The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1860, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N, W, CORNER OF NASBAU AND FULTON STs ‘TARMS, cash = etme, ‘Money cent 2 y mal eotl? be at C00 ish of Us sender.” Postage stamps alaieahaal . ‘Tile DAILY HERALD theo cents per copy. if WEEKLY HERALD, tase ennte oor cant. OF A rtrm ee oun or $3 per annum; the Buropean Bdition ox Wed» Of eke conte per copy, Per rn tan part Woe or or $6 b any Je Continen pie pay tn erty "h dnd'ah of ach toons cows ‘annie. THe Fa) raat Salah on Wednesday, at four conts per copy, or 32 per RY CORRESPONDENCE, containing trportand Votontany, manu rwarter of the isortt; Y wsed, will ba wu Fotaton COMRRSONDESTS ame Raceline O Seat alt LevTERs axD Pace AMUSEMENTS TO MORROW EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Ra—Tue Sicttian Vasrens. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Haaczt, Fourteenth street.—Iratian Orm- WINTER GARDEN, Broadway, opposite Bond street.— ‘Tus StmanGeR—TWO Bown rcasties, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wipow's Victim—Limpa, wie Sean Crei—lnise Tree, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Roracst— Back rou 4 Wivow. LAURA KEFENF’S THEATRE, ALLEEN AnOON, No, 624 Broadway.— NEW BOWERY THFATRE, Bowery.—Roseat Baves— Hager Brace BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day and Rveving—Jossru avd His Bustugey—Livine Cysios- mins, & BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broadway.— Bvucesques, Songs, Dances, &o.—Scenes kr l'Hacon’s. NIBLO'B BALOON, Brosdway.—Hooury & Caupaact’s Minsraeia ix Ermorias Songs, Boriesqvs Dances, &0.— Vincivia Mommy. NATIONAL THEATRE, Chatham strect—Six Dacaem oy Caie—Fuisey Conaien—Peantom Baie, CANTERBURY Danoxs, Boaussat USIC HALL, 663 Broadway.—Soras New York, Sunday, Sept 30, 1560. Mew York Herald—California Edition. ‘The mail steamship Aris!, Capt. Miner, will leave this port to morrow, at noon, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for California aud other parts of the Pacifio Will close at ten o'clock to. morrow morning, The New Yore Weecry Hyxato—Californis edition @ontalning the latest intelligence from ali parts of the world, with » large quantity of local and misceliansous taatter, will be published at nine o’clock tm the morning. Singie copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, #!x cents, ——" please send im their ortiers as early as pos- The News. By the Star of the West, which arrived at this port at an early hour yesterday morning, we have advices from Havana to the 24th inst. The sugar market was dull, and freights continued low. The stock of sugar on hand amounted to 160,000 boxes— 30,000 less than at the corresponding date last year. Our correspondent confirms the report of the determination of Spain to make a warlike de- monstration before Vera Craz. Every preparation was being made for the expedition, which, it was supposed, was only delayed until the arrival of a steamer from Cadiz, with final instructions from Madrid. The steamship Kangaroo sailed from this port yesterday for Liverpool, with 102 passengers and $117,092 in specie. The Bremen also sailed yes- terday for Southampton and Bremen, with 118 pas- sengers and $522,788 {in specie—making the total shipment of specie $639,889. The Committee of Fifteen, emanating from the Cooper Institute meeting, met yesterday and de- cided to hold a ratification meeting on Monday, October 8. All branches of the opposition to Lin- coln and Hamlin are to take part in the demonstra- tion. The Donglas State Committee are to meet on the Sth prox. to take action upon the uew elec- toral ticket. The Mozart Hall democratic primary elections, for delegates to the various nominating conven- tions, took place last evening, and the result in the weveral wards may be ascertained by referring to our advertising columns. The County Convention will be held on Monday evening, the Congressional Conventions on Tuesday evening, and the Assem- bly Conventions on the evening following. It is currently reported that certain mem- bers of the Board of Fire Commissioners con- Zemplate resigning their offices. This action is attributed to the fact that the Common Council have reversed nearly every decision of importance Rhat they have rendered during the past three months. The Board bave worked zealously to rid the Fire Department of the ruffians and rowdies attached to it, but their efforts have been perfectly useless, as these men are hardly expelled before they are reinstated by the Aldermen and Couacil- men, It 4s to be hoped that the Commissioners will consider the matter well before withdrawing, pa they havea large majority of the members of the department with them, who would deeply re- gret their loss, The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales of about 2500 bales, closing on the of up: fanda at 10X0. © 107%e. The receipts of flour were large mod the market beayy, and om common and mediam grades of State and Western about Sc. per barre! lower. Southern flour, though lesa active, was without change of moment io prices. Wheat was beavy aad irregular for Abe lower qualities, including spring, while red winter ‘aod white were