The New York Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1860, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPTION M. W. CORNER OF NASSAU AND FULTON OTS. cash én advance. Money ent by mat! tof?! be at the Of the sender, Postage stamps nos received at hon "AR DAILY HERALD too conte per copy, $7 per annum fan weeny BARAT DD cory Sait da, a: Go or e fa per annum part of Great Britain, toany ‘Continent, both to tnclude postage; - eB fo an par a Carte ih of ach onc as we cons PERE PUMILY HERALD on Welnestay, at four cents per | MP Tm ELT CORRESPONDENCE, containing trportont See ee ena quarter of the world: Wf wseds ally paid for. ‘sat bus Fousiex Con! 3 Ane ARTIOULARLY Raqusstsp TO Bea si Larrens ap Pacs- wo NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We donot every ; advertisements tn- Famiry and én the oerad % id Burt Edition. Onl PRINTING executed with neatess, cheapness and de- wreturm rejected communications. SEMENTS renewed apy ening ie heey AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Itatiax Orz- mi—Matinee at One—La Soxmamauna. 8 GARDEN, Broadway.—Kquestnian Perronu- ante Afieroous end Evening, WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway.—Puoresson AwDEnsox. BOWERY TRE, Bowery.—Ricusup ITI.—Exerms Nacur—Covss Tom. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Liny or Lroxs— ‘Scuoot rom Bcanpat. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sixce or Paruy- Ba—Rosart Macaies. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broatway.—Day and greniog -AnTPoL DorGas—Gxatizaan ix Biack—Living Coniosirixs, ac. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS; Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Boucasevas, Songs, Darces, &c.—Somnas aT PHALON’s. —— WIBLO'S BALOON, Broadway.—Hooury & Cawrseu’s Miseraars— BURLESQUE StUmr Sraxcu—Hanp Down Dat 8it- vam Txomeni, NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham street.—Caausee or Dasta—Macio Taourat—Warceen’s Fate. PALACE GARDEN, Fourveenth street. —Dissovvinc Views GANTERAURY MUSIC HALL, 63 Broadway.—doncs, Dances, Burizsaves, Ac. TRIPLE SHEET turday, September 5, Hew York, The News. The steamship City of Washington, which left Liverpool! on the 29th and Queenstown on the 30th ult., for New York, arrived off Cape Race at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. Her advices are two days later than those previousiy received. The news is important, Startling events had transpired in the kingdom of Naples. Garibaldi continued his victorious pro. gress, Lis forces having again defeated the royal- ists. Garibaldi hag been proclaimed Dictator at Palenza, A revolt at the capital was considered imminent, and revolutionary appeals to the people were publicly distributed. It was reported that the King bad fied, an event not unexpected; still the report lacks confirmation. There is nothing important from Syria. The British Parliament was prorogued on the 23th ult. A synopsis of the Queen's speech is given in our summary of the news. The London money market had undergone no change of moment. At Liverpool the cotton mar- ket was gen y unchanged, but prices were barely maintained. With favorable weather for the crops, breadstaffs are quict and steady. It is stated that the Great Eastern, on her out- ward passage, averaged nearly fourteen knots an hour. ; By the brig F. M. Mayhew, Capt. Harvey, we have received files of Bermuda papers to the 28th It. There is no news of importance. The Assem- ; sin session. On Sunday, the 26th, a little nefore the hour for church service, a terrific than- der storm broke over the island, in the course of which the Scotch church in Hamilton was struck by lightning and almost totally destroyed. Fora amement or two the whole island appeared to be enveloped in a sheet of fire. Fortunately no one was injured. The Breckinridge State Central! Committee met yesterday at the Astor House, for the purpose of effecting a fusion with the Douglas branch of the democracy; but nol arrangement satisfactory to both parties could be entered into. The former claimed ten names upon the electoral ticket, and the latter offered six, at which juncture of affairs the committee adjourned to mect again this morn- ing. In the Board of Aldermen last evening a pream- ble and resolations were offered calling on the Mayor for information respecting the invitation ex tended by the Common Council to the Prince of Wales to visit this city; and, on motion, the paper ‘was laid on the table, by a vote of nine to five, without discussion. A resolution was adopted ap- pointing a committee of three to inquire into the recent action on the part of the Police Com- missioners in causing the arrest of idle per- fons. The resolution affirms that many re- @pectable