The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW 2W YORK HERALD. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON 6T3. TERMS, cash in m advance. Moncy sent try mal risk of the onder. Postage sainpe pe not received pion THE DAILY HERALD two conte THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Cony, o7 $3 per annum: the Buropea a ag crate Ber copay $d per annum to ao pa & $5. f0.@ 1c Continen 13 California Battion on the Sch and WHA of aac OV OLOSTARY CORRES? ESPON DENCE, cont: peice, saliclend fram amy quarter of the world; i, Liseraity paid for. gar Sun Fonte C Somnaoxve “ a Pasnioetanat Regueeran to Seat aid Lsrreus a2 Pac AGES SEN oot THE FAMILY HERALD on Wednesday, at fo0r 0" ? intng important rakes ay anonymous correspondence, We do not wretvnn regected communication Wolwme XV... ccc ceneeeeree eee No. 939 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—KQumsteian Pexroun- asces. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway,—PRoresson ANDERSON, WALLACK’S THEATER, Broadway.—Wire's Sxcuct. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, No. 624 Broadway.—Oox Aursicas Cousin. NEW BOWERY Tauseei—T seeks, SARNOM® AMERICAN MUSEUM, Brosdway.—Day aad Sveaing—Singine amp Dancing—Baex Bovt — Tiniee Cuasositins, &c. NT’ aloha rg Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Snake. - Benner Senos, =~ yanors, Ao. —Dixixs’ Lao ° THEATRE, Bowery.—Roiry—Mavic Hooury & Camrm ed NIBLO'S SALOON, one, hams Dunes ao Disemazcs in Eriiortan Bones, Baroaan Carr NATIONAL VARIETIES. ¢ poses —Macic Pruiis—Mies PALACE GARDEN, Fourteenth street.—Misiwar axo Deamaro Ea rewtainaent, tham atreet,—Visit To Ho- CANTERBURY CONCERT HALL, 663 Broadway.—Sowas, Paxous, Ronigsaves @ne New York Heraid-—-KEdition for Europe. ‘Me Cunard mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, will fears this port to-morrow afternoon, for Liverpoo. ‘The furopean mails will close in this city to-morrow af. terns00, at half-past twelve o'clock. ‘The Ferortay Eprrios of tus Hegaco will be published at ten o'clock tn the morning. Single copies, in wrap- pers, 6'x cents, The conteats of the Ecrrorran Eprmon ov rita Mrratp wii combine the news received by mail and telegraph at tug ofice during the previous week, and up to the hour of publication, The News. arrival of the City of Baltimore at this ie Nova Scotian at Farther Point, we have Huropean advices to the 17th inst., one day later than the accounts previously received, The oews is interesting. Both cotton aud breadstulls had advanced in the verpool market, while provisions continued dall, i alight fall in the English funds had take caused by the unsatisfactory state of poli fairs aud unfavorable weather for the crops. A special committee of Parliament had made a report oa the state of British trade with foreign na. ing the United States. The discrimi- By th tions, nation agai conse of complaint, and measures for the removal sed restrictions are recommended. is nothing new from Sicily or Naples. h government was actively engaged in arresting the leaders of the Druses. Qnite a nomber of them had been taken prisoners, and a large quantity of plunder had been recovered. A German paper publishes what purports to be a letter from the Pope, in Which his Holiness takes a very dismal view of the state of affairs in hi of the dominions. The steamship Connaught, which left Galway on the 2st inst., is due at St. Johns, N. F., with six days’ later Buropean news. We publish in another column interesting news from the Pacific, with dates from Oregon to the 6th, British Columbia to the 9th, and San Francisco to the I5th instant. was generally active. The news from the Washoe Mines possessed very little interest. Charles P. Ouaue, one of the exiles under the administration of the Vigilance Committee, has sued the captains of several mail steamers for their participation in his expatriation. A large and destructive fire took place in Sacramento on the 13th inst., burning the Union Hotel and adjoining buildings. The loss is estimated to be between $80,000 and $90,000. There is nothing of special importance from Ore- x ‘The Presidential canvass throughout Califor- uia aad Oregon was becoming quite spirited. The sccounts from the mining districts in British Colum- bia were encouraging. New silver mines had been discovered, and the discovery of large masses of copper ore, far exceeding the Lake Superior mines, is reported. By the arrival at this port yesterday of the steamship Matanzas, from Matanzas 22d inst., and the Star of the West, from Havana 23d inst., we have five days’ later advices from Cuba. The local news is unimportant. The sanitary conditioa both of Havana and Matanzas was excellent for the season. The movements of the Spanish fleet on the coast of Mexico causod considerable specula tion, and @ hostile demonstration upon Vera Cruz was regarded as by nomeans improbable. Several fresh ¢ of Africans had recently been landed ia Caba, the traffle was evidently as active as At Havana the sugar market was firm, while wore brisk, vessels being scarce. At Ma market was dull, owing