steady and ip good demand, The trans- actious made bere and to arrive were large. Cora was Grmer, with « fir amount of sales. Pork was eteady, with sales of new mess a} $19 30 & $10 OT, and pew prime at S14 8 S14 125. Sugars were firm, with sales of 1400 ® 1,500 bhas., to refining goods at 6\(. a 6);0., and grocery grades at 6Xe. aT%c, Coffee was firm. The cargo of the J Darling wae sold, compr 6,000 bags, at p. t.: 400 do. do, ab 14\¢6. &14)Ge., and a email lot at 16 s40., and 900 do. St, Domingo at 19. Freighta wore some less buoy. ant and active for Eoglish porta, Among the engage- mouts to Liverpool were 60,000 & 60,000 bushels wheat, in ship's bags, at 125¢4., and 6,000 bbis. flour at Ss. Sd. 0 Se. 64., with 6,000 do, to London at 15544, in ship's bage, ‘and the same quantity to Glasgow in shippers’ bags, at a1x4. LyptcrMest or Buack Repvnttcan Orrictats.— We perceive that the Grand Jury have mani- fested their appreciation of the black republi- can officials appointed by Governor Morgaa by indicting two of his Harbor Masters for exacting extortionate fees from ship- masters, and putting the same in their pockets, According to the statements made, these gentlemen from the rural districts— Mr. Masten, of Kingston, and Mr. Anable, of Hudson—have been in the habit of extortiag fees for berths at our piers, varying in amount from three dollars to fifty, through their depu- ties, one of whom—Mr. Van Ness—is included in the indictment. Thisisa pretty fair example of the way the metropolis is taken care of by hungry republicans from the interior. Messrs. Masten and Anable are pets of the illuy trious lobby manager, Thurlow Weed, and were appointed at his urgent solicitation. The appointment of the latter—Jobn S. Anable— was vigorously protested against by a deputa- tion from this city, who waited on the Governor at Albany and urged his withdrawal, on the grounds of want of qualidgation; but Thurlow NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1860. wes inexorable; his convenient agent should have @ fat office, and Gov. Morgan accordingly persisted in making the appointment. We now see the result of it; and we hope that the action of the Grand Jury will be followed up by 4 vigorous prosecution, in order that we may know the extent of malpractice in which these country gentlemen have been engaged. One would euppose that out of the nine hun- dred thousand people in New York city, two efficient men could be had to perform the duties of Harbor Masters without taking them f.om tLe rural districts; but that is not the way that Governors Weed and Morgan manage the affairs of the metropolis. American Progress and Engiteh Come ment—Thvughts for the Times. “Who ever reads an American book?” was pertinently asked bya British reviewer, not one generation ago, and the spirit that animates the question pervaded the British mind in re- gird to the whole range of American affairs. But we have changed ali that now. Else- where in our columns this morning we give a series of articles, culled from our Eaglish ex- change papers, published during the week from the 4th to tie 11th of September. They show conclusively how large a space American affaire occupy in the field of British considera- tion, aed the importance that is conceded to the elements of greatness among us, and their future developement. Impressed with the tra- ditional idea of the importance of ships and commerce, John Bull contemplates with sur-' prise the fact that the merchant navy of Young America treads on the heels of that of Old Kagland—it now surpasses it in tonnage—and takes to himself pride in the fact that we are a chip of the old block. Then he wonders at the abundance of our production of food, and of wool, and of cotton, and asks himself, “Where would Eng- land be if the cotton crop ehould fail for one year’ On this point he errs in the answer he gives himself, which is that ahe would be as badly off as when the wheat crop used to fuil under the old Corn law. Now, when the wheat crop falls in England, she applies to Eastern Europe or to us to supply the deficit; but were the cotton crop to fail, to whom would she apply for the raw material necessary to keep her mills going and four millions of her people in employment? And yet the very existence of this cotton supply depends upon the present social organization of the slave States, which the misguided humanitarians of England and America are endeavoring to destroy. It is not alone material questions of American production that now engage public attention in England, as will be seen by the articles we copy from English journals. Our social con- stitution and progress are beginning to be scrutinized, and, though still treated with a good deal of ignorance of American politics, American representative men and American geograpby, otill there is more knowledge of facts and a better spirit in their observation than have ever before marked the English press. The existence here of races “obviously incapa- ble of high civilization” is recognized, and tha next step will naturally be a discussion of the question of policy best adapted to the social organization and government of a community comprising a euperior and an inferior