citizens and residents have Leen arrested without due warrant, and the committee are in- structed to report all the particulars, and what action it is necessary for the Board to take in the premises. The street cleaning contract of Mr. P. Lynch was taken up, and a motion to confirm it was lost. The City Inspector was then requested to prepare plans and specifications for cleaning the streets for a term of five years. The City Cham- berlain’s weekly statement shows a balance on band of $230,501. The balance of anexpended ap- propriations on the Sist ult. amounted to $3,- 170,413. The Boord of Councilmen met last evening, pur. suant to a call of the President. After the recep Yon of several unimportant reports and papers, which were laid over, the following contracts, sab- mitted by the Street Commissioner, were confirm: ed, Wm. Baird being the lowest bidder: —Contracts for flagging Reade street, between Broadway and City Hall place, $1,196; for reflagging sidewalks in Pifty-first street, between Ninth and Tenth ave- noes, $1,410 46; for setting curb and gutter, and flagging sidewalks in 110th street, between Third avenue and Harlem river, and in Sixth avenue, from 112th to 125th streets, $6,496 23. The con tract for regulating and grading Fifty-fifth street, between Third and Fifth avenues and Seventh and Eighth aventes, was awarded to Thos. Cummins, his bid being $6,478 09. The Board concurred in confirm. Ing assessments for the construction of sewers in va rious streets. They returned, without approval, a document of the Fire Commissioners, being a deci- sion ofthat body disbanding Engine Companies Nos. | TS and 21 for engaging in @ riot, and concurred with per giving permission to the above eo) to runtheir engines again—thus virta- amity overriding the decision of the Commissioners. ‘The Roard adjourned till Tuesday. ~ fn the Geveral Keasions yesterday Judge Rassell Bentenced some notorious burglars to a long term ‘Of imprisoement in the State prison, the perticalars ef which we found elsewhere, together with .@ description of the manner in which business of the court fs conducted. “ ‘The Young Mens’ Democratic General Commit- tee met last evening at Tammany Hall, and reor- @anized, clecting James FE. Kerrigan and Henry J. Campbell and Charies V, Lyons Sec- fetarios. Resclations were passed denouncing the Action taken by the Page committee, which may i niial i saothet colana. Police Commissioners yesterday transferr Bergeant Whiteman, of the Twelfth ward, to ne Foghth precinct, Several wore te ceived and accepted, but no business of import: ance was transacted. The eales of cotton yesterday embraced abo it 1,500 | bales, closing without change in prices. Flour yas again beld at firm prices, and advaveed Ge. a 10c. per bbl., while the market was less active, and closed tamely, Wheat was beid with @rmuess, without change of im- portance in prices. The sales, including lots to arrive and on speculation, were large, Corn was sustelned at the previous day's advance, while sales were lees active | and closed dull, with @ tendency towards easier raves. Pork was less buoyant, while fair sales were made at $10 45 4 $19 60 for new mess, and $14 15 2 $1425, and | $20 60 for clear mess. Sugars were steady, with sales of | 1,200 bhds., at rates given im another column. Coffee was | quiet, im view of the auction sale to come off to day. | Freights were steady, with « fair amount of engage- | mente. | Has Our Government Beem a Fatlure Since 1820 1—Facts versus Seward. In his carefully elaborated and sophistical | speech at Detroit, Mr. Seward asserts that.our | political system took a national departure in | 1820, and since then the government has, ia one | word, been a failure. The black republican agitator in this speech | plainly sets forth the intention of himself and | his party to revolutionize the whole policy of the government, and to convert the administra- tion of the federal power into a great anti- slavery scheme. It is asa pre-justification of such an intent that he boldly asserts that the government has been a failure since 1820. But this is not the fact. Instead of being a failure, the American government, judged by its results, has been « great success, in procuring prosperity at home and respect and good will abroad. This faet has been lucidly set forth by fr. Everett in his recent reply to the sneer of Earl Grey at universal suffrage and an unbalanced democracy. On that occa- sion he gave a glowing picture of the success achieved by this country in driving back the wilderness, in subduing the savage in beastand human kind, in establishing material prosperi- ty among the people, in developing the higher | branches of a generous civilization—our in- ventive genius, our historians, our