and discow the star of the West br te nee m Central Amer 1h ° + has notified the other Cent ‘ uts of the movements of Walker, and ermination to use every means within © repel the inva ment app pared fo to the inter affairs. As a precautionary measure, t war Susquehanna, Sabine, Powhatan, Pocw Savannsh, St. Louis, Supply. and two or thre others of the Home Squad have been ordered oa special service in the Gulf of M Our despatches from Montreal published oontain detailed accounts of tho movement. of th Prince of Wales, both for the present an The New York committee have had a confe and he has accepted a ball, which will tak on the 12th of October, in liew of a dinner. He wil! remain in this city only three days, pre vious to which he will make a tour Westward as far aa St. Louis, and return via Baltimore and Washington. The Prince wants to see America as it is, and desires as little display as possible. We poblish a list of Americans presented. Among our telegraphic despatches may be foand Jater intelligence from New Mexico and the Pike's Peak gold region. The news, however, is devoid of apecial vaterest. ‘The corner stone of anew Methodist Fpiscopal charch in 119th street, Harlem, was laid yester- day, with the usual ceremonies, in presence of a large concourse of spectators. Seastor Douglas yesterday visited Hampton aad the fortifications at Old Point Comfort, Virginia. ‘The excursion was designed for pleasure ouly, and cousequently politics were ignored for the day. Late Texas papers report @ bloody fight between (ag pveloulety and slavebolders of the Choctaw ean Pow Place t British shipping is regarded as just | At the latter place business | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST tion, ia which one hundred were killed. The e doubtiess greatly exaggerated, althoug’ is good reason to believe that there is some ulation for the story. meeting of the Police Commission yes- srday, the first quarterly report of Mr. Kennedy, the General Superintendent of Police, was present- ed. and ordered on file. We give the document complete in today’s paper. The police force of 1 tropolitan district, on the 1st inst., was com- of 1,878 persons. During the first quarter the police have made 22,821 arrests, seven-ninths of whom were persons of foreign birth. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 643 deaths in the city during the past week, an increase of 77 as com with the mortality | of the week previous, and 83 leas than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 3 deaths of diseases of the bones, joints, &c., 116 of the brain and nerves, 8 of the generative organs, 9 of the heart and blood vessels, 58 of the lungs, throat, &c., 6 of old age, 45 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 4 premature births, 223 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 47 of general fevers, and 28 from violent causes. The nativity table gives 411 natives of the United States, 83 of Ireland, 21 of Germany, | of Scotland, 9 of Bogtaad, aad the balaace of various foreign countries. The sales of cotton port cday embraced about 1,500 bales, closing on the bags of adout 1c. for even lots of middi:ng wplaads. Flour was more active and tirmer, especia: 7 for commen aad medium brands of State aad Western, while the market cloned at an advance of 6c. a ide. per bbl Good to choice extra brands were uo- changed. Southern flour was also in good demand, with sales of common and mixed brands at better prices. Wheat was in good demaad aud quite active; good to prime red amber, winter grown, was from le a 2. per bushel better, while enring and commou grades were dull. Corn was eteady, and free sales were made at 65¢. a 63'<c. for Western mixed , an ‘Oc. for Western yellow. Pork was in bet- ter request, aad new mess was better, with sales at $19 25 431959, aad of new prime at $14123' 0$14.25. Sugar: were 6teady at Saturday's rates, with eales of avout 1,006 hhds., pearly al! Coba muscovado, Coffee was dull and sales light. Froights were firm. To Liverpool about 80,000 bushels wheat were engaged, in ship's bags, at 1nd , aad 10,000 do. corn, ia bulk, at 11d., and flour at 8. Sd. Two vessels were taken up to load at Boston with oileake for London, at 528. 64. A eteamer for Liverpool took cheese at 665. and butter at 50s., and another for Liverpoo! took cheese and butter at 55 The Contest in Virginia—Ignorance of the Politicians of the True Issue. The campaign in Virginia has fairly opened; and the speeches of Senators Hunter and Douglas, which we published yesterday, show the petty calibre of the contest between the two fragments of the old democratic party, and the Limited range of the artillery they have bronght into the field. Ex-Governor Foote has also been there; but he only succeeded in get- ting into one of those wordy contests for which he is celebrated, and which, after all, amount to nothing. Hunter and Douglas are the representative mea thus far of the democratic factions, and their respective capacities aa public men are not dissimilar. Neither of them possesses a power of generalization which would