The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1860, Page 6

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The news, which is three days later than the advices previously received, is unusually inte- | resting. ri In Great Britain the crop prospects had im- ' proved, causing a better state of affairs in financial | circles and a depression in the breadstuffs mar- | kéts. Cotton had slightly improved, and American | Securities were firm, with a fair amount of business | doing No movement of importance had occurred in | Naples. The reported flight of the King is not | confirmed. Garibaldi had disappeared from Cala- bria, and nothing was known publicly as to his future intentions. It was reported, however, that | Garibaldi had entered Monteleone, and that he had succeeded ia transporting his entire army to the mainland. In Syria the Turkish authorities had executed one hundred and eighty persons engaged in the late massacres of Christians. This wholesale retribu- tion wonld, it was believed, entirely repress the insorrectionary element and tranquilize the coun- try. Nearly five thousand French troops had landed at Beyront While the public mea of Fraace are loudly pro- claiming that the policy of the empire is peace, a permanent camp of one hundred thousand men is to be established close to the Swiss and Germanic frontier. In Spain the cholera prevailed to an alarming extent, Six handred cases had occurred at Ma- drid in one day, of which fifty proved fatal. The steamship De Soto arrived here yesterday morning, from New Orleans and Havana, with dates from the latter place to the 8th inst. The | Havana news is, a6 usual, not very important. The Captaio General bad issued an order for the regu- | lation of the slave trade, which we republish. | Another large cargo of slaves, numbering nearly six hundred, had been landed on the island, and | also about two bandred coolies, The city was | healthy. By way of Havana we have news from Mexico of a very interesting and important character. Mi ramon's star bas not set. On his return to the capital, after his defeat at Silao, his conscience troubled him a little, and he resigned his Presidency substitute into the hands of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and then, in accordance with one of Zuloa- | ga's laws providing for vacancies in the Presiden- | cy, the Council of State ummoned, who pro. ceeded to vote fora President. Miramon was of course elected, receiving nineteen votes out of twenty-three, A few days afterwards Senor Pa- | checo, Ambassador Plenipotentiary of Spain, pre- sented bis credentials to the new President, ad- dressing him at the same time ina ‘‘neat and ap- _ propriate’ speech, which was replied to becom- ingly by his Excellency. Some changes have taken place in the Cabinet, and it is said that Zuloaga has~-retarned to the capital, having begged ond received permission to re- tire to the privacy of his home. He promises to keep very quiet, but offers his services to the cborch party in any way in which he can be of any ase. The bulk of the consitutional army was at Queretaro, doing nothing, though in powerful force, while their active adversary in the capital was moving heaven and earth to protect and for tify himself. There was a ramor that Miramon had ‘an anderstanding with some chiefs on the other nide to declare peace as soon as both armies meet at the capital. Operations were expected to com mence about the middie of the month. At Vera Cruz the most active preparations were going for ward to resist any attack by the Spaniards, which was positively expected next month. The port was remarkably healthy, although fifteen cases of yellow fever had ocenrred on board the Spanish frigate Petronelia. Four were fatal. The flagship Bavaanah, for some reason. hed anchored nearer to the Pity. Our correspondent at Traxilio, Honduras, writ fing on the Lst inst., furnishes some interesting facts Tespecting the defeat of Walker's filibuster enter prise. At last accounts Walker was retreating down the coast, his force reduced to some thirty men, with parties of Hondurian volunteers and re fulars in hot persuit of him. The government had offered a reward of two thousand dollars for Walk er's head. By the overland pony express we have advices from San Pranciseo to the Ist inst. There is no ge Geral news of importance. The Golden Age sailed 00 the Ist for Panama, with 222 passengers and the mails and $1,197,657 in treasure for New York. | Basiness continued dull. The pony express also brings advices from Japan. They are, however, animportant. A repablican electoral ticket ratification meeting was held last evening at the Cooper Institute, | ‘There was an immense gathering on the