The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1852, Page 4

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Copies, in wrappers, sixpence cach " @he News: By eur special correspondent at Washington, we ” arn that Judge Comkling’s nomination as Minister fo Mexico, in place of Mr. Letcher, will not be very Aaverably received by the Senate. It is said the et of appoimting Mr. Conkling, who has few qua- ations to recommend him, was for the purpose «di ef permitting to step into the ) us made vacant. We etcher does not come home by s own request, but by the desire of President Arista, in consequence of some so-called insolent communications sent to the Minister of Foreign Re- lations of Mexieo, in regard to the Garay grant. Peter A. Bergous bas filed with the government a elaim for damages against Mexico, for her refusal to recognise the:Garay title, to the amount of forty millions of doll In the United States Senate, yesterday, the Hon. James M. Mason, of Virginia, Chairman of the Commitee on Foreign Relations, made a flaming apeech on his resolution calling upon the President IK. bark, which "Jaq been prepared for market. At last Accounts ‘ho fire was on the increase, and its de- struct: ve course could only be cheeked by & heaty raiy Obsequies in honor of Henry Clay were celebrated in Rochester yesterday. The streets were crowded with people, and the procession was the largest ever | witnessed in that city. The extensive manufactory of the Union Compa- ny of Maryland, at Canton, near Baltimore, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss is estimated at $100,000. The remains of Bishop Chanche arrived in Balti- wore yesterday, and were met by # grand funeral procession. To-day he will be buried in the Ca- thedral cemetery, by the side of his sister, which, it is said, was his last request. The government of the United States, determined to maintain in all honor, the treaty between this country and England, have issued instructions to J. Prescott Hall, Esq., U. 8. District Attorney, to co- operate with Charles Edwards, Esq., as Counsel for the British government, in the case of the extradi- tion of of Thomas Kaine. Presidential Politics Reviewed—Principles Superior to Gunpowder. The idea has become very prevalent throughout the country that gunpowder pepularity is absolute- ly irresistible. Itis a prevalent mistake, and will, sooner or later, prove to be a practical delusion. Under the imaginary effeet of the victory of New Orleans in establishing the impregnable popularity of General Jackson, the whig party have looked up their military chieftains, and their suecess, in two experiments} for the Presidency has induced them to set aside their most practical, popular and expe- rienced statesmen, for the adventitious chances of another purely military candidate. Now, we briefly propose to illustrate the fallacy of this policy, and by a few prominent historical facts, running through the political cycle of the last twenty-five years, to show the uniform supremacy of principles and public measwres—political, financial and com- mercial—and the eecondary influences of mere mili- tary popularity. Reeurring, then, to the causes—commercial, financial, political and sectional—which contributed most prominently to the election of Generals Jack- son, Harrison and Taylor, it will be seen, at a glance, how very little, in reality, their military reputation had to do with their remarkable suc- cess. The fame of Gen. Jackson as the hero of New Orleans, was very well known in 1824; and yet, though he was ahead of his competitors, he was carried up, with Adams and Crawford, to the House of Representatives. The electoral vote was distributed—Jackson 99, Adams 81, Crawford 41, and Clay 37—the three highest only being admitted inio the House. There, the vote being by States, one vote to each, by a concentration of the friends of Clay upon Adams, he was clected President— the vote was, Adams 13 States, Jackson 7, Craw- ford 4. It is unnecessary to reiterate the effect which the charge of “bargain and corruption” between Adams and Clay, had in the defeat of the former at the next ensuing election. Mr. Clay, fearless in his conscientious integrity, accepted the post of Secro- tary of State under Adams, which gave sufficient coloring to the charge, not only to defeat Adams in °28, but forever to exclude Mr. Clay himself from the Presidenc¥. Inthe campaign of 723, a distin- guished democratic politician, now deceased, is said to have declared that “if the administration of Jobn Quincy Adams were as pureas the angelsin heaven, it must be defeated,” because of the anegva for information in relation to the Newfoundland fisheries. He contended that the British govern- ment had not only committed a breach of national courtesy, but had insulted the whole American people, i fleet of armed ve: s upon the Ban! vo their peculiar eonstry He said the President’s answer to the resolution ought to be, that -he had ordered the whole naval force of the country into the waters bordering the British pro- vine an fishermen proars rd, and, in to befor war. Mr. fact, -nenrly all the & ndemnation tion to the fisheries mously. The $50,000 h government The -resolution passed amendment to the and per dicen of § bill, and it was a. Academy bill, w adjourned till Mondaj he House of Lepreseutativee yesterday took up : s of the public lands to cling a railroad from , and disposed of it by after which the considera- resumed not enrolled in the h it to the Military , and the S with a little tanly, of North eon the b 1 closed y a. United Stat ing that tho Presi da naval h North Ameri- ent to protect the fis ion while p to the eent ean Tnited States from » lawful oeeupati I 2.100 vessels and 30,000 « those fisheries. It was reported in Boston, sloop of war Albany, now ly en are now engaged in esterday, that the g in that port, had been ordered to the Nova Scotia fishing grounds, to | protect the American fishermen. The Florida Whig State Convention, after rat ing the nomination of General Scott for the Pr dency, unanimously nominated the Hon. Edward