race. Our energy in works is admitted, and De Witt Clinton on railways, in 1828, is approvingly quoted. The effect of our democratic institu- tutions on public men is analyzed, and our practice and example are pointed to as being what England herself must arrive at. Many other questions are treated more or less care- fully, among which are the foreign element among us, the process of our expansion and filibusterism, and the probability of an early imbroglio between ourselves, Mexico, Cuba and Spain, in which all Europe will, perhaps, become deeply involved. These questions and many other collateral ones are all separately treated by different English journals at the same moment of time, thus showing that American affaires are acquiring a great importance in England, and giving the best answer to the per- tinent query of the British reviewer which we have quoted. Many American books must now be read in England. But there are other sub jects touched upon besides those of material progress and the policy of government for infe- rior races. England begins to congratulate herself that the cords of friendship between her and us can never be broken, and looks to our system of political confederation as one to be imitated in her North American poesessions, and possibly elsewhere. In all this growth of pub- lic opinion in England there is something sin- gularly in contrast with the declaration of Se- nator Seward that the policy of our govern- ment andeociety has been a failure; that we present only a picture of excited and dissatis- fied sectionalisms, and that black republicanism must revolutionize the interpretation of the con- stitution which has stood for eighty years, in order to present more satisfactory results than the United States can to-day offer to the world. It will be well for us if all parties will pause for a moment in the midst of the pre- sent heated political excitement and contem- plate the picture of foreign observation on American progress which we to day present to them. There will be found, drawn in frank and bold lines, the confession that England has failed a8 a ruler of a community of white and black races in her West India colonies, the ac- knowledgment that our political system and policy of government are a success, and the practical assertion of the great fact that material developement and the progress of human know- ledge are inseparable. Yet a wild fanaticism, combined with minor political disappointments, and stimulated by ambitious demagogues and selfish politicians, proclaims the necessity of a revolution in our path of mighty developement, and the inauguration in our midst of the mis- taken and incongruous teachings of an abstract and impracticable European philosophy. For- bid it, ye whose fathers and yourselves have worked out the great results we present to the world. Forbid it, ye who hope to transmit to your children the noble inheritance that was Sesoeried 0 you * Camrares Docewexts—Decuive & THE Pott micaL TRact Bestwess—The leading party journals are filled with advertisements fora numeroug assortment of campaign traeh. ang At Gontizually harping upon the ory « Bteou. late the documents;” but with all their nolse these nicely printed, long-winded speeches and dry essays are no longer called for by the people. These political tract manufacturers and campaign paper publishers may as well shut up shop and save their money; there is no people of this age make up their minds on all the political issues of the day from other sources. The campaign journalism, once so influential, has no longer any power with them. The speed of our railroads and the universal use of the telegraph as 4 disseminator of poli- tical intelligence have done away with that atyle of electioneering. The public fully under- stand the fact that all the campaign papers aad documents are got up by partisans who dis- tort the facts to suit their own ideas. The day for circulating John Doe’s and Richard Roe's speeches, and the twaddle of our partisan Con- gressmen, is passed. Those parties who attempt to keep up that kind of business are behind the age in which they live, and do not understand the condition of their own country, and prove themeelves unqualified to grapple the issues of the day. Let them close up their establish- ments and go at some legitimate business, where they will have an opportunity to inform themselves upon the political problem of the day, and they will eoon find themselves, not only wiser men, but with better filled purses. The Campaign Festivals—The Grand Bell-Everett Basket Dinner Near Nash- ville, Having given to the campaign festivals of the Lincolnites, the Breckiaridgers and the Douglas democracy a liberal ventilation through our columns, we are glad to diversify still further our political entertainments this morning in the publication of a racy description of a late grand Be!l-Everett basket dinner, or picnic, near Nashyille, Tennessee. It was a beautiful afuir, and handsomely done in every parti- cular. It was evidently a public Southern de- monstration, from which the Prince of Wal and his suite would have returned with an en- larged opinion of the capacity of our popular institutions to