occasion, | both inside and outside the building. The pro- | ceedings at the meeting proper’ were character | fred from the opening to the close by good order fod harmony, the greatest attention being paid to the speakers, notwithstanding that one of them | Mr, Bohors) addressed the assemblage for op ‘wards of two hours. This gentleman analytically reviewed the whole political career of Judge | Doogias, one of the candidates for the Presidency, | his whole remarks being ove contiauous atream of the most treachant invective, all the pointaof which were received with rapturous applause. The close of Lis speech was devoted te @ correspondingly ornate aad elaborately drawn picture of the Cin tuslike virtnes and atatesmapship qualities of ham Lincoln, the republican candidate, which a like his previous remarks on the op- ly applauded. The large gather- ists, processionists and torch bearers + the building was addressed from three cnt stands, the performances being diversified bp masie, glees and songs. A full report of the proceedings generally will be fund in another column. A large number of railroad notabilities are now in the city to attend the adjourned Railroad Con vention, to assemble at the St. Nicholas Hotel to- day. The Convention last assembled at Saratoga, and adjourned to meet here to-day. It is under stood that they will have under consideration seve ral violations of the regulations adopted at Sara- toga; amongst the number, we understand, is one aguinst the Central Railroad for carrying freight from Boston through New York to the West cheaper than from this city. The Board of Aldermen met last evening. A communication was received from the Crotoa Aqueduct Depastment awarding the contract for | laying a three and four feet water pipe between the receiving and distributing pipesato J. Hackley. The communication was laid over. The resolution of Alderman Boole (of Japanese celebration noto- riety), asking the Mayor for information in reapect to the answer returned by the Prince of Walea to the Mayor's invitation to visit this city, waa taken up and adopted by a vote of 7to5. The follow- ing is the vote:—Affirmative—Brady, Starr, | Darragh, the President, Boole, _ Platt, Owens, Negative—Barry, Bagley, Rassell, Seagrist, Farley. The Fire Commissioners sent a communication disbanding Eugine Company No. | 48; but the committee to whom it was referred re- commended that it be semt back. The Board passed a resolution directing that the salaries of the | first and second clerks to the Corporation Attorney be raised respectively to the sums of $2,000 per annum for the first clerk, and $1,500 for the second clerk, to take effect from the Ist of February, 1860. The report of the committee in favor of increasing the salary of the Inspector of Street Incumbraaces to $1,500 was {recommitted. The Board then ad- journed to Monday next, at five o'clock. The Board of Coifcilmen were in session last evening, but no business of general public interest was transacted. The Board concurred in adopting a report from the Aldermen in favor of allowing a ferry to be run from the foot of 130th street, North river, to a point on the Jersey shore. The Comp- troller was directed to dispose of the lease for a period of ten years. After the reception of a few papers the Board adjourned till Monday. The cotton market was steady yesterday, bat as dealers wished time to examine private advices by the Asia, sales were restricted to a few bundred bales, and et un) changed prices. The foreign news checked transactions tn flour, while prices for common grades of State and Weetern were about five cents per barrel lower, while extra brands and Southern flour were unchanged. ‘Wheat opened firm and in good demand, bat closed tame and dull [and at easter prices, eepecially for common and lower grades, Corn closed heavy, with a fair amount of sales, The exports of four and grain to Great Britain and Ireland from the United States since the Ist to 11th inst., at this port, and at other ports from the Lat to the ‘Tth and 6th ost , have doen a follows: 1858. 