C. Cabell, who refused to support Beott, for a re-cle Prosidentia electors were al Great prepa: making for tho Lundy’s | Lane celebration on Tucsday next. The ground has | been reviewed and marked out, and the different | localities fixed upon for the military, societies, &c. | The Senate yesterday cenfirmed the nomination | of the Hon. John P. Kennedy to the Navy Depart- | ment, and it is aid he will enter upon the duties of his office on Monday next. General Scott being troubled with tracted in Mexico, of which so many of the troops | have died eince their return, has concluded to go to Old Point Comfort for the benefit of his health, and arrived in Baltimore on Thursday, on his way thithe His health is said to be improving. Late news from Mexico has arrived at New Or- Jeans. Several members of the Mexican Congress had called for the convening of an extra session, for the purpose of ceconsidering the Tehuantepec affair, but it was said he govermaent were opposed to it. ‘The Indians were still unruly on the frontiors, and Mexicans were forming for a campaign, to expel \ them from Leon. We learn from St. John, N. B., that dastructive gales have visited the Gulf of &t. Lawronee. An English bark was wrecked off Gaspée, by which eighteen persons lost their lives; and it was reported that the armed schooner Alliance was lost near St. Paul's Island, with all on board. Fifteen schoongrs had been lost, and twenty-two pilote drowned A very destructive fire occurred last evening at Albany, as will be seen hy the report of our special correspondent, in the extensive drug and oil store of McClure & Co., in State street, the flames from which burst forth so sudden, and with such rapidity, that two persons, named James McClure, a clerk in the establishment, and Wm. Bamber, employed in j the Attorney Goneral’s office, wero frightfully ; burned before they could make their escape. One | » Congress a disease con- nt, had a word to | course pursued by the | tion passed on Thureday, | “bargain and corruption” with which it was brought into power. The first election of Jackson, then, mainly from this cause, resulted from tho concentratien upon him of the friends of Jackson, Crawford, and Calhoun, aided by the battle cry of ** retrenchment and reform.” The triumphant re-election of Gen. Jackson in 1832, over Mr. Clay, was not the result of military | popularity over civil and political experience. Un- i der son’s first administration, the country had been prosperous and the treasury flourishing: hnt acme war had been declared against him for his veto of the bill to re-charter the United States | Bank. He threw himself upon the people against the moneyed power of that monster corporation, and ained by all the State banks in his position. ult was the death warrant to the bank and Clay’s whole American system; for in the | see ation of Jackgon, that whole sys- | tem was utterly demolished. | In the campaign of 1836, the principles and the | policy of Gen. Jackson were transmitted as tho | principles and policy of Martin Van Buren, the de- | mocratic candidate. The State banks, with the | aid of the government funds transferred from the | United States Bank, had extended their paper cir- | | culation to an inordinate amount, the immediate | In | effect of which was, however, an unparalleled de- prosperity, and the most unbounded tock jobbing, shaving, and specu- lation. The State banks were all with Van Buren, as the i or of Gen. Jackson’s policy. lation was rampant—the country was run mad with flation of bank rags, and resolved hoa long to go it, neck or nothing. And what was the result? The whigs ran several candidates—Gen. Harrison, Webster, and Hugh L. White; and yet Van | Buren was elected over all of them combined, not- | withstanding the fact that ‘old Tippecanoe” was | asmuch the hero of the battle of the Thames in | that asin the next succeeding election. As in the | case of Gen. Jackson in 1828, so it was with Gen. Uarrison in 1836. His military reputation was hadowed and borne down by the superior ight of great principles and measures, an acci- dental combination of parties, and from the pros- | y of the adminstration to be elected. | We come now to the grand pol whirlwind | and tornado of 1810. Gen. Harrison, in that cam- | paign, elected over Van Buren by the majority of 234 electoral votes over 60, and by nineteen States out of twenty-six. But it was not the paltry battle of the Thames, nor the paltry Indian fight at Tippecanoe, that did it. They had as little to do with the overwhelming result of 1840, as had the battle of New Orleans with the decisive election of 18 The United States Bank having been annihi- gree of fict | extray Speeu- | | lated, root and branch, and the government depo- sites having been distributed among the State banks, they had, as we have said, taken the hint given them by General Jackson, and had expanded their circulation, in 1886 and °87, to the explosive point. There was too much wind, and gas, and steam in the boilers. A thousand millions of paper credit was, prima facic, a formal notice of an impending explosion. Itcame. The State banks suspended specie payments—there was a general shock, a general panic, and a general breaking up all over the country. A thousand castles built in the air tumbled to the ground. The crash was awful. With the banks shut up, and their circulation rapidly diminished, and there being no specie—no Califor- nia, no Australia, in those}days—traders and specu- Jatore, jobbers and shavers, resorted to city, town, village, and individual bills, and shinplasters swarmed like locusts in all the Jand. To save the government from the gencral ruin, the Sub-Treasury bill was passed, and the government specie wa: taken from the State banks—the direct effet of which was to break down a number of them, cripple all of thom, and further to augment the terrors of the wide ep read revulsion. Superadded to all this, the pay- men t of all government dues was exacted in specio, for la nds, postage, and duties, whon there was no | specie 1.0 circulation. The ca.