workers in | legal science and public law—and in all the | mighty field of our historic developement and | the progress of the arts. It isnot difficult to | determine what portion of this mighty growth | bas been achieved since the time when, accord- ing to Mr. Seward, we took a national depar- ture and our government has been a failure. From our recorded history and develope- ment we can give a succinct view of our mate- ; tial prosperity since 1820; and if we do not cite the evidences of our intellectual growth, it is because such a citation would require much | more space than we can devoteto the subject, and because it is not necessary to do 60; for it is manifest to every one, and it is a recognized truth, that the developement of human knowledge is inseparable from the pro- gress of industry and national wealth. Let us, then, look at the figures and gauge the difference between then and now. In 1820 there were twenty-three States fn the Union, now there are thirty-three; then its area was 1,787,159 square miles, now it is 2,936,166; our population then was 9,638,131, now it is 33,000,000; our registered and en- rolled shipping then was 1,280,165 tons, now it is 56,145,137; our annual imports then amounted to $74,450,000, now they amount to $338,768,- 130; our exports were $69,691,669, now they. are $256,789,462; our revenue then was $16,- 779,381, now it is $70,000,000; the real and per- sonal estate of our citizens then was not over $1,000,000,000, now it is estimated at $10,000,- 000,000; then we had 350,000 persons employed in manufacturing establishments,producing over five hundred millions of dollars yearly, now we have 1,250,000 persons in the business of manu- facturing. We might continue this comparison to a much larger extent; but what we have said su! to prove the genial results of our government policy in a material point of view, and we will turn to its intellectual and moral resulta. : | We will first contemplate the domestic policy | that has contributed to produce these vast re- \ sults. Our territorial extension, beginning with Florida in 1821 and ending with Califor. nia, bas added thousands of millions to the available wealth of the world. Onur tariff | policy, which was discussed from the time of Adams to that of Polk, has swept away all the odious restrictions of commerce, and become established on the broad and permanent basis of perfect liberty to individual enterprise. The divorce of bank and State has been accom- plisbed, and our currency and trade freed from the oppression of a monopolizing bank. Pri- vate enterprise, in the construction of public works, bas been freed from the blighting in- fluence of competition with government sub- sidised efforts. Our Pacific empire has been founded on the healthy basis of equal justice to all private rights, and @ vast extent of interior territory bas been redeemed from the wander ing tribes of Indians and transformed into pros- Perous States. These great points of our home policy have not been failures, but successes, such as no other government in the world can exhibit. Let us now look at our progress | abroad. | At the period when Mr. Seward claims that our government took a national departure, and | that since then it bas failed to procure respect | or good will abroad, the American name was | an almost unknown one in Europe, so far as | moral influence was concerned, and we may ask with pride, where does it stand now? Then Europe was forging the Holy Alliance for the resubjugation of the Spanish-American colo- | nies; our claims for redress for outrages under | the Orders in Council, and the Berlin and Milan decrees, and other arbitrary proceeding=, were hooted at in every court in Europe; our com- merce was subject to onerous discriminations in half the ports of the world; our fing was de nied the freedom of the seas; our claim that waters, and even a dirty negro potentate in Hayti eneered at us as @ mercenary pirates nized; at our the Fans neal of tho allio have tose : | span opened to the world; the neutrality of the American isthmns secured to commerce, and cur dag and aame are everywhere respect- ; ed as the eymbols of national power and great- ress, Such are the successful results of that na- ional policy which Mr. Seward pronounces to have been a failure at home and abroad. No other nation can exhibit a brighter record. Where then are to be found those evidences of confusion, dissatisfaction and danger which he | cites?’ They are to be found in the history of the times eince he and his factious coworkers found their way into the halls of Congress, and his fanatical party has become a power in the North. It is he and his fellows who have op- posed and endeavored to thwart at every point the foreign policy of the government, to defeat treaties, to break up negotiations, and by at- tacking the personal character of the President to destroy the moral power of government. It is bis party that has proclaimed domestic war, fostered invaders of sister States, stimulated fraud in legislation and popular commotion in and out of Congress. It is from his demagogui- cal example, and the revolutionary and de- structive theories of his party, that all these evils have sprung. The dissatisfaction to-day witnessed inthe lend is turning upon the fac- tious politicians who have created it, and the rising tide of an honest national sentiment will seal them with its indignant rejection in Nc- vember next. Untversat, Necro Surrrace in Tats State.— The question whether negroes will be permitted to vote universally like white men in this State is to be decided at the ensuing November elec- tion by a vote of the people. In view of the important bearing of this measure upon parties, and the issue that is now presented to the coun- try in the Presidential election, we publish to- day a history of the question in another page, to which we direct the attention of our readers. It must be in the recollection of most of them that in the Legislature of 1857-8 the black re- publican members of both houses, being in a majority, passed resolutions for the amendment of the constitution, so as to give all negroes an equal right to vote with white men; which reso- lutions, when adopted by the people, would be- come law, and change the constitntion. A large number of the republicans, however, were not prepared for this change; for, however much | they might use the nigger cry in elections, they never had any serious notion of admitting blacks to equality with themselves. Accord- ingly the resolutions were wilfully burked in the executive chamber till the time had lapsed for issuing the notice to the people to vote on the question. Much black indignation was vented upon Governor King. The paseage of the resolutions, however, had served the turn of the republican party, and got for them the few votes which those negroes who are pos- sessed of the property qualification of $250 now cast. The nigger votes are wanted again, and there is anotber bid for them. The resolu- tions were readopted by the last republican Legislature, and this time the notice to the people bas been regniarly issued to vote on the question in November; so that it must receive its quietus very soon, or else we shall have NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPT etatesmaa. They were all supplanted by can- didates of inferior talents and of a popularity that could not for a moment be compared to theirs. After the same fashion Mr, Seward has been unceremoniously thrust aside by his party to make room for a man whose only merit con- sists in splitting rails or splitting the sides of a village audience with his smutty stories. The Latest Achievement of the Metrepoli- tan Police. The new General Superintendent of Police, fired with the hope of emulating some of his illustrious predecessors, has lately made 8 tremendous demonstration against the va- grants and beggars who infest the streets in the lower parts of the city. Ona certain day the members of the force not on post duty were directed, by special order, to appear in plain clothes at the several station houses, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon. When assembled, the policemen were directed to sally forth into the highways and the byways of the metropolis and bring in the sick, the lame, the halt and the blind—-in fact, to apprehend all the members of that grand army who riee in the morning with- out knowing where they will breakfast or dine, or sup, or lay their heads for the next night, and who have not the wherewithal to pay their way, nor any visible means whereby it can be obtained. It is quite unnecessary to eay that the class above mentioned is a very numerous one. The distinguished confraternity has its castes and grades like any other division of society. There are vagrants in purple and fine linen, as well as in rage and tatters. Persons liable to commitment under the statute may be found any pleasant afternoon upon the dollar side of Breadway, adorned with all the skill of the tailor, the dressmaker and the bot- tier. They lounge in the public rooms of the fashionable hotels, and loiter about the saloons and berrooms. They are far more dang+:ous to gociety than the professional beggar. Tb latter solicits alms openly, while the former picks up 4 precarious living by acting as a stool pigeon or a decoy for gambling houses, ora pimp for brothels and panel cribs. Under theee circumstances, so well known to the police, the men all marked and spotted, offering an