a strong disposition manifested for the union of all national men, A committee has boea ap~ Pointed to sefect Presidential electors. ‘The foregoing despatch has been characterized by @ome of the Pennsy!vania papers as glaringly false, and the statement made ‘‘that there were not tweaty @ve Beliand Everett men at the mass meeting;” and one Paper asserts that there seems to be a determination om the part of those who send telegraphic despatches to the Associated Press to make as many false representations lic feeling will probably have settled down | 9 possible. ‘ upon a single ticket, and the Southern States in| | 12 referense to the above remarks, the Philadelphia November will vote nearly as a unit. In the poe otal id Cenpateh, ta: Jontiteation of Sis e report to New York inthe form im present crisis they cannot but feel the import- | which it was published — ance of presenting a united front to the com- Purrapaceua, August 25, 1860. mon enemy however, certain it is that the re- Colonel Seymour, a member of the Union Central Com- publican candidate can receive no electoral | ™t*, wiry bo ltag ira. 3 png Rg haa been vote south of Mason and Dixon’s line. 03 nated eye ged the despatch eat t, and stand ‘There is only one thing that seems now cer- epoca iedinstrsaleadee., dea tain about the election, and that is the defeat Interruption of a Political Meeting. of Lincoln. Whether there will be aay elec- natin Evaxavitux, Ind , August 25, 1860. ; tion by the people, and who will have the best republican meeting at Newburg, Indiana, last night, chance if it should go into Congress, are ques- | fhe tone ae phowdeSrgs! gs abihat ny ce tions still involved in considerable doubt. But | several perrons injured. The republicans faalty drove neither in Congress nor out of it can the re- | their assailants frem the ground. publican ticket be successful. So that the se- cessionists of the South will not have the op- Suvemente of tie saan &e. Brorono Sraivos, August 25, 1960. portunity of making good their threats, at least | rye president is stili here. Among the late arrivals till the end of another lustrum. are Hon. Augustus Schell, of New York; Hon. Edwi® SE Ee Oe aN Croswell, of Albany; George W. Riggs, of Washingtoa, Naval Intelligence. - ‘ 3 na bp e. fate refitting of the | *84JoMeBb B. Baker, of Philadelphia, United States steam frigate Powhatan, ordered to Vera The Cruz, Mexico, additional measures have been taken to nieces vat rresrenett ror ave ber ready for sea without a moment's delay, Or. Jamnetows, N. ¥., August 25, 1860. ders have been telegraphed from the Navy Department to The first train over the Atiintic and Great Western Commodore Breese, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Railroad bas just arrived at ‘this place, thirty-three miles ‘Yard, to" muster all the available force that can be con- | from the junction with the New York and Krie Railroad, veniently epared from the United States ship North Caro- having on board Meesrs, N March, C. Minot, and others lina, and forward them with all possibie despatch to the of the Now York and Erie road; also Mr. Kennard, Chief Powhatan at Philadelphia. The whole force on board the Engineer of the Atlantic aad Great Western Railroad, aad North Carolina, including the ship's company, does not | a number of other excursionists. There is great average over one hundred and fifty men, and as the Pow- | siasm bere {n regard to the matter. The road be batan carrics over three hundred, number opened for business make up tt etctency wi re deta rom ater ~ semen Am ey tions. ve number hoon fer Philadelphis, woter tao cummand eriaeet Gittz, | The Philadelphia Printers’ Union at ‘and Thiledetphia stations will furnish the Atlantic City, marine guard. Purtaparruia, August 25, 1980, No Supplementary Mall by the Arabia. The Printers’ Union visited Atlantic City today ine TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. body, at the invitation of Mr. Brodhead. They numbered No, 4 Bowne Gums, August 25, 1860. our hundred. In answer to numerous inquiries, I shall feel much