enable him to perceive the true character of the revolu- tion through which the country is passing; and, therefore, in the great fight now going on, they have little ability to hurt any one but themselves. They have not the calibre necessary to comprehend and direct the storm which is raging. Instead.of contem- plating the deepest and most vital interests of a confederation of thirty millions of people, and embracing a continent ia its territory, they have both accepted some imaginary little Ro- binson Crusoe’s island as the scene, and the question of equatter sovereignty as the issue, of one of the greatest conflicts in which a free people was ever engaged. On this they bring their restricted intellects to bear, and, working \ away in the old and beaten paths of a tram- melled party organization, neither of them pre- sents a new idea, or exhibits any cognizance of the new events which are developing around them. ‘The squatter sovereignty fight is a fight that existed in the old democratic party organiza- tion, but it has no connection with the political issue now before the American people. There are two reasons which make ita part of the dead past, either of which would be suffiafent to | kill it in the estimation of every public man possessing grip in his intellectual grasp. First, the democratic party does not now exist; it has no followers among the people; and if the men who once played an important part in its or- ganization could setile the abstraction upon which they quarrelled, they would then form nothing but an empty shell, like that which the old whig and other party leaders have pre- sented to the world for years after their parties have ceased to exist. Second, the principle, after they had settled it, could not be applied toa single square mile of territory within the limits of the confederation. They would have to seek some Robinson Crusoe territory where to apply it. Slavery cannot be legislated into any territory unfit for it, as has been abun- | @antly proved in the case of Kansas; nor can white or free negro labor be legislated into existence in climates and on soils not adapted to it. This question has been settled by natural causes, which are superior to all the efforts of | men. There is an issue before the country, porten- | tous in its aspect, which the people are rising | to meet, unbidden and without leaderships, while the old political leaders are wasting their | time in petty quarrels over obsolete ideas. It is the issue of the supremacy or the subjection | of faction in our sational councils. Vor tweaty years a set of monomaniacs, calling themselves “the Massachusetts school,” but drawing their ideas from Exeter Hall, George Thompson and the rest of the British abolitionists, have been } organiring and banding together in the North, | gathering strength from holding the balance of | power between political parties, and adherents | | from the breaking up of old organizations, until | \ now they are emboldened to make a rush to | seize the sovereign powers of the government and wield them for their own factions purposes. On the other hand, a set of equally shortsighted fools in the South set themselves up as the true opponents of this Northern faction, with threats of secession and the slogan of disunion, creating another party to play into the hands of ils | Northern fellow. La view of this state of things, a third faction rises up in California, with the fallacy of separation and agroat Pacific empire: while a fourth broods over a secession of | Texaa and the conquest of halfa dozen of the Northern Mexican States, to make a fourth great confederation. Heaven only knows how many otfer schemes of this kind are brooded over by the spirit of faction, now so rife among the leaders of poli- tical orgaaizations, who thrust themselves for- ward, some as railsplitters, like Lincoln, and others as bairsplitters, like Hunter and Dougias, but all of 5 RE petty calibre as statesmen and public leaders. In the face of this spirit of faction everywhere among the politicians. the pational sentiment of the country is rising. without leaderships, without organization, and with but one truly national journal as its ex- ponent, to put it down and restore fraternal Peace and harmony to the land. In the Notth and in the South, in the East and in the West, on the Pacific as on the Atlantic shore, the hearts of the great majority of the American people are opposed to these factious strivings, and if the politicians were not as blind as bats they would see, in the zest with which their de- nouncipgs of each other's factious designs are received by the people, the true sentiment of our national life, the true idea on whicha triumphant party organization must be based. Here we bave the true issue to which thirty millions of freemen are to-day feelingly alive. They will not be led off from the contemplation of their vital interests by a discussion of squat- ter sovereignty for some Robinson Crusoe ter- ritory, nor by hairsplitting differences on ab- stract questions. The contest is a contest be- tween the national! life and the spirit of faction. In the North it combines the masses te pu! down black republicanism; in the South ii unites (hem against secession. Hore the squat: ter sovereign fallacy is rejected; there the obso- lete ideas of whiggery ‘and Know Nothingism are refused admittance; and the ides of Novem- ber will mark the end of maay factions among us for a long time to come. Ovr Wersty Br or Moxratiry.