develope the essential elements of intelligence, law and order, decorum and re- finement among the great body of the people, and in the midst of the institution of slavery, if yor please. What old democratic politician is there now who does not euffer an involuntary fear and trembling in recalling the grand universal log cabin and bard cider jubilee of 1840? Never before, from the world anterior to the flood down to that campaign, was there anything to compare with it in any country under the sun; never since have we had a Presidential canvass to touch it in its mighty processions and all their picturesque accessories of frontier cos- tumes, customs, avocations, implements and means of transportation, giving to the whole country, from a birdseye view, the aspect of triumphant crusade of nomadic Tartars. It was the first general breakout of the reaction from that heavy financial pressure which culminated in the terrific explosion of 1837. As it be- ganto recover from that shock, the popular mind rebounded into fun and folly, just as the people of England, when relieved of the gloomy Puritanism of Cromwell's Commonwealth, hail- ed a3 a deliverer “the merry monarch,” without stopping to estimate the expense. But it seems @at these national political car- nivals are periodical, like the seventeen year locusts; tor uvw, ta thin wonderful year of grace 1860, we have something of a repetition of the memorable saturnalia of 1840, though on a smaller scaie, sna Under te gawertug cloud of disunion. But the people, according to the politicians, are intensely interested in this ex- traordinary contest, for any prominent speaker of any party, anywhere, on any subject, at any time, can command an audience which they meaaure by the acre, and count upon a basis of numbers which, if followed up by the census takere, would give these United States a popu- lation of three hundred millions of souls. In the peculiar party organizations of the campaign, the republican Wide Awakes, in numbers, discipline and activity, bear away the palm. But they are nocturnal, like birds of evil omen, and their whole appearance is suggestive of the funeral ceremonies ef the Union. They have suddenly sprung up like a great organized army, and there is a delibera- tion and concert of action in their movements altogether different from the spontaneous up- risings of 1540. These Wide Awakes have been carrying the whole Northwest before them, having, it is said, in some instances fence rails enough in a single procession to eaclose a ten acre field. Farther South, barbecues, cr vast accumula- tions of provisions and whiskey, prepared in the primitive style of the backwoods, are the or- der of the day, among all parties. The dis- ciples of Mr. Douglas recently gave us at Jones’ Wood, in this city, a specimen barbe- cue, at which an ox roasted whole was the lion of the occasion, although “the Douglas’ was the principal orator. But the affair, even with the extra garnishment of lager bier, was a failure, simply because Manhattan Island is not adapted to such rustic entertainments. On the other hand. this Bell-Everett basket dinner, or political picnic, near Nashville, ap- pears to have been a complete success, in- cluding that indispensable element to a picnic, the beautiful, the transporting—in fact, as Mr. Micawber would say, woman. She wasre- presented by thousands. Among the party companies of drilled men in uniform present were the Union Guard. the Bell Stars, the Bell Ringers, the Bell Rangers, the Bell Highland. ers and the Bell Greys, from which it would appear that in the South, as in the North, our political parties are tending to that ominous revolutionary step of military organizations. Hon. John. J. Crittenden was the great speaker at this memorable basket dianer. Of course his theme was the Union. How can a sensible Kentuckiin, standing midway between the opposing fires of the Southern pro-slavery and the Northern anti-slavery ultras, be any- thing else than an out-and-out Union man? The main point made by Mr. Crittenden was this—that as the success of the democracy or the republicans in this election would be a sec- tional victory, from which “disruption or dis- traction must follow,” it devolved upon the Bell. Everett Union party “ to save the country, by the election of ite nominees, or at least to show that the body and heart of the conserva tive people of the country are opposed to dis- union, and devoted to the Union and the con- stitution.” Very good. We think that this Nashville basket dinner settles the juestion for Tennessee, and shat ths same dowiaunt conservative spirit there prevails throughout the South. Lei it be seconded by New York, and all will be well; but let our Northern balance of power be given to our anti-slavery extremist, and the pro-slavery secessionists of the South may be numerous enough and desperate enough to light « fame of discord which will spread over looges @ markes for What Kiad of material. The “ the length and breadth of the land, The Sabbath Committee om Sunday Lager Bler, Of the homilies of the Sabbath Committee, the puritanical junta denounce lager bier as an intoxicating drink, “producing delirium tre- mens,” and in