easy prey, it might naturally be euppored tbat, along with the small fry, Mr. Su- perintendent Kennedy’s net might possibly con- tain a few of the big fish. Notso. The police apgled for minnows only. They laid violent bands on all persons whose garb seemed to in- dicate that they were fighting the battle of lite under every disadvantage. Cripples, chil- dren and old women were seized with- ont ceremony, and carried before the nearest magistrate. The scene presented at the Lower Police Court is said to have been one of unparalleled confusion. The magis- trates were obliged to suspend thelr ordinary business in order to hear these new cases 80 suddenly thrust upon them, aud ull their ar rangements for the administration of justice were upset. When the cases came finally to be heard it was found that, in many instances, the police had blundered and arrested persons universal negro suffrage and general amalga- | in no way amenable to the law under which mation established in New York. the force acted. What reparation can be made It remains to be seen whether a sufficient | to these innocent persons for the annoyance to number of white men can be found in this State | which they have been subjected? And what punishment is to be meted out to their perse- tion which will bring them down to the level of | cutore? blacks, to the same political status as the nig- | And this is not all. Not only do the police willing to consummate the act of self-degrada- gers of the Five Points. We cannot believe it. The gain of negro votes appears to be of vast importance to the leaders of the republican party, a balance of power in their hands to elect men to the Legislature who would carry he most corrupt schemes and fingitious jobs of | the lobby, being, besides, of moment to them in allow the gamblers and their agents, the keepers of disorderly houses, the thieves and pickpockets, to go scot free while persecuting the poorer vagrants, but the effect of their sudden raids is to produce a reaction, during which ‘Vice and crime have a high holiday, the rogues being fully aware Presidential elections, sufficing, perhaps, to turn | that they may enjoy comparative immu- the ecale in their favor. But then there is the | nity for « year or so. Such demonstrations, | graye consideration how many votes of white | therefore, do more harm than good, and one men this amalgamation measure may cost them, and besides there are few republicans of the white race so degraded in their own estimation | as to be willing to be placed on a footing of social and political equality with the black cannot help expressing a feeling of contempt for the system which permits a policeman to refrain from arresting a notorious pickpocket, unless taken in the commission of an overt act, and, at the same time, directs all the terrors of race. There is every probability, therefore, of | the law against a poor child who may be sus- the negroes being cheated again. Crry Porrnics—A Graxp STRUGGLE FoR THE Sroms.—The delightfully inharmonious condi- tion of the democracy in this city just at pre- sent makes the snnual struggle for the city spoils more interesting than ever. We have to fl in November several important county offices, judicial and otherwise, and to vote for ‘all the small politicians in town are in a state of excitement that beggars description. There is more bribery and corruption, trading and barter- ing, buying and selling, than the unsophisticated electors could have any idea of. Three or four ‘men get quietly together, and transfer thousands of voters, as if they were so many cattle to be driven hither and thither, as may best suit the : | pected of an intention to ask some good natured person for a penny. It is the duty of the police to see that peace, order and desency are pre- served in the city at all times of the year, and to arrest vagrants who are public nuisances any- where they may find them, whether in the Five Points or on Broadway. What a police force needs most is the respect of the people. That traps as this Inet essay of Superintendent Ken- nedy—e stretch of authority which, we are glad to eay, has been received by the comam- nity with just reprobation. Tar Ovetacix To Frsiox—One of the great- est obstacles to the fusion of the conservative vote of this State on one electoral ticket against Lincoln is the arrogant position and the exor- bitant demands of the Albany Regency ; F ul rai BFF z e a7 Ee Fis ifz [ say ! | | HE fi li ! HE rH rf Hl i ; a f 5 # Hi ; I j 2 z ¢ é ay sectHl i ? E | EMBER 8. 