“paign of 1840 opened after all the horrors of the finavicial and commercial smashing up of Of these unfortunate individuals was reported last night to have died troyed From Rowe The Wuilding was entirely des- y | | eh the pine woe we learn that a fire is sweep- N Sng thre « short distance from thet place, which ie dosi 1987, °38, and “89 had been realized, and while they were still existbeg. Van Buren was hold responsi- ble. The State banks combined against him. A large segment of tle Comocratic party, under tho title of Conservatives, in this State and in other States, w rgunlzed in direct hortility to the anb- | 2.4 large amount of | treagury, which, though @ wise ang wholesome | *¢" Seana Ot vente t-te Sf weet | ym are soa jobbers, as the grahd continuing caure of all the | public distress. In these things wo have the secret of che overwhelming tornado which swept away tho | gdwinistration of Van Buren in 1840. Harrison’s military glory was but @ feather in the balance. Henry Clay, or any otlier good whig, nominated in opposition to Van Buren, frem the same causes would have been just as casily elected. Thus much Tn the campaign of 1844, things had come to an equilibrium again. The two parties wore restored almost to their proper level The whigs, however, withan overweening confidence in their strength, once again nominated Mr. Clay, and proceeded to of 1840. But the administration of Harrison, or rather of Tyler, who succeeded on the death of old Tip to the administration, recoiled against the whigs in two vetocs of a national bank. Nor did the repeal of the sub-treasury help them, nor the | Bankrupt law. Still, notwithstanding theee things, and the Texas and Oregon questions, Mr. Clay would have been elected but for the new clement of abolition introduced into the Presidential arena. Of the fit- teen thousand votes cast for Birney in this State, probably ten thousand of them were whigs; whereas six thousand of them voting for Henry Clay would have elected him. In the election of 1844 we see most strikingly illustrated the insignificance of mere men, as compared with the effect of great principles. Personally, and in a social sense, Henry Clay was the most popular man in the United States, while Mr. Polk was, comparatively, a cold, unpopular and obscure man. How strikingly consistent, for all, is the drift of pepular opinion from one Presi- dential election to another, when we come to con sider it dispassionately! In 1848, the whig party resolved to give Henry Clay the go-by. He had disappointed them, and they had disappointed him; but they had sueceed- ed most gloriously with one military chieftain, and they resolved te try another. Public opinion, how- ever, had already designated the man, in the plain, straightforward, simple-minded, honest old General Taylor, fresh from his brilliant campaign in Mexico. The people were delighted with him. Even the democrats were kindly disposed to- wards him; and in Pennsylvania at least, some of them, in their primary mectings, nominated him for the Presidency as an independent candidate. Bo- sides, though a ‘‘whig, he was not an ultra whig,” and was run as ano party man—a conservative, upon two platforms—one in the North, and one in tho South. But stil!, thore stands out the force of fixed principles in tho result. The democratic party was divided. The yote received by Van Buren in this State, added to that of C, would have elected Cass the President, such was his strength with the Van Buren defection, aud the incvitable certainty of the loss of New York staring the democratic par- ty in the face. And thus much for the availability of a military chieftain in 1548, The chapter, through the entire political cycle from 1824 to 1852, is thus complete. Uniformly we find great measures and principles, questions of cur- rency, finance, and administrative policy, the con- trolling forces in every Presidential election, from that day to this. Compared with these influences, gunpowder, bayonets, and bombshells, are mere sound and fury, signifying little or nothing. We find Gen. Jackson riding in upon the whirlwind of popular opinion, against the United States Bank and the bad measures of the whig party—we find Van Buren carried through upon the State bank inflation of “54-"5-"6; and his administration swept off like chaff, from the general financial revulsion and bankruptey which sueceeded. In 1844 we find Mr. Clay defeated by the intervention of the abolition faction ; and in 1848, by the interposition of this same faction, on a larger scale, Gen. Cass is over- thrown. In not one single case bas mere military capital effected any decisive result on either side. Principles and party combinations have been para- mount, from first to last. What, then, is the prospect for 1852! ‘* History is Phivcuphy Wuching Ly enumptv.'” £101 1e8S0nS are full of wisdom. They reduce theZscience of polities almost to the accuracy of mathematics. The past is the oracle of the future. What, then, is the prospect? Unpropitious, we should say, for the third military cMeftain of the whigs—the fee- blest of the three in intellect, though the greatest of the three in battles and victories. The principles, the circumstances, and the associa- tions by which he is surrounded are ali against him. The head of a whig cabinet stands aloof, aiding and abetting his adherents, who are moving to organized mutiny. The élite of the whig administration, and the office-holders, have no in- ducement to aid their Baltimore nominee. The Union whigs of the South are in open revolt, because the election of Scott is the promotion of Sewardand his schemes of disorganization and sedition. Tho maes of the whig free soilers of Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio, are moving for the Pittsburg Con- vention, and a separate and third party nomina- tion, because General Scott has accepted the whig platform, while his most officious organs ‘‘execrate and spit upon it.” The native American heresies ot General Scott, and his yacillating opinions from time to time, are paralyzing the efforts of his best friends to harmonize his principles