1860 8,256 41,942 7 380,141 11,160 45,892 4,218 667 _ wow - 451 Corn... . a - - 5,009 Pork was in steady demand, with fair sales, including new megs at $19 574; @ $10 60, and new prime at $146 124% 461425. Sugars wore in steady demand, with sales of 1,600 bhds., chiefly Cubas, at prices given im another columa, Colle was firm but quiet. Freights were steady, with ehipments of wheat to Liverpool at 104., in ship’s bags. Rates to London wore firm; some 709 bales of hops were engaged at Xd. a ld., forthe latter figure by steamer, and flour at 4s. The bop market has become excited, We quote the growth of 1860 at 5c, a 20c , and the aew crop, which is of fine and even quality, at 280. a 90c., with a tendency to higher rates. The ex- ports within a week bave comprised 1,500 0 1,600 bales to Liverpool and London, chietiy to the latter port, at X4. freight, including 600 bales yesterday by éteamer at 1d, por Ib.; and 1,100 1,900 do., part by steamer, to Hamburg, at steady rates. The Battle States and the Chances of the Comtest—The Douglas State Committee in the Balance, The resulte of the recent elections in the South, North and West show that the battle for the preservation of the government from hands that would administer it on principles destruc- tive to every great interest in the land, and to the Union itself, must be fought in the great commercial. manufacturing and mining States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. These are the battle States of the confedera- tion, and on the triumph of the conservative in- terests in them depends the rolling back of the exaggerated manias of sectionalism and fanati- ciem which have grown into enormous propor- tions in the opposing sections at either extreme. In order that a clear view may be taken of the elements which the conservative leaders ha at their disposition in the battle States, we ha’ Prepared the following table of the electoral vote in them during the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1556. Sater. 107. New York . oo 207 Peonaylvania ee AST SIO 312886 few 28 T1068 Total : 488,756 704,425 Opppasition mayority in 1856. 261,870 Here we see that in the excited and enthusi- astic election of 1856, when the personal popu- larity and conservative tendencies of Fremont gave an immense impulse to the republican party, it obtained less than two-fifths of the popular vote in the battle States, and that it carried New York by a plurality only through the division of its oppenents, and in the face of & popular majority of 45,000 against it. Siace then that party bas bad the advantage of four years of discipline and drill, with a constantly increasing population, with still greater divisions among its oppo nents, augmenting its prestige and ite aum- bere, and with constant success in the New England and Northwestern States. From its growth in these we may form some ides of its possible maximum increase in the battle States, where it has had to contend with a more conservative sentiment than in either the ex- treme North or East. The following States have recently held elections, and we can therefore compare results with those of 1866 :— STATE ELRCTIONS. = 1886 — = 1900-— Siegen... ah Se oe ow Me a See A Be Be oe Rhode Tolan. 100857) time 10 con ae i eee ee ‘Wiseonsis. 000 63,422 68,115 58,508 Totals ccceeee MMO ITO B17 10 954,875 16,670 Repub! major | |, nes 20 Republican mavority in 1988. 2.000 Republican gain in four yeart......... re From these results it will be seen that its gains have been nothing at all in the aggre- gate, if we except the State of Connecticut, where the’ State election of 1456 took place | persists in pursuing the petty schemes of its ‘ before the republican party was organized, and consequently our table enables it to show 4 gain in that State of nearly 38,000 votes. From these facts it will be seem that even in the ex- treme Northern and Western States, where black republicanism is most rife, it has really gained nothing on the vote of 1856, This being the cace, what result may we look for in the coming contest in the battle States of the Union ! The reply to that question depends upon the action to-day of the Douglas State Committee, | which is to meet at noon in this city. In their | bands lie the fusion of the conservative inte- | reste of this State and the inevitable defeat of | the radical minority, or the confusion of the conservatives and the election of Lincoln in | the face of alarge popular majority against | him. The responsibility ia a great one, and every maa in that committee should view his position today, and guide his action, not with reference to his immediate local and personal advantage, but with a high regard to the vast | interests of his country and its coming genera- tious, ia which he and his are irreparably in- volved. Their leader, Mr. Douglas, told us on Wednesday, in the face of assembled thou- sande, that he ia “prepared to act with all men who are loyal to the constitution and the Union, and opposed to the abolition, or the republican party, which I believe to be the enemy of the country.”” The approving ehouts which went up | from the multitudé@on the enunciation of these | words tell the sentiment that swells the hearts of the great majority of the people of this State. Mr. Dougiss afterward put a condition to this union, in calling fora pledge from