—The week ending on Saturday last (the 25th inst) shows an increase of deaths over the previous sennight of seventy-seven per- sons; and it is remarkable that children bave been the greatest sufferers. The most destructive diseases reported are cholera infan- tum, marasmus infantile, and convulsions infan- tile. Of course, where there isauch a audden rise in our mortality bills we begin to inquire into the causes. It is said that the two princi. pal reasons of this increase of mortality are the continual southeasterly winds which prevailed during last week, bringing with them a sultry and oppressive heat, fruitful in sickness and death; and the increase in the sale of unripe. stale, and poisonous fruit. There can be no doubt that these are circumstances which bave berne a strong influedce on the health of the city; and itis a surprising fact, that notwithstanding the daily warnings of the press, parents will not take the trouble to prevent their children from eating euch un- wholesome and dangerous stuff as stale peaches and unripe apples, pears, plums, grapes and melons. We find, too, that fevers and brain and lung diseases have slightly increased, and among the acute diseases emallpox alone has heen unusually large. The following comparative table of diseases among children, between the weeks ending August 18 and August 25, 1560, will show tae progress ef these diseases:— gust 18. August 25. Increase. Cholera infantum... + 122 3st Convulstons, infant: 42 nt Marasmus, infantile. rr 16 Totals... sees us 213 a Children wader one year. mo 0 Children under five years.. se 381 7” ‘Total deaths during week end’g Auz. 28, 1868, 657—dec. 108 Total deaths during week end’g Aug. 27, 1859, 632—dee. 83 ‘Total deaths during week end’g Aug. 18, 1980, 472 ‘Total deaths during week end’g Aug. 2, 1960, 549—ine. 77 It must not be forgotten that clean strects are indispensable to public health. If we never saw any unripe fruit in our city, and yet kept our streets foul and sickly, the bills of mortality would continue to increase. We are therefore glad to see that Mr. Downing, the superintend- ent of sanitary affairs, has successfully fol- lowed the example set him by Colonel Delavan, in not only aiding in keeping the streets in con- dition, but in reducing the expenses of street cleaning to a sum lower than the work, for the same number of days, has ever before been done. In fact, these are improvements worthy of notice, inasmuch as they exercise an im- portant influence on the public health, and will serve to reduce the expenses of street cleaning by at least $100,000 per annum. This is as it should be. A New Powrricar Leaver ow rae Fiety.— Benjamin Wood, brother of Fernando, ia a can- didate for the representation of the Third dis- trict in Congress. In this city he takes the place of his brother asa political leader, the Mayor being about to retire on his municipal dignity, and make the tour of Europe. Ben. is probably a still abler man than Fernando, and is likely to be very succeesful. He will place himself at the head of the Union party, and be the centre around which the conservative demo- cracy and the conservative hostsof every hue will rally against the revolutionary forces of Lincoln. Possessed of great tact, with plenty of money, with bis organs working for him most skilfully, he will carry all before him. Sickles, it is said, will ran against him; but it will be like a little King Charles dog running into the Hudson with | @ stone tied round his neck—he will soon sink out of sight, and that will be the last of him. Nobody will oppose him, but nobody will vote for him, and people will say, “poor fellow,’ as he goes down, just as the crowd would say about the little drowning spaniel “poor dog.” There is nothing, therefore, to stand in the way of Ben. Wood’s success. Ben.’s first essay in politics reveals the charac- | ter of the man who now appears upon the stage. THe was a delegate to the late Conven- tion at Syracuse; and such was the skill with which he played his cards that he ont-general- led Richmond, Cagger and the whole Regency, and had his delegates put in the front rank, while theirs were compelled to take back seats, The power of the Regency wil! soon melt away before him, like the snow before the vernal sun, and the place that knew it will know it no more. It will be ranked among the things that were—a historical synonym for a long réyime of political rascality in the State, which bas no parallel in the annals of this country or any other. As for Tammany Hall, he will send ite remains to Greenwood, where it will be buried with all the scalps taken from the heads of its | enemies—buried without venefit of clergy, as having committed