and pretensions; and, to cap the climax, the music of the fife and drum, and the fantastic buffoonery and clap-trap of a grand military carnival, have become Like a tale thrice told Tn the cars of a drowsy man, On the other hand, we have the leading measures of the democratic party established, and in highly successful operation, as the practical policy of the government. We find that party now united, and ravenous for the spoils, all of which will be clear gain. There are forty thousand offices) and fifty muillions a year, now held by the whigs, for the en- couragement of the democrats to work for Pierce, while neither the inside nor outside whigs are cer- tain of anything in the election of Gea. Scott. The Pittsburg Convention‘will, most probably, cost Gen. Seott the loss of Ohio and Massaghusetts, coupled with the Webster defection—certainly New York; and, very likely—with all the other causes enu- If so, the moral will be the uncertainty—yca, the emptiness of military glory and a purely military nomiration, regardless, alike, of true consistency, good advice, good policy, bad associations, and sound diseretion. In a word, this campaign, we four, will be the end of mere military chieftains for the Presidency. Like Oliver Twist when he had finished his ‘* hasty plate of soup,” the peeple will want something more. Tue Barrie or Lunpy’s Lans—Generat Scorr Ovent to Go.—Next Monday and Tuesday the whigs celebrate at Niagara Falls the victory of Lun- dy’s Lane. Now, at this bloody battle, from the latest information, it appears that after getting possession of the ground by fighting till mid- night, the Americans retreated to their ontrench- ments; and that the British re-occupied the battle field in the morning, where they found their artil- lery still remaining; and that they took care of tho | wounded; and, piling up in one heap the dead bodies of both armies, burnt them. The spot is stiil marked by the charcoal on the summit of the pla- teau. General Seott fought there like a lion—but | was that a victory or a drawn battle? The British were driven, and the Americans retreated from the ground in the night, but the British re-occupied it in the morning. It is to be hoped that Genera Scott will go up and explain this victory. There are two precedents for it--General Jackson attend- ed the celebration of the victory of New Orleans, on that battle ground, in 1828, and General Harri- son attended the celebration on the battle field of Fort Meigs, in £840--and in each instance the hero of the day was a candidate for tho Presidency, Geneval Scott, after all, had better go up. sing him into the White House, after the fashion | | dency of a suit at law, either before a judge ora | merated—a most deplorable defeat in November. | | —that not a single case was brought on board, and Soctatim awp Sxpinion iN Tasbiavy Hate — | socialists of the Seward stripe satisfied with the great labor of electing General | Scott to the Presidency of this republic, but are — ambitious of distinguishing themselves also by get- ting up 9 lawless, seditious meeting, in Tammany Hall, and, by exciting a certain portion of our popu- lation on the eubject of a law case, now before the courts, to Buch @ degree as to create a riot, uproar, confusion, and probably to end with bloodshed in the guipary maseacre at the Astor Place riet, which took place a few years ago. For many days past, the government at Washington and the legal tribu- nals in this city have been engaged in examining a cage affecting a person who ran away from Ireland, and whose surrender was demanded by the British authorities, on a charge of attempted homicide, un- der the conditions of a treaty agreed on between the | two countries. On any occasien during the pen- | jury, it is considered, in all civilized countries, sedi- | tious and violative of the public peace to attempt, | | by popular meetings, or by exciting popular senti- ‘ ment or indignation, to intimidate the tribunals — of justice, or influence the due administration | | of the laws by the rightfully censtituted authori- | | ties. The recent meeting in Tammany Hall, in re- | spect to Kaine—no matter what may be the merits | | or demerits of the case—was one which was called | together by demagogues, with the design and pur- | pose of intimidating those charged with the admin- | istration of the laws, and preventing their fair and peaceable execution, by exciting a hostility to the | | laws among a certain portion of our population, which may lead to disorder of the most fatal and | deplorable character in the course of a few days. In this aspect of the case, witfut entering into | any nice and critical discussion of the points of difference among the pettifogging lawyers on either side, it will be obvious to every friend of the Union and the constitution, and the quict administration of our public laws, that when socialist demagogues, of the most contemptible and destructive character, are thus seen going into Tammany Hall, and endeay- oring to excite the populace, they are merely follow- ing the réleof a Robespierre, a Danton, or a Marat, and endeavoring to familiarize the hitherto quiet seem not to be | most fashionable such as Saratoga and Newport, have for some years past presented features akin to those tobe met with in all similar resorts on the Continent, and which are beginning to disgust and scare away all respectable society from these hitherto much ad- mired places. These disagreeable features in the society of Newport, Saratoga, and other fashiona- ple rendezvous, are the congregation inthem, for for the result of 1840. ‘ | streets more terrible and desolating than the san- | several seasons back, of large numbers of gamblers, Dlacklege, loafers, speculators, and other unprinci- pled characters, who make a show off for a short time, and instead of contributing to the general pleasure, or improvement, or agréeableness of the visiting community, only carry from the city to the -country the unhealthy manners and demoralizing | principles which prevail among corrupt circles in the larger cities. By means