Mr. Breckinridge. But Mr. Breckinridge has al- ready given this pledge in his recent speech at Lexington, which is a defence of his position as a constant and tried defender of the Union. There ia then no room for the State Central Committee, which meeta to-day, to quibble on that point. If its members come toa loyal deter- mination to ratify the conditions of fusion that have been accepted aad recommended by their own sub-committee, then the State of New York will be saved from the opprobrium of standing supine and divided when all its interests are | at stake, and the constitution and the Union are in danger. Then the neighboring States wiil follow our inspiriting example; the merchants, | manufacturers and miners, whose very exist- ence is involved, will come up in a solid and | irresistible phalanx to the polls, and will con- tribute abundantly to defray the necessary expenses of arousing the people. If, instead of pursuing this patriotic course, the committee members for some fancied present advantage, it will involve them and its candidate in merited obloquy and ruin, and the country in inextrica- ble confusion. Are they prepared to accept the componstbingt Comparative Srasiuutry oF AMERICAN AND Ecrorean Iystrrvrions.—The falling of some end the shaky condition of other European funds, in view of the present unsettled state of the nations of Europe, and of the volcanic ac- tion which is rocking its thrones, present a re- markable contrast to the firmness of American securities at the other side of the Atlantic, based upon the confidence of the public in the stability of our institutions. While there isa finttering uncertainty about even English funds heretofore deemed secure, and great hesitation about investment in them, American govern- | ment stocks are sought for with avidity. What a practical comment upon the comparative ata- bility of American and European institu- tions. There is oo better political baro- | meter than the funds in London and Paris. In many instances in Europe, such is the | grinding oppression of the tyrants of the peo- | ple, and such the condition of a large number | of the population, that any change must be for the better. Hence the continual danger of revolution and of war, a pastime which is fre. | quently indulged in to turn the attention of the | masses away from themselves. Not so here; no change could be for the better, and the maxim of all sensible men, of all who are not fanatics or knavish politicians, is to let well enough alone. Hence, sotwithstanding the revolutionary movement of the black republi- cans and the rumors of Southern secession, the financiers and the moneyed interests of Europe have the utmost confidence in the stability of our government. Theycannot be brought to be. Neve that so intelligent a nation can ever deli- berately commit an act of self-destruction. and they have therefore an abiding fuith in the permanency of the Union. Isto perpetua. ‘Tae Censcs ty THe Sratee.—The census re- turns for whole States come in very slowly. We have the official reports from New Hampshire Rhode Island, however, which do not ex- it a very great increase over the population of 1850. In New Mampshire the gain is only 8,211 im ten years, the figures being, for 1850, 317,064, and for 1860, $26,175. The gain in Rhode Island is greater in proportion, being nearly 18 per cent in ten years; thus— | population in 1850, 147,549; in 1860, 173,869— increase, 26,520. The population of these States, as of all the other Atlantic States, is in- creased principally in the manufacturing cities, while in many of the rural towns there has been | very little gain, and in some probably a slight falling of. It is to the oew Western States we | we will have to look for the largest increase, | which is to swell the whole population of the country to nearly thirty-three millions. Tux Wore or Rernrertos iy Syria —It will | be seen by the accounts published elsewhere | that Fuad Pacha ie doing full justice upon the } wretches who have wrought sich desolation and havoc amongst the Christian population of | Syria One hundred and eighty of the mur- derers have been hung or shot, and more than | 5,000 of the less criminal have been forced to enter the army. It will be seen by the corres- pendence of one of the London papers that | there are strong grounds for believing that the Druses were innocent of the outrages commit- ted on the Christian women, and that the Turks | alone are chargeable with them. To the infa- | mous monster Kurchid Pacha, these lamentable | events are mainly due fact of hia having been sent to Constantinople | was indicative of an intention on the part of the | government to shield him from punishment. | We are glad to find