another of their “documents” they call the sale of iton Sunday “a crime.” In the olden time in Massachusetts it would have been a capital felony, without benefit of clergy. Besides 26,000 unproseci:ted complaints made by the police for violation of the Sunday laws by the sale of liquors, the committee dole- fully lament that there are 7,702 unlicensed venders, who may be arrested under the statute of 1857, and yet are allowed to go Scot free. What does allthis prove? Surely the vast majority of the community do not agree with the Sabbatarians, that to sell, or buy, or drink lager bier on Sunday is any violation of a moral law, or of a Divine commandment, or a crime in any sense of the word. Else the fanati- cal laws passed by the black republican Legis- iature, under the infuence of the Sabbath Com- mittee, would be carried out, at least aa well aa other enactmenta. That they are to @ great extent a dead letter, and only serve as a source of annoyance and perse cution, without accomplishing the objects for which they were enacted, is the plainest con- demnation that can be pronounced against them. In the words of the Sabbath Committee, “Every Sunday sale of liquor isa violation of at leaat four laws—those against all traffic (on Sanday), that against unlicensed liquor selling, the Metropolitan Police act of 1857, and the city ordinances of 1855. Yet, with the republi- can police under their control, the Sabbata- rians cannot carry out the Sunday laws. Why eo’ Because they are unconstitutional and at variance with the spirit of our free institutions, and because infractions of such laws do not in- volre any moral turpitude, or lessen in the public estimation those who drink a glass or two of lager bier on Sunday, or those who sup- ply them with the innocent and refreshing beve- rage. As for lager bier being an intoxicating drink, and producing frequent delirium tremens, as the veracious Sabbath Committee aasert, there is abundant evidence to prove the contrary. Ina suit a short time since a German deposed that he could drink a gallon of it without being in the slightest degree intoxicated. The truth is that men cannot drink so much of it as will intoxi- cate them. Hence the Germana who drink it 80 generally are seldom or never arrested for intoxication, and in Germany, where lager bier is the universal beverage, drunkenness is un- known. The sanctimonious Sabbatarians are therefore refuted by stubborn facta and the experience of mankind. All nations have some atimulating beverage; perhaps lager bier is the most harmless of these drinks, The tendency of the eale of lager bier is thus to lessen the sale of the stronger drinks, brandy whiskey, gin, rum and the rot gut of the low groggeries, and consequently to lessen intoxica- tion. Yet the efforta of the Sabbath Committee are chiefly directed against lager bier. Itiea remarkable fact What at wae uteyuiuce wpa. of the fanatics against drunkenness have only increased it. Had they left the legitimate tem- perance movement to its natural course, to ap- peal to intemperate men by argument to re- form their lives, instead of coercing them by law, there would not have been balf as many cases of intoxication as there are at this day. By carrying matters to extremes, and running the movement into the ground by mixing it up with the rotten systems of party politics, and passing prohibitory laws, the fanatics have pro- duced a reaction, and not only totally destroyed all the good effected by the moral suasion of temperance advocates, but increased the vice which they attempted to eradicate by violent means. It waa the same in the time of Charles I. Macauley, the historian, says of this period:— “Those passions and tastes which had been sternly repressed (by the Sabbatarians) broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivo- lous amusements and to criminal plea sures with the greediness which long and en- forced abstinence naturally produces, Little restraint was imposed by public opinion; for the nation, nauseated by caat, suspicious of all pretensions to sanctity, and still smarting from the recent tyranny of rulers austere in life and powerful in prayer, looked for a time with com- placency on the softer and gayer vices." And Mr. Disraeli, in his “Curiosities of Literature,” writes to the same effect:—“The ascetic penances (of the Puritans) were afterwards succeeded in the nation by an era of hypocritical sanctity, and we may trace this last stage of insanity and of immorality, closing with impiety.” To such a denouement are the Sabbatarians and puritanical republicans now leading this nation. If they should be successful, then his tory is written for us in vain, and in our case it ia not “philosophy teaching by example.” Let public opinion be heard and felt on the subject. Let a great meeting be called in New York to vindicate the equal rights of all American citi- zens—the civil and religious liberty bequeathed to us by the fathers of the Revolution. We want no other revolution than that. It planted human freedom on the right basis. The object of the black republican party is to disturb it, and to sap and undermine the foundations of the constitution. That party must be pus