of the growth of this muisance, our fashionable watering places have, of late years, been anything but desirable or respectable. No doubt there are a great many estimable people to be found there, and gome with large fortunes and little brains, who parade about and show off, and many without fortunes, who make a great parade on credit; but no one who goes to Saratoga, or such places, maye expect to enjoy any pleasure or comfort, except that which consists in routs, dancing, dissipation, gambling, drinking, intriguing, slandering, lying, and such like amusements. , Tn consequenee of this demoralization of society, in what we are wont to call our fashionable watering places, the respectable portion of summer visitors are beginning to abandon them altogether, and leave them in sole possession of the less estimable portion. Persons of refined tastes and habits are’ now selecting the less noted watering places, where they will be comparatively freo from the tainted at- mosphere which hangs round the presence of the Dlacklegs, gamblers and tricksters who haunt Saratoga, Newport, and those other places which used to be most admired and frequented; and here, in these comparatively secluded places, they find moro quiet, more real en- joyment, and more respectable society. We are also particularly struck with the general taste now exhibited for rambling all over the moun- and respectable people of this city and country— | native and foreign—with scenes of lawlessness, dis- order, opposition to the laws, defianco of the public au- | thorities, riot, confusion and ultimate sedition, blood- shed, murder, and demoralization of the country it- | self. No man who is really a friend to the peaceful | and upright administration ofthe laws, would ever— during the pendency of a case in court—think of collecting a ranting, roaring public meeting in such a place as Tammany Hall, and of going there and making an inflammatory speech to a crowd of coims paratively ignorant men, and endeavoring to excite their passions to the point of riot and bloodshed, in order to gratify any petty ambition or paltry pur- pose at an approaching election. These scenes, | however, have multiplied in this city and in the | State since the destructive principles of the Hon. William H. Seward and his Robespierrean coadjutors have attained to the position of influence and power in this city, and in thls part of the country, which they have recently done. General Scott him- | seli—now their candidate for the Prosidency— has always been hitherto a supporter of the public | authorities, and of the laws exercised in a legitimate way. It is true, his enemies have ac- cused him sometimes of incipient sedition, and insubordination to his superiors in power; but it was reserved for the faction of socialists, abolitionists, and white-livered disturbers of the public peaco, headed by William H. Seward and his agents, who support General Scott, to make him hereafter, pro- bably, the principal cause of disturbance and blood- shed, and of disloyalty to the Union and this fair confederation. Such must be the conviction in the public mind, when we witness the impudent attempt which these demagogues make, in tho face of the rightful administration of the laws, to get up meet- ings to overawe the constitutional anthority, aud cite the populace to violate the peace of the city, and provoke a collision between the authorities and themselves, such as must end in blood, and such as we hed an exhibition of at the Astor Place Opera House, a few years ago. Svpen Epmonps in Tue Spirit WorLp AGAIN.-= It seems that the visit to the Land of Shades, re- cently made by this learned legal functionary, and ofwhich he gave such a full, true, and graphic ac- count, as re-published in the HERALD some few months back, has not been the only one he has had the courage to ventureon. He hasbeen there time and again, and still continues to drop in ofan af- ternoon, and while away an hour or two in social chat or sight-seeing, just as quietly and unconcern- edly as an ordinary mortal might be supposed to step into one ofour drinking saloons and enjoy | himself in smoking an Havana andimbibing a sherry cobbler, or take his seat in a theatre, or opera house, The Judge, it seems, docs net deem these visits and conversations ai all in tho light of strictly private | matters, and not intended for the vulgar ear. Oa the contrary, he has favered the community with another chapter of his extraordinary narrative, en- titled “Personal Experience,” which has been pub- lished for him in the Shekinah, the special organ of that sect of delusionists. This latter chapter does not introduce the reader to any of the groat celebrities of old, presented in the first. Lard Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Sir Isaac Nowton, and the host of the Judge's elevated spiritual acquaintances, no doubt | agreed with the observations we on that oce were induced to make, on the motives and objects of their apparition, as we are informed, through a similar source, that tho New York Hrrarp is now got up and printed by Franklin, in the other world, and enjoys as proportionably largo a circulation and popularity in that sphere, as it does in this sublunary one. Howover this may be, we have no dramatts persone in the chapter now placed before us; and though less interesting on | that account, still it is written in the most approved prophetical and allegorical style, and—if not too dangerous an experiment for some weak minds— might be worth perusal, as an evidence of the depth of fanaticism and delusion to which the victims of this superstition have allowed thomselves tb be carried. Is it not time for Judge Edmonds to think of resigning his seat on the bench, and of retiring to some vacancy in a respectable asylum? ‘Tue Mortarity on Boanp THe PrinApenputa.