that the Marquis de Lava. | lette, the French Ambassador, haa inaisted upon | his being sent back to Syria; and once there | the presence of a French force will mag | partial justice being done in his case, The Porte is now on its trial before the civilized world. If it falls to satisfy the promises that | it has made to vindicate its own authority, no- | thing can save it from the dismemberment | which haa ao long threatened it | be Jenkins, of Canada, After H. R. H. Itia not often that we find occasion to allude to the Canadian journals. To people on this NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET. edifice. Let them go on. It isso refreshing | uniform. We do aot require a secret police im to eee snything like vitality in the Canadian press that even a bad imitation of Jenkins, eide of the line they are as uninteresting ae If | coming from that quarter, is received with they were printed in Iceland, or the vicinage of | thankfulness. Smith's Sound. A row among the “Ministers,” anexoursion up the Saguenay, an account of the movements of the Governor General, a report of a militia parade, a hotel puff or two, a few local items of no interest to any one in the world, a heavy leading article, with all the owl-like gravity and tremendous pompozity, but no trace of the ability, of the London jour- nalists, and advertisements which seem to re- main unchanged from one year’s end to the other—the whole printed upon dingy paper and with old fashioned type—and you have the Canadian newspaper as clearly as it could be limned by 8 photographist. The journalist across the frontier is slower even than his sur- roundings. To call him the incarnation of dul- ness is to use what is, under the circumstances, a term of angelic mildness. Latterly, bowever, the Canadian jour- nalist has shown some signa of vitality. He has become, in fact, dangerously lively. He bas ascertained that the heir apparent of the British throne is on a visit to his loyal eub- jects in the North American provinces. As the Prince only arrived about six weeks since, the enterprising editors, who have already dis- covered the fact, have been wonderfully rapid, and it is to be feared that the breaking ia of so much light-upon their brains, so long in worse than Cimmerian darkness, may be attended with fatal consequences. We are not without hope, however, that they will all survive, and that when the Prince goes away they will make up for lost time by relapsing into a condition of stupidity more profound than ever. During the earlier portion of the Prince's tour the local journals left the work of chronl- cling the movements of the vice-regal party to the New York reporters, and contented them- selves with abusing each other, preferring com- plaints against officials who had not treated them with the profound respect they deemed their due, and stigmatising as falsehoods the ac- | counts of the foreign correspondents, all of which accounts have since been thoroughly verified. In due time, however, this amusement became a little tiresome, and the Canadian editors came to the conclusion to have an attack of enterprise. They are now giving very minute accounts of the Prince’s progress, and they-have secured the services of Chevalier Jenkins,one of the most important personages of the day. The provincial Jenkins is rather ahead of his me- tropolitan friend, the hero of the quadrilateral and the elbows of the Mincio. Several of the newspapers in Canada West are devoted entire- ly to the accounts of the Prince's visit. Column after column of the most minute details drag their slow length along. In one instance half a column is devoted to a description of the circumstance that the gentlemen presented at the Prince’s levee did not know what todo with their hata, Thea there is an attack upon an immense tumber of colonels, captains and other officers of troops which never bad but who insisted, like the Georgia major, upon being presented in all+the glory of their empty titles. Further on there is an account of the ball given to H. R. H. by the Toronto bar, and the lawyers are denounced as snobs because they called it a “reception.” Mr. Cameron, who got up the affair, is abused heartily for saying there would be no dancing. “It was a ball,” cries out the irate Chevalier, with as much horror as if he were Aminadab Sleek; “it was ball, in consequence of which, we have no doubt, the citizens’ ball will lose the sale of a hundred tickets; and it is darkly hinted that some ter- of the reception, and bolts the whole of the Bishop's sermon, which is exceedingly enter- taining. This, we presume, was Jenkins’ penance for his junketing at the lawyers’ ball the night before. He must have been there, as be