down, or they will put the people dowa and trample under foot all the rights of maa ‘The Prince om the Prairies. Perbaps the most interesting incident in the American tour of the Prince of Watts is his visit to the great prairies of the Wes), wherein, according to the present appearaace of things, the seat of empire in this republic isto be eventually situated. After throe or four hours’ ride from Chicago, a city whith is in itself a marvel of progress aa@ prosperity, the royal party found themselves at Dwight, a very small village in the middie cf a vast plain, 94 Limitiess, apparently, aa the ocean. Here we see the future monarch of England lodged at a comfortable farm- house, which is not eufficiently commodious to receive the noblemen and gentlemen who ac- company him. They are quartered ia adjacent cottages, and are treated by the yeomanry sith that bearty hospitality which is at once free, cordial and generous, which places the lovers of field sports, of whatever rank they may be, on the same footiog. Then we eee the Prince and bis euite enjoying at Dwight their first quiet Sabbath, lounging upon the green eward, wooing the fresh breezes that, ladeo with the perfumes of the wild Gowers, sweep ST over the broad prairies, a2 preparing for the | The Commander of the British Wace forey of the next day. Mo 24sy morning finds them up bright and early, am '® capital day's sport rewards their exertions. The people whom they meet are pleasant, co, “dial, anxious to make them comfortable, but neve. * intruding upon or annoying them. They are n % bored with stereotyped addresses, as in Canada —there are no fanatical Orangemen, timid May. T? OF stupid Aldermen out upon the prairies. No De there expects to be knighted or to receive t.°@ red ribbon of the bath, or to get a better place than the one which heholds. The hardy sons of the soil regard themselves as the equals of any sovereign on earth; and they are right. That the Prince and bis suite have taken the proper view of their reception upon the outskirts of civilization is apparent from the accounts which we receive of their behavior. The Prince entered into the sport with the utmost empresse- ment, and waa very proud of the result of his shooting. It must have been a most interestiog contrast to the cover hunting in the Old Coun- try, and it is to be regretted that the party could not have had an opportunity to enjoy a buffalo chase, the most exciting of all our field sports. The idea of taking the Prince to the West, and then conveying him to the Atlantic cities by easy stages, wasa most happy one. By this means he will be able to trace the progress of the country and to un- derstand its resources. He will see first the smallest villages, then the flourishing towns, and after that the great cities, and be able to judge as to the causes of the rapid develope. ment of the real power of the republic. In a few years the prairies over which he has been shooting will be covered with settlements, and this growth will not be arrested until the steam whistle is heard at the base of the Rocky Moun- tains. How pleasant will be the souvenirs of the Prince when he hears of the progress of the Weet, and remembers that when he roamed over the sites of the cities of which he reads they were aa so many uninhabited islands in the middle of the ocean. Altogether the little prairie experiences of our princely guest will be, as we have said before, among the most memorable incidents in a journey which muat have been altogether exceedingly agreeable, and by no means unprofitable in its results. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Wasmxcrow, Sept. 29, 1860. ‘TUE RETROCEABION OF THR BAY ISLANDS TO HONDURAS. Mr. Molina, recently accredited to our government as Minister from Honduras, bad a long interview to-day with Secretary Cage, in reference to matters connected with that government. Honduras, after abe learned of the expedition of Walker, urged cpon the British authoritics to keep possession of Ruataa. Now what Walker has been captured, and her fears have becn quieted, she is ready to take possession, and Great Britain, in accordance with the treaty, will eurreader it up to Honduras. This is the explanation of the reasons why it has been so long deiayed. TUS SALT LAGE MAC SERVICE—DISOONTINUANOK OP THE PONT EXPRESS. The rearrangement of the Salt Lake and Denver mails, to go around via Council Blulfs, omitting the service be- tween St. Joseph aad Julesburg, which the Post Office Department bas in contemplation, will discontinue the poay express, which has become so necessary to com- mercial interests, The coat of the pony express, except TR OODURUBIUE wee mw meee mee nny eel It ts provable, however, that should the departwment ox: tond the present Salt Lake mail contract until Congreas can act, the pony express wii! be continued, Ite discoa- ‘incaace will be felt by all classes, especialiy by the peo- pie of California, just on the eveof an important clection. ‘CONSUL AT ASPINWALL. Sarouel Clark, of Michignn, bas been appointed Consul at Asplawall, vice Fox, removed. cD FoR rum @rrrxxmns my srrca. The storeatip Relief will leave Boston on the 26th prox for the Mediterranean. The Secrotary