— The particulars of the voyage of the steamship Philadelphia, the dreadful mortality among her pasgengers, and the eircumstances under which sho was driven from Havana and Key West, are very clearly, and, no doubt, accurately, stated in the in- teresting narrative of Capt. McGowan, whieh we publish in another column of this morning’s paper. The energy, humanity, and indefatigable efforts of that estimable officer, and those under his command, to contribute to the relief of his passengers, under tho trying eircumstances in which he was placed, are worthy of all praise. Everything was done by the company to meet the emergeney, within the com- pass of possibility. The Falcon was despatched from this port to the relief of the Philadelphia within twelve hours after intelligence of her condition was received here, and instructions sent in every direc tion to the ships of the line to proceed to Key West on the homeward and outward voyage of each. With rogard to the erigin of the cholera on board the Philadelphia, which broke out with such sud- denness, and with such great fatality, Captain McGowan states the extraordinary faet, that it seemed to come, as it were, instantaneously, from a pestilential atmosphere from off the Island of Cuba. This impression is corroborated by the fact that the cholera did not prevail to any extent on the Isthmus previous to the sailing of the Philadelphia tains of New England, which, in point of beauty and magnificence of scenery, are equal to most of the celebrated mountain ranges of Europe, though not, generally speaking, of such altitude. Even in this particular, however, the White Mountains can bear comparison with any in Europe, except these of Switzerland. As for Newport, hitherto the fashionable water- ing place, par excellence, of this section of the country, its name may, for this year at least, be expunged from the catalogue of summer resorts. The Maine Liquor law has completely anuihilated it as either a fashionable or gambling rendezvous. Our correspondence from thence, which we pub- lish in another part of to-day’s paper, describes the effects which the success of fanaticism has wrought upon that once gay capital of Rhode Island. Most sincerely do we sympathize with its oppressed inhabitants and ruined hotel keepers, in this reign of intolerance. Sara- toga, however, has had, through this means, a vast increase of that undesirable class of visiters who used to hover in such crowds about Newport; and in Saratoga, and some other places, there is no such thing to be had as quiet, or comfort, or refine- ment, from the swarms of noisy, dissipated, gambling, and disreputable individuals who have got mixed up with respectable, decently-behaved, decorous, and well dressed people. In this unattractive condition of fashionable watering places, we would advise those desirous of spending the summer pleasantly, quietly, and healthfully, to take a trip to the New England mountains, or go to the Niagara Falls by the Erie Railroad, or visit the mountains in the southern Canada ; or, perhaps better still, go down among some of those delightfully salubrious bathing places ou Long Island shore. Tho Hasuflton Honso offers great attraction to summer visiters, and isat present crowded with highly respectable people. So is New Brighton. Coney Island presents one of the best, hardest, safest, and most beautiful shores for bathing in the known world. The smoothness of its beach is superior to Newport, Long Branch, Cape May, or any of our other watering places, and the air is pure and invigo- rating. There ought to be a large hotel, capa- ble of accommodating a thousand persons, built on the eastern end of the island, as it is every day be- coming better known and appreciated. GreyeraL Prerce—Tne Persona Stansfims AGatxst Him Nariep at Last.—We have from the beginning denounced the personal attacks upon both the candidates for the Presidency, particularly the onslaught upon the private character of General Pierce. We knew those imputations were without the shadow of foundation, and that they would recoil upon the heads of their authors. The most conspicuous of the dirty and disreputable sheets which indulged in this kind of warfare was the New York Tribune. That journal inserted articles describing General Pierce as a drunken sot. What isthe result? Why, that it is now demonstrated beyond all doubt—and as it never conld have been under other circumstances—that General Pierce is a pattern of sobriety and moral purity. We call attention to the letter of our New Hamp- shire correspondent, in another column, in which documents are produced, not from democrats, but from strong whigs of the most respoct- able character, giving the lie to the in- famous calumnies propagated by the foul mouthed organs of a reckless party spirit. It will also bo seen by the facts and figures adduced by our cor- respondent, that the Washington Republic, and other journals which asserted that Genoral Pierce was opposed to the Fugitive Slave law, are placed in a very ridiculous and humiliating position before the public. All these attacks have done General Pierce the greatest service; and so it will alvays be when the journals of a party stoop from their high position to blackguard individuals, and to hold up their private characters to public odinm, especially when such attacks are maligious, unjust, and “like the baseless fabric of a vision.” Those journals appear to have disposed of all their present stock of personal abuse. Can they not invent something new! Kossvtn’s Famity 1n New York —Kossuth’s sister, Madame Zsulawszky, her husband, and chil- dren, arrived in this city, from Europe, some five or six days since, and we hear some of the paperscom! plain that no provision had been made for them by Kossuth before ho left. This is all a mistake, as wo have the very best authority for stating that Kossuth, before he sailed from New York, ten days | ago, mado arrangements for having the necossary | aid extended to that portion of his family. Bosides having purchased and stocked a farm of land for them in one of the Western States, he loft with tho Mayor of the city a thousand dollars, for tho pur- pose of enabling them to travel out to it, and com- mence life in this country independently. It would be, therefore, unjust to the reputation of Kossuth to permit any such statements as this—accusing him of neglect of his own family—to circulate unnoticed, and we feel authorized to contradict it, aud state what the fact i Literary Novertis is Book Maxine —Two books have recently appeared, originating in diffor- ent minds, describing a very different order of so- clety, and are now in the hands of all the lofinging, | lazy rendors of light literature in the various wator- part of New York, and make a tour through part of - fish society of this country at the watering places: In come respects, the codfish society and the secial- ist organization are very similar—chiefly so in their idiosyncracies. They are full of eon- ceit, impudence, assumption, and contempt for the rest of the world, and generally the rest of the world feel an equal degree of contempt for them.