declares that all the ladies were “arrayed in the richest and costliest of garments——silks, satins, poplins and moiré antiques were dis- played in gorgeons profusion.” That is good: “gorgeous profusion” is a sweet phrase. The same paper contains an editorial about a mile | long, full of Latin quotations, and suggesting, as means by which future Orange disturbances may be prevented, the alteration of Newcastle's official title, “Colonial Secretary,” to that of “Minister of the Outer Empire,” which would un- | doubtedly settle the dispute at once. The Ottawa Jenkins has, we think, the lead of all. He is a master of what is rulgarly termed the “ highfa- lutin™ style. In one place we are told that the rain was condescending enongh to hold up, in view of the “ intense excitement and enthu- siaem of the people;* and again, that “the wishes, hopes and aspirations of a people, des- tined at no distant day to ocoupy a large space in the world’s policy, received a final fulfilment on Saturday, the Ist of September, 1860." That was when the Prince laid the corner stone of the new Parliament House. A correspondent of a Quebec paper can find nothing better to write about than the sufferings of eight gentle- men of the press, who were put by a Kingston Boniface into one small room. One of our cor- respondents and an artist of Frank Leslie's pa- per are alluded to in a singularly delicate and gentlemanly manner. We trust that their per- sonal property was found all right ia the morn- oo could select more gems from the collee- tion furnished by the Canadian Jenkinses; but content orrtetres with the apecimen already taken from their delightfd ka Progress or tax Revowwrionage War & Naries.—The Asia brings accounts of the con- tinued successes of the expeditionary force on the mainland of Naples, desertions among the King’s troops doing as much for the invaders as their own bravery. It is stated that Garibaldi had suddenly disappeared, and that nothing was known as to his destination. A report was cur- rent that hé had gone to Monteleone; but as this place is in Lower Calabria, and is, besides, of but little importance in a military point of view, we do not eee what he had to gain in that quarter. It is more probable that he was about to take one of those bold steps which have given him such prestige for personal daring, and that he will turn up just at the spot whica will enable him toturn to most advantage the increasing demoralization and confusion of the royalists. We should not be surprised if, find- ing that matters were ripe for the move- ment, be had determined to’ trust to the influeace of tis presence in’ the capital to complete the overthrow of the royal authority. So great is the discouragement that prevails smongat the King’s troops, that the announcement of his arrival would, we be- lieve, be the signal for their simultaneous abandonment of their colors. The fact that the Dictator has already been to Naples and has held cooferences with the revolutionary com- mittees, and even with some of the Ministers, inclines us to think that his sudden disappear- ance from Calabria at the present juncture is susceptible of this explanation. Were he to establish himself in the capital without the aid of a single soldier, it would be the best answer that could be given to those who obstinately maintain that the movement has uot the aa- tiona! sympathies with it. Tux War Free Necross axe Treatso o& 4 Bracx Rervpiican Stare.—Our readers are no doubt aware that the free State of Indiana passed a law eome time ago expelling free ne- groes from its domain; but it appears that the law does not work quick enough for some of the peopie there, and a Vigilance Committee has a¢tually been formed in the town of Evans ville to hurry up the expulsion of poor Sambo by summary means. No better comment can be found upon the sincerity of black republi- can love for the negro race than the following proclamation, recently issued by the Vigilance Commitiee of Evansville:— black republican, attached to a party black and white, taking the law into their Tue Potrce Commissioners and Tue Va anants.