obliged if you will state in your paper that no supple Serious Ratlroad Collision. mentary Live: mail was received at Queenstown by . Locum iia, Ky., August 26, 1860. Arabia. was probably caused by some A collision took place this morning between an expreas =, Stal ons seoneba cay the by A ane and freight train jon the Lovisvilieand Nashville Railroad, ayectfuily, sopeand Eg fay near Bardstown junction, seriously injuring Joseph thenenah Suestiacan Smithers, mersenger of Adama’ Express, and wounding al Intelligence. the eogineer and fireman. Marquis Pio del Builalo, from and Oslonst Me ; A Kinaie, of Virginia, are stopping at the iirevoort House. a cneniiaaneaaeeee M. Terino, Mexican Conen! at Brownsville, Texas, is ‘The Florida at Savannah, - stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Savannau, August 95, 1360. Manuel de In Torre, of Cuba; Col. Hager, of the United | The steamship Florida, from New York, arrived at her matce Army, snd Sasi are Are etOp- | wharf at two o'clock Saturday morning. "All well, She Faword Fi formerly of the mail steamship Vendervilts St George fuokers of New Oricanes tod the a Hyatt and daughter, of Baltimore, are stopping at the St. © Report. pee neta mw Sr. Jousa, N. F., August 25, 1860, MrT. Ww. , of Unit es Coast Survey, and Wind south; appearance of rain: thermometer 40 de Mion Piece Hotele' °. BMtmere, are stopping Mt the | grees. Tt in foggy, and raining at Cape Race. Col, Taylor, of Kentacky: Professor J.J. de Lamato, of Fire at Matone, 8. ¥ Cleveland; Dr. and Madame Le Vert, of Mobile; D. MeCiy, Snagit of Boston, and Dr. G. A Ketcham and lady, of Mobile, are Maconm, August 25, 1960. Mopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. HL BL. Thompson's brewery was destroyed by fire thie ay , Of Texas; J. Wheelock, of Philadelphia; ¥. | morning, and also the carriage shop adjoining. Lose Otway, of Baltimore, and Oliver Bisiop and son, of Coa- | 99.900, Ingured Decticat, are stopping at thetoion Pinse Hotel.” ths ne Judge Wells, of Connectiont; Col. Henry Potter, of Gal- Movements of Mr. Dougias. veston ; Col of North Carolina, and Dall, of California, are stopping at the Metropolitan bm tae Nonvorn, August 25, 1960, Signor Sueini, of the Italian2Opers; W. J. Johnstom, of | Mr. Douglas has arrived bere. He speaks to-night. Virginia; J.C. Cochrane and family, of St. Louis; LT. Robinson, of Hartford, G. Brown and lady, of Marylant Markets. Mra. ‘and family, of Borton, and E J. Merks and BALrvor®, Angust 26, 1960. family, of Columbus, South Carolina, are stopping at the Flour firm at $6.57 for all varieties, and # : cee mate Silvas a, white 280138. ‘Gore aula Ota. 8 . . whi a eee ee See ea cnet | ee. for Yellow aad 70. 760. for white, Peoviauime “Georgia, are stopping s the Latarge House, Tie Steady. Coffee dull and heavy. Rio, Ue. « 150. Major Thatcher and Judge Radelif, both of Albany; W. aed * Putanmeenta, Angest 98 P. Chamberlies, of the U sy beg Teh = ang Flour quiet. Wheat stead: core “aah 9 and S poree, Pe aod “aaa te Coffee deciined ye salen 2,000 bags at Id ate were ainong the arrivals at the St. Nicholas listel yee: for am *Wanaey aneape ror terday. be Burrato, August 25, 1880, Right Rev. Bishop Smith, of Victoria and Hong Kong, | Flour firm and in good demand. Wheat hetter: alan on route for Ragland, from China and Japaa; C » | 62,000 bushels, at Obc for No 2 Chtemgo spring: O80. for Peravian Minister to the United Stator; Pedro Ortiz, | No 1 do, $1 10 a 81 11 for Red winter, eo? SL 128 8t Seoretary of the Peruvian Legation; Edward Carroll, of | 13 fer white winter, Corn le better: sales 25 000 bash. Charleston, 8 C.; Jobo A. nad family, of Lois | elt, a: 400. Cate lo better: sales 14 000 bustielx, at 290, ville, Ky.; ©. Barksdale and family, of fehmond, Va. Whiskey etenty: selae 60 Whis, at Me Canal eights ©, Wilson and @ife, of Delaware; WC. Correos, of New. | unchanged, Lake imperte—6,000 bbis flour, 64 000 bustate Sista tenn eR a tartans stare | Rea cate Ga Pi tsa tebe ve, ’ are oat a7 leak! {he Clarendon Hotel 2 6,0c0 bamhcla corn 86d 0,000 Vunbeis onus.