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. Rerty or Dorotas 10 Bavoxrynmpay,--The | York, which bus inereaced from 515,090 In 1859 a speech of Douglas in reply to Breckinrids¢, which we published yesterday, is another ex: ample of the eame error into which Breckin- ridge fell in bis epeecb. and into which Douglas td £50,000 this year. New York, however, wust roaintatn its increase steadily, for it does not & fact represent any gection of the country. It is essentially @ national city, 24 belongs to bas been continually falling during the cam- | thewhole Union. Brooklyn, too, ae ne of our paign. It is all one tissue of persc lity, and a | suburbs, reaifzes a proportionate incrense from discussion about the claims to regularity and | 96,000 In 1850 £9 nearly $00,000 ia 1860, Bulti- support of the rival conventions which nomi | more, it is ascertained, has not grown so laryely nated the two gentlemen. Mr. Breckinridge, instead of meeting the great issue raised by the republican party, wanders into irrelevant questions touching himself, ignoring the fact that the country does not care a fig about such matters. Douglas commits the same blunder, in addition to riding his equatter sovereignty hobby to death. By their criminations and recriminations these two candidates are as effectually using each otber up as the Kilkenny cats, and they are doing more to elect Lin- coln than all the republican presses and republican orators in the land. Why do they not imitate the example of Seward and speak to the point? Why do they not employ their talents in answering his arguments? Why do they not attempt to overthrow the dangerous positions of the republican party, instead of abnsing each other? If they shrink from the is- tne now, what will they do when it assumes a more practical form? How would they meet it ff either of them should be elected President, and if the republicans should, during the next four years, obtain a majority in both houses of Congress? The precious time of the campaign is frittered away, and the impression is left to a very great extent upon the public mind that the orators cannot grapple with the republicans. 1: is the most important election since the foun- dation of the government; and in the absence cf proper leaders the people will have to take ibe matter in their own hands. More depends upon the result than upon any previous contest. The republican leaders have declared war ogainet the institution of slavery, and threaten its “extinction” in the Southern States eo soon es they get the power into their bands. They denounce it as a moral, social and political evil, which is destroying the country, and must be put an end to, soon or late. And how do Douglas and Breckinridge face this music‘ They do not face it atall. They turn their backs, and, as if they did not hear it, launch out into pereonal matters and a variety of small ques- tions, which have no bearing on the issue and no interest for the public. Let them only con- tinue to carry on the campaign in this fashion to the end of the chapter, and the election of Lincoln ie az certain as that to-morrow’s enn will rise. Ane Derr Sea Tereorarus Faicres?—Since the failure of the Atlantic telegraph, experi- ment after experiment, in various quarters, ap- pears to justify the congbadfea that deep sea lines of any considerale length will not work, and that telegraphic communication between far distant pointe can only be maintained by overland lines and short submarine cables in con. junction. In the British House of Lords, the other day, a very interesting debate took place upon the subject of telegrephic communication with India, which we give in another column, together with an article from the London 0b- server on the same subject, by which it appears that the Red Sea line to India, which had been enccessfully laid as far as Kurauchee, is absolute- tubmarine cable it was necersary to employ in crossing the Indian ocean. Nor is this the only deep sea line which bas proved a fuilure; the Mediterranean telegraphs have been equally unfortunate; the line betweea Malta and Cag- liari—-a distance of ovly 300 miles—has also been | interrupted, and the line from Malta to Corfu | has shared a similar fate. Of all the deep sea lines that have been constructed, there is not one of any length at work. ‘The British government. conscious of the ne- cessity for telegraphic commacication with its Indian possessions, undertook to grant four and | & half per cent upon a capita! of $5,000,000 to. | wards the Red Sea line by Suez, Aden and Ku- | rauchee to Bombay; but that line, Lord Staniey states, is now “completely broken up and de. stroyed.” The effort to connect with India, however, is not to be abandoned; but as it is overland lines, a plan fs in operation to run a line from Constaatinople throwgh Asia Minor, the Suez line now laid down from Kurauchee to Bombay. This line is undertaken in part by the Turkish government, and is already thence south to the island of Java, from whence, by means of short submarine cables, in the shal- low water between the islands, it will be carried to Australia. By this route a connection be- tween England and her Indian and Australian may be established; but it will be ly worthless, in consequence of the length of evident that it can only be accomplished by }, connecting, we presume, with the portion of a3 was expected, and the same is true of if not all the other At‘antic cities. The prin- cipal cities of the West, however, loom up very respectably, a3 follows:— eos 3 BB Milwaukee. 