—The raid which the Metropolitan Po- lice Commissioners have commenced upon the vagrants, in their spasmodic zeal for the public welfare, has proved a cause of great hardship and suffering to many of the poor, industrious classes of the city. A case is now before the Supreme Court, in behalf of a poor but honest Italian woman, who was hustled off to Black- well’s Island among thieves and prostitutes by the vigilant peace preservers of the Metropoli- tan Police, along with many other innocent persons, whose dress or appearance did not con- stitute, in their wise judgment, a guarantee that they had the means to earn a living. It is said, also, we know not with what truth, that many poor laborers, returning to their homes on Sa- turday night with the earnings of the week in their pockets, were seized in like manner and sent to the same prison as vagrante—their | famiahing families being entirely ignorant of their whereabouts until they were sent to the island after them as paupers, on applying for relief from the Superintendent of the Poor. If the Metropolitan Police force was an effi- ‘eient body, affording our citizens protection from the murderer, the burglar, the ticket swindler and the gambler, we might pardon 4 foray, but to make the attack in citizens’ dress. Such o system is to be condemned; the po- lice, except fo the detective service or some epecial case tequiring secresy ond caution, | should not be permitted to perform duty out of | New York, as they may do in Paris or other European copitals in revolutionary times. We bave no political conspirators plotting the downfall of the government at the straet cor- ners, unless it be the black republican agita- tors, and the people can take care of them. Suppose an able bodied vagrant or aay one else were to resist the rough handling of a maa in citixen’s drees, without any outward evidence upon his person that he was 9 peliceman, how could he be held legally responsible for resist- ing an officer in the discharge of bis duty? [t isa mischievous system, this of allowing the police to make a general attack upon anybody in the community, except they are in uniform, "and it should be vehemently discouraged. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Wasmivotos, Sept. 13, 1860. WHEGE ARS TES COVOD! AND PATKYT OFFIOE REPORTS Very great compiaints are made of tho duatoriness af the public printers and binders in the delivery of the Co- fand Patent Office reports. Why this delay abould eceur is amystery. As the work is boing paid for on ée- livery, it (6 ma aifeatiy the interest of ail parties to hurry it up. Members write dally to Bouse officers, or daring books which cannot be supplied. AIL PACKLOETSS, ‘The Brrazy's tuggestion with refereace to lame post letter boxes for newspapers is receiving the consideration of First Assistant Postmaster Genegal King, who is at ote post agaia, after afew weeks’ absence, A COUNTRAFRITHR PARDONED. Minard Graoger, now confined in the State prigon at Auburn for having pasee@ counterfeit coin, was todag unconditionally pardoned by the President, His toran would aot expire for a year. ; THE PROVING arous. ‘There ia trouble again about the printing apoils. The pripters of the Congressional work do oot pay to aay of the political parties what either bargained for or expect- ed. The bad faith of these mercenaries wili cause @nother overhauling of their afaire cext seasion, They had better pay up. COOL weariam, ‘The weather is #0 cool that fires are quite comfortable fa the evening ‘THR FRENCH LEGATTON. M, D. Hell, called by young ladies “M.D. Infor,” bag been transferred from the French Legatioe at Washing- ton to a higher post, and will be succeoded by Count de la Rochofeucauit, @ lineal cesceadaat of the immortat French maximist of that name. ‘THE CASP OF LITT DRYSDALE. ‘A general court martial, Coi Chandler presiding, hag before them tho case of Lieut. John Drysdale, Third ar- tillery. A CANDIDATE FOR THE WATE A sou of Balie Peyton, of Tennessee, ia a candidate for admission to the Nawal Academy at Anvapolis The father is a strong Bell man, but that circumstance does not prevent him from applying to this tolerant edmiaia- tration for a favor to his son. ‘THE MEXICAN QURETION, The Mexican news isatastand. The foregn question snobs getexcited about It hourly, but the State Depart. ‘meat is as calm asa Summer morning ‘THE PRINCE OF WALES. Under the idea that the Prince of Wales wili keep ap his royal state while on his visit to Waehington, the ru- ral politicians and others of ithe pretensions aro getting ready to aseert their rights to invade the White House to look on « live epecimen of royalty at their leisure. They forget that Lord Renfrew visite the Presideat oaiy ana private genticman. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC. Arrival of the Pony Express—81,197,657 St. Josara, Sept. 15, 1360. ‘The poay express arrived this afternoon behind time market inactive and inducacing boiders’ interests unfavor- abiy. Candies bave declined about Ic. per pound, with small sales. Pork is heavy, with a down- il di f : i fi it tf bal i F if sl : F (sedi } 5 nee i ee a ie is H Uy a fe HEE ‘el iW i if ry I, if i i F z i i i ? | 5 fF i i t u i : i i Hi i i a H : i tt ti f f “i i i 38 ki i i z F 3 § i eff il # if fe U H 2! i fy e82 i Fog 3 H ; i i u th if Md LF I