felo de se. That Benjamin Wood will be sent to Congress there can be no doubt. But if he would be suc- cessful there, he must secure the services of Jobn Cochrane as his ally, and have him clected in the district which he now represents, Mr. Cochrane is the only able repreeentative in Congress we hare from New York, and with hie aid, and the aid of other men Like him, Mr. Wood would be able to achieve great things in the national legislature for the Empire City aad the country at large. ‘The Gathering Complications of Earope— Danger of a General War. At no period within the lust dozen years have the rejations of the European govera- ments worn a more complicated or ticklish aspect than at preseat. Whichever way the eye turns it bebolds the evidences of an im- pending storm, In Italy, if we are to attach faith to the atate- meats that reach us, it will be impossible to retard much longer a collision between the governments which are effected by or which staad pledged to the scheme of Italiana unity. If Garibaldi takea Naples, then Francis Joseph and the Pope stand but a poor chance of preserving the remnants of their Italian dominions, The two Sicilies freed, it will be impossible to prevent the aspirations «f the people of Rome and Venice finding a response in the breast of the gallant and disinterested soldier who has devoted his life to the cause of Italian independence. The only question is whether the Austrian and Roman governments will think it better to meet the danger at once orto await events. It is asserted that they have resolved on the former course, aad that Austria has addressed, or was about to address, a note to the Cabinet of Turin declaring its in- tention to march aa army through the Roman territories to. put down Garibaldi should he attempt to attack Naples. We know that military preparations on aa enor- mous scale have been makiag ia Venice, and that (ue Roman troops under Lamoriciere have for come weeks been under orders to be in readi- ness to take the field. These demonistrationa way be merely intended to deter Garibaldi from the iavasion of Naples; ba! assumiag them to be serious, to what are they about to lead? The Sicilian Dictator is not a maa to be driven from bis projects by the threats of the two governments with whom it is his object to pro- voke a collision, even though immediate, Will Austria abide the certainty that with the in- creased strength that the possession of Naples will give him be will follow ap his declared intention of freeing the Venitians from her yoke. On her action at the present moment depends the question of another explosion, which may involve all the continental Powers. If she remains passive in presence of the events which are bringing revolution home to her, she postpones, but does not avert it, Should she send an army to the assistance of the King of Naples, she brings herself into immediate conflict with Sardinia and France. A great military government that entertained » keen sense of what was due to its own honor would not hesitate as to which alternative it should accept; but it is a question whether Austria has not been so thoroughly humiliated as to induce her to put up with almost aay indignity rather than again encounter Frauce in the geld. I: is to this possibility alone that Europe wil! be in- debted for its exemption from the anxieties of an immediate war. Some doubts have been thrown on the good faith of Louis Napoleon in his recently de- clared intention to maintain inviolate, in regard to Naples, the principle of non-interven- tion. It is adfirmed that Russia would not give her consent to France in! in Syria until she had extorted from him an agreement that he would save from expulsion the Nea- politan Bourbons. We do not attach any crdit to this statement. All an- tecedent facts concur to prove its falsity, Ta undertaking the last campaign Louis Na- poleon had one fixed idea—that of uniting all the different States of Italy under one constitu- tional bead, in order to create for France a powerfal support in the future contests into which she might enter with the confederated governments of Germany or Russia. His ef- forts to obtain for Spain the rank of a first class Power are part and parcel of the same combination. It ia not likely, then, that he should be diverted from so import- ant an object by the Syrian question, the more particularly as Russia could not have prevented his sending troops there once he had the concurrence of England. It should be recollected, moreover, that from 00 quarter have proceeded stronger or more em- phatic denunciations of the course of the Nea- politan government than from the Court organs at St. Petersburg. Taking into consideration these facts, it is not likely that the Russian government would have complicated an already difficult question with a stipulation for which ite own declarations afforded aot the shadow of an excuse. Although matter, therefore, in conaec- tion with Italy, have assumed such a criti- cal appearance, the obligations aad pledges of the Powers interested hold out a hope that the dangers to which they point may for the present blow over. That it will be possible, however, to postpone for any great length of time a collision between them, must not be ex- pected. Were the affairs of Italy to fail in affording grounds for it, the Syrian question will readily furnish pretexts for the struggle for which they have been making such costly and energetic preparations. Grertry Not Drip Yrr.