90,000 ‘Thus it the principal in- crease in the population of the coustry is taking: place in the rising cities of the great West. Smrrscitprve ix New Yorx.—To-Gay there will be launched from the yard of oneof our most eminent shipbuilders the first eteamer that has been constructed for Brazil in this port. There are two others on the stocks for the same destination, and it is likely that ee soon as the qualities of these vessels are tested, the work of our New York shipbuilders will for the future receive the preference out there, There is also to be launched to-day from an- other yard in this city a steamer built for the China trade. Hitherto the Brazilian government has had all its steamers constructed in England, where upwards of two hundred river and coasting steamers have been built. It is constantly adding to the number, and as the resources of the empire become developed its wants must rapidly increase, It is therefore lucky that New York has secured Brazil as a customer in this line, and it is equally fortunate for her that she hes sent us her orders. She will now geta superior class of vessels to any that she bas bitherto had. New York is the great centre of talent in this way, as it is in everything else. We do not build ships after the fashion of the Maine people, construct them by the mile, and then cut them up and sell them by the yard, just, es a Paris baker disposes of his bread. We bestow pains on our models as well as on our workmanship, and we pride ourselves on turning Gut a kind of vessels that cannot be surpassed. ,Our superiority in both these respects has met with abundant recognition abroad, for we have been building eteamera for the Russian, Austrian, Turkish, Spanish and South American governments. Our skill in naval construction is, in fact, so highly appreciated in Europe that our shipbuilders are continually receiving tempting offers from foreign governments to take service under them. Since the time of the celebrated Eckford, who accepted the offers of Sultan Mabmoud and became chief of the navy yard at Constantinople, many of our beet build- ers bave passed into the employment of other States. It was only the other day that two of them—Donald McKay, who constructed the Great Republic, the largest sailing vessel that bas ever been launched, and William H. Webb, the architect of the superb Russian « frigate, the General Admiral—went out in the Persia for the purpose of conciud- ing some large foreign contracts, It is not improbable that inducements will be held out to them to fix their residence abroad. So great is the confidence entertained in our build of vessels that, in view of the pressure of fo- reign orders, our ship yards have found it ne- ceseary to confine themselves to specialities, ove undertaking war, another passenger, third river steamers, and so on. This is an encouraging state of things, and it is fairly merited by the scientific labor and me- chanical skill bestowed on the work that we turn out. There has not been a single improvement of any Consequence effected in shipbuilding for the last quarter of a century that cannot be directly traced to this country. We have built the fastest yachts, the fastest clipper ships, and furnished the models for the fastest steamers afloat. Even the Great Eastern owes her beauty of outline, in which the consciousness of her stupendous bulk is lost, to the inventive genius of the iste George Steers. Let our ship build- ers net rest satisfied with their triumphs in the past, and they will not only retain the conf- nent men in the black ,epublican . Find- in ep dae if F e = ij bappen in any other State prison in the country, Elther the location of the prison is favorable to the escape of its inmates or its management is errtously defective. From some ought to take some measures to ascertain where the fault Hes, and correct it, ‘Tux Cexsvs or 1860 ty THe Cires—The completion, and the documents so far show that while the increase of population in the princi- pal Western cities is very grest, the cities on the Atlantic board have not grown so much aa was antigipated, with the exyeption of New sled; eda i I igitilgate Fi elds §F ls fe # it