of the Navy to-day cheerfully responded to request that the vessel be di- rected to convey thither such articles of clothing and fabrice v0 convertible for the relief of the sufferers ia Syria es the charitable of this country may coatribute up to that period. MR. DOUGLAS IN INDIANA. Leva aroun, S opt. 93, 1960. Among the prominent speakers present to-day, besides Messrs. Douglas and Johnson, were Gov. Tod, of Ohio: Gov. Dizon, of Kentucky ; Judge Clinton, of Tennessee Mr. Sweetser, of Ohio; Mr. Logan, of Illinois; and Mr’ Schnable, of Pennsylvania, The torchlight procession and display of fireworks to-night was. very fine. Mr. Dougias leaves to-morrow moraing for Louisville. MR, DOUGLAS AT LOUISVILLE. Lovusrr.ta, Sept. 29, 1860. The booming of camnon shortly after noon to day an- nocaced the arrival of Mr. Douglas. Te was received at the levee by @ large multitude and escorted to the Louts- ville Hotel. He addvessed some thirty thousand people at Preston's Woods, charging that Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Breckinridge would be responsible if Limeoin was elected, anthey were both working to that oud. He showed the inconsistency of Mr. Breckinridge inviting him to advo- cate “popular sovereignty’’ in Reatueky in 1966, endorse. ing bis views thon, and now dewouncing them as a rottca. plank in the democratic platform. Mr. Dougias sald Mr. Brockiari¢ge sacrificed himself to the bolters, who would not vote for him in the Reguiar Convention, but who, after seceding, knowiag they could not elect thoir candidate, took him up tokill aim off. Mr. Dougias cpoke a5 hour apd a ball, and was frequently interrupted with enthus'ast!c applause. Bon‘res are burping before the Court Hous: and tn Several streets this evening. The Enquirer office is bril- Lastly (laminated and decorated with flags, and the Dougias men ore in kigh spirita at the ackievoment of thelr cand date. The Nashville trac, on the Nashville aad Chattanooga: Ra\lroca, while going out this morning, waa thrown of the track by @ flendish act of somebody. One man was kUlod and several badly Senator Seward at St. Joseph, Mo. Sr. Jouuru, Sept. 29, 1860, Governor Seward arrived bere inst night, and left wis morning for the East. fie mate co epecch. Massachusetts Congriwional Nomination Rogtos, Sept. 29, 1960. The republicans of the Seventh District Bave nom gated Danie! W. Gooch for re election to Congress. Oklg Politics. Curerwwati, Sept. 29, 1860 Hon 1. Anderson ec!ines the nomination for Congress on the Constiiut'onal Union ticket in the First district. ‘The reas 98°‘ gned ‘a ill bealth. The Hell of s Staffordshire Found. Boerow, Sept. 29, 1960. A letter from Yarmouth, N.S , states that the bull of the ship Staffordshire, lost eevoral years eioce on the pareage from L\verpoo! to Boston, bas receatly been found off Sag Harbor, in ten fathoms water Rallread Accident. Soom Beawicx Jcsctiom, Sept 27, 1899. ‘The rafiroad bridge over the Salmon Falls river, ou the Great Falle and Conway road, fell this morning while “tain was passing over It, The engine, with foar platform cart, fell with the bridge. The brakeman pulled the pin connecting the freight cars from the passenger care just in time to nave the latter from being precipitated into the river. ‘The cogizeer saved his lifé by jumping from his on gine to the abutment of the bridge. Nobody was burt Barsted. anata, Sept 29, 1880, ailoon c Mr, Lowe's Balloon Par ‘Tho inflation of Mr. Lowe's night, and at Give o'clock this meraing prepared, the excursionists in th» hs i wae about to be cul, when tHe be Va ome ' we ‘ot many of bis songs. Take hin ‘Bing of the fung over the length and breadth of tho abolitionised Steamer Gladiator Kufocked Down at New Oricans. Naw Onizana, Sept. 29, 1060. The commander of the British war steamer anaciet was knocked down today in the barroom of the Bt. Charice Hote! by a friend of General Walker, Coustdera- bie excitement existe in regard to the affair, SE See News from Pike's Peak. Sr. Josara, Bept 29, 1800 The Pike's Peak express arrived last night with email treasure ebipment of $1,570. The company here- after will have @ messenger in the coaches tri-weekig . Many owners of quartz mines who, two months ago, be- came wholly discouraged, are now sanguine of sucoemm en dare making $200 eT more per wesk. At last ee- counts about twenty tesms had left Dewver for the Btajes. Many of those who went with them will retura in the spricg to locate farms er develope theis’ gold aud Gilver leads. The weather at [ezver ia very cod, with 42 occasional faliO 600". The miners now ae oftem unable to commence operations uxt! ebout nine oMelock in the morning on aconat of ice, Winter is revi Spproaching. Trains, consisting of merchandise, teft here this week to the number of fity wagons, and mote are preparing to leave. _ The Jura Oatward Bown. Morragar, Sept, 20, 1800. The steamship Jura eniled from Quebes fer Liverpool this morning at ten o'clock, with 45 passengers: The Star of the South at Savanczeh, Savaynan, Sept. 29, 1860. Tho steamship Star of the Socth, from New Yom, ar- rived at Tybee at elevea o'clock Friday night, and other wharf at seven o'clock this (Saturday) morning. am weil. The