—We are amused at the way in which Weed and his Meutenants chuckle over the circumstance that they gained a temporary victory at Syracuse over the Trine philosopher, and that by the con- temptuous manner in which the corruption re. solutions were burked in the committee, they think they have laid out the Hon. Massa Greeley as effectually as Brutus & Co, finished of Caesar. It will be as well for them, however, not to make too much noise before they get out of the woods. Greeley is not dead yet. Weed may manage a handful of country politicians hungering after the spoils, but Grecley’s influence is with the people. He is the founder of the republican party, ita intellectual god- father, and has trained up the child in the way it should go, according to his views of the mat- ter. Weed snd his mon are now seeking to cast Greeley out of the vineyard he bas planted, to drive him away from the ripening harvest, and to enter in and possess the kingdom en- tirely for thomselves. These things are very well understood by the rank and file of the party, and Greeley is regarded as the true Prince, while Weed is a mere pretender. It was on account of this fact that Greeley was enabled to overthrow the Seward combination at Chicago, whore Weed’s “ influence,” backed by Webb and little Jenkins Raymond, was good for nothing st all. Now Greeley intends to appeal directly to the people, sad we perceive that he has made arrangements for o stumping tour in the rural districts and tho Western States, where the old hat of the Spruce street philosopher is aa eagred @@ the green turban 28, 1860. of Mahomet to the » falthful We ahoald not be at all surprised if Greeley succeeded in se- curing the election of a Legislature hostile to Weed, whea there would be rare times at Albaay. In the mesatime, Thuriow and bis men wil! do well to recollect that Greeley is still alive, and wil! be kicking presently. Walker and Destiny im Central America. ‘The scattered items of news which we are able to gather concerning the arch-flibuster Walker and bis associates amount in the ag- gregate to thie: that he bas been able to collect ia aad around Ruataa (the largest of the Bay Talaada) a force of about two bundred men, w th which he eucceeded in aurprising the towa eo’ Truxillo, an ontiying port of the republic of Honduras. That the capture of the place was eaay Can well be believed, as the govern- ment of Honduras never maintains there more thaa a corporsi’s guard—just enongh men to hoist the morning flag and collect the customs. It is stated that after this daring achievement, Walker made a proclamation, which ia not in the feast improbable. But we discredit en- tirely the story, started evidently to give Walker some deiat o coior of legitimacy at dome, that be is supported by some party or faction in Honduras. The New Orleans para- graphists have endeavored to associate his name with that of General Cabamas, aad to give to his piratical invasion of Hoa- duras the sanction, such as it may be, of a aup- port by a native chieftain of high repute. That such ia not the fact, however, is evident from the article, which we elsewhere publish, from the Oficial Gavette of San Sdivador, in which State General Cabanas resides, in close retire- meat. aad of which his brother-in-law, General Barrios, is President. It is true Cabsnas,a soldier of the old re- public of Central America, is one of the liberal party of the couatry, to which belonged Castil- lon, of Nicaragua, who entered into the first compact with Walker, in Leon. So, also, did Maximo Jerez, late Minister of Nicaragua in the United States, who became Walker's Secretary of War. But it must not be fergotien that Jerez resigned his post, and turned against Walker, precisely because, when he had attained power, he refused to aid Cabanas, who was thea beleaguered by the anti-liberals in Honduras. Walker thought himself eo strong that he might dispense with the services and support of the liberals of Central America, and therein com- mitted the supreme error which led to his downfall. Abandoned by bis native friends, he was left only to the eupport of strangers, and the result was precisely such as any man gifted with an ounce of statesmanship might have anticipated. Jerez and Cabansa both took the field against him, and the march of the latter, at the head of a San Salvador contingent, waa only prevented by Walker's surrender at Rivaa. It is sheer nonsense, therefore, to talk of na- tive support to Walker in this new expedition. He has no party in any Central American State, least of ai! in Honduras. It is true there is a etrong opposition there to the rule of Gen. Guardiola, but it is one which this Invasion will silence. The country