- Both books are amusing to read, as describing the fol-- lies of the different circles of society which perfect liberty in everything has developed in this original and singular country, te! . ALARMING aig peewee ime.—An alarming fire broke out at about a quarter to three o’c! morning, at No. 42 avenue D, between ourh tad ~ situated strects. It originated in the sash and window blind manufacturer, wi was . in the rear and contained « large quantity of ma- terial, manufactured articles, and 4 was uickly destroyed. and wo exertion could fag mrt dames from ex'ending to the dwelling house in front, im the lower part of which Mr. Moore's family lived—tho being cecupied by Mrs. Taylorand , by whom, W ead the adjoining” house were owned. oylovaga anny besely eenpea with dels ive, Sbroug ‘aylorand barely eco iv P e uA eee teenth ward the exertions of Captain Hart, of the Sevent police, and the offerrs ‘The fire now burst from every win- dow and portion of tbe house. as also from part of No, 46, a large grocery store; and altbough the engines were wi ed in gallant style the two houses wer ed ata little afterS o'clock Mrs Taylor's loss ~ is rougbly estimated at from $6,000 to $7,000; that of Mr, Moore at about $2000, ashe rented the mi a which is also burned ‘The rear of Jeouses 40,46, 49 anid’ 50, are so much injured as to render them nearly useless; : and were it pot for tbe firemen present they would also been burned to the ground, The tree in front of No. 42 was so cieped that it cre fire, and every leaf and branch shot cut atongue of flame. The of Mr. Killian. and the botanic medicine store of Dr. Hunt, opposite. were almost set on fire by the heat, and were only raved by keeping wet awning sheets in front of them; the paint was melied npon'the windows and doors, however Aire ‘Teylor bas an insurance of $3.000 im va-- rious offices. and the otber eufferers are insured to somo extent Captains Squires, Hart, Bradford, Russell, and: Assistant Captain of the Seventh ward, were on the ground, with men, Fine Avanss —A flight fire oceurred on Timisday eve- ning, in the cedar ware shop of Gilbert Van Houtan, 67 Frankfort street. It was extinguished by the men em- ployed upon the premices. At eleven o'clock on same night. a fire occurred in the basement of a heute in Twenty-fifth street, near Sixth avenue, It was caused by the carelessness of the inha- bitants in allowing some shavings to ignite. No damage.. Tur Wratnrn.—Yosterday was not quite se hot as- either Wednesday or Thursday. A light breeze sprung up every now and then, which was very refreshing. The following was the range of the thermometer in our editorial room:—At noon, 893°; atthree P.M., 9244°; at five P.M. 92°, At Roach’s, the thermometer stood at 86°, 87°. and 86%, at the hours of noon, three o'clock P M., and six in the evening. At four o'clock in the morning it was cool, and threatened rain, Covr px Soxiri.—A man named Michael Sullivan, was fon struck on Thursday, at noon, in Broadway, near Liberty street. He was takem to the City Hospital by officer Logan, of the Second ward police, but he died in a few minutes efter bis admission, Axotner Death From Sun Stroxe —An inquest was held at the New York Hospital, on Thursday evening, upon the body of an Irish woman, named Catherine (a- Lill. who was prostrated by sum stroke at the pier foot of Chambers strect. whilst ‘waiting for the Albany boat on Thursday. The deceased lived only till evening of the same day. She was bat one week in this country, and resided with a brother at 179 Thirty-first street. Mutany.—'The remains «f Capt. Leslie Chase, of the United States Army, who died at Fort Johnson, North Carolina. in April. 1849, arrived in New York a few days since, and were removed, last evening, on board of the steamboat Isaac Newton. for Albany, and from thence they will be conveyed for interment to his native town, Worcester, Otsego ecunty. Capt. Chase served with dia- tinction in our wmy in the war with Mexico, and.no doubt, like many of our gallant officers in that service, received there the fatal seeds of the disease which termi- nated his life at an earlyage, Finewrn’s Vrsrr,—The Fire Company of North Bridge- water. Campello Village, Massachusetts, visited this city ou Friday morning ‘The company arrived in the Fall River boat, and put up at the Clinton hotel, where they refreshed themselves, and afterwards \- ed through town, visiting the Park and Battery, and. othcr public points, as also making a elreuit of the Bow- exy and Broadway. The men presented a very fine ap- pearance; their uniform ir a scarlet shirt, faced with blue cloth on the collar and cuffs, a black belt, and black pants. They numbered titty. and were accompanied ii the North Bridgewater brass band. They left in the Fal River boat, at five o'clock P. M. Danixo Assavranp Ronveny.