Fair at st. Louis. Sr. Lovis, Sept. 29, 1860. The fair grounds were well filled yesterday. The premium of $600 for the best thoroughbred stat lion of any age was awarded to “Potatoes,” owned by B. R. Tyler, of St. Louis county. The second premium of $000 was awarded to “St, Louis,” owned by J. B. White, of St. Louis, The third premium, $100, was awarded to “Damon,” owned by Mr. Good, of St. Louis, The Case of Thompson, the Murderer. Purapstrata, Sept, 29, 1960. The case of Robert Thompson, sentenced to be hung for the murder of John Capie, wil! be carried to the Ba- preme Court. Obituary. Barrrworx, Sept. 29, 1860. S. Owings Hoffman, an old and highly respectavie merchant of Baltimore, died last night. me |, Sept. 23, Cotton sales to-day now baa oe a 0c. =. Sales of thew peg codigo Degg tome = vata tiie Isst y\ in port, 81, Fl rt Harr, te. 8 & 16-16c. Ld exchange om jew York al rose on St exchange om Toeonm, Sept. 29, 1800. FPL yA ge be em ao a Wheat dull and us. changed. Corn steady : sales of white and yellow at 686. a 70c. Provisions dull and heavy: mess pork, $19 76; $16. Coffee firm at 1aye. @ Boige. ae ParLapELma, Flour quiet, but steady. Wheat $1 60; red, $i 980 $1 33. Corn firm Coftee unchanged. Whiskey u Notises of New Pablications. Posms sy Georoe P. Monr:s, with « Mexormow tux Autuor. The only complete edition. Secik- ner: New York. Wenkingtan Irving once observed, It ts imposattle to read the poctical works Of Weuvre: stucsts wituous Loving their author.” ‘man that has not « large, ® warm and a sympathetic na- ture can strike successfully those chords that vibrate through our sweetest and tendorest feelings, and make all the worldatia. Burns do@ved this poetic gift as Nature's instine— untaught and untutored by art.” When we read such effusions es. Burns’ ‘Highland Mary,” and Morfis' “Got- tager’s Woisome”’ and “We wero Boys Together,’ we feet that there-ie something in them beyond art which ex- Presses what we all may bave felt a thousand timeswith- Out the power of expressing it. This is the highest git Of the lyric poet—to sing direct from the heart; and to Give form end expression to !ts profoundest cmotions, Notwithatanding, however, that General Morr's has hela bis place in the foremost raak of American |yrical weitere for more than @ quarter of # century, there ere certain. newspaper critics who affect to. believe that be is no poet at al. The best repiy that can be made to 80 hetercdox aad tmpuden: 9 assertion is the Jact that there ts scarcely a home to be found im America where bis songg.are not sung. ‘“Smgusat,’’ sere ote of bis cont smporaries, ‘is bis popular :y among the publishers that becan ai any time obtela Gfty dellare for soog unread, when the whole rorssindor of the American Parnassus could not ee!! one to the came bayer form singte shilling.’ It is evident that the people think tim @ poet. But it is easy to taaee the source of this depreciation of © charming & writer, What has oct spruag from Jealousy and cary bas arisen from fanatical jatred of the conservative ang. patrietic spirit Union” as @ specimen, the opening verseof which, if States, would do mare to counters: the mischievoen, dies that has Deen imparted to their population than al, the campaign documents that arc. doodmg the count’ trem cno-endte heciter— “A Op that other song of “The Union,” ex verse of wi,ch ends with the noble chorus: — = your barpe from allent willows, tho chorus of the free, States areal dlativet ts billows, Union ome--ag is the sea, Thore is anckber point connected with the songs end dallads of “orris that most cover be left out of sight In a Critical ‘sotice of bis compositions, and that is their perity apd freefom from everything thet would wlend = the most delicate = and feminine ‘mind. He is almost the only tong writer who has mavage@ to separate ansereontic suggestions from the wsurpationa of love, considered {a its bo! est aspects. In getting up this, the only complete edition of his poems, Mr, Boribuer bas exercised a sound jatgment im giving \t the cheap duo¢ce!mo form. The works of suck 0 writer should be within the reach of al! classes, and of A portable wine Tt is scarcely necessary for as to wish the publication a success that we know to be assured be- forehand. Milltary Intelligence. THE FilTH REGIMENT IN GARRISON, The Fifth regiment of our city troope completed thetr second day's garrison duty yesterday at Fort Wood, Bedioe’s istend Lieut. Sincistr, the army o™cer charged with the dutaae | of inetructing the troops, bas applied bimse/ coreme- tingly in imparting @ thorough knowledge of ‘ihe mazage- ment of the sea coast guns to them, aod bq apeaka in the moat dattering terms of bis edorta thus tar, ‘There will be a full drcas parade of ‘the regiment at twelve o'clock to-tay. Col, Schwarreeider bas received & er mmuaication from Maj. Geo Sandford, accepting sn im yitation to visit the ialand on Wednesday next. The ‘General, in company ‘WIth bis statT, will leave Whiteoad at half-past ten 0” A Mon that'day. A the thirty-two arrival at Fort Major HP. Hubbell, engineer of the Second bei staf, proceeded. 8a se © lsiand yesterday, and will take part in the du‘, ave the errertment dock ay, O1 Big aud LOK »