will present an un- divided front against the filibusters. As we have said, Truxillo is an outlyiag port of Honduras. It has no back coun- try, except the department of Olaacho, many days distant in the interior—a grazing country, covered with herds, and occupied by arace of active and daring wqueros. To reach Nicaragua or the capital of Honduras—where alone he would be able to strike an effective blow—he would have not only to penetrate to this secluded region, but to fight his way through it—a task next to impossible, under the best of circumstances, and with the sea open for supplies and reinforcements. But the sea will not be open, for It is already closed by British cruisers, who will reinforced by French andy American . England and France, and the United States, bya recent treaty, are bound to protect the territory of Honduras from piratical invasion. Further- more, Walker has now got to contend with a mountain people, who have vindicated their title as the bestsoldiersof Central America in many an obstinate aad bloody struggle. They are under the lead of a man of great energy of cha- racter and military experience—Gen. Guardi- ola—whose past history gives no warrant to hope for mercy, either for Walker or his mea, if chance puts them in bis hands. A Panic Amoxo tat Repvsiican Leapens— Tax Post ov Honor ts tax Privars Stattoy.— The retirement of Governor Banks from poiiti- cal life bas been commented upon at length by the journals. The moral generally deduced is, that the withdrawal of so ables man as Mr. Banks from the political arena is only another proof of the proverbial ingratitude of repub- lica. The fact is that the masses of our people have been 60 dragooned by small politicians that they have no mind of their own, and allow the rewards of power to go into the hands: of the lobby, while only the empty honor of office is given to the first clacs man. We place Governor Banks among our first class men, because he has filled every station to which the people bave called him with marked ability. Asa presiding officer Mr. Banks has no equal in this country. As Governor of Massachusetts he has administered the duties of his office with great executive ability, and made a sensible diminution ic the public expenditires. Such a man adorns and dignifies office, aad the mere poesession of place adda no lustre to the name of a statesman (undonbtedly the first in bis party), a gentleman and a public officer whose integrity is above suspicion Well, Governor Banks is all this, and he quietly lays down the insignia of power avd accepta a place aa managing director of « rail- way corporstion—a very good thing, we dpine. for the corporation. but not rery creditable to the repebiican party. That party has a5 .ste- matically ignored the beat men, asd placed power aad patronage ia the haada of camp fo!- lowers I'ke Weed. Matteron sad other fellows of the baser sort. Mark bow. at Chicago. nen live Seward. Banks. Chase, Wade and Feasen- dea were paawed over, and a third rate couatry lawyer, like Lincoln, put fa aomination fer the highest office inthe people's gift. It ts the game of the spoils seekers to pick oat small men Like themaetves to be naed a pliaat tools: in the event of success a man like Banke world govera the country without the beip of Weed & Co, aad their occupation would be gone. So with eome cf the other leading men who were candidates at Chicago. Old Abe Liace!n waa yeh ae ee Ls ante ea qroteain tee ques, aad that Soy = Steg cgummacinadiad ie into the White House. ee cure this systematic Waoring of tha ac perior claims of experience, wisdom and-abifi- ty bas ita natural effect. The party is soo made over to the Weeds, Mattesons and Laws of the lobby. The example of Mr. Banks will undoubtedly be followed by other men of his claas—we should not be surprised to find Mr. Seward among the number—and in due time the government of the country will be given over entirely to political gamblers sad party knaves. The prospect is uot a pleasant one, but it isour own fault if we permit the Lincolns and Mattesons and Weeds to rule where men like Banks, Wade and Chase ought to reign. bate % Lone Joay Wentworts Arter H. BR. H— One ef the most curious incidents of the Prince of Wales’ Canadian tour is the visit of Long John Wentworth, editor, ex-Congressman, friend and champion of public and private vir- tue, Mayor of Chicago, speculator in land, grain, railways and fancy stocks of all kinda— in politics a sort of Hoosier Thurlow Weed. Long Jobn is not the sort of person to travel a matter of a thousand miles to see even the Prince ot Wales unless there is a little game going on. Long John’s simple relaxation at the present moment is lobbying for an air line railway from Chicago to the Pacific, and ke hopes to get the Prince and his suite to take some interestinit. We take this to warn the vice regal party against the lengthy Mayor. He is as sharp as a needle, and before they kaow it he will have them down on his stock list. Let them remember the awful ex- emple of Mr. Cobden, who came out here a while 8go to look after the money which he put into some of the Western roads, and found it sunk 60 deeply that no power on earth could recover it. As for Long John, why dou't he get up an air line railway to the moon? It would pay quite as well as the affair which he is now projecting, and the idea is a great deal more romantic and entertaining than that now presented to the astonished eyes of the Prince and hia party. Wao Wit se Kine or Jencsauen ?