—A most daring highway robbery was perpetrated in our streets, on ‘Thursday night.” It appears that about 10 o'clock, that night, Mr. Jomes Jackson. a gentlerean from Philadelphia, was re- from South Brooklyn to the Jersey City ferry, and. on pasting Trivity Church be inquired the way of one of thiee meu stending there, and they directed him to turn down Liberty street Mr. Jackson had not advanced. more than a few rods in this direction when some per- @ him from bebind, knocked him down upon knees, and threatened to shoot him, if he ¢. ‘The men then laid bold ot Mr, Jackson, im of his pocket book, containing three bills of one hundyd dollars ech upon the Bank of North America, 2 Dil uy bank for twenty dollars, about two hv ta ach. chiefly in five dollars bills upon the Girard Bank, Philodelphia, and also a gold wateh and chain. and some unimportant papers, - The Police should look tu this matter, Arremrren Sview woman named Rose Anne ; deranged state. jumped into. jock foot of Catharine sireet, on Chursday even- psotied from drowning by some dock build~ nevr, and taken to the City prison, where was placed under the care of Dr. Covel. Dratiis Kom Daowsixe.—The Coroner held two in quests on Thureday. upon thy bodies of unkuowa por. sons who were drowned--one st pier 22 East siver, the other at pier No. § North river. age Drowxrp —The body of an unknown man was found in tho water at picr 10, North river, at haif-pa-t seven. o'clock on Friday morting. Arrenrr at Svicroe —A man named Michael Kane, made a atte map to drown hin at pier No. 1, Bast ver. on Thursday night, He was reseue ! ye theren, of the Fire distelet police Se Smee Starierics er Innrcie snp Terinst Pensow pears from alste return that there are in the State of New York 1.061 deaf and dumb persons; 1 blind: L.7/9idiotic; and 2.580-in-ane—making a total of 6,808 unfortunates, Lynch, whilst in a partial the dy Eat Tt ap- Theatrical ond Mustea! Borrnry Trrvine.— Phe amusements provided for this evening are of a bighly attractive character, comprising the tragedy of Uyelino.” the extravaganza of * Lole» sud the domes pa styled “The Golden * all of which ore weil cast, “Pbis being the last ht of (hie season. it is presumed a very large bt, Mr McAllister, the Wizard minevce a series of his original tabliscbment. on Monday even- tus Will bo on the same extensive rond «fleet that distinguished his soiries at the Bioudway theatre. Droapway Turatne —This is positively the last night of the French Comie Opera and Vaudeville Company at this theatre, as Prof. Anderson, the great Wizard of the North, is to open here on Monday evening. with his popu~ lar soirées wysierieuses The commencing feature for to- night will be the eomie vaudeville, in two acts. entitled “Un Monsieur qui Suis lee femmes, in which Mone Menchand. Mile. Darmont, and Mme. Pilot. will, austin he : «Repel he whole will terminate with “Les Anglais en Vo: ‘this per ° the Broadway to ovedth Pi eter ies, ~~ Carper) resort . for takes place at this ent#, @ macnideent of one of tha most siehorenn art. le for her style ntch applauded at Paris and ud and i the rival dancing pb the charming and tolented Mj der, will also spear and add am performances, given im sucha pleasing ball. which we hope will be crowded. om this ocension. in ail ite departments, the graceful « i | Mile, Dicuet. th of dancing. which Brureels, queens of | Natioxat Tireatne.—Mr, Couldoek, the admired trage- | dian, who has attracted and delighted sueh large assem- | blages for the past two works. is to make his last appear= | ance to-night, Mme. Ooleste’s popular drama, styled | * Harvest Home.” will be played. in which Mr. Conldoek will personate the character of Caleb Restrels, supported: | by @ good stock company. ‘The nautical drama of * Tom Cringle,”’ will also be ‘performed. Manager Purdy an- | Rounces great attraction for Monday evening. Don An- | tonio Cordova, the King of Wizards. is to appear in his celebrated necromantie entertainments, Td Yankeo | Locke. the Yankee comedian, in one of his most favorite characters, Castix Osnprx.—Terr Cline, the celebrated tight r dancer, whore performnnens have nlwnys attracted ete large assemblages, is to appear again this evening, in con- nection with thove talented cquilibrits Professor H and son, This attraction, independent of the enjoyment of (hat greatest of all luxuries at this season of the yoar, « cool sea breege, cannot fail to draw a fall attendance this evening. Dodworth's Cornet Band are to give another of their delighttul Sunday concerts to-morrow evening. Pentox's Turatnr. — Donotti's company of acting; monkeys, dog? and goats, ate advertixed to give two en- tertainmeta today—afternoon and evening. Tho pro- gremme provided comprises serious and comic panto- mimer, slack and tight rope performances, | The “ Mytio- ramic Tableaux”” are to be exaibited. Banxun's Musrvm.—The performances of White's band of Kthiopian Serenaders, and the exhibition of the Dirsolving Views, and Optical Fireworks, together with the living serpents, Ostrich and Ourang Outang, have pt (Nad ae ee all this week to the mu- seu, ey con al ¢ Fee agait fteen Svenln. “i gain this af oon and Dnnisty's Opens Housr.—Christy’s hat - spiring darkios continue to please tots stoune % jonch as ever ‘They announce a fine gelection of son; danees, instrumontal picevs, and burlesques, for this evening. popular band of Ethiopian. Moon's Miverarss This minstrels offer several of thelr most attractive feat for tonight. Their audiences, ea ural, are very large, snd much delighted with their poformances, " ing places throughout tho country. We allude to | Bristed’s book on the codfish aristocracy, and Maw- | thome’s book on the socialists of Brook Farm, under | the namo of Blithodale, near Boston. Both tho that the Isthmus is stated, by a recent arrival from ,, ry bedy wants him to go, It’s the right season to g 6 UU RUE LY BY. } Arpuiwell, to be free from the disease. | works are written with greet pretension: oma | poetry, and a good deal of conerit—partionlarly Bris- | ted’s pretending to sketyh the fushionable or cod- | Broo rum.—The dramatic company at popular ry announes another inviting bill Te eaten tatoment for this evening, com prising the intoresting Picoa styled * Texptation ‘and the Seoteh drama of “Rob oy.’ This will be a grand a Be ile Th I @ grand dramatic treat for the adame Alboniis at the Malle of Ningara, where she eeme tine During her visit to West Paid the groag, wrennlo, M will ren J ont, The band of the Mintery Academy. arviste We compliment of a eplondid In fi have: - _— ’ t t :