—This is oxe of the two great exciting questions of the day in Europe. The knotty Italian complica- tion is succeeded by another equally interest- ing—the Syrian difficulty—and the journals are already beginning to debate the question who will be King of Jerusalem! From recent news received from Europe, it is probable the army of Louis Napoleon is already ia occupation of Palestine, including the Holy City. The Em- peror of the French is the Warwick who will give it a king. There are five millions of Hebrews scattered over Europe and America, who, in proportica to their numbers, hold a greater amount of “monesh” than any other race. They excei all others in the quantity they possess of old gold, old diver and old clothes. Now the Jews have a deep interest in the question, and they are looking forward to the day when they will be able to return to the land of their circum- cised forefathers, from which they have been so long banished. Louis Napoleon is about to solve the ‘question. By his ad- vice young Baron Rothschild is here studying the institutions of the country, a study which is the main cause of the Empe- ror’s own success in France, and which will probably be attended with the same effect ia the case of the Prince of Wales, who is coming here for a similar purpose, England haviog ia recent years lost caste among first class nations, from waat cf ability ia her statesmen. Rotha- child will remain here till after the election, watching the working of our ‘institutions; and it ia in contemplation to give him a public banquet ia this city, in aaticipation of a greater honor which awaita him. ‘The moment Louis Napoleon gets Syria under his thumb, as be has got Italy, he will fetch out the Baron Rothschild, prepared by hia Ameri- can training and experience, and he will piace the crown of Jerusalem upon bis head. The wealth of the Jews from every country and clime will soon be collected in the Holy Laad, and railroads and hotels and civilization will be established in the wilderness, and European and American travellers will be able to get some- thing better than “locusts and wild honey,” the fare which Jobu the Baptist found there eighteen hundred years ago, and which continues the food of wanderers to the present day. Tar New Yorsx Papers anv rae Prince ov Watrs.—Onr especial correspondenta in Canada send us word that the minute personal de- tails of the Prince’s movements, given in the papers hereabouts, are not relished so well by some of the Prince's suite as by his Royal High- ness, who laughs at all the stories, and is vastly entertained with the fair edifices erected upoa the very slender stock of information which Jenkius & Co. are abie to obtain. We suspect thnt the trath of the matter is that the Prince be- longs to the present age, which isa little fast, and that his governors assimilate with the good old, but somewhat slow times. Your heavy, solid, ‘sense of duty” English nobleman has abont as much perception of a joke as a Kailir has of kid gloves, At home be is surrounded by iatense- ly respectful meniais, and oes only in the soci- ety of solid people of his own order. Whea be travels amoug people [{ke ours, he is 80 astoa- ished at the social freedom which is the cule that he can only look on in speechless horror at what he considers popular epormities. But fa the Prince's case matters are different. He isa fine young fellow, of just the impressibie age, igor and@bigd epirite of boybood, and ta aad acute perceptions of a geatie- maa. He therefore takes everything in good part. is curious to see. to read, and to do every- thing which will give him a better ides of ta peculiar institutions. The coa- sequence of all this will be that the Prince wilt go away from Ameri¢a a wiser man, 40 far aa we ace concerned. than any of tis Meators, That this sort of experience is us valuable, aad even more so, for princes as fo~ other folss, caozor be denied. The Engish and American experiences of Lonis. Napoleon have been of the greatest advantage to bins. Asaa exiled priace. the present Ewperor of the French came among «3, mingled freely with the people. perfected himself in the fen- guoge, andetedied human nature as it fs, en tirely tree from the degrading intiences of caste ot 9 bereditary aristocracy. Thus Louis Napoitoa became thoroughly acquainted with oll the goveromeatal eystems, watched the manners of the governed, and prepared the Ty aovel aad successful polley which under bis reiga has made France the dominant Power in Purope. Aad the Prince of Wales will come to the British throne at a period when ced tape adsl! bave bad ite day, whea the Circumlocn- tion Office wil! be » thing of the past, and whee